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It isn't true that much of the brain isn't used. That is an old myth from the early days of localization that lacked the techniques we have today. It's active all over its structures.
However, the structures can be very specialized and unless you disable ones that directly deal with life support as in the hindbrain, you can survive but lose specific functions. You can compensate for some but some leave permanent disabilities.
Damage to the cerebral cortex can be survived - the classic case of Phineas Gage shows someone who took a shot in the head far surpassing a gun round and survived but with severe personality changes.
Children can have an entire hemisphere removed and survive and have fairly normal language.
So a shot to the brain is like saying a shot to the torso - if it doesn't take out a vital function, you still can be in the fight or carry out actions if you don't quit. | <urn:uuid:652a8686-b4e0-4c12-8010-31b7814e73d5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://thefiringline.com/forums/showpost.php?p=5363636&postcount=89 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00060-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96446 | 186 | 2.046875 | 2 |
We are extremely pleased that Volkswagen was able to achieve such phenomenal fuel mileage and emissions numbers from their Golf TDI Hybrid. As a refresher, the machine uses a 1.2 liter three-cylinder diesel engine paired with a 26 horsepower electric motor and returns 69 U.S. mpg and 89 g/km of CO2 emissions in the EU combined cycle. As we've reported, the car is slated for production in Europe, but what about the U.S.? Don't we need cars that deliver high mileage and low emissions here too? Of course we do, but the question that needs to be asked is whether American drivers are ready to pay for the technology required to make these numbers a reality.
The Toyota Prius has set the standard for what consumers expect from green cars, and it is priced rather well - less than $25 grand, well equipped. Diesel vehicles have never sold as well in the States as they do in Europe, despite their fuel mileage increases. This is due, partly, to the added cost that comes with a diesel vehicle in order to meet emissions requirements. Keith Price, a spokesman for VW USA says,"From a consumer standpoint, it comes down to 'What kind of compromise do I need to live with to enjoy all this wonderfulness?'" Price is one compromise that is hard to get around, as VW's diesels already cost about $2,000 more than gasoline models. Add in what the hybrid system will cost on top of that and the Golf... um, I mean Rabbit TDI Hybrid may price itself out of the market. We sincerely hope not.
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Oil. The fast-vanishing drug the world can't yet live without
Geoffrey Lean, The Independent
Production may peak within a decade, causing massive withdrawal symptoms to the world and its economy
Say what you like about Dick Cheney, but you can't accuse him of not giving us fair warning. A year, almost to the day, before he was dubiously elected Vice-President of the United States - while still chairman of the energy giant Halliburton - he gave a riveting insight into the thinking that has since guided the administration's oil policy.
In a speech to the Institute of Petroleum in November 1999 he shed light on our front-page revelation - that in the wake of the occupation of Iraq, Western companies are to be let loose on its vast, and previously state-owned, oil reserves. Perhaps even more importantly he flagged up an impending crisis that the world urgently needs to grasp - that supplies of oil may be about to shrink alarmingly.
The "basic, fundamental building block of the world economy" was, he warned, in danger of becoming extremely scarce.
Estimates suggested that production from existing reserves would soon decline sharply, by 3 per cent a year, even as world demand for oil grew by 2 per cent. That meant that the world would soon need to be producing "an additional 50 million barrels a day", more than half as much again as the 82 million now being wrested from the ground.
"So where is this oil going to come from?" he asked. His answer: the Middle East was "where the prize ultimately lies". The problem was that "governments and national oil companies" controlled almost all of the "assets", and "even though companies are anxious for greater access there, progress continues to be slow".
Lest there be any doubt about what was at stake, the man who was to become one of the most powerful proponents of the invasion of Iraq went on: "Oil is unique because it is so strategic in nature. We are not talking about soapflakes or leisurewear ... The Gulf War was a reflection of that reality."
Well, seven years on, Mr Cheney's solution to the impending oil crisis is well on its way to being implemented.
(7 Jan 2007)
Long piece which covers peak oil in a sympathetic and complete manner.
Also posted at Common Dreams. -BA
An Almost Friendly Update on World Oil
Ferdinand E. Banks, 321energy
Perhaps the best way to begin is to say that I find it difficult to accept that there are still serious students of the oil markets who believe that the crust of the earth is flush with oil, and a global output peak will not take place for many decades, if ever.
Other observers aggressively maintain that technology can take the place of natural resources, by which they mean in the short as well as the long run. I mentioned several of these pundits in my energy economics textbooks (2000, 2007), but one escaped my attention [Leonardo Maugeri of ENI - Italy]. His ‘approach’ will be given some attention below, because recently the prominent U.S. publication ‘Newsweek’ devoted an entire issue to energy matters, and this conspicuous ‘optimist’ provided the first major article in that very ‘special’ issue.
I want to make it clear, however, that I am not as concerned with what will happen with oil as I am with what could happen. I know what would happen if I were pressing the buttons and pulling the strings, but for reasons that cannot be gone into here, I would be very surprised if the ‘con’ were placed in my friendly hands. (The ‘con’, as readers or viewers of ‘The Caine Mutiny’ know, generally refers to the command of a navy vessel.)
(8 Jan 2007)
Meaty, discursive article by prominent expert on energy economics - not an easy read, but with many interesting insights. Resume and links to more articles by Professor Banks on Energy Pulse -BA.
Scientific American and the Silent Lie
Albert Bartlett, The Physics Teacher via Culture Change
...Some fraction of the observed global warming most certainly is caused by the release of greenhouse gases from the burning of fossil fuels. As the size of the world population increases, the rate of burning of fossil fuels increases and this can be expected to increase the rate of rise of global average temperatures. The authors of these nine articles have to know that the size of the global population is a major factor in determining the rate of release of greenhouse gases. Yet in a special issue devoted to reducing global warming, SA almost completely ignores population size and growth and instead "rounds up the usual suspects" -- things we can do to reduce the human contributions to global warming such as the increased use of nuclear power and improving efficiency.
The special issue contains no serious evaluation of the problems of peak production of global oil, which could happen any year now.(1, 2) There is even a hint of denial: "Even if oil production peaks soon -- a debatable contention given Canada’s oil sands" (emphasis added).
When one looks at the facts, one can see that production of gasoline from the oil sands won’t have much effect on the peaking of world oil production. There is no serious discussion of the net energy in the production from oil sands, or in the production of ethanol from corn. It is just noted that we will have to be more efficient in these endeavors.
Growth remains sacred.
This review was first published in The Physics Teacher, December 2006.
Bartlett will introduce 15 bills to Congress
Staff, Frederick (MD) News-Post
U.S. Rep. Roscoe Bartlett will introduce the following bills in the new congressional term:
Peak Oil Resolution -- Reintroduction of H. Res 507 that expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the United States, in collaboration with other international allies, should establish an energy project with the magnitude, creativity, and sense of urgency that was incorporated in the "Man on the Moon" project address the inevitable challenges of "Peak Oil."
Energy Farm Bill -- Reintroduction of H. R. 5925 to support federal research, development, demonstration, and commercial application activities to enable the development of farms that are net producers of both food and energy.
Expanded Tax Credit for Hybrid Vehicles -- Introduced a new bill to increase from 60,000 to 250,000 the annual limit on vehicles, such as hybrids, eligible for the alternative motor vehicle tax credit.
(6 Jan 2007)
Contributor Greg writes:
HR 507 might have a better chance of getting thru since the democrats have the majority now...
Of leeches & midwives?
Richard Embleton, Oil, be Seeing You
What will be the implications for medicine and health care following peak oil as we slide down the oil and energy downslope into a low-tech/no-tech world?
The leap forward in health care and medicine in Europe and North America as we moved into the then high-tech world of the industrial revolution and the Victorian era was earth-shaking. Medicine came of age, became a science and a profession and an industry driven by methodical research and development aided by amazing new advances in chemistry, diagnostic procedures and instrument technology. It was still, by our modern standards, crude and seemingly barbaric in many ways. But those new developments opened the door to the modern high-tech medicine that has become such a vital driver to the improvements in general health we enjoy today.
...What has all of this to do with peak oil? Simply this. As we pass peak oil and peak energy all of that medical technology will at first get increasingly more expensive and then start to go away, become increasingly unavailable. The health care disparity between rich and poor nations and rich and poor people will begin to narrow until, eventually, there will be no gap at all. Our modern medicine is critically dependent on high technology and that technology is critically and still increasingly dependent on the high consumption of energy from research to application. The energy on which it depends is becoming increasingly expensive and soon will become increasingly unreliable and increasingly unavailable.
(29 Dec 2007)
The blog Oil, be Seeing You first appeared in July 2006, and features meditations on peak oil and related topics. The approach is on the technical side.
Blogger Richard Embleton is "Author of 'Oilephant Down'. Owner Yahoo Group "RunningOnEmptyCA". Thirty years experience in computer systems, much of it in the oil and petrochemical industry. Lifetime member of Mensa Canada. Ten years experience in health food industry, including my own store." | <urn:uuid:5c1f0bd4-114e-4258-a93b-815b5fd11e46> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.energybulletin.net/print/24450 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958969 | 1,816 | 2.265625 | 2 |
Born: 1925 (Cuba)
Died: 2010 (Chicago, Illinois)
Profession(s): Painter, Sculptor, Printmaker
Known for: Figural, Landscape, Abstract, Impressionism, Surrealist collages and assemblages
Style(s): Modernist, Abstract Figuration, Abstract, Surrealism,
Medium(s): Oil, Acrylic, Watercolor, Mixed media/Multi media, Collage, Assemblage
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Excerpts from the essay The Art of José Bernal, by Dorothy Chaplik, posted with the permission of the author:
The heightened imagination of José Bernal, his Cuban birth, and the experience of exile and renewal have generated a body of richly independent works. Within a given period, his style, color, and technique may vary from one painting to another, from one collage or assemblage to another. His images sometimes hint of masters of the distant past or those celebrated in more recent decades. But Bernal's essential approach to a work is distinctly his own.
The artist's independent nature was apparent at various stages of his development, but never more fully revealed than in the painting habits of his early years as a landscape artist. Surrounded by the brilliant sunlight and intense colors of his native Cuba, he often painted in subdued tones--his most convincing landscapes conveyed in shades of gray, beige, and black. After moving to Chicago, a less vibrant environment in terms of color, he changed course and began painting in the tropical hues of his Caribbean homeland. Chicago's bountiful summer landscapes appeared on his canvases in their natural exuberance, while his abstract paintings reveled in bold reds, oranges and greens. Although certain collages are also executed in soaring colors, the muted tones of his early career are found mostly in the collages and assemblages…
In 1948, José married Estela Pascual, a young fashion designer and singer from the childhood radio programs, and within a few years, they were raising a family. By that time, Bernal was teaching at a high school in his hometown of Santa Clara.
Despite teaching and family responsibilities, Bernal continued to pursue the advanced degree. At the Romañach art school, he delved into the history of art, studied traditional and modernist painting and sculpture, and came under the influences of Velázquez, Manet, Renoir, and the early twentieth century masters. He explored three-dimensional construction, as well as the two-dimensional work of Picasso, Braque, and Schwitters. Landscape painting had a special appeal to Bernal. One of his professors, Apolinario Chávez, a noted landscape artist, admired his impressionist paintings, but urged him to add warmer colors to his landscapes, noting that the gray tones made his work look more French than Cuban. But Bernal's preference for the neutral tones persisted…
In 1961, when Bernal finally earned his master of fine arts degree, Cuba's political situation had become too intrusive to ignore. Although never before had he been involved with politics, in April of that year, during the Bay of Pigs invasion, he was among throngs of Cubans arrested for unpatriotic behavior and confined for eleven days in the gymnasium of the Marta Abreu University in Santa Clara. Bernal's offense was refusal to work in the fields cutting sugar cane. After his release, the threat of execution haunted Bernal and his wife, and they cautiously initiated plans to leave the country with their three young children…
In the mid 1960s, Field's art gallery manager saw Bernal's work and persuaded the artist to sell his impressionist style portraits, landscapes, and still life paintings to Marshall Field's, for exhibition in their galleries. It was here that Betty Parsons, art dealer and collector, discovered Bernal's work and began a series of orders to show and sell his paintings at Dayton's art galleries in Minneapolis. The lucrative connection made it possible for Bernal to give up his job at Field's and return to school, where he could pursue his dual dream of teaching and painting.
A student again, Bernal labored to acquire requisites for teaching art in Chicago high schools, working at the same time as a restorer of antique paintings and frames. By 1970, he was eagerly engaged in teaching during the school week and painting at his home studio in his free time, an arrangement that lasted until 1993. At that time, faced with symptoms of Parkinson's disease, Bernal retired from teaching. But he has continued to toil prodigiously, producing paintings, collages, and assemblages in his studio, and tending the flowers and shrubbery in his intricate garden, another life-long love. Miraculously, the disease has not prevented his hands from firmly guiding the paintbrush in the studio and the trowel in the garden.
It is hard to know whether Bernal's love of nature inspires his painting or if his palette has ordered the patterns and colors of his garden. His early affinity for landscapes and the out-of-doors seems an open response to Cuba's natural beauty.
Not easily forgotten, Cuban landscapes and seascapes continued to appear on Bernal's canvases well after his settling in the Midwest…
Just as Bernal's landscape paintings capture the essential realism of a scene, the organic shapes of his abstract works suggest plant life and the biological world. When he gave up his long, impassioned career as a landscape artist and concentrated on abstraction, Bernal's style became marked by a baroque mixture of organic and anatomical shapes. His preoccupation with organic forms was not a radical change for him. His earliest works reveal an interest in abstraction and in dynamic forms, as much related to plant life as to human anatomy.
Bernal's mature works develop the same organic and anatomical themes, but often in space crowded with an overlay of rhythmic forms and colorful movement. At times foreground and background space are intertwined, with no visible distinction between them. Figurative references can be open and direct on his canvases, or at other times partially hidden.
With increased density, La pesadilla del picador (Nightmare of the Picador )of 1976, describes the life-and-death confrontation of the bullfight. Background and foreground are one. The artist sets the scene with dripping paint, blood-tinted colors, and metamorphosing figures. Among the concentration of forms, the bull's head at the side of the painting rivets attention. A picador astride his horse is seen at the top of the canvas. Tension arises from the action of the horse's back leg, while the suggested flutter of a bullfighter's black cape increases the stress. In a lighter vein, the dense, abstract painting of 1976, Gladys and the Horses, reveals swirling horses and human faces merging with biological shapes and a carnival of color. Like Nightmare of the Picador, background and foreground are almost indistinguishable.
Many of Bernal's works reflect his interest in past masters. His Sketch for Las Hilanderas (The Tapestry Weavers, after Velázquez),1962, refers to the seventeenth century painting of the same name by Diego Velázquez. The detailed interior of a tapestry workshop painted by the earlier artist inspired Bernal's figure at a spinning wheel. In Las Meninas (After Picasso), 1973, Bernal pays tribute to Picasso, as well as to Velázquez, whose original painting of that name provided Picasso with the starting point for a number of cubistic interpretations. Bernal's abstract interpretation is also cubistic and geometric, yet displaying the soft-edged, rounded, organic shapes that identify his style. Faces of the royal maids of honor (the Las Meninas of the title) peer out from the right division of Bernal's work, along with a portrayal of the dwarf who has a prominent presence in the original painting.
Masters of the past also inspire Bernal's collages and assemblages, works of ingenuity and imagination. His assemblage Moonlight, 1986, is based on the second century, B.C. sculpture known as Venus de Milo. A miniature replica of the famous statue is posed beneath a shadowy moon pasted onto the background, and flanked by rows of real dominoes, a game associated with Bernal's native country. Three round openings in the wood frame emphasize Venus' planetary link.
Long a student of mythology, Bernal steeps his paintings, collages, and assemblages in ancient lore. His painting Icarus' Flight, 2000, is an abstract interpretation of the story of Daedalus and his son Icarus. According to the fable, Daedalus escapes from his prison tower by flying through the air with wings he has fabricated for himself and his son by sewing layers of feathers with thread and wax. Bernal's painting describes the disintegration of Icarus' wings as he flies too close to the sun. As the sun's heat melts the wax, the feathers collapse, sending him to his death…
The breadth of José Bernal's imagination and intellect sometimes leaves the observer unprepared for his ready wit. His playfulness in Moonlight and in Unicorn is an exercise in subtlety. And in such paintings as Musicians in a Fast Food Restaurant and Good Morning America, his dazzling use of color, space, and texture may obscure his humor. A visual feast awaits the viewer of the paintings, collages, and assemblages reproduced on the following pages.
BUYER BEWARE: Within the last three years there have been numerous attempts to sell fraudulent works claiming to be artworks by José Bernal (1925-2010, Cuban-American). None of his artwork is presently on the market.
This past January 2013, LiveAuctioneers.com, New York, NY, posted an unauthenticated work on behalf of International Auction Gallery, Anaheim,CA, attributing it to "Cuban-American artist, José Bernal (1925-2010)." The unauthenticated work was not withdrawn from auction on 7 January, it sold and the auction houses refuse to remove the online publication of the sold unauthenticated work. For further information please contact the artist's estate through the AskART staff.
Paintings, drawings, sculptures, assemblages, and collages by José Bernal are in several museum collections in the U.S.A. and in the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, Spain
Documents on the life and art of José Bernal are archived in the Institute for Latino Studies of the Julian Samora Library at the University of Notre Dame
Featured Artist of the Week on LatinAmericanArt.com, August 23, 2010
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, MFA Evaluation, 1970
School of the Plastic Arts: Leopoldo Romañach, Cuba, MFA, 1961
Normal Teachers College, Santa Clara, Cuba, BA, 1945
2005, Dorothy Chaplik Defining Latin American Art/Hacia una definición del arte latinoamericano, McFarland & Co., Inc, Publishers, 129 pages (color)
2001, Dorothy Chaplik Latin American Arts and Cultures, Davis Publications, Inc., 122 pages (color)
1981, Les Krantz Chicago Art Review, The Krantz Co. Publishers, 120 pages (color)
February 2012/no closing date, Picasso's "Guernica" tapestry and 27 modern and contemporary artworks, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas
March 29 - July 21, 2013, "Here & Now: A Decade of Contemporary Art," Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington, North Carolina
2012/13, "Garden of Eden", Tucson Museum of Art
2012/13, "Art + the Machine", Tucson Museum of Art
2011, Benefit for LUMA at the Loyola University Museum of Art: Auction of donated artwork. Chicago, Illinois
2011, Benefit for Francisco G. Mendoza at National Museum of Mexican Art: Auction of donated artwork. Chicago, Illinois.
2011, 27th Annual Fantasy of the Opera Gala: Auction of donated art work. Chicago, Illinois
2007-2009 "Parkinson's Disease Symposium and Art Exhibit," Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois.
2005-2007, National Parkinson Foundation, 1501 N.W. 9th Ave. Miami, FL
48th-50th Annual International Gala for Hope: Auction of donated artworks.
1996, The Embassy, 288 Aragon Ave., Coral Gables, FL
Retrospective Paintings, solo exhibition.
1981, Bernal Gallery, 612 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL
Collage and Assemblage, solo exhibition.
1980, Bernal Gallery, 612 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL
19 Artists, group exhibition.
1977, Bernal Gallery, 612 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL
Solo and group exhibitions.
1972-1974, Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, IL
I, II, & III Pan American Festival of the Arts.
1971, Northeastern University, Chicago, IL
1964, Marshall Field's & Co., Chicago, IL
1955-1961, School of the Plastic Arts: Leopoldo Romañach, Cuba
1952, Circulo de las Bellas Artes, La Habana, Cuba
1950, Biblioteca de la Embajada Americana, Santa Clara, Cuba
1949, Instituto Enrique José Varona, Santa Clara, Cuba
1947, Superintendencia Provincial de Las Villas, Cuba
1945-1946, Biblioteca del Gobierno Provincial de Santa Clara, Cuba
Picasso's "Guernica" tapestry riots amid works of political conscience, San Antonio Current, March 14, 2012
José Bernal 1925-2010, Obituaries, page 59, Chicago Tribune, Monday, April 26, 2010
José Bernal Tribute, Parkinson Report, (front cover & page 29), Spring 2006, Vol. XVII
Landscape from the 1960s by José Bernal. (Pages 126-127: In error, the painting was noted as French and not credited to Bernal. AD later issued an apology.) Architectural Digest, February 1983
Collage & Assemblage, solo exhibition, 1981, New Art Examiner, January 1982
Nineteen Artists, group exhibition, 1980, New Art Examiner, June 1980
Amorphous, solo exhibition, 1977, Arts & Fun/Chicago Tribune, July 24, 1977
"Mi obra de arte habla por sí misma." ("My oeuvre speaks for itself.")
From: "José Bernal: A Cuban in Chicago," 1981
Documentary video, directed and filmed by Roland Mesa
|Review of Artist's Work: |
From the essay The Art of José Bernal, by Dorothy Chaplik, courtesy of the author:
“The heightened imagination of José Bernal, his Cuban birth, and the experience of exile and renewal have generated a body of richly independent works. Within a given period, his style, color, and technique may vary from one painting to another, from one collage or assemblage to another. His images sometimes hint of masters of the distant past or those celebrated in more recent decades. But Bernal's essential approach to a work is distinctly his own.”
Additional excerpts from the essay are available in José Bernal's Biography.
Review by Scott Andrews
San Antonio Current, March 14, 2012
(Excerpt from "Picasso's 'Guernica' tapestry riots amid works of political conscience" at the San Antonio Museum of Art.)
Within view of the tapestry is "Composición cubista" a 1938 mixed-media piece by the Cuban-American artist José Bernal. Adding blue-grays and bits of text to an abstract artwork of curved and rectangular forms, it is non-objective, without explicit meaning. But the composition echoes the pyramid of forms that anchors "Guernica." A vaguely face-like oval at the top of the Bernal abstraction seems to recollect the electric light in "Guernica."
Review by Lydia Murman
New Art Examiner, January 1982
Jose Bernal used to work with collage in the traditional sense. He used two-dimensional elements from "out there" and subjugated them to the internal reality of the finished work. By 1979, he had traversed the art-historical evolution of the collage and settled for the Duchamp-like approach evidenced in the three-dimensional piece, "Two Positive Points." Unlike Duchamp however, Bernal didn't reject the art object, and today, instead of playing chess, he continues to work within the art-object context. Lucky for us, as his work is gentle, sensitive, and thought-provoking.
Bernal continues to use found objects which he imbues with symbolic value and arranges into a formal text which communicates emotively. His work reflects a sensibility aligned with some of art history's best artists. "Landscape" expresses the delicate and magical quality of some of Cornell's boxes, while "Nap" and "Still Eaglet" suggest Rauschenberg's clever wit. His work also demonstrates a concern for involving the viewer in the creative process. Familiar objects bring their life form into works that are ultimately energized by the reading the viewer give them. "Landscape" in which a tiny bird perched on a strip of stretcher peers into a box housing a stylized landscape, and "Window," a window suspended from the ceiling with a tableau affixed to the inside of one of its panes, read as metaphors for the role of the viewer vis-a-vis the creative process.
Bernal's works involve the viewer because they resurrect the concern for art as a communicative force. The viewer reacts to the classical arrangement, in which found objects are manipulated with a respect for their physical properties and for their potential symbolic value. While warm wood, old newspaper print, tarnished metal, and antique objects produce an aura that absorbs the viewer and stirs archetypal images within his subconscious, some works, such as "Balancing the Unbalanced," in which a faucet is perceived as a faucet, invite the viewer to open the dialogue concerning substance and illusion, art and reality.
Review by Claire Wolf Krantz
New Art Examiner, June 1980
Jose Bernal's [Untitled] piece pokes good-natured fun at fetishistic, female art. It is a round, small, painted porcelain object mounted on a square frame. The center has been removed and filled with a double lens, much like a bifocal lens, which invites you to peer through it. The voyeur, whose eyes have adjusted to the darkness, is confronted with the bas-relief figure of a man with his erect phallus pointed at the hole from the inside. The piece's startling obviousness is countered by the length of time it takes to find and make out the image. | <urn:uuid:10388ba5-a1a3-4bc0-a705-a119c16fac5a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.askart.com/AskART/studio/studio.aspx?Studio=11139863 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00022-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948426 | 4,023 | 2.421875 | 2 |
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| Storm still fouling BP oil spill response in Gulf|
| Updated at: 0815 PST, Saturday, July 03, 2010|
HOUSTON: Rough seas and winds continue to disrupt spill responders' efforts to contain the oil gushing from BP PLC's (BP, BP.LN) well in the Gulf of Mexico two days after Hurricane Alex made landfall hundreds of miles away from the spill site, the U.S. Coast Guard said Friday.
More bad weather is expected to slow the work over the weekend, the Coast Guard said.
Alex, which ranked as a Category One, or the weakest possible hurricane, has delayed by about six days the hookup of a third oil containment vessel. If all goes well the Helix Producer, which is already at the well site, should be on line July 7 and should be able to produce about 20,0000 to 25,0000 barrels of oil a day, Retired Adm. Thad Allen, the federal response commander, said during a news conference.
The delay means that between 120,000 to 150,000 barrels of oil could go uncollected, Allen said. Alex hit northern Mexico about 100 miles south of Brownsville, Texas.
The foul weather is also the likely the cause of the reduction in the capacity of the containment ship, the Q4000, Allen said. The ship can normally flare off 10,000 barrels of oil a day but has been achieving about 25% less than its average rates during the storm.
BP and the government response team are working on plans to strengthen their collection system in order to make it more hurricane-ready, however, most of those plans have hinged on a storm arriving in the height of the Gulf Coast's hurricane season, which normally falls between mid-August and mid-September. Alex's early arrival and the threat of more storms to follow underscores the fragility of the operations.
On Thursday, BP recovered a total of 25,150 barrels of oil. About 16,915 of those barrels were collected by the Discoverer Enterprise, the main containment vessel. The Q4000 flared off about 8,235 barrels of oil.
About 57 million cubic feet of natural gas was flared as well. Government and independent scientists estimate that about 35,000 to 60,000 barrels of oil a day are flowing from the well. The gusher started in late April when the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded and sank, killing 11 people.
The remnants of Alex also continue to halt near-shore skimming operations, Allen said.
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Expand your child's Plan City with the Plan Toys City Station. This major hub allows your child to connect rail play with road play. The station comes with a station master, revolving door, and more. Keep the streets tidy with the Plan City Street Cleaner and Garbage Truck. The Street Cleaner has rotating bumpers to clean the edges of the road while the Garbage Truck lifts in the back to give your child access to the garbage. Add a set of traffic signs and lights to keep Plan City running smoothly. This set of 14 lights and signs also helps your child understand the different signs and what they mean.
Children enjoy learning new concepts through play. The Plan Toys Eco Town will help your child learn how to live an environmentally-friendly life. The set includes a mat, eco-friendly home, charging station, and eco-friendly vehicles. Help your child learn to tell time with the Plan Toys Activity Clock. This wooden clock has movable hands and activity cards that help your child associate a time with a family activity. The Plan Toys Balancing Scale will help your child learn about weights and measures. The four included blocks can be used on one side to compare weights or your child can compare two different items to see which weighs more. It provides a fun way for a child to explore weight and it makes a great addition to store play. | <urn:uuid:f13e9ffc-ab6b-4cf1-b8a3-e16be00fca94> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thanksmama.com/toys_5_years_and_up_s/33.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00041-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95323 | 439 | 1.90625 | 2 |
My colleague and friend, Dr. Gernot Wagner, has a new book coming out, But Will the Planet Notice?: How Smart Economics Can Save the World (available in hardback and kindle editions on October 5th). The premise is that individual actions, like changing incandescent light bulbs to compact fluorescent, using groovy (yes, I said groovy) reusable grocery bags instead of plastic, and buying local food may make us feel better about our environmental impact, but actually do very little to reduce global climate change, resource use, or improve overall environmental quality. To make the “planet notice” we need systematic and collective changes in behavior.
In this class you will learn that, contrary to popular opinion, economists don’t believe unregulated markets will naturally supply this type of systemic and collective behavioral change. We also don’t put a lot of faith in the powers of moral suasion (even by the former Vice President). Instead we believe in the power of incentives—the power of the price signal. If carbon emissions are costly (through a carbon tax or from a cap-and-trade system), then goods produced using more carbon are more expense. By the law of demand, when prices rise, quantity demanded falls. So if carbon-intensive goods are more expensive, fewer of those goods will be consumed and less carbon will be emitted. Less carbon is emitted not because people care deeply about the impacts of climate change (although some may), but because they care deeply about their pocketbook. Note that unregulated markets don’t result in the correct price signals; we do need public policy to address environmental problems. We do need the big R—Regulation!
Let’s bring this discussion home to Duke. If you go to sustainability.duke.edu you will see a carbon footprint calculator. This tool asks you a series of questions about your eating habits, travel, and electricity consumption. Questions include things like: How far do you drive per trip to work? How much of your food is locally produced? Do you turn off your computer at night? These are all very reasonable questions and clearly linked to each individual’s carbon consumption. But perhaps we should also be asking: How many letters have you written your congressman demanding action on climate policy? How many community meetings have you organized to explain climate policy to your neighbors and friends? The “true believers” doing a lot won’t solve our problem. We need carbon to be priced in order to affect behavior sufficiently to reduce overall carbon emissions.
So why the focus on individual actions? I think it is because we can control our behavior, but influencing public policy seems overwhelming. My own feelings about Washington in the last few years have gone from “Yes We Can!” to “Maybe We Can With A Lot of Drama” (think town hall meetings summer of 2009) to “We Can’t Seem to Get Out Of Our Own Way” (think debt ceiling debate of summer of 2011). And with that, I think I’ll go change a few more incandescent light bulbs to compact fluorescents…
Questions for Discussion:
- Other than lobbying congress, what ideas do you have for how we can “make the planet notice”?
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n May 11, 1805, a few miles upstream from the mouth of the Milk River, one member of the party had a hairbreadth escape from death. Lewis recorded the details:
| About 5 P.M. my attention was struck by one of the Party running at a distance toward us and making signs and hollowing as if in distress, I ordered the perogues to put too, and waited until he arrived; I found that it was Bratton the man with the soar hand whom I had permitted to walk on shore, he arrived so much out of breath that it was several minutes before he could tell what had happened...|
Private William Bratton, who was not among their best hunters,
| ...had shot a brown bear which immediately turned on him and pursued him a considerable distance but he had wounded it so badly that it could not overtake him; I immediately turned out with seven of the party in quest of this monster, we at length found his trale and persued him about a mile by the blood through very thick brush of rosbushes and the large leafed willow; we finally found him concealed in some very thick brush and shot him through the skull with two balls...|
They might well have shaken their heads in amazement.
| we proceeded dress him as soon as possible,...we now found that Bratton had shot him through the center of the lungs, notwithstanding which he had pursued him near half a mile and had returned more than double that distance and with his tallons had prepared himself a bed in the earth of about 2 feet deep and five long and was perfectly alive when we found him which could not have been less than 2 hours after he received the wound|
Captain Lewis was beginning to get a better grip on the grizzly.
|these bear being so hard to die reather intimedates us all; I must confess that I do not like the gentlemen and had reather fight two Indians than one bear.|
His choice of word in reference to Ursus horribilis, spontaneously drawn from his lexicon of manners and slightly tinged with sarcasm, was nontheless fitting. "Gentlemen" denoted landowners, and those beasts indisputably were the natural lords of this land. We may forgive his flash of bravado, also. He had not yet fought any Indians, and was to do so only once in his life — on July 27, 1806. But he would survive his own solitary showdown with a grizzly just five weeks later.
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National Certificate in Mental Health (Mental Health Support Work) (Level 4)
If you are working as a mental health support worker or interested in working alongside people with experience of mental illness on their journey to recovery then the National Certificate in Mental Health (Mental Health Support Work) (Level 4) is for you.
Mental health support workers carry out a supportive relationship with people who have been or are experiencing mental illness. They support consumers/tangata whaiora to develop and implement individual lifestyle or support plans. Mental health support workers work in a collaborative manner alongside consumers/tangata whaiora (and sometimes with their family/whānau and friends) to support them in their recovery. Mental health support workers work within a framework for practice informed by Te Tiriti o Waitangi, ethical standards, health standards, service specifications, and legislation.
The National Certificate in Mental Health is based upon a recovery approach to mental illness. It is designed to be a minimum qualification for people who wish to enter mental health support work, or who already work paid or unpaid in a mental health support work role, or similar, under supervision. It is a nationally recognised full-time programme that takes 43 weeks to complete (11 months), and involves 17 unit standards (124 credits) from the NZQA framework.
The course has five modules:
- personal development
- relationship building
- holistic models of wellness
- professional development
- making it real.
All of the Blueprint course delivery, learning and assessments are designed around classroom and group activities, a theoretical case study, and as well as some practical assessments which are completed in your workplace.
We are also able to deliver this course in other locations on request, provided there are a minimum of eight students participating and subject to NZQA approval of the site
The 2013 course began on 7 February 2013 and will end on 6 December 2013. Graduation will be held on 13 December 2013.
To help you meet the course requirements, classes are held fortnightly at our training centre, and when not at class, learners are to be applying the learning in their workplace. By course end, you are required to have:
- completed 672 workplace hours in a mental health support work type role
- attended 252 class room hours of learning (42 days)
- met the requirements of all course assessments.
- be 18 years or older
- be a New Zealand or Australian permanent resident or citizen (some exceptions apply, please contact the course administrator)
- be currently working in a mental health support work role, or similar, or have a placement secured for this role, for a minimum of 20 hours per week for the course duration (paid or unpaid)
- have the support of your workplace to complete this study (they will be required to supervise a small part of your course work).
Course fees for 2014 have not been set. As an indication, 2013 course fees were as follows.
The 2013 early bird rate was $4053.37 (including GST). All 2013 National Certificate in Mental Health applications received by 3 December 2012 were eligible for this rate.
The group rate was available for organisations enrolling a minimum of three people on to the 2013 National Certificate in Mental Health before enrolment end, at a rate of $4053.37 (including GST) per person.
The standard fee for the 2013 course of study was $4283.37 (including GST).
The National Certificate in Mental Health is eligible for a student loan and allowance. To find out if you meet loan and allowance criteria, and to apply for a student loan and/or allowance, contact StudyLink.
You may also be eligible for a training grant or scholarship, please see below for more information.
National mental health support workers training grant
Mental health support workers can access a Careerforce training grant to partially fund their tuition fees for the National Certificate in Mental Health.
Le Va mental health and addiction scholarships
Le Va mental health and addiction scholarships are intended to increase the number of Pacific people working in mental health and addiction and enhance the knowledge and skills of the current Pacific workforce.
Ministry of Health public health workforce development scholarships and grants
Public Health Workforce Development offers information about public health workforce development scholarships and grants. Browse through a number of scholarships and grants to see if there is one which meets your needs.
Students undertaking the National Certificate in Mental Health are required to complete workplace hours verification forms for February to December 2013.
Do you need to have a new supervisor authorised for your studies? If so, download the following form, ask your supervisor to complete it and return it to Blueprint.
Application information for the 2014 course will be made available in late 2013.
Please contact one of our regional administrators for more information about the National Certificate in Mental Health. We look forward to hearing from you.
Project Support Administrator
Phone: 09 301 9623
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A key reporting goal is to assure that inferences made from NAEP data are as accurate as possible. However, under some circumstances the observed data does not allow for the computation of reliable statistics (e.g., composite and content area scale scores, percentiles, percentages of students performing at or above the achievement levels, and percentages of students indicating particular levels of background variables) or standard errors and, subsequently, these are not reported.
There are several reporting conventions used to identify whether results are reportable or not. To ensure adequate power, results have to be based on at least 62 observations. Furthermore, results have to be based on data from at least 5 replicate strata. Also, there is a convention related to extreme percentages. When estimates of percentages are close to 0 or 100, the usual normal distribution assumptions no longer apply and standard methodology cannot be used. In this case, standard errors and significance tests are not reported. | <urn:uuid:726e7f4f-effa-4a64-9b0b-2ea667f71023> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/tdw/analysis/infer_guidelines.asp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00074-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936553 | 187 | 3.296875 | 3 |
Zeeland Seaports' location on deep navigation water and excellent hinterland connections are major factors which attract industrial companies to the area, as these ensure the cost-efficient transport of raw materials and products.
The port of Vlissingen is an ideal location for businesses which require large volumes of raw materials for their production process and need space for the production and storage of raw materials and end products. As a result, the port area is home to many different industrial activities and has been designed to ensure the efficient transport of bulk goods by water, road and rail.
Among the companies at Vlissingen there are many well-known names, including:
- Thermphos - producer of phosphorus and phosphorus-derived products
- Zeeland Refinery - oil refinery
In the canal zone and around Braakmanhaven, Terneuzen has deep-water berths, space, infrastructure and supporting services of the very highest quality. This makes the area particularly attractive for a range of industrial activities. For example, Terneuzen is the home base for Dow Benelux, the largest chemical production site of Dow outside the United States.
Other companies based in the port of Terneuzen include:
- Yara Sluiskil - the largest production site for ammonia and fertilizers in Europe
- Nedalco - producer of alcohol and bio-ethanol
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KPMG have recently launched a ‘first of its kind’ cyber vulnerability index that demonstrates that financial services is far and away the worst information-leaking sector.
A massive 48% of information leakages from the 10 Forbes 2000 companies that offered cyber attackers the most opportunity came from organisations in the financial services (banking – 30%, diversified financials – 12% and insurance – 6%)1.
Once again the risk-based case is made for investing in cyber security.
However, this research joins a large body of case studies, publications, and media articles that focus on the risks businesses are running with regard to its information. By now most executives will be aware of the potentially large-scale impacts of poor cyber security. Yet many are still not investing to reduce the risk or change their corporate behaviours around information management. Why?
Is the evidence still not strong enough to overcome the ‘it won’t happen to me’ syndrome? Are the impacts being exaggerated and businesses aren’t feeling the pain of information loss? Or is it that in these tight economic times any “spare” money is not being invested in risk reduction initiatives that are traditionally viewed as largely a sunk cost and instead being invested in areas that offer a stronger return on investment?
Possibly all 3 but focussing on the latter, implementing cyber security should not be viewed as a sunk cost as the cyber capability you develop can provide a significant return on investment! This important area is rarely discussed in the plethora of media around cyber security with authors preferring to describe the latest juicy scare story.
Yes, there are people, organisations, States trying to get hold of your information. That isn’t going to stop. Yes, organisations are on the whole quite bad at looking after their information. That can change but scare stories don’t seem to be having the desired effect on the Board room to invest in cyber security (as desired by Governments ….. and security suppliers, of course!). So whilst I think it is a good piece of research, I am a little disappointed to see yet another report is focussed on the risk; the threat; and who is the worst at protecting their information.
We need more positivity around cyber security to make it more attractive to the Board room.
At the heart of cyber security is information. Whilst companies need to protect information they also need to exploit it. So why don’t more studies focus on who is the best at safely and securely exploiting their information? Why aren’t their more case studies circulating about companies who’ve successfully exploited information for substantial gain? Rather than talking about the negative side of cyber security, we, as an industry, should be talking about which companies are the most secure, the most resilient, and who has developed the most competitive advantage through safely exploiting their information? Companies who can deliver a return on investment from their cyber security and become a safe, sustainable business in this information age is, I believe, what investors and shareholders want to hear!
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U.S. Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr.
|The press has provided around-the-clock coverage of this event, and we have repeatedly been told that our country will “never be the same,” that on Tuesday we lost our “innocence.” Unfortunately, we have heard that refrain several times before, and it is nonsensical due to its sheer repetition. After all, we supposedly had long since lost our innocence in Vietnam, JFK, Watergate, Beirut, Oklahoma City and countless other media frenzies. The flaw in all these dire predictions, past and present, is the concept that America is a nation of glassy-eyed innocents in the first place. The United States of America is unique in the history of humankind, and its survival has been guaranteed not by its innocence, but by its character and its resilience. Unlike most nations, ours was not created from geography or religion or language or any other factor of convenience. Ours is a diverse nation of seekers, who left other lands to overcome adversity in America. They risked everything for the opportunity to create a better life. Far from being innocent, ours is a nation whose people are largely descended from oppression or hardship. These individuals, through sheer will and effort, became part of this country, this different and special place, and started over. The democracy and freedoms that we have today were not stumbled into through innocence or luck. Instead, they were built from experience and a deep and wary understanding of human nature and its capacity to do evil. We are shocked by Tuesday’s act, but we are not surprised, for we have seen and fought evil on a worldwide scale, throughout our nation’s existence. As we have fought evil, we have preserved our constitutional rights, our values that are so important to America. We have preserved our values, and we have won these battles in the past, and we must—and we will—win this one as well.|
Make no mistake about it—the terrorists have ruthlessly attacked not the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, but our way of life. That is their purpose. That is their purpose—to change our way of life—not to take down two buildings and the Pentagon or kill thousands of people. Their purpose is to change our way of life. You will hear from some very brilliant women and men why many of the [terrorists] feel the way they do, why they are disaffected, and we should take all that into account in seeking a solution to our problem. But, make no mistake about it—it is our way of life that they are attempting to change.
One thing which has changed is the nature of the threat and the enemy who poses these threats. They’re no longer easily identified. They wear no uniforms and they’re not armed with traditional weapons. What they hope most for, by the way—to reinforce in the shaky minority they have in the Islamic world—is they hope we turn on all those in this country who look as though they are Arabic. They hope we turn on anyone who practices Islam. For that is the propaganda they need to make the case to a relatively small minority of people in the world that we are the bad guy.
So, my first plea to you, and it is a plea: Do not aid and abet them. Do not yield to your fear or any sense of prejudice you may have welling up in you. Do not make the mistakes that we have made in the past. Show the world who we are. And, thus far, we have. Why is it that everyone, including me, is talking about Rudy Giuliani? It’s not merely because he’s organizing the recovery. He has repeatedly, repeatedly, repeatedly—in the face of the most abject face of hell you’ll see on Earth—reminded Americans and New Yorkers: Don’t look at people differently. Don’t. Don’t. Don’t. For if you do, and I expect none of you will, you will be adding to the bombing. You’ll be adding to the effect of the attack. You will be helping make the case that they hope to make.
They’re stealth-like, they’re dedicated and they’re fanatical in their cause. But, they have underestimated us. With one horrific act, they may have done what no one else could do, something even they could not have anticipated and probably did not intend. And that is that they have united every American. They’ve not only united every American, they’ve united our allies, but even more than that, they have united those with whom we do not have particularly good relations.
I’m receiving calls from the North Korean officials. I’m receiving calls from Pakistan. I’ve met for an hour and half in my office with the number-two man in Pakistan who helped create this very monster.
And, I might add, we helped create the Taliban, because we did what every other nation was doing and is now about to come to an end: We played geopolitics. You know, up until this horrific act, China could, with some degree of satisfaction, play their geopolitical game with Pakistan and get some solace from it. Russia could do it with Iran. Others could do it with other countries. But, I can tell you from the calls from heads of state that I’ve received, every head of state could see that second airplane—which was most vividly depicted—moving into the Eiffel Tower, crashing into a 102-story building in Shanghai, taking out a mosque in another country, taking down a national symbol in any other country. What the world has come to realize is this is a battle between nationhood and chaos. They are not uniting with us out of a newfound zeal for democracy or human rights. This is the most cohesive of efforts when it occurs. It’s born out of self-interest. The self-interest we should, and to his great credit the president has begun, to take advantage of.
Whoever did this, however much they hedge, deny or sidestep their involvement or condemn the attack, all terrorist groups and states financing and harboring them have to share responsibility for the madness of even contemplating, let alone condoning, this attack.
A number of you students have called me. Several of you, believe it or not, I’m still young enough to know, and you’re worried about a war, all this talk of war. I worried about a war—matter of fact, one occurred when I was here. But, this is not that kind of war. If you notice, Gen. Powell has changed the rhetoric today, rightfully so. This is not a war in the traditional or conventional sense. You’re not going to see hundreds of thousands of military amassing, ground troops invading and a call up of all of you and a reinstitution of the draft, to send you off somewhere. Although I have no doubt, I might note parenthetically, if I hear one more commentator talk about your generation not being up to it! I have had it up to here! I want to remind you—I’m serious, I’m not being solicitous—I want to remind you that all of Europe, including the British army, was literally swimming in the English Channel before any of the “greatest generation” did anything. But, once we were attacked, that generation that did, in fact, come to deserve the title, “the greatest generation in our history,” rose up. And the reason they were the greatest is they faced the greatest challenge. That’s why they were the greatest.
But they were no better than you! They’re no different than you. And I don’t have the slightest doubt in my mind. If I get asked one more time on Larry King or Meet the Press or CNN Town Meeting, I think I’m going to strangle the person who asks me the question, because every single generation in this country that’s been faced with a serious challenge has risen to the occasion. The only difference is you’re a hell of a lot smarter than we were. That’s the only difference.
This isn’t a time for vengeance. This isn’t a time for fear. This is a time to keep going, not to retreat; to mourn those who died, but not to despair. It’s a time for resolve, but not remorse. But most importantly, it’s a time to unite and not debate, because we all know what we have to do.
No matter what you hear today or tomorrow from me if I come back, and from everyone else, cut through it all. There are three things that are self-evident that we have to do.
The first is don’t make these guys bigger than they are. Don’t do what we’ve always done. When I got out of school here, I was a United States senator seven years later, and all that generation told me about and the experts I’d hear were about how the Soviets were 10 feet tall and how they were so powerful and they were so overwhelming. And, they didn’t look, jeez, they didn’t look 10 feet tall to me. They looked a little bit shorter than me. They looked not as robust as me. I wrote a report in 1979 predicting the end of the Soviet Union because it couldn’t sustain itself. And, everybody in my staff said, “Oh, God, don’t file that. You’ll end your career.” Actually, it was 1977, and the rise of Euro-Communism, you remember that. “Euro-Communism is coming back.” But I sat in that same Intelligence Committee and I saw things like they stole a very sophisticated computer from us 18 months earlier and we couldn’t find it. Guess what! We found it though satellite imagery sitting on a dock in Vladivostok. They hadn’t even taken it out of the box because they didn’t know how to work it. They didn’t even know how to catapult planes on and off aircraft carriers. Don’t make them bigger than they are. They did a horrible thing, and they got lucky. And, they can do harm again. But they are no great juggernaut.
The second thing we have to do is focus on the things we can do at home. Some of them are a pain in the neck, and now’s not the time to remind people of it. I’ve been talking about this for eight years. I’m in the midst of holding hearings on homeland defense. We are having this half-a-trillion-dollar nightmare that we’re going to build a national missile defense. For what purpose? When we have $30 billion underfunded because the Russians have all these chemical weapons stored in houses that look like giant outhouses with padlocks on them. And they say, “We can’t control it. Can you help us? Can you come and take this for us?” And, we say, “No, they’re still basically ‘commies.’ We don’t want to do that.” We know we have a public health system that cannot sustain a massive biological or pathogen being released. We know there are antidotes to many of the things that are out there that have been developed that we aren’t spending money on. There’s a lot of things we can do, from making our airports safer without denying us our civil liberties to changing our laws, like the bill we introduced in 1995 that now finally everybody wants—the anti-terrorism bill—that deals with the realities of wiretaps today as opposed to before. There’s a lot we can do. But, we don’t have to change our way of life when we do it.
And the third thing we know we have to do if we’re going to win this struggle—not war, this struggle—is we have to do it multilaterally. It cannot be done alone. They cannot be allowed to breed, if you will, in an environment that looks the other way, allows their camps, allows them transport, gives them intelligence.
Am I saying to you if we do all these things there won’t be some madman who will strap dynamite to his body, walk in a restaurant and blow himself up? No. I’m not saying that. But you have as much chance, listen to what I say here: You have as much chance of being injured by a terrorist attack as you do being struck by lightning. You have a better chance of getting brutalized if you walk up on Aramingo Avenue right now than you do if you live the next 20 years in this country from a terrorist attack.
Put it in perspective! Because if we don’t, if we don’t, they will prevail. We don’t fly; they win. Airlines go under; they win. We don’t put our markets back in shape; they win.
I’m not saying it’s irrational to be fearful. It’s a horrible thing that’s happened. But, I’ll tell you one thing—you want to talk about courage--20 minutes before I came down here I got off the phone with a very good friend of mine and he gave me permission to say this. His name is Davis Sezna. Those of you who are Delawareans, he owns the Columbus Inn, he owns the Hartefield Golf Course. Davis’ son was tragically killed in the Delaware and Chesapeake Canal in August or July of last year in a boating accident, and Davis was with him. Davis’ oldest son was in the 102nd floor of the World Trade Tower, the second one, and is missing and presumed dead. If there’s anyone who has reason to despair, if there’s anyone who has reason for anger, if there’s anyone who has reason to fear because lightning has struck twice in his life, it’s Davis Sezna. And, he says, “I’m willing to go and stand with you anywhere, any time, any place and tell people, ‘Don’t be afraid.’”
There’s more to say, but we conclude with this. It’s time to be protective at home, to strengthen our more earthbound homeland defenses. We need to bolster our health organizations at federal, state and local levels to be able to respond to the possibility of biological or chemical attacks so there is minimal damage. We need to be vigilant in detecting and dealing with pathogens. We need to increase our intelligence capabilities, which we have let go too long. We have to convince some of you brightest students that being part of an agency like the CIA—because you can speak Farsi or you can speak dialects of Chinese or you can speak any number of languages—it’s important and it’s a public service. These are the kinds of things we need to do to deal with this enemy.
We do not yet know how many people lost their lives in these attacks last week. What we do know is that the victims were unarmed. They were no threat. They were civilians. They didn’t represent a cause or ideology. They represented a vast cross-section of America, races and beliefs. And guess what, folks, more Pakistanis were killed in this attack than any other terrorist attack. More Brits were killed than any other attack. More Indians were killed in this attack than any other attack in India—300 in that tower.
So, in the name of all truly God-fearing men and women, we have to unite the world and end this threat decisively and once and for all.
To the loved ones of the victims, there is nothing really we can say to erase this tragedy. And, those of you who think it’s presumptuous of me to say that… in a different circumstance, I got one of those phone calls. I got one of those phone calls like Davis Sezna got. I got a phone call saying, “Your wife’s dead; your daughter’s dead.” And I’ve only said that three times in public before. But, I say it here because it’s so important for you to understand. I got one of those phone calls. It was an errant driver who stopped to drink instead of drive and hit a tractor-trailer, hit my children and my wife and killed them. It wasn’t an airplane, but it was a phone call: “They’re dead.” And, I can tell you from experience, and some of you can, too, that feeling that inside your chest is a black hole and you’re being sucked inside it. I know from experience there’s nothing in the near term we can do to bring solace, relief or peace to those people.
But, there is a lot we can do, and another time will be the time to speak to it.
Let me leave you with a quote from “The Cure of Troy” by the Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney. I’ll just read one paragraph. It’s my favorite. And I believe this is appropriate and will happen now. I believe it with every fiber in my being. He wrote,
History says, don’t hope
On this side of the grave.
But then, once in a lifetime
The longed-for tidal wave
Of justice can rise up,
And hope and history rhyme.
Hope…and history are about to rhyme. This is not the end of our way of life. It’s the end of the way of life of international terrorist organizations. Be strong. I’m proud as hell of you. You’re better than any generation that’s come down the pike. Don’t let them win. | <urn:uuid:16366db4-6625-42ae-adf2-1c0d40567015> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.udel.edu/sept11/01/biden01/biden.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00033-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972736 | 3,824 | 1.726563 | 2 |
A British geneticist details the contributions of his discipline to anthropology.
Perhaps the most startling breakthrough of genetic science is the confirmation that we are all descended from a very small number of prehistoric individuals. Sykes (Molecular Medicine/Oxford) has been examining DNA from fossil animals and humans, and from their modern descendents, since the 1980s. At an early stage, he and his colleagues recognized that the relationships of far-flung modern populations will be recorded in the sequence of their DNA—particularly mitochondrial DNA, which is inherited exclusively from one’s mother, and which mutates at a slow but steady rate. Armed with blood samples from across the Pacific, he traced the Polynesians to their origins in the neighborhood of Taiwan. His investigations of European DNA appear to eliminate the hypothesis that modern humans are in part descended from Neanderthals. Controversy arose when Sykes’s research contradicted the widely received theory that the indigenous hunter-gatherer population of Europe was largely replaced by an influx of farmers from the Middle East in the early Neolithic period. Mitochondrial DNA indicated that instead of being wiped out by invading farmers, the natives adopted the practice of agriculture from the easterners; the culture changed, not the population. The anthropological establishment at first denied the validity of his methods, but independent lines of DNA evidence confirmed his results, indicating that the Neolithic influx contributed only about 20 percent of the modern European genetic heritage. Most recently, Sykes has determined that the vast majority of Europeans are descended from seven prehistoric women—whom he names and imaginatively describes in the final chapters of this entertaining book. These fictional re-creations give a useful sense of the complexity of early human society.
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Family: Phasianidae, Pheasants and Grouse view all from this family
Description ADULT MALE Has orange-brown body plumage, blue-green sheen on head, striking red wattle, and long, orange and barred tail; white collar is absent in some birds. Captive-bred violet-blue forms are sometimes released and can be confused with male Japanese Green Pheasant (P. versicolor, sometimes classified as a separate species). ADULT FEMALE Mottled buffy brown, with a shorter tail than male. JUVENILE Resembles a small, short-tailed, and dowdy female.
Dimensions Length: 30-36" (76-91 cm)
Habitat Native to Asia and introduced for hunting. Now locally common and populations are boosted each fall by release of captive-bred birds for hunting. Favors mixed agricultural landscapes with scattered woodland and brushy borders.
Observation Tips Male's territorial call is distinctive in spring and displaying birds are entertaining to watch.
Range Southwest, Southeast, Northwest, Plains, New England, Western Canada, Eastern Canada, Texas, Mid-Atlantic, California, Great Lakes, Rocky Mountains
Voice Territorial male utters a loud, shrieking call, followed by bout of vigorous wing beating. In alarm, utters a loud ke-tuk, ke-tuk, ke-tuk as bird flies away.
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The current stellium of planets in serious minded Capricorn will start to shift Saturday, January 19, as Mercury enters Aquarius where it is considered exalted, meaning it moves speedily and with ease. Currently, the Sun, Mercury, Venus and Pluto are all in Capricorn. Capricorn is ruled by Saturn, the sternest of planets, and the natural ruler of the 10th house of business and priorities.
As Mercury moves into Aquarius this will change Mercurial energy and thoughts and ideas may come with lightening speed. Be prepared to look at life and problems differently and your mind may open up to new ideas over the next 29 days. Aquarius is ruled by Uranus, the planet of revolution and new, cutting edge types of information and co-ruled by Saturn. As Aquarius is the natural ruler of the 11th house of groups and organizations, our focus will change more toward the collective, or more focus toward groups.
The Sun also enters Aquarius on January 19 at 4:52 p.m. EST, and we enter the fixed part of winter. Each season has a cardinal, fixed and mutable period, and fixed relates to unchangeable or stable. Freedom of thought and movement is key during this time to make the most of it.
As the Sun and Mercury enter Aquarius this creates a new stellium of planets in Aquarius that includes Mars. As the planets change, so does the energy of the time and the situations we will focus on. Aquarius will represent a lighter, more fun loving period focused on the quirky or unusual, and a friendlier period, in general. This time will work well for Air signs, especially Libra or Libra ascendants who will have three planets in their 5th house of children, social activities and love affairs. Gemini will fare well with this combination as the planets fall in the 9th house of travel, education and world outlook, Aquarians have a cycle of new beginnings and becoming very busy.
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Aviation, Hospitality and
Travel & Tourism education
Aptech Aviation & Hospitality Academy
Aptech Aviation & Hospitality Academy is the Aviation, Hospitality and Travel & Tourism education brand of Aptech Limited. Through its wide network of centres, Aptech Aviation & Hospitality Academy has successfully trained thousands of students for global careers in these high-growth fields.
Aviation is a high-growth sector & Aptech Aviation & Hospitality Academy is the only training academy that offers not just cabin crew training but also University Degrees & Diplomas in ground staff, aviation & airport management.
Aptech Aviation & Hospitality Academy’s Aviation curriculum is designed as per DGCA standards & courses offered include not just diploma but also BBA & MBA degree programs. Aviation courses are conducted at fully-equipped classrooms that simulate real-life aircraft scenarios.
A strategic relationship with 38 leading international & domestic airlines along with a dedicated placements team ensures 100% assistance in the job placement process.
• The hotel industry in India is worth $17 billion (Rs. 87,601 crores) (Source:
Business Standard report)
• By 2011, about $12 billion (Rs. 61,836 crore) are expected to be invested in
• India needs an additional 150,000 hotel rooms (Source: Mint report). Each
hotel room requires, on average, 2 people to service it. This means that
there is a huge unfulfilled demand for trained hospitality professionals.
Aptech Aviation & Hospitality Academy’s 2-year Advanced Diploma in Hospitality Management is a complete program designed to fulfill the huge demand for trained professionals in this sector.
Travel & tourism
In 2007, India attracted 5 million tourists from around the world - a growth of 12.35% over the previous year (Source: Bureau of Immigration).
Apart from traditional business & sightseeing-oriented travel, niche sectors such as medical tourism, cruises, backpacking, etc. too have taken off. The industry brings in huge amounts of foreign exchange; all currencies, from dollars to pounds to euros, are brought into the country by international travellers.
To meet the global demand for trained & qualified travel professionals, Aptech Aviation & Hospitality Academy, in association with Thomas Cook, the global leader in the Travel & Tourism sector, offers a 1-year Diploma in Travel & Tourism.
Aptech Aviation & Hospitality Academy follows a specialized Integrated Curriculum Application Model (ICAM) to ensure a smooth learning experience. World-class faculty ensures that Aptech Aviation & Hospitality Academy training remains the best in the country.
- Diploma in Airport Management & Customer Care (DAMCC)
- Diploma in Professional Ground Staff Services
- Diploma in Professional Cabin Crew Services
- Master of Business Administration (MBA) - Aviation
- Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) - Aviation
- Advanced Diploma in Hospitality Management
- Diploma in Travel & Tourism
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It appears that the general media and science is finally catching up with Dr. Sears. I recall, when I first read his first book, "The Omega Rx Zone", that in it he describes that there is a fluffy LDL that is harmless.
Well, today, a number of years later, it looks like this is finally starting to trickle into the main stream. Here is an interesting article in the Sunday newspaper's "USA Weekend" magazine insert (Especially notice the second paragraph!):
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NEW TESTS FOR CHOLESTEROL: You can now go beyond LDL and HDL to tailor medication. Some "good" cholesterol turns out to be bad for your heart.
These days, we're used to thinking about cholesterol in terms of LDL (the bad kind) and HDL (the good kind). Analysis of these components has helped doctors prescribe medications for heart patients. But medicine is ever-changing, and now labs can offer more sophisticated analysis that identifies different types of LDL and HDL.
This new analysis shows, for example, that not all LDL cholesterol is the same. Some LDL particles are large, fluffy structures that don't contribute to heart disease. Other LDL particles are small, dense and a significant risk factor for coronary disease. All HDL cholesterol -- and triglycerides -- isn't the same. HDL, for instance, is not as uniformly protective as we would like to think.
Understanding these additional pieces of the puzzle helps to explain why treating just HDL, LDL or triglycerides doesn't always work. I see more physicians assessing these smaller subcategories to help them decide what medications may be the most beneficial. The next time you see your doctor, ask about the new cholesterol subcategory tests.
Tedd Mitchell, M.D., presidentand CEO of Dallas' Cooper Clinic, writes HealthSmart every week.
* Reference / Citation: copied from USA WEEKEND, on-line version, appearing in the printed version 22 Aug - 24 Aug edition, under Health Smart section.
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I learned that if a hockey player shoots the puck across the red center line and the other team's red goal line without the other team touching it first, there's a word for that. Icing.
I also learned that icing results in a face-off. That's where the puck is dropped between two players, kind of like a jump ball in basketball.
A bodycheck is when a player uses their body to slow down (and in most cases, slam) the opponent against the wall. Sometimes those bodychecks turn into fights. And those fights appear to be encouraged.
When one of the team's players gets a penalty and has to go to the penalty box, the team can be outnumbered by one or two players during the game for a power play.
I learned the goalie gets beat up by the puck. Just check out all the black marks.
And I also learned that our daughter and her boyfriend are thoughtful cooks. Knowing we've been juicing, they made sure the dinner they made for us - shish kabobs - were mostly vegetables. Even dessert was on the healthier side - strawberries and angel food cake. Thanks you two, we had fun! | <urn:uuid:785471bf-6880-4e89-a76e-d49868cff9ab> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://debzpicaday.blogspot.com/2012/03/day-393.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00010-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978855 | 240 | 2.671875 | 3 |
The Moody Institute of Science educational films series are a collection of exceptionally produced vintage science films. These films take a comprehensive and holistic look at several interesting phenomenons and creatures found in the natural world. Each topic is scientifically explained and synthesized with humans and mans creations (for example comparing a venues fly trap to a bear trap and comparing a flashlight to an electric eel). These films always keep on eye on the future while remembering the lessons of the past and seem well ahead of their time.
Length: 10 Minutes
There was more scientific discovery, more technical advancements in material progress, in the 1950s than in all prior centuries. Invention was the symbol of the age. And yet perhaps the most embarrassing discovery that regardless of whatever man may invent or devise nature had it first. Meet the Venus fly trap one of natures finest inventions. Like the bear trap, which resembles the plant immensely, it has teeth and a spring, but unlike the metal trap the plant can tell the difference between prey and leaves and sticks. The Venus fly trap, unlike man made traps, is a smart trap. Carnivorous Plants, is an enthralling scientific look at what plants like the Venus fly trap do, how they catch prey, and how they compare to all the grand inventions of man.
Length: 12 Minutes
Electric eels may not be raving beauties, but they are skilled at what they do – shocking. They are so adept at hunting prey like small fish through the use of electric shock that ranchers along the Amazon have an annual hunt just to keep these blind hunters from accidentally killing their cattle with 500 volts of power. Excellent swimmers, though blind from thick cataracts, the eel can change directions mid swim with just the flick of his tail. Not only an excellent swimmer, the eel contains enough energy to light thirty six lamps even when he is not using his electric shock to kill. The Electric eels may be underestimated and misunderstood, but this movie from the Moody Institute of Science, works hard to clear up misconceptions and inform the public on the wonder of these strange looking animals.
Length: 9 Minutes
By watching fish you can learn many marvellous things. For example, a fish is not just an animal that can swim easily through the water and never surface for air because of its convenient gills. It is a creature centered on family values. Fish Family, takes an in depth look at a Blue Acara family preparing to raise its young, teaching us how fish breathe and swim along the way. The mother and father take extraordinary care to select where the eggs get laid to ensure the eggs are safe. They share all those duties together as a team. This film explores the value of learning about different animals but it also shows how many animals are more like us than we think.
Living With The Atom
Length: 25 Minutes
What is atomic energy? We tend to think of atomic energy as a new concept revolutionized by the destruction of the atomic bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But atomic energy has been around since the dawn of time. This is exemplified by the sun that gives us light and warmth, which is created with atomic energy. But the notion that energy is the equivalent of mass was a radically new conception in the 1930s, key to the atomic age. The idea expressed in E=MC squared caused a great revolution in scientific thinking. It means that any object, a piece of paper or a desk, represents an unbelievable amount of energy. A pint of water for example, is the equivalent of burning one and one half million tons of coal. It means the atom can be split and harnessed for energy as well as grand scale destruction. What are the consequences of harnessing such power? Should human-kind harness the power of the sun? Living With The Atom searches for these answers.
Wonder Of Our Body
Length: 12 Minutes
The human eye is at marvelous and delicate camera. Long before man created the camera to take pictures that last forever, our eyes were doing a similar function. Like the lens of a camera our eyes can focus and tell the difference between objects far away and up close, but unlike the lens of a camera our eyes make those adjustments automatically, thousands of times a day. Wonder Of Our Body, uses objects that people have created to understand our bodies and how they function. Our eyes are like a camera. Our ears are like a radar detection device. An excellent scientific film by the Moody Institute of Science, it is a terrific teaching tool for how the body functions.
Wonder Of Water
Length: 12 Minutes
Water. We see it everyday and 2/3 of our bodies are made up of it, but what is it really? Not just the stuff that quenches our thirst on a hot summer day, water is comprised of two gases, hydrogen and oxygen. Wonder of Water, seeks to showcase the miracle of water and how it forms into the substance that sustains life through doing various scientific experiments. One experiment is done with electrolysis as the ever genial Uncle Bob tries to show his youthful friends how water is really made. Not content with just showing what water is made up Wonder of Water, explores the importance of water to the earth and how the water cycle works. This is an excellent short film that breaks water down into understandable terms.
Mystery Of Time
Length: 27 Minutes
Have you ever tried to define time? The harder you search for a definition the more elusive it becomes. Mystery Of Time, searches for these difficult answers. One of the tools used to explain time is the high-speed camera, or as the scientists put it, a time microscope. High-speed cameras use what we see and break it down into different time increments changing our reference, and changing our view on time. Complete with a steel ball dropping into milk, Mystery Of Time, searches for the truth behind how we view time and how time works. After all, never questioning what appears to be normal is one sure way to stay locked up in your time compartment. | <urn:uuid:52e83c05-a108-4e2c-8a2f-4301ea7a0b7f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.qualityinformationpublishers.com/sku-305/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00023-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948935 | 1,227 | 3 | 3 |
Dec 10, 2012 to May 26, 2013
Extreme Deep depicts the mysteries of the ocean's greatest depths. Newly discovered life forms, thermal vents, close-up views of deep-sea research submersibles and shipwrecks, including the Titanic, are among the attractions in this deep-sea adventure. Visitors will observe firsthand the technology that has allowed men and women to travel to the ocean floor. Extreme Deep is an interactive exhibit that highlights the adventure of deep-sea exploration and discovery, and is free with admission.
Note: The Cranbrook Institute of Science is now open until 10 p.m. on Saturdays, so you have more time to see this exhibit.
|Cost||$12.50/adults, $9.50/ages 2-12 and seniors, free/under age 2|
Cranbrook Institute of Science
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The Hult Global Case Challenge
The six finalists competing in the housing competition on April 26, 2012:
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Hult International Business School, Dubai
University of Belgrade
University of California Berkeley
This annual event brings together the top college and university students from around the globe.
Student teams compete to generate solutions to the world’s most pressing problems in partnership with leading nonprofit organizations.
The 2012 competition focuses on alleviating global poverty through affordable housing, affordable energy, and affordable education.
Habitat for Humanity International has tasked students with finding housing solutions that will reach 20 million people in 10 years.
SolarAid set the challenge of how SunnyMoney can get off-grid solar power and light to one million households by the end of 2013.
One Laptop per Child asked students to create better methods of delivering business models and producing laptops to educate as many children in need as possible.
A total of $US1 million in seed capital will be given to the three nonprofit partners to help pilot the winning ideas.
Habitat for Humanity, SolarAid, and One Laptop Per Child will each be given US$333,333.
Regional competitions have been held across all of the Hult International Business School campuses in Boston, San Francisco, London, Dubai, and Shanghai.
The student teams selected at the regional competitions will advance to the Global Finals in New York City.
The event will be held on Thursday, April 26 at the New York Public Library. Former U.S. President Bill Clinton will present the prizes.
Follow the teams on Twitter.com
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The Mnemosyne software resembles a traditional flash card program to help you memorize question/answer pairs, but with an important twist: it uses a sophisticated algorithm to schedule the best time for a card to come up for review. Difficult cards that you tend to forget quickly will be scheduled more often, while Mnemosyne won't waste your time on things you remember well.
Foswiki is wiki software, supporting the editing of Web pages in an ordinary Web browser by end users. What makes Foswiki special is that it supports the embedding of active and passive macros that enhance the page content (e.g. with global or dynamic information) and allow end-users to build applications that store and process data in a structured manner.
Ekiga (formely known as GnomeMeeting) is a soft phone, video conferencing, and instant messenger application for use over the Internet. It supports HD sound quality and video up to DVD size and quality. It is interoperable with many other standards compliant software, hardware, and service providers as it uses both of the major telephony standards, SIP and H.323.
Spotter is software that can check students' answers to symbolic and numerical problems in math and science. It recognizes an answer regardless of the form it's in, and the instructor can put in helpful hints as responses to frequently-occurring mistakes. Symbolic answers can be input in a notation closely resembling normal human math notation (e.g., xy rather than x*y, and sin x instead of sin(x)). Spotter runs as a Perl CGI application on a Web server; the student doesn't need to install any software.
OpenCards is flashcard learning software. The basic idea of OpenCards is to use PowerPoint presentations (*.ppt) as flashcard sets. Slide titles are considered questions and the slide contents their answers. Based on state-of-the-art memorization and scheduling algorithms, OpenCards will help you learn any set of flashcards.
picloader is a small bootloader for Microchip® PIC16F88 devices. This small program, once compiled, can be uploaded into these chips. Chips programmed with this code are capable of being programmed directly by the serial port easily. Through a serial shell, one can also upload small native .hex binaries easily and without any further cost. | <urn:uuid:c6cd6577-1f01-4863-9936-5bd91ba5afb3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://freecode.com/tags/computer-aided-instruction-cai?sort=updated_at&with=&without= | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00067-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926333 | 489 | 2.203125 | 2 |
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MinuteClinic, a division of CVS Caremark Corporation, is helping patients with diabetes stay on top of their condition this spring by offering a free monitoring visit. This service helps patients with diabetes keep their health in check between visits to a primary care provider, and is available seven days a week at the walk-in medical clinics inside select CVS/pharmacy stores across the United States.
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"For the more than 25.8 million Americans with diabetes, MinuteClinic can be a valuable, and collaborative member of the patient care team, working in tandem with physicians and other medical professionals to ensure that patients with diabetes can access the care they need to stay on top of their condition," says MinuteClinic Chief Medical Officer Nancy Gagliano, MD.
Diabetes patients who take advantage of the diabetes monitoring services will each receive an ACCU-CHEK 360 degree View data recording tool to take with them. The simple tracking tool provides a quick snapshot of a patient's blood sugar patterns-something that can't be done simply by looking at a logbook-and also helps with monitoring meal sizes and energy and activity levels at specific times.
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Racial - Profiling of Roma by Russian Militia - ERRC Urges Governor of Saint Petersburg to Stop Police Abuse of Roma
27 May 2004
On May 27, 2004, the ERRC sent a letter to Ms Valentina Matvienko, Governor of Saint-Petersburg, Russia, to express concern about recent police raids against Roma in Saint-Petersburg undertaken within the framework of an action called "Operation Tabor". According to information from local non-governmental organisations, militia chased and shot at Roma in the Obukhovo district of Saint-Petersburg. Militia also reportedly burnt two shanties where Roma, including pregnant women and children, had been living. The ERRC noted the prima facie racist character of the operation the title of which points explicitly to Romani ethnicity (insofar as "tabors" are Romani settlements) and indicated that racist actions by public officials violate international law. Earlier, in 2002, following similar police raids, also carried out as part of an "Operation Tabor", high-ranking Russian officials stated that such operations would not be repeated in the future. The ERRC urged the Saint Petersburg Governor to take immediate measures to end abusive militia operations against Roma. The letter was copied to Mr Leonid Bogdanov, Head of the Administrative Committee of St. Petersburg's Governor's Office. The full text of the letter follows:
Honourable Governor Matvienko,
The European Roma Rights Center (ERRC) is an international public interest law organisation which monitors the situation of Roma in Europe and provides legal defence in cases of human rights abuse. The ERRC has submitted complaints to the European Court of Human Rights and has secured redress for victims in a number of cases of police abuse of Roma since the organisation was founded in 1996. The ERRC has also undertaken research in more than half of the countries of Europe and has published a number of reports and public statements concerning the situation of Roma in a number of European countries. Since 2000, the ERRC has been monitoring the situation of Roma rights in the Russian Federation through site visits, as well as with the assistance of a number of local monitors, based with partner organisations.
The ERRC is writing to express concern about recent police raids in St. Petersburg, undertaken within the framework of an action called "Operation Tabor", a name which points directly to Romani ethnicity (so far as "tabors" are Romani settlements) and is therefore apparently a prima facie racist action. According to the broadcast during the evening news on the channel "NTV Saint-Petersburg" on May 20, 2004, the militia of St. Petersburg started "Operation Tabor" allegedly in order to ensure the security of foreign tourists and protect them from possible robberies by "marginal elements". According to information by the Northern-Eastern Centre of Social and Law Assistance for Roma (Gypsies) which operates jointly with the non-governmental organisation Memorial, on May 21, Roma from the town of Beregovo (Transcarpathian region of Ukraine), who as of that date lived in the self-made huts in the Obukhovo District in St. Petersburg, were attacked by individuals in uniforms who were shooting firearms into the air. Officers reportedly demanded that the Roma concerned leave the site immediately. Militia also chased and reportedly shot at persons as they were trying to run away. Officers also reportedly burnt two small shanties where Roma, including pregnant women and children, had been living. Officers allegedly warned the inhabitants that on the following day militia would return, and all people would be expelled. In the morning hours of May 26, the same militia officers (from Militia Department No.29, according to the victims) detained Romani women and their children in the vicinity of Obukhovo and once again threatened them with expulsion and burning of their houses.
Explicit targeting of Roma by law enforcement officials violates a number of provisions of international law to which Russia is a party, including Article 2 of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD), which states: "States Parties condemn racial discrimination and undertake to pursue by all appropriate means and without delay a policy of eliminating racial discrimination in all its forms and promoting understanding among all races, and, to this end: (a) Each State Party undertakes to engage in no act or practice of racial discrimination against persons, groups of persons or institutions and to en sure that all public authorities and public institutions, national and local, shall act in conformity with this obligation; [...]", as well as Article 5 of the ICERD which states: "In compliance with the fundamental obligations laid down in article 2 of this Convention, States Parties undertake to prohibit and to eliminate racial discrimination in all its forms and to guarantee the right of everyone, without distinction as to race, colour, or national or ethnic origin, to equality before the law, notably in the enjoyment of the following rights: [...] (b) The right to security of person and protection by the State against violence or bodily harm, whether inflicted by government officials or by any individual group or institution; [...]". The United Nations Committee on Elimination of Racial Discrimination at its 62nd Session on March 3-21, 2003 urged the Government of the Russian Federation to take immediate measures such that law enforcement officials respect and defend the human rights of all individuals irrespective of their race, colour, or national or ethnical origin.
The ERRC is aware that in previous years, Russian authorities have undertaken similar actions, also entitled "Operation Tabor". The explicit use of a term widely associated with Roma indicates that not only were Russian authorities undertaking racial profiling and official actions resulting in human rights abuses, but also apparently there has been no intention whatsoever to mask the explicitly anti-Romani character of these actions.
In the wake of 2002 "Operation Tabor", the ERRC and partner organisations have repeatedly raised concerns related to "Operation Tabor". Following the 2002 operation, representatives of the organisation "Romano Kher", based in Moscow, met with Mr. V.A.Vasiliev, then-Deputy Minister of Interior (at present Deputy chair of the Duma) and Mr. E.N. Sidorenko, Deputy Minister of Justice, who promised that such operations would not be repeated in the future. In autumn 2003, the St. Petersburg-based organisations Memorial, Grazsdanski Kontrol, Committee of Human Rights Lawyers, the "African Unity", Minority Rights Group at the St. Petersburg Scientific Society, and the Harold and Selma Light Centre for Legal Assistance sent a letter to the Governor's Office of St. Petersburg expressing concerns related to the increase of the extremist and nationalistic sentiment in the city, directed in particular against Roma. In his response, Mr. L.P. Bogdanov, Head of the Administrative Committee of St. Petersburg's Governors Office assured the leaders of the non-governmental organisations that "...the issue of protecting rights and freedoms and the human dignity of citizens, irrespective of their status as St. Petersburgers or as guests of our city, or individuals without citizenship, will be under the constant control of the executive organs of St. Petersburg state authorities."
Honourable Governor Matvienko, the ERRC urges you to take immediate measures in order to end the abusive militia operations targeting Roma in St. Petersburg. We kindly request to be informed of any actions taken by your office in this regard.
Persons wishing to express similar concerns are urged to contact:
Ms. Valentina Ivanovna Matvienko,
Governor of Saint-Petersburg
Fax: (812) 276 1827
Mr. Leonid Pavlovich Bogdanov,
Head of the Administrative Committee
of St. Petersburg's Governor's Office
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LONDON.- Hauser & Wirth
announced the inauguration of its new space at 23 Savile Row with a solo exhibition by Louise Bourgeois. The exhibition will feature over seventy fabric drawings made between 2002 and 2008, as well as four large-scale sculptures. Made from clothes and other domestic effects accrued over decades, Bourgeois fabric drawings are abstract yet acutely personal works, retaining allusions to the materials past incarnations. Curated by Germano Celant, the exhibition will travel from the Fondazione Vedova, Venice (5 June 12 September 2010) to Hauser & Wirth London. The exhibition will be accompanied by a substantial catalogue published by Skira, which focuses on this major aspect of Bourgeois practice.
Fabric has played an important role in Bourgeois' life. She grew up surrounded by the textiles of her parents' tapestry restoration workshop, and from the age of twelve helped the business by drawing in the sections of the missing parts that were to be repaired. A life-long hoarder of clothes and household items such as tablecloths, napkins and bed linen, since the mid-nineties Bourgeois has cut up and re-stitched these, transforming her lived materials into art. Through sewing she has attempted to effect psychological repair: 'I always had the fear of being separated and abandoned. The sewing is my attempt to keep things together and make things whole'.
The fabric drawings are abstract and heterogeneous, deriving their formal logic from the juxtapositions of patterns printed on their materials and the artist's long-standing motifs. Over a six-year period their designs have evolved, exploring more intricate geometries and increasingly incorporating collaged elements. Stripy and chequered drawings that Bourgeois began making in 2002 weave thin strips of her garments together, bending the modernist grid. Later works adopt polygonal structures, stitching the fabrics so that the patterns form concentric circles and spirals similar to spider webs and the vibrant mirrorings of a kaleidoscope. Rather than being minimalist, these morphing geometries are supple and embracive, softly corporeal.
In juxtaposition to the drawings are three-dimensional pieces articulating an inescapable menace. The Cell, 'Bullet Hole' (1992), a black half-open, half-closed structure housing mysterious wooden orbs, bears the message 'Fear makes the world go round'. 'Peaux de Lapins, Chiffons Ferrailles À Vendre' (2006), refers through its title to the traditional song of the street peddlers Bourgeois remembers from her childhood, yet its elements are unsettling: flesh-coloured forms hanging within a wire mesh resemble body parts perhaps breasts or uteri or male genitalia without being clear precisely which. Such suggestive ambiguity is typical of Bourgeois sculptures, enabling one thing to slip into and signify another, disturbing the viewers conceptions. This is particularly true of 'Crouching Spider' (2003), a key figure in this exhibition. Ferocious looking, the spider is also a creature who protects and repairs. In the earlier work 'Maman' (1999) Bourgeois explicitly used the spider as a metaphor for her mother who was an expert at spinning and weaving. Yet here amongst the wealth of woven, frequently web-like fabric drawings its clear that its symbolic reach goes further, standing for the artist herself.
Louise Bourgeois was born in 1911 in Paris. For over seventy years she has submitted her psychic life to intense examination, transforming her thoughts and emotions into a body of work of startling formal complexity. An extraordinarily radical and influential artist, her reputation as the most important female artist of our times was consolidated by an extensive retrospective of her work shown at Tate Modern (2007 2008) that toured to the Centre Pompidou, Paris, the Guggenheim Museum, New York, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and the Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington DC until May 2009. A major solo exhibition, 'Louise Bourgeois: The Return of the Repressed', will take place in South America in 2011, opening at Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires, in March and travelling to Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paolo, and Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro.
This exhibition will also mark the opening of Hauser & Wirth's new space at 23 Savile Row. The space, which occupies over 15,000 square feet, provides an outstanding setting for larger exhibitions and more expansive installations. 23 Savile Row will be in addition to Hauser & Wirth's existing operations at 196A Piccadilly and 15 Old Bond Street, as well as Hauser & Wirth's Outdoor Sculpture programme in Southwood Garden, St James's Church. The new space has been developed by architect Annabelle Selldorf, whose previous projects include Hauser & Wirth's existing galleries in London, Zurich and New York, the Neue Galerie, New York, and the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. | <urn:uuid:fb3e8665-c4d3-4d40-a116-ed0f2b8edd8d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=37947&int_modo=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00072-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940915 | 1,039 | 1.554688 | 2 |
The Sheedy property, or Springlawn Farm, off North National near Greenlawn Cemetery is often called the "Albino Farm".
Various unfounded legends have evolved over the years, some stemming from stories of an unfriendly caretaker with albinism, while other stories allude to a family or group of individuals with albinism, either living or being held captive on a farm. The sources apparently were local school children’s imaginations.
A biography of Mike Sheedy can be found in “Past and Present of Greene County Missouri” by Jonathan Fairbanks and Clyde Tuck, and a brief account of the legend of the Albino Farm may be found on page 29 of "Missouri Ghosts" by Joan Gilbert.
Recently another story about an “Albino cemetery” at the Sheedy Farm has come to the attention of the Local History & Genealogy Department staff. According to the Greene County Missouri Cemeteries, Vol. IX (Campbell Township & Springfield): “It has been reported that there was a cemetery north of Greenlawn Cemetery on the “Old Sheedy Farm”. After lengthy research, no evidence has been found of a cemetery at this location.”
For more information, see Underground Ozarks: Springlawn Farm (Albino Farm) or visit the Library Center to see our clipping file or newspapers on microfilm of articles about Springlawn Farm.
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Stuttering is typically characterized as a repeating of words or sounds while speaking. Stuttering affects 5% of children aged 2-5 years old for some period of time. For some people, this speech impediment is carried into adulthood.
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The Red Brick's memories live on
The Red Brick Building, a century-old schoolhouse that was considered a landmark of the old Dover Village, was torn down over a period of five days, from Nov. 23 to Nov. 27. This building had been vacant since 2003, and after plans fizzled to transform the building into something useful for the community, the city decided to raze the school. Many residents have negative opinions regarding the tearing down of a local landmark.
“The building holds many memories for a great deal of community members, as well as historical significance for Westlake and the region," said Kim Bonvissuto, Communications Coordinator for the Westlake Schools. "At the same time, you have a segment of the community looking toward the future and the opening of our new middle and high schools [that] sees the Red Brick’s demolition as a necessary step to move forward.”
In 2006, Westlake resident Heather Drago developed the perfect use for the Red Brick Building. She planned to renovate the historic building, and convert it into a center for the arts. The building was an ideal size, and Westlake previously had nothing like it. But the three million dollars that the renovation would cost was never raised, and seeing how the economy had turned, it most likely would not be funded anytime in the near future. Because of this, the city had decided to tear it down.
The Red Brick Building was built in 1909 as a high school for the residents of Dover Village, presently Westlake and Bay Village. This building was the first school in the area, and was built on the exact center point of Dover. In 1923, the school became a grade school, and a new high school was built on the site where LBMS currently resides. In 1968, the schoolhouse became Westlake’s Board of Education, and remained so until 2003. Since then, the building has been unoccupied.
The Red Brick Building may be gone, but the memories will remain forever. The new high school is planning to incorporate the “Public School” stone that used to hang over the door of the Red Brick into the construction of the new building.
The city also offered a brick to every resident who requested one through the schools' website at www.wlake.org.
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For those of us who spent our formative years reading the Victorian realism of George Eliot, the Gothic romances of the Brontés and the dark tales of Robert Louis Stevenson (I know you're out there), the novels of A.S. Byatt are literary masterpieces with sweeping narratives teeming with big ideas, real historical figures and complex imagined characters all wrapped in the structure of a 19th-century novel.
In "Possession," Byatt played with the motifs of Gothic romanticism and the aesthetics of the Pre-Raphaelites to create an elegant contemporary love story shrouded in a literary mystery. In "The Children's Book," published in October, Byatt has written another stunning novel of ideas whose plot is the history of the Edwardian era contained in a kind of Dickensian family chronicle.
Byatt's tale is told through the lives of the Wellwood family, whose matriarch, Olive, is a writer of successful children's books, and their friends, a politically active community of Bohemians, Russian anarchists, leftists, naturalists, artists and potters.
But it's the children - siblings, cousins, friends and orphans - who are the heart of this grand book. They are mostly Olive's offspring and their lives are the fodder for her fiction, eventually with tragic consequences.
Byatt uses the children's lives to explore what it must have been like to live in a world that in less than 20 years went from tightly corseted Victorian values to one where the stays loosened in almost every aspect of society. Byatt's characters are players in the emancipation of women, the passage of some of the first labor laws and the decorative arts, philosophy and literature that gild the era.
Anyone familiar with the intellectuals of this period might see strong parallels between the Wellwoods and their circle and Vanessa Wolf and the Bloomsbury group who also all lived together, off and on, as family, friends and lovers.
This novel is not for the feint of heart.
In places, the narrative is didactic, laboriously detailed, at times sinking under its own weight. But then the children come along and save it. Their lives march forward, and we follow them right into the trenches of World War I where, caked in mud and idealism, everything and everyone changes.
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Danboro, PA —When Jim Sutcliffe, the technical lab supervisor at Penn Engineering and Manufacturing (PEM), takes pictures at work, it's not for fun. He uses his new Polaroid digital microscope camera, the DMC Ie, for reviewing new designs of PEM's self-cinching fasteners and deciding whether or not they work.
"We provide support for the engineering department, focusing primarily on new product development," says Sutcliffe. "We see in an instant if our displacement calculations are correct." The DMC Ie is also suitable for use in automotive, aerospace, semiconductor manufacturing, and other industries during failure analysis, materials characterization processes, and for detecting reverse engineering or patent infringements.
PEM also uses the digital images for quality control and visual inspection. "Say that we discover a problem with our tooling company in South Carolina. Now, we just e-mail them an image of the fastener with an explanation and straighten the problem immediately," says Sutcliffe. Previously, PEM used a 35-mm film-based photo-micrograph system. "We couldn't do much with the film. We'd have to develop it, mail it, and then wait. That doesn't happen now," he says.
Polaroid's DMC Ie utility software used with the camera gives users measurement marker and annotation tools that add markers in micron, millimeter, centimeter, and inch. Designers may also place a title or make a note on the digital images.
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I know the sun has barely set on the 2012 season, but if you’re going to fix something it’s never too early to get started. While I think that several things could use an overhaul in this sport, the most glaring is the false start rule!
Fortunately, the Games did not suffer from the disgrace that was Usain Bolt being tossed out of the World Championships final in Daegu. But we did see several high profile athletes wave good bye in other meets on the Circuit. Athletes like Tyson Gay, Kelly Ann Baptiste and Aries Merritt were among many that were casualties of this rule in 2012.
If someone has a rationale that explains the benefit of having these athletes leave the track without competing please tell me, because I would love to hear it. From my perspective, Zurich lost a Gay v Blake matchup – a race I’m sure many in the stands paid specifically to see. Similarly, fans in New York and Lausanne missed their chance to see Aries Merritt perform during his all conquering, record breaking season. Almost certainly missing a live sub13 performance!
In a sport that desperately needs to have it’s best athletes perform on the track as often as possible, getting rid of competitors is as counter intuitive to the growth of the sport as one can get! We should be doing everything we can to get top level athletes competing against each other, not watching races from the sidelines.
I understand that every sport need rules. But those rules should be designed to attempt to reduce the chance of injury, or to ensure as level a playing field as possible. The false start rule that exists today does neither of those things. I mean, just why do we call false starts at all.
In its simplest form, calling a false start makes sure that everyone starts as evenly as possible. Which means that if someone does break early and the race is stopped, the reason the rule exists has been accomplished – we’ve prevented that athlete from getting an unfair advantage in the race. Now the question is: what should the punishment be? For my money, eliminating an athlete at this point is ridiculous. Why, because we had to reset the race? Ostensibly that’s the logic of the current rule – if you cause us to reset the race (and lose TV time) then you can’t run. Who cares if you are the center piece of the race; a headliner; or a key cog in a matchup that thousands came to see? You see the point of the race isn’t the competitors but ensuring that things run on time! At least from the standpoint of the current false start rule.
Granted we can’t afford/allow any race to be reset over and over and over again as athletes break early at their pleasure. That would not be good for the sport either. If for no other reason than it would actually encourage false starting. After all, an athlete could simply keep attempting to “guess” the gun if there is no penalty. So we do need to place a limit on false starts to preserve the integrity of the sport. The question is what is a fair and equitable rule.
Personally I didn’t like the previous rule either – the first false start charged to the field and any subsequent false starts causing elimination. In that scenario the first person to break early had the advantage of a second false start as well as the ability to "freeze" the field if he or she desired. Too much potential power, especially in a championship situation.
The rule before that was in force for most of the life of track and field – each person got two false starts and you were eliminated on the second one. This worked just fine for nearly a hundred years. Only on rare occasions would we see several athletes false starting in a race. Unfortunately one such race occurred at an NCAA Championships in the 70′s causing a TV delay, and rules makers to have a knee jerk reaction to "fix" the problem.
I say knee jerk reaction, because I’m not sure you needed to fix something that worked just fine over 90% of the time. But IF we were going to make adjustments to the rule at that point, how about treating the "field" like an individual and giving the first two false starts to the field with automatic elimination after that? Given this scenario, more than one person can make a mistake, but everyone has to get it together fairly quickly. A happy medium perhaps?
I have one other complaint, and that’s that the athletes are being held to a non human standard. What do I mean? I mean that if the human eye can’t detect a false start then a false start shouldn’t be called. The fact that a machine can detect the slightest touch of the foot pad does not mean that an advantage has been gained. As a matter of fact, one might argue that “twitching” causes a slower start as the athlete is thinking about not moving further instead of exploding off the blocks. I would also argue that since block clearance and early drive are the real components of the start and not reaction time, early movement in the blocks prior to clearance means almost nothing. Therefore our focus should be on athletes actually leaving the blocks early and that can be determined visually.
Put the starter back in charge of the race. Humans should run things, not computers. The starter should be able to determine whether or not an athlete got an unfair advantage by sight. And the computer equipment should be there in the event that the starter feels he needs verification of what he thinks his eyes saw – or feels his eyes may have missed.
That’s my input on the false start rule. Move to two false starts to the field and then immediate elimination, and allow the starters the discretion of actually calling false starts. Of course I’d love to see the sport adopt my line of thinking, but if not it still needs to make some sort of change to this rule. Because as it stands right now this is a horrible rule that is hurting the sport. | <urn:uuid:60c5cfb6-3818-4dcf-a808-477484cbd80b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://trackchill.com/?p=1608 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00023-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969913 | 1,248 | 1.71875 | 2 |
Canadian law expressly forbids aiding and abetting designated terrorist organizations such as Hamas. A lawsuit filed in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice argues that two Canadian groups raising money to sponsor a ship to join the upcoming flotilla which will attempt to break Israel’s security blockade of Gaza are doing exactly that and as such are blatantly violating Canadian law.
The lawsuit was filed by a Canadian/Israeli dual citizen who is a resident of Sderot Israel that was victimized by terrorist attacks from Gaza launched by Hamas and its adherents, whose avowed purpose is to destroy Israel and remove it from the face of the earth. The lawsuit seeks just over $1,ooo,ooo in damages and an injunction prohibiting the groups from raising money for the flotilla and sending goods to Gaza. It has every chance of success as the facts of the case are clear and beyond dispute. If it is successful it will be a major setback for Canadians who want to participate in this and other misguided efforts to break the security blockade and will set a precedent for similiar lawsuits by other dual citizens in Canada and elsewhere.
It should be noted for example that federal law in the United States makes it a crime to provide material support or resources to designated terrorist organizations such as Hamas and that the Canadian lawsuit may prod the Obama administration into enforcing U.S. law in order to avoid the ignominy and embarrasment of dealing with a lawsuit of their own.
Now that they’re threatened with being hit in their wallets it will be very interesting to see if organizers, funders and potential participants will flout Canadian law, put their money where their mouth is and carry on with their misbegotten activities. Here’s betting that they don’t, except for the most brainwashed, blind, bigoted, ideologically driven one’s of course. After all, ‘principles’ are one thing, but having to pay a financial price for them is quite another. Very few ‘activists’ have the stomach for that, which makes them nothing more than hypocrites and dilettantes.
Domestic and international law has been perverted and used by terrorists, ideologues, religious fanatics, politicians, officials and bureaucrats all over the world to hinder democratic nations in their fight against terrorism and to undermine and eliminate the fabric of Western societies. This misuse of the law is commonly called lawfare and it has proven to be a very efective weapon in their arsenal. This lawsuit and others which will no doubt come use the law to defend, protect and preserve Western values, institutions and countries and effectively turns lawfare on its head. That is a long overdue development and very nice to see.
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At a seaside resort, the young dentist, Valentine, extracts a tooth from his first patient, the voluble Dolly, who has just arrived with her family from Madeira. Her equally voluble twin brother, Philip, appears, and at once they invite the dentist to lunch. They are joined at the dentist's office by their mother, the famous Mrs. Clandon, authoress of social-reform treatises; and by their elder sister, Gloria, who is her mother's haughty disciple. Valentine promptly falls in love with Gloria, though she initially seems to have no interest in him.
Believing she has no need of a husband and her children have no need of a father, Mrs. Clandon, though presses by Valentine and the children, refuses to tell her children who their father is (she separated from him when the children were very young, and they haven't seen him since); and she leaves. At that time, Valentine's landlord, the ill-tempered Fergus Crampton appears, wanting an aching a tooth pulled. Valentine bets the six weeks rent that he owes Crampton that he can extract the tooth without Crampton feeling it. Crampton agrees, and Valentine pulls off the feat, surreptitiously using a bit of anesthetic. The twins immediately invite Crampton to also join them for lunch.
Later in the day, on the terrace of the resort hotel, Mrs. Clandon and her three children meet with her solicitor, Finch McComas, before lunch. McComas is an old friend of Mrs. Clandon and at one time a suitor, but is now simply her efficient solicitor. Mrs. Clandon has invited him to lunch to tell her children about their long-lost father. However, they quickly learn of the coincidence that Valentine's landlord, Crampton, is none other than the father they can't remember. Their dismay at such a discovery is somewhat allayed when they learn he is wealthy. At that time Valentine and Crampton arrive, and Crampton is greatly upset by the unexpected meeting with his family. The luncheon party threatens repeatedly to blow up, and is saved only by Walter Boon, the "perfect waiter," who diplomatically smoothes everyone's feelings and tells them of his son, a distinguished attorney for the queen. After lunch, Gloria infuriates Crampton with her cold rationality, but is herself completely thrown off balance by Valentine's "sensible and scientific" courting methods.
Later in the day, the wild-spirited twins explain to their mother that Gloria's recent emotional and out-of-character behavior is due to her having fallen in love. Valentine adds that he has won Gloria by using "thoroughly modern" scientific methods in the "duel of sex." However, when Gloria hears that Valentine has loved other women, she furiously rejects him. McComas, in the meantime, reports that Crampton is demanding custody of the twins and observes that, though Crampton is uncouth, he is a kind man who has been unfairly dealt with in the separation deal. He further convinces Mrs. Clandon to agree to arbitration by the waiter's attorney-son, who is soon to visit.
That evening, during a masked ball, the visiting attorney expertly brings about a friendly reconciliation between the members of the family—and between Valentine and Gloria. It appears that Gloria, too, has had a number of romantic relationships, a fact that shocks and enrages Valentine but also opens the way their peacemaking and engagement. As all dance the evening away, Valentine, "the defeated Duellist of Sex," ruefully observes that he feels like "a married man already." The waiter, Walter, comfort him about marriage: though his wife, like Gloria, "was of a commanding and masterful disposition," his marriage turned out very well. "I'd do it again, I assure you," he tells Valentine. "You never can tell, sir." | <urn:uuid:21095ee4-6e82-4d01-84b8-b9cbf3c93cad> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.bard.org/education/studyguides/YouNever/neversyn.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.983784 | 822 | 1.757813 | 2 |
Blaming North Korea in the past
South Korea has accused the North of similar hacking attacks before, including incidents in 2010 and 2012 that also targeted banks and media organizations. The North rejected the allegations.
The outages come amid heightened tensions on the Korean Peninsula, with the North angrily responding to a recent U.N. Security Council vote to impose tougher sanctions on Pyongyang after the country's latest nuclear test last month.
Last week, North Korea invalidated its 60-year-old armistice with the South. It has threatened to attack its neighbor with nuclear weapons and has also threatened the United States.
The armistice agreement, signed in 1953, ended the three-year war between North and South but left the two nations technically in a state of war.
The United States has deployed B-52 bombers to conduct high-profile flyovers of its South Korean ally and announced that it will deploy new ground-based missile interceptors on its West Coast against the remote possibility that North Korea could strike the United States with long-range weapons. | <urn:uuid:19461de7-4101-4ae9-a9dc-fa1945ac0a8e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wtae.com/news/national/S-Korea-says-hacking-not-from-China-address/-/9681152/19423008/-/item/1/-/pm05ka/-/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964492 | 214 | 2.3125 | 2 |
Some Friendly Tips
Don't blow this job
While we have yet to hear someone admit to this being part of their foreplay, we'll pass along the most common piece of "oral sex during pregnancy" advice: Don't let your partner blow air into your vagina. (Yeah, we know you wanted to be puffed up like a balloon down there.) While not likely to be a problem, such an action could possibly cause an air embolism to enter your bloodstream, blocking off a blood vessel and putting you and the baby in a potentially life-threatening situation.
Cold sore? Keep away
If your partner has a cold sore on the mouth or lips, oral sex is a no-no. A cold sore is caused by the herpes simplex virus, and it can be passed on to you during cunnilingus, giving you genital herpes. Not only is that incurable and no fun at all, it can cause complications during birth. (It's also possible to become infected up to as many as 10 days after any sores/blisters have healed from an outbreak.
Not too late
If your water has broken, or your caregiver has told you to avoid baths, swimming and/or regular sex because your cervix is dilating (or for any other reason), you may be more vulnerable to infection. Be sure to get the oral okay from your healthcare provider first.
Don't back down
When on the receiving end of oral sex, try not to lie flat on your back -- especially after about the 20th week of pregnancy. In that position, your heavy uterus can press down on the vena cava (a major vein), causing abnormally low blood pressure, restricting the amount of oxygen getting to the baby, and possibly causing you to become lightheaded. (It's also pretty not very fun to feel like you have a big weight pressing down on you.) So if lying on your back is usually your position of choice, try propping yourself up on the bed instead, or try the sofa or an easy chair. C'mon -- get creative! | <urn:uuid:586edcda-8d44-4254-b299-96c1ada2676e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.pregnancyandbaby.com/pregnancy/articles/936749/is-oral-sex-safe-during-pregnancy | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00047-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954951 | 426 | 1.554688 | 2 |
Keeping the ‘Class’ in Classifying Tanks
Better Roads Staff
Long-term operation and maintenance of your classifying tanks can be achieved by following five simple tips.
By Tom Moore and Dave Schellberg
Sand classifying tanks have been used for more than 50 years for refining glacial/alluvial ‘natural’ and ‘manufactured’ sands and sand slurries. They have been used primarily in North America for three typical reasons:
Concentrating or ‘scalping’ water in a low-percent solids slurry for more efficient dewatering by downstream equipment;
Removal of excess intermediate sand grain sizes to produce a uniformly graded product for many common construction sand specifications; and
The production of two controlled and one uncontrolled sand product from a single feed.
As with any process equipment, periodic operational and maintenance checks are recommended to optimize a machine’s operation. Your manufacturer’s installation and maintenance manual can be used as a guide to allow the most efficient performance and yield of desired sand products.
This type of sand tank is not a ‘set it once and walk away’ device, as sand feeds can vary due to changing pit feeds or the performance of crushers and other equipment that may precede it.
Periodic sampling of the sand discharging from the sand tank valves, particularly at the first two or three stations, is recommended to make sure that the product is mostly coarse sand particles. If a specification concrete sand gradation is found in the product valve sampling, adjustments to the rising current water injection and tank overflow weirs should be made to move finer sand particles further down the sand tank. This provides a more controlled blending of coarse, intermediate, and fine sands being made by the PLC control system.
During a non-operational period, an empty sand tank’s operating system should be inspected to assure that the valves at each station are opening and closing as programmed by the controller. This would include stalling the torque motor paddle at each valve station.
To assure fine product-sized sand retention, make sure that all weirs are level, allowing uniform depth of silt slurry overflow.
To minimize downtime during peak production, periodic inspections of key components should be made.
All sands cause wear on components to varying degrees. Valves and valve seats are among the most commonly replaced items. While some original components are hard cast-iron alloys intended for abrasion resistance, these parts are often replaced by polyurethane components, which offer extended wear life in most instances.
Valve rods, torque motor paddles, and paddle rods should be periodically inspected for wear and replaced when needed.
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Did You Know?
If you give your pets presents for birthdays and holidays, donít think youíre in the minority. Studies have shown that around 79% of owners buy presents for their pets for these celebrations!
4VetClinics.com is an online website that is dedicated to helping you find a vet clinic.
We also provide general information on how to properly train and raise pets.
Our vet directory contains nearly 30,000 entries.
For any pet emergency you will want to know where the closest animal hospital or vet clinic is located.
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Title: Taking the Fight to the Enemy: Neoconservatism and the Age of Ideology
Author: Adam L. Fuller
Publish Date: 2012
Publisher / Edition: Lexington Books
Adam Fuller’s Taking the Fight to the Enemy: Neoconservatism and the Age of Ideology is a book so weak that it ought never to have seen the light of day. This book is poorly argued, carelessly written, and badly edited. The author and the press are equally culpable and should share responsibility.
It is not easy to grasp the author’s argument. Fuller asks whether neoconservatism is a unified ideology with clearly defined boundaries, or merely a cluster of loosely related ideas shared by a crowd of influential writers over the last half century. His answer seems to be that it is sometimes one, sometimes the other. He then summarizes the lives and works of six representative figures: Irving Kristol, Daniel Bell, Nathan Glazer, Norman Podhoretz, Midge Decter, and Gertrude Himmelfarb. Much of what he says is true but none of it is original; this ground has already been covered thoroughly by more than a dozen other historians. Sometimes he is wrong, as with the assertion that Lionel Trilling was “the first Jew to be hired to the faculty at Columbia University.” Edwin Seligman, an economist, was actually the first (in 1885).
Subsequent chapters address influential issues and people in the early lives of these six: the threat of nuclear war, anti-communism, the New York intellectuals, Leon Trotsky, Lionel Trilling, Leo Strauss, and others. Fuller introduces them one by one but does not integrate them into a general argument; instead they feel like half-digested lumps filling up the pages. They too, like the central figures, get the summary biographical treatment, followed by a few examples of how their ideas correspond to those of the neoconservatives.
Fuller’s organizing principle is thematic rather than chronological. Histories don’t have to be chronological but there’s a lot to be said for describing first what happened first, then going on to what happened later and showing how X influenced Y. There is no better way of creating dramatic tension than to carry the reader through the decades as they happened. Big events like Vietnam, the Reagan Revolution, and 9/11 will then come as major turning points, giving shape to the whole narrative. Fuller scants this approach by dodging back and forth through the decades, sometimes describing the same event several times, from different writers’ vantage points. He thinks nothing of mentioning events of the early 2000s side by side with those of the 1950s, so that his elderly protagonists are momentarily rejuvenated.
The book lacks all historical feeling. Even the most seismic event of the whole era, the end of the Cold War, is treated as no more and no less significant than ephemeral matters. Readers gain no sense of how the neoconservatives adjusted to a transformed world in which their principal adversary, Soviet Communism, had been vanquished. Tellingly, Fuller sometimes speaks of the neoconservatives in the present tense even though several of them are no longer alive, as if he believed they continue to exist through time as a disembodied essence. (“What the neoconservatives principally learn from Trilling . . . are the contradictions inherent to [sic] modern liberalism” ). Time does not seem to pass at all in Fuller’s world, and does not seem to matter. Jarring changes of verb tense within sentences are common (“The neoconservatives believed that the moral crisis is intrinsically linked to all other major political issues” ).
Just as the book lacks history, so it lacks judgment. The author falls in with his subjects’ views on nearly all matters rather than evaluating their strengths and weaknesses. Norman Podhoretz, for example, is notorious for describing as “fascist” whatever political trends he dislikes. Fuller, so long as he is writing about Podhoretz, does it too, passing along the claim that Communists were really fascists and that Islamic militants can best be understood as . . . fascists. When he refers to Midge Decter’s claim that Hollywood movies of the 1960s were nihilistic, he accepts the claim without comment. Readers will get no sense from the book as to which of these writers is the more deserving of respect, the more judicious, creative, intelligent, or sensible. Neither will they feel that they are in the hands of a trustworthy guide who is able to make necessary clarifications and to discriminate between fine shades of meaning.
If the content of the book is bad, however, the presentation is a great deal worse. The author struggles to find the right words, resorts often to “very unique,” “therein,” “the latter,” and “aforementioned,” and sometimes loses his way altogether. Some of his sentences are not sentences at all.
According to Rossiter, it could be concluded that, whereas the extent to which a liberal is radical or temperate in his ideology depends on how persecuted he understands people to be and thus the degree to which he believes freedom needs to be enlarged (157).
Singular and plural are often jumbled together in the same sentence, as when he tells us that “Eisenhower and most Republicans threw its support behind it” (239) or when he claims that “it is justifiable to limits freedoms” (158).
Fuller writes “deep-seeded” when he means “deep-seated” (39). He tells us that Whittaker Chambers “walked a fine line into a certain kind totalitarianism” (171). So many things are wrong with that fragment it’s hard to know where to start. I don’t think he means that totalitarianism is sometimes kind! Presumably he forgot to write the word “of” between “kind” and “totalitarianism.” (He often forgets to include crucial words, as when he states that Sidney Hook “proposed vigilance and a willingness to take the offensive in defeat the communist threat” ). Quite apart from the missing word problem, “walking a fine line” should surely mean that the metaphorical line is drawn between two awkward alternatives, rather than that it leads the walker into one of them.
Fuller is an ardent mixer of metaphors, perhaps because he does not always realize that he is using metaphors. He writes, for example, that President Carter “had given the Soviets a window of opportunity to step up their militant posture” (40) and that “the third option is a fulcrum point that will eventually swing in one direction or the other” (103). He knows a lot of words but often misuses them. We learn that “Podhoretz grew distasteful of the youth counterculture movement of the fifties and predicted a culture war would be afoot” (37). I don’t suppose I’m the only person who finds accidental comedy in the idea of Podhoretz becoming distasteful, or in the deliciously inappropriate use of “afoot.” Two pages later Fuller adds that “he never quite reversed that idea from his consciousness.” My favorite unintentionally comical sentence from the whole book appears on page 175, during a summary of Oswald Spengler’s theory of civilization: “Every once in a while in history there is a moment when man unintentionally opens himself into a new age; this moment is called twilight.”
Spelling and vocabulary mistakes abound. Fuller writes “alluded” when he means “asserted” (“Bourgeois liberals, he alluded, were not aware of the real depth of the dilemma” ). He writes “Ignazio Stone” when he means “Ignazio Silone” (8), “disinterested” when he means “uninterested” (18), “shtetyl” when he means “shtetl” (63), “exemplar” when he means “example” (85), “proletariat” when he means “proletarian,” (93), “exoteric” when he means “esoteric” (147), “wearier” when he means “warier” (105 and 162), “now-partisan” when he means “non-partisan” (173), “predominately” when he means “predominantly” (265), and many, many more. Sometimes he uses a word whose meaning is the opposite of what he intends (“replete” when he means “devoid” ), and he is not too sure about the apostrophe rules either; in a passage about the old Socialist Party leader Eugene Debs, he writes of “Deb’s speech” (26). (He also claims that Daniel Bell campaigned for Debs in the presidential election of 1932, apparently unaware that his favored candidate had died back in 1926!)
Lexington’s editors seemingly did almost nothing to turn a weak manuscript into a serviceable book. Where Fuller wanted to use the italicized phrase “deus absconditus,” the editors changed (or maybe neglected to change) the spelling of the first word and then forgot to italicize half of the phrase, so that it comes out as “dues absconditus” (168). They apparently had no suggestions to offer to Fuller when he presented them with this bundle of words:
“What the older generation has written about immigration, however, is that it has added to a larger cultural problem in America, which, as Decter has said, ‘the fault lies with us,’ as multiculturalism and moral relativism have relegated the idea of an American cultural standard a racist and intolerant point of view of the past” (202).
Having agreed to publish the book, they should at least have employed a first-rate copy editor to get rid of the hundreds of spelling and grammatical mistakes. As it is, they give the impression of having done nothing at all, apart from accepting an inadequate manuscript and sending it straight along to the printer.
If this book was peer-reviewed, the peer reviewers were negligent. If it was not peer-reviewed, the acquisitions editor should have drawn the obvious conclusion. He or she should have realized: here is an author who has read lots of books and articles and written summaries of them all, but who has not created a coherent or powerful argument, has not broken any new ground, and has not mastered the elements of writing in English to the necessary standard. Readers who want to know about the history of neoconservatism should turn not to this book but to George Nash’s The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America, Peter Steinfels’s The Neoconservatives, Garry Dorrien’s The Neoconservative Mind, and John Ehrman’s The Rise of Neoconservatism. | <urn:uuid:8bebeaaf-416b-4c12-be63-6016b1fad232> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.libertylawsite.org/book-review/understanding-the-neocons/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00005-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961683 | 2,354 | 1.609375 | 2 |
12 Important Points Regarding the Raw Food Diet
here are many who tout the raw food diet as one of the healthiest and most healing diets on Earth. Are they correct? Is eating raw much better than eating cooked? Here are some thoughts to consider, along with a summary.
UPDATED: May 3, 2012
Please see our article: Important Notes About the Raw Food Diet – Concerns and Confusion. This article addresses key issues of concern and confusion when one adopts a raw food diet.
An important note to consider regarding the Raw Food Diet: 1. Everyone’s body chemistry is a little different. Some people may do quite well on one diet, while others may do equally well on an entirely different diet. Listen to your own body.
2. Research and practice by a number of medical physicians (MDs) has shown that raw, freshly pressed organic juices along with a specific dietary raw and cooked regimen have resulted in complete patient recovery from such illnesses as heart disease, cancer, tuberculosis, depression, Multiple Schlerosis, arthritis, plus a host of other health problems too numerous to mention here.
3. The rawfood diet can be extremely varied. It’s often just a matter of personal preference. What would you prefer? Some rawfoodists espouse the eating of mostly fruit. Other emphasize the addition of superfoods. Others may insist on the necessity of dark green leafy vegetables. Some include nuts and grains while others do not. Some believe in eating raw meat. Some use supplements and “dehydrated” raw foods, which others may proclaim are not “true” raw foods. Some believe that one must consume 100% raw food in order to do a body good. We recommend what suits you best with the emphasis on eating as much raw as you feel comfortable with.
4. Many limiting diets such as the rawfood diet can lead to nutritional deficiencies simply because of the lack of knowledge and experience. Education and turning to long term successful rawfooders for guidance can help. And, it’s always advisable to consult with your doctor or health professional. Some of the most trusted references with excellent credentials include:
Charlotte Gerson, Daughter of Dr. Max Gerson
Dr. Gabriel Cousens
Dr. T. Colin Campbell, PhD.
Dr. Joel Fuhrman M.D.
All the above are accredited medical doctors except for Charlotte Gerson. However, her father, Dr. Max Gerson was one of the most noted and revered medical researchers in the treatment and healing of cancer as well as one of the original proponents of raw juices.
What We Believe Are Some of the Best Raw Foods
All organic (as much as possible):
Sprouted grains made into Sun, Essene type breads
Soaked and sprouted nuts (moderation)
Lots of leafy green vegetables (generous proportions)
A wide variety of vegetables in season (generous proportions)
A wide variety of fruits in season (generous proportions)
Juices as a supplementary measure (Some may not require this)
Smoothies and Shakes, Blended
Some might add:
Fresh, raw milk from Grassfed cows
Fresh and lightly seared, rare meat from clean, humanely raised naturally fed free range livestock
Fresh eggs from naturally and humanely raised chickens
Raw, freshly pressed linseed or flaxseed oil (Very small amounts)
Raw sea vegetables (rare, as most are sundried or dehydrated)
5. It has been said that since our primal ancestors subsisted on solely uncooked foods, so should we. Primates in the wild do not cook, nor seldom if ever get the opportunity to “stick their finger” into meat cooked during a forest fire. Primates with similar DNA to humans subsist very well on raw foods, and much less optimally on cooked foods.
6. Primates may eat throughout the day, chewing and digesting for many hours. Today’s humans most often do not have the opportunity nor time to do the same. Therefore, an all raw diet consumed at leisure throughout the day is a virtual impossibility for modern man.
7. Raw foods often have high levels of natural occurring vitamins, nutrients and enzymes often lost through heating. Before many enzymes are eventually deactivated or destroyed in the stomach by hydrochloric acid, they are able to help process and aid in the uptake of vital nutrients in the gut. Enzymes can be taken up by the body, absorbed or used by the liver, which already contains vast amounts of metabolic enzymes. Naturally occurring fruit and vegetable enzymes can aid in digestion and absorption.
8. Heat treating fruits and vegetables alters their chemistry and makeup. For example, proteins (which most all vegetables contain in some form and proportion) are denatured during the cooking process, becoming more difficult for the digestive tract to separate, digest and assimilate. Heating destroys enzymes and changes the chemical make up of a number of fragile nutrient components.
9. Cooked foods can definitely sustain life and provide bountiful nutrition. However, it has been shown over and over again that once disease has set in and one’s health has been compromised, raw foods (especially when juiced) contribute greatly to advanced and accelerated recuperation and recovery. This could possibly be attributed to dense nutrient bioavailability contained within fresh, raw, liquid juices. Additionally, the less work the body has to do to breakdown fiber and extract nutrients, the sooner nutrients pass into the bloodstream to nourish regenerating cells.
10. Raw foods are in their most natural state, as God and Nature intended. Life on Earth has acclimated and adapted to these raw foods for innumerable millenia, generation upon generation. Our physical bodies have yet to fully acclimate to a cooked diet. But in time, it could be possible to subsist of solely cooked foods if all raw foods were eliminated and only those who were able to procreate yielded more adaptive offspring.
11. There are many who have developed allergies and sensitivities to grain. The offending allergen is often gluten. We have found that natural organic, non GMO, non hybridized, treated grains less likely to cause reactions. We note one friend who had lifelong wheat allergies in the United States, but upon moving to Sweden, lost all such allergies. However, upon return, redeveloped the same allergies when he consumed American non-organic grain and dairy products.
12. If one finds a need to eat cooked foods, by all means, one should avoid feeling remiss or having guilt. A little of this, a little of that, in most all things, can cause little harm. Gradually, one may find that more and more raw is quite suitable and comfortable. That said, Dr. Esselstyn discovered that consumption of meat, fats, avocados, oils and prepared nuts seemed to exacerbate heart attack and stroke reoccurances. Evidently, fats and meats may bring health complications.
aw foods seems to offer optimal nutrient benefit when partially concentrated in juice form as well as eaten in reasonable and balanced quantity. The reason that juicing may be necessary is because of time required to chew and consume sufficient quantities of fibrous vegetables during average modern alloted mealtimes.
If one can eat and chew throughout the day, it is most likely that the raw food diet offers optimal nutrition over and above a “cooked food” diet. This has been found to be true with animal studies. (We deplore the hurting of any animals in research.)
With the raw diet, it’s important to consume a well balanced, variety of raw foods, including sprouted whole grains, sprouted nuts and seeds, fruits, vegetables and perhaps a small amount of sprouted legumes. Some legumes must be cooked before consumption. However, peas and green beans are fine, raw.
It is also important to eat in sufficient quantity. This is where juicing, food processors, and blending come in. Blender drinks such as smoothies and shakes are an excellent way to obtain plenty of nutrition. Those with health problems may wish to juice rather than blend, as fiber slows nutrient absorption rates.
Click HERE for our optimal green drink recipe.
If you are embarking upon a raw food diet, be sure to read and research as much as you can. Become informed. Ask us – we’ll help guide you to resources, and we will be posting more and more information.
Make changes gradually minimizes side effects. Sudden dietary changes can cause digestive upset. Remember that it’s not necessary to choose 100% of any style of eating or living. Do what feels best for your body. Try and feel what your body’s reactions are to certain types of foods.
In the beginning, the more raw foods you consume, the more likely you may have reactions and flareups. A raw diet can often seem to bring up a number of symptoms of mild discomfort. This can often be caused by what some might call, “detoxification.”
This is simply the body’s method of readjustment, sometimes releasing fats and byproducts into your bloodstream for elimination.
Be easy on yourself. Gentle does it.
As always, we recommend that you always consult with your medical professional for the final word on what’s best for your you and your health.
Knowledge is Power.
In All Things, Know Moderation.
Balance is Key.
Be kind to yourself.
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Von Hippel-Lindau disease is a rare hereditary disorder that causes tumors to develop in several organs.
Tumors most commonly develop in the brain and retina of the eyes. These tumors, called angiomas, consist of blood vessels. Other types of tumors develop in other organs and include tumors in the adrenal glands (pheochromocytomas) and cysts in the kidneys, liver, or pancreas. As people with the disorder age, the risk of developing kidney cancer increases.
The gene that causes von Hippel-Lindau disease has been identified. Only one gene for the disorder—from one parent—is required for the disorder to develop. Each child of an affected parent has a 50% chance of inheriting the disorder. In 20% of people with this disorder, it results from a new mutation.
Typically, symptoms appear between ages 10 and 30, but they can appear earlier.
Symptoms depend on the size and location of the tumors. Children may have headaches and feel dizzy or weak. Vision may be impaired, and blood pressure may be high.
Tumors in the retina usually cause no symptoms, but if they enlarge, they can cause substantial loss of vision. When these tumors are present, the retina may become detached, fluid may accumulate on or under the macula (the central part of the retina), and the optic nerve may be damaged by increased pressure within the eye, resulting in glaucoma.
Without treatment, people may become blind, have brain damage, or die. Death usually results from complications of brain tumors or kidney cancer.
Doctors determine whether any family members have the disorder and do a physical examination. If findings suggest the disorder, various tests are done to check for tumors and other abnormalities: computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain, an eye examination including ophthalmoscopy, and ultrasonography or CT of the abdomen. Hearing tests and blood tests are also done.
Von Hippel-Lindau disease is diagnosed when one of the following is present:
If doctors detect one tumor typical of this disorder, they look for others.
Genetic testing is done to check for the abnormal gene in family members. If an abnormal gene is detected, family members are monitored for tumors for the rest of their life.
Tumors are surgically removed, if possible, before they cause permanent damage. High-dose radiation therapy, focused on the tumor, can sometimes be used instead.
Typically, tumors of the retina are destroyed using laser therapy or application of extreme cold (cryotherapy). These procedures help preserve vision.
Tests used to detect tumors are repeated every 1 or 2 years because new tumors may develop.
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Britisher Roald Dahl was a great and prolific storyteller, particularly for children, in the 20th century. His fantasies, major ones such as “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” and “James and the Giant Peach” as well as many shorter tales of mischievous creatures, have both charmed and frightened generations of readers. Many a kid, after a Dahl story at bedtime, has checked the closet or looked under the bed for lurking Oompa-Loompas or maybe a Whangdoodle or a Hornswoggler. Doesn’t hurt to look.
Dahl had an adventurous life, one that included a stint in the British Royal Air Force, achieving “ace” status as a pilot during WWII. He also worked in intelligence and other war effort agencies before launching his writing career for children and adults. The Dahl canon includes works for film, television (many collaborations with Alfred Hitchcock), plays, poetry and a lengthy list of fiction and nonfiction stories for all ages.
Still popular is the strange, some say macabre, “James and the Giant Peach,” the 1961 Dahl chronicle of young James Henry Trotter, an orphan living with two of the meanest, slimiest caretakers in literature, the cackling Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker. James’ parents, while shopping one day, were eaten by a savage rhino. And this was before we knew about the perils of venturing out on Black Friday.
One day, James meets a man who gives the boy a bag full of crocodile tongues. Not your average gift, but when James accidentally spills the contents, weird things begin. A fruitless tree in the yard produces a peach that grows to great size. When loosened, it crushes everything in its path – including Sponge and Spiker, to everyone’s delight – and lurches out to sea. James is aboard with five anthropomorphic insect companions: a grasshopper, a ladybug, a centipede, a spider and an earthworm.
“James and the Giant Peach,” Dahl’s fantasy adapted for the stage by Richard R. George, reprised by Theatre of Youth Company and directed knowingly once more by Meg Quinn, begins in earnest here as the unusual passengers embark on a scary trans-Atlantic crossing, battling storms and sharks and strange shapes, a huge and hungry bat and seagulls that go from foes to lifesavers. A ditty or two momentarily brightens the voyage, but there is crisis after crisis, panic reigns and it looks bleak.
But James is inventive – Dahl never made him a genius, just resourceful – and the humanlike insects (good-natured, jealous, motherly, grandfatherly, braggarts, hopeful here, pessimistic there) marvel at their luck and are thankful for James, their hero.
The peach makes landfall, so to speak, impaling itself on the Empire State Building’s peak. America! Whew! James is feted, grows straight and tall and the insects fare well: media darlings, endorsements. In the movie version, the centipede runs for mayor of New York. Now, that could happen.
This TOY remake is a wonder in many ways: magical sets by Kenneth Shaw, full of gears and levers, see-through scrims, sea creatures on walls, a jungle-gym, a swaying, enormous peach. Victorian costumes are eye-catching, the insects colorful and detailed. TOY’s entire technical crew should take a well-deserved bow for its work – as should the agile cast.
Kurt Guba narrates and maintains the pace and takes a role here and there; Simon Blu Randle is a very likable James, clever, thoughtful, a peacekeeper. It’s excellent work. The insects are Tilke Hill, Marc-Jon Filippone, Arin Lee Dandes, Adam Rath and Linda Stein, who also brings a new level of repulsiveness to Aunt Sponge.
It’s a challenge to the cast and audience alike, this “James and the Giant Peach.” But TOY has once again found the secret to combining the light and dark appeal that is the legacy of Dahl.
Three and one-half stars
What: “James and the Giant Peach”
When: Through Feb. 10
Where: Theatre of Youth at the Allendale Theatre, 203 Allen St.
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Facebook has an important role in modern society, specifically sharing baby/cat pictures and facilitating high school reunion planning. Oh, and disappointing amateur investors.
Now, in at least one case, the government will use Facebook to serve defendants.
The decision reflects the growing faith in the reliability of electronic messaging, taking jurisprudence further down the path started when courts began recognizing email service. On the other hand, Facebook’s messaging kind of blows. I constantly find messages in my inbox days after they were sent.
I assume service is effected by uploading a picture of the filing and tagging it “You”….
Katherine Forrest: Why isn't her net worth higher?
As I’ve previously mentioned, one of my favorite parts of the judicial nomination process is the attendant financial voyeurism. Judicial nominees are required to make detailed disclosures about their finances, allowing us to learn about their income and net worth. For example, thanks to her nomination to the Supreme Court last year, we got to learn about Elena Kagan’s net worth.
Last week, the Senate Judiciary Committee released financial disclosure reports for several of President Obama’s recent judicial nominees — including antitrust litigatrix Katherine B. Forrest. Forrest has been nominated to the mind-blowingly prestigious Southern District of New York, perhaps the nation’s finest federal trial court. As a highly regarded lawyer who has won numerous awards and accolades (listed in her SJC questionnaire), Forrest will fit right in if confirmed to the S.D.N.Y. — a superstar among superstars.
The fabulous Forrest currently serves as a deputy assistant attorney general in the Department of Justice’s antitrust division. She joined the DOJ last October — a commendable public-service commitment that required her to relinquish her partnership in one of America’s mightiest and most prestigious law firms, Cravath, Swaine & Moore. When she left to pursue government service, Forrest had been a Cravath partner for over 12 years (since 1998), and had been with the firm for about 20 years in all (since 1990).
At the time of her departure for the Justice Department, Katherine Forrest had been taking home hefty paychecks for decades. First she was an associate at Cravath, which pays its people quite well, in case you hadn’t heard. Then she was a partner at the firm (reportedly one of the most well-liked and most powerful younger partners) — from 1998 to 2010, a period in which average profits per partner at CSM routinely topped $2 million and occasionally exceeded $3 million. And remember that Cravath is a lockstep partnership with a reported 3:1 spread, meaning that the highest-paid partners make no more than three times as much as the lowest-paid partners. So it’s not possible that she was earning, say, $400,000, while other partners were earning millions (which can be the case at firms with higher spreads).
In light of the foregoing, what is Katherine Forrest’s net worth, according to her Senate Judiciary Committee financial disclosures? Not as much as you might expect….
* Lawyerly Lairs: Retired Law Professor Edition. Amidst all the bellyaching by state workers demanding rich, defined-benefit pensions (which are basically extinct in the private sector), isn’t it nice to read about two old people who can pay for their own retirements — and a $3.3 million condo? [New York Times]
* Wondering why Rep. Christopher Lee stepped down so quickly? Here’s a possible answer. [Gawker]
Paul Engelmayer, of WilmerHale, and Sandra Edelman, of Dorsey & Whitney.
Yesterday we introduced the first group of New York partners selected by our readers as the best partners to work for. Today we continue our presentation of the top New York partners.
The eight partners we present today practice at some of the country’s most well-known and well-regarded law firms: Cleary Gottlieb, Dorsey & Whitney, Fish & Richardson, Jones Day, Milbank Tweed, Schulte Roth & Zabel, Simpson Thacher, and WilmerHale.
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We currently have a number of active openings for associate roles at US and UK firms in HK / China, Singapore and two new in-house openings. As always, please feel free to reach out to us at firstname.lastname@example.org in order to get details of current openings in Asia, as well as to discuss the Asia markets in general and what we expect for openings later this year. Our Evan Jowers and Robert Kinney will be in Beijing the week of March 25 and Evan Jowers will be in Hong Kong the week of April 1, if you would like to meet them in person.
The US associate openings we have in law firms are in the usual areas of M&A, cap markets, FCPA / white collar litigation, finance, and project finance. The most urgent of our top tier (top 15 US or magic circle) law firm openings in Asia (among many other firm openings that we have in Asia) are as follows:
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The last time I flapped my wings your way, I tried to make at least enough noise about your mobile phone to make you more than a little bit uncomfortable. I hope I did. If enough of us become anxious enough about the known and unknown unknowns and knowns in our mobile phones, then we can start making wise decisions about how to manage that information and its resultant investigations.
Today, I’d like to put a finer point on the last installment’s topic by asking a question that seemed to catch most attendees off-guard at a conference panel that I moderated last week: is there discoverable personal information in a mobile app? Our panelists’ answer was a uniform “yes” with one stating that, if he had to choose only one type of data that he could discover from a mobile phone, he’d choose app data. Why? Because there’s simply so much of it and because almost all of it is objective – not just user-created like an email – but machine-tracked like GPS, usage duration, log in and log out times, browsed web addresses, browsed actual addresses. Also, most of us seem to have the idea that data doesn’t actually “stick” to our mobile devices the way it “sticks” to our hard drives. Maybe there’s a disconnect based on the fact that our phones are mobile so we assume the data is mobile to?
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Scattered from the Arctic Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico and from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean are thousands of trappers who use deadfalls, snares and other home-made traps, but within this vast territory there are many thousand who know little or nothing of them.The best and most successful trappers are those of extended experience. Building deadfalls and constructing snares, as told on the following pages, will be of value to trappers located where material — saplings, poles, boards, rocks, etc. — is to be had for constructing. The many traps described cannot all be used to advantage in any section, but some of them can.
d when trapping in parts of the country where lynx, coyote or wolverine are liable to eat marten in traps, use a snare and it will hang 'em high and out of reach. Snare to be fastened to trigger.
Of course a little pen has to be built when setting this deadfall with bait. In setting in trail it beats any deadfall I have ever used for such animals as have a nature to follow a trail. A fine wire can also be tied to the trigger and stretched across trail instead of a brush and tied on the opposite side of trail. I like it, as the weight can be put high enough from the ground to kill an elk when it drops.
BEAR AND COON DEADFALL.
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- The heel is what should hit the ground first. Keep your ankle flexed as your foot comes forward. You may think about showing the people in front of you the sole of your shoe.
- As your foot lands on the heel, now your foot with flex and roll through the step from heel to toe. The foot naturally rotates as it does this. If your shoes are too still, you won't be able to roll smoothly through the step. As your foot is rolling, it is passing underneath your body and carrying your body weight.
- The push off from your toe is the power portion of the step. Pay attention to the push off, which should happen as your foot is behind your body.
- As you push off with the back foot, your opposite leg is moving forward to strike again with the heel.
- If your shoes are too stiff, there are two effects. The first is that your feet can't roll, so they just slap down after the heel strike. The second may be that you get aches and pains as your feet and shins are fighting your shoes to be able to flex, but can't.
- As you start walking faster, you may find your shins getting sore or even developing painful shin splints. This is common and should go away once you have strengthened your shins through building up your time in speed workouts. How to prevent and treat shin splints.
- Your ankle should be doing the flexing on your forward stride, not the toes inside your shoes. If you find that your toes are aching or you feel them during the forward stride, concentrate on flexing your ankle instead.
- The power and speed in your step will come from getting a good push off with the rear leg.
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Physician adherence to National Cholesterol Education Program clinical practice guidelines has been poor.
We recruited 68 primary care family and internal medicine practices; 66 were randomly allocated to a study arm; 5 practices withdrew, resulting in 29 receiving the Third Adult Treatment Panel (ATP III) intervention and 32 receiving an alternative intervention focused on the Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure (JNC-7). The ATP III providers received a personal digital assistant providing the Framingham risk scores and ATP III–recommended treatment. All practices received copies of each clinical practice guideline, an introductory lecture, 1 performance feedback report, and 4 visits for intervention-specific academic detailing. Data were abstracted at 61 practices from random samples of medical records of patients treated from June 1, 2001, through May 31, 2003 (baseline), and from May 1, 2004, through April 30, 2006 (follow-up). The proportion screened with subsequent appropriate decision making (primary outcome) was calculated. Generalized estimating equations were used to compare results by arm, accounting for clustering of patients within practices.
We examined 5057 baseline and 3821 follow-up medical records. The screening rate for lipid levels increased from 43.6% to 49.0% (ATP III practices) and from 40.1% to 50.8% (control practices) (net difference, −5.3% [P = .22]). Appropriate management of lipid levels decreased slightly (73.4% to 72.3%) in ATP III practices and more markedly (79.7% to 68.9%) in control practices. The net change in appropriate management favored the intervention (+9.7%; 95% confidence interval [CI], 2.8%-16.6% [P < .01]). Appropriate drug prescription within 4 months decreased in both arms (38.8% to 24.8% in ATP III practices and 45.3% to 24.1% in control practices; net change, +7.2% [P = .37]) Overtreatment declined from 6.6% to 3.9% in ATP III and rose from 4.2% to 6.4% in control practices (net change, −4.9% [P = .01]).
A multifactor intervention including personal digital assistant–based decision support may improve primary care physician adherence to the ATP III guidelines.
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Ironically, Barbara Wolff was driven back in time to the laborious techniques of medieval illumination by nothing less than today’s icon of modernity: the computer. When the accomplished botanical illustrator, who would spend days drawing a flower perspective, saw that the same thing could be done instantly with computer-aided design, she knew her craft was about to change. At a career crossroads six years ago, she decided to take a four-day workshop in medieval manuscript illumination. The result was, so to speak, golden.
Wolff, a New York City native, has always been intrigued by ancient manuscripts. Today she uses gold and ground mineral pigments on vellum (parchment) to produce gemlike miniature paintings. The illuminations bring to a single, fine point Wolff’s exquisitely observed botanicals, technical artistry and love of Jewish history. A new exhibit of 18 miniatures at the Yeshiva University Museum, A Talent of Pure Gold: Illuminated Miniatures by Barbara Wolff, takes viewers into a world of profound beauty, clarity and Jewish symbolism.
Illumination, the ornate embellishment used to adorn manuscripts and inspire readers’ sense of the divine prior to the advent of movable type in the 16th century, was not practiced solely by Christians and Muslims. Jewish patrons, as well, commissioned decorated manuscripts. One of Wolff’s reference books is a 13th-century Portuguese manual written in Hebrew letters, by one Abraham ben Judah ibn Hayyim. A single 15th-century copy exists in the Palatine Library of Parma, Italy. Throughout the ages, Jewish manuscripts were burned by the cartload; but some 40,000 survive in libraries around the world. Wolff had a rare chance to work on one last year, the 700-year-old Prato Haggadah, which is now owned by the Jewish Theological Seminary.
During a three-year conservation project in which the volume was dismantled and its pages repaired, Wolff was invited to paint two unfinished folios, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. “To have a situation where they’ve just been unbound could happen again maybe a hundred years from now,” she said. Using medieval artists’ recipes and the results of a spectrographic analysis by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Wolff re-created the original pigments, glues and inks. The ground azurite and lapis lazuli, oak gall, white lead, pomegranate skin and vermilion, as well as facsimiles of the Prato pages, are displayed in her current exhibit.
Across the hallway, Wolff’s 18 illuminations sparkle. The exhibit, which centers on the seven biblical species symbolizing Israel’s fertility, includes purple olives on a field of woven gold and a trio of golden pomegranates inspired by a silver shekel struck before the destruction of the Temple in 70 C.E. One particularly stunning miniature, based on a verse from the Song of Songs, pictures an “enclosed garden” of fragrant species — including spikenard, henna, cane, aloe and saffron — on a field of gold. In another painting, a creased golden etrog (citron) on a ground of delicate blue is suspended within an ethereal sukkah of myrtle, willow and date palm fronds.
Wolff has close ties to Israel through her husband, Rudi, whose family fled Germany in 1938. Half the family came to the United States; the other half went to Israel. When Wolff was researching pigments for the Prato pages, she asked Rudi’s brother Moshe, a farmer in the Galilee, for help in locating a plant called turnsole; he found it growing wild in his orchard. Following Wolff’s instructions, Moshe harvested the ripe berries and then soaked small pieces of cloth in their juice. The “clothlets,” dipped in egg white, produced purples for the Prato.
Balancing composition, color and technical perfection, Wolff’s miniatures reward close inspection. Time slows, and the viewer is plunged into an intense world of Jewish imagery. Some of the paintings include fragments of text, mostly from the Psalms, in gold. The exquisite raised letter forms, developed by renowned Hebrew calligrapher Ismar David, range from slender to full bodied. After many thin layers of gesso (a plaster mixture) are laid down to dry — which can take up to three months — the gold is painstakingly applied. It is then tooled, and polished with a small malachite burnisher.
Wolff’s tiny studio in her family’s Upper West Side apartment is filled with volumes she illustrated for the Time Life Nature Library and other publishers. There, amid reference books on art and nature, she is making studies for a new painting based on Song of Songs 2:2 (“Like a lily in a field of thistles, such is my love among the young women”). She collected thistles in Israel last winter; in spring, narcissi sprout among them. Wolff believes narcissus is the “lily” in the verse. She has gilded in silver a raised gesso thistle. But since silver tarnishes, the final version will be platinum.
In the future, Wolff plans to create paintings for private clients. But her dream is to illuminate the 104th Psalm (“How manifold are Your works, O the Lord! In wisdom You have made them all; the earth is full of Your creatures”). “It’s like a miniature painting in words of the entire universe: creation, the heavens, stars, sun and moon, day and night, mountains and valleys, seas, and of all living creatures,” she said. “One big statement. That would really say it for me — all my great interests.”
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One of the many speculations about whither the Internet is taking us is that the Internet is taking us home. We are increasingly able to see movies without going to the movies, indeed without going to the video store, or even to our doorsteps. College students can go to class while still lying in bed in their pajamas. Of course, many of us shop without going to a shop. More and more Americans can “telecommute” to work from their kitchen tables. Are we all going to be staying home?
Such projections are often fanciful. Futurists have been telling us for decades that most of us would be telecommuting by now. Indeed, the prediction was made as far back as 1893 that by 1993 we’d all be scattered around the countryside, working electronically. No rush hour! Still, some important changes have happened. Notably, after World War II, a great many Americans left the buzzing city streets and headed indoors.
So, if the Internet’s a threat is to keep us at home, we’re already home . . . watching TV.
A striking feature of American life in the early twentieth century was the vibrancy of urban street life. It was the heyday of the grand department store crowded with (mainly) women both shopping and enjoying the free entertainment the stores provided. Theaters and vaudeville stages and amusement parks and baseball stadiums and dance halls and nightclubs boomed, in part because women increasingly felt safe to go out in public (see this earlier post). Trolley and subway lines brought people in from the outskirts to join the city crowds.
And then came the moving pictures. American families first thronged to crude, storefront movie shows and then to the fancy movie palaces. One-fourth of all New Yorkers, by one estimate, saw a movie in a single week in 1910. By 1918, about three-quarters of urban white families went to the movies; they more than doubled their weekly visits by 1930. In rural areas, small-town cinemas attracted farm families, first weekly by horse wagon and later even more often by car. Films were so popular that movie attendance dwarfed that of virtually all the competitors— even saloons lost customers.
People not only out went of the house but also out of the neighborhood. Americans mixed with people like themselves and, more importantly, with people unlike themselves – in public, in a “world of strangers.”
The economic sizzle of the 1950s and ‘60s had many consequences. One was the burst of home-building in American suburbs. Pent-up demand for housing carried over from the Depression of the ‘30s and the War in ‘40s, multiplied by the early marriages and baby boom of the ‘50s, and aided by all sorts of government subsidies, allowed many Americans to move from crowded housing into new, spacious homes. In 1920, about one-third of American homes had electric service and one-fifth had toilets; by 1970, virtually all homes had both. Air conditioning become increasingly common. Home was a lot more comfortable place to spend time.
But probably the single most important change was television. In 1950, only one in ten American households owned a television, and few Americans watched. Nonetheless, newspapers already reported major erosions in public activities, at least in the larger cities. In April, 1950, San Francisco’s minor league baseball team, the Seals, complained that fans were staying home to watch their games on television. In July, 1950, a USC sociologist announced a study showing that television was keeping families at home. He saw a positive byproduct: “the family is home together, rather than at the theater with strangers.”
In 1958, a UCLA study concluded that the movie industry was in substantial and permanent decline. The studios could anticipate a short-term boost in the ’60s from baby boomers becoming teenagers, but “the huge theater audience is gone.” By 1960, nearly nine in ten households had a television set and almost everyone watched every day. By 1990, the average household owned more than two sets and Americans spent more time watching television than doing anything else besides working and sleeping.
Because they watched television, Americans slept less and read less. And because they enjoyed television and the other comforts of home (and, also, because they feared the city crime that had surged in the 1970s and ‘80s), Americans spent less time in public spaces, such as attending movies or night clubs, playing sports, or going to meetings. Movie attendance, as the 1958 UCLA report predicted, dropped by about 80 percent and never recovered; major league baseball kept its attendance up by roughly doubling the number of teams, while minor league baseball collapsed. Television helped keep America home.
In the 1950s, one woman told House Beautiful magazine that “television and air-conditioning are bringing families together again.” Whether that was true in the long run is unclear, but they certainly helped bring Americans out of the public world of strangers and back into the private world of the home. The Internet may be only a late-comer to the house party.
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Widely considered Korea's foremost filmmaker, Im Kwon-Taek has become a major international figure in the realm of world cinema. A remarkably prolific director who has over 100 titles to his credit, Im's films are renowned for their remarkable visual beauty, technical innovation, and intellectual depth.
Born on May 2, 1936, into a family of noted leftists, Im Kwon-Taek grew up and completed his schooling in the southern city of Kwangju. As a result of the Korean war, his family's fortunes were decimated and he was forced to work, first as a day-laborer, and as a businessman reselling U.S. Army boots. In 1956, he moved to Seoul where he happened to meet film director Chung Chang-Wha, who offered him room and board in exchange for work as a production assistant. Though Im had no great ambitions to become a filmmaker, he took the job, working on the set was a means of survival when work for people with leftist ties was few and far between. Five years later, Chung recommended that Im direct and in 1962, he made his debut with Dumangang-a Jal Ikkora. | <urn:uuid:1cd4dee1-0a5c-4e35-9dad-161a3ad50b71> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://spill.hollywood.com/Actor/ActorDetails.aspx?Name=Im%20Kwon-Taek&PersonId=190784 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00008-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.990092 | 238 | 1.570313 | 2 |
It is no longer a secret that I am starting a little company that will sell open source hardware and software for energy monitoring. It is mainly based on the Open Energy Monitor project which is registered under the GNU general public license. Although I contributed to the development and promotion of the project myself, I often feel like I’m using other people’s work to make money.
There are now more than 960 registered members in the community, not all of them are active and quite a few contribute actively to the development of the project. But does that mean that the others are just passive members? free riders? is that fair?
I started toying with the idea of using an arduino to monitor electricity consumption about two years ago, and I found out that someone else (Trystan and Glyn and quite a few others) already started developing that idea and sharing their work and findings online. Sharing their work and code online does not only save other people (actually humanity in general) a lot of time and effort, but it also allows for a much wider scope of fellow tinkerers to review and improve that work.
This time and effort saved can be used in further developing this project, and this is what the famous “standing on each others’ shoulders” means. But what about people who benefit from this work and do not contribute with anything back?
I think that the free rider definition does not apply here, because since using this code and designs does not affect the creators negatively. They chose to share it with the rest of the world. All they’re asking for is credit and recognition. I think if someone uses open source without credits in a closed source project that would yield financial benefit, then we have a problem.
That’s it then! Problem solved! In theory at least, because in the open hardware world, things are a little bit different. Phillip Torrone from adafruit industries and make (yes he’s everywhere) wrote about it here, and so did Jean Claude from JeeLabs in a series of five posts, but I’m going to bring my two cents in my next post. | <urn:uuid:731a3e34-64da-47ad-8c37-bd21f119994a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.blogbouha.com/2012/04/oshw-free-rider-dilemna/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00055-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967369 | 442 | 1.765625 | 2 |
The World of Poetry is a follow up to and expansion of The United States of Poetry, a five-part series that premiered on PBS in 1996. The United States of Poetry was a portrait of the country as seen through its language and poetry and was hailed as a major achievement by newspapers and periodicals as diverse as The Wall Street Journal, Sassy, TV Guide, and Buzz. The New York Times called the series "downright courageous"; Raygun characterized it as "quite possibly the most compelling document ever made about the living voice of our nation."
Our new project, The World of Poetry, begins where The United States of Poetry left off, but takes a radical new approach -- an approach that opens up the process to new poets, filmmakers, and audiences from America and around the world, an approach that invites experimentation and new ideas, and an approach that is designed for both new and traditional technology and media.
The basic concept is to match up poets with filmmakers to produce a single video poem or a series of poems. Since no specific delivery format will be specified, the pieces can be in any style and of any length. There will be no prescribed themes, so the poems featured can be on any topic.
Finished pieces will be stored on broadcast-quality electronic media to create a television database of hundreds of contemporary poets. Selected pieces, and interviews will be edited into a one-hour World of Poetry special, or series of specials to air on PBS.
The world has never seen a project like The World of Poetry -- a new kind of anthology for the next Millennium, a survival tool for the Future. Poets from the mountain tops to the underground will provide perspectives for consideration, education, elucidation, meditation, activation. Through the lens of new media, we visualize a world in which television and poetry unite us in our differences. | <urn:uuid:bd8b1bca-2939-46fe-be8a-42d44a6cbc9a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.worldofpoetry.org/aboutwop.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00065-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947816 | 380 | 2.4375 | 2 |
Culture Bytes: David Freeman’s Notebook
(19 September 2007)
Los Angeles — Jean-Pierre Melville, the French film director is having something of a career revival, unusual for one who has been dead since 1973. He was associated with the new wave in the French cinema of the late 1950s and 60s, which was made up of a group of critics some of whom became directors. Melville was no theorist and followed only a school of one – himself. His gangster movies used Hollywood tropes but were unmistakably French.
Le Samourai (1967) with Alain Delon is a stylized story of an icy assassin. Delon doesn’t say much in this movie, but when he says, “I never lose. Not really.” you know he’ll come to a bad end. His character is called Jeff Costello, a name that must have sounded typically American to Melville. Whatever the name, the character is the apotheosis of the cool gun-for-hire.
Such a man may exist only in the movies, but he exists best in this one. You can’t take your eyes off him. He’s handsome past all understanding but he has a weird, unsettling feminine delicacy too. And he’s a snappy dresser who pays close attention to his hat and trench coat.
Delon has a “contract” – an agreement to kill just as in countless films noir. He runs into a little trouble and soon enough the police and the guys who hired him are after him. He’s on the run, much of it in the Metro. And there’s a woman. Two of them, in fact.
The story could be an opera or even a ballet. Motivation is minimal. There are no significant back-stories for anyone. People exist and do what they do, driven to their death by the necessity to live. It’s very French and quite delicious.
At one point the police superintendent tries to squeeze information out of Delon’s girlfriend (Nathalie Delon – Alain’s ex-wife). The action stops while they debate the nature of truth. He’s wearing a suit. She’s in her nightie. It practically makes you want to light up a Gitanes.
Later, the cops bug Delon’s room – they pound a nail in a window frame and hang a fist-sized transmitter behind the curtain. Technology dates in movies faster than hem lines. Le Samourai isn’t “real” by traditional cinema standards, though the events are real to the characters.
Bob le Flambeur (Bob the Gambler) (1955) is an underworld drama with a realistic tone and style. Like Le Samouri, the more it imitates American movies, the more French it becomes. There’s a fabulous exchange of dialogue in which a couple of Parisian tough guys debate who was the first of their number to assume the style of American gangsters, which of course means American movie gangsters. Various opinions are considered.
The plot, which is more of an annoyance than a necessity, is about a plan to rob the casino at Deauville. The heart of the movie, though, is Bob of the title. He’s getting older. He’s had his ups and downs. His life is cards and dice. He thrives at night.
He picks up a pretty young thing, more to protect her than anything else. When he seems to be considering a more intimate arrangement with her — she’s certainly willing — he puts his young prot√©g√© in her path. When the young people become lovers, Bob remains stoic. Stoicism is one of his main traits.
Bob has his standards. He’s a nighthawk of Montmartre and Pigalle, both of which are filled with rascals. Pigalle is especially thick with pimps and Bob won’t countenance them. The neighborhood exteriors are real — fascinating location shots from the period.
Bob seems cut from a bolt of cloth woven by Raymond Chandler. Despite often being on the wrong side of the law, Bob maintains an unbreakable personal moral code. It’s a measure of the strength of this picture that within moments of first seeing this taciturn, white-haired paladin, we know him and accept his conflicted standards.
The story and characters turn on irony. It doesn’t give too much away to say that as the robbery scheme is about to get underway, Bob finds himself at the tables in Deauville having a good night.
Because the new wave was so taken with American genre movies and because Melville all but worshipped what he thought was the American style — he wore a Stetson and occasionally drove around Paris in a Cadillac, it’s easy to underestimate him.
Melville’s American influences are clear. He has said The Asphalt Jungle (1950) was on his mind when he was working on Bob. In an American movie of the period and genre, the robbery would play out in full. The French have always had movies that turned on elaborate crimes. In Bob le Flambeur, the characters make plans and then talk about their lives and their unhappiness. Consideration and contemplation are as important as action in this movie.
Melville was hardly the first European to be enchanted with an idea of America that was more imagined than an actual place in which Americans might be found. The Brecht and Weill of Mahaggony is an example that comes immediately to mind.
Melville’s new prominence started with the recent DVD release of Army of Shadows (1969), his drama of the Resistance, which had been unavailable in the US. Melville was in the French army during the war and may have worked with the Resistance.
He spent 25 years trying to make Army of Shadows. It was worth the wait. It’s based on a novel by Joseph Kessel, who also wrote the novel Belle de Jour, the source of the Bunuel film. Lino Ventura and Simone Signoret are in the cast. Ventura, who was Italian but starred in French movies, is rock solid. Hollywood actors say, “Don’t act, just stand there.” Of course that requires a face that can tell a story without seeming to do anything. Lino Ventura’s face tells the story of France at a dark hour. His character is based partly on Jean Moulin the Resistance hero who was tortured and murdered by Klaus Barbie, the infamous butcher of Lyon.
Melville was a man of his time in regard to the women in his movies — they take off their clothes and they get kicked around. An exception is Simone Signoret in this movie. She’s “Mathilde”- her nom d’espion. Dressed as a German nurse, she goes into a Gestapo prison to rescue or kill a colleague who is being tortured. Not even the Gestapo breaks her cool stare. Mathilde is a patriot to her end and Signoret’s performance is so complete that you never catch her acting.
Army of Shadows doesn’t glamorize or exaggerate the Resistance. No suspension of disbelief is required. Melville demonstrates a historical awareness that is unexpected from one who made a specialty of gangsters. At 140 minutes, the pace might be occasionally slow to contemporary eyes, though I found it thrilling. The Resistance is one of the great stories of the war. This is a view of it from one who was there.
Le Doulos (1963) is a Paris gangster story with Jean-Paul Belmondo. The title refers to a style of hat and by extension a man who wears it, often a police informer. This bit of French underworld slang is explained in a title card at the start of the movie. The success of Army of Shadows last year is the reason this one is back. The critics have been enthusiastic. I saw it in a new 35mm print at the Nuart in Los Angeles, one of the last of the great old art houses. A run at the Nuart is usually a signal that a DVD will be along.
It’s well made — there’s a spectacular tracking shot of some nine minutes duration, made long before Stedicam made such shots a commonplace. Everyone smokes and a nightclub looks like it came from RKO in the 1930s. Betrayal begets betrayal and the movie is almost entirely shot at night. It’s always amusing to see Belmondo, but I found Le Doulos a disappointment, often lost in its own impenetrable plot.
Melville was a cinema poet. He made fashion rather than following it. Cinéastes have written widely about him though the larger public doesn’t seem to know him. He makes a cameo appearance in the iconic new wave movie, Breathless (1959), as a talkative novelist. Melville on Melville, by Rui Noguera is widely quoted in most of what’s been written about him, though the book itself is out of print and used copies are hard to come by.
Melville was born in Paris in 1917 and died there at 55. He wanted to see the world through American eyes though what he wound up seeing was France as no one had ever quite seen her before or since. | <urn:uuid:c57d2a36-bc1a-4e1a-8603-5bd32342e8d0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://pjmedia.com/blog/culture_bytes_return_of_the_sa/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00011-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973876 | 1,978 | 1.539063 | 2 |
Memorial Day Weekend Concert Information
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Ferns can be found almost anywhere in the world, save the searing desert soils, in both dimly-lit and open, sunny landscapes. Often thought of as delicate and needing a lot of moisture, ferns have proven themselves to be quite hardy, once established in an area. And this is very true of the species of ferns identified in Vicksburg National Military Park. Producing spores so tiny so as to be considered part of the every-day “dust” constantly afloat in our environment, ferns have more mobility in their dispersal than flowering plants, and are able to persevere and remain viable through the most extreme climatic conditions.
The Christmas fern (Polystichum acrostichoides) is abundant throughout the park. Readily recognizable by its “Christmas stocking” leaflets, this fern grows profusely along the shaded wooded stream banks and in the steep ravines. Others, such as the Spider Brake fern (Pteris multifida) are more localized, growing from the limestone rock face near the falls on Mint Springs Bayou. Still others, like the Southern Grape fern, (Botrychium biternatum) sprout their spike-like fronds in the drier, open grassy areas in the park.
Each fern has its own preference for temperature, humidity, soil type, moisture, and pH, light levels, etc., and in many cases are very specific indicators of the conditions they need. This, in turn, makes ferns very good ecological indicators, providing valuable tools to measure environments, and enable decisions on habitat conservation and natural resource management.
Did You Know?
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At a class last week, a participant asked: What can you suggest for organizing my car?
A little background on the participant – she is a busy teacher and mom. She reports to being in her car up to 3 hours a day, with getting her kids to school and daycare, helping out her own mother and commuting to and from work. Plus, she and her husband are a one-car family, so she and her car really do get a workout!!
And I appreciate her honesty. The first thing she did when she parked next to my car in the lot was to look in my windows, to see if I was truly organized. Everyone does, I like that she admitted it!
So, what can I suggest? Here goes….
Start with a clean car. Check out this blog I wrote on Organizing Your Car, outlining the basics of cleaning and clearing out your car. Schedule an hour this week to get this done.
I think this participant was really asking for higher level organizing ideas, to make the process run more smoothly. So, once the car is clean, how do we keep it clean and uncluttered, and streamline our commuting process?
Keep it uncluttered:
- Establish a place in your car for your vitally important pieces, like your cell phone and wallet or purse. Every time I get in the car, my purse goes in the exact same place.
- Make sure to keep your purse or wallet off the empty passenger seat beside you, for safety’s sake and to discourage smash and grabs while stopped at stoplights.
- Commit to emptying your car every day. Keep things moving in and out of the car. Trash, clothes, paper, outerwear, sports gear, whatever. Your car is for transportation, not long term storage.
- If you have stuff to pick up or drop off to other locations today, make a list and keep the list visible. Better yet, keep the items visible if you can, like in the foot well of the passenger seat.
Streamline the Commuting process:
- Keeping the car and commute simplified starts inside the house, at your back (or side) door.
- Near your door, set up a Staging Area, a flat space for your items staged to leave. Line up briefcases, and handbag, errand bag, school backpacks, activity bags, etc.
- Keep activity gear in specific bags, like band instrument and music in it’s own bag, or the softball gear for practice, to encourage your family members to get their stuff and in out of the car. If your child is old enough to be in an organized activity, they are old enough to carry their own bag and be encouraged to help out. (I say this, and yes, my sons still forget stuff. We are human and we are working on it!)
- I always have an “errand bag” hanging by the door for receipts and return items, mail for the post office, library books or other items to drop off with friends around the neighborhood. I add to the bag inside the house as things come up, and then take it with me when I run my errands.
- Check your schedule the night before and in the morning, make sure you have what you need, and make sure the Staging Area is clean (meaning everything is loaded) when you leave the house in the morning.
- Don’t load items you need right away into the trunk or back of the car, for fear of forgetting them back there!
- If you run errands for others, try different colored shopping bags for each destination.
- When you or your passengers leave the car, listen to the flight attendants in your head. “Secure your tables? No. “Restore your seats to the upright and locked position?” Well, no, not really. I meant “check under your seats and around you for your personal items, and make sure to take everything with you when you go.” Create a verbal check list / chant for everyone: “coat, backpack, lunch, coat, backpack, lunch…” or whatever works for you.
- When you pick up, repeat the chant so bags and outerwear come home from work or school, and repeat the chant again when you get back home, to bring everything back inside the house!
So, I guess the moral of today’s blog is to clear out your car, and then focus on the commute process to make things run more smoothly! See you on the streets! | <urn:uuid:299d0e84-d25f-46de-84ce-8cfab5817114> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://evergreenpark.patch.com/blog_posts/organize-your-car-and-commute | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954381 | 948 | 1.648438 | 2 |
The idol of Lord Narayan Gosain at
The idol of Lord Narayan Gosain remains in a pond near the temple, Madhutirtha Khetra, dedicated to Him. The idol is brought out on Pana Sankranti day (March – April) for three days and on the fourth day the idol is again immersed in the pond.
So, why is the idol kept underwater? There is some history involved. In the 16th century, Kalapahada, a Muslim invader, after destroying numerous temples and Hindu idols reached the region. The then King of Madhupurgarh, to save the idol from Kalapahad, hid it in the pond.
But people and the King were unhappy as the idol remained underwater. A few days later, Lord Narayan Gosain appeared in the dream of the King and asked him to take the idol out of the pond and worship and then to be kept back safely. This happened during Mahabisuba Sankranti or Pana Sankranti period.
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My friend Z is doing amazingly well, considering. She is complying with her oncologists. But now that the radiation is burning her throat, and the chemo is making her queazy, the doctors are prescribing drugs that will alleaviate these problems. But Z doesn't believe in Western medicine and when it came time to sign up for Medicare she assumed that she would never get sick enough to ever need the part A, B and D of Medicare coverage. Now she needs them all and the enrollment period won't come around again until November. It is part D that would have paid for her drugs. It is part D that would make a drug that costs $150 at most $3.50. I audibly gasped when she told me that she didn't have part D. I couldn't help myself. I said, "But you need part D." She was furious and shouted, "Don't tell me what I should have done. That doesn't help me now." And of course she's right. Now that it's too late, it doesn't help to tell her what she should have done.
If you're healthy, you never think you're going to need insurance and prescription drug coverage. And if you're young you never think your going to get ill. But everyone needs insurance. That is why the healthcare debate is so terribly important. We need a public option. Please call your Congressional Representative and lobby for a public option for healthcare. We need you healthy. We need you paying attention to the issues that will make a difference in all our lives.
We are not allowed to drive a car without insurance and we don't think twice about that. But we are so careless when it comes to insurance for our own health. It should be mandatory that everyone is covered with health insurance.
Dissents Of The Day
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Sir Paul McCartney, Penelope Cruz, Robert Redford and direction between the stars, a new safety campaign in the Arctic have retten.Edward Norton, Woody Harrelson, Jewish law, John Hurt, Rita Ora and Thom Yorke and activists Environment joined Greenpeace to protect the uninhabited area around the North Pole to the request for a ban on drilling and unsustainable fishing in Arctic waters. To show their support, the familiar faces have a scroll of the Arctic that will be planted 2.5 miles (4 km) signed under the ice at the North Pole. McCartney said: "The Arctic is one of the most beautiful and unspoiled of the last planet, but now he is in danger. Some countries and companies want to open to oil drilling and industrial fishing in the Arctic and do what they did in the rest of our fragile planet. "It seems crazy that we are ready to go to the ends of the earth to find the last drops of oil, when our best minds tell us that we must get off fossil fuels are the way to our children a future. Finally, in a certain place, we must take a stand. I think the time is now and this place is the Arctic. " | <urn:uuid:70e766d7-5aa0-43c1-84ea-e993750539a6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://wemovies.com/stars-join-save-the-arctic-campaign/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00013-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955324 | 246 | 1.5625 | 2 |
"New Technologies, New Relationships.
Promoting a Culture of Respect, Dialogue and Friendship."
Greetings to you! I earnestly wish that Jesus Christ be the centre of your life and ministry! Let this day dedicated to Social Communications remind us all of our duty to proclaim Him always and everywhere.
The potential and effects of the Media of Social Communication cannot be easily ignored; and this is specially true about the mobile telephony, the computer and the internet. The Pope’s Message, this year, "New Technologies, New Relationships. Promoting a Culture of Respect, Dialogue and Friendship," is a welcome reflection on this reality. For this is the astounding potential of these personal communications media: establishing contact with people through instantaneous transmission of words and images across enormous distances, even to the most isolated corners of the world; and their effects are that families and friends are able to keep in touch across the world, students and researchers have an easy and immediate access to documents and sources across continents, thus facilitating more dynamic forms of learning and communication. It is what is known as digital technology.
Parallel to this communication revolution, a new generation is evolving. Pope Benedict XVI calls it the “digital generation.” The new technologies and this new generation have taken to each other quite spontaneously, as young people, in particular, have immediately grasped the enormous capacity of the new media to foster relationships and connectedness.
In this my Letter, I would like to stress upon the potential of the media to help build relationships. For this is so central to human living! It is a human being’s fundamental desire – that which moves him or her to relate to others. Our young, who are crossing that crucial phase of human growth where relating to the other is so vitally important, utilize the new communication technologies to satiate this fundamental desire: they want to maintain existing friends, meet new friends and belong in groups, even global, online communities. Facebook, MySpace, Orkut and even YouTube are just a few examples.
One cannot let such opportunities go to waste. The tremendous potential of the new communication technologies is but a reflection of God’s work – the work of His Love, through which He communicates with the human person and gathers humanity into one family. And this is a vision that our youth – especially Christian youth -- should not lose sight of. Under this prism, our youth should be encouraged to use the contemporary media of social communication also as a means to witness to their faith, to fight evil and spread the good, so as to make it reach particularly those who are disadvantaged and vulnerable. In doing so, they will truly participate in the life of God, the God of communication and communion.
It is in this context that the Holy Father appeals to all who are actively involved in the ever-growing communication technologies to commit themselves to promoting a genuine culture of respect, dialogue and friendship.Parents and those responsible for the formation of the youth would have to use all the means possible to accompany and guide those placed under their care. Let an environment be created in our homes where there is frank dialogue, not only about the tools used but also about the contents that are put in circulation. Let our educational institutions, especially through their teachers, professors and lecturers, create an atmosphere in which young people are taught to respect themselves and each other as well as to establish a dialogue of cultures, action and life, which forge true and lasting friendship. May our houses of formation be instruments of such human and Christian upbringing, so that our youth may be challenged to effectively become the reflection of that God who wants to commune with humanity.
I would like to end by quoting from the Message at the end of Prabhu Yesu Mahotsav, concluded in Mumbai on the 18th of this month: “We will find new avenues of proclaiming the Good News especially through the media, which offers us tremendous possibilities of reaching out widely and effectively, specially to the Youth.” In the wake of a series of Mission Congresses that took place in our land recently, it is imperative that the Good News of the Gospel should find in all of us, but very specially in our young people, enthusiastic and active messengers, ready to use, for the purpose, all the means modern technology has to offer.
Archbishop’s House, Panjim, Goa, October 21, 2009.
(+ Filipe Neri Ferrão)
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Praise be to Allaah.
of all, you have to repent from this great sin, because each person
will have to answer for his actions on the Day of Resurrection. Allaah
says (interpretation of the meaning):
the hearing, and the sight, and the heart of each of those ones will
be questioned (by Allaah)” [al-Israa’ 17:36]
the Prophet (peace and blessings
of Allaah be upon him) said:
eye commits zinaa (fornication, adultery), and its zinaa is looking.”
by al-Bukhaari, al-Isti’dhaan, 5774). So you have to repent sincerely
from this action, and that includes several things:
up this sin, out of fear of the punishment of Allaah.
regretting what you have done of this haraam thing.
resolving not to return to this sin ever again.
should know that there are many ways of purifying the soul from these
haraam things, such as:
firmly to repentance, saying a lot of du’aa’, frequently seeking Allaah’s
forgiveness and repenting, persisting in dhikr, doing lots of acts of
worship and good deeds, and praying a lot. Allaah says (interpretation
of the meaning):
As Salaah (the prayer) prevents from Al‑Fahshaa’ (i.e. great sins
of every kind, unlawful sexual intercourse) and Al Munkar (i.e. disbelief,
polytheism, and every kind of evil wicked deed)” [al-‘Ankaboot 29:45]
perform As Salaah (Iqaamat as Salaah), at the two ends of the day and
in some hours of the night [i.e. the five compulsory Salaah (prayers)].
Verily, the good deeds remove the evil deeds (i.e. small sins)” [Hood
have to look for a good environment to live in, and for righteous friends
who will help you to do good, so that you may keep away from these things.
All of these actions will purify and cleanse your soul, and help you
to please Allaah. Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):
he succeeds who purifies his own self [his soul]…”[al-Shams 91:9]
should know that when a person is sincere in his repentance and prays
to Allaah, and asks Him to keep him safe from the evil of his own self
and from the Shaytaan, Allaah will protect him from the waswaas
(insinuating whispers) and plots of the Shaytaan. Allaah says (interpretation
of the meaning):
whosoever fears Allaah and keeps his duty to Him, He will make a way
for him to get out (from every difficulty) [al-Talaaq 65:2]
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Peter Kelly-Detwiler, Contributor
I cover the forces and innovations that shape our energy future.
A recently released study from Pike Research projects annual global sales of electric vehicles will reach 3.8 million by 2020, growing by 40% annually. That growth, is from a very small base: the 23,461 Volts sold last year represented only about a third of a percent of all new passenger cars sold in the United States.
Although the initial numbers are small, the trend is worth watching, as some of the pieces of the electric car puzzle are finally fitting together. Nissan just announced that it will ramp up U.S. assembly of the 2013 model year all-electric LEAF at its manufacturing plant in Smyrna, Tenn. The Leaf will be made in the same plant, on the current Altima and Maxima line, and next to Nissan’s gasoline-powered vehicles, and next door to the largest lithium-ion automotive battery plant in the U.S. The goal is to lower costs and appeal to a broader spectrum of customers. In all of 2012, Nissan sold 9,819 Leafs with about 19,500 on the road in the US, and 50,000 worldwide. And of course, Toyota has come out with its Plug-in hybrid Prius, selling 12,750 units in the last last year alone. In fact the total plug-in sales tripled from just over 17,500 in 2011 to about 53,000 in 2012.
Meanwhile, other entrants from the major car companies – from BMW to Mitsubishi – are joining the market. And there are the pure plays as well, such as Fisker and Tesla. The latter’s Model S – at $58,570 and priced competitively among relevant high-performance peers – just won 2013 Motor Trend Car of the Year, with the magazine commenting “The 2013 Motor Trend Car of the Year is one of the quickest American four doors ever built. It drives like a sports car, eager and agile and instantly responsive. But it’s also as smoothly effortless as a Rolls-Royce, can carry almost as much stuff as a Chevy Equinox, and is more efficient than a Toyota Prius…By any measure, the Tesla Model S is a truly remarkable automobile, perhaps the most accomplished all new luxury car since the original Lexus LS 400…At its core, the Tesla Model S is simply a damned good car you happen to plug in to refuel.” (It’s that kind of comment that suggest that alternative technologies in transportation have truly arrived. They are no longer green curiosities – they are great vehicles).
Tesla not only makes a great car, but it seems to have turned the corner on production volumes as well. In Q3 of last year, they went from making 5 cars per week to 100. By November, they had scaled to 200 cars per week, and have a goal of 20,000 for 2013.
So the era of the electric car appears to be dawning upon us. But what about the charging side of the equation? What does that mean for our electric power grid? The first thing to understand is that electric vehicle adoption has been hampered by a fear of running out of electricity, so-called ‘range anxiety,’ since they don’t get the hundreds of miles per fill-up one gets with a gasoline-powered vehicle. The lithium ion batteries simply do not yet have that capacity. To account for this, networks of charging stations are being built across North America. There are standards emerging for these chargers, but there is still some confusion among options.
Tesla, for example, has opted to build out its own proprietary network along well-traveled routes. It currently has nine stations – six in CA and three in the Northeast – with plans to go to 100 by 2015. These would be free for Tesla users and not support other vehicles. Meanwhile, drugstore chain Walgreens has plans for up to 800 EV chargers on site, and has 400 deployed in 18 areas including Philadelphia, Baltimore, Tampa, and Portland, Oregon. Unlike the Tesla approach, many of these charge about $1-2 per hour.
For its part, the electric energy utility NRG, is taking a dramatic and aggressive approach to move into this space. Through eVgo they offer network charging, where users have the option to pay a fixed monthly fee of as little as $19/month to charge up at DC Fast Charger sites, getting 50 miles of range in 15 minutes, ands they also provide an option for a slow charge as well. They also offer a program to plug in for extended times (at work places or multi-family sites) of 4-8 hours. Finally, eVgo will set up a home charging station for the individual user, with plans at $59/month. Their network started in the Houston and Dallas locations, but they are now extending into California and the Northeast. In California alone (as part of a settlement with the State over issues occurring suring the CA energy crisis over a decade ago) NRG has agreed to build and operate infrastructure for at least 200 fast-charging (480 volt) stations, and a minimum 10,000 level 2 (240 volt) stations in businesses and multi-unit dwellings.
The home charging infrastructure is also getting cheaper and more easily accessible. Lowes, Best Buy, and others now offer charging stations from manufacturers such as Schneider, Leviton, and GE in the $750-1000 cost range.
There are currently over 15,000 charging stations across the U.S., with many of them 240 volt rapid chargers. With that kind of draw on electricity demand, the obvious question is what will happen to peak demand. Will EV drivers draw so much power during driving hours (rush hour, or mid-day), that it contributes to overall peak demand? If so, this would be precisely the opposite of the reason the utilities originally hailed electric cars. The thought ten years ago was that they would mostly be charged at night, filling in the valley of low off-peak demand, and thus allowing more kilowatt-hours to flow across the same infrastructure. However, with rapid charging at higher voltages and kW levels, the dynamic could potentially push exactly the other way.
Let’s look at the actual charging capacities to get a sense of the potential magnitude: In the extreme, Tesla is offering a super high voltage charging opportunity, providing a range of 150 miles to its Model S 85 kilowatt-hour (kWh) battery in about 30 minutes. The charge capability is 480 volt, with a maximum 90 kilowatt (kW) draw. That level of voltage and capacity is quite significant. To put it in perspective, for planning purposes the California Energy Commission assumes the average residential household to have a peak ranging between 1.8 and 2.4 kW. So the supercharge station with 90 KW essentially packs the punch of about 40 households worth of peak demand. Looked at another way, a Sears/Kmart store might have 300 kW of peak demand, just over 3x what a single car battery charge would draw for a short period.
The other charging stations out there don’t pack quite the same firepower, but the standard level 2 240-volt chargers can draw up to 19 kW during periods lasting from 30 minutes to 3 hours. With increasing numbers of these stations, what is the potential impact to the electric grid?
Deloitte looked at precisely this issue recently, in its report Charging Ahead: The Last Mile. They interviewed numerous utility planners summarized “Surprisingly, we found that in general, the electric utility infrastructure is already prepared to meet the President’s 2015 challenge. Our research revealed that utilities will not likely need to upgrade or expand transmission or generation capacity in the next ten years specifically to meet electric demand from EVs at projected adoption rates….However, the research did identify near-term impacts to the electric infrastructure that deserve further study at the local distribution level, ‘the last mile,’ including possible clustering of EVs on low-capacity distribution transformers, such as 25 kVA , and the potential impact on local transformers of any capacity if clusters of EVs charge simultaneously during hours of peak electric demand. The research also showed that utilities are studying and addressing these impacts”.
The major findings:
1) Almost all the utilities surveyed had studied the impacts of EVs on their supply infrastructure, with the most common focus being on distribution level impacts, home charging stations, peak-hour charging, and research into transformers.
2) Nearly three-quarters of the utilities do not foresee an impact on the need for new generating capacity, and two-thirds feel they have adequate transmission infrastructure in place. Just over a tenth raised concerns about transformer overloading.
3) However, fully half indicated they are not notified when a ratepayer purchases an electric vehicle in their service territory (a few areas, such as California are working to design notification processes, and the Texas utilities have proposed a law requiring such notification).
For now, at least, any infrastructure problems appear to be at the local level. The concern of some in that area has to do with – ironically – peak demand at night. If a number of 240 volt chargers – which could recharge a car in 2-3 hours – were to be deployed in the evening, during off-peak rates designed to take peak demand from the grid, one might burn out the street-level transformers. “Many of these are undersized and designed to cool at night. Without time to cool, sustained excess current will eventually cook a transformer’s copper windings, causing a short and blacking out the local loads it serves,” according to an article in the IEEE.
This problem may be more than just theoretical. Data concerning the habits of EV owners in an Austin, TX suburb, indicated that over a two month period the residents generally tended to recharge at the same time – when returning from work. This also happened to be when many residents were also turning on air conditioning and other appliances.
At this point, it’s pretty evident that electric cars are coming into vogue and that at least in the short-term, we probably won’t have major difficulties absorbing them into the system. It’s also clear that they may have profound implications for the power grid in the longer-term, based on behavioral issues, tariff policies, emerging technology, and economics. This trend bears watching, and the utilities should be paying close attention to both volumes sold and user behavior. As electric and transportation systems collide, unexpected outcomes should not surprise us. | <urn:uuid:1ede2157-0cee-404d-8097-e47f49639760> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterdetwiler/2013/01/28/electric-cars-and-the-power-grid-how-are-they-coming-together/?commentId=comment_blogAndPostId/blog/comment/2443-1022-195 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00019-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961332 | 2,190 | 2.15625 | 2 |
Fires smouldered yesterday in isolated sections of the Everglades, although rains succeeded in extinguishing the greater part of the blaze burning along a nine-mile front between the South and New River Canal.
Citrus growers in the surrounding area stated that fires can be expected to be more numerous in the area due to the more inflamable quality of the vegetation after a freeze.
Dairymen and cattlemen in the area again propounded the need for diverting surplus water west of Road 26 into a permanent reserve. A high water table would eliminate the danger of such fires, they asserted.
Although the cause of the fires that started Thursday has been attributed to the burning of brush by farmers seeking to ward off additional frost damage, state firefighters asserted last night that bombs dropped by Navy bombers may have intensified the blaze.
Navy personnel aided Everglades fire department in fighting the fires.
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Key: "S:" = Show Synset (semantic) relations, "W:" = Show Word (lexical) relations
Display options for sense: (gloss) "an example sentence"
- S: (v) identify, place (recognize as being; establish the identity of someone or something) "She identified the man on the `wanted' poster"
- S: (v) name, identify (give the name or identifying characteristics of; refer to by name or some other identifying characteristic property) "Many senators were named in connection with the scandal"; "The almanac identifies the auspicious months"
- S: (v) identify (consider (oneself) as similar to somebody else) "He identified with the refugees"
- S: (v) identify (conceive of as united or associated) "Sex activity is closely identified with the hypothalamus"
- S: (v) identify, discover, key, key out, distinguish, describe, name (identify as in botany or biology, for example)
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By now, the charge-coupled device (CCD) camera is well-known to many of Astronomy's readers who take celestial images. But there are still holdouts who prefer the DSLR for its low cost and ease of use. Also, some new imagers aren't sure if a CCD camera is the right choice. To help you understand what's involved if you choose a CCD camera, and to lay the groundwork for future columns that deal with...
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September 2012: Learn from a master the step-by-step process behind creating a beautiful astroimage.
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Alum was first produced at Slapewath, Guisborough in 1604. In 1640 Sir Bryan Cooke discovered alum in the rocks at Peak, now more commonly known as Ravenscar. The Peak fault, a shift in the rock strata that occured 350 million years ago, left accessible Lias shales above sea level to the north of Ravenscar, an obvious advantage if you wanted to mine it without drowning.
Alum was used as a mordant for fixing dyes and in the leather industry to render hide supple and manageable. During the 19th century synthetic alum was produced and aniline dyes were invented that didn't require a mordant to fix them. The last alum works to close were those in Kettleness and Boulby in 1871. The industry had lasted for around 250 years.
|The Old Alum Works, Ravenscar|
|One of the stone drainage channels|
The next stage of the process was to introduce potassium and ammonia. Potassium was obtained by burning kelp seaweed in huge quantities and adding the resulting lees to the mixture. As for ammonia, stale human urine was shipped into the works in huge barrels. It was said that poor people's urine was better as it was not the product of such strong drink.
|The Winding House|
When the potash and ammonia was added to the brew it was left to cool and alum crystals gradually formed. The liquor could be reboiled time and time again to maximize the yield.
The industry has left indelible scars on the local landscape. A burning floor on the cliff above Sandsend has left a large, desolate area of bare shale reminiscent of the lunar surface. Remains of stone breakwaters and berthing points can be seen at Saltwick Bay and in many places the entire profile of the cliffs has been changed by alum mining. | <urn:uuid:3b63e800-e1d6-43a2-8469-8c243b58d0dc> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://whitbypopwatch.blogspot.com/2011/04/peak-alum-works.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977802 | 385 | 3.15625 | 3 |
To the men and women of the city and all ships at sea! The American Diabetes Association (ADA) has announced its 2010 Tour de Cure Ship-To-Shore Bike Ride will take place May 2, providing cyclists the opportunity for reportedly only the second time in the history of the world as we know it to pedal across the famed 6,060-foot-long Vincent Thomas and the 5,134-foot-long Gerald Desmond bridges to raise crucial fundage for the ADA in its fight against diabetes.
The Ship-To-Shore rides begin and end at the Queen Mary and offer five distinct routes from 8 to 61 miles in length, including a 10-miler where cyclists will return to post-ride festivities via a harbor cruise. Each route will feature fully supported rest stops with food and refreshments. To participate, individuals must raise a minimum of $150.
As a fan of taking my bike (most of the time legally) where it’s usually not allowed, you know I’ll be raising the money so that I can cross those bridges when I come to them! Hope you will, too. | <urn:uuid:2910a359-f8d8-4fe1-ab7f-ad0a5e2c31fe> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blogging.la/2010/03/09/shore-thing-bike-the-big-port-bridges-this-may/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928184 | 230 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Cybercriminals gangs are creating a surge in ransomware, says a new report from Symantec.
Ransomware is a type of malware best described as an online extortion racket. Malware locks or disables your PC in some way and then demands payment in the form of a "fine" to render your PC usable again. Like most scams, the ransomware message claims to come from a legitimate organization, such as the government or a public corporation, to try to convince victims that they did something wrong to incur the fine.
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In this section I will be bringing you some ‘how-to’ articles. It’s not necessarily a direct how-to in the tutorial sense but more just to show you the work involved in certain projects and how I personally might appoarch/go about something.
If it does help someone to better understand a certain technique or even just give them confidence in going and tackling a project they might not have wanted to/thought possible before then great. I, like you, am evolving all the time some don't take any of these as gospel as I am always trying to find ways to improve my technique and workflow too.
If there is a certain thing you would like to see in this section let me know. If it’s not possible to put a how-to up of it I will glady try to explain it via email etc if I can. Better yet, make sure to subscribe to RCSGraphicWorx on http://www.youtube.com/ as I will try to get some more videos etc added soon. | <urn:uuid:21dc1a55-677a-4c40-806e-c27dfebcbceb> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.rcsgraphicworx.co.uk/tutorials.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00034-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94621 | 217 | 1.601563 | 2 |
Lecturas en Familias is a Spanish literacy program for pre-school to elementary-aged children of migrant farm workers at Colonia Amistad in Independence , Oregon . The educational program provides services and learning methods to teach children and their parents' basic literacy skills.
Forgotten People Foundation:
The Forgotten People Foundation, founded in 2005 by Dr. Jerry Braza and Tuan Nguyen, works with those in Vietnam who are hungry, lonely, elderly, and those who are disenfranchised due to disabilities. The goal of the foundation is to complete construction of the Home for Abandoned and Disadvantaged Children.
Crest and the Boys and Girls Club of America partnered together to create an informational program entitled Dental HOPE (Health Outreach Parent Education). This program is intended to promote and provide resources about oral hygiene that will education families of low-income economic status.
WIC and Community Garden Partnership:
The Women, Infants and Children program is a publicly funded institution through the Department of Health and Human Services. The program provides supplemental food vouchers for the participants as well as providing nutrition education with the help of the local Marion/Polk county Food Share. The Food Share is also in charge of the local community gardens.
Project Play is a group of Western Oregon University students whose working objective is to help Falls City Elementary School make progress in building a new playground.
United Communities Against Meth (UCAM) is a program dedicated to the prevention and intervention of the methamphetamine epidemic in Polk County , Oregon . Western Oregon University students in conjunction with UCAM, based out of the Independence, Oregon YMCA, are working toward making connections in the community to find and create emergency shelters and foster care homes for children.
Western Oregon University students are working in correlation with the Simonka Place, a women and children's shelter in Keizer, Oregon, to update the shelter from a sterile environment to one that is welcoming and friendly.
Project Green is an organization based at Western Oregon University that is working to implement programs and activities on the campus to help WOU become more environmentally friendly.
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Key Factors For Designing Molded Hose Barbs
Q: I have an application that requires me to design a molded hose barb. What key factors should be considered?
A: Sealing a length of flexible tubing on a barb seems like a straightforward process. Create a barb and shove the tubing over it. However, anyone that has worked with hose barb and tubing, whether on their home irrigation system or a complex medical device knows that not all barbs are created equal.
There are 3 key factors to consider when specifying a hose barb for your application: outer diameter (OD), sharpness, and the manufacturing process.
1. The OD of the barb relative to the inner diameter (ID) of the tubing is the first key factor to consider. The larger the OD, the more stretch on the barb which will increase the pull off force of the barb. Need more pull off force? Then increase the OD. However, the tradeoff is higher assembly force, so balance is critical.
2. The second factor is barb sharpness. The sharper the barb the more holding force as the barb grips the tubing. A sharper barb will help increase pull off force without requiring an excessively large OD, which would increase the assembly force.
The OD and the sharpness are the key factor in tubing pull off resistance. Some may say the number of barbs matter, but if the barb is poorly made, it doesn’t matter how many you have, the tubing will pull off. Assuming they are made well, with the correct barb size and sharpness, single hose barbs tend to work better with soft stretchy tubing, and multiple barbs tend to work over a broader range of durometers, especially with stiffer tubing materials.
3. Finally the manufacturing process can play a significant role in the performance of a hose barb. Advanced manufacturing techniques can create multiple sharp barbs, but cheap tooling will result in rounded barbs and poorer performance. Parting lines on molded parts are natural leak paths so these must be minimized or avoided if possible. | <urn:uuid:e435ae3f-d508-48ef-a600-02f0abc1270c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.medicaldesignonline.com/doc/key-factors-for-designing-molded-hose-barbs-0001 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00003-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933755 | 418 | 2.046875 | 2 |
God:Does SHALOM mean Hello or Goodbye?
Me: You mean you don't know?
God:I know that I do not know.
Me: Technically, it means "peace."
God:Oh I get it.
Me: Alright. So, there's something I've always wanted to know. What is the correct pronunciation of the Tetragrammaton?
God:OK. Whoa. What is it? There might be more than one correct answer.
Me: Really? Does this mean the divine name could have had various vowel pointings?
God:For real. Indeed this mean the divine name could have had various vowel pointings does.
Me: One more question for you. Ben Meyers claims that Bultmann is greater than NT Wright. What do you think?
God:One what? And greater than NT Wright is Ben Meyers claims that Bultmann. I think a lot of things.
Me: If you had to choose, which would you rather read, Wright's "Jesus and the Victory of God" or Bultmann's "The Mythology of Jesus"?
God:Perhaps next time I will try it.
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Time traveling neutrinos oopsie daisy FEB 22 2012
Remember those time traveling neutrinos that they found in Italy? It is likely that a faulty connection between the GPS and the computer collecting data is to blame for the time travel illusion.
According to sources familiar with the experiment, the 60 nanoseconds discrepancy appears to come from a bad connection between a fiber optic cable that connects to the GPS receiver used to correct the timing of the neutrinos' flight and an electronic card in a computer. After tightening the connection and then measuring the time it takes data to travel the length of the fiber, researchers found that the data arrive 60 nanoseconds earlier than assumed.
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Editor's note: Dayle Haddon is a UNICEF Ambassador, a spokesman for L'Oreal and best-selling author of "The Five Principles of Ageless Living."
Rape victims wait for treatment at hospital. Many were too ashamed to look at Dayle Haddon.
BUKAVU, Democratic Republic of the Congo (CNN) -- Jeanne is one of the "lucky ones."
She was 15 years old when armed rebels attacked her village in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. She fled her home with her uncle into the night, but the rebels caught them, stabbing her uncle as he tried to protect her. Then they dragged her into the forest, tied her to a tree and raped her on and off for a month.
"No one came for me,'' says Jeanne, now 18. "No one asked about me or where I had been. No one from my family looked for me."
Jeanne is lucky because she found refuge. She discovered a new family in the General Referral Hospital of Panzi in Bukavu, Congo. Thousands of Congolese women are not so fortunate. Their bodies and souls have been brutalized: systematically raped by marauding rebel soldiers during a 10-year-old war; ostracized by their husbands and villages like modern-day lepers. Watch Jeanne tell her story »
I met Jeanne at the Panzi hospital while traveling to Congo on behalf of the Enough Project, an advocacy group that seeks to end crimes against humanity. Enough is one of several groups in Congo that are trying to rebuild the lives of the country's women. UNICEF is another. It funds the Panzi Hospital, which is an oasis of calm and order in a violent country.
The women who visit the hospital risk a long and dangerous journey over congested and difficult dirt roads. On the day of my visit, a group of them gather in the courtyard.
Their pain is evident. A few women can barely walk or have to shuffle along with a large stick for support, as if they are very old -- and in a way, they are. All these women have been violently raped
I pass them as they wait to see the doctor. Puddles of liquid have collected under some of the women sitting on the courtyard benches. The smell of their urine hits me.
I catch the movement of balled up rags nervously crammed into their laps as they try to stop the flow.
I walk by with my eyes drawn downward. As I look up, I meet their eyes. They quickly look away, embarrassed that I have seen. I look away as well.
The women's inability to control their bowels and urine comes from repeated rapes. The medical term is fistula. The walls of their uterus and bladder have been broken from repeated gang rapes by rebel soldiers, objects shoved roughly inside them and even guns fired into their vagina.
"A man with a gun can do whatever he wants," Cecile Mulolo, the psychologist at Panzi tells me.
I ask Mulolo how old is the youngest and oldest rape victim at Panzi.
"The oldest is in her 80s," she replies, "and the youngest is 16 months."
This is no simple act of rape. This is a systematic and calculated way to destroy the country. The violated women's husbands and families often reject them. The rebels know this. By breaking the bonds of family and village, the rebels manage to rip the fabric of these tight-knit communities.
That's what they did to Jeanne.
She is dressed in a purple, cotton dress dotted with white flowers when I meet her. She is very pretty. Her haunted brown eyes never leave my face when I talk to her. She never smiles.
Jeanne tells me that she has been at the Panzi Hospital for three years. She has been operated on five times and is depressed because the operations have not been successful. But the kindness of the hospital staff has given her strength to go on.
"They listen to me," she says in a soft, whispery voice. "They care about me.... Now the hospital is my family."
As for her future, she sees little hope for herself and others like her.
"I want to fight for the rights for women but a woman raped can do nothing," she tells me, with no hint of anger in her voice. "I don't know my future. I have lost belief."
I give Jeanne some tokens: nail polish, candy, a pair of inexpensive earrings and a little money to help her along. But they feel so ineffective. She receives my gifts with a sad, stoic expression.
Then I kneel down beside her and ask if I can give her a hug. She nods. I hug her, and she holds me tight, not letting me go.
I whisper to her. She now has a new family member, an aunt, one who lives far away but is still her aunt. Then I see something I haven't seen during our entire conversation -- a flicker of a smile.
When I leave the room I turn to say good-bye. She hasn't moved from her chair but her smile is still there. It lights up her face.
She is beautiful.
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Dayle Haddon.
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You won’t need to worry forgetting to put the toilet seat down ever again with this automated toilet seat installed in your bathroom. This toilet seat cover opens and closes based on readings from its infrared sensors located on the top and inside of the cover. Walk right up to the toilet and the cover will automatically open. Place your hand above the top of the cover to raise the seat . An occupant sensor on the inside of the cover determines whether or not the toilet is in use. When it detects the toilet is unoccupied, it will automatically lower the seat and cover of the toilet. The cover will stay closed until the toilet is approached again. You’ll never have to touch the toilet seat, eliminating contact with and transmission of germs.
To avoid unnecessary activation, the beam-type sensors require you break the infrared beam for a short amount of time before the seat and cover will respond. Therefore, walking past the toilet will not cause the cover to open. The seat is powered by a rechargeable lithium-ion battery, which can last up to three months on a full charge. When the battery power starts to wane, attach the included charger and plug into an AC outlet. If you do not have an AC outlet readily available, the toilet seat easily slides off for temporary relocation.
- Seat and lid open and close based on activity sensed by infrared beams
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Switching to CFL bulbs does not mean you will have to compromise your lighting. This CFL bulb only uses 14 Watts and produces light equivalent to a standard 60 Watt incandescent bulb. You will see energy saving of over 75%, with an estimated $1.69 usage cost for an entire year! The bulb’s exclusive patented InstaBright technology utilizes amalgam mercury to ensure an instant start time. No more warm-up time like with traditional CFL bulbs. Bulb life can last up to seven years, meaning you’ll have to replace bulbs less often. Its armor coating provides a durable and shatterproof coat designed to keep the glass and bulb contained, making it ideal to use with children or pets. However, the armor coating does not inhibit the light output. Produced light is so much like that of an incandescent bulb, you will hardly notice the difference.
We all spend lots of time on our tablets and iPads – and have the neck aches, muscle fatigue and eye strain to prove it. This plush pillow features a u-shaped ledge that holds your tablet in place while you rest the pillow on your lap or on a table. Your tablet will stay propped up to a comfortable viewing angle, leaving your hands free. No more sore wrists from gripping and holding the tablet in place. Tablets will fit into the pillow with or without a case and can be positioned horizontally or vertically. A 3 inch pocket is perfect for holding small items, such as writing utensils, headphones, cleaning cloths, and more. Straps are located on the back of the pillow, perfect for taking with you on the go or sliding over the handle of your rolling luggage. No matter how you choose to use it, the ePillow will provide a more comfortable and convenient way to ready, watch movies, browse the web, or play games on your tablet.
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Recent research shows that indoor air is often 2 to 5 times more polluted than outdoor air, which is why you should keep the air in your home as healthy and clean as possible. Your baby might not be getting a good night’s sleep because of the pollutants in the air he breathes. The high-performance Austin Baby’s Breath Air Purifier not only removes particulate matter like smoke, dust mites, pet dander, mold spores, germs, viruses, and pollen, it will even remove volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that come from such sources as cleaning solutions, carpets, paints, building materials and formaldehyde. Four stages of filtration ensure you are breathing clean air: First is a “large-particle” pre-filter to trap dust, hair, and pet dander; this filter is designed to be vacuumed rather than replaced. Second is a “medium-particle” pre-filter which traps mold, spores, and pollen. The third line of defense is 30 sq ft of medical-grade true HEPA filtration, which removes micro-organisms like bacteria and viruses. Finally, 6.5 pounds of military-grade activated carbon removes chemicals, gasses, and odors. Most air filters sold in stores do not remove gaseous VOCs, and the electrostatic cleaners emit harmful ozone. The machine has four casters for easy mobility, making it easy to move from room to room so your baby can breathe clean air.
- Recommended for babies, allergies, asthma, and smoke
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- Dynamic, color changing occupancy simulation helps prevent entry by criminals
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Yvonne Brill is known for her innovations in rocket propulsion. Her most important contributions are advancements in rocket propulsion systems for geosynchronous communications satellites in the form of the hydrazine/hydrazine resistojet propulsion system, or the electrothermal hydrazine thruster (EHT). Early on, Brill saw the importance of the system for the then-fledgling communications satellite industry.
The EHT is standard in industry. Since 1983, companies such as RCA, GE, Lockheed Martin and Orbital Sciences have used EHTs on their communications satellites.
A native of Winnipeg, Canada, Brill received her undergraduate degree from the University of Manitoba and her M.S from the University of Southern California. Beginning her career at Douglas Aircraft on the west coast, she eventually joined RCA Astro Electronics in the east. She also spent time with NASA and the International Maritime Satellite Organization. Among her many honors, Brill has been awarded the AIAA Wyld Award and AAES John Fritz Medal. | <urn:uuid:88e0885b-e2c9-443a-8f68-dfb0cca338b4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/407.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940614 | 205 | 1.820313 | 2 |
Warning about Unnecessary or Alternative Methods
for Obtaining Intellectual Property Protection
A trade-mark is a word, design, number, two-dimensional or three-dimensional form, sound or color, or a combination of two or more of these elements which a trader uses to distinguish his/her products or services from those of his/her competitors and serves to establish goodwill with the consumer. Almost every kind of company that operates a business uses a trade-mark of one kind or another to identify its products or services.
The difference between a trade-mark and a trade name is that the first is used with specific products or services coming from a single source, the trader, while the second identifies a company and its business as a whole. Words can be used interchangeably as both a trade-mark and a trade name. Use as a trade-mark will depend on the context of its use. Consulting a registered trade-mark agent or trade-mark lawyer is recommended.
The Trade-marks Act is federal (not provincial) legislation, and the Trade-marks Office in Ottawa/Hull administers the trade-mark registration system. Although a trade-mark owner acquires some legal rights in its trade-mark simply by using the trade-mark in the marketplace, these rights are limited to the geographic area in which the trade-mark is used and/or advertised and proof thereof must be made before the Court in case of litigation. Depending on whether the trade-mark is used in association with products or services, its use must fulfill certain criteria to be qualified as "use" under the law. Broader rights can be acquired by registering a trade-mark with the Trade-marks Office. The benefits of registration include the exclusive right to use the trade-mark throughout Canada, regardless of the areas in which the trade-mark is actually being used, and the right to sue for infringement of the registered trade-mark. In addition, if a trade-mark owner allows others to use its trade-mark or grants franchises, that use must be properly licensed. This is particularly important to protect the distinctiveness and enforceability of the trade-mark failing which it might be subject to expungement from the register.
A trade-mark may be incapable of being registered for different reasons, including the possibility that it is likely to be confused with a prior trade-mark. Different criteria are to be considered in evaluating the likelihood of confusion between trade-marks. A registered trade-mark agent or trade-mark lawyer can assess your trade-mark and provide an opinion as to whether the trade-mark you have or propose to adopt is capable of being protected in Canada.
It is highly advisable to conduct a search of trade-marks previously
registered or applied for before a trade-mark is used in the
marketplace, or before an application is filed. You may determine from
the search results if anyone else has already registered or applied for
the same or similar trade-mark, has used or intends to use the same or a
similar mark in the same field of activities, to the extent that the
public might be confused. If a prior confusing trade-mark is located by
the search, it may be best to select a different trade-mark, rather than
invest in a trade-mark which might later lead to a costly legal
dispute. Provincial searches for corporate names do not provide a list
of registered trade-marks. It is recommended that trade-mark searches
and a professional opinion be obtained from a registered trade-mark
agent or trade-mark lawyer.
Application for registration
An application for registration of a trade-mark can be prepared and filed by a registered trade-mark agent, who will also correspond with you and with the Trade-marks Office during the multi-step process leading to registration. In most cases, at least a year may elapse from the day the application is first filed until the day the registration certificate issues. The owner may begin to use the trade-mark at any time, provided it does not conflict with other trade-marks or trade names used or registered by others in the same field of activities.
Before you begin to use a trade-mark, (which could be the name of your business), whether you plan to register or not, you should consult with a registered trade-mark agent, and have a search of prior trade-marks conducted. If the search results are clear and the trade-mark is capable of being registered, then obtaining a federal trade-mark registration will increase your legal rights in the trade-mark. If your business involves licensing the use of your trade-marks to others, it is vital that you consult with a registered trade-mark agent or trade-mark lawyer to ensure that you are properly protected by trade-mark registrations. A registered trade-mark agent or trade-mark lawyer will also advise you as to the maintenance and protection of your trade-mark which must remain distinctive and properly used at all times. The trade-mark's relative strength or weakness will also affect the scope of protection it may receive. Consultation with a registered trade-mark agent or trade-mark lawyer is recommended before starting to use a trade-mark in the marketplace.
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HONOURS SUBJECT AREA
Sydney’s Discipline of Finance is a leading research group currently ranked among the top five finance groups in the Asia–Pacific region. Discipline members are actively engaged with industry both nationally and internationally, which means you get high-level, market-specific knowledge that mixes theory with current relevant practice. This major takes an applied approach, teaching you how capital markets work and what you need to know to work in them.
Finance focuses on understanding the financial decisions of corporations and individuals, as well as the structure and operations of financial institutions and financial markets.
Understanding the finance function is critical to the success of all corporations and helps inform decisions about what to invest in, what products to produce and how to finance the operations of the corporation.
The honours year
An honours degree in finance from the University of Sydney is a very prestigious and highly sought after qualification. The Finance honours program was introduced in 1996. Since this time, the Discipline of Finance has graduated over 150 honours graduates. This elite group of alumni have gone on to excellent graduate positions within leading investment banks, investment management, private equity firms and other financial services organisations. A number of these students have also undertaken PhDs in Finance.
Workload and assessment
The Finance honours program includes: a coursework component comprising 4 units of study (Research Methods; Econometrics; Advanced Corporate Finance; and Market Microstructure) and a thesis.
Students work on their thesis over the whole year, although a significant component of the work is completed in semester 2. The thesis is an extended piece of research in a specific area of finance. The thesis should be written in the format of an academic journal article, but with a more extensive literature review. The thesis is written under the direct supervision of an academic, whose role is to guide the topic selection, assist in the formulation of the research hypotheses and execution of the research and to ensure the overall direction of the research. Students are also expected to attend the weekly Discipline of Finance seminars. | <urn:uuid:7e723048-97dd-4aaa-bd05-426762f24316> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://sydney.edu.au/courses/Bachelor-of-Commerce-Honours/finance-honours | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00060-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94892 | 417 | 1.78125 | 2 |
Back-to-school shopping that actually makes a difference
by FARAH MOHAMED, Globe and Mail
When the beginning of the school year rolls around and parents and kids go shopping for school supplies, most of them would not fathom having to share one pencil with 29 other kids. In Libore, a small village in the Republic of Niger, Africa, children, were doing exactly that – that is, until 2005, when Robin Mednick started to raise funds ($500,000 to date) to send more than 6,000 kilograms of pens, pencils, rulers, geometry sets and notebooks, reaching most of the 6,000 students there.
“In December, 2005, my friend Dan Galbraith [now vice-chairman of P4K] told me he had just returned from the Francophone Games in Niger, and was devastated by the poverty. He said Canadian athletes had visited a school in Libore and noticed that 30 children were sharing a single pencil. My heart broke, and I simply said, ‘Dan, let’s do something.’”
“I called the Canadian consulate in Niger, to ask if they could distribute supplies if we sent them. They connected me with Amadou Madougou, the mayor of Liboré. We spoke that night, he sent a list of necessary supplies [pencils, paper, notebooks, rulers, erasers, chalk, slate boards and textbooks] and the next day I approached Michael Williams, then manager of Business Depot.”
“Roumanatou Moussa Zanguina, 20, lives five kilometres from school. She was not eligible for a scholarship last year so she did everything in her power to get one this year. Every day she walked 20 kilometres to and from school to learn. It worked! She did so well that this year she has received a scholarship and is in her final year.”
“$5 can buy a textbook; $100 can build a desk shared by three children (many are still sitting on the hard ground); $600 can sponsor a scholarship for one girl for one year – this includes her uniforms, books, supplies and tutoring in four subjects for the entire school year; $2,000 can sponsor a kindergarten.”
“We no sooner build a school, and it is overflowing with students. We invest money in teaching girls to sew, and sometimes they must leave school early to assist their families in the field.”
“The first time I wondered if we would ever get off the ground, was when I placed my first call to DHL Canada to ship over our very first test box with supplies. The cost was extremely high. It was the first stumbling block. So I faxed a letter to the president of DHL requesting assistance, and within 30 minutes he agreed to help. Over the years, DHL has shipped many boxes for us at no expense.”
“I am unlikely to take “no” for an answer when confronted with obstacles. I not only believe in thinking out of the box, I don’t understand why there is a box.”
“Winnie the Pooh, he builds meaningful relationships and is genuine, loyal and trustworthy. And somehow he manages to negotiate challenges with sweetness and kindness.”
What keeps you going?
“Two girls, Halimatou Tiémogo and Halimatou Soumana, recipients of our scholarships, shared their money and books with a third girl who hadn’t qualified for a scholarship. These are the moments that keep me going.”
What is next?
Our Farmers of the Future pilot program which teaches 200 kids in Grades 4, 5 and 6 to view agriculture as a business. By building mini-farms near primary schools, children irrigate the gardens, tend tree nurseries, tackle environmental issues, and learn to market their produce and invest their earnings.
“Jian Ghomeshi: I would be honoured if he brought his compassion for people, insight, wit and wisdom to help further our cause.”
This interview has been condensed and edited.
Farah Mohamed is president & CEO of the G(irls)20 Summit. Send suggestions for Action Figure to firstname.lastname@example.org.
Robin Mednick, 58, is the co-founder, president and executive director, Pencils for Kids (P4K), pencilsforkids.com.
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RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — A team led by a South Dakota School of Mines and Technology assistant professor has discovered a new species of plant-eating dinosaurs that was a food source for an extinct relative of the crocodile.
Clint Boyd and two colleagues from other universities published fossil evidence of a crocodyliform feeding on small ornithopod dinosaurs. The findings, published this week in the academic journal PLOS ONE, are significant because dinosaurs are typically depicted as the dominant species, he said.
Small dinosaurs normally had worry about theropod dinosaurs like raptors or the T. rex, so the discovery adds a new dimension, Boyd said.
"You had your dominant riverine carnivores, the crocodyliforms, attacking these herbivores as well, so they kind of had it coming from all sides," he said.
Boyd's research started when he was looking through boxes of tiny bits of dinosaur bones at the Natural Museum of Utah in 2007. The bones, collected in 2002 from public lands within the Grand Staircase Escalante-National Monument in southern Utah, date back to the late Cretaceous period, which is toward the end of the age of dinosaurs.
Evidence shows bite marks on bone joints and proof of a crocodyliform tooth embedded in a dinosaur femur.
The dinosaur species has yet to be named.
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Collembola are entognathous (mouthparts located within a 'gnathal pouch'), wingless hexapods with antennae always present. Collembolan fossils from the Devonian (ca 400 million years ago) Rhyniella praecursor (Hirst et Maulik, 1926) are among the oldest known records of terrestrial animals and hexapods. There are cca 7900 described species worldwide. Around 70 new species of Collembola have been described every year for the last 10 years. The estimated number of Collembola species is 50 000.
Collembola inhabit all different kind of habitats such as soil, litter, vegetation, caves or even water surface. Collembola are polyphagous, in general; some species are saprophagous (decomposed plants), coprophagous (excrements), necrophagous (cadavers), mycetophagous (fungi), bacteriophagous (soil micro-organisms) or pollinophagous (pollen). Some are even predacious. Collembola are at the beginning of the food chain and they are often hunted by predators such as beetles, mites, harvestman, falsescorpions, spiders etc.
Collembola are small animals, big mostly between 1 and 5 mm. The smallest are just 0,12 and the biggest are 17 mm in size. Collembola may be often recognised by a posterior ventral forked abdominal appendage, the furca, and the ventral tube. They use furca to jump and escape predators, and they are one of the greatest jumpers in the animal world.
Around 110 species have been recorded in Croatia, so far. There are about 20 troglobite Collembola found in Croatia and some of them are still undiscribed. Cave Collembola have developed series of adaptation to underground life like extremely elongated antennae and numerous chemoreceptors and chaetae on antennae and body. Their legs are longer than those of surface Collembola, and claws are more elongated which enables them to walk on wet walls and speleothems. Surface species are often in variety of different colors while cave species lost their pigment. Most of them also lost their eyes or they are reduced to just few ocelli. Cave Collembola have changed their metabolism and biological processes so they lay fewer but larger eggs, and they accumulate more fat in their bodies so they can survive longer periods without food.
Some of the cavernicolous species found in Croatia are stenoendemics like Typhlogastrura topali (Loksa & Bogojević 1967) known so far only from two caves near Dubrovnik, or Pseudosinella dallaii Gisin & Gama, 1970 known only from Veternica cave on Medvednica Mt. Some other species are widespread like Tritomurus scutellatus Frauenfeld, 1854, that can be found from Gorski Kotar and Istria to Velebit and Lika region, or like Pseudosinella heteromurina (Stach, 1929) that can be found in caves in Lika, Gorski Kotar and Kordun region. Some of the troglobitic Collembola found in Croatia have developed peculiar adaptation to cave life such as extremely long antenna like in species Verhoeffiella longicornis (Absolon, 1900).
During recent exploration many new cave species for Croatia and science have been discovered. A long work of descriptions and fulfilling of species list for Croatia is ahead.
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Peace in the Holy Land: Hailstones of Fire and Water?
Education is key to peace in the Holy Land, affirmed many of the distinguished members of the Council of Religious Institutions of the Holy Land (CRIHL) at the event "Preventing Incitement and Promoting Peace," held this afternoon at the U.S. Institute for Peace (USIP) in Washington, DC.
Here to meet with Vice President Joe Biden, the ten members of the council, which is composed of the most senior religious officials of the Holy Land, had come mainly from Israel, Palestine, and Jordan, but also from Norway and Connecticut (Yale University).
Four members were the speakers; the others joined the panel to field questions from moderator David Smock, Senior Vice President at USIP, and then from the audience.
Speakers included Canon Trond Bakkevig, founder of CRIHL and pastor of the Church of Norway; Mahmoud Habbash, Palestinian Minister of Waqf and Religious Affairs; Rabbi Yona Metzger, Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel; and Patriarch Fouad Twal, Latin Patriarch of Israel/Palestine and Jordan.
CRIHL's bottom line is working for peace from the top down, by setting examples for the grassroots to follow. The group formed in 2005 after first convening in 2002 in Alexandria, Egypt, invited by then Archbishop of Canterbury and hosted by the Grand Imam of Al Azhar. There a joint declaration was issued binding the participants to work toward peace and abhor religion-based violence--specifically, to keep channels of communication open, work closely with their political counterparts, and to engage with local and international communities to work toward peace.
Canon Bakkevig, first to speak, affirmed that peace is a necessity that is possible to achieve, a matter of willingness and ability. Since CRIHL was formed and even though it has met regularly, violence in the name of religion and territoriality has flourished in the Holy Land off and on. Despite this, these clergymen perpetrate the themes that the land is holy and Jerusalem especially holy as its center; the three narratives should be respected; and the status of the holy sites should not be changed.
Further, derogatory statements about any of the three religions should not be tolerated; desecration of holy sites should be forbidden and, perhaps most important, the problem of images of the "other" perpetrated in schoolbooks must be addressed, an effort led by Professor Bruce Wexler of Yale University.
The results of Wexler's project are hoped to eliminate hateful stereotypes found in schoolbooks and to replace these with objective identifications to promote peace and harmonious coexistence. Bakkevig later expressed this goal as three activities: "education, education, and education."
All four clerics expressed concern for the future, for teaching younger religious leaders to have confidence in each other, and to promote peace in the Holy Land.
Mahmoud Habbash, next to speak, said that peace in the Holy Land is a tough issue requiring open hearts and minds. Any achievement in this direction, however small, is of vital importance.
Equal rights for all is a paramount principle, as is comprehensive justice. Once these goals are achieved, said Habbash, the whole world will have peace, security, and stability, all of which will be sustainable.
But words must translate into action, he emphasized, requiring concessions on both sides, Palestinian and Israeli--both must benefit and neither be deprived. Peace can't be complete until you wish the same for your brother as you wish for yourself.
Muslims, Christians, and Jews must look toward their common interests. Palestinians have been oppressed, suppressed, humiliated, and enslaved; continuation of murders on both sides is an enemy of peace, said Habbash.
But peace can't exist for one side at the expense of the other; that's the logic of the jungle, where creatures kill, rather than love, to survive. | <urn:uuid:9d36bd5c-6f93-490e-be5f-1deb67d4e947> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.opednews.com/articles/Peace-in-the-Holy-Land-Ha-by-Marta-Steele-120228-281.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00076-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958605 | 824 | 2.15625 | 2 |
Preventing Cervical Cancer in Bolivia with the HPV Vaccine
Cervical cancer, one of the most deadly and most preventable non-communicable diseases, will kill around 300,000 women this year. Although the disease is preventable and treatable with a comprehensive approach that includes screening and HPV vaccination, a lack of resources means that women and girls in developing nations make up a staggering 80% of all new cases of cervical cancer and 88% of deaths from the disease.
IPPF/WHR’s Member Association in Bolivia, CIES, is leading the way toward change with new programs and strategies for reaching those who are most vulnerable. CIES operates 14 clinics and mobile health units in hard-to-reach communities in Bolivia, a country with an alarmingly high rate of cervical cancer. In partnership with the government and a Gardasil access program, CIES offers the HPV vaccine in schools, health centers, and mobile clinics to ensure widespread access to this lifesaving prevention measure. To date, more than 75,000 girls have received vaccinations.
To learn more about the work CIES is doing to protect thousands of Bolivian girls from cervical cancer, while increasing public awareness about preventing the spread of HPV, read "Why are Women Dying from a Preventable Disease?" by IPPF/WHR Regional Director Carmen Barroso at The Women's International Perspective and “Delivering Cervical Cancer Prevention in the Developing World,” a new report from Women Deliver.
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The inspection was carried out by one Additional Inspector.
Description of the school
Coxhoe Primary is an average sized school whose pupils come from Coxhoe Village. The vast majority of pupils come from White British backgrounds and there are very few pupils whose first language is not English. The proportion of pupils eligible for free school meals is below average. Children arrive in the Reception class from several local nurseries with the skills and knowledge typical for their ages.
Key for inspection grades
Overall effectiveness of the school
Coxhoe Primary is an outstanding school. Its modest self-evaluation that it is good reflects the school’s desire not to appear complacent and to continually strive to improve further. All staff have a very clear vision of where the school is going, the very high expectations of their pupils and of themselves are the reasons why pupils achieve so well. The safety, well-being, enjoyment and achievement of every pupil are at the heart of the school’s work. The school provides outstanding value for money.
Parents are overwhelmingly positive in their support for the school. Their comments included: ‘an excellent school that provides a high standard of education’, ‘approachable staff who set challenging homework and go the extra mile’, ‘give kids a real sense of teamwork and self-worth’ and ‘very caring leadership and management’.
Pupils make good progress in the Foundation Stage and in Key Stage 1 and reach above average standards. This progress accelerates to become outstanding as they move through Key Stage 2 and standards reached are high. Pupils’ attainment at the end of Year 6 has been consistently significantly above average for the last five years. This represents outstanding achievement for all pupils since entry to Reception. Measures of progress place the school in the top 2% nationally.
Teaching is never less than good across the school and some features of teaching and learning are exemplary. For example, teachers plan their work with great care to ensure that it is tailored to the needs of all pupils. Very flexible setting arrangements, excellent support for both the highest and lowest attainers and very high expectations all lead to outstanding achievement for all pupils.
Pupils’ personal development and well-being are outstanding. The school takes excellent care of all pupils and has a very warm and supportive ethos where pupils really feel valued and secure. Pupils enjoy their work immensely and want to succeed. Their behaviour is exemplary. In spite of the school’s exhaustive efforts to improve pupils’ attendance this remains average. Pupils benefit from a good curriculum which is rich and well matched to their needs. The school has a very firm focus on the core subjects which results in pupils having excellent basic skills in literacy and numeracy.
Leadership and management are outstanding. It is a great tribute to all staff at Coxhoe School that despite recent staff changes and absence through illness, pupils’ achievement has remained outstanding. The leadership of the deputy headteacher (in the temporary absence of the headteacher) and senior staff is excellent. They promote an atmosphere which is challenging yet supportive and where all staff are working in complete harmony to maximise the achievement of their pupils.
What the school should do to improve further
- Improve attendance by actively targeting the minority of parents who are failing to send their children to school regularly.
Achievement and standards
The achievement of all learners from their starting point when they enter the Reception class to the time when they leave school is outstanding. In the Foundation Stage, pupils make overall good progress but it is particularly good in literacy and mathematical development to reach above average standards. Results in national tests in 2005 and unvalidated test results for 2006 indicate that standards reached in English, mathematics and science are high. Pupils with learning difficulties and/or disabilities and those with English as an additional language make excellent progress because their needs are identified very accurately and they receive invaluable support from teachers and teaching assistants. This well targeted support is one of the keys to the school’s outstanding success. The school’s extensive analysis of pupils’ results has identified very minor differences in the performance of boys and girls and intervened in their learning to ensure that no groups of pupils achieve less than their best.
Personal development and well-being
Pupils work in an outstanding spirit of cooperation with their teachers and with each other. They clearly enjoy learning. A parent commented that her Year 1 child enjoyed school so much he wanted to go back after only the first week of the summer holidays! Year 6 pupils talked at length when asked about the things they liked about their school but found it difficult to think of anything that could be improved. They talked knowledgeably about how they would keep safe and eat healthily. They have a clear sense of right and wrong and show this in the way they care for each other. Older pupils are enthusiastic about the responsibilities they are given. For example, they enjoy being members of the school council and carry out important tasks such as looking after younger children in a very responsible and independent way. Pupils are very knowledgeable and curious about their community and the wider world and have a good understanding of other cultures. Pupils’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development is excellent. In an uplifting assembly pupils sang enthusiastically as they prepared for the harvest festival in the local church.
Quality of provision
Teaching and learning
Teaching and learning are outstanding. Lessons are challenging and lively and teachers ask probing questions which make pupils think for themselves. Older pupils make good use of their handheld computers to do further research and complete homework. Year 6 pupils are encouraged to become skilled in assessing their own work and that of others. In the Reception classroom, pupils have a good range of opportunities to develop their skills through well structured play. Pupils’ work is assessed very regularly and marking is outstandingly thorough and constructive so pupils are left in no doubt about how to improve their work. Pupils are set very precise and challenging targets, they know how to reach them and talk proudly about achieving them. Because pupils’ progress is tracked so carefully, teachers are able to quickly intervene in their learning and give them excellent extra support when they need it.
Curriculum and other activities
The good curriculum has an appropriate focus on the core subjects but it is also broad and varied. In Reception, although teachers are creative in providing good opportunities for outdoor learning, the further development of this area has been held back by the need for adjacent building work to take place. There is good, imaginative and continually improving provision for the use of information and communication technology by both pupils and staff. Many pupils enjoy varied enrichment opportunities such as learning to play a musical instrument or to take part in pantomimes and plays. Amongst the many activities on offer, pupils talked particularly enthusiastically about a recent trip to Paris, the outstanding success of the girls’ football team and their use of the personal handheld computers which the school provides. The school has outstanding links with other agencies and with the local community and makes maximum use of the expertise of classroom assistants and parents, one of whom teaches the pupils French.
Care, guidance and support
Care, guidance and support are outstanding. Pupils receive excellent academic guidance and because parents are kept fully informed about what their children are doing at school they are closely involved in their children’s learning. Pupils recognise and value the huge amount of extra help and support they are given with their work which helps them to achieve so well. The school takes great care to ensure that pupils are kept safe and healthy. All appropriate safeguarding procedures are fully in place and understood by all staff. Recent changes to school meals have ensured that most pupils eat fresh, homemade food at lunchtimes.
Leadership and management
Outstanding leadership and management are key factors in the school’s success. Senior leaders are sharply evaluative of the school’s work. They are firmly focused on raising standards further and are very clear about their priorities for development. These priorities are shared by all staff who fully understand their roles and responsibilities and are continually analysing and evaluating their own and their pupils’ work in order to bring about further improvement. Governors are experienced, have a detailed knowledge of the school and support it very well. The school has made excellent progress since the last inspection and has an outstanding capacity to improve further. | <urn:uuid:5e34e6c4-954f-485e-96c6-d5bbe22506d5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://durham.schooljotter.com/coxhoe/Virtual+Office/Ofsted+Report | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00018-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97536 | 1,715 | 1.78125 | 2 |
RALEIGH — It took another scary moment, another puck to the face, to refuel the NHL debate on mandating helmet visors.
New York Rangers defenseman Marc Staal was hit near the right eye by a deflected shot in a game Tuesday against the Philadelphia Flyers. The Rangers, in a statement released Wednesday afternoon, said Staal would be sidelined indefinitely but noted doctors were optimistic he would make a full recovery.
Staal doesn’t wear a visor. Neither do his two brothers on the Carolina Hurricanes roster, centers Eric and Jordan Staal. They aren’t required in the NHL.
“But when something like this happens to someone close to you, or anyone really, it makes you think about it,” Eric Staal said Wednesday.
Many believe visors should be a required safety measure in the NHL. Among them is Hurricanes coach Kirk Muller, who didn’t use a visor in his playing days in the 1980s and ’90s, when such things were generally frowned upon in the rough-and-tumble sport.
“It’s different today,” Muller said. “We were never brought up with it or thought of wearing them. The thing about today is the pace of the game is so fast ...
“The most valuable part of your body in hockey are the eyes. It’s starting to make more and more sense now that we make (visors) mandatory.”
Eric Staal said he talked to Marc on Wednesday morning and his brother was feeling a little better.
“They have to wait for the swelling to go down, so there’s not much more we will know about it until then,” Eric said. “Hopefully he dodged a bullet. All we can do for now is keep him in our prayers. He’s staying positive about it, which is the kind of person he is.”
Staal’s injury quickly brought the issue of mandating visors back to the forefront. While often discussed, no formal policy has been proposed by the league’s powers that be.
Canes forward Kevin Westgarth said visors were discussed during the recent CBA labor sessions by a subcommittee on player safety concerns, but it was a back-burner issue.
“I do think it will be mandatory in the near future,” Westgarth said.
The NHL Players Association said almost 70 percent of players are using shields this season, compared to 58 percent last season. It’s becoming a part of the NHL culture.
Players in junior hockey are well-protected. Collegiate players use full cages on their helmets. Visors are required in the American Hockey League.
“It’s never been something I’ve not known,” said Canes defenseman Jamie McBain, who played college hockey at Wisconsin. “It has a protection value that’s big for me.
“The way pucks are shot and deflected by the forwards and things like that, it’s tough to react and get out of the way. It’s tough to avoid and it makes you cringe when it does happen, like last night (with Staal).”
Some players maintain they don’t use visors because it creates a vision problem. Canes assistant coach Rod Brind’Amour said he once used a visor for a few games but he felt like a fan in the stands “watching a game through the glass.”
Canes forward Tim Wallace wore a visor when he was with the Charlotte Checkers in the AHL this season. Once he was called up to the Canes, where he had a choice, he took it off.
“Tough question,” Wallace said. “It fits my style of game not to wear one. I’m just kind of a grittier guy and it’s easier to get things going that way. And it’s easier to see and doesn’t fog up.”
Eric Staal has had a few close calls. He was once hit by a stick on the bridge of his nose and on another occasion close to his right eye. He had to wear a visor when he played for Canada in the 2010 Winter Olympics and said he has considered using one in recent seasons but held off.
“I’m just so used to not wearing one,” he said.
But Marc Staal’s injury may cause him to reconsider. Eric Staal was first told of his brother’s injury after the Canes’ game Tuesday against Buffalo by Ron Francis, the Hurricanes’ vice president of hockey operations.
During a Hall of Fame playing career, Francis wore a visor. After nearly losing an eye when he was 18, Francis began using a visor in 1981 and said he was one of the first to do it.
Helmets were not mandated in the NHL until 1979, when the rule was grandfathered into the league. Craig MacTavish was the last NHL player who refused to wear a helmet.
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To follow up on the question Abby asked in class today on whether or not Ohio is a swing state, I looked it up and it seems that Ohio is not in fact a swing state. The New York Times classifies it as "Leaning Republican." It's a very important part of the rhetorical context of both speeches you're reading this week, so keep that in mind. Also, did you know there's an entire blog devoted to analyzing swing states in the 2004 election? Here it is: Swing State Project. | <urn:uuid:8175085b-4627-44fc-b6b1-c1d443bdc197> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.lib.umn.edu/ratli008/1101/005802.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00058-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97233 | 104 | 1.570313 | 2 |
The Fellows have been hard at work all summer on the Professional Outreach Project at Awbury Arboretum. The project began by researching examples of inviting entryways and effective internal signage at similar institutions so that the same could be developed at Awbury Arboretum.
After this initial research phase, the Fellows started phase two, Inviting Entryways. In this phase the main goal was to attract visitors to the Arboretum by making each entryway consistent and inviting. The Fellows created a general template with which they designed new signs to be placed at the various entrances to the Arboretum. They also developed a plant list and plant installation garden design to add color and seasonal interest to four of the entrances to the Arboretum.
The second POP Advisory Committee (POPAC) produced positive feedback regarding the proposed signs and planting designs. The entire POPAC includes Chris Van de Velde, General Manager, and Beth Miner, Director of Outreach, both of Awbury Arboretum, as well as Dottie Mile, Interpretation Manager at Longwood Gardens, and Robert Lyons, Professor and Director of the Longwood Graduate Program.
Now the Fellows are using the next two weeks to finish their work in Phase Three, Internal Signage. They are currently addressing way-finding and interpretation needs inside the borders of the Arboretum and are developing way-finding signs to place in various locations around the Arboretum. New interpretive signs are being designed for several areas, which correspond to places currently highlighted on the Awbury map. This interpretive material will explain basic information about selected gardens and habitats to aid in informal education at the Arboretum.
The Fellows will spend the final two weeks in September compiling a summary document to share with Awbury’s staff. Going forward, the Fellows plan to produce the signs they have designed and to install the signs and selected plants. | <urn:uuid:af11daa5-a80d-4e33-81e0-4f1d73330455> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://agdev.anr.udel.edu/longwoodgradblog/pop-2012-update/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00074-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946154 | 398 | 1.648438 | 2 |
Leaving office after eight years on the Cary Town Council, businesswoman Marla Dorrel tells the story of Cary's "old guard" and its discomfort with newcomers who want a say in local decisions. The "guard," Dorrel says, are the movers and shakers who've handpicked Cary's leaders and set its growth strategies for decades. They have established high standards, fostered close ties with developers and gotten exactly what they wanted: an affluent, well-educated and intelligent community. Their closed system worked great when Cary was small and sprawling, she says. But with Cary filling up, it doesn't work anymore.
"They didn't think about how things might change when this affluent, well-educated and highly intelligent populace became engaged in their own government," Dorrel says. "Perhaps they didn't think they'd become engaged at all. One thing is for sure. It is much easier to maintain control when the population is 20,000 than when it exceeds 120,000."
In Local Democracy Under Siege: Activism, Public Interests and Private Politics (New York University Press, 2007), a team of anthropologists looking at five North Carolina communities, including the City of Durham and Chatham County, reports that "market rule" by local elites and business interests is ascendant while citizens typically struggle to be heard. "The large taxpayers and developers are virtually super-citizens," co-author and UNC-Chapel Hill Professor Don Nonini said after a reading last week. "Others, especially low-income residents, are almost sub-citizens."
"Market rule thrives on citizen disengagement from the public sphere," Nonini added.
In this week's Cary elections, the issue of citizens' influence—or the lack of it—is on a par with the growth issue. It's fueling the insurgent campaign of former council member Harold Weinbrecht, who's challenging Mayor Ernie McAlister. Weinbrecht's supporters include many folks who tried unsuccessfully to stop a pair of dense developments from being approved recently at the High House Road and Davis Drive intersection.
Dorrel, who's supporting Weinbrecht, thinks the citizens' futility is all too common.
"Our 'brain trust,' our intellectual capital," as she terms Cary's residents, "is a tremendous resource that has largely been ignored" by Cary's leaders, she argues. McAlister disagrees, contending that he's struck the proper balance between developers and citizens, correcting the anti-growth policies of former Mayor Glen Lang.
In Raleigh, the Oct. 9 municipal elections—and potential run-offs next month—are also engendering headlines about growth and its side effects of traffic congestion, lagging infrastructure and the need for more parks and open space. But behind that debate is the shadow question of whether average citizens can still be heard at City Hall as Raleigh's population hits 360,000.
Groups such as Community SCALE, which is trying to put the brakes on house teardowns and out-of-scale replacements ("McMansions") in older Raleigh neighborhoods, have been raising that question. The neighborhoods have tried for several years to convince the council of the need for infill standards to limit builders' appetites. Frustrated, they petitioned recently for a blanket downzoning of more than 100 properties—a move born out of desperation when the council and the city's planning staff each put them off again this year.
"What has made our neighborhoods so coveted is being destroyed by those seeking to profit from it," says Philip Letsinger, a SCALE member.
The issue was raised in a different context by the Friends of Horseshoe Farm Park, who organized broad public support for keeping the park natural, without the recreational facilities and parking lots favored by the city's Parks & Recreation Department. (Horseshoe Farm is located in Northeast Raleigh along an ox-bow bend in the Neuse River.) The Friends' yearlong campaign persuaded the official citizens committee writing the park's master plan; it left the facilities out. But the City Council was split, and in May it set aside the master plan without a vote.
Friends and Community SCALE members are prominent in the campaigns of two council challengers, Nancy McFarlane in District A (North Raleigh) and Rodger Koopman in District B (Northeast Raleigh plus some of the SCALE neighborhoods). They're trying to unseat incumbents Tommy Craven and Jessie Taliaferro, respectively.
Neighborhoods battling developers is an old story in Raleigh, of course. But as in Cary, the nature of those fights is changing as sprawl plays itself out at the city's edges and developers look to the downtown neighborhoods for infill and high-density projects.
That shift is a major factor behind the heated battle going on over the Citizen Advisory Councils. The 18 CACs are supposed to be the main avenue for citizens' input on development and other community issues. But CAC leaders complain that the city gives them minimal staff support and spotty information even about policies that affect their neighborhoods.
It's an especially sore point with leaders of the two Southeast Raleigh CACs closest to the downtown redevelopment action. In both, residents see a paradoxical pair of threats: One is slumlords and crime; the other is that the gentrifying downtown will push east and eventually drive them out. But instead of empowering citizens, says Central CAC Chair Lonnette Williams, the city treats her CAC "as a way to tell us what they want us to know. And if we differ with them, then it goes nowhere."
Octavia Rainey, co-chair of the North Central CAC, agrees, saying there's little follow-through when residents do present their ideas. Rainey pointed to a December 2006 report by her "Neighborhood Quality Team" making specific recommendations about housing, economic development and crime.
"I didn't get one ounce of response," Rainey says. "It was a complete waste of time."
Strengthening the CACs is a major plank in McFarlane's and Koopman's platforms as well as that of Helen Tart, an at-large council candidate. The issue is so contentious, however, that when CAC leaders raised it again recently and asked for a mediated session with the council, the council voted to hold a mediated session by itself—without CAC participation. Originally scheduled in September, it was postponed until Oct. 16—one week after the elections. | <urn:uuid:977af77a-64c6-44b4-adcd-3571d03ddd1a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/cary-and-raleigh-citizens-raise-voices-and-votes/Content?oid=1204253 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00063-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96809 | 1,335 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Yesterday’s newsletter featured a tech tip about how to make sure your stemware will fuse flat, just in case you were in the mood to fuse a wine glass or martini glass.
An attentive reader (thanks Jeanne!) e-mailed me with questions, so I thought I would expand on the concept for all of you who aren’t subscribed to the newsletter. Which you really should be…right over there in the right sidebar, it’s not painful, really.
Here we go:
I’m starting with two martini glasses, both purchased from the thrift store down the street. This started out as an experiment to see if it was possible to melt a martini glass flat to use for other projects.
One of the martini glasses goes into the kiln whole. The other one is marked and then cut. By cutting off either side of the base, we can make sure the glass won’t roll when it fuses.
Here are the two glasses next to each other in the kiln. (not actually close enough to get into the same shot…):
Fire with a regular firing schedule, and guess what you get?
One martini glass shaped piece, and one gloppy mess. Here’s another shot on a higher contrast background:
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Northwest Colorado offers a slew of game species, from pronghorn to grouse
Elk and deer aren’t the only things on hunters menus in Northwest Colorado. The region is also known for a variety of other species luring outdoorsmen to Moffat and Routt counties every year.
Aside from antlered game — elk, deer and moose — the next most popular species on hunters’ lists is likely the pronghorn antelope. Rifle bearers far and wide descend upon the region’s sage-covered plains and rolling hills for long-range, open-country hunts far different than the tactics used for other game. And this year should prove especially fruitful pronghorn.
“Despite heavier-than-normal snowfall, the herds are in pretty good shape,” maintains Jeff Yost, a terrestrial biologist for the Colorado Division of Parks and Wildlife. “We had higher-than-normal pronghorn and deer dawn losses over the winter and spring, and higher-than-average calf losses for elk, but for the most part, the adults survived pretty well. And with all that moisture, habitat conditions are great, which will compensate to some degree. The animals should be going into fall in really good condition.”
As with hunting for larger game, if you can get on private land, so much the better.
“Agricultural development and past drought years have redistributed antelope onto private lands,” says Darby Finley, wildlife biologist at the Colorado Division of Parks and Wildlife Meeker office. He adds that with healthy animal numbers, Wildlife officials have been able to maintain high license numbers. Pronghorn licenses are unlimited during archery season and by drawing only for muzzle-loading and rifle seasons.
Finley also points to the possibility of private licenses leftover from the drawing (available after Aug. 9) and cautions hunters to seek permission to hunt on private property. Colorado law does not require private landowners to post their property with no trespassing signs or fences, making it the hunter’s responsibility to mind property boundaries.
If you’re hunting pronghorn on public land, some of the best opportunities come early, toward the end of the archery season, in North Park.
“During the rut, the dominant bucks run the sub-dominate males back and forth to keep them away from the harem,” says Josh Dilley, district wildlife manager for the Walden East Game Management Unit (GMU). He adds that the populations are especially strong on the public lands across North Park’s five GMUs — a region otherwise known for its moose habitat.
It’s a different pronghorn picture farther north, however. On July 28, the National Wildlife Federation hosted a meeting in Walden addressing the results of a recent report by wildlife biologists John Ellenberger and Gene Byrne on declining pronghorn and mule deer populations along the Colorado/Wyoming state line, based on analyzing 30 years of data for game management units in both states.
Grouse and other species
Musings on mule deer and pronghorn aside, plenty of other game species in Northwest Colorado also garner hunters’ attention. On the bird side, grouse also regularly draw outdoorsmen to the area.
According to Division of Parks and Wildlife Meeker area wildlife manager Bill de Vergie, all three species — blue (dusky), great sage and columbine sharp-tail — are present and hunted regularly throughout Northwest Colorado. “Quite a few people come hunt for them every year,” he says. “There are separate seasons and bag limits for each. A lot of times even elk hunters are opportunistic and go after blue grouse during their hunts for bigger game.”
Steamboat Springs Division of Parks and Wildlife area wildlife manager Jim Haskins maintains that Hahn’s Peak Basin is one of the best in the state for blue grouse hunting.
On the other end of the spectrum, bears also lure hunters to the area. Haskins says that despite the heavy winter, the bear population remains strong and shouldn’t be negatively impacted from hunting pressure. “Not many people put in for the draw, so there are usually a lot of leftovers,” he says.
The mountain lion population also should yield successful harvests, with record-book cats taken as recently as last year.
The only caveat: It’s illegal to hunt mountain lions without a Division of Parks and Wildlife-issued mountain lion education certificate verifying completion of the Mountain Lion Education and Identification Course.
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Oceano Dunes SVRA
Oceano Dunes SVRA Economic Impact Analysis
Final Report 2010-2011 [PDF]
Oceano Dunes SVRA Virtual Tour
In an effort to bring this magnificent park landscape along with some of its intriguing history to the public, Oceano Dunes District collaborated with Regal 360 to give you a look at the park today...and a glimpse of yesteryear. Using state of the art technologies and photography we were able to create this unique tour! Enjoy!
View the Oceano Dunes SVRA Virtual Tour
Welcome to Oceano Dunes State Vehicular Recreation Area!
Formerly Pismo Dunes SVRA, this sand dune complex is geologically unique and also provides an impressive playground for off-highway enthusiasts from throughout the United States. One of several OHV areas administered by the California Department of Parks and Recreation, Oceano Dunes also offers visitors other recreational activities such as swimming, surfing, surf fishing, camping, and hiking. The staff at Oceano Dunes wishes you an enjoyable and safe stay.
The Oceano sand dune area is recognized by scientists, conservationists, government agencies, and the public as the finest, most extensive coastal dunes remaining in California. Most of the material that forms these dunes has been carried down to the ocean by various rivers and creeks, deposited here by ocean currents, and then shaped by the wind into the dunes that we see today.
The prevailing winds that blow in from the ocean push sand particles up into wave-like crests that run north-south. On the west or windward side the slope is gentle. On the east or leeward side the slope is quite steep. Sand grains, as they are blown over the dune crest tend to accumulate high on the leeward slope; then, periodically thin tongues of sand slide down. For this reason the leeward slope is called a "slipface."
Indian and Indian settlements were noticed by the early Spanish maritime explorers who sailed up the California coast, but the first European explorers to actually travel through the dunes area were members of Don Gaspar de Portola's overland expedition of 1769. In September of that year, just after crossing the Santa Maria River, Portola's men killed "un oso flaco" — a skinny bear. The lake at the southern end of the park takes its name from this incident.
During the 1930s and 40s, the dunes were the home of a group of free thinking people including mystics, nudists, artists, writers, and hermits who identified themselves collectively as the "Dunites." Among other activities, the group published a magazine, which they called The Dune Forum. The Dunites believed that Oceano Dunes was one of the centers of creative energy in California. Seek out the solitude of the dunes and perhaps you too, will feel these creative forces that the Dunites talked about.
VEGETATION AND WILDLIFE
The Oceano Dunes area is home to a surprisingly wide range of plant and animal life. Those who take the time to explore will see wildflowers, the tracks of countless small mammals and insects, a variety of small birds at the water's edge, and hawks, owls, pelicans, or gulls flying overhead.
Many kinds of shorebirds can be found on the beach, while other small birds such as the Audubon warbler, or the long-billed marsh wren, as well as red-tailed hawks and American kestrels are often sighted among the sand dunes. Both the threatened snowy plover and the endangered California least tern nest within the SVRA.
During the March 1 - September 30 breeding season, small fenced enclosures are constructed around the nests to protect these birds and their offspring from the surrounding recreational use. With ongoing support from OHVers, this nesting program has been a huge success.
Most of the wildflowers, shrubs, and grasses that can be found on the dunes are fragile and easily destroyed. Plants that are native to the area include the arroyo willow, California sagebrush, sand verbena, and bush lupine. European beach grass is an introduced species, brought in around the turn of the century to stabilize the dunes. Rare plants that may be seen here include surf thistle and giant coreopsis.
Pismo clam populations fluctuate dramatically due to a variety of natural influences. A fragile and valuable resource, Pismo clams may be taken under the following regulations:
- Clammers must have a fishing license and an accurate (rigid) measuring device in possession.
- Only Pismo clams at least 4 1/2" in length may be possessed.
- Undersized Pismo clams must be immediately reburied in the area where dug.
- Bag limit is 10 Pismo clams.
- Hours of clamming are 1/2 hour before sunrise to 1/2 hour after sunset.
CAMPING AND FACILITIES
Camping is allowed south of Post 2 on the beach and in the open dune area. Vault toilets and chemical toilets are provided, and water-delivery and holding-tank pump-out services are available on the beach. Campsite reservation information can be obtained by calling 1-800-444-7275. Campsites are available by reservation year-round and can be made from 10 days to six months in advance. Reservations are highly recommended (especially for holiday periods) and must be made at least 48 hours in advance. Note: Reservations can be made up to seven months in advance.
High tides, heavy rains, and blowing sand determine whether or not you can drive down the beach without getting stuck. Access to the OHV and camping area may be restricted periodically by Arroyo Grande Creek which is subject to water releases at Lopez Dam and increased flow during winter storms.
Beach camping is recommended for 4- wheel drive vehicles only. A dump station, located on Le Sage Drive, 1/10 miles North of Grand Ave. on Hwy 1, is available to campers.
THE OHV AREA
Post 2 is one mile south on the beach from Pier Avenue and marks the beginning of the OHV area. All OHVs must be transported to this point before off-loading. Fenced and signed areas are closed to vehicular use either because the property beyond is private or because the area contains sensitive plant and animal life.
In case of an emergency, contact a Ranger or dial 911 from a cell phone and advise that you are at Oceano Dunes SVRA. An emergency solar-powered call-box is located at the entrance to Sand Highway at approximately Post 4-1/2. Do not move an injured person unless he is in immediate danger.
If your vehicle becomes stuck, you might try the following:
- Drop your tire pressure, but don't go below 15 lbs PSI.
- Dig out the sand from around your tires.
- Recruit some friends and — keeping the front wheels straight — push and drive your vehicle either forward or backward. Don't allow your wheels to spin, this will dig you in deeper.
- Beach towing is available if needed.
Dangerous currents, called rip currents, are caused by the combination of wave action and the shape of the shoreline. Should you become caught in a rip current while swimming, don't try to swim against the current. Swim parallel to the shore until you're out of the rip. Then make your way to shore. There is lifeguard service available at Oceano Dunes SVRA June through Labor Day.
All OHVs must be registered through the Department of Motor Vehicles and display a current green or red sticker. Funds generated from OHV registration are used for acquisition, development, and operation of OHV areas.
OFF-HIGHWAY VEHICLE USE
Driving an OHV can be an exciting, yet dangerous, adventure. You can minimize your chance of injury and maximize your enjoyment through common sense, intelligent vehicle operation and by extending courtesy and respect to other riders.
- It is recommended that all ATV operators take part in a formal safety training course under supervision of a certified ATV instructor. Such training is mandatory for those under 18.
- Proper riding equipment is essential to the safe operation of an OHV. Each ATV rider must wear a helmet and should wear proper protective clothing.
- Before starting out, familiarize yourself with the terrain. Learn to recognize the telltale signs of a slipface. AVOID SURPRISES.
- Inexperienced riders should thoroughly acquaint themselves with all vehicle controls before starting out. Be especially cautious when driving east in the dunes because dune slipfaces normally face to the east.
- Drive within the limits of your ability. Don’t go faster or climb higher than you can safely handle. Watch out for other riders. When in doubt, take time to think and look the situation over before you proceed.
WHERE TO GET HELP
On major holiday weekends, the ranger staff is supplemented by volunteer groups such as the Sheriff's Search and Rescue and the Equestrian Mounted Assistance Patrol. All of these people are prepared to offer help and information to visitors. On most holiday weekends a mobile ranger station is located at the Sand Highway entrance.
FOR INFORMATION CONTACT:
Oceano Dunes District Office
340 James Way, Ste. 270
Pismo Beach, CA 93449
Ranger Station / Maintenance Shop
928 Pacific Blvd.
Oceano, CA 93445
24 hours a day
7 days a week
Day Use Hours:
6am - 11pm
Red Sticker Season
Available year round
North Park Entrance
End of Grand Avenue
Grover Beach CA
South Park Entrance
End of Pier Avenue
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This morning we have an early start as we leave the hectic city of Cairo behind us. We meet the Gulf of Suez and follow the Sinai coast heading down to the city of Abu Zenima. Here we meet our friendly Bedouin guides who give us an insight into trekking in the desert. We then head off-road to the area of Sarabit El Khadem. This is an interesting journey as we pass ancient mining sites, colourful mountains and dunes. Finally we start trekking to reach the camp for the night in the Jebel Sarabit area (time of trekking: 45 mins).
An early morning start to begin our trek to the summit of Jebel Sarabit (850m). Our aim is to reach an ancient Egyptian temple situated on the top of the mountain, dedicated to Hathor, the goddess of love, beauty and music. Here we have the opportunity to admire the impressive views of the vast Sinai landscape (the views here are outstanding!) and tour the ancient temple. We also visit some ancient turquoise mines, which were used during the Pharonic period. As we reach the bottom of the mountain the 4x4s will be waiting to take us past the El Mokatab Moutain and on to Wadi Ferran where we will stop for lunch. On the way to the lunch stop there is also the opportunity to visit The Forest of Pillars (however, this portion of the trip is subject to cancellation due to weather conditions as sandstorms have been known to affect the area). We will then pass the El Sheikh Awad Mosque graves before reaching our stop for the evening, Wadi Jebal (time of trekking: 3.5 hours).
In the morning our 4x4s will head off with our luggage to our camp for the evening as we begin our trek to Wadi Tellah. As we reach Wadi Tellah we will stop off at Dr.Ahmed's herbal garden, where rare flowers and herbs, indigenous to the Sinai area, are grown. These herbs and flowers are all used in creating unique herbal remedies that are used to help cure ailments of the Bedouins that live in the Sinai area. If you are lucky, Dr.Ahmed will be there himself to discuss his work with you and what the various benefits of these herbal remedies are. After lunch at the garden we trek on towards the Sefsafa Mountain situated in the area of St. Catherine's Monastery. Finally reaching the base of this mountain we will arrive at the Fox Camp, where we will overnight (time of trekking: 4 hours).
This morning we spend time at the fascinating St. Catherine's monastery that sits at the foot of Mount Sinai. After a lunch back at the Fox Camp we then begin our trek to Wadi El Arbeen, where we camp for the night (time of trekking: 2 hours).
We rise in the very early hours of the morning (sometimes as early as 12am!) and head to Mount Moses. On reaching the foot of the mountain, we start our 3-hour climb of the fabled mountain. We reach the summit (2285m) for sunrise. The views over the Sinai, especially in the light of dawn, are breathtaking. We then head back down the mountain for breakfast at the Wadi El Arbeen camp. After breakfast there are two options of trek offered as the Mount Sinai climb can be tiring. The first is a long trek that passes the Red Mountain, Wadi Shak an Abo Gifa before returning to the Fox Camp (time of trekking: 6 hours). Alternatively there is a shorter trek that heads straight from Wadi El Arbeen back to the Sefsafa mountain, also to the Fox Camp (time of trekking: 2 hours).
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"Dinosaur-mad" schoolboys find ancient fossils
Two recent unexpected fossil finds in New Zealand and Argentina share an unusual factor - both have been uncovered by dinosaur-obsessed school-age boys.
On a New Zealand beach, a five-year-old discovered what turned out to be a fossilised whale earbone that could be up to four million years old, while in Argentina, a 10-year-old and his parents have discovered the remains of an 85-million-year-old dinosaur.
Five-year-old New Zealander Ben McRae was combing rock pools on a beach in Waiheke Island off Auckland, when he made the find, which stayed in his bedroom for six months before a family friend and geologist suggested he take it for further examination, the New Zealand Herald reported.
Palaeontologists at Auckland University identified it as the right tympanic bulla or inner earbone from a large whale that cruised the world's oceans between half a million and four million years ago.
The university's Professor Jack Grant-Mackie said its exact age was guesswork because the bone had been washed clean of surrounding rock.
The island is one of only a few known fossil beds in the Auckland area, but it has previously yielded only fossilised shells.
Meanwhile, the South American family were exploring near a lake in the southeast Argentinian province of Neuquen when they came upon the dinosaur remains on May 6.
The perfectly preserved tail prompted a follow up excavation by scientists from the Museum of Natural Sciences at the National University of Comahue, who say it is the fourth set of carnivorous dinosaur remains to be discovered in the region.
The museum's director Jorge Calvo told Agence France Press the fourth set of remains were important because they allowed the team to build to a more detailed picture of the carnivores who inhabited the region millions of years ago.
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The Boroondara Volunteer Resource Centre (BVRC) can help find and refer you to volunteer opportunities in the community.
The BVRC sees many international students who seek volunteer work to gain work experience, expand local networks, make connections with the local community, or just get involved with a particular cause or activity. All services of the BVRC are free.
Volunteer roles are varied and may include:
• office and administration work
• assisting people with a disability
• visiting people in their homes
• gardening and environmental work
• meals on wheels delivery
• op-shop work
• providing transport
• working with youth.
People volunteer for many reasons, including to:
• have fun
• meet new people
• try something new
• stay active and involved
• gain work experience
• support a cause
• learn new skills or retain existing skills
• put something back into the community.
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by Daniel Manders, International Studies
Reasons to learn another language
Learning any language will put you ahead of your competitors when searching for a job. Nearly all businesses have to deal with multiple languages and being able to speak in a foreign tongue will make you a hot commodity for any employer.
More Fun When Abroad
It’s highly likely that sometime in your life you will want to travel to another country, but when that time comes how will you go about planning it? Most likely you will use a tourist package that will get you a base feel for a new country but nothing more. But if you know how to speak the language you can do some exploring of your own make your own adventure.
Look and Be Smarter
There have been a few studies out that have discussed how learning a new language will improve cognitive abilities, so learning a new language can make you literally smarter. A new language also helps you appear smarter to your friends, since it's believed that learning a language is a hard thing to do (even though it's not).
A New Culture
Learning a language involves much more than just figuring out how to say something in a different way. You will pick up the culture of language as well, since it has a large effect on the language and it would be boring to learn a language and not know the people behind it.
If you decide to speak only English for the rest of your life you will have trouble speaking with the remaining 5,672,000,000 people in the world. Learning another language lets you interact with a lot more people and gives you a lot more opportunities in life.
Picking a Language to Study
Language is an important part of life for every human being to come into existence. It allows us to communicate ideas to one another and without it modern life could not exist. The only snag is that people came up with several thousand languages over the years and this prevents effective communication with others who do not speak your native tongue. Thankfully people can learn several languages, but to the beginning language student it can be a dilemma and which language to learn, so here are some tips on picking a language to study:
Pick a language that sounds cool.
If a language you're listening to makes you reach for some earplugs, then don't learn.
Pick one with a culture that you find interesting.
Learning a language is not simply knowing how to speak it but knowing who it is that speaks it. It is pointless to learn French if you do not learn anything of France or its people. If you have no interest in the culture where a language came from it can be pretty hard later on to have any motivation to learn it. Picking a language based on its culture will help keep you motivated to learn the language, and will help you pick it up faster (since language develops to reflect the culture it came from).
Do not pick it out of necessity alone
A lot of people pick a language, such as Spanish, to learn solely because they think it will be useful. This is not necessarily the best move to make. If you do not enjoy learning a language or the culture it came from, it will be harder to learn, and just make you miserable if you force yourself to. You should take any language that you want to learn, whether it be Spanish or French.
General Do’s and Don’ts
If you follow these tips you should do fine in any language class
Study a language you’re interested in
A bit obvious, but many language students often pick languages they think will be useful or to simply fulfill a University requirement. If you care about the language it will be easier to learn.
Think in the language
This will help with you acquire the language and will help you speak more fluently.
Practice a little every day
Use it or lose it.
Be a zombie
This can happen in a lot of classes, especially language classes. Students go to class, speak the least amount they can, and in general don’t care. Doing this only hurts your drive to master the language and will be a major barrier to passing the class
If you had to follow one tip from this list, follow this one. If you worry about how well you are doing or about how much you have to learn you will be discouraged and be more likely to give up. Just stay in the present and try and have fun learning.
Common sense says you should keep up with your work, but this is something that could make or break you. If you do not keep up with your work not only will your grade drop on your assignments and exams, you will also be behind in your language skills.
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Kale (Brassica spp.) is a hardy, cool-season biennial that we at AGT are particularly fond of. It is easy to grow and quite tolerant of adverse conditions, though it prefers cold temps to extreme heat. Kale plants, well-tended, will produce an abundance of leafy greens that get sweeter with cold weather. Kale is a nutritional powerhouse containing anti-cancer compounds, and is high in vitamins A, C & K, as well as calcium. Start seeds indoors in winter, or direct sow in spring or autumn. Plants prefer moist, fertile soil and full sun. | <urn:uuid:9e16708c-7328-4654-992e-f2de6b5ad5db> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.agtoseeds.com/collections/kale | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00008-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.930709 | 128 | 1.953125 | 2 |
|Oberle takes over as Family Ed afterschool instructor|
|Written by Darci Tomky|
|Wednesday, 26 September 2012 07:38|
Janismarie Oberle is excited to take over as the new aftershool instructor at Phillips County Family Education Services.
“Hopefully we can make a positive impact in their lives,” said Oberle, noting what a great opportunity the afterschool center is for the kids.
The free, educational-based program, which is grant funded, meets at Phillips County Event Center Monday through Thursday from a little before 4 p.m. until 5:15 p.m. (It follows the school calendar.)
Holyoke elementary students in grades K-3 have the opportunity to ride the school bus to the fairgrounds after school.
Oberle said they spend some time on the playground and eating snacks, followed by around 30 minutes of homework time.
Janismarie Oberle, pictured at left in the middle row, looks forward to her time with the kids as the new Phillips County Family Education Services afterschool program instructor. Oberle and assistant Linda Kurtzer, pictured at right, offer the free afterschool center Monday-Thursday at Phillips County Event Center.
“This year we are really focusing on doing homework,” she said. She encouraged kids to bring all their homework with them and even AR books they are reading.
Oberle and assistant Linda Kurtzer split up two age groups into two classrooms so they can work with them a little more easily.
After homework time, the group gets to hear from someone in the community who wants to introduce the kids to their talent, trade or occupation. “I want to open kids up to realize what kind of community we live in,” said Oberle.
Oberle has had previous experience working with kids, including some time volunteering at the afterschool center last year.
She moved to the area from Denver 17 years ago. Various jobs over the years have included being an aide at the school, working at Eastern Colorado Services for the Developmentally Disabled, teaching art to down syndrome kids and volunteering at vacation Bible school.
Oberle said the PCFES afterschool program began in January 2009, and some of the kids have attended regularly from the beginning. She’s excited about being a part of it because it’s a safe environment where kids can go until their parents are off work.
It is one of three programs offered by PCFES, with classes also being held for ESL and GED.
If anyone would like to sign up their child for the afterschool center or would like to volunteer to share their talent or occupation with the kids, please call PCFES at 854-2595.
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An echocardiogram (often called simply “Echo”) is a non-invasive test that provides an actual image of the heart at work. Sound waves are used to create this image and the test is absolutely pain free. Similar to an x-ray, but without the use of any radiation, high-frequency sound waves (called ultrasound) are bounced off the structures of the heart and returned to a computer that uses the ultrasound data to create a picture of the heart. Heart sounds are also collected during the procedure to aid the physician in making a diagnosis. Many patients are familiar with the technology used during an echocardiogram since it is the same as that used to create an image of babies during pregnancy.
There are actually several different types of echocardiograms, including the following:
- Transthoracic echos are diagnostic tests that use crystals to generate high-frequency sound waves. As these sound waves are aimed at the valves and tissues of the heart, they are reflected (echoed) back to a machine that analyzes them and generates an image of your heart on a computer monitor.
- Stress echos that involve echocardiograms performed before and immediately following exercise. Stress echos are useful in identifying problems with coronary artery blood flow to the heart brought on by exertion.
- Dobutamine stress echocardiograms are stress echos for people unable to exercise. In these procedures, a drug is used to cause the heart to pump as it does during exercise.
- Transesophageal echocardiograms (TEE) that require a small device to be inserted into the throat and esophagus to provide a clearer image of the heart and to visualize areas not able to be seen on a transthoracic echocardiogram. Below is a detailed overview of what you can expect to occur during a transthoracic echocardiogram/doppler procedure.
For information about the other types of echocardiograms, please see Stress Echo, Dobutamine Stress Echo, and Transesophageal Echo.
Purpose of the Procedure
An echocardiogram is used to help diagnose certain heart conditions and can be especially useful to determine the cause of heart murmurs, angina (chest pain), shortness of breath, or abnormal electrocardiograms. Heart conditions that echocardiograms may identify include problems with heart valves, heart failure, rheumatic heart disease, bacterial endocarditis, and cardiac ischemia (insufficient blood flow to the heart), and the presence of a blood clot in the heart, among others.
Before the Procedure
Before the echocardiogram, you should receive an explanation of the procedure and the benefits and risks, and you will be asked to sign medical consent forms to authorize the procedure. Either before or sometimes after an echocardiogram, you will be asked several questions about symptoms you are feeling and about your health history. These questions are simply to assist the doctor and technologist to better interpret the results of the echocardiogram. Be sure to ask any questions you may have about the procedure and why it needs to be performed. The more you understand, the better.
There are no special preparations required before a transthoracic echocardiogram and you may eat and drink normally before your procedure. To help you prepare for your procedure, please use the following checklist:
- Please wear comfortable clothing to the hospital
- Please bring your reading glasses for reading and signing forms.
During the Procedure
Patients will be asked to remove their clothing from the waist up and will wear a hospital gown during the procedure. Patients will be on their back on a bed or stretcher next to an ultrasound machine. The echocardiogram is performed on a machine that is hooked to a television-like video monitor. It has a movable arm that holds a long cord and a small wand called a transducer.
A trained technologist will perform the actual examination. It begins with the technologist placing a gel substance on your chest. This gel helps the transducer to detect the ultrasound waves. After the gel is applied, the technologist may dim the lights in the room to make it easier to see the video monitor. Once preparations are completed, the procedure begins as the technologist places the wand firmly on your chest and moves it around to provide the desired image of your heart. Throughout the procedure, you may be able to see the image that appears on the video monitor and you will be able to hear your heartbeat.
As the technologist moves the transducer around your chest, you may be asked to change positions and to hold your breath for short periods. These steps may help to provide a clearer view of the heart. Most transthoracic echocardiograms will take about 30-45 minutes to complete. Once the examination is complete and all of the necessary images have been collected, the procedure ends with the technologist removing the gel from your chest. You will then be able to sit up, dress, and leave the examination room. Since no medications are used to perform an echocardiogram, you will be able to drive immediately following the procedure.
In addition to an echocardiogram, an electrocardiogram may also be performed at the same time. The electrocardiogram adds information about the electrical activity of the heart that the doctor may use to help make the diagnosis.
After the Procedure
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Swine flu vaccine manufacturers are on track to start delivering the first batches of it in September, the World Health Organization said Thursday.
Marie-Paule Kieny, WHO's vaccine director, said several drug makers have started testing swine flu vaccine in humans, and that early safety results should be available next month, clearing the way for its use. Kieny also insisted that speeding the vaccine to the market will not compromise its safety.
WHO has recommended the first recipients of the vaccine be health care workers, perhaps followed by pregnant women and people with underlying health problems.
Kieny said WHO expects to see reports of side effects once the vaccine is given to millions of people, but that deadly side effects will be rare. Vaccines commonly provoke reactions such as nausea, fever, pain from the injection, and diarrhea.
She said the agency would work with country officials to detect any sign the vaccine might cause more worrying side effects, like Guillain Barre syndrome, a temporary paralysis disorder reported by hundreds of people after the U.S.'s disastrous 1976 immunization campaign against another variant of swine flu.
To fight the current pandemic , or global outbreak, half a dozen major pharmaceutical companies located in the United States, Europe and Australia are developing their own swine flu vaccines, which will have to be approved by drug regulatory authorities in each country where they are used.
It is the first time that companies have rushed to produce a vaccine within months to fight a flu pandemic. Health officials expect swine flu to surge in the fall, with the return of the regular flu season.
On Wednesday, Swiss drug maker Novartis said it had begun testing its swine flu vaccine in Europe, and would begin selling it long before completing its safety tests next year.
Last month, Australian pharmaceutical CSL started trials on its vaccine candidate.
Kieny said ongoing tests in Australia, China, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States should inform officials how many doses of the vaccine are required. Many experts think people will need two shots to be protected.
Europe and the U.S. both have fast-track approval systems to make the swine flu vaccine available before extensive safety tests are completed.
In a statement on its Web site, WHO said Thursday "the public needs to be reassured" that procedures for approving swine flu vaccines "are rigorous and do not compromise safety or quality controls."
To increase the global supply of swine flu vaccines, WHO recommends that countries use ones containing adjuvants, a component that stretches the vaccine's active ingredient and boosts the body's immune response. Adjuvants are commonly used in flu vaccines in Europe, but there are no licensed flu vaccines with adjuvants in the U.S.
There is little or no information on how safe flu vaccines with adjuvants are in pregnant women and children – two of the groups most at risk in the pandemic.
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Professional Custom Flute Maker
Greetings! Welcome to my place!
Let me take a minute for an introduction. While I was studying flute performance with James Pappoutsakis at the New England Conservatory in Boston, I found a job apprenticing with Powell Flutes – the best in the business. Every day I learned something new, and I became skilled in the art of flute making. My lessons with “Mr. P” as we called him, made me aware of his concept of sound and tone. My lessons at Powell Flutes made me aware of the mechanical aspects of the art of flute making. My greatest ambition was to build custom handmade professional flutes under my own name.
It was just like going to college to work under such people as Ed Almeida, Bick Brannen, and Dick Jerome. During that period they trained Fredrich Von Huene, Jack Goosman, Charlie Roberts, Gene Sagerman, and myself, all of whom went on to establish new custom workshops. We shared an admiration for Mr. Powell and for the new owners. We were the class of the 60’s, who followed Verne Powell’s dedication to the art of making great flutes and playing the great music of the modern flute.
One day I met William Bennett backstage at Symphony Hall, and he showed me his Cooper flute. When I played it, I could hear that the intonation was nearly perfect. ‘Wibb’ Bennett invited me to visit him in London, and he introduced me to Albert Cooper. They gave me their detailed designs for perfect intonation. Immediately, I started working on my first flute based on the so-called Cooper Scale, and I sold it to Wibb in 1972. That was the first Cooper scale flute made in America, which has since become the standard for all modern flute makers. The introduction of the Cooper scale was innovative at the time, and it has made a lasting change in fine flute making.
I think that tradition is a quality that’s essential to the Arts, as it enables us to pass down our love of beauty from one generation to the next. We value the fine arts, because the ideals they represent have been distilled and refined for generations. I see fine instrument making as an important servant to music making. The custom handmade flute is similar to the artists’ brush on the concert stage. The dedicated ‘luthier’ is the back stage performer who welds the highest standards of craftsmanship to musicianship.
To that end I formed The Vermont Guild of Flute Making, which is a non-profit school for apprenticeship training in flutemaking and repair. My workshop occasionally becomes a one room school house for student apprentices, who want to learn the skills from a master.
I had lived in Boston for 10 years, and I longed for the country life, because the city was dirty, dangerous, and difficult. In 1976 I moved to southern Vermont and established a new life. Soon I met and married Marcie Parmly, and we moved north to be closer to her family. We’re now happily settled in to the Parmlys’ homestead in Richmond with an extended family, and our five children are all busy following their own dreams. There are over 180 handmade Landell flutes in silver and gold, and one prototype flute in titanium. Innovation has been my hallmark. Hard work has been the means.
Rural Vermont is known for its natural beauty, independent spirit, and “Yankee” ingenuity. The environment is clean, inviting, even challenging in a way that inspires the creative imagination. Traditional elements in each small community form a lifestyle that encourages good health and friendship among people, which are passed from one generation to the next.
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