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Human Subjects in Research
Learn the steps to receive approval for research with human subjects at Texas A&M University.
Texas A&M complies with regulations of the Department of Health and Human Services for the protection of human subjects involved in research. All individuals engaged in human subjects research that is sponsored by Texas A&M; conducted by or under the direction of any faculty, staff, student, or agent of Texas A&M in connection with his or her institutional responsibilities; conducted by or under the direction of any employee or agent of Texas A&M; using any property or facility of Texas A&M; or involved in the use of Texas A&M’s non-public information to identify or contact human research participants or prospective participants, must submit an application to the Institutional Review Board (IRB) prior to commencement of any research activities.
In conjunction with the federally mandated IRB, the Office of Research Compliance and Biosafety's Human Subjects Protection Program works to assure the protection of human research participants and to ensure Texas A&M's compliance with the laws and regulations governing human subject research. Any such research conducted by Texas A&M faculty, staff, or students must be reviewed and approved prior to being initiated. | <urn:uuid:ac763113-eb15-41ee-853f-1e7f5acac07b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://rcb.tamu.edu/humansubjects | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00060-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934582 | 251 | 1.8125 | 2 |
Ninety years ago, Negro National League was born
By Bill Francis
Fans of the national pastime are familiar with the story of Jackie Robinson, the African-American ballplayer who in 1947 broke big league baseball’s modern color barrier. But unfamiliar to most is a story that took place without much fanfare 90 years ago this week that improved the lot of those who were prohibited from playing at the game’s highest level.
With organized baseball, though segregated, thriving, a meeting took place with a number of the owners of the top independent black baseball teams at a YMCA in Kansas City, Mo., on Feb. 13, 1920. It was here that the Negro National League, the first successful baseball league featuring black players, was founded. Leading the way was Andrew “Rube” Foster, considered black baseball’s best pitcher before serving as owner and manager of the Chicago American Giants.
A number of unsuccessful attempts had been made in the past to bring stability to Negro baseball, but this time, after a lengthy discussion, the other owners agreed to Foster’s proposal. While black professional baseball had been part of sport’s landscape for years, this new venture would do away with scheduling difficulties and bring a sense of financial security to both the owners and players.
It was not coincidence that the NNL’s founding came at the same time as the Great Migration, when a half million blacks left the rural south to live and work in northern cities. The new league would have an eager audience looking for a source of inexpensive entertainment long day of work.
In 1997, 50 years after Robinson’s debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers, the National Baseball Hall of Fame opened the permanent exhibit Pride and Passion: The African-American Baseball Experience. The exhibit was re-curated and re-designed for a grand opening in 2004.
The story of Pride and Passion: The African-American Baseball Experience is also told throughout the country through a national traveling panel exhibition that will visit more than three dozen public and academic libraries over the next four years. The exhibit, a partnership of the Hall of Fame and the American Library Association, features photographs of artifacts and the stories of the participants as African-American players and owners changed the landscape of professional baseball.
The exhibit is currently on display in San Jose, Calif., at the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library. For a list of all sites and dates, visit http://www.ala.org/publicprograms
Foster, elected as the NNL’s first president, would be elected by the Baseball Hall of Fame’s Committee on Veterans in 1981. He would serve his team and the NNL until late in 1926 when illness forced his retirement. He died four years later at 51.
Years later, Joe Green, former owner of the Chicago Giants, said, “Actually, when Rube died, the league died with him.”
In the summer of 1931, after having been without Foster’s guidance for four years, the NNL, which added and subtracted numerous cities to its roster over the years, folded. But ultimately, Foster proved that Negro League baseball could be a viable business for African-American entrepreneurs – as well as great entertainment for fans.
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So suggests a new McClatchy Newspapers analysis of the 2005 Census:
The McClatchy analysis found that the number of severely poor Americans grew by 26 percent from 2000 to 2005. That's 56 percent faster than the overall poverty population grew in the same period. McClatchy's review also found statistically significant increases in the percentage of the population in severe poverty in 65 of 215 large U.S. counties, and similar increases in 28 states. The review also suggested that the rise in severely poor residents isn't confined to large urban counties but extends to suburban and rural areas.
The plight of the severely poor is a distressing sidebar to an unusual economic expansion. Worker productivity has increased dramatically since the brief recession of 2001, but wages and job growth have lagged behind. At the same time, the share of national income going to corporate profits has dwarfed the amount going to wages and salaries. That helps explain why the median household income of working-age families, adjusted for inflation, has fallen for five straight years.
These and other factors have helped push 43 percent of the nation's 37 million poor people into deep poverty - the highest rate since at least 1975.
A deeply ironic use of the term "unusual economic expansion"? An expansion which increases the number of the very poor, hardly budges the earnings of most of the remaining workers, but allows the profits to skyrocket deserves a funnier name. Perhaps something honoring the tax cuts to the wealthy would do. Taxcutpansion?
The topic is anything but funny, and though economists can argue about how well the Census figures measure poverty it is clear that deep poverty has risen and that many more are falling through the cracks in the floorboards of our welfare system:
The Census Bureau's Survey of Income and Program Participation shows that, in a given month, only 10 percent of severely poor Americans received Temporary Assistance for Needy Families in 2003 - the latest year available - and that only 36 percent received food stamps.
Many could have exhausted their eligibility for welfare or decided that the new program requirements were too onerous. But the low participation rates are troubling because the worst byproducts of poverty, such as higher crime and violence rates and poor health, nutrition and educational outcomes, are worse for those in deep poverty.
Over the last two decades, America has had the highest or near-highest poverty rates for children, individual adults and families among 31 developed countries, according to the Luxembourg Income Study, a 23-year project that compares poverty and income data from 31 industrial nations.
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Good question! There are many studies that show that the average college graduate will earn over a million dollars during their working lifetime. But what does that really mean? And does that data apply to every college graduate?
Here is an article from Business Insider which captures the skepticism many middle-class families currently have about the value of a college degree, which is in part due to the differences in future income based on career choice, especially when measured against the rising cost of higher education, and the monumental debt that many graduates face.
The author, Mandi Woodruff, a reporter for BusinessInsider.com, cites several examples of this disparity, including the fact that people with degrees in Social Work have a median income of $45,300 per year, while those earning a degree in petroleum engineering report a median income of $163,000 per year.
Does this mean that it’s just not worth it to pursue a career in Social Work? Of course not. The point is that when your child finally attains that piece of paper that qualifies him or her to start practicing in their chosen field, that they are not saddled with so much debt that they can never expect to pay it off, based on the median income for that profession.
As with most things in life, there are choices to be made and planning should begin early. Obviously, starting to save money for college very early on is a great first step, but seeking the advice of an educational consultant is the next best step. A professional in this field can help you identify the best plan for covering the cost of college for your child, while preserving your income and assets. An educational consultant can also guide you through the perplexing process of identifying the best schools for your child and how to get into them.
A word of explanation about using the services of a professional educational consultant: If you seek the advice of a stock broker, I think you would expect the savings plan suggested might be in the stock market. That’s not always a bad choice, but I have found that few stock brokers have been trained or have studied the specifics of saving for college. Just as in the field of medicine, an expert in a particular field is usually much better that a generalist when you have a very specific special need.
Another important point is helping to educate your children financially. I know many musicians who are outstanding at what they do, and they love their chosen career, but they struggle to make ends meet teaching classes, playing for weddings and corporate events, and pursuing gigs at piano bars, restaurants and hotels, or with bands. What is their return on their college costs investment?
Here is the point. If these musicians – and their parents and grandparents — started saving early, the interest earned on that savings works FOR them. If, on the other hand, they wait until the last minute — when the child is filling out college applications — they most likely have to finance their education through loans and financial aid. In that case, any interest earned works against them.
Many parents help pay for their children’s college education by refinancing their homes or taking money out of their retirement. When that happens, those parents lose the ability to have interest earned work for them for those expensive retirement years. A good plan for college is to start saving very early on in the best possible plan for you, structure your family’s finances to qualify for the most financial aid long before that application process is needed, and research, research the best schools of choice and have a plan for how to get into them.
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Accordant Keeps Your Health Information Safe
At Accordant, we make every effort to keep your information safe. At times, we may need to share certain information with others involved in your health care. You can be sure that we only do this when it's absolutely needed for you to get the best of care.
In this article you will learn about your information and:
Your rights to keep it safe.
The types that are protected.
How we work to keep it secure.
How we may use and share it.
What are My Rights?
You have the right to:
Understand any information we give you.
Have help if you speak a language other than English. (Call 1-800-948-2497 for language help)
Know how we may use or share your information.
Ask us not to use or share certain facts about you.
See or have a copy of any information in your records.
Update your information if you feel our records are wrong or something is missing.
Please write to us if you need to see, copy, or change your medical records. Be sure to include your full name, address, and date of birth. Our address is on the bottom of page 3.
What is PHI?
PHI stands for Protected Health Information. This can be anything in your medical records. It can be about your past, present, or future health.
3 Ways PHI can be Shared:
In Person or by Phone (Oral)
What are Some Examples of PHI?
How Does Accordant Use or Share My PHI?
We may use or share your PHI to:
Educate or guide you to take care of your health.
Talk about your treatment choices, insurance coverage or benefits.
Answer your questions or help you with concerns.
Help us identify others from your health plan who may be helped by our program.
Measure our program's value.
Report outcomes of disease management services.
Who May Have the Right to See or Use My PHI?
Your PHI will only be used by our employees who are involved in your care. They must have a "need to know" about you or your health. This means they need the PHI to give you the care and service you need.
They cannot use your PHI for any other reason. They also can not show it to anyone else who does not have a "need to know."
To better help you take care of your long term illness and general health, Accordant may sometimes need to share certain PHI with:
Your doctor or nurse
Your insurance provider
Others involved in your health care
In some cases we may be required to share your PHI with:
Public health officials or agencies that audit, review, and inspect health programs for the public's health
Public law officials approved by a court order
We will not use or share your PHI in any way that is against the law or our contract with your health plan or employer. We will not sell your PHI to other companies.
If you take part in mental health therapy, information from your counseling sessions is private and will not be shared.
We will get your written okay before using or sharing your PHI for any other reasons.
How does Accordant Protect My PHI?
Nothing means more to us than keeping your health information safe. Accordant follows all federal and state laws that protect your PHI.
Laws That Protect Your Information
The Privacy Rule, a Federal law, gives you rights over your health information and sets rules and limits on who can look at or receive your health information.
The Security Rule, a Federal law, sets rules and limits to protect your health information in electronic form, like a fax or on a computer.
Our staff members are trained to keep your health records private.
We follow HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996) and any other federal or state laws that may apply.
Our staff members sign a privacy contract when they are hired. They are trained to keep your information safe at all times.
Your PHI is used by our staff only when needed to do their job duties. Read on to learn more.
Work Place Rules and Standards
At Accordant, we have strict rules for our staff to follow in keeping your PHI safe. We require our employees to sign a privacy contract when they are hired. They are trained to keep your PHI safe at all times.
We have the right to discipline or end their employment if these rules are not followed. Your PHI is only used when it is needed for our employees to do their jobs.
Storage and Work Area Security
Accordant values good security. All employees use badges to enter work areas. We do not allow visitors without an employee to escort them.
Our staff is trained to make sure that written information is not left out on desktops, copy machines, or other places. Employees also keep their desks and cabinets locked.
When we are finished using private, written information, we shred the paper so it is impossible to read. Outdated records that we are not able to shred are kept in a highly secured, locked and monitored storage facility.
Computer and Online Use
Accordant has other rules that protect your private, electronic information.
To stop others from seeing your PHI, we use:
password protection to lock all computers
encryption on all laptops
privacy locked screensavers when staff are away from their computers
Access is strictly limited to only those who are approved to use:
We also safeguard (encrypt) your private information when it is sent over the computer to others involved in your health care. These actions keep your online information safe.
Call or Write to Us
Accordant cares about you, your health information and your rights. Please call or write to us if you have questions or concerns or to report a complaint. Thank you.
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A New Biology for the 21st Century
What fundamental biological questions are ready for major advances inunderstanding? What would be the practical result of answering those questions?How could answers to those questions lead to high impact applications in the nearfuture?
How can a fundamental understanding of living systems reduce uncertainty about the future of life on earth, improve human health and welfare, andlead to the wise stewardship of our planet? Can the consequences of environmental, stochastic or genetic changes be understood in terms of the related properties of robustness and fragility inherent in all biological systems?
How can federal agencies more effectively leverage their investments inbiological research and education to address complex problems across scales ofanalysis from basic to applied? In what areas would near term investment be mostlikely to lead to substantial long-term benefit and a strong, competitive advantagefor the United States? Are there high-risk, high pay-off areas that deserve seriousconsideration for seed funding?
Are new funding mechanisms needed to encourage and support crosscutting, interdisciplinary or applied biology research?
What are the major impediments to achieving a newly integrated biology?
What are the implications of a newly integrated biology for infrastructuralneeds?
How should infrastructural priorities be identified and planned for?
What are the implications for the life sciences research culture of a newlyintegrated approach to biology? How can physicists, chemists, mathematicians andengineers be encouraged to help build a wider biological enterprise with the scopeand expertise to address a broad range of scientific and societal problems?
Are changes needed in biology education—to ensure that biology majorsare equipped to work across traditional subdisciplinary boundaries, to providebiology curricula that equip physical scientists and engineers to take advantageof advances in biological science, and to provide nonscientists with a level of biological understanding that gives them an informed voice regarding relevant policyproposals? Are alternative degree programs needed or can biology departments beorganized to attract and train students able to work comfortably across disciplinary boundaries?
The committee found that the third bullet, “How can federal agenciesmore effectively leverage their investments in biological research and educationto address complex problems across scales of analysis from basic to applied? Inwhat areas would near term investment be most likely to lead to substantiallong-term benefit and a strong, competitive advantage for the United States?” provided a compelling platform from which to consider each of the questions, and a robust framework upon which to organize its conclusions. Thus, the committee’s overarching recommendation is that the most effective leveraging of investments would come from a coordinated, interagency effort to encourage | <urn:uuid:1a352b77-15f4-45d8-816b-b4eb10142e7c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=12764&page=2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.920305 | 572 | 2.703125 | 3 |
The United States has jurisdiction over 3.4 million square miles of ocean in its exclusive economic zone, a size exceeding the combined land area of the 50 states. This expansive marine area represents a prime national domain for activities such as maritime transportation, national security, energy and mineral extraction, fisheries and aquaculture, and tourism and recreation. However, it also carries with it the threat of damaging and outbreaks of waterborne pathogens. The 2010 Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Horizon oil spill and the 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami are vivid reminders that ocean activities and processes have direct human implications both nationally and worldwide, understanding of the ocean system is still incomplete, and ocean research infrastructure is needed to support both fundamental research and societal priorities.
Given current struggles to maintain, operate, and upgrade major infrastructure elements while maintaining a robust research portfolio, a strategic plan is needed for future investments to ensure that new facilities provide the greatest value, least redundancy, and highest efficiency in terms of operation and flexibility to incorporate new technological advances. Critical Infrastructure for Ocean Research and Societal Needs in 2030 identifies major research questions anticipated to be at the forefront of ocean science in 2030 based on national and international assessments, input from the worldwide scientific community, and ongoing research planning activities. This report defines categories of infrastructure that should be included in planning for the nation's ocean research infrastructure of 2030 and that will be required to answer the major research questions of the future.
Critical Infrastructure for Ocean Research and Societal Needs in 2030 provides advice on the criteria and processes that could be used to set priorities for the development of new ocean infrastructure or replacement of existing facilities. In addition, this report recommends ways in which the federal agencies can maximize the value of investments in ocean infrastructure. | <urn:uuid:6855cdc0-4aa5-4b30-9af4-034b787f6a8c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://books.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=13081 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00024-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.915379 | 343 | 2.6875 | 3 |
CLCA – California Licensed Contractors Association
The California Licensed Contractors Association (CLCA) is a non-profit organization arranged to encourage interest in landscape and recognize the contractors who produce outstanding work in their field. Its members consist of state licensed contractors interested in making the public aware of the significant danger of using an unlicensed contractor. The CLCA is an invaluable resource for consultations on planning, installing and maintaining water efficient landscapes.
ISA – International Society of Arboriculture
The International Society of Arboriculture (ISA) has served the tree care industry for over eighty years as a scientific and educational organization. ISA continues to be a dynamic medium through which arborists around the world share their experience and knowledge for the benefit of society. ISA, aligned on many fronts with other green organizations, is working hard to foster a better understanding of trees and tree care through research and the education of professionals as well as global efforts to inform tree care consumers.
PAPA – Pesticide Applicators Professional Association
The Pesticide Applicators Professional Association (PAPA) is a California non-profit, public benefit corporation dedicated to continuing education and to the implementation of safe and effective pest control techniques. They sponsor statewide educational programs in cooperation with the University of California and offer industry training in safety, rules and regulations, current technology and field tested research for pest management professionals. | <urn:uuid:1162f6f0-694b-414e-b66a-1c9bb8e4ade5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://bennett-landscape.com/affiliations.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.922302 | 278 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Nov 2, 2009 3 Comments ›› Erik Wong
WASHINGTON (AP) – For Republicans, an election win of any size Tuesday would be a blessing. But victories in Virginia, New Jersey or elsewhere won’t erase enormous obstacles the party faces heading into a 2010 midterm election year when control of Congress and statehouses from coast to coast will be up for grabs.
It’s been a tough few years for the GOP. The party lost control of Congress in 2006 and then lost the White House in 2008 with three traditional Republican states — Indiana, North Carolina and Virginia — abandoning the party.
So even if political winds start blowing harder behind them and even if they can capitalize on Democratic missteps, Republicans still will have a long way to go over the next year because of their party’s own fundamental problems — divisions over the path forward, the lack of a national leader and a shrinking base in a changing nation.
The GOP would overcome none of those hurdles should Republican Bob McDonnell win the Virginia governor’s race, Chris Christie emerge victorious in the New Jersey governor’s contest, or conservative Doug Hoffman triumph in a hotly contested special congressional election in upstate New York.
In fact, 2009 seems to have underscored what may be the biggest impediment for Republicans — the war within their base.
Not that the GOP would casually brush off even a small stack of victories on Tuesday.
One or more wins would give the Republicans a jolt, and a reason to rally in the coming months. Victories certainly would help with grass-roots fundraising and candidate recruiting. And they might just be enough to reinvigorate a party that controlled the White House and Congress through much of this decade, only to lose power in back-to-back national elections.
Viewed from the other side, a GOP sweep would be a setback for Democrats. It could be seen as a negative measure of President Barack Obama’s standing and could signal trouble ahead as he seeks to get moderate Democratic lawmakers behind his legislative agenda and protect Democratic majorities in Congress next fall.
Still, with Democrats in control, the onus is on the GOP to get its act together. George W. Bush, the president many Republicans came to see as an election-day albatross, is gone, but the party troubles born under him linger.
Republican leaders in Washington certainly are mindful of the challenges.
“It’s going to be a difficult road to walk, to work with relatively new entrants into the political system and to work with them to show them that, by and large, we are the party who represents their interests,” House Republican leader John Boehner told CNN on Sunday, arguing that there’s “a political rebellion” taking place in the country.
Others are more blunt.
“Right now there’s no central Republican leader to turn to, and there’s no central Republican message,” conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh told Fox News on Sunday. “The Republican message is sort of muddied. What do they stand for? Right now it’s opposition to Obama.”
A debate is waging over whether that’s enough — or whether the party has to be for something, anything really, to be able to claw its way back to the top. Similar hand-wringing happened in the GOP ahead of the 1994 midterms. Just weeks before those elections, Republicans came up with the Contract with America — and ended up taking control of Congress.
Heading into the 2010 elections, the GOP also faces a very real split between conservatives who want to focus on social issues — which tend to work best during peaceful, prosperous times — and the rest of the party, which generally wants a broader vision, particularly given recession.
Proof of a divide is in the special election in New York’s 23rd Congressional District. Potential 2012 presidential hopefuls trying to solidify their conservative credentials, Sarah Palin and Tim Pawlenty, endorsed Hoffman, a conservative third-party upstart, over the GOP-chosen candidate, moderate Dierdre Scozzafava. Badly trailing in polls, she ended up dropping out and — in a slap at the GOP — endorsing Democrat Bill Owens.
The White House is suggesting that those developments show that hard-liners are taking over the GOP and the trend will affect the 2010 elections. Predicted presidential spokesman Robert Gibbs on Monday: “This is a model for what you’ll see throughout the country.”
Indeed, there are similar tensions in Senate primaries in Florida, California and elsewhere, where conservatives are challenging establishment-backed candidates.
Adding to the party’s woes: No one — or rather everyone — is speaking for the GOP.
Fiery talk show hosts like Limbaugh and Glenn Beck have become the angry white face of the party, filling a vacuum created by Bush’s departure as the its standard-bearer and the lack of one single person to emerge as its next generation leader.
The 2008 presidential nominee, John McCain, has all but disappeared from the Republican power structure. His running mate, Palin, refuses to disappear — much to the delight of tabloids and to the chagrin of elder party statesmen. And one of the most unpopular politicians in recent times, former Vice President Dick Cheney, keeps popping up to attack Obama — a reminder of the country’s and the party’s problems under Bush.
What’s more, the GOP’s ranks are thinning: Only 32 percent of respondents called themselves Republicans in a recent AP-GfK survey compared with 43 percent who called themselves Democrats.
Also, the party’s power center is mostly limited to the South, the one region McCain dominated last fall; Obama won almost everywhere else — including making inroads in emerging powerhouse regions like the West, although Republicans still solidly control several lightly populated states in the area.
And demographic, cultural and, perhaps, economic changes in America tilt in the Democrats’ favor. Consider that Hispanics, a part of the Democratic base, are the nation’s fastest growing minority group. Consider that more states than ever are permitting same-sex unions; Maine will vote Tuesday on whether to allow gay marriage. Consider that the emerging new industry — so-called “green jobs” — is focused on the environment, a core Democratic issue.
Still, Republicans sense opportunity — at least in the short term.
The bloom is off the Obama rose, and the public is giving the Democratic-controlled Congress low ratings.
Economists say the recession is over but jobs aren’t reappearing and unemployment is still expected to hit 10 percent. The war in Afghanistan continues, and the public is deeply divided over it. Obama’s expansion of government and budget-busting spending isn’t sitting well with most Americans. And independents are tilting away from Democrats.
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Remember the feeling of sharpening a brand new pencil or opening a new notebook for the first few weeks of school? I do. What’s sad is that many kids in America don’t have that feeling as they can’t afford school supplies, and, their schools have lost the funding to provide them. Consequently, American teachers are shelling out their own money to purchase supplies for their classrooms. Most parents appreciate how hard teachers work and how little they are paid for their dedication to our kids. It feels extremely unfair that they find themselves using their own wages to provide classroom necessities.
Take Part even estimates that American teachers collectively are spending a grand total of 3 BILLION dollars out of pocket in a year. Naturally, Take Part is starting a campaign to help change that. You can help too, by clicking here and donating. Every donation counts. If your kids do some charitable giving of their own this would be a cause that may resonate with them too.
I am always torn about how much to try to protect my children from the evil, madness and tragedy that exists in the world. Yet I also don’t want to shelter them so much that they won’t have the tools to handle life’s tragedies when they do eventually have to face one head on. When is the right time to bring horrific events up? And how do we level with them in a way that they can digest? Can we tell them the truth but not fill them with fear about the unknown unimaginables that could actually happen, and do sometimes happen? The senseless movie theatre shooting in Colorado is one such moment that has made me wonder.
My kids have not heard about the shooting. They are enjoying a blissful summer of sunshine and bike riding and days at the beach. I have not volunteered the information. Yet, I noticed, at a local church last Sunday, the minister brought up the event up at the children’s service. (I was there, but my kids were not, instead they were eating pancakes with cousins.) I saw many mothers’ cringe that the minister spoke about the tragedy in front of so many kids. Yet, in a way church is a good place to try to address such horrors. But, secretly I was happy that my kids weren’t there, pleased that that they could be ignorant and innocent a little longer.
Betsy Brown Braun, my favorite parenting expert, has a great article here on what to say should your kids bring up the shootings in Colorado. She has also written several great parenting books, filled with practical advice which are incredibly insightful specifically in terms of what age appropriate language to use when talking to your children during difficult times. Here’s an excerpt from her article and a link to her piece in The Huffington Post.
“The horrific tragedy in Colorado has left us all speechless, shaking our heads in disbelief. How could this have happened? Could anything really have been done to stop this mad man? And what can we possibly tell our children…if they ask?”
Click here to read Betsy’s full Huffington Post piece.
Click here to buy Betsy’s Book.
Last week I had the honor of attending Healthy Child Healthy World’s annual awards ceremony at the SLS Hotel hosted by Jennna Elfman. Healthy Child Healthy World is a non-profit organization dedicated to spreading awareness about protecting children from environmental toxins. The organization was founded in 1991 by James and Nancy Chuda, after their four year old daughter died of cancer. After their daughter’s tragic death The Chudas searched for answers. Four years later a study was released that revealed the likely connection between maternal exposure to pesticides and Wilms’ Tumor Cancer, the disease that their daughter suffered from. Since then the Chudas have dedicated their lives to spreading the word about the hazards of environmental toxins. Healthy Child Healthy World is a wonderful on line resource for parents full of informative information to help us all to make informed choices for our families.
Here are five basic steps that they recommend all families strive for:
1) AVOID PESTICIDES
2) USE NON TOXIC PRODUCTS
3) CLEAN UP INDOOR AIR
4) EAT HEALTHY
5) BE WISE WITH PLASTICS
One of the award winners honored that evening was pediatrician and author Dr. Allen Greene. His book, Feeding Baby Green, focuses on childhood nutrition. Dr Greene also started a movement called, “White Out,” which encourages parents not to feed their children rice cereal as a first solid food. (This was the first food my I gave my kids. Eeek!) He believes feeding your baby rice cereal is like feeding them a spoonful of sugar, as it is processed white rice which metabolizes to sugar. This book is full of great advice for feeding your young child and I wish that I had been privy to this information when my kids were younger.
Also honored that night was tenacious mom Tamara Rubin, of Oregon, whose children suffered lead poisoning during a routine home renovation. Tamar won the Healthy Child Award for 2011’s Mom on a Mission, as she founded Lead Safe America to promote protective policies regarding lead exposure.
It is inspiring to know that there are so many thoughtful parents taking action to help inform us all. We need to be vigilant about assessing the products that our kids are exposed to. Healthy Child Healthy World makes that daunting task so much easier with their on-line resources. They are always looking for volunteers to become involved, and also for donations. For more information about Healthy Child Healthy World check out their website. | <urn:uuid:925bab89-5980-412d-a4db-d780921c4a81> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://lacitymom.com/category/read/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00046-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974492 | 1,162 | 1.992188 | 2 |
FINNIGAN, ANNETTE (1873–1940). Annette Finnigan, suffragist and art patron, was born into the family of John Finnigan in West Columbia, Texas, in 1873. When she was three years old her family moved to Houston, where her father developed business and real estate interests. She attended Houston public schools and received a diploma from Tilden Seminary in West Lebanon, New Hampshire. In 1889 she entered Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, where she developed skills in fine arts and athletics and graduated in 1894. She then studied philosophy at Columbia University and worked as an administrative assistant to her father. She also began a long-term practice of travel in the United States and abroad.
By 1903 Annette Finnigan had returned to Houston, where she collaborated with her sisters, Elizabeth Finnigan and Katherine Finnigan Anderson, in launching equal-suffrage leagues in Houston and Galveston-the first twentieth-century woman suffrage efforts in Texas. In the next three years the sisters organized statewide, helping to establish the State Woman Suffrage Association. Annette served as its president from 1904 to 1906. The Finnigans left Texas by 1908, however, and the association disintegrated in their absence. When her father died in 1909 Finnigan assumed management of his businesses and began dividing her time between Houston and New York. In 1913 she revived the Houston suffrage league and for the next two years shared leadership of the renewed Texas Woman Suffrage Association with San Antonian Mary Eleanor Brackenridge. Finnigan corresponded with state legislators in 1914, requesting a voters' referendum for a constitutional amendment to authorize woman suffrage. In January 1915 she moved to Austin to lobby the legislature for this resolution. Though it received a majority vote in the House, the Senate did not consider it. Still, suffragists had gained increased publicity for their cause.
In 1916 Finnigan contracted a paralysis, which permanently debilitated her right arm and required her to use a cane. She not only retired from business and athletic activities but also discontinued political organizing. After moving to New York, she generally made winter sojourns to Houston, where she joined the local art league. She devoted the remainder of her career to traveling and cultural philanthropy. She had interests in European, Oriental, and Near Eastern antiquities and rare books. She frequently consulted with the curator of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, before embarking on tours, and returned with prized art objects to donate to the museum. These included Mediterranean vases and jewelry, Oriental and Near Eastern textiles, Spanish sculpture, and a lace collection. Like her father, who had endowed the Houston Carnegie Library fund, Finnigan also favored the Houston Public Library in her giving. She conducted research in Europe to collect illuminated manuscripts and sixteenth-century literary classics for the library. Also, she donated early Texas books and maps. Months before her death, she gave eighteen acres of Northside land to the city of Houston for use as a park, intending it particularly to benefit black residents.
In 1940 Finnigan's health declined, and she spent the last two months of her life in treatment for cancer at Memorial Hospital, New York. She died there on July 17, 1940. Her cremated remains were sent to Houston for burial at Glenwood Cemetery. Her will provided for a $25,000 grant to Wellesley College, as well as large contributions to the American Foundation for the Blind and the American Commission for Mental Hygiene.
Houston Chronicle, July 18, 1940. Jane Y. McCallum, "Activities of Women in Texas Politics," in Texas Democracy, ed. Frank Carter Adams (Austin: Democratic Historical Association, 1937).
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Eight Oklahoma High Schools Named Scholarship Champs
Eight Oklahoma high schools were recently named “Oklahoma’s Promise 2012 State Champions” by the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education for leading the state in the number of graduates who qualified to receive Oklahoma’s Promise, a state scholarship that allows students from families whose annual income is $50,000 or less to earn a college tuition scholarship.
“For the last 21 years, Oklahoma’s Promise has helped thousands of students achieve the dream of a college education by preparing them for academic success, and by providing them with financial assistance,” said Chancellor Glen D. Johnson. “By helping students enroll in Oklahoma’s Promise and providing guidance through their completion of the high school requirements, these high schools have demonstrated extraordinary efforts in preparing their students to continue on a successful path toward a higher education.”
High schools named Oklahoma’s Promise 2012 State Champions are:
• Co-Champions: Moss and Wapanucka with 10 Oklahoma’s Promise graduates
• Runner-up: Granite with nine Oklahoma’s Promise graduates
• Champion: Wright City with 15 Oklahoma’s Promise graduates
• Runner-up: Seiling with 12 Oklahoma’s Promise graduates
• Champion: Northeast Academy, Oklahoma City, with 28 Oklahoma’s Promise graduates
• Runner-up: Hobart with 17 Oklahoma’s Promise graduates
• Champion: Dove Science Academy, Oklahoma City, with 35 Oklahoma’s Promise graduates
• Runner-up: Keys with 29 Oklahoma’s Promise graduates
• Champion: Santa Fe South, Oklahoma City, with 70 Oklahoma’s Promise graduates
• Runner-up: Douglass, Oklahoma City, with 56 Oklahoma’s Promise graduates
• Champion: Del City with 59 Oklahoma’s Promise graduates
• Runner-up: Tahlequah with 57 Oklahoma’s Promise graduates
• Champion: Union, Tulsa, with 128 Oklahoma’s Promise graduates
• Runner-up: Broken Arrow with 106 Oklahoma’s Promise graduates
Oklahoma’s Promise was created in 1992 by the Legislature to help more Oklahoma families send their children to college. Its goal is to prepare students academically for college and to provide them financial assistance.
The scholarship pays tuition at any Oklahoma public college or university until the student receives a bachelor’s degree or for five years, whichever comes first. It will also cover a portion of tuition at an accredited Oklahoma private institution or for courses at public technology centers that are approved for credit toward an Associate of Applied Science degree at a public college. The scholarship does not cover the cost of fees, books, or room and board.
To be eligible for Oklahoma’s Promise, students must apply during the eighth, ninth or 10th grade, and their family’s annual income must not exceed $50,000 when they apply. Beginning with college students receiving the scholarship for the first time in 2012, a student’s family income must also not exceed $100,000 at the time the student goes to college.
To receive the scholarship at graduation, students must achieve a minimum 2.5 (C+) GPA in 17 core courses that prepare them for college and an overall GPA of 2.5 or better for all courses in grades nine through 12. Oklahoma’s Promise graduates also must attend class regularly and refrain from drug and alcohol abuse and delinquent acts.
Students completing the Oklahoma’s Promise program continue to be successful academically, with high school GPAs that exceed the state average, ACT scores that exceed those of their comparable middle- and lower-income peers and higher-than-average freshman college GPAs. The college-going rate of Oklahoma’s Promise students exceeds the state average for high school graduates. They also have above-average full-time college enrollment, persistence rates and degree-completion rates. In addition, about 92 percent of Oklahoma’s Promise college graduates get jobs and stay in Oklahoma after college, a higher rate than non-Oklahoma’s Promise graduates.
In order to receive the scholarship in college, students must be U.S. citizens or lawfully present in the United States by the time they begin college.
Since 2007, about 10,000 students from each 10th-grade class have enrolled in the program, with the 2012 graduating class reaching nearly 10,700 students.
During the current 2012-13 year, about 19,650 students are expected to receive the scholarship at a cost of $61.3 million.
For FY 2014, the State Regents have approved a funding estimate for Oklahoma’s Promise of $62.7 million, when about 19,300 students are projected to receive the scholarship. In 2007, the Legislature approved a permanent, dedicated funding source for the program from the state’s general revenue fund.
This change ensures the program will be fully funded each year from a stable source of revenue.
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Chinese civil society organizations (CSOs) are growing in number and engaging in valuable educational work and issue advocacy. However, relevant national regulations continue to hamper their development and limit the emergence of an independent Chinese civil society.
Although the Chinese government recognizes the value of CSOs that provide social services, Chinese authorities fear that these private organizations might emerge as a source of political opposition among disgruntled members of society.
Some organizations have records dating back into the 19th century. The records of Chinese associations are private records, and that privacy had to be defended during the anti-Communist period of the mid-1950s.
Chinese societies often kept records of contributions and disbursements for various causes and could be a good source for genealogical research. One such Record of Disbursement and Contributions for Building of a temple for the Young Wo Association (1900) is available on microfilm through the Asian American Studies Department of the University of California at Berkeley at http://ethnicstudies.berkeley.edu/. It lists individual donors by name and village origin.
Many societies and organizations published anniversary volumes or yearbooks. Those printed by village or district societies often include detailed descriptions of the localities. An example from the library of the Hawaii Chinese History center is the 1966 Lung Doo Benevolent Society Diamond Jubilee Edition, which contains a history of the society, a list of the officers from 1900 on, and a detailed map of the lung Doo (subdistrict).
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Chinese CSOs include a range of groups, such as national mass organizations that Communist Party authorities created and fund, smaller citizen associations registered under national regulations, and loose networks of unregistered grassroots organizations. The Chinese organizational forms that most nearly correspond to the Western concept of a nongovernmental organization are social organizations (SOs) (shehui tuanti), nongovernmental and noncommercial enterprises (NGNCEs) (minban feiqiye danwei), and foundations (jijinhui).
The State Council issued the current national regulations governing SOs and NGNCEs in 1998, and those regulating foundations in 2004. The proliferation of different organizational forms stems in part from the fact that China has only recently concentrated on creating a comprehensive system of governance for the large number of private voluntary organizations that have emerged in the wake of the enormous social changes of the 1980s and 1990s. It is also a result of strict registration regulations that drive many CSOs to operate without government registration.
Social organizations are voluntary organizations. Of the estimated 153,000 registered SOs, most of them are local or county organizations. Less than 2,000 operate at a national level. The SOs include academic, professional, or trade organizations, as well as voluntary associations of individuals with a common interest.
The NGNCEs are nongovernmental service providers, which include schools, hospitals, sports organizations, or employment service organizations. Of the 135,000 NGNCEs registered in 2004, there are 69,000 educational groups, 28,000 hygiene organizations, 3,139 cultural groups, 5,824 science and technology groups, 3,441 athletic associations, 11,000 labor organizations, 1,275 social service providers, and 546 are legal service centers.
Foundations are nonprofit and non-governmental organizations that are managed through the use of funds voluntarily donated by foreign and domestic social organizations. Foundations often promote the development of scientific research, culture, education, social welfare, and social services.
Many Chinese CSOs officially register as businesses because the registration process is easier. Others simply remain unregistered rather than face the hassle of registration.
Althhough the total number of registered Chinese CSOs has risen steadily over the last few years, they represent only a small percentage of all CSOs. Chinese sources estimate there are roughly 3 million CSOs in China, of which only 280,000 are registered. In practice, unregistered groups generally experience little or no government interference as long as they avoid financial misdeeds or overt political challenges. However, Chinese citizens cite difficulties in registering as a significant obstacle to establishing even relatively nonpolitical, civic-minded organizations, such as those directed at helping Beijing prepare for the 2008 Olympics.
Civil Society Regulations
Subject to a vague and restrictive regulatory system, registered Chinese CSOs are much less independent than their Western NGO counterparts.
Restrictions on SO Subdivisions
In November 2003, three national organizations—the China Behavior Law Association, the China Life Sciences Association, and the Chinese Decorative Architecture Association—were suspended for one to six months for illegally establishing sub-branches.
National regulations require that CSOs have a government-approved “sponsor organization” to register. Official Chinese sources indicate that only designated Communist Party, government bureaus, and mass organizations may sponsor non-governmental organizations. Such organizations are often difficult to find. Chinese law provides no positive incentive (such as tax benefits) to act as a sponsor. Furthermore, the possibility that the sponsor organization might suffer legal consequences for unauthorized actions by the CSO serves as a significant deterrent against sponsorship.
Procedurally, the sponsor organization submits the registration application to the Ministry of Civil Affairs (MOCA). Requirements for SOs include having at least 50 members, 30,000 yuan (about US $4,000) in capital funds, and a full-time staff. These requirements prevent small grassroots organizations with limited funds from establishing themselves legally. In addition, both SO and NGNCE regulations prevent the establishment of two organizations with similar mandates in the same administrative region. Such a policy limits competition and diversity of views and approach.
The 2004 Foundation Regulations also include the sponsor requirement; however, they do contain changes and some liberalization. The Foundation Regulations do not bar the registration of more than one organization addressing the same issue in a particular administrative region. The Foundation Regulations also differ from the 1998 regulations in that they permit representative offices of foreign foundations to register and be treated in a similar manner as Chinese foundations. Equal treatment is a mixed blessing, however, since the Foundation Regulations explicitly extend the sponsor requirement to the representative offices of foreign foundations operating in China.
If the CSO application is approved by MOCA, the sponsor organization and MOCA supervise the organization through a dual administrative system. This system severely limits the independence of registered organizations. For example, if the organization seeks to undertake a project not clearly stated in the original mandate, it requires both entities’ approval, which is a slow and complex process. The SOs are also limited in their ability to establish subdivisions and branches. The NGNCEs are forbidden from doing so. This restricts the growth of such organizations and limits their influence.
Control Over Registration
The annual registration renewal requirement gives MOCA a useful tool of control. For example, MOCA threatened Friends of Nature (the first officially recognized environmental NGO in China) with de-registration if it did not oust Wang Lixiong, one of its founders and its current secretary.
Registered CSOs are required to renew their registration annually through the dual administrative system. Such a provision firmly maintains the organization under control of the sponsor organization and MOCA, allowing for easy withdrawal of its legal status. This system does, however, have its advantages: Strict control may limit the possibility of corruption, a rampant problem in China today.
Additionally, Chinese CSOs, like NGOs elsewhere, suffer from insufficient funding. Many remain dependent on foreign funding, which can amount to over 90 percent of the budget of some organizations. China’s CSOs are tax-exempt in theory, but the absence of implementing regulations hinders their ability to raise funds. Local government agencies also seeking to raise money sometimes compete with CSOs for the same sources of funding.
Central authorities have long tried to keep CSOs under tight official control, but some Chinese officials support reducing restrictions and allowing them to play a more active social and political role. Both the MOCA and the State Environmental Protection Agency have been particularly supportive of civil society organizations. The MOCA officials have suggested publicly that the sponsor requirement should be eliminated. Subsequently, they have submitted multiple draft civil society regulations to the State Council that would remove it. Chinese news reports suggest that upcoming revisions to the 1998 regulations on social organizations will liberalize current rules somewhat, but will not change the sponsor organization requirement.
Chinese civil society regulations give some legal space to accommodate a growing non-profit sector. However, Chinese CSOs remain subject to restrictive and vague government regulations, which allow for arbitrary government crackdowns and discourages many citizen organizations from formally registering.
- Chinese Historical Society of Southern California
- The Institute of Chinese Culture
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Learn more about Cintas' worldwide community service efforts at www.cintascares.com
Cintas is proud to be a sponsor of Matthew 25: Ministries, a non-profit, interfaith ministry that provides humanitarian aid to residents in the United States and in 40 developing countries around the world.
Since 1998, Cintas has donated clothing, sewing machines, fabric, linens, soap, medicine, personal care items and school supplies to Matthew 25: Ministries. To date, the company has donated over 12 million pounds of products.
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A brief background: Kate reached out to the great, iconic California artist, John Baldessari, inviting him to be part of her collaborative. He kindly responded, via his assistant, he would not take part but wished the project well. The reason? There were simply too many items on his desk. In turn, Kate asked his assistant to “please let him know messy desks are part of the project”. And, if he reconsiders, we could use his response as his “interpretation” on his workspace.
She hoped he would have a change of heart.
Ten days elapsed.
Another email arrived yesterday. Via his assistant, John said his remarks were OK to publish and “although he cannot send a photo for the project,” he added to his statement,
“At any one moment there are over 500 things on my desk and it would take an archeologist to make an inventory. Stratum upon stratum, and lost civilizations embedded within each.”
So although John’s workspace is missing, he very much participated in this project. His biography reads like an encyclopedia. As you know, he’s done everything.
(photo: © 2007 Sidney B. Felsen)
John Baldessari was born in National City, California, 17 June 1931. He received a BA (1953) and MA (1957) from San Diego State College, continuing his studies at Otis Art Institute (1957–59) and Chouinard Art Institute. Synthesizing photomontage, painting, and language, Baldessari’s deadpan visual juxtapositions equate images with words and illuminate, confound, and challenge meaning. He upends commonly held expectations of how images function, often by drawing the viewer’s attention to minor details, absences, or the spaces between things. By placing colorful dots over faces, obscuring portions of scenes, or juxtaposing stock photographs with quixotic phrases, he injects humor and dissonance into vernacular imagery. For most of his career John Baldessari has also been a teacher. A major retrospective will appear at the Tate Modern, London; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 2009–10. John Baldessari was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2007. He lives and works in Santa Monica, California.
An extremely brief sampling of John Baldessari’s works below.
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A 5,000-strong group of Freehand-using graphic designers is demanding that Adobe restart development of the vector art app, sell it or make it open source.
Free FreeHand is a growing group of designers who have banded together to try to protect the software they use for their livelihood, FreeHand, from extinction.
FreeHand is a rival to Adobe Illustrator, but has been owned by Adobe since 2005, and has not been updated since.
“With Adobe’s CS5 just released and millions of Illustrator users, why does Adobe care to suppress FreeHand? A niche user audience of an estimated 20- or 30,000 designers should not be of concern to a corporation like Adobe,” group spokesperson Christine Stepherson told PC Advisor.
“Letters and more than 1,000 postcards have fallen on deaf ears at Adobe. The request has been to make upgrades or release FreeHand to the open-source community. But after Adobe’s ten-year strategy to shut down its main competition, many feel that the likelihood is slim.”
The US Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission are rumoured to be discussing starting an antitrust inquiry into Apple's policy of requiring iPhone and iPad developers to use only Apple's programming tools.
Stepherson references Adobe’s possible legal action when she asks whether “Adobe has turned the mirror on its own practices”.
While Free Freehand understands that Adobe is a private company that decides where to invest its R&D, if updates can’t be made to make the product useable for the future, the FreeHand community believes Adobe should release the product to an open-source community.
The group has not ruled out legal action as a means of persuading Adobe of its commitment to this cause.
"Corporations that buy and bury the products of others, just because they are unable to produce a better product, do harm to our society. Not only do they act unethically, they also obstruct progress in this country — all in the name of corporate profits!" states the group on its website.
FreeHand is a widely used vector-design application that is an essential tool of professional studios and graphic designers. It is used in the graphic design, clothing and textile design, illustration, education, and cartography industries. Like its rival Adobe Illustrator it is a vector software application that allows infinitely scalable shapes and effects.
FreeHand was created by Altsys and licensed to Aldus, which released versions 1 to 4. When Aldus merged with Adobe its future was deemed at risk because of Adobe’s rival Illustrator vector program.
Following intervention by the Federal Trade Commission to prevent a purchase due to anti-competitive characteristics Adobe was forced to return FreeHand to Altsys soon after the merger.
Altsys was then bought by Macromedia, which released FreeHand versions 5 to 10 and 11/MX. In an ironic and possibly fatal twist Adobe acquired Macromedia in 2005, returning FreeHand to the home of Illustrator.
FreeHand "basically hasn’t been updated in eight years", complains the Free FreeHand group.
Without updates, FreeHand is no longer supported by newer technology, forcing FreeHand designers to run outdated operating systems on old hardware or switch to Adobe’s flagship product, Illustrator.
Free FreeHand expects the software to be completely unusable on pending operating systems sometime in the next five years, if not earlier.
On its FreeHand product page Adobe states that: “No updates to FreeHand have been made for over four years, and Adobe has no plans to initiate development to add new features or to support Intel-based Macs and Windows Vista.
“To support customer workflows, we will continue to sell FreeHand and offer technical and customer support in accordance with our policies.
“While we recognize FreeHand has a loyal customer base, we encourage users to migrate to the new Adobe Illustrator CS4 software which supports both PowerPC and Intel-based Macs and Microsoft Windows XP and Windows Vista.”
Free FreeHand accuses Adobe of creating a monopoly in the vector-editing software market?
“The important and over-arching topic is that consumers no longer have a choice in the programs they wish to use to make a living,” says Stepherson.
“Free FreeHand believes that competition and options should exist in the marketplace and feels that it is vital to creativity in the design world.
“We have asked that Adobe either provide updates to the software to make it viable on current operating systems, or release it another company or an open-source community.
Free FreeHand believes that the open-source community could quickly make FreeHand compatible with new hardware and operating systems. It points to existing examples in open sourcing software, including Solaris (Sun Operating Systems) as Open Solaris, Netscape as Mozilla (Firefox, Thunderbird, Camino), StarOffice as OpenOffice (NeoOffice on Mac OS), and Visio’s product IntelliCAD.
“The lack of competition is also not good for users of Adobe Illustrator. The lack of innovation and total price control means Illustrator users are getting a lacklustre product with each upgrade and have nowhere else to turn if they are unhappy with the product,” Stepherson warns.
The group demands one of these actions of Adobe:
- Release FreeHand to the Open-Source community.
- Sell 'FreeHand' to another private interest.
- Develop and maintain FreeHand as a full part of the Adobe Creative Suite lineup.
The 5,000 active members of Free FreeHand are led by the organizing efforts of:
Thomas Thü Hürlimann, former Art Director of Macworld & Computerworld Switzerland, a graphic designer & multimedia artist who has worked with FreeHand since 1987 (Aldus version 1.0); Jabez Palmer of Bez Design, Seattle, whose first experience with MacDraw on a Macintosh Plus in 1986 made an indelible impression on his psyche; and book designer Mark Gelotte, who began computer arts with Aldus FreeHand 3.
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The John Ford collection is a set of vintage Ford films,without John Wayne while and I would NOT have included Mary of Scotland,and would have preferred either The Plough and the Stars,or The Fugitive (Henry Fonda)or the underrated Two Rode Together,this is still a very good film set.There is a separate Ford-Wayne collection,which I will review latter.The five films,in this collection are: The Lost Patrol;The Informer;Cheyenne Autumn:Mary of Scotland:Sergeant Rutledge: The following are my reviews of each individul film.
1.THE LOST PATROL-TENSE ANTI-WAR CLASSIC!*****
A British army Patrol,during the time of WW1, in the Mesopotamian desert gets lost,after their commander is killed,and he has left no notes or orders,in regard to their mission or exact location.With
their leader dead the small group's command falls to Sergeant Victor McLaglen.After a journey of unknown length,the patrol finds an oasis,and it is here where most of the action takes place as they are pinned down by (mostly unseen) Arab fighters.It is here where we really get to meet the men and get to know their hopes and fears.The other men include J.M.Kerrigan(as Quincannn-probably the most frequently used name in a Ford film!),Reginald Denny (Brown),Wallace Ford( excellent as Moretti),Boris Karloff,(,outstanding as Sanders-a religious fanatic),and Douglas Walton,as callow youth,who when he leaves for the service he relates that that was the ONLY time he saw his mother cry.This is (to me) one of the dramtic highlight so the film,when we see 19 year old Walton(about 25,in real life) pours his heart out to McLaglen.This scene,even more so than others shows the futility of war. Great direction,a great screenplay(Dudley Nichols,Ford's favorote writer,at the time-THE INFORMER-STAGECOACH),a fine Max Steiner score,and an excellent DVD transfer. A GREAT ANTI-WAR AND(mildly) ANTI-IMPERIALIST FILM,AND A MUST SEE!
MARY OF SCOTLAND:KATHERINE HEPBURN-FREDRIC MARCH **1/2
Katherine Hepburn,in her only Ford film,is Mary, Queens of Scots.This motion picture is derived from a Maxwell Anderson Play,and a screenplay by Dudley Nichols.To me of what I've seen of Ford's thirties films,"Mary of Scotland" it is Ford's least-good films of the period.Watchable,but forgettable.Two and one half stars.
THE INFORMER:VICTOR MCLAGLEN'S FINEST HOUR *****
The story of "the troubles",in Ireland, in told in a very somber way in the John Ford classic "The Informer",with Victor McLaglen(a Ford regular)giving an AA winning performance in the title role.McLaglen plays Gypo Nolan,a down and out Dubliner,who is without money,and because of this and having been recently "dismissed" from the IRA(Irish Republican Army'freedom fighters,hoping to obtain a united and totally free Ireland,with no British ties whatsoever) and because he is also in jeopardy of losing his girlfried Margot Grahame,(outstanding)as he is in a greatly strained emotional state,and when wondering the streets comes upon a reward poster for "IRA murderer"Frankie McPhillip(Wallace Ford-no relation to the director).The reward is worth enough so that both Gypo and his girl can get passage to America.A short while latter Gypo accidentally runs into Frankie,an old friend,and they have a short conversion about Frankie being on the run,how Frankes's mother is,and the reasons why Gypo was "sacked" from the(in this coversion a "Quincannon" is mentioned) IRA,after the conversion ends the wheels start to turn in Gypo's head and he wonders over to the "Black and Tans"station(the Black and Tans,so-called becuse of their uniforms,are special British militiary(police)men assigned to Ireland when "the troubles" are at their height,""Up the Irish" or in this film,"Up the Rebels" types may look at the B&T's as THE REAL TERRORISTS,but that's for another discussion)and reluctanly tells the "Brits" that Frankie will be at his mother's.After Frankie is killed in a shoot-out,Gypo is given disdainfully(even the B&T's don"t like Informers) his money and goes.Drinking,fighting,and partying are on the night's program for Gypo,but his drining is only a mask,to hide his emotional breakdown from his wicked deed.The IRA figures out what went on,in regard to Frankie's death, and Gypo is a doomed man!
Other supporting members of the cast are very good to excellent,J.M.Kerrigan,Preston Foster,Donald Meek,Joseph (then Sauers)Sawyer,and Una'Connor as Frankie's mother who is a bite "over the top" early in the film,but comes through poignanly at the coclusion.From a LiamO'Flaherty story,an excellent Dudley Nichols screenplay,with a haunting Max Steiner musical score,and a very crisp and clear DVD transfer.The ONLY MINUS NO DVD COMMETARY-A MUST SEE!!
CHEYENNE AUTUMN-DESPITE FLAWS ALMOST A CLASSIC ****
Ignoring "Fort Apache",and the anti-racism of "The Searchers",many critics (falsely) claim that John Ford set an anti-Native American(Indian) tone in films that increased racism in America.Well, whatever truth there is to either side of the argument is,in this film John Ford,in his last Western,is FIRMLY on the Indians side.But is was still (somewhat justified)critised fom casting,in VERY IMPORTANT roles none-Idians,especially The Victor Jory,Gilbert Roland,Richardo Montalban,Dolores Del Reo,and Sal Mineo(!)roles.
This motion picture tells the true story of the Cheyenne's plight at the hand of "THE GREAT FATHER" and their trek,and persuit(by U.S.troops) back to their Yellowstone homeland.
On the minus side is the appearrance of Carroll Baker(miscast) as a Quaker school marm) and Karl Malden,with an"over the top performance" as a muderous,racist American(German born) General.The screenplay by James Webb(Pork Chop Hill,The Big Country,Cape Fear) is lacklustre,and the comic interlude of Jimmy Stewart(as Wyatt Earp) with Arthur KennedyI"Doc" Holliday) and John Carradine(a dishonest gambler) and a bunch of hooligian ,led by Ken Curtis is out of place,and NOT VERY FUNNYI did lke Elizebeth Allen,was a damsel of ill-repute.This is a heart-felt film by John Ford with good performances by Richard Widmark as a "liberal" U.S. "horse soldier",and LaBaker's love interest,and in a cameo Edward G.Robinson.The musical score by Alex North is OK,but I would have preferred Elmer Bernstein.An An excellent DVD transfer.Despite my misgivings,4 stars.
SERGEANT RUTLEDGE-ANTI RACIST CLASSIC WESTERN *****
In this unheralded John Ford anti-racist Western, set in 1881,Sergeant Braxton Rutledge(Woody Stode) is accussed of rape and murder,and mostly in flashbacks the events of his accusation,his fleeing,and trial are told.The pace is perfect and acting and direction excellent.In his third Ford film Jeffery Hunter proves again that he was a very underrated actor.His performance is excellent,also good are Constance Towers,as Hunter's love interest and Braxton sympathizer,Willis Bouchey(a Ford grouchy regular),Juano Hernandez,Routledge's fellow "Buffalo Soldier",and sort of "father figure".for the rest of the black soldier's,and Charleton Young(another Ford regular) as the intentially racist prosecutor.But it is Strode(a Ford regular,in support roles) who carries the film.His pride and dignity are evident, in every scene in which he appears.There re two ways to look at this film,or more properly to look at Hollywood,either this film was way ahead of its time or Hollywood took to long to look at U.S. race relations,in any meaning manner.The anti-racists films,of Hollywood, did not really start to make an appearance until the late 1940's,with films such as "PINKY" and the 1950 film debut of Sidney Poitier in "NO WAY OUT"(see my review)My opinion is "so-called liberal Hollywood"(remember the blacklist) was and is always interested IN PROFITS,and NOT PREACHING!.
A GREAT FILM by "AMERICA'S GREATEST DIRECTOR!!
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Our latest educational workshop was located in a small community in the Nueva Esperanza area of Via Maria del Triunfo. MEDLIFE will bring a Mobile Clinic to this same community in March of 2013.
During the workshop, MEDLIFE staff members presented on a number of health topics, including the importance of psychological health and sleep, preventative tests for breast and cervical cancers, and nutrition. Along with our usual preventative health topics, we also touched on – for the first time – the important issue of property rights.
As many of our supporters know, MEDLIFE Peru works primarily with low-income, informal settlements established just outside of the city of Lima. Poverty, terrorism, and a lack of opportunities in rural Peru have prompted thousands of residents to migrate to these urban slums. As these communities become bigger, more established, and better organized, residents begin to move toward legal formalization of their homes and communal spaces.
Yet, the country has struggled in developing a comprehensive plan for urban development. With changes in government administration, treatment of informal settlements has varied widely. The involvement of several different agencies, sometimes with conflicting policies, also makes the process of legalization a murky one to navigate.
Santos Abad, a government lawyer, explained the basics of acquiring land title, highlighting the primary agencies involved in the process: COFOPRI (government agency that deals with property formalization), the municipal government, and – in some cases – the court system.
Abad outlined an important law called the prescripción adquisitiva de dominio. This law states that an individual may gain legal land title simply by possessing the land, peacefully and consistently, for a minimum of 10 years. The government's 10-year rule is a seemingly adequate amount of time for legal owners to reclaim their land or, if they wish, take squatters to court.
Community members listened attentively and immediately began to ask questions. In addition to general information about legalizing their property titles, many wanted to know more about the intricacies of sharing property. What happens when you share a home but are not married? How can parents ensure that their homes get passed on to their children?
Residents have voiced a need for more education, in order to better understand their legal rights. MEDLIFE hopes to begin including this type of training, focusing first on property rights, in our upcoming educational workshops.
Stay tuned for more information on important issues regarding land rights in Peru, coming soon!
Last Friday we visited the community of 8 de Diciembre for a seminar on various topics regarding preventative health care, as well as to hand out the Pap smear results for patients who attended a previous Mobile Clinic. The turnout was a lot bigger than we expected, showing us that this community is eager to learn about preventative measures they can take to help protect themselves and their families. From the moment we arrived we saw a very organized community; they had taken the time to rearrange the room to be able to accomodate all participants.
Biz Shenk, one of our MEDLIFE interns, gave a short presentation about mental health, which the community appreciated enormously. Several residents had questions regarding psychological health, but felt ashamed to ask them publicly; for this reason, MEDLIFE is trying to organize visits so that community members can meet one-on-one with psychologists. Two representatives from Manuela Ramos, an NGO that works to secure women's rights, also helped MEDLIFE Field Nurse Meri Lecaros present information about sexual and women's health. Among the topics addressed were how to recognize and prevent STDs, how to prevent cervical cancer, and how to do a quick breast exam to check for breast cancer.
Although participants listened with interest to all of the topics, the one that seemed to interest them the most was malnutrition. Almost every mother in the room was asking for advice; they all wanted to give the best possible nutrition to their children. At the end of the seminar everyone was satisfied with the answers given to their questions, and confident that the information received was not just for them to keep, but to also be shared with others. This group's interest was so strong that they even asked for more meetings, and MEDLIFE plans to continue returning to the zone to provide information on additional health topics.
Inge is a Communications Intern based out of Lima, Peru
Savannah King, a MEDLIFE Summer 2012 Intern in Lima, Peru, writes about her recent work using preventitive nutrition education to combat some of the root causes of malnutrition:
Nutrition. A commonly used word. A commonly found problem. MEDLIFE has already written about it a few times, with good reason. According to UNICEF, of the twenty five regions of Peru, nine have a chronic malnutrition rate in children aged 0-5 of over 30 percent. Preventative and educational programs seem to be the leading campaigns for addressing the nutrition problems in areas like periurban and rural Peru and other South American countries, and many of these programs have seen measurable success.
Of the programs I have reviewed, education is always at the forefront of the battle against malnutrition, stunting and deficiencies. Rather than handing out bottles of supplements, the programs aim to make changes starting at the base: teaching a new mentality about food and providing lessons on basic health and diet knowledge.
For instance, one program stressed three main messages in the populations where they worked. The first message was that serving babies a thick puree at mealtimes will satisfy and nourish the child. The second suggestion was to add a small portion of liver, egg or fish to babies’ plates. These three food options are all inexpensive but bring large health benefits when added to a diet. It is not unreasonable budget-wise to suggest adding these items regularly into meals, and the extra protein and iron contribute largely to the children’s intake of nutrients. Lastly, the third message was umbrella advice about how to eat. The program urged the population to think about meals as a time to eat slowly, enjoy the food and spend time as a family. This simple change in mentality likely also encourages a more happy and positive household environment. Also utilizing tools like food preparation demonstrations and group educational sessions, this program saw a significant (⅔) decrease in the rate of stunting, increases in knowledge and preventative behavior and improved feeding practices and growth rates.
Another program focused specifically on pre-natal and newborn care by addressing not only nutrition, but hygiene and proper stimulation of newborns as well. After a four year implementation, the program saw measurable decreases in stunting, vitamin A and iron deficiencies and malnutrition.
Pre-natal nutrition education has both been proven effective by studies and specifically mentioned to me by local women as the type of education they see as most important to changing the health of their communities. During an interview with two women in Villa El Salvador about their families’ typical diets, the women informed me that pre-natal and newborn nutrition education in their community was significantly lacking. We discussed the young age of many mothers in their area and the vicious cycle of poor diets that is often the result. When a mother raises her children with poor eating habits, those children grow up lacking the understanding of what it means to eat balanced, healthy meals, thus increasing the likelihood that they will raise their children with poor dietary habits as well. The women were very insistent that nutrition education, especially for young mothers, would be a welcome and much needed help to their communities.
Along with other topics including the importance of cervical cancer screening and the risks factors of hypertension, infant nutrition has its own informational pamphlet that MEDLIFE hands out at sites during our weeks of Mobile Clinics. Recently, we went one step further and held a workshop on obesity, breast and cervical cancer and family nutrition. Carolyn, Maureen and I (three of MEDLIFE's Summer Interns in Lima) presented on the components of a balanced diet, suggested nutritional boosters to the daily diet and explained why each of the food groups is important to one’s body. We finished with a sampling of a fresh, colorful vegetable salad in the hopes of introducing all those present, including mostly mothers and a few children and men, to how tasty and economical a nutritious snack or side dish can be!
Nutrition is an issue not only in Peru, but all over the world. For the most part, though, it is not going unnoticed and, however slowly, non-profits and governments are addressing the problem through various programs and interventions. From the programs I’ve reviewed and the affected people with whom I’ve discussed the topic, it seems education -- starting at the pre-born stage -- is one of the most important battles that we can fight, and I believe that positive results are inevitable.
Villa El Salvador, one of the many districts in Lima, Peru where MEDLIFE operates, is characterized by a long history of diligence and self-sufficiency. The area was awarded the Price of Asturias Award for Concord in 1987 and was nomiated for a Nobel Peace Prize for excellence in social work and community growth in 1986. Even in the face of numerous challenges affecting all aspects of daily life, the people of Villa El Salvador have proven themselves to be stalwart and community minded.
MEDLIFE's relationship with the former shantytown over the past year and a half has grown significantly in the form of reoccuring Mobile Clinics, workshops and patient follow-up care.
This past May, MEDLIFE held another successful health workshop in the town's civic center with nearly 180 residents in attendance. MEDLIFE staff handed out pamphlets covering an array of health topics, including breast cancer, cervical cancer, diabetes, malnutrition, hypertension and cholosterol, fungal infections, and sexually transmitted diseases.
After discussing the risks of breast cancer, Dr. Jenifer Soto led an exercise in self breast examination which received enthusiastic participation from everyone -- even a small number of men. Dr. José Luis Rodriguez explained how to detect and treat malnutrition among children and senior citizens.
Workshops like these are a crucial component of our ever-expanding education program as we strive to teach patients about the importance of preventative care.
MEDLIFE Intern Amara Channell writes about a new facet of our educational programs -- health and nutritional workshops for the poor in Latin America:
“What can I do to make my child eat more?”
If you have ever attended one our Mobile Clinics, chances are you have heard at least one mother ask why her child is not eating and what medicine the doctors can give her to fix it. Each time the doctors patiently explain that picky eaters are not sick -- they just have a behavioral or taste issue.
Through our expanding educational programs, we have found that one of the biggest problems is that patients lack or misconstrue basic nutritional knowledge. Very few Peruvian schools offer health education, and even if they did, many of our patients have not completed school. The mothers we work with sincerely believe that the more they can make their children eat, the healthier they will be. Their goal is to have chubby children because to them it is a sign of health. Unfortunately, this means that these children are eating fattening diets, not balanced ones, with large amounts of white rice and potatoes, but not much else. Along the way they are developing greater risk of diabetes.
Although very few of our patients show signs of traditional malnutrition, Kwashiorkor or Marasmus, many of them do suffer from micronutrient deficiencies (or “hidden hunger”) which are harder to spot. Worldwide, over one billion children suffer from micronutrient deficiencies. Even though these children may seem perfectly healthy, they have depressed immune function, smaller attention spans, decreased muscle development, height stunting, and poor teeth. They are less likely to complete school because of increased illnesses and decreased brain development. As adults they continue to have issues because the lack of nutrients causes them to be more susceptible to obesity, illness, and muscle weakness. A recent Economist article states that these adults will end up with lower paying jobs, die sooner, and have poorer partners.
In the past few weeks, MEDLIFE has started trying to counter these problems with nutritional “talleres,” or seminars, for local Peruvian women. The seminars last about an hour and give women the absolute basics about nutrition as well as a chance to ask individual questions.
The presentations start by suggesting affordable changes that the women can make, such as eating eggs instead of bread for breakfast, and emphasizing how important variety is. There is an incredible abundance of affordable fruits and vegetables here, but it is not a cultural norm to include them in most meals. By adapting the new MyPlate program (developed by USDA), we can show them a healthy and balanced way to think about preparing their plates. | <urn:uuid:1605b043-35b3-4b33-8f07-110af79b343f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.medlifeweb.org/blog/itemlist/category/13-education-projects.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00002-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965175 | 2,675 | 2.015625 | 2 |
Into the Unknown: How Great Explorers Found Their Way by Land, Sea, and Air by Stewart Ross and illustrated by Stephen Biesty is an ode to adventure and discovery that is full of unfolding cutaways and cross-section illustrations, sure to thrill visual and kinesthetic learners. It was a 2011 Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor winner and has been nominated for a Cybils award in the MG/YA nonfiction category.
Stewart Ross say he loves history, and his passion shows. From the first Greek to sail to the Arctic circle, to Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin’s trip to the moon, Ross follows fourteen great explorers in chronological order as they course into the unknown.
What really makes the book, however, are the absolutely fabulously detailed cutaway illustrations by Stephen Biesty. For a child or young adult interested in transportation, particularly ship building, the illustrations are gold mines of technical information. Also included are maps, including the dust jacket which unfolds into a world map showing where each of the explorers traveled. Very cool!
Students of history, science and engineering will find Into the Unknown a book to come back to again and again. Be sure to pair it with a hands-on challenge to see how long a paper boat can float, or other related activities for kinesthetic learners.
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Reading level: Ages 8 and up
Hardcover: 96 pages
Publisher: Candlewick; Rei/Map edition (April 12, 2011)
Provided by the publisher for review purposes.
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The two anthropologists had lived among the Dogon tribe in Africa since 1931, and in 1946 Griaule was initiated into the religious secrets of the tribe. He was told that fishlike creatures called the Nommo had come to Earth from Sirius to civilizes its people. Sirius B, which the Dogon call po tolo (naming it after the seed that forms the staple part of their diet, and whose botanical name is Digitaria), is made of matter heavier than any on earth and moves in an elliptical orbits, taking fifty years to do so. It was not until 1928 that Sir Arthur Eddington postulated the theory of "white dwarfs" - stars whose atoms have collapsed inward, so that a piece the size of a pea could weigh half a ton. (Sirius B is the size of the earth yet weighs as much as the sun.) Griaule ad Dieterlen went to live among the Dogon three years later. Is it likely that some traveler carried a new and complex scientific theory to a remote African tribe in the three years between 1928 and 1931?
An oriental scholar named Robert Temple went to Paris to study the Dogon with Germaine Dieterlen. He soon concluded that the knowledge shown by the Dogon could not be explained away as coincidence or "diffusion" (knowledge passed on through contact with other people.) The Dogon appeared to have an extraordinarily detailed knowledge of our solar system. They said that the moon was "dry and dead", and they drew Saturn with a ring around it (which, of course, is only visible through a telescope). They knew that the planets revolved around the sun. They knew about the moons of Jupiter (first seen through a telescope by Galileo). They had recorded the movements of Venus in their temples. They knew that the Earth rotates and that the number of stars is infinite. And when they drew the elliptical orbits of Sirius, they showed the star off-center, not in the middle of the orbit - as someone without knowledge of astronomy would naturally conclude.
The Dogon insisted that their knowledge was brought to them by the amphibious Nommo from a "star" (presumable they mean a planet) which, like Sirius B, rotates around Sirius and whose weight is only a quarter of Sirius B's. They worshipped the Nommo as gods. They drew diagrams to portray the spinning of the craft in which theses creatures landed and were precise about the landing location - the place to the northwest of the Dogon country, where they were originated. They mentioned that the "ark" in which the Nommo arrived caused a whirling dust storm and that it "skidded". They speak of "a flame that went out as they touched the earth", which implies that they landed in a small capsule. Dogon mythology also mentions a glowing object in the sky like a star, presumably the mother ship.
Our telescope has not yet revealed the "planet" of the Nommo, but that is hardly surprising. Sirius B was only discovered because its weight caused perturbations in the orbits of Sirius. The Dog Star is 35.5 times as bright (and hot) as our sun, so any planet capable of supporting life would have to be in the far reaches of its solar system and would almost certainly be invisible to telescopes. Temple surmises that the planet of Nommo would be hot and steamy and that this probably explains why intelligent life evolved in its seas, which would be cooler. These fish-people would spend much of their time on land but close to the water; they would need a layer of water on their skins to be comfortable, and if their skins dried, it would be as agonizing as severe sunburn. Temple sees them as a kind of dolphin.
But what ere such creatures doing in the middle of the desert, near Timbuktu? In fact, the idea is obviously absurd. Temple points out that to the northwest of Mali lies Egypt, and for many reasons, he is inclined to believe that the landing of the Nommo took place there.
Temple also points out that a Babylonian historian named Berossus - a contemporary and apparently an acquaintance of Aristotle (fourth century BC)-claims in his history, of which only fragments survive, that Babylonian civilization was found by alien amphibians, the chief of whom is called Oanned - the Philistines knew him as Dogon (and the science-fiction writer H.P. Lovecraft borrowed him for his own mythology). The Greek grammarian Apollodorous (about 140 BC) had apparently read more of Berossus, for he criticizes another Greeek writer, Abydenus, for failing to mention that Oannes was only one of the "fish-people"; he calls these aliens "Annedoti" ("repulsive ones") and says they are "semi-demons" from the sea.
But why should the Dogon pay any particular attention to Sirius, even though it was on of the brightest stars in the sky? After all, it was merely one among thousands of stars. There, at least, the skeptics can produce a convincing answer. Presumably, the Dogon learned from the Egyptians, and for the ancient Egyptians, Sothis (as they called Sirius) was the most important star in the heavens-at least. after 3200BC, when it began to rise just before the dawn, at the beginning of the Egyptians New Year, and signaled that the Nile was about to rise.
So the Dog Star became the god of rising waters. The goddess Sothis was identified with Isis; and Temple points out that in Egyptian tomb painting, Isis is usually to be found in a boat with two fellow goddesses, Anukis and Satis. Temple argues convincingly that this indicates that the Egyptian knew Sirius to be a three-star system - the unknown "Sirius C" being the home of the Nommo. An ancient Arabic name for one of the stars in the Sirius constellation (not Sirius itself) is Al Wazn, meaning "weight" and one text says that it is almost too heavy to rise over the horizon.
Temple suggests that the ancients may have looked toward the Canis constellation for Sirius B and mistaken it for Al Wazn. He also suggests that Homer's Sirens-mermaid like creatures who are all-knowing and who try to lure men away from their everyday responsibilities actually "Sirians", amphibious goddesses. He also points out that Jason's boat, the Argo, is associated with the goddess Isis and that it has fifty rowers-fifty being the number of years it takes Sirius B to circle Sirius A. There are many other fish-bodied aliens in Greek mythology, including the Telchines of Rhodes, who were supposed to have come from the sea and have introduced men to various arts, including metal work. Significantly, they had dogs' heads. | <urn:uuid:6a45ba60-2633-4129-98ce-6d2ff723ec59> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.hellhorror.com/mysteries/dogon/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00075-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980835 | 1,430 | 3.4375 | 3 |
This working paper highlights examples of five companies operating in China and illustrates the approaches they have adopted to address environmental problems. The paper focuses on water pollution within China’s challenging business landscape.
Leading corporations all over the world are making environmental performance part of their core business strategy. As part of their efforts, international companies are implementing green supply chain initiatives, under which they require their suppliers to meet certain environmental performance standards. While these green supply chain requirements are starting to have global ramifications, the impacts are particularly significant for Chinese industry because of China’s role as the world’s factory and leading global exporter – accounting for as much as 10 percent of the world’s total exports. Chinese suppliers therefore face new challenges: If they do not meet the environmental requirements of green supply chain buyers, they risk losing their international customers.
The purpose of this report is to highlight examples of five companies operating in China by illustrating the approaches they have adopted to address environmental problems. The report focuses on water pollution within China’s challenging business landscape.
The five case studies presented specifically illustrate:
All five companies highlighted in the best-practice case studies were independently reviewed and selected by the Green Choice Alliance (GCA), a consortium of Chinese environmental experts and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). The five companies were among the 290 suppliers that were prepared to communicate with NGOs and the public about their environmental performance.
The cases featured in this report were chosen based on the following criteria:
1) the representative nature of the environmental problem; 2) the practicality and effectiveness of the management processes used to solve the environmental problem; and 3) the potential for management processes to be widely adopted by Chinese suppliers in various industries.
It is the authors’ hope that through these case studies Chinese suppliers will gain insights into how they can become green suppliers, enabling them to strengthen their relationships with international buyers and achieve business success. | <urn:uuid:95ad426c-e78f-4c0f-9d1a-ba193a1d2f80> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wri.org/print/11812 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00072-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959753 | 390 | 2.421875 | 2 |
Founder of the legendary Cinema 16 Film Society, Amos Vogel (b. 1921) changed the exhibition and distribution landscape for independent cinema in America. Born in Austria, Vogel came to the United States in 1939, and soon pursued his interest in cinema—and his desire to see inaccessible films—by exploring then-unchartered waters: the prospect of an individual locating, renting, and publicly exhibiting non-fiction and avant-garde films in New York City venues. With his wife Marcia, Vogel established the Cinema 16 Film Society in 1947, moving into film distribution in 1948. Vogel steadily built the collection in the ensuing decade, drawing heavily from the world of avant-garde cinema. Cinema 16’s catalog of over two hundred films by more than one hundred filmmakers was rented nationwide to universities, film societies, commercial theaters, and various other educational venues. When Cinema 16 closed in 1963, much of its library was acquired by the Grove Press Film Division. Vogel’s subsequent activities included posts as the Director of the Lincoln Center Film Department and the New York Film Festival (which he also co-founded).
In 1973 Vogel joined the faculty of the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Pennsylvania, where he started a cinemathèque and taught film studies until 1991. In those years Vogel assembled a library of films which were used in his classes; 193 of these titles (primarily 16mm projection prints, most of them shorts, dating from 1905 to the 1980s) were donated to the Harvard Film Archive in 2005. Prints include several that were screened in a 1982 course called Manipulation and Ideology in Film, which manifested Vogel’s unique curatorial style: Peter Davis’ touchstone Vietnam documentary Hearts and Minds (1974); Why Vietnam? (1965) and other propaganda produced by the U.S. Air Force and Department of Defense; Roberto Rossellini’s The Miracle (1948), Alfred Hitchcock’s Notorious (1946), and Stan Brakhage’s The Act of Seeing With One’s Own Eyes (1971). The library also includes many films first premiered at Cinema 16, as well as films Vogel writes about in his landmark book Film as a Subversive Art (1974). The Vogel collection ranges from pioneering avant-garde works to animation, documentary, educational and industrial shorts to American and European classics. The collection’s eccentric sampling of non-mainstream cinema is demonstrated by such holdings as Fishing in the Fjords (1938), Le Corbusier Designs for Harvard (1966), and Word is Out, Rob Epstein’s ground-breaking documentary portrait of twenty-six gay men and women living in America circa 1978. | <urn:uuid:14e85137-c480-47be-9925-f7c98c274ac9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.hcl.harvard.edu/hfa/collections/annenberg.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00055-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954445 | 565 | 2.171875 | 2 |
As New York City health authorities and ultra-Orthodox groups clash over metzitzah b’peh, officials in other cities are making no effort to regulate the risky oral suction technique sometimes used during ritual circumcision.
In fact, unlike in New York City, health authorities elsewhere often have no mandate to monitor the incidence of the herpes strain known as HSV-1 that babies can contract from the procedure. The disease’s consequences for adults are seldom serious, but HSV-1 can cause developmental disabilities, nerve damage and occasionally death in infants due to the underdeveloped state of their immune systems.
Assessing the possible risks and rate of infection is further complicated by the fact that outside the New York City area, even some ultra-Orthodox mohels and the families they serve appear to accept use of more sterile procedures, which are endorsed by local governments and rejected by many ultra-Orthodox groups in New York.
In Baltimore, which has a large ultra-Orthodox population, a representative for the county department of health said her office doesn’t “have anything to do with” tracking herpes or circumcision rites, and referred questions to the Maryland Office of Health Care Quality. A spokesperson from the state office confirmed that neonatal herpes was not mandated to be reported. “The Department agrees that this is not a safe practice,” the spokesperson wrote in an email, adding, “We are not aware of any cases associated with this practice in Maryland.”
The department’s lack of awareness could reflect the absence of mandated reporting of the illness. It might also reflect caution about antagonizing the community. In March, Helene King, a spokeswoman for Sinai Hospital, which serves Baltimore’s large ultra-Orthodox population, declined to answer even a general question from the Forward about babies with HSV-1 being admitted soon after their circumcisions. “With such a close-knit community as the Baltimore Orthodox one is, I would not want to chance that any family or families would realize they were in an article like this,” she wrote.
The Forward contacted several prominent mohels from Baltimore’s ultra-Orthodox community, including Rabbi Michael Henesch. None would agree to be interviewed about whether they used metzitzah b’peh.
Other cities with sizable ultra-Orthodox populations, such as Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco, do not mandate that herpes cases be reported to the state. In Canada, officials in Montreal and Toronto confirmed that herpes was a communicable disease to be reported, but they were not aware of any cases. | <urn:uuid:8af3b941-622d-409f-8f91-1d02b5f149f5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://forward.com/articles/164193/circumcision-rite-goes-unregulated-outside-new-yor/?p=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00054-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963854 | 541 | 1.882813 | 2 |
It is an Autumn afternoon and the streets are brown with leaves. Children are coming home from school, calling to each other in the cool, windless air. I think of other Autumns that have come and gone: each like a strange, wonderful symphony: the Autumns of childhood, boyhood, manhood. I wonder what this Autumn will mean to me, what I shall think of when the memory of it returns to me in the years to come?
There was a time when the Autumn days seemed to me the most beautiful of all the year: something unseen and ancient whispered to me from the falling leaves, called to me from the wild-geese overhead. I had only to go out and walk and dream and wonder, and the strange, precious glory dwelling in the mystery of Autumn would steal into my heart and make me one with all.
What will this Autumn mean to me? I think that I know: the cycles of the old years have turned, a new path is being traced by the wheel of time, my life of reveries is fading into the quiet past. I feel that my place is not to be in loneness and dreams, but out among men, searching in their hearts for something precious, something to answer the mystery in my own.
Yes, I think that I know: there is divinity in the Inmost of men; there is something in me which knows that it is there. And so I have a new work, a new duty, of trying to see, to recognise, to encourage the divinity in men to come forth, to flame out and illumine the dreary dream that too many of us mistake for life. This Autumn can be the most wonderful of all; it can be the luminous veil of an inner, spiritual Autumn. Behind its beauty can shine the beauty of a divine universe.
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November 11 was Singles Day in China. Started by a group of college students during the 1990s, Singles Day is when unmarrieds shower each other with gifts. I have read that 11/11 represents 4 bare sticks which sound like the Chinese word for bachelor or perhaps the date was chosen just because it is 4 ones. With 2 more ones, 11/11/11 was called the Singles Day of the Century. (It was also National Corduroy Day.)
Beyond a day to recognize singles, 11/11 has become associated with e-commerce. China’s online behemoth, Alibaba, reported $1.6 billion in revenue during the first 13 hours of 11/11–more than last year’s US Cyber Monday. Singles bought discounted clothing and furniture, special travel and restaurant deals, and one dealership even offered 23% off BMW 3 series cars. The Economist said that, “Couriers were buried in parcels.”
Our bottom line? Analyses of the Chinese economy point to excessive household saving, inadequate consumer spending and too much dependence on exports and investment. With rebalancing a goal, any consumer spending binge is good news. In China’s newest 5-year plan (2011-2014), China, hopes to see online spending quadruple.
Sources and Resources: The most interesting articles on Singles Day were from Business Insider, USA Today, and The Economist (and the source of the above courier quote). A good, brief discussion of China’s economic challenges, this FT article also clearly conveys their progress. Finally, in this econlife post, we looked more closely at the Chinese consumer and shared the table that follows from McKinsey.
Chinese Urban Households: Disposable Income/Proportion of Urban Population
|Household Type:Annual disposable income||2010(total of 226 million households)||2020*(total of 328 million households)|
|Affluent(More than $34,000)||2%||6%|
|Mainstream($16,000 to $34,000)||6%||51%|
|Value($6,000 to $16,000)||82%||36%|
|Poor(Less than $6000)||10%||7%| | <urn:uuid:11547a3d-2a25-4ea5-a2ee-a4691dd161a9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.econlife.com/tag/cyber-monday/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00031-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948255 | 472 | 1.9375 | 2 |
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We live in a country that generates the second largest amount of web traffic in the entire world, yet a startling 100 million people in this country, or one-third of the population, do not have broadband Internet access. This compares poorly with countries like South Korea, where 94% of residents have high speed Internet, and yet only 70% of Americans have it. How is it that the United States government is not recognizing the importance of the Internet to communications by making it as accessible as a public utility?
The US is lagging behind in three important areas:
- Providing high speed Internet access to rural areas
- Providing affordable high speed Internet, so even those with a low income have access
- Providing speeds that meet the needs of today’s Internet users.
The Reasons for Limited Access
Despite the fact that the United States was the country to introduce the Internet to the world, it has not kept up with providing adequate access to the masses. Part of the problem lies in the geography of this country. Running wires to provide high speed Internet access in every part of this huge country is a very pricey endeavor. However, this is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the access. Not only has the American government not come through with the technological necessities like fiber optics, it has also let a few companies like Comcast and Verizon control the market.
Quality and Price of Access
While a big part of the problem with the state of the Internet in the United States is actually access to high speed service, the other problematic areas are price and the quality of the service. We have much slower average speeds than South Korea, an average 6.7 Mbps compared to 15.7 Mbps, but we still pay an average of $8 more per month for worse service.
Affordability is a big deal. In New York City alone there are 2.2 million people who cannot afford Internet access. In a country where the Internet is so important, this is unacceptable. In Europe and Asia, you can find very high speed Internet access for $30 or less per month. In our country, comparable service would be $50 to $90 monthly.
Where is All The Money Going?
While the consumer shells out a lot for inadequate service, ATT is enjoying a 95% profit margin on their broadband offerings. We are also lining the pockets of CEOs of the big Internet providers, who earn a sizeable 500-1000 times more than an average worker at their companies.
- AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson makes $22 M
- Time Warner CEO Glenn Britt brings home $16.4 M
- Comcast CEO Brian Roberts earns $27 M
- Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg gets $26 M
The rest of our high fees go towards controlling the government, so it doesn’t make affordable Internet access a right like Finland did in 2010. A half a billion dollars spent on government lobbying is significant enough for telecommunications giants to be heard. Providing lucrative jobs to FCC members who voted the way the big companies wanted speaks volumes too.
The average home is projected to use 52GB of data monthly by 2016. The Internet is taking over as the leading communication medium in the nation and the government needs to recognize this. As our need for Internet grows, the federal government needs to respond and bring us on par with countries worldwide that are doing it much better than we are presently. | <urn:uuid:80975121-c097-4c3d-98ff-57262718b8e9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blogs.imediaconnection.com/blog/2013/01/30/should-internet-access-be-a-public-utility/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00021-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948749 | 698 | 2.75 | 3 |
The Japan Times, January 21, 1999
SEVENTH CENTURY COINS
Old currency prompted by Tang threat
The threat posed by China's Tang dynasty prompted Japan to boost the state's economic strength by minting its first coins in the late seventh century, earlier than previously believed, according to an archaeologist at a national research institute.
The Nara National Research Institute of Cultural Properties announced this week that 33 Fuhonsen coins, which were found in August at the site of the Fujiwarakyo court in Asuka, Nara Prefecture, date from the late seventh century.
The finding, which rocked the archaeological and historical world, negates the belief that the issuance of Wado Kaichin coins in 708 marked the birth of Japan's money economy.
In the late seventh century, China was the only part of Asia that minted coins, known as Kaigen Tsuho, which were used also in present-day Vietnam until the late 10th century and on the Korean Peninsula until the early 12th century.
The Fujiwarakyo court, which ruled much of Japan at the time, cast coins because it was in a position somewhat similar to the one Japan was in before the 1868 Meiji Restoration, reckoned Hiroyuki Kaneko of the institute.
At the end of the Edo Period in the mid-19th century, the Tokugawa shogunate feared that Western powers might attempt to colonize Japan.
In the seventh century, Kaneko said, Japan feared China would attempt to invade.
In 663, Japan's Imperial court, based in Naniwa (modern-day Osaka), sent 27,000 troops to the Korean Peninsula to aid Paekche, one of three kingdoms in ancient Korea, which was located in the southwestern part of the peninsula.
The joint forces of Japan and Paekche were defeated in the Battle of Hakusonko by Tang dynasty forces who were assisting Silla, a Korean kingdom in the southeastern part of the peninsula.
The court gave asylum to Paekche nobles, and sought to build up defenses in western Japan, believing the Tang forces would retaliate.
The Japanese court was also keen to copy Tang dynasty culture, which was in its heyday at the time, and introducing a political system based on laws was seen as a necessity.
The Fuhonsen coins are one example of the Japanese court's adoption of the Chinese system, archaeologists said.
The size of the coins discovered in the Asuka dig is nearly the same as that of China's Kaigen Tsuho.
Because Japan had broken off relations with the Tang dynasty after the Battle of Hakusonko, information about Chinese currency came only from Silla, which did not mint coins itself, Kaneko said.
He said the design of Fuhonsen coins may have been modeled after China Yosho coins, which were used as charms, not money.
"After normalizing relations with China in 704 by sending a mission, the Japanese court may have realized it made mistakes with its coins, by looking at the Chinese coins, and made some fine tuning to introduce Wado Kaichin coins," Kaneko said.
The name Fuhonsen may come from Tang dynasty documents, said Keiji Matsumura of the Nara institute.
According to the documents, the legendary warlord Mayuan (14 B.C. to 49) told Emperor Guangwu of the Later Han dynasty that "the basis for wealth of the people is food and money," proposing a revival of Goshusen coins which had been minted during the Former Han dynasty.
The kanji on the Fuhonsen are "fu" for "wealth" and "hon" for "basis," apparently taken from the Tang dynasty, Matsumura said.
"In Japan at the time, the new minting of China's Goshusen coins was a well-known fact, and Japanese court people perhaps engraved the kanji on the head side of the coin," he added.
He said the coin's round shape and square hole symbolize the harmony of Earth and the heavens, and the seven dots on both sides of the hole indicate the seven stars in the Chinese principles of yin and yang.
"One meaning in the design of Japan's first coins may be to educate people who had no idea about the currency," he said.
While adopting Chinese culture, the court did not seem to leave behind its pride as an independent polity, said Towao Sakaehara, a professor at Osaka City University.
"(Japanese) tried to give their coins something original. The design of the Fuhonsen and the kanji for 'chin' of the Wado Kaichin seem original," Sakaehara said.
Similarly, the term "tenno" (emperor) was chosen to refer to the Japanese head of state in early centuries, instead of "kotei," also translated into English as emperor, which was the name of the head of the Chinese dynasty, he said.
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Russell Wayne Baker is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning writer known for his satirical commentary and self-critical prose. He is known for his autobiography, Growing Up.
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“In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to being in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved”
“Ah, summer - what power you have to make us suffer and like it”
“People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.”
“Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.”
“The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.”
“The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.”
“An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.”
“Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.”
“Situation comedy on television has thrived for years on "canned" laughter grafted by gaglines by technicians using records of guffawing audiences that have been dead for years.”
“I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.”
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To me, this story represents, in microcosm, what is happening throughout Seattle Public Schools. The District has put a great focus on serving underperforming minority students living in poverty. Unfortunately, they have, as usual, been clumsy in their communication - both internal and external. As a result, they have inadvertently given the signal that they are not interested in serving any other students. People have received that inadvertent sign and responded by taking their children either out of the neighborhood school or completely out of the district.
Some of you might think that the message "We are not interested in serving your White affluent child working at or above grade level" is intentional, but I am not ready to arrive at that conclusion. I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt on this.
Here are some facts:
Seattle and the Seattle Public Schools contrast demographically. Seattle is 70% White; Seattle Public Schools is 40% White. Seattle is an extremely affluent city where the median household income in 2001 was $70,000; over 40% of Seattle Public School students qualify for free or reduced price lunch. Seattle is one of the most educated cities in the country where 89.5% of adults are high school graduates and 47.2% have college degrees; only 61-65% of Seattle Public School students graduate high school.
I think that the District is absolutely right to focus attention on the needs of underperforming minority students living in poverty. I just have three problems with the way they are doing it.
- They talk about it a lot, but they don't seem to know how or what to do. For at least the past six years (perhaps longer), the District has said that their number one goal and priority is to close the academic achievement gap by bringing every student up to standard. Yet they have not introduced any plan of action for achieving that goal. That's either crazy or horribly disingenuous. How can you say "This is my number one goal" and then take no action to achieve it?
The District has very few models of success, none of which come from the District level initiatives, and the District doesn't duplicate those practices when they appear. Look at what is happening at Maple and at Van Asselt. Those schools have proven success, yet those successful efforts are strictly limited to those schools. The District has not made any effort (that I am aware of) to duplicate the strategies, work and results from these schools at others. Instead, the District provides initiatives such as cultural competency, which has not proven effective, and courageous conversations, which have not proven effective. The most recent effort from the District is Flight Schools; only time will tell if that effort will prove effective. The District inititiatives, including the Flight Schools initiative, always focus on educating the teacher instead of educating the students. They have coaches - for the teachers. They have additional training - for the teachers. Where are the coaches and additional training for the students?
The District appears to allow schools which have not proven effective to continue along their current path. It feels like neglect. What changes, if any, has the District demanded at schools which are habitually failing to meet AYP? The law requires the school to write an Improvement Plan, but does the District really provide any oversight or extra resources that will make a difference?
- The District very clearly sends the message that they are not interested in serving high performing students or White students or affluent students. That message comes though clearly and frequently. They actually appear angry at these folks and contempuous of them. This is three kinds of bad. First, it is bad because the District should serve EVERY student. Usually when people talk about serving EVERY student it is code for serving underperforming minority students living in poverty. They need to make it mean EVERY student. To do otherwise is immoral. Second, it is bad because they are not serving the community as they find it. They are failing to serve the actual population of Seattle. This is simply a government entity failing to meet the needs of their community. Third, it is bad because these are good people to have in the public school system. Their children bring in just as much revenue from the State as any other child but they are actually less expensive to educate. The families bring additional resources to the District: money, volunteers, political support, and expertise. This isn't unique to Madrona; the District is driving away their most desirable customers all over the city.
- The District's stated commitment to serving underperforming minority students living in poverty has created a culture in which this effort is glorified. So much so, that the culture actually encourages this model and the associated behaviors. They claim to support parental involvement, but only from the right families. If you're White, then your involvement is a manifestation of White privilege and therefore comtemptible. They claim to want volunteers, but they only from the right families. If you're White, then your free time to volunteer in the classroom is a a manifestation of White privilege and therefore comtemptible. I'm not saying that they WANT children to fail academically, but they sure seem to relish wearing the hairshirt of being an urban district with low achievement. Am I the only one getting that vibe? Am I the only one who has heard District personnel say, sometimes unabashedly "I'm sorry that we don't have the time and resources to support your child's continued success, but we have children here who are failing and we need to give them all of our time and attention first."
The District's distorted vision of equity puts ceilings on student achievement. It's like some Soviet era idea - only instead of "No person should have two cows until every person has one cow." it is "No student should learn multiplication until every student has learned addition." At Madrona that means that none of the kids can have music and art because some of them need more time on task with math and reading. Where is the effort to differentiate instruction? Where is the commitment to teach each student at the frontier of their knowledge and skills? The focus on bringing every student up to the Standard has resulted in no support for students working beyond Standards. The Standards, intended in theory as a floor, have become, in practice, a ceiling.
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Cosmetologists say that the removal of hair using laser eliminates the possibility of scarring. However, British scientists warn that in some cases, this type of hair removal can still trigger the appearance of scars on the skin. Experts say that millions of women put themselves at risk, the use of laser hair removal, because of ignorance of some of the nuances of this procedure.
It turns out that laser hair removal can leave scars if you have the procedure to sunburnt skin. In doing so, no matter what way was obtained a tan - the natural (sun, solarium) or artificial (tanning cream-auto). The survey shows that 3 out of 4 women attending a beauty salon for laser hair removal, do not know that prior to a few weeks, they can not tan. And some are not aware of such and contraindications, as skin cancer or pregnancy. | <urn:uuid:bd920a21-4073-4c83-9715-f609c1f7b4fd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.newxgroup.com/2009/02/laser-hair-removal-leaves-scars.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949378 | 178 | 1.820313 | 2 |
The United Nations never ceases to impress. As noted here recently, Thor Halvorssen of the Human Rights Foundation appeared before the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva on June 28. Halvorssen offered a few frank, bracing words about the state of human rights in Venezuela under Hugo Chavez, and expressly argued that Chavez’s government, which is seeking a seat on the council, has no right to such a seat. For good measure, Halvorssen pointed out how disgraceful it is that another tyrannical Latin American government, that of Cuba, currently sits on the council.
The result, as also noted here, was an explosion of righteous indignation on the part of some of the council’s least worthy members – China, Russia, and, especially, Cuba, whose representative was so quick to rise to his feet in outrage that he knocked his chair over. The message sent out by him, and by his Chinese and Russian friends, in response to Halvorssen’s dose of truth-telling was clear: it’s one thing to engage in vague, pretty talk about human rights, but it’s another thing to point fingers and name names.
Two days later, interestingly enough, the very same message was communicated to a group of teenage girls from Norway at the U.N. Headquarters in New York – or, at least, so it would appear from the available evidence. Here’s the story. The Norwegian Girls’ Choir was in New York as part of a music festival produced by something called the Friendship Ambassadors Foundation, which, according to an article that appeared in the New York Times on June 30, “has promoted cultural exchanges between American and international arts groups since its founding in 1973. This year the group, which often focuses on youth initiatives, has produced the inaugural Rhythms of One World festival, a series of choral performances featuring adult and children’s choirs from Trinidad and Tobago, South Africa, Luxembourg, Canada, Australia, Norway and the United States.”
As the Times reported, “The choirs performed individually at various halls in the city this week, and joined forces for an event on Thursday evening at Avery Fisher Hall, which celebrated the signing of the United Nations Charter in 1945.” The Times described each act in some detail, and singled out the girls’ choir as a “highlight of the evening,” saying that they “sang with nuance and elegant dynamic contrast.” The Times article closed by noting that the festival would conclude that evening, Saturday, June 30, “with a performance at the United Nations General Assembly Hall.”
So it was that on Saturday afternoon, the girls’ choir was rehearsing lighting cues in the General Assembly hall. That’s when the trouble started. The girls were doing a piece by composer Maya Ratkje entitled “Ro-Uro,” which can be translated as “Peace-Unrest.” It’s an archetypal Norwegian statement about the beauty of peace and the evil of war. (You can see a video of a 2007 performance of it here.) The work, which lasts just under ten minutes, alternates throughout between harmony and discord; the girls are almost constantly on the move, one moment dancing happily arm-in-arm and making pretty music, the next moment dashing madly across the stage – and around the auditorium – as if in sheer terror, all the while shrieking out harsh dissonances.
It’s exactly the kind of thing you’d think was tailor-made for the U.N. But there’s one problem. Toward the end of the piece, the girls shout out the names of famous people who have abused their power, such as Hitler, Lenin, Stalin, Quisling, Castro, and Mugabe.
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by Stan Faryna
I was going to write today about what the Incredible Hulk can teach you about the god delusion - Stephen Hawking actually has no clue about God despite his theoretical aspirations to know the heavens.
There’s a scene in the Marvel Avengers movie where Hulk slaps Loki (entirely) against the floor many times – Loki is the Norse god of mischief. It’s ridiculously funny and a powerful metaphor of what’s going to happen to the 1 percent if the 99 percent get really angry. No delusion of grandeur can stand against the rage of humanity – a rage that is waiting to be uncorked like a great wine.
But then I considered there is an even greater superhero than all of the Marvel Avengers put together – and a greater metaphor – a superhero that inspires me today as I consider the challenges that I face and, also, the challenges faced by those whose names are spoken in my prayers.
This superhero teaches us in his living and dying that we must face our challenges with love. Even as we fall – though our bodies and minds be ravaged by unstoppable and ruthless antagonists.
It was never promised by wise men or true prophets that we should live forever in these bodies. Nor that we shall amass a king’s treasury and live recklessly and light-heartedly like the princes and princesses of fairy tales. Nor prevail against misfortunes – natural or by the unkind hand of others.
Still, we can love. We can shine bright. We can lift others up. This, in fact, may be what it means to do what you were born to do.
And THIS! This does not lack luster or pale in compare. There is beauty in this that defies the wonder and majesty of a million stars, their celestial courts, and all their august adornments.
The superhero’s name is Cody Green. Cody is not an avenger, he is a U.S. Marine. Actually, Cody is an honorary marine.
Cody was recently named an honorary member of the United States Marine Corps. He received this honor for the honor and courage of his 12 year battle with leukemia. A U.S. Marine who came to decorate Cody stood guard outside Cody’s hospital room for eight hours until 12 year old Cody Green died.
U.S. Marine that stood guard at Cody’s door talks about Cody
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Posts Tagged ‘London Review of Books’
August 3, 2012 | by The Paris Review
All month I’ve found myself recommending Perry Anderson’s series in the London Review of Books on the birth of modern India. Anderson is hardly a well-kept secret; he is about as renowned as a Marxist historian can be. Still, his in-depth articles—on China, Russia, Italy, et cetera—are like nothing in any other magazine. Imagine the old Encyclopedia Britannica as written by the God of the Old Testament. He lays about him with a mighty hand. —Lorin Stein
I like biographies for beach reading. (And by beach I mean the roof of my building.) Lisa Cohen’s All We Know—a joint study of Esther Murphy, Mercedes de Acosta, and Madge Garland, and a vivid portrait of between-the-wars bohemia—is just the thing: substantive, thoughtful, and juicy enough that you’ll risk a burn to find out what happens next. —Sadie O. Stein
If you are an eccentric, you will be thrilled to know that there is a club for you. It’s called, rather plainly, The Eccentrics Club. It’s based in London, was founded in 1781, and still exists. It sounds like a joke, but it isn’t—it’s patronized by the Duke of Edinburgh, no less. The club’s stated mission is to promote, presumably just among eccentrics, “Good Fellowship” and “True Sociality”—“virtues which,” according to the club's rules and regulations of 1808, “are now getting rare and eccentric; but which it is the wish and intent of this Society to cherish within their narrow circle to the utmost of their power … in the occasional enjoyment of ‘the feast of reason and the flow of soul.’” If you aren’t quite sure whether or not you qualify, do not fret, as the Society has a useful page to help you diagnose yourself. If you discover that you are in fact an eccentric, don’t get too excited: admission to the club is by interview only. —Arthur Holland Michel
Searching for Sugar Man—the story of Detroit cult singer-songwriter Rodriguez and his unlikely second act—is a solid, pleasurable documentary that I’d recommend to anyone who enjoys crying alone at movies (I do). But even if you don’t catch it, check out the sound track: composed entirely of the subject’s own music, it makes a strong case for his place in the early-seventies canon. I’ve had Cold Fact on repeat for the past week. —S.O.S.
September 7, 2010 | by Elisabeth Sifton
The writer and critic Frank Kermode, who died last month at the age of 91, was, for the many colleagues and readers who loved and admired him in America and England, sui generis. Over more than sixty years, in more than fifty books and hundreds—no, thousands—of vigorous, elegant review articles, not to mention his classes and lectures, we came to know his never-failing equipoise; his stupendous literary, scholastic and philosophical learning; and a precision and lightness of touch that gave even his most difficult work an aura of grace. What was he up to? He was much more than a professor of literature, as his label described him, however high-minded and admirable that profession may be. For one thing, he disregarded the usual boundaries, teaching and writing about literature from the Renaissance to the present day—dramas, novels, histories, letters, scriptures, poetry. He analyzed the way criticism of various genres evolved, how readers and writers treated novelty or adhered to tradition; he instructed us on the many strategies developed for trying to understand what writers of this poem or that narrative meant to say—wie es eigentlich gemeint, to paraphrase the great Ranke. And he gave us unforced judgments on the greatest literary works ancient and modern, whose breathtaking splendors, which he clearly loved, he taught us to comprehend.
Where did this amazing person come from? Who was he? In a fine memoir composed in his seventies, Not Entitled, Kermode wrote about his childhood in Douglas, the capital of the Isle of Man, where his father was a grocery clerk and his mother a café waitress. It’s all there in his early years, of course, or a lot of it—the mother with no parents, no family, no past, but with a rich sense of language, both Manx and English, along with a practiced, lively social style that was deferential to strangers yet easy with them, to whom Frank owed, as he put it, not only his “early training in politeness and motiveless civility” but also the “association of gaiety with terror, giggling with desolation”; the father, well-liked, very hardworking, strong, hot-tempered yet anxious, whose characteristic “patient good humour” was eventually destroyed by “disappointment, hard labour and diabetes.” And then there was their oblique, many-layered awareness of England as a foreign governing power, and their attachment to the Anglican Church, which conveniently signaled that the Kermodes were not, in the Manx world, either low-born “dissenters” or, worse, Irish Catholic. These were parents who didn’t quite know what to do with their mysteriously gifted though clumsy and short-sighted son, except to complain about him (his father) or push him to try harder (his mother). If nothing else, they taught Frank “what it meant to work, however unseasonably, however against the grain.” Read More » | <urn:uuid:607f3c89-6e3b-4ae0-a1b7-735285ccb536> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/tag/london-review-of-books/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00040-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96943 | 1,251 | 1.65625 | 2 |
China needs innovative solutions to reduce footprint - 2012 China Ecological Footprint Report
Produced in collaboration with the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research (IGSNRR) and Institute of Zoology (IOZ) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Global Footprint Network (GFN) and Zoological Society of London (ZSL), the third edition of the report shows that although China’s per capita Ecological Footprint – or demand the country places on the natural environment - is lower than the global average, the nation is already consuming 2.5 times its biocapacity, the capacity to regenerate natural resources and absorb carbon emissions.
Carbon remains the largest component of China’s overall Ecological Footprint, increasing from 10 per cent in 1961 to 54 percent in 2008. Only a small portion of this comes from direct consumption of fuel or electricity in households or of gasoline for transport – the vast majority are indirect emissions, embodied in consumer goods and services, which account for up to 90 per cent of carbon footprint in some regions.
The drivers of the average Chinese person’s Ecological Footprint have also changed, with a significant turning point around 1985 when growth rates of per capita consumption outstripped production efficiency.
“Of all the demands China is now placing on its environment, carbon emissions are having the biggest impact by far. More than ever, the country needs innovative solutions to reduce its carbon footprint - production efficiency needs to improve, and consumers need to shift their choice to low footprint products.” added Dr. Li Lin.
The report shows that rapid urbanization is having a big impact on China’s footprint, with urban areas registering much higher per capita footprints than rural areas across all mainland provinces. Urbanization often comes in tandem with increasing income, which in turn leads to the growth and change of consumption patterns.
However, findings also show that rural areas face unique challenges in ensuring the health of their natural resources.
“In Beijing’s urban core, the average household consumes less energy than homes in its rural peripheries. Urban density has a lot to do with this, as does access to better public transportation and other services mainly found in cities,” said Dr. Li.
“But reducing the nation's footprint isn't challenge faced by cities alone - it requires balanced development in urban and rural areas and the promotion sustainable consumption patterns outside of major population centers,” she added.
Health of 12 key species analyzed
The report also provides an in-depth analysis of 12 key species1 across China, revealing that although many are receiving top-level protection status, iconic giant pandas and Asian elephants are showing slow recovery rates - only the crested ibis and Chinese musk deer are showing signs of positive population growth.
“The factors threatening key species, including poaching, human population growth, urbanization, infrastructure construction and global climate change, are faced by Chinese ecosystems to varying extents,” said Professor Yang Qisen from IOZ.
To better understand these threats, future editions of the China Ecological Footprint Report will contain a robust index that measures changes to the health of the country’s ecosystems over time.
Modeled on WWF’s global Living Planet Index, which measures the health of the planet’s ecosystems by tracking 9,000 populations of more than 2,600 species, the early stages of the domestic equivalent uses information on vertebrate populations from 1952-2011, representing nearly 8 per cent of China’s vertebrates.
“It is essential for China, one of the 12 globally recognized highest biodiversity countries, to establish its own Living Planet Index to support the biodiversity protection research in China,” said Yang Qisen.
WWF believes that China can do more to move towards a green economy and proposes that the nation better define ecological redlines in specific areas, increase natural resource protection, and develop stronger policies that help improve biocapacity.
“China is at a turning point. The choices China makes today regarding consumption, production, investment and trade, and in managing its natural capital, will determine the country’s future,” said WWF International Director General Jim Leape. “China is now the world’s second largest economy: choosing a sustainable development path is essential to China’s ecological security and its people’s wellbeing, but will also have a critical influence on global sustainable development.”
For further information, please contact:
Qiu Wei, Senior Communications Officer, email@example.com, +86 10 6511 6272
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Mortal Life Without End? Really?
Anyone who has seen the latest DROID DNA smart phone ads realizes that such devices have become nearly inseparable from man’s person. As a matter of fact, the ads suggest that the phone is so much a part of the person that even his intelligence will be improved by merely using the phone.
These are superb sales techniques for the marketing of futuristic devices and, in fact, I own several different types. But the subliminal message of the human who is a machine-plus-human combo is what caught my eye.
In this age of three-parent embryos, womb rental, and eugenic prenatal screening, one wonders if today’s human is convinced that there will come a time when nobody will ever be ill, grow old, or die.
The more I have learned about transhumanism and the philosophy behind it, the more curious I have become about exactly where these ideologues promoting techno-humans are planning to take mankind. By definition, “transhumanism (or . . . posthumanism) claims that technology can allow humans to transcend biology.”
The advocates “believe that by merging man and machine via biotechnology, molecular nanotechnologies, and artificial intelligence, one day science will yield humans that have increased cognitive abilities, are physically stronger, emotionally more stable and live forever. This path, they say, will eventually lead to ‘posthuman’ intelligent (augmented) beings far superior to man—a near embodiment of god.”
Transhumanists, futurists, and posthumanists are currently hard at work in organizations such as the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, Evolution 2045, and in NanoBioInfoCogno centers for “converging technologies” worldwide in order to manufacture an “ethics” or a “religion” that attempts to “justify” their various agendas aimed at fast-forwarding the evolution of the human species into a new all-knowing god-like “posthuman” species.
Their “PR” plans are subtle, yet span across almost all social and cultural sectors.
This is not science fiction.
In the old days, many of us argued that once the door to engineering human fertility in order to render the womb baby-free was opened by the advent of contraception, anything would be possible.
But nobody in the old days imagined the type of human manipulation we are now witnessing as human beings come to terms with current scientific advancement. From the first salvo against God and his procreative power there has come a rush to further dehumanize man to the point where one day he will be—in the opinion of some—a machine.
If this sounds a bit too far-fetched, consider these facts. Scientists now speak publicly about their use of “left over” human embryos as material that is providing them with ways to ensure the eradication of disease. Such scientists are literally genetically engineering human beings by manipulating them at their earliest stages of life.
These practices are the logical second phase of eugenic practices that result in the elimination of Down syndrome, for example, by eliminating prior to birth the babies who might have the condition. And from there it is not a far leap to the agenda already being taught as the next phase in human development. Singularity University’s website makes that very clear.
Transhumanists are hard at work legitimizing new ideas about the human being and his potential, including the concept of the androgynous entity or android—“a mobile robot usually with a human form.”
These things are no longer futuristic movie themes; they are quite real. In fact, as we see how human dignity continues to be attacked and denied, I am reminded of Malcolm Muggeridge’s profound insight:
In our post-Christian era death has recovered its old terrors, becoming unmentionable, as sex has become ever more mentionable. Private parts are public, but death is the twentieth century’s dirty little secret.
What is more, the fantasy is sustained that as science has facilitated fornication without procreation, in due course it will facilitate life without death, and enable the process of extending our life span to go on and on forever, so that it never does come to an end.
It’s time for a reality check.
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High Nature Value Grasslands Conference: outputs
Securing the ecosystem services of European farming post 2013
International Conference, 7-9 September, Sibiu, Romania
HNV farming plays a key role in providing a wide range of ecosystem services vital to the long term future of Europe. The conference proposed EU strategies for maintaining HNV farming and grasslands, so securing vital ecosystem services for the benefit of all Europe’s citizens.Outputs of the conference
- a joint policy document supported by leading NGOs in this sector, The European Forum on Nature Conservation and Pastoralism, World Wide Fund for Nature, BirdLife International, Butterfly Conservation Europe
- a summary of conference conclusions which has been adopted by a wide cross-section of conservation and rural development NGOs in Europe
- a conference brochure that examines Transylvania as a case study , with a description of land management and issues facing small-scale farmers and rural communities in the area.
These documents, and the NGO alliance that the conference has helped to create, will all contribute to advocacy of HNV-targeted CAP reforms which will continue over the next few months. For electronic copies: see links to right. For hard copies by post: contact us by email.
The big questions at the conference
The problem – Europe faces a multitude of social and environmental problems, and EU policies so far have failed to solve them:
- The EU has failed to meet its target to stop biodiversity loss by 2010. Europe’s high-biodiversity landscapes are being destroyed by perverse incentives from the CAP
- Rural employment continues to fall and rural economies to fail in spite of massive income support payments
- Fires and floods are on the increase
- Europe is failing to meet it carbon reduction targets
The solution – payment for Ecosystem Services by supporting Europe’s High Nature Value farming
The current CAP leaves small-scale traditional farms at a disadvantage. As they and the landscapes they support disappear through the EU’s drive for competitiveness, pollution, floods and fires increase, and biodiversity, rural communities and valued landscapes are lost.
Traditional high-biodiversity farmed landscapes (High Nature Value landscapes) deliver a whole range of ecosystem services that are worth billions of Euros if valued properly: biodiversity conservation, recreational landscapes, clean water, resistance to fire and flood, mitigation of climate change, high quality food produced at low carbon cost, viable rural communities.
These Public Goods are not rewarded by normal markets, but can and should be supported by public funds. These landscapes, and the farms associated with them, can solve multiple social and environmental problems in an extremely cost-effective manner.
To achieve this win-win of sustainable landscapes delivering wide environmental and social benefits, a wholesale reform of the CAP is needed: redistribution of funding from “conventional” systems dependent on heavy use of fossil fuels and fertilisers to those which support the ecosystem services which are very valuable to society, but which are poorly rewarded by the market. Without such changes, we risk moving further from the European model of “multifunctional” agriculture delivering multiple benefits, towards the extremes of intensive agriculture in some areas and abandoned rural spaces in others.
Themes of the conference can be summarized as:
HNV grasslands – what they provide
- HNV grasslands and biodiversity. Semi-natural pastures and meadows (“HNV grasslands”) are central to the ecosystem services of European farming, and at the same time represent a major part of European biodiversity. The EU’s 2010 Biodiversity Target has not been met. Renewed efforts are needed across the EU. Maintenance of HNV grasslands should be a priority target from 2010.
- HNV grasslands and ecosystem services. Ecosystem services are becoming a dominant theme in policy debates. The place of HNV grasslands within ecosystem services needs to be clarified and flagged up – landscape, water-catchment functions, quality food production on land with limited economic options, cultural values. It is the whole farming and social system that delivers the ecosystem services, and that therefore needs to be maintained.
- HNV grasslands and climate change. Climate change has become a leading environmental concern. The positive services of HNV grasslands in the mitigation of climate change need to be explained and quantified, eg. carbon storage, fire resistance in dry areas, large-scale habitats allowing species to adapt to climate change. Conversely, some policy responses to climate change have dubious or negative net benefits: for example change of land use for biocropping or intensive biomass.
HNV grasslands – what they need
- The socio-economy of HNV farming systems. Low-intensity HNV livestock farming links food quality, culture and nature. The conference described the socio-economic situation of HNV farming systems and farming communities, with data and case studies from around EU.
- The need for local initiatives. Key policy lessons from ADEPT project and other local projects. The conference highlighted a small number of common challenges and possible responses at local level that can make policies more effective.
- Common Agricultural Policy reform. What can the CAP do to address HNV challenges across EU? CAP reform 2010-13 is a major opportunity; may be the last chance to secure a sustainable future for HNV grasslands through an EU strategy with a sufficiently resourced package of measures for supporting the farming systems that maintain HNV grasslands. There is a need for better targeted HNV support payments, and for greater encouragement for local projects to deliver them effectively.
For copies of conference presentations, follow this link
Farming in the area
Conference brochure Policy Document
The conference brochure contains an introduction to the farming systems of the HNV landscapes of Transylvania, with case studies.
The policy document describes the need for targeted support of HNV farming systems, and proposals for achieving them under the CAP post 2013. Conference conclusions
The High Nature Value Grasslands conference has issued a summary of conference conclusions, which are supported by key NGOs working on this policy area. The field trip ended in the village of Viscri, where conference participants visited sheepfolds and farm courtyards, so that they could discuss practical problems with the farmers themselves. This photograph of the participants is taken in front of Viscri’s famous Saxon fortified church. The conference field trip introduced the participants to biodiversity importance and conservation management of the unique hillocks in the Tarnava Mare project area: biodiversity hotspots with mixed Steppic, Mediterranean, woodland and montane flora.
Public consultation on the future of the CAP
CAP reform 2010-13 is a major opportunity for re-targeting CAP resources, so that they help meet European citizens’ expectations, and secure the future of these HNV grasslands and the ecosystem services they deliver. Under EU Agriculture Commissioner Dacian Ciolos, an unprecedented public consultation was carried out on the future of the CAP post 2013, which finished in June 2010. See official summary of results
Prominent among the themes that emerged, which have considerable support from the wide range of contributors, were that the the reformed CAP should:
- Recognise that the market cannot pay for the provision of public goods and benefits. Public action has to offset market failure
- Give proper payment to farmers for the delivery of public goods and services
- Protect the environment and biodiversity, conserve the countryside, sustain the rural economy, preserve and create rural jobs, mitigate climate change
- Rethink the structure of the two support pillars and clarify the relationship between them. Make adequate resources available for successful rural development
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More than half the writing in a new, independently published anthology of Chicano writing “¡Ban This!” is by Southland authors. They wanted to respond to the state of Arizona's ban of a Mexican American studies program in the Tucson Public Schools.
The Cypress Park branch of the Los Angeles Public Library hosted a signing party Tuesday night for the anthology.
The anthology includes the work of 39 writers from Mexican American and Latino backgrounds. Some are middle aged, others, much younger. Some are novelists, others are academics. Santino Rivera published the anthology.
“There’s science fiction in here, there’s humor in here, there's poetry, there’s prose, there are short stories, there are some dynamite essays in here. There’s things that speak to politics, current issues, there’s things that speak to the lack of Chicanos in Hollywood and in film,” Rivera said.
The title, “¡Ban This!” refers to Arizona’s dismantling of a public school Mexican American Studies program. State education officials said it promoted separatism and the overthrow of the United States. Publisher Rivera says he wanted to counter the program's elimination with a collection of writing for the students it had served.
“I wanted to show them, to the kids who had their books taken away from them, you can our books but you can’t ban our minds,” he said.
A public reading by the book’s Southern California authors attracted a hundred people to the Cypress Park Public Library.
Poet and Cal State LA professor Karina Oliva took the microphone and told the audience that her contribution attempts to capture the complexity of her Latina identity.
“What you’ll hear in it is someone who was born in El Salvador who grew up among Mexicans and Mexican Americans and other Central Americans, who had a Cuban step father, who’s lived in Arizona and who practices Native American spirituality,” she said.
A Northern California poet read a tribute to students arrested for protesting discrimination in Arizona. A former Marine from East LA talked about the way a fellow soldier of Russian descent wondered why Mexican Americans remain outsiders in this country. And a gay hip hop artist read a short story about a raspado, a Mexican snow cone.
The audience gave a standing ovation to contributor and Cal State Northridge scholar Rudy Acuña. His book “Occupied America” is a founding text of Chicano studies. Acuña told the audience that he took college students to Arizona to protest the ban on Mexican American studies in public schools, and helped raise money for legal challenges.
“We wanted to give hope to students, we wanted to give hope to a community, we wanted to tell them that they couldn’t single out a person,” Acuña said.
Loyola Marymount University instructor Annemarie Perez, another contributor to the anthology, says critics of the Tucson program based their analysis on writings nearly 50 years old.
“Yes, there are radical writings, even the separatists, and I put that in quotation marks, were and are always talking about the idea of community ownership of schools of hospitals. It’s not this idea that most Chicanos or a significant minority of Chicanos think that we’re going to wake up one morning and secede from the United States,” Perez said.
“¡Ban This!” isn’t the only recent anthology of Latino writing, Perez says, but it's perhaps the one most in keeping with a Chicano tradition of small presses that publish creative work in response to crises.
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Opposition communications spokesman Malcolm Turnbull says the high cost of building the national broadband network (NBN) is likely to lead to increased prices for internet services.
Mr Turnbull says the experience of other services supplied through government monopolies, such as electricity, showed prices would have to rise in the years ahead.
"Don't be fooled. Don't swallow the nonsense that an overcapitalised government monopoly is going to lead to lower prices," Mr Turnbull told delegates at the telecommunications industry's CommsDay Summit in Sydney on Wednesday.
"A heavily capitalised government monopoly is not going to reduce prices. The reverse is far more probable.
"You cannot suspend the laws of economics any more than you can suspend the laws of physics."
NBN Co is the government-funded corporation created to build and maintain the government's $37 billion high-speed broadband network.
Its chief executive, Mike Quigley, told a parliamentary inquiry into the NBN on Monday that NBN Co's wholesale pricing construct "has led to a very competitive retail pricing in the market now".
Mr Turnbull on Wednesday highlighted the high capital expenditure for building the network as well as the significant ongoing maintenance costs once it was built, as detailed in a report prepared for the government by corporate advisory firm Greenhill Caliburn.
The report, which became public in late 2011 after a freedom of information request from The Australian newspaper, estimated NBN Co would have to spend $14.7 billion of capital expenditure between December 2020, when the project was due to finish, and 2028 due to ongoing maintenance costs and upgrades.
Mr Turnbull said projections from NBN Co's business plan showed it planned to keep wholesale fixed-line revenue at 0.25 per cent of gross domestic product until the mid-2020s.
This meant wholesale average revenue per user would increase from $37 currently to $64 in 2023, a rise of more than six per cent annually, he said.
"That compares with a real fall of seven per cent per year in the cost of services over Telstra's copper network since 2000," Mr Turnbull said.
"Australians who have been used to paying less and less for broadband are now going to find themselves paying more in both real and nominal terms."
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In the current economic climate, restaurants remain a sound investment, but they require extensive planning and foresight in order to become profitable. Those considering opening a new restaurant should formulate a precise budget that accounts for all expenses associated with the food service industry. These expenditures include payroll, legal fees, taxes, insurance, and food costs, which continue to steadily rise due to increases in oil prices. Restaurateurs must also budget for kitchen equipment, décor, flatware, dinnerware, and other necessities. After the creation of a comprehensive financial outline, the entrepreneur should formulate a sound business plan that he or she will follow in order to achieve profitability. Those planning on securing a loan from a bank or other lender, as well as those seeking the assistance of investors, must demonstrate that they understand the demands of owning a restaurant and the requirements for success.
In order to attract customers, restaurants should have a clear theme or motif. The name, décor, and food must all reflect the restaurant’s primary focus, creating a unique and engaging experience for the diner. Great care must go into choosing the restaurant’s name, which customers should be able to easily recall and spell. Creating an appealing logo further brands the restaurant and ingrains it in customer’s memories, making the name more recognizable. In terms of decoration, elegance and simplicity often impress more than clutter or extravagance. Menus should present food options in an appealing manner and restaurant owners must ensure that all offerings meet the highest standards possible.
Before deciding on a location for the restaurant, entrepreneurs should conduct research about demographics, guaranteeing that a market for their business exists in the area. The best locations lie in highly populated neighborhoods or those that receive considerable traffic. If a new restaurant requires that diners travel long distances or navigate through questionable or confusing areas, they will likely choose a different, more familiar option. After finding an ideal location, restaurateurs must verify that they can secure necessary permits, including a zoning license, building permits, health permits, and alcohol licensure.
About the Author
Joe Quattrocchi holds degrees from the State University of New York and Stony Brook University and additionally studied business at New York University. After establishing a career in the finance industry, he turned to entrepreneurship and established several successful restaurants in Boston. Joe Quattrocchi’s most popular establishments included the Back Bay Brewing Company and Vox Populi, which earned accolades from Boston Magazine and the Improper Bostonian. | <urn:uuid:15f59ca3-722f-4280-a3bd-380965221d1b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://josephquattrocchi.wordpress.com/tag/financial/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936155 | 501 | 1.914063 | 2 |
Preservation Guidelines for Digitizing Library Materials
In keeping with the goals of preservation and access at the Library of Congress, original collection materials are digitized for a variety of reasons, including for online exhibitions and for the online catalog. The first step in the process of digitizing Library collection materials is to review the following considerations:
- What is the purpose of the digitizing project?
- Who will be the users of the digital surrogates?
- How will the digital surrogates be presented?
- What will be the effect on the original collection item of making the digital surrogate?
- How will the digital files be accessed and stored?
Custodians of library collections need to address these questions before a digitization project is implemented. After these questions are answered, Preservation and Information Technology Specialists assess the project requirements and create project workflows. This document defines the guidelines offered by Preservation in the implementation of a digitization project at the Library.
Preservation Assessment of Project Requirements
Preservation assessment of project requirements includes the following considerations:
- Is the condition of the collection such that the item or items can be handled safely throughout the project workflow?
- Can the risk of damage to the collection be minimized with appropriate scanning equipment and workspace?
- Can the risk of damage to the collection be minimized by training the scanning staff?
- How much treatment is required to stabilize the collection for the project workflow?
- Can treatment of the collection be reduced by providing temporary supports and housings or by providing handling by a conservator?
- What is the most cost effective scenario for timely digitization without damage to the collection?
Preservation Assessment of Item Condition
Preservation assessment of collection items selected for digitizing identifies the following condition problems:
- Text obscured by folds or creases
- Paper or photographs that are cockled and need to be flattened
- Tears in paper or text area that are longer than ¼”
- Books with loose joints, detached spines, or boards
- Restricted bindings that open less than 90 degrees
- Acidic or otherwise damaging housing that needs to be replaced
- Difficult formats, such as scrolls, accordion books, palm leaves, panoramas, or oversized items
Preservation Review of Scanning Equipment
Preservation has worked with digital conversion experts to select and adapt the scanning equipment used for digitizing Library collections. When Library collections are digitized by contractors, Preservation reviews and approves the equipment, always with consideration to the format and character of the items being digitized to minimize the risk of damage to collections.
Preservation requirements for digitizing contractors include:
- Form feed equipment is not acceptable for scanning fragile, high-value, fine art, or special or archival collection materials including drawings, graphic prints, manuscripts, newsprint, photographs;and equivalent materials.
- Scanning equipment must feature controls to limit light and heat exposure to the items being scanned.
- Scanning equipment must be properly sized to accommodate collection materials without causing damage.
- Oversized materials, including books that have foldouts, must be scanned using equipment that features a scanning bed that is as large or larger than the object to be scanned.
- Scanning equipment must be adjustable to the height of the collection item to accommodate books that need cradle support.
Preservation Recommendations for Workspace
Basic guidelines for the workspace and the worker are listed here:
- Work on a clean, roomy, and tidy work table.
- Wash and dry hands before working with Library materials.
- Wear gloves when handling photographs.
- Use only pencils near Library materials. No ink or felt tip pens or markers, colored pencils, crayons, etc.
- Keep work spaces free of food and drink.
- Close books and cover collection items when leaving work area.
- Remove and replace Library materials in their containers carefully.
Preservation Requirements for Training
Digitization technicians at the Library of Congress are trained by Preservation specialists in the basics of careful handling of Library materials and in how to safely support objects on the scanning equipment. Preservation staff members teach with non-collection samples of bound materials, flat documents, graphic prints, manuscripts, atlases, photographs, and photograph albums to demonstrate the damage that can occur to fragile Library materials during scanning.
Basic guidelines for careful handling of bound Library materials are:
- Don’t apply pressure to books in order to flatten them for image capture. Such pressure can break the spine or loosen or break off brittle pages in a book.
- Place books with weak joints or restricted openings in a book cradle (blocks or rolls of polyethylene foam) during image capture.
- Handle brittle paper with extreme care. Artwork, documents, manuscripts, prints, photographs, and their mounts can also be brittle.
- Don’t remove foldouts from books. Carefully open the foldout onto a support during image capture.
- Don’t place glass or Plexiglas® on top of artwork, documents, manuscripts, prints, photographs, with or without mounts, or other Library materials to flatten for image capture. This can cause media to crack or to detach from the item.
Preservation Recommendations for Housing:
The digitizing workflow allows for the following to take place:
- Removing and replacing acidic or otherwise damaging housings
- Adding new housing (e.g., boxes, folders, mats, or other archival containers) to protect items during transport to and storage at the worksite
Preservation Stabilizing Treatment
Some collection items need minimal conservation treatment by trained conservators before they can be safely transported, handled, and digitized. “Stabilization” is minimal conservation treatment performed by conservators such as:
- Opening of folds or creases that obscure text or images
- Relaxing cockled or creased paper or photographs
- Mending tears
- Repairing loose book joints
- Re-attaching loose or detached spine pieces or boards
Materials that May Be Excluded from the Digitization Process
Some items require more involved and expensive repair, or are so fragile that they cannot be easily stabilized. For these items, Preservation specialists must discuss treatment options with the curator of the collection. Some examples of materials that may be excluded from digitization are:
- Paper that is acidic, fragile, brittle, torn, missing pieces, sticky or stuck to something.
- Paper documents with three-dimensional objects (e.g., medals, seals, ribbons) attached.
- Paper with iron gall ink that has eaten into the page.
- Loose, flaking or friable media such as crayon, charcoal, chalk, or soft pencil.
- Books with severe leather deterioration (i.e., red rot) or missing pages.
- Letter copy books with very thin and acidic paper, such as carbon copy correspondence and some tracing paper drawings and plans.
- Photographs that are separating from the mount or support.
- Photographs that are curled, bent, creased, folded, wrinkled, cockled or cracked.
- Photographs and their mounts which are acidic, fragile, brittle, torn, missing pieces, sticky or stuck to one another.
- Deteriorated cellulose nitrate or acetate film negatives and positives.
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Get involved with Right To Play while you're at university and you will make your student days even more exciting and worthwhile! By supporting Right To Play you will help us improve the lives of kids around the world through sport and play. Check out how you can get involved below.
||BUCS (British Universities and Colleges Sport) is the national governing body for higher education sport in the UK.
It has a strong link with a huge number of universities, and specialises in organising sporting events and developing sporting facilities from grass roots to elite level. Right To Play are proud to be the sole charity partner of BUCS since 2008; our fundraising message reaches hundreds of thousands of students through Right To Play's presence at BUCS organised events.
There are plenty more opportunities for you to fundraise for Right To Play through BUCS, like having a sports social to raise money and awareness. The best way to find out more is to check out the info on our Right To Play Days, where you will find lists with plenty of great ideas to raise money, as well as handy resources like posters and links!
RAG (Raising and Giving Societies) raise money and awareness for charities including Right To Play. RAG is thought to raise between £8-10 million every year for various charities!
Their regular social events and challenges are an invaluable way for Right To Play to raise funds for our work, whilst getting our name out there to students around the country. Right To Play is keen to establish further links with RAG societies around the country, and offer great opportunities for RAG societies to host collections at Chelsea Football Club, Surrey Cricket Club and grass court tennis tournaments!
Check out the info on our Right To Play Days, where you will find lists with plenty of great ideas to raise money, as well as handy resources like posters and links!
Student Ambassadors are crucial to the presence of Right To Play at universities across the UK. Not only do they help to promote Right To Play amongst the student community, but they also become part of a much wider community of Student and Athlete Ambassadors, volunteers and the Right To Play team.
Being a Student Ambassador means working on two key areas. Firstly, the Ambassadors represent, fundraise for and promote awareness of Right To Play within their university. Secondly, they must communicate with university societies and bodies, such as RAG and the Student Union, as well as with the students around them. This is key to raising interest and creating a real buzz around Right To Play and the work we do.
||As well as helping Right To Play, a role as a Student Ambassador can be really beneficial for you, too! You have the power to change lives through fundraising, the opportunity to come up with your own imaginative fundraising ideas, and the potential to win an award for your efforts! As well as providing you with great experience to enhance your CV, the role of Student Ambassador is extremely sociable. It gives you the opportunity to meet new people and host successful events while helping out a very worthy cause!
If you are interested in applying, please contact Kathryn Roche- firstname.lastname@example.org
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I just took a shower. For most of you, this is not fascinating. Unfortunately, the shower itself was not that great.
A shower needs to be a great experience, especially since it's already a poor substitute for a nice long soak in a tub big enough for such a soak. Instead, the makers of this shower's plumbing made it one step worse by designing a faucet which inextricably links the water's temperature with its pressure.
In order to get hot water, you simply turn the faucet farther. Of course, this results in more pressure. Turn it up high enough to have a nice hot shower, and needles tear at your flesh. Turn it down to a gently stimulating spray, and the frigid chill stimulates goosebumps.
How does it make sense to link water pressure with water temperature?
Do you provide any packaged services in your business which make as little sense?
Do you require a client to take Service B when they sign up for Service A? Do you place restrictions which make life easier for you, not your client? Are there ways you can let suspects, prospects and clients have more choice, more control, over the degree and kind of services you provide them?
A cold brisk shower might not be your thing; nor might a gentle hot shower. It's not about you! Don't suffer from BLM (Be Like Me.) Unless the packages you've assembled are required by your very best professional advice, don't insist that the people who provide your livelihood think like you.
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Commercial installations present different challenges than residential installation.
Energy conservation/reducing operating costs
The HVAC system in commercial applications is probably the single biggest use of energy for your company. It is estimated that more than 1/3 of the energy used in the United States is used to heat and cool buildings.
The Consortium of Energy Efficiency reports that up to 50% more energy can be saved with proper installation, sizing, and maintenance of commercial central air conditioning and heat pumps. Having a preventive maintenance agreement can save energy, extend the life of your equipment, and reduce operating costs. It costs less to regularly service your equipment than to replace it prematurely due to neglect.
Eliminating “cold and hot spots”
The passage of air carries heating and cooling throughout a building. Having the right balance of air can eliminate areas of cold spots or hot spots and increase the system’s efficiency and your employees’ comfort.
A certified air-balancing technician has the equipment and knowledge to measure the amount of air, system pressures and system temperature and humidity. After this diagnosis, he can balance the flow of air through the duct system for maximum system performance and comfort.
Save energy/increase comfort through Zoning
Every building has zones that require different degrees of heating and cooling. For instance, the living area and sleeping areas of a home are used at different times and would generally benefit from different temperatures. Areas of a business have different usages and therefore, greater or lesser needs for cooling and heating. One thermostat can’t provide ideal comfort in every room. | <urn:uuid:cfdb1e2a-2e35-470c-b28d-530d035eaa40> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://airassurance.com/commercial/areas_of_concern.cfm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00062-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938614 | 324 | 2.40625 | 2 |
Duluth, MN (NNCNOW.com) - The Cliffs Foundation gave $15,000 to the Wolf Ridge Nature Center to help fund environmental education at Denfeld High School.
The money will fund the Students Eagerly Acquiring Knowledge program, also known as S.E.A.K.
This contribution will help students in grades 9 through 11 get more hands on learning experience in environmental science.
Students enrolled in the program receive after school science lessons, three weekend overnight retreats throughout the state, and a three week academic science camp at Wolf Ridge.
"It's about getting kids out doors, its about getting kids rigorous academic experiences out in the field, working with professionals. It's quite an opportunity," said Pete Gravett, education director at Wolf Ridge.
The program helps students at Denfeld who may otherwise not have the chance to get hands on learning experience in environmental science.
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JFK's inauguration was revolutionary in Ireland - WITH VIDEO
By: The Yank | Published Thursday, January 20, 2011, 9:00 AM | Updated Friday, September 9, 2011, 10:02 PM
John F. Kennedy was sworn in as President 50 years ago today. It was 50 years ago today that the Irish in America and in Ireland celebrated one of their own taking the oath of the most powerful position in the most powerful country on Earth. They celebrated the fact that Catholicism and roots in the severe poverty of Ireland's past were no longer a bar to the most powerful positions in American society.
Kennedy's election wasn't revolutionary so much as evolutionary. Irish Catholics had been steadily rising from their lowly, poor, hungry position as immigrants in America following the famine of the 1840s. By the 1950s there were many leading Irish-American politicians, businessmen, war heroes and generals, actors and so on.
In other words, Irish Catholics had achieved great success and the Presidency was just the last remaining prize to be won. With hindsight it's clear that by the 1950s Irish-America was too successful, too interwoven into American society to be denied that aspiration.
The Presidency was almost inevitable, even though for many older Irish-Americans Kennedy's inauguration was something they thought they would never see. I doubt younger Irish-Americans felt so distant from the American mainstream that they thought the Presidency was off-limits to them.
In Ireland, Kennedy's inauguration was revolutionary. Shocking. It had more impact on the people of Ireland than on Irish-Americans.
Although Irish-Americans were achieving great things in the 1950s, Ireland was still a poor and insular country. A large percentage of the population was still subsistence farming. Television was almost non-existent. Even electricity wasn't yet universal. The post-war boom had passed Ireland by.
Then on January 20, 1961 one of Ireland's sons, a 'cousin' of theirs, was sworn in as President of the United States. It's almost as if at that moment, Kennedy accepting the duties of the Presidency, a veil was removed from Irish people's eyes and a weight was lifted from their shoulders. A whole nation suddenly stood upright and saw clearly that anything was possible.
Two years later when Kennedy visited Ireland in June of 1963 the reception was rapturous. People lined the streets to cheer him. It was as if Kennedy were all four Beatles wrapped up in one man and everyone in Ireland was a teenage fan. Kennedy was living proof of what they could achieve.
Six months later Kennedy was dead. Yet, Kennedy's death didn't signal the end of Ireland's new found self-belief. Instead the country enjoyed economic success and for the first time imagined that people wouldn't have to leave Ireland to find opportunities elsewhere. The 60s were the first truly successful post-independence years in Ireland.
It has been a roller-coaster ride since then with great boom times and shockingly hard times, as we have now. These hard times are not, however, due to a lack of self-belief or a sense that Ireland will always be a poor country as was the case before 1960. No, despite today's great hardships and upheaval, Irish people know full well what they're capable of. JFK demonstrated that to them in 1961. | <urn:uuid:6fe31119-d1bc-44eb-a178-4de64e3f797f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.irishcentral.com/story/roots/the_american_in_ireland/jfks-inauguration-was-revolutionary-in-ireland-114272069.html?mob-ua=mobile | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00023-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.989526 | 678 | 2.28125 | 2 |
STUDY: Who are online shoppers and what their buying?
Results of a survey research company GfK shows that 28% of urban Internet users have shopped online last year. Almost a quarter of those who buy on the Internet do so at least once a month, the study, announced this morning by GfK.
Young people remain among the largest buyers of choice for online. Thus, online purchases are often made by those aged 18-24 years (37%), and the adoption of this behavior decreases as age increases (reaching 31% for those aged between 25 and 34 years and 26% for the range 34-44 years). The proportion of women and men is almost equal. Residents of Bucharest and those with higher education have a significantly higher proportion shopping online (36% and 40%).
The Internet, inhabitants of urban control including: electronics, appliances, telephones (44%), clothing and clothing accessories (28%), and personal care products (22%) and books, CDs, DVDs sites (22%).
Cash, preferably even shopping on the net
Payment by far the most commonly used is the cash payment on delivery, after receiving the product (83%). Beginning to be popular online payment by credit card, which is in second place as the payment method used in the last 12 months 28% of internet users in urban areas.
"Clearly, shopping on the Internet are becoming increasingly popular. However, the role of the Internet to purchase products go beyond the command line. For example, many consumers on the Internet informs on certain purchases you intend to do, then some of them still choose to buy products from traditional stores (offline) ", says Traian Nastase, Online Project Manager GfK Romania.
According ePayment online payments main processor in Romania in the first 10 months of 2011 Romanians bought online with credit card 14% more than the same period last year. Most orders were placed during the week (81%), between 10.00 and 18.00 (54%), 80% of orders from Bucharest.
More flowers and books paid by card
The online payments by credit card industry dominated sales of products and services in tourism, telecommunications and services. However, in 2011, significant increases over the previous year were recorded in the segment of online sales of flowers (75%), books (76%) and gifts (64%).
"Last year I saw a diversification of products purchased by customers online and paid by credit card. This, as well as lower average value of trading over the past 3-4 years, for example, while increasing the number of transactions, shows that people learn to pay online and start to use this payment method for purchases more often usual, "said Michael Manoliu, Sales Manager ePayment PayU Group.
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“The ability to secure meaning in the course of our experience is a basic human need... But meaning is not simply found; it is constructed.”
A few days ago I participated in a Twitter chat led by a physician-educator from the United Kingdom. This Twitter chat (#ukmeded) is usually held on Thursdays at 9:00 pm UK time. This was a rich discussion on Twitter, and it also allowed me to participate in a discussion with people from other parts of the world. The most recent topic was on assessment (follow the link and learn more about the subtopics discussed). One of the interesting questions discussed was:
“Does assessment drive learning?”
According to the ACGME (2011), assessment is defined as an ongoing process of gathering and interpreting information about a learner’s knowledge, skills, and/or behavior. The ACGME also provides a document on the components of a formative evaluation for residents.
The importance of a formative assessment lies in its usefulness of helping learners and assessors to know where they are and what they need to do to improve. This type of assessment, when done impromptu and appropiately in the form of descriptive-feedback, must be timely, specific, and ideally correlative to the six competency domains. Assessments may also be spaced out at longer intervals, but even at these times it should also be specific as to what the learner’s performance level is and a description of how to improve.
Formative assessment has also been used in other settings to evaluate and modify the teacher’s effectiveness by the adult learner. Improvement is also more effective when the assessor focuses on the task performance and not the learner's ego. Dylan Wiliam, Ph.D. has researched formative assessment extensibly and describes two types of feedbacks:
- Ego-involving: Not useful to the learner
- Task-involving: Helpful to the learner
Summative assessments, when valid and reliable, are more appropriate to make high stakes decisions. Be aware that “data from the formative assessment should not be used to make high stakes decisions (promotion, graduation),” according to the ACGME. Benchmarks/standards are used to evaluate the learner, and it usually takes place at the end of the year. It is a good habit to be aware of what type of evaluation your residency program uses and its components so you know up to what standards you are being compared to. Adult learners for the most part are self-directed, self-evaluators, and should take a big part in the development of the curriculum where they can state what their needs are. This is a bit controversial due to the fact that evaluators who might be long removed from training lay out different curriculum needs than the adult learner’s.
The Bottom Line
When using formative and summative assessments, like everything else in medical training, it is important to factor in and ensure patient safety. These tools also offer an opportunity for the learner to improve on his/her practice of medicine. So to answer the original question posed by Dr. Natalie Lafferty (@nlafferty) and Dr. Anne Marie Cunningham (@amcunningham), it is my belief that formative assessment drives learning, while summative assessment does not. Summative assessment is what institutions use to tell the world their assessment about the learner.
- Formative assessment is FOR learning.
- Summative assessment is OF learning.
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Safety and Security of Commercial Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage: Public Report
FIGURE 1.4 Projection of the number of commercial nuclear power plants that will run out of needed space in their spent fuel pools in coming years if they do not add interim storage. These data, looking only at plants that did not already use dry cask storage, were provided to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in 2000. SOURCE: USNRC (2001b).
disposal of spent nuclear fuel. But a nuclear waste repository is not expected to be in operation until at least 2010, and even then It will take several decades for all of the spent fuel to be shipped for disposal. Thus, onsite storage of spent fuel is likely to continue for at least several decades,
Power plant operators have made two changes in spent fuel storage procedures to increase the capacity of onsite storage. First, starting in the late 1970s, plant operators began to install high-density racks that enable more spent fuel to be stored in the pools. This has increased storage capacities in some pools by up to about a factor of five (USNRC, 2003b). Second, as noted above, many plant operators have moved older spent fuel from the pools into dry cask storage systems (see Chapter 4) or into other pools when available to make room for freshly discharged spent fuel and to maintain the capacity for a full-core offload,16
The original spent fuel racks, sometimes called “open racks,” were designed to store spent fuel in an open array, with open vertical and lateral channels between the fuel assemblies to promote water circulation. The high-density storage racks eliminated many of the channels so that the fuel assemblies could be packed closer together (FIGURE 1.5). This configuration does not allow as much water (or air circulation in loss-of-pool-cootant events) through the spent fuel assemblies as the original open-rack design.
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Scientists compile first 'molecular manual' for 100s of inherited diseases
Washington, Dec 18 (ANI): For the first time, researchers at the Technical University of Denmark and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have compiled a catalogue of tissue-specific pathologies behind hundreds of inherited diseases.
The 'molecular manual' provides information that may help treat conditions such as breast cancer, Parkinson's disease, heart disease and autism.
"Disease processes in humans are far from being exhaustively understood and characterized, in part because they are the result of complex interactions between many molecules that may take place only in specific tissues or organs. Experiments to directly study these interactions in human patients would not be possible, which limits our understanding of how diseases arise and which molecules and genes are involved," said co-lead author Kasper Lage, PhD, of the MGH Pediatric Surgical Research Laboratories.
Co-lead author Niclas Tue Hansen, MSc, from the Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Technical University of Denmark, added: "We let supercomputers model biological processes in tissues across the human organism, based on the knowledge from millions of already published articles. In this way we were able to create an extensive map of the interactions of molecules in many diseases - a sort of molecular manual - without carrying out experiments in patients."
He said that the catalogue is expected to help physicians and researchers investigating many serious disorders.
"It has been extremely exciting to integrate the disease expertise of researchers at MGH and Harvard Medical School with the work of leading systems biologists at the Technical University of Denmark," said Patricia Donahoe, MD, director of Pediatric Surgery Research at MGH and co-corresponding author of the PNAS study.
She added: "This current study brought together the strengths of both teams and resulted in a unique way of analyzing inherited diseases. Our findings have the potential to advance the knowledge of pathways, genes and proteins involved in hundreds of human disorders and perhaps contribute to better treatment strategies for some of these serious diseases."
Te catalogue is freely available on the Center for Biological Sequence Analysis web page (http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/), and will appear in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (ANI)
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Raking without aching, proper ways to clean up your yard
Well, fall is here and to many, that means extra work is involved in cleaning up the yard of the fallen leaves. There are things to consider in order to avoid injury, especially of your back . Many people don’t realize that raking is a vigorous activity, with more reaching bending and lifting involved than other household jobs. So here are some tips to avoid injury and possibly a visit to my brand new office…
-First things first, stretch. Just like exercising, the muscles need warmed up, especially in colder weather, before beginning. Consider raking a vigorous exercise and take 10 minutes to stretch the arms, legs and back muscles before starting.
-Use the right equipment. Get a rake that’s comfortable for your height and strength. Wear gloves to avoid blisters. There are some ergonomic rakes on the market designed to reduce bending, consider opting for one of these.
-Wear shoes with slip resistant soles. This way falls on slippery leaves can be avoided.
-When raking, keep space between your hands on the grip to increase leverage. Use short, quick motions and keep the rake close to your body. Switch sides every 2 to 3 minutes.
-To pick up leaves, bend at the knees not at the waist. This is very important to avoid back injuries.
-Don’t overfill the leaf bags, especially if leaves are wet. You should be able to carry the bags comfortably and keep them close to your center of gravity, which is right in front of your stomach area. Doing this avoids back strain.
-Don’t twist to toss leaves over a shoulder or to the side, as this also places undue stress on your back. If you must take the leaves to the curb, you can put down a tarp, about 8×8 feet preferably with handles so you can rake the leaves onto it and then pull it to the curb.
-Take breaks when you rake. Don’t overdo it. If you feel twinges of stress in any body area, stop and stretch, then resume.
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Mao Yushi, an economist and advocate of individual liberty and free market reforms in
Before economic reform began in
in 1978, he had been an engineer and during his lifetime has faced severe punishment, exile, and near starvation for remarks critical of a command-based economy and society. During the Cultural Revolution, he and his family were deprived of all of their property, and in 2011 he angered some in China with his article “Returning Mao Zedong to Human Form,” which boldly calculated the human cost of Mao’s brutal Communist policies from 1949 to 1976. The article led to calls for his prosecution and execution, with 50,000 left-faction members signing a petition that called for his imprisonment on charges of treason. Immediately following the article’s appearance he had to be surrounded by students to protect him from physical attack from zealots, while the government remained silent and neutral. China
In 1993 he and five other economists founded the Unirule Institute of Economics, an independent Chinese think tank committed to the growth of a market economy and to reforming Chinese government policies.
In addition, Mao Yushi has been a pioneer in creating private charity and self-help programs in the People’s Republic of
and has helped countless people become independent members of society through the Fuping Development Institute and other initiatives. He believes that the more income an individual earns the more freedom an individual has, and has devoted himself to China ’s transition from a planned economy to a free market economy. China
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A nine-month-old child is typically developing if he can speak even one word. With the benefit of proper scaffolding, he'll know fifty to one hundred words within just a few months. By two, he will speak around 320 words; a couple months later — over 570. Then the floodgates open. By three, he'll likely be speaking in full sentences. By the time he's off to kindergarten, he may easily have a vocabulary of over 10,000 words.
For years, the advice has been that the way to kick-start a child's language learning was to simply expose kids to massive amounts of language. However, as we explain in our book "NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children," the newest science has concluded that the central role of the parent is not to push massive amounts of language into the child's ears. Rather, the central role of the parent is to notice what's coming from the child and respond accordingly.
With that in mind, we shared some of the scientists' hottest tips in children's language learning.
1. Baby Talk May Sound Silly But It's Really Good For Kids
Baby Talk: We've all done it — that oddly sing-song, slow, giddy cadence that people suddenly use when speaking to children. There's actually a lot of research on baby talk — the scientific expression for it is parentese. Its patterns and cadence are so universal, that scholars can play a recording of someone speaking in a language you've never heard before, and you'll still know if the person was talking to a baby.
Some parents are adamant against baby talk; instead, they want kids to hear adults speak normally. But that's the wrong approach. Parentese's exaggerated qualities help children's brains discern discrete sounds. By elongating vowels and stressing transitions more clearly, parentese helps a baby brain's auditory cortex recognize vowel-consonants groupings. And some use of it helps until a child's second birthday.
Click here to read an excerpt from "NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children."
While babies may look at an object of a parent's interest, they learn more from object labeling when the parent isn't intruding or directing the child's attention. Instead, the parent is following the child's lead: object labeling is the most effective when the parent describes an object that the baby is already focused on – gazing, pointing or vocalizing. But timing is everything: the word has to be heard just as an infant is looking or grabbing after it to make sure that the child connects the word to the right object.
3. Beware criss-cross labeling
The danger in overzealous object labeling is that you might inadvertently crisscross the child: that is, don't put words in his mouth that aren't really there.
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Bag the Junk!
By Lisa Creighton, NEA HIN Senior Program Coordinator
Many of you may have heard about some big changes coming this fall to the school lunch and breakfast programs. As a result of the Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Act of 2010 (HHFKA), the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has updated the nutrition standards for school meals for the first time in fifteen years. The result? In cafeterias nationwide, students will be served more fruits, vegetables and whole grains, and meals will now have limits on calories, saturated fat and sodium (among other changes). (For ideas on how to use these meal changes as a teaching opportunity, check out NEA HIN’s Healthy Steps, Healthy Lives).
Something you may not know is that the HHFKA also requires the USDA to update nutrition standards for snack foods and beverages that are sold outside of the school meal program—so called “competitive foods” that are sold in vending machines, food courts, cafeteria à la carte lines, and snack bars in nearly all schools in the United States. The current federal nutrition standards for snack foods and beverages have been in place since 1979, and are weak enough to allow the sale of snack foods that are high in fat, sugar, and calories, and beverages that are high in sugar and contain little, if any, nutritional value (i.e. soda, sports drinks, flavored water).
Recognizing the link between poor diet and rising rates of childhood obesity many states and school districts have created their own nutrition standards to limit unhealthy snack foods and beverages that go above and beyond the federal guidelines. However, in practice, many of these policies are inadequate or weakly enforced at the local level.
To help states and school districts create stronger, more comprehensive policies for snack foods and beverages, NEA HIN has created a policy brief, Bag the Junk: Improving Competitive Food Policy to Create Healthier, Smarter School Environments, which is available for free on the NEA HIN website. The brief provides background about “competitive foods,” an overview of the research on the issue, and policy recommendations for states and local school districts. I encourage you to check it out and share it with your colleagues.
Some of you may be thinking: “Why should I bother working on a policy for my state or school district, when the USDA is about come out with a new federal policy?” My answer to you is that while the new USDA guidelines will be an improvement over the current federal nutrition standards, they are expected to set only a minimum standard, leaving it up to individual states or school districts to create stronger policies that suit their specific needs. Therefore, states and school districts should feel free to start working now to set nutrition standards that create healthier school nutrition environments.
Want to learn more about the Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act and how it affects the school nutrition environment? Check out the Kids’ Safe and Healthful Foods Project at http://www.healthyschoolfoodsnow.org/.
Editor’s Note: This post is from our partners at the NEA Health Information Network (NEA HIN). Each month, we feature a new column on a topic related to school health. Through this effort, we hope to inform the public of important health issues that impact schools and offer educators and parents resources to address them.
For additional information on this topic, contact Lisa at email@example.com.
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The academic life at universities and colleges, along with their usual esoteric and bourgeois concerns and pursuits. Also carries the implication that those who live and work there are divorced from the struggles of the masses in the real world. Of course, there have been an atypical few who have managed to contribute to the revolutionary struggles of the people even while holding down positions at universities. But on the whole academia has a well-deserved bad reputation among serious revolutionary Marxists.
“Who would want to have to talk always with intellectual skunks, with people who study only for the purpose of finding new dead ends in every corner of the world!” —Marx, after being well rid of any prospect of finding a professorship at a university.
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See also: CAPITAL—ACCUMULATION OF, PRIMITIVE ACCUMULATION
“Actually, however, capitalist society cannot exist without accumulating, for competition compels every capitalist on pain of ruin to expand production.” —Lenin, “On the So-called Market Question” (1893), LCW 1:104.
“ACTUALLY EXISTING SOCIALISM”
This is a phrase that was (and sometimes still is) used by those who recognized that many countries which called themselves “socialist” (especially the Soviet Union during its last decades) had severe shortcomings, but who could still not bring themselves to admit that these countries were not really socialist at all! In other words, this is a phrase that was used by those who were unable to recognize revisionism and phony socialism when it stared them in the face. This syndrome was especially common among older Marxists who had developed emotional attachments to the Soviet Union in its earlier socialist period, and who could not face the fact that the nature of the Soviet Union had fundamentally changed from socialism to state capitalism.
[In India:] A sharecropper. (One of several terms used in India for sharecroppers.)
A term used in India (often not capitalized) to refer to what is in English often called a “tribal”, or person of a tribal community, most of whom live in the hilly, forested areas of a number of states in east-central India. The word Adivasi literally means “old inhabitant”, and is a general term for any of a variety of ethnic and tribal groups who are believed by many to be descendants of the earliest inhabitants of what is now India. They are a substantial minority of the population in India, constituting about 8.2% of the population, or over 84 million people as of the 2001 census. One major concentration of Adivasis is in the Jangalmahal region. Because the Adivasis live closer to nature than most Indian societies, they are particularly vulnerable to the environmental degradation frequently caused by capitalist corporations. Their lands are frequently stolen from them for agricultural, mining or industrial development. For these reasons, many Adivasis have joined the Maoist revolutionary movement in India.
“Tribals are the most marginalized section of Indian society, worse off than even the Dalits (formerly referred to as Untouchables). Around 49.5% of tribals live under the official poverty line, 76.2% are illiterate and almost 30% have no access whatsoever to doctors in clinics. Displaced from their land and discriminated against in the industrial job markets [they] are now fighting to keep their [remaining] land, their only remaining resource.” —Sudha Ramachandran, “India Drives Tribals into Maoist Arms”, Asia Times, Jan. 16, 2010.
A college or university professor who teaches individual courses for a very low salary at one or more schools but who has no tenure nor health care or other benefits. The fact that ever larger sections of the higher education faculty are adjunct professors is another blatant sign of the rapid deteriorization of the educational system in the U.S.
“On April 8, 2013, the New York Times reported that 76 percent
of American university faculty are adjunct professors—an all-time high. Unlike tenured
faculty, whose annual salaries can top $160,000, adjunct professors make an average of
$2,700 per course and receive no health care or other benefits.
“Most adjuncts teach at multiple universities while still not making enough to stay above the poverty line. Some are on welfare or homeless. Others depend on charity drives held by their peers. Adjuncts are generally not allowed to have offices or participate in faculty meetings. When they ask for a living wage or benefits, they can be fired. Their contingent status allows them no recourse.” —Sarah Kendzior, “Academia’s Indentured Servants”, on an online blog, April 11, 2013.
ADJUSTABLE RATE MORTGAGE (ARM)
A loan (or mortgage) to buy real estate (buildings or land) for which the interest rate is periodically adjusted, often every 6 months. The new rate is determined in relation to some common short-term interest rate, such as that of the 6-month U.S. Treasury bill. ARMs are designed to transfer the risk of rising inflation from the loaner to the borrower. While many ARMs specify a maximum interest rate, it is always much higher than the initial rate. Moreover, in recent years banks and financial companies have marketed ARMs which set the initial rate artificially low for a certain limited period as a come on. The family taking out the loan is then hit with a massive shock of a much higher monthly interest payment when the first interest “adjustment” is made.
ADLER, Victor (1852-1918)
A leading founder of the Austrian Social Democratic Party (in 1888-89). Later a prominent revisionist and reformist politician in that country during the period of the Second International. He took a centrist position during World War I, advocating “class peace” and opposing any revolutionary uprisings by the working class.
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See also: VANGUARD ACTION
ADVANCED AND BACKWARD
Divisions among the people based on their relative political understanding and activity. Sometimes this is simply a bifurcation, or conceptual division of the population into two categories. On other occasions it is a 3-way division which includes an “intermediate” section of the population. Of course it is also possible to create even more categories, such as the “very advanced”, the “somewhat advanced”, the “partially backward”, and the “extremely backward”. There is no single “absolutely correct way” of doing this; it all depends on the purpose of the analysis.
In addition, it is quite possible to be advanced in one respect and backward in another. For example a man might have a high degree of class consciousness but be quite backward with regard to his attitude toward women and their unequal treatment and oppression. Or someone might be quite concerned and active with regard to the issue of the anti-war struggle, but have little interest or concern about the economic exploitation of the working class. In deciding how to categorize an individual at some particular time and place it is often necessary to understand which issues are presently at the forefront of social and political struggle. And of course it is also important to try to use a person’s strengths, and their advanced characteristics, to help them overcome their weaknesses or areas of relative backwardness.
“In any society and at any time, there are always two kinds of people and views, the advanced and the backward, that exist as opposites struggling with each other, with the advanced views invariably prevailing over the backward ones...” —Mao, “In Refutation of ‘Uniformity of Public Opinion’” (May 24, 1955), SW 5:172. [Of course we must acknowledge that in the short run the advanced views do not always prevail over the backward ones; it may take a prolonged struggle. —S.H.]
Aesop was an ancient Greek story teller (c. 620-564 BCE) who used fanciful tales (or fables) to instill various morals or practical conclusions in his readers. That is, he put forward various ideas in a quite round-about way.
Because of the oppression and censorship by the ruling bourgeoisie, Marxists and other revolutionaries have also often been forced to put forward their ideas in “round-about” or euphemistic ways that are frequently referred to as Aesopian language. For example in Russia in the 1890s, revolutionaries frequently had to refer to the followers of Marx and Engels as “the disciples” (rather than Marxists) when writing in the legal press. Similarly, while in prison during the Mussolini fascist period in Italy, the Communist leader Antonio Gramsci had to use the circumlocution “modern theory” when he simply meant Marxism. Of course it is always better to speak plainly and openly when we can!
“This pamphlet was written with an eye to the tsarist censorhip. Hence, I was not only forced to confine myself strictly to an exclusively theoretical, specifically economic analysis of facts, but to formulate the few necessary observations on politics with extreme caution, by hints, in an allegorical language—in that accursed Aesopian language—to which tsarism compelled all revolutionaries to have recourse whenever they took up the pen to write a ‘legal’ work.” —Lenin, from the Preface to his 1917 edition of “Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism”, LCW 22:187.
Works of art (including works of literature and music) may be evaluated, or judged as to how good or bad they are, in various ways and from various different perspectives. For example they may be judged from a moral or political perspective. That is a perfectly reasonable thing to do (though some people object to it). On the other hand, a common bourgeois perspective for judging works of art is according to their price, with one work being considered “better” than another if it can be sold for a higher amount. All of these are examples of evaluation from non-aesthetic points of view. But of course works of art may also be evaluated on the basis of their aesthetic merits.
But aesthetic merit itself may vary according to different points of view, or the different expectations and desires that one person rather than another seeks in works of art (or for the same person on different occasions). One person may enjoy a painting if it soothes them; another if it portrays a beautiful person or a beautiful landscape; a third may seek works that excite their imagination; and so forth. Thus there are subjective views about aesthetic merit, or about whether some particular work of art is good or bad.
However, enough people have similar interests in art that a certain sort of objective aesthetic evaluation of any individual work is also quite possible. Each work may be viewed as being in one or another artistic style. Each such style is defined (either explicitly, or more usually, implicitly) in terms of a list of stylistic standards. A work of art in some style may then be evaluated in terms of how well the work meets the standards appropriate to that style. A good work of art is thus one which does a good job in meeting the standards appropriate to the style the work is viewed as being in.
A different form of aesthetic evaluation of a work of art comes from considering the theme of the work, whether it is an important or powerful theme, for example. But this also connects up with the primary method of objective aesthetic evaluation, since the importance of the theme in a work is itself something that may vary in different styles.
From our Marxist-Leninist-Maoist perspective, an all-round evaluation of a work of art includes its evaluation from both an aesthetic point of view and from a political point of view.
“I once heard a radio broadcast in which the naturalist and animal
expert Roger Caras remarked: ‘In judging dogs at a dog show each dog is measured against
its own breed standard.’ What an excellent analogy this is to the situation in art, to
the aesthetic evaluation and criticism of art! It would obviously be ridiculous to judge
a Dachshund as better than a St. Bernard ‘because the Dachshund is lower to the ground
like a dog should be’—when in fact this is a standard for Dachshunds but not for St.
Bernards. And it would be just as ridiculous to claim that ‘all waltzes are bad music
because you can’t march to them’, as if this stylistic standard of marches applied to
waltzes as well. Of course nobody would say such a thing about waltzes—it’s too obvious
of a case. But the history of art and art criticism is full of examples of new artistic
works in new styles being absurdly judged by the standards of older styles.” —S.H., from
an unpublished manuscript on aesthetics.
[However, you might ask, if each dog at a dog show is judged against its own breed standards, how is the “best of show” dog selected from among all the different breeds? The answer is that the St. Bernard might be selected as “best of show” because it did a much better job of meeting its own breed standards than the Dachshund and other dogs did in meeting their respective breed standards. Of course there may also be some few standards that do apply to all the breeds, such as healthiness and obedience. —S.H.]
A work of art. Most of the philosophical discussion around this topic centers on whether a work of art is a physical object, or some other kind of thing (such as an “idea”, “illusion”, or even something that “doesn’t really exist at all”!). In the case of a painting or a statue it seems at first quite reasonable to say that the work of art is a physical object, either the physical canvas covered with paint or the physical statue made of bronze, wood, or some other material. But what about a woodblock print that exists in multiple copies, none of which is more “original” than any of the others? What about a song? Or a new dance? Are they physical objects? Or a novel? Is it “really” the original manuscript (even if that differs from the final changed printed version that the author approved, and which exists in a million equal copies?). Or what about a poem that is recited verbally and never written down at all? These are the sorts of questions that arise. To cut a long story short, in my own opinion a work of art of any kind is actually a pattern or arrangement of some sort that is created by the artist and which can—in theory at least—be replicated in many individual copies, each of which is a token of that particular type. (See: types/tokens.) This, by the way, is not an idealist theory, but rather a materialist theory that undercuts idealism on this issue. —S.H.
See: STYLISTIC STANDARDS
Aesthetics is the branch of philosophy concerned with art. In popular usage, as well as in older bourgeois philosophy, aesthetics is often viewed as being focused on “the beautiful”, but actually the explication of beauty is just one of many issues in aesthetics, and not even the most important issue. Some of the many other questions in the philosophy of art are:
What sort of thing is a work of art? (Is it a physical object? An abstraction? An “illusion”, as some have claimed? Or what?) (See AESTHETIC OBJECT entry above.)
What makes a work of art a good work?
Why does art have such an impact on human beings?
What is the relationship of art to society?
See also: Philosophical doggerel on aesthetics.
AFGHANISTAN — British Imperialist Invasions Of
“From 1838 to 1919, British imperialism launched three wars of
aggression against Afghanistan. When the third war broke out in 1919, Emir Amanullah,
supported by the tribes, rose in resistance to the aggressors. At the time, tribal
uprisings in the frontier areas threatened British imperialist rule in northern
India. In August 1919, Britain was forced to sign an armistice agreement with
Afghanistan and recognize its independence and freedom.
“Stalin cited Afghanistan to illustrate a point he made in his The Foundations of Leninism in 1924. He said: ‘The revolutionary character of a national movement under the conditions of imperialist oppression does not necessarily presuppose the existence of proletarian elements in the movement, the existence of a revolutionary or a republican programme of the movement, the existence of a democratic basis of the movement.’ He pointed out: ‘The struggle that the Emir of Afghanistan is waging for the independence of Afghanistan is objectively a revolutionary struggle, despite the monarchist views of the Emir and his associates, for it weakens, disintegrates and undermines imperialism.’” —Reference note, Peking Review, #48, Nov. 25, 1977, pp. 27-28. [While the point that Stalin makes here is correct, it does not of course mean that the anti-imperialist struggle can be in safe and steady hands unless it is led by the revolutionary proletariat, nor is this a matter of a truly revolutionary struggle with regard to the social classes and rule within a country like Afghanistan. —S.H.]
AFGHANISTAN — Soviet Social-Imperialist Invasion Of
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AFGHANISTAN — U.S. Imperialist Invasion Of
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If you mean can you get a layer that lets you run Linux applications on Windows then the answer would be a sort of yes. Normally if there is demand open source projects get released as native windows versions. There are tools such as Cygwin which give you linux commands and the libraries but applications would normally need to be compiled against these to work properly.
If you want to run windows but still run the odd Linux application you can install virtulisation software such as VMWare and run full Linux distributions within them. In simple terms it would let you run Linux almost as an application.
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The result, fewer than 18 months later, was On the Origin of Species, and a revolution in human thought that reverberates to this day.
That revolution would still have happened without Wallace’s intervention: the creationist view had long been crumbling. But it would have happened later, and perhaps not under Darwin’s banner. If next year is Darwin’s year, it is thanks to Wallace’s wake-up call.
12 July 2008
Darwin's defining moment, Wallace's wake-up call.
by Peter Mc
Neville Hawcock writing in the Financial Times Defining Moments column publishes a brief, thoughtful acount of Darwin breaking cover in 1858. Wallace's Rottweiler and other members of the pack wil be delighted with Mr Hawcock's last paragraph:
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overviewThe Buttikoferi Cichlid, also known as the Zebra Tilapia, inhabits the river systems of Western Africa. The coloration of this fish is a series of black and white vertical stripes. Although they can be peaceful when young, as they grow so does their disposition, which becomes very territorial.
The ideal setup for the Buttikoferi Cichlid is a tank of at least 70 gallons with plenty of rocks for territories and a medium-sized gravel planted with hardy plants. This fish will become aggressive towards smaller fish, so it is important to keep them with similar-sized fish, or in a species tank.
Currently, the Buttikoferi Cichlid is being successfully bred in farms and aquariums. They are substrate spawners, excavating a pit to lay eggs in. During spawning time, the pair will become highly aggressive.
Feed the Buttikoferi Cichlid a variety of both meaty and vegetable-based foods. Live foods should be offered such as brine shrimp, earthworms and mosquito larvae. A quality flake and tablet food containing vegetable matter should also be included in their diet.
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During a 12-year period in the 1990s into the early 2000s, researchers spent somewhere between $3 billion and $4 billion mapping the human genome, which encompasses three billion strands of DNA that make up a living organism's heredity. Now Westborough-based GenomeQuest has a software system that can basically do that same analysis for about $1,000 in a few days to a week.
The use of such information is endless. From analyzing causes of diseases to predicting which patients may develop them, to developing more durable and healthier agricultural products - so much can be learned by studying the genetic makeup of any living thing, said GenomeQuest President Richard Resnick.
It's complicated stuff, though. And the technology to analyze the data is still in early adoption by researchers and clinicians.
In an effort to nudge the industry along, GenomeQuest has supplied $120,000 in grants to six research organizations around the country - including a molecular diagnostics lab in Worcester.
Streamlined Data Delivery
Founded in 1999 in Paris, GenomeQuest is a venture-backed startup that now has about 40 employees, most of whom are in the company's Westborough headquarters.
Providing grant money to researchers has a two-fold goal for GenomeQuest: It will help distribute the company's product into the marketplace faster, and it will help researchers interpret this complex data quicker and more efficiently.
The more researchers, doctors and clinicians that use the GenomeQuest software, the better, Resnick says.
There are other ways to interpret human genome data, Resnick said, but they can either give researchers so much data that it's nearly impossible to go through it all, or it is broken up in "puzzle pieces" that must be reassembled to get clear information.
GenomeQuest researchers are trying to solve these proverbial needle- in-a-haystack problems.
"We want to aggregate all this data together, bring in all of this knowledge that is in there and present it in a piece of web-based software that people can actually use," he said. "It's cheaper, faster, and it can be used clinically."
One of the most promising uses of the GenomeQuest software is scientists being able to take samples of DNA, test it and use information from the genome to treat a patient.
That's the type of work that could be done in Worcester at the UMass Memorial Medical Center Molecular Diagnostic Laboratory. Founded in 2002 as a joint venture between the University of Massachusetts Medical School and UMass Memorial Health Care, the lab now tests up to 40,000 DNA samples a year, providing information to researchers and clinicians working on a variety of projects.
As part of that research, the laboratory's director, Dr. Edward Ginns, applied for a nationwide grant from GenomeQuest to use the company's software to analyze the genomic information lab researchers are collecting. Specifically, Ginns hopes to use the GenomeQuest software to explore causes and potential treatments for cystic fibrosis. Because there is so much data in the human genome, Ginns said, it's important to be able to extract only the data researchers or clinicians truly need to more easily manage the information.
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Summer is a boon for businesses by the beach: schoolís out, the weatherís sunny, and the slew of seaside activities on offer draws vacationers to the nearest coastline.
But the sand loverís favourite season is also a time to be wary of the water. According to the International Life Saving Federation (ILSF), drowning incidents peak in the summer when people flock to pools, beaches, lakes and rivers for recreation or relief from the warmer temperature. Most cases occur during the mid- to late-afternoon when the day is at its hottest and when swimmers are more likely to be drunk from alcohol.
At the greatest risk of drowning are infants and toddlers (those between 0 to 5 years old) because of their inability to swim and the lack of barriers to keep them from unsafe depths; as well as 20 to 25 year-olds, who are most predisposed to participate in water sports and are at their most reckless age. Also susceptible are people aged 60 and above, who often have health problems that could cause loss of consciousness at sea.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), males are twice as likely to die from drowning than females because they are more likely to exhibit riskier behaviour, such as swimming alone and drinking alcohol before going into the water.
In November last year, the WHO identified drowning as the third leading cause of unintentional injury deaths worldwide, comprising 7% of all injury-related fatalities. Sixty percent of these happen in the Western Pacific region and in Southeast Asia, with China and India recording a combined 43% of the total deaths.
Locally, a 2009 survey conducted in Los Banos, Laguna and Iligan City, Lanao del Norte by the Philippine Life Saving Society (PLS) and Safe Kids Philippines identified drowning as the second leading cause of death among Filipino children: 10.9% of the victims are aged 0 to 4 while 30.3% are aged 5 to 14. Boys are also more likely to drown than girls, accounting for 67% of the cases versus the latterís 33%.
The foreign travellerís unfamiliarity with hazards in Philippine waters is also a problem. Of the total number of tourists who drowned between 2009 and 2010, 44.4% were deaths from scuba diving, 22.2% were due to parasailing activities and 11.1% to snorkeling.
Most incidents, unsurprisingly, occur in places unsupervised by lifeguards, trained individuals who patrol aquatic surroundings and respond to life-threatening emergencies: At present, there are not enough lifesavers and rescue teams to keep watch over the countryís 37,000 km-long coastline.
Moreover, the Philippine Drowning Prevention Plan 2010-2015 recommends that all pool and beach lifeguards be required to hold an appropriate level of accreditation that recognizes their initial training and ingoing demonstration of competence. The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA), which has linked with the PLS, already offers such a certification for pool and beach lifeguards.
The Philippine Red Cross also conducts training and subsequent accreditation for water safety, which covers survival and lifesaving techniques. Additionally, Red Crossís beach patrol and lifeguarding service provides public or private swimming places with trained water safety personnel, which is particularly useful during the summer months when big crowds flock to the beaches.
But ensuring the presence of lifeguards in swimming areas is only one approach. According to the WHO, individuals and communities must also be taught water survival skills and be made aware of the risks associated with drowning, while first responders should be equipped with proper know-how to provide first aid to help prevent seaside accidents. This is where the Red Crossís basic life support-cardiopulmonary resuscitation comes in. The program covers foreign airway obstruction management and rescue breathing, as well as bandaging techniques and emergency transfers.
The PDPP, which aims to halve the countryís annual 40,000 drowning incidents by 2015, likewise encourages resorts, hotels and parks to come up with risk management plans and carry out water safety measures. These include signage, effective barriers and education programs that discuss parental supervision on children, and an intensive water safety campaign that targets adolescent and adult tourists.
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Figure 5.2 is a line graph depicting the trend in lifetime cigarette use among males and females aged 12 to 17 from 1965 to 2002. From 1965 to 1980, there was little change in the rate of lifetime cigarette use among boys aged 12 to 17. Rates were 37.9 percent in 1965 and 37.8 percent in 1980. However, during that period, the rate among adolescent girls generally increased from 21.7 to 36.2 percent. Since 1980, rates for girls have been nearly the same as the rates for boys.
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In order to feel confident about the medical treatments you are receiving, it’s important to have clear and comfortable communication with the doctors, nurses, social workers, and other professionals involved in your care.
- Consider bringing a friend or relative with you to take notes and help you remember what was discussed.
- Don’t be afraid to ask questions and have things repeated or explained in terms you understand.
- If you are upset and not ready to discuss something, it’s okay to tell your doctor that you need to come back later. You need to get information when you are best able to understand and absorb it.
- Some articles suggest taping consultations. However, many physicians are not comfortable being taped, so be sure to ask your doctor beforehand if this is acceptable. Not wishing to be taped is not a reflection of the doctor’s skill or competence.
- Ask your doctor what the best method is for addressing further questions. Most doctors’ offices have nurses or administrative personnel who can answer medical and non-medical questions or refer you to someone who can. Ask your doctor and other healthcare providers if they prefer e-mail or telephone conversations for answering questions. While some doctors check their e-mail regularly, many others do not, and important messages from a sick patient may not be noticed. Conversely, some physicians check their e-mail often and can respond more quickly to brief questions that way.
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lisabelle has been a Family Tree Circles member since Apr 2011. is researching the following names: PLUCKNETT, GRAY, ARMSTRONG and 2 other(s).
Queen Camel is a little village in south Somerset. It used to be called Cantmael which is celtic. I think it means land of hills. Henry the third's wife Eleanor had land there. that's where the 'Queen' part comes into it.
Thank you Jan. I came across Queen Camel doing a family history, it is so unusual I did not know it was once Cantmael.
My Great-Grandfather was Elijah Plucknett and he was born in Queen Camel in 1835 the son of Frederick Plucknett (b1805) and Sarah Martin
It is very interesting doing this family history. I found that Plucknett is of French origin, brought to England in the wake of the Norman Invasion of 1066. The name was de Plugenet in 1102.
Oh yes, I know that family. Elijah died in Wollongong.
I've had contact with someone else (can't remember who) about the Plucknett's. I have dates if you want them.
That is right Jan. Elijah died 22nd December 1907. He married Susannah Jolliffe in Yallah in 1863.I have dates for their six daughters. Someone sent me a picture of their headstone but I am not sure where it is.
I believe his brothers Samuel and George also came to Australia
and I think they lived in Brisbane.I think another brother may have also come to Austalia. I have found a Edgar Ewart Plucknett son of
Samuel,I am still putting it together.
I have been looking for another brother Frederick, I do not have a date of birth for him, I think he was given an OBE in 1919 and I think it was his great grandaughter wrote a soldiers story, on a BBC Devon History site. There were no contact details and it was done about eight years ago.
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Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism
AMY GOODMAN: The
The financial crisis is forcing some to rethink the neoliberal policies widely blamed for the financial collapse. On Monday, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown called for a new international fund to support poorer countries during the global recession. He also acknowledged richer Western nations have often imposed economic policies on poorer countries that they haven’t followed themselves.
PRIME MINISTER GORDON BROWN: We will work with the World Bank and our G20 partners to build support for a new fund specifically to help the world’s poorest through the downturn. Too often, our responses to past crises have been inadequate or misdirected, promoting economic orthodoxies that we ourselves have not followed and that have condemned the world’s poorest to a deepening crisis of poverty.
AMY GOODMAN: Brown says he’ll raise the issue of a global fund at the next G20 meeting in July.
Well, my first guest has been among the leading economists to criticize the neoliberal policies imposed on poor nations but not followed by the West. Ha-Joon Chang is an economist at the
Welcome to Democracy Now!, as you come from, well, Gordon Brown’s country to this one. First, what is your assessment of the situation right now? Warren Buffett has just said that the economy has gone off a cliff.
HA-JOON CHANG: Well, I think we are facing the biggest economic crisis since the Great Depression. Now, it probably wouldn’t get as bad as the Great Depression, because, unlike in the Great Depression, governments are more willing to intervene with deficit spending and nationalizing financial institutions and giving subsidies to industry and so on, whereas in the 1930s they more kind of adamantly held onto free market doctrines, which they subsequently abandoned, but, I mean, there was a period of time when they just held onto it and lost the opportunity. So I don’t think the impact would not be as severe as what it was in the 1930s, but yes, I mean, there’s no question that this is as big or possibly even bigger a crisis than what we saw in 1929.
AMY GOODMAN: Can you explain what are neoliberal policies? And then you can critique them.
HA-JOON CHANG: Yes. Well, basically, the reason why it’s called “neoliberal” is that it’s a successor to nineteenth century classical liberal doctrine. I mean, “liberal” in American usage usually means kind of the left to the center, but in the European usage, “liberal” means basically belief in the free market and private ownership and basically rule of money.
Now, neoliberals have moderated some of the old liberal beliefs. For example, the old liberals actually thought that democracy was bad for capitalism. You know, they thought if you have democracy, poor people vote and create things like income tax, which they have, but, I mean, it actually helped the economy rather than destroyed the economy like the liberals said. So the neoliberals [inaudible] some degree of progressive income tax. The liberals used to be against, for example, having a central bank. The neoliberals actually like the central bank pumping money into the economy when things are going wrong. So it has modified the classical liberal doctrine, but neoliberalism still has, in its core, belief in free market, free trade, deregulated economy and private ownership.
AMY GOODMAN: Do you find it funny that you’re saying—that Gordon Brown is saying what you have been saying for a while—
HA-JOON CHANG: That’s right, yeah.
AMY GOODMAN: —talking about the hypocrisy of the West? But explain what that is, what the
HA-JOON CHANG: That’s right, yeah. For example, when the developing countries go into financial crises like the rich countries are experiencing today, they were told by the IMF and the World Bank, and ultimately the rich country governments which control these institutions, that they have to cut spending; ideally, they should run budget surplus. They have to raise interest rate to 30, 50, even 80 percent in some countries. And basically, they have to tighten the belt. Now that the rich countries have the financial crisis, they have cut interest rate to practically zero. You know, I mean, when
Now, I mean, how do you explain that? I mean, that these policies are not good enough for you? I mean, “We’ll use one set of policy, which we think are the good ones, but you have to use something else.” You know, the American writer Gore Vidal once upon a time famously said that the American economic system is socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor, and the international macroeconomic policies have been like that. I mean, it’s what I call monetarism for the poor and Keynesianism for the rich. So when the rich countries have a fall in demand, they think nothing of boosting it up by printing money and increasing government spending; the poor countries shouldn’t do that.
Now, it’s not only the macroeconomic policy where this hypocrisy has a role. For example, the rich countries have been telling the developing countries to adopt free trade and told them, “Look, I mean, all countries in history probably, with the possible exception of
AMY GOODMAN: We’re talking to Ha-Joon Chang, economist at
AMY GOODMAN: Our guest is Ha-Joon Chang. He is a world-renowned economist, wrote Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism. I wanted to ask you about the Obama administration’s response to the financial crisis. This is President Obama speaking Friday in
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: Now, there were those—there were those who argued that our recovery plan was unwise and unnecessary. They opposed the very notion that government has a role in ending the cycle of job loss at the heart of this recession. There are those who believe that all we can do is repeat the very same policies that led us here in the first place. But I also know that this country has never responded to a crisis by sitting on the sidelines and hoping for the best.
AMY GOODMAN: President Obama. Your response, Ha-Joon Chang?
HA-JOON CHANG: Right. Well, no, I mean, I agree with this sentiment, but the people he put in charge of the economy, like Paul Volcker and Larry Summers, I mean, these are people who actually created this problem. You know, Volcker is, if you like, the godfather of monetarism in this country. And Larry Summers, when he was at the World Bank as the chief economist and then when he was at the Treasury later, I mean, was going around the world preaching to other countries that they have to deregulate their financial market, open up their borders to the American and other rich country financial flows. Now, what they are doing now isn’t what they were doing before, but if they have started believing in something else, they should come clean and apologize, don’t you think? I mean, because these are the people, with others, who created these problems.
AMY GOODMAN: What do you think needs to be done right now?
HA-JOON CHANG: Well, I think one important thing that this country needs to do is basically to abandon this obsession with private ownership and go for nationalizing the banks. You know, what the government is proposing now is basically “We’ll plug whatever gap that emerges in the banking sector, because if they go down, we go down all together.” No, I mean, at one level it’s true. But if you want to do that, you have to actually make people answer to these demands. So, now that the taxpayers are paying all this money, why not actually nationalize these banks and make them public servants so that they answer to those who have paid for them?
AMY GOODMAN: What do you think of the debate here in the
HA-JOON CHANG: Well, I think that this is the legacy of, if you like, neoliberal dominance. I mean, somehow, what you guys call the N-word here is a dirty word. But actually, in the history of capitalism, there are many countries that have run very successful economies on the basis of nationalized banking sector. For example,
AMY GOODMAN: You’re originally from
HA-JOON CHANG: That’s right, yeah.
AMY GOODMAN: What about
HA-JOON CHANG: Well, in South Korea, too, you know, I mean, it didn’t use public ownership as much as Singapore or France, but there are very successful companies like POSCO, the steel company, that is now the third largest steel company in the world, was started out as a government-owned enterprise. I think this notion that public enterprises do not work and therefore nationalization will be a disaster, I mean, it’s not supported by evidence.
AMY GOODMAN: What about nationalization of companies like GM and Chrysler?
HA-JOON CHANG: Well, if you—no, I mean, let’s play by the capitalist logic. If the taxpayers are paying the money, you have to nationalize them. You know, I mean, the whole problem, people say, is that all these bankers were playing with other people’s money. So now, I mean, that they are being paid by the taxpayers, it is only right that the taxpayers control these companies. If they don’t want this money and they don’t want to be nationalized, they should go bankrupt.
AMY GOODMAN: Ha-Joon Chang, I wanted to ask you about
PRESIDENT RAFAEL CORREA: [translated] The guilty parties in this crisis try to give lessons on morality and good economic handling. The most powerful people on the planet have united to find a therapy for the dying. They’re getting together—the central bankers, the representatives of large financial firms, the people primarily responsible for the crisis.
AMY GOODMAN: Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa. He’s also a trained economist and was reportedly influenced by your work.
HA-JOON CHANG: Yes. I mean, I think he has read my work, and in a number of places, he has quoted me. Yes, but Rafael is only—I mean, the striking examples of a whole group of Latin American leaders which have abandoned neoliberalism and are seeking their own ways. I mean, you know, today, which country in Latin America really listens to the
AMY GOODMAN: One of the people you take on big time in your book is Thomas Friedman. Your first chapter, “The Lexus and the Olive Tree Revisited: Myths and Facts About Globalization.” We only have a minute to go, but what do you think are the myths that need to be debunked in this country?
HA-JOON CHANG: Well, basically, the myth is that
AMY GOODMAN: Do you think that
HA-JOON CHANG: No, I think in relative terms, it’s obviously in decline, but, I mean, it’s still, by far, the single richest economy in the world. And, you know, I mean, I give credit where it’s due. I mean, it’s the only country which became the world hegemony and created room for other countries to rise together. These were the Marshall Plan days, which sadly ended in the ’70s, and the
AMY GOODMAN: I want to thank you, Ha-Joon Chang, for being with us. His latest book, Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism. Safe travels back to
HA-JOON CHANG: Thank you.
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Israel, 2011 | Documentary, 55 min.
Director: Wayne Kopping
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|Israel Inside: How a Small Nation Makes a Big Difference is a new feature-length documentary that explores the positive characteristics of Israeli society from a humanistic, psychological, and emotional perspective. This insightful and uplifting documentary sidesteps the usual conversation of politics, conflict and violence, and tells the story of the Israeli people – whose resilience has propelled Israel to the forefront of world innovation and progress.
Despite daily challenges ranging from limited resources to security needs, Israeli creativity and inventiveness help make the world a better place. Israel has made significant advancements in the fields of science, environment, medicine and technology, and has shared these developments with the rest of the world.
The film is hosted by Dr. Tal Ben Shahar, who gave up the unique distinction of being Harvard University's most popular lecturer to return to his native country, Israel. In the film, Ben Shahar explores the core character strengths – called "actualizers" – that enable Israelis to succeed against incredible odds. Through Tal's eyes we explore the deep-seated values such as education, family, and responsibility for the world (a Jewish concept known as "tikkun olam"), which directly contribute to Israel's accomplishments in the economic, technological and humanitarian spheres. And while none of these actualizers are in and of themselves unique to Israel, in combination they are bringing about unparalleled progress and achievement.
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From time to time, we will be posting profiles of our Gest Fellows. Matthew Reilly ’06 is a Ph.D. candidate in English at University of Texas, Austin. His research is on “The Literary Life of May Drummond, Female Preacher.”
My research in Haverford’s Special Collections focused on an eighteenth-century female preacher, whose conversion to (and later expulsion from) the Society of Friends caused a sensation among both Quakers and non-Quakers. Although May Drummond has fallen out of the purview of scholarship on eighteenth-century British history, she achieved a remarkable degree of celebrity and infamy during her lifetime. Her passionate and eloquent oratory drew crowds en masse, and London periodicals often published her whereabouts along with invitations goading eminent clergymen to public disputation. As a result, she earned a private audience with Queen Caroline and sympathetic citations from some of the pre-eminent authors of her day. Not only was Drummond noteworthy for her spoken ministry, but also for her status as a literary heroine and a cultural icon.
Drummond’s broad-based popularity distinguishes her from a Quaker establishment that was increasingly formalizing norms of doctrinal stability and communal exclusivity. Her touring presence foreshadowed the revivals that would soon sweep Britain, Ireland, and America, but she actually drew inspiration from late seventeenth-century Quakers, who had adopted tactics of combining scriptural precedents with more eclectic, interfaith, and cosmopolitan appeals. In her mission as a public Friend and an occasional combatant against England’s religious elite, Drummond stands apart from the sort of sentimental heroine that pervades the literature of mid-eighteenth century Britain. Her sermons were printed, and she indirectly moved others to write about her exploits. The height of Drummond’s literary fame, I argue, is in her role as the protagonist (if not the author) of a pseudonymous castaway tale by Unca Eliza Winkfield, entitled The Female American.
While working with Haverford’s extensive collections of Quaker documents, I charted Drummond’s social networks and rivalries, tracked controversies following in the wake of her travels, and recorded the reception of her life and ideas. Although Drummond’s certificate to preach was revoked just prior to her expected departure for America, the library’s holdings of Philadelphia journals and letters of emigrated British Friends show the blight of subsequent generations, which were unfriendly to her legacy. The expertise of Haverford’s librarians and specialists helped me re-frame my research on Drummond in relation to a transatlantic Quaker community in transition during the years prior to the American Revolution. I look forward to writing “The Literary Life of May Drummond” alongside my dissertation, “False Learning: Alexander Pope and the Afterlive(s) of Scriblerian Satire,” as a doctoral candidate at the University of Texas at Austin.
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About the CMCC Health Sciences Library
The CMCC Health Sciences Library is Canada's primary library specializing in chiropractic. The library is accessible to all students and faculty of CMCC, as well as to practitioners in the field. The general public are welcome to use the resources within the library, but do not have borrowing privileges.
On site and through our online catalogue, the library provides a variety of information resources in the areas of chiropractic, biomedical and education literature. The collection covers such areas as pre-clinical, clinical sciences, nutrition, education and practice management. The Special Collection includes rare publications in chiropractic and medicine. The Archives contains original documents and records outlining the history of the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College and of chiropractic in Canada and elsewhere.
The library provides resources in support of the curriculum, research and communications needs of CMCC. Resources are provided in print, AV and electronic formats. The Media Services department offers photography, scanning and printing, video shooting and editing, presentation design and equipment.
Please note that the library maintains a strict no food or drink policy. Only bottled water is allowed.
- A network of knowledge resources that facilitate chiropractic education, research communication and collaboration.
- Services that are smooth, efficient and easy to use both in the Library and from elsewhere.
- Library collections and remote print and electronic information resources that are useful and accessible for users and manageable for staff.
- Maximum information access and usability that contributes to the success of our students and the library.
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Optimal Itinerary Planning for Mobile Multiple Agents in WSN
Source: The Schwa
Multi mobile agents based on data collection and aggregations have proved their effective in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN). However, the way in which these agents are deployed must be intelligently planned and should be adapted to the characteristics of wireless sensor networks. While most existing studies are based on the algorithms of itinerary planning for multiple agents i.e. determining the number of Mobile Agents (MAs) to be deployed, how to group source nodes for each MA, attributing the itinerary of each MA for its source nodes. These algorithms determine the efficiency or effectiveness of aggregation. | <urn:uuid:986ef816-6e02-4f08-bf90-fbae060a22ee> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.techrepublic.com/whitepapers/optimal-itinerary-planning-for-mobile-multiple-agents-in-wsn/32774017?scname=software-engineering | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00075-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.914793 | 135 | 1.953125 | 2 |
The information presented here is summary information only. If you really want to learn about the accreditation process in-depth follow the links embedded in the text to the Office for Accreditation (OA) web site. The OA site also includes a host of reports, schedules, newsletters, and other documents. The point of this page is to present some of that same information in less formal language (sorry, there will still be a lot of acronyms), and to shed some light on common concerns and misperceptions that students express about the accreditation process.
List of acronyms
Some of these you already know, but you're going to need them if you read any further...
- ALA - American Library Association
- LIS and MLIS - Library & Information Studies and Master's in Library & Information Studies
- OA - the ALA Office for Accreditation
- COA - the ALA Committee on Accreditation
- ERP - External Review Panel
- AP3 - Accreditation Process Policies and Procedures manual
Purpose and overview of ALA-accreditation
The purpose of ALA-accreditation is to ensure quality, innovation, and value in LIS education. Accreditation is voluntary and nongovernmental. ALA accreditiation is a process that combines peer review with self-review by the individual MLIS programs. ALA only accredits the first professional degree in library and information studies, which is the Master's degree. The ALA Standards as written in the Standards for Accreditation of Master's Programs in Library and Information Studiesprovide the basis by which all accreditation decisions are made. Earning a master's degree from an ALA-accredited program affords you more career options than other degrees from non ALA-accredited programs. The majority of employers require an ALA-accredited master’s for professional positions – no matter what specialty or type of library you are interested in working in.
How it works
ALA has been accrediting library education programs in the U.S. and Canada since 1925. There are currently 56 established ALA-accredited MLIS programs,and a handful of contenders in various stages of the process. The ALA Committee on Accreditation (COA) is the agent by which ALA accredits programs. COA makes accreditation decisions for any given program at the end of a 24 month long review process that includes an onsite visit to the program by appointed reviewers (the ERP). Programs are typically reviewed once every seven years, unless COA determines there is evidence to support additional reviews. Seven years is a long time between reviews, but programs aren't ignored or forgotten until their next review. All programs submit regular written and electronic reports to COA. That's a very brief synopsis. If you really want to know all the ins and outs of the process, you can read through the Accreditation Process Policy and Procedures (AP3) manual (also available in pdf format).
Office for Accreditation
The Office for Accreditation (OA) coordinates and supports the activities of multiple parties in the process of accrediting MLIS programs, including MILS students, faculty and administrators; potential LIS students, professionals and practitioners; program reviewers (ERP), the COA, ALA divisions, other accrediting agencies, and the general public. The Office also publishes the Directory of Institutions Offering ALA-Accredited Master's Programs in Library and Information Studies available in several formats, including a searchable database.
Committee on Accreditation
The Committee on Accreditation (COA) is a standing ALA committee consisting of twelve members appointed by the ALA President-elect. Ten members are ALA members appointed to four-year terms and two members are appointed from the public at large to 2-year terms. One of the ALA members is Canadian to represent those programs. COA appointments are made with an effort to balance the various aspects and specialties in LIS education and the larger profession. The committee rosteris public record and posted on the OA web site.
Arguably the most important aspect of the Standards that students should know is that the Standards are descriptive, not prescriptive. In other words, the Standards describe essential features that programs must have in order to achieve and maintain ALA accreditation status. Examples of essential features of accredited programs would be evidence of continuous administrative planning and improvement and the use of measurable student learning outcomes in the planning process. The Standards do not dictate that programs meet specific requirements, like a graduation requirement of 25 course hours of cataloging for every student. In this way, the Standards are designed to foster individuality, growth, and innovation while ensuring quality in LIS education.
Comprehensive reviews & site visits
The comprehensive review process lasts approximately two years. During that time, the OA works with the program representatives, COA, and a carefully screened External Review Panelists (ERP) to ensure a fair, honest, and collegial review. The 24-month long review process involves many important steps – too many to list here. There are a few key steps, however, that should be briefly described here:
A site visit is scheduled by the OA and the program. Site visits are typically 2 days, usually mid-November in the fall and mid-April in the spring.
About 12 months into the review, the program develops a detailed self-study, called a Program Presentation. The purpose of the Program Presentation is to present evidence that the program is meeting the Standards for ALA-accreditation. Program Presentations are usually written by key faculty members and administrators in the program. Quite a few Program Presentations are available online, if you're interested in seeing one.
After the final draft of the Program Presentation has been submitted, the ERP members conduct a site visit. The ERP acts as the "eyes and ears" of COA, who do not go on visits. An OA staff member will sometimes attend in the role of observer, but it is not the usual practice (a Canadian Library Association member observes visits to Canadian programs under review). The major purpose of the site visit is to allow the ERP to verify what has been presented in the Program Presentation. Towards that end, the ERP members may interview faculty, students, alumnae, and administrators. They may inspect files, look at facilities, or visit classes. The ERP writes a report of their findings based on their observations on-site. The program has an opportunity to read and respond to the report before it is submitted to the Office and read by COA.
COA makes an accreditation decision based on the Program Presentation, the ERP report, program response to the ERP report (if any), a review of correspondence regarding regularly submitted reports submitted since the last comprehensive review, and a meeting with the dean and the Chair of the ERP (at Midwinter or Annual Conference). Programs are informed of the COA decision in a letter shortly after Conference.
The Office posts a current schedule of programs up for review online.
Is your program being reviewed?
Don't panic. The whole idea behind accreditation is to ensure the quality of your LIS education. A comprehensive review is not intended to be an unpleasant or adversarial experience. No one is "out to get" your program. In fact, most program administrators report they have benefited from the process; gaining valuable knowledge through the opportunity for self-reflection and review by their peers.
Get involved. Students are encouraged to participate in the activities surrounding comprehensive reviews and site visits. Ask your program administrators about ways you can contribute.
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5. Voltaire and Emilie du Chatelet ...
What's So Special about Their Love: Voltaire was a brilliant playwright and author who was beloved by French royal society, and Emilie was a young, intelligent socialite.
Emilie was married to the Marquis du Chatelet, but neither she nor Voltaire cared about what people thought - they went out and about together as a couple for the fifteen years until Emilie died, even living together in a house owned by her husband. These two were not only attracted to each other physically, but even more so attracted to each other's superior intellect. | <urn:uuid:c63f48b7-ec56-4dd4-89ae-5c6120fa25ca> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://allwomenstalk.com/12-most-famous-love-stories-of-all-time/5/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00022-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980025 | 128 | 1.75 | 2 |
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One of the most authentic and distinctive voices in American popular music belongs to singer/songwriter/guitarist JOHN FOGERTY. His place in the pantheon of great artists would have been assured solely by his role as the creative force behind Creedence Clearwater Revival, but he has relentlessly added to his musical legacy. Growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area community of El Cerrito, he was exposed to a rich mixture of musical styles. After years of honing his performing and recording skills under various band names, John had a “eureka” moment and, on Christmas Eve, 1967, coined a new name for his group that reflected a renewed commitment to their music and its authentic origins. Thus was born Creedence Clearwater Revival.
The next year Creedence became one of the major forces of the classic rock era. Their self-titled debut album was released, along with their first hit single, “Suzie Q.” Six other studio albums and a string of major chart singles followed. Though the band split up in 1972, its legacy was recognized with Creedence Clearwater Revival’s induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993.
Fogerty began a solo career shortly after the demise of Creedence. In 1973 he released The Blue Ridge Rangers, an homage to classic country on which he played all of the instruments. Not long after, he made his titular solo debut with John Fogerty. Following a long legal struggle caused by an onerous recording contract, he re-emerged with renewed strength in 1985 with the multi-platinum Centerfield. The title track has become a rock standard and a modern day anthem for baseball. In recognition of that, Fogerty was invited to play it this year on opening day of the new Yankee Stadium – from center field, of course.
In the early 1990s Fogerty began a closer study of the blues that had been such a significant influence. He traveled to Mississippi and helped fund memorial markers for such blues forebears as Charlie Patton, James Son Thomas, Mississippi Joe Callicott, Memphis Minnie, and others. 1997’s Blue Moon Swamp was a huge commercial success for Fogerty and was awarded the Grammy for Best Rock Album that year. In 2005 he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Revival was Grammy-nominated in 2008 for Best Rock Album, which prompted a memorable appearance on the awards show with two other rock and roll originals: Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard. In 2009, Fogerty embraced a new platform when he was featured teaching his classic songs as part of Apple’s Garage Band software.
In the works for release this year is the much-anticipated The Return of The Blue Ridge Rangers as well as the feature length Royal Albert Hall concert documentary and biographical DVD release Comin’ Down the Road. John Fogerty, it seems, to borrow a term he invented many years ago, just keeps on chooglin’. | <urn:uuid:75043aa0-a014-4d29-90de-461297999641> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.laphil.com/philpedia/john-fogerty | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00009-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971827 | 622 | 1.625 | 2 |
EARLY JUDGES OF SUPREME COURT - 1841 to 1849
The record of the supreme court of Oregon is only complete from and after the year 1849. Prior to that time the history of the supreme court is difficult to trace. There were however, a number of supreme judges prior to 1849. The first official record of the election of a supreme judge appears in the archives.
History of the judiciary of Oregon is divided into four periods, according to Judge Lawrence T. Harris, who has made considerable research and study of the subject, and he designates those periods under the following captions:
1. Anterior to the provisional government
2. The provisional government
3. The territorial government
The provisional government had its origin in a meeting near Champooick on February 16 and 17, 1841 following the death of Ewing Young on February 15, 1841. Young was one of the wealthiest American citizens living in the Willamette Valley at that time, and so far as then known he left no will or heirs. The question arose as to what should be done with his estate.
According to the record made at the time "some of the inhabitants of the Willamette Valley" met pursuant to adjournment on February 17, 1841, "for consultation concerning steps necessary to be taken for the formation of laws, and the election of officers to execute the same, for better preservation of peace and good order", and it was resolved that a committee of seven be elected for the purpose of drafting a constitution and code of laws for the government of the settlements south of the Columbia River.
Those present at the meeting proceeded to appoint Dr. Ira L. Babcock supreme judge with probate powers. He was not a lawyer but was a physician. He was instructed to act in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, until a code of laws could be adopted by the community.
On April 15, 1841, an order was made by I. L. Babcock, as Judge of Probate, appointing David Leslie administrator of the estate of Ewing Young, deceased. Funds from this estate were appropriated for building a jail located at Oregon City. The plans, specifications and contract for its construction are now on file with the clerk of the supreme court at Salem. The contract price was $875. Afterwards the State of Oregon refunded the value of the property taken to a son Joaquin Young, living in New Mexico.
At a subsequent meeting at Champooick on July 5, 1843, the term of W. F. Wilson was continued until May 1844. Wilson was not a lawyer but a merchant who arrived in 1843 with a stock of goods. His name does not appear on any legal document or record, and apparently he either resigned or declined to serve as supreme judge, since the records show that in November, 1843, O. Russell occupied this position.
The legislative committee which convened on July 5, 1843, submitted a code of laws and sort of a constitution or organic law which was adopted. Article VII of this organic law provides:--
"That judicial power shall be vested in a supreme court consisting of a supreme judge and two justices of the peace. The jurisdiction of the supreme court shall be both appellate and original." The section further provides the powers and duties of the justices of the peace, giving them probate powers. Article XVI of the same code provides as follows: "The supreme court shall hold two sessions annually, upon the third Tuesdays in April and September; the first session to be held at Champooick on the third Tuesday of September, 1843, and the second session at Twality Plains on the third Tuesday of April, 1844. At the sessions of the supreme court the supreme judge shall preside, assisted by two justices." The article further specifies: "The supreme court shall have original jurisdiction in cases of treason, felony and breaches of the peace and in civil cases where the sun in controversy does not exceed fifty dollars, provided that no judge shall assist in trying any case that has been brought before the court by appeal from his judgment."
The law of Iowa Territory was adopted, and in the absence of any statute applicable, the principles of the common law and equity governed.
In the journal of the legislative assembly of 1845, under the date of August 9, there is this entry: "The house went into secret session for the election of officers. Proceeded by ballot to elect a supreme judge of Oregon, which resulted in the choice of Nathaniel Ford, of Yamhill county."
In the same journal, under date of August 18, Governor Abernethy sent a message to the legislative assembly announcing that Mr. Ford declined to serve as supreme judge, whereupon the house immediately went into secret session again and elected Hon. P. H. Burnett supreme judge for the term of four years as provided in the new provisional constitution of 1845.
In the records of the legislative assemblies for the years 1846, 1847 and 1848, there is no mention of the election of supreme judges. There is on file, however, in the department of state, the oath of office of Hon. J. Quinn Thornton as supreme Judge of Oregon, taken before Secretary
of State Frederick Prigg, February 11, 1847.
On November 13, 1847, Hon. Columbia Lancaster took the oath of office as supreme judge of Oregon, and the same is now on file in the department of state, at Salem, Oregon.
The records during the provisional period are very incomplete and not indexed or arranged in any system. It is, therefore, very difficult to ascertain definitely the exact proceedings of the different legislative assemblies. It is possible that other persons than those above mentioned served as supreme judges prior to the appointing of Messrs. Bryant and Nelson in the latter part of the year 1849, these gentlemen being first appointed after the formation of Oregon into a territory of the United States.
From the incomplete records it is presumed that Hon. P. H. Burnett, when elected supreme judge in 1845, held office during 1845 and 1846 and perhaps resigned early in 1847. Then it seems that Hon. J. Quinn Thornton was appointed and held only for a few months, when he left for Washington, D. C., and Hon. Columbia Lancaster succeeded to the office of supreme judge. According to the record he was succeeded in 1849 by Hon. A. L. Lovejoy, who only held a few months, as Oregon had already been made a territory by congress and Supreme Judges William P. Bryant and Thomas Nelson had already been appointed by the president to the office of supreme judges of Oregon Territory. They arrived in Oregon in 1849 and succeeded Hon. A. L. Lovejoy.
There is no record of any session of court north of the Columbia River during the existence of the provisional government. During the latter part of September 1849, a term of court was held in Stillacoom, by Chief Justice William P. Bryant, to try same Snoqualmie Indians who had killed two white men some months before. This is the first court session north of the Columbia River of which any record has been preserved in Oregon history. No counties other than Vancouver and Lewis were created north of the Columbia River during the existence of the provisional government. In 1849 the legislature of Oregon changed the name of Vancouver County to Clark County. Lewis, Vancouver and Clatsop Counties were at one time associated in the same legislative district.
William P. Bryant resigned as Chief Justice in (sic) and returned to Indiana.
The Constitution provided for an election of four supreme judges. The state was divided into four judicial districts by the constitution. Each district elected one judge and the four justices constituted the supreme court. The first four elected allotted the terms among themselves so that the term of one would expire in two years, one in four years, and two in six years, and their successors were to hold for a term of six years, the judge having the shortest term to serve, or the oldest of several having the shortest term, and not serving by appointment, acted as Chief Justice. Each was obliged to perform circuit duty in each of the counties of their several districts. Matthew P. Deady, R. E. Stratton, R. P. Boise and A. E. Waite were elected to their offices at the first election in 1858, but before the term commenced in the following year, Judge Deady had been appointed to the federal bench and did not qualify for the state office. P. P. Prim was appointed in place of Deady and was afterward elected by the people at the regular election held in 1860. Boise and Stratton drew the six-year term and the four-year term fell to Waite, who by virtue of the Constitution became Chief Justice. In 1862 a new district was created, and a fifth judge, in the person of Joseph G. Wilson, was added to the four judges first selected when Oregon was granted statehood.
When the supreme court was made a distinct organization in 1878, the Governor appointed James K. Kelly, P. P. Prim and R. P. Boise as justices.
In 1907, Will R. King and w. T. Slater were appointed commissioners, and in 1909 when the legislature increased the membership of the court to five justices, King and Slater were appointed by Governor Chamberlin to fill the newly created positions.
In 1913 the membership of the court was again enlarged by the addition of two justices and Governor West appointed William M. Ramsey and Charles L. McNary.
-“Political and Official History of Oregon"
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Googling bad for your health? Docs debate online health forums.
This headline, appearing today on USA Today’s online Your Life page, caught my eye. The paper picked up and reprinted a column written by Steve Wood of the (Cherry Hill, N.J.) Courier-Post.
Curious, I read the column. And was shocked, once again, by the out-of-touch feedback given by one of the doctors Mr. Wood interviewed.
Dr. Bonnie Levin, a New Jersey family practitioner, told Wood she “advocates support groups, though ‘not from the computer.’ ”
Wood quotes Levin as saying, “I won’t recommend that. I say you need one-on-one (counseling). If someone is going to get some counseling on how they’ll deal with their illness, they’re not going to get that from the computer.”
Levin continued, “It’s not something I would recommend to my patient if they’ve been diagnosed with lung cancer. Go on the computer and talk to someone with lung cancer? You just don’t do that.”
I disagree, Dr. Levin. These days, I can’t even imagine how many patients go online and talk to someone with a similar diagnosis – 24/7.
Hospital support group? When it’s 2 a.m., and you’re stressing over possible side effects from a new medication, where’s the social worker?
Case in point: this question about a breast cancer drug on HealthCentral’s breast cancer site:
“My wife has finished chemo and radiation YEA!!!!! Now they have her taking a drug called Arimidex, 1MG per day for the next 5 years. …Reading the list of possible side effects, which seem to cover about every ugly thing a human can experience… So I thought I would ask ‘real’ people what their experiences with this anti-estrogen drug have been. Thanks, Lee.”
Sure, you can try to read the reams of fine print that come stuffed inside the CVS bag with whatever new drug you’re taking. You can try to get a moment with the busy pharmacist who filled the prescription.
Or you can go online and ask for help from someone like you. Someone who’s actually taken the drug under real-life conditions – not in a clinical trial, not in a Big Pharma study.
Someone who’s been there.
And how about Dr. Levin’s assertion that, if you have lung cancer, you don’t want to “go on the computer and talk to someone with lung cancer”?
Well, I have breast cancer. And there’s nothing I like better than comparing notes with other survivors.
Say you’re having a mastectomy. Only another survivor – not your doctor, not your surgeon, none of the medical literature – will advise you on what kind of shirt to bring to the hospital with you (one that buttons up the front).
And only someone who’s been there can be perfectly honest with you about how horrific your chest will look right after surgery, and how much it REALLY hurts when they pull the drains out. | <urn:uuid:d4cc2044-a368-403e-a44a-ef2ec6fe86c6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.healthcentral.com/breast-cancer/c/78/151379/debatable | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00071-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946444 | 698 | 1.875 | 2 |
Specializing in Complicated and High-Risk Pregnancies
Our twin girls, Camryn and Lydia, couldn't be more perfect. We believe they wouldn't be here today if it weren't for the constant care and monitoring by our perinatologists at St. Luke's. They are like superheroes to us.
The NICU care was also exceptional. There was never a time we felt scared that our babies were not receiving the best possible care. The nurses and doctors treated our girls like they were their own children. —Nicole and Matthew Reimert of Fogelsville
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Perinatal services, provided on an inpatient and outpatient basis in both Bethlehem and Allentown, include:
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The Perinatal Centers' compassionate and caring staff include fellowship-trained, board-certified perinatologists, as well as fetal ultrasound sonographers, a board-certified genetic counselor and highly trained nurses. The Perinatal Centers average over 15,000 patient visits annually.
As part of the center in Bethlehem, a special inpatient unit – the High-Risk Antenatal Unit – is dedicated to caring for patients experiencing acute complications during pregnancy. Patients in this unit are closely monitored and have access to the full range of services in the New Beginnings Family Birth Centers.
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Jews for Judaism goes digital in its fight
TORONTO — Julius Ciss and Rabbi Michael Skobac are well-known among “messianic Jews,” and when Ciss showed up at a recent program in a seniors residence, organizers asked him to leave.
For years, Ciss and Rabbi Skobac have been monitoring the activities of organizations targeting Jews, showing up at their meetings and conferences with a counter-message: that the “messianic” community is not offering Jews a different way to fulfil their Judaism, but are enticing people to adopt the Christian faith.
What particularly concerns them is the “deceptive” manner in which recruitment is conducted: the flyer advertising the Chanukah program made no mention of the fact that the sponsor was a Christian organization. In fact, they say, in keeping with Christian outreach efforts to Jews, it misleadingly makes it appear the event is Jewish, when it’s not.
“We want to show people that it’s not a Jewish event,” Ciss said in an interview in Jews for Judaism’s cramped quarters. “It’s a missionary event.”
Though the event included Jewish traditions, like lighting candles and singing songs, the missionaries provide followup literature hoping to entice participants into, eventually, “believing in Jesus,” Ciss said.
Displaying plenty of chutzpah, Ciss stood at a window outside the meeting room, holding a sign informing participants that what the event they were attending was not really kosher.
Though Jews for Judaism Canada employed a low-tech media message on that occasion, it has increasingly turned to more up-to-date digital formats to counter missionary activities.
Evangelists have already adopted Facebook and Twitter to recruit. “They see it as incredibly fertile grounds for them,” Rabbi Skobac said. Their spin is to position Jesus as the full and final expression of Judaism and not as an alternative religion.
Jews for Judaism has placed a video on YouTube addressing that argument. It has paid for an ad on Google that takes viewers to YouTube with video of lectures and TV appearances by Rabbi Skobac. “We’re getting incredible results,” he said, with 120,000 views in April alone and more than 50,000 on KosherTube.
Rabbi Skobac, who had to “get schlepped onto Facebook,” now has 4,300 friends. “We do a lot of Jews for Judaism work through Facebook. We get 10 inquiries a day through our Facebook portal,” he said.
Using 21st-century media techniques helps Jews for Judaism keep the fight on a level playing field, but Ciss and Rabbi Skobac believe missionary groups are deceptive in their fundamental message. They wouldn’t otherwise leave out the sponsoring group when they publicize ostensibly Jewish events.
The recent event at a Toronto seniors residence was one such example, they said. A Hamilton messianic congregation likewise publicized an ostensibly Jewish event in a flyer without including any mention of the sponsoring organization, Ciss stated.
“It’s not making it clear that it’s a Christian organization trying to convert you to Christianity,” Rabbi Skobac said.
Chosen People Ministries recently held a training session, and “many of this year’s participants are Filipinos, many of them caregivers in Jewish homes and senior residences,” Rabbi Skobac said.
“We’ve always known that missionaries target seniors and people in nursing homes,” he continued. “Caregivers who are proselytizing is going on worldwide. These are people who are often religious” and want to share their beliefs. “They don’t want that poor old Jewish person to go to hell if they don’t embrace Jesus,” he said.
“Missionaries see caregivers as potential recruiters to target people who are vulnerable,” he added. “We’re not trying to create a panic, to imply that all Filipino caregivers are a problem, just to make people aware this is going on. Knowledge is power.”
There are some 180 missionary groups operating in North America, including some that consist of Jews who’ve converted.
“It is not diminishing,” Ciss said.
“It is not as if these people are trying but not succeeding,” Rabbi Skobac continued. “It’s a lot of work to convert the small numbers of people converting.”
Sometimes the effort begins innocuously enough, with missionaries spending time in coffee shops in Jewish neighbourhoods, reading their Bibles and trying to start conversations about Scripture. Another tactic is to send a couple of dozen missionaries to the annual Walk for Israel. They’d wear a T-shirt that stated, “Ask me about my rabbi,” or “I love [using a heart] Yeshua,” the Hebrew name for Jesus.
When it comes right down to it, the primary message of missionaries is not one of biblical interpretation. “You might get the impression it’s all about Bible verses. Our experience has been that generally Jews don’t convert to Christianity because of what the Bible says. It’s for other reasons. Usually, it’s feeling a spiritual vacuum,” Rabbi Skobac said.
It’s the same reason some Jews explore Buddhism. The problem is “they don’t know much about Judaism; they had a shallow religious experience. They have a hole in the soul,” he said.
They feel Christianity provides a spiritual outlet and “once they embrace Christianity, they get interested in the Bible.”
“Jews for Judaism exposes them to Jews who take God seriously, who pray to God every day and not necessarily from a prayer book.
“We get them to know who we are as people of faith and let them see there is something outside of the church.
“They’re afraid. They’re on a lifeboat and [they fear] if they step off, there’s nothing there. We show Judaism’s spiritual side.”
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New Prospects, New Problems at the MilleniumWhile chip-scale packaging is becoming a requirement at most integrated circuit packaging foundries, economic and technical issues loom heavy on the horizon.
By Ron Iscoff, Editor
As the turn of the century approaches, IC packaging foundries are facing a host of new prospects for expansion. The future, however, is not without its share of problems, some easily overcome, others somewhat labyrinthine.
The packaging of integrated circuits has become a mega-business. While there is no accurate total dollar figure available, consider that Amkor Technology, the industry's kingpin, pulled in earnings of more than $1.5 billion in 1998-the majority of which came from its packaging activities. And Amkor is only one of at least 60 independent providers of IC packaging services worldwide-albeit the largest.
Packaging ICs is not only a big business, it's also becoming increasingly complex, costly and dependent on large sums of capital for equipment and overhead.
The cost of entry, however, is apparently not perceived as a deterrent. According to our survey, nearly half of the packaging foundries that responded to our questions were started within the past 10 years.
Like most of the dizzying cycles in the semiconductor industry, when business is good for packaging foundries, it's really good, despite the always severe competition. And when business is bad it can be unusually challenging.
As chip-scale packaging takes hold industry-wide, almost all packaging foundries say they are now offering CSPs or plan to do so within the next year. Amkor, for example, offers several CSPs and near-CSPs (Table 1). Unlike the "good old days," circa 1975, when packaging foundries were dismissed as "contract assemblers," the business has gone very high tech.
IC packaging has gone from being very labor intensive to being very machine intensive, as these banks of wire bonders at IPAC show.
In most cases, it's no longer enough to simply offer packaging; today most of the larger suppliers-and a few of the smaller ones, as well-offer package design through final test and shipping on a turnkey basis (Table 2).
Kyocera America, San Diego, Calif., currently offers a variety of CSPs. "We made the decision to move into CSPs based on customer demand," according to Richard Sigliano, general manager.
CS2, one of the newest packaging foundries, (and one of the few in Europe-Belgium in this case) offers a full compliment of CSPs, according to Steve Lerner, CS2 president, who is an ex-Swire, ex-Amkor executive.
"We offer flex-based power
CSPs, traditional laminate CSPs in the outlines of LF-BGA and TFBGA, as well as ceramic CSPs," says Lerner. "CSP demand is clearly on the rise with all real-estate-intensive applications, particularly telecom. Being in Europe, telecom is perhaps the most important segment of the market," he adds.
Being new is not always a disadvantage, as Lerner points out, when it comes to buying equipment.
"Our equipment strategy from day one was to configure our manufacturing line in a way that could handle a wide variety of product types within the installed base.
"The very exotic CSPs on the market today have not gained sufficient customer popularity to warrant dedicated equipment," Lerner adds. "This is particularly true of flex-based CSPs." The flex-based packages which CS2 offers are reformatted at the substrate level to conform to existing handling and processing, such as the CUEBGA.
VLSI Packaging, Richardson, Texas, has been offering CSPs for several years, says Gene Wakefield, the company's co-president. Where needed, new equipment, which can handle a CSP's much tighter dimensional tolerances, was added, and existing equipment was modified.
George Fujimoto of IPAC's CSP development group in San Jose says, "Market conditions are driving the industry to smaller and thinner packages, and CSPs are the logical solution if costs can be controlled."
And that is part of the problem. Costs are a constant, and increasingly burdensome albatross around the neck of the packaging foundry industry. Customers expect per lead (ball) prices to continue to fall, as they have done over the past decade or so, even as packaging foundries look for ways to hold the line. When the industry is in a down cycle, price sensitivity becomes even more pernicious.
The severe competition for the packaging dollar, most observers agree, means continued per-lead price erosion, except where value-added services can overcome the downward spiral.
Chip Supply Inc., Orlando, Fla., outsources CSP assembly, according to Jim Rates, Chip Supply's director of advanced products. "However, new techniques and equipment were needed for test and burn-in. We either designed and fabricated this equipment internally or purchased it outside," Rates adds.
It appears, in fact, that another problem-and a major one-involving CSP production belongs to the test and burn-in cycle, both at the wafer-level and traditionally. The test process, for example, is a key concern with RAMBUS parts. Then add the technical problems stemming from the process changes usually required in CSP production, and stir. The resulting melange, which includes materials problems, as well, has packaging foundry executives scratching their heads for solutions.
At Kyocera America, the biggest obstacle in adding CSPs, according to Sigliano, was to develop an encapsulant material that would "snap" when singulating the CSPs. "We spent a considerable amount of energy developing this product through our organic material suppliers."
Adds IPAC's Fujimoto, in developing CSP processes, "Materials issues became apparent. As the packages become smaller, stresses within the package and on the die require a change in packaging materials. Gel/cure time for die attach and molding (encapsulation) demands new materials. Wire and substrate issues also caused us to re-evaluate those materials."
With the recent near-collapse of IPAC, until its rescue by Taiwan-based OSE, it has become obvious that the battle for the hearts and minds of United States-based customers is over. Any continuing thoughts that onshore IC packaging houses can pull the rug out from the Asian-based assemblers should be abandoned.
Now less than a handful of companies-IPAC, Pantronix in Fremont, Calif. and VLSI Packaging-account for the majority of onshore work. Even Pantronix, with a quarter century experience onshore, realized more than a decade ago that sending high-volume work to Asia was a necessity and opened the Amertron facility in the Philippines.
(Micron Semiconductor presents one of the rare contradictions to moving offshore. It typically assembles most of its ICs in Boise, Idaho, and has done so for years.)
David Francis, an industry analyst with International Interconnection Intelligence, Montara, Calif., says there are several reasons for the dearth of onshore IC packaging foundries.
"One of the reasons for onshore IC assembly," says Francis, "was to offer fast turnaround. However, this is no longer a viable reason. Overnight services are so efficient around the world that parts can be obtained from overseas almost as quickly as from onshore. And if the quantities are larger than prototypes, volumes offshore can be even faster."
Other reasons for offshore assembly are cost and infrastructure, Francis adds. "Even highly automated processes, such as wire bonding, are done offshore. Equipment must be maintained, new software written and factory overhead must still be allocated to each unit manufactured." In fact, Francis observes, "There are almost no wire bonders left in this country."
As the industry rebounds from its worst cyclical shellacking in nearly 30 years, the tantalizing prospect of wafer-level packaging (WLP) production becomes yet another issue for packaging foundries to consider.
Dr. Daniel Tracy of Rose Associates, Los Altos, Calif., agrees with most other experts: Over the near term, the impact of wafer-level processing will be small. "The vast majority of ICs will continue to be assembled in leadframe and substrate-based packages.
"End-users and board assemblers will be limited in implementing wafer-level packages by the PC board maker's ability to process boards with the fine geometries needed for interconnects," he adds.
As wafer-level packaging matures, there will be an impact on how and where ICs are packaged, Dr. Tracy notes. "If WLP is carried out in the fab, IC packaging foundries could be out of the production loop."
A more likely response, however, will be for packaging foundries to develop in-house wafer-level capabilities, Dr. Tracy believes. Alternatively, they may form strategic partnerships with either wafer foundries or bumping services to provides WLPs. One intriguing result of WLP, says Dr. Tracy, is that it may offer "a window of opportunity for North American packaging foundries to establish a more prominent market presence."
Francis of III says that if the WLP process involves only current and under-utilized wafer fab equipment, "it is most likely that the packaging function will default to the wafer manufacturer."
A WLP process that fits this category is one that employs, for example, spin-on-polyimide and thin-film-deposited metal layers that are patterned using the photoresist and chemical etching processes normally found in the fab.
However, the high cost of implementing a new wafer fab may become a factor mitigating against fabs taking over the packaging function, Francis believes. "Since new fabs are so capital intensive, they are not interested in adding the additional cost for processes with a lower rate of payback, such as wafer-level packaging."
Historically, it's easy and quite safe to predict that there are good times ahead, and soon, for IC packaging foundries.
The arrival of the $600 personal computer and soaring demand for personal electronics is once again fueling the semiconductor industry's need to make product. With CSPs no longer simply a puzzling new item in the package vendor's mix, look for packaging foundries to become the CSP's strongest backer.
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Tilling the soil
Imagine this: A 20-something man comes home from war. Shot in the leg, he has a shattered femur. Confined to bed for months, he has little to do. He wants to read tales of knights and war, but only two books are available: one about the lives of the saints and a book on the life of Christ. He begins to imagine himself in the scenes he reads. Like saints Dominic and Francis and Jesus, he sees himself caring for the poor, talking about God with companions, giving people hope.
Filled with deep consoling feelings, this young man’s life takes a sharp turn. Sort of a party guy before, he makes a conscious effort to become other-centered rather than self-centered. He gradually comes to realize how God has gifted him with life. Filled with gratitude, he decides to devote the rest of his life to serving God. But how to do that remains elusive.
This is the story of St. Ignatius of Loyola.
The road was not always easy. At the small town of Montserrat in a chapel dedicated to Mary, the Mother of God, Ignatius prayed and gave up his sword. Then he spent nearly a year in a small Spanish town named Manresa in prayer and fasting and serving the poor. His deepest desires surfaced: speaking about God with others, caring for the poor, helping souls, but all these required more intense education, even going back to the beginning.
Ignatius returned to school and college to learn everything he could. He discovered gifts of attention and imagination and a zeal for spreading the word of God to the far corners of the world. With his college companions, the now-30-something man founded a new religious order of men dedicated to helping souls discover their gifts. He trained those early Jesuits to have deep conversations with others, using his own Spiritual Exercises to reflect on their lives and God’s work in their day-to-day experience. The Spiritual Exercises mirrored his own experience of prayer during those days in the castle while healing, when he used his imagination to place himself in the stories of Jesus in the Gospel.
On July 31 we celebrate the feast day of St. Ignatius of Loyola, the man whose spiritual and pedagogical legacy has touched millions of people during five centuries and continues to touch the thousands of students, alumni, faculty and staff working and studying and worshipping at Jesuit institutions worldwide. We believe the world benefits every day from his gifts and the gifts of those who have been educated and touched by this spiritual journey.
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Amelia Uden was born on a farm in Hadlow, Kent, surrounded by orchards and animals. Both her parents were artists and she attended Reigate and Redhill School of Arts and Crafts where her father taught full time. Here she studied weaving with Morfudd Roberts (who had succeeded Elizabeth Peacock), moving to Chelsea School of Art in 1965 for the textiles Dip.AD course but returning to Reigate to attend an evening class in chemical dyeing. From 1968 to 1971 she was a student at the Royal College of Art under Marianne Straub, whose support she received for the rest of Straub's life. In her last year, Uden won an RCA Travel Scholarship to study the Lyons silk weaving industry.
On graduating, Amelia Uden worked for William Hollins and Co (Viyella), Nottingham, as a designer directing sample-weavers in Glasgow; this was an unsatisfactory period for her. She resolved to be a maker on her own account and returned home to Kent to set up and operate her own workshop in 1973, aged 27, while concurrently teaching at Horsham School of Art. The original loom she used was a shaft drawloom but on a visit to the expert drawloom weaver Alice Hindson in 1975, whose own 'Aladdin' drawloom was for sale, she purchased it and later spent over a year re-building the harness. She continued to correspond with Hindson until her death in 1984. Uden wove silk lengths and samples full time for four years (1978-81), working to commission and for public collections. In the period she also moved to Suffolk and received an Eastern Arts Major Award enabling her to continue to concentrate on drawloom research and weaving.
In 1981 her work attracted the attention of Margaret Bide, Head of Textiles at Farnham School of Art (now the Surrey Institute of Art and Design, University College) who purchased pieces for the college's collection and invited Amelia Uden to be external examiner there. Following that, she became increasingly involved in textiles education at Surrey Institute and was appointed part-time lecturer in 1984 and subject leader in 2001. She moved her home and workshop to Farnham in 1991, where she continues to live, teach and weave. | <urn:uuid:0b6c3222-5477-4ea9-b8c7-50a6f95100b9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.vads.ac.uk/learning/learndex.php?theme_id=csctex&theme_record_id=csctexuden&mtri=csctexfor&cpic=t_82_11 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00052-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.983165 | 465 | 1.671875 | 2 |
It almost came down to the wire. Mychal Bell, 17, was scheduled to be sentenced next Thursday for his conviction in the beating of a white high school schoolmate.
He was found guilty of aggravated battery last June by an all-white jury and faced up to 15 years in prison.
But a Louisiana appeals court ruled late Friday that Bell, who was 16 when he committed the crime for which he was charged, should not have been tried an adult. The three-judge panel overturned the conviction.
Bell, a football star at Jena High School, was the first of six African-American teens to be tried on charges stemming from the Dec. 4 beating of Justin Barker. He has been jailed without bail since his arrest. The others face similar charges. Two of them are accused of second-degree attempted murder as an adult.
The case of the so-called Jena 6 has stirred outrage and protests by many African-Americans around the country. They say it harkens back to kind of racial injustice to which blacks in the South were routinely subjected in the days of segregation.
The saga began last summer when several black students at Jena High School sat under a tree on the school campus that had by tradition been an area where only white students congregated. The next day, three nooses were left hanging from a branch.
Caseptla Bailey, the mother of Robert Bailey, one of the accused six, said, "It sent a message: 'This is not the place for you to sit. This is not your damn tree. Do not sit here.'"
Three white students were suspended for that incident. In the weeks that followed, tensions between blacks and whites rose at the high school and in the small town of Jena, about 230 miles northwest of New Orleans. It has a population of about 3,000, about 80 percent of them white.
Last November, the school was set on fire. A white adult at a gas station pulled a shotgun on three black youths. The white man was not charged, but the black youths were. Then, on Dec. 4, Justin Barker was beaten by a group of black students. The six defendants were arrested and originally all charged with attempted murder. The charges were later reduced for all but two of them.
Stoked by an e-mail campaign and Internet videos, outrage over the severity of the charges and then Bell's conviction mounted all summer.
Plans were made for a major demonstration on Sept. 20, the date Bell was scheduled to be sentenced on the adult conviction for aggravated battery. The protest is still expected to take place despite the appeals court ruling.
On Weekend Good Morning America, the New York-based activist Rev. Al Sharpton called on Louisiana Gov. Katherine Babineaux Blanco to investigate the LaSalle Parish District Attorney Reed Walters who brought the charges against the Jena 6 defendants.
"So either you have kids the same age, you make some, the black one, the adults and hit them with attempted murder and you have the white kids with hate crimes and assault crimes because they're juveniles," Sharpton said. "It seems very selected and very clearly biased."
Sharpton said he plans to seek an investigation to review how this case was prosecuted, noting that in a long line of incidents only six black students were prosecuted.
"The defendant was not tried on an offense which could have subjected him to the jurisdiction of the criminal court," the three-paragraph ruling said. The case "remains exclusively in juvenile court."
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By Laura Dorle, Intern—
Peanuts (Arachis hypogaea) are very familiar to those in the United States, and around the world. Here in the U.S., the peanut is our favorite nut—eaten raw, in the form of peanut butter, or in the many varieties that gave our own USDA scientist, George Washington Carver, his claim to fame.
We think of peanuts as the classic American nut, and in a sense they are, as they were domesticated in Peru in South America and are now grown around the world, serving an important role in many diets.
Peanuts, legumes, or groundnuts?
We group peanuts in the nut family, but unlike many other nuts we love to consume, the peanut does not grow on trees. In fact, they grow in the ground, and in many parts of the world their name gives way to that fact, groundnuts. They belong to the legume plant family, one that includes all those beans we know and enjoy. And as with all legumes, peanut plants have the ability to fix atomospheric nitrogen to improve the soil.
The peanut plant grows to about 12-18 inches in height, and has green ovular leaves. The plant produces yellow flowers, which continue to flower throughout the growing season (about four months). Once the flower is pollinated, it forms a “peg” which then bends toward the ground, and pushes the ovary into the top layer of soil where the peanut pod develops.
Peanuts and the developing world
Peanuts are highly nutritious, containing many important vitamins and minerals, and are high protein and oil content. Because peanuts grow in abundance in many parts of the developing world, including throughout East and West Africa, they have the potential to provide desperately-needed nutrition in many communities that suffer with extreme hunger.
Despite their importance to the global poor, peanuts can be dangerous. Without proper handling and storage, peanuts are particularly susceptible to aflatoxin contamination post-harvest, a deadly carcinogen produced by a fungus that causes food safety issues for local consumers and losses in the ability to export. That, combined with the difficulties of manual processing, can lead to significant yield and quality losses in poor communities.
Better peanut tools can improve nutrition and lives
Efforts to create greater efficiency in production and higher marketable values can play an important role in rural communities in the developing world to improve farmer livelihoods and community nutrition.
With the support of the McKnight Foundation, CTI, in partnership with Tanzania’s Sokoine University of Agriculture and the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, is working on a project to do just that. In Tanzania and Malawi in Eastern Africa they are testing and developing simple, affordable mechanical technologies to improve harvesting, handling, drying, stripping pods from plants, storage, shelling, and grinding. They have been evaluating these new technologies with farmers on the ground, as well as seeking to improve child nutrition and reduce aflatoxin contamination.
In the next few weeks, I will be running stripping, drying, and shelling efficiency tests on the peanuts that CTI and the University of Minnesota have been growing as part of the Orphan Crops project on the University’s St. Paul Campus.
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Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP), an energy-bearing molecule found in all living cells. Formation of nucleic acids, transmission of nerve impulses, muscle contraction, and many other energy-consuming reactions of metabolism are made possible by the energy in ATP molecules. The energy in ATP is obtained from the breakdown of foods.
An ATP molecule is composed of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, and phosphorus atoms. There are three phosphorus atoms in the molecule. Each of these phosphorus atoms is at the center of an atomic group called a phosphate. The phosphate groups are linked to one another by chemical bonds called phosphate bonds. The energy of ATP is locked in these bonds.
The energy in ATP can be released as heat or can be used in the cell as a power source to drive various types of chemical and mechanical activities. For example, when the terminal phosphate group of the ATP molecule is removed by hydrolysis (a decomposition process that occurs when a substance reacts with water), energy in the form of heat is released and adenosine diphosphate (ADP) and inorganic phosphate (Pi) are formed.
The hydrolysis of ATP is accelerated by an enzyme called adenosine triphosphatase, or ATP-ase. The reaction can be written as:
ATP ® ADP + Pi + energy
The regeneration of ATP from ADP requires energy, which is obtained in the process of oxidation. The energy released in the oxidation of carbohydrates and fats initiates a complex series of chemical reactions that ultimately regenerate ATP molecules from ADP molecules. The complete oxidation of a typical molecule of fat results in the formation of about 150 molecules of ATP.
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Contract Announcement Cites ‘Scalability and Flexibility’
San Francisco Bay Area startup Motiv Power Systems has disclosed a five-year pact with the City of Chicago to supply its ePCS – electric Powertrain Control System – for full-size, Class 8 battery electric garbage trucks. The collaboration could lead to deployment of as many as 20 pure-battery trucks for $13.4 million.
Motiv’s strength is control software that allows off-the-shelf components to be mixed and matched – and replaced as better ones become available – to best meet the needs and duty cycles of vehicle operators (F&F, March 9).
“The scalability and flexibility of the Motiv electric Powertrain Control System,” the firm says, made it “the most cost-effective choice” for the Chicago requirement.
Motiv says that its ePCS can handle battery trucks weighing from 15,000 to 52,000 pounds, and that experience with a battery shuttle bus has shown that operating costs can be reduced from 80 cents per mile to 10 cents per mile.
“We are thrilled that Chicago is driving the push for electric refuse trucks, and that our ePCS can be employed to create these revolutionary vehicles,” Motiv business development and marketing VP Shyam Nagrani said in a release. “Our ePCS can do what no other EV truck system can do, scale up and down to meet the exact needs of any fleet using a conventional chassis.
‘Who Wants to Be Woken Up?’
“These EV refuse trucks will provide the streets of Chicago with quiet, emissions-free garbage pick-up, without submitting residents to excessive diesel pollution or loud noise. Who wants to be woken up at 5 AM by an idling garbage truck?” Nagrani asks.
Chicago has 600 garbage trucks, Motiv says.
With California Energy Commission support, Motiv has been validating its ePCS since March 2012 with an all-electric pilot bus. The 20-passenger vehicle has five battery packs for 125 kilowatt-hours, yielding a single-charge range of better than 120 miles.
The battery trucks for Chicago will use the same ePCS, but include a larger motor and ten battery packs, Motive says. They will also have an electric motor to drive the hydraulics system. The EV refuse trucks will weigh 52,000 pounds and have a range of more than 60 miles, with a total energy storage of 200 kilowatt-hours.
“Scaling up from the medium-duty pilot bus to the Class 8 garbage truck is really just a matter of switching out components and re-packaging it onto the new chassis,” said Motiv CEO Jim Castelaz. Which is, of course, the whole point of the ePCS. “We’ve designed the whole system to be compatible with any off-the-shelf motors and batteries, which are brought to a uniform operating standard by our software,” Castelaz said. “If Chicago ever wants newer batteries, the old ones can be easily swapped out.”
Motiv says it will work with Detroit Chassis to install the ePCS on to a standard refuse chassis. Loadmaster will provide the truck bodies.
According to the agreement, the first battery truck will cost something on the order of $1.3 million, with prices dropping to about $500,000 for the 11th unit, should the work play out as envisioned.
Chicago’s goal is not so much to develop an $500,000 pure battery trash truck, but for the program to push development of ancillary components and controls that might be applied to hybrid vehicles, and perhaps battery electrics for some applications, that will be more fuel efficient, require less maintenance, and be quieter.
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Coronation of HM King Edward VII
Coronation of HM King Edward VII: decorations made for Westminster Bridge by students of the Royal College of Art: photographs
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Premature babies born at 23 weeks should be left to die, according to a UK healthcare boss.
Dr. Daphne Austin, an advisor for the National Health Service (NHS), claims “we are doing more harm than good by resuscitating 23-weekers.” She adds that the $16 million of taxpayers money currently dedicated to resuscitating very premature babies should be spent elsewhere.
Doctors in the UK are advised not to attempt to save babies born at 22 weeks and under, because they are too underdeveloped to survive. Those born between 22 and 25 weeks are routinely given intensive care, but only nine percent of babies born so early survive and 99 percent are left with a disability of some kind – most commonly blindness, deafness or cerebral palsy.
Speaking on a new BBC documentary, Dr. Austin says, “We are doing more harm than good by resuscitating 23-weekers. I can’t think of very many interventions that have such poor outcomes.” Wow, that seems a little harsh right?
“For me the big issue is that we’re spending an awful lot of money on treatments that have very marginal benefit,” she adds. “I would prefer to free up that money to spend on providing support to people who have much more lifelong chronic conditions.”
How do you feel HollyMoms? Is it kinder on premature babies to let them die than face the strong possibility of disability?
Or is $16 million a small price to pay? The healthcare budget in the UK is $176 BILLION this year!
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Scientists around the world are concerned about creationism being taught in schools, instead of evolution. For them, this is all part of the trend towards junk science, which shapes facts to fit beliefs?at a time when, more than ever, we need REAL science to solve our major problems.
In the Independent, Sarah Cassidy quotes British Astronomer Royal Martin Rees, who has been interviewed on Dreamland, as saying he wants to "help those [teachers] who are attempting to uphold the rights of young people to have access to accurate scientific knowledge about the origins and evolution of life on Earth."
We're used to hearing about this problem in the US, but it's a problem in the UK as well. Cassidy quotes scientists as saying that the origins of life are being "concealed, denied or confused" in schools in almost 70 different countries.
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By Chris Schultz Winsted-Lester Prairie Journal & Howard Lake Herald, Minn. August 31, 1998
September goose season opens Saturday
The September Canada goose season opens in our area one-half hour before sunrise on Saturday, Sept. 5.
For many hunters in our area, including myself, the early goose hunt is the first outing or chance to hunt in the fall.
In recent years, local Canada goose populations have been high and the hunting has been pretty good in select locations.
The season ends on Sept. 15. All hunters, except those under age 18 or over age 65 and those hunting on their own property, are required to have a $3 permit, along with their regular licenses and appropriate stamps.
Permits are available at area license vendors. Also, in our area, which includes the 5-Goose Zone and the Metro Zone, all hunting must be done 100 yards or more away from surface water.
Requirements and regulations can be found on pages 76, 77 and 78 of the 1998 Minnesota Hunting and Trapping Regulations Handbook.
Last season, myself and many hunters from the area had excellent luck on local Canadas. Local flocks in select areas were large and easy to decoy.
In fact, the numbers of geese in some areas reminded me of Lac qui Parle. Flocks were huge, birds seemed to be in the air all morning, and hunting pressure was heavy.
In the area I hunted near Watertown, there were guided hunters and hundreds of decoys out in fields all around us. There were so many geese in that area on the first weekend of the season that everybody had good shooting.
This season in that same area, the hunting looks like it could be much different. Locally raised geese were in the area in good numbers just two weeks ago, but are gone now.
In an evening of scouting last week, I saw a mere 15 geese, one small flock of locals - that was it. The same was true in other areas that carried local geese last year. They were there, but are gone now.
Where they went, who knows. The message for this year's hunt seems to be - don't expect to find geese in the same fields and areas they were last year.
Get a kid involved in the outdoors this fall
Fewer kids are getting involved in the outdoors and learning to hunt today than in years past.
Some of the reasons: a drop in rural populations, and a rise in the number of single parents, who often don't have the time or the means to take their kids afield.
The fact is, most kids learn to hunt when someone takes them hunting.
This season the DNR is encouraging adults to take kids hunting by promoting Take a Kid Hunting Weekend on Sept. 26 -27.
Resident over age 18 can hunt small game without license if accompanied by a youth under age 16. Also, a special Youth Waterfowl Hunting Day is tentatively scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 19. Details are on the Youth Waterfowl Hunting Day can be found on page 79 of the 1998 Minnesota Hunting and Trapping Regulations Handbook.
The opportunities are there for you to take a kid hunting this fall. Here are a few tips to help make a youngster's outdoor experience a good one.
- Keep the youngster's comfort level in mind. A kid's first and second experience in a duck blind shouldn't be on a day when it's 20 degrees below zero and the wind is howling.
- Make sure clothing and equipment are appropriate for the conditions. Some tips and coaching in the clothing department will be helpful and an extra change of clothing for a young hunter isn't a bad idea.
- Be aware that children or young teens can have short attention spans and plan your activities or time in the field accordingly.
- Practice and review safety together before you go.
- Involve kids in planning the hunt or activity and keep them actively involved in the decision making. Let them place out decoys and try calling if you're duck hunting.
- Keep the event fun and plan it for success. If the plan falls apart and things aren't going well, make sure you have an alternative.
Don't shy away from taking a kid hunting. You'll have fun and so will they.
- Angus update: Angus, my 12-week-old pup that you have been reading about for the past few weeks, managed to keep his jaw and teeth in top condition last week. Pups like to, and, in fact, need to, chew on things and that's exactly what he has been doing. In a two-week period, he completely destroyed the floor in his dog house. I guess he prefers plywood over raw hide chew toys and old tennis shoes.
- If you have a young retriever pup at home, remember that retrievers and other hunting dogs are supposed to have things in their mouth. Don't scold or punish them when they pick up something you don't won't them to. Place things they shouldn't have out of their reach and give them plenty of things they can pick up with their mouths and drag around. They are bred to pick up and carry things. If you scold and punish them now, they may not retrieve the things you want them to sometime in the future.
- Get your hunting dog checked by a vet before the hunting season starts.
- The application deadline for antlerless permits is Thurs., Sept. 10.
- Right now is an excellent time to troll for big northerns on our area lakes.
- Visit the DNR building at the Minnesota State Fair.
- National Hunting and Fishing Day is Saturday, Sept. 26.With the hunting seasons starting next week, please review firearms safety with those in your home. All firearms and ammunition should be locked in storage and kept out of reach of children. Also, keep ammunition locked in a separate location from firearms and once the season starts, don't leave ammo laying around in hunting boxes or in vehicles.
- The Winsted Sportsmen's Club will meet Tuesday, Sept. 1 at 7 p.m. at the clubhouse.
- The days are getting shorter in a big hurry. On Sept. 1, the sun will set at 7:53 p.m. On Sept. 30, the sun will set at 6:56 p.m. | <urn:uuid:16c662e8-4ea4-4114-a78d-602b40ec0435> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.herald-journal.com/sports/outdoors/1998/c083198.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00011-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968535 | 1,309 | 1.539063 | 2 |
Working With or Near Children? Protect Your Clients and Your Reputation by Staying On Top of Regulations
by NicoleD, Former Moderator
- Created: July 23, 2010, 12:28 pm
- Updated: November 15, 2011, 11:13 am
Most child care providers must be licensed and registered with their state. However, there many other business types that cater to children, but do not fall under the traditional child care
No matter what your business is, you are responsible for ensuring a safe environment for your employees and customers. When your business caters to children under the age of 18, you will likely comply with additional safety requirements. Whether you are tutoring students in your home or you own a gymnastics studio, there are some basic precautions you can take to create a safe environment:
Screen your employees and volunteers
The use of background checks to screen employees and volunteers has grown steadily since 1993, when the National Child Protection Act became law. Today, it is common for many businesses and organizations- particularly those that cater to children' to screen workers for criminal red flags, especially those involving drugs, alcohol, and violence. For additional guidance, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention offers a three-part decision making model for business and organizations to create an employment screening process.
I's important to keep in mind that not every state has passed legislation on screening employees who work with or near children. If your state has laws in place, you can learn more by contacting your local licensing department or social welfare agency.
Finally, remember to check your state laws regarding privacy requirements. This pre-employment checklist from Business.gov outlines the types of information that employers often consult before hiring an employee, and the laws governing their access and use in making hiring decisions. If you have specific questions about what you can legally include in your pre-employment check, contact your local Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) office.
Create a safe environment
Ensure that your facilities meet your state and local safety regulations for zoning, fire codes, and sanitation. Your local licensing board may require site visits or inspections to satisfy safety regulations. If you need guidance on creating a safe work environment, the Department of Labor provides OSHA Guidance for Small Businesses, which features a user-friendly portal designed to help small businesses understand and comply with the Occupational Safety and Health Act.
Depending on the nature of your business, you may need to comply with additional safety requirements. For example, if you run an art school, you will need to pay particular attention to the tools that your students access, in order to prevent injury. Nevertheless, accidents do happen, so you may want to consult with a local small business attorney to draft a liability waiver that the childre's guardians can sign upon enrollment.
Final thoughts on maintaining safety practices
Prevention and planning are fundamental in maintaining a safe work environment:
- I's a good idea to train your staff in first aid and CPR, even if your local licensing board does't require you do to so.
- Ensure that your insurance plan adequately protects your business and your customers. You can learn more about business insurance at Business.gov.
- Remember to develop a contingency plan for accidents, illnesses, and emergency procedures. For assistance, visit Business.go's Emergency Preparedness Guide, which offers tips on how to create an emergency plan for your business.
All businesses must comply with advertising and marketing laws - failure to do so could result in costly lawsuits and civil penalties. But, if your business targets a youth demographic, you should be aware of additional regulations that apply to businesses that market their products or services to children. Read Marketing to Children: Where Is the Line and Who Enforces It? for more details.
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|Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom|
The Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom comic adaptation was published by Marvel Comics from September through November 1984.
It is 1935. After escaping from the gangster Lao Che in Shanghai, Indiana Jones along with his pickpocket sidekick Short Round and singer Willie Scott, crashlands in India near the village of Mayapore. Mayapore's shaman tells of how men from the distant Pankot Palace kidnapped their children as well as their sacred stone, which Jones theorizes is one of the lost Sankara Stones. He thus undertakes a mission to rescue the children, and upon arriving at the palace discovers it is a hotbed of acitivity for a resurgence of the evil Thuggee cult, led by the sinister and hypnotic Mola Ram, who are using Mayapore's children as slave labor to mine for precious gems. Jones and his companions must put an end to the cult, free the children, and recover the Sankara Stones.
Differences from the FilmEdit
- Willie is attacked by a large snake during the journey to Pankot Palace. Indy, too afraid of the snake to help her, tells her to pet the snake, which causes it to fall asleep. Afterwards, Willie says, "I hate snakes!" to which Indy replies, "I know the feeling."
- Indy and Captain Blumburtt discuss some of the odder decorations of the palace, in particular kryta. Blumburtt calls voodoo "mumbo-jumbo," but Indy warns him that the old superstitions still rule India in many ways.
- During the dinner scene Indy is the one to jokingly suggest that the young Zalim Singh likes older women, not Short Round. Also, Indy and Blumburtt sit beside Chattar Lal, rather than across from him.
- Mola Ram keeps his cattle skull headdress on for most of his scenes, rather than only wearing it for ceremonial purposes.
- Willie escapes from the guards who ambush her and Short Round, and returns to her room where she encounters Chattar Lal and a Thuggee guard. Lal reveals himself as a member of the cult, and Willie is taken prisoner.
- All of the members of the Thuggee cult, including Mola Ram, had taken the Blood of Kali and are under the influence of the Black Sleep. At one point a guard is non-fatally burned by some lava and he returns to normal, but is taken away by other guards to be "reconverted" (this is where Short Round gets the idea to burn the possessed Indy). When Mola Ram burns his hand on the Sankara Stone at the end, he returns to normal, too, but still falls to his death.
- During the initial battle inside the temple, Chattar Lal attacks Indy and they both fall onto the sacrificial frame hanging over the lava pit. Indy swings free, but Lal is killed when the frame drops down into the pit.
- When Indy is attacked by two Thuggee guards near the bridge, one of the charges at him, shrieking, "Yaaaa!" Indy yells back, "'Yaaaa,' yourself!" and kills him using the sword purloined from the other guard.
- Indy and Willie do not get sprayed with water by the elephant when they kiss. Short Round merely grumbles, "Grown-ups!"
- Phillip James Blumburtt
- Lao Che
- Chief Guard
- Chinese Co-Pilot
- Chinese Pilot
- Wu Han
- Indiana Jones
- Kao Kan
- Chattar Lal
- Mola Ram
- Sacrifice Victim
- Willie Scott
- Short Round
- Zalim Singh
- Thuggee assassin
- Earl Weber
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Access to sustainable energy and increased energy efficiency is a prerequisite for achieving the MDGs.
According to the new report from the UN, the lack of access to modern energy is a significant barrier to economic development. Today, more than 1.6 billion people worldwide have no access to electricity and close to one billion people depend on firewood, etc. as their energy supply for cooking and heating. A reliable, affordable energy supply is key to economic growth and the alleviation of poverty in the world.
The new report provides both analysis of the problems and present recommendations to the international community, specifically on how to establish targets for increasing access to energy. By 2030 all people should have access to modern energy services and there must be substantial increases in energy efficiency, the report says.
Another target in the report is to reduce global energy intensity by 40 per cent by 2030 (the total energy consumption compared with the Gross Domestic Product). The successful adoption of these measures would reduce global energy intensity by 2.5 per cent per year – approximately double the historic rate. This would also have a very significant impact on greenhouse gas emissions while providing most countries with economic advantages.
During the launch in New York, Secretary-General Ban stressed the importance of the expert group's work. "The decisions we make today on our energy future will have far-reaching consequences - for climate change, for development, economic growth and global security. Providing clean, affordable energy for all is essential. It is a massive challenge, but - as this report shows - it can be done."
Head of the UNEP Risoe Centre, John Christensen, based in Denmark attended the meeting: "It may seem impossible to provide worldwide access to modern energy forms while also reducing global carbon emissions, but it is actually possible and the report shows how. However, it will require global political will and the involvement of all stakeholders from top politicians and the private sector to the individuals living in the north as well as in the south, "says John Christensen from New York.
Increasing access to modern energy services at a level sufficient to meet basic human needs would not increase greenhouse gas emissions significantly, according to the report. The International Energy Agency estimates that expanding access to electricity to cover basic needs would result in only a 1.3 per cent increase in greenhouse gas emissions.
These emissions could be further reduced through improved energy efficiency and the use of renewable or cleaner sources of energy. This is a way to support a new energy development which is sustainable in the long run.
The investment needed to ensure universal energy access will be substantial, the report notes, and would require both public and private financing. However, it is only a small part of what has to be invested in energy development globally. The report highlights that some countries have already shown that it is possible and not just a dream to provide more people with energy access, including Brazil, China, and Vietnam as well as Denmark, Japan and Sweden, and California in the United States. These countries have dramatically improved their energy efficiency.
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What causes childhood headaches?
Italian researchers reported that stress factors were responsible for headaches and migraines in children.
Nowadays, every other child is familiar with the painful condition. In teens between 11 and 18 years of age, migraine affects 7% of boys and 12% of girls.
Researchers studied the headaches and migraine history of 125 children and teenagers. Among those children for whom stress played a role as trigger factor, 78% was attributed to school related stress: among the essential elements, that included academic stress, exhaustive reading assignments and homework, exams, fear of failure but also bullying in the classroom.
In second place, involving 68% of the cases, sleep deprivation was identified as a trigger factor - caused by nightly television, computer games or use of social networking. Other stress factors causing pain were family stress (25%), travelling (20%), extracurricular activities such as sport (20%), environmental factors such as weather changes or noise (10%) or stressful life events such as the illness or death of someone close (10%).
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Underfloor heating is a form of central heating that uses heat conductivity and radiant heat for indoor climate control. It can be used with concrete and wooden floors and with all types of flooring. It warms the lower part of both the room and the body giving off a feeling of natural warmth. Most systems are either warm water systems or electric systems. Systems can be a poured floor system, in which the system is encapsulated in a masonry mix, or it can be a sub floor system in which it is attached directly to the subfloor. While there are differences and similarities between the two systems, both are energy efficient, space saving, and fitter than conventional heating systems.
Water underfloor heating consists of warm water being circulated through pipes or tubes that are set into the floor. Since this system allows water to circulate by thermosiphon, it is prostrate to blockage by air bubbles that accumulate in the high spots and block the flow of water. A ticker will need to be used for purging to allow the water to circulate through the tubing fast enough to dislodge the air bubble. The heart will activate when the system stable and will shut off when circulation is restored. With the electric alternative, the heat is spread throughout cables placed in the floor. There is no need to be implicated about blockage or purging with an electric heating system.
With hot water heating, you will need a pressure reduction valve to reduce the city water pressure to the lowest point needed for the heating system, an air centrifuge to take the air out of fresh water, and an expansion tank to accommodate the change in water volume in the system as the water heats up and cools down. Electric underfloor heating does not require such advanced equipment. You will need cable or a cable mat, insulation, tile adhesive, and a thermostat to install the system.
Water underfloor heating systems can also be used in reverse with cold water being placed in the system to take the heat out of a building. When using this method, the surface temperatures mustiness remain above the air’s dew point temperature to prevent mold growth and slithering hazards. Electric heating systems ar not intentional to take the heat out of a building or room. However, if the sun is shining on an area that is heated by electric cables, the heat will turn off and allow the sun to naturally heat the area.
With water systems, soil can influence downward heat loss. Heated and cooled surfaces need to be isolated from vents, cold plumbing lines, and appliances. Dew point control is a major concern for wet systems. Another concern is control and expansion of the floor joints and crack suppression in concrete and tiled surfaces. With the electric heating systems, floor buildup is non a trouble because the electric cables are installed onto an insulation board or directly onto the subfloor with the floor covering placed directly over the heating system. Adhesive is applied between the layers and prevents cracks from forming in the floor.
Water systems are expensive to install but increase energy efficiency in the home from ten to forty percent. The piping can have a lifespan of up to one hundred years and is almost maintenance free. The central heating equipment, pumps, and controls will require periodic maintenance and replacement. Electric underfloor heating systems have a very low installation cost because they are easy to install and have a low start up cost. All that is required is a thermostat. All you need to do is start astatine your thermostat and roll the heating cable or heating cable mat out over the floor. They also need no maintenance and can be more easy controlled to run when they are needed.
Both hot water and electric heating systems can heat an entire room or heat particular zones in the room. For a hot water underfloor heating system to control specific zones, you will need zone valves on the heart to divide the hot water flow to each zone that requires heat. With an electric system, you will simply use more than one thermostat for zone control heating.
Both hot water and electric underfloor heating allows the lower part of the room and body to be warmed by heat. Since the heating is installed close to the floor surface, warming up a room is faster than conventional heating. The heat spreads over the entire area which reduces heat loss without overheating the surrounding area.
Since both hot water electric heating are buried under the floor, the floor is like one giant radiator. There are no hot spots creating large air currents that carry dust particles around the room. Since both underfloor heating systems cause less air movement, they reduce the circulation of pollution, dust, and allergens.
Both systems make it possible to lower the thermostat without any loss of warmth. Both systems provide a lower air temperature that lets you feel warmer at a lower temperature because the systems lower the heat loss from your body. However, the efficiency of a hot water system is slightly higher than an electric system. With a hot water system, the kettle hot water temperature can be set to the comparatively low temperature. With an electric system, overall efficiency is lower because electricity must be generated from heat in a power plant.
While there are advantages and disadvantages to both underfloor heating systems, both ar comfortable, healthy, space saving and energy efficient when it comes to heating areas in your home. There will be no air vents to worry about and no unsightly radiators taking up valuable space in your living area. Replacing a conventional heating system with either a hot water or an electric underfloor heating system can save you space while keeping you comfortably warm and healthy. | <urn:uuid:f2a572f3-cde1-4d9c-b5ca-b7a7035e520e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://radiantfloor.org/2010/11/28/hot-water-heating-systems-photo/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933912 | 1,131 | 3.140625 | 3 |
updated 11:25 pm EST, Wed January 18, 2012
Sources point to OEM deal
Toshiba and Lenovo have reportedly signed deals with contractor Quanta Computer for production of new tablets based on the Windows 8 on ARM architecture. Unnamed sources within the industry have told DigiTimes Quanta will handle the tablet production for both companies, with the first models expected to arrive on the market early next year.
Windows 8 is expected to arrive for Intel-based systems later this year, however several reports suggest companies will take much longer to prepare the ARM-based alternative hardware and software.
Aside from the ARM hardware, Lenovo is also said to be working on other tablets, using Intel's Medfield and Clover Trail chips, which are expected to arrive later this year.
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HIV/AIDS epidemiological surveillance report for the WHO African Region
ISBN: 978 92 9023 105 9
The current HIV and AIDS epidemiological surveillance report for the WHO African region: 2007 update provides the most recent information on the HIV situation and trends in the WHO African Region.
The report does not provide a detailed review of the HIV and AIDS surveillance practices in the Region, as these were published in the 2003 Update. This report also does not include estimates of and projections on HIV infection and determinants of the epidemic in the region. Rather, it presents a synthesis and analysis of empirical data generated by existing HIV surveillance systems in the 46 Member States. Data were drawn mainly from surveillance of HIV among pregnant women attending antenatal care (ANC) clinics, population-based HIV serosurveys conducted in selected countries and behavioural surveillance data primarily from demographic and health surveys (DHS). Additional data included in this report were from surveillance of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), monitoring of HIV drug resistance and selected special studies.
The focus of this report is on the assessment of the current magnitude of and trends in HIV infection. The magnitude of and trends in HIV prevalence among young people 15–24 years of age are also highlighted, along with gender differences in the HIV epidemic. The current situation and trends in STIs and sexual behaviour, which are both part and parcel of second-generation “comprehensive” HIV surveillance systems, are also presented. | <urn:uuid:b8a2397a-9f51-43b6-b4fc-65093531e2c5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.who.int/hiv/pub/surveillance/epi_afro2007/en/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00004-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937516 | 296 | 2.484375 | 2 |
My review of Geoffrey Wheatcroft's new book 'Yo, Blair!' appears in this week's edition of The Spectator.
The human commodity
Politico’s, 154pp, £9.99, ISBN 1842732067
Have two words ever said so much? President Bush’s unforgettable greeting to the British Prime Minister at the G8 summit in St Petersburg last summer epitomised how the ‘special relationship’ between Britain and America had descended into one of complete servility. Can anyone imagine Winston Churchill, Margaret Thatcher or even John Major being addressed in such a condescending way? Geoffrey Wheatcroft can’t, and in his masterly 150-page polemic describes how under Blair’s calamitous premiership, Britain has ceased to be an independent nation. It’s a depressing story of corruption, personal vanity and mendacity unequalled in our country’s political history.
Blair, the self-proclaimed ‘pretty straight guy’, has presided over ten years of lies, spin and subterfuge, the culmination of which has been participation in the disastrous and deceitful war against Iraq. The warning signs were there from early on: someone who can lie about voting in the House of Commons against fox hunting, is, as Wheatcroft points out, also capable of giving grossly exaggerated and distorted reasons for entering needless and illegal wars.
Blair says things ‘which are not only untrue but that a moment’s conscious reflection would show could not be true’. He also demonstrates a remarkable ability to ‘delete words from his personal hard drive’. In September 2004, he abused Charles Kennedy, arguing that if the Liberal Demo- crat leader had had his way ‘Saddam and his sons would still be running Iraq. That is why I took the stand I did.’ Yet, in February 2003, shortly before the outbreak of war, he had told the House, ‘We are offering Saddam the prospect of voluntarily disarming through the United Nations. I detest his regime but even now he could save it by complying with the UN demands.’
Blair, as Wheatcroft says, is something far more dangerous than a common liar — he is a man with no grasp at all of the difference between objective truth and falsehood. He is in many ways the personification of Erich Fromm’s ‘marketing character’, a person for whom everything is transformed into a commodity, not only things, but the person himself, his physical energy, his skills, his knowledge, his opinions, his feelings, even his smiles.
The damage that Britain’s most prominent ‘marketing character’ has done to both his country and the world has been enormous.
One of the effects of Blair’s electoral success has been to dissuade more and more people from voting. After ten years of New Labour, politicians have never been so despised. By his endless war-making, he has destroyed one English tradition which had found a home in the Labour Party — the radical tradition of pacifism and non-interventionism. And by his attack on ancient civil liberties, carried out in the name of the ‘war against terror’, he has destroyed another — the liberal tradition.
Why was it all done?
Blair’s apologists would like us to believe that their man acted out of conviction, but the truth may be rather more prosaic. The going rates for retired politicians on the American lecture circuit are impressive: Bill Clinton gets $250,000 a time, and Blair, as Washington’s most loyal lapdog, will certainly be at the top of the scale. In addition, there are those lucrative book contracts. As Wheatcroft concludes, vast numbers of lives may have been cruelly sacrificed by the Iraq enterprise, but Anthony Charles Linton Blair will surely be a richer man as a result. | <urn:uuid:854d6104-d830-482f-884d-46bf52cd2fdf> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://neilclark66.blogspot.com/2007/03/yo-blair.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00022-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973766 | 810 | 1.53125 | 2 |
The pet trade
Each year, millions of birds and reptiles are stolen from the wild, whilst dogs, cats, rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters, mice, fish and other animals are mass-produced to supply the pet industry.
Most are sold in pet shops but a glance through the ads in your local paper will invariably reveal a long list of breeders selling animals. Animals are even for sale on the internet. Wild-caught birds and reptiles imported from abroad are often sold at illegal pet markets across the UK.
While millions of animals are being bred or captured to supply the pet trade, shelters and sanctuaries are overflowing with unwanted animals. Every year, thousands have to be killed because they cannot be rehomed. If you have the time, space and commitment necessary to look after a companion animal, always adopt from a sanctuary rather than buying one.
The problem of unwanted pets is not only caused by commercial enterprises. Individual owners, perhaps thinking it is natural, allow their cats, dogs and other animals to produce offspring. There are already too many animals in need of good homes without adding to the problem. Please always spay and neuter your companion animals to prevent pregnancies. | <urn:uuid:2b0a17a4-79c3-4c11-946f-ed171b246e87> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://animalaid.org.uk/h/n/CAMPAIGNS/archive/877/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00060-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951699 | 243 | 2.59375 | 3 |
7:30 a.m. CDT Thursday, March 26, 2009
Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas
STS-119 MCC Status Report #22
A last inspection of the thermal protection system is the order of the day for the crew members on board space shuttle Discovery as they make their way home to Earth.
The crew was awakened at 5:13 a.m. CDT today with the song “Enter Sandman” by Metallica, played for Mission Specialist Joseph Acaba. Within a few hours he and Pilot Tony Antonelli will use the shuttle's robotic arm to grapple the Orbiter Boom Sensor System to kick off today’s inspection.
Starting with the reinforced carbon-carbon panels that line the leading edge of the shuttle’s starboard wing, the crew will guide the OBSS so its cameras and laser sensors can examine the orbiter for signs of damage from orbital debris. The inspection proceeds from the starboard wing, to the nose cap, to the port wing. The OBSS should be returned to its berth on the starboard sill of the payload bay starting at 2:43 p.m.
Throughout the day the crew members have time set aside for exercise to prepare them for the pull of gravity they’ll start to feel on the way to touchdown. Landing is scheduled for 12:38 p.m. Saturday at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. For Mission Specialist Sandra Magnus, it will be her first encounter with gravity in 134 days since her mid-November launch. She has two exercise sessions on her schedule today.
Commander Gennady Padalka and Flight Engineer Michael Barratt of the 19th International Space Station crew launched in their Soyuz from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 6:49 a.m. today. With Padalka and Barratt is second-time spaceflight participant Charles Simonyi, flying under contract with the Russian Federal Space Agency. Padalka will serve as commander of Expeditions 19 and 20 aboard the station. Barratt will serve as a flight engineer for those two missions.
The next status report will be issued this evening or earlier if events warrant.
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January 30, 2013
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St. Rose Duchesne was an immigrant to the United States. So were St. John Neumann and St. Theodore Guerin. St. Frances Xavier Cabrini was an immigrant, too.
The Church in America has been an immigrant Church since the very beginning. We should not be surprised that some of our greatest saints have been among the people who’ve traveled to America seeking something.
The truth is that the Church in America is made up of immigrants because America is made up of immigrants. Apart from Native Americans, this country has been populated by waves of people who’ve come from Europe and Africa, from Asia and from Latin America. The United States is a place where people have long gathered from everywhere, seeking safety, or prosperity, or liberty.
For more than 200 years, people have come to America to pursue the ideals our nation represents.
Today most people would agree that immigration policy needs to be reformed. The complexity of the immigration process calls for standardization and simplification.
Comprehensive reform should be undertaken in a manner that respects the dignity of the human person, the sovereignty of the family and the important realities of national security.
But in addition to immigration reform, our nation, and our state, needs to find ways to ensure that all who have come to America are subject to laws that are just and reasonable. We cannot resolve our immigration problems without laws that respect human dignity and promote human potential.
The Colorado Senate Education Committee heard testimony last week on SB-33, the Colorado ASSET bill. Colorado ASSET provides in-state tuition at state colleges and universities to undocumented Coloradans who have attended and graduated from Colorado high schools and who are seeking to regularize their immigration status.
I commend the bill’s sponsors, particularly Senators Giron and Johnston, and Representatives Duran and Williams, for promoting a bill that respects the dignity of young, hard-working Coloradans, who, through no fault of their own, live in Colorado illegally. ASSET ensures that Coloradans are equipped to contribute meaningfully to their families, to their communities, and to the civic life of our state.
Opponents of the bill suggest that ASSET will incentivize illegal immigration, or reward people who have violated the law. But the beneficiaries of ASSET are young people, most of whom did not choose to come to Colorado. And they’re people who’ve proven an eagerness to participate in public life. Supporting young people willing to engage in the American promise ensures social stability, economic promise for our state, and a richer public and cultural life.
Colorado ASSET will not solve the immigration problems in our country. Immigration law requires comprehensive and serious reform. But ASSET will help.
We need more American saints. We need a new generation of Nuemanns and Cabrinis. Education is always a step in the right direction.
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