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Eat fewer calories than you burn.
Exercise more, eat less.
It sounds so easy. Both of those formulas are foolproof. Anyone who follows them will lose weight, baring some kind of medical problem. Then why is it so hard to keep that old waistline where it's supposed to be?
Because eating, many scientists contend, isn't just about eating.
Other animals, much lower on the evolutionary scale, have figured it out. Take the African cattle tick, for example. Female ticks don't have to worry about gaining too much weight, as long as the female remains a virgin. But once she crosses that point of no return, she gorges like mad, increasing her weight by ten-fold within 24 hours, according to researchers at the University of Alberta.
So, if she wants to remain slim, all the female tick has to do is remain chaste. Probably wouldn't work for humans, though. We're too caught up in the sociological aspects of eating, say scientists at a number of universities. Who we are eating with, and what kind of food seems to be socially acceptable, has more of an impact on how much we eat than feelings of hunger or fullness.
In fact, according to researchers at the University of Toronto, our biological needs have little to do with how much we eat. They've even come up with a name for it.
"Eating occurs within what we have termed a zone of biological indifference, in which the individual is neither genuinely hungry nor genuinely sated," says psychology professor Peter Herman.
A "zone of biological indifference"? Need to chew on that tidbit for awhile. Herman says we are rudderless when we are eating, paying more attention to our companions than we are to what we are eating, and thus we eat more than we really need.
Scientists at Cornell University have reached a similar conclusion. David Levitsky, professor of nutritional sciences at Cornell, says environmental cues, not biological mechanisms, are a big part of how much and what we eat. Even "feeling stuffed" doesn't shut off the appetite, he says.
Levitsky and his fellow researchers reached that conclusion after talking 12 people, average age of 31, into going on a two-week eating binge. The researchers wanted to know if after eating all that stuff, and gaining an average of five pounds, the participants in the study would cut back in the following weeks, shedding those extra pounds.
They didn't, Levitsky reported in a peer-reviewed journal, Psychology and Behavior. The participants ate just about the same as they had before stuffing themselves for two weeks.
"The study suggests that eating behavior does not normally respond to internal cues, such as physiological mechanisms involved in the regulation of body weight, but to external cues," the scientists concluded. In other words, Levitsky says, the participants ate more than they needed after the experiment, "regardless of any biological signals."
He's not suggesting that the matter is beyond our control, of course. He's saying, instead, that "environmental cues" are prime movers.
"Consistently, we find that how much people eat is in direct relation to how much they are served, the variety of foods offered and the number of people with whom they eat," says Levitsky.
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TED... is a series of short lectures on a variety of subjects that stream on the Internet, for free. That’s it, really, or at least that is all that TED is to most of the people who have even heard of it. For an elite few, though, TED is something more: a lifestyle, an ethos, a bunch of overpriced networking events featuring live entertainment from smart and occasionally famous people. Before streaming video, TED was a conference -- it is not named for a person, but stands for “technology, entertainment and design” -- organized by celebrated “information architect” (fancy graphic designer) Richard Saul Wurman. Wurman sold the conference, in 2002, to a nonprofit foundation... [which] grew TED from a woolly conference for rich Silicon Valley millionaire nerds to a giant global brand... [W]hile TED is run by a nonprofit, it brings in a tremendous amount of money from its members and corporate sponsorships. At this point TED is a massive, money-soaked orgy of self-congratulatory futurism, with multiple events worldwide, awards and grants to TED-certified high achievers... According to a 2010 piece in Fast Company, the trade journal of the breathless bullshit industry, the people behind TED are “creating a new Harvard -- the first new top-prestige education brand in more than 100 years.” Well! That’s certainly saying… something. (What it’s mostly saying is “This is a Fast Company story about some overhyped Internet thing.”) To even attend a TED conference requires not just a donation of between $7,500 and $125,000, but also a complicated admissions process in which the TED people determine whether you’re TED material... Strip away the hype and you’re left with a reasonably good video podcast with delusions of grandeur. For most of the millions of people who watch TED videos at the office, it’s a middlebrow diversion and a source of factoids to use on your friends. Except TED thinks it’s changing the world, like if “This American Life” suddenly mistook itself for Doctors Without Borders. [This analogy is far too generous to TED in my opinion --d] The model for your standard TED talk is... Drastically oversimplified explanations of complex problems. Technologically utopian solutions to said complex problems. Unconventional (and unconvincing) explanations of the origins of said complex problems. Staggeringly obvious observations presented as mind-blowing new insights. What’s most important is a sort of genial feel-good sense that everything will be OK, thanks in large part to the brilliance and beneficence of TED conference attendees. (Well, that and a bit of Vegas magician-with-PowerPoint stagecraft.)I definitely could not have said it better myself, and it's a sheer pleasure to read it, even better, to myself.
Using Technology to Deepen Democracy, Using Democracy to Ensure Technology Benefits Us All
Monday, May 21, 2012
More Righteous Delicious TED Squawk Pushback
Alec Pareene says lots of devastatingly tough and true things about TED in Salon today. Read the whole piece, but here are some choice nuggets:
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Posts tagged with 'Amazon'
For many small retailers, Amazon is an important source of customers and revenue thanks to the retail giant's Marketplace, which lets third parties hawk their wares on Amazon.com.
But some retailers selling through Amazon's Marketplace are learning the hard way that doing business through a potential competitor can be a double-edged sword with a very sharp blade.
The popularity of Google's Android may ensure that Google will play a prominent role in the smartphone market for years to come, but its future in the tablet space is anything but guaranteed.
Apple's iPad is the tablet standard, and lower-end competitors like the Kindle Fire and NOOK Tablet use forked versions of Android that Google can't control or monetize. For a variety of reasons, Google hasn't thus far been able to rely on third party manufacturers to build a killer Android tablet.
And it's unlikely to get easier for the search giant any time soon.
After lots of media attention, speculation and intrigue, ICANN today finally revealed which organizations applied for new gTLDs and which gTLDs they applied for.
All told, ICANN received 1,930 applications, well more than the 1,200-plus figure previously cited. Each applicant ponied up $185,000 per application just for the privilege of applying.
A million dollars isn't cool. You know what's cool? A billion dollars.
The words made famous by the movie that dramatized Facebook's beginnings may soon be passé in Silicon Valley, as investors clamouring to get in on funding rounds for the hottest tech startups seem increasingly willing to put their cash in at billion-dollar valuations.
Crazy? Perhaps, but Facebook's $1bn Instagram acquisition shows that big valuations don't exclude companies from the startup lottery, at least for the time being.
The latest entrant to the billion dollar club will be Pinterest, thanks to a $100m funding round led by Rakuten. The funding round puts a $1.5bn valuation on Pinterest.
The Harry Potter series is one of the most popular series of books ever written, but if you're looking for your fix of wizardry, you'll have to put your Kindle down.
That's because Harry Potter's author, J.K. Rowling, has refused to sell her books in digital format directly through companies like Amazon.
Facebook has built a multi-billion dollar ecosystem with its application platform, but much of the growth of that platform has been driven by social games created by companies like Zynga.
In an effort to help the 900m-plus Facebook users discover apps of all shapes and sizes, and create new monetization opportunities for app developers, Facebook yesterday announced the launch of its own app store, the App Center.
As large web companies are selling us on the value of big data, they are also peddling their own cloud services to help you make sense of all the information you feel compelled to process.
Just as Amazon Web Services is showing how it's changing businesses with its scalable and affordable data and analytic services, IBM has been developing its own solution with Netezza, an acquisition they made in 2010.
Thanks to Amazon's dominance, it's easy to forget that traditional bookseller Barnes & Noble (B&N) has managed to build a decent digital portfolio of its own.
In the past, that has sparked speculation that B&N would eventually spin off its NOOK division, freeing its digital business from the baggage of its brick-and-mortar business.
Thanks to testimony in the Oracle-Google lawsuit over the use of Java in Android, we now know just how high Google's hopes for Android were in 2011.
According to Google VP Andy Rubin, the search giant was looking for Android tablets to account for 33% of the tablet market last year. The good news for Google was that the launch of Amazon's Kindle Fire may have brought Google within striking distance of that figure.
Yesterday, we attended the Amazon Web Services Summit in New York where Dr Werner Vogels, CTO, Amazon, gave the keynote speech highlighting how cloud services will transform how we do business.
Though some critics think cloud services may have unforeseen challenges, Vogals somewhat salesy keynote also had representatives of companies using Amazon cloud services come to the stage to say why the cloud is enabling their businesses to do things they could never do before.
As these (and most) businesses are discovering, a data revolution is taking place. The amount of information we need to process, map and store is growing at exponential rates. So in comes cloud services.
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NEWS 13/06/2007: (Only) today we know the exact schedule for the lessons (see below).
This is the 8th Advanced School organized by the VIPS laboratory, the eighth of a series of advanced lectures on significant topics in Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, and Image Processing.
These courses are particularly addressed to PhD students, but open to all types of researchers. Each course will typically be held in at most one week and will be focused on one specific topic in order to provide a more productive interaction with the lecturer.
The maximum number of participants is limited to 50 persons. In case of a larger number of applications, priority will be given to PhD students.
This school is titled "Modeling natural signals with statistical hierarchical models". Details about the course, contents and the registration procedure are given in the following.
Modeling natural signals with statistical hierarchical models
The course will cover probabilistic inference techniques and modeling strategies that allow machine learning approaches for automatic extraction of medium level representations of natural signals. By structuring statistical generative models to mimic the structure of the real world, the models should be able to automatically adapt to audio, visual or multimodal signals during the unsupervised model fitting (learning) stage, thus providing a medium-level representation suitable for compression, transmission, search, editing, enhanced viewing experience, etc. These models are object-based, where an object can produce sounds, have a changing appearance, move and be exposed to attenuation in audio domain, illumination in video domain, and, when other objects are present, to occlusion or additive mixing in both domains. Adaptivity is the main requirement to these models. For example, the same model should be applicable to tracking a person in front of a cluttered background, and to tracking a flock of birds. The tracking task, as well as many other tasks performed jointly, such as de-noising, dynamic mosaic building or object removal as well as separating audio sources and associating them to object appearances, are all achievable as probabilistic queries, i.e., inference of the hidden variables associated to the world structure. All this should be doable using the data itself, without special application-specific initialization procedure or the separate supervised training stage.
The course will also cover modeling biological data, such as biological sequences, binding energy data, and crystal structure data, as well as one example of probabilistic inference applied to a highly refined example of sequence data: human-generated machine code.
Final Lectures Schedule - The lessons will be held in "Aula Verde", which is located in our department (see below the information on how to reach it)
200 euro for PhD and undergraduate
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Confronting death on the road (explicit)
After turning to a unique field of study -- erections -- Diane Kelly turns to an even more unique source for her research material -- roadkill.
“When you open up an animal, there is all kinds of awesome in there.”
Diane A. Kelly is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her research interests include the evolution of copulatory systems and sexual differentiation in the nervous system. She is best known for her original work on the anatomy and function of vertebrate penises, but has also written children's books, created exhibits for science museums, helped exhume a mastodon, and designed and published a pair of quirky science card games. Kelly holds a Ph.D. in Zoology from Duke University and an A.B. in Biological Sciences from the University of Chicago.
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Is this how international relations will play out in the future? Wired has an article on a new game designed by the hardline Union of Students Islamic Association in which players must rescue two Iranian nuclear experts kidnapped by the U.S. military. 'Rescue the Nuke Scientist' is apparently a response to Assault on Iran, one of the missions created by online news game developer, Kuma Games. From the story:
"n "Rescue the Nuke Scientist," U.S. troops capture a husband-and-wife team of nuclear engineers during a pilgrimage to Karbala, a holy site for Shiite Muslims, in central Iraq. Game players take on the role of Iranian security forces carrying out a mission code-named "The Special Operation," which involves penetrating fortified locations to free the nuclear scientists, who are moved from Iraq to Israel.
To complete the game successfully, players have to enter Israel to rescue the nuclear scientists, kill U.S. and Israeli troops and seize their laptops containing secret information.
Mohammad Taqi Fakhrian, a leader of the student group, told reporters, "This is our defense against the enemy's cultural onslaught". Which, you have to admit, is more interesting than the usual 'our FPS employs the Unreal 3 engine and boasts cutting edge AI".
This is not the first highly critical response to Kuma's Assault on Iran. Last year, another Iranian development team created a game named 'Counter Strike' in which you had to plant bombs on a tanker in the strait of Hormuz, thereby rendering the oil route impassable. Read more here. This too was intended as a reposte to the Kuma mission.
Thing is, the Kuma\War downloads are usually reasonably level-headed and objective - they've been designed to explore real-life conflicts and hotspots using available data as accurately as possible. They're news games, really, rather than jingositic crowd-pleasers. We're not talking America's Army here.
Still, videogames are a great form of protest - easy to distribute, fun to interact with and they garner attention on both sides of the debate.
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This year marks the eighth Clinton Global Initiative* (CGI) Annual Meeting, where movers and shakers from around the world come together in New York to make commitments and address some of the greatest enduring challenges.
Among its many successes, CGI has helped elevate girls and women to the world stage through featured programming for several years. Never before with such consistency and depth has such a major global platform put the spotlight on the needs and opportunities facing girls and women today. Leaders from Michelle Bachelet to Queen Rania have come together at CGI to raise awareness, launch new programs and celebrate successes.
Yet CGI took their own game to the next level this year by infusing a women and girls’ lens through the programming. To me, this marks a turning point in how we address this subject matter. There is value in hosting focused discussions on investing in women and girls, but you tend to attract the usual suspects – and mostly women. But by making women and girls a core part of every global development conversation, you have an opportunity to reach new people and compel people to start thinking and acting differently.
Over the next decade, the impact of women on the economy is expected to be at least as significant as that of China’s and India’s respective 1-billion-plus populations. This is just one reason why these are not “women’s issues,” but should be everyone’s priorities.
Be sure to follow the proceedings of this year’s meetings using the player below.
*APCO joined CGI in 2008. As part of our CGI Commitment to Action, APCO provides communication counsel, training and media relations support for CGI annual meetings.
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I count several popular science fiction writers as friends. I share a political/whimsey blog with one of them, Sarah Hoyt. I was visiting Sarah's personal blog, and the question of the future of nanotechnology — given the upcoming fiscal cliff — came up in the comments. Sarah was of the opinion that the technology would be delayed indefinitely. I was of the opinion that it would merely be slowed down because the cost-benefit ratio was so high and that in fact elements of nanotechnology were being adopted already. Sarah asked me to write it up, and so here I go.
The State of North Carolina touts its efforts to to promote nanotechnology. They list near-term (1 to 5 years) and long-term (20+ years) prospects. Let's just look at the near-term for a while:
Longer-lasting rechargeable batteries. The work was supported by the Lockheed Martin Advanced Nanotechnology Center of Excellence at Rice
Improved chemical & biological sensors. The work was supported by Purdue and the Purdue Research Foundation
Point-of-care medical diagnostic devices. The work was supported by the Laboratory of Physical Biology, Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China.
If you click on the links, you will find research that is being done in each area (not necessarily in North Carolina). The links are indicative but not exhaustive. There is much more going on than I would have time to look up or space to list. Even on a blog.
Well that is a general look. I have been a big Buckminster Fuller fan for a long time. I lived in his Carbondale Dome for two weeks as a guest of the owner — unfortunately, several years after Bucky had moved on. But when I was wooing the first mate, I did have the opportunity to take her there to impress her. It must have done the trick. We are still together 38 years later. Side note: There is a foundation trying to save Fuller's only dome home, the dome in Carbondale I lived in. You might want to pitch in if you can.
So let's look at Bucky Balls. This article explains how they form in nature. It only hints at possible applications by noting that the researchers used buckyballs that enclosed heavy meal atoms.
Discover Design has some very nice graphics and discusses the potential uses for buckyballs found so far. One of them is lubrication. But I couldn't find any buckyball lubricants for sale. Yet. What I did find was a Buckyball toy. Here is something with potential: crushed buckyballs dent diamonds. A bucky ball with a trapped water molecule can be used to isolate the water molecule for study. The people doing the study say that a dipole (the water molecule) trapped inside a buckyball may have electronic applications.
A close relative of the buckyball is the carbon nanotube. I have written a fair amount about research in that domain. My last look at the subject was: They are bringing back tubes.
One thing holding back the use of nanotubes is that they are relatively expensive to make. Not a significant problem for computer chips, but if you want wires five times more conductive than copper, you are going to need kilograms and megatons of the material. Researchers at Rice University believe they have an answer to that problem. A Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University (just North of Chicago) believes he has a better answer. He has started a company, Nanointegris, to explore the possibilities. Right now, they are focusing on carbon nanotube inks. They have also branched out into graphene. That has great potential for replacing the conductive indium tin oxide coating on touch screens. Indium is kind of rare, so this development has great possibilities. And they have actual products for sale.
Well Sarah (and commenter), I hope that has answered your question about the near future of nanotechnology. I think we are in a short pause between Kondratieff Waves. In my opinion, the time between waves is getting shorter, so we will not have too long to wait before the next wave takes off. My estimation is that we will see macro economic results in five to ten years. An eternity if the present economic cycle is causing you a lot of suffering but in historical terms a fraction of an eye blink.
M. Simon's e-mail can be found on the sidebar at Space-Time Productions.
Engineering is the art of making what you want from what you can get at a profit.
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Burning Question: When Will International Phone Calls Be Free?
Not anytime soon, bub. But when you eventually get your iPhone 4G, they should be included in your rate plan.
Which is weird, because it's probably been a long time since you nervously eyed the clock while on the phone with your granny in Smallville. Long distance has been all-you-can-eat since cell phones and voice-over-IP conquered the universe. But international telephony—whether landline, cellular, or Internet-based—is still a piggybank-rattling affair: Providers just can't offer dirt-cheap calls across borders.
The problem is that there's no such thing as an international telephone network. As your voice travels the lines from, say, Venice, California, to Venice, Italy, it encounters a lot of tollbooths. You pay your local provider to let you hop on the wire, and you pay a termination fee to whoever owns the network at the other end. If you cross another country's wires along the way, you have to pay them, too.
The Web, on the other hand, is, well, worldwide—and that should mean no more checkpoint charlies. Unfortunately, even if you're using VoIP, you're often calling someone who's using a traditional line. So the termination fees remain. That's why Skype calls to cellular and landline numbers can still be as expensive as $1.40 a minute. (Sucks to be you, East Timor expats.)
But if you're talking Skype to Skype, you don't pay anything. And that's the direction mobile phones are heading as well. With the explosion of wireless broadband options, cellular providers are evolving into VoIP companies. Once both ends of the conversation are on the Net, connection fees will become relics of the early modern age. "When 4G networks become ubiquitous in a couple of years, people won't be paying for overseas calling," says Christopher Collins, a networking analyst at the Yankee Group. "It'll be just another service embedded in a holistic data plan."
That will be a completely new way of doing business for cellular providers. "At that point, they'll be competing to add services," Collins says. Which means that free, unlimited international calling will just be the start. Get ready for a torrent of free services in its wake.
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A couple who say they were forced to leave their home after director Spike Lee retweeted their address to his Twitter followers has hired the Morgan & Morgan law firm to represent them.
"At this point, they have retained us to protect their interests" and their safety, attorney Matt Morgan said of Elaine and David McClain, an elderly Sanford couple in their 70s.
The couple's address was tweeted by a man who thought he had uncovered the address of George Zimmerman, a Neighborhood Watch coordinator who shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin last month.
The problem is, the address does not belong to Zimmerman but to the McClains, who have a son named William George Zimmerman who lived there in 1995 and still lives in Central Florida.
He is no relation to George Zimmerman, 28, who killed Trayvon on Feb. 26, sparking national outrage and international interest. Zimmerman has claimed self-defense and has not been arrested.
After Lee's retweet, the couple's other son says, the McClains have been forced to flee their home and live in a hotel given the rapidly spreading threats of violence against the real Zimmerman.
"At this point, they've had to move out of their home and their lives have been upended," Morgan said.
Morgan declined Wednesday to discuss any possible future litigation on the couple's behalf.
"The first thing they're hoping for is an apology and a retraction by Spike Lee," Morgan said, adding that the couple hope their story can help "heal the divide between the white and black community."
About 10 p.m. Wednesday, Lee tweeted his regrets.
"I Deeply Apologize To The McClain Family For Retweeting Their Address. It Was A Mistake. Please Leave The McClain's In Peace. Justice In Court," Lee wrote.
George Zimmerman is in hiding as the racially charged controversy grows. The New Black Panther Party recently announced a $10,000 bounty for his capture.
Susan Jacobson of the Sentinel staff contributed to this report. email@example.com or 407-420-5171
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Although December is associated with holiday joy for some, it also brings a sense of loneliness and grief.
Ever year, an Elkhart church offers support with a special service for those facing holiday depression.
The church offers the service to help anyone in the area who may dealing with the pain and grief that sometimes accompany the holidays.
For some the holidays aren't always happy whether its the loss of a loved one, facing unemployment or fighting a deadly illness.
“ think at this time of year there are many people who are grieving and are sad and one of the things this service does is recognize that,” says Darlene Eddy who attended the service.
That's why every year the First Presbyterian Church in Elkhart offers a special service called "the longest night.” Church leaders say when the days are the shortest sometimes people experience seasonal depression.
“People may feel forced to feel gay and because of what has happened in their lives they just cannot. This is a chance to be honest if the holidays are very difficult time for you,” says head pastor Steve Braden.
“I noticed several people were moved by the service and the context and the readings and I think that this is a very popular thing to attend during this time of year,” says Eddy.
Those at the service could light a candle to acknowledge the grief, courage, memories, and love they may feel at Christmas time.
The candle lighting also signifies the beginning of a new year.
This is the eleventh year for the service.
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Today marks the 100th anniversary of the arrival of my great-grandmother, Elżbieta Müller, to the United States. She soon Americanized her name to Elizabeth Miller, and the following year became Elizabeth Pater after marriage.
Elizabeth sailed on the SS President Grant, a ship of the Hamburg-American line. The ship left Hamburg, Germany, on April 3, 1909, and arrived at Ellis Island in New York City on April 16th. The passenger arrival records for 1909 include a number of details that are not found on earlier records. From Elizabeth’s arrival record, I learned the following information: She was an 18-year-old Polish dressmaker from “Zieraldow, Russia” who was able to read and write. Her nearest relative in Poland was her father, Jan Müller, in Zieraldow. Her destination was Philadelphia, PA to go to her brother, Emil Müller, at 2512 Palethorp Street. The manifest indicates she was in posession of $4, but then “None” was written over it. The record provides a physical description of her having light brown hair, gray eyes, and a height of 4’11″. Her place of birth is indicated as Zieraldow, Russia.
I take a special delight in her arrival above all other immigrant ancestors, because it is an example of one of my biggest mistakes in my genealogical research. A name like “Elizabeth Miller” is very common, so her record was rather difficult to find. There were immigrants that bore that name from Ireland, England, Russia, Poland, Germany, and Hungary. Many years ago, very early in my genealogical quest, I thought I found her record. Only to find out years later that I was wrong – and in fact, I had been tracing the incorrect family and birthplace all the while. I forget exactly what prompted me to take a second look, but I’ll never forget my reaction to finding her actual record that I discuss above…”She’s from Żyrardów?!” I knew that the “Zieraldow” on the record was merely Żyrardów misspelled. I kept repeating it to myself, smiling at my error. You see, my first surprise was that my great-grandparents were not a married couple when they “came over”. I wondered how they managed to marry the year after her arrival when my great-grandfather had been here for a few years as a young teenager. The answer? They were from the SAME TOWN – which is how I knew that “Zieraldow” was a misspelling (which I naturally proved through research as any genealogist would).
When I found this record, her real arrival record, there were several facts that confirmed or provided adequate proof that it was the correct person, including her age, father’s name, and brother’s name and address.
I noticed that the manifest had a big “X” next to her line number. That is a signal that the passenger was detained for some reason, and there may be more information available. For more information, see A Guide to Interpreting Passenger List Annotations. The key to finding the additional information is to find the manifest (on either microfilm on online records), then scroll to the very end of the records for that ship and date of arrival. At the end of the “normal” manifest listings, there is a record of detained passengers. It appears that they detained Elizabeth because she had no money to get to Philadelphia, so she had to telephone her brother for money. They discharged her from Ellis Island the following day, April 17th. I wonder what was more stressful – traveling alone to a new country, or being held overnight once she got there?
Besides my delight with this find after such a long search for the correct record, finding Elizabeth’s arrival was fun for me because she has the distinction among all of my great-grandparents and immigrant ancestors of being the only one that I met. I don’t remember the event or how many times I actually met her, but my mother tells me that Elizabeth held me on her lap on at least one occasion. To me, this knowledge gave me a more tangible “link” or connection to my immigrant ancestors. She became more than a name or a face in a fuzzy photograph – I met her, even if I was too young to remember it. My great-grandmother died in 1972 when I was five years old.
Today I commemorate her arrival to the U.S. and honor her for making that long journey alone to begin a new life in a new country. Welcome to America, Elizabeth! I am certainly glad you came.
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Syzygium malaccense, commonly known as Malay Apple, is a species of flowering tree that is native to Malaysia, Indonesia (Sumatra and Java)and Southern Vietnam. It has been introduced throughout the tropics, including many Caribbean countries such as Jamaica, Suriname, Dominican Republic, and Trinidad and Tobago. It is also known as jambu bol (Indonesian, meaning "ball guava"), Malay Rose Apple, Otaheite Cashew and Pommerac (derived from pomme Malac, meaning "Malaysian Apple" in French). Highly ambiguous terms, such as "rose apple", "water apple", "mountain apple", "pomarrosa" or "plum rose" are sometimes used for this plant or its fruit; they can refer to almost any species of Syzygium grown for its fruit. The name "Otaheite apple" is used too (in Jamaica), but should better be used for the Tahitian Apple (Spondias dulcis); "Otaheite" is an obsolete transcription of "Tahiti". Its Hawaiian name is ?ohi?a ?ai In Tonga it is known as fekika, and in Fiji, kavika.
The fruit is oblong-shaped and dark red in color, although some varieties have white or pink skin. The flesh is white and surrounds a large seed. Jam is prepared by stewing the flesh with brown sugar and ginger.
Malay apple trees thrive in tropical climates with an annual rainfall of 152 cm (60 in) or more. They can grow at a variety of altitudes, from sea level up to 2,740 m (8,990 ft). The trees themselves can grow from 12–18 m (39–59 ft) in height. They flower in early summer, bearing fruit three months afterward. In Costa Rica they flower earlier, with ripe fruit in April. They are used by coffee growers to divert birds.
In Hawaii Syzygium malaccense is called Mountain apple, and was brought to the islands by Polynesians probably 1000 to 1700 years ago. The Polynesians reached the Hawaiian islands bringing plants and animals that were important to them. Mountain apple was one of the 'canoe plants'.
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Swimmers often report smelling like chlorine along with damaged hair and dry, itchy skin. Dr. Andrew Chadeayne solved these problems with a new patent-pending vitamin C formulation called SwimSpray.
Arlington, VA (PRWEB) January 18, 2013
Swimmers smell like chlorine. Each day about 1000 Twitter users discuss their chlorine problems. These problems are often referred to as chlorine burn, chlorine itch, chlorine rash, or chlorine allergy. But, according to Dr. Andrew Chadeayne, all of these problems arise from swimmers general failure to effectively wash the chlorine away after exiting the pool.
According to Dr. Chadeayne, "Chlorine chemically bonds to the proteins in a person's hair and skin. It does not simply wash away in the shower, so it eats away their hair and skin long after they leave the pool." Swimmers universally admit that they smell like chlorine despite showering. Dr. Chadeayne reasons, "You smell like chlorine because you are still covered in chlorine."
Recently Dr. Chadeayne has solved this problem by inventing a method of removing chlorine from hair and skin with vitamin C. Now he is running a company called SwimSpray, which sells the product. Andrew is a resident of Arlington Virginia, lifetime swimmer, doctor of chemistry, inventor, and patent lawyer.
According to Dr. Chadeayne, “I think that the best thing about SwimSpray is that it works." He believes that many swimmers are skeptical of a new anti-chlorine product because “so many ‘swimmers shampoos’ have claimed to get rid of chlorine but failed to deliver.” In order to prove SwimSpray's efficacy, he has posted some videos showing that SwimSpray works. The company has also distributed about 10,000 samples to swimmers across the United States.
More information about SwimSpray is available on their webpage, including testimonials, News, and links to where you can buy SwimSpray.
For the original version on PRWeb visit: http://www.prweb.com/releases/prweb2013/1/prweb10334458.htm
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THORNHAUGH, John (1648-1723), of Fenton, Notts.
Available from Boydell and Brewer
Family and Education
b. 27 Jan. 1648, o.s. of Francis Thornhaugh of Fenton by Elizabeth, da. and coh. of John St. Andrew of Gotham. educ. Jesus, Camb. 1664. m. 15 Sept. 1670, Elizabeth (d.1712), da. of Sir Richard Earle, 1st Bt., of Stragglethorpe, Lincs. and h. to her nephew Sir Richard, 2nd Bt., 3s. (2 d.v.p.) 5da. suc. fa. 1648.1
Commr. for assessment, Notts. 1673-80, 1690, j.p. Feb. 1688-d., sheriff Nov. 1688-Mar. 1689, dep. lt. 1689-?d.
Thornhaugh’s family had been seated at Fenton, six miles from East Retford, since the reign of Henry VI, first representing the borough in 1604. His father, an ardent Parliamentarian, was elected for the borough as a recruiter to the Long Parliament, but was killed at the head of his regiment at the battle of Preston. Lord Halifax (Sir George Savile) recommended Thornhaugh as j.p. in 1675, but the appointment seems to have been blocked at a high level. During the exclusion crisis he was implicated with John White and Robert Pierrepont in the Nottinghamshire arms plot. He began to develop an interest in East Retford in 1682, and by the time of the next general election he had laid out enough money to threaten John Millington, but he did not go to the poll. He was added to the commission of the peace in 1688, recommended as a court candidate, and returned at the general election in the following year, although he had meanwhile been pricked as sheriff. He was moderately active in the Convention; his 21 committees included those for the attainder and mutiny bills, and an inquiry into discoveries of treason. But he took no part in purely vindictive Whig moves, and did not support the disabling clause in the bill to restore corporations.2
Thornhaugh remained a Whig for the rest of his political life, though he was too high-principled invariably to follow the party line. He was buried in his parish church on 17 May 1723. His grandson sat for the county from 1747 to 1774.3
Ref Volumes: 1660-1690
Author: E. R. Edwards
- 1. Vis. Notts. (Thoroton Soc. Rec. Ser. xiii), 67; The Reliquary, xvi. 203-4; Lincs. Peds. (Harl. Soc. liii), 971.
- 2. Spencer mss. Henry Thynne to Halifax, 24 June 1675, Millington to Halifax, 10 May 1682, 16 Mar. 1685; CSP Dom. Jan.-June 1683, pp. 265, 268, 327-8, 373; 1687-9, p. 273; The Reliquary, xvi. 42; Trans. Thoroton Soc. xxviii. 82.
- 3. G. Holmes, British Pols. in the Age of Anne, 43; The Reliquary, xvii. 235.
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Step 5: Add some dish soap
Keeping with the spirit of this being an organic, plant-friendly pesticide, I used a vegetable-based dish soap. It is free of petroleum-based chemicals, dyes and perfumes and biodegrades naturally.
If you are using a soap that is petroleum-based or has dyes or perfumes, try adding half of what I used.
The soap makes the already bad-tasting, stinky liquid soapy and even less palatable to the insects that inhabit the plants.
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Are you still thumbing through hundreds of pictures to identify wildflowers? That's the way I started learning plants, but now there is a much easier way!
Plants that are related to each other have similar characteristics for identification. Botanists have simply looked for patterns in plants and created groups called "families" according to those patterns. In the northern latitudes where there are hard freezes during winter, there are only about 100 broad patterns representing tens of thousands of plant species. Once you identify the family your wild flower belongs to then you can still use your color picture book to identify the species, but now you only have to look through a few pictures to find a match, not hundreds. Learn how right here:
Learning to Identify Plants by Families It will forever change the way you look at plants
Grandma Josie always loved to walk her dogs down in the meadows, following cow trails through the thickets of willow and juniper along the creek. I loved to walk with her, and together we collected wild herbs for teas, such as yarrow, blue violets, peppermint, red clover and strawberry leaves. We drank herbal tea every day. When I was sick she gave me yarrow tea with honey in it, plus she buried cloves of garlic in cheese to help me get them down. Grandma kindled my love for plants. She taught me the plants she knew. Then I wanted to learn about all the rest.
We collected unfamiliar flowers on our walks, and paged through books of color pictures to identify them. It was not a fast process, but I was a kid and had the luxury of time. If I could not find the name of a specimen in our books, then I brought it into the herbarium at the university and asked for help. They keyed out the plant and gave me the Latin name for it. At home I researched the name through all of my books to learn anything I could about the uses for that species. In this way I learned most of significant plants of southwest Montana before I was out of high school, or so I thought.
Years later, I launched Hollowtop Outdoor Primitive School, LLC and hosted an herbal class at our place. I thought I "knew" most of the plants discussed in the class, but Robyn, the herbalist, used an approach I had never seen before. We happened across several members of the Rose family, and Robyn pointed out the patterns-- that the flowers had five petals and typically numerous stamens, plus each of them contained tannic acid and were useful as astringents to help tighten up tissues. An astringent herb, she told us, would help close a wound, tighten up inflammations, dry up digestive secretions (an aid for diarrhea) and about twenty other things. In a few short words she outlined the identification and uses for the majority of plants in this one family.
Some of my books listed the family names of the plants, but never suggested how that information could be useful. I realized that while I knew many plants by name, I never actually stopped to look at any of them! This may sound alarming, but it is surprisingly easy to match a plant to a picture without studying it to count the flower parts or notice how they are positioned in relation to each other. In short, Robyn's class changed everything I ever knew about plants. From there I had to relearn all the plants in a whole new way. I set out to study the patterns among related species, learning to identify plants and their uses together as groups and families.
My quest turned into a book Botany in a Day, to share with other people this "patterns method" of learning plants. On plant walks with a favorable selection of specimens to look at, I've been able to cover the critical patterns for identification and uses of seven or eight major families of plants, representing tens of thousands of species worldwide in just two hours.
I tell my students it is okay if they do not know the name of a single plant at the end of the walk, but I expect them to recognize family characteristics and be able to make logical guesses as to how those plants might be used. When we come to an unknown specimen in our walks, I don't tell the group what it is, they tell me, according to the patterns they have learned.
There are about 100 families of plants across the frost-belt of the continent, with at least 30 additional families occurring farther south where it never freezes. Through this article I will introduce you to seven of the largest and easiest-to-recognize families of plants, which are found worldwide. In the next hour or two you will learn the basic patterns of identification and many of the uses for more than 45,000 species of plants worldwide. Take a little bit of time to practice these patterns where ever you go-- in gardens or weed patches, botanical gardens, the nursery, the florist, or the wild. When you learn to instantly recognize these and other family patterns, the world of plants will never look quite the same again. The following pages are meant to be read in order, as new ideas are introduced on each page to prepare you for the following page. Some of these pages include lots of pictures and may take a while to load.
"Botany in a Day is hands down the best plant book I have ever come across. I wish I had this book years ago. Thanks for all the time and effort you put into it. You have made plant identification so much
easier, compared to a lot of my other books."
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Posted: Jan 5, 2011 2:14 PM
Updated: Jan 5, 2011 2:14 PM
WASHINGTON- Poverty in America is millions higher than previously known, with one in six Americans -many 65 and older- struggling in the economy due to increasing medical care and other costs.
Preliminary census figures released today show that government aid programs such as tax credits and food stamps kept many people out of poverty, helping to make sure the poverty rate did not increase during the recession two years ago.
Under a new revised census formula, overall poverty in 2009 stood at 47.8 million people. That's compared to the official 2009 rate of 43.6 million people.
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Google has a new curriculum on YouTube that helps teachers educate students on digital citizenship, including online safety, etiquette and more. It is for students aged 13-17 and there are 10 lessons about YouTube’s policies, how to report content, how to protect their own privacy, and how to be responsible YouTube community members and digital citizens.
There are guidelines for teachers, slides for presentations and a YouTube Curriculum channel with the videos.
10 Tech Skills Every Student Should Have
10 Important Skills Students need for the Future
Edmodo - awesome free social learning network - has free Digital Citizenship poster for download
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There is such a thing as 'obesity' and it deserves ridicule
Liverpool has got rid of its obesity problem with a novel approach – from now on there is no such thing as obesity, at least as far as the council is concerned. According to today's story in the Telegraph:
The council is formally considering the plan after it was put forward by 90 members of Liverpool Schools’ Parliament (LSP) when asked to identify ways to improve the lives of youngsters in the area.
Jeff Dunn, co-ordinator of LSP, said: “The idea is that obesity has a negative connotation behind it.
“They felt unhealthy weight is more positive and a better way to promote it. The term ‘obese’ would turn people off, particularly young people.”
Why not stop there? Why not start talking about the city’s “gentlemen of leisure” since “unemployed” is a bit depressing-sounding. Drug addiction sounds a bit unpleasant as well – why not call them “the unhealthily fond of opiates”?
Of course everyone else will still call them smackheads, just as people will still call obese people “fatty” because they understand – rightly – that obesity is disgusting and worthy of mockery. The vast expansion of euphemisms doesn’t stop a problem going away, but simply expands the divergence between official and everyday English.
Our modern fondness for euphemism began not with political correctness, nor with that other dreadful legacy of the 1980s, management-speak, but with the military. The military are great inventors of euphemism because they do the most unpleasant, and morally dubious of tasks – “terminate with extreme prejudice” is a much nicer phrase than “murder”, which has all sorts of negative connotations behind it.
Managers likewise used double-speak to disguise the fact of what they were doing, which explains why management-speak has so many words relating to firing people – downsizing and restructuring being the most notable.
And the same goes with the ideologically politically correct, who wanted to take the moral sting out of first words. The idea was to control the language, and to destigmatise activities or favoured groups – but only so long as a group qualified as victims of western capitalism. That’s why, for example, prostitutes (victims) have been renamed sex workers, while pimps (baddies) are not sex supervisors; the people once called Red Indians and then American Indians are now Native Americans (good guys – you saw them in Avatar), yet using the equally valid term “Indigenous British” (baddies, fat white people) would certainly not go down well at a council meeting.
This has been the most dishonest parliament in modern history, and the next government will pledge to clean it up. But we’re not going to have political transparency without transparent language, and unfortunately almost every local council and government body is so infested with euphemism it will be a mammoth task to clean up. We can start with fat scousers.
Conservatives – depressing everyone since 500BC
May 16th, 2013 16:22
Why are taxpayers supporting pro-immigration charities?
May 10th, 2013 13:50
Ukip is a reaction to Britain's new class system
May 2nd, 2013 14:04
What's the point of having a Tory party if it refuses to challenge the liberal consensus?
April 30th, 2013 10:59
I'm a Catholic, and I have a confession: I love Richard Dawkins
April 25th, 2013 12:17
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The Networks as Infrastructure - the Reestablishment of Market Power
Trebing, Harry M., Journal of Economic Issues
In the past few years, public utility networks have come to be recognized as an integral part of the nation's infrastructure [e.g., NTIA 1993!. This accords public utilities a new dimension of importance because of the interdependent relationship between infrastructure, productivity, and real income. Interestingly, this growing awareness of the importance of networks as been matched by a parallel desire to diminish the role of regulation in public utility industries. Controls over earnings, prices, and conditions of entry and exit have been severely circumscribed or, in an increasing number of cases, eliminated. This raises an intriguing issue: Can the establishment, utilization, and maintenance of an infrastructure that is of fundamental importance in a globalized economy be entrusted to the signals, motivations, and penalties associated with substantially deregulated electricity, natural gas, and telecommunication markets?
To examine this issue, the following questions will be considered: First, why has network infrastructure received increased attention; second, how adequate are policies of deregulation and promotion of competition in light of inherent network characteristics; and third, what other options exist for public policymakers?
Why Networks Receive Growing Attention
The traditional system for supplying electricity, natural gas, and telecommunications consisted essentially of vertically integrated, regulated firms performing most if not all of the functions associated with the provision of service. In electricity supply, the same firm typically built and operated generation capacity, transmission networks, and distribution facilities. In the natural gas industry, the price of gas at the wellhead was set through a system of area ceiling prices established by the Federal Power Commission, while pipelines acted as purchasing agents for the local distribution companies (LDCs). In telecommunications, AT&T controlled 100 percent of the long distance telephone market and 80 percent of the local market. Retail electric and gas and intrastate telephone rates were fixed by state commissions, and bulk power and gas sales for resale were under FPC/FERC jurisdiction and interstate telecommunications was under FCC authority.
Beginning in 1968, this traditional system of supply and regulation was subject to a strong series of external shocks. The energy crisis and general price inflation led to cost overruns, excess capacity, and rapidly escalating electricity prices, while the natural gas industry was plagued with major curtailments followed by a period of oversupply in which, paradoxically, gas prices rose at the retail level. In telecommunications, new technology created opportunities for new entrants, which led AT&T to introduce retaliatory pricing and interconnection restrictions.
In response to these crises, national policy changed from one of regulated monopoly to promotion of a pluralistic, decentralized approach toward energy and telecommunications that placed much more emphasis on the role of deregulated markets. This trend was evident in the National Energy Act (1978), AT&T divestiture (1982), the Modified Final Judgment (MFJ) (1984), amendments to the Clean Air Act of 1990, the Natural Gas Wellhead Decontrol Act (1989), FERC Order 636 (1992), and the Energy Policy Act of 1992.
As a result of these changes, an entirely new cast of players was introduced, each of whom had a vital interest in access to and pricing of public utility networks. The viability of exempt wholesale generators (EWGs) would require access to the transmission network. Natural gas producers, freed from …
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Publication information: Article title: The Networks as Infrastructure - the Reestablishment of Market Power. Contributors: Trebing, Harry M. - Author. Journal title: Journal of Economic Issues. Volume: 28. Issue: 2 Publication date: June 1994. Page number: 379+. © 1999 Association for Evolutionary Economics. COPYRIGHT 1994 Gale Group.
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It's All Politics
Fri February 17, 2012
Some Friday Political Stories Worth Following
A few of the political stories worth noting this Friday:
Congressional negotiators reached agreement on extensions of the payroll tax cut as well as federal jobless benefits and a "fix" that would prevent Medicare reimbursements to doctors from being cut. But while the House's Republican leaders and the Senate's Democratic leaders were on board, Senate Republicansn weren't. Votes are expected in both chambers Friday.
President Obama's campaign along with the Democratic National Committee raised $29.1 million in January for the president's re-election efforts. The Obama campaign bragged that more than 98 percent of that came from donors of $250 or less.
A new Suffolk University poll out of Massachusetts showed Republican Sen. Scott Brown leading Elizabeth Warren by nine percentage points, 49 percent to 40 percent. Other recent polls had shown Warren with a slight lead but the Suffolk poll suggests Brown may not be as vulnerable as Democrats hoped, especially since 60 percent of those surveyed thought the state benefited from having both a Republican and Democrat in the Senate.
The Washington Post reports, as others have before, that in earlier incarnations Mitt Romney was dedicated to chasing federal taxpayer money, an activity he now rails against. Both as head of the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics and as governor of Massachusetts, he sought federal dollars from Congress, including earmarks.
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Comcast Turns the Broadband Meter On, and Moves to Usage-Based Billing
Important for people who stream a whole lot of Internet video, or think they might one day, or would like to make money by streaming a lot of Internet video: Comcast is overhauling its rules which limit the amount of data its broadband subscribers can use.
In short, Comcast is moving from a flat cap to usage-based billing.
It is scrapping its 250-gigabytes a month cap and trying a couple different plans in its place. One version will introduce a 300-gig cap and offer additional tiers of service, with bigger caps, along with the ability to buy more chunks of data. Another version also uses a 300-gig cap and the ability to buy incremental blocks of data as needed.
Comcast, which has more than 18 million high-speed data customers, says it will experiment with the two plans in some of its territories.
It also says that in markets where it’s not trying the new plans, it will scrap its data cap entirely until it settles on a new plan.
The move comes as Comcast has taken heat about the way it treats data on some of its proprietary video services, in particular the Xfinity app for Microsoft’s Xbox console.
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has argued that because Comcast doesn’t count data delivered via that service against its usage caps, it is violating “net neutrality” principles. Comcast says it’s in the clear because that data isn’t delivered via the public Internet but on its own network, and doesn’t plan on changing its policy.
Comcast executives referenced the debate as they introduced the new plans today. “There has been a little bit of noise along with the Xfinity Xbox plan,” said Comcast EVP David Cohen. But Comcast also insists that only a small handful of its users come close to using the 250-gig cap today. The company says median usage runs around 8 gigabytes to 10GB a month.
Other broadband providers, notably Time Warner Cable, have also moved to usage-based pricing. If you take the companies at their word, they’re doing it because they need to charge more money to provide more bandwidth because “our network is not an infinite resource, and it is expensive to build it,” as Cohen says.
But usage-based pricing is also a useful tool to have available if cable TV users really do stop subscribing in large numbers, and replace their pay TV packages with Web video. That gives the cable (and telco) guys a way to replace the video revenue they lose with more broadband dollars. A bonus for them: Broadband subscriptions are much more profitable than video subscriptions.
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Forest Hills Foods' in-store bakery has withstood the economic downturn to post 10 percent weekly year-over-year sales gains. The Grand Rapids, Mich. in-store bakery had a touch of good fortune in the demise of some local competitors, but growing sales in this environment, particularly in depressed western Michigan, is no small task. By meticulously keeping track of individual product sales, watching shrink (stales) and leveraging its natural advantages, Forest Hills Foods' bakery is thriving.
According to Jason Bajema, bakery manager, management's presence is a key part of the battle. He is in the bakery all day, talking with the merchandisers, keeping lines of communication open, and keeping staff in the loop as to what needs to be done throughout the day. He spends more time on the floor than in back, and meets with employees to discus results of inventory tracking software.
“We keep a close eye on everything we make and sell. We have daily production sheets, and we scan our shrink every night,” Bajema says. “We see what our top five sellers are every night, and know what didn't sell. We meet about that weekly; I talk to the bakers and production guys to figure out where we should increase and decrease production to maximize sales and profit.”
The bakery also monitors prices of not only its products, but that of its local competitors. Bajema knows that the low price megastores have in-store bakeries as well, but they aren't the competition, and Forest Hills doesn't try to match prices with them. The store is located in an area with a sizable population of upper-middle and upper class shoppers. Customers are more likely to be looking for a higher quality product and can afford it.
The recent commodities pricing volatility was a problem for many bakers, but with 50 percent scratch production, Forest Hills Foods' bakery managers were able to marshal the situation to the bakery's advantage.
“Last year it was rough, a lot of commodities prices rose, but because we're doing it from scratch, we're making more money on the products than we would have if we were using mixes. We raised prices some to keep up with flour, but kept them very comparable to what they were before,” Bajema says. “It definitely made us open our eyes, as our shoppers didn't even seem to know that bakery product prices were going up elsewhere.” He attributes the sales gains to the fact that the bakery “held strong and didn't raise prices as much as competitors were forced to.” And even as some retail prices dirfted up into competitors' range, Forest Hills had an advantage in the better margin from scratch production.
As a single, independant supermarket, Forest Hills has benefitted from regional chains coming into their area and swallowing up other local, independant competiton. While other operators were backing away from hot baking on premise, Bajema consulted Jeff VandeBerge, president and owner, and determined on-site baking was a point of differentiation that would attract customers. But they had to find the right mix of on-premise baking and outsourced items in order to maintain both profitability and uniqueness.
For example, when the cookie baker requested to work part-time, they struggled with whether to continue their on-site cookie program or source cookies elsewhere.
After examining cookie sales and production costs, Bajema and VandenBerge found that though cookies weren't a major profit driver, but they were making money and contributing to overhead. The cookies stayed, and Bajema says they are an example of why Forest Hills in-store bakery sales have increased.
“Higher retails have contributed to increased sales,” Bajema says. “But mostly it's because customers try a product, find that it's good and return to buy two or more products.”
Making smaller quantities of fresher products benefits the bakery. Being 50 percent scratch gives Forest Hills the flexibility to change the product line depending on what shrink and sales figures indicate. The bakery offers roughly 250 of the 400 available items at any given time. This boosts sales and decreases stales. Even specialty wholesale bakeries supplying products to the in-store bakery are often responsible for their own stales. Knowing what customers want at any given moment takes daily checks and lots of report reading, but it gives Forest Hills an edge in profitability.
Richard Ecklof, owner of Ecklof's Bakery, Jamestown, N.Y., and longtime Retail Bakers of America (RBA) member and contributor, has moderated sessions on pricing for profit, suggestive selling and customer service. If anyone were to forsake sophisticated price-setting software in favor of years of experience and intuition, Ecklof would be capable of making it work. But he opted to go high-tech.
He computerized his bookkeeping, payroll, accounts payable, costing and formula systems to ensure and maintain his profit margins.
“As commodity prices rose last year, we knew what was coming and passed the cost on to the customers,” he says. “I maintain a net profit percentage. Basically, I use a gross profit percentage when I'm pricing, and that reflects in our supply costs, and as supply costs go up, we increase our prices to reflect increases in what we are spending on ingredients and supplies.”
The volume is down at Ecklof bakery due a host of increasing costs that are eating into customers' expendable income. Energy costs, fuel costs and tax increases — even a cigarette tax-hike — reflect on the business. Baked products are discretionary, and in a tough economy they might represent a corner to be cut.
“But our dollar sales have been maintained because we're charging higher prices, and we've maintained our percentage of profit,” Ecklof says. “Right now we're doing pretty good. I haven't increased prices since the end of last year. Since then, flour has come down some, shortening was going down and is now creeping up again, but it has been stable for a few months.”
Constant vigilance is needed to maintain profits. He pays all of the bills and does all the ordering himself, so he knows first when there are substantial increases or differences. This allows him to quickly react to changes.
“If I see those, I run my pricing program again. When supply costs change, I just plug the new numbers into my program, and it will re-price to maintain a desired margin,” he says. “That allows me to be nimble, make adjustments on the fly, and that's what you've had to do.”
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TIJUANA Two decades after making history as the first opposition governor in modern Mexico, Ernesto Ruffo Appel yesterday lambasted the country’s political parties, saying they are failing its citizens.
The parties “are defending their own positions, their own groups, but they are not defending Mexico,” said Ruffo, a member of President Felipe Calderón’s Conservative National Action Party, or PAN. His 1989 gubernatorial victory in Baja California marked the beginning of the end of seven decades of single-party rule in Mexico by the Institutional Revolutionary Party, known as the PRI.
Ruffo, now working in the private sector, joined a conference examining the evolution of democracy in Mexico since his watershed victory. The daylong event, hosted by the Tijuana-based think tank Colegio de la Frontera Norte, drew several prominent PANistas, including two former Baja California governors, the state’s current governor and a former Tijuana mayor.
The conference’s aim was to evaluate Mexico’s political evolution and set a course for the future, said the think tank’s president, Tonatiuh Guillén López.
“This is where we can launch the questions asking how to renovate the system of political representation,” Guillen said.
When Ruffo won the governorship, Baja California was the only state in Mexico governed by the PAN. Today, seven states are governed by PAN party members, including Baja California’s José Guadalupe Osuna Millán. Nineteen others are governed by the PRI and six by the left-leaning Party of the Democratic Revolution, the PRD.
While breaking the PRI’s grip, “political alternation has not necessarily represented a step toward democracy,” said Eliseo Mendoza Berrueto, a member of the PRI and former governor of the state of Coahuila. Many of Mexico’s issues, such as poverty and corruption, have not been resolved under the PAN, he said.
But other participants said the past 20 years have brought important changes, both to Baja California and to Mexico. Under Ruffo, Baja California pioneered a tamper-proof voter identification card, a concept that was adopted nationally and helped minimize electoral fraud that once was prevalent in Mexico.
Yet despite electoral reforms, “there has been no reform of society, in the sense of finding ways to express citizens’ concerns and dissatisfaction,” Ruffo said.
He added that once in power, “we began winning and we began closing ourselves off, in order to control the positions that we were acquiring” — a practice that emulated the PRI.
Ruffo’s fellow panelists were two PANistas: Alejandro González Alcocer, a former Baja California governor and now a federal senator, and Hector Osuna Jaime, a former Tijuana mayor who heads Mexico’s Federal Telecommunications Commission.
Osuna said change can come about only if individual members of society fight for it, rather than relying on political leaders.
“I still see many Mexicans waiting for a president to come and solve all of Mexico’s problems,” he said. “Every individual must pull his weight ... and move forward.”
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Well, this is embarrassing; so much for the "settled science":
“[Results] do suggest the possibility of a much larger impact of solar variations on the stratosphere than previously thought, and some studies have suggested that this may lead to significant regional impacts on climate,” reads a draft copy of a major, upcoming report from the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Naturally, this revelation will have no impact upon Democrat "green" initiatives aimed at impoverishing most Americans; as noted yesterday here, repeated smackdowns by federal courts regarding EPA efforts to regulate running water and to mandate use of nonexistent biofools have simply been ignored, and even international reports showing that their "green" policies will have no effect haven't dissuaded them.
That's because the goal is not to Save The Planet; rather, their intent is to establish control over every aspect of the lives of most Americans. They want a police state, and "man-made glo-bull warming" provides convenient cover toward that end.
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The Holocaust was the murder of six million Jews and millions of others by the Nazis and their collaborators during World War II. Mass killings began in June 1941 with the shooting of Jewish civilians during the German invasion of the Soviet Union. At the end of 1941, the Germans began deporting Jews to killing centers in occupied Poland. By May 1945, about two out of every three Jews in Europe had been murdered.
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Prewar European Jewish population: 9.5 million.
Before World War II, more than half of the world's Jewish population lived in Europe. Most Jews lived in eastern Europe, primarily in the Soviet Union and Poland.
The Nazi party came to power in Germany in 1933. The Germans moved to extend their power in central Europe, annexing Austria and destroying Czechoslovakia.
Germany invaded Poland in 1939, beginning World War II. Over the next two years, German forces conquered most of Europe. The Germans established ghettos in occupied eastern territories, isolating and persecuting the Jewish population.
Nazi anti-Jewish policy expanded with the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. Mobile killing units murdered Jews, Roma (also called Gypsies), Soviet political commissars, and others.
The Germans and their collaborators deported Jews to killing centers in occupied Poland. At the largest killing center, Auschwitz-Birkenau, transports arrived almost daily from across Europe.
By war's end, almost six million Jews and millions of others had perished in the Holocaust.
Postwar Jewish Population, ca. 1950: 3.5 million
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Head First C#, 2E: A Learner's Guide to Real-World Programming with Visual C# and .NET (Head First Guides)
You want to learn C# programming, but you're not sure you want to suffer through another tedious technical book. You're in luck: Head First C# introduces this language in a fun, visual way. You'll quickly learn everything from creating your first program to learning sophisticated coding skills with C# 4.0, Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4, while avoiding common errors that frustrate many students.
The second edition offers several hands-on labs along the way to help you build and test programs using skills you've learned up to that point. In the final lab, you'll put everything together. From objects to garbage collection and from exceptions to interactions, you'll learn C# in a way that engages and entertains your brain. Here are a few of the topics you'll learn:
Start by building a useful application with pre-built components in Visual Studio 2010
Discover how objects work, using real-world examples
Store numbers, text, and other basic data types using primitives
Save complex data in files and databases with great C# tools
Build intuitive and easy-to-use interfaces by following simple rules
Design your code to catch exceptions -- things you don't expect
Develop good programming habits, such as refactoring code and applying unit tests
Learn how web services put your programs in touch with the rest of the world
Make it easy for other people to install your software
Great book for first time object oriented programmers
By evannever - August 31, 2010
I have been out of coding for almost 10 years and decided to get back into it recently. Since I'm focusing on .Net technologies I thought jumping into C# would be the right step. I read most of the reviews for this book and the gist I got was: it was good for beginners, well written, but full of errors.
I have found only two of those to be true: The second edition of this book seems to be mostly error free. I'm about half way through and I *think* I've found only one error so far (this was very minor too). All of my code has compiled and I haven't had any issues at all. The book is very beginner oriented but moves at a good pace. The concepts come fast and things like class diagramming and coding styles are seamlessly worked in to the lessons.
The book teaches C# and object oriented programming from the beginning and I can't recommend it enough for someone who is starting out or has been out of the game for too long (like me). Make sure you get the second... read more
Review in progress, 2nd Ed. (read before reading older reviews)
By Jacob D. Ryf - June 19, 2010
First, please understand this is my first review and I am still just a programming student and this is my first experience with C# but not the C language. I've taken two classes in C++ and one in Visual Basic, so I'm not a newbie but at the same time I still wouldn't consider myself intermediate.
I'm writing this review having only read the first 100 pages of the book because I wanted to state that, as of this writing, the current edition of this book that Amazon.com is selling (Pub: May 2010, 2nd ed) there have been NO errors. If you are considering purchasing this book, please be aware that (again as of this writing) there have only been 2 reviews of the newest edition (2nd ed, May 2010). All previous reviews are of the November 2007 edition which was apparently filled with errors. If only Amazon.com would list them separately we wouldn't have this problem.
Now, a brief review of the content. The first impressive thing about this book is that it takes into... read more
It is the book focusing on practice skill
By LCW - December 20, 2010
Due to my work, I have to learn c# for some projects. I bought this book and I don't regret it.
I am a Java developer so I have some programming experience. Yes, if you are completely new to programming and OO concept, perhaps you may feel confused and hard to understand while going through this book, because it spends a lot of pages on step-by-step and practical exercises, and sometimes the exercises are quite long and linked.
So... if you just want to read the book while you are sitting comfortably on your sofa, this book isn't for you. If you are like me want to actual learn C# skill and get them to burn deeply in your head, you have to face your computer monitor working with Visual studio all the time. Then you should buy this book.
This book contains 3 labs for you to test and summarize you skill. Those labs ask and guide you to make games so it is quite fun... espectially the 3rd lab. It is about to make a shooting game. Once I finished the... read more
Do you want to stop worrying about money and start having more fun? Do you wish you had more time to spend with family and friends? Do you want to live the life you always envisioned? Then it's time ...
Tcl/Tk (Tool Command Language/Tool Kit) makes it fast and easy to implement any type of application, from games to network analyzers. Tcl/Tk is a full-bodied, mature programming platform used by NASA ...
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The Winston Affair
THE WINSTON AFFAIR was first published in 1959. The setting is Burma during WWII. An American officer, Lieutenant Winston, has just coldly murdered an English soldier. Winston must die in order to calm Washington and London. General Kempton, commanding officer of the American troops of the region, asks Captain Barney Adams, the son of one of his dearest friends, to come to Burma and be the attorney of Winston who must face a court martial on the next ...
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My husband and I have never been big on traditionally defined gender roles at home. We both cook, clean, do yardwork, nurture, discipline, take out the trash, and all that. Divisions in these roles have come more from personal strengths than chromosome makeup. So imagine my surprise when one of my boys resisted doing a chore because it was a "girl" chore.
It doesn't matter what the chore was; to say that I was surprised was an understatement. My son had seen his father doing this same chore multiple times, though perhaps not recently - and has seen
me do what he declared in the subsequent conversation a "boy" chore multiple times, as well. Clearly the idea of "boy" chores and "girl" chores came from outside our home - and I wondered what
other gender ideas my son was picking up. And was I inadvertently reinforcing these roles?
In fact, a study conducted by Highlights magazine of kids age 5-12 reports that 73 percent of girls have assigned chores at home, compared to 65 percent of boys with assigned chores.
Influence of popular culture
The obvious culprit is, of course, popular culture - but that's only part of it. It wasn't just that he was getting these gender ideas from the world around him, it was that the simple example at
home wasn't quite consistent enough to counteract it. We as parents need to be more overt in the message we want to send sometimes, whatever that message may be. In addition to leading by example,
we need to be vocal about how we believe that men AND women can do things from cleaning bathrooms and laundry to mowing the lawn and taking out trash - to being leaders and achievers and so many
other roles in both the microcosms and macrocosms of our society. In our family, it's about individual strengths and weaknesses, not gender.
Separation of duties
In light of our conversation, though, and just be sure I was walking the walk as well as talking the talk to my son, I looked at what chores each of us in the family was doing. It had slanted a
little more along gender lines than I'd realized - not a lot, but a little. Although my kids had seen each of their parents do each of the chores, more often they were seeing one or the other do
some very traditionally genderized things. Hmmm. In light of this, we decided to rotate the chores a little more consistently around all of us, so we really were doing a bit of everything. I'll be
taking out the trash more often.
While, true, men cannot give birth to babies, men can be just as loving and gentle parents as a mom can. Moms can coach sports teams and dads can be PTA officers and classroom volunteers. Moms can
change tires and dads can do the ironing. Chores, I think, don't have gender.
So Tell us: Do you assign chores by gender? Comment below!
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CMS or Content Management Systems are something that is kind of new but really it’s not new.
Generally before you would pay an exorbitant price for a CMS system as they truly are scalable from a simple one person website to large enough for a corporate or news website.
Generally when it comes to CMS systems they have a large learning curve when compared to a static website or a blog website.
This is why you really do not see as many of them being used in a home business type environment.
Yet if you truly want to build a community driven website that can scale to needs you may have in the future then a good CMS system maybe right for you.
When you start looking for Content Management Systems, you’ll find that there are literally hundreds of them.
Finding one that fits your needs can be challenging. When I looked for a cms program I looked for an open source version with a large following and many contributors to both the code and to plugin modules.
For this website I chose the open source software called Drupal. While I cannot say making the transition from static – blog software to drupal was easy, it is a very powerful piece of software that so far has run reliably.
- Static Websites.
- What Is Html
- What Is CSS
- Blog Websites.
- Content Management systems.
- Combination Static – Blog.
- Database Driven Websites.
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St. Francis maintains an open visitor policy welcoming visitors anytime day or night, any day throughout the year.
However, anyone with flu-like symptoms (fever, cough, sore throat, sneezing) should not come to the hospital unless absolutely necessary or for their own care. Visitor restrictions for children 18 years and younger include:
- If a visitor, adult or child, displays influenza-like symptoms (coughing, sneezing, etc.), any member of the nursing or patient relations staff is empowered to request this visitor to immediately discontinue their visit.
- Visitation is restricted entirely for all minors (18 years of age and younger) in the Neonatal Care Unit at ST. FRANCIS eastside.
St. Francis is offering respiratory masks, hand sanitizing gels at all hospital emergency departments; special precautions are being taken at all critical areas throughout all facilities of the Health System. Learn more about Flu >>
You will need to sign-in at the front desk to assure safety and acknowledgment of presence within the hospital. Sign in at the front desk between the hours of 6:30 a.m. and 9:00 p.m, and sign in with Security after 9:00 p.m. All visitors must obtain a Visitor identification pass from the front desk or Security when they sign in. Depending upon a patients health status, visiting hours may be restricted or limited. Special care units will designate their own visiting hours dependent upon patient and unit needs. Nursing or Security, depending upon the patient or hospital needs, may limit the number of guests visiting a patient at any given time.
Children ages 12 and younger must be accompanied by an adult at all times. Nursing will consult with all visitors bringing children into the hospital on any special safety requirements or stipulations needed before the child is allowed into the patients room. Children may not be left unattended on the Nursing floor or unit, in waiting areas, or in other locations such as lobbies or the Cafeteria.
protecting our health
For the protection of our patients, all family members and visitors are asked not to visit if they have a fever, cold, sore throat or any other symptoms of illness. Do not visit a patient until the symptoms are gone. Please see our H1N1 Flu information >>
At St. Francis, we stress the importance of hand hygiene. Health care workers may use alcohol sanitizer or soap and water; we encourage our patients and visitors to be involved in infection prevention by keeping your hands clean, most especially after coughing, sneezing, touching a sick patient or using the restroom. Hand hygiene stations are located at the main entrances of our hospitals.
For the protection of our patients, plants and flowers unfortunately cannot be received by patients in the Cancer or Intensive Care Units.
Bon Secours St. Francis Health System welcomes visitors or family members to stay overnight with patients at St. Francis downtown and St. Francis eastside. Most patient rooms have a chair that reclines, and a pillow and linens are provided. For other local accomodations, please view our Hotel Directory.
We offer free parking for all patients and their guests. Parking is available in front of both hospitals, and handicapped spaces can be found on the front rows at the entrances of St. Francis facilities. To view parking areas, download one of our campus maps.
St. Francis downtown offers valet parking for all patients, families, and visitors.. A shuttle service is available in the St. Francis downtown parking lot between 6:00 a.m. and 3:30 p.m., Monday through Friday.
The campuses of St. Francis downtown (including the St. Francis Outpatient Center) and St. Francis eastside are designated tobacco-free, as of March 2007.
cell phones and laptops
Cellular phones may be used in the hospital, but not near patient care equipment. Cell phone usage is not permitted in surgery areas, the Emergency department, or in recovery units.
Both St. Francis downtown and St. Francis eastside are equipped with wireless internet access, which is available to both patients and their guests. For info on how to log on to guest access, please ask for an instruction sheet at the Main Desk or download this sheet to take with you.
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A Mid-Century Modern Marvel: The Palm Springs Art Museum
Palm Springs is the quintessential incubator for all things mid-century modern. It permeates the architectural landscape and the laid back yet avant-garde vibe of the city. The result is a desert gem where art and culture collide for an experience that will excite both the artophile and the leisure seeker.
When you hear the phrase "art museum," cities like New York and Boston may come to mind. Surprisingly, you should consider adding the Palm Springs Art Museum to your list. The Palm Springs Art Museum is an amazing and impressive gem in the California desert whose collection, though small, is a fresh and exciting.
While MOMA in NYC has Warhol’s Campbell’s soup cans, the Palm Springs Art Museum has Warhol’s Brillo Box Dress, 1964 - an amazing piece of rare three-dimensional Warhol art. The Museum hosts an exceptional array of eclectic contemporary art pieces from masters ranging from Roy Lichtenstein and Helen Frankenthaler to Anish Kapoor and Dale Chihuly, strewn throughout its upper and lower galleries. The pieces are demurely marked so be on the lookout for amazing art pieces.
The crowing piece of this collection, just acquired by the museum, is a Louise Bourgeois, Spider II, 1995, placed ceremoniously in the middle of the upper gallery. This classic Bourgeois piece is one of the pinnacle works of her portfolio and the excitement of having her classic work radiates through the gallery.
The photography exhibit detailing the Southern California pool culture from the 1930s - 1970s fixes the museum’s place in the world. Favorite shots include Tab Hunter and Liberace by pools- with their respective "friends"- and some of the last shots of Marilyn Monroe (who, according to Hollywood legend, was discovered in Palm Springs).
The Museum also pushes limits with a new installation by openly gay contemporary artist, Michael Petry. Golden Rain is an exhibit of golden colored, blown glass raindrops are sprinkled throughout the installation gallery’s rafters adjacent to the Museum’s front lobby. It is imbued with double entendres beyond its reference to Zeus impregnating Danae in the guise of a golden shower.
Petry reinforces the "golden shower" meaning by intentionally putting queerness into his art to both shock and educate about queer fetish. The provocative nature of the exhibit is tantalizing and can only be called Mapplethorpe 2.0. Check out more of Michael Petry’s work here.
Anchoring the downtown area in a mid-century modern/brutalism style building, the Museum is truly a must see opportunity for all visitors. Anyone who loves the combination of art, architecture, and history should find time to take a day trip to Rancho Mirage and visit the estate of the late Ambassadors Walter and Leonore Annenberg.
The Annenberg estate is aptly named Sunnylands. The tour is a whimsical experience that takes you on a journey through the 20th century political landscape via a unique mid-century modern estate adorned with modern masters, ancient Asian motifs, and a palpable history air that permeates the visitor’s psyche.
As you enter the elegant foyer of the A. Quincy Jones (the architect, not the musician) designed main home, the room opens into a large sitting and dining main area where you are greeted by a centered Rodin sculpture surrounded by modern art masters. Light pours into the room from windows, which extend along three walls and from a teepee-like centered glass dome centered above the Rodin, allowing light to cascade onto the sculpture and into the foyer to greet you.
Past the ancient Asian arrays and motifs, is the Memory Room. The room, with its pink mid-century modern furniture, hosts floor to ceiling displays of the Annenberg’s life- photographs of presidents, first ladies, queens, and prime minister with the Annenbergs decorate the walls. From Eisenhower to Clinton, the Annenberg’s were trusted advisors and ambassadors. You can feel the presence of history in this room and throughout the estate and timelessness transports you into their inner circle in world affairs
It’s not stuffy, though. The room is just as they left it, with some frames askew. It’s also not without a certain hominess. An entire wall is dedicated to Christmas cards-from the Queen Mum.
As you walk out of the room and down a short hall to the Annenberg’s bedroom and further into the formal dining room past sitting areas, the guide details the world leaders who chatted, dined, and stayed at Sunnylands. Our guide pointed to where Princess Diana sat and a rather humble dining table where Queen Elizabeth sat with Mrs. Annenberg.
Tours are only open to groups of seven and tickets are limited and go quickly- so plan ahead. If you cannot get tickets, visitors can wander the estate gardens which are meticulously manicured with desert bloom. The visitor’s center also hosts displays on the Annenberg’s and a café with fabulous ice tea. Grab a glass and stroll the gardens -and remember to visit the labyrinth. Truly an adventure for everyone.
I would be remiss if I did not mention the vibrant local art scene of Palm Springs. One of the cornerstones of the community is the 50-year-old Desert Art Center located on historic North Palm Canyon Drive. I stumbled upon this hidden gem of a gallery as I strolled down the Drive looking for art and bargain shopping.
This accessible and unique art collective hosts monthly juried shows for the collective’s members where the art is not only good but affordable and would rival any large city in talent. Mediums range from landscapes to glass to jewelry and the collective’s members staff the gallery and are extremely friendly and happy to walk you through the gallery.
Make sure you leave a day for a journey to see the landscape and wildlife of the desert. With national parks and fault lines nearby, take advantage of the miles of hiking trails and set out for a day of exploration and adventure. Need a tour guide? Call the experts-Desert Adventures Eco-Tours.
Our guide took us to on a hike through Andreas Canyon on the Agua Caliente Cahuilla Indian Reservation where he identified flowers, herbs, and plant species of the desert. Desert Adventures leads eco-tours not only on the reservation but also to the Joshua Tree National Forest and onto the San Andreas Fault. Make sure you leave the pool and see the natural beauty of Palm Springs.
Palm Springs Art Museum:
101 North Museum Drive, Palm Springs, CA
Desert Art Center
550 N. Palm Canyon Drive, Palm Springs, CA
Sunnylands - Walter and Leonore Annenberg’s Mid-Century Modern Estate
Sunnylands Center & Gardens
37977 Bob Hope Drive, Rancho Mirage, CA
This article is part of our "Summer 2012" series. Want to read more?
Here's the full list»
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - The city of West Palm Beach could run out of water in 45 days. The mayor says without any significant rainfall, the city's water supply could disappear even sooner than that.
Now residents in West Palm Beach, Palm Beach and South Palm Beach are under strict water restrictions. Until further notice those residents can only water their lawns on Wednesday or Thursday mornings, depending on the street address.
"I don't think the public realizes this is a critical issue. We haven't had rain, usually it starts in May, and it hasn't," says West Palm Beach Mayor Jeri Muoio.
Half of the water used in West Palm Beach goes to the grass. Muoio says the diminishing water supply can't support that anymore. She says the situation is so dire, all city employees are to look out for those breaking the water restriction rules.
"If I see someone watering, they're going to hear from me," says Muoio.
Forms are being handed out to police, and public utilities and parks employees to give out warnings, and ticket people watering at the unapproved time.
City commissioners discussed installing more pumps in Clear Lake, and continuing to buy 6 million gallons of water from Palm Beach County. The city is also using 20 million gallons of water from emergency wells every day.
Copyright 2011 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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Planting Grass Is More Complicated Than They Tell You!
Are you looking for more than just basic information?
When you hear or read of a simple “5 step plan” or “7 easy steps” to a new lawn, do you wonder why you should do certain things?
Why not do something else? What will happen?
Reading the “to-do-list” of some garden advisors can lead you to believe that you can jump outside and get the project done before the ice melts in your glass of ice tea. But if you aren’t planting grass on a regular basis, there are a few details you will find helpful. Is your goal to repair or thicken an old lawn, or install a new one?
This page is an introduction to a series of articles all related to planting, or replanting, a grass lawn. The approach is to offer the complete story, rather than a simple outline. One specific topic will be addressed in each article.
These concise, usable facts will not only help you make wiser decisions and choices, but will give you a head start toward a healthy, beautiful lawn.
From Seed To Lawn - Getting New Grass To Grow
Isn’t it nice to know the big picture before you jump into a project or commitment? Planting grass sounds almost innocent and peaceful. But there is a lot to consider before you take a pile of tiny seeds and attempt to turn them into a vast green expanse.
Even if everything went smooth and easy, there is still a lot to know and a lot to do. Now add the definite possibility that things can and do go wrong when people are putting in a lawn, especially for the first time. It’s good to be informed before you start.
Problems happen. Difficulties arise. Location, soil, fertilizer, water, seed, weather, and maintenance all present valid concerns and potential interference with your intention of planting grass successfully. Learn about the overall scope of this project before you get any further along, in this article: Getting New Grass To Grow.
The Best Time To Plant - Timing Is Everything
That’s what they say. So be sure you set aside time for planting grass in the fall. That’s the best time, by general consensus. But what if your schedule gets a little complicated, and fall doesn’t work for you? Is there another time when it will work just as well?
Learn why the fall season is usually the best time to start grass growing, and why sometimes it is not. Discover that the best time for you can be the best time for the grass also. Read more: When Is The Best Time To Plant Grass Seed?
It's Planting Time - Steps For Sowing Grass Seed
What exactly do you have to do with the seed to get it in place and ready to grow? Most resources give very limited guidelines. They assume you know a lot already. You deserve better.
Learn all the details about planting seed, and the reasons why you should take one approach or another. Get a list of everything you need to have on hand before you start.
Evaluate all the conditions before your project gets the green light to go. This guide tells you when and how to put the seed down, and what comes after that. Know what to avoid in this important aspect of creating a lawn successfully. Every step for sowing the grass seed is found in Planting Grass Seed.
Planting Grass Becomes A Waiting Game
What happens between the time you plant the seed until you see it finally bursting through the soil? The germination process may be long forgotten from your days of science classes. However, knowing the key factors that affect germination might keep you from making a mistake.
Without getting technical, learn the basic requirements for grass seed germination. Do you know how long it takes for the typical varieties of grass to germinate? (How is your patience these days?)
Improve your success ratio even before you plant, with these interesting suggestions, including evaluating the actual seed you plan to use. Discover the facts about Grass Seed Germination, and things that can interfere.
Correct Watering Will Make It Work
You can make a minor or major investment in your project as you consider design, preparation, and finally planting the grass. But then the success of all your effort hinges on the simple chore of watering.
You can over-water. You can under-water. You don’t want to do either. You don’t want the seed to die. You don’t want to be buying seed and planting it a second time.
Take advantage of these tips for watering grass seed in several different situations. Avoid troublesome problems as you deal with those important days and weeks till the grass pops up. See tips for Watering New Grass Seed.
Future Articles Arriving
Additional articles are in the making to supplement this topic of planting grass. These will include most immediately:
- Varieties of grass seed and their characteristics.
- How to select the right grass or blend of grasses.
- Spreading grass seed by hand or with spreaders.
- Tips for repairing bare spots in the lawn with loose grass seed or patch kits and mats.
- How to plant new grass seed over an existing lawn, step-by-step.
- Choosing between grass seed or sod for a new lawn.
Are You Ready? Not Sure If You're Up To It?
Some of you may in a position where you prefer, or need, to bring in professional help. At this point you have the option of just getting someone to install the lawn, from seed or sod, and then take care of it yourself. You might want also want to continue on with lawn care service done for you. The following two Guides may help you decide if this is a good idea. Knowing what to consider is essential, whether you talk to franchise lawncare companies or a private individual lawn maintenance person.
Lawn Care Services - Guide #1: What Do You Need?
Before You Hire A Lawn Service, Ask Yourself A Few Questions!
Lawn Care Companies - Guide #2: What Will You Get?
What You Should Know (and Ask) When You Hire Help
These free comprehensive articles are detailed and extensive, with information you won't find in any book, but they may be just what the doctor (or the Counselor) ordered to make your life easier!
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THE biggest obstacle in the way of prosperity and economic growth is illiteracy and the real success of society lies only in programmes promoting education for all.
These views were expressed in a seminar entitled “Educated, Developed Punjab through Non-Formal Education and Our Responsibilities” held under the patronage of Mir Khalil-ur-Rahman Memorial Society (Jang Group of Newspapers) with the cooperation of Literacy and Non-Formal Basic Education Department, Government of the Punjab and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) here at Children Library Complex on Wednesday.
Punjab Minister for Education Mian Mujtaba Shuja-ur-Rehman was the chief guest while Cheo Hashi, project coordinator, JICA, Bilal Aziz, programme officer, JICA and Local Government Secretary Khizer Hayat Gondal were guests of honor on the occasion.
The provincial education minister said that the government was implementing a comprehensive programme for providing modern educational facilities to the children and Daanish School project was a revolutionary step of Punjab government, which would not only minimize the divide between the rich and the poor but the children of the poor parents would also be able to acquire modern education and play their due role in national development and prosperity. He said 262,500 students under the age of 4 to 15 years were getting education under non-formal basic education schools.
He said private educational institutions were doing a valuable service in the field of education and the government was providing all-out cooperation to the private sector in this regard. He said Punjab Education Foundation (PEF) was providing grant and scholarships to the private educational institutions and students.
He said the government was implementing a comprehensive programme for providing modern educational facilities to the children. He said the government schools had been given the status of English medium schools last year while Punjab government had also launched a vigorous campaign for primary enrolment and hundreds of thousands of children had been given admission to schools as a result of this campaign whereas the government was giving emphasis on the teacher training and funds had been provided to the department concerned for this purpose.
Local Government Secretary Khizer Hayat Gondal said that Punjab government was working on enrolment of children in schools. He said the literacy department was also starting programmes to increase number of students in non-formal education programmes.
JICA Project Coordinator Cheo Hashi said that his agency was working on quality non-formal education. He said that steps should be taken to decrease the number of dropping out students from educational institutes. JICA Programme Officer Bilal Aziz said that literacy and non-formal education department had initiated efforts in a bid to increase literacy rate in the province.
Mir Khalil-ur-Rahman Memorial Society (MKRMS) Chairman and Health, Education and Current Affairs Editor of Jang Group Wasif Nagi said Islam has emphasized a lot on the importance of education and quoted the Ahadiths of Holy Prophet (PBUH) in this regard. He said that Holy Prophet (PBUH) has emphasized to realize that education is the most important element for individuals and society as well.
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Focus on Friends - Southwest Regional Friends of the Library
In 2000, the Southwest Regional Library opened its doors to a very appreciative and excited community in Pembroke Pines. As part of the vision planning for the new libraries built with 1999 bond dollars, this 78,000 square foot building was designed with space off the lobby set aside for a gift shop and Friends office.
A new Friends group had to be formed. Within a month or so of opening the library, information sheets on the Friends of the Library in English and Spanish were available and placed at various locations throughout the building. The challenge was identifying people who wanted to become involved in forming this new group and supporting the activities of the library through the Friends.
Southwest Regional Library was a new library in a new community, with a large multi-cultural population. It was created to be the library for the Pembroke Pines Charter High School. The Academic Village on which the library is located also includes a Broward College Pines Center and FIU classes on campus.
With a huge demand for service in this geographic area, the library could not wait to begin programming. At this time, the generosity of other Friends groups provided the Regional Library with startup funding to allow the library to plan programs for children and youth, and to host meetings.
The library staff tried holding informational meetings at various times and on various days, including morning, afternoon, evenings, weekdays and Saturdays. After nearly a year of experimenting with days and times, the group settled into a weekday morning meeting.
During this time, the founding members were given information on the mission of the library, the role of its various programs and services. Staff and representatives from the umbrella group provided direction on the design of the bylaws and after a year, the bylaws were passed, nominations were made and the first officers were elected to serve the Southwest Regional Friends of the Library. The bylaws provided for representation on the Friends board from the Charter High School and Broward Community College.
The Southwest Regional Friends of the Library have ongoing book fairs and two larger fairs, one held during the Storybook Festival in the fall, which they also help to support, and the other during the month of March. The money raised by dues, fairs, the coffee shop, donations and other events help to support programming, advocacy and staff development.
The Southwest Regional Friends of the Library host a Holiday Appreciation Luncheon with entertainment for Friends and volunteers and an employee appreciation luncheon annually. They also support a Sunday Family Movie of the Month, Cinemateque, a film club which meets to view and discuss a film every month, and ongoing youth, teen, and literacy programs, as well as programs focused on health, books, authors, and finance. They have supported special programs such as the Human Rights Video Project, The Sixties, a Film History of America's Decade of Crisis and Change, and the Da Vinci Code Symposium.
This group also operates a coffee and snack shop, which is truly appreciated by the hundreds of teenagers who come into the library each day after school from the Pembroke Pines Charter High School.
The group has purchased equipment and furniture for the library such as a DVD player for the Cinemateque program, a flat screen TV for the teen room, a moveable audiovisual display rack, and patio furniture for the outside balconies.
The Southwest Regional Friends of the Library recognize the important mission of the library to reach out to all members of the community to provide a place where anyone can come for free programs and information. They support the English Café, a weekly program for individuals wanting to improve or practice English. They have gone to English Café classes and invited the students to become involved in the Friends group. In addition, they support Citizenship classes and El Club, a program for individuals who wish to improve their conversational Spanish.
The Friends play an advocacy role. They send staff to the American Library Association, Public Library Association and Florida Library Association conferences. They have joined FOLUSA. Libraries in Broward are as successful as they are today thanks to the efforts of the Friends, from 1963, until the present. The Southwest Regional Friends of the Library group has made a significant contribution over the past 10 plus years that they have been operational.
Opportunities for involvement in Friends groups exist at most Broward County Library branches. For information about other Friends groups, contact the Friends of the Broward County Library at 954-357-7771.
Remember: Good Friends make Great Libraries!
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MANILA, PHILIPPINES, August 5, 2009 - Over 150,000 mourners lined the streets of the Philippine capital of Manila for the funeral procession of former President Corazon "Cory" Aquino, considered by many as the 'Mother of Philippine Democracy.'
Aquino, 76, died early Saturday, August 1, in a Manila hospital after a yearlong battle with colon cancer.
Thousands trooped to a suburban Manila university stadium where Aquino's coffin, teeming with yellow roses and orchids, was displayed on a platform. Some mourners openly wept and waved yellow ribbons—the color that symbolized her democratic advocacy—as they watched the truck carrying the coffin slowly make its way through the streets of Manila on the way to the cemetery.
Millions also watched on TV and via Internet live streams as the nation said farewell to the woman who was reluctantly catapulted to prominence after her husband's assassination in 1983.
She went on to lead peaceful protests in 1986 against notorious dictator Ferdinand Marcos, forcing him into exile, before serving as president until 1992.
All slideshow photos: Bubuy Balangue/Asia Society Philippines Center.
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Animal & Veterinary
NRC Publishes Report on Horse, Cat, Dog Dietary Supplement Safety
by Jon. F. Scheid, Editor
FDA Veterinarian Newsletter May / June 2008 Volume XXIII, No III
The National Research Council (NRC) has published a report examining considerations for the safe use of dietary sup-plements in companion animals, highlighting needs for consistent data, a good system of adverse event reporting, and clarification of the regulations covering the supplements.
The Center for Veterinary Medicine commissioned the report, “Safety of Dietary Supplements for Horses, Dogs, and Cats,” to help the Food and Drug Administration address the public’s desire to use dietary supplements for companion animals.
The Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA), passed in 1994, created a less restricted pathway for die-tary supplements for humans to get to market. Since then, CVM has maintained that the less restrictive pathway should not apply to products for animals. However, according to the report’s summary, FDA and other regulatory bodies are “un-der pressure” to resolve the gulf between the public’s desire to use the products and the different regulatory requirements. The committee was charged with developing considerations about the safety of the products, but not about product utility or efficacy.
According to the summary, “The report was intended to help form the basis of a more general framework for evaluating animal dietary supplement safety.” The committee used public data to conduct safety assessments of three dietary sup-plements – lutein, evening primrose oil, and garlic. “The knowledge gained from conducting these assessments allowed the committee to review and begin to define factors that should be considered when evaluating the safety of animal die-tary supplements in general,” the summary said.
A key finding listed in the report’s summary was that data on safety for dietary supplements fell short of what would typically be required for reviewing the safety of animal drugs or animal food additives. In addition, it said, “There is a clear need for a comprehensive adverse event reporting system.” Existing systems have limitations for supplements, it said.
The report also recommended that FDA review the regulation of animal dietary supplements. The regulations need to differentiate between an animal dietary supplement, a food additive, and an animal drug, “as well as factors that differenti-ate regulation of human and animal dietary supplements.”
To develop the report, the NRC assembled a committee of experts, including animal nutritionists, veterinarians, clinical pharmacologists, and toxicologists. Dr. William Price, special assistant to the Director of CVM’s Division of Animal Feeds and project officer for the report, described the panel members as “highly qualified scientists” in the areas of animal health and nutrition.
On the panel were:
- Dr. Jim E. Riviere, (Chair), D.V.M., Ph.D., North Carolina State University
- Dr. Dawn M. Boothe, D.V.M., Ph.D., Auburn University
- Dr. Gail L. Czarnecki-Maulden, Ph.D., Nestle Purina PetCare PT
- Dr. David A. Dzanis, D.V.M., Ph.D., Dzanis Consulting and Collaborations
- Dr. Patricia A. Harris, M.R.C.V.S., Ph.D., Waltham Centre for Pet Nutrition
- Dr. Wouter H. Hendricks, Ph.D., Wageningen Agricultural University
- Dr. Claudia A. Kirk, D.V.M., Ph.D., The University of Tennessee
- Dr. Lori K. Warren, Ph.D., University of Florida
Copies of the report are available from the National Academies Press, 500 Fifth Street, N.W., Lockbox 285, Washignton, DC 20055; (800) 624-6242, or (in the Washington, DC, area) (202) 334-3313; http://nap.edu.
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Integrated Circuit Image Gallery
Texas Instruments 486DX Microprocessor
In 1989, the 32-bit 80486 heralded the fourth generation of microprocessors with two radical innovations: the integration of a floating-point unit along with the processor and the addition of an internal 8-Kbyte memory cache. With 1.2 million transistors on an 81-square millimeter silicon die, the 486 chip was created with 1.0-micron complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technology. This microprocessor took the world's personal computer markets by storm, and was issued by the designer, Intel, and licensed manufacturers such as Texas Instruments, IBM, Advanced Micro Devices, and Cyrix.
View a low magnification image of the TI486DX processor.
View a high magnification image of the TI486DX processor.
The 486 processor initially had a clock speed of 25 MHz and a 5-volt power requirement. There are many subsequent models of the 486 processor, some including clock doubling and tripling, and embedded and low-power versions, making the family much larger than the previous 386 corps.
Texas Instruments released a 486 microprocessor clone in 1992. As with other licensed look-alikes, the Texas Instruments 486 chip is virtually identical to Intel's original design. Although largely obsolete in the personal computer market, TI486s are featured as on-board processors for modern electronics equipment such as data acquisition processors and in embedded applications with improved cache memories, clock speeds, and lower power requirements. As with its 386 predecessor, this CPU received a "DX" designation after the release of the less expensive and less powerful 486SX chip.
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Invitation to lead
5 students attend Asian American, Pacific Islander (AAPI) Youth Leadership Briefing
An invitation from the White House sent to the Office of Multicultural Affairs invited five Wake Forest students to join nearly 200 delegates from colleges, universities and high schools across the country for the first Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Youth Leadership Briefing.
The event was held at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 12.
The White House website live streamed the conversations with college and high school AAPI students about issues such as access to higher education, community service and civil rights.
Xinxin (Stephanie) Zhang, a junior chemistry major from Lumberton, N.C., and Xizi Liao, a junior business and enterprise management major from Shanghai, China, two of the students who attended the briefing, share their experiences of the event in their own words.
“Where my brothers at?” bellowed Eddie Lee, associate director of the White House Office of Public Engagement at a group of young leaders from campuses all over the U.S. at the briefing. I was in the auditorium with the rest of the Wake Forest delegation.
I was amazed by the depth of knowledge that the students had about issues such as the crippling increase of tuition, declining quality of education, and ostracism of AAPI individuals at school. Although the current state of the economy, as well as certain limits in government control, make a perfect solution impossible at the moment, the White House officials were able to give detailed responses of measures currently in place.
Officials also proposed steps that students could take to ensure their concerns are heard, such as writing directly to the secretary of the Department of Education (where every single piece of mail has to be tagged, read, and replied to).
I was pleasantly surprised to hear the individual backgrounds of some of the speakers. AAPI youths, especially those who grew up in the states, often face parental and societal pressures to pursue stereotypical careers in the fields of engineering, medicine or law. Many of the officials had, indeed, tried to tread these paths before realizing their true calling and going on to have immensely successful careers in government, which goes to show the importance of having the bravery to pursue what means the most to you.
Despite being the fastest growing minority in the U.S., the AAPI community is rarely directly addressed by the government. In fact, the broad grouping of East Asian and Pacific Islander individuals together as “Asian” has produced a set of data that fails to truly reflect any of its subgroups.
This briefing was an excellent beginning on the part of the White House to address the challenges faced by AAPI communities. It is my hope that with the collaboration between youth leaders and activists and the government, the AAPI community of the U.S. will continue to reach for its true potential.
Being the only-child of the family, I hope to grow into the global citizen my parents expect me to be. Going to a college that is almost 8000 miles away from home was not an easy decision. However, I am glad that I persuaded my parents, because coming to Wake Forest University has opened so many doors for me.
I consider myself very lucky to be able to pursue my higher education in the U.S. I am able to broaden my horizons every day by learning from my professors and fellow students. I continue to push myself outside of my comfort zone, so I can benefit from the intellectually stimulating academic and social environment. As a junior, however, I started to wonder what the future holds for me as an international student in the U.S.? During the panel on AAPI issues in higher education, I challenged myself to stand in front of the microphone to pose my question.
“My name is Xizi Liao. I am a student at Wake Forest University,” I introduced myself, “I understand that federal government does not have direct funding for international students, but realizing international students serve an integral role in communicating across borders, what kind of suggestions would the federal government give to my fellow international students after they complete college?” With the lack of social support, international students struggle with gaining the same kind of work experience as their peers.
I learned about networking, following my passions, campus activism and the 10-Cs (Compelling Argument, Confidence, Community, Critical data, Consistent, Creative, Continuation, Compassion, Courage and Charm) — crucial factors for strategic leadership.
I ask all student leaders to take action in their organizations. The White House AAPI Youth Leadership Briefing is just the beginning of the conversation. Be the change you want to see, and be the voice you want to hear.
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A 584-foot bridge over the eastbound lanes of the 210 freeway — the first major piece of infrastructure for the Gold Line Foothill Extension — is now complete, on time and on budget. The media had their chance to see the bridge this morning and a public ceremony will be held Saturday from 10 a.m. until noon at Newcastle Park in Arcadia (101 W. Colorado Boulevard).
The Foothill Extension will extend the Gold Line from its final station in Pasadena for 11.5 miles to the Azusa/Glendora border, near both Citrus College and Azusa Pacific University. The new $18.6-million bridge will take the two train tracks from the middle of the 210 freeway across the eastbound lanes to the south side of the freeway.
The project will have one set of tracks in each direction and is being built atop an old freight railroad right-of-way. An old bridge that spanned the 210 was demolished because of seismic concerns following the 1993 Northridge earthquake.
The concept and design for the new bridge was conceived by Andrew Leicester, who told the media that he wanted to build a structure that served as a gateway to the San Gabriel Valley. The San Gabriel Mountain foothills have long been an important travel corridor in Southern California, beginning with Native Americans and continuing to the advent of Route 66 and, later, the 210 freeway. Leicester said the 25-foot-tall baskets on the bridge commemorate the main tool Native Americans used in their travels.
Habib Balian, the CEO of the Gold Line Foothill Extension Construction Authority, said that 92 percent of the materials used to construct the bridge were manufactured in Southern California.
Skanksa USA was the contractor that built the bridge; architecture and engineering was done by AECOM.
The Construction Authority is an independent agency building the line that will be operated by Metro. The project is funded by Measure R, the sales tax increase approved by Los Angeles County voters in 2008.
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Study Games Design
Posted 05 October 2010 - 01:06 PM
I come from germany and i am going to study next year on a university. I want to study something about games design.
Could you give me some examples of subjects are possible to study in a university? The german internet is not useful in find some information about it.
I am more interessted in graphics.
Posted 05 October 2010 - 02:22 PM
Posted 05 October 2010 - 04:35 PM
Its not that i dont know, but there are so many ways. What is the best way? And which ways are there?
Posted 05 October 2010 - 05:17 PM
Posted 05 October 2010 - 07:42 PM
Posted 05 October 2010 - 07:49 PM
For electives, I'd add a couple computer graphics classes from a Computer Science department, so that you can understand the fundamentals of the concepts that make up the foundation of the tools you'll use for the rest of your life. It's nice to know how to light a scene, but exactly how is lighting done in programs, generally?
One last piece of advice: don't over-specialize in school. You may never make it into the games industry professionally, and may want to take your degree to other venues that could use your work. (TV and other media, etc...) Sounds counter-intuitive, but it isn't. Plus, I don't want someone who knows how to use Maya, I want someone who can portray a fantasy character in a way that I've never seen before. IOW, it's not your Maya class that makes you hireable, it's your portfolio with cool artwork that does; IMO, cool artwork comes from inspiration, and inspiration is fed most from breadth of experiences.
Posted 05 October 2010 - 08:03 PM
Posted 05 October 2010 - 08:34 PM
You get the basic background on which you can build up, later on you can of course do some internships, like in my case hardware and software but the same as above: You have to learn the bigger part on your own.
Ah, and you can also choose a subsidiary subject. I think with bachelor you know also have to choose a subsidiary subject.
Posted 05 October 2010 - 08:51 PM
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Today marks the first day of World Breastfeeding Week
, a global event dedicated to encouraging breastfeeding and improving the health of babies. Both the World Health Organization and the American Pediatric Association
recommend that mothers exclusively breastfeed for the first six months, and ideally continue (with the addition of solid foods) even longer.
For some moms, though, that goal can be difficult to meet, especially in the U.S., where paid maternity leave is not guaranteed, and many new mothers return to their jobs within 12 weeks of giving birth. We spoke with Diane Spatz, Ph.D., professor of perinatal nursing and a nurse researcher at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, about the benefits of breastfeeding, some of the common challenges that new moms face, and how to make it work.
Why do you recommend that mothers make every effort to breastfeed their babies?
There are so many benefits, I could go on and on. Every day that a mother breastfeeds, she produces a whole host of antibodies in response to the baby’s environment. Breastmilk is easy for babies to digest, and breastfed infants tend to have less constipation, reflux, and other digestive problems. Babies who are breastfed also get extra protection against SIDS as well as health issues like obesity and diabetes later in life.
How can new moms get a good start with breastfeeding?
That first week after giving birth is critical in terms of setting you up for long-term success. Get help early on if you need it, whether it’s from a family member who has breastfed, a lactation consultant, a nurse, or a moms support group. And before you give birth, ask the hospital about the availability of professionals to help with breastfeeding, and whether they’re available for free or on a sliding scale.
Exclusive breastfeeding is often difficult for moms who have to go back to work. Do babies still benefit from pumped breastmilk?
Yes. If you have to go back to work, feeding your infant pumped milk can still help reduce his or her risk of infection. In fact, if you’re sending your baby to a day care center, which are notoriously germy, breastfeeding can actually help protect your child from getting sick.
What about supplementing? If you can only breastfeed your baby a couple of times a day, or you can only pump one or two bottles of milk a day, is it worth it?
Absolutely. It’s not all or nothing. The longer mom breastfeeds, and the most exclusively she breastfeeds, the more health benefits that the baby—and mom—will receive. But even if you can’t exclusively breastfeed for six months, but say, you can supplement for eight months, or exclusively breastfeed for three months, that’s great, too. Any breastfeeding at all is better than none.
What are some ways to help ensure that breastfeeding continues after a woman returns to her job?
About two weeks before you go back, pump when your baby has a long period of sleep, and have someone else give the baby a bottle of pumped milk, so that the baby gets practice drinking from a bottle. This can also help you build up a stockpile of breastmilk in the freezer, which can make you feel less stressed about having enough milk for your baby while you’re away from home. It’s also important to invest in a high-quality breast pump; you want a double-electric pump that can plug into the wall and pump both breasts at once. Keep in mind that while a good pump can be expensive (about $200 to $300), it’s less than the cost of buying formula.
Women should also know about their legal protections. Talk to your employer before you go out on maternity leave so that there’s a plan established before you head back to work. The Affordable Care Act mandates that employers (with more than 50 employees) provide women with time and space—that’s not a bathroom—to pump. For information about the law, go to usbreastfeeding.org.
The Surprising Safety Hazard In Your Baby’s Nursery
Why Babies Need Daddy Time
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I recently watched a TED talk by Seth Godin and it spoke on purpose and connection. I encourage you to watch it, if you have a few minutes. But if you don’t, what it said to me, and how it applies to our industries, was this. We are used to seeing the business model of a top person in charge, creating many ideas, but only creating average ideas. They throw a lot of money towards ad campaigns with the intent of hypnotizing everyone into purchasing their product. But there’s something big missing here. The TED talk used an example of a tribal peoples’ need to connect as a community. They understood what their people needed and therefore they created quality ideas that worked within that community. They built a culture of connection to one another that were not forced for selfish motives, but were desired by all.
A connection can equal any one or more of the following few examples: trust, friendship, compatibility, a long term relationship, admiration, respect, compassion, empathy, listening…the list goes on. People want and need to be valued. They want to really feel that the other person is truly interested in them and understands who they are.
“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.” – Stephen R. Covey
They need us to listen with the intent to understand. They want to feel that the salesperson is compelled to listen instead of expressing their own agenda. A person desires a relationship that is fun with someone excited about speaking with them. Where a good sales pitch may result in a sale, a connection results in a long term member of a family of good, true and dedicated customers who will not only buy from you once, they’ll buy from you more than once, and they’ll also become your greatest advocate. This is what you all know as a “Lifelong Customer.“
Another clear and necessary understanding is that a connection is not what people want, it is what they need. They need, in order to fulfill their own desires for connection, to make connections. So, for a moment, ask yourself what is the primary goal of successful salespeople and what is it that they actually need to accomplish? Assuming their message is heard by enough prospective customers, what MUST they ultimately achieve to sustain success?
The one-on-one salesperson is yearning for more meaningfulness in their vocation to fill up their ‘emotional tanks,’ but are disconnected from it in some ways. We’ve heard the used-car salesmen jokes and the pokes at their insincerity and dishonesty. But most salespeople don’t see themselves in this light, nor do they want to be portrayed this way. Dealerships spend a ton of time and money on their showroom, inventory, advertising and website, in an effort to build traffic, increase leads, improve conversions, and increase sales; but, it’s all emotionally meaningless. Salespeople need to find a single way to bridge the gap between their prospects needs for connection, and their own need for connection. These two elements for success and fulfillment go hand in hand.
So what will accomplish spanning this gap? The salesperson’s connection to as many people as possible and the permission for them to use that opportunity to express their belief to that individual: the reason why they are different, why they are unique and why that person, that shopper, should choose their dealership to fulfill their needs. Whether it be freedom (a new RV), identity (a new bike) or security (a new car) for instance, salespeople don’t win when they focus on selling a thing. They can’t hypnotize, mesmerize, sweet talk or strong arm them into saying yes, and they definitely can’t sales-pitch them into it. They might get a few small successes using outdated tactics, but they will never be winners this way. The problem is they are not driving their efforts toward the one thing that customer absolutely requires: that they are connected to the person or persons who will strive to meet or exceed their needs.
This is what has been missing… Connection.
We all need to make a clear and concise change towards connection. And in order to make this change we need to practice 3 small things: empathy, generosity and authenticity. The root concept from which these values originate reflects an age old, instinctive and primitive need that we should care for and nurture our and our neighbors success while building sincere, meaningful relationships. How can we do that more? How can we do that today?
Need a better way to connect? Connect with Holly at LeadCrafters 954-861-0206.
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Families in the Gaza Strip who are used to living in very difficult conditions are now running out of food and water, say aid agencies.
As the Israeli assault on the area continues, hospitals are running out of supplies and more than 1.7 million people - half of whom are children - have been trapped in their houses for days, with power cuts lasting up to 18 hours a day.
Some 84 Palestinians and three Israelis have died since the conflict broke out again last week.
“It is a dangerous and terrifying time for children - who make up nearly half the population of the Gaza Strip,” said Osama Damp, one of the Save the Children’s team in Gaza.
“Most families have been trapped at home for four days, unable to leave to find basic supplies. With so many children already malnourished and suffering from anaemia; the impact on children’s health is potentially devastating," he added.
“There is no clean water so children are going to have to start drinking the polluted tap water soon which is going to cause more severe health problems. When they fall ill their parents can’t take them to hospital,” said Mr Damp.
Schools and clinics have been badly affected. Twenty-five schools have been damaged along with two clinics and one hospital. The damage to schools will affect children from both Gaza and Israel as schools will remain closed for the duration of this conflict.
Save the Children has launched an emergency response to the escalating violence.
As soon as it is safe to do so, the agency says, teams will distribute food parcels, water and shelter materials to families, and vital medicines to hospitals.
The internationally recognised aid agency organisation will also set up child spaces with specially trained staff and counsellors to help children cope with their experiences and support basic education to re-start.
Alex Schein, Save the Children’s country director, explained: “The escalation of violence on top of an already fragile situation is extremely dangerous for children. They are being deeply affected by what they have experienced, and many could need specialist care and support.
“The fear among adults is unbelievable so you can imagine what it’s like for children,” he concluded.
Global relief and development NGOs iare calling for an immediate and permanent cease-fire.
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The University of Pennsylvania
has long been acclaimed for its extraordinary resources in the study and teaching of the ancient world. The School of Arts and Sciences
is home to an unusual number of distinguished scholars who specialize in various aspects of the ancient Old and New worlds – their languages, history, archaeology, anthropology, art history, philosophy, economy, politics, and sciences, to name only a few – and the Penn Museum
houses a renowned collection of artifacts from the Americas, Asia, Polynesia, China, Africa, Egypt, the Ancient Near East, and the Greek, Roman, and Etruscan Worlds. The Center for Ancient Studies at the University of Pennsylvania strives to bring together students and faculty, as well as members of the greater Philadelphia community, who share a passion for the ancient world, through the promotion and support of events pertaining to pre-modern societies.
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The Master of Business Administration (MBA) full-time programme is targeted at business professionals who want to become tomorrow’s leaders and managers, and who are looking for a comprehensive education on business management in a global context. In this programme students learn to integrate the main business processes of organizations into effective and efficient corporate strategy. In addition, they learn to deal with the diverse and sometimes diverging interests of various stakeholders involved in international business. The programme requires a minimum of 3 years of work experience and prepares graduates for senior and general management positions. The programme focuses on leadership and management in a (inter)national context.
Our educational concept is characterized by small group sizes, and intensive contact between students and staff. Next to lectures and workshops, students work in teams as well as individually on practice-based and experience-based projects and case studies. Students interact with the world of practice through guest lectures by entrepreneurs, senior business executives and knowledge experts, seminars and company visits. Our teaching staff is selected to ensure a interesting mixture of business experience and expertise in applied research. Throughout the programme the integration between different knowledge areas is strongly emphasized. The full programme is taught in English.
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Schmidhuber's "New AI" seeks to base AI in prediction. It benefits by being based purely on the theory of computation. It need thus only be generally computable and not necessarily regular:
"One of the most brilliant mathematicians of the last and current century is John Horton Conway. Near the middle of the last century he formalized a notion of game in terms of a certain recursive data structure. He went on to show that every notion of number that has made it into the canon of numerical notions could be given representations in terms of this data structure. These ideas are documented in his delightful On Numbers and Games. Knuth popularized some of these ideas in his writings on surreal numbers."
Rudy Rucker on cellular automata: "I was first hooked on modern cellular automata by [Wolfram84]. In this article, Wolfram suggested that many physical processes that seem random are in fact the deterministic outcome of computations that are simply so convoluted that they cannot be compressed into shorter form and predicted in advance. He spoke of these computations as "incompressible," and cited cellular automata as good examples."
"We have seen that the Glider Gun generates ordered gliders every 30 generations, and that the generation process is chaotic: it exhibits the butterfly effect."
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What is Deep Freeze and
Why Should I Care?
The Niagara Wheatfield CSD utilizes a piece of security software called Deep Freeze. This application "freezes" the computer's configuration. This means that anything a student or staff person might do to the computer, i.e. load software, change settings, remove software, download music, will be lost upon reset or shut down. This protects the computer from viruses, maintains legal licensing of software, and maintains stability of the computer.
The key part of using this security application is that a teacher, student or staff member must not save their work to the desktop or hard drive of the computer. All work must be saved to the server.
If a teacher finds that they need permanent changes to their computer's configuration, they should call our Help Desk Receptionist, Kara Sykes, at x.3650. Your computer can be "thawed", changed and then "frozen" again.
As a teacher utilizes computers for instruction, any time a computer is malfunctioning ask the student to restart the computer. This will return the computer to its original configuration. It is good practice to ask students to restart, not shut down their computers at the end of each class. This way a teacher knows that the next class will be using computers that have been returned to their original configuration and the computer is ready for the next student to login.
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It was recently revealed that drivers convicted of texting while driving are being shunned by insurance companies as they take conviction for texting and driving extremely seriously. Though the penalty for using your mobile phone to text or make a call while driving is similar to that of a driver caught speeding. The insurers take the view that you can accidentally break the speed limit without knowing or due to factors you cannot control but with texting while driving or using your mobile to make a call while driving is a deliberate act.
Some insurance companies are said to have completely blacklisted drivers who have conviction for using a mobile phone behind the wheel and refuse to give them and insurance quote. Others are still willing to give a quote for convicted text drivers but the quotation is bumped up by 20% or more.
Some of the reason using a mobile phone while driving is considered more dangerous than speeding includes the fact that you cannot change gear (if you are driving a manual car), you are not fully looking at the road when you are texting and your concentration is severely affected when making a call on your mobile and driving.
Drivers with speeding conviction tends to see their premium rise by about £60 a year, it is estimated that any of the 170,000 drivers in England and Wales convicted or using their mobile while driving will see their insurance premium go up by significantly more than that of someone convicted of speed driving. The best remedy for this is to strictly observe the rule of not using your mobile phone behind when you are driving.
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Lonnie Shelton behind the wheel of his new collectible
In 1948 the Ford Motor Co. presented baseball great Babe Ruth with a new Lincoln Continental two-door hardtop coupe to show their appreciation for his tireless devotion
to Little Leaguers and the sport of baseball. It is believed to be the last car Ruth ever
drove before he died of cancer in August of that year.
Lonnie Shelton, a big Ruth and baseball fan from Pampa, Texas, recently acquired
the car for an undisclosed amount. The “Yankee” blue colored car had been parked
the past 35 years in a couple of museums in Minnesota and Texas. The new owner
said it has 81,000 original miles on it.
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Revision as of 18:22, 8 February 2013
When battles reach epic level, super and hyper weapons become more common.
Super weapons are the second largest creations to show themselves on the battlefield. There is no direct classification for super weapons, but usually they're just big vehicles with bigger guns. Examples of super weapons include the Assyrian Armoured Core, the Immortal Blood-Wrath, the Thermion PA, and Scythian Behemoth. Only factions with an incredible amount of teknologie can construct super-weapons of any kind, they are not all large but all require amazing feats of engineering.
Hyper weapons are the ultimate in stuff-breaking technology. Not only do they break physical aspects of a battle field, but the use of a hyper weapon can even break the mighty and all powerful rules. It does this by utilizing pure awesome, a subsidery of manliness. Some very advanced civilisations have begun testing teknologies which might be capable of producing the desired effect but none have actually completed one yet. A famous example of this is the dark star, capable a destroying entire planets with its luminous beam of all-encompassing power. It almost harnessed enough pure awesome to be considered a hyper weapon, but it was only a testing ground for the real weapon. No-one knows what that will be.
Possible explinations of what hyper weapons could encompass include...
- Angry Drunken Human Device (ADHD) - a powerfull weapon which shoots the sky to rip a hole in reality, allowing the gods to smite down the puny minifig units with their gargantuan fists. Often times maniacal laughter can be heard afterwards.
- The combined nine artifax of pre-creation - Nobody knows what would happen, but it's probally going to be pretty cool huh?
- TL-7 technology - For some reason many people do not believe there is such a thing as TL-7. That's because nobody has invented hyper weapons yet! I'm sure they would be commonplace in the invisible and undetectable tek-level 7.
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The sexual revolution of post-World War II America changed sexual and gender roles profoundly.
With reports from hundreds of sub-Saharan African locales of male-male sexual relations and from about fifty of female-female sexual relations, it is clear that same-sex sexual relations existed in traditional African societies, though varying in forms and in the degree of public acceptance
In British law, Section 28 of the Local Government Act, enforced from 1988 until 2003, prohibited the promotion of homosexuality and teaching the acceptability of homosexuality as a "pretended family relationship".
The Hijras--men who dress and act like women--have been a presence in India for generations, maintaining a third-gender role that has become institutionalized through tradition.
The dominant ideology among politicized lesbians during the 1970s and 1980s, Lesbian Feminism was based on the premise that lesbianism and feminism were inextricably linked.
Harvey Milk, among the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in the United States, was assassinated in San Francisco's City Hall, making him the American gay liberation movement's most visible martyr.
By the early twentieth-century, YMCAs had become popular havens for men who sought sex with other men.
Compulsory heterosexuality is the assumption that women and men are innately attracted to each other emotionally and sexually and that heterosexuality is universal, a view that leads to an institutional inequality of power that privileges heterosexual males and denigrates women, especially lesbians.
Congratulations to the late Jeanne Manford, the co-founder of PFLAG (Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbian and Gays), who has been named one of 13 recipients of the 2012 Presidential Citizens Medal, the nation's second highest civilian honor.
The Presidential Citizens Medal, established in 1969, is bestowed by the President of the United States on individuals who have performed exemplary deeds or services for his or her country or fellow citizens. Second in prestige only to the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the award may be bestowed only on United States citizens and may be awarded posthumously.
As Paul Schindler reports in Gay City News, Jeanne Manford, who died on January 7, 2013, is only the second person to be honored with a Presidential Citizens Medal for gay rights activism.
A 2011 Presidential Citizens Medal was awarded to Janice Langbein, a lesbian who sued a Miami hospital after she and her three young children were denied the right to visit her partner, Lisa Marie Pond, as she lay dying after suffering a brain aneurysm in 2007. (In 2001, Dr. David N. Ho and actress Elizabeth Taylor were awarded Presidential Citizens Medals for their work in AIDS research and prevention.)
In 2009, President Obama recognized gay rights pioneer and martyr Harvey Milk with a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest honor.
Jeanne Manford became active on behalf of glbtq rights in 1972 after her late son Morty, a Columbia University student who became an activist after witnessing the Stonewall rebellion in 1969, was beaten during a Gay Activists Alliance demonstration.
She and her husband Jules were outraged by the attack on their son, and Jeanne Manford wrote a letter to the editor of the New York Post decrying the fact that police officers had stood by and allowed it to happen. In her letter, she said, "I have a homosexual son and I love him."
She was a school teacher and when the story was picked up by the New York Times, her principal asked her to be "more discreet" because parents were complaining. Jeanne Manford staunchly defended her right to speak freely, and the principal demurred.
Both Jeanne and Jules Manford began to reach out to even wider audiences. They and their son were invited to appear on a television show in Boston shortly after the letter to the editor was published. Radio and television stations in other cities sought them out as well, and the Manfords--sometimes with their son, and sometimes by themselves--traveled to venues including New Orleans, Detroit, and Toronto to speak out against discrimination.
In June 1972 Jeanne Manford marched alongside her son in the Christopher Street Liberation Day parade, carrying a sign that read "Parents of Gays: Unite in Support of Our Children."
When young people along the parade route began rushing up to her, kissing her, and imploring her to talk to their parents, she realized the need for a support group for families. The opportunity to start one came a short while later when she mentioned the idea to a fellow panelist--a then-closeted Methodist minister--at a discussion sponsored by the Homosexual Community Counseling Service, and he offered the use of his church for meetings.
Jeanne and Jules Manford called the fledgling group Parents of Gays. Some twenty people attended the first meeting.
"It was very slow at the beginning," recalled Jeanne Manford later, noting that some subsequent meetings drew only three or four people, "but we always felt that if we helped one person, it was worth the effort."
Though the start may have been halting and the scope at first limited, the results of the Manfords' initiative have been enormous: Parents of Gays grew into PFLAG (Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays), which, as of 2007, had some 500 chapters and more than 200,000 members and supporters.
Manford's fellow 2012 Medal recipients include former Pennsylvania Senator Harris Wofford, the six women who died defending young children in the Newtown, Connecticut school shootings, pediatrician Terry Brazelton, two military veterans, and activists and professionals working on issues of poverty, Native American youth, veterans' and women's disabilities, and immigration.
A full list of the 2012 Presidential Citizens Medalists, with brief biographies, may be found here.
They will be honored at a White House ceremony on February 15, 2013.
In the video below, from a 2009 Human Rights Campaign dinner, President Obama tells the story of Jeanne Manford and PFLAG.
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How UKIP became a British political force
Finishing a close second in the Eastleigh by-election was almost the Westminster breakthrough the UK Independence Party has been threatening to make. But how has the party gone from the fringes to a force in British politics.
The UK Independence Party has, as its name implies, one key policy - to leave the European Union.
It is a simple, understandable message, which has led to the party gaining bigger shares of the votes in European elections.
But it is also one which means people often dismiss it as a single issue party, unlikely to become a force in Westminster politics.
It has spent considerable effort on broadening its appeal. And judging from recent opinion polls its wider policies - grammar schools, curbing immigration and opposing gay marriage - seem to have struck a chord with disenchanted voters from the "big three".
In Eastleigh, it - rather than Labour - seems to have become the party of choice for the anti-government and anti-politics vote.
Put those together and UKIP came agonisingly close to making its Westminster breakthrough 20 years after it was formed - and 19 years after it got just 1.7% of the vote in the last Eastleigh by-election.
The party was founded on 3 September 1993 at the London School of Economics by members of the Anti-Federalist League, which had been founded by Dr Alan Sked in November 1991 with the aim of running candidates opposed to the Maastricht Treaty in the 1992 general election.
UKIP's growing share of the vote
- 1999 Euros: 7%
- 2001 Gen Election: 1.5% (saved deposit in one seat)
- 2004 Euros: 16%
- 2005 Gen Election: 2.3% (saved deposit in 38 seats)
- 2009 Euros: 16.5%
- 2010 Gen Election: 3.2% (saved deposit in 100 seats)
Candidates must get 5% of votes cast to save their deposit
UKIP's early days were overshadowed by the much higher profile and well-financed Referendum Party, led by Sir James Goldsmith, which was wound up soon after the 1997 election.
The new party's initial successes were all in the proportional representation elections for the European Parliament - winning its first three seats in 1999 with 7% of the vote.
It built on that in 2004, winning 12 seats and pushing the Lib Dems into fourth place. The 2009 poll saw its total grow to 13 seats, pushing Labour into third place with 16% of the vote.
General elections, however, with their first-past-the-post voting systems, have been a very different story and the party has failed to make the breakthrough it has been hoping for.
In 2001 it saved its deposit (that is, got at least 5% of votes) in just one seat. In 2005 it saved its deposit in 38 seats but lost its deposits in 451 others - costing about £225,500. Even its then leader, former Tory MP Roger Knapman, could only poll 7% of the votes in Totnes, Devon.Chat show host Kilroy
In 2010 it was led into the general election by Lord Pearson of Rannoch but again lost out, with just 3% of the vote across the UK, although there were signs of progress as it saved its deposit in 100 seats.
The party had hoped to make headlines after Nigel Farage stood down as leader so he could take on Speaker John Bercow in Buckingham at the 2010 election - he did make the headlines but it turned out they were about a plane crash that almost cost Farage his life, rather than election success.
Farage recovered from his injuries and returned to head the party later in the year, in the latest instalment of the colourful story of UKIP's leadership.
Original leader and UKIP founder Alan Sked quit before the 1999 European elections, after arguing the party should refuse seats in the "gravy train" of the Strasbourg Parliament.
Shortly after that, the national executive lost a no confidence vote and leader Michael Holmes resigned, although he remained an MEP.
Mr Knapman took over the role of leader in 2002, but in 2004, a new pretender to the crown - former Labour MP and chat show host Robert Kilroy-Silk - arrived in a flurry of media publicity to shake things up once again.
Before long he was openly jockeying for the leadership and was the media face of the party for the 2004 European election success - but when Mr Knapman refused to stand aside for him, Mr Kilroy-Silk quit and formed his own short-lived rival party.
Some thought that without ex-TV host Kilroy's recognition factor the party might struggle.Farage returns
In 2006, the lower-key Knapman retired, to be replaced by Nigel Farage, an eye-catching media performer who pledged to make UKIP a "truly representative party", ending its image as a single-issue pressure group.
He spearheaded its success at the 2009 European elections and raised UKIP's profile, but then surprised his own party conference in September 2009 by standing down as leader.
Mr Farage said he would instead run for a seat in the Commons - specifically the seat of Commons Speaker John Bercow, which, by convention, other major parties do not fight. Mr Farage said it was "very important that UKIP gets a voice in Westminster".
Eton-educated Lord Pearson was Mr Farage's choice to replace him - but the peer never seemed at home in the job - for instance, admitting at the 2010 general election manifesto launch that he was not quite across the party's policy detail.
Mr Farage continued to be the highest-profile UKIP member - making headlines, and a viral video success, after telling the in-coming President of the European Council Herman van Rompuy that he had "the charisma of a damp rag".
Following the 2010 election Lord Pearson announced in August 2010 he was stepping down, saying he did not enjoy party politics - five hopefuls entered the race to succeed him, with Farage triumphing.'I'm a bit odd'
Since then the party has gradually seen its poll ratings rise, overtaking the Lib Dems on a number of occasions, and putting in strong showings in recent by-elections.
The gains for the party coincide with the higher profile given to the debate about Europe, which culminated in David Cameron pledging to hold and an in/out referendum on UK membership of the EU if the Conservatives won the next election.
UKIP membership figures
- 2002 9,000
- 2003 16,000
- 2004 26,000
- 2005 19,000
- 2006 16,000
- 2007 15,878
- 2008 14,630
- 2009 16,252
- 2010 15,535
- 2011 17,184
While Mr Farage criticised the decision to delay the vote by five years, he claimed the prime minister's promise showed "we have changed the political agenda in this country" calling it "our proudest achievement to date".
Immigration has also been an issue and UKIP, which rejects charges of being racist, sees the EU question being at the heart of it.
Speaking after the Eastleigh result, Mr Farage said:"If you want to have a managed migration policy, you cannot remain a member of the European Union.
"My prediction is, that over the next year or two, as the European debate gathers pace in this country, the issue of immigration and border controls will become the absolute key to the whole thing."
It is the sort of easily understood message that has increased Mr Farage's profile - as has his Boris Johnson-esque political maverick style, such as recently laughing off David Cameron's jibe that UKIP had some pretty odd people in it.
Asked about it on the Today programme in January he said: "Yes, I am a bit odd" for a politician.
"I'm odd in the sense that I'm a conviction politician, I'm not doing this for a career... I'm here as a campaigner. I want to free this country from the European Union and then I want us to have a much smaller level of state interference in our lives in this country."
Mr Farage said his party was making "huge progress" towards achieving that goal going in one year from 4.5% in the polls to a high of 16%.
UKIP has been seen as attracting Tories unhappy with the party's priorities under David Cameron and its coalition's record - something Farage sought to highlight in his post by-election claim that voters want an alternative to "the three social democratic parties".
In that Today interview he said UKIP did not have any MPs because "the first-past-the-post system is brutal to a party like us".
That may have been so at past general elections - but 28% of the vote and a close second place finish in Eastleigh have shown that, at the very least in Westminster by-elections as well as European elections, UKIP is now a force to be reckoned with.
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China’s Unnatural Disaster
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Filmmaker Jon Alpert discuss his investigation into the 2008 Sichuan earthquake that destroyed many poorly constructed schools, killing an estimated 10,000 children. His documentary "China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province" follows parents who seek answers and are ignored and intimidated by the Chinese government, which attempted to censor and suppress any inquiry into the tragedy. “China’s Unnatural Disaster” has been nominated for an Oscar, and it is showing at MoMA February 28.
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There is only one healing force, and that is nature.
My favourite are roads that haven't been ridden for years. Sometimes, I leave a log on the road to see if someone else will travel here. When I return in a year or two, seeing my log has not been moved suggests that I still have no followers.
Chernobyl is so easily forgotten because it was only known to ourselves. In a first years after the accident we didn't want to share our story with the world, now we can not share it, we hardly remember it ourselves. All that remains of the tragic tale is a memory, weak and disfigured by time. In the future, indifference of people will smother the few remaining embers until at last they too are extinguished. After that Chernobyl will always remain inside knowledge of a few eminent individuals and the sole property of nature.
(Journals, June 2006)
Those houses already a property of Nature.
and this house sprang from the earth and now it is returning.
Roe deer cross the road and jump into the yards. Here they are at home and there are plenty of them. I feel like I am in a zoo, except of course that in a zoo I am free and they are my object of interest. But here they are free and I am the object of their curiosity. In other words, in a zoo all those creatures are assembled together for our own amusement and here in Chernobyl, it is we humans who are disassembled for their amusement.
What is most striking here is the contrast between the world of Civilization which is ours and the world of Nature. The world of civilisation is physical, while Chernie is a metaphysical world, "meta" means "after", Chernobyl is the world after physics. The world of Nature is something that exists of itself, it is how this world has been for millions of years before us and how it will be after us, while civilization is mere appearance, it is not "just there," it is not self-supporting. It is artificial and requires engineering and science to support it. If we want to make use of the advantages of civilisation, but are not prepared to concern ourself with the upholding of civilisation—we are done for. In a trice we find ourselves left without civilisation. Just a push of a wrong button and everything goes straight to a primitive state. We look around and see that civilization is vanishing into the air, like fata morgana. The primitive forest appears in its native state, just as if the curtains of Civilization, covering pure Nature, have been drawn back.
15-20 years ago people still lived in some of those villages. Back in 1991, the highest radiation measured where people lived was 2000 microroentgen per hour. Levels have fallen since then, and people too.
The highest I measured where people lived in 2006 was 250 microR per hour, this level is mild enough for UN officials to call "acceptable," but it is not really safe for people to inhabit those places.
Today, the levels here can vary from normal to several hundred or even thousand microroentgen, but those figures do not reflect any real situation. Geiger counter can merely show a silhouette of radiation, its outward sign, its shadow. The body of radiation can only be detected and explored through special analysis. Even through the most delicate radiation detecting pocket device, we can see no more than the tip of the iceberg. By reading of geiger counter we know as little of radiation as we know about roots of this tree by judging by it's crown.
Reading of geiger counters tell us more than reading official reports, but it tells us less than reading from the book of nature. In Chernobyl reading from the book of nature is easy, here facts themselves speak eloquently of the truth... wherever I turn, I stumble upon a fact that humans are outlawed and banned from life. I strain to hear, in hope to receive an answer, but all I can hear is the voice of Nature strongly saying to the human race, -I DON'T NEED YOU!
This is memorial of World War II
Here is another of Great Patriotic War.
This is memorial of Civil War. In 1921 Red Army crushed White army troops on the field. I wish, I could bring metal detector and excavate on this field. Unfortunately, all rich history of Chernobyl is lost for archeology. It is lost forever and I will always regret this.
There are more than 2,000 dead towns and villages within a radius of 250 kms (155 miles) around Chernobyl reactor. Each year I travel, I see more and more ruined places.
The only buildings in area that is not ruined are churches. Traveling through the whole of Chernobyl region I have yet to see any ruined church.
Looters are superstitious folks and are afraid to rob churches. Also, nearby community members come to fix the abandoned churches every few years, so like separate islands they stand longer than all other buildings in the area.
When I travel by, I often visit these churches. I
walk through the wormwood towards the door - they
are unlocked, no one inside. No priests, no smell
of incense, no burning candles, only a couple of
cheap icons, towels, a slightly radioactive Bible
and images of Saints on the walls. I make sure the
Bible is left open on the page where the age of
wormwood is foretold. Then I stay for a while in
contemplation. Looking at radioactive image of
Jesus I ask myself, 'How long will these
churches be here? Can they live without people?'
I leave this question to be answered by someone
who travels here in the future and myself going back on the road to continue my journey.
Pluto's Realm Chernobyl photoreportage 2008
I leave this question to be answered by someone who travels here in the future and myself going back on the road to continue my journey.
Pluto's Realm Chernobyl photoreportage 2008
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DSAT Gas Blender (TMx)
More people are diving with trimix blends and this means the demand for trimix fills is also increasing. However, there needs to be someone qualified to administer these fills to meet this demand. This is where the DSAT Gas Blender course comes in.
The DSAT Gas Blender course will train you as a qualified gas blender,
allowing you to provide gas mixes to appropriately certified consumers.
You’ll learn the physical properties of oxygen, its associated hazards,
handling requirements and what cleaning equipment is necessary. Finally,
you will learn the five methods of obtaining the desired enriched air
nitrox mix and the various methods used to obtain proper helium mixes.
What does this activity include?
What do I need to start?
Note that all costs related to this activity are mentioned in the above table - there are no hidden charges.
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3 Steps to Happiness
This post comes from one of my favorite places on the web, Zen Habits and it is a post describing 3 steps to having a happier day and then of course, day by day, a happier life, enjoy, and have a happy day ~ Rev Kane
Post written by Leo Babauta.
Today I’m going to share a really simple secret that can make your day instantly better. If you’re feeling down, it can make you happier, all day long.
It’s something I’ve been trying myself, with great results.
It’s three steps, and anyone can do them. This is an algorithm that can be repeated over and over, all day long. It starts with a basic assumption: that we are all human beings capable of goodness, of love, of pain, of broken hearts and passionate love. That we all have bad days, that inside our jaded exteriors is a person who just wants love.
It is based on my observation that we take other people for granted, and that we judge others and become irritated with them for almost no good reasons, and we expect everyone to make us happy or at least behave the way we want them to, and if they don’t, our day is ruined. That’s crazy. People are living their own lives, and aren’t trying to please us or act in accordance with our expectations, and once we accept that, we can be happy.
Here are the three steps. They might sound silly to some of you, but I urge you to give them a try. For just one day. Even just an hour. They are powerful, and they work.
1. Think “I love you, and I’m thankful for you” to every single person today. This sounds kinda silly perhaps, but it works. Seriously, try it. Look at each person you pass or encounter today, and think to yourself (as if you’re talking to the person you’re looking at), “I love you, and I’m thankful for you.” Try to say it with feeling. Mean it! Even to those you pass on the street, in the elevator, while you’re driving (you might only see them for a split second, from a distance).
2. Smile at that person, and look them in the eye. Many of us are used to not looking people in the eye, avoiding contact. But looking someone in the eye is acknowledging their existence and human-ness, and establishing a connection. Smiling helps pass your happiness on to others. Obviously you can’t do this if the person is far from you or driving past you, but when you can, apply this step.
3. If you feel comfortable, say it aloud to that person. Say, “I love you and I’m thankful for you.” You’ll probably only say this to people you know very well (though the bold among you might say it to strangers!). If you’re not comfortable with that, try to say it with actions instead of words. A simple hug, doing something nice, spending time with someone while treating them kindly, doing a favor without expecting a return favor, just being thoughtful. Obviously you can’t do this step with everyone you pass, but the more people you apply this step to, the better.
Try these steps, please.
Also know that I love you. And I’m grateful that you’re alive.
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Roads End to Roads End Expedition
Loren left Bad Water, Death Valley, California on June 15, 1975 on an expedition never
before attempted. He was going to drive one American-made vehicle, a 1972, Ford F-250
pick-up truck around the world on a north / south course, all on land, except for the
South Atlantic Ocean....."Roads End to Roads End" - Arctic Ocean to Arctic
The first formidable obstacle on the route was the notorious Darien Gap of Panama and
Colombia, a motorist's nightmare - or an off-road adventurer's dream. The roadless Darien
Gap is over 125 miles of thick jungles, tortuous rivers, low but rugged mountains, and a
vast marshy swamp that separates Panama from South America. The Pan-American Highway
stretches some 17,000 miles from Alaska to Argentina, and is yet to be completed across
the Darien Gap.
On that fateful first attempt to conquer the Darien Gap, while Loren was away, a member of
the expedition was shot and killed, probably by bandits' gunfire. It is still somewhat of
a mystery as to why the man was killed, as nothing was stolen, or it may actually have
even been a terrible accident. The natives in the area have very old, and sometimes
homemade firearms. We have known them to be somewhat careless with these ancient firearms,
so who is to say it was not a most unfortunate accident. At any rate, that put an end to
that particular attempt.
I first met Loren shortly after he arrived in Panama. At that time I "toyed"
with the idea of joining the expedition, but I was not yet ready.
[Photo of Ford F-250]
In early 1977 Loren once again set off from California, this time in a brand-new
American Motors CJ-7 Jeep. Again, I briefly saw Loren and again, I "toyed" with
the idea of joining the expedition. I was still not yet ready. After 49 days, Loren
succeeded in crossing the Darien Gap in what was a "near textbook perfect"
adventure. About 12 miles were traveled with the Jeep tethered and lashed to the top of
two local piraguas (dug-out canoes) through the Atrato Swamp area of Colombia - thus not
an all land crossing.
While negotiating a narrow, foggy mountain pass high in the Andean Mountains of Southern
Ecuador, Loren reached out to clean the windshield (the wiper motor had been damaged while
in the Darien Gap). The road made a sharp turn, he didn't. The vehicle's fall was
cushioned by some heavy brush that ripped the Jeep's soft canvas top off. Loren was thrown
clear, and sat in stunned silence, watching the Jeep's headlights cut through the misty
darkness as it flipped end over end. Even before the Jeep came to rest some 300 feet down
the dark mountain side, Loren was making plans for the next expedition.
[Photo of 77 Jeep]
Loren was determined he would take one American-made vehicle on this expedition, not a
series of them; so in early 1979 he set off in another new AMC Jeep, this time a CJ-5.
This particular expedition, however, was not meant to be. On this trip, I did not see
Loren, in fact, I knew nothing of this attempt until five years later. This, the third
attempt, was brought to a swift and concise end in the Darien Gap itself. Loren had a
rather unpleasant encounter with a somewhat corrupt Colombian Park official and would not
agree to his "pay off" demands. As a result Loren and his other expedition
members were allowed to leave but the vehicle was left deep within the confines of the Darien Gap, a long, convoluted story, to be told
[Photo of 79 Jeep]
A World Odyssey - The Epic Voyage of the Sand Ship
For More Information Contact:
Outback of Beyond Adventures
P.O. Box 803
Salmon, ID 83467
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- Math Circle Diaries, Year 1: A Complete Curriculum
- by Anna Burago
Prime Factor Math Circle is an extracurricular math program for elementary and middle-school students. In our circle, students develop creative thinking and problem-solving skills, as well as learn the principles of logic and math reasoning. Our curriculum includes interesting and educational math topics that often lie beyond the school program.
Prime Factor Math Circle students meet weekly in a small-class setting. The circle sessions consist of an hour and a half of interactive teaching, mathematical discussion and problem-solving. The problems and discussion topics are selected to stimulate the students' creative abilities, and to develop their problem exploration skills and mathematical reasoning. Some of the class time (especially in circles with younger students) is devoted to mathematical contests and competitions.
In the 2012-2013 school year the Prime Factor operates math circles of five different levels:
In this circle, we will spend a lot of time working on the problems and getting to the math concepts and ideas through hands-on experience.
For the students who like to ask questions and search for answers. Math is used as a tool for developing their logical and problem-solving abilities.
For the students who want to know more about the world of extracurricular mathematics. The potential students should be ready to explore, learn and work on challenging problems. This class is open to Elementary School Circle graduates and to new students.
For the students of grades 6-8 who are familiar with the First Year topics.
For the students of grades 7-9 who are familiar with the Second Year topics.
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Government scientists have now provided data on the health of wild Atlantic salmon that agrees with anecdotal information from anglers who raved about the great 2011 fishing season. Experts have confirmed that many salmon populations met, or exceeded their minimum conservation requirements in 2011. This bodes well for both the restoration of Atlantic salmon runs, and further stimulation of the strong economic upswing in recreational salmon fishing that was experienced in 2010 and 2011.
More anglers were drawn to cast for salmon along the shores of rivers throughout Atlantic Canada, and Quebec in 2010 and 2011. With more salmon anglers come more spending, and more employment in river communities. Salmon angler numbers rose from 42,000 in 2005 to 54,000 in 2010. Gardner Pinfold Consulting Economists of Halifax reported that these anglers spent more than $128 million, and supported just over 3,300 full-time equivalent jobs, primarily in rural areas where employment opportunities are often scarce. In all, about 9,200 people benefited from seasonal wages in the recreational salmon fishing industry in 2010.
It is now up to provincial, and federal governments to recognize the salmon's economic value, and provide adequate funding for restoration, and protection to ensure that the benefits of this green, sustainable industry continue. Gardner Pinfold reported that Fisheries and Oceans Canada spends $12 million on wild Atlantic salmon annually, compared to $15.7 million spent by non-government organizations that also contribute another $12 million in-kind in the form of volunteer labour in restoring salmon, and their habitat.
An important reason for the upsurge in wild Atlantic salmon numbers includes a conservation agreement that the Atlantic Salmon Federation (ASF), headquartered in New Brunswick, and the North Atlantic Salmon Fund (NASF) of Iceland negotiated with Greenland's commercial fishermen to suspend their commercial fishery that harvests North American salmon on their ocean feeding grounds. NASF and ASF provide grants to the Greenlanders for turning in their commercial salmon nets to engage in more sustainable fisheries and employment.
Canada's 2011 Atlantic salmon runs have improved because of these investments. Some of the highlights of the scientific data now available are:
In Newfoundland, the Gander, Middle and Campbellton rivers all exceeded conservation requirements, the Campbellton by 495 per cent. The Torrent River on the Northern Peninsula reached 867 per cent of its conservation requirement. The Exploits River had a run of 41,000 salmon, an incredible improvement from the 1,500 salmon that existed when an enhancement program began in in the 1970s. In Labrador, the few rivers that are assessed by the government all met spawning requirements, the Sandhill by 204 per cent.
In Nova Scotia, the Margaree River met its spawning requirement by more than 500 per cent, and the River Philip had the largest run since 1984.
In New Brunswick, approximately 80,000 salmon returned to the Miramichi River system last year. The Southwest Miramichi met 220 per cent of its spawning requirement and the Northwest about 108 per cent. The Restigouche also more than met its spawning targets. The Little Main Restigouche doubled its previous five year average while the Matapedia, a tributary on the Quebec side, met 213 per cent of spawning targets.
Approximately 17,700 salmon returned to Quebec's Gaspé rivers; 21 per cent more than 2010 and 49 per cent more than the average number from 2006 to 2010. These good runs, combined with excellent fishing conditions, drew anglers from near and far, resulting in a record number of rod days for the Gaspé Peninsula.
Gardner Pinfold determined that a Canadian government investment of only $15 million per year would realize a return on investment within six years because of increased angler participation. The Gardner Pinfold Study also determined that more than 80 per cent of the general public surveyed in the Atlantic provinces and Quebec wanted to see healthy salmon populations, and they were willing to pay more in taxes, up to $105 million annually, to ensure the future survival of Atlantic salmon.
This upsurge in salmon returns of the past two years is very encouraging, and we must make the most of this momentum towards achieving the healthy runs of the past. The numbers of wild Atlantic salmon are still only a fraction of what they were 30 years ago. Restoration relies on government recognition of the economic and cultural value of this iconic species, and of their mandate to fund viable conservation and protection programs.
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Dr. Pat Hoy
Dr. Hoy showed that thinking well is a universal skill that applies across disciplines, but added a perspective and structure that could lead to liberating students’ intelligence in our classes in line with Dr. Bowen’s arguments. First, he suggested that we must teach as if students matter. Second, we must ask students to be thoughtful rather than declarative by teaching them to stop and think first and then write about their ideas. To illustrate this, he asked the audience at his presentation to read a page and a half of text written by George Steiner about how to read text. First he asked each member of the audience to identify what s/he thought was the most meaningful sentence to him or her and underline it. He then asked several members of the audience to read the sentence they underlined. Then he asked each person to identify the sentence s/he believed was most important to the writer. Again, he asked several members of the audience to read that sentence aloud. Finally, he asked all to identify the sentence in the text that most accurately captured the meaning of the entire piece, and again asked some of the members to read the sentence aloud. No one read the same sentence twice in any of the three contexts.
Dr. Hoy made the point that we all filter text through our “ego eye,” our personal experiences and history leading to individual differences in interpretation, and that in the piece we read there was no single declarative sentence that explained its meaning. Nonetheless, there was a sense of meaning “hanging in the room” for all to be identified by being inferentially astute and capturing the sense of mystery floating up from the piece. The audience members (or students in a class) captured this sense of meaning and mystery about the reading in uniquely individual ways.
From a metacognitive point of view, Dr. Hoy suggested that creative and productive thinking follows an inductive process observed through different “eyes.” Most typically we observe facts through our “ego eye,” the perspective colored by our past experiences. The “ego eye” may not serve us well though, because it is likely to dismiss important facts and observations as irrelevant when they are not, as it is colored by our past experiences. Rather, he suggested, we should open our “slumbering eye” (call it anima, soul, imagination, subconscious perception or revelation) and dare to take risks by viewing evidence from this different perspective, thus increasing the probability of conceiving new ideas.
When observing with the “slumbering eye” conclusions can never be certain, because of the interplay of intuition, analysis, imagination, induction, and dialectical thinking. It allows us to converse with images and carry on subconscious sensing of something significant without knowing yet what that is. As the process continues and gains strength with additional information and thought, at some point ideas gain levels of consciousness that can be expressed in words.
Dr. Hoy starts this discovery process by asking students to deeply examine minute particulars (facts, evidence) and start writing about them in a first person story-telling format to have them thinking within and about this universe of details. Through personal story telling he encourages students to become careful readers and the careful reader, regardless of discipline or the type of text, engages in the complex business of dialoging with complex text, as opposed to cursory examinations often conducted by students. Careful readers understand that conceiving an idea is not a simple process, but an arduous energy-intensive personal effort dependent on commitment.
In the dialog with the text through our “slumbering eye” we conceive of fuzzy ideas that “float up” from the reading; emanate from between the lines. These fuzzy ideas then require translation and substantiation before we can produce a thoughtfully written product, whatever that product may be. The first step in learning the creative process therefore is for students to realize that they need to first collect evidence. The evidence that is gathered then must be carefully observed, followed by inductive reasoning and inferences from which ill-formed, fuzzy ideas arise that consolidate and lead to a thoughtful product.
This process, while admittedly risky because it may be outside accepted norm and the mainstream, can take us in new directions as it liberates the creative mind. Dr. Hoy suggested allowing students to tell stories about the “evidence” they read, saw, or heard, because story telling is what humans are born to do. He suggested asking students to write a personal story about a paper they read rather than a declarative summary of the facts, because it may help them open their “slumbering eye.” There are other options such as letting them write a letter to the author, the smartest person they know or even a fellow student to explain their thoughts about the reading. This exercise allows the student to express even fuzzy ideas they are not certain about, but writing in this context motivates them to move to clarity of thought. This can be done in any discipline on any topic. The story or letter then becomes the source of discussions with peers in the classroom that can lead to further insights and clarity.
Dr. Hoy also illustrated the process using a short film clip. The images shown in the film were treated as the “facts” or “evidence.” By asking the audience members what details they observed in the film he made them become more aware. Having generated a list of factual observations they could point to, allowed them to create an inventory of events they had seen. This inventory enabled them to move to inferences and create ideas and concepts not directly observable in the film. A prompt to help students do the same with a video clip could be “I observed that….., therefore …..”.
This list of observations (facts) also served to reduce the impact of the “ego eye” to some extent, because objective observations are not filtered through previous experiences. They are seen by all observers and can be verified with little disagreement. This objective observation exercise prevents the “ego eye” from relegating irrelevant everything that does not confirm previous experiences, and closing the mind to seeing new perspectives with the “slumbering eye.” According to Dr. Hoy, the greatest gift teachers can give students is helping them see with their “slumbering eye,” because that is how innovative and creative ideas arise. It works by liberating language not formerly known and seeing landscapes of the mind not formerly experienced. Allowing students to proceed with this exploration is challenging, because the process may lead them to places others may not agree with or perceive as conceptual mine fields not in keeping with the norms of the discipline. If students are encouraged to explore these uncharted paths, they need to be given the freedom to do so within the boundaries of the course but without stifling innovation and creativity.
Dr. Hoy commented that these various exercises (e.g. watching images without teacher commentary, writing letters to smartest person, telling a story about observations) during the early stages of the process provide the freedom students need to observe with their “slumbering eye” and unleash their innate creativity of thought. Students need to learn how to think creatively and not simply write declarative statements that often are copies of what already has been written. Rather than having students “complete the forms” that exist in every discipline and stifle innovative thinking, allow them to spend time in this creative space. He reemphasized that we cannot know if students can write clearly unless we allow them to write stories they care about in a personal narrative about passages they read, images they saw, reports they heard. The selected source material ensures they write within the constraints of the course.
Dr. Hoy emphasized that “nothing comes from nothing.” Asking students to regurgitate existing information does not lead to creativity and innovation; habitual thinking blocks the development of the mind. To prevent habitual or reproductive thinking, students must write in the first person using “familiar essays” that are close to their heart. In these essays they should be allowed to use relevant experiences of any kind in a self-organized sequence that is meaningful to them and provides evidence for new ideas. The process of conception serves to make sense of an idea. This process is unique to each and every student. When teachers seek conformity with personal perceptions they will receive the same product from all students and little creative and innovative thinking. Consequently, teachers’ filters, their “ego eyes,” may constrain students’ creative capabilities and innovative thoughts. Asking students to write about “fuzzy ideas” within the constraints of the class will help them gain clarity and allows to teacher to determine whether they thoroughly understand important concepts.
Students’ thought processes are guided by the facts observed and because of that do occur within the context of the assignment before them, but the aim is to help them realize that they can think independently rather than be limited to regurgitate existing material. Unleashing students’ creativity is not for creativity’s sake: it serves to expand the mind. Dr. Hoy emphasized that this is by no means an easy process and it requires massive work. Examples of previous writings produced by students can be very helpful in illustrating final outcomes that need to be achieved in a particular class. Thoughtfully creating a collection of examples that represent work by students at the beginning of the semester and at the end helps design the progressions and exercises students need to complete to successfully navigate the challenges associated with creative thinking and writing clearly. Simply requiring that students write a paper on a topic will not help them learn to think and write clearly in any discipline. Providing examples of work by other students may help them realize that their work must achieve higher levels of thought, creativity, and innovation than is commonly expected.
The pedagogical strategy to help student reach higher can be relatively simple:
- Students engage with several sources of information such as papers or sections of relevant text, observed images or film, podcast or video segments, lab demonstrations, etc. This is the pertinent evidence (content) selected by the teacher and the fundamental elements that set the context for the exercise.
- They write a personal story about each objective element the read, saw or listened to, drawing out the ideas that form in their minds. Again, each piece of evidence should be carefully selected to draw out students’ thoughts through their writing.
- Then they combine their writings into a synthesized version of the ideas that flowed forth from the various sources they examined and wrote about.
- Following the individual process, time must be allocated in class so students can read each other’s work and do something with it. For example, the readers could be asked to identify in the writing:
- What they believe is the most important sentence in the writing.
- What they believe the author thinks is the most important sentence.
- Which sentence best captures the essential meaning of the writing.
- Finally, they engage in discussions with their peers and the teacher about their ideas. Great things can happen at this stage because of the serious preparatory work.
These are thinking exercises that serve to make the fuzzy ideas that emanate from the evidence more concrete. The teacher can guide the process by carefully selecting and ordering the presentation of the evidence. As such, all the evidence constitutes an intellectual inductive puzzle that each student is allowed to solve through their own eyes within the context of the course and the constraints of the assignment.
Finally, students should be asked to collect all their work in a learning portfolio that documents their process and the products of their work. The learning portfolio becomes a vehicle for metacognitive reflection that allows students to analyze their learning process and gain greater insight into the workings of their mind. The learning portfolio will also help the teacher examine the learning process to gain a better understanding of how students develop their thinking. Analyses of the learning portfolio can then be used to revise the course.
Director, Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning
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An Interview with Os Guinness on the 25th Anniversary of Francis Schaeffer’s Death
Two biographies of Schaeffer have been published relatively recently: Colin Duriez’s Francis Schaeffer: An Authentic Life and Barry Hankins’s Francis Schaeffer and the Shaping of American Evangelicalism.
I was recently able to ask Os Guinness a few questions about Schaeffer’s impact and significance.
How did you first meet Schaeffer?
I first met Francis Schaeffer in 1965 when I was a student in London. I had come to faith in Jesus through a Christian friend and through reading such writers as Dostoevsky, G.K. Chesterton, and C.S. Lewis. But it would be fair to say that while we had extraordinary biblical exposition and deep, rich theological teaching in England, there was almost no encouragement to think Christianly or to understand what was going on in the wider culture. So there I was as a student in the middle of ‘swinging London’ and the exploding Sixties, and no Christians that I knew understood what was going on at all. Then a friend took me to hear a strange little man in Swiss knickers, with a high-pitched voice, terms all of his own such as ‘the line of despair,’ and appalling mispronunciations and occasional malapropisms. But I was intrigued and then hooked. Schaeffer was the first Christian I met who was concerned to, and capable of connecting the dots and making sense of the extraordinary times that puzzled and dismayed most people. Two years later, I went to the Swiss l’Abri myself, and my first three weeks there in the summer of 1967 became the most revolutionary period in my entire life. I have never been the same since.
Can you describe his influence on you personally?
Later on, I had the privilege of living with Francis and Edith Schaeffer for three years in their home, so I came to know them both very well. To be honest, I adored Edith and have never met a woman like her. I can’t say quite the same about Francis, and I have my differences with him. But I also owe the world to him, and he has influenced me profoundly even where I differ from him. His main influence was not intellectual. I owe far more in that area to my real mentor, Peter Berger. In fact I have not read many of Schaeffer’s books, because I heard them all delivered in lectures and discussions before they were written. So Schaeffer has influenced me more in an unspoken way. I often say simply that I have never met anyone with such a passion for God, combined with a passion for people, combined with a passion for truth. That is an extremely rare combination, and Schaeffer embodied it. It is also why so many of his scholarly critics completely miss the heart of who he was, and why his son’s recent portrayal of his father is such a travesty and an outrage.
We all serve as examples to others—both positively and negatively. What are some of the main things in Schaeffer’s life and ministry that we should seek to emulate, and what are some cautionary lessons we can learn?
Of all his own books, Francis Schaeffer’s favorite was True Spirituality. It tells the story of his passionate, even desperate, search for reality in faith. But that was what was so great about him. There was no gap between his trust in God, his praying, his wrestling with issues, his lectures, his preaching, his love of the mountains, his sense of fun, his appreciation of beauty, and so on. With all his flaws, he was a very real man. Nietzsche used to say, “All truths are bloody truths to me,” and the same could be said of Schaeffer. He was very real.
At the same time, although he was a brilliant thinker, with an uncanny ability to connect the dots and see the significance of things, he was not a scholar and he relied too much on reading magazines rather than books. So he allowed himself, perhaps, to believe his flatterers’ hype, or at least to go along with the puffery of his publishers and others. In the end, he lost a bit of his earlier humility, and was portrayed as the great philosopher and scholar that he wasn’t – which means that real scholars have an easy time of debunking some of his ideas.
Is there something in particular that you think people today misunderstand about Schaeffer?
A host of misunderstanding swirls around Francis Schaeffer’s reputation today. The two that concern me most are about his apologetics and his significance. Many who cite his apologetic approach have a comically wooden understanding of how he approached people to win them to faith. I have yet to see the book that does justice to the sheer brilliance of his way of presenting the gospel.
As far as his influence, he had a massive impact on the lives of individuals, including me, but his wider significance was as a ‘gatekeeper,’ or a door opener. When almost no Evangelicals were thinking about culture and connecting unconnected dots, Schaeffer not only did it himself but blazed a trail for countless others to follow. Many who trumpet their disagreements with him today owe their very capacity to disagree to his influence a generation ago. A little man in stature, he was a giant in influence, and many who have gone further have done so only by standing on his shoulders. I for one owe far more to Francis Schaeffer than I can ever say, and I live daily in his debt.
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Brazil honors diplomats that saved Jews from Nazis
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Two Brazilian diplomats who helped save hundreds of Jews from ending up in Nazi concentration camps have been honored during an International Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony.
The Wednesday night ceremony paid tribute to Aracy Guimaraes Rosa, a staff member of the Brazilian consulate in Hamburg in the 1930s and 1940s and Luis Martins de Souza Dantas, Brazil's ambassador to France during the same period. Both issued hundreds visas to Jews.
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Claudio Lottenberg, president of the Jewish confederation, said the two diplomats had "the courage to disobey foreign ministry orders to restrict the entrance of Jews into Brazil."
Source: Associated Press, via Julio Severo in English:
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Townes Remains True Believer
This week's announcement that Greenville native and Furman graduate
Charles Townes is the recipient of the $1.5 million Templeton Prize for
advances in science and religion is extraordinary news. Townes has
become the city's most illustrious citizen. He won the Nobel Prize in
1964 for research that led to the invention of the laser beam. Laser
technology, of course, has since transformed and enhanced our lives in
manifold ways. Compact discs, photography, microsurgery, computers and
modern communication devices have all resulted from an epiphany that Dr.
Townes experienced while sitting on a Washington, D.C., park bench in
April 1951. A bronze statue memorializing that moment of scientific
inspiration will soon be placed on Main Street in Greenville.
years ago, at the end of the 20th century, Charles Townes was listed
among the 1,000 most important people in the past thousand years. During
a much-celebrated scholarly career that has spanned seven decades, he
has been a distinguished research professor at Columbia University and
the University of California at Berkeley, and provost at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has counseled American
presidents and the Vatican, served as science adviser for the Apollo
mission to the moon, and holds more that two dozen honorary doctoral
Now Charles Townes has won the largest annual cash prize
in the world. He will receive the Templeton Prize from Prince Philip,
the Duke of Edinburgh, on May 4 at a private ceremony at Buckingham
Palace in London. Mother Teresa and Charles Townes are the only people
to have won a Nobel Prize and the Templeton Prize.
Yet for all of
the deserved international acclaim that Charles Townes has received,
his most remarkable characteristic may be the quality of his character.
He remains a refreshingly humble man fascinated by the intersection of
his spiritual beliefs with his commitment to scientific inquiry. Today,
at age 89, he is an unpretentious and gracious exemplar of Christian
virtues informed by a singular curiosity about the cosmos.
Hard Townes was born in 1915, the fourth child of Ellen Hard Townes, a
1902 graduate of Greenville Woman's College. His father, Henry, was an
attorney and member of the Furman class of 1897. The Townes children
grew up in a progressive Baptist household that celebrated intellectual
pursuits and encouraged open-minded discussions of the Bible.
Townes excelled at Greenville High School and then studied physics,
mathematics and biology at Furman, where he graduated summa cum laude .
After earning a master's degree in physics from Duke University in
1936, he rode a bus cross-country to Pasadena where he enrolled at the
California Institute of Technology and later earned a doctoral degree.
In 1940, Townes went to work for Bell Laboratories in New York.
World War II he helped develop radar bombing systems that could operate
effectively in the high humidity of the South Pacific. After the war,
Townes began his academic career at Columbia University. He was later
appointed provost and professor of physics at Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. In 1967, he became professor at the University of
California, where he continues to supervise research projects in
astrophysics. Throughout his distinguished professional career, Charles
Townes has retained deeply felt religious beliefs that have set him
apart from many of the world's leading scientists. In the 1950s, he
embarked on a lifelong quest to integrate the insights of faith and
reason, religious belief and scientific inquiry. This quest, amplified
by his personal experiences and scholarly reflections, convinced him
that the realms of religion and science must eventually converge and
their convergence will lead to deeper insights into God's purposes. In
his view, religion is not a realm outside of reality but an effort
better to understand reality and all that surrounds it.
believes that both scientists and theologians seek truth that transcends
current human understanding, and both perspectives are fraught with
uncertainty. He shares with the British writer, G.K. Chesterton, an
awareness that "we do not know enough about the unknown to know that it
is unknowable." Scientists, Townes explains, do not always build their
inquiries upon facts. They often must propose hypotheses from
postulates, thereby basing their investigations on a form of faith. His
emphasis on the affinities between science and religion has made the
dialogue between people of faith and people of science less
confrontational and more constructive.
Today Charles Townes
serves as a model of rationality informed by faith. In a convocation
address last spring at Furman, Dr. Townes, now a Furman trustee,
stressed that his unplanned flash of insight on the Washington, D.C.,
park bench illustrates how topics associated with religion or science
revelation, intuition, observation, faith and aesthetics can apply to
both areas of thought.
One of the hallmarks of genius is the
ability to ask the right questions. Charlie Townes struggles with big
issues and perplexing mysteries. He truly is an extraordinary man whose
brilliance, insight and ingenuity have helped enrich and inform modern
On the verge of his 90th birthday, he still displays an
awe-inspiring energy. His career has demonstrated that the most
sophisticated scientific research can be exercised with Christian
humility and benevolence. He has made profound contributions to the
progress of exploring, discovering, and embracing the power of God's
All the while, he has remained an uncommon man with a
common touch. And he is ours, a Greenville treasure; indeed, he is our
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The Potomac KnowledgeWay Skills for Success program was launched in February 1998.
Three roundtable discussions co-sponsored by the Greater Washington Board of
Trade, were attended by over 30 executives, senior managers and human resource professionals
from a cross-section of companies located throughout the Greater Washington region. The
discussions were intended to expand the dialogue among business leaders on the skills needed,
now and in the future, for employees to succeed in an information products and services-driven
economy. A fourth roundtable made up of recent college graduates under 30
years of age focused on expectations and preparedness for business success and growth.
Market Trends and Driving Forces
- The rapid proliferation of technology is driving up competition for a technically savvy Workforce.
- Increased introduction of new technologies has outstripped the ability of industry and education to keep pace with change. Consequently, the technical literacy of students and workers continues to fall short of industry requirements.
- Information Technology resources are required across all industries creating competition between high tech and non-high tech employers for the same candidates. Resulting wage wars are driving a false employment economy, causing wage compression and morale problems of existing workers and forcing companies to seek solutions outside the U.S.
- Companies of all sizes, across all industries, are struggling to meet their constantly changing Workforce needs, not just for high tech workers but for workers who are proficient in technology and its application to their business.
- The shortage of technically skilled workers continues to increase as the costs associated with attracting, recruiting, retaining and retraining them impact businesses' ability to compete in the New Economy.
Skills for Success
- Successful employees, both technical and non-technical, must effectively combine "hard" technical skills with "soft" skills such as a motivation to learn; a positive attitude; an understanding of the work environment and performance expectations; an ability to communicate and work in a team; an ability to lead and follow when appropriate; and a willingness to change and adapt when necessary.
- There is no "right" skill set; flexibility and the ability to learn become critical for developing the skills related to the job at hand and as the job develops.
- A lack in communications is creating confusion and misunderstanding between employers and employees. Employers seek workers with highly specialized skills, yet want them to be 'well rounded' at the same time. Workers are expected to lead at times and to follow at others; to think out of the box and challenge decisions while taking direction and conforming to company culture; to be loyal even when they perceive a lack of loyalty from their employer.
- Expectations are too high. Want ads discourage well-suited candidates with modest technical backgrounds from applying for technically-oriented jobs, even though many of the jobs could be accomplished with minimal training.
High Impact Regional Initiatives
Suggested focus areas:
- Increase the current pool of qualified applicants through internal (re)training programs, external recruiting and increased business and education partnerships.
- Market the message that technical literacy is for everyone as most jobs require computer skills of varying levels.
- Increase the proliferation of technology in schools from K-12 through higher education and integrate it across curricula to continue to drive the technological expertise of current and future workers.
- Tap into the hidden potential Workforce, including individuals with liberal arts backgrounds who are willing to learn about technology and its applications. Additionally, transitioning federal government and military employees, and "under-employed" or "low skilled" workers could be trained or re-trained to satisfy work requirements.
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The Actual Practice Of Vipassana
This is the final post in a four-part series on vipassana meditation. You might be wondering why I have meditation on a digital nomad blog, and there are two reasons. The first is because I’m on a bicycle touring adventure through the southwestern United Stated to visit Buddhist temples and learn meditation for myself.
The second, and most important reason for nomadic-like wanderers is that the lifestyle we live can be a little groundless compared to others. Everyone’s life truly is, but ours makes that clear very quickly.
Meditation is one of the best ways to find that sense of grounding. Not from any external source, but where it should come from … within.
For the last few post, I have been talking about mindfulness based on my review of Mindfulness In Plain English by Ven. H. Gunaratana Mahathera. In the first post, Mindfulness In Plain English, I talk about the two main types of meditation; samatha and vipassana, and why you might want to meditate in the first place.
The second post, 11 Common Meditation Myths, I talk about what meditation is not. Even with the popularity of meditation rising in the west, there are still a lot of incorrect ideas about it. I have to be honest, before this year I held some of these views myself.
Since talking about what meditation is not, it seem only fitting that I follow that post up with What Meditation Is. There I dig a little deeper into some Buddhist philosophy to give a better understanding of what meditation is for.
Now it is time to wrap up this little series with the actual practice of vipassana meditation. For that I will cover the right attitude, the practice itself, and what to do with your body.
The mind is a set of events, and you participate in those events every time you look inward at yourself. What you are looking at is you, what you see depends on how you look. Having a good mindset will help with the success of your meditation practice.
- Don’t Expect Anything – Don’t hope for specific states of mind to occur, or be anxious for any results. Let the meditation teach you what it wants you to learn, and move at its own pace.
- Don’t Strain – Don’t be aggressive about it, or try to force anything.
- Don’t Rush – Anything worthwhile takes time. There is no hurry, just sit as if you have the whole day to meditate.
- Don’t Cling To Anything, and Don’t Reject Anything – Fighting the experience is not going to help. It doesn’t matter what kind of mental images come up, good or bad. Both are fine. Simply make yourself comfortable with whatever happens.
- Let Go – Relax and go with the flow.
- Accept Everything That Arises – Sometimes uncomfortable feelings come up, and that’s OK. Accept your experiences without judgment. Most importantly, don’t beat yourself up for being human with all your flaws and shortcomings.
- Be Gentile With Yourself – You are all you have to work with. Be kind, because the fact of the matter is, nobody’s perfect.
- Investigate Yourself – Test everything. Insight meditation is about waking up to the truth. Be empirical, and don’t take anything at face value.
- View All Problems As Challenges – When negative stuff comes up, it is an opportunity to learn about yourself and grow.
- Don’t Ponder – Your mind will purify itself naturally with this practice. You don’t need to figure everything out. Don’t think. See.
- Don’t Dwell On Contrast – Comparing your differences with others is a mental habit that only leads to ill feeling of one sort or another. Differences exist between people. Do yourself a favor, and let them go while you meditate. Instead move closer to others by remembering there are things that are universal to all life.
If nothing else, focus on your breath. All living things exchange gases with their environment in some way. This is one of the reasons why breathing is often the focus of meditation. Another reason is you take it with you wherever you are.
In the Pali cannon, the Buddha spells out 40 different objects of meditation. However to keep things simple, I recommend you start focusing your total, undivided attention on your breathing.
Thoughts will come up, and so will feelings at times. Don’t confuse them, because they are separate events. As a matter of fact, there are seven universal mental factors; feelings, contact, perception, mental formations, concentration, life force, and awareness.
If any of them come up, don’t try to lump them into the same category. Instead watch them exactly as they are without trying to confuse them with anything else. Let them become the new object of your attention. If you notice they are running away with your attention, simply make a mental note of it, and return your awareness to your breath.
At first, view your mind and your body as separate things. After your insight is more developed, you will become more aware of the fact that all the mental factors are cooperating to work together.
It is good to have a goal when you are meditating. It is not the meditation’s goal to become enlightened before anyone else, to have more power, or to make more profit than others. Competition with other people is not what meditation is about.
Your goal is to develop all the noble and virtuous qualities dormant in our subconscious. There are five elements to this; purifying the mind, overcoming sorrow, overcoming pain, walking the right path that leads to peace, and finding true happiness.
Don’t have a time schedule for attaining the goal, but still work diligently and mindfully towards the goal. The length of sitting time depends on how much time you have to meditate, and how long you can sit without excruciating pain.
It is better to sit several times for 15-20 minutes than to try and force yourself to sit for hours.
Ideally you will not change positions once you start to meditate. If your position becomes too unbearable, or you get an itch that simply grows worse. Don’t torture yourself. However, if you change positions know that the new position will eventually become uncomfortable too. Once you scratch that itch, it will come back or be replaced by another one.
For that reason, and for the purpose of true investigation, try not to change anything about the way you feel. Even if it becomes quite painful, stick it out until the end of your session.
Pain actually is a great object to focus your attention on. Nothing keeps you in the present moment like pain will. Pretend you are a scientist or a doctor, and try to learn everything you can about pain while you observe yours.
Where does the pain come from? How exactly does it feel? Is it a numb pain, or a sharp one? Really look into the nature of the pain. This goes the same for thoughts, feelings or any of the other mental factors.
When you are sitting, it is OK to sit in a chair. The most important body posture is to have a straight back. Not a stiff or rigid back, but straight nonetheless.
The mind is like a muddy cup of water. The longer you let it rest, the more mud will settle to the bottom making the water clear.
Simply sit still, focus your attention on the breath, and be patient. When thoughts come up, make a note of them, and return to your breath. If feelings or pain arises, note them without judgment, and return your focus to your breath.
When pleasant feelings come up, don’t be distracted by them. Simply return to your breath. The present moment is the best place to be, and your breath is the easiest way to keep your attention there.
Notice yourself breathing in, and then breathing back out. Simple, huh? You might want to notice the pauses between your inhalations and exhalations, or notice how there are no pauses. How rapid is your breath? Are they slow, and drawn out? Don’t force your breath, just let it happen naturally.
If your mind begins to wander away, that’s OK. Don’t get upset, or judge the meditation as bad. All you have to do is notice that your mind has wandered away again, and anchor it back to your breath.
As your mind becomes more disciplined, it will more easily stay concentrated. At these times, you will begin to feel more tranquil. In some cases this tranquility will be more of a state of rapture. The rapture is known as jhana.
These feelings of calm are wonderful to experience, but do not make it your goal. Sometimes you will experience them, and sometimes you will not. The important thing to remember is insight is a loftier goal than the concentration and tranquility.
Before I talk about posture I would like to recommend that you wear loose-fitting comfortable clothes. If your clothes restrict blood flow or put pressure on your nerves, then you will be unnecessarily asking for pain and discomfort. If your shoes or socks are binding, just take them off.
You can close your eyes, or keep them open. There are differing opinions about this, but most people close them. If you do keep them open, then make sure your gaze is relaxed and looking out past the tip of your nose in a downward direction. I find it is less distracting to close my eyes.
If you are not used to sitting cross-legged on the floor, it can cause your knees to hurt after a while. It is difficult to keep your back straight as well. For these reasons, I recommend you sit elevated with your butt on the front edge of a cushion, and your legs cross-legged on the floor in front of you. This will allow you to sit with a straight back more naturally, and take some of the pressure off your knees.
There are a couple of acceptable ways to sit cross-legged, and I do not recommend you try and force a way that you are not comfortable with.
The first way is known as the American Indian style. Nevermind that it is not a politically correct name. It is the name that has stuck, and I mean no harm to those it might offend. In this style, you sit with your right foot resting under your left knee, and your left foot under your right knee.
The Burmese style is my favorite. In this position both of your legs lie flat on the floor from knee to foot. They are parallel to each other, and one in front of the other.
In the half lotus it starts to get more difficult. Both of your knees touch the floor. One leg and foot lie flat on top of the calf of the other leg. The other leg rest on the floor like in the Burmese style.
In the full lotus posture, both knees still touch the floor, and your legs are crossed at the calf. Your left foot rest on the right thigh, and your right foot rest on the left thigh. According to the Tibetan traditions, the full lotus will tame jealousy the same way standing or sitting upright will put you in a better mood.
Of course, if you cannot sit on the floor in any of these posture for whatever reason, it is just fine to sit in a chair. It is best to choose a chair with a level seat, a straight back, and no arm rest. Preferably sit in such a way that your back does not lean against the back of the chair. Just sit with your back upright and relaxed. Place your feet flat on the floor with your legs side by side.
As for your hands, you can cup them together in your lap, or rest your hands on your knees. It doesn’t matter really, however I know the Tibetan thoughts on the subject is that cupping your hands together with the right hand on top tames anger. I will leave all that up to you.
In all the postures, the key is to achieve a state of complete stillness without falling asleep. Mindfulness is and activity. You want to be settled, but still in a state of physical alertness.
Mindfulness In Everyday Life
Sitting for meditation is the main practice, however you should not look at it as the only time to be mindful. Don’t look at getting off the cushion as the end of your meditation practice, but rather a changing of positions. You can be mindful while you are walking, when riding a bike, doing the dishes, or any other activity.
Being awake and in the moment is a state of liberation. Spend some time being that way with everything you do.
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U.S. fruit crops ‘guesstimated’ at about average size
Regionally, weather plays big role
After a big fruit crop across the board in 2009, fruit production in the United States this year was “guesstimated” at about average size—but some regions will fare better than others as they work around weather that seems anything but average.
The size of the national apple crop was pegged at exactly average, 231 million bushels, with Washington State growers faring better and growers in New York and Michigan doing poorer than last year.
The estimates were made June 16 at the Fruit Crop Guesstimate in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The Guesstimate is sponsored annually by the Michigan Frozen Food Packers Association; its 14 fruit processor members started the event 55 years ago in an effort to get an early look at the size of the fruit crops they will buy and pack. More than a hundred growers and processors attend the event.
Some numbers are firmer than others, as the apple crop, for example, has yet to finish the June drop, while cherries are very near harvest.
Here is a look, crop by crop, at the numbers:
The Michigan apple estimate is the most detailed, with presenters making variety-by-variety estimates in four regions of the state. Overall, this third-largest producer’s output was pegged at 14.3 million bushels, half the size of last year’s big crop and about 70 percent of a normal crop.
The west central part of the state, which includes Fruit Ridge and two-thirds or more of the state’s apples, will settle for 10.3 million bushels, down from nearly 20 million last year, according to Tony Blattner, from Belle Harvest Sales in Belding.
Return bloom was good even after the big crop last year, he said, but weather events in the spring—a series of freezes culminating in the devastating freezes on Mother’s Day weekend May 8-10—cut the crop size and scarred much of the remaining fruit. Dawn Drake, manager of MACMA, which represents growers of apples for processing, said many apples that would normally go for fresh pack will not make the grade this year.
Many blocks of apples will not be sprayed for crop protection as there is no crop, according to Dave Smeltzer with Per-Clin Orchards, speaking about northwest Michigan. Freeze damage was widespread—some orchards have fruit up high in the trees but none near the ground. “We had green tissue March 31 this year,” he said, “and then a long, cold April with at least eight frost events that caused a long bloom period, poor pollination, poor fruit set—and then the freezes of the Mother’s Day weekend.”
In southwest Michigan, many growers pushed out Jonathans and some Golden Delicious and Romes after abandoning the fruit when the market for processing apples was saturated last fall, according to Phil Pitts, with the MACMA sales desk. This year, almost spitefully, Jonathans fared best in the face of freezes.
Denise Donohue, executive director of the Michigan Apple Committee, presented the national figures, detailing expected yields in the top six apple producing states. She put the six-state figure at 201 million bushels, added 30 million for all other states, and came up with 231 million for total U.S. apple production.
Washington, which has been cool and rainy, was estimated to have a crop of 140 million bushels, up 1 percent from last year.
New York, which produces an average crop of 29.4 million bushels, will be down 20 percent at 24 million. Western New York’s crop was hurt most of any part of the state by the freezes.
California, also cool and wet, will have a shorter crop and it’ll be two weeks late. Its average is 8.1 million bushels; crop size this year was pegged at 6.5 million.
Pennsylvania will come close to its 11.3 million bushel average, at 10.3 million bushels. The state shared the East’s early warm weather, which advanced the season two to three weeks, but did not have the freezing weather after. The state enjoyed a good bloom and good pollination, Donohue said.
Virginia, too, had decent weather and will come in with an average crop of 5.3 million bushels.
No national figures were given for the sweet cherry crop. Michigan is a leading producer of sweet cherries for processing, with fresh marketing mostly incidental. Al Steimel, with the Leelanau Fruit Company, said Michigan’s crop, hurt by an early bloom followed by freezes, would come in at 50 to 60 percent of last year. He estimated production at 1.5 million pounds for fresh market, 2 million pounds for canning, 7.5 million pounds for freezing, and 20.5 million pounds for brining and production of glace and maraschino cherries.
That 31.5 million pounds total compared with 51.7 million pounds average and 57.2 million in the big crop last year.
On June 10, the United States Department of Agriculture made production estimates for the West. The combined 2010 sweet cherry production for California, Oregon, and Washington was forecast at 295,000 tons, down 24 percent from 2009 but 36 percent above 2008. Washington’s production was forecast at 160,000 tons, down 35 percent from last year’s record high production. Of the 245,000 tons produced in Washington last year, only 210,000 tons were actually harvested.
Oregon’s 2010 sweet cherry production was forecast at 45,000 tons, down 33 percent from 2009. California’s production was forecast at 90,000 tons, up 15 percent from 2009.
After a monster crop last year estimated at 358.9 million pounds that led to a 50 percent diversion under the federal marketing order that regulates the industry, tart cherry producers will harvest a crop estimated at 199.7 million pounds.
Tart cherries are a big fruit crop in Michigan, which has two-thirds of the nation’s production, and, as with apples, production estimates are detailed.
Northwest Michigan, where average production if 139 million pounds and production last year hit 186.5 million pounds, will have only 77 million pounds this year, half of normal, according to Eric MacLeod at Cherry Growers, Inc., a big processor.
The story is familiar. Early warm weather led to an abnormally early bloom, April 30, advancing the crop maturity 21 days compared with last year, but freezes cut the crop size. Harvest will start July 1 in Traverse City.
West central Michigan came through better and will have 54 million pounds, about average. Southwest Michigan will contribute 14 million pounds, its average.
Overall, Michigan will produce 145.5 million pounds, the estimators say, down from its average of 209 million and 266 million last year.
Six other states grow tart cherries: Utah is number 2, with 23 million pounds expected this year, half of last year’s number. Washington State’s production was estimated at 17 million pounds (16.7 last year) and New York’s production at 7 million pounds (10.5 last year). Wisconsin will have a very small crop of 3.8 million compared with 10.7 million pounds last year. Pennsylvania will have 1.7 million compared with 3.8 million last year. And Oregon will contribute 1.7 million pounds, compared with 2.7 million last year.
The United States Department of Agriculture released its estimate of the tart cherry crop size the next day. It pegged the crop size at 195.3 million pounds and found an even smaller crop in Michigan—140.0 million pounds.
The national processed peach crop will be well below average, according to Leo Steffens with Peterson Farms, Inc. Normally, the crop is composed 80 percent of cling peaches from California and a combination of cling and some freestone peaches produced in eastern states.
California will be down 10 percent, he said, producing its third smallest crop ever. Michigan will be down 20 percent, following winter injury and spring freezes. New York and Pennsylvania will be down a little, he said.
Overall, crop size is expected to be 525,000 tons, down from 583,290 tons last year and the average of 613,900.
Blueberries get a close look, since Michigan is the historical leader in highbush production. National and international production has been rising rapidly in recent year and is expected to double to a billion pounds in the next five years. The West has been growing in production, with Washington on its way to becoming the number 3 producer.
Frank Bragg, with MBG Marketing in Grand Junction, Michigan, said United States blueberry production this year will be up 8.4 percent over 2009 to 488.4 million pounds. Michigan will produce 103 million pounds of that, up from its five-year average of 91.6 million. The crop size was expected to be 115 million pounds before the Mother’s Day freezes.
Production by region was estimated at 115.7 million pounds in the South, 55.8 million pounds in the Northeast, 108.9 million pounds in the Midwest, and 208.0 million pounds in the West. Maine, the only state producing lowbush (“wild”) blueberries, will have a large crop estimated at 88.5 million pounds, virtually all for processing.
For the last three years, prices of processed blueberries have been weak because of a growth in inventory. “We have reversed that three-year tend and will have a firm market going into the season,” Bragg said. About half the product is sold fresh, the other half processed.
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MUS Architects | Structure of emotions – Feisty Flamenco
Movements and gestures of dancers are full of expression and tension. Dancers bring the fascinated viewer into an internal world of experience and emotion through the swinging movement of their hips, decorative arrangement of their fingers and smooth vibration of the ornamental frills. Rhythmic and dynamic music transmits the spectator into a world of incredible aesthetic feelings awakening all senses and inflaming the imagination…
….This is how architecture dedicated to the culture of feisty flamenco should look like….
Site management and building form reflect the flamenco spirit. Interior and exterior spaces of ISMOF building were created through the sculptural interpretation of the theme. Building solid responds to diverse height of the terrain – it rises and falls like a sinusoidal diagram of dynamic sound waves. On the ground floor which is canopied by sails vaults an extensive square is located – a foreground for internal building programme. Space areas are divided only by glass sheets. As a result internal and external spaces penetrate themselves flowing under vaults of expressive canopies. Solid angles were risen up to open the surroundings onto a canopied square – whilst shaping a “bowl” of the upper plaza. Upper square is available directly from the terrain’s level through a ramp – from the north and from the south side of the plot. This is a space for a garden, recreation area and an open-air amphitheatre but most of all it is a wide open space which can be used as an arena for various mass and artistic events.
Museum and a viewing terrace were located in the highest part of the building.The structure of the surfaces making up the solid is a very important aspect of the project. Visions of movement, dynamics, emotional tension and images of ornamental dress frills, cracks of eroding rocks as well as examples of decorative perforated architectonic shelters were an inspiration during the project. The structural make-up of the solid consists of numerous folds creating unexpected interrelationships. Soothing out and roughness were used to contrast surface of the building’s solid – texture becomes another factor creating the sensual architecture of ISMOF. The colour scheme of the project is natural and rough – „mass is of clay or stone” – sculptural materials. The sculpture of the building strongly interacts with light. Dynamic lighting introduces movement which stimulates the building. Light intensifies and moderates the aesthetic and emotional experiences and the impact of the architecture on its users.
This version of the functional programme is one of many possible scenarios and it is possible to enlarge or reduce its scope. According to the competition’s brief the conceptual design is the primary focus of the project. Lets think about architecture. Let’s feel…flamenco….
Architect: MUS Architects
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By Guest Columnist WYATT KENDALL, an attorney with the Southern Environmental Law Center specializing in land use and transportation
Earlier this month, the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) awarded $1.6 billion worth of New Starts Program grants to 27 transit projects nationwide.
The program is the primary federal source of capital funds for big-ticket transit projects like subways, light rail lines, and bus rapid transit systems. Dallas, Denver, Houston, Minneapolis, and Salt Lake City were all among the cities who cashed in.
Atlanta stood on the sidelines for the fifth year in a row.
The announcement of New Starts winners should serve as a wake up call for the sidelined Atlanta region. Not only are our competitors forging ahead with major transit investments even during these lean economic times, they are also raising and leveraging local and state funding to pull down millions of federal dollars to help double their investments.
Similar to other federal transportation programs, the New Starts Program requires local project sponsors to contribute a portion of a project’s cost in order to access federal funding. The New Starts statute requires at least a 20 percent local contribution, although project sponsors usually need to provide more to be considered competitive. In addition, the FTA evaluates whether project sponsors can cover the proposed project’s operating costs.
The single biggest obstacle for Atlanta in competing for New Starts funding is its inability to meet local matching requirements. Georgia is one of only a handful of states that has no dedicated revenue source for transit, and historically has been loathe to tap the general fund.
This forces the region’s transit providers to rely on local sales tax revenue for funding, which leaves them vulnerable to economic ups-and-downs and with little room to offer matching funds for the New Starts Program. Compounding matters, MARTA has been required to spend half of the revenue it collects on capital costs and half on operating costs, making it near impossible for the region’s largest transit provider to show the FTA that it has the resources to recapitalize and operate the existing system and to pay to expand the system.
Atlanta’s struggle to compete for New Starts funding illustrates a much larger problem for the region. It wasn’t long ago that Atlanta was considered a leader in developing inner-city rail. When Atlanta began construction of MARTA over three decades ago, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Los Angles, Portland, and Seattle had not laid a single mile of track.
Fast-forward 30 years, however, and it’s a completely different story. The MARTA rail system remains essentially unchanged despite Atlanta tripling in size, while our competitors have built and expanded their transit systems. (Click here for a great youtube illustration). These other cities have tackled transit funding challenges head-on, finding solutions to raise revenue, stretch local resources, capture New Starts funding, and keep costs down.
Fortunately, Atlanta has an upcoming opportunity to make up lost ground. Regional leaders will soon finalize a list of transportation projects to put before voters in a special sales tax referendum next year, pursuant to Georgia’s Transportation Investment Act (TIA).
If passed, the region would raise roughly $7 billion over the 10 year life of the tax. As the first real opportunity for Atlanta to fund transit since the creation of MARTA in 1971, it is vital that the project list dedicate a significant chunk of money to transit.
Critics argue that the upfront capital needed for rail projects eats up too much of the $7 billion available and therefore should not be included on the TIA project list. What they fail to consider, however, is that no major transit project in the country has ever been built using only one funding source, and that there are ways to reduce Atlanta’s local share.
Instead of folding our hands and settling on more road projects, we need to move aggressively on transit. That means tapping additional funding sources and leveraging regional sales tax revenue so that we can minimize transit capital costs and make room for more transit projects.
First, the Atlanta region should attempt to leverage regional sales tax revenue to capture New Starts funding. Even as talks of major cuts in federal transportation spending gain momentum, Atlanta will surely have an opportunity to compete for a substantial, albeit reduced, amount of transit funding in the future. Successfully competing for funding would allow Atlanta to double down on its investment and keep its competitors at bay.
Second, Atlanta should take greater advantage of the flexibility in federal-aid transportation programs. Several federal-aid highway programs give Atlanta the ability to transfer highway funds to transit projects. The Atlanta region, however, has only sporadically utilized this tool.
Better use of these flexible programs moves Atlanta one step closer towards more diverse funding of regional transit projects, which only helps its chances of acquiring New Starts funding.
Third, to supplement TIA revenue, Atlanta should consider using tax increment financing. Tax increment financing is a tool where a portion of tax revenue generated by an infrastructure improvement is captured to retire debt issued for that improvement.
This same tool helped to develop Atlantic Station. The Georgia Redevelopment Powers statute specifically provides for the establishment of tax allocation districts where tax increment financing for mass transit projects can be pursued.
Finally, Atlanta should tap private expertise and resources in order to maximize its transit investments. Public-private partnerships (PPPs) provide a new approach to project development and contracting that can significantly reduce capital costs, accelerate construction, and present innovative financing options to fund transit projects.
Both Salt Lake City and Denver have used PPPs to build light rail lines on time and under budget, while Vancouver has brought in a private partner to design, build, partially finance, operate, and maintain a new light rail line out to its airport.
Now is the time for the Atlanta region to get off the sidelines. Favorable interest rates and affordable construction and labor costs leave no time to waste. A strong commitment to transit in the TIA project list and sound supporting policies will put Atlanta back in the game.
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NEW YORK, NY.- L&M Arts
presents an important collection of work by George Segal, on view through April 3, 2010.
Recognized as a great American sculptor of the twentieth century, George Segal used plaster and found objects to create innovative works depicting his immediate surroundings while invoking scenes which resonate universally. Working out of an old chicken coop as his studio on the family farm in New Jersey, Segal produced scenes witnessed throughout his life in his native New York City and later in suburban New Jersey, capturing the lives of ordinary people in daily activities.
Feeling trapped stylistically in the medium of paint, Segal transitioned into creating three-dimensional figures and objects. He developed his ideas mentally, never through sketches. After experimenting with roughly assembled proto-plaster figures and accumulating objects used as props for his pieces, he developed his technique in several stages and began producing everyday scenes in larger than life-size sculptural installations and wall reliefs. With his focus on the human form, Segal created ghost-like plaster figures in such works as Three People on Four Benches; color sculptural reliefs like Girl Sitting on Bed with Bedpost; and bronze statues such as Chance Meeting, bringing to life a tableau of human activity.
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Preliminary Analysis Indicates Proposed Changes in the Airport Improvement Program May Not Resolve Funding Needs for Smaller Airports
GAO-07-617T, Mar 28, 2007
To address the strain on the aviation system, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has proposed transitioning to the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen). To finance this system and to make its costs to users more equitable, the administration has proposed fundamental changes in the way that FAA is financed. As part of the reauthorization, the administration proposes major changes in the way that grants through the Airport Improvement Program (AIP) are funded and allocated to the 3,400 airports in the national airport system. In response, GAO was asked for an update on current funding levels for airport development and the sufficiency of those levels to meet planned development costs. This testimony comprises capital development estimates made by FAA and Airports Council International (ACI), the chief industry association; analyzes how much airports have received for capital development and whether this is sufficient to meet future planned development; and summarizes the effects of proposed changes in funding for airport development. This testimony is based on ongoing GAO work. Airport funding and planned development data are drawn from the best available sources and have been assessed for their reliability. This testimony does not contain recommendations.
ACI's estimate for planned development costs is considerably larger than FAA's, reflecting a broader range of projects included as well as differences in when and how the estimates are made. For 2007 through 2011, FAA estimated annual planned capital development costs at $8.2 billion, while ACI estimated annual costs at $15.6 billion. The estimates differ primarily because FAA's estimate only includes projects that are eligible for AIP grants, while ACI's covers all projects, including $5.8 billion for projects not eligible for federal funding, such as parking garages. From 2001 through 2005, airports received an average of about $13 billion a year for planned capital development. This amount covers all types of projects, including those not eligible for federal grants. The primary source of this funding was bonds, which averaged almost $6.5 billion per year, followed by federal grants and passenger facility charges (PFC), which accounted for $3.6 billion and $2.2 billion, respectively (see figure below). If airports continue to attract this level of funding for planned capital development, this amount would annually fall about $1 billion short of the $14 billion in total planned development costs (the sum of FAA's estimated $8.2 billion in eligible costs and the industry's $5.8 billion in ineligible costs). Larger airports foresee a shortfall of about $600 million annually, while smaller airports foresee a shortfall of $400 million annually. FAA's reauthorization proposal would reduce the size of AIP by $750 million but increase the amount that airports can collect from PFCs. However, the benefit from increased PFCs would accrue mostly to larger airports and may not offset a reduced AIP grants program for smaller airports. The proposal would also change the way that AIP and other FAA programs are funded. The new fuel taxes that FAA has proposed may not provide the revenues for AIP that FAA anticipates.
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Driving Abroad Can be an Unusual Trip
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We all learned to drive in slightly different ways. Many got their learner’s permit when they turned 16 while mom and dad spent time coaching from the passenger’s seat. Later, a driver’s education program had likely had them navigating orange cones at low speed in a high school parking lot. While that guidance taught many young drivers crucial lessons on how to become a good driver, the cost, education and tests necessary to get a license can vary greatly in other countries.
Driving in the Land of the Rising Sun
In densely populated countries like Japan, for example, getting a driver’s license can be an extremely costly process that also takes a considerable amount of time. You can start the process by enrolling somewhere like the Koyama Driving School. The school will simplify the process, but taking the class can also cost you close to 400,000 yen (about $4,800 USD). However, you can save more than half of that money by going through the process yourself.
If you decide that enrolling in a driving school is too expensive, you’ll start by getting your provisional driver’s license, which is like a learner’s permit in the United States. That means you’ll go to a test center to take written and practical tests, which a comprehensive driving course would allow you to bypass. After you pass those tests, you’ll need to practice driving with someone who has a full driver’s license.
Once you’ve jumped through these hoops, you’ll need to take a full theory test, followed by a practical road test with an examiner from a driving test center. Finally, you’ll be able to get your full driver’s license after you take a first aid course and a final driving theory course at a driving school. The process in Japan is certainly more costly and time consuming than it is in America, but Japan isn’t the only country that requires a stringent examination.
If You Want to Drive the Autobahn, You’ll Have to Study
When you think of driving in Germany, you might imagine yourself pushing the limits of an exotic sports car on the autobahn. But the fact is that when it comes to getting your license, Germany is one of the toughest countries in the world. Parents send their kids to a Fahrschule (driving school) in Germany, which guides them through the process.
After prospective drivers have completed driving school and a required first aid course, there’s a written test on traffic laws. Don’t worry, there’s a book to study from, Fahren lernen Lehrbuch, which lists all the possible questions and answers. The book is a vital part of the process, since the test has a high rate of failure. Just like the SATs, you’ll need to buckle down to make sure you get a good test score. If you fail three times, you have to go back to driving school and start all over.
To Get Licensed in India, You’ll Need a Guide
If you plan to drive in India, the first thing you’ll need to do is get your learner’s license (permit), which is a required step to getting your permanent license. You’ll start by going to the Regional Transport Office (RTO), where you’ll need to bring a number of documents with you. These include proof of age and residence, a declaration of medical fitness and two passport-sized photos. You’ll also pay a fee of about 60 rupees ($1.15 USD).
Not unlike the DMV in America, submitting this information at the RTO can be a time-consuming task. Some applicants say you can expect to spend a couple hours waiting in line to get your paperwork verified. Once that’s done, you’ll take a written learner’s test. If you pass, the RTO will issue your learner’s license, which is valid for six months. After you’ve got your learner’s license, you can enroll in a driving school, many of which charge you based on the type of car you wish to drive. Most driving schools provide eight lessons, which last about 15 minutes per day at a cost of roughly 2,700 to 3,000 rupees.
Once you’re versed in the rules of the road and have had your learner’s license at least 30 days, you’ll head back to the RTO and pay 390 rupees to take a driving test. If you pass, you’ll get your permanent driver’s license.
Regardless of where or how you learned to drive, we should all strive to keep the roads safe. The next time you get behind the wheel, remember that no matter how frustrating your last experience was at the DMV, it could be even more challenging in other parts of the world.
Looking for driving safety tips? Visit the Allstate.com Tools and Resources section for more.
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It appears that there has been some confusion from the community at large surrounding battery performance. This was caused by my colleague Michael Chaize publishing an amazing video of Flash Player 10.1 demos on Vimeo.
Bloggers from Daring Fireball and Macgasm have spent a little more time than expected studying the battery indicators, as opposed to the incredible advancements in web browsing for mobile phones, netbooks and tablets. To be clear, the battery indicator changes being discussed are a function of video editing and Android design.
Typically these indicators are 4 step graphics, so the indicator will drop by one step for every 25% battery used. If Michael shows his phone with 50% full then this could be 51% in reality, using ~2% would then appear like a 25% loss. It’s just a graphic, and below Michael has provided more concrete results from the phone management UI.
That said, let’s look at some mobile facts for fun.
Mobile phones are complicated mini-computers with extremely complex chip designs all working to produce a rich experience with maximum efficiency. It should be no surprise that using 3G, WIFI, Bluetooth, GPS or leaving a browser window open and showing even basic HTML can drain your battery. Additionally, distance from a cell tower is also a potential pitfall and some the travellers among you will note differing battery life in various cities, countries and networks.
For many years we have been working within these constraints, probably without many of you realizing it. Remember that our mobile optimized runtime Flash Lite (shipped on over a Billion phones) and has been used extensively for User Interfaces on mobile phones from Samsung, Sony Ericsson and LG, so this is something that we know quite a bit about.
During our testing of Flash Player 10.1 we have baseline tests against the following use cases (among others), and using a multi-meter to ensure that your content runs with acceptable battery consumption. We’re also testing against the web on sites like youtube, blip.tv and others with great performance reaching to hours of playback on the Nexus One.
Here are the actual combinations of test scenarios carried out at our offices, of course the real world result for you will be different:
- Idle – No 3G, Wifi, Bluetooth, IR
- Idle – No 3G, Wifi, Bluetooth, IR + backlight ON
- 3G enabled – Wifi, Bluetooth, IR off
- WIFI + vanilla HTML. ‘simple.html’
- 3G + vanilla HTML. ‘simple.html’
- 3G + vanilla HTML file + swf: ‘simple-swf.html’
To demonstrate battery performance on the Nexus One here is a recording of a large movie playing on Youtube. It lasts for some 17 minutes with little effect on the battery indicator, and just to ensure fairness I have included the battery usage chart data from the Android OS. Our own tests show that video can be played for well over 3Hours over WIFI from youtube in H.264 (Baseline 1.2).
Note – This data is for a single website, below you can see that tv.adobe.com achieves better performance in the real world.
The resulting battery usage is a mere 6% for the Browser which totalled 199Mb of data received:
My colleague Michael Chaize has also completed his own tests shown below. In addition to my own basic test he demonstrates the ability to play videos and gaming for over 4 hours and five hours respectively.
Without optimizing your applications, Flash or otherwise, they can perform badly on any platform this is 101 for any software developer. Our investments with Flash Player 10.1 and AIR are designed to provide the best possible results for the majority of existing content for web enablement on devices.
However, all of us will have to consider the user experience for our new mobile users and test effectively. Those of you that have created native or Flash Lite applications will know some of the tricks of the trade already, but nothing beats practice and real-world testing.
Thibaut (from the video above) has in fact written a fantastic document to lead you through the first steps in optimizing your content. Most of this is applicable to any of the Flash Platform runtimes, and certainly the desktop/AIR/netbooks/tablets etc.
Mike Chambers has also completed a great study on the Touch and Mouse events, and in particular how you can begin to optimize your content for this huge array of new platforms; and ultimately customers.
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NAACP Joins Civil and Human Rights Groups to Advance Vision, Legacy of 1963 March on Washington
August 28 rally on anniversary of Dr. King’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech will serve as precursor to major ‘One Nation’ march on 10-2-10
NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous will join the National Action Network (NAN) and other civil and human rights organizations, unions and clergy in a rally and march in Washington, DC on Saturday, August 28, 2010 to celebrate and commemorate the memory and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The date marks the 47th anniversary of King’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech and other notable orations delivered at the 1963 March on Washington.
Entitled “Reclaiming the Dream”, the march primarily seeks to remind Americans of Dr. King’s vision for a society in which all Americans were treated fairly despite racial, gender or other differences. Much like King and his supporters did on August 28, 1963, attendees of the rally will also march in the name of jobs and freedom.
“I will be proud to stand with my family and all my brothers and sisters on August 28 to reflect and honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,” said NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous. “We look forward to uniting in hope and advocating for a productive agenda for today’s America – jobs, justice, education.”
“Reclaiming the Dream” will precede a major march for jobs, justice and education by the NAACP and other organizations on 10-2-10. Known as One Nation Working Together, the October 2 rally represents a nationwide movement bringing Americans together, assessing our progress and challenges, and focusing on our unfinished agenda and issues that affect Americans every day of our lives such as the economy, education and the criminal justice system.
“In the spirit of Dr. King and the continuous civil rights agenda of our coalition, we will bring this major event to the nation’s capitol on 10-2-10, an event that will highlight the real problems affecting millions of Americans – jobs, justice and education,” said Jealous. “We know that Dr. King will be with us in spirit when we march to pull America back together and put America back to work on 10-2-10."
The August 28 commemoration of the 1963 March on Washington will take place in light of right-wing extremists attempts to detract from the legacy and true purpose of the original march. A concurrent rally also scheduled for August 28 at the Lincoln Memorial, the site of Dr. King’s famous delivery, and declares that it will “restore honor” to America. Despite disingenuous claims by organizers that the rally is not political, the event is closely aligned with the Tea Party political movement, which the NAACP has asked to repudiate the racist elements within its organization.
“With more than 101 years of fighting for equality and freedom for all Americans, we respect their right to express their opinions, however out of the mainstream they may be,” said Jealous. “But we are here to honor Dr. King’s historic gift of non-violence and equality to our nation, and we would note that Dr King never had to ask his followers to leave hateful signs and guns at home.”
The “Reclaiming the Dream” march will begin at Washington D.C.’s Dunbar High School and continue to the site where a memorial commemorating the legacy of Dr. King is under construction. The memorial is scheduled to be completed by the summer of 2011.
Founded in 1909, the NAACP is the nation's oldest and largest civil rights organization. Its members throughout the United States and the world are the premier advocates for civil rights in their communities, conducting voter mobilization and monitoring equal opportunity in the public and private sectors.
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(Oct 12, 2010) Mali's Parliament is currently considering a watered-down version of the Family Code bill that it passed on August 2009 after Toumani Touré, Mali's President, refused to give his assent to it in the face of political pressure from religious conservatives and sent the bill back to Parliament for reconsideration (Mali's Parliament Continues Family Law Debate, RFI (Oct. 6, 2010), http://www.english.rfi.fr/print/51089?print=now).
The version currently under consideration seeks to undo the major changes proposed by the 2009 bill to the current family law regime. The 2009 bill introduced several far-reaching changes: it increased the minimum marriage to 18, outlawed customary and religious marriages in favor of statutory marriages, and recognized women's right to inherit. (Hanibal Goitom, Mali: Far-Reaching Changes Proposed by Legislature in New Family Code, GLOBAL LEGAL MONITOR (Aug. 19, 2009), http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l2
05401504_text). The current version of the bill re-introduces religious marriages, scales back women's rights to inherit, and eliminates the provisions of the earlier bill that recognized rights of children born out of wedlock (RFI, supra).
Rights groups who were behind the 2009 bill oppose the current version, while the reverse is true for the conservative religious organizations in Mali. The current version was said to have been drafted in consultation with and with the approval of the High Islamic Council, a religious organization that was adamant in its opposition to the 2009 bill (id.; Goitom, supra). Rights groups who have been calling for secularizing the family law regime and who supported the 2009 bill have been excluded from the drafting process of the current version. According to Brahima Kone, President of the Malian Association of Human Rights, rights groups were kept in the dark about the re-drafting process and only learned of the existence of the new version through press reports (id.).
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EARLIER TODAY WE attended a presentation by Opera held in Taipei of all places. Opera’s CTO, Håkon Wium Lie and Opera’s co-founder, Jon S. Von Tetzchner were on location to talk to the media as well as partners in Taiwan about the future of the web. Well, at least the future of the web the way Opera envisages it. Mr Lie started and ended his presentation with a simple statement “There’s only one web. We must take good care of it, and use it creatively.” which really is something worth thinking about.
Opera is something of an underdog in the world of desktop web browsers. You might be surprised to learn that it’s the most widely used browser on a wide range of other devices, especially in the mobile handset market. Opera is also a driving force behind open standards and faster development of new, improved standards and Mr Lie has a very keen personal interest in HTML5 and CSS3. He showed some interesting demo’s of what’s possible with HTML5 and CSS3, such as the <canvas> tag which could potentially allow for in-browser 3D games.
The much discussed <video> tag was also demoed. However, unlike Apple and Microsoft, as well as Google to some degree, Opera is on the same side as Mozilla when it comes to the choice of video codec, as Opera would rather see Ogg Theora become the standard of web based video over H.264. The simple reason for this is because Ogg Theora is an open standard, unlike H.264 which is a mess of patents belonging to at least 26 different companies. Currently H.264 is free when it comes to viewing content, but the licensing terms are set to change in 2015 and in theory the consortium behind the H.264 could start charging for each time an H.264 encoded file was played back online.
We’re getting a little bit off topic now though, but it’s good to see that Opera is serious when it comes to backing open standards. Mr Lie is also one of the creators of the CSS standard and has co-authored several books about CSS, so it’s no wonder that he was keen on promoting some of the new features of CSS3 as yet another building block which will add to the many new features of HTML5. It’s remarkable that these new features didn’t come a long time ago, such as the upcoming border-radius addition to CSS3 which allows for rounded corners, something which is fairly complex to do today and requires some decent image manipulation skills.
CCS3 will also bring with it support for additional fonts which are simply placed on the web server and linked to in the CSS code. The browser will then pick up on this and display the custom font. It’s also possible to create entire graphical menus in CSS3, without the need of using a single image. This will not only speed of your web browsing experience, but it will also help you reduce the amount of data that you’re downloading, something that is key on many mobile devices where you pay for anything outside of your included data package.
As an example of what can be done with CSS3, Mr Lie pictured an Opera logo made entirely in CSS3, although Opera’s logo is in fairness just a big red O, so in comparison to many other logos it’s quite easy to do. He also showed his personal website to which he had added screen width information, so that it scaled differently depending on the width of the browser window used to accessed his website on, a feature that we’d like to become widely adopted. One final feature that CSS3 is able to do is provide formatting for print, something that might just come in handy for those that want to print their own books, not a mass market feature, but nonetheless interesting.
Mr Tetzchner spoke more about the browser itself and how Opera is working on bringing the same user experience to all devices that its browser can run on, yet maintaining a degree of customization for its partners. If you have used a recent version of Opera on a mobile device, then we think that you’ll agree with us that there are few, if any better alternatives when it comes to getting as close to the full web experience as possible on a mobile device as you will with Opera.
He continued to talk about widgets, something that has gained a lot of popularity thanks to Apple amongst others. More specifically he talked about widgets on mobile devices and it was pretty clear that Mr Tetzchner isn’t Apple’s biggest fan as far as its use of proprietary solutions is concerned. Then again, this is a major problem with all mobile platforms, not just Apple’s iPhone and again, Opera’s solution to the problem was to use web standards to build widgets around. Opera already has a lot of experience in doing this and one of the major advantages of using web standards for widgets is the simple fact that the widgets will work on any device.
It was quite amusing to hear him say that Opera was feeling that the “cloud” is getting a bit old and they’ve been looking at the next thing for quite some time already. So what is the next thing? Well, it’s the ability to connect directly from one device to another, no matter where the other device is located. The idea is that you shouldn’t have to go via the cloud to be able to sync your pictures on your smartphone with your PC, or why even bother syncing them, when you can share them directly from your smartphone. We can see some problems with this approach, but it also makes sense most of the time.
During the Q&A session that followed, Mr Tetzchner suggested that the underlying OS on whatever device you’re using is become less and less relevant, as just about everything you need on your device can run on the web today. As much as we like web based applications, you tend to run into problems as soon as you can’t connect to the web and this is something that still needs a bit of work. There was of course some questions about Adobe Flash and its relevance in the future of the web and it was suggested that for now, Flash is what’s being used and so be it, but Opera is expecting HTML5 to replace Flash for video content over the next few years.
Speaking of video, Opera is working on hardware acceleration for video and although they didn’t have all the details at hand, they suggested that it’s very like to be platform independent as far as the PC goes. Flash is currently limited to only supporting hardware acceleration under Windows which makes it a useless feature for both Apple and Linux users. Opera does appear to be a very creative company and more importantly a very involved company where it matters. HTML5 and CSS3 looks set to change the way we browse the web for the better, however, it’s all still very much under development and it will take some time before all of these new features are accepted as industry standards and some of them are likely to change before they make it into the W3C’s big book of standards.S|A
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Kartik Mahina, or Kartak Maas, is the first month in a traditional Gujarati calendar followed in
Gujarat. Kartik Mahina 2010 begins on November 7 and ends on December 5. The Vikram Samvat Year 2067 begins on the first day of Kartik month. Please note that as the Amavas ends early - the New Year is marked on November 6 but Kartik Sud is on November 7.
The traditional Hindu calendar followed in
Gujarat is based on the Vikram Era and it was started in 57 BC by Emperor Vikramaditya as a commemoration of his victory upon the Shaks. This Hindu calendar is also known as Vikram Samvant and begins with the Month Kartik or Kartak
The important festivals and rituals in the month include Bhai Beej, Yamtritiya, Labh Pancham, Tulsi Vivah, and Dev Diwali.
Kartik Shukla Paksha is from November 7, 2010 to November 21, 2010.
Kartik Krishna Paksha is from November 22 to December 5, 2010.
Kartik Punam (full moon) is on November 21 and Amavasi (no moon) is on December 5.
It must be noted that Kartik Month in a traditional calendar followed in
North India begins on October 24 and ends on November 21, 2010.
Kartik Month in calendars followed in
Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka is similar to the Marathi calendar. But in these regions it is the eighth month and not the first month.
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Why is ‘sales’ only whispered in the legal profession?
Three articles in the 14 October edition of the Gazette made me wonder why the word ‘sales’ is still rarely used within the profession.
Page 1: Accountants to apply for probate rights
Accountants have simply spotted an obvious sales opportunity and are seeking to take advantage of it. Are solicitors looking for similar opportunities?
A good accountant, who has taken an active interest in the affairs of their high-net-worth clients for many years, will see probate as a natural extension of the service that they currently provide. It is a way of adding another string to their bow. It provides clients with a seamless service.
From their position, accountants will have a clear sales advantage over lawyers and even the likes of the Co-op who sell probate along with wills and funeral plans. They see their clients much more frequently than lawyers tend to do, if only to prepare their annual tax return, are more proactive at suggesting planning opportunities. They are also more adept at cross-selling.
Page 2: Profession 'inherently masculine'
There has been a great deal of coverage about the inequalities within the legal profession, but little coverage of ‘diverse’ professionals who are successful and why. In my experience, the successful professionals are good salespeople (the term 'rainmakers' tends to be used), but this is rarely mentioned and I am not aware of any studies into this in the UK, although there is some in the US.
When working with good rainmakers, I have often found them to have some sales experience. I recall one very successful corporate finance partner who financed his student travels in the southern hemisphere with a holiday job selling paintings door to door. He said that ‘once you have experienced that sort of rejection, there is nothing to fear in picking up the phone’.
Another successful female partner told me of her student holiday job in one of the major electrical retailers where the sales culture and performance rewards had influenced her approach to business development (another euphemism for ‘sales’).
Page 12: Ticking the boxes is no longer enough
How can a student, such as Carly Moore-Martin, differentiate themselves from 300 other students with a similar degree and an impressive array of extra-curricular activities and interests?
Put yourselves in the shoes of the employer. Of course, you need someone who knows the law, but you can take your pick of those. Your other objectives will be to build a profitable practice in the face of growing competition. So all other things being equal, a candidate with sales and marketing skills is going to stand out from the rest. Alternatively, if you operate in particular target markets, a candidate with knowledge, experience and contacts within that sector will be more attractive.
Is a reticence to embrace and recognise the importance of sales making it easy for competitors to enter the legal market?
- Visit the Gazette's blogs page for more In Business blogs
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Some of the most beautiful hues are found in nature. Shades of blue and purple are especially phenomenal in the plant kingdom, where lilacs, lobelia, bluebells, trillium, iris, violets, pansies, morning glory, bachelor buttons and lavender reign. All of these flowers appeal to the eye with a visual splash of color and beauty. Some, in addition to their visual beauty, release a sweet aroma for a delicious olfactory bouquet. But lavender holds a special place with beauty and aroma that have enthralled generations.
The fresh, sweet aroma of lavender -- whether in the garden, dried, or in a high quality essential oil -- has relaxing and uplifting qualities that leave users with a sense of calm and balance, making it one of today's most popular scents. Lavender is a multi-purpose herb: when dried, the flowers are used in potpourris, sachets, crafting and home decor. Lavender has also been used throughout history for medicinal purposes, to encourage love and passion, and in the preparation of food dishes. Today it is most commonly used in aromatherapy and the perfume industry.
The essential oil can be used to create elegantly scented bath and body care products, soaps, candles, perfumes, and even household cleansers and laundry detergent.
The use of lavender has been recorded for more than 2,500 years. Egyptians, Phoenicians and the people of Arabia used lavender as a perfume -- and also for mummification, by wrapping the dead in lavender-dipped shrouds. In ancient Greece, lavender was called "nardus," "nard," or "spikenard" (named for the Syrian city of Naarda) and was used as a cure for everything from insomnia and aching backs to insanity.
By Roman times, lavender had already become a prized commodity. Lavender flowers were sold to ancient Romans for 100 denarii per pound -- equivalent to a full month's wage for a farm laborer -- and were used to scent the water in Roman baths. In fact, the baths served as the root of the plant's current name. "Lavender" is derived from the Latin lavare, meaning, "to wash." Romans also used lavender as a perfume, insect repellent and flavoring. They even added dried lavender to their smoking mixtures.
In Medieval and Renaissance Europe, lavender was strewn over the stone floors of castles for use as a disinfectant and deodorant. It was also one of many medicinal herbs grown in "infirmarian's gardens," with yields intended to be used to ward off disease. Use of lavender was highly revered during the Great Plague of London in the 17th century, when individuals fastened bunches of lavender to each wrist to protect themselves from the Black Death, and glovemakers scented their stocks of leather with lavender oil to ward off the disease. Thieves who made a living stealing from the graves and the homes of Plague victims concocted a wash known as "Four Thieves Vinegar," which contained lavender, to cleanse and protect themselves after a night's work. Today, we know the disease was transmitted by fleas, so the use of lavender--which is known to repel these insects--could very well have saved lives and prevented further spread of the plague.
The Shakers, a strict sect of English Quakers, are credited with commercializing lavender and introducing a variety of lavender-based products to the United States and Canada. The Shakers raised their own herbs, produced medicines, and sold them to neighbors and customers outside their religious sect. Because the Shakers believed in celibacy, they probably did not explore the romantic, sensual appeal that lavender is said to have, but there are many others throughout history who have, including Cleopatra, who, according to legend, used lavender to seduce Julius Caesar and Mark Antony.
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When internet fraudsters impersonate a business to trick you into giving out your personal information, it’s called phishing. Don't reply to email, text, or pop-up messages that ask for your personal or financial information. Don’t click on links within them either – even if the message seems to be from an organization you trust. It isn’t. Legitimate businesses don’t ask you to send sensitive information through insecure channels.
You open an email or text, and see a message like this:
"We suspect an unauthorized transaction on your account. To ensure that your account is not compromised, please click the link below and confirm your identity."
"During our regular verification of accounts, we couldn't verify your information. Please click here to update and verify your information."
“Our records indicate that your account was overcharged. You must call us within 7 days to receive your refund.”
The senders are phishing for your information so they can use it to commit fraud.
Delete email and text messages that ask you to confirm or provide personal information (credit card and bank account numbers, Social Security numbers, passwords, etc.). Legitimate companies don't ask for this information via email or text.
The messages may appear to be from organizations you do business with – banks, for example. They might threaten to close your account or take other action if you don’t respond.
Don’t reply, and don’t click on links or call phone numbers provided in the message, either. These messages direct you to spoof sites – sites that look real but whose purpose is to steal your information so a scammer can run up bills or commit crimes in your name.
Area codes can mislead, too. Some scammers ask you to call a phone number to update your account or access a "refund." But a local area code doesn’t guarantee that the caller is local.
If you’re concerned about your account or need to reach an organization you do business with, call the number on your financial statements or on the back of your credit card.
You can take steps to avoid a phishing attack:
- Use trusted security software and set it to update automatically. In addition, use these computer security practices.
- Don't email personal or financial information. Email is not a secure method of transmitting personal information.
- Only provide personal or financial information through an organization's website if you typed in the web address yourself and you see signals that the site is secure, like a URL that begins https (the "s" stands for secure). Unfortunately, no indicator is foolproof; some phishers have forged security icons.
- Review credit card and bank account statements as soon as you receive them to check for unauthorized charges. If your statement is late by more than a couple of days, call to confirm your billing address and account balances.
- Be cautious about opening attachments and downloading files from emails, regardless of who sent them. These files can contain viruses or other malware that can weaken your computer's security.
Forward phishing emails to firstname.lastname@example.org – and to the company, bank, or organization impersonated in the email. You also may report phishing email to email@example.com. The Anti-Phishing Working Group, a group of ISPs, security vendors, financial institutions and law enforcement agencies, uses these reports to fight phishing.
If you might have been tricked by a phishing email:
- File a report with the Federal Trade Commission at www.ftc.gov/complaint.
- Visit the FTC’s Identity Theft website. Victims of phishing could become victims of identity theft; there are steps you can take to minimize your risk.
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Texas Will Screen Newborns for SCID Beginning December 1
TOWSON, Md., Dec. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) will add Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID) to the state's Newborn Screening Panel beginning December 1, 2012. The Immune Deficiency Foundation (IDF), the national patient organization for persons with primary immunodeficiency diseases, commends the state of Texas and the dedicated volunteers who have advocated for this cause. Screening for SCID increases the probability of early detection and treatment, potentially saving the lives of babies affected by the disease.
SCID is a primary immunodeficiency disease where affected infants lack T-lymphocytes, or white blood cells, that help fight infections from a wide array of viruses, bacteria and fungi, leaving these infants susceptible to serious, life-threatening infections. Babies with SCID appear healthy at birth, but without early treatment, most often by bone marrow transplant, these infants cannot survive. SCID infants who receive treatment within months of birth have a greater possibility of living happy, productive lives, thus the importance of newborn screening.
IDF continues to advocate for universal SCID newborn screening. Marcia Boyle , IDF President & Founder, said, "Implementing SCID newborn screening in Texas is a major milestone, and it is imperative that we sustain this momentum to establish newborn screening in all 50 states."
"The addition of SCID to the panel says to me that the individuals and groups CAN shape public policy through education, advocacy, and mobilization of interest groups," explained Texas resident and IDF volunteer Jennifer Garcia , mother of Cameron Garcia who died of SCID in March 2011. "It personally helps me feel some much needed peace in my heart, and that there was a purpose to Cameron's little life as well as the lives of all the other SCID angels."
Carol Ann Demaret , IDF Board member and mother of David Vetter (who was born with SCID and was known around the world as the "boy in the bubble") said, "When my beloved son, David, was born in 1971, it was only a dream that someday we would have this wonderful announcement. I am proud that David's home state of Texas will screen for SCID and give our children a greater chance at life. My prayer is to never again meet another family who has lost a child to SCID because diagnosis and treatment came too late. I congratulate the Texas DSHS and everyone who worked many years to guide this along."
About The Immune Deficiency Foundation
The Immune Deficiency Foundation (IDF), founded in 1980, is the national patient organization dedicated to improving the diagnosis, treatment and quality of life of persons with primary immunodeficiency diseases through advocacy, education and research.
To learn more about IDF, visit www.primaryimmune.org.
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Toronto Disaster Relief Committee folds after 14 years of spotlighting homeless
It was the champion of the homeless.
Born in the late 1990s, when a combination of deep cuts to welfare and affordable housing were pushing hundreds of destitute Torontonians onto the streets, the Toronto Disaster Relief Committee firmly established itself as the voice of the most vulnerable.
The social activists, academics and business people who made up the TDRC — as it was also called — took up the cause with evangelistic fervour.
In the fall of 1998, a cluster of homeless deaths and dire warnings of a harsh winter ahead became the ominous backdrop to its concerted cry for help.
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The Arrows in Our Quiver
* A book review of Legal Language by Peter M. Tiersma, University of Chicago Press, 1999, 314 pp., $26.
When we grasp for the right word, explicitly or implicitly our reach extends into a rich and complex linguistic past. Even when searching for the down-to-earth, plain-English phrase, we necessarily invoke the chivalrous, the legendary, the elegant, the peculiar, the curious, the courtly, the elusive, the poetic, and the allegorical terms that mark our history. Amid this colorful heritage, it should come as no surprise that plain English remains an art, and not a science.
Culture and civilization become rooted in our daily routines. They are hinged, one generation to the next, by little more than a string of words. The language and choice of terms become a mark of the times. They have been used to maintain class distinctions, and they have become weapons to break the barriers down. They are used to protect our Constitutional freedoms and to undermine our cherished liberties. And when future language historians evaluate our performance, we too will be judged by little more than the preserved record of our words and phrases.
With that at stake, linguistics might be a prominent subject of our attention. Yet we devote slight recognition to the history and evolution of our language. Peter M. Tiersma would hope to change that.
This is the first major work addressing the history of our chosen legal terminology since David Mellinkoff’s landmark, The Language of the Law, published in 1963. The book bridges the gap between the legal professional and the professional linguistic historian. The two disciplines have proceeded on separate tracks for too long. Tiersma, a professor of law at Loyola Law School, merges a background in linguistics and law in bringing us face-to-face with our forebears. And as he peers into the future, Tiersma becomes an advocate for plain English on our edge of history.
In the opening sentence of Legal Language, Tiersma acknowledges the assistance of Joseph Kimble, a member of the Plain English Committee of the State Bar of Michigan and an outspoken critic of legalese.
The book highlights notable historic events affecting our speech. For example, alliteration was an Anglo-Saxon trait widely used in a form of poetry. This technique is found in Beowulf, the Anglo-Saxon epic from the Seventh or Eighth Century. It combines words beginning with the same sound, as distinguished from conventional poetry where ending sounds are phonetically similar. Alliteration had a utilitarian function among Germanic tribes: rhythmic phrases were easier to remember in preliterate societies. Remnants of alliteration can be found in many of our common phrases: aid and abet, any and all, bed and breakfast, clear and convincing, fame and fortune, to have and to hold, house and home, new and novel, part and parcel, and rest, residue, and remainder.
The Anglo-Saxons drew on Scandinavian words. Even the word law originates with the Norse word for lay (as in "that which is laid down"). Tiersma points out that the phrase to lay down the law is a "repetitive redundancy" (the author’s conspicuously clear and convincing, new and novel concession to alliteration, at the unfortunate expense of brevity).
For Tiersma, language becomes the spoils of war. A group of Scandinavians, the Normans ("northman"), conquered Normandy, now part of France. In 1066, William, Duke of Normandy, defeated the English king and was crowned king of England. As the Norman French overpowered the Anglo-Saxons, so did the French language come to subdue English. French became the language of power, while English was relegated to the subjugated Anglo-Saxon people. Thus, our words for meat on the table derive from French: mutton, veal, beef, and pork. Correspondingly, the language of the Anglo-Saxon peasants became the words for meat on the hoof: lamb, calf, cow, and pig.
The first signs of a "professional class of lawyers" appeared in about 1200 A.D. This became one of the early efforts to perpetuate a profession with inaccessible speech. French words in our legal vernacular often trace to this early bar association.
By wielding a language of their own, these movers in the legal profession prompted an early plain-English countermovement. In 1362, the Statute of Pleading condemned the French hierarchy for "much unknown in the said Realm," since the parties to litigation "have no Knowledge or Understanding of that which is said for them or against them by their Serjeants and other Pleaders." Sir Edward Coke protested that laws were not being published in understandable English "lest the unlearned by bare reading without right understanding might suck out errors, and trusting in their conceit, might endamage themselves, and sometimes fall into destruction."
Tiersma finds the law of real property in England to have been influenced by feudalism. It came to England by the French Normans. Accordingly, much of our conveyancing terminology and law is derived from French. Conveyance, dower, easement, estate, fee simple, property, remainder, rent, tenant, and trespass are French terms.
The French influence also extended to the courts. The following words originated with this French-speaking hierarchy: action, appeal, attorney, claim, complaint, counsel, court, defendant, evidence, indictment, adjudge, judgment, jury, justice, parol, party, plaintiff, plea, sentence, sue, summon, and voir dire.
In the 14th Century, one-third of England’s population was claimed by the plague. The epidemic exacted a particularly heavy human toll from the upper class. It disproportionately affected the French-speaking nobility. The use of English could then gradually reclaim a foothold in the land of the Anglo-Saxons, and in our legal heritage, before printing technology would revolutionize communications.
The Gutenberg Press was developed in 1455. By the 1470s, it was introduced to England. Before then, our legal rituals were oral. Writings, if used at all, were simply "evidence of the spoken event." Land conveyances and wills were confirmed orally, in the presence of witnesses. The symbolic exchange of a clod of dirt imparted a legal solemnity to a conveyance. Religious clerics created written records of property transfers as aids in remembering a prior legal event. These documents were merely of evidentiary value for the legally binding oral ceremony.
The Gutenberg Press advanced the rate of literacy. On the heels of this development, the Statute of Wills was adopted in 1540 and the Statute of Frauds in 1677. These statutes converted the written record from a mere matter of evidence to the operational legal document. Accordingly, the legal system transferred its attention from the spoken to the written word, and the parol-evidence rule was born.
At much the same time, "reporters" compiled information on court proceedings. Near the middle of the 15th Century, the legal profession treated these compilations as sources of law. The Gutenberg Press made stare decisis possible.
Expansion of the written word again placed lawyers in a unique position to create a monopoly on legal information—and ushered in a new era of public contempt. In Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, from the early 1700s, "there was a Society of Men Among Us bred up from their Youth in the Art of proving by Words multiplied for the Purpose that White is Black and Black is White, according as they are paid. To this Society all the rest of the people are slaves." Swift begrudgingly spoke of the need to hire lawyers that "hath a peculiar Cant and Jargon of their own, that no Mortal can Understand and wherein all their Laws are written."
In his quest for linguistic origins, Tiersma offers personal speculation on a curious, and relatively recent, innovation to the word "defendant." In some circles, "defendant" no longer rhymes with "strident." Rather, it sounds like "defend ant," as though the profession were defending invertebrates. The author postulates that this recent development may have originated with law-school professors. The word "defendant" has often been misspelled as "defendent" by law students. To extinguish this persistent error, law-school professors may have emphasized the last syllable in "defendant."
It worked. The pathological spelling defect was cured. But the professor’s erudite pronunciation of "defend ant" could not be shrugged off. The speech pattern was carried into the courts by the rehabilitated law students. And TV dramas have curiously transformed it into acceptable speech.
After discussing our past, Tiersma advances on to the present. His role shifts from reporter to advocate. He abandons the role of a passive historian of legal terminology and becomes an activist for much-needed reform on the frontiers of plain English.
The arrows in our quiver co-evolve with the social setting. We will continue to mold the legal system, as it shapes us. In Tiersma’s powerful and well-timed study, he reveals a passion for the process. The book calls for a modern-day raid on legalese. Tiersma becomes an active participant in fashioning our language, perhaps much like the French Norman invaders and Scandinavians left their mark several centuries ago. With engaging scholarship, Tiersma dissects our anachronistic, idiosyncratic speech patterns. And he offers a more intelligible alternative with plain-English technology.
Legalese has been wrongly defended for its predictability and precision. Yet, in tracing the origins of this arcane speech, Tiersma reveals that it not only is off-putting and stilted, but also lacks clarity. It is neither crisp nor clean, but rather rough and unruly. It is not post-modern, but rather pre-Gutenberg.
Tiersma finds another "conspiracy theory" afoot: "highly stilted, formal, and redundant legal prose...create the impression that drafting legal documents is far more complex than it really is."
In 1596, legalese was already becoming unfashionable. In Mylward v Weldon, the plaintiff, represented by his son, submitted a 120-page pleading. The court claimed "all the matter thereof which is pertinent" could have been expressed in 16 pages. Annoyed by the pleader’s verbosity, the judge ordered a hole be cut in the offending document. The pleader’s head was inserted. He was paraded "round about Westminster Hall, whilst the Courts are sitting." The Court ordered that the Warden "shall shew him at the bar of every of the three Courts within the Hall."
Tiersma also confronts and illuminates some of the unresolved contradictions in our speech. For example, he identifies impersonal constructions, such as party of the first part. He also notes our detached reference to a human "judge" as the non-human "the court." This nurtures an appearance that the judge resides well beyond the fray of human emotion and bias.
Tiersma exposes the inescapable polarity between precision and flexibility. We strive for accuracy in legal documents and in verbal communications, yet we would also hope to impart resilience for the future. The scrivener’s product inescapably becomes a compromise between these two inversely related properties: precision and flexibility.
"The lawyer’s most important drafting tool," Tiersma cynically points out, "is an extensive thesaurus." Accordingly, our strings of redundant words become "silly." Our love of synonyms has become an obsession. At times, it might be necessary to "cover all the bases," but there is no reason to say give, devise, and bequeath, null and void, right, title, and interest, or true and correct.
The reader of a legal document has the right to assume that words are being used consistently. Tiersma cautions the legal drafter against using different words to describe the same idea. He calls this "elegant variation." It is treacherous in legal writing.
Tiersma also takes us into the courtroom in his quest for plain English. He quotes Justice Holmes for imposing the constitutional requirement in criminal statutes that "a fair warning should be given to the world in language that the common world will understand, of what the law intends to do if a certain line is passed." Jury instructions, even those used in the O.J. Simpson criminal trial, are subjected to Tiersma’s critical plain-English scrutiny. They did not fare well.
The book adds a new level of appreciation to our daily routines. For example, the author identifies differences between direct and cross examination. When asked a broad, narrative question, fewer facts will be recounted than if a series of specific leading questions are asked. Psychological studies reveal that leading questions elicit more facts, but the details will be reported with less precision than under a narrative question.
Anachronistic speech patterns remain a defining rite of passage for young lawyers. And plain English is still low on our list of priorities. Legal intricacies and the need for professional legal services are not likely to dwindle in our increasingly complex world. Tiersma points out that the complexity of laws will persist, but needless verbal complexity is another matter entirely.
Who might have a use for this book? This is for anyone interested in legal writing and legal communications, and for those hoping to speak with greater precision. It is for lawyers, legal professionals, historians, scholars, professors, students, and clients. If you have an interest in history, in words, or in the associations between them, then you will find this book timely and informative.
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Critics of “e-fairness,” who cite concerns over hidden tax increases, are well-intentioned but often misguided. I strongly believe e-fairness — closing the online sales tax loophole and requiring online businesses to collect and remit sales taxes like brick-and-mortar businesses are required to — is based on conservative principles and will be a real benefit to communities and the economy as a whole.
As a conservative, I am a proponent of minimal government intrusion into the free market. This is also the mission of e-fairness and its legislative vehicle, the Marketplace Fairness Act. Currently in many states, including my home state of Florida, online retailers can exploit a tax loophole by not collecting sales tax on their products even when it is due. Traditional bricks-and-mortar retailers in our state, however, must collect this tax, which creates an unfair competitive advantage for online businesses. This in effect gives online retailers a built-in, government-sanctioned pricing advantage of up to 10 percent, depending on the state. Closing this loophole is not only essential to keeping local shops and businesses on fair footing with online businesses — for states such as Florida that do not have a state income tax, closing this loophole also brings in an essential revenue stream.
The Marketplace Fairness Act is not a tax increase. The taxes in question are already owed state and local sales taxes, which is why I filed a similar measure when I served in the Florida Legislature. As a strong conservative with a track record of supporting low taxes, I would not lend my name to a tax hike on any business. The Marketplace Fairness Act empowers states to collect taxes that are already on the books — and that is all. No new tax is included in this bill, which is why I am a co-sponsor.
E-fairness helps our communities, which are suffering as local merchants — the kind who create local jobs and business activity and sponsor Little League teams — lose sales because of the unfair advantage enjoyed by their online rivals. As their customers naturally gravitate to perceived lower prices online, these small local businesses are forced to cut their workforce or wages as well as their orders with other local businesses. This cycle is dragging down our localities and the U.S. economy overall. This is unacceptable given the strong headwinds from government intrusion and red tape that most businesses already face.
The Marketplace Fairness Act will create a freer, fairer market in one of the most important sectors of the economy. It will ensure that all retail businesses have to play by the same rules and that states have the power to decide whether to collect taxes owed. Importantly, the bill will help revitalize struggling communities by giving their local businesses a level playing field on which to compete.
Supporting the Marketplace Fairness Act is simply the right thing to do. A sale is a sale, regardless of where it takes place. That one group of retailers is required to collect a tax while another is not is clearly unfair. The Marketplace Fairness Act is built on conservative principles like a free market, open competition and fairness. Conservatives can and should support this bill and join me in working for its passage this year.
Rep. Bill Cassidy has his blood drawn by Alesha Barbour during a free hepatitis screening in the Rayburn House Office Building hosted by the Congressional Viral Hepatitis Caucus to recognize "National Viral Hepatitis Testing Day."
Roll Call has launched a new feature, Hill Navigator, to advise congressional staffers and would-be staffers on how to manage workplace issues on Capitol Hill. Please send us your questions anything from office etiquette, to handling awkward moments, to what happens when the work life gets too personal. Submissions will be treated anonymously.
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The animated movie Monster House is about a predatory home that uses seemingly innocent components — from the rug to the floorboards — to take down anyone who dares enter. Aging baby boomers may soon relate.
The number of seniors requiring assistance is expected to double in the next 30 years, and some 10 million existing homes will need accessibility updating if those Canadians are to age in place.
Fortunately, a shift toward universal design means such renovations no longer require the clinical, bolt-on solutions of the past but rather allow sleek, sexy additions that look more Architectural Digest than Prevention.
“Fashion is finally catching up to function when it comes to the older population,” says Colin Milner, CEO of the International Council on Active Aging. “Not many baby boomers want to have an ugly stainless steel grab-bar in the beautiful, $30,000 bathroom they’ve just redone.”
According to industry data, fully half of Canadian builders intended to add more accessible features to their designs in 2012. That’s up from just 37 per cent in 2006, and 25 per cent a decade earlier.
Milner says the new focus is on making products “ageless,” allowing them to be appreciated across generations. The Apple iPad, he cites as an example, hit pay dirt with older consumers not because it was designed for seniors but because it was designed for anyone.
“It’s high-contrast, easy to read, and easy for anyone to navigate,” says Milner, who believes this trend toward universal design – particularly in homes – is “going to be absolutely massive.”
In the next 25 years, the growth in Canada’s seniors’ population is expected to be the highest of any major developed nation. In fact, by 2051, analysts project there will be only 2.5 people aged 20 to 64 for every senior, compared to 4.7 in 2009.
Longer living expectancy is simultaneously seeing the centenarian population skyrocket, with the number of boomers who reach 100 expected to top 78,300 – roughly the population of Peterborough, Ont. – by 2061.
Peter Simpson, president and CEO of the Greater Vancouver Home Builders’ Association, says the demographic sea change will see unprecedented emphasis on such designations as CAPS (certified aging in place specialist) when remodelling homes.
“The renovator will counsel the owner on what can be done to make the home more accessible, meeting not only their current needs but also their needs in the future,” says Simpson, who on the verge of turning 68 notes that he hasn’t been immune to such considerations.
“When I had hernia surgery, it was unbelievable how my ability to do simple tasks diminished, literally overnight,” recalls Simpson.
“For me, it was a temporary inconvenience; but for others, it’s a permanent reality. So we need to be looking ahead at how we can make our homes more user-friendly — and at the same time, not look like they’ve been designed for disabled homeowners.’”
Popular features today include sleek lever handles in place of doorknobs; attractive non-slip flooring; barrier-free rain showers; front-load washer and dryers; elegant task lighting; high-contrast colour palettes; and stylish grab-bars that visually mimic towel racks.
Donna Church, marketing and communications manager for Kohler Canada, says it’s ultimately about changing the paradigm.
“Products for seniors tend to be a bolt-on for something already in place. They don’t take into account appearance, or the importance of blending in with other things,” says Church.
Defying that tradition, the brand has launched a number of aging-in-place bathroom products – the showpiece of which is an Elevance Rising Wall tub that combines low-threshold entry with deep-soaker luxury.
“Baby boomers know what’s possible, so they tend to demand more,” says Church. “The bar keeps getting raised.”
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Amniotic fluid is the fluid that surrounds the fetus in the uterus. The fluid and fetus are contained in membranes called the amniotic sac. There may be too much or too little amniotic fluid.
Too much amniotic fluid (polyhydramnios or hydramnios) stretches the uterus and puts pressure on the diaphragm of pregnant women. This complication can lead to severe breathing problems for women or to labor that begins before 37 weeks of pregnancy (preterm labor).
Too much fluid may accumulate because of the following:
However, about half the time, the cause is unknown.
Too little amniotic fluid (oligohydramnios) also can cause problems. If the amount of fluid is greatly reduced, the fetus's lungs may be immature and the fetus may be compressed, resulting in deformities. This combination of conditions is called Potter's syndrome.
There tends to be too little amniotic fluid in the following situations:
Taking certain drugs such as angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors (including enalapril or captopril) during the 2nd and 3rd trimesters can result in too little amniotic fluid. These drugs are usually avoided during pregnancy but sometimes may be needed to treat severe heart failure or high blood pressure. Taking nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs, such as aspirin or ibuprofen) late in pregnancy also can reduce the amount of amniotic fluid.
Doctors may suspect too much or too little amniotic fluid when the uterus is too large or too small for the length of the pregnancy. Sometimes the problem is incidentally detected during ultrasonography.
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Jesus gathers us as citizens with the saints to learn to love like Jesus through practicing discipleship that works for peace through justice.Purpose
To provide an introduction to the theme and structure of the 2012 ELCA Youth Gathering: "citizens with the saints."Supplies Needed
Poly-dots, laminated placemats or chairs (have one less than number of group members), notepad, pencil, table, small bowl, candle, Bible, free-standing cross on which you can stick things, water, blank mailing labels, sharpies
You'll need a poly-dot, laminated placemat or chair for all but one person in your group. These will be markers for where people will stand or sit during the game. Arrange your objects of choice in a circle.
Have everyone stand on an object or sit on a chair. The one person who does not have a seat or a placemat will need to stand in the center of the circle. The person in the center will start the game by saying a sentence about something he or she has done. For example, the person might say, "I've gone waterskiing."
Everyone in the circle who has gone waterskiing must immediately move to another spot in the circle. The only spaces participants cannot move to are the space they have just been standing or sitting in and the spaces to their immediate right and left. Whoever is left out is in the center for the next round.
Play this game until everyone gets a chance to be in the middle. Ask the group to sit down in their circle and add a spot for the person in the middle.Debrief with the following questions
Who got left out of the game when we started switching places?
Was it easy to see who was left out while you were busy moving?
Is it easy to see who is getting left out in real life while we are busy doing things?
How do the things that make us different create dividing walls between those who are included and those who are left out?
Passing the Peace
In this curriculum, passing the peace serves two purposes. First, it centers the group in the current activity. Second, it allows the group to recover from any frustration generated by the Invite activities. Try to make this a meaningful act by giving it time to unfold.
Encourage and Prayer
Invite the group members to pass the peace with these words:Leader (L): The Lord be with you!
Group (G): And also with you.
Leader (L): Share the peace of Christ with one another
After everyone has had a chance to pass the peace, gather everyone back in the circle for highs and lows. The leader needs to make sure that someone is taking notes on any prayer requests or celebrations.
Invite your group to join you in prayer.
L: We thank you, Lord, for your gift of a faith community that lifts us up in prayer before you, and helps us celebrate the blessings of our life in Christ. Hear the joys and concerns we offer you now.
(Pray from the list of petitions you wrote down.) We thank you for promising to hear us when we cry out to you in Jesus' name. Amen.
Place a table in the center of the room. On that table, place a small bowl, a candle, a Bible and a cross. The candle should be next to the Bible.
L: Please gather around the table.
(When everyone is in place, continue.) I welcome you in the name of Jesus Christ.
(Light the candle.) We gather around the word of God that lights our way.
(Add water to the bowl.) In the water of baptism, Jesus makes us all one people.
(Lift the cross as you say the next sentence.) Jesus makes people from different nations, different cultures and different ways of life into citizens and saints through his death on the cross.
You may sing a song here. "Sanctuary" or "Jesus, Remember Me" would be appropriate.
Another leader reads Ephesians 2:14 – 20, while you gather a package of blank mailing labels and Sharpie markers.
When the reading is complete, pass out the mailing labels to participants (one per person). Say: Please take a moment to write your name on your sticker.
When everyone is done, ask them to put their sticker on the cross, while you say: When people are baptized, the pastor reminds them that God has claimed them and them as God's forever. No matter what, baptism sticks on us, keeps us stuck to God, and keeps all children of God stuck together.
Ask participants to return to their circle around the table.
L: We help each other remember how Jesus loves us and gives us the grace to love others.
Pick up the bowl and hold it in front of a participant in the circle. As the bowl is held in front of you, dip your finger in the water and trace the cross on the forehead of the person on your left.
When everyone has had the cross traced on their heads, return the bowl to the table.
L: Let us pray. God of the water and the word, we thank you for the grace you give us in baptism. We thank you that we have brothers and sisters in Christ to help us remember your love for us. Open our hearts now as we listen for your message to us in today's Bible study. In our Lord Jesus' holy name. Amen.
Bible StudyL: We've already heard our passage for today, Ephesians 2:14 – 20, in worship. Let's hear it again in another translation.
(We suggest "The
Message" or the New International Version.) This text is the theme scripture for the Gathering. Let's read the Gathering paraphrase of Ephesians 2:14 – 20: "
Jesus is our peace. In his life and death on the cross, Jesus broke down the dividing walls so that we are no longer strangers and outsiders, but we are citizens with the saints and also members of the household of God. The foundation of God's house was built of apostles and prophets, and Jesus, the cornerstone, holds it all together."Use these questions to reflect on this passage
- What is the general message of this passage? Which version was the clearest to you? Why?
- The groups that are mentioned in this passage are referring to the Jews and the Gentiles living in Paul's time. The Jews and the Gentiles had a disagreement about who could be "in" with God. The Jews belonged to the people of Israel. These were God's chosen people who God brought out of slavery in the Exodus. The Gentiles were people who weren't Jews. In other words, the Gentiles were everybody else. The Jewish Christians tended to believe that Gentile Christians also needed to become Jews to become insiders in the kingdom of God. The Gentiles disagreed. What insider/outsider groups do you see in your congregation, school and community?
- What does it mean to be a citizen? (Dictionary.com defines "citizen" as a person who is born into or allowed to become a member of a state or nation who owes allegiance to its government and is entitled to its protection. Citizens are also insiders and can decide who else can become insiders.)
- For a moment, let's not think of citizens in terms of where people live. Let's think of places where certain people belong and other people don't belong. Imagine a rock concert. At an arena concert, you have three different types of places. You have onstage, backstage, and the "house" area where the audience is. Let's assume that this is a concert where you need to have a ticket. Can a ticket holder get in the house area? Yes, their ticket is proof that the audience member can watch the show. Can the concert staff get into the house area? Yes, they have identification to prove they can be anywhere in the arena. Can the band get into the house area? Yes, it's their concert. Let's think about backstage. Can the band be backstage? Yes, they need to prepare for the show. Can the concert staff be backstage? Yes, if their job requires them to be backstage. A ticket-taker probably would not be backstage, but someone who sets up sound equipment might. Can the audience be backstage? Not usually. A few audience members might have backstage passes, but even those have limited access. Let's think about being onstage. Can the band be onstage? Yes. Can the concert staff be onstage? Not usually. One or two people might need to be onstage to move speakers or instruments, but that's it. Can the audience be onstage? No. There are guards that keep audience members away from the stage.
- Let's think about the kingdom of God like a rock concert. Who did the Jews think had tickets to get into the kingdom of God? Who didn't the Jew think had tickets to get into the kingdom of God? Who did the Gentiles think had tickets?
- According to Paul in our Ephesians passage, who does Jesus say has tickets to the kingdom of God? (The catch here is that Jesus is the ticket to get into the kingdom of God. Because of Jesus, everyone gets a ticket to come in and is allowed backstage and onstage. Jesus is our all-access pass to the kingdom of God.)
- Paul writes that Jesus puts an end to the idea that tickets or passes or anything else separates us. Instead, Jesus changes us into citizens with the saints and members of the household of God. When people are baptized, they are marked with the cross of Christ and called child of God. Basically, this is where Jesus says to sin and the devil, "Back off. They're with me." What do you think that says about you that you belong with saints, the household of God, and children of God?
- Is belonging with the saints different from belonging to other groups? Why or why not?
- What comes along with being a citizen with the saints or belonging with the saints? What are you responsible for getting done in the world? What do you get from belonging?
- Here are some things our faith community thinks we need to do since we are citizens with the saints. We are to live among God's faithful people. We are to hear the word of God and share in the Lord's Supper. We are to proclaim the good news of God in Christ through word and deed, and to strive for justice and peace in all the earth. Is that similar to what you thought you were responsible for in life?
- Reread the passage one more time. Do you hear it any differently now than you did when we got started?
One of the things we are going to be doing in New Orleans is practicing justice. If you are practicing justice, what do you picture you would be doing? What about if you were doing a service project? What do you picture yourself doing if you were doing a service project? Were your images different between practicing justice and doing a service project? Why or why not?
Practicing justice is about making sure that everyone has an opportunity to become the people God made them to be. Sometimes that means we help build houses and sometimes that means we have to tear houses down. However, practicing justice always begins with giving someone our attention. When we give someone our attention, we say to that person that her story is worth our time and we value her.
Today we are going to experience what it feels like to receive someone's active attention.
Divide the group into pairs. Have each pair play Rock, Paper, Scissors. The winner gets to be the listener first. Assure everyone that the pairs will get to switch parts.
This video (http://tinyurl.com/6o23nbf) from Preservation Hall shares pieces of the New Orleans jazz culture.
Questions for reflection:
1. Why do these stories need to be told?
2. Why might it be important for those storytellers that you heard their story?
You are going to have a conversation with your partner today. Talkers, you are going to share your favorite book or movie with your listener. Talk about why you love it. Listeners, every 45 seconds, I will be giving you new instructions about how you will be participating in the conversation. One general rule for everyone: please keep your voices down. This will help you hear each other.
OK, listeners. You will now just listen like you normally would for 45 seconds. Go.
(After 45 seconds, stop the pairs.)
Now, listeners, you will not talk. Your body language should reflect that you are not listening or that you don't care. Go.
(After 45 seconds, stop the pairs.)
Now, listeners, you still can't talk, but now you sincerely care about what the talker is saying. Go.
(After 45 seconds, stop the pairs.)
Now, listeners, you can talk. However, you may only ask questions that have one word answers like yes or no. These are called closed questions, because they close off the conversation. You may not change the subject. You are still genuinely interested. Go.
(After 45 seconds, stop the pairs.)
Now, listeners, you can ask questions that can elicit thoughtful answers. These are called open questions, because they open the conversation up to new possibilities. You are still genuinely interested. Go.
(After 45 seconds, stop the pairs.)
Switch roles. You have 45 seconds to just be yourself and get the conversation going.
(After 45 seconds, stop the pairs. Repeat the same steps you did with the pairs the last time. Once you have gone through everything again, have everyone rejoin the large group.)
Let's talk about what just happened.
As the talker, which version of the listener was the easiest to tell your story to?
What did it feel like to talk to someone who didn't care?
What did it feel like to talk to someone who did care?
As listeners, what was the hardest thing for you to do in the exercise?
Why might giving someone your attention be the first thing to do when seeking justice for him?
Here's our answer to the question of why justice begins with giving an individual our active attention. We say we go on mission trips when we go out to serve. We are a part of God's mission when we love our neighbor as ourselves. (Matthew 22:39) ELCA Global Mission looks at participating in God's mission through the lens of "accompaniment." They define accompaniment as "Walking together in solidarity that practices interdependence and mutuality." This means that we don't treat our neighbors like broken toys that cannot fix themselves. Instead, we treat our neighbors as brothers and sisters who work with us so we can all live as the people God created us to be. We ask our neighbors how we can make them stronger, and actively listen to their answers. Then we work together with our neighbors to do what they ask of us in the way they want us to help them. We also ask them to help us with our burdens.
Consider framing all your preparatory mission trips and service opportunities with the following questions:
As you prepare to leave the session, have participants pair up. Have them repeat the following statement from the baptismal liturgy found in "Evangelical Lutheran Worship" as they trace a cross on their partner's head.
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Most Tudor revival-style homes have multiple gables, half-timbering, leaded-glass windows, large chimneys and some combination of stone, stucco and brick on the exterior walls. This house, located in Westchester County, was built in 1927. Some of the exterior timbering needs to be replaced, the stone and brick needs a power wash, the stucco will be painted, the windows need repairs and the front door hardware—which is the original hardware—must be replaced. The overgrown shrubs could use a good trimming.
The outside entrance to the sunroom, located on the right side of the house but obscured in the front by the overgrown shrubbery, has the same diamond pane leaded-glass on the doors as on the windows.
Most Tudor homes have casement windows, which swing out when opened, rather than double-hung windows that lift up and down. Unfortunately, many owners of Tudor homes replace the leaded-glass casement windows with double-hung windows, which can be less expensive and, arguably, more energy efficient. But there are companies that custom-make new leaded-glass windows and repair existing casement windows. I plan to have my windows repaired. The historical preservationist will be very happy.
Too many owners of old Tudors paint the interior wood white. I decided to restore my wood instead. The floors have already been sanded and refinished, but the baseboards, wall paneling and stairway need TLC. I plan to try a new product on the woodwork called Mr. Sandless, which claims to refinish wood without sanding.
While I adore most features in my historic home, this outdated 1980s kitchen is not one of them. It will get a complete makeover.
My house has three bathrooms and all need updating. However, to save money, only the guest bathroom on the first floor and the small bathroom in the master bedroom will get full makeovers. This bathroom, which is the main bathroom on the second floor, will get a new floor and new vanity. I plan to have the ugly mustard yellow and black ceramic tiles—which are on the walls and the ceiling—re-glazed instead of replaced. That will save thousands of dollars.
One of the worst repair jobs in the house involved re-plastering the walls. My walls endured years of neglect, from peeling wallpaper to water damage. Some owners of old homes cure the problem by putting drywall over the plaster or tearing out the plastered walls and replacing them with drywall, actions that drive historical preservationists nuts. I plan to repair and fortify the current plaster walls, which takes more time but produces a nicer outcome. (This photo was taken shortly after I bought the home.)
The interior in most Tudor homes is filled with dark wood. To provide at least one room filled with light, many Tudors have sunrooms. This sunroom, my future reading room, leads to a stone terrace.
The interior plaster walls require the skill of more experienced contractor than your typical drywall installer.
Another common feature of Tudor homes: large fireplaces. Some are ornate with lots of carved wood and others are simple stone, like this one. Cleaning the fireplace, which the previous owners used daily in the winter for heat, will be a tough job. (This photo was also taken shortly after I bought the home.)
Like most old homes, my Tudor house came equipped with a mortise lock on the front door. Mortise locks, which require skill to install, fell out of favor decades ago. However, they are starting to make a comeback, at least on high-end homes, because they are considered stronger and provide better security. My plan is to replace my current mortise lock with a new one.
Even today builders shy away from building Tudors, although the style remains popular with historic home enthusiasts. The roofs on Tudors, which are often slate or tile, can be extraordinarily expensive to replace.
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Originally Posted by Superlifted06FX4
This. It doesn't make sense.
My understanding is the A Pillars in modern cars are a major part of the safety cage. If they are damaged it compromises the structure of the uni-body. At that point most insurance companies will total the car, because that kind of damage is not repairable.
I of course could be wrong. But that is my understanding.
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EXTENT OF THE ATONEMENT
The Old Testament sacrifices, when seen as a whole, form a complete picture and point to Christ and His work.
From the earliest recorded history of man in the Bible, we have a record of sacrifice for sin.
Concerning the antiquity of sacrifices, Symington says that the practice goes back into remote history.
The fundamental idea, of course, in the sacrifices, was that of substitution. Also implied therein was atonement, redemption, vicarious punishment and forgiveness.4 It must be acknowledged that all sacrifices were not expiatory. "Some were impetratory . . Others were eucharistical, and others again were expiatory, or designed to obtain the forgiveness of sins of which the offerer acknowledged himself guilty." 5
There was no actual power in the sacrifices of themselves to take away sin and guilt. They were symbolical of "the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world." (Jno. 1:29) "It is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats would take away sins." (Heb. 10:4)
Under the economy of the Old Testament there were four distinct kinds of sacrifices: 1) The burnt offering, 2) The sin offering, 3) The trespass offering, and 4) The peace offering. All sacrifices were of one of two kinds: either on the ground of communion with God (burnt, and peace offerings) or intended to restore communion that had been disrupted by sin (sin and trespass offerings). The sin offering was the most important of all offerings and could be either public or private.6
The Jews were aware of the fact that the types and sacrifices of the Old Testament pointed to the Messiah. They were cognizant of the fact that the basic idea in the sacrifices was substitution.7 According to Rabbinical teaching, "the offerer, as it were, puts away his sins from himself and transfers them upon the living animal; as often as any one sins with his soul . . . he puts away his sin from himself and places it upon the head of the sacrifice and it is an atonement for him" 8
In private sacrifice, the following prayer was made by the person offering the sacrifice:
It is interesting to note that non-Israelites were not allowed to bring any sacrifice with the exception of the burnt offering. 10
All of the sacrifices commanded under the law had to do with those under the old covenant. Those under the law were obligated to observe these commandments:
There were special provisions for Gentile proselytes. Those who joined themselves to God's people were given special privileges and responsibilities not accorded other foreigners.11 Uncircumcised foreigners, however, were not allowed in the temple or sanctuary. (Acts 21:28-29)
It would appear that foreigners who joined themselves to Jehovah and His worship were treated not unkindly by Israelites. A case in point is Ruth, who was a Moabitess, but left the land of her nativity and became the great-grandmother of David. (Ruth 2:11-12)
It must be recognized that all who performed the ceremonies or rituals commanded by the Mosaic law were not sincere worshippers. But those who sincerely repented of their sins and offered the sacrifices in faith were saved. 12 (See Psalm 32:1-2) In his note on Leviticus 1:4. Scofield comments:
Under the Old Testament dispensation, sincere believers were saved by faith in the promise of the coming Messiah and exercised faith in Him through the blood of the sacrifices. Salvation was limited to those who did so, obviously.
Further, it is obvious that of the various Gentile nations, only a small proportion of the multitudes identified themselves with the worship of Israel. There was no salvation outside of Israel. (Jno. 4:22)
Finally, the sacrifices for sin were made only for those who offered them, either as individuals or as a corporate nation.
For those who placed their faith in the promises
of the coming Messiah and died in the faith Christ made atonement.
However, it cannot be supposed that Christ died for the unbelieving
who were already in Hell prior to His coming, having perished
in their sins.
In the Passover we can see very clearly that God placed a distinction between the Israelites and the Egyptians. Possibly some provision was made for the mixed multitude that followed Israel out of Egypt. The blood of the Passover lamb was applied to the door posts of the houses of the Israelites and possibly the mixed multitudes found refuge in their houses. However, no provision was made for the nation of Egypt
If the Passover is a type of the atonement
(and it is, I Cor. 5:7) then certainly it is obvious that in
its typology the atonement is limited in both its nature and
The Ark which Noah built is also "a type of Christ as the refuge of His people from judgment."14 In the Ark eight persons were saved from the deluge and the rest of the world that then was perished. (I Pet. 3:20) The Noahic flood, according to the Holy Scriptures, covered the face of the whole earth.15 It is conceivable that the population of the antediluvian world was much more extensive than is commonly thought. According to the findings of archeology, their civilization was highly developed. 16
The ark itself was fully as large as modern ocean-going vessels, having a deck area of about 95,700 square feet, a volume of 1,396,000 cubic feet and a gross tonnage of 13,960 tons.17
As to its typical connection with the atonement, the gopher wood of which it was made probably represents death, in that it was made from trees that were cut down. It was prophesied that Christ should be "cut off" out of the land of the living. (Isa. 53:8, Dan. 9:26. Also, see Jer. l0:3)18
The pitch used in the ark provided a double covering, keeping out the waters of judgement and the Hebrew word for pitch has an etymological connection with the word for atonement.19 Perhaps the pitch was obtained from the gopher tree itself. 20
In considering the extent of the atonement
in connection with the ark, the number of persons saved was
limited. The design of the ark was limited, grand vessel that
it was, for it is inconceivable that it was ever intended
that it should ever carry the entire population of that world
The Day of Atonement
The Day of Atonement was an annual event when the high priest offered sacrifices for himself and the sins of the people. The high priest could only enter into the holiest of holies on this day. The penalty for doing otherwise was death. It was a most solemn and holy occasion and involved elaborate ritual as concerning the high priest's vestments and the sacrifices to be offered.
Of particular importance were the two goats, one of which was offered as a sin offering and the other was the scapegoat. The blood of the sin offering was brought within the veil of the inner sanctuary and sprinkled upon the mercy seat and before the mercy seat. It is repeated again and again that this sin offering and its shed blood was for the sins and transgressions of Israel. Concerning this Pink observes that Aaron did not make any atonement for the sins of the Midianites and Ammonites.21
After the sin offering was slain and the blood sprinkled upon the mercy seat, the live goat was brought forth. The high priest placed both of his hands on the head of the live goat and confessed all of the sins of the children of Israel. The goat was sent away into the wilderness by the hand of a "fit man" and turned loose. Plainly, the goat typically bore their sins away and removed them from the people. We are expressly told that the scapegoat bore the sins of Israel. We read in Isaiah 53:4, concerning Christ, "Surely he hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows." In Psalm 103:12 we find that "as far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us." The atonement of Christ is effectual, it effectually removes sin from God's people.
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Australia is one of the hottest and driest countries on earth. With about 65% of it’s landmass desert and another 20% tropical, it has emerged as one of the most efficient livestock producers in the world. Australian farmers battle daily with extremes of temperature.
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of Babylon and Egypt
the General Conference Bulletin, March 15, 1897, pp. 365374,
there is an article about a serious controversial question which
was already making inroads among the Advent people"Should
SDAs take part in politics and war?" Under the title,
Out of Babylon and Egypt (No. 7), A.T. Jones discusses the
issue. Hereunder we reproduce the highlights of his article. We
recommend, however, that you read the whole article in the
General Conference Bulletin.
A. T. Jones
is right in the third angels message, that by it, and through
it, God proposes to "establish Christianity upon an eternal
basis." Then, as surely as in the third angels message,
God establishes Christianity upon an eternal basis, it will be
a Christianity that will not be connected with anything upon this
earth. It will be connected only with God; only with His eternal
word; enlightened by His eternal Spirit; taught by Him whose goings
forth have been from the days of eternity; and thus be led to
the eternal God, that He may rule, and underneath shall be the
I know, and you know, that there are some of the brethren that
do not think that this is straight. Two years ago it was preached,
and was published in the Bulletin. By many it was not accepted.
By some it is not accepted yet. It is thought to be altogether
wrong. But in the late General Conference, two testimonies were
read to uswritten especially for this Conference, and one
of them, I find, is printed in Bulletin No. 4; the next
one is not printed yet, but will be, I suppose, shortlyreproving
Seventh-day Adventists for engaging in political matters. I read
a passage here that will show you the idea of it:
Lord Jesus is disappointed in His people. He is the Captain;
they are to file under His banner. They have no time, wisdom,
or strength to spend in taking sides with political parties.
Men are being stirred with an intense activity from beneath,
and the sons and daughters of God are not to give their influence
to this political strife. But what kind of spirit takes hold
upon our people, when those who believe we are now under the
third angels message, the last message of mercy to the
world, brothers in the same faith, appear wearing the badges
of opposing political parties, proclaiming opposite sentiments
and declaring their divided opinions.
I ask this question in the form of a proposition: If that which
was preached two years ago on this subject of government and the
church had been accepted and followed by all Seventh-day Adventists,
could there possibly have arisen any place for that testimony?Plainly,
no. Then did those lessons call for the wrong thing, when they
called Gods people to a position where it would be impossible
for Him to find fault with them? I mean in this particular point.
I mean that when a line of truth is presented from the word of
God, which, if His people would accept it before God and the world,
would set them in such an attitude that it would be impossible
for the Lord to find fault with them in things related to that
line of truth, is it not safe to accept that as the truth? How
could it possibly be wrong? . . .
do not ask now that anybody shall accept that because it is there.
I ask that they shall accept it, study into it, pray over it,
look at it, and accept it because it is the truth, and will deliver
the people of God from the possibility of His ever being called
upon to reprove or correct them upon any such point as that. Yet
I know that there are brethren who still think that it is all
wrong; and say that it called for our people to take an extreme
position, and that it was taking an extreme position. Can that
be an extreme position which puts Gods people where He wants
them to stand, so they will be utterly free from all these confused
things that confuse the world? . . .
is another thing that we need to consider. If we take part in
political affairs and political discussions, different sides will
be taken by different individuals, in opposing political parties,
proclaiming opposite sentiments and declaring their divided opinions,
while professing to be brethren. What is the last step
in political working?War, of course. Then what is in it,
at the beginning?Simply what is in it at the endwar.
It is that spirit from beginning to end. Can brethren in
Christ, who are one in Christ, engage in anything that will cause
them to be divided in the spirit of antagonism? Can they?No!
not and remain one in Christ. . . .
this is not all. If we as Seventh-day Adventists are to preach
those principles, and are to hold to them, there is an important
step that must be taken, in justice to the United States government,
in justice to the state of Michigan, and several other states,
that we may appear in the right light.
say it again, so that you may understand what I am talking about.
If it is to be so that we shall accept the principle that Christians
may fight, may lift their right arm to defend country and government
and all that, then the denomination, in justice to itself, and
especially in justice to the government of the United States and
to several of the states, must publicly proclaim it, and repudiate
and reverse the course that was once taken by the denomination
have here two little documents printed in 1865, but what is written
in them occurred in 1864. One of them is entitled "Views
of Seventh-day Adventists Relative to Bearing Arms, as Brought
before the Governors of Several States and the Provo-Marshall
General [that is, of the United States], with a Portion of the
that time Seventh-day Adventists, by the General Conference Committee,
represented to the government of the United States, to the government
of the state of Illinois, of Michigan, of Pennsylvania, of Wisconsin,
and another state or two, that Seventh-day Adventists, as Christians,
and because they were Christians, could not allow that Christians
could under any circumstances bear arms or fight. The other document
is extracted from the writings and publications of Seventh-day
Adventists, to justify the government in accepting from the denomination,
that plea as genuine.
if that order is to be reversed, and we are to accept the view
that Christians may fight under any circumstances at all, for
government or whatever it may be, then we owe it to the government
of the United States to have the General Conference Committee,
representing the denomination, go to the government of the United
States and tell them that we have changed our views; and go to
the governors of these states and tell them that we have changed
our views; so that the records will stand according to our new
and revised views upon that subject. . . .
I will read to you some of the extracts that were then printed
from documents, publications, and papers of Seventh-day Adventists,
as evidence to the United States government, and as evidence to
the governors of the states, that that position taken by the General
Conference Committee of the denomination, was their understood
position, and not one made up for the occasion, to escape the
draft, or to escape the results that were coming upon the country
because of the war. . . .
is an extract from something written in the Signs of the Times,
by Elder James White, in 1853:
professed church of Christ has left the arm of her true husband,
and now leans on the strong arm of the law. She seeks protection,
and to be nourished by the corrupt governments of the world,
and is properly represented by the harlot daughters of the old
mother, she being a symbol of the Catholic Church. As the woman
should cleave to her husband, so should the church cleave to
Christ, and instead of seeking protection from the arm of the
law, lean only on the potent arm of her Beloved. The church
is unlawfully wedded to the world. This may be seen in the various
departments of civil government. Even in the war department,
the professed minister of Jesus Christ is seen mocking the God
of peace with his prayers for success in battle.
an extract quoted from the Review and Herald of May 9,
these things are at hand or not [it is about the coming of the
Lord], the fact remains: a war spirit is abroad, a spirit of
hatred and delusion. It is its contaminating influence that
we fearit is the demoralizing influence of familiarity
with the ideas of war and bloodshed; it is the unhealthy excitement,
the bitter party spirit, that is evil and causes evil to spread.
it not be said there is no danger to Christs disciples
from these causes. There is danger; because "when iniquity
shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold." Such are
the mysterious and inexplicable sympathies which bind man to
man, which forbid a separate and isolated interest, that we
catch unconsciously the prevalent tone, and we know not till
the mind is warped and unsettled; and thus being in an unhealthy
state it is ready to receive and to conceive evil. The moral
scourge is more destructive even than the pestilence. . . .
now read another extract, reprinted from the Review, dated
Aug. 14, 1856:
the gospel of Jesus granted you the right to use the sword,
to arm you with carnal weapons, to take the sword to "provide
for your own household," to deliver the oppressed out of
the power of the oppressor, by breaking the sixth commandment
of God, "Thou shalt not kill"? Jesus says, "Love
you think that you, as a Christian living under the gospel,
have a Bible permission to mingle in political strife in any
way whatever? either in legislating, or executing the laws of
human government? If so, I think you are greatly mistaken.
is what the denomination said in 1864. They presented that to
the government of the United States as evidence that they did
not believe in war, and that they could not engage in bearing
arms, and that if they were drafted, they could not be expected
to fight. And the government of the United States listened to
their representations, and made provision that they should attend
the hospitals where they could do the work of ministers of the
gospel, and care for the sick, and bring salvation to the dying.
Now if that is to be reversed, we should stand fairly before the
government and state that it has been reversed.
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Bruce Bartlett, the author of what is currently the most comprehensive book on tax reform takes a look at how Paul Ryan's budget would start fixing America's tax problems. It turns out that Ryan is embarking on a Herculean task of raising revenue by closing every last tax exemption in the budget:
In other words, it will be impossible to achieve Ryan’s revenue target without pretty much wiping the slate clean of every tax preference except for a handful of the most popular ones. This may be worth doing, but will be very difficult. The Tax Reform Act of 1986 reduced tax expenditures by about 2.7 of GDP, according to the TPC. If it could be duplicated, that would only get Ryan to his absolute minimum level of revenues as a share of GDP. Getting to the upper end of his target range would require a tax reform one third larger.
In short, looking only at the tax side of Ryan’s plan, he is anticipating enactment of an extraordinarily ambitious tax reform on top of the most ambitious budget cutting effort ever enacted. He would sharply cut outlays for every major program except Social Security and national defense. Every governmental function one can think of would be virtually abolished except for Medicare, Social Security and defense. A key reason for the severity of these cuts, of course, is that Ryan would cut taxes at the same time he is cutting spending. To achieve balance with lower than projected revenues requires even larger cuts in spending.
In my opinion, the Ryan budget should be seen as nothing more than a PR document for Republicans so they can say they have a plan to balance the budget, cut taxes, and cure the common cold.
An additional point that should be made is that it will probably only be possible to close politically popular tax policies if there is some sort of governing consensus between the two parties. Such a consensus seems very far from happening.
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Libor has always been the benchmark of interest rate for bankers whose aim is to generate their “trust” among their peers in the banking world. Since it has existed decades ago, it was considered as the prime basis in fixing the small interest rates for the loans of banks in the global market. These banks, specifically, are evaluated through certain guidelines set by the British Bankers’ Association to ensure the stability of the organization, so as when the banks themselves borrow from each other, there will be sufficient funds to regulate in the operation.
Nonetheless, with the current catastrophe hitting the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR), the trust of different states which are involved in the business of fixing the rate is being swayed by skepticism and criticism of politicians and businessmen. It is not an unusual reaction for a huge scandal of rate manipulation of the Barclays Capital as reported more than three weeks ago.
The controversy had commenced when the CEO, Bob Diamond, of the said Banking giant in the United Kingdom resigned after his colleagues revealed the anomalies of manipulation. It appears for U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron and other politicians to be a sufficient basis to condemn such a serious matter. And what is more worst about it is that authorities are now investigating other banks involved in the said rate fixation.
As a consequence, the European Commission had proposed to make the interest rate fixing as a criminal offense. Viviane Reding, Justice Commissioner, as reported, said that the proposal would boltster the advocay in putting end to the criminal activities in the banking industry. She further expressed the threat in the economy by elucidating that the “Public confidence has taken a nosedive with the latest scandals about serious manipulations of lending rates by banks” (quote from http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business).
Meanwhile, in the wake of the said controversy, it was revealed that the major flaw was committed due to the weak governance in the said fixation rate process. It is, apparently, determined because of some reports that there was a conspiracy between the said bank and other staffs involved in the process to manipulate the rate in favor of the former. Thus, consequently, the investigation is in progress to resolve the issue and to save the breakdown of trust, if not totally the economy.
At any rate, what is more certain as for the time being is that there can hardly be a benefit of doubt to be extended by the authorities to the proximate cause of the scandal. They can be presumed as innocent, but the accusations that have led the different sectors to file a civil suit against those who were involved may already be adequate to prosecute them in the “court of human conscience”.
It is ultimately a sin which can never be washed out by mere alibis and lies for it has already been engraved in the annoying history of Libor; there is neither a way to escape nor a place to hide. The only safe strategy for the organization then is to face the issue and recover by giving a counter blow against all the negative criticisms; it can be done through a total transformation in the system of rate processing and implementing stricter banking rules to restore the trust of the bankers and the public in general.
But for now, the skeptics in the “banking republic” still considered the issue as one that will always be remembered in the future, but can never be forgotten in the past. And seriously, the wise men are asking: “Can Libor be trusted again?”
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Sacred Heart Cathedral - Quick Facts
by Chris Albracht
January 17, 2011
- Established: According to diocesan records, the first Sacred Heart Church in Amarillo was built in 1903. The second Sacred Heart Church was built in 1916.
- Priests who served Sacred Heart Church/Cathedral: According to diocesan records, Father David H. Dunn was the first priest to serve at Sacred Heart Church, serving from 1903 until his death in 1916. Other priests that served at Sacred Heart include Monsignor Bart O’Brien, Father J. R. Allard, Monsignor Thomas O’Brien, Monsignor A.F. Amirault, Father A.E. Robinson, Father M.G. French, Father Thomas J. Drury (first editor of the West Texas Catholic and later, the first Bishop of the Diocese of San Angelo), Monsignor John A. Steinlage, Father A.M. Bottoms, Father Edward Christian, Father James Sonderman and Father Wilmer J. Riechel. The first five Bishops of the Diocese of Amarillo served as pastor at Sacred Heart Cathedral: Bishops Rudolph A. Gerken, Robert E. Lucey, Laurence J. FitzSimon, John J. Morkovsky and Lawrence M. DeFalco.
- First Mass: The first Mass was also the first funeral in the new church. The Mass was for Father David H. Dunn, who built Sacred Heart Church. The Mass was celebrated by Bishop Joseph Patrick Lynch of Dallas and concelebrated by 10 other priests on Oct. 5, 1916. The church was blessed and dedicated by Bishop Lynch on April 13, 1918.
- Last Mass: The final Mass at Sacred Heart Cathedral was celebrated Jan. 19, 1975 with Bishop Lawrence M. DeFalco presiding and priests of the Diocese of Amarillo concelebrating.
- First Baptism: Henry Leslie Potter, Oct. 29, 1916, by Father Bart O’Brien.
- Last Baptism: Samuel Perry Jr., Nov, 22, 1971, by Father Wilmer J. Riechel.
- First Marriage: William Moran and Louise Mchyia, on Oct. 31, 1916, witnessed by Father Bart O’Brien.
- Last Marriage: Ferdinand Cyril Teichmann and Mary Anna Simpson on Feb. 6, 1970, witnessed by Father Wilmer J. Riechel.
- Last Funeral: Silas Amos, on Sept. 2, 1974, with Father Wilmer J. Riechel, presiding.
- Notable events that occurred at Sacred Heart Church/Cathedral…include the installation Masses for the first five Bishops of Amarillo, the funeral Mass for Bishop Laurence J. FitzSimon and a Requiem High Mass Nov. 23, 1963 for the repose of the soul of President John F. Kennedy.
- Did You Know? All of the windows from Sacred Heart Cathedral are being utilized at St. Mary’s Church, Amarillo.
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I guess I will begin with lentils, which I am told also bring prosperity if eaten in the new year and are eaten daily in India. At least in Italy, lentils symbolize money and are considered a lucky food if eaten during the new year. If you know me, you know it is not a surprise that I am choosing food as my first step in Project India. And if Project India doesn't work perhaps prosperity will be insured.
The simplicity of the five weeks I spent in India traveling by myself would be hard to duplicate now that I have a husband, two kids, a dog, a cat--but I am going to try. Unfortunately, I think it is more the collective spirit of India that infused my trip with a depth and sacredness. The simplicity of my traveling in Rajastan by train with a backpack is unknown in my too busy, too cluttered life and the collective spirit that filled the towns and cities I traveled to are probably impossible to find in NYC.
But, I will try each week to find a way to get closer to the life I experienced-- beginning with lentils and rice. It is a superficial, small step toward something impossible to duplicate.
Looking up inspirational quotes to inspire Project India, I found this one at thinkexist.com:
“An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.”
Buddha quotes (Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C.)
Not quite a resolution--more of a hope and a dream for a simpler, more fulfilling life. Let Project India begin--with lemon lentils.
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DISLIN is a high-level, easy-to-use plotting library for displaying data as curves, bar graphs, pie charts, 3D-colour plots, surfaces, contours, and maps. Several output formats are supported, such as X11, VGA, PostScript, PDF, CGM, HPGL, TIFF, and PNG. Plotting extensions for the interpreting languages Perl, Python, and Java are also supported for most operating systems.
PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine) is a portable message-passing programming system, designed to link separate host machines to form a ``virtual machine'' which is a single, manageable computing resource. The virtual machine can be composed of hosts of varying types, in physically remote locations. PVM applications can be composed of any number of separate processes, or components, written in a mixture of C, C++ and Fortran. The system is portable to a wide variety of architectures, including workstations, multiprocessors, supercomputers and PCs.
Hoard is a scalable memory allocator (malloc replacement) for multithreaded applications. Hoard can dramatically improve your application's performance on multiprocessor machines. No changes to your source are necessary; just link it in. Hoard scales linearly up to at least 14 processors. The supported platforms include Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, and Windows NT/2000/XP/64.
Cactus is a general, modular, parallel environment for solving systems of partial differential equations. The code has been developed over many years by a large international collaboration of numerical relativity and computational science research groups and can be used to provide a portable platform for solving any system of partial differential equations.
FTIDOE is a comprehensive tool for performing the complex process of dynamic energy analysis. This software enables architects and engineers to perform a comprehensive analysis of dynamic heating and cooling loads, simulation of heating and cooling distribution systems, modeling of equipment supplying the required energy, and calculation of the life-cycle costs of owning and operating energy systems for buildings. It can simulate hour-by-hour performance for buildings ranging in size from a small one room residence to a large multi-storied structure for each of the 8760 hours in a year.
ChemApp is a programming tool from the area of computational thermochemistry. It is a library consisting of a rich set of subroutines, based on the thermodynamic phase equilibrium calculation module of ChemSage. It permits the calculation of complex, multicomponent, multiphase chemical equilibria and their associated energy balances. ChemApp is available as object code for a wide range of platforms and as a shared library/DLL. ChemApp "light" is the free version of ChemApp, and although it is restricted in two ways compared to the regular version, it gives you almost the same functionality.
The GRASP Project has created an algorithmic-level graphical representation for software called the Control Structure Diagram (CSD). The CSD was created to improve the comprehension efficiency of Ada source code and, as a result, improve software reliability and reduce software costs. Since its creation, the CSD has been expanded and adapted to include other languages. GRASP provides the capability to generate CSD's from Ada 95, C, C++, Java, and VHDL source code in both a reverse and forward engineering mode with a level of flexibility suitable for professional application. GRASP has been integrated with the GNU family of compilers for Ada (GNAT) and C (gcc), and Sun's javac compiler for Java. Use of GRASP is not restricted to these compilers, however. This has resulted in a comprehensive graphically-based development environment for these languages. The user may view, edit, print, and compile source code as CSDs with no discernible addition to storage or computational overhead.
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