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Submitted by Agbenyo John Stephen on Thursday, 15th March, 2012 — News item
A one day workshop on Change Management has been organised by Savana Signatures for educational workers in the Tamale and the Savelugu District in the Northern Region. The workshop was targeted at teachers, head teachers, circuit supervisors, officials from the Northern Regional Education Office, Tamale Metropolitan Education Office and the Savelugu District Education Office.
In his welcome address to the participants, the Director of Savana Signatures, Mr. John Stephen Agbenyo mentioned that Savana Signatures has this year started a new project called the Integration of ICTs in Education Project (IIEP). The project, he mentioned will use ICT tools to Enhance School Administration and Teaching and Learning in 20 schools in 5 districts in Northern Ghana through capacity building and resourcing with the specific aim of improving the performance of school administrators in collecting and managing school based data as well as building the capacity of teachers to effectively use ICT tools to enhance the teaching and learning process in the classroom.
He stated that Savana Signatures has signed an MoU with the Tamale Metropolitan Education Office and the Savelugu District Education Office to implement this project and that the project had already started with 3 pilot schools; Darul Hardis Islamic Junior High School in Tamale, Yoo Roman Catholic Junior High School in Savelugu and Pong Tamale D/A Primary School in Pong Tamale. He mentioned that the Change Management Workshop was part of the series of activities and programs within the IIEP.
He added that the change management workshop was important because it aimed at reassessing and reinforcing top management engagement in ICT activities which are seen to be critical in sustaining the mainstreaming of ICTs into education. He outlined the objectives of the workshop as:
i) To improve participants understanding of both the project and organizational goals of the Integration of ICTs in Education Project
ii) To enable participants to appreciate the major challenges faced in mainstreaming of ICT projects and activities
iii) To strengthen participants’ own commitment to ICT activities in their schools
iv) To offer participants skills and ideas on how to secure similar commitments from others.
A facilitator at the workshop, Patricia Fafa Formadi, Director for Women and Development Project (WADEP) explained that change happens at all times and the most important influence of change is the current situation. She added that in dealing with change, it is important to consider all human issues to be able to effect change. She said that change is often influenced by factors such as Denial, Reaction, Acceptance and Action.
She explained the process of effecting change with a diagram consisting of three major stages. The first stage being information stage where awareness must be created about the change to be effected, the second which involves education to bring about understanding of the change and the third being the commitment where people now would accept and use change for their benefit.
On the phases of change, Madam Patricia outlined three issues; unfreezing, moving and refreezing. With unfreezing, she explained that change does not occur in a vacuum and that there is always an old way of doing some thing which must give way to the new ways in other for change to occur. On the other hand, the individual begins to accept the idea of change thus resulting in the moving stage. During this stage guidance is vital as the change process is still based on perception and feelings. The third phase which is refreezing is the period when the change now has a bearing on the individual or group, that is, they now reap the fruits of change. Madam Patricia added that, there have often been problems with change because of underground resistance, honest opponents, emigrants, missionaries and believers. She concluded by urging participants to use the reservation of other team members to work for the change.
Speaking on Problems of Change, Mr. Norbert Apentibadek, a Program Officer at the Association for Church Development Projects (ACDEP) said, perception is one major problem of change. He added that most people would resist change because of organisational culture, power, conflicts and resistance to change. To overcome resistance to change and change problems, Mr. Apentibadek added that communication is very important in alleviating people’s fear to change. In the integration of ICT in Education project for instance, he said the Head teachers and teachers of the schools have a responsibility to explain to the Ghana Eduction Service (GES) and the Parent Teacher Association (PTA) the essence of ICT in education. He urged participants to use evidence of change to convince others to see the need for change since change is for the better. Speaking on ‘commitment to change’, he urged participants to create positive perception about the new idea and also inform stakeholders about the impact the change would have on them.
Relating to the wheel of change, participants observed that change is not a one time activity nor can it be forced on leaders or the led but that it is a process which require information and education to get members’ commitment to achieve the desired change. Participants were grateful to Savana Signatures for organising such a workshop to enlighten and empower them. | <urn:uuid:62a84210-5259-48ad-9456-4f53dc077cd2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://iconnect-online.org/news/change-management-workshop-educational-workers-ghana | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00041-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958459 | 1,073 | 1.523438 | 2 |
As you've no doubt heard by now, in an extraordinary escalation of tension between President Barack Obama and the sitting justices of the Supreme Court during last night's State of the Union address, Justice Samuel Alito gave us this year's "Joe Wilson moment" by shaking his head and mouthing "Not true..." in response to the following statement by the President:
With all due deference to separation of powers, last week the Supreme Court reversed a century of law to open the floodgates for special interests -- including foreign corporations -- to spend without limit in our elections. Well I don't think American elections should be bankrolled by America's most powerful interests, or worse, by foreign entities.
Conservatives and progressives may argue this morning about whether President Obama should have criticized the Court and about the severity of Justice Alito's breach of protocol, but Justice Alito faces a bigger problem: Obama's comment is true.
In fact, Obama's carefully-phrased comment to the justices highlights two critical aspects of the majority's decision in Citizens United v. FEC, both of which constitute dangerous and revolutionary shifts in long-settled law:
If Justice Alito wanted to disclaim any of this, or if he thought that the majority's opinion was not as far-reaching as Justice Stevens' powerful dissenting opinion demonstrated, he should have written a concurring opinion. He should have explained how the logic of the Court's opinion doesn't change course on over a century of campaign finance law that seeks to limit corporate influence in elections and showed us that the Court's formalistic approach to the First Amendment and corporations won't lead to foreign corporate spending in U.S. elections. But muttering at the State of the Union clarifies nothing.
The stakes here are extraordinarily high. As Obama alluded in his comment, the last century has witnessed a historic trend toward greater enfranchisement of American citizens, accompanied by a significant increase in restrictions on corporate spending to influence elections. The Court's decision in Citizens United unequivocally halts and reverses that trend, pulling the rug out from under decades of progress toward achieving the democracy envisioned by the Founders, and improved upon by successive generations of Americans that amended the Constitution to guarantee the right to vote to all citizens, irrespective of race, sex, age, and class. If Justice Alito believes that the damage done to our electoral system by the majority's opinion in Citizens United can be contained, we hope that he will explain it in a judicial opinion in the next case that seeks to chip away further at what remains of our Nation's campaign finance laws. | <urn:uuid:92756765-93a0-447b-91d7-bbf0573260b6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.huffingtonpost.com/doug-kendall/but-it-is-true-justice-al_b_440385.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00044-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955518 | 525 | 1.820313 | 2 |
- by Dr. Eric Herman, BioVeda Health and Wellness Center of Bethlehem, PA
The word “allergy” did not even exist a century ago, and yet, respiratory allergies today are the 5th leading chronic disease in the U.S. and are the 3rd most common chronic disease among children under 18 years old. It has been estimated that one in seven Americans had a respiratory allergy in 1950, but one in four have one now.
Homeopathy is highly effective in the treatment of allergies and fully capable of stimulating the organism to heal to the point of complete relief from all allergy symptoms.
Many of us have suffered from allergies at one time in our life, and usually the best treatment offered was symptomatic relief through avoidance of the allergen or through medication. Homeopathy, on the other hand, addresses the cause of the sensitivity to allergens at the deepest possible level; avoiding the allergen (the substance responsible for the allergic response) or resorting to suppression of symptoms through ongoing symptomatic treatment becomes unnecessary once this sensitivity has been eliminated.
An Allergist is the medical specialist that commonly uses small doses of an allergen in order to desensitize a person to that allergen. This concept of using small doses of what might cause a problem in order to help prevent or heal the person is an ancient observation of healers/physicians all over the world, and it is the basis for a type of natural medicine called homeopathy.
It is therefore not surprising that one of the three physicians who founded the American Academy of Allergy was a San Francisco homeopathic physician, Dr. Grant L. Selfridge. Another small and forgotten footnote in medical history involves a homeopathic physician from Scotland, C.H. Blackley, who in 1871 was the first physician to identify pollen as the cause of hay fever.
The truth is that allergies can be permanently overcome. The body is incredibly made and has all the mechanisms built within that allow us to attain and maintain great health. Our innate healing abilities are so powerful that we naturally overcome the majority of problems we encounter in life.
“Think about this for a minute – what if headaches didn’t come and go, they just came and stayed? Or, imagine if you still had every cut, scrape and injury you had ever gotten – you would be a mess. Obviously, you naturally recover from many conditions because your body has internal healing capabilities”.
Symptoms are often mistaken as the cause of the problem, when really they are caused by the problem. Treating a symptom instead of a root cause is like turning off a fire alarm instead of putting out the fire. Take headaches for example. Say you choose to use aspirin or ibuprofen to control the symptoms. Time and time again, you must take these pills (why do you think you get so many aspirin in a bottle?). In most cases, the underlying cause of the headache is not changing and therefore the headaches keep coming back! Wouldn’t you rather target the underlying cause and stop the headaches from returning at all?
Do you think that taking various over-the-counter drug products for symptoms is the best way to deal with allergies? Why use temporary solutions over and over again? Your immune system needs to be normalized and strengthened so you do not have to live with allergy symptoms.
Do you know about the possible side effects of antihistamines and decongestants, the primary ingredients in many over-the-counter allergy medications? Many allergy products can cause nervousness, insomnia, dry mouth, negative reactions to other substances, stomach upset and over-sensitivity to sunlight. Additionally, many of these products will cause a rebound effect, a worsening of symptoms when the drug is discontinued. Homeopathy helps your body naturally overcome allergy symptoms with no side effects, while you stay fresh and alert.
Homeopathy is the purest form of natural medicine I have found. With over 200 years of clinical use, there are no negative side effects, no known reactions with other drugs, no contraindications for use and no addictive or habit forming properties. These outstanding results are unprecedented in the history of medicine.
Homeopathic medicines have become the first of all the natural remedies to be registered by the FDA as a drug product. Homeopathy offers a safe, natural solution backed by science, clinical experience, FDA registration and, most importantly, the tests of time.
Homeopathy is designed to work very quickly. Most people will notice initial results as early as 30 seconds to 3 minutes. Others may see results in a few minutes to a few days. Others experience a sense of lightness, accompanied by an emotional release. The corresponding sense of well being or an increase in overall energy, alertness and awareness indicates the healing response is taking place within you. Another positive sign of the healing response being activated is that you will require less and less of this natural medicine as time goes on, not more and more.
Homeopathic natural medicines are powerful. Homeopathy can be safely and effectively combined with nutritional and herbal products, as well as conventional drugs and procedures. The end results of using an all-natural approach are well worth it! Natural relief is a far healthier and often permanent solution.
Homeopathy is a very individualized healing art. A single remedy for one person with allergies may not be the same as that needed for another. Treating 10 people with allergy symptoms may require just as many different homeopathic remedies.
Homeopathy offers formulas designed to strengthen you from the inside by activating your body’s natural response system to stimulate its ability to heal itself. This approach offers relief of allergy symptoms, while formulas which work specifically on the immune system may even prevent future allergic reactions. A second approach in homeopathy acclimates you for the outside by providing homeopathic preparations of the specific weeds, grasses, trees, molds and pollens found in your geographic region. Over time, your body becomes less sensitive to the exposure of these allergens, reducing the severity and frequency allergic reactions. Using both of these approaches together provide the most complete approach to allergy correction.
Using The Bax Aura system Dr. Eric Herman and other Bioveda practitioners can assess thousands of environmental, chemical and food substances to determine which ones cause neurological stress. The Bax Aura harmonic imprinter can then create custom Homeopathic Medicines specific to your sensitivities. Imagine being able to pin point your exact needs and have a natural medication custom made for you. Can you think of any other doctor or clinic on the planet that can offer this? After taking your custom Homeopathic Medication for a period you can then return and be re-tested to specifically measure the degree of improvement you have experienced.
This contemporary homeopathic approach is the only treatment method besides immunotherapy or allergy tests and shots that offer a chance for lasting relief or potential cure from allergies. Obviously, homeopathy offers the simplest, safest, and less costly and time-invested approach. Homeopathic allergy relief is applicable to anyone with allergies and should be the practical first choice for allergy care and correction. Contact a BioVeda Health and Wellness Center to learn more!
Allergy and Asthma Foundation of America
Cohen SG. The American Academy of Allergy: a historical review. J Allergy Clin Immunol 1979;64: 332-333.
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December 24, 2012
Every week we check in with local healthcare providers to find out what's going around in central Virginia. This week the focus is viral illness and back strains.
Dr. William Murray of Forest Lakes Family Medicine says this time of year he sees more patients for back strains. They are often brought on from long car trips during the holidays, lifting Christmas trees, and heavy boxes or presents. The main symptom is pain in the lower back.
Dr. Murray recommends heat, acetaminophen, ibuprofen or Aleve for treatment. He says you should see your doctor if you're not improving or if the pain is severe.
The best way to prevent back strain is by keeping core muscles strong with exercise, maintaining a healthy body weight and using the proper lifting techniques.
Nurse Practitioner Cindy Napier is providing medical information from Crozet Family Medicine and viral illness is going around there. Symptoms include nausea, fever, vomiting, and body aches.
When it comes to treatment, she suggests clear liquids, Tylenol, ibuprofen and rest.
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Though cloudy skies, and northern blasts,
Retard the gentle spring awhile;
The sun will conqu’ror prove at last,
And nature wear a vernal smile.
The promise, which from age to age,
Has brought the changing seasons round;
Again shall calm the winter’s rage,
Perfume the air, and paint the ground.
The virtue of that first command,
I know still does, and will prevail;
That while the earth itself shall stand,
The spring and summer shall not fail.
Such changes are for us decreed;
Believers have their winters too;
But spring shall certainly succeed,
And all their former life renew.
Winter and spring have each their use,
And each, in turn, his people know;
One kills the weeds their hearts produce,
The other makes their graces grow.
Though like dead trees awhile they seem,
Yet having life within their root,
The welcome spring’s reviving beam
Draws forth their blossoms, leaves, and fruit.
But if the tree indeed be dead,
It feels no change, though spring return,
Its leafless naked, barren head,
Proclaims it only fit to burn.
Dear LORD, afford our souls a spring,
Thou know’st our winter has been long;
Shine forth, and warm our hearts to sing,
And thy rich grace shall be our song.
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Olympic's Fittings at White Swan Hotel, Alnwick, England
When Titanic's sister ship, Olympic, launched in 1911, became uneconomical despite having been converted to oil-fired engines in1 1919-1920, it was finally retired in 1935 and scrapped in 1937, providing work for Scottish shipyards, suffering from the effects of the depression.
The new, luxurious Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth contributed to the demise of Olympic, and after it was scrapped many of the fittings and artworks were auctioned. These examples were bought by the White Swan Hotel in Alnwick, pronounced "Annick" in order to trap unwary visitors, in the North East of England, and can be seen in the "Olympic Suite" conference and dining room. The reception staff at the White Swan were very friendly and gave permission for me to take these photographs, so I did feel compelled to spend a little time in the bar afterwards, purely as a gesture of gratitude.
If you would like to stay at the White Swan, try writing to the address below
White Swan Hotel Bondgate Within Alnwick NE66 1TD Englandor book online at their bookings web site. Please tell them that you found the link via my web pages. The town is very picturesque, and not too far from the Beamish Museum which is well worth a visit.
Olympic's Stairs at the White Swan Hotel © Phil Ottewell
Note how a subtle camera fault has produced the illusion of my having a double chin in this last photograph.
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A Voyage to Terra Australis - Views of the South Coast of Terra Australis
Subtitle: undertaken for the purpose of
completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in
the years 1801, 1802, and 1803 in His Majesty's ship the
Investigator, and subsequently in the armed vessel Porpoise and
Cumberland Schooner; with an account of the shipwreck of the
Porpoise, arrival of the Cumberland at Mauritius, and imprisonment
of the commander during six years and a half in that island.
2 volumes & atlas
G. & W. Nicol, London, publisher
W. Bulmer and Co., London, printer
William Westall, artist
Ferdinand Bauer, botanical artist
After his 1798 voyage with George Bass to prove that Van
Diemen's Land was separated from Terra Australis, in 1801 Matthew
Flinders was given a ship to catch up, and hopefully, overtake, the
French expedition under Nicolas Baudin to map the unknown south
coast of Terra Australis before they did. It was necessary to
discover if New South Wales, claimed by Cook for England, was
separate from New Holland, the west coast named by the Dutch.
Also on board HMS Investigator were artists William Westall and
Ferdinand Bauer, and eminent botanist Robert Brown.
These volumes are considered the most outstanding books on the
coastal exploration of Australia and the centrepiece of any
collection of discovery. The atlas is rare and usually
missing, this imprint includes the Admiralty charts, William
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Friday night and everyone at the office has plans, one of them is our good friend Steven. So he invited us (me and hubby) to dinner along Schuma Lu, but without any specific restaurant in mind we ended up in a nearest hot pot restaurant few meters away from Hao-you-dou (Trust Mart) Supermarket. It’s my 3rd time to eat in a hot pot, it wasn’t as shocking as the 1st one. May be because I knew what to expect right from the moment I stepped-in and the fact that the restaurant was a typical Chinese food haven in which I am partly immune. The fúwùyuán (waitress) took us in the 2nd floor and had us seated in a chic 6-seater even though it was only 3 of us. But it was a good sign, at least they knew how to make their customers comfortable.
Going through the menu was the hard part, why? Because it was all written in Chinese letters without any significant pictures. So even if you’ll stare and have each word translated in a compact mobile dictionary, it will take forever before you can actually pass an order but then our friend became so handy. We told Steven to order all the vegetables and meat he knew because we ain’t picky enough .
So what is a hot pot anyway?
A Chinese dish consist of tasty broth either spicy (lada) or not spicy (bu lada) which all of the raw ingredients, vegetables and meat are being placed inside then boiled to eat. It is often dipped in a sauce before eating and don’t be surprised, Hot Pot is eaten with out rice. It’s a culture thing I guess, but the whole dish is enough to satisfy one’s hunger. Legend has it that hot pot originated as winter season food to battle coldness and stay one’s body warm. Hot Pot had been a staple of nutritious (as no oil is being produced while cooking) food in China and standing tradition of Chinese cuisine that even in summer they will actually crave for this food. Crazy but true.
In any hot pot restaurant they normally have massive buffet tables to let you choose and create your own sauce. Different ingredient varies from taste, smell and texture. It can go from the spiciest down to a thick sweet sauce or it could just be a light but strong taste. This time I picked 3 sauces I could smell, from the right
- sweet taste: its a peanut butter sauce with minced onions
- salty taste: Chinese version of bagoong but only malabnaw and ma-oil with minced onions
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A campaign has been launched on Facebook to reunite families with photographs that they lost during super-storm Sandy.
This house in Union Beach, New Jersey was destroyed when Super-storm Sandy made landfall on 30 October
Called 'Restoring Union Beach Memories', the campaign is led by Jeannette Van Houton and Mary Danielson, two residents of Union Beach, New Jersey, which was severely damaged when Sandy struck the East Coast on 30 November.
The group has so far retrieved more than 10,000 lost photographs from the streets and seafront of Union Beach and is now in the process of scanning them onto Facebook where they can be found by their owners:
"I became involved when I read the first story about resident Jeannette Van Houten's effort to collect and reconnect photos to their owners," Danielson told The Verge. "I offered to help and haven't left. The one thing I continue to hear from residents is 'all I want to find are my photos.'"
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Super-storm Sandy caused more than $70 billion (£43bn) worth of damage to the American East Coast. More than one million people were evacuated from their homes, with floods in some areas reaching more than 13 feet high.
New Jersey was particularly hard hit by Sandy, completely destroying more than 200 houses. Van Houton, the founder of the Restoring Union Beach Memories project, lost her house, car and all of her possessions in Sandy:
"I couldn't sit around and go, 'Woe me,'" Van Houton told CBS. "There was a lot of 'woe me' stories. The storm can take our houses. They can take our possessions. But, she left us these photos. And I was like, 'Okay, what do I do with them? Oh, you know what, Facebook.' The power of social networking."
The campaign is now seeking funds from crowd-funding website gofundme, where it has already passed its $2,000 target. Volunteers predict that more than 20,000 photographs will be recovered once the every destroyed area of New Jersey has been cleaned.
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I switched off Al Jazeera and ignored Twitter for fifteen minutes, trying to get something written, and I missed it. By the time I plugged back in, people were already celebrating in the streets of Cairo.
As I type this, it’s more than three hours since Hosni Mubarak’s resignation-by-proxy. Right now I’m watching and hearing hundreds of thousands of people — millions, for all I know — singing and dancing, waving flags, setting off fireworks and aerosol torches. I am six thousand miles away, and finding it hard to get back to work.
The Wall Street Journal reporter Tamer El-Ghobashy, via Twitter:
soldier, away from crowds, on cell phone, crying: "mom, i want to celebrate with the people"
Martin Carter: “Mankind is breeding heroes every day.”
The Jamaican writer Marlon James, via Facebook:
“I never thought in my lifetime that these words would mean anything to me, but goddamn it, Power To The People.”
Al Jazeera reporter Jamal Elshayyal, on the celebrations in Alexandria:
“... every meaning of the word hope.”
I find myself thinking that the nearest equivalent to this mass euphoria that I’ve ever seen in my own country was when Trinidad and Tobago qualified for the 2006 FIFA World Cup. I ponder this. I think about all the ways that my country is nothing like Egypt. I think about why I’ve been so anxiously, obsessively following events six thousand miles away over the past eighteen days. I think about my own jadedness and alienation from the political realities of my here and now.
I think about Martin Carter’s phrase, “a free community of valid persons,” and its four difficult words. Free. Community. Valid. Persons.
Freedom, community, validity, and personhood are all hard work.
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There were no passengers on board at the time of the crash, the U.N. Mission in South Sudan reported.
The chopper was a Russian-crewed Mi-8 helicopter attached to the U.N. Mission in South Sudan. It was shot down around 10 a.m. local time during a reconnaissance flight over the eastern state of Jonglei. The helicopter was owned by the charter company Nizhnevartovskavia and was working under U.N. contract in an area where the South Sudan army has been battling rebels, Reuters reported.
The Russian Foreign Ministry took strong exception to the incident, saying in a statement that South Sudan must "conduct a proper investigation of the incident, ... punish those responsible, and undertake all measures to guarantee nothing like this happens in the future."
The South Sudan army initially denied it had shot down the helicopter, then later said it was an accident. It claimed the chopper had been mistaken for a plane bringing supplies to rebels. They also said the incident "raises the issue of the provision of security of U.N. peacekeeping missions with new acuteness."
Both the U.N. Security Council and the secretary-general issued statements condemning the downing and calling on South Sudan "to immediately carry out an investigation and bring to account those responsible for this act." Ban also extended condolences to the families of the helicopter crew members. | <urn:uuid:cec44ab8-368b-4f5b-ad6b-72135ef322ae> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ibtimes.com/un-helicopter-south-sudan-shot-down-964152 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00042-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972359 | 287 | 1.78125 | 2 |
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This paper presents the spectroscopic performance of two newly developed pixelated HgI2 detectors. These detectors are 1×1×0.814 cm3 and 1×1×1.016 cm3 in size. Each detector has four closely packed 1×1 mm2 anode pixels at the center of one of the 1×1 cm2 surfaces. These anode pixels are surrounded by a large anode. All results presented here are based on events from a sub-volume underneath the anode pixels. In these detectors, signals were read out by a discrete electronics based on multiple A-250 pre-amplifiers and a digital oscilloscope for sampling pulse waveforms. Depth sensing technique was used to correct the depth-dependent variation in photopeak amplitude. Main results presented are: (1)energy resolutions of 0.85 ∼ 1.3% have been achieved on these detectors; (2) the electron mobility-lifetime product was measured to be ∼1×10-2 cm2/V and the measured electron lifetime was ∼200 μs and (3) variation in electron drifting properties under different anode pixels were observed. Significant non-uniformity in internal electric field strength was also experimentally demonstrated.
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Shefford Hardwick Manor
Volume III of The Victoria County History for Bedfordshire, published in 1912, gives the history of Shefford Hardwick Manor. The volume states that William de Caron's half virgate of land recorded by the Domesday Book of 1086 must have lain in Shefford Hardwick, as the family was recorded living there in 1298.
The manor is first encountered in the historical record in 1562 when Peter Grey conveyed it to John Whitbread. His son William Whitbread sold it in 1589 to Robert Barbour whose son, another Robert, sold it in 1614 to William Goldsmith of Campton who died around 1640.
In 1650 the manor, called Hardwick Manor, was in the possession of Robert Staunton, whose family still had it in 1672. By the end of the 17th century it seems to have belonged to the Pickering family and in 1764 half of it was owned by Miss Dorothy Elizabeth Pickering.
The manor is last mentioned in sale particulars of 1810 [WW205] and 1813 [Z575/492]. At the latter sale Shefford Hardwick Farm, perhaps the manorial seat, was purchased by Samuel Whitbread the younger. | <urn:uuid:ff9d41a2-4891-4a01-b37b-be268b0af5a0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.bedfordshire.gov.uk/CommunityAndLiving/ArchivesAndRecordOffice/CommunityArchives/Shefford/SheffordHardwickManor.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706890813/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122130-00024-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971751 | 259 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Europe's Online Xmas Sales Predicted Up 71%: JupiterIt was a holly jolly Christmas for European e-commerce companies, based on research firm Jupiter MMXI's findings.
European online sales are projected to be worth 2.9 billion euros ($2.59 billion), an increase of 71 percent, the firm said. The figures are based on a study of usage numbers for December.
"Online retailers experienced a real growth in the usage of the sites in the run-up to Christmas, which shows just how Europeans have come to accept the Internet as part of their lives," analyst Patricia Laueer said. "The challenge for retailers is to keep customers loyal by staying in touch with them and convincing them to keep using their sites. Retailers cannot afford to rest on the success of Christmas."
The number of unique visitors to retail sites grew more than 40 percent in Europe in December compared with December 2000, the study said. Almost 33 million Europeans visited online retail sites that month. Germans and Britons led the pack with 10 million and 9 million unique visitors, respectively, Jupiter said.
Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.fr reached more than 10 percent of the Internet population in Germany, the United Kingdom and France. France is the only country where three sites (Fnac.com, Alapage.com and Amazon.fr) have more than 10 percent reach. Other countries generally have one clear leader. In the UK, Argos.co.uk, Comet.co.uk and Whsmith.co.uk were popular for Christmas shopping. In December 2001, BOL.com, Johnlewis.com and Marksandspencer.com reached the top 10 retail sites. | <urn:uuid:783c77b8-f610-47b8-ae0d-1f676e2f4f26> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.dmnews.com/europes-online-xmas-sales-predicted-up-71-jupiter/printarticle/76031/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946901 | 352 | 1.640625 | 2 |
June 19, 2012 at 10:06 AM ET
In 2011, world peace improved for the first time in three years. Incidents of terrorism fell and the global economic downturn decreased violence by reducing the amount countries spent on military budgets. However, while many parts of the world improved, others got worse as the result of rising commodity costs, increased protests and internal conflicts.
Recently, The Institute for Economics and Peace released the sixth edition of their annual Global Peace Index. The report examines 158 third-world, developing and developed nations around the world based on 23 separate indicators that, combined, measure the relative level of internal and external conflict in a country.
According to the report, “peace is notoriously difficult to define,” but in its most basic form it is “harmony achieved by the absence of war or conflict.” According to the IEP, those countries that can avoid military or diplomatic conflict with other nations and maintain stability and safety within their own borders are peaceful.
The 23 components that comprise the Global Peace Index, or GPI, are broken into two categories. Internal conflicts, which accounted for 60 percent of the total score, included measures of criminality, violent demonstrations and terrorism in each country, as well as the presence of violent internal political conflicts. According to chairman and founder of the IEP, Steve Killelae, “Internal indicators measure the internal peace of a nation. So to describe a perfect nation, there would be no crime, no one in jail, and no need for police. The most peaceful nation would have the least of all three.” The other category, external peace, included military capability, the importing and exporting of weapons, and diplomatic relations with bordering nations.
According to the report, the most peaceful nations in the world are primarily in Europe, including several Scandinavian countries. New Zealand, Japan and Canada are also among the most peaceful. The countries with the greatest levels of external and internal violence are primarily in Africa, Eastern Europe and the tumultuous Middle East.
Of the components that make up the index, some were much more likely to correspond with high levels of peace or the lack of peace than others. Countries with easy access to small arms were much more likely to be violent. The most violent countries in the world, including Iraq, Somalia and Afghanistan, are all rated by the Economist Intelligence Unit as having the greatest access to small arms.
The level of political terror in a country is also a major indicator for overall violence there, according to the report. Of the countries with the highest GPI score, all have among the highest levels of politically sponsored oppression, which comes in the form of imprisoning and murdering dissidents. The worst in this category include countries like the Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo and North Korea, all of which are scored as the least peaceful in the world. The countries with the highest peace ratings, including New Zealand and Canada, all have the lowest possible levels of political terrorism.
The IEP also considers several socioeconomic factors that are not themselves part of the rank, but that they measured as possible drivers of violence and peace. The data suggeststhat while a country’s GDP, adult literacy and unemployment do not appear to have a strong impact on peace, others appear to be directly related. The presence of civil liberties and freedom of the press have much closer relationships to peace, according to the report.
The clearest among these are political factors such as corruption. According Killelae, the relationship between corruption and the lack of peace is profound: Slight increases in corruption do not appear to affect slight increases in peace, but he says that once a tipping point is reached peace “just disappears.” While the IEP is not exactly sure why corruption is such a powerful indicator, Killelae suggests that it is near perfect measure of “just how well functioning the level of government is.”
According Transparency International’s measure, which IEP also considered, all but one of the most peaceful countries in the report has very low levels of corruption. Most of the least peaceful countries, including Somalia, Sudan and North Korea, have among the highest levels of corruption.
The Institute for Economics and Peace compiled more than 50 separate sets of data from a variety of sources, including the Economist Intelligence Unit, the World Bank, UNESCO, the World Economic Forum and Transparency International to measure aspects of peace. Using IEP’s original sources, 24/7 Wall St. reproduced data for the factors the report determined to have the strongest correlations nationally to the 23 measures of peace. Most of the measures, including the political terror scale, access to small arms, relations with neighboring countries, and likelihood of violent demonstrations, are on a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 representing the least peaceful and 1 the most peaceful.
The most peaceful countries
Iceland, a country with only about 320,000 residents, takes the top honors for the most peaceful country for the second year in a row. The small country recorded the best possible score on all but four of the criteria that determine levels of peace, including the best scores on the homicide rate, imports of major conventional weapons and the likelihood of violent demonstrations. Ironically, Iceland’s continued fiscal belt-tightening helped the country lower its score from last year. The Icelandic Defense Agency, which had a budget of $20 million in 2008, now has been disbanded, according to the IEP. The country has no standing army, and military expenses total just over 1 percent of GDP.
2) Denmark (tied for 2nd)
Denmark moved up two places this year, due in part to government budget cuts that decreased military spending, according to the IEP. The biggest strike Denmark has against its level of peace is the moderate sophistication and capabilities of its military. Denmark has the world’s smallest Gini coefficient -- 24.7 -- which means the country has a high level of income equality. With extremely low levels of violent crime and conflict, paired with political democracy and equality, the Danish enjoy a very high level of general peace. Denmark also has a notably high level of freedom of speech and freedom of the press.
3) New Zealand (tied for 2nd)
Every year since 2007, the IEP has ranked New Zealand as one of the world’s five most peaceful. This year, New Zealand tied with Denmark as the second-most peaceful of the 158 countries studied. A small proportion of its population in jail, limited military capacity and sophistication, and strong relations with Australia all help its score. New Zealand receives the best score possible on the Cignarelli and Richards (CIRI) Political Terror Scale. New Zealand also received the highest score in Amnesty International’s Corruption Perceptions Index, indicating there is little suspicion of corruption in the country.
The least peaceful countries
The war-torn nation of Somalia has been dubbed “the world’s worst humanitarian disaster” by the UN. The country has “not had a nationally functioning state government since its descent into civil war in 1991,” according to the IEP. And there has been violent confrontation between Islamist rebel groups in an effort to gain power. The power struggle between the warlords, specifically the Hizbul Islam and Al-Shabaab, as well as the counterinsurgency by the Transitional Federal Government, have led to the death, displacement and human rights violations of millions of Somali citizens. Because of the constant warfare, an average of 3.25 percent of the population left the country each year between 2000 and 2005.
In 2011, according to the United Nations, 3,021 Afghani civilians were killed as a Taliban-led insurgency has grown more active and violent. The high level of domestic conflict in Afghanistan has turned 3 million people into either refugees or internally displaced people. Ongoing domestic conflicts likely have done considerable damage to Afghanistan’s economy as well. At $506 per person per year, the country’s GDP per capita is lower than all but five of the 158 countries studied by the IEP. On June 14th, the 2,000th death in the U.S.’s Operation Enduring Freedom was recorded.
According to the IEP, refugees and internally displaced persons accounted for 10.5 percent of the population of Sudan, worse than all countries except Afghanistan, Bhutan, Cyprus, Iraq and Somalia. The Sudanese government has been accused of assisting janjawid militants and several other groups in Darfur, while simultaneously combating the Sudan People’s Liberation Army/Movement-North in the country’s South Kordofan and Blue Nile regions. Further violent disputes have arisen with the new nation of South Sudan over the Abeyi province. Additionally, the country was given the worst possible score by the IEP for ease of access to small arms and light weapons. In 2009, the International Criminal Court in The Hague issued an arrest warrant for President Omar al-Bashir, alleging war crimes. | <urn:uuid:29eab49d-a6ac-45c1-a3e5-effa3f146a1d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.nbcnews.com/business/most-least-peaceful-countries-world-835318 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00005-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957576 | 1,842 | 2.75 | 3 |
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We hear it all the time…lose weight for your health. Few people however, realize the extent to which this is critical to their physical well-being and ultimately their life expectancy.
In January 2003, the Journal of the American Medical Association featured a study finding that obesity appears to lessen life expectancy, especially among young adults. The researchers compared Body-Mass Index (BMI) to longevity and found a correlation between premature death and higher BMIs. For example, a 20-year-old white male, 5’10” weighing 288 pounds with a BMI of greater than 40 was estimated to lose 13 years of his life as a result of obesity.Jamie McManus, M.D., F.A.A.F.P. and author of “Your Personal Guide to Wellness” notes that while this study referenced extreme levels of obesity, there are still millions of overweight people in developed countries with a life expectancy rate that is three to five years less than their healthy-weight counterparts. She also estimates that there are 600,000 obesity related deaths each year in America.
Just how does obesity shorten our lifespan? The answer to this question is complex, yet there is a clear link between obesity and the development of cancer. An extensive study conducted by the American Cancer Institute involving 750,000 people showed that obesity significantly increased the risk of cancer developing in the following organs: breast, colon, ovaries, uterus, pancreas, kidneys and gallbladder.
Michael Thun, MD, vice-president of epidemiology and surveillance research for the American Cancer Society (ACS) says one reason obesity may raise cancer risk is because fat cells produce a form of estrogen called estradiol that promotes rapid division of cells, increasing chances of a random genetic error while cells are replicating, which can lead to cancer. In addition, fat centered around the abdomen may increase insulin and insulin-like growth factors in the blood, which may increase cancer risk.
"Women who are obese after menopause have a 50% higher relative risk of breast cancer," notes Thun, "and obese men have a 40% higher relative risk of colon cancer…. Gallbladder and endometrial cancer risks are five times higher for obese individuals”. There is evidence that cancer rates in developed countries are increasing at 5 to 15 times faster than developing countries. A major contributor to this alarming reality has proven to be diet. In populations where the diet consists mostly of fresh fruit and vegetables and whole grains – in contrast to the typical Western diet of fatty meats, refined flours, oils and sugars – the risk of cancer is much lower.
The interaction of diet and the development of cancer is an active field of research and Dr David Heber, M.D., Ph.D. and author of “What Color is Your Diet”, says “It appears that diet has its most significant effects after the cancer has already formed, acting to inhibit or stimulate the growth of that cancer”. At the risk of oversimplifying a complex set of interactions, the typical Western diet that leads to obesity may actually act to stimulate the growth of cancer cells. It is never too late to improve your health through healthful eating and adopting a more health-giving lifestyle. Here are simple steps to follow which can make an immediate improvement to your health and vitality.
1. Check your Body Mass Index (BMI) to determine if weight has become health risk. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 60% of Americans are overweight, defined as having a BMI (a ratio of height to weight) over 25. Of those, nearly half (27%) qualify as obese, with a body mass index of 30 or more. In 1980, just 15% of Americans were considered obese. You can check your BMI at the website below.
2. Match your diet to your body’s requirements. If you eat and drink more calories than your body requires you will put on weight. Learn to control calories and portion sizes, make recipes leaner, and eat infrequently from fast food restaurants. Also learn how to snack with healthful choices.
3. Color your diet with a large variety of colorful, cancer-fighting fruit and vegetables. There are seven different color ranges of both fruit and vegetables and by choosing between 5 to 9 daily serves from a wide range of fruit and vegetables, we are extending our consumption of cancer (and other disease) fighting nutrients.
4. Eat lean protein with every meal. Protein provides a powerful signal to the brain providing a longer sense of fullness. The right source of protein is essential to controlling your hunger with fewer calories and necessary to maintain your lean muscle mass. Choices of protein should be flavored soy shakes with fruit; the white meat of chicken and turkey, seafood such as shrimps, prawns scallops and lobster and ocean fish or vegetarians may prefer soy based meat substitutes.
5. Rev up your metabolism with activity. If you want to enjoy a lifetime of well-being, exercise is a key ingredient. Colleen Doyle, MS, RD, director of nutrition and physical activity for the American Cancer Society (ACS), says adults should do something for 30 minutes each day that takes as much effort as a brisk walk. Children should be active for an hour each day. We are more likely to develop habits around things we enjoy, so seek activities which you enjoy doing. It is also helpful to build physical activity into your daily routine: use the stairs instead of the escalator or lift at work, park your car in the parking bay furthest from the super marketing and don’t use the remote control to change TV channels.
6. Get support to ensure you develop a healthful eating plan and reach your goal weight. Whilst a small percentage of people possess the discipline to lose weight, many obese people have developed strong thoughts and habits concerning the food they eat. In order to establish new habits, most people respond well to some form of consistent encouragement and coaching. A study, “Effects of Internet Behavioral Counseling on Weight Loss in Adults at Risk of Type 2 Diabetes” shows that participants who had the support of weight loss coaching lost more weight than those who didn’t. The study concluded that the support of a weight loss coach can significantly improve weight loss results.
Being overweight or obese has been identified next to smoking, as the most preventable major risk to developing cancer. Even small weight losses have been shown to have beneficial health effects. So it’s never to late to start and you can never be too young or too old to be concerned about your health and do something about achieving a more healthy weight.
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As a part of the Exploratorium's opening ceremonies, Miwa Matreyek performed in our Outdoor Gallery on April 17,2013. In her live performance, Matreyek interacted within beautifully expressed cinematic narratives that unfolded as wondrous journeys, exploring nature and human imagination.
For thousands of years, Indian women have created these elaborate geometric designs using a variety of natural materials—flowers, spices, sand, and natural pigment—to mark auspicious occasions, celebrations, and milestones. For the past forty years, the Exploratorium has set the standard in hands-on, inquiry-based education. See how our new Pier 15 home, with its new exhibits and expanded resources, is helping us achieve our mission: to change the way the world learns.
For our first episode in a new season of "Science in the City," we explore the creation of a bell for the Exploratorium’s new home at Pier 15.
Artist Nick Diphillipo has been designing and casting bells and other objects for over thirty years. He teaches bell making at The Crucible in Oakland, California, as well as other foundry-related subjects.
Edited b-roll of establishing shots, exhibits, and visitors for press use of the new Exploratorium at Pier 15. Extended raw b-roll of establishing shots, exhibits, and visitors for press use of the new Exploratorium at Pier 15. What a great day! We were in the Mission and Bayview districts and on the Embarcadero for a free, preopening extravaganza that was part road show, part street festival, and all Exploratorium. On the Move featured a fleet of moving trucks equipped with museum exhibits and experiences accompanied by artworks, films, food, family activities, and live performances that culminated in a spectacular finale at Pier 15.
In this historical video from 1996, which was originally made for a museum floor installation, we learn about both the Palace of Fine Arts and the roots of the Exploratorium. This piece mixes footage from films in the Exploratorium's collection and interviews with historians, architects, and museum staff. Thomas Dolby performs his famous hit "She Blinded Me With Science" in the Exploratorium's webcasting studio. Watch as comedian/musician Reggie Watts improvises an ending to the Mars webcast on August 9th, 2012. | <urn:uuid:63b477b8-1ead-47af-8696-8905f678d773> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.exploratorium.edu/tv/archive.php?discipline=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00034-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938148 | 497 | 2.078125 | 2 |
San Cristóbal de La Laguna, in the Canary Islands, has two nuclei: the original, unplanned Upper Town; and the Lower Town, the first ideal 'city-territory' laid out according to philosophical principles. Its wide streets and open spaces have a number of fine churches and public and private buildings dating from the 16th to the 18th century.
San Cristóbal de La Laguna
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Criteria (ii) and (iv): San Cristóbal de la Laguna was the first non-fortified Spanish colonial town, and its layout provided the model for many colonial towns in the Americas.
The historic ensemble of San Cristóbal de La Laguna has outstanding universal value is an urban design that represents the concept of the 'town-territory' as the first example of an unfortified town laid out and built according to a complete plan based on navigation, the science of the time, and as the organized space of a new peaceful social order inspired by the millenary religious concepts of the year 1500. As the first non-fortified Spanish colonial town, its layout was the model for many colonial towns in the Americas.
San Cristóbal was founded in 1497 by Alonso Fernández de Lugo. The last town to be established in the Canary Islands takes its name from a shallow lake or marshy area (La Laguna), drained in 1837. The original settlers, almost all soldiers, were not allocated building plots; the defined non-fortified urban area was considered to be a public space where anyone could build. As a result small houses were erected haphazardly around the church of La Concepción, without any overall plan. In 1502, a regular town plan based on Leonardo da Vinci's model for Imola was drawn up by the Captain General (Adelantado) for the area. Wide major streets linked the public open spaces and formed the grid on which smaller streets were superimposed. The resulting Lower Town expanded rapidly, attracting the island's ruling classes and monastic communities began building. A piped water supply was installed at the expense of the Town Council in 1521, and the first public buildings were constructed. However, the political, religious and economic centre was progressively transferred to Santa Cruz, and San Cristóbal declined.
San Cristóbal consists of the Upper Town (Villa de Arriba) of 1497 and the Lower Town (Villa de Abajo) of 1502. The main street (Calle de la Carrera) forms the axis of the planned town, linking the first parish church with the Plaza del Adelantado. Parallel with it runs the Calle de San Agustín, the geometric centre of the town, lined with large houses built by the early merchants. A number of squares open out of it in the regular form derived from Mudejar models. The first church, dedicated to the Conception, was demolished and rebuilt, in 1511. Its present form reflects that long history in its mixture of styles and uncoordinated structures - tower, baptistry, nave with two side-aisles, chapels, etc. Nearby is what remains of the Monastery of San Agustín, founded at the beginning of the 16th century with a fine two-storey cloister. The Captain General was concentrating on the development of the Lower Town, where work began in 1515 on building its parish church, dedicated to Los Remedios. A single-aisled building in Mudejar style, with a tower added in the 17th century, it later became the cathedral of the new bishopric of Tenerife, established in 1813. Extensive remodelling took place in the early 20th century, with three aisles and side chapels.
The Dominican Convent of Santa Catalina de Siena, inaugurated in 1611, became so influential that it absorbed a number of adjoining buildings. The exteriors are plain and severe, but the internal decoration is sumptuous. The small Ermita de San Miguel declined sadly after its foundation, but was restored for use as a cultural centre. What remains of the Convent of Santa Clara, destroyed by fire in 1697, is used for a similar purpose. There is a number of fine former private residences: the oldest is the Casa del Corregidor (although only the facade in dressed red stone is original). The Casa de Lercaro, with a fine Mannerist facade, is now the Tenerife Historical Museum. The Casa de Alvarado Bracamonte (1624-31) was used by successive governors as an office and residence until the 19th century. It has a red stone portal with pilasters, a wrought-iron balcony, and a broken pediment. It now houses the municipal historical and artistic heritage section. The Casa de Salazár, built in 1682, has a handsome portal in eclectic style, principally Baroque but with some Mannerist and neoclassical elements. The Casa de Ossuna has the long balcony on the first floor of the facade: it is used for the enormous archival collection of San Cristóbal.
Among the fine 18th century buildings are the elegant Casa de Montañés, a private residence now the seat of the Consultative Council of the Autonomous Government of the Canaries, and the L-plan Casa de los Jesuitas, occupied by the Society of Jesus until its expulsion from the Canaries in 1767. The Casa de la Alhóndiga was built at the beginning of the 18th century as a corn market. In the early 19th century it was a French military barracks and it became a district court. The city also has some good 20th century architecture - examples of eclecticism, such as the Palace of Rodriguez de Azero and the Leal Theatre. Source: UNESCO/CLT/WHC
San Cristóbal de la Laguna was founded in 1497 by Alonso Fernandez de Lugo. The last town to be established in the Canary Islands (which was the first Spanish overseas territory) takes its name from a shallow lake or marshy area (La Laguna), which was not drained until 1837.
The original settlers, who were almost all soldiers, were not allocated building plots; the non-fortified urban area that was defined was considered to be a public space where anyone could build. As a result small houses were erected around the church of La Concepción in a haphazard fashion, without any overall plan, in the Upper Town (Villa de Arriba). However, this situation was regularized in 1502, when a regular town plan based on Leonardo da Vinci's model for Imola was drawn up by the Captain General (Adelantado) for the area between his official residence and the church. Wide major streets (calles reales) linked the public open spaces and formed the grid on which smaller streets were superimposed.
The resulting Lower Town (Villa de Abajo) expanded rapidly, attracting the island's ruling classes, and by 1515 had more than a thousand inhabitants. Monastic communities began building early in the 16th century - the Church of Nuestra Señora de los Remedios (1511), the Hermitage of San Miguel (1506), and the Hospitals of San Sebastián (1506) and Los Dolores (1515).
A piped water supply was installed at the expense of the Town Council (Cabildo) in 1521, and the first public buildings were constructed in 1525. The town began to seek official urban status as early as 1514, but this was not granted until 1531. In 1554 the Town Council ordained that any buildings in straw were to be demolished, to lessen the risk of fire, an important precaution, because by that time the population had risen to six thousand, making it the largest town in the Canaries.
San Cristóbal retained this pre-eminent position as the main political, religious, and commercial centre throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, and the prosperity that this brought is to be seen in the buildings from that period. However, the political and economic centre was progressively transferred to Santa Cruz during the 18th century, and as a result San Cristóbal declined, only retaining a significant role in religious and cultural life. A brief political revival following the establishment of the Supreme Council (Junta Suprema) of the Canary Islands with its seat in San Cristóbal in 1808 came to an abrupt end when that body fell foul of the Provincial Council (Diputación Provincial) based in Santa Cruz de Tenerife five years later and was disbanded.
The 20th century has seen San Cristóbal recovering something of its former role, thanks notably to the prestige of its university.
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By Carolyn L. Barkley
Columnists have written articles on genealogical topics for many years. Although today we often automatically think “virtually,” it is helpful to know about newspaper columns, both past and present, and how they can support our research. These columns, combined with other content of genealogical interest, make newspapers an important resource.
While many of us know whether or not a genealogical column appears in our local newspaper, we may not know if such a column appears in a newspaper in the geographical area of our research. If one does, what type of information is included: how-to information concerning local records, local historical events, or biographical vignettes? Do they accept queries? An even more basic question is how to find out what newspapers exist (existed) in our area of interest. There are many published bibliographies of newspapers, some broad in scope, some limited to states or regions. For current publications, check Ayer Directory of Publications (Ayer Press, annual publication) at your local library. For historical titles, both Winifred Gregory’s American Newspapers 1821-1936: A Union List of Files Available in the United States and Canada (H.W. Wilson, 1937) and John Van Ness Ingram’s A Checklist of American Eighteenth Century Newspapers in the Library of Congress (Government Printing Office, 1936) will prove helpful. Anita Cheek Milner’s Newspaper Genealogical Column Directory (Heritage Books, 1989), although currently out-of-print, is another resource to consult.
You will also want to search “Cyndi’s List” under the topic of “newspapers.” Twenty-two pages (if you print them) are available, including information about several current genealogy columns and columnists: “Louisiana Ancestors” appears in the Times-Picayune (New Orleans) with archived columns available online at http://www.nola.com/ancestors/; Mic Barnette writes a weekly column that appears each Saturday in the “This Weekend” section of the Houston Chronicle with online access at http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/Delta/7552/; Tom Mooney writes a genealogy column that appears in the Times Leader in northeastern Pennsylvania; and Terry Day and Donna Potter Phillips write for the Tri-City Herald (Washington state). (Please note that the links from Cyndi’s List to the latter two columns are broken). An alphabetical list of links to a wide range of newspapers and newspaper collections, current and historical as well as national and international, is also available on “Cyndi’s List,” as well as a link to “My Virtual Newspaper” with links to newspapers by country and state. A search for Virginia newspapers provided 58 titles. A search for “genealogy” on a few of the Virginia sites brought a variety of responses including obituaries and an article from Danville on Sen. John McCain’s genealogical ties to that area
Once you have identified potential newspaper titles for your research area, Google their sites and then search the sites for “genealogy.” Do they publish a regular column? Do they have occasional genealogical features? Do not limit yourself, however, to current publications. You may want to contact the papers directly to determine if they published such information in the past and when such columns might have appeared. Where is the newspaper archive located? Is it available online or on microfilm? State libraries, archives, and historical societies often have significant collections of newspapers. Be sure to check if there is there an index to the newspapers, whether published or online (or in the librarian’s file drawer). How much was indexed? Does the newspaper accept queries? Some newspapers may publish genealogical queries; others might require that you purchase a classified ad. Try a Google search combining the name of a state and “genealogical query columns.” By doing so, I was able to locate a list of twelve Alabama newspapers with genealogical query columns. You may also want to check PERiodical Source Index (PERSI), published by the Allen County Public Library Foundation. While your library may have printed volumes of this index on the shelf, more efficient searching can be found at heritagequest.com. Check with your local library to see if they provide remote access to this subscription service, on your home computer, by using your library card number.
If your local paper does not include a genealogical column, consider writing a column yourself and talking to the editor about the possibilities. Take a sample column with you when you meet in order to provide an example of your writing skills and subject. If you are writing, or plan to write, a column, you may want to join the International Society of Family History Writers and Editors. Recognizing today’s wide-spread interest in genealogical information, this organization fosters excellence in writing and provides editorial standards for genealogical publishing. The Society sponsors an annual Excellence-in-Writing Competition with categories for published newspaper columns, magazine articles and columns, unpublished research stories, and an “evaluative category for want-to-be-writers. In addition, a listing of newspaper columns is available for Arizona, California, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, Washington State, Denmark/Canada, as well as a link to archived copies of Myra Vanderpool Gormley’s former syndicated column in the Los Angeles Times.
In addition to columns printed currently or in the past, other information in the newspaper will be useful in fleshing out the “rest of the story.” Don’t stop with reading the obituaries and death notices. Read the social columns. Who was visiting? Who were they visiting? What anniversaries or birthdays were being celebrated? Read featured stories about local events that your ancestor may have attended or may have been involved in. If you know that an individual’s cause of death involved a train, automobile or construction accident, the event would have been reported and additional information provided. If you have a questionably law-abiding ancestor, read the police blotter. I once solved a research problem by reading that an individual had died from a fall while in jail following “an extended spree.” This information, definitely not related by the family itself, only appeared in this brief police blotter report. Read all of the birth, marriage and legal notices. In current newspapers note the obituaries for individuals who might be related to your ancestor.
Several reference works have compiled genealogical information from newspapers, including Robert W. Barnes’ Missing Relatives and Lost Friends (Clearfield, 2008), which includes information from advertisements for missing persons from newspapers in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Virginia. Such ads often included a place of birth, date and last place of residence, and relationship to the person posting the notice. State-wide collections, such as the Charles R. Hale collection of vital records (Connecticut), can be very helpful and save time in identifying information (always then go and read the original notice) from newspaper notices.(Family History Library US/CAN Film 3076-3433).
Newspapers, whether those printed in our time or those from the past, can provide a great deal of information that will supplement our knowledge of individuals and the events of their time. They can provide helpful information on how-to research in a specific geographical area, as well as provide us with intimate views of the history of a community. | <urn:uuid:be646029-8183-4a0f-bf1c-299787c232c1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.genealogyandfamilyhistory.com/?p=68 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938951 | 1,593 | 2.59375 | 3 |
No matter the weather, Chinese hot pot is perfect for winter entertaining. The colorful array of meats, seafood, vegetables, bean curd and noodles dipped in a communal pot of simmering liquid is as simple as it is tasty.
After cleaning and cutting the meats and vegetables, the only thing left to do is concoct a dipping sauce. Some common ingredients are soy sauce (clockwise from top left); cilantro, chili peppers, shallots and garlic; sesame oil and Chinese barbecue sauce (see below).
Maureen Pao, NPR
Friends, Family and a Feast: A Hot Pot How-To
Maureen Pao, NPR
Soy sauce, rice vinegar, sesame paste, sesame oil and Chinese barbecue sauce, also known as shacha (Bull Head brand is pictured here, front) are some of the ingredients you can use in your dipping sauce.
Maureen Pao, NPR
When the weather is dreary and cold, there's nothing better than cooking something that heats up the house and fills it with fragrant aromas — unless it's someone else doing the cooking.
That's why the Chinese dish huoguo is perfect for winter entertaining. Even if you're a neophyte Chinese cook, hot pot will be a cinch. One of its many beauties lies in its simplicity.
Also known as Chinese fondue – or by its literal translation, fire pot — huoguo is a colorful array of meats, seafood, vegetables, bean curd and noodles that each diner chooses from and dips in a communal pot of simmering liquid. It's a convivial activity, enjoyed by friends and families drawn together by a delicious, healthful meal in which the cooking is spread among many.
If you need an excuse to party, we're in the middle of traditional Chinese New Year celebrations, which began Feb. 18 and run until March 4.
It's thought that hot pot originated in Mongolia (it's easy to imagine gathering around a coal fire in that cold and wind-swept region). In this version, mutton is the main meat. Between the 7th and 10th centuries, the technique spread to Tang Dynasty China.
Today, there are nearly as many types of hot pot as there are regional dialects in China. My friend John, a one-man hot pot encyclopedia, can easily rattle off eight different kinds, among them: mala huoguo, which features a numbingly spicy broth; suancai yu huogou, consisting of pickled greens with fish; an all wild mushroom hot pot, soft shell turtle hot pot, and even a yak version in far Western China.
This may sound exotic. But I ate hot pot growing up in the 1970s and '80s in South Carolina, and if my mother and father could find enough ingredients there to prepare the gut-busting hot pot meals we had at our house, you can find them anywhere.
If you live in warmer climes, fear not. My hot pot-loving little sister, who lives with her family in Florida, simply cranks up the air-conditioning to enjoy huoguo year-round.
Instead of a butane burner or brazier filled with charcoal, you can use a more convenient (and much easier to find) electric frying pan or wok. Or just search online where a variety of Chinese hot pots are for sale.
The staples for a satisfying hot pot experience are available at most large grocery stores: beef sliced paper-thin (ask the butcher to do it; it's difficult for mere mortals to do at home), shrimp, spinach, button mushrooms, Napa or other cabbage, and firm tofu.
There are some slightly more exotic items you can get at any Asian market and some upscale supermarkets: shiitake, enokitake (or enoki mushrooms) and other fungi; different kinds of specialty tofu (there's a puffy kind called youdofu, or "oily tofu," that I really like); various small, ready-made dumplings; frozen fish balls, mung bean sprouts, and cellophane or glass noodles.
Even if you stick to the basics, you won't be disappointed.
The only thing that needs attention before the feasting begins is dipping sauce. There are plenty of different ingredients you can put in your bowl to personalize your creation: Soy sauce, sesame oil or paste, chili, garlic, coriander, vinegar and Chinese barbecue sauce (see inset, above) are some choices. When he was younger, my dad added an egg yolk to his mixture.
After you've concocted your dipping sauce — add a little of this and a little of that — the fun begins. We always use chopsticks, although a fork will work just fine. A ladle is useful for some of the more slippery items.
Eating is a free-for-all: Just pick what you like and dip it in the liquid (water at our house, although you can use broth) — no need to wait until someone else is finished before you dive in.
In my family, there are different styles of eating hot pot.
My father is a dumper: He likes to throw a lot of different things into the pot, put the lid on and bring the water to a roiling boil. After a few minutes, he removes — usually with a goofy flourish — the pot's cover, and we dive into the bounty of delectables.
My mother is more meticulous, a picker-and-chooser. She prefers to dip one or two slices of meat at once, swishing them back and forth until they're done; she puts in a few chunks of tofu or a couple of shrimp, keeps track of them, then carefully plucks those — and only those — out.
We kids are a little of both. My detail-oriented side enjoys separating the thin pieces of meat and watching them gradually cook. I like my meat rarer than my parents, so the attention ensures it doesn't overcook; the delicate slices of beef need just a few seconds in the piping hot liquid. But I love dumping in handfuls of leafy greens and an avalanche of tofu and going on a fishing expedition for them later.
My brother and sister are like traffic cops, making sure the bobbing bits don't travel too far outside their designated zone. Battles erupt over rightful ownership of a certain flotilla of shrimp or beef.
After hours of eating, what was once ordinary water is infused with the richness of all that has gone into it and is transformed into something entirely new. In go the noodles, and after a few minutes, we are all quiet, save the slurping of noodles and a sublime soup. It's my favorite part of a meal that holds many pleasures, so try to save room.
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Dogs can't get enough of Skype. Humans, apparently, can't get enough of watching dogs using Skype on YouTube. A video uploaded to YouTube on January 11 of a dog using Skype to talk with other dogs has gone viral with over 700,000 views as of press time. The video, called “My Dog Can Skype!,” shows a wire-haired fox terrier “using” Skype and barking wildly at another dog.
Wasel told Fast Company that the idea for the video came from her dog Gaytor howling at her family's answering machine in high school when he heard familiar voices. "We figured that if it worked through the phone, maybe we could try something on the computer. He reacts to other noises, and he when he see's other dogs he sometimes does it. He reacted to (the other dog) howling like he usually does," Wasel said.
Humanity love novelty. Dogs are adorable, and dogs performing the same tasks as human beings has always been a source of humor and fascination--after all, there's a reason why paintings of dogs playing poker have persisted for more than 100 years. The idea that canines could adapt to the latest trends in technology is attractive to viewers, and it's something viewers love.
However, dogs don't experience technology in the same way that humans do. For the past few years, there has been a cottage industry in iPad apps for pets. Both dogs and cats have very different sensory toolkits than humans. Apart from obvious differences in paws and hearing, dogs experience the world in an entirely different way. Compared to humans, canines rely on their sense of smell for communication and interaction far, far more--and their sense of vision means they see a computer monitor or tablet screen far differently.
One special challenge for dogs is that the compressed audio of Skype makes it especially hard for them to hear the person or the animal on the other end of the line. There is also anecdotal evidence of the high-pitched connection noises on Skype making dogs uncomfortable, but this has not been verified by any academic literature.
Scientists have, however, conducted research into the ways dogs use Skype. An upcoming paper which will be presented at the 2013 Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing conference investigated the feasibility of creating Skype-like video systems for pet owners to communicate with their pets. Researchers Carman Neustaedter of Simon Fraser University and Jennifer Golbeck of the University of Maryland found that a majority of pet owners surveyed felt Skype, or similar systems, would be a good way of either talking or watching their pets.
The logistical obstacles of dog owners or other dogs remotely interacting, however, are daunting. Canine psychology is different from human psychology, and there are issues of disembodiment to take into account. More importantly, the bulk of pet owners surveyed were interested in using video chat as a way of interacting with pets while they're away from home. Both Neustaedter and Golbeck pointed out a simple fact--if video chat is making a dog uncomfortable while alone at home, there's no way for the canine to actually turn the chat off.
In an interview, Neustaedter told Fast Company that collaborator Golbeck made a custom videoconferencing system for dogs last year that was shown at the ACM CHI conference. Golbeck's canine videoconferencing system combined a Skype connection with an interface that also combined custom sound and visual elements aimed at dogs. Sounds like squeaky toys were used to draw the dog's attention to the computer, and visual elements on the monitor such as an on-screen laser pointer and a swimming tadpole were integrated. According to Neustaedter, the researchers had "very good" results in having trained dogs follow commands over a Skype audio connection.
"As a second part of the research, we implemented a prototype system and tested it with ten dogs and their owners. We had a sound panel and a couple screens with moving targets. The dogs loved the sounds, but I was surprised that the motion on the screen was of almost no interest to the dogs. They seem to be uninterested in looking at the screen, but they really listen," Golbeck said.
For many pet owners, Skype and other video conferencing services essentially serve as an interactive form of pet cameras such as the Eyenimal and the Petcam, albeit at a lower price point. Until more research is done, we won't really know what dogs are thinking when they engage with Skype. However, it's also safe to say we'll keep on putting our pets on Skype--because, after all, we're only human.
Several weeks ago, Fast Company also reported on the international launch of DogTV, a television station airing content geared towards dogs.
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From Pennsylvania, USA:
I am a 65 year old with Type 2 diabetes. I am trying to lose weight but cannot. I keep gaining regardless of how I watch my diet. My daily blood glucose in the morning is 155 or more. Is diabetes the cause of weight gain? What can I do?
People with Type 2 diabetes are generally overweight because there is actually an excess of insulin driving hunger and because in many cases the receptor cites on the cells for insulin are not working quite right it takes more insulin to get the sugar into the cells. Fat will coat the cells and make the receptors even less effective, calling for more insulin, etc. The abundance of insulin in your system will take any sugar not burned by your body and convert it to fat for storage. It is a vicious cycle.
You did not mention if you had started an exercise program. Exercise helps your body burn more sugar and makes the receptors on the cells more effective. You will need to be sure to consult with your doctor before you start exercising.
You do not say what kind of a diet you are on, but I would recommend you visit with a dietitian regarding your meal plan to get some extra help, perhaps there are suggestions that could be made to help you make some headway. Remember that weight goes off slowly, so try not to get too discouraged.
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The Brennan Center for Justice at NYU issued a report this month recommending reforms in recusal policies around the country. James Sample, David Pozen & and Michael Young, Fair Courts: Setting Recusal Standards (2008). See a press release here.
The authors say that it's more important now because of increasingly contentious elections, with judges accepting big contributions from industries whose disputes they may preside over (whether it's insurance companies, plaintiffs' lawyers, or real estate developers).
Their ten recommendations:
- Peremptory disqualification. Some states let parties decline a judge assignment, just as they can excuse a juror.
- Enhanced disclosure. Judges should disclose campaign statements and campaign contributions that might be seen as affecting their impartiality.
- Per se disqualification for campaign contributors. The ABA also recommends disqualifying a judge from judging a party that has contributed above a certain amount to the campaign.
- Independent adjudication of disqualification motions.
- Transparent and reasoned decision-making. (Don't just say: "Nope, I won't recuse myself." Explain it.)
- De novo review on interlocutory appeal.
- Mechanisms for replacing disqualified judges.
- Expanded commentary in the canons.
- Judicial education.
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Photo: Florida's Hispanic Population Explodes Thanks to South American Immigrants
For decades there has been a large Hispanic population in Florida, but in just 10 years, the portion of that population made up of just South Americans has more than doubled.
Though Cubans are still the largest group of Hispanics in the state, South Americans now outnumber Mexicans in Florida, according to data released Thursday.
Though Cubans and Puerto Ricans take the number one and number two spots, Colombians, Venezuelans, and Peruvians are fast approaching, many leaving their native countries in response to the increased political discourse and violence.
According to officials with the Pew Hispanic Center, the format of the 2010 Census may have aided in helping to classify Florida Hispanics. Previously, census forms only allowed a person to check whether they were Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, or Other, with a space left for them to fill in what Other was for them. Often, individuals would check other, but not fill in the space. On the 2010 form however, the options were the same except next to the Other option where individuals were presented with examples to try to motivate them to fill in their nationality.
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An apple a day …
That old saying, “An apple a day keeps the doctor away,” is a proverb backed up by science and is as good and truthful today as ever. It’s that time of year again and we love viewing all the varieties, sizes and colors of that wonderful versatile fruit.
The benefits are unbelievable. Apples may reduce the risk of cancer by preventing DNA damage. Its fibers control cholesterol levels, helping with heart disease and weight loss. Apples are a cleansing food supported by fiber, antioxidants and fruit flavonoids. Apples have been traditionally used to prevent arthritis, rheumatism and gout.
One should make a habit of eating at least one apple daily. The result in actually eating an apple is that the dietary fiber causes it to take longer for digestion and it has a low glucose level, making you feel full.
If your daily diet includes apples, you will be healthier. Apples contain 250 trace chemicals, which are responsible for the tang and aroma of the fruit. This aroma has a calming effect on us, thus lowering blood pressure. The green apples contain more fiber, but the red ones are tastier. The sugars are fructose and sucrose, and they are both natural sugars and are not harmful to the body. Apples are good for diabetics and help control blood sugar levels. Ripe apples contain 80 percent water and are virtually fat free. They contain potassium, which is needed for the regulation of water balance and muscle function, and are a good source of vitamin C.
We are very fortunate to be living in an area of fresh apples orchards. Even though most of our apples come from Washington state, the one grown here at home are special. Many yards in Lansing have good apple trees. You can make all sorts of salads and desserts with apples. I like any kind of pie as long as its apple. | <urn:uuid:ad8cf6df-6f1b-4b91-91b4-b3c9c33f793d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.basehorinfo.com/news/2010/oct/28/apple-day/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00058-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955303 | 388 | 2.71875 | 3 |
May 07, 2009, 10:29 AM — Even as the world economy languishes, Microsoft is putting an increasing focus on its research efforts in areas well beyond its traditional desktop and office software domain.
New research can take up 15 years before it is incorporated into a product, so Microsoft needs to be ready when the economy comes back, said Andrew Herbert, managing director of Microsoft's research facility in Cambridge, England.
The company employs about 1,000 researchers across its five labs in the U.S., U.K., India and China and is adding around 80 people a year, nearly the same number of people as many universities' computer science departments, Herbert said. It expects to spend US$9 billion this year on research and development.
On Wednesday, Microsoft opened the doors of its U.K. facility, the Roger Needham Building at the University of Cambridge. The open house had a sort of science-fair feel to it, with researchers on hand near displays describing what they've been working on.
The commercial prospects for many of the innovations remain fuzzy, and none of the technologies will necessarily be on the market any time soon. Microsoft's researchers work quite separate from the company's product developers.
The goal is for researchers to come up with innovations that will put a smile on CEO Steve Ballmer's face, Herbert said. Ballmer is probably already smiling, as many of the lab's projects show promise.
Here are few of the most interesting:
Somniloquy: Most of Microsoft's research efforts are in software, but one of the more exotic displays from Wednesday was Somniloquy, a raw-looking USB drive sticking out of a desktop PC.
Somniloquy is the term for talking during sleep, which is essentially what it allows a PC to do. When PCs go into sleep mode, they lose the ability to communicate on networks. The only alternative is to leave the PC on, which constantly draws power.
Business users often leave their office PCs on overnight to allow remote file access, and consumers tend to leave them on for overnight BitTorrent downloads or constant VOIP presence, said James Scott, a Microsoft researcher.
Somniloquy lets a computer go to sleep yet maintain a presence on the network. It has an SD Card for memory, so it could continue to download or even share files. It can also maintain a VOIP connection, waking up the PC when a call comes in. Somniloquy can also wake up the PC if someone is trying to remotely access the machine.
The power difference is astounding: Scott showed the desktop computer was consuming around 85 watts of power, but with Somniloquy, it consumes only around 4 watts. That small amount of power is used to maintain the DRAM state and power Somniloquy.
"Instead of having computers as all-on or all-off we want more finer-grained tiers of functionality in the computer so that when the user is not there you don't need the graphics card on, you don't need the CPU on," Scott said.
In order to run BitTorrent or VOIP, Somniloquy would need to run application "stubs," or a stripped-down versions of an application with no user interface but capable of handling network protocols, Scott said.
Since Microsoft doesn't make networking hardware, Somniloquy might be more appropriate for companies such as Intel or Broadcom to produce, Scott said.
HomeWatcher: Microsoft's HomeWatcher is a small application that shows the amount of data downloaded and uploaded by users of a particular PC.
Consumers often don't have an easy way to monitor their broadband usage, which can cause frustration when broadband connections may not be working well, said Tim Regan, a research software development engineer.
"You don't want to know about your central heating unless you're bloody freezing -- then you do," Regan said. "It's those moments. One side of it is how do we apportion blame among ourselves. The other side is how do we become more sophisticated in what we're asking for."
As demand for bandwidth and overall broadband data consumption increases, Regan said HomeWatcher could prompt more inquisitive questions from consumers over how they manage their network.
Later this month, Microsoft plans to trial HomeWatcher in a few homes. Those testers will likely be able to mount a small screen near their computer that shows the data or can opt to use a desktop, Flash-based widget, Regan said.
Everest: This software application allows the redirection of input and output calls from one server to another. One of the advantages is that Everest allows a disk that is receiving lots of write requests to allow another disk to handle that load, either on the same server or one nearby.
"During a period of high load, the normal system can only really get about 100 requests per second for this particular brand of disk, whereas if you enable Everest, then we can get up to 200 requests per second," said Austin Donnelly, a research software design engineer. "That's quite an improvement in the request rate."
Data that is written to another server is eventually copied back to the original file server, Donnelly said. "You can think of it as opportunistic use of spare resources," he said.
Everest also can cut data-center energy use. Since Everest allows administrators to direct input and output calls, during certain times one server can be designated to handle all of them. The rest of the servers in the rack can then be shut down, Donnelly said.
Microsoft has been working on Everest for about two years and experimented with it on the company's SQL Server product. Donnelly said Everest is fairly mature, but no decision has been made yet about when or how it will become a product.
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01-08-2013 04:01 PM
Android's already used to control cars, stereos and TV, but companies at CES were demonstrating rice cookers and refrigerators running the OS. It could help Google collect more search data and expand its lead over Microsoft and Apple in this area.
01-08-2013 10:30 PM
I see you spotted that headline today too. The Internet of Things is really here. The best part about an Android-powered appliance is it's ease in communicating with other such devices. If this becomes a regular feature, we'll most certainly see fragmentation among appliance manufacturers just as we've seen from handset and tablet makers. Until we know more about such smart appliances, we just have to hope everything really will work well with other devices.
01-16-2013 09:51 PM
Right now, I suspect they will have to learn a great number of development platforms to accomodate all the appliances. There are no standards or actual development platforms available yet so it's really up to appliance manufacturers in the future. | <urn:uuid:6ab85e11-bb2f-4e51-a55f-a5971ce3fb51> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://techtalk.dice.com/t5/Android/Android-powering-refrigerators-and-rice-cookers-at-CES/m-p/321618 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00053-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960108 | 215 | 1.710938 | 2 |
Kids Section - Life in Ancient Egypt - Work
Work - Farmers
| Farmers of Ancient Egypt Peasant farmers worked lands belonging to the pharaoh, the government, a temple, or a rich landowner. Their pay barely covered their living expenses. In addition to plowing, planting, and harvesting, they maintained the irrigation canals that brought water to their fields and were required to work on the pharaoh's tomb construction project each year. |
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This book brought home to me, a Tutor to teenage young men, just how valuable to mankind is a good secure homelife with opportunities for learning, adventure and wise guidance. A sizeable minority of my students' stories begin much like those of the destructive subjects of this book. Nowadays, with pecuniary social support, a rebel youngster can be 'on the run' from society for as long as some these western gunfighters' were on the run from the law; which was frequently as long as their short lives.
My mind also dwells on the cold courage of those western lawmen who faced down their quarry at close quarters, took the guns from these undisciplined, wild, mistrustful young men while exposing themselves to great danger; and in some cases preserved the lives of these reckless killers after first shooting them into a state of submission. Was this a form of compassion reminiscient of Winston Churchill, or evidence that their acknowledged responsibility was to 'save a worthwhile life for society' more than it was to eradicate everyone who might represent lethal danger? | <urn:uuid:aaa2943f-06b9-4184-8547-7fd7ad70d907> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Pimlico-Encyclopedia-Western-Gunfighters/dp/0712666826 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00029-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97642 | 216 | 2.34375 | 2 |
Heat Stress Adviser: A Program For Palm-Type PDA's And For Microsoft Windows
Environmental heat stress can adversely affect athletic performance and lead to injury or death. The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) guidelines designed to avoid these undesirable outcomes are expressed as Wet Bulb Globe Temperature (WBGT), a very powerful heat stress index developed by the US Marine Corps at their Parris Island, South Carolina, training center. Devices for measuring WBGT tend to be fragile and very expensive, and this deters guidelines adherence.
Handy, inexpensive devices can provide playing field temperature and humidity information, but converting these readings into WBGT requires application of complex modeling techniques. To overcome this difficulty, the Zunis Foundation has commissioned development of a program for Palm-type PDA's and for Microsoft Windows. This program, Heat Stress Adviser, allows WBGT to be estimated from data obtained from a digital psychrometer, a sling psychrometer or a local airport. Once the estimated WBGT is calculated, the user is automatically taken to a guidelines page that outlines sport-specific recommendations for current weather conditions.
Please note: Fluid recommendations made for US football are based on the assumption that players are the size of adult males. Fluid intake must be carefully balanced against fluid losses to avoid both dehydration (which is very common) and over-hydration and hyponatremia (which are uncommon, but can be serious).
In addition to providing estimated WBGT and guidelines recommendations, Heat Stress Adviser contains a wealth of information related to heat stress in sports. Heat Stress Adviser is freeware, available without charge but not to be sold or re-sold.
Event Safety Calculator is a program based on a Sports Medicine Australia (SA Branch) checklist for planning sports events. Event Safety Calculator is a module included in Heat Stress Adviser °F and in Heat Stress Adviser °C. It can also be downloaded as a free-standing program.
To begin the download process for Heat Stress Adviser, click on one of these links:
Download Heat Stress Adviser °F for Palm-Type PDA
Download Heat Stress Adviser °C for Palm-Type PDA
Download Heat Stress Adviser °F for Microsoft Windows
Download Heat Stress Adviser °C for Microsoft Windows
Download Event Safety Calculator °F for Microsoft Windows
Download Event Safety Calculator °C for Microsoft Windows
After the download is complete, unzip the file proceed with installation. If you have questions or comments, please contact the Zunis Webmaster through the link at the bottom of this page.
If you are trying to download the Macintosh version of Heat Stress Adviser, click here.
If you are trying to download the Pocket PC/Windows Mobile PDA version of Heat Stress Adviser, you will need to use a work-around solution. Since Heat Stress Adviser has not yet been ported to the Pocket PC platform, it is necessary to install a Palm OS emulator program on your Pocket PC PDA to act as a translator. An excellent program for this function is Style Tap, available from http://styletap.com/ . After installing Style Tap on your Pocket PC PDA, just install Heat Stress Adviser for Palm as you ordinarily would. Heat Stress Adviser runs perfectly in this setting, and the presence of Style Tap allows the Pocket PC user to have access to the more than 20,000 Palm PDA applications, many of them free. (The author has found Style Tap to be a terrific program, as used with the Dell Axim PDA and Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition.) | <urn:uuid:25700dd1-557c-48b7-aa46-cf5d7471d83e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.zunis.org/sports_p.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00055-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.911397 | 717 | 2.296875 | 2 |
UN-SPIDER Mission to Tonga
With the continuous support being provided by the Government of Austria, the UN-SPIDER Programme is increasing its support to the Kingdom of Tonga by having carried out a Technical Advisory Mission, at the request of the Tongan Government through the Ministry of Lands, Survey and Natural Resources. The Kingdom of Tonga is exposed to earthquakes, volcanoes, cyclones and other coastal hazards such as storm surges. In addition, in September 2009, Tonga was affected by a tsunami, which provoked extensive impacts on one of the outer islands. Furthermore, as a Small Island Developing State, the Kingdom of Tonga is experiencing the impacts of sea-level rise.
David Stevens, UN-SPIDER Programme Coordinator, headed the mission team and was joined by experts from SOPAC, Dr. Wolf Forsttreuter, UN-OCHA, Ms. Rashmi Rita. Mr. Richard Kautoke Head of the GIS Division of the Ministry of Lands, Survey and Natural Resources, as well as by Dave Leng a leading regional crowdsourcing expert. The mission builds upon the technical advisory support that UN-SPIDER has been providing to all Pacific Island Countries since 2008 with the support from the Government of Austria. The mission worked closely with Mr. Mafua-'i-Vai'utukakau Maka from the National Emergency Management Office (NEMO).
The Mission was carried out from 20 to 23 March and included meetings with key stakeholders and a half-day workshop for senior policy makers, data providers, and disaster management and disaster risk reduction end users with the purpose of awareness generation and assessing the country needs and capacity. The aim of the mission was to 1. Review current policies, procedures and mechanisms related to the use of geo-spatial information and make recommendations; 2. To engage key stakeholders who are custodians of geo-spatial data relevant to disaster risk management; 3. Develop an institutional strengthening strategy for stakeholder agencies (individuals, institutions and infrastructure), and finally 4. Develop a long-term association with UN-SPIDER to take advantage of outreach activities, institutional strengthening programmes and resources available through the UN-SPIDER network.
Initial recommendations put forward by the mission team include the need to focus on the establishment and consolidation of an institutional and legal framework regarding geospatial data including the need to ensure the wide practice and ease of data sharing. This includes the need to study the possibility of establishing a National Spatial Database Infrastructure (NSDI), aiming at contributing to the definition of the national spatial database (including the various data custodians) and data sharing policies, together with the strengthening of the leading role of the GIS Division of the Ministry of Lands, Survey and Natural Resources.
The mission team also recommended the organisation of a one-day awareness raising high-level meeting for high ranking officials followed by a 5-day capacity building activity, either focusing on a vulnerability mapping exercise or an emergency response simulation exercise. This proposed event is scheduled initially to take place in August/September 2012.
The mission team also highlighted the need to ensure access to satellite imagery for on-going disaster events (emergency response) by mapping opportunities, creating linkages to existing mechanisms and defining roles of national institutions and regional partners including SOPAC. This should include also working closely with providers of satellite imagery to ensure data is received with the possibility of carrying out the pre-processing operations.
Finally, the mission team agreed that they would explore together the use of crowdsourcing capabilities in supporting NEMO’s needs, including the planning and carrying out of a simulation exercise similar to the simulation carried out by Samoa in December 2011, with the support of the UN-SPIDER Programme. | <urn:uuid:515d1479-f885-4cb9-a72c-035ad12fb443> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://un-spider.org/about-us/news/2012-03-20t082800/un-spider-mission-tonga | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00021-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942999 | 759 | 2.390625 | 2 |
As one of the leaders of the White Mountain School, Benjamin Champney brought the techniques of the Hudson River School to the woods and mountains of New Hampshire. Champney began his career as a lithographer and, on the advice of the established artist Washington Allston, traveled to Paris to study painting in 1841. When he returned to the United States he became famous for his panoramas of Europe, which he exhibited throughout Boston and New York. He turned his focus to landscape painting in 1850 and spent the following summers sketching in North Conway, New Hampshire. His paintings, which combined his panoramic technique with an interest in nature’s detail, proved extremely popular and were often reproduced by lithographic artists. Champney also taught classes in North Conway and was so influential in bringing other artists to the region that he became known as the “dean” of the White Mountain School. He helped to found the Boston Art Club in 1854 and exhibited at the National Academy of Design, the Boston Athenaeum, the American Art Union, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the Paris Salon. The New Hampshire Historical Society held a retrospective of his work in 1997; his paintings can also be seen at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Butler Institute of American Art, the Georgia Museum of Art, the Yale University Art Gallery, and the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University.
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by C. S. Lewis
Mr. Lewis never published his own poetry book while alive but one was comprised for him years after his death by a man named Walter Hooper (who made a lot of C. S. Lewis compilations). Most of the work comes from single poems that Lewis did in magazines and newspapers such as: The Cambridge Review, The Oxford Magazine, The Spectator, Time and Tide, etc. (in which case he sometimes used fake names like Clive Hamilton and Nat Whilk). After Lewis converted to Christianity he still had inside of himself many doubts and frustrations about the world religion. One of his biggest worries was the idea of prayer. Not only in this poem but also in his collected group of letters entitled "Letters to Malcom" did he talk about the subject. He also spoke about the confusing puzzle of petitionary prayer in "The Seeing Eye" (Chapter entitled Petitionary Prayer: A Problem Without an Answer ). With all of this said, Lewis was uneasy about prayer: what it meant, if it transcended time or not, what was the use, if we could get anything we asked for etc. Because of these things he started thinking (or perhaps praying) about the issue and like water from the tap this poem came rushing out:
Master they say that when I seem
To be in speech with you,
Since you make no replies, it's all a dream
-One talker aping two.
They are half right, but not as they
Imagine; rather, I
Seek in myself the things I meant to say,
And lo! the wells are dry.
Then, seeing me empty, you forsake
The Listener's role, and through
My dead lips breath and into utterance wake
The thoughts I never knew.
And thus you neither need reply
Nor can; thus, while we seem
Two talking, thou art One forever, and I
No dreamer, but thy dream.
This poem meant wonders to me because of the idea of God's role in my own faith. For (1) I never thought that God would give me words to say to himself, for that seems prideful; but indeed if it is the HS (Holy Spirit) talking to the father then where can we go wrong? And even if this be not the case, if it is not one part of the Trinity talking to the other, then we may well understand the idea better through analogy. Consider this: Many children want to give good gifts to their parents on Christmas but children do not make money and children do not know how to wrap presents (I know from experience). And though a parent may help the child wrap the present and though the parent may provide the money for the gift for themselves, in no way is the feeble love of the child overlooked. And (2) this poem has showed me that so many times once we have penciled our doubt onto paper, or into thought; once we really ask a question I have no doubt that God will provide an answer. And many times that answer is not going to blink bright on a television show or on a billboard. | <urn:uuid:84d05615-e691-4fb2-aa00-5a47a6e78876> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://everything2.com/title/Prayer | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00020-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971232 | 641 | 2.390625 | 2 |
|The Future of Freedom Foundation|
So, what does Boot suggest? In a June 16, 2005, L.A. Times op-ed entitled Defend America, Become American, he says that the military should recruit foreigners to do the fighting, dying, and killing in exchange for U.S. citizenship. Yes, you read that right he didnt say simply recruit immigrants living in the United States he said the U.S. military should recruit foreigners living anywhere in the world and make them American citizens in return. Presumably Boot feels that this would not dilute the high quality of the all-volunteer force. He even uses the French (!) Foreign Legion as his model.
Anticipating the adverse reaction that he knows will come from many in the anti-immigrant (and anti-French) crowd, Boot says, There is no better way to build [a cultural bond to America] than through military training and discipline. Drill sergeants have been forging cohesive units out of disparate elements since the days of the Roman legions.
So, how about that? According to Boot, culture and militarism now go hand in hand, just as they did in the Roman Empire (or, for that matter, in the Soviet and British empires as well). Boot camp, humiliation, right-face and left-face, cadence songs, saluting, obeying orders, spit-shining, and yes sir and no sir. Now, thats what the culture of a free country is all about, according to neoconservative icon Max Boot.
Ive got another solution that perhaps Boot hasnt considered: Rather than doling out advice on how the U.S. government should run the occupation of a country that never attacked the United States and that had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks, and rather than coming up with bizarre solutions to the U.S. governments recruiting woes, why doesnt Boot himself volunteer for the army, just as NFL football star Pat Tillman did after the 9/11 attacks?
That is, if Boot honestly believes that the security of the nation (or the government) is at stake or if he feels that democracy in Iraq is important, why is he wasting his time coming up with far-fetched plans to fill the militarys ranks? Why doesnt he instead go down to his recruiters office and simply sign up and volunteer for service in Iraq? Wouldnt that be the patriotic thing to do? Doesnt genuine leadership entail his doing what he is asking others to do? Just as its easier to be good with other peoples money, isnt it easier to be courageous with other peoples lives?
Or does Boot feel that only the poor, uneducated people of Latin America, Africa, and Asia (or the United States), and not the elite, well-to-do, intellectuals of America should be put in the position of fighting, dying, and killing for the U.S. governments military adventures overseas?
reflection of the moral and intellectual bankruptcy of the neoconservative
vision for our nation than Boots military-recruitment plan? Not
only have these people destroyed Iraq, unless theyre stopped their
pro-militarism and pro-empire vision will ultimately destroy our nation
Samuel Bostaph is head of the economics department at the University of Dallas and an academic advisor to The Future of Freedom Foundation
Anthony Gregory is a policy advisor at The Future of Freedom Foundation
James Bovard is author of The Bush Betrayal and serves as a policy advisor for The Future of Freedom Foundation
Benedict LaRosa is a historian and writer and serves as a policy advisor to The Future of Freedom Foundation
Bart Frazier is program director at The Future of Freedom Foundation.
Sheldon Richman is senior fellow at The Future of Freedom Foundation in Fairfax, Va., author of Tethered Citizens: Time to Repeal the Welfare State, and editor of The Freeman magazine.
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(Washington, DC) – Due to overwhelming demand, the DC Department of Health (DOH) will host a Second Bed Bug Summit on a new date and location in order to accommodate a larger number of participants. Now scheduled for January 20, 2011, District residents and organizations interested in bed bug prevention and eradication will hear from a variety of experts on bed bugs. Participants will learn about bed bug biology, medical and social impacts, control, education, and discuss bed bugs beyond beds. The summit will take place at 441 4th Street, NW, located on the first floor South Lobby in the Old City Council Chambers from 9 am to 4 pm.
“Bedbugs have reappeared in the District, as in many urban areas. Our staff continues to work proactively with landlords and residents to prevent and stop the spread of these pests,” said DOH Director Pierre Vigilance, MD, MPH. “There is currently an integrated approach to address the issue which includes outreach, public health education/training, and responding to complaints.”
- Keynote speaker Larry Pinto, Entomologist with over 25 years as a pest control consultant
- Harold J. Harlan, Ph, D., B.C.E. Med./Vet./Urban Entomologist
- Johanna Shreve, Chief Tenant Advocate, DC Office of the Tenant Advocate
- Baldwin Williams, Entomologist with the District Department of the Environment
- Representatives from the pest management industry who will share the latest industry approaches
In March 2009 the first DOH bedbug summit attracted over 100 attendees. In addition to the summit, DOH regularly conducts outreach and training on the identification and reduction of bed bugs to in-home health care providers, social workers, property managers, and government agencies that provide housing and in-home services to District residents. Through education and increased communication, DOH hopes to promote a unified method to address and prevent a further resurgence of bed bugs that other cities are currently dealing with.
There are still spots available for those interested in attending; all registrations for the original date will be honored on the new date. To register, contact Gerard Brown at email@example.com or (202) 535-2636 by December 1, 2010. For more information or to report a suspected case of bed bugs, call the DOH Rodent and Vector Control Division at (202) 535-1954 or visit www.doh.dc.gov. | <urn:uuid:6e69b7a2-e28f-468f-b692-55f160e432aa> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://newsroom.dc.gov/show.aspx/agency/doh/section/2/release/20750/year/2010 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00006-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926633 | 509 | 1.726563 | 2 |
REBOUND: An open-source multi-purpose N-body code for collisional dynamics
by Rein, Hanno and Liu, Shang-Fei
10 pages, 9 figures, re-submitted to A&A, source code available at https://github.com/hannorein/rebound
REBOUND is a new multi-purpose N-body code which is freely available under an open-source license. It was designed for collisional dynamics such as planetary rings but can also solve the classical N-body problem. It is highly modular and can be customized easily to work on a wide variety of different problems in astrophysics and beyond.
REBOUND comes with three symplectic integrators: leap-frog, the symplectic epicycle integrator (SEI) and a Wisdom-Holman mapping (WH). It supports open, periodic and shearing-sheet boundary conditions. REBOUND can use a Barnes-Hut tree to calculate both self-gravity and collisions. These modules are fully parallelized with MPI as well as OpenMP. The former makes use of a static domain decomposition and a distributed essential tree. Two new collision detection modules based on a plane-sweep algorithm are also implemented. The performance of the plane-sweep algorithm is superior to a tree code for simulations in which one dimension is much longer than the other two and in simulations which are quasi-two dimensional with less than one million particles.
In this work, we discuss the different algorithms implemented in REBOUND, the philosophy behind the code’s structure as well as implementation specific details of the different modules. We present results of accuracy and scaling tests which show that the code can run efficiently on both desktop machines and large computing clusters. | <urn:uuid:99f56f37-6fc5-4273-8e9f-588815f0f2fe> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://brownbag.lisascience.org/arxiv1110-4876/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934393 | 359 | 1.632813 | 2 |
One of the hardest things for a patient to deal with is uncertainty: about diagnosis, about possible outcomes, and about therapy. I tell such patients, “We are going to review the medical history, do a number of tests, some of which you have had before, and then try to make a diagnosis. You might not like our diagnosis, but at least we know what we are dealing with.” In other words, let’s see if we can remove the uncertainty from the equation.
This strategy often works, but it has been less successful for the many patients who come to the doctor with an array of symptoms that include muscle and joint pains, difficulty concentrating and remembering, and a feeling of exhaustion, made worse by only minimal exercise. But the overwhelming symptom is persistent fatigue, not relieved by resting. Some struggle along, barely making it through the day. Others are essentially bedridden. These patients bounce around, or are bounced around, among internists, neurologists, rheumatologists, psychiatrists, physical therapists, and others. The problem is confounded by an overlapping group of descriptive names such as fibromyalgia, chronic Lyme disease, and chronic fatigue syndrome, separate diseases with many similar symptoms. Further complicating the problem is the lack of any definitive tests to establish a diagnosis.
In my experience, these patients can be classified in two large groups. The first comprises people who have been going through life well, without significant illness or complaints about their health. They then have an acute bout of fever and flu-like symptoms—as many people are having now. However, these people don’t get better—the feelings of fatigue, aches and pains, and just not being right persist for weeks, months or even years. We search in vain for some precipitating factor—a virus, some other infection or peculiar toxic exposure—without success.
The second group is different; there is no clear-cut start. These patients just slide into a series of symptoms that are hard to pin down. It is members of this group who try the patience of internists and are often labeled psychogenic.
It is in this setting that the recent report by Judy Mikovits and colleagues (covered Oct. 12 in the New York Times) has generated much interest. They found that a relatively new virus, called XMRV, is present in about two-thirds of those diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome, compared with only 3.7 percent of controls. Not surprisingly, many patients who have been struggling with the uncertainty surrounding their disease are feeling quite vindicated.
Does this mean that the long-sought viral basis for chronic fatigue syndrome has finally been found? Not yet. This is a promising first step, but several further steps need to be taken, and soon. First these findings must be evaluated in other labs, which should be done in two ways: Populations of patients newly diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome and suitable controls need to be enrolled and tested for XMRV, and samples from the patients need to be tested in more than one laboratory in a blinded way—one in which the other labs do not know the diagnosis associated with the samples being tested.
The first approach—recruiting a second or third patient population and controls—is essential, yet difficult. The diagnosis is not clear-cut, and to the extent possible, researchers should be sure they are studying the same type of patient. I would focus on the first group I mentioned above: those who were previously healthy and start with an acute onset. In such situations it is sometimes necessary for an independent panel to review each case and decide, without knowing the viral results, whether a patient meets the diagnostic criteria.
Why so much caution? We in the scientific community have been burned before. The most striking example is multiple sclerosis where, over the years, there have been multiple reports of various viruses associated with the disease. None has held up—yet.
On the other hand, skepticism also met initial reports that a virus was the cause of a syndrome that appeared on the scene about 30 years ago: AIDS. The underlying virus, HIV, now affects millions around the world.
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Iran offers IAEA full supervision
Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Fereydoun Abbasi
Iran says the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) can completely supervise Tehran's nuclear activities for five years if the sanctions imposed against the Islamic Republic are lifted.
In an interview with ISNA on Monday, Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Fereydoun Abbasi said he had made the offer to Director-General of the IAEA Yukia Amano.
“By lifting the sanctions and meeting mutual obligations, the agency can completely supervise Iran's nuclear activities without broaching [such topics as] military aspects and alleged studies,” Abbasi further elaborated.
Referring to the recent visit of Deputy Head of the IAEA Safeguards Department Herman Nackaerts to Iran, Abbasi said Tehran's objectives of taking such measures are to prove that the country has no problem with the agency.
Nackaerts earlier visited Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant, the enrichment facilities in Natanz and Fordo, the nuclear fuel rods production factory in Isfahan, as well as the heavy water research reactor in Arak and the city's heavy water production plant.
The US and its allies accuse Iran of pursuing a military nuclear program, and used this pretext to pressure the UN Security Council into imposing a fourth round of sanctions against Iran.
Iran, a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and a member of the IAEA, insists on its legal right to use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. | <urn:uuid:bce52a2e-c2ac-486e-8e3b-12c155e0617a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.presstv.ir/detail/197597.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928448 | 338 | 1.609375 | 2 |
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The development of RFID and thus growing number of options for its applications puts the actual problems to read a large number of RFID tags attached to objects or items that are in the region of space bounded by metallic walls. Such a situation occurs when there is a need for a reliable, automated inventory and real-time monitoring of items or objects (important documents, jewelry, weapons, etc.) that are typically placed in relatively small closed metal boxes (in racks, cabinets or safes, for example). In addition, as a rule, this situation does not require large range of tags reading.
For reliable and automated real-time monitoring of objects it is necessary that the EMF exists with intensity exceeded tag's sensitivity at any point of space where the objects with passive RFID tags are placed. There is some problem, however. If at least one of the linear dimensions of closed box with metal walls exceeds the signal wavelength, the box has the properties of a multimode cavity . | <urn:uuid:064eb089-0c39-42db-a601-bdc982392460> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.microwavejournal.com/articles/12499-rfid-objects-monitoring-in-space-bounded-by-metallic-walls | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00002-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923376 | 201 | 2.125 | 2 |
By William Markiewicz
Serb fears grow as Albanians dynamite churches.
(From the Wall Street Journal, October 17, 2003)
Why a Requiem for an existing nation? Because, for me, Kosovo is the soul of Serbia and Gracanica is the soul of Kosovo. When Gracanica is burned, like the Temple in Jerusalem, the mass media may report it, but somewhere on a back page. One of the greatest jewels of Europe's early medieval architecture will go and the rest of the world will ignore its disappearance as it has ignored its existence.
The Serbs' problem is not so much that they have enemies but that they have no friends. They can exist or not, any label may be glued on their forehead with the booing crowd's approval. The Serbs are victims, not through faults of their own but their bad historical fate. Who could have predicted that sixty years after World War 2 the Serbs would be punished for taking the Allied side? Who could have predicted that former enemies would seal their new friendship on the back of the Serbs? If the Serbs had foreseen the monstrous truth, they wouldn't have wasted time on talks but would have quickly left Krajina, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia, etc. forgetting the historical past, politics, negotiations, justice, blah blah blah. In this way, just by avoiding provocation, they could even have saved Kosovo because Kosovo by itself may not be a big enough issue to provoke "the first major European war after World War 2."
The Serbs are not powerful enough to practice splendid isolation and are not made to play the role of the victim. They don't bow easily and their skin has no resistance to the deluge of mud. Now, whatever they do will be counted against them. They go to Afghanistan? It means that they put their killing skills for sale... etc. etc. They suffer too much for the injustice done to them and suffering is a bad advisor. But I'm not crying for the Serbs; they're men and women and how they handle their survival is their affair. I'm crying first of all for Gracanica, which remains totally at the mercy of enemies. Its days are numbered; it's only a matter of time. Whoever can and dares, go, and make photos. It may become all that remains of this splendor.Back to the index of the Vagabond | <urn:uuid:308695db-54b4-4ab0-aa7e-82de8bea9c3d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.vagabondpages.com/september03/requiem.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00054-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974241 | 491 | 2.109375 | 2 |
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What is Pinterest?
Pinterest is a virtual peg board that allows you to sort, share, and view all the beautiful things on the Internet. You can search for something specific, like soup recipes, or , dips and appetizers, or larger categories, like quick and easy weeknight meals, casseroles , and holidays.
How Do I Use Pinterest?
To understand how to use Pinterest, there are a few words you need to know. Most importantly, the word “Pin.” A pin is an image added to Pinterest. So every time you upload an image or add someone else’s image to your board, you’re adding a pin. These pins are then arranged on what are called “boards.” A “board” is a set of pins that share a common theme. For example, you could have a board called “Yummy Sandwiches” and it would be filled with various pins you found on Pinterest or on the Internet. You can have as many boards as you’d like and each one of those boards can have as many pins as you’d like.
Now anyone who comes across Pinterest can view images, but in order to create boards and add your own images, you need to be a member. To become a member, you can request an invitation directly through the Pinterest Web site or, if someone you know is already on Pinterest, they can send you an invitation.
Once you’re a member, you have full range of Pinterest’s tools. You can create boards, upload pins, and follow the boards of other people that you like. For example, I have a Good Soups board of my own, but my friend also has a Good Soups board. Since I’m a Pinterest member, I can follow her board so when she adds new pins to her board they will instantly show up on my Pinterest home page, just like a Facebook newsfeed.
Why Should You Use Pinterest?
Pinterest is one of the easiest and best ways to drive traffic to your blog. Posting recipes you’ve made, crafts you’re working on, and even your plans to renovate your house or make your own wedding invitations are great ways to get people to see images that link back to your blog. It’s also a great inspiration tool, since people are adding pins every day, there’s always something new!
Another great tool Pinterest has is the ability to share your pins on Facebook and Twitter. Once you pin a photo to a board, you will have the option to automatically share your find on these other social media sites, so all your friends who aren’t on Pinterest can see all your cool discoveries. For example, I was browsing around Pinterest and found this great Cake Batter Pancakes.
I thought they looked incredible and I wanted to share my find on Twitter, so I simply placed my mouse on the image and got a drop down menu with three buttons, “repin,” “like,”,and “comment.” I clicked the “repin” button and got this screen. As you can see, there’s a little check box for Twitter. By clicking that, all my Twitter followers will be able to see this recipe I found on Pinterest! I placed this recipe in my “Breakfast Recipes” board, so all of my followers on Pinterest will see it, too.
Pinterest really is one of the best ways to explore the wide variety of crafts, projects, recipes, and ideas on the Internet. It’s all in one place, making it easy to keep your pins organized and to see what your friends are pinning as well!
How Do I Start?
Head on over to www.Pinterest.com. As you can see, you’ll have access to view all the images, but you’ll need to request an invite in order to do everything else.
Once you have the log in, which should take a couple days, you’ll be taken to a front page that looks like this:
You can search for something specific in the search bar in the upper left corner or you can browse around the major categories, found under the “Everything” tab in the top center of your screen. For our purposes, I’m going to click on the Food and Drinks category.
Now I’m only looking at pins that are Food and Drinks. There’s a mouth watering Doritos Chicken Casserole recipe! There is also a ton of copycat recipes of your favorite restaurant foods. So you can see just in this small block that there are a wide variety of recipes on Pinterest.
Now, I’m looking for something a little more specific. I’m throwing a going away party for a good friend and I need to find some delicious appetizers for the party, so I’m on the hunt to find something cheesy and easy! I’m going to enter the term “cheese appetizers” in the search bar and see what comes up…
Okay, now I am only looking at “cheese appetizers.” How about this? I love it! Looks incredible! Now we’re going to click on this image that we want to “pin.”
Now I’m looking at a different page. I can see my image in the center, and above it are two buttons, “Like” and “Repin.”. Clicking “Like” will allow me to “like” this image, similar to Facebook. If I click “Repin,” I can place this image on one of my existing boards or if it doesn’t fit on any of my existing boards, I can create a new one. Thankfully, this pin is perfect for my “Party Food Ideas” board so I am going to “pin it” there.
If you look to the left of the screen, you’ll see a small picture grid. This contains all the other pins in this person’s board. If I wanted to, I could click “follow” and I would automatically be notified as soon as another pin was entered into this board. If I click on the image itself, I should be taken to the original source from which this project came…and wouldn’t you know? You can find that very Ham and Cheese Sliders in our Party Food Ideas!
You can also install a "Pin it" button to your browser's toolbar so that you can pin images from anywhere you are on the web. Next time you find a recipe you love on RecipeLion you can click the "Pin it" button in your toolbar and you'll get a screen that looks like this:
Simply select the image you want to pin and the same box will pop up that let's you add a caption and select which board you would like to add it to.
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PAUL A. DEVER, the sixtieth governor of Massachusetts, was born in Boston, Massachusetts on January 15, 1903. His education was attained at the Oliver Wendell Holmes School in Dorchester, the Boston Latin School, and at Boston University, where he earned his law degree in 1926. After establishing his legal career in Boston, Dever entered into politics. He served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1928 to 1934, served as the attorney general of Massachusetts from 1935 to 1941, and was an unsuccessful candidate for governor in 1940. Dever enlisted in the U.S. Navy and served overseas during World War II. After his military service, he returned to his political career, but lost his bid for lieutenant governor in 1946. Two years later, he ran and was elected to the Massachusetts governorship. He was reelected to a second term in 1950. During his tenure, workers compensation insurance was improved; funding for schools and charitable institutions was increased; and communism was opposed. After running unsuccessfully for reelection, Dever left office on January 8, 1953, and retired from political life. Governor Paul A. Dever passed away on April 11, 1958, and was buried at the St. Joseph's Cemetery in Boston, Massachusetts.
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State and local health official said potentially deadly drug-resistant bacteria that have been on the rise nationwide haven't become a major problem here yet. Still, it might become an issue if doctors and patients alike aren't careful about overuse of antibiotics.
Earlier this month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a report on the dangers of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae, a family of bacteria that has become increasingly resistant to certain antibiotics. These germs kill up to half the patients whose bloodstreams they infect.
Though the bacteria aren't common, they have been on the rise in the past decade.
In the first half of 2012, about 18 percent of long-term acute-care hospitals and 4 percent of short-stay hospitals nationwide had at least one patient infected with CRE.
The bacteria are more common in some areas of the country, including the Northeast, but 42 states report having had at least one patient test positive for a type of CRE.
In Connecticut, there have only been two or three cases of such infections identified in recent years, said Richard Melchreit, health care associated infections coordinator for the state Department of Public Health.
"It's here, but we're not a hot spot, like New York or Boston," he said.
CRE are part of bacteria family enterobacteriaceae, which includes more than 70 types. (Members of the family include the food safety scourge E. coli.)
Over time, some of these bacteria have become resistant to a type of antibiotics known as carbapenems, which are often used to treat hospital-acquired infections.
The CDC report states that the percentage of enterobacteriaceae that are resistant to carbapenems has risen from 1 percent to 4 percent over the past 10 years. One type of CRE actually increased resistance seven-fold over that time period.
However, staff at area hospitals said they couldn't recall any recent CRE infections at their facilities.
"It's always on our radar screen," said Kristen Borgogne, a nurse and manager of infection prevention at St. Vincent's. "Any organism has the potential to become drug-resistant."
She said any time a patient has an infection with a drug-resistant organism, numerous precautions are taken, including putting the patient in a separate room.
Indeed, Melchreit said this isn't the first time bacteria have developed resistance to antibiotics, and partially attributed this phenomenon to improper use and prescription of these drugs.
Though antibiotics are good for treating many types of bacterial infections, Melchreit said they shouldn't be treated as a cure-all by doctors or patients.
"If you go to the doctor with a cold, and the doctor says you have a virus, you don't need antibiotics," he said.
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Arthritis and Lyme Disease
How Can I Prevent Getting Lyme Disease? continued...
If an infected tick bites, it will not transmit the infection until it has had the opportunity to have its blood meal. This takes time, thus there is value in inspecting your body after outdoor activities in areas where Lyme disease is known to occur. Newly attached ticks can be easily removed before they transmit the infection.
Pregnant women should be especially careful to avoid ticks in Lyme disease areas because the infection can be transferred to the unborn child. Such a prenatal infection can make the woman more likely to miscarry.
Preventative antibiotics are not generally used following all tick bites, but may be used in some special circumstances; a recent study showed that such preventive use of antibiotics is very effective.
If you are bitten by a tick, the best way to remove it is by taking the following steps:
- Tug gently but firmly with blunt tweezers near the "head" of the tick until it releases its hold on the skin
- To lessen the chance of contact with the bacterium, try not to crush the tick's body or handle the tick with bare fingers
- Swab the bite area thoroughly with an antiseptic to prevent infection
- DO NOT use kerosene, Vaseline, fingernail polish, or a cigarette butt
- DO NOT squeeze the tick's body with your fingers or tweezers.
Is There a Vaccine for Lyme Disease?
In 1998, the FDA approved a vaccine for Lyme disease called LYMErix. Although some people reported getting sick from the vaccine, the FDA found no evidence that it was dangerous. However, in February 2002, the makers of the vaccine pulled it off the market due to poor sales. Currently, there is no available vaccine on the market for Lyme disease.
What Is the Outlook for People With Lyme Disease?
Most people with Lyme disease respond well to antibiotic therapy and recover fully. Some people may have persistent symptoms or symptoms that recur, making further antibiotic treatment necessary. If left untreated, Lyme disease can cause permanent damage to the heart, nervous system, and joints.
A bout with Lyme disease and successful treatment are no guarantee that the illness will be prevented in the future. The disease can strike more than once in the same individual if he or she is bitten by another tick and re-infected with the Lyme disease bacterium. The antibody test usually remains positive for months to many years after an infection. The presence of antibodies in the blood is not sufficient reason for continued or retreatment with antibiotics. | <urn:uuid:1f4fcf58-8ee8-48a3-be77-22d89bff8625> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.webmd.com/rheumatoid-arthritis/arthritis-lyme-disease?page=4 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00021-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944952 | 524 | 3.15625 | 3 |
Spielberg: Lincoln movie not "political football"
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Steven Spielberg offered a cinematic vision of President Abraham Lincoln's battle to outlaw slavery in Lincoln, which had a sneak preview that is already generating early buzz of awards for star Daniel Day-Lewis.
After a screening at the New York Film festival on Monday, Spielberg acknowledged the pressure of bringing to the big screen one of America's most revered political figures, and he side-stepped questions about its relevance to current politics ahead of the Nov 6 United States presidential elections.
To audience laughter, he said he had deliberately sought to avoid such entanglements by asking for a release date after the elections. Lincoln is due for limited release on Nov 9 and timed for the Hollywood awards season.
"Don't let this political football play back and forth," the Oscar-winning director said he urged distributors, noting the "confusing" aspect in the film that shows how US political parties back in Lincoln's time "traded political places over the last 150 years". | <urn:uuid:68d9c04d-bb6c-4788-be47-bfc133bcdbd8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.straitstimes.com/breaking-news/lifestyle/story/spielberg-lincoln-movie-not-political-football-20121010 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00046-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939862 | 210 | 1.601563 | 2 |
By the President of the United States of America
Older Americans have carried our Nation through great challenges and triumphs. They have enriched our national character and strengthened the Republic for those who have followed. During the month of May, we pay tribute to the wisest among us.
Throughout the land, older Americans are strengthening our communities and the American way of life. Many senior citizens remain in the workforce to support themselves and their families. Others are embarking on second careers and exploring new interests and fields of knowledge. Inspiring citizens of all ages, many serve as advocates and volunteers in community service roles. In this important work, they make a real difference in the daily lives of fellow citizens of all ages, while promoting and strengthening the American spirit of civic participation.
My Administration is working to create opportunities for older Americans to share their skills and wisdom with younger generations. One of the bills I recently signed into law, the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act, expands and improves service opportunities for older Americans. Our Nation can benefit greatly from the experience and hard work of our older Americans, and I am committed to providing service opportunities to achieve this end.
We owe older Americans a debt of gratitude and must work to help them age with dignity. Through home- and community-based services, including health promotion and preventive care programs, many older Americans are able to live more independent and healthier lives. This year's theme for Older Americans Month, "Living Today for a Better Tomorrow," captures the importance of helping seniors today so they can enjoy the years ahead.
My Administration is committed to supporting older Americans and is working to strengthen health care, retirement, community involvement, and other programs vital to their interests and beneficial to all of us. Older Americans have earned this support, and we owe them nothing less.
Now, Therefore, I, Barack Obama, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim May 2009 as Older Americans Month. I invite Americans of all ages; representatives of government at all levels; businesses and communities; faith-based and neighborhood organizations; and health, academic, and recreational institutions to acknowledge the contributions of older Americans during this month and throughout the year.
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rhel server 6.0 x86_64 || password ||
the install is quashed because it asks for a PASSWORD- what is the password!!!
How should we know, we have not installed the server. The first thing would be to ask the person that actually did the install.
i assumed that there was some conventional, default password that i am supposed to know somehow. i have seen this gremlin before -- GParted, for example, requires that you somehow know the "username" is user and the "password" is live
When you have problems installing RHEL the first way to go would be to ask Red Hat, since you are paying them for support. They will help you with the set up.
the install asks you to set the root password
this you do TWICE .
he second time is to confirm that it is CORRECT and you did NOT make a typo
typos are VERY common and very easy to make
the password you are referring to is the one YOU set in the very early stage on the install
Also RHEL is not free
you MUST pay for a support contract
I recommend the standard 1 year $ 249 /year USD ( there is a $ 49/year )
not use RHEL
There are free rebuilds
Scientific Linux 6.2
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When a 20-inch natural gas pipeline burst and ignited a massive fire outside of Charleston, WV, it took the energy company there more than 60 minutes to manually shut down the line. To improve response times, a government watchdog agency is suggesting the use of automated valves. TAGGED: natural gas
The U.S. Government Accountability Office is saying in a just-released analysis that government officials in charge of inspecting pipeline safety should be required to provide the necessary data so that monitors can help them improve their response times and the subsequent results. Automated valves, for example, would permit natural gas companies to turn off the gas within minutes of an incident. | <urn:uuid:0620b1fd-6245-41d3-bb68-8fe4d8a0bd03> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.realclearenergy.org/2013/01/29/pipeline_eruptions_causing_a_fiery_debate_over_safety_251377.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00067-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939721 | 133 | 2.609375 | 3 |
My nephew is currently serving in the military, at a remote base in Afghanistan.
When he wrote that they did not have access to fresh foods, such as fruit, vegetables or dairy, and only received 2 dried meals per day, I set out to find things that I could send him to keep him healthy during his deployment.
At first I sent the obvious; boxed chocolate milk, protein powder, “power bars”, and pouches of pureed apples with bananas or carrots. Then one day while trolling the aisles of Whole Foods, I stumbled upon Orgain, the perfect meal replacement that is shelf stable, nutritious, and could survive being airlifted by helicopter if necessary.
The product itself is incredible. It is a doctor developed nutritional shake that is organic and free of artificial sweeteners. It also contains 24 vitamins and minerals, is high in protein and has the antioxidant equivalent of 10 servings of fruits and vegetables in each eco-friendly tetra pack. It is shelf stable for one year, without the use of preservatives. I know, this sounds like an advertisement, but I haven’t gotten to the good part yet…
I wrote to the company and told them about the less than ideal circumstances that my nephew was experiencing, and how thrilled I was to find their product. They immediately replied that although were just a small start-up company, they would like to help. They graciously offered to ship their product to him and his entire team with their thanks for the sacrifices they were making for their country. I can’t thank them enough for their generosity and kindness. It is not just a company with a great product, but also one with a big heart.
As we speak, 72 boxes of Orgain are making their way to an army base somewhere in the mountains of Afghanistan, enroute to providing sustenance to a handful of men and women who are risking their lives on our behalf.
On Orgain’s website, there is an anonymous quote that epitomizes their business philosophy:
“To do more for the world than the world does for you, that is success.”
I guess they have a lot in common with those who will soon be receiving their gift.
This Memorial Day, please take a moment to give thanks for our fallen heroes, and for those who are currently serving. They, like Orgain are doing more for the world than the world is doing for them, and they are doing it with pride and dedication. I’d say they’re pretty successful, wouldn’t you?
Happy Memorial Day!
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"Urban Ed" is the 17th episode of Season 2 and the 43rd episode of Ed, Edd n Eddy. Tired of their usual suburban antics, the Eds decide to bring the hustle and bustle of the big city to the Cul-de-Sac, however, the kids soon learn that it's not all it's cracked up to be.
This episode starts with Jonny and Plank playing chess in a peaceful yard. Then Eddy runs up to him and puts a garbage lid on the ground, and gives Jonny a banana, telling him to run to the tree, then to hit the bull's eye with the banana. Then Eddy gives Jonny peas and a straw, telling him to shoot the balloons that Ed is using to make him float in the air. Next Eddy gives Jonny marshmallows, telling him to throw them into the sousaphone Edd is carrying, touch home plate, and finally put a quarter in his jar. Jonny sees right through their trick and promptly leaves the scene. After Edd suggests that they scam Rolf, Eddy realizes that there is no point, as Rolf and the rest of the kids are busy doing boring activities. Edd explains that their suburban Cul-de-Sac is just too distant from the hustle and bustle of the big city to be exciting. The Eds then imagine how awesome and fun life in the city would be and decide to bring the city to the Cul-de-Sac and how they could make a scam off of it.
The Eds are making a real racket while building the city, everyone can hear it. Kevin figures it's Rolf when he claims to have heard it too. The kids hear the sound originate from The Lane so they go to investigate. Upon arriving at the Lane they discover the cardboard metropolis of Edtropolis; Population: More cardboard cutouts than you can count. After several admiring comments from the Kids, Jonny hops out from a nearby tree and warns them about the dangers of city life. The kids ignore Jonny and walk into the city. Plank also mysteriously disappears into the city as well.
As the kids explore the city, Rolf is greeting every cardboard cutout citizen, not knowing they are inanimate. The Kids arrive at an intersection where a traffic light made from a milk carton confuses Rolf, halting traffic. Eddy shows up pretending to drive a car, by holding a detached steering wheel and air horn, and cuts them off. Ed then runs past the kids towing a wagon full of "Biscuits and Gravy", irritating Kevin to the point of attack. He bumps into Edd causing his torso mounted airbag to go off. Kevin complains that Edd cut him off. Edd begs to differ. As the light turns green, the kids are annoyed by Edd's antics of signaling his turn. Kevin becomes annoyed and stuffs Edd between two buildings. Ed runs by the group again and this time almost runs them over.
Meanwhile, Jonny is still searching for Plank. Eddy confronts Jonny in the middle of an alley. When Jonny asks Eddy if he has seen Plank, Eddy holds out a money jar to help "refresh his memory". Jonny yells at Eddy if he has seen him and Eddy denies seeing Plank out of fear. Jonny then continues his search. Eddy then complains about not making a living.
Jonny is not the only one feeling the wrath of the big city. As Jimmy wanders around admiring the surrealism of the city, he wanders into a group of cardboard cutouts and suffers from a form of culture shock, claiming that he feels so congested. His misery promptly ends after he spots a shoe store and skips happily towards it.
Meanwhile, Kevin is in front of a magazine stand reading the latest issue of "Bikini Babes", (for the articles, of course) when Edd pops out and offers to shine his shoe. After some small talk Edd asks for his payment of 25¢ but Kevin gives him a bottle cap instead, claiming that's what life in the big city is like. After commenting that Kevin has adjusted well to city life he spots Nazz, who just came back from a shopping spree, and offers to help carry her bags. The moment is ruined when Ed and Eddy start to drop fake pigeon fecal matter, made from yogurt, from atop a building. Edd helps Nazz dodge the falling piles of yogurt but she mistakes that he is attacking her and promptly karate chops his back. Double D then claims that chivalry is painful.
Later, Jonny still continues his search for Plank and steps in a pile of "pigeon poop". He then spots Plank, who has succumbed to the temptations of the big city and has started to drive around in a red wagon while almost running Jonny over. Jonny then reflects on what the city has done to his former friend.
The essence of urban living has also begun to hit Sarah, who complains about all the line ups to Nazz. The two then spot Jimmy brandishing a snake "tattoo" on his forehead, who claims he got it for 25¢ at Eds' Tattoo Parlor. Ed is then seen drawing a corn tattoo on Kevin's back with a marker. After Sarah spots Rolf who cuts in line she proceeds to pummel him to death. Jimmy then joins the fight in an attempt to help Sarah. Eddy tells Edd to break it up but he reluctantly does so. Luckily, Jonny comes in and breaks up the fight and confronts Eddy. He accuses him of corrupting the mind of Plank with his city and proceeds to steal his jar of money. Eddy tries to have the kids go after him but after realizing that they will not help he goes after Jonny himself.
Jonny climbs to the top of a tall building, and Eddy follows. After the two come face to face with each other, Jonny threatens to drop the money off the building. Suddenly, Edd tells Jonny that they found Plank. Edd puts a fake bullhorn to Plank's mouth. Jonny listens to the advice Plank tells him and tosses the jar up into the air while he climbs downs the building. Eddy grabs the jar but he accidentally catches it upside down and the money falls down to the ground. The kids then collect every coin that fell to the ground while beating up Ed and Edd in the process. Eddy falls down to the ground, destroying a building by falling through it, and asks Edd is he managed to collect any cash. After Edd complains about what he kids did to his shirt Eddy grabs Ed and asks him if he caught any loot. Ironically, despite the money falling directly on top of him, the only thing he managed to grab was a worm. Ed leans on one of the buildings which causes it to topple over and destroys the entire city in a domino like effect, proving that ceaseless toil and broken dreams are the essence of urban living. Ed then puts the worm down Eddy's shirt, freaking Eddy out. Edd then chuckles at Eddy's dilemma.
The episode ends with Jonny driving around the ruins of the city in a red wagon, inhaling the peace, love, and tranquility of the suburbs. He then scolds Plank for acting rebellious.
Ed: [anxious to promote his role in the scam] "I helped too, Jonny! I was the balloon guy!"
Ed: [goggling at the other kids relaxing] "What a gaggle of sad sacks!"
Ed: [excited about traffic in the city] "Ooh! And when you bump into cars they go 'Whoo whoo! Barp barp!'"
Ed: "Let's drive to the city, fellas!" Edd: "We're too young to drive, Ed." Ed: "My dad has a shovel." Eddy: "Well, I say if we can't go to the city, let's bring the city to the cul-de-sac!" Edd: "I suppose I should find some tape." Ed: "Not to mention a duck."
Rolf: [hanging out mega-sized underwear] "Aah, a merciless beating with a stick has cleansed Nana's pantaloons fresh." [hears the racket of city construction] "What is this that fouls the calm of the cul-de-sac?" Kevin: "Hey, Rolf! Your dad shearing sheep again? Keep it down!" Rolf: "This sound is a mystery to Rolf, as is your mockery of my father's leisure delight."
Jonny: [after the kids ignore every word he said] "Boy Plank, ever get the feeling you might as well be talking to a piece of wood?" [notices Plank's disappearance] "Plank? Plank! Not you too!"
Rolf: [confused by the homemade traffic light] "What barbarian would hang the milk box from a string?" Sarah: "Jeez, Rolf, that's a traffic signal." Eddy: [acting like a sports car and honking horn at Jimmy and Sarah] "Come on, ain't getting younger, move it!" Sarah: [annoyed] "Eddy, if you blow that horn one more time-" [interrupted by another horn blast]
Rolf: [choking on traffic fumes] "The city air is thick like Nano's toenail."
Kevin: "Wait until I'll find that dork! [spun out by Ed] Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!" Ed: [acting like a truck] "Beep, beep! I'm a truck, 10-4! Bearing on your crumpet, thing!" Kevin: "They're just trying to bug me-- and it worked! [runs after Ed but bumps into Edd, inflating his car's airbag] You cut me off, Double-Dweeb!" Edd: "I beg to differ, Kevin. My safety bag would not have deployed if you haven't rear-ended me." Rolf: "I can't see past Ed-boy's swollen back! Eddy: [impatient and honking his horn] "What is this, a funeral?! Let's go, grandma!" Edd: [talking to himself, various horn sounds in the background] "Stay calm. Ignore the peanut gallery." [light changes green] Rolf: "Can't stop yes, let's go!" Sarah: "Look out!" Kevin: "This guy's a hoot." Edd: [signaling to turn] "Do you see my hand signal, because i'm about to make a turn." Kevin: [picks up Edd] "That's it! Stand back folks! [stuffs Edd between two buildings] Road rash! Ha ha!" Ed: "Smokey's on my tail!" [runs over the others with his truck]
Jonny: [in the bad side of Edtropolis] "Plank, oh Plank. Where are you buddy?" Eddy: [speaking to Jonny hidden in a shadow] "Hey Jonny boy, what's the matter? [steps out of the shadow] Looking for something?" Jonny: "Plank ran off Eddy. He's all alone in this cardboard jungle, have you seen him?" Eddy: [thinking] "Hmm... Plank, Plank, Plank. About this tall, smiles a lot?" Jonny: "You saw him?" Eddy: "I can't seem to remember... [pulls a jar out of his pocket behind his back] ...how's about refreshing my memory, eh? Jonny: [gets angry and leans forward at Eddy] "Did you see him or not!" Eddy: "No haven't seen him, beats me."
Eddy: [plopping spoonfuls of "pigeons droppings", really yogurt onto Nazz below] "Coo coo coo!" Ed: "Oink! Oink!" Eddy: "Pigeon's don't go oink, Ed!" Ed: "I'm a gazelle! Oink!"
Ed: "Quack, quack!" [drops an anvil] Eddy: [watching Ed drop the anvil onto Edd and Nazz below] "Ed! You're gonna hurt somebody! This ain't a cartoon!"
Rolf: [after jumping the queue for a tattoo & being attacked by Sarah] "Have mercy, rabid youth!" Jimmy: "Sarah's in trouble, and needs the help of the boy with a snake on his face!" [hisses]
Sarah: "Jimmy, careful of his hairy back!" [advances toward Rolf menacingly] "Hold him for me." [An angry Jonny stops the fight between Sarah, Rolf and Jimmy] Nazz: "Hey Jonny." Kevin: [with Ed drawing a tattoo on his back] "Oh yeah, well what's two plus two?" Eddy: "Hey, hey, hey. Any of that crystal ball stuff will cost you extra. [looks left and sees Jonny angry] Hi ya Jonny, want a tat?" Jonny: "Your city's corrupted the mind of my pal Plank. [leaps onto Eddy and beats him up] Eddy: "Help I'm being mugged!" [Jonny runs off and laughs with Eddy's jar of money in his mouth] Eddy: "Did you see that? That bald kid took my money!" Kevin: "Tell someone who cares." Eddy: "Ed do something!" Ed: [turns around] "Can I cater a party!?" [Eddy grits his teeth together with anger and runs after Jonny]
Edd: [after being mangled by the kids] "Eddy! It was horrible, Eddy! Look what they did to my shirt!"
Ed: [watching Edtropolis collapse] "Dominoes! Let's do it again! Here, hold this." [puts a worm in Eddy's shirt] Eddy: "Ed, I don't want it! Double D, get a net! It's crawling!" Edd: [laughs] "You know Eddy, ceaseless toil and broken dreams are the essence of urban living."
Jonny: [riding off into the sunset with Plank in his cart] "I missed you too, buddy, but if you ever do that again, I'll glue you to a rock. It's a joke, Plank! Get it?"
While Eddy is dropping yogurt on Nazz, Ed is about to drop an anvil with AKA on it, referring to A.K.A. Cartoon, the producers of Ed, Edd n Eddy. Eddy ironically says "This ain't a cartoon!", after Ed dropped the anvil. Dropping an anvil is a classic cartoon gag.
There is a "Drink En-O-Gee" billboard in the background of Edtropolis when Jimmy points at Eds' Tattoo Parlur, referring to the "En-O-Gee Drink" scam from the episode "Over Your Ed."
Edtropolis is one of the only creations of the Eds which Kevin actually approved of. When he first sighted the city, he said, "Awesome, the dorks did something cool for once!"
In the chess game at the start of the episode, Jonny was wrong to assume it was checkmate as Plank's king could've easily captured Jonny's queen, although there may have been other pieces in position for a checkmate off-screen and disappeared in the next scene.
This is the second time Ed said "Not to mention a duck". The first time was "Dear Ed."
When the kids are fighting, you can see Edd punch Kevin twice, despite his pacifistic nature.
At the end of the episode, Plank was facing forward while riding the wagon with Jonny, but in the next scene, Plank was looking backwards instead of forward.
The quote Eddy says about the big city, "If you can make it there, you can make it anywhere!", is a reference to a famous quote Frank Sinatra said about New York City, "If I can make it there, I'll make it anywhere..."
While in the city Ed utters the phrase "Smokey's on my tail!", a reference to the 1977 film Smokey and the Bandit.
In the scene where Plank is driving the wagon, the rear bumper says "Eat My Dust!"
The Lane appeared to be much bigger in this episode because of how big the city of Edtropolis was.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
MINE SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION
ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION REPORT
Underground Coal Mine
FATAL ELECTRICAL ACCIDENT
NO. 1 MINE - I.D. NO. 15-16162
BEECH FORK PROCESSING, INC.
VAN LEAR, JOHNSON COUNTY, KENTUCKY
SEPTEMBER 12, 1995
GAREY L. FARMER
Coal Mine Safety and Health Inspector/Accident Investigator
ROBERT M. BATES
Originating Office - Mine Safety and Health Administration
100 Ratliff Creek Road, Pikeville, Kentucky 41501
Carl E. Boone II, District Manager
The No. 1 Mine of Beech Fork Processing, Inc., is located off Kentucky Route 3, on Lackey Branch near Van Lear, Kentucky. The principal company officers are: James H. Booth, president; Ted McGinnis, secretary/treasurer; Leslie Combs, mine superintendent; Mike Marcum, mine foreman; and Link Chapman, safety director.
Coal is extracted from the Coalburg seam utilizing continuous miners and shuttle cars. The coal seam averages 86" in height. Coal is transported to the surface via belt conveyor. The mine currently employs forty-nine persons on two production shifts and one maintenance shift per day. The mine normally operates five days per week and produces an average of 2500 tons per day from two active sections.
The last health and safety inspection by the Mine Safety and Health Administration was completed on September 7, 1995.
DESCRIPTION OF ACCIDENT
On Tuesday, September 12, 1995, the evening shift crew was mining coal on the 002 working section under the supervision of Jerry Hall, section foreman. Activities were normal until approximately 11:45 P.M.
Preceding the accident, Rex Hall, No.3 shuttle car operator, was having electrical problems with the machine he was operating. At this time, the No.3 shuttle car trailing cable was plugged into the power center receptacle labeled "NO.3 SC". J.D. Spears, No.2 shuttle car operator, was also experiencing electrical problems with the machine he was operating. The No.2 shuttle car trailing cable was plugged into the receptacle labeled "SPARE". The receptacle labeled "NO.2 SC" was out of service at the time. When the circuit breaker for the No.3 shuttle car tripped, J.D. Spears proceeded to the 002 section power center at the request of Rex Hall to reset the breaker.
Jerry Newsome, 002 section electrician, heard a circuit breaker trip and proceeded to the section power center to investigate. Newsome met Spears at the power center and attempted to reset the No.3 shuttle car circuit breaker. The circuit breaker would not reset. Newsome instructed Spears to tell Rex Hall to park the No. 3 shuttle car until the problem with the circuit could be determined. According to Newsome, he then switched the cable couplers, plugging the No.3 shuttle car coupler into the "SPARE" receptacle and the No.2 shuttle car coupler into the "NO.3 SC" receptacle. This was evidently done in an attempt to engage the two circuits and isolate the malfunction.
At some point during this rearrangement of cable couplers, the No. 2 shuttle car circuit (with a phase-to-ground fault) and the No. 3 shuttle car circuit (with a phase-to-ground fault) were energized simultaneously. During this simultaneous activation of circuits the victim contacted the frame of the No. 3 shuttle car and ground. Contact with the frame of the No. 3 shuttle car and earth resulted in the victim's exposure to a double phase-to- ground fault. Within minutes of the accident the victim was discovered and immediately transported to the surface of the mine.
The investigation revealed the following factors relevant to the occurrence of the accident:
- There were no eyewitnesses to the accident.
- The 002 section was located approximately 8400 feet from the
- The 002 section was generally wet and muddy.
- The mine receives power from Big Sandy Rural Electric
Cooperative Corporation through a 13200 VAC service drop.
Power is transformed at that point to 7200 VAC by a 3000 KVA
totally enclosed substation for underground transmission.
- Three Joy 10SC shuttle cars were being utilized on the 002
- Trailing cables (#2 AWG), approximately 650 feet in length,
were utilized for the three 10 SC shuttle cars on the 002 section.
- The operating voltage for the 10 SC shuttle cars on the 002
section was 480 VAC. The operating voltage for the continuous miner
was 575 VAC.
- A phase-to-ground fault was present in a splice in the No. 2
shuttle car trailing cable. The fault was located
approximately 280 feet from the cable connection point on
the shuttle car. One of the phase conductors was in contact
with the ground wire for a distance of approximately six
- A phase-to-ground fault was also present on the shuttle car
operated by the victim (No.3 shuttle car) at the time of the
accident. This fault occurred when an exposed phase
conductor came to rest on the metal cable guide. The
exposed area was approximately two inches in length.
- The two ground fault conditions were on different phases of
the 480 VAC system.
- The resistance of the ground wire and faulted phase
conductor (to the point of the fault) was measured for each
of the trailing cables involved in the accident. The
following values were obtained:
#2 SC ground wire - 0.3 ohms;
#2 SC faulted phase conductor - 0.3 ohms;
#3 SC ground wire - 0.8 ohms;
#3 SC faulted phase conductor - 0.3 ohms.
Using the above values of resistance and neglecting cable reactance, the approximate voltage to which the victim was exposed was 225 VAC. According to calculations, the phase- to-phase current flow during the fault was not sufficient to activate the instantaneous trip unit on the affected circuit breakers.
- The 22-ohm grounding resistor for the 002 section power
center was found to be intact at the time of the
investigation. The ground wires for the No.2 and No.3
shuttle car trailing cables were also intact.
- The cable couplers were unplugged prior to the MSHA
investigation team's arrival at the accident scene. This
prevented an absolute determination of the location of the
cable couplers with respect to the receptacles on the power
center at the time of the accident.
- The circuit breakers protecting the shuttle car circuits on
the 002 section had the following characteristics:
LABEL CIRCUIT RATING INST. UNIT APPROX. SETTING No. 1 SC #7 225 A 300-700 700 No. 2 SC #6 225 A 300-700 700 No. 3 SC #5 225 A 500-1000 800 SPARE #8 225 A 300-700 700
- Two of the four circuit breakers used to protect trailing
cables for shuttle cars on the 002 section were found to be
inoperative. The circuit breaker identified as "NO. 2 SC"
had the undervoltage release power wires disconnected. The
circuit breaker identified as "NO. 3 SC" would not engage
due to an inoperative undervoltage release mechanism.
- Testimony indicated that the two circuit breakers in use at
the time of the accident were labeled "NO.3 SC" and "SPARE".
- The ground monitor / ground fault units utilized for the
shuttle car circuit breakers were manufactured by Pemco.
[Part nos. 21059 and 21077, MSHA Approval no. 092876 P(2)]
- The ground monitor / ground fault units for the "SPARE",
"NO.1SC", and "NO.2SC" circuit breakers were sent to MSHA's
Approval and Certification Center (A&CC) for testing. A
ground fault reset switch, which had been removed from the
"SPARE" unit after the investigation, was also sent to A&CC.
The ground monitor / ground fault unit for the "NO.3SC"
circuit breaker could not be obtained for testing.
- The results of the tests, which are contained in A&CC
Investigative Report No. LI95-06, are summarized as follows:
- The "SPARE" unit was labeled as Pemco part no. 21077,
but was actually wired in accordance with part no.
21054. These units (part no. 21054) will not respond
to a ground fault if the ground fault reset switch is
held in the depressed (contacts open) position.
- The ground fault reset switch removed from the "SPARE"
unit was not operational when tested. However, the
contacts of the switch were stuck in the closed
position, which would not have defeated the ground
- The "NO.1SC" and "NO.2SC" units were labeled as Pemco
part no. 21059 and were wired accordingly. Holding the
ground fault reset switch in the depressed position on
these units does not disable the ground fault
- The ground fault circuit and ground monitor circuit on all three units functioned properly when tested.
- The "SPARE" unit was labeled as Pemco part no. 21077, but was actually wired in accordance with part no. 21054. These units (part no. 21054) will not respond to a ground fault if the ground fault reset switch is held in the depressed (contacts open) position.
- The high voltage substation and ground monitor circuits were tested and found to be in compliance with 30 CFR.
- The victim was found lying face down with his left elbow
against the hub of the right rear wheel of the No. 3 shuttle
- An autopsy indicated that electrocution was the cause of death.
The No. 3 shuttle car operator was fatally injured when he contacted the energized frame of the No. 3 shuttle car and earth.
A phase-to-ground fault was present in the section electrical system in the No. 2 shuttle car trailing cable. A phase-to- ground fault was also present on the No. 3 shuttle car where a bare phase conductor was in contact with the frame. Due to the phase-to-ground faults in different phases of the electrical system, the victim's contact with No. 3 shuttle car and earth resulted in his exposure to approximately 225 VAC and elevated current flow.
- A 103(k) Order (No. 4517963) was issued on September 13,
1995, in conjunction with this investigation.
- A 104(a) Citation (No. 4014781) was issued on September 15,
1995. A splice in the No.2 Joy shuttle car cable was not
effectively insulated. The citation was issued under Title
30 CFR, Part 75.604.
- A 104(a) Citation (No. 4506688) was issued on September 15,
1995. The No. 3 Joy shuttle car cable was not adequately
insulated. The citation was issued under Title 30 CFR, Part
- A 104(a) Citation (No. 4506689) was issued on September 15,
1995. The No. 3 Joy shuttle car was not provided with
grounded phase protection. The citation was issued under
Title 30 CFR, Part 75.900.
- A 104(a) Citation (No. 4506690) was issued on September 15,
1995. The No. 2 Joy shuttle car was not provided with
grounded phase protection.The citation was issued under
Title 30 CFR, Part 75.900.
- A 104(a) Citation (No. 4588271) was issued on September 21,
1995. The scene of the accident was altered before an
investigation could be conducted by MSHA. The citation was
issued under Title 30 CFR, Part 50.12.
- A 104(a) Citation (No. 4506700) was issued on September 21, 1995. The operator was not conducting adequate electrical examinations. The citation was issued under Title 30 CFR, Part 75.512.
Respectfully submitted by:
Garey L. Farmer
Coal Mine Safety and Health Inspector/Accident Investigator
Robert M. Bates
Mark V. Bartley
Carl E. Boone, II
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is a CityRail
railway station on Sydney's Western railway line. It serves a
residential area. The station has street access to both platforms,
connected by a footbridge. The station is classed as Easy Access
for wheelchairs.Werrington Station
is accessible for Wheelchairs and Eledery People. The Station is
fitted with 2 lifts one in each platform providing easy access to
the station's main ticket office and accessible toilet.
Werrington station was originally built as a private platform on
the Western line
Sir Henry Parkes. It was known as Parkes Platform and opened on the
2nd of May 1868. In 1878 the platform was opened for public use,
and in 1893 it was renamed Werrington.
The station is served by two trains per hour for most of the time,
with additional trains at peak hours.
runs one route via Werrington
route via Werrington railway station:
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Urban night bikers risk a lot when travelling the roads, especially in the winter when it gets darker earlier. We’ve seen some crazy get-ups that various bikers have used to light up the night and keep themselves visible.
Designer Irene Posch’s “Early Winter Night Biking Gloves” are a nice solution to the problem of signalling when riding at night. Riding at night can be dangerous because drivers might not be able to see a biker’s hand or understand the arm gestures.
Posch’s gloves come with five LED light sewn into the back of the glove. The lights are in the shape of an arrow that lights up when users make a fist. The gloves also have conductive areas on the fingertips that allow for touchscreen use. However, we’d recommend that you not use your phone while on a bike.
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Going far outside the norm in pursuit of health and looking fit still goes on today and probably always will, and this is where people get into trouble. What usually happens with so many is they have read something that has been passed around as gospel and they believe it. Fad diets, odd weight loss tips, fitness crazes, etc are the result of people buying into too many myths when it comes to the level of health they are hoping to achieve. In the following paragraphs we are going to talk about three specific health myths and what the truth actually is about them. Continue reading
In the past the condition of someone’s teeth was not something to comment on since decayed teeth were widespread and didn’t actually impact on the person. In our time the position is different, you are able to find a complete range of providers and services dedicated to delivering white teeth. The demand for such services has been created by the amount of celebrities and media personalities that sport a white smile, resulting in it being sought-after by folks young and old. In case you are considering doing this you might be questioning what treatment options are to be had, what are the cons and are there any major negatives. Continue reading
As usual there is disagreement about this. This article argues that the effects are negative and you should simply commit to a lower calorie diet. You should than eat regularly, particularly breakfast. So much for intermittent fasting?
Food Myths Busted: Skipping Meals Helps You Lose Weight
STACK News, on Sun, 17 Mar 2013 09:25:22 -0700
The National Weight Control Registry has investigated weight loss practices in over 10,000 people. The answer was a resounding NO! Skipping meals does not lead to successful weight loss. If you are looking to lose weight, the National Weight Control …
This video shows how to use trays with teeth whitening gel. Here the trays have been produced specifically for the user and will therefore fit the mouth exactly. This of course means a visit to the dentist with the cost that that entails. An alternative is to buy an over the counter teeth whitening kit which is similar except that the trays are a standard size. If they fit reasonably well then this will be a much cheaper option so is worth a try. If this does not work for you have not lost a great deal. For more info gel clareador dental.
Here is a guide to the various tooth whitening treatments you can buy to treat yourself at home. You might think that you can save a bit of money by using a homemade solution (you can find lots on the web) but you must make sure that you don’t damage your teeth in the process. A proper at-home product is to be advised because it is much safer. (See clareamento dental caseiro).
2013 – Year of the White Smile
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At-home teeth whitening first became popular with over the counter whitening strips. The strips have a peroxide gel that whitens the tooth enamel while adhering to the teeth. You wear the strips for about 30 minutes, twice each day, and typically see …
This video looks at the latest way of losing weight and improving health – fasting. Actually it means eating only 500 calories on two days a week, the rest of the time you can eat whatever you like. The results can be impressive but this is not just about weight loss it is also about dramatically improving health. Watch the video and see what you think! | <urn:uuid:89c50f69-0bd8-42dd-8da1-1e71dc3a03e6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://the-rule.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00051-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965072 | 740 | 1.96875 | 2 |
DHL takes large strides in Sub-Saharan Africa
DHLs expansion drive in the continent ensures that SMEs get their post on time.
DHL the global express delivery service has more than tripled its Sub-Saharan African network in a matter of months. The company has expanded its network of DHL Service Points in the region from 300 to over 1000 to solidify its position as a market leader in Africa.
“In our recent 2012 Global Connectedness Index, which measures the state of globalization around the world, Sub-Saharan Africa remained the globe’s least connected continent,” said Charles Brewer, Managing Director for DHL Express Sub-Saharan Africa.
“However, it did average the largest increase from 2010 to 2011 and boasted the top five ‘gainers’ – Mozambique, Togo, Ghana, Guinea and Zambia. This tells us that there is still major opportunity to improve connectivity across the continent, and access to logistics services and international markets are both key to this improvement.”
A recent study by global information and analytics company, IHS, showed that for SMEs that improved access to international markets was a significant driver of success for small businesses. “The SME is sector is growing at an amazing pace and this investment will help to connect African SME’s to the rest of the world,” notes Brewer.
“Africa is a complex market to operate in but we’ve proven that, with a bit of creativity, you can expand your footprint and provide a way to service the continent’s growth,” Brewer concludes. “Ensuring the people within Africa can access global markets, and transfer skills, goods and information, means we are able to support and spur on the continued African resurgence. Expanding our retail presence is just the first step.” | <urn:uuid:02bf6875-74b1-4cf5-8347-2b688b8f82f5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.gatewaytoafrica.com/news/dhl-takes-large-strides-in-sub-saharan-africa.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00019-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950322 | 383 | 1.507813 | 2 |
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Mushfiq Mobarak is an associate professor of economics at the Yale School of Management. He is a development economist with interests in environmental issues.
Professor Mobarak has several ongoing research projects in Bangladesh, India, Malawi and Brazil. He conducts field experiments exploring ways to induce people in developing countries to adopt technologies or behaviors that are likely to be welfare improving.
Professor Mobarak co-chairs the Urban Services Initiative at the Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at MIT, and leads the Bangladesh Research Program for the ‘International Growth Centre (IGC)’ at LSE and Oxford. He has previously worked as an economist at the University of Colorado at Boulder, the World Bank, and at the International Monetary Fund.
Professor Mobarak advises several PhD economics candidates working on development issues, and he won the 2006 Most Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award at the University of Colorado. He teaches MBA courses focused on the challenges to doing for-profit or non-profit business in developing countries and on marketing products and behaviors to poor consumers. He also leads Yale SOM ‘international experience’ trips to developing countries.
"Development Effects of Electricity: Evidence fro the Topographic Placement of Hydropower Plants in Brazil" (with M. Lipscomb and T. Barham), American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, forthcoming
"The Low Demand for New Cookstove Technologies" (with P. Dwivedi, R. Bailis and G. Miller), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 109, No. 27, 10815-10820, 2012
"Skilled Immigration and Innovation: Evidence from Enrollment Fluctuations in U.S. Doctoral Programs” (with E. Stuen and K. Maskus), The Economic Journal, 2012
"The Transforming Power of Democracy: Regime Type and the Distribution of Electricity" (with D. Brown), American Political Science Review, May, 2009
"The Impact of Urban Spatial Structure on Travel Demand in the United States" (with A. Bento, M. Cropper, and K. Vinha), Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 87, No. 3, August, 2005
"Democracy, Volatility and Development," The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 87, No. 2, May, 2005
"Seasonal Migration and Risk Aversion" (with G. Bryan and S. Chowdhury)
"Selling Formal Insurance to the Informally Insured" (with M. Rosenzweig)
"Marriage Market Effects of a Wealth Shock in Bangladesh" (with R. Kuhn and C. Peters)
"The Costs of Decentralization: Water Pollution Spillovers from the Re-drawing of County Boundaries in Brazil" (with M. Lipscomb)
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MA University of Maryland at College Park, 1999
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Do you know what the difference is between guns and bananas? Bananas have stricter regulations on them when it comes to trade. This is your cue to go, “Whahhh?”
That’s why Amnesty International is doing a monthlong Bananafesto campaign that starts today (June 27), just in time for the United Nations to discuss arms control in July. The org will be asking the UN to make gun trade at least as strict as banana trade, and today’s event in Times Square was definitely eye-catching. This morning people wore yellow shirts and passed out bananas. You can joke all you want about banana peels being dangerous to slip on but Amnesty International will also be broadcasting some stunning gun facts, like how a person dies every minute from a gun or how 500,000 people are killed every year from gun violence.
Even if you didn't make it to Times Square there are ways you can still make a diff, like signing Amnesty International’s petition. The petition will be delivered to the UN on July 3. As it stands now, China, France, Russia, the US and UK are responsible for almost 90% of gun trade worldwide and the eased regulation of guns can mean these weapons get in the hands of anyone from dictators to child soldiers.
"As incredible as it may seem, there are stricter international regulations on bananas, dinosaur bones, and bottled water, than on guns and bullets," said Suzanne Nossel, executive director, Amnesty International USA. “The Obama Administration and other UN member states must seize this opportunity to stop irresponsible arms transfers. If we can adopt a strong treaty, we could save tens of thousands of lives and stop fueling armed conflicts."
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Back to our occasional series on infrastructure. For this post, I will be digging back into the telecommunications portion of my career, to a period when tin cans and string dominated the industry.* Well, maybe not quite so far back, as that, but far enough that I came up empty when I did Google searches on some of the terms below. But let's get to the point.
Have you wondered how companies can offer you free teleconferencing service? Most of us are used to paying for this service, but there are a bunch of firms that offer it for no fee, and will even create customized numbers for you and offer other add-ons. How do they do it and make any money?
The answer goes back to the monopoly days of the Bell System, when AT&T and its subsidiaries dominated. But even then, there were a number of small local telephone companies, often serving rural areas. The policy at the time was to share the revenues of the Bell System with those companies to help subsidize local telephone service in otherwise isolated communities. The mechanism for doing this was called the Separations and Settlement Process.
Once a year (think "sweeps week" on television), the traffic coming into and out of these small companies was measured and provided the basis for the number of dollars that company would receive as a gift from the overall revenues of the Bell System. It worked for everybody. Ma Bell didn't care, as it was awash in revenue anyway; and it didn't want to incur the high per subscriber costs inherent in serving rural areas. The local telco's likewise welcomed the income, which enabled them to keep down the cost of basic telephone service while providing hefty profits for the owners of those companies.
The system was often manipulated. The subscribers in Smalltown were told by the local telco when the measurement period was occurring. They were urged to make as many calls as possible during that week, knowing that doing so would pay dividends for the rest of the year.
Fast forward now to the end of the AT&T monopoly, the introduction of long distance competitors like MCI and Sprint, cellular service, cable TV, and other technological advances. Consider the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which served to open up the very switches owned by the big regional telephone companies (like Verizon) and the little ones, too, to anybody who wanted access to those computer racks.
Through this all, Congress preserved the policy goal of subsidizing local exchange service, especially for rural areas. Over time, new versions of the Settlements process emerged. It still pays for those local telco's (now called local exchange companies, or LECs) to have traffic, in that they are paid extra money from the national pool of telecommunications revenues based on minutes of use emerging from and ending in their central offices.
Now, you are starting to get the idea. A teleconference company mounts its switch on the rack of a carefully chosen LEC, maybe somewhere in the middle of Iowa. The teleconference company's very existence provides extra traffic for that LEC, generating extra Settlements revenue, part of which is shared with the teleconference company. The company does not need to charge you a fee for a teleconference, because the entire United States is already paying for it.
What is the difference between the service and technology behind the free teleconferencing service and the one you pay for? Nada.
Why would you ever want to pay for this service? Beats me. You and everyone else already are, in your regular local and long distance telephone rates.
How long will this deal last? When was the last time Congress took away a subsidy?
Now you can understand why I love health care. Having been weaned off the world of telecommunications subsidies, I craved a field in which the subsidies are even more rampant and impossible to untangle.
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Have you ever run into the situation where you needed to update a system BIOS and could not because your system did not have a floppy drive? Well, this recently happened to me. I started searching the Web for some ingenius tool that could help and found a package called BootCd from Bart at http://www.nu2.nu/bootcd . This package allowed me to create a bootable CD for Dos and with that CD, I could boot the system and run the BIOS Flash program.
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PDT Staff Writer
Southern Ohio Medical Center (SOMC) held its annual Veterans Day Celebration on Monday with Dr. Johnny Ray Bernard, Jr. as the event’s keynote speaker.
Bernard is a former US Army Major and currently serves as the Senior Medical Director of Radiation Oncology at the SOMC Cancer Center.
“We are celebrating veterans today, a veteran is anyone who who has served for any length of time in any branch of military service” Bernard said. “I decided to go into military service when I was a kid, my uncle was in the Army and would come home with stories of places he’s visited throughout the world. Listening to him and his experiences made me want to give back to my country.”
Bernard said he had plans to join the military after high school and it took him until medical school to decide to join.
“So I finished medical school did an internship and residency then I got stationed at Brooke Army Medical Center. I had little experience in the military at that point and did not know who to salute or any customs,” Bernard said. “As I was ending my military service I felt ashamed to be called a veteran when I had not gone anywhere in the world or served in combat. I felt like I was not deserving of the term veteran. As I was ending my training, I sat down with an older patient of mine who had prior military experience. We got to talking and he discovered I felt a little ashamed of this military term.
“He said ‘Son, how many years of education and training did you get after you finished high school. I responded about 14 years. He said, the military holds education, training and experience very high. He said you deserve to be an officer, don’t ever be ashamed of that.’”
Bernard said later in the conversation the patient asked how many radiation oncologists there were in the military. Bernard guessed between 18 and 22 people.
“He then told me, ‘Son, you possess a very special skill set, in the whole United States Military there are only 18-22 of you. He said don’t ever be ashamed of that,’” Bernard said. “From that day on, I was never ashamed to say I have served my country.”
Also taking part in the service were members of the the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility Color Guard, East Junior Madrigals, and the Portsmouth West high School Choir.
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In my recent column on the film The Social Network, I neglected to address one major issue at its core: Who owns ideas as well as the creations that come from them? The issue of intellectual property in the Internet age is one that Ive explored in this space before, and it remains a pressing and highly debatable matter.
And The Social Network by its very topic the development and launching of an Internet phenomenon, and the lawsuits that followed in its wake presents a quite powerful starting point for discussion. Or in the case that follows at least rumination.
The beginning of the process that led to Facebook was an act of imitation when Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg copied the site Hot or Not and applied it to his fellow students (though not for profit).
As presented in the film, the issue of how much Facebook originated from the work that Zuckerberg said he would do and what little he did for the Winklevoss twins and their partner Divya Narendra on their Harvard Connection site idea leaves great room for debate.
It later became a lawsuit that was settled with a confidential but rumored to be lucrative payment by Facebook. What was the real intellectual property that made Facebook such a success?
Was it the basic idea? Was it the functions and architecture of the site? Was it the coding that made it work? Was it some or all of the above, and in what proportions? There are no easy answers here.
The open and freewheeling exchange of not just information but creations and technological concepts occasioned by the World Wide Web and digital technology opened a Pandoras box.
And the swirling tempest that has followed shows no signs of being slotted into a clear-cut notion of just who owns what, and to what degrees and proportions, in the foreseeable future.
Large corporate holders of copyrighted creative works such as film studios and record companies do seem to be winning the legal war to some degree, as witnessed by the recent closing of Limewires peer-to-peer file sharing operations.
Certainly in the realm of recorded music, the cat is out of the bag and wont ever be fully recaptured.
And now more than one generation has to some degree had its notions on the monetary value of such works inalterably changed. Theres an interesting equation that has emerged between a devaluation of intellectual properties that are created by people of talent while at the same time the broader notion of open source access and the power of digital technology that allows anyone to become a creator.
Hence the issue becomes not just the idea but what is then done with it.
This is all sure to keep the legal profession busy for decades to come as well as lawmakers.
Being someone who makes my living in a creative field, I favor stringent notions of intellectual property, though individual or small groups of creators almost always lack the resources to defend their ownership and any monetary rewards.
Its the corporate financers and distributors of creative properties that have that muscle.
Theyve had the upper hand on creators ever since royalty and nobility began sponsoring and supporting artists and composers centuries ago.
And ultimately, the more things change, the more they stay the same. Creative talents may be admired, but the vast majority of them dont earn what they probably deserve for all the ways that the creative arts enhance society.
Art and commerce is one of the most complex and tricky equations in human monetary exchange. Karl Marx posited that if you want to change how people relate socially you have to first change how they relate economically.
In todays world I dont see any economic change that will bring the average artist, writer or musician to parity with business professionals even if the Internet has created a both powerful new tool for the individual to promote, market and monetize their work while at the same time opening the barn door to creative thievery.
In the end, perhaps, it all boils down to individual reliance and self-protection. And I hope that one result of this digital information revolution is that genuine creators have greater access to information about the importance of guarding and valuing what they create.
But maybe its simply human nature that as long as people have ideas and create, there will be those who buy, borrow and steal their ideas and creations.
And those who feel justly rewarded as well as others who feel ripped off and aggrieved. The issues and any answers are as complex as ever in our brave new technological world.
Rob Patterson is a music and entertainment writer in Austin, Texas. Email email@example.com.
From The Progressive Populist, April 1, 2011
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On Sunday in these pages, Molly Worthen reported on the decline of “the Protestant civil religion that has undergirded our common life for so long “(One Nation Under God?).” That might come as a surprise to the millions of TV viewers who watched the memorial service held in Newtown, Conn., a little more than a week ago. Despite a few gestures in the direction of Catholics and religious minorities (and no gestures at all in the direction of non-believing atheists and agnostics), the tenor of the service was deeply Protestant, as were the remarks of President Obama (that famous Muslim!) who seemed more preacher than chief executive as he repeatedly struck biblical chords and ended by recalling Jesus’s call to send the little children to him.
The memorial service was not the only occasion marked by the unapologetic invocation of religious sayings and symbols. For a few days at least, God and Christ were major media personalities, and the outpouring of ritual piety seemed to confirm Brian Leiter’s identification of “existential consolation” as one of the chief characteristics of religion. For believers, writes Leiter in his new book, “Why Tolerate Religion?” religions “render intelligible and tolerable the basic existential facts about human life, such as suffering and death.” Rendering the suffering and death experienced in Newton intelligible is surely what Obama and others were trying to do, and it is easy to understand, as Leiter observes, why religious belief is of “central importance in so many lives.”
But Leiter has another question: Does the undoubted centrality of religion in the lives of its adherents suffice to justify exempting it from generally applicable laws? Should religion enjoy a special status that merits a degree of solicitude and protection not granted to other worldviews or systems of belief?
Leiter’s test example involves two 14-year-old boys who, in violation of the law, wear daggers in their respective schools. One boy is a devout Sikh who believes that wearing the dagger is a symbol of religious devotion required by his faith. The other boy wears the dagger because in his culture the passing of a dagger from father to son symbolizes “a boy’s identity” and “marks his maturity and his bond with the past.” There is no evidence that either boy has ever used his dagger to perform acts of violence or intimidation. Suppose, further, that the two boys were to challenge the prohibition against wearing weapons to school in the name of “a conscientious obligation” to carry out the imperatives of their traditions. As things stand now, Leiter observes, the Sikh boy might prevail, but “in no Western democracy” would the second boy prevail.
So it seems that, at least with respect to this one example — which is not hypothetical; a Canadian case is exactly on point — religion is in fact accorded a special status. Is that justifiable? Leiter asks: “The central puzzle in this book is why the state should have to tolerate exemptions from generally applicable laws when they conflict with religious obligations but not with any other equally serious obligations of conscience.”
There is an even more general question that finally rules Leiter’s analysis. Should the state affirmatively recognize claims of conscience at all, whatever their source? To this question Leiter gives an answer rooted in John Stuart Mill’s “harm principle”: “There should not be exemptions to general laws with neutral purpose, unless those exemptions do not shift burdens or risks onto others.” A law with a neutral purpose is one passed with the intention neither to favor nor disfavor a particular group, although its application might have that (unintended) effect. So a law against wearing daggers in school has as its neutral aim the furthering of public safety; the frustration of an obligation of conscience, should it occur, is an unintended, and nonculpable, consequence. An exemption from that law would shift the burden of risk to the school system and its students, and therefore both boys in Leiter’s example should, he says, “be out of luck.” Exemptions that arguably do not shift burdens or risks — like an exemption from a ban against religious garb — are more likely to be allowed.
(The distinction helps explain the otherwise anomalous decision in Wisconsin v. Yoder (1972) where the Supreme Court exempted the Amish from the general requirement of compulsory education to the age of 16: it was emphasized that the exemption cost the state nothing and allowed a culture admirable in the eyes of the justices to maintain its self-sufficient — i.e., non-burdening — ways.)
Notice that this analysis unfolds without reference to any special status for religious claims of conscience. The test is whether an exemption is burden-shifting, not whether its source is religious. There may be (and Leiter thinks there is) a principled argument for protecting liberty of conscience (so long as claims of conscience do not involve burden-shifting), but “there appears to be no equally principled argument that picks out distinctively religious conscience as an object of special moral and legal solicitude.”
Indeed, if there is anything special about religion, Leiter contends, it is the special danger it poses by virtue of its other chief characteristics, the categorical insistence on the obedience of believers and a declared independence of evidence and rationality as defined by common-sense and science. (Needless to say, this list of religion’s characteristics is controversial , and has often been critiqued by theologians and philosophers.) If existential consolation is what you’re looking for, you might better find it, Leiter declares, in “philosophical reflection … meditation … therapeutic treatment,” all relatively harmless compared to the “potentially harmful brew of categorical commands and insulation from evidence.”
The conclusion is inevitable: “[T]here is no apparent moral reason why states should carve out special protections that encourage individuals to structure their lives around categorical demands that are insulated from the standards of evidence and reasoning we everywhere else expect to constitute constraints on judgment and action.”
A sentence like this last one makes clear Leiter’s relationship to enlightenment liberalism’s conception of the state and its system of laws. Liberalism begins by dislodging the authority that in other political systems provides stability and meaning — a God or a theology or a monarch or a dictator. Liberalism replaces those rejected authorities with the idea of individual rights and it becomes the liberal project to build a political system and a system of value on that foundation. Somewhat paradoxically, the privileging of individual rights means that the substantive commitments of no individual can be allowed to inform the body of law, which must be generally applicable; applicable, that is, to every citizen no matter what his or her beliefs and biases may happen to be.
The familiar proverb that captures this requirement is, “Ours is a government of laws and not of men.” The liberal project is threatened whenever that formula is reversed, whenever the state’s generality is at risk of being eroded by the particular beliefs of men. Substance, then, is the chief danger to the liberal state, and the chief form of that danger is religion, both because of the categorical demands it places on its adherents and because it refuses the formal constraints that keep substance cabined in the sphere of the private. So that while the liberal state is pledged to refrain from burdening the claims of conscience, were it to surrender itself to them, it would, says Leiter, “cease being a state.” Just such a surrender would be involved in the “carving out of special protections” whenever someone wholly in the grasp of conviction — religious or any other — demanded them.
The answer, then, to the title question — “Why Tolerate Religion?” — is that there is no reason to tolerate it qua religion, although some, but not all, religious practices can be tolerated for the same reason we tolerate some, but not all, practices prompted by other systems offering meaning and direction: they do not materially impair the general applicability that must be maintained if the state is to remain a state. Religion is saved and accorded limited protection, but at the expense of not having its doctrinal tenets taken seriously. (Not much mention of virgin births, salvation and damnation in these pages, except as instances of “unwarranted,” not to say crazy, beliefs.) Religion, philosophy, morality, therapy, what’s the difference? In Leiter’s argument, they present the same problem for the liberal state, the problem of marking out the limits of toleration; distinctions between them are finally inessential.
And yet one distinction seems undeniable: philosophy, morality and therapy do not have a clause in the Constitution, while religion does. If Leiter is right and religion is no different from any other comprehensive doctrine (John Rawls’s term), why should there be a religion clause? There is of course a standard historical answer to that question. The desire for religious freedom motivated those Europeans who came to North America in the 17th century. It makes sense that the founding document of their new nation should protect the individual from state-sponsored religious discrimination (the Free Exercise clause) and protect the state from becoming an appendage of religion (the Establishment Clause). Leiter, however, is not interested here in the history of the matter. He is seeking, as he says repeatedly, a principled philosophical justification of the special treatment religion seems to receive in the Constitution. He doesn’t find one and comes to conclusions that render the religion clause largely superfluous.
He thus participates in a project inaugurated by the first important establishment clause case of the modern era, Everson v. Board of Education (1947), a case in which the majority shifted the focus from the question of whether public funds were being expended for religious purposes to the question of whether public funds were being distributed evenhandedly to religious and secular institutions alike. A religion clause issue became an equal treatment issue. In dissent, Justice Rutledge complained that by so reasoning the majority ignored “the religious factor … thereby leaving out the only vital element in the case.” Ignoring the religious factor or generalizing it out of sight has been the approved strategy of religion clause jurisprudence ever since. In fact it might be said that the purpose of religion clause jurisprudence, a purpose Leiter joins, is to ensure that the religion clause causes as little trouble as possible. | <urn:uuid:e1c0ce03-7d92-45d7-886a-a3f1f4837e6d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/24/religious-exemptions-and-the-liberal-state-a-christmas-column/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00053-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954962 | 2,206 | 2.25 | 2 |
Connecticut had been granted the land in the yellow / flesh colored strip above. Notice the words "Western claim ceded in 1796" on the left side of the strip. The strip went from Naragansett Bay on the east to California in the west. The part that was the Western Reserve is the yellow section in the center below Lake Erie.
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During a conference call for Friendly Connections, a man asked me what I knew about "The Western Reserve". I told him I had read a little about it, but not a lot. Connecticut had been given land in payment for damages caused during the Revolutionary War. He said he'd be curious to hear more about it. Well, I did some research and a fascinating story began to unfold.
The story begins in 1662 when King Charles II of England approved a patent to extend the boundaries of Connecticut Colony. Since he was feuding with New Haven Colony (sepearte from Connecticut Colony), he extended the eastern boundary - through New Haven Colony - to Naragansett Bay in Rhode Island! The northern boundary was extended to the southern Massachusetts boundary, and the southern boundary to Long Island Sound. The western boundary was set all the way to the Pacific coast! In effect, Connecticut now owned the upper third of Pennsylvania as well as parts of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado, Utah, Nevada and California. The colony was now a strip of land from coast to coast.
Since Connecticut had incurred a huge war debt during the Revolutionary War, it ceded, or gave up in 1786, its right to all the lands, except the Ohio holdings. (This became known as the "New Connecticut" and later "The Western Reserve".) In exchange, the US government took over the debt. This left two land pieces - the "The Western Reserve", and a tract transferred in 1795 to a group of investors from Suffield, CT, known as the Connecticut Land Company. The $1.2 million raised from the sale was used for public education.
Part of the "Western Reserve" included the northeastern edge of Ohio from Lake Erie to slightly below Akron and Youngstown. This area, which encompassed what would become Huron and Erie counties, was known as the "Firelands" or "Sufferslands Lands". The land was reserved for colonists from New England, who's homes had been destroyed by fire by the British during the Revolutionary War. Between 1786 and 1800, tracts of land in the "Firelands" were sold (or given) to immigrants from Connecticut in compensation for their losses.
As an interesting aside, the Connecticut Land Company hired a surveyor, Moses Cleaveland, to work with a group of others to divide the land into townships. He and his crew actually laid out the piece of land that would become Cleveland, Ohio. A printer dropped the "a" in his name to save space on the printed page!
There is also the claim of the Native-Americans to the land, which was pretty much ignored as history tells us. This was certainly true in this case.
In 1800 Connecticut ceded sovereignty over the "Western Reserve" to the government so that the Northwest Territory could be created. Today, visitors to this area can see the Connecticut influence in architecture, town planning and public parks. People tracing their family history might even find a missing relative or two in Ohio! It can be said that Connecticut played a direct role in helping to settle the rest of the country. Connecticut residents indeed pushed west long before editor Horace Greely admonished his readers in 1851 to "Go west, young man!".
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Who in Congress doesn't want to pass a bill that helps protect women against acts of violence? No one, of course.
But the Violence Against Women Act, first passed in 1994 and reauthorized previously without fanfare, hit a snag this time around.
The hiccup in the bill involved groups of vulnerable people: Native Americans, immigrants and those who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, or LGBT.
That's the reason there was no consensus over a law that primarily provides support for organizations that serve domestic violence victims, said Rep. Gwen Moore, D-Wisconsin, herself a rape victim.
"The violence Against Women Act has always been bipartisan, but this time, because of best practices from advocates, from people in law enforcement, they saw the need to expand this to communities of color, to Native Americans, to the LGBT community and young women who needed protection on campuses," Moore said.
The differences over provisions affecting native, immigrant and LGBT women led to separate bills in the House and Senate. No compromise was reached. Time ran out and the Violence Against Women Act was not reauthorized.
"It's a shame that we're at this point," Moore said. "Certainly we're very concerned about whether or not we're going to have these particular communities ignored."
The National Task Force to End Sexual and Domestic Violence Against Women said it was deeply disappointed that a final bill could not be agreed upon.
"The U.S. House of Representatives continued to voice strong opposition to offering basic protections to certain vulnerable populations," the task force said.
The Senate voted to renew the Violence Against Women Act in April. In doing so, it added several provisions to the reauthorization bill that some Republican members of the House felt were moving the goalposts too much.
The Senate bill gave tribal authorities jurisdiction to prosecute cases on Indian reservations, specified against discrimination of LGBT victims and allowed undocumented immigrant survivors of domestic violence to seek legal status.
Every Republican woman in the Senate voted for the measure and it passed the Senate 68-31.
The next month, the House passed its own version of the reauthorization bill that contained none of those provisions. Republicans said the changes were unnecessary. The law, they said, already covered all women.
But that's not how supporters of the Senate bill saw it. They said they never envisioned an argument over victims of violence. President Barack Obama threatened to veto the House bill.
Jana Walker, director of the Indian Law Resource Center's Safe Women, Strong Nations project, said it was hard for her to understand why a law strengthening safeguards would be controversial in this day and age.
The groups of people affected by the Senate version of the bill "are some of the most vulnerable under our current legal system," she said.
She said she was particularly disappointed with opposition to extending power to tribal authorities to prosecute cases. Native American women face a risk of attack that is greater than the national average.
One in three native women will be raped in their lifetime, according to the Indian Law Resource Center. Three in five will be physically assaulted. Native women also are killed at a rate 10 times the national average.
The center recently released a video that shows various native women citing statistics and urging lawmakers to take action.
"The law doesn't protect me," they say in the video. "I want to be safe and when my safety is violated, I want justice. I need your vote now because someday you will need mine. Do something."
The center estimates that 88% of crimes against women are perpetrated by non-Indians. But Walker said federal prosecutors decline about 67% of the cases from Indian country.
"This just leads perpetrators to act with impunity," she said.
The National Congress of American Indians addressed the issue in a December 20 letter to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Virginia.
It described situations in which beatings and rapes by non-native men were declined for prosecution at a federal level and returned to a tribal court as a misdemeanor. Federal law currently prohibits tribal courts from imposing a jail sentence of more than a year, so they generally do not prosecute felonies. In many instances, such cases are dismissed altogether and a defendant can walk free until a grand jury indictment can be obtained. | <urn:uuid:c114b9d8-2461-43ee-bd2d-579d41ec9434> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.localnews8.com/news/politics/Bill-debate-centers-on-vulnerable-women/-/308336/18018722/-/item/0/-/14vj2yg/-/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00003-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969923 | 871 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Dear President Obama,
As leaders of American nonprofit organizations that work in support of children and families both here in the United States and abroad, we urge you to send the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) to the U.S. Senate for ratification.
Around the world, the CRC is an important tool to promote protections and rights for the most vulnerable and marginalized children, and to support the importance of families and parents. I believe that it will strengthen our Nation’s ability to help children overseas, and provide a framework to help us better address challenges facing children and families here at home.
Mr. President, you are a champion for human rights and for children’s rights. As you know, the United States stands with Somalia as the only holdouts from ratifying the CRC, the most widely accepted human rights instrument in history. The conspicuous absence of the United States as a party to the CRC undermines our Nation’s international leadership role on behalf of children and families.
The United States cannot move forward on ratification, however, unless the President submits this treaty to the Senate for its advice and consent. Although Administration officials have promised to review the treaty, there is no specific timeframe for submitting it to the Senate.
I ask you to submit the CRC to the Senate by the next Universal Children’s Day. The United Nations and its member countries observe this day annually to promote the welfare and protection of the world’s children. By sending the CRC to the Senate, Mr. President, you will demonstrate your commitment to the values enshrined in the treaty.
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23 sub-Saharan African countries need food assistance
HIV/AIDS pandemic contributes to food insecurity
13 April 2005, Rome - Some 23 countries* in sub-Saharan Africa will need food assistance in the coming months, according to the Africa Report, which FAO released today. The causes range from civil strife and war to adverse weather and economic disruption.
The Africa Report is a regional and country-by-country breakdown of crop prospects and food shortages in sub-Saharan Africa, including expected food aid requirements.
In eastern Africa, the report warns that the food situation in Sudan remains "very alarming" in several areas, including Darfur and parts of the south, which have been suffering from conflict, population displacement and drought. Serious food shortages are now reported in several parts of the country. Increased numbers of people are on the move including returnees to Southern Sudan and more than 2 million displaced people in Darfur.
More food aid needed
Eritrea remains food insecure due mainly to the impact of successive years of poor rains. According to the report additional food aid pledges and deliveries are urgently needed in view of the lean season, which begins in June.
"More food aid pledges are also needed in Ethiopia notwithstanding an improved harvest late last year, increased food aid deliveries, and the start of the productive safety net programme," according to the report.
In Southern Africa, prolonged dry spells or reduced precipitation in February undermined crop prospects in several countries, including Namibia, Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland and Zimbabwe. However, the report adds, "better crops prospects" are seen in much of Angola, northern Zambia, northern Malawi and northern Mozambique.
The first official forecast of maize output in South Africa, the subregion's largest producer, is estimated at 10.52 million tonnes, representing an improvement of about eight percent on last year and 11 percent over the previous five-year average. As a result, the report forecasts a substantial exportable surplus in South Africa, which will be available to the deficit countries in the sub-region..
HIV/AIDS contributes to state of emergency
According the report, the HIV/AIDS pandemic is a contributing factor to food insecurity in several countries.
In Zimbabwe, the report says a serious two-week dry spell in February is expected to have serious adverse effects on crop yields. A shortage of top dressing fertilizer is anticipated to exacerbate the already low productivity. Farmers also faced shortages of fuel, spare parts and draught power. As a result, "overall prospects for the current season crops are unfavourable."
Some countries in western Africa's Sahel area are facing serious food insecurity because of high prices and shortages of millet in the areas that were affected by desert locusts and poor rainfall in 2004. According to the report, the most affected country is Mauritania, where the food situation remains critical with thousands of rural households in need of emergency food assistance. "Mauritania has faced several years of drought and poor harvests and the ability of a large number of people to cope with this situation has been exhausted."
Food assistance needed in three West African countries
In Côte d'Ivoire, the report says that insecurity, labor shortages and a growing separation of the northern and southern halves of the country continue to disrupt agricultural production and marketing. Food production has been satisfactory in the south, but remains below average in the north and west. Small farmers growing cash crops are suffering significant income losses and household food security has been hit by the disruption of livelihoods.
In Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, food assistance will continue to be needed for internally displaced people and for refugees.
Central Africa's first season harvest is now complete. Production estimates in Burundi indicate a decline of about 5 percent in total food production leading to a food deficit of 310 000 tonnes in cereal equivalent. In neighboring Rwanda, preliminary estimates indicate that about 30 000 tonnes of food aid will be needed in 2005. The FAO report warns that renewed disturbances in Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo are a cause for concern, especially the resettlement of internally displaced people and returnees who have just arrived.
FAO's Global Information and Early Warning System publishes the Africa Report three times annually.
* The 23 countries facing food emergencies are: Angola, Burundi, Chad, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Guinea, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritania, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zimbabwe.
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Tata Motors today took the covers off the world’s cheapest car — the Nano.
Over the past year, Tata has been building hype for a car that would cost a mere 100,000 rupees (roughly $2,500) and bring automotive transportation to the mainstream Indian population. It has been nicknamed the “People’s Car.” Over the course of the New Delhi Auto Expo, which began this week, anticipation had grown to fever pitch.
With the theme from “2001: A Space Odyssey” playing, Ratan Tata, chairman of Tata Motors drove the small white bubble car onto Tata’s show stage, where it joined two others.
“They are not concept cars, they are not prototypes,” Mr. Tata announced when he got out of the car. “They are the production cars that will roll out of the Singur plant later this year.”
The four-door Nano is a little over 10 feet long and nearly 5 feet wide. It is powered by a 623cc two-cylinder engine at the back of the car. With 33 horsepower, the Nano is capable of 65 miles an hour. Its four small wheels are at the absolute corners of the car to improve handling. There is a small trunk, big enough for a duffel bag.
“Today, we indeed have a People’s Car, which is affordable and yet built to meet safety requirements and emission norms, to be fuel efficient and low on emissions,” Mr. Tata added. “We are happy to present the People’s Car to India and we hope it brings the joy, pride and utility of owning a car to many families who need personal mobility.”
The base price for the Nano will be 120,000 rupees, including road tax and delivery. Higher level models will cost more and come with air-conditioning. Sun visors and radios are extra.
The nearest priced competitor is the Maruti 800, which costs roughly twice as much as the Nano. In comparing the Nano to the Maruti 800, Mr. Tata said, “It is 8 percent smaller — bumper to bumper — and has 21 percent larger seating capacity than Maruti 800.”
The Hindustan Times reports reactions from a couple of Tata’s competitors, Maruti and Hyundai:
Jagdish Khattar, a former head of Maruti 800 manufacturer Maruti Udyog Ltd., says it’s too early to say whether the Nano will overtake the original.
“It’s a good product but it’s still too early to say whether it will overtake the 800 because it caters to a totally new market segment,” he said while watching a live telecast of Tata’s press conference after unveiling of the Nano.
But clearly, at least one other manufacturer was worried.
An official of Hyundai Motors, which unveiled an LPG version of its Santro Thursday, was more circumspect.
“We definitely see it as impacting our sales,” he said in halting English, preferring to maintain anonymity.
Anand Mahindra, managing director for Mahindra & Mahindra, Tata Motors’ primary competitor, said before the unveiling, “I think it’s a moment of history and I’m delighted an Indian company is leading the way.”
The Nano will go on sale in India later this year with an initial production run of 250,000 a year. Tata says it will offer the Nano in other emerging markets in Latin America, Southeast Asia and Africa within four years.
With Cars in Reach, Indians Must Learn to Drive (January 11, 2008)
Four Wheels for the Masses: The $2,500 Car (January 8, 2008)
In India, More Cars, Going Faster (December 7, 2007)
In India, a $2,500 Pace Car (October 12, 2007)
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Promise of casino cannot be fulfilled
I am writing in response to The News editorial “Failed Promise” regarding the Seneca-owned casinos in Western New York. It is a “failed promise” because it is a promise that can never be fulfilled. Outside of Las Vegas, which is a resort-styled destination, regional casinos are an economic negative, not a positive.
The vast majority of the money that enters the casino’s doors is local money. It’s coming from Western New Yorkers, a percentage of whom shouldn’t be gambling at all. True regional economic growth is impossible when your primary clientele is local. It’s like cutting a pie into six pieces and expecting there to be more pie when you are done slicing it.
The whole business model of a casino is 100 percent inward focused. If you enter a casino, you can gamble, eat, drink and sleep all within the confines of the establishment. Looking around the local casinos, you see minimal investment that has been spurred on by the casinos. By its design, it encourages patrons to spend money in and only in the casino, not in the community.
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A Wild Australia Guide – Steve Parish PUblishing
Steve Parish’s A Wild Australia Guide series of books cover a range of Australian wildlife from birds and butterflies to mammals and moths. Written by a variety of expert authors it contains a range of information including identification, habitat, behaviour and diet. There are 20 guides with a recommended retail price of $14.95, however most school libraries stock at least some of the titles. The photography titles are also available as PDF ebooks.
The Wild Australia Guides are a great resource for upper primary to secondary students and can be used to extend students understanding of a given topic and help with assignments. The guides can also be used as a simple field guide but further research will be required for more obscure species.
Students will love the crisp photography Steve Parish publications are renowned for and find the layout of information easy to follow and, although a range of scientific terms such as ‘cephalothorax’ are used, a handy glossary is included to help build their scientific vocabulary.
We have found the Butterflies & Moths, Spiders and Beetles & Bugs editions to be most useful in our own research. These would also be useful in mini-beast activities for primary and secondary field work. You can find a few ideas over at the Bug Blitz site where students drive the activities following the pattern of inquiry-based learning.
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Opportunities Adjacent to the Highway System
Public Involvement Plan for STIP (State Transportation Improvement Program)
All highway construction and reconstruction consists of two phases: the design phase and the construction phase.
Many projects have a design phase of five or more years. Public hearings on any proposed construction are required by law and are held during the design phase. Each NDOR District Engineer is responsible for coordinating the state’s efforts and acts as the public liaison for projects in their district.
When a construction project is planned close to home — your business — getting involved early is the surest road to surviving it. This brochure has been designed to provide you with vital information and survival strategies that can help you and your business community cope during road reconstruction.
When construction hits, it can hit hard. But the arrival of the earth movers, roadblocks and detour signs aren’t there to signal the end of your business.
The first thing to remember is, it’s temporary. The second is, get involved. There are steps you can take that will make a difference.
By attending public meetings and contacting the District Engineer you can ask questions, express your concerns and make suggestions about important design decisions. And you’ll be better informed regarding the impact the project might have in your situation. Exercise your right to know:
By the time the construction crew rolls on site most design decisions have been made.
The Project Manager
Knowing who’s who in your highway district will put you in touch with the people who can answer your questions and address special situations. The Project Manager reports on-site daily and deals with the construction workers and the public. If a problem arises, the Project Manager is the person best equipped to resolve the issue.
Call or e-mail your district office and find out the Project Manager for your site, the field office location and local number. And stay in touch. The Project Manager can work with individual requests concerning day-to-day operations.
You can have input on such issues as access to business sites, parking and construction scheduling. The Project Manager can notify you well in advance of power or water shutoff dates so that you can plan accordingly.
Survival Strategies -- Things To Do Now
Realize the importance of getting involved early, attending public meetings and contacting your Project Manager are strategies that will keep you ahead of and prepared for the construction.
There are various creative survival tactics that business communities have devised and employed successfully to keep their businesses solvent.
Forming a business association can help you and your community in several ways. It provides an information and support network for business owners to come together to share their problems and concerns and discover that they are not alone — that other businesses face a similar set of issues. It is an opportunity to brainstorm and develop strategies that can work within the construction circumstances your local highway project presents. It is a chance to pool resources and coordinate the effort to let the public know you are open for business.
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West Virginia Deer Hunt Early This Year
Deer hunting comes early to the West Virginia hills this fall. "The special antlerless deer seasons for archery and muzzleloader hunters will open on private land in certain counties in September," said West Virginia Division of Natural Resources Director Frank Jezioro, who wants hunters to be well armed with the facts before entering the woods.
- * The early archery season opens September 14 and closes September 19. Hunters wishing to participate in this season must buy a Class RB or Class RRB stamp before going afield. The stamp allows a hunter to take one antlerless deer during this archery season.
- * The early muzzleloader season opens September 21 and closes September 26. Hunters must buy a Class RM or RRM stamp before hunting. This stamp allows a hunter to take one antlerless deer during this muzzleloader season.
- * If a hunter does not fill a tag during either season, the appropriate stamp can be used during the regular archery or muzzleloader season.
- * Landowners hunting on their own land or holders of the new DT license do not have to buy a stamp.
Prepare for Early Warm Weather Deer Hunting
"With these early seasons, you need to know before you hunt how you'll take care of it in the field and how you'll get your deer processed," said Jezioro. "If you don't plan to process the deer yourself, make sure beforehand that your deer processor will be open to process the deer." If your regular processor is not open, Jezioro suggests processing the deer yourself. This is a relatively simple process and numerous guides exist explaining how to do it.
"Cooling the deer meat will be a prime concern," say Jezioro. He encourages hunters to keep a bag of ice in a cooler at camp or in the car. "After you have field dressed the deer, throw the bag of ice into the chest cavity. Get the hide off the deer as soon as you can. This will let the meat cool quicker."
Hunters planning on participating in the early seasons need to remember to check their equipment earlier than normal to increase their chances for a safe and successful hunt.
"The opening dates are fast approaching and these seasons will provide an excellent opportunity to hunt deer earlier in the year when weather conditions are generally milder. A little preplanning can greatly enhance your outdoor experience," Jezioro said. | <urn:uuid:a81ee32b-5c76-4f18-999c-75f66cf420a6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.biggamehunt.net/news/west-virginia-deer-hunt-early-year | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00061-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948982 | 501 | 1.796875 | 2 |
Between 1971 and 1975, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) caused sporadic infection in eight Dublin hospitals although a case of bacteraemia was not recorded until 1976. From then on gentamicin-resistant MRSA rapidly became endemic in Dublin hospitals. The frequency of MRSA bacteraemia reached a peak in 1979-82 but MRSA infection remains an important problem. The most effective antimicrobial agent in treatment of invasive infection was vancomycin; little drug toxicity was seen. Where appropriate, concomitant surgical treatment such as debridement and drainage was usually necessary. Infection control measures directed at eliminating carriage proved effective in reducing spread. Molecular analysis showed two distinct MRSA phenotypes with similar phage-typing patterns. Gentamicin resistance was chromosomally encoded.
a Department of Clinical Microbiology (Trinity College), St James's Hospital and Department of Microbiology, Moyne Institute, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
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Prosciutto di Parma DOP
The history of Prosciutto di Parma dates back to the Roman period. Parma was located at the heart of the Cisalpine Gaul, a province of the Roman Republic. In De Re Rustica, Varrone wrote that the local inhabitants raised large herds of pigs and were particularly skilled in curing ham. In the 2nd century, Cato wrote De Agricoltura and included a technical explanation for making prosciutto, a process that has essentially unchanged.
Throughout the course of history, many other authors wrote about prosciutto and prosciutto making, including Polibio, Strabone, Orazio, Plauto and Giovenale. The production of encased salumi, or insaccati, was officially recognized at the end of the Middle Ages with the formation of the Arte dei Lardaroli, a salumi-makers guild. The guild was a branch of the much larger Arte dei Beccai, a guild of all types of food producers, from butchers to fishermen. Culinary references made to Prosciutto di Parma can be found in the Libro de Cocina, written in the second half of the 14th century, the wedding menu of Colonna in 1589, and the precious text written by Carlo Nascia, Ranuccio Farnese’s private chef in the second half of the 17th century. Prosciutto appears in the poetry of Tassoni and in the dietary advice of Pisanelli, a medical doctor from Bologna. Guglielmo Du Tillot, the Prime Minister of the Duchy of Parma, even created a plan for the development of two pork slaughterhouses in Parma in order to improve the quality and quantity of the local salumi industry.
Prosciutto di Parma DOP
The first step in producing prosciutto was once done by hand, but has since been industrialized. Industrialization improved sanitation while keeping the traditional characteristics of the product. In order to be called Prosciutto di Parma, the prosciutto, or ham, must come from pigs raised in a specific area (either Emilia Romagna, Lombardy, Piedmont, Veneto, Tuscany, Umbria, Marche, Lazio, Abruzzo, or Molise) and produced in a precise area in the province of Parma.
This area is recognized for its special microclimate, caused by the air that blows up from Versilia. The wind softens as it passes through the olive and pine groves of the Val di Magra, dries as it reaches the Apennines and is enriched by the perfume of chestnut before it arrives in Parma, giving the prosciutto its unparalleled sweetness.
Prosciutto di Parma is made by rubbing and massaging the hind legs of pork with an amount of salt proportionate to the weight of the meat. After the ham has been salted, it is washed, dried and left to age in aging rooms for a period of 10 to 12 months.
The Prosciutto di Parma Consortium
The Prosciutto di Parma Consortium was founded in 1963 in order to protect the quality of the ingredients and the scrupulous production methods. The Italian government gave the Consortium until July 3, 1978 to regulate production and enforce the standards outlined in their manual. If a prosciutto meets these standards, it is branded with the crown symbol of the Consortium
The Consortium is responsible for the development and promotion of the product. It is recognized throughout Europe and is even allowed to operate outside the European Union in places like the United States. Prosciutto di Parma has been given DOP (Protected Designation of Origin) status by the European Union. | <urn:uuid:d231c248-579b-4a15-b8a1-724eadb6f441> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.barilla.com/content/ingredient/prosciutto-di-parma-dop?ajax=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00070-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927613 | 795 | 2.828125 | 3 |
Free Speech and Its Limits
March 18, 2005
by Robert Donin
Richard Roberts ("Free Speech and Inconsistency," April 14) glosses over the facts of the Zeta Psi case to create the false impression that the College sanctioned the fraternity for the content of its ideas. In his recent speech to the Dartmouth Club of New York, President Wright stated why the fraternity was sanctioned:
"The Dean derecognized the fraternity because of the repeated publication of a newsletter that cruelly demeaned specific women on campus. This incident was about behavior, not speech -- the organization published articles describing the supposed sexual exploits of two undergraduate women who were identified by name."
To be specific:
During the summer of 2000, a fraternity member showed female student "A" a copy of the house newsletter in which the student was identified by name and in which certain sexual activities involving a fraternity member were attributed to her.
During the same summer, female student "B" saw another Zeta Psi newsletter, which described student "B" as "fat and syphilis-ridden."
Student A objected to the president and other members of the fraternity and was assured that the newsletters would be discontinued.
In April of 2001, however, student A found a copy of a new Zeta Psi newsletter. This copy attributed certain sexual activities to student A.
In 1987, Zeta Psi's recognition had been suspended for a year because of similar conduct. When the group's recognition was reinstated, it gave assurances that this type of misconduct would not be repeated.
A long line of First Amendment cases recognizes that freedom of expression is not absolute. Even where the First Amendment fully applies, as Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. famously wrote, no one has the right to falsely yell "fire" in a crowded theater. Similarly, the First Amendment does not protect defamation, invasion of privacy, copyright infringement, threats or harassment, to cite just a few of the well-established, judicially approved limitations on free speech.
The Zeta Psi case falls squarely within the area of permissible regulation. This was not a case of students spewing racist, sexist or misogynistic ideas in the abstract. Such statements, however repugnant or contrary to Dartmouth's values, are protected under the College's Policy on Freedom of Expression and Dissent (Student Handbook, p. 9). (And members of the campus community can and do respond with their own views when they encounter statements they find objectionable or with which they disagree.) The statements in the Zeta Psi newsletter, by contrast, targeted two specific students for personal abuse in a repeated fashion even after the organization agreed to end this behavior.
Whatever one may think of the particular sanction imposed by the College, as a matter of First Amendment principle it is not correct to lump all speech together and suggest that merely because an activity is verbal, it is automatically immune from regulation.
The College's action in the Zeta Psi case was justifiable not because the fraternity's rights were outweighed by some vague sense of community values, but because the type of speech involved was similar to the types of speech for which our legal system permits recourse, notwithstanding the First Amendment.
Educational communities depend on the open exchange of ideas, however offensive certain ideas may be to some. No one should pretend that the line between "pure speech" and speech that warrants regulation will always be easy to discern. But the principle is clear: while members of the community have the right to express ideas freely, they do not have the right to single out other individuals for demeaning and humiliating treatment. The harm created by such conduct -- distinct from any "message" the speaker may be seeking to convey -- is not protected by the First Amendment.
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education has cited comments in community letters written by President Wright and Dean Larimore shortly after the Zeta Psi decision as the basis for FIRE's contention that Dartmouth has a "speech code." Those two letters do express the writers' personal convictions about racist, sexist and homophobic behavior and the effect of such behavior on the College community.
Removed from the context of the Zeta Psi case, these comments might imply a broader regulation of expression. But the letters were prompted by, and addressed to, the specific case at hand. (Both letters were commenting on the decision already reached by Dean Martin Redman concerning Zeta Psi, rather than setting forth policies that led to that decision.) The assertion that the letters constituted official "policies" subjecting students to penalties for discriminatory or unpopular speech per se is incorrect.
One other thought about speech at Dartmouth: it is a shame that an isolated incident which occurred four years ago continues to obscure the robust, unfettered and wide-ranging debate that flourishes here daily. Within just the past six months, the list of campus speakers has included J.C. Watts and Daniel Pipes, with Dinesh D'Souza scheduled to visit in May -- hardly a pantheon of political correctness. A Dickey Center program last week featured pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian speakers. Student publications and political organizations of every stripe are thriving. The marketplace of ideas seems to be doing a brisk business. To suggest that the atmosphere here is repressive is to ignore reality.
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A beautifully illustrated set of 6 basic phonic sounds. The sounds are introduced in seven groups of letter sounds, starting with (s,a,t,i,p,n) and finishing with the seventh set (qu,ou,oi,ue,er,ar). This is set 1 of 7 sets.
Perfect for your classroom or playground.
This set of 6 signs includes the sounds s,a,t,i,p and n.
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The European Central Bank said it may cut Cypriot banks off from emergency funds after March 25 as the island nation’s president, Nicos Anastasiades, pursued options at home and in Russia to stave off financial collapse.
The ECB’s Governing Council said today that so-called emergency liquidity assistance, or ELA, “could only be considered” after Monday if an aid program from the euro area and International Monetary Fund “that would ensure the solvency of the concerned banks” is in place, the central bank said today in a statement.
In Nicosia, the Cabinet will meet at 6 p.m. today to discuss a proposed “investment solidarity fund,” according to a statement. The fund is intended to help raise the 5.8 billion euros ($7.5 billion) needed to trigger emergency loans, Athens News Agency reported. Finance Minister Michael Sarris said in Moscow that while Russia won’t lend money to Cyprus, it’s looking at investment in the energy industry.
Cyprus in June became the fifth euro-area nation to request a rescue after Greece’s debt restructuring, the largest in history, trashed the financial health of lenders including Bank of Cyprus Plc and Cyprus Popular Bank Pcl, the nation’s two biggest.
“With this statement, the ECB put even more pressure on European finance ministers and the Cypriot government to come up with a deal,” said Juergen Michels, chief euro-area economist at Citigroup Inc. in London. “But we’ll have to see whether they’ll actually follow through with their threat if there’s no deal by Monday and policy makers decide to further extend the bank holiday.”
Dutch Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem, who leads meetings of euro-area finance chiefs, said he didn’t think the ECB was threatening Cyprus.
“That just stresses the point of the urgency, first of all on the Cypriot government,” he told European Union lawmakers in Brussels today. “We need to reach agreement on a program very, very soon. I think the ECB has a valid point there.”
Euro-area finance ministers on March 16 agreed to an unprecedented tax on Cypriot bank deposits as officials unveiled a 10 billion-euro rescue plan for the country. The government amended an initial proposal to exempt deposits of up to 20,000 euros, but failed to win support in parliament as popular dissent mounted.
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said today that Cyprus had “definitively rejected” the deposit levy.
The proposed investment fund would reduce the amount that Cyprus needs to raise from the bank-account tax, ANA reported, without saying where it got the information. It would include bond issuance and future revenue from gas deposits, the Greek state-run news agency said. The Cypriot central bank may contribute 560 million euros using gold reserves, ANA said.
Cyprus central bank chief Panicos Demetriades said in comments broadcast on state-run CYBC television today that he expects a bailout program to be approved by the ECB deadline.
If political leaders in Cyprus reach an agreement on a new proposal, a bill could be submitted to Parliament today, CYBC reported, without saying how it got the information.
‘Durable and Fair’
“The government of Cyprus needs to decide what it wants,” French Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici said today on RMC radio. “It needs to make a choice both for Europe and for its people to find a solution that is durable and fair.”
The Cypriot central bank has ordered lenders to remain closed through tomorrow. With a national holiday on March 25, account-holders therefore won’t have full access to their money before Tuesday.
In Moscow, Sarris said Cyprus was “asking for help clearly, but something that would make also economic sense for Russia,” including the extension of 2.5 billion-euro loan granted by Russia in December 2011.
Three Russian officials said Cyprus was also asking for a fresh 5 billion-euro loan. Sarris said on Antenna TV that Russia was unable to provide loans because of the uncertainty in Europe.
European officials have struggled to find an agreement that would rescue Cyprus, which accounts for less than half of a percent of the euro region’s economy, without unsettling investors in larger countries. Other elements of the rescue include asset sales and an increase in the corporate tax rate to 12.5 percent from 10 percent.
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- Historic Sites
Mary Baker Eddy
Unschooled and uncompromising, she founded her own faith
December 1980 | Volume 32, Issue 1
The third version is that composed by Mrs. Eddy many years later. By then, this event had become the moment of revelation of Christian Science, and in it her fall on the ice and her recovery were likened almost to death and resurrection, cast in the language of the gospels and complete with attending witnesses and doubters.
From our perspective, this fall on the ice can be seen as Mrs. Patterson’s acknowledgment that she had lost Quimby’s strong arm to support her and that she was floundering. Her marriage, weakened further by her wholehearted attachment to Quimby, now fell apart completely. Friendless and alone, she spent the next four years wandering from one strange household to another, often living on the charity of others and offering to pay her way by teaching the method of cure she had learned from Quimby. She seemed to be groping toward an arrangement in which she could teach healing to a partner who then would engage in the practice of it.
Her most treasured possession was a manuscript she had copied down from the rambling reflections which Quimby dictated to receptive patients. She labored over this document, writing long into the night, elaborating the idea which she had got in part from Quimby—but with her own special emphasis—that the true mission of Christ was to heal the sick and that the scriptures contained the key to this religious message. She hoped to write a concordance to the scriptures, verse by verse, illustrating this thesis.
After many unsuccessful attempts at finding someone to work with she found at last a young man, a twenty-one-year-old box-factory worker named Richard Kennedy, with whom she set up formal partnership and moved back to Lynn in May, 1870. She was to elaborate the theory and he was to do the healing and to refer to her those of his patients who might be interested in learning the method. She was forty-nine years old.
They were an immediate success. By the fall of 1870 she had assembled her first class. She required at first that a pupil pay one hundred dollars in advance for a course of twelve lectures and either 10 per cent of subsequent earnings from practice or, if the student failed to practice, a sum of one thousand dollars to make up for what would have been earned by doing so. She very shortly raised her fee to three hundred dollars, a large amount that in later years she felt obliged to justify by attributing it to divine guidance.
As a regular feature of those early teaching sessions, the group of students would gather in the apartment shared by Kennedy and Mrs. Patterson, or, as she called herself once again, Mrs. Glover. Kennedy would manipulate the head and solar plexus of each student, purportedly to put her or him into the best frame of mind to receive Mrs. Glover’s teachings. This rubbing, a vestigial practice of mesmerism, had also been used by Quimby, who found that simple explanation and exhortation were more effective when accompanied by the laying on of hands. Perhaps in Kennedy’s hands the practice was more arousing, but for whatever reason, those early students found it undesirable, inconsistent with the message their teacher was trying to inculcate, namely that there was no sensation in matter and that whatever feeling there was came from belief.
Mrs. Glover tried to convince Kennedy to give up the touching part of his practice. He was reluctant, feeling as Quimby had that it was a powerful vehicle into the patient’s sensibilities, a powerful support to his therapeutic efforts, and that without it his practice—his livelihood—would suffer. The difference between them was irreconcilable, and in April of 1872 Mrs. Glover and Richard Kennedy broke up their partnership and divided their assets. Her share was six thousand dollars, a substantial sum for those days. Another factor in their separation was that Kennedy was courting a woman of his own age; Mrs. Glover resented any personal interests that might distract her students from attention to her teachings. | <urn:uuid:6f5962cd-b049-4f3e-a66e-bb91bf99fdf1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.americanheritage.com/content/mary-baker-eddy?page=4 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00014-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.988329 | 861 | 2.609375 | 3 |
Created as one of several 21st century sculptures aimed to attract visitors to the Lancashire countryside, Halo looks like an unimpressive heap of steel during the day and an awesomely mysterious UFO at night. The 18-meter diameter steel lattice structure is supported on a tripod that's five-meters above the ground. When the sun sets, the sculpture lights up and appears to hover over the ground. The otherworldly glow, which can be seen from miles around, is created by low-energy blue LEDs that are powered by an adjacent wind turbine.
Designed by John Kennedy of LandLab, Halo has become a must-visit structure, especially for those photographers who like to pretend their witnessing an actual UFO.
Photo credit: Gareth Cooper
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Samsung Ships 1TB Internal Hard Drive for Laptops
Samsung this week announced the Spinpoint M8 internal hard drive with 1TB capacity, which could raise the bar in storage available on laptops.
The drive has two 500GB platters and is 9.5-millimeter (0.37 inches) high, so the drive can fit easily into laptop storage bays. The 5400 rpm Spinpoint M8 is priced at US$129, and available in the U.S. and Europe.
With users storing more video and images on laptops, demand for storage is rising. Most of the laptops today come with hard-drive storage capacity of up to 750GB, and some PC makers offer the option to expand storage with two slots.
Apple, for example, offers up to 750GB of storage in its MacBook Pro laptops. Dell doesn't offer storage of more than 500GB per hard drive in its Latitude business laptops. Hewlett-Packard offers 750GB of storage per slot in its Envy laptops and buyers can select two drives for a total of 1.5TB of storage on a laptop.
Companies such as Toshiba and Western Digital offer 1TB internal laptop drives, but top laptop makers are not yet offering 1TB drives as an option. Desktop hard drives with 1TB storage are now commonly available.
The Spinpoint M8 drive is denser than earlier models as it can store more data per unit area, Samsung said. The drive is also more power efficient as it carries fewer components like heads to seek and access data.
The disk is about 7 percent faster than its predecessor and uses 8 percent less power, Samsung said.
The drive operates on the 3 gigabits per second SATA interface and has 8MB buffer memory. It generates less noise and an overall redesign of the drive structure protects the disc from physical fracture and data loss, Samsung said. | <urn:uuid:9ba808d4-ed6a-4a5a-9117-6a453ac666c1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.pcworld.com/article/229867/article.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00020-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940551 | 384 | 1.539063 | 2 |
UK Horse Racing Course History
The exciting discipline of British horse racing dates back to the roman chariot racing, held at the amphitheaters in order to entertain the masses and determine the great racers then the lesser ones.
Rome was also a factor in the development of British horse racing as roman soldiers introduced the concept of horse racing to Great Britain in Yorkshire at around 200 AD, though the first formal recorded horse racing event took place in London around the end of the 12th century, in the days of Henry II.
The Different Types Of Courses
As the field of horse racing grew, the need for the UK horse courses became only natural.
Today, there are 60 horse racing courses in the UK which populate the two types of racing: National Hunt, in which horses are required to jump over obstacles referred to as hurdles, and Flat racing which present no hurdles or fences but rather a flat, clear, predetermined distance race course. Some courses are exclusively Flat, some National Hunt and some are mixed courses, hosting both types of racing. Both course types and races generate enormous activity in betting on UK horses, each contributing its different aspects of a course length, grade and conditions to the speculating of estimated winning and odds.
National Hunt Course and Race
Though considered less glamorous then the Flat race, National Hunt is still as popular. Its main season is winter, when conditions meet to allow an optimal racing experience, as the Flat race events decrease and the wet ground makes it easier jumping over the hurdles or fences and landing back on the ground. This race is more about the horse’s endurance and athletic capabilities together with its jockey’s ability to coordinate the horse for a proper hurdle jump. Also, most horses competing the race on the National Hunt horses are castrated and therefore don’t retire at the age of 4 or 5 like the flat race horses and since they have no breeding value, they are cheaper. There are 24 National Hunt horse courses in the UK alongside 18 mixed horse courses in the UK, which host both types of races.
Within the National Hunt racing category lies three types of races:
Chase: 2 to 4.5 miles long, over “fences” that must have a minimum height of 4.5 feet.
Hurdling: 2 to 3.5 miles long, over “hurdles” that must have a minimum height of 3.5 feet.
National Hunt Flat race: 1.5 to 2.5 miles long, intended for horses yet to compete in Flat or jumps race. Usually referred to as Bumper races.
Flat Course and Race
The Flat course is another type in the UK horse racing courses. It is a no obstacle course that runs over from 5 furlongs (about 1km) to over two miles. The course is usually oval and is surfaced with either natural turf or synthetic (all season) turf when natural turf is commonly used in Europe, and synthetic turf is commonly used in the US and Canada.
There are 18 Flat horse courses in the UK alongside 18 mixed horse courses in the UK, which host both types of races. The flat race is actually a series of different races which are conditions races, handicap races and classics races.
Horse Racing In the Media
As one of the most popular recreational activities in the UK, if not the most popular, horse racing in the UK is widely covered on TV, newspapers and online sources forming a rich, vast horse racing news coverage of results, going reports, statistics analysis and tips and horse racing videos for missed races or for statistics and handicapping purposes.
Betting on UK horses Racing
Both types of courses host many events throughout the year and horse betting in UK horses racing is an non separable part of the experience in and around the courses. There is a racebook to be found at any course and even online for placing bets at the comfort of your home. The courses facilities and condition have a huge effect on the final results of the race. Betting on UK horses racing should be based on the analysis of the horse’s and jockey’s performance and statistics, as well as the courses conditions. | <urn:uuid:416c569f-7f45-4c76-aca4-7885a7be7d7f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ukhorsecourses.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00011-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955081 | 857 | 2.921875 | 3 |
St. Raphael's Ruins
When John Ashurst, the heritage conservationist from Bournemouth University visited St. Raphael's recently, he described the ashlar-facing masonry as "of the finest workmanship" and the edifice itself as "the best monument of its type in Canada".
In 1970, a fire, natural in origin, consumed the church leaving only bare stone walls. The walls were later stabilized by the Ontario Heritage Foundation.
Open-air concerts were held regularly until 1992 when the fall of a single stone forced the temporary closing of the site.
In 1970 a fire consumed the church of St. Raphael's, one of the earliest Roman Catholic churches in English-speaking Canada. Fortunately the outer walls were spared and today its impressive scale and fine masonry work continue to attract the tourists to the site. The Ruins were declared a National Historic Site in 1999.
Visitors are welcome to tour the site. Gates are open during the day in the summer months with a curator on duty in July and August..
No charge but free will donations are gratefully accepted.
What's New at St. Raphael's!
Bonnie Native Glen
Memorial Plaques 2012
The Ruins Today
Policy re Weddings in the Ruins
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>Kenton O’Hara, a senior researcher in the Socio-Digital-Systems group at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, presented the keynote at the pervasive displays symposium in Porto on the topic “Social context and interaction proxemics in pervasive displays“. He highlighted the importance of the spatial relationship between the users and the interactive displays and the different opportunities for interaction that are available when looking at the interaction context.
Using examples from the medical field (operating theater) he showed the issues that arise from the need of sterile interaction and hence avoiding touch interaction and moving towards a touchless interaction mode. A prototype, that uses a Microsoft Kinect sensor, allows the surgeon to interact with information (e.g. an x-ray image) while working on the patient. It was interesting to see that gestural interaction in this context is not straightforward, as surgeons use tools (and hence have their hands not free) or gesture as a part of the communication in the team.
Another example is a public space game; there are many balls on a screen and a camera looking at the audience. Users can move the balls by body movement based on a simple edge detection video tracking mechanism and when two balls touch they form a bigger ball. Kenten argues that “body-based interaction becomes a public spectacle” and interactions of an individum are clearly visible to others. This visibilility can lead to inhibition and may reduce the motivation of user to interact. For the success of this game the designing of the simplistic tracking algorithms is one major factor. By tracking edges/blobs the users can play together (e.g. holding hands, parents with the kids in their arm) and hence a wide range of interaction proxemics are supported. He presented some further examples of public display games on BBC large screens, also showing that the concept of interaction proxemics can be use to explain interaction .
TVs have change eating behavoir. More recent research in displays in the context of food consumptions have been in contrast mainly pragmatic (corrective, problem solving). Kenton argued that we look at the cultural values of meals and see shared eating as a social practice. Using the example of eating in front of the television (even as a family) he discusses the implications on communication and interaction (basically the communication is not happening). Looking at more recent technologies such as phones, laptops and tablets and their impact on social dynamics probably many of us realized that this is impacting many of us in our daily lives already (or who is not taking their phone to table?). It is very obvious that social relationships and culture changes with these technologies. He showed “4Photos” a designed piece of technology to be put on the center of the table showing 4 photographs. Users can interact with it from all sides. It is designed in a way to stimulate rather than inhibit communication and to provide opportunities for conversation. It introduces interaction with technologies as a social gesture.
Interested in more? Kenton published a book on public displays in 2003 and has a set of relevant publications in the space of the symposium.
Martijn ten Bhömer, John Helmes, Kenton O’Hara, and Elise van den Hoven. 2010. 4Photos: a collaborative photo sharing experience. In Proceedings of the 6th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Extending Boundaries (NordiCHI ’10). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 52-61. DOI=10.1145/1868914.1868925 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1868914.1868925
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Several privacy watchdogs, including the Office of the Irish Data Protection Commissioner, question the social network’s planned changes to user privacy.
Concern from privacy watchdogs comes after Facebook announced its decision to revoke member rights to vote on privacy policies.
Previously, Facebook users were able to give feedback and influence changes that Facebook made to the site.
However, the company said in a statement that this voting system "incentivised the quantity of comments over their quality."
"We're proposing to end the voting component of the process in favor of a system that leads to more meaningful feedback and engagement," said Facebook in a statement.
The company also announced it will be combining personal information from Instagram and Facebook which has raised privacy concerns among data protection watchdogs.
The move by Facebook has resulted in EPIC, the Center for Digital Democracy and the Office of the Irish Data Protection Commissioner to propose changes to the new policy.
"We have sought and received clarifications on a number of aspects and have outlined our position in relation to what consent will be required for aspects of the policy," a spokesperson from the Data Protection Commissioner told The Telegraph.
Facebook recently passed audits by the privacy watchdog at the end of 2011 and was even commended in September this year for implementing most of the recommendations proposed to guard user personal data.
However, the company is again under scrutiny again by the privacy group to modify its recent changes.
"Facebook Ireland has understood this position and we expect the proposed data use policy to be modified to take account of these issues," said the Office of the Irish data protection commissioner.
The Center for Digital democracy and EPIC also sent Facebook a letter to withdraw its planned changes because they "raise privacy risks for users, may be contrary to law and violate previous commitments to users about site governance."
The privacy groups pointed out that Facebook's new changes go against an agreement made with the Federal Trade Commission on user privacy.
"Facebook's proposed changes implicate the user privacy and the terms of a recent settlement with the Federal Trade Commission." read the letter. "The settlement prohibits Facebook from misrepresenting the extent to which it maintains the privacy or security of covered information."
"Additionally, prior to any sharing of users' personal information with a third party, Facebook must make a clear and prominent disclosure and obtain the affirmative express consent of its users."
Facebook's new policies will also remove user ability to prevent strangers from sending them unwanted messages which raises concerns for spam and Facebook scams.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. embassy in Tripoli, Libya requested — and received — a four-month extension of a 16- member security team, a February request that showed just how dangerous the situation in the country had become for American diplomats.
The commander of the security team, Lt. Col. Andrew Wood, told ABC News that slain U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens had wanted the team to stay even longer — past the end of its extended deployment in August. But the State Department said a request for a second extension was never made.
Stevens and three other Americans were killed in an attack on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, Libya on Sept. 11. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is preparing for a hearing Wednesday on whether the State Department refused repeated requests for more security in Benghazi. The memo was obtained from a government official who insisted on anonymity because he was not authorized to release the document.
The State Department will send two officials to testify at the hearing, and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has named an agency review board to determine whether security was lax. The FBI also is investigating the attacks, which Obama administration officials initially described as a spontaneous protest but now acknowledge was an act of terrorism.
A senior State Department official said that after the team remained through August, it was replaced by an equal number of personnel with the same skill sets.
Had the security support team still been in Tripoli at the time of the attack in Benghazi, it wouldn’t have made any difference, said the official, who requested anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to be quoted on the subject.
“They had nothing to do with Benghazi, zero,” the official said. “They were based in Tripoli and they were not a quick reaction force jetting around the country.”
While the February memo referred to conditions in Tripoli, the description also generally described the security situation in Libya.
“Overall security conditions continue to be unpredictable, with large numbers of armed groups and individuals not under control of the central government, and frequent clashes in Tripoli and other major population centers,” the memo said.
The memo added, “Until these militias are off the streets and a strong national police force is established, we will not have a reliable host government partner that is capable of responding to the embassy’s security needs.
“It is likely that we will need to maintain a heightened security posture for the foreseeable future.”
The February memo said the 16-member team was an integral part of the mobile and fixed site security protections. The team’s duties beyond securing diplomatic facilities included training local guards, being a quick response force, and providing medical support, communications, and disposal of explosives.
The force also supplied security for visits from government officials, including deployment of 13 of the 16 members for a congressional delegation led by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.
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Sometimes life gives you lemons, in my case- Meyer lemons. I’ve been SOOO smitten that the 2 meyer lemon trees I planted about a year ago have been producing a ton of fruit. When I can grown anything without killing it, I’m ecstatic- and even my neighbors, who used to own a nursery, were shocked at how fruitful my two little Meyer lemon trees have been.
I didn’t really care to make pie or cake with them, I thought Preserved Lemons would be the best idea for making sassy marinades and boy was I right. They’re also great for adding to things like icecream and making salad dressing or even salsas. When I post my Meyer Lemon and Rosemary spatchcocked chicken recipe it is going to knock your socks off!
Facts about Meyer Lemons: Meyer Lemons come from China and are a cross between a lemon and a mandarin orange. It was brought to the US by Frank Meyer, a USDA employee, who collected a sample in 1908 on a trip to China. The fruit is less acidic with thinner skin than traditional Eureka Lemons.
So how to make Preserved Meyer Lemons? All you need are sterilized jars, lemons and kosher or sea salt.
Rinse the lemons well- scrub them so the skins are very clean. Next, sterilize your jar (I sterilized mine in the dishwasher on high heat setting). Cut the stem and very tip end off the lemons. Next, quarter the lemons (slice in half, then slice almost to the end but where the pieces are still attached at the end). Rub salt inside the lemon and out. Put a tablespoon of salt on the bottom of the jar and add a lemon. Repeat with more salt, and lemons until you are almost to the top. You want the salt and juice to mix so you have a very juicy mixture almost to the top of the jar. Add salt or lemon juice as necessary.
Let the jar sit out on the counter for 3 days and shake it every so often so that the salt/lemon/juice mixture is uniform.
Put in the refrigerator for the remaining time- the lemons will be ready to use after 3 weeks. When using the lemons, rinse them off before using them.
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Following are three perspectives on Media Ecology by noted scholars in this discipline: (1) Lance Strate, (2) Christine Nystrom and (3) Neil Postman.
An Overview of Media Ecology (Lance Strate)
It is the study of media environments, the idea that technology and techniques, modes of information and codes of communication play a leading role in human affairs.
Media ecology is the Toronto School, and the New York School. It is technological determinism, hard and soft, and technological evolution. It is media logic, medium theory, mediology. It is McLuhan Studies, orality–literacy studies, American cultural studies. It is grammar and rhetoric, semiotics and systems theory, the history and the philosophy of technology. It is the postindustrial and the postmodern, and the preliterate and prehistoric.
—Lance Strate, “Understanding MEA,” In Medias Res 1 (1), Fall 1999.
What is Media Ecology? (Christine Nystrom)
It is, by now, almost a commonplace to remark that the 20th century is an era of change, of change unprecedented in its scope, its pace, and its potential for violent effects on the fabric of civilization.
- For Kenneth Boulding, the changes which have taken place since 1900 are of such enormous significance that he marks the 20th century as the turning point in what he calls “the second great transition in the history of mankind”—that is, the transition from “civilization” to “post-civilization.” According to Boulding, the impetus for that transition is provided by a radical shift in what he calls man’s “image” of reality.
- Thomas Kuhn refers to the same kind of radical shift as a revolution in paradigms; Pierre Teilhard de Chardin calls it a change in the noösphere; Ervin Laszlo, Ludwig von Bertalanffy, and others call it simply a shift in man’s world view.
- What each is referring to is an epochal change in the status, organization, and application of knowledge.
One of the consequences of the change to which Boulding and others refer, or, better perhaps, one of its hallmarks, is a movement away from the rigidly compartmentalized, uncoordinated specialization in scientific inquiry which characterized the Newtonian world, and a movement toward increasing integration of both the physical and the social sciences.
- One of the symptoms of this trend is the proliferation, in recent years, of “compound” disciplines such as mathematical biochemistry, psychobiology, linguistic anthropology, psycholinguistics, and so on.
- Another is the emergence of new fields of inquiry so broad in their scope that the word “discipline,” suggesting as it does some well-bounded area of specialization, scarcely applies to them at all. Rather, they are perspectives, moving perhaps in the direction of metadisciplines.
One such perspective, or emerging metadiscipline, is media ecology—broadly defined as the study of complex communication systems as environments.
As a perspective, metadiscipline, or even a field of inquiry, media ecology is very much in its infancy.
Media ecologists know, generally, what it is they are interested in—the interactions of communications media, technology, technique, and processes with human feeling, thought, value, and behavior—and they know, too, the kinds of questions about those interactions they are concerned to ask. But media ecologists do not, as yet, have a coherent framework in which to organize their subject matter or their questions. Media ecology is, in short, a preparadigmatic science.
—Christine Nystrom, Towards a Science of Media Ecology: The Formulation of Integrated Conceptual Paradigms for the Study of Human Communication Systems, Doctoral Dissertation, New York University (1973).
What is Media Ecology? (Neil Postman)
Media ecology looks into the matter of how media of communication affect human perception, understanding, feeling, and value; and how our interaction with media facilitates or impedes our chances of survival.
The word ecology implies the study of environments: their structure, content, and impact on people.
An environment is, after all, a complex message system which imposes on human beings certain ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving.
- It structures what we can see and say and, therefore, do.
- It assigns roles to us and insists on our playing them.
- It specifies what we are permitted to do and what we are not. Sometimes, as in the case of a courtroom, or classroom, or business office, the specifications are explicit and formal.
In the case of media environments (e.g., books, radio, film, television, etc.), the specifications are more often implicit and informal, half concealed by our assumption that what we are dealing with is not an environment but merely a machine.
Media ecology tries to make these specifications explicit.
It tries to find out what roles media force us to play, how media structure what we are seeing, why media make us feel and act as we do.
Media ecology is the study of media as environments.
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The basic idea is that the dao or saber has only one sharp edge and is slightly curved. Jian or sword by contrast is straight and both edges are sharpened. Sabers come in considerable variety. Mostly we see a fairly thick and rigid one often referred to as Mongolian broadsword. Somewhat rarer in the US are the ones the Yangs use, shaped somewhat like an old-fashioned butter knife with an s-shaped hand-guard. Even these come in various levels of cost, thickness, weight, sturdiness and detail. Whatever you use should be balanced and have a saber tassel or cloth. I recommend you consult with your teacher about buying equipment like sabers and swords. | <urn:uuid:1e598a02-0f60-475e-807d-cbd22f46b634> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.yangfamilytaichi.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=4194 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972369 | 145 | 1.820313 | 2 |
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A buddy of mine and I decided to take a sporadic little trip up to see our friend in Boston. The weather as we were landing was far from perfect so we slowly decended through the thick cloud cover. You could hardly see anything, but for a fraction of a second some sunshine shone through just right and made a complete circlular rainbow as it cast the plane's shadow right at the center. A buddy of mine later told me it is called a "glory" and is most often seen in airplanes, hence the title, "Glory of the Pilot." Nature is impressive eh?
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Recently we have managed to get a class set of 32 Chromebooks to trial in our school. These were acquired through Ian Nairn at C-Learning (http://c-learning.net/) and are free to schools for a few weeks. We got ours two weeks before Christmas so we’re half-way through so far and I thought it would make sense to give a quick update of what we’ve been doing. This post will attempt to cover an explanation of Chromebooks, how to manage them and then how to use them.
What is a Chromebook?
Firstly, let me explain a bit about the Chromebooks. These are laptop-sized devices that work mainly online. Their sole purpose is to use the tools available on the internet but there are a few that will work offline too. They work using apps and these can be installed in seconds.
So this means that apps have a few different meanings:
Phone – an app is a small piece of software that you install on your phone such as Angry Birds
Chrome/Chromebooks – an app is a small piece of software that you install into your web browser, but these aren’t linked to your phone, even if you have a Google-powered Android phone
Google Apps – This is the name given to the suite of tools comprising of Sites, Docs, Mail etc.
Confused? It does make sense after a while, honest.
In essence, the Chromebook doesn’t have a hard drive to install Windows on and there’s no Microsoft Office, instead it uses Google’s Chrome Operating System (OS) and it boots up in around ten seconds. I was once using one of these in a hotel, it took longer for the hotel TV to switch on then it did for the Chromebook, but anyway…
Managing the devices
Once loaded, you log-in using a Google account and you’re then online. Every child in my school has a Google account because we use Google Apps, but these devices all come with one shared account anyway, so you don’t even need to make a new one. Obviously with a shared account comes shared email and stuff so, so the preference would be for an account per child.
Also if you are using Google Apps, there is a management panel which gives you extra power over the device. One thing that you can set it the homepage when they load. We found it difficult once logged in as we were just given Google.co.uk as the starting page. My children wanted the school website, with their familiar link page, so we added this via the management panel.
So the children can get from powered-off to the school website in around a minute. This is great, as with our netbooks this time was around 5 minutes. Logging-off takes about 5 seconds compared to the 5 minutes with netbooks.
What about actually using them?
The children loved them. We tried loads of different tools straight away such as Bug Club, Purple Mash, BrainPOP and anything else we can think of. We found that Wordle didn’t work as there seems to be an issue with Java, but Flash works fine.
In a normal lesson, the netbooks are brilliant and I love them. I can get them switched on while I am doing the input and then by the time I’ve finished, they are ready to use. But with the Chromebooks, I am now using them in short sessions. For example we have a 25minute Guided Reading slot and the Chromebooks have been used every time for Bug Club or as a writing opportunity using the 100 Word Challenge. The instant-on is great. The battery also lasts for 8 hours and they charge in around 90 minutes too.
What about cost?
The devices we have are the more expensive ones, but I went to PC World and looked and found some for £229 each. Even with £20 for the management per device, this is still under £250 for a great bit of kit. That is also without trying to haggle or ask for discount too. Also, it includes VAT. Note that the cheaper Acer ones are different, they do have a hard-drive, and also less battery time.
That’s the great thing about technology at the moment, instead of being sold some obscure “made-for-schools” laptop or generic Dell/HP PC from a company, we can just pop to PC World and try them for ourselves. When we bought our Blackberry I spent an hour there testing it with everything I could think of and I did the same with the Chromebook, spending around half an hour fiddling and playing.
and the drawbacks?
There are some negatives to using Chromebooks. They are reliant on the web. You need a good wireless with a decent network behind it. We have that so it isn’t an issue. There are some tools that I would miss if I went 100% Chromebooks. We wouldn’t be able to use 2DIY or 2Create a Super Story, you would lose tools such as Scratch (although that is going online soon), Kodu and tools for movie-editing. But think about your curriculum, how much of it could be done on a device like this and how much needs a “proper” laptop/PC? If I bought a set of Chromebooks and they were used solely for research, Google Docs/sites and tools like Prezi and Popplet, I think I would be happy. These are all tools we use already, but the Chromebooks would make it easier.
There isn’t an option to connect them to the network so they won’t be accessing any shared drives or anything, so saving is all done in the cloud. We also haven’t managed to get them connected to a printer, but then I also haven’t tried that hard either.
We also haven’t tried these with Key Stage 1 yet, mainly because we got them in the CRAZY Christmas period…so we will try that next week.
For more on Chromebooks, check @frogphilp’s post here - As he says, they can be a little dull. Everything just works and at the end of the day, isn’t that what you want in school? Technology that works seamlessly and with minimal staff training? I’d rather spend time training staff how to use Google Docs than how to use the equipment in front of them. Here is another post from Guy Shearer.
We still have two weeks of playing to go, but so far? I love them.
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Computer baby joins teen pregnancy fight
Freeport News Reporter
A computerized baby will be the key weapon to combat teen pregnancy on Grand Bahama and throughout The Bahamas, it was revealed yesterday. Past president of Southeast Nassau Rotary Club Peter Goudie and Sabrina Russell-Skinner of the Ministry of Education, Health and Family Life unveiled Baby Think It Over Inc., a program of Realityworks, a United States company that uses experiential learning technology to educate and reduce the impact of teen pregnancy through the use of interactive technology to the Rotary Club of Freeport.
Realityworks manufactures RealCare Baby II, an infant simulator with sophisticated engineering designed with lifelike baby features that sounds, responds and acts like a real baby.
Goudie hopes to raise funds through the efforts of Rotary Clubs here on Grand Bahama to have the infant simulators introduced into the government school system both on the island and countrywide as a part of family life and planning programs within the high schools.
"We first got ourselves involved with Bahamas Family Planning long before we met Sabrina.
"We learnt about the program through Kent Clause who first heard about it at a Rotary Conference in St. Croix by a St. Thomas Rotarian who told him about the baby project.
"Kent came to me and told me about it saying that we have got the ultimate family planning tool (through this program) but we had to raise money to fund it and we did.
According to Goudie since the program was implemented in schools in Nassau there has been much success.
The infant simulators are given to students to take care of over the weekend at home as a part of their family life class studies.
Each student is outfitted with a tamper resistant bracelet that is uniquely designed to work solely with the preprogrammed infant they are given.
Both boys and girls have to take the infant home and provide the necessary care it needs without the assistance of their parents or anyone else.
The students are required to respond to the infant's needs, as a normal parent would be expected to. Students must get up change and feed the infant, hold the baby correctly and calm the baby if it is fussy.
The infant's intricate mak-eup records every second of care or lack of care given to it and at the end of the program students are required to write about their experience with the infant simulator.
Goudie asked the Rotarians to ensure that they support the program completely once the funding is raised and the simulators are introduced and utilized in the schools.
He asked the Rotarians to talk to the students, encourage them as they go along in the program and he is certain there would be a reduction in teen pregnancy and the strain it could have, not only on the teen and their family but society in general.
"Through this program we know we have made a dent because at one time when we first got involved, the illegitimate birth rate in this country was 70 percent.
"That is huge! Now it is down to under 60 percent.
"We do have reports that the illegitimate birth rate in people under 19 years old is down significantly.
"So obviously there is an impact being made whether it is due to all that we have done or the joint effort with what is being done in the classes in the schools," Goudie said.
Each one of the infants cost $700 and Goudie is of the fervent belief that if a person can spend $700 on a baby and that could prevent a pregnancy, this could very well allow one young lady to complete her schooling, receive a proper education, break the cycle of teen pregnancy that might have been a pattern within her family for generations, produce a productive citizen and social services would not be burdened with the bill to facilitate the need of the child.
"The main thing is the awareness factor is there, whether it gets to every one of them, you can only try," said Goudie.
This program is very important and apart from causing a significant reduction in teen pregnancy it could very well help steer teens in the direction to abstain from any form of sexual activity.
Russell-Skinner noted that the program is only being used in the government system for now but she hopes family planning classes will soon be made mandatory across the board for young students and adults as well.
"At this time the focus of this will be on the Grade 8 students, so all of the junior high schools will be targeted with this program," she declared.
Russell-Skinner explained that eighth grade students were chosen to use the infant simulators because seventh graders would just be introduced to the high school system and would be trying to make the adjustment from having just one teacher in the primary schools system to now having more than one class to go to and teacher to deal with.
"By Grade 8 the students would be a bit more settled and able to participate in the program without having too many distractions and they would not be pressured as they would be in the ninth grade with having to study for the BJC examinations," Russell-Skinner said.
The number of infant simulators expected to be utilized in the schools here is unknown at this time but Russell-Skinner said, "We have discovered that we can at least work with 10 babies per class as is the case in Nassau and it is our hope to have the same reflected in all the schools here on Grand Bahama." Principal of PACE Shirley Butler who was in attendance at the Rotary meeting said, "I applaud the efforts of Realityworks and I am an advocate of anything that is a deterrent to teen pregnancy.
"I hope this continues and that they are able to bring this to the Family Islands particularly Grand Bahama."
Parents are entreated to learn about and support the program and talk with their children as well.
For many parents it is still taboo to discuss sex and all it entails but parents are asked to move away from that frame of thinking and be frank with their children as it regards sex education.
Sexual abstinence is still the 100 percent best way to prevent unwanted pregnancy and possibly being infected with sexually transmitted diseases or infections and if persons feel that they cannot abstain all are asked to use condoms.
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The pre-conclave era has its first bumper crop, unsolicited advice for the new pontiff and the Church. Following the laws of supply and demand, the value of this crop is diminished by its very abundance. As such, I am reticent to throw my golden nugget onto the pile of leaden advice, yet I must.
I have no advice on what geographical region from whence the new Pope should ascend, nor do I care about the color of his skin. I don't know if charisma need be among his charisms. I would not presume to tell the future pontiff or the cardinal-electors what should be the focus of his pontificate.
Orthodoxy aside, there is one thing and one thing only that I would ask from our new pontiff. Holy Father, when you die, you must die as Pope.
While I have no doubt that Pope Benedict renounced the Petrine ministry with a great deal of discernment, prayer, and with the best interests of the Church foremost in his mind, a repeat performance by his successor would begin a very dangerous trend.
Moreover, I would strongly suggest that the new Pontiff make it clear early in his pontificate that he will not abdicate his ministry but in the case of complete and permanent incapacitation.
To do otherwise runs the risk that all future pontiffs will face immense pressure, both internally and externally, to abdicate at a certain age or perceived levels of vivaciousness. This would be a horrific development for the papacy.
The vivacious Father Rutler warns "In an age of dangerously limited attention spans and fickle loyalties, there is a danger of proposing that popes last only as long as people want them." Seconded.
Under normal circumstances and particularly during the waning years of a pontificate, the Vatican bureaucracy can stifle, impede, and frustrate. With internal and external pressure to abdicate, this effect could be magnified to the point where bureaucratic tarry becomes termination.
In effect, pressure to abdicate when a Pope's energy diminishes proportionately increases the energy needed to overcome these obstacles. The expectation of abdication can create a lame duck Pontiff, which in turn increases the likelihood of abdication. The net effect is exactly what Fr. Rutler warns against, that Popes last only as long as people want them.
So my advice to the future Pope is simple. Make it clear early and often that as long as your are able to blink instructions in Morse code, you will not be leaving the Papacy by any means other than sarcophagus. If Popes do not leave town in a coffin, they will eventually be driven out on a rail. | <urn:uuid:a9d3f49f-dedc-4385-a112-bfbae39d95ca> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ncregister.com/blog/pat-archbold/the-pope-must-die | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00052-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959535 | 561 | 1.578125 | 2 |
A Brief History
More than 200 years ago, Congress enacted the Judiciary Act of 1789, directing the President of the United States to appoint in each federal district "a meet person learned in the law to act as an attorney for the United States." This person - the United States Attorney - was "to prosecute in (each) district all delinquents for crimes and offenses cognizable under the authority of the United States, and all civil actions in which the United States shall be concerned."
Soon after the passage of the Judiciary Act, President George Washington appointed 13 distinguished men to fill these new posts in the newly created federal judicial districts. Writing to the first United States Attorney for the District of New York, Washington noted that "[t]he high importance of the judicial system in our national government makes it an indispensable duty to select such characters to fill the several offices in it as would discharge their respective duties in honor to themselves and advantage to their country."
In 1820, the President was given authority to designate a Treasury official to oversee the activities of the United States Attorneys. The Congress created the position of the Solicitor of the Treasury in 1830 and empowered him to have control over all United States Attorneys. In 1861, the United States Attorneys began to work under the direction of the Attorney General of the United States. The Attorney General's full supervisory authority was cemented in 1870 with the creation of the United States Department of Justice.
Before the Civil War, the United States Attorneys prosecuted only those offenses specified in the Constitution, such as piracy, counterfeiting and treason. Congress has since added many federal offenses by statute.
Today, there are 94 federal districts served by 93 United States Attorneys. Two Presidents of the United States have served as United States Attorney: Andrew Jackson was the first United States Attorney for the District of Tennessee and Franklin Pierce served as the United States Attorney for the District of New Hampshire.
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I totally agree with Abiding, I totally disagree with Abiding. His life/death changed everything. His life/death changed nothing. The intent of His life/death to happen started in the Garden of Eden when, without the shedding of blood there is no redemption, with the sacrifice of those animals God slaughtered to cover Adam and Eve. Everything, everything between then and His actual life and death was only a shadow and temporary as we waited for Him.
It should also be noted that no one, no one waited 400 years to come up with the "idea" that Gentile Christians didn't have to have sacrifices, circumcision, and the 613 laws. Philippians noted above was written in 60 AD. All of Paul's writings (the New Testament) was written before 67-8 AD. The Early Church Fathers were prolific writers, and I mean early. Polycarp, who was a disciple of John, one of the 12, his disciple Iraneus, or Ignatius, and Hippoletius (sp?) all wrote extensively, and none, repeat NONE of them ever promoted the "idea" that the sacrifices, circumcision, and/or the 613 law should be kept, in fact the exact opposite is true. And we've only covered the the time up until the year 150.
Hebrews a book written to Jews at large, to those who did practice the sacrifices, circumcision, and the 613 laws, in 68 AD tell us some things about this. Note: that is practicing one of the principals of Hermeneutics, the Historical Principal noting the people, time, to get an understanding of how they would receive the text.
Chapter 4 notes Jesus as our High Priest.
In Chapter 5 the author notes that Jesus, of the line of Judah, not Levy, the Priestly line, who, therefore has no claim, in the Levitical priesthood, under the Torah Law, to offer sacrifices, is of the order of Melchizedek who is outside and before the Law. Meaning Jesus not only can, but is a High Priest, so He is able to offer sacrifices, namely Himself.
Heb 7:11 If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?
Heb 7:12 For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.
Heb 7:13 For he of whom these things are spoken pertaineth to another tribe, of which no man gave attendance at the altar.
Heb 7:14 For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Juda; of which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood.
Heb 7:15 And it is yet far more evident: for that after the similitude of Melchisedec there ariseth another priest,
Heb 7:16 Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life.
Heb 7:17 For he testifieth, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
Heb 7:18 For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof.
Heb 7:19 For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.
Heb 7:20 And inasmuch as not without an oath he was made priest:
Heb 7:21 (For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said unto him, The Lord sware and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec:)
Heb 7:22 By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.
Heb 7:23 And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death:
Heb 7:24 But this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood.
Heb 7:25 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.
Heb 7:26 For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
Heb 7:27 Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.
Heb 7:28 For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son, who is consecrated for evermore.
Heb 8:6 But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
Heb 8:7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.
Heb 8:8 For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:
Heb 8:9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.
Heb 8:10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
Heb 8:11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.
Heb 8:12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
Heb 8:13 In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.
Heb 9:8 The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing:
Heb 9:9 Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;
Heb 9:10 Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.
Heb 9:11 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;
Heb 9:12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
Heb 9:13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:
Heb 9:14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Heb 9:15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
Heb 9:16 For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.
Heb 9:17 For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.
Heb 9:18 Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood.
Heb 9:19 For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people,
Heb 9:20 Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you.
Heb 9:21 Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry.
Heb 9:22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
Heb 9:23 It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
Heb 9:24 For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:
Heb 9:25 Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;
Heb 9:26 For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
Heb 10:1 For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
Heb 10:2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.
Heb 10:3 But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.
Heb 10:4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
Heb 10:5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:
Heb 10:6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.
Heb 10:7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
Heb 10:8 Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;
Heb 10:9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
Heb 10:10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Heb 10:11 And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:
Heb 10:12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;
Heb 10:13 From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.
Heb 10:14 For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.
Heb 10:15 Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,
Heb 10:16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
Heb 10:17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
Heb 10:18 Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
All this was spoken to people who lived their lives around all this and understood what they meant, and into that comes the above. I'm sure they stood agast at this, and in the face of all that, and possible death for this stance, the author spoke truth.
One question you need to ask yourself is, have your received remission of your sins? If you have then Heb. 10: 18 says "...there is no more offering for sin." That's pretty emphatic and plain, don't put any ifs, ands, or buts in there. That would be the Grammical Principal of Hermeneutics. (O and that's not questioning your salvation, just making a point)
The covenant which brought about the sacrifices, circumcision (for the nation which pointed to the covenant made with Abraham), and the 613 laws, was instituted at Mt. Sinai. As you have been reading in Lev. then you should understand what I'm referring to, which was made between God and a people, which was/is a nation, the Jewish Nation. With that in mind Paul addresses Mt. Sinai:
Gal 4:20 I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you.
Gal 4:21 Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
Gal 4:22 For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.
Gal 4:23 But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.
Gal 4:24 Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.
Gal 4:25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
Gal 4:26 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
Gal 4:27 For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.
Gal 4:28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.
I've probably overstayed my welcome already, but there is a bunch more to say and point out, more Hermeneutics to unveil, but space is growing rather long, in Acts, and Romans, not to mention "Covenants". It's great that you are reading through Lev. but remember this:
Gal 3:21 Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.
Gal 3:22 But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.
Gal 3:23 But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
Gal 3:24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
Gal 3:25 But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster
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People of India including the people of Bihar have innate talents and qualities which became dusty under the foreign rule which discredited the Indian institutions and Indian thoughts process in order to perpetuate their own policies and thinking with a view to exploiting the Indian resources.
Under an independent regime, the innate qualities and though processes of Indians including those in Bihar are coming to the surface shaking the dust which was settled on it and have demonstrated the world that India can became a resurgent economic power and also be an engine for re-odering the world thought process for the good of humanity.
All these energies have to garnered and gathered with able and adept leadership who understads the indegenous psyche of India and its grass-roots and makes everyone an essential partner in development.
It is a great hope for India that a person who rose from abysmal poverty can change destinies given the right environment and right initiatives and Lalu Prasad has amply demostrated the same. Lalu Prasad symbolises social justice and is a virtual mirror image of the down-trodden. | <urn:uuid:ca7a9b54-4156-490d-908f-ba5d5564c31e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewwork.asp?AuthorID=90935&id=28238 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00062-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964381 | 219 | 2.0625 | 2 |
CHAPTER XIX. GROWTH OF THE COUNTRY, 1789-1805
Eli Whitney was born in 1765, and while still a lad showed great skill in making and handling tools. After graduating from Yale College, he went to reside in the family of General Greene, who had been given a plantation by Georgia. While he was making the first cotton gin, planters came long distances to see it, and before it was finished and patented some one broke into the building where it was and stole it. In 1794 he received a patent, but he was unable to enforce his rights. After a few years, South Carolina bought his right for that state, and North Carolina levied a tax on cotton gins for his benefit. But the sum he received was very small.
James Rumsey, as early as 1785, had experimented with a steamboat on the Potomac, and about the same time John Fitch built one in Pennsylvania, and succeeded so well that in 1786 and in 1787 one of his boats made trial trips on the Delaware. Later in 1787 Rumsey ran a steamboat on the Potomac at the rate of four miles an hour.
Not the Indiana of to-day, but the great region including what is now Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and half of Michigan and Minnesota. The settlements were Mackinaw, Green Bay, Prairie du Chien, Cahokia, Belle Fontaine, L'Aigle, Kaskaskia, Prairie du Rocher, Fort Massac, and Vincennes. Notice that most of these names are of French origin. The governor was William H. Harrison, afterward a President.
In 1809 Illinois territory was created from the western part of Indiana territory. When the census was taken in 1810, nearly 1,000,000 people were living west of the Appalachians.
Read the scene between Napoleon and his brothers over the sale of Louisiana, as told in Adams's History of the U. S., Vol. II, pp. 33-39.
The transfer of Louisiana to France took place on November 30, 1803, and the delivery to us on December 20. Our commissioners William C. C. Claiborne and James Wilkinson met the French commissioner Laussat (lo- sah') in the hall of the Cabildo (a building still in existence, p. 243), presented their credentials, received the keys of the city, and listened to Laussat as he proclaimed Louisiana the property of the United States. This ceremony over, the commissioners stepped out on a balcony to witness the transfer of flags. The tricolor which floated from the top of a staff in the Place d'Armes (now Jackson Square) was drawn slowly down and the stars and stripes as slowly raised till the two met midway, when both were saluted by cannon. Our flag was then raised to the top of the pole, and that of France lowered and placed in the hands of Laussat. One hundred years later the anniversary was celebrated by repeating the same ceremony. The Federalists bitterly opposed the purchase of Louisiana. Read McMaster's History of the People of the U. S., Vol. II, pp. 629-631. For descriptions of life in Louisiana, read Cable's Creoles of Louisiana, The Grandissimes, and Strange True Stories of Louisiana.
Both Lewis and Clark were Virginians and experienced Indian fighters. On their return Lewis was made governor of the upper Louisiana territory, later called Missouri territory; and died near Nashville in 1809. Clark was likewise a governor of Missouri territory and later a Superintendent of Indian Affairs; he died at St. Louis in 1838. He was a younger brother of George Rogers Clark.
Pennsylvania, Delaware, South Carolina, Georgia.
In Pennsylvania all free male taxpayers could vote. Georgia and Delaware gave the suffrage to all free white male taxpayers. In Vermont and Kentucky there had never been a property qualification.
In 1802, however, there was founded the United States Military Academy at West Point.
Clinton was born in 1739, took an active part in Revolutionary affairs, was chosen governor of New York in 1777, and was reflected every election for eighteen years. He was the leader of the popular party in that state, was twice chosen Vice President of the United States, and died in that office in 1812.
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Human resources managers
Human resources, training and labor relations managers and specialists workers have long been associated with performing the administrative functions of an organization, such as handling employee benefits questions and recruiting, interviewing and hiring new personnel. Today's human resources workers juggle these tasks and increasingly consult top executives on strategic planning. They have moved from behind-the-scenes staff work to leading the company in suggesting and changing policies.
In a small organization, a human resources generalist may handle any or all aspects of human resources work, requiring a broad range of knowledge.
The director of human resources may oversee several departments, each headed by an experienced manager, who most likely specializes in one personnel activity such as employment, compensation, benefits, training and development or employee relations.
Employment and placement managers oversee the hiring and separation of employees and supervise various workers, including equal employment opportunity specialists and recruitment specialists. Employment, recruitment and placement specialists recruit and place workers.
EEO officers, representative or affirmative action coordinators work in large organizations to investigate and resolve equal employment opportunity grievances, examine corporate practices for possible violations and compile and submit EEO statistical reports.
Employer relations representatives, who usually work in government agencies, maintain working relationships with local employers and promote the use of public employment programs and services.
Compensation managers and specialists establish and maintain a firm's pay system. They often oversee their firm's performance evaluation system and may design reward systems.
Employee benefits managers and specialists handle the company's employee benefits program, notably its health insurance and pension plans.
Employee assistance plan managers, also called employee welfare managers, are responsible for a wide array of programs covering occupational safety and health standards and practices; health promotion and physical fitness, medical examinations and minor health treatment; transportation programs; employee suggestion systems; child care and elder care; and counseling services.
Training and development managers and specialists conduct and supervise employee training and development programs. Training specialists plan, organize and direct a wide range of training activities designed to develop skills, enhance productivity and quality of work and build loyalty.
The director of industrial relations forms labor policy, oversees industrial labor relations, negotiates collective bargaining agreements and coordinates grievance procedures. Labor relations managers and their staff implement industrial labor relations programs.
Conciliators, or mediators, advise and counsel labor and management to prevent and, when necessary, resolve disputes over labor agreements or other labor relation's issues. Arbitrators, sometimes called umpires or referees, decide disputes that bind both labor and management to specific terms and conditions of labor contracts.
Other emerging specialists include international human resources managers, who handle human resources issues related to a company's foreign operations, and human resources information system specialists, who develop and apply computer programs to process personnel information, match job seekers with job openings and handle other personnel matters.
Many human resources, training and labor relations managers and specialists work a standard 35- to 40-hour week. Longer hours might be necessary for some workers when contract agreements are being prepared and negotiated.
Employers usually seek college graduates to fill entry-level jobs. Many prefer applicants who have majored in human resources, personnel administration or industrial and labor relations. Others look for college graduates with a technical or business background or a well-rounded liberal arts education.
Most prospective human resources specialists should take courses in compensation, recruitment, training and development and performance appraisal, as well as courses in principles of management, organizational structure and industrial psychology.
Human resources, training and labor relations managers and specialists must speak and write effectively. They must be able to cope with conflicting points of view, function under pressure and demonstrate discretion, integrity, fair-mindedness and a persuasive, congenial personality.
Overall employment of human resources, training and labor relations managers and specialists is expected to grow about as fast as the average for all occupations through 2010. Legislation and court rulings setting standards in various areas occupational safety and health, equal employment opportunity, wages, health, pension and family leave will increase demand. Employment of labor relations staff should grow as firms attempt to resolve potentially costly labor-management disputes out of court. Employers also are expected to devote greater resources to job-specific training programs.
Demand should continue to be strong among firms involved in management, consulting and personnel supply, as businesses increasingly contract out personnel functions.
Human resources training and labor relations managers and specialists held about 709,000 jobs in 2000.
Annual salary rates for human resources workers vary according to occupation, level of experience, training, location and size of the firm and whether they are union members.
Median annual earnings of human resources managers were $59,000 in 2000. Median annual earnings of training and development specialists were $40,830 in 2000. Median annual earnings of employment, recruitment and placement specialists were $36,480 in 2000. Median annual earnings of compensation, benefits and job analysis specialists were $41,660 in 2000.
For information about careers in employee training and development:
American Society for Training and Development, 1640 King St., Box 1443, Alexandria, VA 22313.
For information about careers and certification in employee compensation and benefits:
World at Work, 14040 Northsight Blvd., Scottsdale, AZ 85260.
International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans, 18700 W. Bluemound Rd., P.O. Box 69, Brookfield, WI 53008-0069.
For information about academic programs in industrial relations:
Industrial Relations Research Association, University of Wisconsin, 7226 Social Science Bldg., 1180 Observatory Dr., Madison, WI 53706.
For information about personnel careers in the health-care industry:
American Society for Healthcare Human Resources Administration, One North Franklin, 31st Floor, Chicago, IL 60606.
Adapted from the Labor Department's Occupational Outlook Handbook.
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The Gospels & Early History
I Chronicles 5-9
There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:
The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.
Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?
Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.
The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be?
Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things?
Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness.
If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?
And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.
And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judaea; and there he tarried with them, and baptized.
And John also was baptizing in Aenon near to Salim, because there was much water there: and they came, and were baptized.
For John was not yet cast into prison.
Then there arose a question between some of John's disciples and the Jews about purifying.
And they came unto John, and said unto him, Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond Jordan, to whom thou barest witness, behold, the same baptizeth, and all men come to him.
John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven.
Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him.
He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled.
He must increase, but I must decrease.
He that cometh from above is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaketh of the earth: he that cometh from heaven is above all.
And what he hath seen and heard, that he testifieth; and no man receiveth his testimony.
He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true.
For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him.
The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand.
He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.
When therefore the LORD knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John,
(Though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples,)
He left Judaea, and departed again into Galilee.
And he must needs go through Samaria.
Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour.
There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink.
(For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.)
Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.
Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.
The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?
Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?
Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again:
But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw.
Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither.
The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband:
For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly.
The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.
Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.
Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.
Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.
But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.
God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things.
Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he.
And upon this came his disciples, and marvelled that he talked with the woman: yet no man said, What seekest thou? or, Why talkest thou with her?
The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men,
Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?
Then they went out of the city, and came unto him.
In the mean while his disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat.
But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of.
Therefore said the disciples one to another, Hath any man brought him ought to eat?
Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.
And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.
And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth.
I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours.
And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman, which testified, He told me all that ever I did.
So when the Samaritans were come unto him, they besought him that he would tarry with them: and he abode there two days.
And many more believed because of his own word;
And said unto the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy saying: for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world.
Now after two days he departed thence, and went into Galilee.
For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet hath no honour in his own country.
Then when he was come into Galilee, the Galilaeans received him, having seen all the things that he did at Jerusalem at the feast: for they also went unto the feast.
So Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick at Capernaum.
When he heard that Jesus was come out of Judaea into Galilee, he went unto him, and besought him that he would come down, and heal his son: for he was at the point of death.
Then said Jesus unto him, Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe.
The nobleman saith unto him, Sir, come down ere my child die.
Jesus saith unto him, Go thy way; thy son liveth. And the man believed the word that Jesus had spoken unto him, and he went his way.
And as he was now going down, his servants met him, and told him, saying, Thy son liveth.
Then enquired he of them the hour when he began to amend. And they said unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.
So the father knew that it was at the same hour, in the which Jesus said unto him, Thy son liveth: and himself believed, and his whole house.
This is again the second miracle that Jesus did, when he was come out of Judaea into Galilee.
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In the theory of relativity, it is convenient to express results in terms of a spacetime coordinate system relative to an implied observer. In many (but not all) coordinate systems, an event is specified by one time coordinate and three spatial coordinates. The time specified by the time coordinate is referred to as coordinate time to distinguish it from proper time.
In the special case of an inertial observer in special relativity, by convention the coordinate time at an event is the same as the proper time measured by a clock that is at the same location as the event, that is stationary relative to the observer and that has been synchronised to the observer's clock using the Einstein synchronisation convention.
Coordinate time, proper time, and clock synchronization
Fuller explanation of the concept of coordinate time arises from its relationships with proper time and with clock synchronization. Synchronization, along with the related concept of simultaneity, has to receive careful definition in the framework of general relativity theory, because many of the assumptions inherent in classical mechanics and classical accounts of space and time had to be removed. Specific clock synchronization procedures were defined by Einstein and give rise to a limited concept of simultaneity.
Two events are called simultaneous in a chosen reference frame if and only if the chosen coordinate time has the same value for both of them; and this condition allows for the physical possibility and likelihood that they will not be simultaneous from the standpoint of another reference frame.
But the coordinate time is not a time that could be measured by a clock located at the place that nominally defines the reference frame, e.g. a clock located at the solar system barycenter would not measure the coordinate time of the barycentric reference frame, and a clock located at the geocenter would not measure the coordinate time of a geocentric reference frame.
For non-inertial observers, and in general relativity, coordinate systems can be chosen more freely. For a clock whose spatial coordinates are constant, the relationship between proper time τ (Greek lowercase tau) and coordinate time t, i.e. the rate of time dilation, is given by
An alternative formulation, correct to the order of terms in 1/c2, gives the relation between proper and coordinate time in terms of more-easily recognizable quantities in dynamics:
is a sum of gravitational potentials due to the masses in the neighborhood, based on their distances ri from the clock. This sum of the terms GMi/ri is evaluated approximately, as a sum of Newtonian gravitational potentials (plus any tidal potentials considered), and is represented using the positive astronomical sign convention for gravitational potentials.
Equation (2) is a fundamental and much-quoted differential equation for the relation between proper time and coordinate time, i.e. for time dilation. A derivation, starting from the Schwarzschild metric, with further reference sources, is given in Time dilation due to gravitation and motion together.
The coordinate times cannot be measured, but only computed from the (proper-time) readings of real clocks with the aid of the time dilation relationship shown in equation (2) (or some alternative or refined form of it).
Only for explanatory purposes it is possible to conceive a hypothetical observer and trajectory on which the proper time of the clock would coincide with coordinate time: such an observer and clock have to be conceived at rest with respect to the chosen reference frame (v = 0 in (2) above) but also (in an unattainably hypothetical situation) infinitely far away from its gravitational masses (also U = 0 in (2) above). Even such an illustration is of limited use because the coordinate time is defined everywhere in the reference frame, while the hypothetical observer and clock chosen to illustrate it has only a limited choice of trajectory.
Coordinate time scales
A coordinate time scale (or coordinate time standard) is a time standard designed for use as the time coordinate in calculations that need to take account of relativistic effects. The choice of a time coordinate implies the choice of an entire frame of reference.
As described above, a time coordinate can to a limited extent be illustrated by the proper time of a clock that is notionally infinitely far away from the objects of interest and at rest with respect to the chosen reference frame. This notional clock, because it is outside all gravity wells, is not influenced by gravitational time dilation. The proper time of objects within a gravity well will pass more slowly than the coordinate time even when they are at rest with respect to the coordinate reference frame. Gravitational as well as motional time dilation must be considered for each object of interest, and the effects are functions of the velocity relative to the reference frame and of the gravitational potential as indicated in (2).
There are four purpose-designed coordinate time scales defined by the IAU for use in astronomy. Barycentric Coordinate Time (TCB) is based on a reference frame comoving with the barycenter of the Solar system, and has been defined for use in calculating motion of bodies within the Solar system. However, from the standpoint of Earth-based observers, general time dilation including gravitational time dilation causes Barycentric Coordinate Time, which is based on the SI second, to appear when observed from the Earth to have time units that pass more quickly than SI seconds measured by an Earth-based clock, with a rate of divergence of about 0.5 seconds per year. Accordingly, for many practical astronomical purposes, a scaled modification of TCB has been defined, called for historical reasons Barycentric Dynamical Time (TDB), with a time unit that evaluates to SI seconds when observed from the Earth's surface, thus assuring that at least for several millennia TDB will remain within 2 milliseconds of Terrestrial Time (TT), albeit that the time unit of TDB, if measured by the hypothetical observer described above, at rest in the reference frame and at infinite distance, would be very slightly slower than the SI second (by 1 part in 1/LB = 1 part in 108/1.550519768).
Geocentric Coordinate Time (TCG) is based on a reference frame comoving with the geocenter (the center of the Earth), and is defined in principle for use for calculations concerning phenomena on or in the region of the Earth, such as planetary rotation and satellite motions. To a much smaller extent than with TCB compared with TDB, but for a corresponding reason, the SI second of TCG when observed from the Earth's surface shows a slight acceleration on the SI seconds realized by Earth-surface-based clocks. Accordingly, Terrestrial Time (TT) has also been defined as a scaled version of TCG, with the scaling such that on the defined geoid the unit rate is equal to the SI second, albeit that in terms of TCG the SI second of TT is a very little slower (this time by 1 part in 1/LG = 1 part in 1010/6.969290134).
See also
- Absolute time and space
- Introduction to special relativity
- Introduction to the mathematics of general relativity
- S A Klioner (1992), "The problem of clock synchronization - A relativistic approach", Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy, vol.53 (1992), pp. 81-109.
- S A Klioner (2008), "Relativistic scaling of astronomical quantities and the system of astronomical units", Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol.478 (2008), pp.951-958, at section 5: "On the concept of coordinate time scales", esp. p.955.
- S A Klioner (2008), cited above, at page 954.
- This is for example equation (6) at page 36 of T D Moyer (1981), "Transformation from proper time on Earth to coordinate time in solar system barycentric space-time frame of reference", Celestial Mechanics, vol.23 (1981), pages 33-56.)
- S A Klioner (2008), cited above, at page 955.
- A graph giving an overview of the rate differences (when observed from the Earth's surface) and offsets between various standard time scales, present and past, defined by the IAU: for description see Fig. 1 (at p.835) in P K Seidelmann & T Fukushima (1992), "Why new time scales?", Astronomy & Astrophysics vol.265 (1992), pages 833-838.
- IAU 2006 resolution 3, see Recommendation and footnotes, note 3.
- These differences between coordinate time scales are mainly periodic, the basis for them explained in G M Clemence & V Szebehely, "Annual variation of an atomic clock", Astronomical Journal, Vol.72 (1967), p.1324-6.
- Scaling defined in IAU 2006 resolution 3.
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