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Most Popular from this writer
About 30 000 learners from grades nine to 12 will benefit from an initiative to help them make informed choices about a future career.
Those who know Nkhangwe Elias Nemudzivhadi were not surprised when he became the first recipient of the Professor Kader Asmal Award.
This year's Education Week Convention and Learning Expo will put the spotlight on technology as an innovative tool to enhance classroom teaching.
A mother who was slow to pay school fees ended up with a bill from lawyers that was more than her initial debt.
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A mobile, solar-powered "internet school" designed for teachers and pupils in energy-scarce rural areas was launched in Boksburg this week.
Teachers are disappointed as laptop initiative hits a snag due to "lack of creditworthiness".
Gauteng province scooped the most awards in the 2010 National Teaching Awards held last night at the Presidential Guesthouse House in Pretoria.
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That something written forty-five years ago, and reproduced by the T in 2005, should be the T's "Most Viewed" today speaks volumes--that so many people should remember it and search for it in the T's archives. I haven't read the speech for some time but each time I do the words convey even more than the time before.
Most of you probably know that Enoch Powell was destroyed by the reaction to his speech--and yet he was honest, forthright and, most important, accurate. The words are a bit old-fashioned but none the worse for that. In fact, they add a strength and seriousness that today's buzzwords would minimize.
Please take some time out of your day and read the speech.
Please note: Powell refers to one of his constituents who speaks of his children having gone to "grammar school." As used in the article the term refers to a mainly scholarship school where the top ten percent of scorers in a special exam are awarded a place in a sort of college prep school. It used to be the way for the working classes to move up and go straight to a white-collar job or higher education, although things have changed somewhat since then, thanks to the Labour party. Ironic, because one of our school's students went on to become Prime Minister.
3 hours ago .
Attercliffe Sorry, I can't get the url to print properly. Obviously, you have to leave out everything before http.
Fireball27 This article sounds just like what happened in my old neighborhood. Oakland, California middle 1960's. The part about the old widow being the only white left in her neighborhood is exactly what happened to a once beautiful city. Everyone who could move out did, only those elderly with paid off homes stayed. Every week you would hear of an old couple being beaten and robbed in their own home. Now my old neighborhood is referred to as "the killing zone". We went to the bay area to visit family and my wife would not let me even drive by my old house. People can call me a racist, I'm not, it is just that the destruction of my old hometown was caused by a certain minority. It doesn't matter what minority, or if it was a minority at all, the destruction was and is real. Oakland was beautiful in the 50's and early 60's. Look at it now. Liberals have run the government in the county and city, and certainly turned it into a big mess.
About a minute ago .
Attercliffe I missed the following piece when it was in the window for posting approval (may 10, 2013 ), so I'm putting it here.
Ladies and gentleman, welcome to Obamastan
by Melanie Phillips
Fort Hood, Benghazi, the Boston bombings, Iran/Syria, Israel. The pattern is unmistakeable; the danger to America is exponentially increasing; the scandal is deepening into something nearer to a national crisis.
The Obama administration is playing down the Islamist threat to the US and the free world, empowering Islamists at home and abroad, endangering America and betraying its allies -- and covering up its egregious failure to protect the homeland as a result of all the above, while instead blaming America for its own victimisation.
Escaped commieny in a nut shell, FTA: ‘“Every troubling Middle East-Southwest Asia country — Iraq, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and now maybe Syria — where the Obama administration made a significant policy push has gone over to Islamists that are now much more hostile to the United States,” the official said.’ Thank you Attercliffe, as you know I am a great fan of Brigitte Gabriel after meeting with her in 2006, she has been ringing the warning bell since being rescued by Israel from her underground hole in Lebanon, sadly once the "Paris" of the ME
On one thing the British liberal class is certain – the hacking to death of a soldier in a Woolwich street yesterday had absolutely nothing to do with religion. The murderers screamed ‘Allahu akhbar’ as they tried to decapitate the soldier (a barbaric hallmark of Islamic terror ), announced proudly that ‘We swear by almighty Allah we will never stop fighting you’ and quoted the Koran as religious justification.
But the atrocity, we have been repeatedly told, had nothing to do with religion. Ever since 9/11, the UK and US political and media establishment, along with much if not most of the British security service and increasingly the US security establishment, has repeated this mantra. Killing in the name of Islam is a warped hijacking of the religion, a perversion of the religion, the very antithesis of the religion. But based on the precepts of the religion itself? Good heavens, no.
Escaped commieny I have said from the beginning, this isn't about politics or zero, it is a battle of good vs evil, 1400 yrs of islam trying to prevail. 800 yrs ago Christians were being captured by Moslems and sold into slavery by the thousands. They want to do it again. We need another St John of Matha, a Reagan,or a Thatcher.
15 hours ago .
CaptCaveman Listening to Rush and it truly sounds like the administration has decided to go with the Bart (and O.J )Simpson defense...
Linder The beauty of the original Tea Party protests seemed to be the spontaneous rebellion. I wonder if they can ever be replicated. But have to give these people credit for being out there.
Yesterday at 21:33 EST .
Belwhatter This is all wrong - Homeland Security dressed up like the police in a show of force defending the witless IRS agiainst what? A well behaved group of people claiming their First Amendment right to free speech. This is a huge abuse of our tax money as well as an abridgement of our civil right.
Yesterday at 23:53 EST .
Judith If nothing else, this underscores a rogue government, from the head on down, who did NOT have unfortunate circumstances/employees make MISTAKES. These goons, on taxpayer's dimes, were sent to intimidate. And the government is very bold to take this action at this time.
Yesterday at 08:23 EST .
Fireball27 Federal Protective Service Police? Who has ever heard of them? I sure haven't. Lets ask our liberal friends if they have. I bet they haven't either. Looks like another power play by those in charge. Is this something set up by the Bush administration?
21 hours ago .
Fireball27 I looked it up. The Federal Protective Service Police has been around since...1790! It started out as 6 night watchmen that oversaw Federal buildings. Obama moved them from Immigration and Customs to Homeland Security.
21 hours ago .
Magdalene This used to be a neighborhood. Not trailer homes, real, well-built, brick and mortar houses, probably 2000-2500 sq ft, by what I know of the area.
Yesterday at 16:38 EST .
Magdalene Just thought I'd post a couple pictures from Tornado Alley. I didn't take these, but they were in my FaceBook newsfeed and I wanted to share them.
Yesterday at 16:36 EST .
Gerty Only demonstrates how much we need to mourn the losses and pray for the survivors. Thanks for sharing, Miss Magdalene.
Yesterday at 19:58 EST .
Balogreene I grew up in Tornado Alley - The Eastern part (Illinois ). I saw tornadoes, even "big" tornadoes, but nothing like this. I hate to say the power of God, cause He didn't will this. But, our world has many amazing, terrifying things. We must pray for healing for the people, and common-sense for the government.
Yesterday at 20:36 EST .
Linder When we hear this tornado had more power than an atomic bomb it's put into a whole new perspective.
Yesterday at 21:43 EST .
Belwhatter I am so sad for the terrible losses in the heartland and the terrifying experience they have come through. I sincerely hope that trailer homes will be banned outright in tornado alley from this day forward, and that re-construction will see reinforced concrete and/or steel walls and framing. - homes with their backs to the southwest and west for safety's sake. The toll is too much with a stick built house.
Yesterday at 23:58 EST .
Bettijo From GSN Daily’s Homeland Security Insider we learn of plans to place infrared sensors along the entire border of the United States of America. My bet is, by the time they do it, they’ll outline the entire continent of North America, thereby creating one massive ‘prison’ and fulfilling their dreams of a North American Union. Will these devices one day be used to both keep people out, and keep people in? Will this infrared sensor border be our very own Berlin Wall? From GSNews.:
Annie Xango I am so upset. I was just thinking that I had not had my morning email from Kevin Cap Marine..for awhile..but just thought he was busy I had no idea he had passed. RIP and God Bless, Eagles Up..you will be sorely missed.
Wednesday at 00:29 EST .
Escaped commieny scroll down the Faith wall for Ramona's post I have his picture on the Klatch wall if you scroll down pages Ramona sent me the 2 CD's of the Memorial and Lana made a book for Amy and Melissa of the 9 pages from the Main Lobby
Flaming Sword Well , it's about time !! You have been gone toooo long. Take yourself to the woodshed.
Tuesday at 19:18 EST .
Escaped commieny Struan, Cap Marine tried to reach you and your mail was returned. Our Kevin, passed March 15. We had a memorial last month and there are 9 pages of tributes here on the main pages back in March.
Tuesday at 19:22 EST .
Struan Ohhh - trust me, FS. Been there - and more.
Tuesday at 19:22 EST .
Struan My most sincere & heartfelt condolences, EC. "None but the brave."
Cap may have my email but I was unable to respond. He's the best of the Sky Pilots.
Tuesday at 19:27 EST .
Flaming Sword You'd better have been in prison or kidnapped by gypsies. I don't think any sorry excuse less than that is gonna wash, Bucko.
Straitpath Went to a tea party rally at our local IRS building. Only 20 people showed up. A uniform in a police car showed up to tell us to keep it peaceful. He said he is a federal cop. His car said: Police. federal Protection. Homeland Security. Had strange license plates. I mourned anew for my country.
Tuesday at 14:57 EST .
Phooey Has anyone else heard of a Homeland Security Police force?
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Making just one aircraft is pretty darn impressive. Making 100 isn’t too shabby. But you know you have made it as an airliner if there have been a 1000 of your kind made. Although Boeing has made over 6600 Boeing 737′s, making 1000 767′s is nothing to sneeze at (wow, it would suck to be allergic to airplanes).
The 767 and 757 were designed together and were as close to siblings as airliners can get. They both have similar flight decks and handling abilities so that pilots could easily be cross-trained. The 767 was the first wide-bodied, twin-engine airliner that Boeing made and the first wide-bodied airliner to go to a 2-person flight deck crew. The first Boeing 767 took flight on September 26, 1981 and entered service with United airlines about a year later in September 1982. Since then the airplane has served many airlines well, but it might have always been a little jealous of its skinnier and more popular sibling, the 757.
When the last Boeing 757 was built in October 2004, there had been 1050 buit. For a while it seemed like the 757 would have been the more successful sister of the two aircraft as sales of the 767 have declined greatly over the past few years.
Currently, Boeing has delivered 995 Boeing 767′s and have another 50 on order. That means if the tanker deal doesn’t go through and no more aircraft are ordered, the 757 will go down in history with more aircraft built: 1050 vs 1045.
The Boeing 767 has remained in production for two major reasons: making it the next generation of military tanker and the Boeing 787 Dreamliner delays. Many airlines, including All Nippon Airways (ANA), were counting on the 787 Dreamliner to be completed long ago. Boeing has worked with airlines to provide them with temporary Boeing 767-300ER’s. “A couple years ago we started having discussions about providing 767s on an interim basis to some Dreamliner buyers as well as other carriers looking for twin-aisle planes. We saw interest from all regions for both passenger airplanes and freighters,” Leslie Hazzard with Boeing 767 Communications explained to me.
Although Boeing does say they have made deals with airlines, they aren’t willing to speak financial specifics, “We don’t discuss the financing terms that were considered, but at the time we said publicly that any deal would involve long-term commitments and need to make good business sense for both the airlines needing the lift and for the Boeing organizations involved,” Hazzard stated.
So, why bring up the 1000th Boeing 767 again? On Monday Boeing invited a few folks out to take a look at the final assembly of the 1000th 767, which will have registration number JA622A. ANA hopes to take ownership of the aircraft sometime during the third or fourth week of February. The special 1000th 767 event was pretty interesting. Boeing executives spoke at a podium next to the plane and workers from around the factory started to gather around and listen. Once the event was done, the workers went right back to getting the 1000th 767 ready to fly.
Right now, Boeing is storing three 787 Dreamliners on the current 767 line. There were two ANA 787′s (one in white livery, another in full livery) and one Air India. Unfortunately we weren’t able to take photos of the 787 at that time, but it was very cool seeing how different the ANA Boeing 787 Dreamliner parked right next to an ANA Boeing 767. The 767 is a wonderful aircraft that has served the world well and hopefully will continue to do so, but seeing it next to the 787, it is obvious that the Dreamliner is the next generation of airliner.
CHECK THIS STUFF OUT:
* 23 photos of the 1000th Boeing 767
* Story and video from Glenn Farley at KING5
* Story and photos from Aubrey Cohen at the Seattle PI
* Story from Michelle Dunlop on the Everett Herald
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Black and white image of people standing in front of a train.
Kady Gambitz opened his first store in 1858 on the West side of Yates Street. In December 1859 he opened a new store on Yates near the corner of Government Street. The store is showed in this engraving (second from the left), between the Adelphi Saloon and the Bank of British North America. Businesses left to right; Adelphi Saloon, Kady Gambitz's dry goods; Bank of Britsh North America; Moor & Co., Druggists on Yates and Langley; Hibben and Carswell; Langley Bros. Druggists; Auction House on Wharf.Kady Gambitz opened his first store in 1858 on the West side of Yates Street.
John Mahrer, an immigrant from Prague, opened a brewery in Nanaimo, a coal mining centre and port that is located north of Victoria on Vancouver Island. When the brewery amalgamated with the Union Brewery in 1891, Mahrer became its manager and master brewer. Mahrer was on the Nanaimo City Council for eight years and belonged to several charitable organizations as well as the city's band. John and Louise Mahrer's home and the Nanaimo Opera House, which John built, were the centres of Nanaimo's cultural life at the time.
Besides being the first recorded Jewish person to arrive in British Columbia, Alexander Aaron Phillips was Victoria's first baker of "Passover Bread" (matzoh), which he sold all over Vancouver Island and the state of Washington. In the fall of 1858 he opened the Pioneer Syrup, Soda and Cider Works. ALexander Phillips was the second president of Temple Emanu-El, a founding member of a local Masonic Lodge and Odd Fellows Lodge, as well as a member of the ST. George's Society and the British Columbia Benevolent Association.
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Two or more words or phrases share the same consonants in the same order, with any number of vowels. Y is treated as a vowel. Example: ONE = acorn, TWO = crayon, THREE = ocarina.
The solution: ONE = begin, TWO = beguine, THREE = begonia.
The consonantcy was invented by Newrow in 1991.
A word or phrase becomes another when some grammatical change is inappropriately applied. For example, a false plural: ONE = inter, TWO = interim (analogy with the plurals seraphim and cherubim).
The solution: PRIMAL = butter, FINAL = buttress (analogous to waiter and waitress.)
Some other examples will show you how many possibilities there are:
The false antecedent: ONE =
sent, TWO = present; or ONE = sting, TWO =
False flats based on very obscure derivations, or even on pairs of words that are not derivationally related, are fairly common. In such cases, to be fair to solvers, the model should appear in the verse, or at least be very clearly clued. For example, the false plural: ONE = shader, TWO = Shadrach (“knaidel” appeared in the verse; its plural is “knaidlach”). Or the false opposite: ONE = census, TWO = SASEs (based on the opposition “centum/satem,” explained in 11C; the word “centum” appeared in the verse, as did an explanation of the opposition.)
A word or phrase (the bank) is chosen that has no repeated letters. One or more longer words or phrases are formed, each using all the letters in the bank at least once and as many more times as needed. At least one word must be three or more letters longer than the bank. Examples: ONE = lens, TWO = senselessness; or SHORT = law, LONG = Walla Walla. The bank can produce a number of longer words or phrases. For example: FIRST = larch pines, SECOND = pencil sharpener, THIRD = Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin; or ONE = manicures, TWO = Neiman Marcus, THREE = American sumac, FOUR = marine insurance.
The solution: EIGHT = ablution, GREAT = tintinnabulation.
Not surprisingly, it’s harder to make long words and phrases from a bank than short ones. For example, you can make several six-letter words from field, including fiddle, filled, and defile, but only one twelve-letter word, fiddledeedee, and no longer words at all. The longer words produce a more interesting puzzle; as long as you have one word that’s three (or more) letters longer, it’s all right to add very well clued shorter ones.
The letter bank was invented by WILLz, who introduced it at the 1980 convention.
A phrase (or, less commonly, a word) becomes another when the initial consonant sounds in its component words (or stressed syllables) are swapped. Spoonergrams are always phonetic; spelling may change. For example: ONE = Morse code, TWO = course mowed; or ONE = key ring, TWO = reeking. Note: unlike most flat bases, those of spoonergrams don’t have to be dictionary entries.
The solution: ONE = telephoto, TWO = fella Toto.
For a list of sounds considered single and indivisible, see phonetic flats.
Although the spoonergram usually involves swapping two sounds or sound clusters, sometimes only one sound actually moves. For example, ONE = four inches, TWO = or finches; or ONE = trained seal, TWO = strained eel. Since the spoonergram is purely a phonetic flat, word boundaries needn’t be preserved. For example, if ONE is White Plains, TWO may be either plight wanes or ply Twain’s, since the two are phonetically the same. Another example: ONE = deer wakes, TWO = weird aches.
Not every word in the spoonergram need change. For example: ONE = rake over the coals, TWO = cake over the rolls. Words that don’t change are noted with the puzzle.
Sometimes more than two words are involved in the swapping of sounds. For example: ONE = cold sailor rowed the tipping boat, TWO = bold tailor sewed the ripping coat.
Many possible spoonergram variations are made by swapping sounds other than the initial consonants. (For example: ONE = light red, TWO = let ride, swapping vowels.) Provide an example with each puzzle of this sort, so that the solver knows which sounds are swapped.
The spoonergram was introduced by Emmo W. in March 1945.
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Researchers and clinicians alike believe there is substantial evidence to support the hypothesis that Alzheimer’s disease (AD) may be caused by deposition of amyloid beta-peptide (Abeta) in plaques in brain tissue. But drugs targeted towards the beta-amyloid have met with significant setbacks challenging whether the target is, in fact, real.
With several late stage drugs targeting beta-amyloid poised for market entry, a panel of opinion leaders in the treatment of Alzheimer’s and scientific industry specialists discussed the issue at the 2012 BIO CEO & Investor Conference.
Joshua Schimmer, managing director of biotechnology for Leerink Swann, moderated a panel that included:
- Ted T. Ashburn, MD, PhD, Project Head, Leukine® (sargramostim) and Elitek®/Fasturtec® (rasburicase), Sanofi Oncology
- Michael Gold, MS, MD, Vice President, Clinical Development & Chief Medical Officer, Allon Therapeutics Inc.
- Marc L. Gordon MD, Chief of Neurology, Associate Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry, Zucker Hillside Hospital, Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine
- Hyoung-Gon Lee, PhD, Assistant Professor, Pathology and Neurology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
With all the questions surrounding the beta-amyloid process, Schimmer asked the panelists: “Why don’t we spend billions of dollars to figure out what ABP is doing?”
“It very well could be that this is the wrong target to be going after,” Ashburn replied. “I think with these [recent] failures there are really three things to think about. Is it target problem? Is it a compound problem? Or, is it a methodological problem?”
However, the panelists did agree that it’s very likely that amyloid has something to do with Alzheimer’s disease – it’s just a question of degree.
“Hopefully, in the not too distant future, we have drugs that can do something,” Ashburn said. “The doctor will hopefully have a repertoire of mechanisms to bring to bear as he or she does today with hypertension.”
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At the very beginning of the season, lavenders are still in full bloom. No garden, deck or balcony is complete without a lavender. I used to favor the large French hybrids — Grosso and Provence — and they are still splendid herbs, but I have gone back to the more compact English lavenders of my childhood. I especially like the commonly available Hidcote for its indigo-blue flowers. I cut back the fading flower stalks for rebloom in September.
The single most fragrant plant of July is the true lily, not the daylily, but you have to pick the correct types for maximum effect. A class called oriental lilies and their more modern hybrids can be counted on to add a heady fragrance to the summer garden. Look for LO hybrids such as Triumphator and OT or Orienpet hybrids such as Conca D’Or, a buttery yellow, or Black Beauty, a raspberry black variety with heavily bent back, “recurved,” petals. I grow Altari, Scheherazade, Orania and Anastasia, and the perfume coming from that bed is beyond credence.
Another summer treat is the scent of the shrub named clethra or summersweet, which will work in a shade garden where lilies are unhappy. In a sunnier location, butterfly bush will flower for a similarly long time, though it is not as strong as the clethra. This can be a weedy bush that needs cutting back in spring to develop a compact habit. Also, you should cut off faded flowers to promote reblooming and prevent seeding.
In addition to roses, lavender and butterfly bush, the fall garden is ripe with sweet-smelling annuals and tropicals that have reached maturity. These include the snail vine, which will flower happily from seed to vine over the course of a single season, though its flowering will be greatly increased if it is cut back and kept dormant indoors over the winter. Container-grown tuberoses and ginger-lilies are an olfactory knockout, though hardy plants also scent the late-season garden. Sweet autumn clematis blooms in September, an evergreen shrub named osmanthus blossoms in October. Its tiny white flowers are almost invisible, though that doesn’t seem to matter.
The fragrant flowers of winter come and go, relying on periods of mildness that cannot be predicted. Witchhazel is a good example. Some hybrids are more scented than others, and again the acid test is to sniff them in flower before buying one. Green Spring Gardens in Northern Virginia has an excellent collection that is well-labeled. The Chinese witchhazel, Hamamelis mollis, is considered the most powerfully fragrant.
Another shrub named edgeworthia, at its edge of hardiness in Washington, is extremely fragrant when it blooms in February and March. This is about the time a glossy-leafed evergreen named sweetbox blooms. Its little white blooms, the size of rice grains, can perfume an entire garden. Along with a wintersweet, of course.
Right under your nose
The zone of fragrance differs not only by plant, but time of day, so unless you are planting a whole field of lavender or lilies (not a bad idea) you have to place your scented plant close to where you walk and sit. That means by the patio or the screened porch, along the front walk, on a balcony or deck, near the kitchen door or elevated in raised beds or pots.
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Eric Pickles honours UK Holocaust hero
Community Secretary Eric Pickles has pinpointed “the tiny acts of kindness that undermined the Nazi killing machine,” as he presented a Holocaust Hero’s Award to family members of a British prisoner of war who helped save a 16-year-old Jewish girl from the Nazis.
In a ceremony this week, Mr Pickles presented the medal to the nephew of the late George Hammond, one of 10 British PoWs who helped hide Lithuanian-born Sara Matuson in the Gross Golmkau camp hayloft, in northern Poland, for four weeks in January 1945.
Sara found refuge after escaping a death march which her sister and mother did not survive. She later adopted the name Hannah in memory of her sister.
Now known as Sara Hannah Rigler, the 84-year-old survivor lives today in New York and has written a book, Ten British Prisoners of War Saved My Life.
Mr Pickles said the award, inaugurated in 2010, was “a terrific honour that counter-balances the dreadful stories that still grip us. Sara got the chance to have a life and raise her family, and do something, even though the Nazis thought they had liquidated her.”
Christopher Hammond spoke emotionally of his uncle’s experiences after he was captured by the Nazis in Belgium. Mr Hammond presented the Secretary of State with a booklet he had compiled of first-hand interviews, pictures and newspaper clippings.
“George would never talk about Sara by name – he just called her his ‘little sister,’” Mr Hammond said. “He said Sara was in a terrible state when they found her – he could get his hands around her thigh. All 10 of those men risked their lives to help Sara. If they had been caught by the guards during those four weeks, they would have been shot..”
George Hammond died aged 84 in August 2003. During an interview with his nephew, George recalled an incident in February 1945.
“I saw about 200-300 Jewish women and children being marched towards Danzig. They were all in a bad state. Two young girls... broke away from the column and ran into the farmyard where I was working. The guard shot one and the farmer axed the other through the head... I felt sick and sorry for them, unable to do anything as one of the guards held his rifle at me and made threatening gestures if I dared give any of the children food.”
Christopher Hammond now wants to find the remaining comrades who helped Sara. All ten men have been recognised as “Righteous Among the Nations” by Yad Vashem in Jerusalem.
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Can you get HIV if the person preparing your food got blood on your sandwich and you ate it right away??? This is of great concern to me. Please help me PLEASE! I donate money often
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HIV is not easily tranmitted through the GI tract...that is eating food. Even the rates with oral sex have been too low to quantify accurately. I would not consider this to be a high risk situation. Best,
PS I would answer the same even if you did not donate any money
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Noni, friendly and funny, is the perfect pony for preschoolers.
Like Noni herself, the light rhyme, bustling with rhythm and easy to read, is friendly and funny. Lester’s art, which shows every apple, carrot, cow and hen she mentions in her text, invites new readers and horse-loving listeners to join Noni and her best friends, Dave Dog and Coco the Cat, in their play. Each couplet is accompanied by Lester’s droll illustrations. The animals appear humorously flat, almost as if Lester cut them out and glued them in by hand. The movements are exaggerated and at times remarkably unhorselike. The cover is especially amusing, showing Noni doing a split in midair. “They ambush each other and play hide-and-seek, / racing and chasing and jumping the creek,” is illustrated with arrows and dotted lines to show the movement of the animal friends, while subtle eye movements let the reader know exactly who is hiding from whom. The layout, just one couplet per spread with every word illustrated, is perfect for anxious youngsters who want to prance through stories over and over again but not linger too long on any page.
The gentle ending, with pony and friends cuddled up for bed, slows the trotting long enough— just the way a book for toddlers should end. Night-night, Noni. (Picture book. 2-5)
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Activities and Tours
You can do this any day in the morning or in the afternoon any week day, and the all day trip on weekend, the boats (pangas) have the equipment for fishing; but if you are interested in surfing or snorkelling during the trip then it will be necessary to rent surfboards, snorkels and masks in a surf store we will recommend you. Fishing out of San Juan del Sur often leaves a memorable experience. Fish like marlin, sailfish, dorado, wahoo, and yellowfin tuna can be caught offshore. The inshore waters offer rooster fish, sierra mackerel, jack crevalle, bonitos, barracudas, snapper and grouper.
This is a very exiting activity, from this place you have a superb view of the bay of San Juan del Sur and its surroundings. The canopy tour consists of 16 cables that are connected through 17 platforms, most of them located up in the trees. It is located on the border of a farm at the foot of a hill. Nature is abundant in the area, and you can see animals including monkeys, raccoons, birds, and other animals.
Sea Turtles Tour
La Flor beach is a protected wildlife reserve because of the vast arrival of Olive Ridely turtles during massive “arribadas” that take place every year between July and January. The Olive Ridley turtles come to the beach en masse, during so called arribadas in which thousands of turtles arrive at the same time to lay their eggs. This way, the hatchlings will swarm the beach in huge numbers and in doing so they increase their chance of survival. Wildlife Reserve La Flor measures more than 3,000 hectares and is located 22 kilometers south of San Juan del Sur. It is one of the places in Nicaragua where you can observe the arribadas of Olive Ridley turtles.
The school can help you to organize surf trips to the best breaks, like Maderas, Yankee, Escameca, Popoyo, Panga Drops, Manzanillo and Colorado. San Juan del Sur and its surrounding beaches are those places that offer everything a traveling surfer could want. There is consistent year round surf, warm water, and a chance to surf a great break all by yourself. Come and see why Nicaragua is the first destination of many travellers of all parts of the world! The best beaches, swells, reefs and breaks are located in the pacific south of Nicaragua. Surf lessons are also available.
Weekend trip to Ometepe Island
We can organize you a trip to the largest island in the world found within a freshwater lake. We visit “El Ojo de Agua” (waterspring), the ecological reserve of Charco Verde, you can go to the San Ramón waterfall, and yes, hike “Volcán Maderas”.
Trip to “Volcán Masaya” and Granada city
The Masaya Volcano National Park, is one of Nicaragua's most interesting and beautiful natural phenomena. Before to get there we can pass by San Juan de Oriente, so that you can buy some Nicaragua pottery. And in Granada you will see the 365 little volcano islands in the Cocibolca lake.
Horseback Riding Tour
Ride trails in the hills and see the petroglyphs.
Get a relaxing massage
You decide if you want to have it in your room or you decide to go to the massage center of town.
Pickup service from the Airport to San Juan del Sur
We can arrange the transport from the airport to our school in San Juan del Sur with a reliable and experienced driver. Pick-up service must be requested at least one week in advance.
Please contact us at firstname.lastname@example.org to reserve your tour with us.
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In tough economic times like these, many people cut back on certain expenditures: Weekly movie night falls by the wayside and Saturday dinners out are replaced by cooking at home. But what happens when a person has scaled back on all the luxuries and is still having trouble making ends meet?
Blogger Kerri Morrone Sparling of Six Until Me sometimes wonders whether she will need to stretch the life of her diabetes supplies by taking steps such as wearing her infusion sets longer than recommended or reusing insulin pump reservoirs multiple times—strategies that many of her readers are already using to save money. Fortunately, there are also other ways to get the biggest bang for your buck. As several Six Until Me commenters suggest, coupons, sales, and customer loyalty programs can be a great way to save on food expenses, as can buying groceries in bulk quantities. Taking advantage of public transportation where it’s available is another way to cut corners.
There are also ways to save money on medicines. Over at the American Association of Diabetes Educator’s Side by Side blog, shopping around for the best price and, when possible, purchasing generic versions of drugs are recommended as good ways to reduce expenses. Asking your doctor for samples of brand name medicines you are taking and discussing the possibility of purchasing larger doses of certain drugs and then cutting them in half are also suggested as potential means of minimizing health-care costs.
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Home > Publications and Other Resources > Speeches > Charles I. Plosser, President and Chief Executive Officer > Transparent Communications: The Journey Continues
Presented by Charles I. Plosser, President and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
National Economists Club, Washington, D.C., April 12, 2012
PDF version (132 KB, 11 pages)
It is a pleasure to be here today. I am particularly pleased to join the list of distinguished speakers who have appeared before you over the years. Today, I would like to discuss the Federal Reserve’s journey to improve the clarity and transparency of its communications. Of course, it may seem obvious that all communications should be transparent — otherwise, you really aren’t communicating. However, it has taken central banks some time to appreciate the benefits of clear and transparent communications about monetary policymaking. Some observers think that monetary policy should remain a bit mysterious. They believe that efforts to communicate “too much” can backfire or result in confusion. Yet, this is most likely to be the case when communications lack clarity. Others seem to equate clear communications with providing a degree of omniscience about the future — omniscience that, of course, doesn’t really exist.
Yet, central banks, including the Federal Reserve, have made important progress recently. Therefore, it seems like an opportune time to remind ourselves of the benefits of transparency in central banking. I will review some of the steps that the FOMC took in January toward increased transparency. Then I will suggest some additional initiatives I believe would be beneficial. Of course, these are my views and not necessarily those of the Federal Reserve System or my colleagues on the FOMC.
Over the last 30 years, economists have come to understand that expectations play an important role in the economy. Whether we think about labor markets, product markets, or financial markets, expectations affect the decisions made by households, businesses, and investors. Economic actors form expectations about a wide variety of things that affect their decisions, including tax policies, inflation, monetary policy, real economic growth, as well as other factors that may affect the supply and demand conditions that might prevail in various financial and product markets.
Monetary policy can influence expectations and thus economic choices through a couple of important inter-related channels. First, monetary policy can affect the expected path of inflation. Uncertainty about this anticipated path can wreak havoc on financial plans and cause businesses and households to expend valuable resources to insulate their plans from unexpected and volatile movements in inflation. Thus, increased transparency about the central bank’s goals and objectives regarding inflation can improve economic efficiency and help anchor expectations of inflation.
Second, long-term interest rates are important for many economic decisions and monetary policy can affect long-term interest rates through the expected path of a short-term rate, which is the standard instrument of monetary policy. Consequently, a better understanding of how policymakers will react to economic events over time can reduce uncertainty about the expected path of the short-term interest rate and so reduce the uncertainty and volatility of long-term rates.
Reducing uncertainty about monetary policy, therefore, can help anchor expectations, improve the effectiveness of monetary policy, and reduce economic volatility. It also improves economic efficiency by allowing households and businesses to make more informed decisions. Given these benefits, central banks have sought to improve transparency about the goals and objectives of monetary policy and how monetary decisions are made.
Transparency has other benefits as well. For example, transparency enhances the central bank’s accountability and independence. Central bank independence is a fundamental tenet of sound central banking and leads to better economic outcomes. But independence must be accompanied by accountability. And accountability is more easily achieved when there is transparency. The public can best hold a central bank accountable when its goals are clearly stated and feasible. Assigning the central bank responsibility for things it cannot achieve or expecting the central bank to achieve a set of objectives that is too expansive makes it nearly impossible for the public to hold the central bank accountable. As the old expression goes, responsible for everything and accountable for nothing. Transparent and clear communications of monetary policy goals and a decision-making framework help ensure accountability and preserve central bank independence.
Transparency can also enhance a central bank’s credibility. A central bank that is transparent will be less willing to make promises it cannot keep. When policy pronouncements are more credible, policy is more effective. Transparency can also make it easier to explain changes in policy without damaging the central bank’s credibility.
The Fed has been on a journey toward greater transparency for some time. But the pace of change has clearly accelerated under Chairman Bernanke. It may seem hard to believe, but it was not until 1994 that the FOMC began to publicly announce the policy decisions made at the FOMC meetings. Up to then, the markets were left to infer the policy action from the Fed’s behavior in the market.
Prior to the 1990s, policymakers were concerned that giving the public more information about the rationale for policy decisions or even releasing the statement and directive given to the Open Market Trading Desk would lock policymakers into certain actions even if economic conditions changed. There was a strong desire to maintain flexibility.1 Indeed, many of the arguments against transparency focused on the idea that it reduced the Committee’s discretion in setting policy. Yet, we now know that discretion is generally not optimal. Economic research in the past 30 years has shown that setting monetary policy in a systematic or rule-like manner leads to better economic outcomes — lower and less volatile inflation and greater economic stability in general.2 Such systematic policies are more predictable and thus allow for better decision-making by consumers and businesses.
Since 1994, when the Fed began to announce changes in the federal funds rate target, it has taken a number of steps to improve the public’s understanding of policy decisions, including the most recent initiatives announced in January of this year.
In 2000, the Fed began to release a statement after each meeting regardless of whether a policy action was taken. The statement included a description of the state of the economy and the rationale for the policy decision. It also offered an assessment of the risks to the economic outlook.
Two years later, in 2002, the Fed began to release the votes of the individual members and the policy preferences of any dissenters in the post-meeting statement.
In 2004, the Fed decided to speed up the release of the FOMC minutes after a three-week lag.
After the appointment of Chairman Bernanke in 2006, the FOMC increased its efforts to communicate more clearly with the public. In 2007, the Fed started to produce quarterly economic projections of FOMC participants and expanded information regarding the heterogeneity of views.
In 2009, the Fed expanded the projections to include participants’ assessments of the long-run tendencies of key economic variables.
Then in 2011, the Chairman initiated a quarterly press conference coinciding with the release of the economic projections.
Most recently, in January 2012, the Fed took two more steps on its march toward enhanced transparency. First, it issued a statement about monetary policy’s long-run goals and strategy, including an explicit target for inflation. It also began including information on the policy path assumptions underlying the FOMC participants’ economic projections.
I will describe these two steps in greater detail, but I want to emphasize that this trend toward more central bank transparency has not been confined to the Fed. Different central banks have taken different approaches, in part, reflecting their diverse institutional structures. The now widely adopted practice of inflation targeting is only the first step. While inflation targeting establishes a clear goal, it lacks precise policy prescriptions for how to achieve that goal. In order to have policy decisions well-understood by the public, central banks with explicit inflation targets augment their communications with inflation reports, press conferences, and speeches so that the public will better understand how policy will be conducted.
Let me now turn to the FOMC’s most recent initiatives to improve the clarity and transparency of our policy framework, beginning with the consensus statement of its long-term goals and strategy released in January. The statement made four important points. First, the Committee reaffirmed its commitment to its mandated goals of maximum employment, price stability, and moderate long-term interest rates.
Second, the statement acknowledged what economists have known for over 200 years — that in the intermediate to longer run, inflation is a monetary phenomenon and thus determined by monetary policy. Therefore, it is appropriate for the Fed to set an explicit long-run target for inflation. The target selected was 2 percent, as measured by the year-over-year change in the personal consumption expenditures chain-weighted price index. By being explicit about its numerical objective for price stability, the Fed enhances the credibility of its commitment to price stability. This helps anchor inflation expectations, thereby fostering price stability and moderate long-term interest rates. Another benefit of such an explicit objective is that it provides the public with a numerical metric by which it can, and should, hold the Fed accountable.
Of course, articulating an inflation target is now a very common feature of what is viewed as best practice in central banking and is a key step in achieving the benefits of transparency.
The third important feature of the statement explained why it is not appropriate for the Fed to establish a numerical objective for the maximum employment part of its mandate. This is not because the employment part of the mandate is less important, but because the economic determinants of employment are different from those of inflation. Maximum employment is largely determined by factors that are beyond the control of monetary policy. These factors include such things as demographics, technological innovations, and numerous government policies, including tax policy, minimum wage laws, unemployment benefits, and the like. All of these factors can and do vary over time. Thus, the maximum level of employment will vary. It is also difficult to measure and not directly observable. Moreover, different economic models often lead to different conceptual views of how to define maximum employment. Therefore, it is inappropriate for the central bank to set a numerical objective for something it does not control and cannot measure with any degree of certainty.
Finally, the statement pointed out that the goals of monetary policy are complementary over the longer run. Price stability promotes economic efficiency by giving households and businesses more confidence that the purchasing power of the dollar will not erode. This simplifies the decision-making of economic agents, allowing the economy to function more efficiently and more productively. Conversely, the failure to maintain price stability can often lead to greater instability in output and employment.
However, in the short term, it is possible that the maximum employment and price stability parts of the Fed’s mandate could be in conflict. The statement makes clear that in such circumstances the Fed will pursue a balanced approach to promoting its objectives. Admittedly, this statement does not give much guidance as to how policy will be conducted, but I will have more to say on that in a few minutes.
The second new communications initiative launched in January involved the Survey of Economic Projections, or SEP. As I mentioned earlier, these projections are reported four times a year and provide information about the range of individual policymakers’ assessments for key economic variables, including output, inflation, and unemployment. Each FOMC participant’s assessment is conditional on the policymakers’ assessment of “appropriate policy,” that is, the policy path most consistent with achieving the Fed’s longer-term goals. Starting in January, the FOMC began releasing information on these assumed policy paths.
This additional information has two benefits. First, having more information on the underlying policy paths should help the public better understand the projections. For example, they will have a better understanding of whether inflation is expected to return to the long-term goal as shocks work their way through the economy or whether policymakers anticipate that further monetary policy actions will be needed to achieve the Committee’s objective.
Second, as views of appropriate policy evolve over time as economic and financial conditions change, the public will be able to draw better inferences about the relationship among current economic conditions, the economic outlook, and appropriate policy. Thus, over time, the public will gain a better understanding of how policy is likely to react in the future to changes in the economy.
The steps taken in January are important steps forward for the FOMC, but more can and should be done. As I noted in my discussion of the Committee’s longer-terms goals and objectives, the Committee’s description of how policy will be conducted is not entirely clear. Yet, we know that when monetary policy is conducted in a systematic way, it is more transparent and easier to communicate.
By systematic policy, I mean policy that functions in a rule-like way. That is, there is a systematic relationship between changes in economic conditions and the policy actions and choices made by the central bank. I have already discussed some of the benefits of transparency, and a systematic approach to policymaking is a way of achieving greater transparency. The better the public and the markets understand how policy is likely to be adjusted as the economy changes, the more predictable policy becomes, which promotes price stability and better economic outcomes.
Of course, policymakers do not know with certainty how economic conditions will evolve. So they cannot and should not say with any certainty what policy will be in the future. But policymakers can provide information about the factors that will influence their policy decisions. Some call this a policy rule or reaction function.
I believe that the Fed should provide more information about its reaction function and communicate its policy choices in terms of that reaction function. It is not just about transparency. The practice of using systematic rules as guides to monetary policy imposes an important discipline on policymaking as well as improving communications and transparency. For example, at times it may be important for policymakers to deviate from the guidelines. But then policymakers will be forced to explain why they deviated and when they anticipate returning to more normal operating practices. Requiring this type of transparency raises the bar that policymakers face to engage in discretionary policies in the first place.
I suspect that the FOMC participants are not ready to agree on a specific policy rule or reaction function because they use different models and have different loss functions. However, there is reason to be optimistic since there is a growing literature on robust rules that work well in a range of models and reasonable loss functions. In the meantime, it does seem feasible that participants could agree on a set of economic variables to which monetary policy should react. The academic literature suggests using rules that respond aggressively to deviations of inflation from the central bank’s target and less aggressively to deviations of output from some concept of “potential output” or some alternative measure of resource utilization.3 We would not have to specify the precise mathematical rule but would provide assessments of key variables and then communicate our policy decisions in terms of changes in these key variables. If policy were changed, then we would explain that change in terms of how the variables in our response function changed. If we choose a consistent set of variables and systematically use them to describe our policy choices, the public will form more accurate judgments about the likely course of policy — thereby reducing uncertainty and promoting stability.
Finally, I think that the FOMC could improve communication and transparency by preparing a more comprehensive monetary policy report on a regular basis, perhaps quarterly. Currently, the Chairman testifies before Congress twice a year and submits an accompanying written report. In addition, the Chairman holds press briefings four times a year to summarize the SEP. I think there is an opportunity to combine these efforts into a more comprehensive report on monetary policy as many other countries do. The report would offer an opportunity to reinforce the underlying policy framework and how it relates to economic conditions in addition to summarizing the SEP.
To summarize, the FOMC is on a journey to improve the transparency of its monetary policy decision-making process. The benefits of transparency are now accepted by policymakers across the globe. Transparency not only improves the effectiveness of monetary policy, it also improves the central bank’s credibility and accountability with the public. The FOMC’s recent moves to publish guidelines on its longer-run goals and policy strategy and the policy assumptions that underlie FOMC projections are great strides toward this goal. However, transparency is a journey, and not a destination, and more can be done. In particular, I believe the FOMC should continue to work toward increasing the public’s understanding of how policy will react systematically to changes in economic conditions.
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Scottish independence: Have your passports ready, warns Theresa May
AN INDEPENDENT Scotland “could very well” be forced to have passport checks introduced at its border with England, the UK’s Home Secretary, Theresa May, has warned.
Ms May said she envisaged “some sort of border check” under independence.
She claimed that Scotland would not necessarily inherit the UK’s opt-out of a European Union agreement that permits freedom of movement around most of Europe and means that EU citizens are still subject to passport checks at UK borders.
The comments from Ms May came after another Tory minister, David Lidington, used a visit to Edinburgh to suggest that EU rules introduced following the signing of the Lisbon Treaty would compel an independent Scotland to enter a Europe-wide, border-free zone.
He said that, as the UK has opted out of this zone – known as the Schengen area – the Westminster government would be forced to establish passport controls at the Border unless Scotland also opted out if it became independent.
The latest warnings about border controls from a senior minister in the UK government were heavily criticised as “scaremongering Tory nonsense” in a statement from senior SNP MP Pete Wishart.
Ms May said that issues such as border controls needed to be addressed as part of the debate ahead of a referendum on independence, which the SNP wants to hold in the autumn of 2014.
She said: “The point I’m making is that these are exactly the sorts of issues that it is right to be discussing and should be part of the debate.
“If there was a separate Scotland, there could very well be some sort of border check, but what that would be, to what extent that would be necessary, would depend on the issues about whether Scotland was in Schengen, whether it wanted to be in the Common Travel Area, which they would have to negotiate, if that was what they wished to do.”
Ms May went on to say that it could not be assumed that an independent Scotland would be part of the European common travel area, which exists across the UK and Ireland.
She said: “There is an assumption that it would be, but we would need to be talking to Scotland about whether that would be right and about what that would entail.”
Ms May’s comments yesterday came after she used a speech at the Scottish Conservative Party conference in Troon the day before to warn that independence “could open Scotland’s Border up to mass immigration”.
However, Mr Wishart, the Nationalists Home Office spokesman, insisted that an independent Scotland would share the UK’s successor status and retain its opt-outs, as he attacked Ms May’s handling of a row last year about the relaxing of border checks.
He said: “This is rank hypocrisy from Theresa May, who presided over one of the biggest immigration fiascos in recent memory.
“Scotland needs no lessons from her on how to manage immigration,” he said.
“The reality is that an independent Scotland will be part of the common travel area, which already exists within and between the UK and Ireland, so talk of border checks are nothing more than scare- mongering Tory nonsense.” Mr Lidington, speaking at the Scottish Parliament last month, said that opt-outs, such as those on the Schengen agreement and the euro, “require not just a wwbilateral agreement between the UK and an independent Scotland – it would require the agreement of all of the other member states as well”.
Mr Lidington also said that Scotland’s membership of the EU was not “something that can simply be assumed”, and he repeated his warning that border controls with England would be a “clear problem” under independence.
The Europe minister, who is MP for Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, said: “The fact the UK has an opt-out from Schengen means we are able to maintain the border controls that you don’t have on the borders between Schengen countries.”
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Installing a home heat pump is one of the most convenient ways to keep your house warm. It will help you to make your home really warm and cozy no matter how cold the weather outside is. To go into more details it should be pointed out that heat pump works as an air conditioner and a heater, and that is the reason why this is the best technique to keep your home fresh during summer and warm during freezing months of the year.
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Dystonia and Treatment with Botulinum Toxin
What is Dystonia?
Dystonia is characterized by involuntary sustained muscle contraction resulting in repetitive movements, twisting and/or abnormal postures. Currently there is a limited understanding of the underlying cause of dystonia; however, this condition can appear in a variety of forms.
Dystonia may occur as a primary condition (idiopathic dystonia) in which dystonia is the sole manifestation. Also, dystonia can be associated with a wide variety of neurological conditions (e.g. parkinsonism, Wilsonís disease, Huntingtonís disease etc.).
Botulinum Treatment for Dystonia and other movement disorders
Most people know of Botulinum Toxin (BTn) injections as a treatment for wrinkles; however, the true wealth in this chemical treatment is its overall effectiveness in the management of dystonia and other movement disorders.
The Movement Disorders Treatment Center at the Parkinsonís Institute specializes in the use of BTn for a variety of conditions that result in involuntary muscle contractions including primary dystonia, Parkinsonís disease, essential tremor, hemifacial spasm and Touretteís syndrome.
Currently, there are two forms (serotypes) of BTn approved by the Food and Drug Administration for use in selected medical conditions. These are BTn-A (Botox) and BTn-B (Myoblock). Both of these forms are now used in clinical practice to treat dystonia, hemifacial spasm and wrinkles. However, the indications are expanding and may include treatment of tremor and pain.
For most patients with these conditions, BTn injections provide significant but variable relief of symptoms that lasts for weeks to months (an average of 3 months). However, repeated injections are required to sustain benefit over long periods of time.
The following include some of the conditions treated by BTn at our treatment center -
Focal and Segmental Limb Dystonias
CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Botulinum toxin therapy is safe and effective in the treatment of strabismus and in the symptomatic treatment of various forms of Dystonia.
Botulinum toxin therapy is not curative in chronic neurological disorders.
For most indications, botulinum toxin should be used by committed interdisciplinary teams of physicians and related health care professionals with appropriate instrumentation.
The safety of botulinum therapy during pregnancy, breast feeding, and chronic use in childhood is unknown.
If you would like to set up an appointment with a Movement Disorders Specialist at the Parkinsonís Institute and/or if you have questions of how Botulinum Toxin may benefit you, please call 1-800-655-2273.
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Date: 04-10-12 01:25
Has a China hard landing come and gone?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/naeimi-says-fears-over-china-hard-landing-far-fetched/2012/04/02/gIQAtlm6rS_video.html An April 2, 2012 Bloomberg News video interview with Nader Naeimi, senior investment strategist at AMP Capital Investors, titled "Naeimi Says Fears Over China Hard Landing 'Far Fetched'" found at the Washington Post newspaper's web site.
I didn't watch the video so don't know what he said. Took too long to buffer so I gave it a pass. :Kobo shrugging his shoulders smilie:
http://www.cnbc.com/id/46990157 An April 8, 2012 article titled "Forget Slowdown, China Already 'Re-accelerating': Economist" found at the CNBC News web site.
By: Jean Chua
China's economy is accelerating again and inflation will tick up by the second half of the year after bottoming out in February, according to David Carbon, Managing Director of Economics and Currencies at DBS Bank.
"We look at the numbers and China gave us a touch and go three, four months ago, so it's no longer a question of hard or soft landing," Carbon told CNBC on Monday. "China has already taken off again, as has most of Asia."
Gross domestic product (GDP) [cnbc explains] figures to be released Friday may indicate that the economy is expanding faster than the official target of 7.5 percent for 2012, Carbon added. "We look at the broad body of data including GDP, which will be out at the end of this week. China is already re-accelerating again."
The latest data on inflation and bank lending also reflect a strengthening Chinese economy. Inflation [cnbc explains] in China came in at a higher than expected 3.6 percent in March, according to government data Monday, after hitting 3.3 percent in February. China's big four state banks extended almost 300 billion yuan ($47.50 billion) in new local-currency loans in March, the official Securities Times reported on Saturday, citing unidentified sources.
Chinese authorities tightened credit last year in an effort to rein in inflation, which hit a three-year high of 6.5 percent in July, and rebalance an economy that's overly dependent on investment. In the fourth quarter of 2011, China's economy expanded 8.9 percent from a year earlier, the slowest growth since the second quarter of 2009, signaling that the government's measures might be working.
Still, analysts are increasingly bullish on China’s growth outlook. Song Seng Wun, Regional Economist at CIMB Research, said China could expand as much as 9 percent this year, much higher than the official target of 7.5 percent. Inflation could remain under the official target of 4 percent, he added.
"Yes, we have risks on the external front, we have seen those numbers come through," Song said. "Domestically, we have seen the lag effect of monetary tightening reducing demand - this whole targeted lending that we are looking at. Taken together, it will still be within 8-9 percent. We are looking at about 8.7 percent for the full year. For the first quarter, we are looking at 8.3 percent."
Food inflation should remain "relatively stable" at 8 to 9 percent, he said. In fact, inflation has already hit a bottom, economists say.
"Inflation is always lagging the economy, we've dropped down sharply last month to 3.29 (percent)," Carbon said. "People think it'll be up a couple of ticks this month, we're probably about there for inflation but I think that's true not just in China; I think every place in Asia is the same. We're at about bottom today, six months from now we're going be higher, not lower."
http://news.yahoo.com/china-returns-trade-surplus-march-xinhua-040027257.html An Agence France Presse (AFP) article titled "China returns to trade surplus in March" just posted to the Yahoo News web site about an hour and a half ago.
China said Tuesday it recorded a trade surplus last month, reversing a massive deficit in February, but exports were still weak owing to economic woes in major overseas markets.
The country recorded a trade surplus of $5.35 billion in March, as exports rose 8.9 percent to $165.66 billion for the month, Chinese customs said in a statement on its website.
Imports rose just 5.3 percent to $160.31 billion in March, it said.
The Asian giant's trade figures are politically sensitive, with Beijing and Washington embroiled in a long-running dispute over the value of the yuan, which US politicians say is kept artificially low to help Chinese exporters.
In February, China posted a huge deficit of $31.48 billion -- the largest in more than a decade -- as it felt the ripples from the debt crisis in Europe and the stuttering recovery in the United States.
Analysts had predicted a deficit of $3.2 billion for March, according Dow Jones Newswires.
"The March surplus figure is relatively small as the deterioration in overseas markets since last year has continued to affect China's exports," Liao Qun, China economist for Citic Bank International, told AFP.
The latest figures could provide hope that China will avoid a hard landing despite slowing exports, a major engine of growth for the economy.
Analysts widely expect China to record a trade surplus for the full year, helped by lower commodity prices and a recovery in exports.
The nation's trade surplus narrowed to $155.14 billion in 2011 from $181.51 billion in 2010, according to official figures and the ongoing export woes are expected to lead to a slowdown in the economy this year.
The government last month set a target for 7.5 percent economic growth for 2012, following 9.2 percent last year and 10.4 percent in 2010.
The government is due to release first quarter growth data on Friday, as well as other economic indicators for March.
The central bank in February cut the amount of cash banks must hold in reserve for the second time in three months as policymakers moved to increase lending and boost domestic consumption due to the economic slowdown.
But analysts say worries over inflation, which rebounded to a higher-than-expected 3.6 percent in March, could slow government moves to further loosen monetary policy.
Has a "hard landing" come and gone already?
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Evan McCown, 9, has some developmental delays. One side of his body isn’t as strong as the other, and his brain works a bit differently than most kids his age. He’s not into team sports and is usually hesitant about trying new things, often reciting the risks associated with the activity to his mother as if he’d read them in a textbook. It’s how his mind works, says mom Sara McCown.
But on this sunny Wednesday, Evan bounces past his mom on top of a trotting Cheyenne — a huge, chestnut-colored, teenage quarter horse.
“Whoa, Cheyenne,” Evan says, pulling on the reigns. Cheyenne slows down to a saunter, then stops. He says, “Walk on, Cheyenne,” to get her to the next destination.
Evan takes therapeutic riding lessons at Hooves of Hope Inc. on Chenault Bridge Road in Garrard County. The non-profit organization has been given new life, after a few years of downtime, by co-founder Blair Newsome. It began as a program through McDowell Health when Newsome worked for the wellness center.
It became too big for one horse to carry, Newsome said, and she moved it out to her barn on five acres of land after jumping through hoops to operate it as a non-profit and reconstructing her barn, making it handicapped accessible. After the other founder, Lisa Dreager, had shoulder surgery, Newsome took over until she had a baby and had to take some time off herself.
“I’m back and ready for this program to expand now,” Newsome says.
She brought on a certified riding therapist of 20 years, Rita Nicholson, and both say they would like to begin offering the program to educational organizations, veterans’ groups, retirement homes and facilities that treat behavioral and emotional issues.
“She’s the therapy side of it, I’m the horses,” Newsome says.
Hooves has volunteers on hand as well.
Hooves runs completely on donations and fundraisers, which don’t cover what it takes to run the sessions, Newsome says.
“We don’t ever charge what regular lessons are. We don’t take insurance, so we want to make it affordable. We’re considering this a pilot project,”¿she says.
McCown says Evan has been in occupational therapy, speech therapy and has gone to local pediatric therapy off and on since he was 2. With a strong analytical mindset, Evan is regimented and strict about his schedule.
“When we tried to get him to ride his bike, he told me about all the risks associated with it, from head injury to broken bones,” McCown says. So she was surprised when Evan took to riding horses so easily without hesitation.
“He’s become very passionate about riding,”¿McCown says.
About the time Evan started riding therapy, he began riding his bike — now, every morning like clockwork before school. McCown says maybe it’s a greater sense of self-confidence he’s developed since working with the horses.
In the barn, Newsome holds on to Cheyenne’s halter as two volunteers walk alongside Evan, holding him steady in the saddle, while Nicholson says what the next exercise is. Today, it’s maneuvering Cheyenne in and out of large barrels holding several flags in small buckets on top. Evan must pull out one flag each time he passes one.
Nicholson praises Evan, then asks him what he did wrong when he misses. Each time they begin an exercise, Nicholson asks Evan if he wants to do it the easier way or try the more difficult. Every time, Evan requests to do the harder task.
McCown was impressed when Nicholson recognized during the first lesson that Evan is weaker on one side — Evan is not noticeably unbalanced to the untrained eye — and immediately began working with him on it. McCown says it’s incredible the community has this type of therapy organization that is so affordable and is excited for others to find out about it. Previously, when the family lived in Cincinnati, she looked into a similar program and was shocked at the cost.
“Based on his reaction, this has been superior therapy. They’re very passionate, they care. He’s become calmer, more organized ...”¿
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World Bank kicks off social media climate campaign with
photo/video competition for African youth
Washington, DC / Pretoria, September 15, 2011 -- The World Bank, in collaboration with more than 30 global partners, is launching the Connect4Climate initiative -- a campaign, a competition, and a community that cares about climate change.
The campaign kicks off today with a photo/video competition for African youth, aged 13 to 30, which is designed to raise awareness about climate change.
“The Connect4Climate competition is a chance to tap the rich potential of Africa’s youth – offering them a platform via our websites and Facebook pages – not only to articulate the challenges of climate change seen from their perspective, but also to use their enormous potential as agents of social change to raise awareness and mobilize for climate adaptation and mitigation within Africa,” said Obiageli Ezekwesili, Vice-President of the World Bank’s Africa Region.
Launching the competition at the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN) in Bamako today, World Bank Special Envoy for Climate Change Andrew Steer said, “Across Africa, there are many remarkable examples of action in response to the threat of climate change. These stories should be seen, read, and heard by young and old alike in Africa and around the world.”
Through photos and videos of 60 seconds or less, those entering the Connect4Climate competition are encouraged to answer the question: ‘What does climate change mean to you, your family, your community, your country?
“We are looking for candid and compelling stories that illustrate how climate change affects the everyday lives of people in Africa—and how they respond to it,” Steer added. “Connect4Climate will help young people to engage on this critical issue and give them a voice in the global climate change conversation.”
Participants in the competition are invited to share their personal stories and solutions for change in six Connect4Climate award categories: 1) Agriculture; 2) Energy; 3) Forests; 4) Gender; 5) Health; and 6) Water. Deadline for submissions is November 15, 2011.
Winners will be announced at the December 2011 United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP17) in Durban, South Africa. Prizes will include solar backpacks, video cameras, and computer tablets. The best entries will be featured in an exhibition at the conference.
Supporting both the competition and the campaign are more than 30 Connect4Climate partners, including international organizations, social media networks, UN agencies, NGOs, academic institutions, as well as civil society, private sector, public sector, and youth organizations.
Monique Barbut, CEO and Chairperson of the Global Environment Facility, one of C4C’s sponsors, said, “I expect this platform to be an inspiration for those most often regarded as too young to be heard. Now, young Africans can reach world audiences through this new social media channel. I am convinced that the search for solutions to today’s climate change challenges must include those who will suffer its consequences the most and have the most to contribute through their daily actions. These are the young stakeholders.”
With an ever-growing list of partners and collaborators, the Connect4Climate website and its associated social media platforms will act as a digital hub for all parties interested in raising awareness about climate change issues and participating in an interactive, global dialogue on climate change.
As the competition gains momentum, the connections made through Facebook and the images and videos uploaded on the website will jumpstart a global exchange amongst young activists with a passion for the environment and development.
Corrado Clini, the Director General of the Italian Ministry of Environment, one of Connect4Climate's core partners, said, "Today’s rapidly changing social media environment presents a great opportunity for global discussion and advocacy. With an impressive coalition of partners, Connect4Climate will amplify local voices and enable policymakers to listen and learn from the innovations that are happening throughout Africa."
Designed to include direct links to relevant World Bank and partner sites, the Connect4Climate website will feature photos, videos, podcasts, songs, articles, related campaigns, as well as ongoing and future climate change activities on the ground.
Follow C4C on twitter.com/connect4climate
Connect4Climate is a global partnership initiative supported by the World Bank and the Italian Ministry of Environment.
Connect4Climate Knowledge Partners include:
Africa Rural Connect/National Peace Corps Association, African Union, Cittadinanzattiva Onlus Convention on Biological Diversity, Children’s Radio Foundation, Coaches Across Continents, Communication for Sustainable Development Initiative (CSDI), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Flickr, Georgetown University Center for Social Impact Communication, Inter Press Service, IULM University, Johns Hopkins University-School of Advanced International Studies, Mwelu Foundation, NR2154, Project Diaspora, Solar Sister, www.soundtracker.fm, Television Trust for the Environment, United Nations Association-National Capital Area, UNDP, UNEP, UNESCO, UNF/Global Alliance for Clean Cook Stoves, UNFCCC, UNIC Pretoria, UNICEF, Unite4Climate Zambia (UNICEF), Voice of America, World Bank Institute IMAGE Network, Youthink!
Prizes kindly provided by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and UniCredit
Contact: Lucia Grenna, email@example.com , +1 202 415 3831 (Washington)
Sarwat Hussain, firstname.lastname@example.org , +27 12 431 3124 (Pretoria)
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Aug 13, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(CNS NEWS) – A report from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that lifting the ban on federal oil drilling in certain areas could increase U.S. petroleum reserves by 30 percent, including an estimated 8 billion barrels of oil in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR).
Using estimates from the Department of the Interior (DOI), CBO said that lifting federal drilling restrictions could bring billions more barrels of oil and gas to market.
“CBO estimates that about 175 billion barrels of oil equivalent (BOE) exists in undiscovered oil and gas reserves on federal lands (excluding most of the natural gas reserves in Alaska)—nearly half of it in the central and western parts of the Gulf of Mexico,” CBO said.
“About 70 percent of the undiscovered oil and gas is under federal control on lands that are currently open to leasing; thus, additional receipts would come from opening the other 30 percent to leasing and production.”
Thus, by lifting federal drilling bans in place in areas like ANWR and areas of the Outer Continental Shelf, oil-producing companies could gain access to an additional 30 percent of U.S. reserves – 52.5 billion barrels.
While the reserves are technically recoverable – meaning oil companies could extract the oil and gas — legal restrictions and current administration policies prohibit oil companies from doing so.
CBO excluded most of Alaska’s gas reserves because there is no infrastructure in place to transport the gas to market, a fact CBO said made them unlikely to be tapped.
The figures come from an August 9 CBO report examining the benefits the federal government would receive if it lifted all current drilling bans on federal lands, including ANWAR.
The report found that the government would earn $150 billion in additional revenue over the next decade if it lifted all current drilling restriction on federal lands.
However, CBO noted that the value of the leases would depend on oil prices – which largely determine whether oil companies develop the land on which they are permitted to drill.
If oil prices were to drop in coming years, oil companies would probably not develop all of their leases. However, if oil prices continue to climb, oil companies would probably move to develop as many leases as they can.
The oil and gas reserves that are closed to production are divided into two general categories – onshore and offshore. About 60 billion barrels of oil and gas are located onshore, of which about 20 percent – 12 billion barrels – are currently off-limits. Of those 12 billion barrels, five percent are under national parks where drilling is legally prohibited and 15 percent are on other federal lands where government policy prohibits drilling.
Most of the prohibited reserves lie in the OCS, the underwater region between three and 200 nautical miles from the U.S. coastline, which are currently off-limits due to federal policy. However, CBO and Interior estimate that due to current technological limitations, only about 350 million barrels will actually be recovered from this region over the next decade.
That estimate could change should the industry make technological advances like those that have enabled current deep water drilling to take place or if prices rise sufficiently to make increased production cost effective.
Also, state policy, particularly in California, will also play a large role in whether oil companies are allowed to develop reserves in the OCS.
ANWR is the most promising region that is currently off limits. While the exact amount of royalties the federal government would receive would depend on legislation lifting the ban on drilling in ANWR, CBO said that “significant new opportunities” for oil and gas production would become available.
“If the statutory ban on leasing in ANWR — which is estimated to contain roughly 8 percent of the nation’s undiscovered oil — was lifted, significant new opportunities for oil production would become available,” CBO said.
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Jumpstart your Science Career!
It’s never too early to be thinking about the next step in your career, so prepare yourself by doing your research, asking questions and attending some of the careers events on offer!
Join us on Thursday 2 May, 5:45-8pm in the New Law School Building for a conference style careers information evening for science students from all disciplines and degree stages.
Come and meet employers and industry experts from a variety of backgrounds and industries to get the answers to your career related questions. You are also invited to network and mingle with presenters over complimentary drinks and canapés at the conclusion of the sessions.
Date: Thursday 2 May 2013
Time: 5:45pm - 8:00pm
Venue: New Law School Building
|6:00pm - 7:15pm||
Pathways in Psychology: Careers and the Registration Process
|7:15pm - 8:15pm||Drinks and networking
New Law School Foyer (outside lecture theatre 101)
This is your opportunity to network with the presenters over drinks and canapes.
Venue: New Law School Lecture Theatre 101
If you are currently studying Psychology and would like to know your career options, come along to this seminar to hear about opportunities for graduates with a major or honours in Psychology. Sadhana Raju from the School of Psychology will provide an overview of the diverse career options in Psychology and the qualifications required to get there.
Special guest presenter Belinda Gottschalk from the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency will explain the requirements to achieve registration as a Psychologist in Australia.
Venue: New Law School Lecture Theatre 026
Make your dream of finding the cure to a disease a reality - with a career in biomedical and clinical research. Untangling the mechanisms of how diseases occur, progress and possible treatments, is an incredibly rewarding field with the potential to impact millions of lives around the world.
Sydney PhD graduate, Dr Lawrence Lee from the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, will share his experiences working in the areas of structural and computational biology and the positive impacts his research could have on the community.
Dr Julie Ince-Demetriou from Cancer Institute NSW has extensive experience in clinical trials and will provide an insight into her work, the biomedical industry and useful tips on how to find graduate positions in this exciting and dynamic industry.
Venue: New Law School Annexe Seminar Room 442
A career in research is an incredible opportunity for you to extend your knowledge, build practical skills and pursue your passion in a specialist subject. The sector is rapidly changing, and postgraduate research graduates are highly valued by a range of employers for their analytical talents, time management, problem solving skills and independence.
At this session you will hear from Dr Thomas Newsome, an Honorary Research Fellow of the Desert Ecology Research Group at the University of Sydney and Senior Ecologist at the Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation. Dr Newsome’s career has involved both the private and public sectors, taken him across the world and included projects spanning engineering ecology and animal management. As a recent Fulbright Scholarship recipient, Dr Newsome will also discuss his plans to travel to Oregon State University (OSU) to collaborate with researchers from OSU and the University of Washington on research into the reintroduction of wolves into Yellowstone National Park.
Venue: New Law School Seminar Room 028
A degree in Biology opens up a world of possibilities from work in medical research, to protecting biodiversity, through to science communication. Discover the diverse career opportunities available for biology graduates at this session where you will hear from a leading medical researcher as well as a committed conservationist.
Samantha Ginn, a PhD graduate, now working as a Senior Researcher at Children’s Medical Research Institute will discuss her career pathway and offer an insight into the cutting edge work she undertakes in genetics.
Kirstin Proft will discuss her role as a Biodiversity Conservation Officer for the National Parks Association of NSW. Kirstin's role includes communications, policy and campaigning on a variety of land-based and marine conservation issues.
Venue: New Law School Seminar Room 020
Do you have a passion for the environment and an interest in conserving it for future generations? Sustainability is a key global issue and governments and large organisations are seeking to employ individuals to develop and implement solutions to the complex problems facing our resource-constrained society.
Find out about Westpac’s sustainability position and the bank’s strategic and commercial response to climate change from Emma Herd, Westpac’s Director of Emissions and Environment.
As a Carbon Analyst for Climate Friendly, Elsa Dominish helps provide innovative carbon management solutions to businesses to assist them in reducing their carbon footprint. Come along to this session to hear more about Elsa’s work and find out more about this growing sector.
Venue: New Law School Seminar Room 030
Come along to this session to get the tools, tips and advice you need to find your dream job.
Paul Grainger from APESMA will show you how to develop a best in class resume and portfolio as well as negotiate a contract so you get an industry competitive salary.
APESMA is the leading professional association for all Australian scientists, so whether you are an environmental scientist who wants to work for Water Utility, a Geologist who wants to get into mining, a physicist who wants to work with the synchrotron or a biologist who wants to get into medical research- Paul Grainger will ensure you have the best chance by giving you APESMA’s decades of experience and expertise as an industry leader.
The Careers Centre can help you!
Did you know that Sydney University offers a specialist careers service just for you? The Careers Centre offers a wide range of free services to enrolled students including: Career Fairs on campus, Employer Presentations, an extensive jobs database (casual, vacation, internships, part-time and graduate vacancies), a range of career workshop including Resume Rescue workshops 3 times per week, professional careers advice; help with career direction; and a careers resource centre. The Careers Centre is located on Level 5 of the Jane Foss Russell building on City Road.
The Careers Centre regularly holds seminars specfically for Science students. Check back here for an updated list of careers seminars for Science students.
Studying overseas makes your CV stand out
Employers take notice when you've studied abroad. They value the initiative, global perspective and independence displayed by candidates who have gone on exchange.
The International Student Office runs regular information sessions for students considering a year overseas on exchange at one of the University’s exchange partners.
All students should check with the Faculty of Science to ensure there are no restrictions on their program of study before applying for the exchange. The following eligibility criteria normally apply for the University-wide student exchange programs:
- Undergraduate students must have completed 48 credit points at Sydney University at the time of application (you can apply in the second semester of first year to depart in the second semester of second year).
- You must have achieved at least a credit average (65% or higher) over your academic record at Sydney University and should have passed all subjects.
- You must be enrolled as a full-time student at Sydney University while away on exchange, taking classes that will count as credit towards your normal Sydney enrolment i.e. you cannot study classes overseas for recreation or personal interest.
- You must have sufficient funding for the exchange period.
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Mag20 wants to implement automated testing at his company. Problem is, he's tried several times before, but has failed every time. "Everyone gets excited for the first month or two," he writes. "Then, several months in, people simply stop doing it." But now seems like the right time to try bringing automated testing back to the workplace—Mag20's team of 20 experienced developers are about to embark on a big new project.
How can he finally introduce automated testing at his company?
Be okay with messing up
The hardest part of doing unit testing is getting the discipline to write tests first and early. Most developers are used to just diving into code. It also slows down the development process early on as you are trying to figure out how to write a test for the code. However, as you get better at testing, this speeds up. And because of the writing tests, the initial quality of the code starts off higher.
When starting out, try just to write tests. Don't worry so much about mocking/stubbing things in the beginning. Keep the tests simple. Tests are code and can/should be refactored. Though along those lines if something is hard to test, it could also be the design. TDD does drive towards using most design patterns (in my experience, particularly the Factory pattern).
Make sure that the tests get a level of visibility. Integrate them in the release process and ask about them during code review. Any bugs found should get a test. These things are where TDD shines.
Here are a couple of resources that I have found useful:
One thing to keep in mind when you are writing tests: you are not trying to specify anything about the implementation of the code, only the behavior. When you write code, you test it all the time. Trying to execute it with debug statements and so on. Writing tests formalizes this and provides a record of the tests that you have. That way you can check your functionality confidently without accidentally skipping a test case that you remembered halfway through the development process.
Who believes in testing?
In many ways I agree with your team.
- Most unit tests are questionable in value, since the vast majority of tests seem to be too simple.
- It is much harder to write good testable code than just working code. There's a large percentage of the developer community that believes in "just get it to work," versus code/design quality in itself. And an even larger percentage who don't even know what quality code is.
- It can take much longer to write the unit test code than the actual code itself.
- Figuring out how to adequately test the more complicated code (i.e. the stuff you really are interested in thoroughly testing) is beyond many developers capabilities.
- Maintaining unit tests takes too much time. Small changes can have big ripple effects. The main goal of automated unit tests is to find out if changes broke the code. However, 99 percent of the time what ends up breaking are the tests and not the code.
With all the above problems, there still isn't a better way to be able to make code changes and have some level of confidence that something didn't unexpectedly break than by automating your tests.
Some of the above can be alleviated to some degree by not going by the textbook of unit testing.
Many types of designs/applications are better tested by automating tests at the module/package level. In my experience, most coding errors are not because the code in a class was coded incorrectly but because the coder didn't understand how their class was supposed to work with other classes. I have seen a lot of bang for the buck in this type of testing. But once again, these tests are harder to write than unit (class level) tests.
It really boils down to whether the developers believe in the process or not. If they do, then they'll write good unit tests, find errors early and be proponents. If they don't, then their unit tests will be by and large useless and won't find any errors and their theory of unit tests being useless will be proven true (in their minds).
Bottom line is that I've never seen the full blown automated unit testing approach work for more than a couple months myself, but the idea of automated unit tests still persists although we are selective in what really needs testing. This approach tends to have far less critics and is more accepted by all the developers rather than just a few.
One thing that I haven't seen clearly addressed in the answers above is that unit testing is essentially a public good and a private cost. I've written a blog post about it.
What it comes down to is that while a suite of tests benefits the team or an individual developer, writing the test is a cost to the one doing it, most of the time.
In short, unless writing the test is enforced somehow—and the answers above list a number of different ways to do that—there's no reason for an individual developer to do this.
In one company that I've worked at, writing unit tests was a required part of delivering a feature. New code was not accepted unless a unit test was part of the commit or new feature—there were brief code reviews for every "task" that a developer was given. It may be worthwhile to implement a similar policy at your workplace.
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Federal funding secured for new interchange to serve the Anschutz Medical Campus and Fitzsimons Life Science District
AURORA, Colo. – A major component of Colorado’s bioscience industry received an economic boost to help it contribute to the state’s economy. A new interchange serving the Anschutz Medical Campus and Fitzsimons Life Science District located at I-225 and Colfax Avenue/17th Place in Aurora received a total of $13,825,000 in federal funding in recent weeks to begin the first few stages of construction. A new interchange has a price tag of $43 million.
The Anschutz/Fitzsimons site, which currently employees 15,900, is the home of the University of Colorado Denver health sciences operations, the University of Colorado Hospital, The Children’s Hospital, the new Veterans Administration Hospital, and several other centers for health care, biomedical research and workforce development. In addition to the employee numbers mentioned above, there are patients, students, faculty, volunteers and visitors that visit the site for a total of 22,797 people visiting Anschutz/Fitzsimons everyday. These visits account for 58,000 car trips in and out of the site on a daily basis. The current interchange that serves the majority of this traffic was built decades ago and designed to have a capacity of 4,000 vehicles per day.
“The Anschutz Medical Campus and Fitzsimons Life Science District is the perfect project for the federal government to invest the economic stimulus,” stated Wendy Mitchell, president and CEO of the Aurora Economic Development Council. “This is a project that contributed $3.5 billion dollars to our state’s economy last year with $1.4 billion generated in personal income. In just four short years, the site will employ 21,041 directly, contribute $4.5 billion annually to Colorado’s economy and generate $1.8 billion in personal income. I can’t think of a better project in Colorado for the tax payers to support.”
Mitchell credits the coordination between Colorado’s Congressional Delegation and the Anschutz/Fitzsimons Stakeholders Group (of which the Aurora Economic Development Council takes a leadership role) as making the funding a reality. Stakeholders include the University of Colorado Denver, the University of Colorado Hospital, The Children's Hospital, Forest City Development, Fitzsimons Redevelopment Authority, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the city of Aurora.
At build-out, the Anschutz/Fitzsimons site will be a $5.2 billion investment, consist of approximately 18.5 million square feet and employ 44,569 people (direct jobs, no multiplier).
The city of Aurora has divided the construction of the interchange in four phases:
- Phase 1: $1.1 million – construction of SB on-ramp from Colfax Avenue to I-225
- Phase 2: $11.3 million – construction of NB on-ramp from Colfax Avenue to I-225.
- Phase 3: $16.2 million – construction of SB off-ramp from I-225 to Colfax Avenue/17th Place, NB off-ramp I-225 to 17th Place, and 17th Place overpass.
- Phase 4: $13.8 million – construction of 17th Place to overpass at I-225.
The secured federal funding for the interchange can be broken down by the following:
- $1,425,000 from the FY09 federal budget (Omnibus bill).
- $1.1 million from CDOT for phase 1 construction (federal economic stimulus).
- $11.3 million from DRCOG for phase 2 construction (federal economic stimulus).
About the Aurora Economic Development Council
A partnership between business and government for more than three decades, the Aurora Economic Development Council is a leader for Colorado’s most promising growth industries – including aerospace, defense and bioscience – positioning Aurora and Colorado to win new jobs in these sectors in an intensely competitive market. We create new primary jobs through innovative deal creation, strategic partnerships, and by advocating for economically sustainable public policy. The Aurora Economic Development Council is a private, not-for-profit 501(c)(6) comprised of the leading 100 companies in the Aurora/Denver metro area, the city of Aurora, Adams and Arapahoe Counties. For more information on the Aurora Economic Development Council, visit www.auroraedc.com.
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Remember when teachers were actually held in high regard? It used to be that students actually respected their so-called second parents , and parents actually made sure that their kids treated teachers with respect. Now, teachers are getting cursed out by students in elementary school, and parents aren’t doing much to curb their children’s behavior. With all the educational issues going on today, the last thing a teacher wants is a classroom full of out of control youth. Not only does it upset them, but it can also make them lose their passion. How can you help a child who is being directly, or indirectly, taught that mediocre is just fine? How can you teach the kids who want to learn, when 85% of the class is being disruptive?
Teachers today deal with more than teachers of the past have had to; yet simultaneously they are becoming less and less appreciated. True, there are teachers that would rather slack than teach, but I believe that the average teacher truly does care and is doing the best that they can with what they’re given.
Students spend, or should I say, are supposed to spend, as much time at school as adults do at work. With school being their second home, it’s only right that students should treat their teachers right. Many teachers not only teach what's in the book, they also change lives. Sometimes, students don’t have parents who care, and their teachers fill the void for the positive role model they're lacking. As a teacher, I believe you’re supposed to do more than quote facts. You’re supposed to attempt to leave some type of mark on your students that they will carry with them throughout life.
Particularly in high school, many of my teachers were my refuge. One teacher in particular was more like a mother to me. To this day, I can call her and talk to her; and I graduated in 2004. She shared my triumphs, and my pains and it wasn’t because she had to, it was because she chose to.
For thirty years, my grandmother was a teacher for the Caddo Parish School System here in Shreveport, Louisiana. All my life, I’ve watched her teach and help mold lives. You see, my Nana was, and still is, one of those rare teachers, active or retired, that actually cares about the kids. She even cared about the kids that weren’t hers. To this day, she still has former students who call her and tell her how she impacted them.
Who knows, maybe those people wouldn’t be who they are today had they not come into contact with a teacher who actually cared about them. There are so many good teachers still out there and many more potentially good teachers on their way into the field. If we don’t start trying to truly save our education system, which most definitely includes the teachers, then our kids may unfortunately have a grim future ahead of them.
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SEMA model legislation (H.B. 143) that would create a vehicle registration classification for street rods and custom vehicles was approved today by the Utah House of Representatives and has been sent to the Utah Senate for consideration. H.B. 143 defines a street rod as an altered vehicle manufactured before 1949 and a custom as an altered vehicle at least 25 years old and manufactured after 1948. The bill allows kit cars and replica vehicles to be assigned a certificate of title bearing the same model year designation as the production vehicle they most closely resemble.
* H.B. 143 provides specific registration and titling classes for street rods and customs, including kits and replicas. Street rods are of a pre-1949 vintage; custom cars are at least 25-years old and of a model year after 1948.
* H.B. 143 requires that the title of a replica vehicle must clearly indicate that the vehicle is a replica and not an original.
* H.B. 143 allows for the use of non-original materials and creates a titling and registration criterion that assigns these vehicles the same model year designation as the production vehicle they most closely resemble.
* H.B. 143 provides that vehicles titled and registered as street rods and custom vehicles may only be used for occasional transportation, exhibitions, club activities, parades, tours, etc. and not for general daily transportation.
* H.B. 143 recognizes the immeasurable amount of time, money and attention automotive enthusiasts invest in their hobby cars. Street rods and custom cars are the same crowd pleasers that participate in exhibitions and as parade vehicles, and whose owners regularly contribute to charities and civic events. This legislation represents an opportunity to acknowledge this family hobby and to protect it for future generations.
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With high fuel prices, plan on higher fertilizer costs next year. In Minnesota, for example, these high prices may cause farmers to change how they traditionally use fertilizer nitrogen (N).
The production of anhydrous ammonia is directly linked to natural gas prices. Because anhydrous ammonia is the starting point for other fertilizers like urea, liquid N and ammonium nitrate, expect the prices of these to increase with the price of natural gas, says George Rehm, University of Minnesota soil scientist.
Growers have a few options to consider, including alternative N sources like ammonium sulfate or manure. Since the production of these is not directly linked to the production of anhydrous ammonia, they could be a more cost-efficient choice.
Another alternative is to use best management practices that will minimize the loss of applied N. Rehm says that fall application of N fertilizer is not a good option in eastern Minnesota. The large majority of the soils in the region are well drained and, understanding this property, there is ample time for preplant, sidedress or split applications of N as a substitute for fall applications.
Depth of application, split applications and matching the time of N application to soil texture are all things growers should consider, he adds. These can help determine when fall application is the most practical choice, or if there is a better alternative.
Estimates made by the Potash and Phosphate Institute (PPI), however, show that many growers in key production areas aren't replacing the soil nutrients removed by crops. If growers cut back now in order to save money, it could cost higher yields in the long run.
“The best and most accurate way for growers to know what nutrients will be needed by the crops they grow is to conduct a soil test,” says Paul Fixen, director of research at PPI. “This management tool allows growers to take much of the guesswork out of a soil fertility program and to better predict which nutrients are needed in certain fields.”
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Haiti (MNN) ― The 7.0-magnitude quake that shook Haiti on January 12 left much of the capital Port-au-Prince in ruins.
The disaster destroyed the infrastructure and the seat of government, causing a humanitarian catastrophe.
Four months later, hundreds of quake survivors are still in limbo. These survivors are the orphans. At the best of times, Haiti counted just 100 licensed orphanages and 67 orphanages licensed to perform adoptions.
Eva DeHart, founder of For Haiti With Love, says that poses a unique problem now for their staff members. "The government brought five little girls to the orphanage and just said, ‘You will take these.' Presume asked, ‘Do they come with food?' The guys from the government just laughed, ‘Of course they don't come with food.' They have more kids than they know what to do with, and they're forcing existing orphanages to take them."
As the government continues to restructure, many of the larger aid groups are focusing on helping to rebuild. A double bind of time and funding is forming. Monies going to help Haiti are either going to Port-au-Prince or being held for rebuilding and long-term projects.
It seems as if smaller organizations such as For Haiti with Love are left to keep people alive. DeHart says, "We thought those first few weeks were the biggest challenge, but it was only the slow beginning of a daily increasing need."
For Haiti With Love works in Cap Haitien, an already overcrowded city now burgeoning with refugees from the quake zone. More kids, rising prices and falling funding means they need help.
In spite of the starkness of their future, kids and families are finding hope. DeHart says the Gospel is going forward. "We're using Proclaimers [audio players]; we've had gifts of Creole New Testaments by the case. Everyone who comes is blessed by the Word of God. Pray that the ears are open and that we have the resources, strength and primarily wisdom."
You can help. Click here for details.
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Each volume of Novels for Students contains easily accessible and content-rich discussions of the literary and historical background of 12 to 15 works from various cultures and time periods. Each novel included in this new resource was specially chosen by an advisory panel of teachers and librarians -- experts who have helped us define the information needs of students and ensure the age-appropriateness of this reference's content.
Each volume (beginning with volume 32) will include two "Literature to Film" entries. Entries profiling film versions of plays/novels not only diversify the study of plays/novels but support alternate learning styles, media literacy, and film studies curricula as well.
Here are some of the novels they will find - "All Quiet on the Western Front" (Film entry) by Maxwell Anderson; "Island of Dr. Moreau" by H.G. Wells; "The Red Tent" by Anita Diamant; and "The Third Man" by Graham Greene.
You may also be interested in For Students Online - the complete For Students Collection in eBook format.
While Gale strives to replicate print content, some content may not be available in the eBook version due to rights restrictions. Call your Sales Rep for details.
"The clear writing style, thorough coverage of each novel, excellent organization of guides and attractive, easy-to-read layouts all serve to make this a welcome source for students needing to do literary research. The organization, writing style that is appropriate for students and content that is geared to meet curricular needs are features that make Novels for Students a series that will be welcome in libraries serving youth."
-- ARBA (American Reference Books Annual) 1999
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(AP) Iran pushes to blunt UN nuke agency powers
By GEORGE JAHN
Iran is urging member countries to dilute the clout of Western nations at the U.N. nuclear agency that fears it may be trying to make atomic arms. Instead, it wants its allies to have more authority.
The bid is outlined in a document submitted for the International Atomic Energy Agency's General Conference next month. It appears to be part of Tehran's efforts to weaken IAEA attempts to follow up suspicions it has experimented with components of a nuclear weapons program.
Iran denies such allegations and says it is enriching uranium _ which could be used to arm nuclear warheads _ only to make reactor fuel, medical isotopes and for research. But it has refused foreign offers of reactor fuel and is blocking IAEA attempts to investigate the weapons allegations.
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The Life Cycle
Children are the greatest gift life can bring. You will experience one of the most exciting times in your life.
Congratulations! One of the most exciting events in life is beginning. Your child will provide you with endless moments of excitement even during the actual pregnancy – and plenty more after he is born.
0 - 3 months
A new world! What a lot there is to marvel at and experience! This is of course just the start of exciting times ahead – for your child, your partner and of course for you too.
4 - 6 months
This is the age when the intrepid little explorer starts to make his first new discoveries: Everything is exciting and new, every voice, every touch is a source of great intrigue.
7 - 9 months
This is when the first real expeditions begin: Whether your baby rolls, crawls or scuttles around, he will be fascinated by anything that appears within reach.
The motto here is to play, play, play. Your child's deft little fingers really start to work their magic and they can already do amazing things: A little bit more every single day.
It's wonderful to see how standing, walking and running are so easy. You feel really grown-up – and of course you want to have your say at every opportunity.
This is when things really start to take off: Your child marches through the big wide world with real confidence and every adult they meet is enchanted by their infectious joy.
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Harold Kassel questions Neil Armstrong's elevation to hero status (22 September, p 28). Yet Armstrong was the first to deprecate his own role and acknowledge the part played by all the NASA scientists and engineers involved in the moon missions.
The status he held as a result of his role he carried with great dignity. Uniquely, the Apollo 11 mission emblem does not name the crew, as the astronauts wanted to ensure it was applicable to all who worked on the mission.
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By Andrew Brandt
It’s been a long time since I’ve worked on a malware file as singularly obnoxious as Worm-Shiv, a new worm we defined a few weeks ago. There isn’t anything especially technically avant-garde or advanced about the worm, nor was it especially difficult to detect or remove. It just exhibits behavior that, to be blunt, is about as annoying as it possibly can be.
The infection process starts with a small self-extracting RAR archive executable. When run, it drops and executes another .exe file, which in turn drops and executes yet another .exe file. Sounds pretty unobtrusive so far, right?
Well, even though the worm might have snuck by unnoticed, it would be hard to characterize its operational behavior as “staying below the radar.” The worm puts a copy of a file named wsock32.dll into every single folder on the hard drive. Every. Single. One. On my test system there were more than 200 copies left behind.
Then the fun begins.
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This week’s story is a response to one of Agent Courtney’s writing prompts: “He opened the last box, and inside he found…” Slipping it in just before the August 26 deadline. Enjoy.
A Handler’s voice, booming and rough. Jovo looked up, shading his eyes from the scouring noonday sun. No – not just one Handler but two, approaching slowly from the landrunner they’d parked some distance away. He gripped the shovel tighter.
One was bad enough. Two meant trouble.
He stepped out of the shallow hole he’d been digging, laid down the shovel, and began the usual gesture: a deep bow, pressing his nose as close to his knees as he could manage, though the effort sent waves of agony down his tired back. But he’d barely begun when he paused, noticing what he had not seen before in the dusty summer haze: only one of these two men wore Handler white. The robes on the other were light blue.
Jovo’s breath caught on the scorching air and he dropped to the ground, prostrating himself. He pressed his cheek silently to the white-baked earth, spread his callused fingers on its surface, praying he had not been too slow. The rock-hard soil burned him, dirtied his ragged beard, but he ignored all that. Life and death in this land came not from the heat, but from the hands of men like these.
A Master. What did it mean?
Jovo could see nothing but the long vertical horizon, yellow ground against yellow sky, but he heard them murmuring to each other in their outlanders’ language: those soft, melodious tones, so alien in this cracked wasteland. Then scuffles and grunts, as of something being moved. What were they moving that was so valuable they couldn’t trust a slave’s hands to the job?
Now the Master’s voice again, louder, and the Handler translating: “Stand up, slave!”
Jovo rose, taking care to keep his eyes down. His friend Marva had forgotten once; he tried not to imagine Marva’s left hand, the pock-scarred stump where the third finger had been.
“You may look up, slave, but take care not to look at the Master.”
Not knowing where the Master stood, Jovo looked up very slowly indeed.
A red blanket, stained white with dust already, lay spread over the bare earth. On the blanket sat three cubes. Beyond, at the edge of his peripheral vision, two men lurked shadowlike. The cubes were an arm’s length on each side, brilliantly gleaming blue-green metal, surfaces worked with ornate curls. Smooth oval gems shone white and gold along all the edges, and one fat jewel sat clear as water in the center of each square face.
The boxes looked identical at first, but a moment’s study revealed that was not quite true. The middle box was just a little bigger than the left one, and the right box just a little bigger than the middle.
Again the master’s voice, like music, and the harsh echo of the Handler.
“The Master is pleased with your work, slave. As a reward for your labor, the Master permits you to open these three boxes and gaze on their contents.”
Rubbish, of course. The only reward for labor was not to be killed. And what nonsense was it, anyway, to open a box and look inside but not get to keep it? What game were they playing?
Only, the men’s shadows retreated now, and he knew. They were afraid. Something dangerous was in these boxes – or at least, the Master suspected there might be.
So have a slave open them. Jovo was old, anyway, close to useless in his late forties. No great loss if something happened. That was how they thought, these men, and he had found it useful to learn exactly how they thought.
Jovo stumbled forward, squatted on the blanket in front of the leftmost, smallest box. He reached forth trembling, sun-dark fingers, but stopped short of the brilliant metal. He did not ask the question; speech was forbidden, mostly. But his wide-eyed questioning look was enough.
“Yes, start with that one,” said the Handler. “Smallest to largest – may as well do it in the order she wanted. Touch the center jewel on top.” Still he heard them backing further away. What were these boxes, to frighten them so?
And who was ‘she’?
But despite his fear, he never even considered disobeying. Nothing atop this blanket could be worse than a Handler’s wrath. Again Marva’s four fingers flashed in his mind, that awful, obscene gap.
His own fingers brushed the top center jewel of the first box, surprisingly cool under the pitiless sun. The top split into four triangular pieces as the four sides fell away. Inside sat a silver dish. A pale blue lasergram flickered to life above it, taking the form of a shimmering woman four meters tall. Jovo dared not raise his eyes too far – the Master still waited some distance away – but he could see the gown of pure light, the bare feet peeking out from the folds.
Belatedly he noticed the Summerstar ring on her big toe – a sign that even slaves recognized. This was an image of the Empress Herself, Monarch of the Hundred Thousand Lands, Keeper of the Light of Centuries. He hurled himself to the blanket once more, burying his cheek in its softness, genuflecting before these hallowed photons. Was this only a recording, or could she see him now? His skin turned cold in the pounding heat.
“Lord Feumis,” said the lasergram, a woman’s voice, not melodious like the Master’s but cool and flat as iron, proper as the sun. Yet he relaxed. Only a recording. “I greet you in the language of your servants to remind you that you are my servant. But I greet you by name. You are a servant, not a slave.
“You know I am not pleased that anyone in my Empire should indulge in slaving, by far the least palatable of your world’s numerous…blotches. Yet a wise ruler respects the customs of her lands. So I present you these gifts, that you may know I am everyone’s Empress, even yours. Take them in peace.”
Gifts from the Empress. So that was what had them so worried. Marva said the Empress was no great friend of this backwater region, and might well try to assassinate one of their leaders if she saw an advantage. But that had sounded like a friendly enough speech. He cradled his fingers and they shook a bit less.
He took no pleasure, though, from her lip service toward the Emancipation Movement. Her Imperial Majesty said a lot of things, but little had changed since she captured these lands eighteen years ago.
“The next one,” called the Handler. Jovo rose and obeyed.
This time the box opened on an oval mirror, its border gilded even more lavishly than the containers themselves. Jovo looked into this gift that was meant for the Master, studying the careworn lines of his own face, the eyes like old granite, the fear he’d hoped would be less obvious. A slave’s face, surrounded by swirls of gold.
A halo, perhaps. Or an omen.
He opened the last box, and inside he found a machine.
It was a fat thing, the size of a dog but utterly alien, a convoluted mess of black tubes and black spines and dull gray metal.
“What is it?” shouted the Handler, and the tremor in that voice was unmistakable now.
Jovo reached forward, setting his fingers on the strange device –
Quick as heat lightning the metal – unfolded, opening klik-klak-krak and shooting up his hand, his arm, his entire body. In less than a second it coated him like a suit of armor. Knobby gray gauntlets snapped cold and tight around his hands, thick robotic sinews clung to his thighs. A green visor slipped over his face. He stumbled back, and the suit moved with him.
A recording of the Empress’s voice crackled in his ear.
“Oh, my,” she said, not sounding the least bit surprised, “DNA sensors indicate you aren’t Lord Feumis at all. He must have had one of his slaves open it. How very unexpected. And now, alas, there will probably be a slave rebellion. If only he had trusted me more, this politically convenient tragedy might have been avoided. As it is, you’ll most likely start all sorts of trouble with your brand-new, fully-automatic Phlogiston missile launcher, which you can fire by curling your right forefinger.”
The voice switched off.
A bolt of piercing orange light rocketed from the Handler’s painstaff into Jovo’s metal-encrusted torso. It bounced away harmlessly.
Jovo looked up and, for the first time in his life, met the Master’s gaze. Through the green visor, those unassailable eyes looked stark and fearful. The Master – the man – turned and scrambled away. Jovo followed, invincible, taking meters at a stride. More orange beams failed to hurt him.
The targeting computer drew a thin blue circle around his retreating form, and the missile launcher on Jovo’s right arm clicked invitingly.
He smiled, and thought of Marva.
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570 FOBTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. C11. 137. 1883. Quorum. law. Any seven of them shall constitute a quorum and zu clerk ap- R‘?°°'d of P"' pointed by the Commissioners shall keep a full and accurate account of °°°d’"gs‘ their proceedings and orders. They shall immediately proceed to equalize the valuation made as aforesaid by the assessors, so that each lots and tract, and the improvements thereon, shall be entered upon the True valuation tax-list at their true value in money; and for this purpose they shall i¤ ¤*°¤*?Y· hear such complaints as may be made in respect of said assessment, ' lg;2;’"g °f °°"°` and in determining them they may raise the valuations of such tracts Por lot as, in their opinion, may have been returned below th cir true , value, and reduce the valuation of such as they may believe to have been returned above their true value to such sum as, in their opinion may be the true value thereof ; but they shall not reduce the aggregate value of the real property below the aggregate value thereof as made Report made to and returned by said assessors. All assessments and cqualizatious C¤>¤¤¤i¤¤i<>¤¤¤'¤» made pursuant to the provisions of this act shall be iinally completed °'·"· and be reported to the Commissioners of the District on or before the first Monday of August of each year in which an assessment is made. P¤·y <>f ¤¤¤•¤·>¤°¤¤· Sec. 10. That each assessor shall be entitled to receive for each day necessarily employed in the performance of his duties tho sum of iivo dollars, for ss period not exceeding one hundred and fifty days. Vammouaamu- Sec. 11. That tho valuation of the real property made and cqualizcd d¤¤?d *0 ¤°¤¤*·i§¤*° as aforesaid shall constitute the basis of taxation for the next succeed-
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Our CTO has recently answered an important question on Quora about build-vs-buy for data monetization solutions and we thought it was worth repeating here:
Monetizing data is a difficult technological and operational challenge. If your goal is to unlock your data’s full revenue potential, you need to be able to reach all possible data buyers and reach them efficiently, but doing so with an in-house solution takes a lot of effort:
For example, buyers who are looking for data that can be integrated into their own applications may prefer the data in the form of an API. Creating a best-practices API that conforms to all necessary standards (e.g. REST, XML, JSON) and has the right authentication / API key mechanism, the right metering/pricing mechanism, the right level of documentation, etc, is a difficult task in itself.
Other data buyers may be looking to download data in bulk, either in whole or in part (for example, to be analyzed in a spreadsheet). Here, one needs to create an online tool to select, pay for, download, and often re-download the right subset of data; The tool must have sufficient usability for non-technical data buyers, and must support all necessary data formats – again, a difficult set of challenges.
Regardless of how the data is delivered, a data vendor needs to provide a mechanism for data buyers to sign up and pay for data online in a self-service way. Mechanisms are also needed for data vendors to validate buyers and prevent fraud, to view reports/analytics on data purchase activity, to set up data pricing rules (which may often be fairly complex) or other access plans such as free trials and promotions.
Finally, there are the operational challenges: payments need to be processed from data buyers, payment issues need to be resolved, technical support must be provided (which is especially difficult in the case of buyers who access data via APIs), SLAs must be maintained, data needs to be hosted and continuously updated.
WebServius, as well as a number of other companies, set out to solve all of the challenges above. There are economies of scale at play here, and it is far more efficient for these challenges to be solved once for all data providers on a particular platform, than for each provider to reinvent the wheel.
For data vendors, we set out to offerr a true end-to-end data monetization experience: If you provide us with access to valuable data, we will provide you with a way to monetize it in a variety of compelling ways (APIs, bulk data download, etc.), without you having to worry about any of the difficult problems above, and with you staying in full control of the pricing, branding and terms.
An analogy here is the sale of physical goods: If you are selling physical goods online, it is often much more efficient to leverage an existing platform (Amazon Stores, Amazon FBA, eBay, etc.) than to build out an entire e-Commerce solution from scratch. I see WebServius and some of our competitors as the “Amazon/eBay of data”.
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The Gill Center was built in two stages, 45 years apart. The original gymnasium (the third such facility on campus) was built in 1939 with the generous support of its namesake, Robert J. Gill. The second phase of the complex (which included a large field house, fitness center, wrestling room, and locker facilities) was opened in 1984. Funds from the Gill estate helped to pay for the new facility. The physical education facility in itself is much like similar ones on other campuses, but the person for whom the complex is named is unique to McDaniel College.
Robert J. Gill (1889 - 1983) graduated as Valedictorian of the Class of 1910. He was also the class president, captain of the football team, basketball manager, and an excellent student. After receiving his A.B. degree, he enrolled in the University of Virginia Law School, from which he received his LL.B. degree. Soon thereafter he entered the army to serve in World War I. He then became a successful corporate lawyer and a devoted trustee of his alma mater (following in his clergyman-father's footsteps). During the early 1930s he spearheaded a movement to put the college on the football map, and for a few years, Western Maryland College was a football power. A change in college administration in 1935 (and the departure of the successful coach) allowed the college to return to its academic roots. During World War II, Gill again saw service, and at the conclusion of the war this soldier-lawyer, now a Brigadier General, was adjutant to Justice Jackson at the Nuremburg trials. Continuing to love and support his alma mater, the life-long bachelor eventually became chairman of the College Board of Trustees from 1963-1968, but he did not live to see the Gill Center completed, dying on his 94th birthday in 1983. He was known as "Mr. Western Maryland" and truly lived up to the name.
In January 1997 the original Gill Gymnasium burned. It was rebuilt and refurbished and serves as a venue for physical education classes and intramural activities.
Bulletin of the Historical Society of Carroll County, Maryland 2, no. 2 (May 1952).
Chandler, Douglas R. Pilgrimage of Faith; A Centennial History of Wesley Theological Seminary--1882-1982. Santa Ana, CA: Seven Locks Press, 1984.
Makisky, John D. "Western Maryland College in the Nineteenth Century." Western Maryland College Bulletin [n.d.].
Schofield, Samuel Biggs, and Marjorie Cowles Crain. Western Maryland College The Formative Years, 1866-1947. Westminster, MD: Western Maryland College, 1982.
Weeks, Christopher. "The Building of Westminster in Maryland." Bulletin of the Historical Society of Carroll County, Maryland 2, no. 1 (May 1949).
Zepp, Ira G. "Western Maryland College: The Hill." In A Grateful Memory: History of Baker Chapel. Westminster, MD: Western Maryland College, 1995.
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South Carolina & Georgia Development Groups Join Next Generation Nuclear Plant Industry Alliance
Ridgeland Mississippi – Today the Savannah River Site Community Reuse Organization (SRSCRO) and the Advanced Research Center (ARC) announced their membership in the Next Generation Nuclear Plant Industry Alliance. Leaders from both organizations expressed their enthusiasm for moving forward High Temperature Gas Cooled Reactor (HTGR) technology and for the potential of hosting these next generation reactors in the surrounding area or, if property becomes available at the Savannah River Site.
Fred Moore, the Executive Director Emeritus of the NGNP Industry Alliance said “We are very excited about the SRSCRO and ARC joining our other companies in this great cause. The surrounding area is, in fact, a great future location of HTGRs or even the possible location for the first of a kind construction.”
Rick McLeod, Executive Director of the SRSCRO said “These high temperature reactors present a very real and very exciting possibility for our region of the country. We have several local industrial heat users in South Carolina and Georgia that would greatly benefit from the price stability and environmental benefits of heat produced by this type of small modular reactor. Our community is a pro-nuclear community and we have an existing skilled nuclear work force associated with the Savannah River Site and surrounding nuclear industry. We also have established training programs to train future workers for jobs in the nuclear industry. Plus, there are a number of well-characterized and appropriate sites for these next generation modular reactors.”
Fred Humes, Director of the Advanced Research Center added “The market for HTGRs is substantial. The NGNP Industry Alliance and the Idaho National Laboratory have conservatively estimated that in North America alone, there is a market for over 700 of these advanced high temperature SMRs. The Aiken area can be in on the ground floor in terms of fuel manufacturing, components, materials, etc. The need to build out this capability definitely plays to our strengths. In addition, there are several potential uses of the technology that are particularly intriguing to me, including high temperature steam for our industries along with an added advantage of a supply of electrical power. There’s also the very exciting potential for using HTGR heat and electric power for the production of large quantities of hydrogen without fossil fuel use – this could be revolutionary for petrochemical and carbon conversion industries around the world.”
On the subject of timing, Moore stated that “The impression some people may have that HTGRs are decades away is simply false. There is a good historic legacy, including in the U.S., for this technology. Two test reactors are currently operational globally and a commercial sized unit is being built in China. Although a technology development effort is needed in parallel with a modern, U.S.-based licensing process, the technology development risk is very low. With a focused, aggressive effort, the first-of-a-kind modern HTGR module could be up and operating in the U.S. by about 2026 as part of a multi-module deployment.”
Moore added that the Alliance has completed its business plan and is currently speaking with potential investors.
The Savannah River Site Community Reuse Organization is a non-profit regional group focused on supporting job creation in a five-county region of Georgia and South Carolina, including Aiken, Allendale and Barnwell counties in South Carolina and Richmond (Augusta) and Columbia counties in Georgia. The group’s mission is to facilitate economic development opportunities associated with Savannah River Site technology, capabilities and missions and to serve as an informed, unified community voice for the two-state region.
For more information, go to: www.srscro.org
The Advanced Research Center is a division of the Economic Development Partnership. The Economic Development Partnership represents Aiken and Edgefield Counties in all aspects of economic development from recruitment of manufacturing companies to the advancement of technology from SRS and SRNL. The ARC mission is to bring technology into the private sector through initiatives such as the Center for Hydrogen Research, the Savannah River Research Campus, innovation centers and active support of the advancement of SRNL technologies.
For more information, go to: www.discoverARC.com
The mission of the NGNP Industry Alliance is to commercialize High Temperature Gas Cooled Reactor (HTGR) technology and expand the use of clean nuclear energy within industrial applications. The Alliance is comprised of potential end users, owner operators and technology companies including: AREVA, ConocoPhillips, Dow Chemical, Entergy, GrafTech International Ltd., Mersen, Petroleum Technology Alliance Canada, SGL Group, Technology Insights, Toyo Tanso Co. Ltd., Ultra Safe Nuclear and Westinghouse. HTGRs are distinct from conventional light water reactors in that their high outlet temperatures enable a large increase in electric power production efficiency and also enable them to substitute for fossil fuel use in many energy-intensive industrial processes. Further, their inherently safety features enable their placement near those facilities.
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Treatment of advanced prostate cancer could be set to change after the early publication of significant new trial results, writes John von Radowitz.
Doctors testing the hormone drug abiraterone found that it doubled the time taken for the disease to progress in men not yet on chemotherapy.
Abiraterone is already approved as a 'last resort' treatment for prostate cancer that has stopped responding both to hormone therapies and the chemotherapy drug docetaxel.
The new findings mean that in future it could be made available to a much larger group of patients.
In the UK, 10,700 men die from the disease every year.
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Hyacinths: Force Bulbs to Bloom Inside
There are many flowering bulbs available in the stores and catalogues now that can brighten up the indoor garden in winter. The easiest are the bulbs that can be grown in water and pebbles, like the hyacinth.
Hyacinths are available in the fall for growing indoors. As hyacinths are a late spring bloomer normally, they do need a period of cooling before they will bloom. There are special pre-cooled bulbs that may be purchased for growing either in pebbles and water, or in containers of soil. Also, pot-size bulbs are sold now for growing over water in special hyacinth glasses. These are fun to grow, and make good Christmas presents if you start early enough — about the middle of October for mid-December bloom. Any way they are grown, they require about eight weeks stored in the dark, between 50° and 60° F. The most likely spots would be in a corner of a cool basement or in the attic. Planted in pots or grown in pebbles, they need only to be checked periodically to make sure they have enough water.
Planting hyacinths in glasses takes a bit more care: first, clean off the base of the bulb, making sure that no remnants of roots remain. A piece of charcoal added to the bottom of the glass is not essential, but does help to keep the water sweet. Add water to the glass until it just touches the base of the bulb . Now put it in the dark, cool spot. Check it in a week or ten days to see if the roots have started to grow. If they have, pour out just enough water so that the water level does not touch the bottom of the bulb.
Hyacinths grown by any of these methods should remain in the dark until there is four or five inches of top growth. It will be a ghastly shade — like the inside of celery – but will become green as soon as the plant is brought into the light. This should be done gradually: first bring the hyacinth into dim light in a cool part of the house, like a north window, for a week or so; gradually move it to a warmer, brighter location. If the hyacinth is grown in soil, make sure the soil stays moist; if in pebbles, the water level should be just under the bulb; and in the hyacinth glass, add water as needed to keep it just under the base of the bulb. To make the hyacinth flower last as long as possible, move it out of direct sunlight once the flower is opened.
Excerpt from “Bulbs That Will Bloom Inside,” Yankee Magazine, October 1980
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MOCI are done working on their new law for regulating news websites. A spokesman for the ministry said the new law will also apply to websites of print newspapers, but the ministry does not plan to pre-approve their editors like they do with the dead tree news organisations. If the websites break the regulations, he added, they will be blocked. I guess that’s what this is all about. Making it easier for MOCI to block websites that they don’t like. The kind of enthusiasm and energy MOCI has put into this dumb idea is amazing. I only wish they would put this amazing effort into something more useful. But hey, that would be expecting way too much of them.
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I hear that officials at the Ministry of Culture and Information (MOCI) are forging ahead with their dumb idea to regulate so-called electronic media. Asbar, a research center based in Riyadh that includes several members of Shourac Council on its board (conflict of interests, anyone?), has been working on a draft for the new law.
This Saturday, they hosted a discussion panel about the proposed law where they met with representatives from MOCI, CITC, KACST, and the Ministry of Interior as well as some government and media consultants.
Ironically, some owners of news websites are actually pushing for this law. They argue that it would make it easier for them to get funding and make money from advertising. What about their independence and freedom that could be threatened by the new law? Well, apparently these things are not high on their agenda.
I previously said regulation by the government is not the answer, and I stand by that opinion. News websites should operate under the same laws that regulate traditional media. If these laws are old and outdated, then they should be amended, updated, or even overhauled and rewritten altogether if necessary.
Although I find the government’s obsession with control hard to understand, I have to say it is not unusual. Someone should tell them that their constant attempts to police the internet are useless, really. Why get yourselves into this mess? Yes, it is a mess, but it’s a beautiful mess. Just leave it that way.
News websites in Saudi Arabia have problems. But the answer to their problems is not regulation by the government, and the Ministry of Culture and Information’s idea to codify an internet law is dumb. I don’t see why anyone thinking of starting a website would want to ask for a license, or wait for the ministry to approve their editors. I guess the fact that the owners of these news websites have agreed to be under the supervision of the ministry says something about their understanding of press freedom and the so-called “professional integrity.” At a time when people go to the internet to seek more freedom and free themselves of old red lines and censorship, news websites in my country are running backwards. What’s next? Are they going to ask bloggers to register their blogs with the ministry?
Three words: not gonna happen.
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Readers of An Approach to the Book of Mormon, the sixth volume in the Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, will find erudite and sometimes unexpected insights into this book of scripture--as evidenced by this excerpt from the preface to the 1964 edition. (p.xii-xiii)
When in 1946 this writer composed a little treatise called ''Lehi in the Desert'' from limited materials then available in Utah, he had never knowingly set eyes on a real Arab. Within the last five years Aneze tribesmen and citizens of Mecca, including even guides to the Holy Places, have been his students, in Provo, of all places, while Utah has suddenly been enriched with a magnificent Arabic library, thanks to the inspired efforts of Professor Aziz Atiya of the University of Utah.
As if it were not enough for the mountain to come to Mohammed, those sons of the desert who came to Provo found themselves taking a required class in the Book of Mormon from the compiler of this manual. Naturally he was more than curious to see how these young men would react to the Book of Mormon treatment of desert themes, and invited and even required them to report frankly on their impressions.
To date, with only one exception, no fault has been found with Nephi on technical grounds. The one exception deserves the attention of all would-be critics of the Book of Mormon.
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He saluted and jumped.
He experienced a few hitches. About three minutes in, he reported, "My visor is fogging up." Then he began to veer into a "flat spin" that threatened to send blood rushing to his head and leave him out of control.
"There was a period of time where I really thought, 'I am in trouble,' " Baumgartner said, recalling how he considered pushing a button that would have released a drogue chute, slowing and stabilizing his descent -- and scuttling the attempt to break the sound barrier.
"But after a couple of seconds, I had that feeling I'm getting it under control. And I did," he added. "And that's why I broke the speed of sound today."
After free-falling for about four minutes and 20 seconds, he deployed a parachute for the final mile or two down to Earth.
"There's the chute," said a specialist in Mission Control, and the control room broke into applause.
As soon as Baumgartner landed, he dropped to his knees and raised his fists. The team at Mission Control in Roswell burst into applause.
While he and his team had prepared diligently for the jump, his survival was no guarantee.
In addition to the risk of spinning out of control, Baumgartner's life depended on the integrity of his pressure suit. The temperature when he jumped was expected to hit 70 degrees below zero Fahrenheit or lower. And the atmosphere was so thin that his blood would have vaporized if he wasn't sufficiently protected.
Testing that pressurized flight suit and helmet was one goal of the mission, as it could save an astronaut's life if a manned spacecraft malfunctioned. The outfit had sensors and recorders to measure everything from his speed to his heart rate.
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|The Pentagon issued new guidelines to military recruiters in mid-October to process openly gay recruits [AFP]
The military has said it will accept openly gay recruits for the first time in US history, even as it tries to slow a bid to abolish its ban on gays serving openly.
At least two service members discharged for being gay began the process to re-enlist after the Pentagon's announcement on Tuesday.
The new requirement brings down the barriers built by an institution long resistant and sometimes hostile to gays.
On Tuesday Virginia Phillips, a California judge who overturned the 17-year "don't ask, don't tell" policy last week, rejected the government's latest bid to halt her order telling the military to stop enforcing the law.
The US defence department said it would comply with Phillips' order and had frozen any discharge cases.
Cynthia Smith, a Pentagon spokeswoman, said recruiters had been given top-level guidance in mid-October to accept applicants who say they are gay.
She said recruiters have been told to inform potential recruits that the moratorium on enforcement of the policy could be reversed at any time, if the ruling is appealed or the court grants a stay.
Douglas Smith, a spokesman for US Army Recruiting Command based at Fort Knox in Kentucky, said even before the ruling recruiters did not ask applicants about their sexual orientation.
The difference now is that recruiters will process those who say they are gay.
"If they were to self-admit that they are gay and want to enlist, we will process them," Smith said, adding that the enlistment process takes time.
"US Army Recruiting Command is going to follow the law, whatever the law is," he added.
Gay rights groups were continuing to tell service members to avoid revealing that they are gay, fearing they could find themselves in trouble should the law be reinstated.
David Hall, from the Service Members Legal Defense Network and a former US Air Force staff sargent, told Al Jazeera that "don't ask, don't tell" is not at an end.
"It is legal limbo. Judge Phillips says stop don't ask don’t tell is not in effect right now.
"But we do expect that the appeals court is going to give this day to the government and don't ask don't tell is going to come back. So you don't want to be caught up in that legal limbo where you may be discharged."
Aaron Belkin, executive director of the Palm Center, a think tank on gays and the military at the University of California Santa Barbara, said: "Gay people have been fighting for equality in the military since the 1960s ... It took a lot to get to this day.
"What people aren't really getting is that the discretion and caution that gay troops are showing now is exactly the same standard of conduct that they will adhere to when the ban is lifted permanently," Belkin said.
Under the 1993 "don't ask, don't tell" policy, the military cannot inquire into service members' sexual orientation and punish them for it as long as they keep it to themselves.
An Air Force officer and co-founder of a gay service member support group called OutServe said financial considerations are playing a big role in gay service members staying quiet.
"The military has financially trapped us," he said, noting that he could owe the military about $200,000 if he were to be dismissed.
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Remembering the Commodore SX-64
'Check out my new portable computer! HEAVE
This Old Box We're shrinking away this week from monolithic supercomputers with This Old Box for something a little bit smaller. In fact, we'll be looking at the world's first commercial full-color portable computer. Fantastic!
But first, some insight into our computer selection process:
It's twofold this time - 1) The system was requested by a reader and 2) having a good chuckle about the size of "portable" electronics made over two decades ago is easy work. It's journalistic cruise-control for a tech hack, just like being indignant about violent rap lyrics is writing ambrosia for curmudgeonly columnists in your local paper. Not Pulitzer material, but always solid gold.
Time-tested tools of the trade stick around for a reason. One wouldn't roll their eyes at an engineer as he pulls out a ball-peen hammer. (And not only because one doesn't want his kneecaps throughly peen-ed. Engineers have short tempers.)
So no complaints. Let's grab our fish and barrel and head to the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. Oh ho ho! Would you look at its size!?
Commodore SX-64 "Executive"
OS: Commodore BASIC
Processor: MOS 6510, 1MHz
Display: 5" 320x200 screen
Storage: Internal floppy drive
Five years after Commodore International released the Commodore PET (much to the delight of those seeking a Personal way to Electronically Transact everywhere), the company struck gold yet again. It was the Commodore 64 — widely considered the best-selling personal computer of all time. It was fast and cheap with a show-stopping 64 kilobytes of RAM.
But could a customer heave it into their hotel room? Could a person play Archon in stunning 16-color while lounging shirtless by the pool?
No, Commodore was forced to admit. A person could not do these things. Yet there was a conspiratorial twinkle in its eye as it made this admission. For at the Consumer Electronics Show in 1982, the company unveiled the Commodore Executive 64, the first color portable computer!
It weighed 23 pounds (10.5kg), had a built-in 5-inch monitor, a detachable keyboard, 64KB RAM, and space for one or two 5.25" floppy drives. When the system was available in January the next year, it was renamed the SX-64 and included only one 170kB disk drive plus an empty cartridge port. The price was a steep $995.
A hole in my heart, the size of a floppy
The SX-64 was essentially a "luggable" Commodore 64. And that perhaps was the problem. At the SX-64 release, the extremely popular C64 was selling for only between $200 and $230. That's about four times cheaper than the SX-64 was. Its only major advantage was portability, and a 23-pound suitcase-sized machine does stretch the definition a bit. On top of that, it didn't have a battery so it still had to be plugged into an AC outlet. And the screen was... well, let's face it, 5 inches isn't much to look at.
Hunch over and squint if you love SX-64s
The system was almost completely compatible with the C64, although it lacked a cassette port. The OS had a cosmetic change of reversing the C64's white text on a blue background to blue text on a white background to make things easier to see on the tiny screen.
As you might imagine, the SX-64 suffered from very slow sales. The poor girl was put down for good in 1986. But hold it, buckaroo. Let's not be too hard on the misbegotten SX-64. Are portable computers that much better off today? To answer that, we'll take a modern portable computer completely at random and compare.
The wheel has landed on the MacBook Air. It's an ultra-thin portable announced only this week at MacWorld. I haven't been paying attention — surely you can't get any more modern than this thing. Let's look at the features:
According to the highly judicious benchmarking above, the systems are practically the same. I'll give a nod to the MacBook Air because I'm a sucker for superfluous lights in a machine. You should see me in a data center.
Despite its faults, the SX-64 is a sweet system. There's no shame for it not being able to keep up with the Commodore . Nobody could. Well, maybe this guy:
He's SO keeping up with the Commodore
Now it's time to turn things over to the most interesting part of This Old Box: the comments. Share your memories and gripes if you got 'em. How's your lumbago from carrying this baby around? What was your favorite mixed drink to sip while using the SX-64? Were you able to power the system via magic like the guy above? We need to know! ®
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Thread: string tension/types
11-26-2000, 02:58 PM #1newbie Guest
i just started trying out badminton and i find pretty cool. right now i am trying to find more info about strings.
1) what are the costs/benefits of having higher and lower string tensions?
2) does it matter whether i string the cross strings the same tension as the main?
3) what is the tension combination that a typical player uses?
4) what types of string are there? and which type is best?
5) what's a good brand for string?
11-28-2000, 09:25 AM #2
RE: string tension/types
In compare with some others in this forum, I'm really not an expert. However as I found nobody answer your question, so let me share something I know.
(1) I personally play with 24 lbs. When I play with less tension, I find lack of power during smash, however I can control the shuttle easier. When playing with too much tension, I simply find my racquet like a rock ! While I can still smash if I try harder, it is very difficult to control the shuttle precisely.
However for beginner, I would recommend 20 to 22 lbs.
(2) This is something I really don't care. The more important thing is : find a trustable shop and string your racquet there. Experienced stringers should know how to string best for a particular racquet (I believe the best string method is partially affected by the design of the racquet).
(3) If you don't specify, most shops (in HK) will string at ~20 lbs.
(4) & (5) Yonex is the most well known and popular brand for string - they offer many different models with different characteristics. My favorite is BG85, even though it is not durable (some people said that BG95 and BG75-Ti are better, but they are not available everywhere). For more information on Yonex's strings, you can visit Yonex's Web site. Another good brand I know is Gossen (but not available everywhere too). I've also tried the Carlton High Tension before (with Carlton racquet), it is also not too bad.
Remember, to find the best string (and tension) for yourself is definitely not an once off exercise - you probably need several attempts !
By dawei94 in forum Badminton Stringing Techniques & ToolsReplies: 20: 11-14-2009, 12:35 AM
By jeffproX in forum Badminton StringReplies: 10: 01-27-2008, 08:09 AM
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A place where girls matter
In Kenya's largest slum, the Kibera School for Girls is providing little girls with the chance of their lives—a refuge from abuse and hunger.
Dreams are a luxury few can afford in Kenya’s largest slum. That is, until you turn the corner, walk down a small alleyway and arrive at a bright pink and blue makeshift building. Little girls in bright red sweaters and bright blue skirts are running around, giggling and playing, indoors and out. And when you look at the mud on their shoes, or the tin houses that surround the school, you come to realize that 60 little girls are getting the chance of their lives and they know it. This is the Kibera School for Girls – a refuge from abuse and hunger.
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Monitoring markets is not unusual for ophthalmologists who invest in stocks, but for Timothy Kietzman, MD, it was the local goat market he tracked with the greatest interest. That was because he and his colleagues in Gilgit, Pakistan — where Dr. Kietzman practiced for nearly a decade — had decided to price their cataract surgeries according to the value of a goat. How they wound up tracking goat sales in the remote, high-altitude region near Pakistan’s border with China is a story of determination, adventure and sacrifice, a story more than worthy of a recipient of the Academy’s 2012 Outstanding Humanitarian Service Award.
In the beginning. Dr. Kietzman got his start in ophthalmology early, scrubbing in as a sixth grader to join his father in the Nigerian clinic where he worked as a missionary doctor. “I was always a dad’s boy,” Dr. Kietzman says. And by high school, all that tagging around had persuaded him that he, too, wanted to be a doctor.
Dr. Kietzman examining a patient in Gilgit, Pakistan.
Despite discouragement from some college mentors who doubted Dr. Kietzman’s aptitude for medicine, he was admitted to Loyola Medical School after doing his undergraduate degree at Wheaton College. Because attending Loyola meant “go[ing] into debt with time or money,” Dr. Kietzman enrolled in a U.S. Army program that would pay for his studies but oblige him to give them four years after he finished schooling. Since Dr. Kietzman’s future wife was also studying to be a physician, she joined the program, too.
A taste of what’s to come. By 1990, both had finished their residencies and Dr. Kietzman had finished one of his four required years. Then Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait and Dr. Kietzman was sent to Saudi Arabia for nearly three months. He left behind his young family and some of the recommended uniforms — opting to take fewer clothes so he’d have room to pack the Academy’s Basic and Clinical Science Course books in his duffel bag.
It was one of the first real adventures in Dr. Kietzman’s career as an ophthalmologist, but he hoped for greater things in the future. As Christians, he and his wife both hoped and expected that God would someday call them to use their skills and training somewhere overseas. “We had no idea what this adventure would be, but we definitely wanted it,” he said.
When Dr. Kietzman’s father went back to Nigeria in 1994 to be honored for his work there, Tim accompanied him, thinking the trip might clarify God’s calling on his own life. Knowing the culture and language as well as he did, might he not be called to carry on his father’s legacy there? Instead, he found himself jarred and unsettled by everything from the frequent requests for bribes on the road to certain troubling practices at the hospital. “I had romanticized my childhood,” he said. And the country had, of course, changed from the place where he grew up.
The next chapter. So, after returning home to Texas, where he and his family then lived, Dr. Kietzman ultimately took a job with a “cataract cowboy” in Georgia. Though he worked there seven years and considered buying into the practice, something kept him from that commitment. “I never felt settled,” he said.
Eventually, the Kietzmans decided to register with Interserve USA, an organization that matches people willing to go overseas with businesses and nonprofits that need different kinds of professional workers.
Three months later, Interserve presented the Kietzmans with three opportunities: Kabul, Afghanistan; Upper Mongolia; and Gilgit, Pakistan. When the Kietzmans began to look more closely at the last option, they discovered that a former college classmate of Tim’s had started an eye hospital in Gilgit in 1994.
Dr. Kietzman examining a patient in Gilgit, Pakistan.
Though the Kietzmans had never heard of Gilgit before, they discovered it was within a few hours’ drive of some of the world’s tallest mountains. And despite the region’s remoteness, more than a million people were scattered throughout the mile-high valleys northwest of India’s Kashmir region. According to a government survey, 2 percent of these people were cataract blind. And because their outdoor work exposed them to long hours of the strong UV rays that characterize high altitude, cataract blindness developed much earlier here than in other populations.
In short, “it turned out to be a perfect playground for an ophthalmologist like me,” Dr. Kietzman said. After raising money for equipment, the family moved to Pakistan in early 2000.
They hadn’t been there long when Dr. Kietzman treated the first of what would be many open-globe injuries. Over six years, he treated more than 300, most of which were caused by such things as wood chips or stone fragments, walking into thorns (a popular means of keeping goats off fences) and blast injuries.
Effecting change. “Pakistan was a Libertarian’s paradise,” Dr. Kietzman said. Given the region’s instability — “violence was always there, sort of smoldering under the surface” — it was a setting where the “strongest wins,” Dr. Kietzman said. To protect themselves and their property, people built stone walls.
Dr. Kietzman with a cataract patient. Note the stone wall behind them, typical of Gilgit construction."
Dynamite was readily available and commonly used to split the stone for these and other building projects. And despite the prevalence of blast-related eye injuries, there was a cultural resistance to wearing eye protection. Not only did Dr. Kietzman observe a “fatalistic” mindset among his patients with open-globe injuries, wearing glasses was stigmatized.
“I found myself yelling at my patients,” Dr. Kietzman said. After his wife challenged this response, he began to think how he might prevent injuries. First he tried to warn unsafe workers as he drove by, but that had little effect. Then he tried buying cheap sunglasses, but he would later find them scratched, broken or abandoned.
After three years, he decided to write an educational drama, modeled on the TV dramas popular with his patients and neighbors. After studying the stories closely, Dr. Kietzman wrote a short radio play about a man who ignores several warnings and proceeds to injure his eyes while chopping wood.
“We made it funny … cartooned up the characters,” Dr. Kietzman said. After getting his script translated into three different local languages, he recorded the drama, using his laptop to create sound effects.
Although local Pakistani radio stations did not usually play public service announcements the way U.S. stations do, Dr. Kietzman and some of his contacts persuaded the Gilgit station to air his drama. It finally seemed to change risky behavior. During his last four years in Gilgit, Dr. Kietzman said he saw a significant reduction in open-globe injuries at the hospital.
Taking a toll. Despite these achievements in his work, however, life in Pakistan was proving difficult for the family. In August 2002, terrorists attacked the hill-station boarding school near Islamabad where the Kietzmans had sent their sons. Six Pakistani staff were killed. When all of the students were immediately relocated to Thailand for the year, Dr. Kietzman’s wife Laurel accompanied their boys.
A year later, she returned to Pakistan and homeschooled them for a year, as she had done during their time in Georgia. When the school returned to its newly fortified grounds in 2004, however, Laurel became increasingly involved in helping the staff. By 2007, she was needed on a nearly full-time basis, helping with classes, serving as the school “nurse” and even as a house parent. Because Islamabad was 20 hours’ drive south of Gilgit, this imposed yet another long season of separation from her husband.
When Dr. Kietzman began to deal with depression from the strain on their marriage, he told the hospital he could only work for them until June 2010. His family returned to the United States permanently in August of that year, after their third son graduated from high school. However, due to the hospital’s struggle to find a replacement, Dr. Kietzman stayed on until November 2011.
“It’s like a frog in hot water,” he said of the gradually increasing strain on their marriage. Had they seen the final result in the beginning, they would have chosen differently. But because the pressure increased slowly, they kept accommodating to each new challenge.
Serving the future. Yet as it became apparent they would not stay in Pakistan forever — as he first thought — Dr. Kietzman increasingly focused on ensuring the eye hospital’s sustainability. He trained an ophthalmology resident for five years, and worked closely with several technicians until they could competently triage cases and treat common, basic conditions. And he and his colleagues developed the hospital’s goat-based pricing for cataract surgery, drawing on lessons others had learned decades before in India.
Though that country had once boasted numerous charity-run hospitals, Dr. Kietzman said only those based on a fee-for-service model made it into the 20th century. “If they totally relied on donated money to continue, they eventually died,” he said.
The challenge in Gilgit was establishing a reasonable fee in the face of “raging” inflation. As the doctors wrestled with what people could afford, they realized that goats were a commonly held asset. And at least once a year, every family would sacrifice a goat for the religious holiday Eid. To monitor inflation and make sure their fees were price appropriately, the doctors decided to follow the price of goats.
“If the family wasn’t willing to sacrifice a goat for their grandmother’s vision, they probably weren’t able to afford the surgery and might need some help,” Dr. Kietzman explained. Thanks to this model, Gilgit Eye Hospital was 70 percent sustainable when he left Pakistan for good.
Today, Dr. Kietzman is a few months into a neuro-ophthalmology fellowship, having persuaded Northwestern University’s department chair Nicholas J. Volpe, MD, to take him on as a fellow. After the fellowship, he plans to join the Wheaton Eye Clinic. Meanwhile, his wife has built up her hours in ER medicine, and they’re getting used to living together again. He also received one of the Academy’s two Outstanding Humanitarian Service Awards at the 2012 Joint Meeting in Chicago.
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About the author: Christi A. Foist is the managing editor for YO Info and the Web and member communications editor for the Academy’s website.
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TianGan (Heavenly Stems) and DiZhi (Earthly Branches), commonly abbreviated to GanZhi, originated in the ancient Chinese cosmological sciences and is a complex calendrical system which was created to codify the patterns of life and of the universe itself. The ten symbols of Gan express the Yin or Yang perspective of Five Elements and embody the Way of Heaven. The 12 symbols of Zhi, made manifest in the 12 animals of the Chinese zodiac, hold the root of each Element and embrace the Way of Earth.
Keywords: acupuncture, calligraphy, Chinese animals, Chinese astrology, Chinese horoscope, Chinese medicine, Chinese philosophy, Daoism, qigong, traditional Chinese medicine, tuina, Yijing
Acupuncture, Chinese herbs, qigong, tui na massage and diet therapy have been used by the Chinese for over 2000 years, and they are still the treatments of choice for millions of people throughout the East. Now, Westerners are becoming aware of the many benefits of these potent therapies and the popularity of Chinese medicine is spreading rapidly.
Keywords: acupuncture, diet, herbal treatment, massage, qigong, tuina
Dr. Marc S. Micozzi explains the fundamentals of Chinese medicine, and the indigenous medicines of Greater China, in some detail - how they have evolved, the fundamental principles, and where they are drawn from - hence putting them into social and philosophical context. Normally these medical systems are studied in isolation, so this is a work of considerable originality. He covers Korea and Japan and, in extending the coverage to East and Southeast Asia, he also explores the indigenous medicines from those regions and the influence of China and Chinese medicine, while acknowledging the pull towards other cultural influences, such as India.
Keywords: acupuncture, chi kung, Chinese medicine, herbal treatment, nutrition, qigong, tai chi, taiji jian, taiji quan, tuina
Qigong massage has been used in China for thousands of years as a means to achieve health and wellbeing, and to treat a wide variety of ailments. This book teaches parents a simple qigong massage programme that has been developed specifically for the needs of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs).
Keywords: autism, children, Chinese medicine, energy work, massage, Qi, qigong, tuina
Massage techniques are widely and effectively used in treatment of autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) to address sensory issues, motor problems and touch receptivity. However, the variety of different styles of massage available often leaves parents baffled and unsure about which touch therapy treatment is best for their child.
Keywords: alternative therapies, bodywork, children, energy work, health care, massage, occupational therapy, parenting, tuina
Cervical Spondylosis is a condition in which cervical vertebrae and invertebral discs in the neck degenerate. The condition is an almost inevitable part of aging and can cause extreme neck pain and lead to arm and hand problems. Unlike any form of Western medical treatment, Massage Therapy from Traditional Chinese Medicine is a non-invasive, successful method of relieving this pain and increasing the movement and daily comfort of sufferers.
Keywords: cervical spondylosis, massage, meridians, pain management, traditional Chinese medicine, tuina
Migraine is a condition that Western medicine finds notoriously difficult to treat, and acupuncture, moxibustion and Tuina massage can all be effective methods of bringing about relief. This clear and comprehensive guide will enable practitioners to carry out treatment and significantly ease symptoms and suffering.
Keywords: acupuncture, massage, migraine, moxibustion, TCM diagnosis, traditional Chinese medicine, tuina
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Singing Dragon is an imprint of Jessica Kingsley Publishers. Jessica Kingsley Publishers is a limited company registered in England. Registered number: 2073602. VAT Reg. No: 455 2134 66.
© 1996, 2013 Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
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Visual Theology - The Order of Salvation
If you have read this blog for any length of time, and especially the daily A La Carte posts, you know that I’ve got a thing for infographics. What appeals to me about them is their ability to display information visually. Just as there are many words that can be used to describe any one fact, there are also many ways to display facts.
Today I’ve got an infographic for you, and one that I is going to kick off a series called “Visual Theology”—an attempt to display theology using a combination of words and pictures. I have asked one designer to take a shot at displaying the ordo salutis, which is to say, the order of salvation, which refers to the sequence of conceptual steps involved in the salvation of the Christian. I will let the graphic explain it from here.
You can also download this infographic in a high-quality PDF (10 MB).
If you have other ideas for theological infographics, please feel free to leave a comment.
Posts in this Series:
- Visual Theology - The Order of Salvation
- Visual Theology - The Attributes of God
- Visual Theology - The Books of the Bible
- Visual Theology - Think On These Things
- Visual Theology - Awaiting the Messiah
- Visual Theology - The Trinity
- Visual Theology - To the Glory of God
- Visual Theology - The Tabernacle
- Visual Theology - The Fruit of the Spirit
- Visual Theology - Reformed Theology
- Visual Theology - One Another
- Visual Theology - The Atonement
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Which presents two problems:
- You can't trace over it in Revit
- You can't set it out. And if you can't draw it, they can't build it
Fortunately, you can use the 'Flatten' command in Autocad to turn it to a polyline of arcs. By then exploding the polyline, you are left with a series of arcs that you can pick in Revit and also set out. The following short video demonstrates this
On another note and as a supplement to this, I recently came across
'The CAD Setter Out' blog by Paul Munford. For people who regularly have to clean up third party CAD files for use in Revit (or generally), this is comprehensive and highly useful resource. Its written generally from the CNC/Fabrication perspective, but is very pertinent reading to the designer. I'd recommend the following posts as a starter
From CAD to CAM, Cleaning up 2D DWG files for CNC.
How to optimize your AutoCAD DWG drawing files
Why Setter Outs aren’t (and don’t want to be) Designers.
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‘It’s about justice’: East Bay endowment for special needs students reaches 35 Jewish schoolsby dan pine, staff writer
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The first time Elliot and Shelley Fineman were told "no" when trying to enroll their special needs kids in a Jewish day school, they got mad. After the second time, they got even.
But they did so in the most constructive way possible. The Piedmont couple decided to start a foundation to provide a resource for Jewish families with learning disabled children.
Several years later, thanks to a $500,000 gift from the Finemans, along with funding from other generous donors, the Jewish special education endowment is now a reality.
The endowment is a project of the Jewish Community Foundation and the Jewish Community Federation of the Greater East Bay.
With $1.2 million in the bank, the endowment is ready to serve learning disabled Jewish children at more than 35 Jewish day schools, Hebrew schools and Midrashot in the East Bay.
That population is bigger than some might think: Up to 15 percent of kids in Jewish day schools and Hebrew schools may suffer from mild to moderate language-based disabilities.
"The question of addressing special needs has been around for a long time," says Elliot Fineman, "but it had been addressed only on a come-and-go basis." Adds his wife Shelley, "Because of the way Hebrew schools are, with kids there only a few hours a day, it's difficult for kids with language disabilities to learn in the way schools want."
That's about to change, says Steve Brown, chief operating officer of the East Bay federation and one of the spearheads of the program.
"In the past," says Brown, "the [federation-sponsored] Center for Jewish Living & Learning ran a warm-line, a parents support group and a small grants program. We saw that a fresh approach was needed in the area of educator training."
Since many Jewish educators, especially in synagogue Sunday schools, lack the skills to work with special needs students, the endowment's first priority is teacher training. That starts with an educator/professional conference Sunday, Oct. 29 at Lafayette's Temple Isaiah, and subsequent educator workshops, observation and professional consultation.
"The focus of this program is kids who may be on the edge," adds Brown. "They have learning disabilities, but with proper support they can learn alongside their peers. If the kids are given that support, the tools in the classrooms can enhance learning for all kids."
Brown says without such programs, the Jewish community risks more than just a drop in school enrollment. "Now you have families that feel they don't fit in, or feel angry because the schools can't take care of their kids' learning needs. Sometimes they get away from the Jewish community altogether. It's in our interest that every Jewish child gets an education."
The Finemans could have been one of those potentially lost families. Elliot Fineman is president/CEO of Planet Biotechnology in Hayward. He and his wife raised four children, two of whom had special needs.
"We applied twice to one Jewish day school," recalls Elliot, "and both times we were denied enrollment because the school didn't want to take on the requirements of kids dealing with learning disabilities, even though we offered to support the school with a tutor on campus we would pay for."
He remembers the head of school as inflexible in dealing with language-based disabilities. Even when a new head of school came aboard, the Finemans were denied because "the faculty said, 'We don't want to take on this burden in the classroom.' We found ourselves really excluded."
"We've gone around and around for years with all the institutions," adds Shelley Fineman. "Finally we said, 'OK, let's do the ground work.'"
The couple collaborated with others is the community who care about the issue, including Janet King, East Bay federation lay leader Moses Libitzky and philanthropist Richard Goodman. All pooled their resources to kick start the endowment.
Brown and CJLL director Rabbi James Brandt have overseen the development of programming from inside the federation. In addition to the ongoing educator training, Brandt and Brown hope to add the creating of IEPs (individualized education programs), support groups, special needs awareness outreach and b'nai mitzvah student training as possible future programs.
"Right now we have about $1.2 million," says Brown. "Elliot's goal is a $5 million endowment. It's doable. There's a lot of interest in this community from people who want to participate in this."
The Finemans' sons went on to have their bar mitzvahs and complete high school. It's too late for the program the Finemans helped start to help their children, but the couple hopes the endowment will help many Jewish children in the future.
"It's damaging to a community that wants to be self-sustaining if we're by default excluding a large percentage from being mainstream members," says Elliot Fineman. "It's not a matter of charity, it's a matter of justice."
For more information about the Jewish Special Education Endowment, contact Steve Brown at the Jewish Community Federation of the Greater East Bay, (510) 433-0134 ext. 215.
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The cable machine can be used for both functional training as well as weight training. Structurally, it is made up of a steel frame that is rectangular and vertically oriented, 3 meters wide and 2 meters high; a weight stack can be found at either end of the machine. Adjustable pulleys that you can fix to any height run through the cables which connect the handles of the machine to its weight stack. Jack LaLanne is credited as the inventor of the cable machine. Harold Zinkin took this concept further in the 1950s by inventing the Universal Gym Equipment, a home machine that incorporated the cable machine prominently. Today, you can see the cable machine at most gyms.
Body Parts Benefiting From Workout
The cable machine is a versatile machine, and as such, it targets a whole host of muscles in your body. Depending on the type of exercise you actually do on the cable machine, you can get a good workout that will both target and then benefit your chest muscles, your back muscles, your deltoids, your biceps, your triceps, your abdominal muscles and your lower back muscles, your leg muscles and your hips, too.
Safe and Proper Use of the Cable Machine
Safe and proper use of the cable machine involves first adjusting its pads to fit your comfort zone. Again, since this is a versatile machine for different uses, how to adjust the pads depends on the type of cable machine you use. For instance, if you are using an upper-body cable machine, you should adjust the pads to suit your personal range. If you are using a chest machine, then simply make sure that you adjust the machine so that your hands are just an inch from your chest at the lower end of the range of your motion. But before you even attempt to adjust any part of your cable machine, you ought to first engage in some lighter warm-ups as this prepares your entire body for the greater weights you will be lifting on the cable machine. These warm-ups are great because they prepare your body both in a psychological as well as a physical sense. You may also want to consult your doctor to see if you have any conditions that prevent you from trying out the cable machine.
Types of Exercises
The cable machine is versatile. You can elect to do only a few drills on it or also a full-body workout. For example, one type of exercise that will target your chest muscles is the cable press. Lie on the bench flat with your feet shoulder-width apart and your arms straight up; gradually, pull down on the cables so that your arms are eventually next to your shoulders and your elbows bent. Another type of exercise is the cable crunches. You kneel with the cable or rope next to your ears, while your elbows are parallel to each other and bent. You then pull down on the cable so that your elbows are brought down to the floor.
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Seventeen waterfront businesses attended a workshop on Feb. 10 for the Port's Green Business Challenge. San Diego was selected as the only city on the West Coast for the Green Business Challenge.
The challenge is an integrated energy efficiency and sustainability effort spearheaded by the Port of San Diego and San Diego Gas & Electric®. Over the course of a year, local business around San Diego Bay will modify their operations, becoming greener.
The workshop was the first step-by-step demonstration of how to fill out the challenge scorecard. The scorecard is an online tool with a series of 50 strategies to help businesses track their sustainability efforts and initiate additional environmental efforts. Businesses begin by filling out what is referred to as a baseline survey, a sustainability starting point.
The goal is to keep an online record of their improvements and share strategies. Businesses receive points for their increased efficiency in each of the six areas of sustainability:energy, waste management, sustainable development, water, air and sustainable business practices.
"Most of the strategies are either low cost or free to implement and can help save the business money and resources," says Cody Hooven, Project Manager of the Port's Green Business Challenge.
Currently, 25 businesses on Port tidelands have registered for the challenge.
Topics discussed in the workshop included the sharing of best industry practices for environmental sustainability and marketing opportunities for participants.
Kim Brokhof with ICLEI, Local Government for Sustainability, a partner of the Challenge, shared successful statistics from the first year of Chicago's Green Office Challenge.
"We had almost 150 tenants and property managers participate in the first round of the Green Office Challenge in Chicago," Brokhof said. "Through the challenge, participants collectively reduced electricity use by more than 70 million kilowatt-hours, reduced water use by 5 percent, and diverted more than 1,200 tons of waste materials from the landfills."
The next challenge workshop is scheduled for Thursday, March 10, 2011.
Registration is still open. Businesses along San Diego Bay that want to participate have until the beginning of March to enter. Questions or comments can be submitted online email@example.com.
The 25 current Port of San Diego businesses participating are:
- BW Island Palms Hotel and Marina
- Old Town Trolley & SEAL Tours San Diego
- Seaport Village
- Joe's Crab Shack at The Rowing Club
- San Diego Yacht Club
- Flagship / San Diego Harbor Excursion
- General Dynamics NASSCO
- BAE Systems SDSR
- Manchester Grand Hyatt
- Pasha Automotive Services
- H&M Landing
- Hornblower Cruises & Events
- Sun Harbor Marina
- San Diego Marriott Marquis and Marina
- Bay Club Hotel & Marina
- Anthony's Fish Grotto
- Half Moon Marina
- Continental Maritime
- Marine Group Boat Works
- Sail San Diego
- Nielsen Beaumont Marine, Inc.
- Greek Islands Cafe/Asaggio Pizza Pasta Plus (Seaport Village Sub-tenant)
- Crow's Nest Yachts
- Humphrey's Half Moon Inn
- Silver Gate Yacht Club
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AVON LAKE, Ohio — Facing off in last week’s foreign policy debate, Mitt Romney nodded in agreement with much of what President Obama has done with his powers as chief executive — including a full-on embrace of the president’s claim to sole authority to expand drone strikes to kill terrorist suspects.
The Republican presidential nominee has reserved the right to deploy U.S. military power to world hot spots, as Mr. Obama did in Libya, and to greenlight unilateral action against Iran. To the dismay of civil liberties activists, he has shifted his position on indefinite detention, agreeing with the president that U.S. citizens deemed “enemy combatants” are not entitled to habeas corpus.
While regularly complaining about Mr. Obama’s use of unilateral authority, such as his appointment of policy “czars” and issuing waivers to let states opt out of federal welfare law rules, Mr. Romney has made clear he takes issue not so much with the president’s powers themselves, but with how those powers have been used during the past four years.
Indeed, while saying he would roll back Mr. Obama’s policy waivers, Mr. Romney has vowed to issue a blanket waiver to all 50 states in an attempt to halt implementation of much of the president’s health care law.
“I think the easiest thing to conclude is that Romney wants a vigorous presidency just as much as Obama does, and if he assumes office, he wants to assume office not for the glory of sitting in the White House, but in order to get stuff done,” said William G. Howell, co-author of “While Dangers Gather: Congressional Checks on Presidential War Powers.” “In order to get stuff done, you’ve got to have power. So, he is not about to step out and say, ‘The problem with Obama is that he has used too much power.’ His argument is that [Mr. Obama] has used power, but for all the wrong ends.”
That may come as a disappointment to some Republican voters and those on Capitol Hill from both parties who argue that the president has aggregated too much authority to himself. But it has become standard for presidential candidates of both parties, who often seek to protect the powers of the office they are running to occupy.
Agreeing on terrorism
Nowhere is that more apparent than in the global war on terrorism and the use of drone strikes — a program begun under President George W. Bush that, under Mr. Obama, has become one of the chief weapons in the effort to kill terrorist leaders.
Before last week’s foreign policy debate, Mr. Romney’s campaign told The Washington Times that the challenger thought the president abused executive authority by refusing to “work with Congress to craft a long-term legal framework to govern the war against terrorism.”
But Mr. Romney didn’t raise any objections to the program last week when asked about it during the debate.
“I support that entirely,” the former Massachusetts governor said, “and feel the president was right to up the usage of that technology and believe that we should continue to use it to continue to go after the people who represent a threat to this nation and to our friends.”
Mr. Romney also has staked out a series of other foreign policy decisions he has said he would make in the White House: He would label China a currency manipulator, restore the Mexico City Policy banning federal funds from being sent to international organizations that conduct abortions, and move the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem — a promise Mr. Bush and Mr. Obama also made on the campaign trail but did not carry out once in office.
Domestically, Mr. Romney has accused Mr. Obama of misusing his waiver authority on welfare laws and the No Child Left Behind education reform law enacted in 2002. In the latter case, Mr. Obama said the law was failing to meet its objective and Congress was deadlocked, so his administration issued waivers to dozens of states saying they no longer had to require that all students meet the mandates and deadlines set out in the law.
Mr. Romney agreed that the law needed to be fixed, but his campaign said Mr. Obama was using the waivers to try to entice states to accept a national curriculum in exchange for relief from testing requirements.
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Peer pressure is still as common today as it was in the 1950s maybe even more so with the increasing importance attached to music, computer games and fashion. At the start of your teens, you start new schools, experiment with new things and everyone is expected to be clones all doing the same thing all the time; if you don`t want to be left out or bullied. But then as you get older, attitudes change. Whether you go with peer pressure or not, you still get hassled just in different ways.
As an indication of peer pressure and individuality, here are some rough guidelines which outline how we develop our identities through the crucial teenage period.
From the ages of 11 12, full group identity is predominant.
From the ages of 12 13, full group identity is still at the fore with elements of individual identity creeping in.
At ages 13 14, we develop stronger personal identities while still holding on to a group identity too.
At ages 15 16, we have usually carved out our own identities within a group.
From the age of 17 onwards, we have usually created our own full identity, either in or out of a group.
This should help us understand our teens better.
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I had major root problems with an old old established flowering crab tree. The roots are just as bad as the silver maple roots I think. My original hosta bed was under the crab and over the years I moved almost every hosta that was under it. The roots would grow right into the root mass under the crown and stay there. Sagae, Collector's Banner, and Tokudama Flavocircinalis were the only hostas that didn't seem to be effected much by the roots, but I'm sure they'd have been much larger by now if they'd been somewhere else.I had a heckuva time getting those roots out of there. Even ones I moved quickly out of the way of a new water line a couple of years ago. When I redug them to pot last year, I found the crab apple roots still alive and well in the root mass. I thought that was pretty bizarre.
And I am one of the crazy ones. When I moved my garden to its new location for the tour this year, I planted everything in pots. Several reasons: I didn't want to change the look of the 'land' where I was moving them too; the soil here is not good in several places; hauling in more soil/compost would have been very expensive; lots of tree roots here too, but not the same kind; and if/when the hostas move back to Corning, they'll have to deal with tree roots again. So I got the copper coated cloth, cut it into small squares and duct-taped them to all of the pots I planted in. I would not advise it unless you have a ****load of time to kill well in advance of digging and potting your hostas. It took me at least an hour to do a dozen pots no matter the size of the pot. And I did a lot of big ones and a lot of small ones. Set back the speed that I was able to move the garden. But I didn't have the majority of the pots until late July. And I was doing it for about 700 hostas. As I said, I'm one of the crazy ones.
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Professor Phineas Nigellus Black (1847 – 1925) was a pure-blood wizard, possibly the son of Cygnus and Ella Black, and brother of Sirius, Elladora and Isla Black. He is the ancestor of many wizards in Britain. He attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and was sorted into Slytherin house; he later became Headmaster of the school and was said to be the least popular headmaster Hogwarts ever had. After he died in 1925, his portrait hangs in the Headmaster's office along with the portraits of the other former headmasters, and sometimes offers advice to the current headmaster.
Early life and HogwartsEdit
Phineas Nigellus was born to the House of Black in 1847, possibly to Cygnus Black I and his wife. He had three siblings; Sirius, Elladora, and Isla Black. Phineas was raised in a household that strongly believed in the importance of blood purity, and as such carried a grudge against Muggle-borns, whom he called Mudbloods, that lasted throughout his life. His brother Sirius died in 1853, at the age of eight, which likely had an effect on young Phineas.
Sometime after completing his schooling in c. 1865, Phineas Nigellus married Ursula Flint, and at the age of 30 the two had a son, Sirius Black, named after his deceased brother. Four more children followed the first; Phineas, who did not take his father and namesake's view on the topic of pure-blood supremacy and was disowned by the family for supporting Muggle rights; Cygnus, Belvina, and Arcturus.
As Headmaster of HogwartsEdit
- "You know, this is precisely why I loathed being a teacher! Young people are so infernally convinced that they are absolutely right about everything."
- —Phineas Nigellus[src]
At some point, Black returned to Hogwarts as Headmaster. His great-great-grandson Sirius Black III later described him as the least popular head the school ever knew. It is unknown what approach Black took towards Muggle-borns in his capacity as Headmaster; whatever it might have been, the Black family did not disown him for it; this may, however, have been because he was the head of the family.
Phineas Nigellus's portrait does not seem to enjoy the role of offering advice to the current Hogwarts headmaster/headmistress- this is perhaps because the headmaster he currently serves, Dumbledore, is very protective of muggle-borns. When he was headmaster of Hogwarts, Albus Dumbledore addressed the portrait as if it were the man himself.
A second portrait of Black hangs in the House of Black ancestral home at 12 Grimmauld Place, and like other portrait subjects in the wizarding world, Black could travel between his portraits, which he did often. In 1995, Harry Potter stayed in the bedroom where Black's portrait hangs, and Black took him messages from Albus Dumbledore. His voice could sometimes be heard coming from the frame when he was not in it, making sarcastic comments. He also seems to be against people with Muggle parentage.
During Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger's quest to destroy Lord Voldemort's Horcruxes, Phineas Nigellus's Grimmauld Place Portrait was hidden in Hermione's magically enlarged beaded bag, to stop him from being able to report their location to Severus Snape, then headmaster of Hogwarts. His portrait was then taken with the trio when they left the house. During this time, he, albeit reluctantly, dropped certain snippets of information on what was going on in Hogwarts to them, and aided them in their quest; he managed to find out where they were camping and informed Snape, who was able to give them Godric Gryffindor's Sword.
Phineas Nigellus possibly watched the Battle of Hogwarts in 1998. After Lord Voldemort's defeat, he saw Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger at the Headmaster's office; like all the headmaster portraits, he looked very happy and brought up the fact that Slytherin House had contributed to the victory.
During the later years, he continued offering help to the current headmaster of Hogwarts, consequently, transforming his reluctance to do so for Albus Dumbledore. It would appear that in assisting Severus Snape, in his time as headmaster, and the "Slytherin contribution" to the defeat of Lord Voldemort, greatly contributed to this change of heart. Furthermore, the emergence of another headmaster, who had been in Slytherin, would have likewise pleased him.
Professor Black was a clever looking wizard, with black hair, dark eyes, a pointed beard and thin eyebrows. He was depicted posthumously in his portrait as wearing the green and silver colours associated with Slytherin House. However, seen in the movies he has a quite different appearance, with grey hair and a large beard, wearing, instead of his Slytherin-coloured robes, eccentric headdresses quite common to the wizarding world, such as a pointed red cap with a fur brim and a turban.
Personality and traitsEdit
- "We Slytherins are brave, yes, but not stupid. For instance, when given the choice, we will always choose to save our own necks."
- —Phineas Nigellus' portrait[src]
Phineas is a snide, sarcastic fellow. He has little patience for the feelings and the problems of others, particularly young people, whom he finds tedious and self-absorbed, and has no qualms whatsoever in using demeaning phrases when referring to others. He also seemed to support blood purity since he looked down on Muggle-borns and even used the offensive term Mudblood.
Phineas Nigellus Black's older brother, Sirius, died in childhood. His sisters, Elladora began the family tradition of beheading aged house-elves and Isla was disowned for marrying Bob Hitchens, who was either a Muggle or a Muggle-born wizard.
Phineas Nigellus Black was married to Ursula Flint and they are among the oldest known ancestors of the "Noble and Most Ancient House of Black." They had five children: Sirius, Phineas, Cygnus, Belvina, and Arcturus. Phineas was disowned for supporting Muggle rights.
As the House of Black was numerous and very powerful, many other wizards have ancestral ties to Phineas Nigellus Black, including the Malfoy, Lestrange, Tonks and Weasley families. Additionally, Phineas may have descendants or distant relatives in the Potter and Longbottom clans, as well as in the Crouch, Prewett and Burke families. Furthermore, many other familiar surnames appear among those who married into the Black family tree, which may tie wizarding families. For example, Ursula Flint, Violetta Bulstrode, Melania Macmillan, and Irma Crabbe may be related to individuals in Harry Potter's generation.
Though Black did not get along well with most people, his portrait was upset to learn his great-great-grandson Sirius Black, the last male Black, was dead in 1996, and was visibly upset when he learned that Mundungus Fletcher was stealing Black family heirlooms the following year. This could have been from dynastic or emotional reasons.
Black did not seem to hold much with one of his more distant successors as Headmaster, Albus Dumbledore. While others, including Harry Potter and Rubeus Hagrid, considered Dumbledore the greatest sorcerer in the world, Phineas considered him to be too eccentric and to be wasting his time by trying to understand the students.
Black's opinion of the man went on even after Dumbledore's self-planned death at the hands of Severus Snape in 1997, and he proceeded to admire Snape, who later became Headmaster himself, considerably more.
However, after Dumbledore escaped from being arrested by the Ministry of Magic in 1996, Phineas Nigellus commented to Cornelius Fudge that although he disagreed with Dumbledore on many accounts, you couldn't deny that he had style. This may indicate that Phineas Nigellus had a little bit of admiration for Dumbledore.
Any relationship with Phineas before Severus Snape became Headmaster of Hogwarts School is unknown, but by the time that the Snape was appointed to the post in 1997, Black came to greatly admire Snape, who was the first Head of the school to have once been in Slytherin since he himself had presided over the castle. Whenever others would insult Snape, Phineas Nigellus would immediately end the conversation, although this disliking of anyone who insulted the subject of his respect did not carry so far as to stop other factors, such as curiosity, from refusing to speak to them indefinitely. Snape himself, however, resented Phineas' tendency towards slurs directed at Muggle-borns, immediately demanding that Phineas never use the term "Mudblood" after Black let the phrase slip in Snape's presence.
- "You know, this is precisely why I loathed being a teacher! Young people are so infernally convinced that they are right about everything."
- —Phineas Nigellus[src]
Phineas Nigellus was known to dislike most of the students of Hogwarts, since he was a Headmaster. This was possibly a reason why Sirius Black believed he was the least popular headmaster Hogwarts ever had. He believed that the young people didn't respect the professors enough, something that he told Albus Dumbledore when Harry Potter wanted to learn why it was so important to take Horace Slughorn's memory. Furthermore, when Harry tried to convince Dumbledore that both Draco Malfoy and Severus Snape were loyal Death Eaters, Phineas said that young people believe that they are right about everything. However, Phineas might have had a good relationship with the Slytherin students, whom he described as brave, but not stupid.
- Phineas was the Biblical grandson of Aaron and was a controversial high priest who murdered two lovers after they had intercourse on the steps of the Tabernacle. Another reason for the murder was that one was Hebrew and the other was not. His example has been used to justify attacks on interracial couples over the centuries. The Hebrew name Phinehas may also be derived from the Egyptian name Pa-Nehasy, which means "Nubian" or "black man." It may also reference the Greek legend of Phineus who was cursed by Zeus to be attacked by harpies who stole his food.
- Nigellus is Latin, meaning "little black."
- Taken altogether, his name appears to mean "Black Black Black," or perhaps the forerunner of all that is Black.
Behind the scenesEdit
- In the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Phineas is played by John Atterbury. In the film, Dumbledore is seen asking the portrait of Phineas to check its opposite number at the Order headquarters during efforts to locate Arthur Weasley. This is the only "active" appearance of Black in the film series. Seeing as he does not appear in the film adaptations of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. However, this makes it unclear how Snape located Harry and Hermione in the Forest of Dean.
- Phineas Nigellus's portrait, as featured in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, seems to be a reference to a 1515 portrait of Balthazar Castiglione by Raphael.
- It can be briefly seen that the name Phineas is misspelt Phineus on the tapestry in the film.
- Phineas Nigellus was possibly the son of Cygnus Black I and nephew of Arcturus Black I, two wizards who appeared only in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
- It is quite possible that Phineas Nigellus's portrait was moved from another location to its current one when the Order moved into Grimmauld Place so that he could keep an eye on Harry for Dumbledore.
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Appears in portrait(s)) (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film) (Appears in portrait(s) and the Black Family Tree)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Appears in portrait(s))
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Appears in portrait(s))
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7 (First appearance) (DS version)
Notes and referencesEdit
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 1.19 1.20 1.21 1.22 1.23 1.24 1.25 1.26 1.27 1.28 1.29 1.30 1.31 1.32 1.33 1.34 Black family tree
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film)
- ↑ He worked at Hogwarts
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| Video Dance Lesson || Dance As Seen On The Show || About The Dance|
The Cha Cha
The Cha Cha by Cheryl Burke and Gilles Marini
| The Cha Cha is a cheeky, lively and flirtatious dance. There are five distinctive foot movements that are danced in 4 beats, giving it it's recognisable "One, Two, Cha Cha Cha". |
-Triple Steps (Chassez)
- Rock steps
-Cuban motion (hip movement resulting from the alternating bending and straightening of the knees)
- Synchronised dance movement as the dancers work in parallel to each other
- The New Yorker is another move characteristic of this dance, where one dancer steps across their partner and then checks to change direction.
| The Foxtrot || The Foxtrot by Kym Johnson and Joey Fatone || The Foxtrot is a dance that was created as a result of an act that an actor named Harry Fox did. Dancers began copying his act and they called it Fox's Trot. It is referred to as the Rolls Royce of the standard dances due to it's smooth style with continuous forward and backward movements. It's timing is "slow- quick-quick-slow".|
Distinctive Moves :
- The Weave.. Six quick steps in a row ( all done on the toes)
- The Feather Step... When the man steps outside the girl
- Zigzag patterns that the dancers create on the dance-floor.
| The Jive || The Jive by Julianne and Derek Hough || The Jive has it's roots in New York's Harlem, and derives influences from Boogie, Rock'n Roll, Swing and the Lindyhop. It is fast, rhythmical and swinging with lots of kicks, flicks and twirling of the woman. The feet and knees remain under the body and the knees should be close together.|
- The basic moves are right and left Chassez's,and rock steps where the weight is cahnged from one foot to the other. - The "flick-ball-change" movements. - The kicks are distinctive because the toes are always pointed to the floor during the kick. - The American Spin (the man lets go of his partner allowing her to spin on her own.
| The Paso Doble || The Paso Doble by Julianne Hough and Apollo Anton Ono |
| The Quickstep || The Quickstep by Alec Mazo and Toni Braxton |
| The Rumba || The Rumba by Tony Dovolani and Melissa Rycroft |
| The Samba || The Samba by Mark Ballas and Shawn Johnson |
| The Tango || The Tango by Maxim Chmerkovsky and Mel B. |
| The Waltz || The Waltz by Derek Hough and Brooke Burke |
| The Salsa || The Salsa by Tony Dovolani and Melissa Rycroft |
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There's a serious error in the first few seconds of this video, which undermines the message quite a bit. He posits a situation in which a unanimous Congress passes a law overturning the First Amendment, signed by the President; and he says that the right thing to do would be to resist this 'procedurally correct, unanimous' law.
What he wants to get at is a discussion of positive law (or 'political law,' as he calls it) versus natural law.
Unfortunately, the example doesn't go with the discussion. All of you see the problem: a law of the sort he describes would be unconstitutional on its face. A simple act of legislation cannot amend the Constitution. A government that tried to set aside the Constitution through simple legislation would merit a revolt even within the limited terms of positive law. Many of us have an obligation by oath to uphold the Constitution in such circumstances.
In order to get at the point he wants to get at, we need to think about whether or not it would be legitimate to amend the Constitution in a way that eliminates the First Amendment freedoms. The President doesn't sign proposed constitutional amendments; they go to the states for ratification.
The real point only becomes clear if and only if three-quarters or more of the states ratify the law -- the amendment that overturns the First Amendment. Now, perhaps, it's a question of natural law justifying a revolt against an unjust positive law.
Not Quite, Bill
Not Quite, Bill:
By Grim on Sunday, November 07, 2010
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The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product.
Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. It is illegal to resell or attempt to resell a recalled consumer product.
Name of Product: Omni-Heat Lithium-Polymer Rechargeable Batteries
Units: About 66 batteries (33 jackets with two battery packs each)
Importer: Columbia Sportswear Company, of Portland, Ore.
Hazard: The batteries have a cell defect which can cause overheating, posing a fire hazard.
Incidents/Injuries: The firm received one report of an overheating battery in Europe. No incidents or injuries were reported in the U.S.
Description: This recall involves battery packs that power heating systems in jackets. The black battery packs are 3.25 inches long by 2.3 inches wide by 0.7 inches deep and marked with "Columbia" on the top and "OMNI-HEAT" on the bottom of the pack. Part number 054978-001 is printed on the side of the battery label.
Two battery packs were included with styles from:
Fall 2011 Mens: Electro Amp Jacket (SM7864) and Circuit Breaker Softshell (SM7855)
Fall 2011 Womens: Circuit Breaker Softshell (SL7856); Snow Hottie Jacket (SL7866), and Snow Hottie Parka (SL7853).
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Congratulations to USA Today on your 30th anniversary. Over the past three decades, several hundred daily newspapers have ceased publication. In many cities and states, USA Today has stepped up to fill the void.
How fortunate that we live in one of the few remaining free societies with a wealth of information sources available. Most American cities and suburbs are down to one local daily paper. Newspapers and magazines have to deal with increasing costs for newsprint, delivery and distribution, along with reduced advertising revenues and declining readership due to competition from the Internet and other new information sources.
Many daily newspapers can no longer afford assigning reporters to cover news from our nation’s capital and abroad. They now rely on wire services stories. USA Today is one of the few remaining daily newspapers to provide more in depth coverage of national and international events than most daily papers.
In the marketplace of ideas, let us hope there continues to be room for everyone, including USA Today. You have truly become “America’s daily newspaper.”
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Super Baseball 2020 is a baseball game developed by Pallas
's Neo Geo MVS
arcade hardware. This futuristic game represents a more aggressive vision of baseball.
Super Baseball 2020 takes place in that titular year. In the future, the game of baseball has changed to allow co-ed teams of players that wear exotic cybernetic enhancements and armor, and are aided by baseball-playing robots
. Even the umpire is a cold, calculating android. The game features two leagues of fictional teams, and all games are played in the Cyber Egg Stadium.
Super Baseball 2020 plays like a typical baseball game with some notable tweaks. The game is played using an eight-way joystick and four buttons. The buttons each control basic actions such as when to pitch, when to bat, when to run, and to which base to throw the ball. The stick is used to guide the fielders to the ball, or the runner to the next base.
The first thing that changes how this game is played is in the layout of the Cyber Egg Stadium. Areas of the outfield fence are now covered with protective glass, except for the center field, and this glass will bounce the ball back onto the field and into play. The foul zones in the Cyber Egg are reduced to just behind first and third base. Behind first and third base are the Stop Zones, which cause a ball to immediately stop rolling if it touches them. Near the fence there are Jump Zones, where fielders can jump to superhuman hights to catch a ball that would normally go into the stands. Finally, the robotic Umpire will also set the Crackers on the field between innings; these are land mines that will stun a player should they be careless enough to step over them. All of these features in the Cyber Egg Stadium add up to a game that encourages powerful hitting, more bases taken, and a generally more aggressive style of play than traditional baseball.
Beyond the futuristic new stadium, a powerup system is also available to both the offensive and defensive team. At any time before the ball is pitched, either player can call up a menu of powerups for their pitcher, batter, or fielder. These upgrades come in three progressive strengths. Human players can also be traded for robots which stay more accurate over a longer time on the mound, but can explode and become useless after heavy use. Powerups are paid for with money that is awarded the player for good play, such as hitting the ball and scoring runs.
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Are the expenses associated with the COST program equivalent to those of a regular semester of student teaching? - aside from traveling costs, these vary.
- aside from living expenses, these vary.
What are the estimated expenses of the semester? It is impossible to give one answer for this. COST students are placed around the globe. Expenses for flying to and living in Australia or Europe are much different than flying to and living in Ecuador or the Bahamas.
Are students able to choose their destination? Students request placement in four different countries. They are placed in one of them, not necessarily their first choice.
Does the destination change the expenses of the semester — aside from traveling expenses?
Yes, think of staying in San Francisco versus River Falls – living expenses differ widely.
Are there accommodations for students in terms of living spaces and contacts in the area? Yes, they differ in each country. Students request living by ranking the following choices:
1. Host Family with children
2. Host Family without children
3. Host Family with or without children; does not matter to me
4. Dormitory or Hostel
5. Prefer to arrange my own housing
6. Temporary Housing for first few weeks, then secure my own housing
Are there other teaching technique classes or recommendations for preparation for this kind of program? At present there are no teaching technique classes unique to COST. Global Connections information sessions are mandatory.
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A QUICK QUIZ. What do the following have in common? The war in Iraq. Sales of cigarettes. The recent fires in Southern California.
The answer: They all contribute to our nation's gross domestic product, or GDP, and therefore are all considered "good," at least in the dismal eyes of economists.
GDP is the sum of all goods and services a nation produces over a given time. GDP measures the size of the pie, not the quality of the ingredients -- fresh apples or rotten ones are counted the same. Or, to put it another way, the sale of an assault rifle and the sale of an antibiotic both contribute equally to the national tally (assuming the sales price is the same).
GDP doesn't register, as Robert Kennedy put it, "the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages, or the intelligence of our public debate." GDP measures everything, Kennedy concluded, "except that which makes life worthwhile."
Yet we continue to track this quarterly statistic as if nothing else matters. If GDP is up, we feel good. It means we as a nation are doing better and are, presumably, happier. Low rates of growth or, God forbid, a shrinking economy mean we are less well off and, presumably, less happy.
However, recent research into happiness -- or subjective well-being, as social scientists call it -- reveals that beyond the surprisingly low level of about $15,000 a year, the link between economic growth and happiness evaporates.
Americans are three times wealthier than we were half a century ago, but we are no happier. The same is true of Japan and many other industrialized nations. Yet we continue to treat economic growth and well-being as one and the same.
But one country does not. Bhutan, a tiny Himalayan nation, has invented a radically new metric: Gross National Happiness.
It's not a joke, and these mountain people are not oxygen-deprived. Bhutan, sandwiched between India and China, is serious about pursuing a different kind of development, one that, in the words of the late economist E. F. Schumacher, treats "economics as if people mattered."
Others have toyed with alternative measures of national progress, but none have gone as far as Bhutan's happiness policy. The country's home minister, Jigmi Y. Thinley, calls conventional measures of economic growth "delusional." Instead, Bhutanese officials make decisions based, in part, on whether they will contribute to the nation's collective happiness.
No, the Bhutanese are not closet communists. They want economic growth just like everybody else. In fact, Bhutan hopes to join the World Trade Organization. But the country is committed to sane and sustainable growth. This means sometimes making decisions that, from an economist's point of view, make no sense.
Bhutan, a beautiful land of mountains and temples, has forsaken millions of tourist dollars by, in effect, restricting the number of foreign visitors. (It does this by charging a $200 daily fee.) And while other developing countries have sold off their natural resources to the highest bidder, Bhutan has hardly touched its timber and minerals. The country also has taken some unusual steps to protect its Tibetan Buddhist culture. All buildings must be built in a traditional manner, and all citizens must wear traditional dress -- for men, a flowing robe called a \o7gho\f7 -- in public places during business hours.
We might find such rules onerous but, having recently spent several weeks in the country, I found most Bhutanese happily accept such trade-offs.
The Bhutanese, of course, are enticed by the goodies of the West. Cellphones and Internet cafes are in vogue, and there is more than one disco in the capital (though no traffic lights). But many Bhutanese are willing to forsake money for happiness; for a slower, more human pace of life. The vast majority of Bhutanese who study abroad, for instance, return to their homeland, where they earn a fraction of what they could earn in the West.
The concept of Gross National Happiness still has a long way to go. Some have called it an empty slogan, a dangerously fuzzy one that can provide cover for all manner of government ineptitude. The fear is that Bhutanese officials can respond to any criticism with the T-shirt platitude: Don't worry, be happy.
Others point out that Bhutan is no Shangri-La. It has crime and alcoholism and unhappy people, just like anywhere else. All valid concerns, but alternatives to growth-at-any-cost policies are desperately needed. Bhutan's Gross National Happiness may not be the answer to the problem, but it does reframe the question -- namely, what is a sensible way for a country to achieve the greatest happiness for the greatest number of its citizens?
In fact, the idea is catching on. One Chinese province is developing a happiness index. And the leader of Britain's Conservative Party has floated the idea of GWB -- general well-being -- as a way to gauge the nation's progress.
I think we Americans could embrace something similar -- not as a replacement for more traditional measures but as a supplement. I can envision a day in the not-too-distant future when a happiness index scrolls alongside GDP and stock prices on your cable screen. Sound strange? Flaky? No stranger -- or flakier -- than pinning our hopes and dreams to a statistic that tallies oil spills and wars on the plus side of the ledger.
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Across the sea, night flew. The citizens fell asleep, cautious and afraid. They knew what was coming. Night knew as well, and her worrisome lines on her face drew deeper into her face. At this time each night, all the citizens closed their eyes and held on tight to their sheets. Their breathing ceased along with their grips. The citizens died each night. Then in the morning, they were rebirthed and continued their lives as if nothing had happened. The citizens hated sleeping, but it was required. It was impossible to avoid. Night spread her sleep potion through the air; this was her job at the end of each day. It made the citizens drowsy and flimsy. So never could they avoid what was happening, try as the might. The death was painful and numbing, and Night felt sorrow each time when she bestowed the ugly gift on the people. She watched each morning as the sun’s fingers touched the sky and the citizens awoke, hollow and weak. No one could move until their muscles gained their old strength from the day before. So there they lay, until they found the courage to stand. Some never did, for eternal death was also existent. Some never did because they only had the energy to mourn the lost. It wasn’t possible to regain complete strength in only a day. Since they died each night, they were always weak because their strength and energy had no time to rebuild itself.
During the daylight, Night hung at the bottom of the Earth, watching her victims sleep- or die, rather. Night rained tears down upon the Earth as she watched because she knew it was her fault. The citizens knew it too. They hated Night with a strong passion, even though they had never met her. They didn’t know that she hated the pain they went through just as they did. Yet they would continue to hate her after they died. Their children would hate her as well, and their children. Night was extremely lonely. She wished at least one citizen loved her. At least one, she only needed someone to talk to. But every single citizen on Earth hated her as much as the others. It wasn’t a rule or required law; they simply did because of what she did to them. Maybe that’s what hurt the most to Night. Knowing that the citizens didn’t have to hate her, they all just did- purely. Never had Earth known a hate as strong as what they felt towards Night. Even so, she loved the people who hated her. Every single one of them. She admired their will and their feelings. She was astounded at the power one held to hurt another. Especially how easily they broke each other’s hearts, which was a common occurrence. She was disappointed at how thoughtlessly they discarded feelings for each other. The one thing Night craved so desperately, the citizens could care less about (as it seemed). Even though she didn’t understand why the people acted why they did, Night loved each one of them as strongly as they hated her. Sometimes this wasn’t enough, though.
She had tried many times to convince her God to take the pain away. He said each man should know his death before his time came. He never reasoned with her or compromised or even understood what the citizens were going through. He had never seen them like Night had. His bluntness angered Night, and at the end of one particular day, she decided to do something about it. She traveled far and wide, searching for something to ease the pain of her sleepers. She finally came across a colorful pool. In it were swirling, lively pictures of fictional scenarios. None of them made sense, and Night laughed at each one as they flew by her eyes. From that moment, she knew she had found her medicine for her weak citizens. She became eager to try out her new idea. Just as that idea arose, Night realized that it was almost time for sleep for her citizens, so she dipped a great glass into the pool and captured all the colorful images in her hand. Quickly she flew, mixing her sleep potion with the colorful images in the glass- so as not to poison the citizens with death anymore. She stirred and stirred until her fragile hands were blistered. Then once the time came, she poured the potion upon the land. Each person gripped the sheets with fear. But at the time when usually they were dead, they came across something lovelier. Their muscles relaxed as their eyes shut. But they didn’t become numb and they felt no pain. In deaths place lay swirling colorful images of fictional scenarios. Instead of dying, the citizens were dreaming. They were only asleep, not dead. Movies of giants and places far away played in their minds. Night hung at the bottom of the Earth, watching all of these movies. She laughed and her heart was content, knowing that the ones she loved felt no pain because dreaming had conquered death. When they awoke, they cried in joy. They eventually fell in love with Night for her compassion and Night was never lonely again. The citizens built up their strength and accomplished the things they never had the strength or energy to do. Night created dreams and never again did a man know death before his time came.
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Choose fruit that is not too ripe. Prepare juice from fruit. Jelly should be made in small batches of no more than 2 cups of juice and 2 cups of sugar per batch. Prepare jars and lids. Boil juice and sugar in saucepan over high heat. Boil rapidly and stir for about 5 minutes or until juice flakes off a spoon. Skim any foam off the top of the jelly. Fill jars with hot jelly. Two cups of juice yields 1 1/1 pints of jelly.
Note: We cannot guarantee recipe accuracy. Permission is required to copy and post recipes to other web sites; however, you may print and e-mail recipes.
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Nissan After World War II
After the war and in the early 1950s, Nissan formed a partnership with the British engine manufacturer Austin Motor Company in order to access cutting-edge engine and automotive designs. Austin Motor Company later became the British Motor Corporation. In 1952, the two companies reached an agreement in which Nissan would assemble Austin automobiles from imported parts and sell them in Japan under the Austin brand. After three years, Nissan made all Austin parts domestically and sold the Japanese Austins to the national market. The partnership also gave Nissan rights to access Austin patents, a position that Nissan used to refine and improve its own Datsun engines.
Nissan in America
In the 1950s, Nissan management saw an opportunity to market its line of smaller Datsun vehicles in international markets like the United States. In 1958, The first Nissan vehicle to come to America was the Datsun 1000. Built around an Austin framework., the 1000 was showcased at the 1959 Los Angeles Auto Show, an appearance that generated a few American sales that year. Also, in 1959, the company started a U.S. subsidiary named Nissan Motor Corporation.
In the early 1960s, Nissan developed its first vehicle for the American market: the Datsun 510 sedan. In 1966, the company merged with Prince Motor Company, a move that pushed Nissan's vehicles in a more luxury-oriented direction. By the end of the decade, Nissan had exported over one million Datsun automobiles.
In the 1970s, the Datsun brand gained notoriety through the popularity of the 240Z, a sports car with a six-cylinder engine. The car was renowned for its combination of value, design, and speed. During the oil crisis of 1973, consumers everywhere began to look for small economy cars that used little fuel. This demand pushed Nissan to build new Datsun factories in Australia, Mexico, South Africa, and Taiwan. At the end of the 1970s, Nissan had cumulatively exported over ten million Datsuns.
In 1981, Nissan threw out the Datsun name and began selling its automobiles under the Nissan brand. Around the same time, the company began building manufacturing plants in the U.S. as a response to the "Chicken Tax" that imposed a 25 percent duty on imported commercial vans. Also in the 1980s, Nissan introduced a racetuning division called NISMO, short for Nissan Motorsports, which focused on high-performance vehicles. The NISMO division still exists.
Nissan began the 1990s by releasing several models to the U.S. market such as the Maxima, Sentra, and 300ZX. This move caused sales to increase substantially. However, toward the end of the decade, Nissan models became more generic and unappealing to American consumers and the company saw sales drop. In 1999, Nissan formed an alliance with French automaker Renault to relieve some of its financial woes and for a strategic position. Nissan redesigned the Sentra and Altima, which became popular among consumers. Later, an initiative called the "Nissan Revival Plan" (NRP) set targets for sales and operating margins in an attempt to bring the company back to prominence. The program was hugely successful and, today, the Nissan brand is associated with quality, design, and value in America.
Nissan offers a wide array of automobile models for consumers. The Nissan Altima is the midsize sedan and offers several sub-models and optional upgrades, including a hybrid. The Maxima is a more luxurious full-size sedan, while the Nissan Sentra and Versa are economical compact sedans and hatchbacks with great fuel economy.
For those looking for utility, Nissan offers pickup trucks (the small Frontier and full-size Titan) and several crossovers and SUVs (Cube, Juke, Rogue, Murano, Xterra, Pathfinder, and Armada). The Nissan Quest is a feature-packed minivan, the Juke is a new fuel efficient crossover, and the Cube is a fully customizable crossover similar to the Scion xB.
For the sports enthusiast, the Nissan 370Z coupe and convertibles are available with a lot of speed and style, while the GT-R supercar competes with high-end sports cars from all over the world. The Nissan Leaf is driven on pure electricity with no gas required. With its wide range of vehicles, there is something for everyone in the Nissan line of cars.
Popular Nissan Products and Technologies
Nissan is known for the quality of its VQ six-cylinder, an engine that was repeatedly named one of the world's best. The company's NISMO racing division has a reputation of speed and performance among the tuning community. Recently, Nissan gained tremendous popularity as a result of the launch of the Leaf, the first pure electric vehicle to hit the market in over a decade. Vehicle such as the Leaf and the Altima Hybrid have garnered Nissan an image of environmental awareness.
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Why Less is Sometimes More
When it comes to web development, oftentimes less is more – something that may seem counterintuitive in a culture where bigger is almost always considered better.
The smorgasbord of free modules that the better CMS’s have on offer can make the temptation to indulge immense. Our preferred CMS, Drupal, for example, has well-over 10,000 free modules available for download.
Dueling clichés aside, site bloat often leads to very real problems.
Fancy extras need constant maintenance, can make your site load slowly, or even crash your whole server.
It’s often tempting to pack in more and more functionality just because you can. See featureitis.
Look at it this way… you wouldn’t hang fuzzy dice from your rear view mirror would you? Why hang the equivalent of fuzzy dice on your website.
Among the best web developers, it’s a badge of honor to say one’s solution uses the least lines of code possible. As a project manager, I take pride in being able to build a website that meets the same objective with 40 modules when other developers had to use 80.
A bloated, maladroit website that goes well beyond its purpose leads to diminished focus, unhappy clients, and misspent resources. At worst, it can kill a website’s potential.
Green Crescent will never encourage clients to add all sorts of stuff they don’t need just to bill more hours. On the contrary, we take pride in our efficiency. We succeed only when our clients succeed.
Just something to keep in mind…
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Series: Excerpts from "Origins: Christian Perspectives on Creation, Evolution, and Intelligent Design"
These excerpts from Origins: Christian Perspectives on Creation, Evolution, and Intelligent Design, written by BioLogos president Deborah Haarsma and her husband Loren Haarsma, offer a sampling of the book's many topics, from exploring our disagreements and agreements on origins as Christians to explaining scientific processes to looking at how we read Genesis.
Bigger Than We Think
My Hawking-induced crisis of faith spurred me to move beyond a "God of the gaps"—a shrunken deity enlisted merely to fill any remaining pockets of mystery that science has yet to illuminate. Indeed, my experience has been that recapturing the doctrine of Creation in its scriptural fullness points us toward a much more exciting understanding of creation. It points us toward a God for whom science is a gift rather than a stumbling block. And perhaps most importantly, it points to a Creator God who is worthy of worship, enjoyment, and trust.
Series: Searching for Motivated Belief
Over the next few months, with permission from Yale University Press, BioLogos will offer edited versions of chapters from John Polkinghorne's best books, Belief in God in an Age of Science and Theology in the Context of Science, in order to help readers delve more deeply into some of his most important ideas.
Series: Ephesians 4:1-6: A Call of Christian Unity
This series discusses the importance of unity among Christ’s believers. Ross Hastings, an expert in the areas of both chemistry and pastoral theology, is eager to see the church seek out unity rather than divisions in this science/faith interface. Unpacking Ephesians 4:1-6, he explains that unity in Christ through the Holy Spirit is the primary concern of both Jesus as seen in John 17 and Paul in Ephesians 4, making this matter pressing. He urges all believers to be in agreement that God indeed created, yet to be in dialogue over how that creative process occurred.
A Plea to My Shepherds
... I would exhort these, my fellow conservative evangelical shepherds and thinkers, to set aside all reticence and fear, emerge from anonymity, and storm the forum of discourse, engaging this most pressing matter with vigor, equanimity, and humility. In doing so, know upfront that there will be few handrails to guide; you will not be building upon an extensive precedence of published conservative thought.
Evangelicalism and Adaptation
I look my students dead straight in the eye and tell them that no matter what, debate within the intellectual sphere cannot and should not take away or diminish the importance of the personal nature of their faith. The intellect, to use a scientific phrase, while necessary for the faith, is not sufficient
Evolution and Christian Faith Grantees Announced
Congratulations to the 37 winners of the Evolution & Christian Faith (ECF) grants competition! ECF is a new BioLogos program designed to support projects and network-building among scholars, church leaders, and parachurch organizations.
Evolution, the Enlightenment, and Worldviews
In this video conversation, N.T. Wright discusses how the Enlightenment worldview -- which clearly separates God from the world -- has impacted our view of Scripture, and why cleaning the "spectacles" through which we view the world can help us see both Scripture and the world more clearly.
Southern Baptist Series: Evolution and the Problem of Evil
Were one to propose creation by means of theistic evolution, some of the presuppositions for these responses to the problem of evil no longer function. Therefore, advocating some form of theistic evolution poses problems for standard explanations of the problem of evil.
Why Strict Atheism Is Unscientific
Do you believe in God? If a cadre of outspoken, strong atheists wrote a litmus test for scientists, that might very well be question #1.
Series: “And God Saw That It Was Good”: Death and Pain in the Created Order
The tension generated by our understanding of God’s character, as revealed in the Bible, and by the reality of the natural world around us has been the focus of much debate within the Christian church since the first century. This series examines critically several of the proposed solutions to this problem, viewing them from the perspective of a geologist, paleontologist, and orthodox evangelical Christian.
Science and the Bible: Intelligent Design, Part 3
Is methodological naturalism equivalent to atheism? That’s the rock bottom question here, and there simply is no consensus—neither among Christians nor even among atheists, for that matter.
Can Science Ever Know Enough?
To say something is poetic is not to declare it ultimately untrue, futile and meaningless—it is to say it is more profound and meaningful and true than many other modes of expression.
Philosophical and Ethical Foundations of Science
While the lack of complete certainty is perceived by critics as a weakness, the dynamic nature of science is actually a great strength; new discoveries produce feedback that enables us to reassess, and if necessary, modify our assumptions.
What I Would Like To Hear A Young-Earth Creationist Say
It may come as a surprise that when asked by The Colossian Forum what one thing he would like to hear Young Earth Creationists say, his answer had nothing to do with scientific statements at all. Rather, his hope is to hear a single simple phrase: “We’re both part of the same family.”
Willing to be Wrong
The debate is often not about evidence, but about making sure that others do not transgress our interpretive boundaries and insist that we're wrong. We've bitten from the tree of knowledge and we love its taste.
Conversations in Creation
Since the BioLogos/Highway Media collaboration From the Dust made its worldwide debut this year, we’ve been excited to hear how others have been using the film to jump start their own conversations with fellow Christians about science and faith .
Science and the Bible: Theistic Evolution, Part 3
As I stressed in my column about the YEC view, creationism is ultimately about theodicy—it’s not only about theodicy, to be sure, but the belief that animals must not have suffered and died before Adam and Eve committed the first sin is crucial to the “young” in Young Earth Creationism. To a significant degree, Theistic Evolution is also about theodicy.
The Questions Update: Why Should Christians Consider Evolutionary Creation?
At BioLogos, we view evolutionary creation as a description of how and when God brought about all the creatures on earth. We do not see God as distant from this process, for God did not just set up the universe at the beginning and let it go. Instead, he upholds the universe moment by moment, sustaining all things by the power of his word.
Series: Southern Baptist Voices: Evolution and Death
This exchange brings together related essays on death in light of evolution and Scripture from Southern Baptist theologian Dr. John Laing. Laing argues that evolutionary theory requires death to play a central role in the creation of new life, but sees Scripture depicting death only "as an invader, disturber of peace, and a force of evil." A BioLogos response is given by Dr. Jeff Schloss.
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The teens from Sudan were previously banned from playing at Mooseheart High School near Chicago. Today the IHSA met to decide on the case. It will let them play, but the school is now on probation. It was also barred from participating in the 2013 state basketball tournament.
The IHSA wants school officials to institute training and compliance measures to make sure the program stays in line with recruiting rules in the future. The school was also told to severe contact with a placement organization, African Hoop Opportunities Providing an Education or AHOPE. The organization contacted the school about allowing the teens to play.
The school maintains that it did not recruit the students. Attorneys for the district told the IHSA that the school had no contact with the boys until they arrived on campus. It also waited a full year before allowing them to compete.
All three teens played with the team in tonight's game.
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Here's a sentence I just wrote: "The reason Taylor reminds you of Clinton and the reason it was especially noticeable last night is because both men are echoing Elvis."John -- my son, John Althouse Cohen -- responds:
Should "is" be "are"? I think it would sound ridiculous, but rule-based thinking would say yes.
I think it can only be "is," even if you're using "rule-based thinking." "Are" would just be comical. It would remind me of the scene in "After Hours" where Griffin Dunne says:The ice of my "rule-based thinking" is slowly melting.
So I march right in there to apologize, but she'd already killed herself. I was too late. He was about to give me the money, when all of a sudden, his phone rang. His girlfriend killed herself tonight. Is that a coincidence? No, because the same girl who I came downtown to see was dead, too. That's because they're the same person. They're both dead.
The point is: He was joking by using the plural and saying, "They're both dead." You can't use "both" in reference to one person. And in your sentence, there's only one reason; it just serves two functions.
Here's another analogy: "George Harrison was the guitarist and singer in 'Here Comes the Sun.'" By inverting that, you automatically get, "The guitarist and singer in 'Here Comes the Sun' was George Harrison." It would be absurd to use "were" instead of "was" in either of those sentences. It doesn't matter whether "George Harrison" comes first in the sentence; the grammar is still the same. "...are George Harrison" is just as ungrammatical as "George Harrison are..."
Incidentally, you should change "because" to "that." Look up "the reason is because" in any usage book.
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Aug. 19, 2011 That micro-organisms have a great capacity to vary their surface structure is well known. It is one of the reasons why it is so difficult to develop vaccines against HIV and malaria, and why new influenza vaccines have to be produced every year. But it seems that these micro-organisms are also able to completely avoid activating a strong immune response in the person attacked.
This is what Professor Gunnar Lindahl from Lund University and his research group show in an article in Cell Host & Microbe.
"If we get a serious streptococcus infection, we want our immune defences to create antibodies aimed at certain parts of the micro-organisms' surface protein. But that mechanism does not work particularly well, which is a disadvantage for us and an advantage for the bacteria," he says.
Gunnar Lindahl's group has studied group A streptococci. These are one of the world's most important disease bacteria, causing ordinary tonsillitis, fatal toxic shock syndrome and a very serious autoimmune disease.
The part of the bacteria that has been studied is a surface protein called the M protein, more precisely the part of this protein (the "hypervariable region") which has the ability to vary extensively, in order to escape attack. The research showed that the relevant part of the protein was not just variable, but also managed to avoid eliciting any strong antibody response from the immune system.
"This may be what actually constitutes the micro-organisms' primary weapon: that they avoid antagonizing the immune system. In the case of a long-lasting infection, the immune system does indeed start to produce antibodies eventually, but by then the micro-organisms can have established a firm footing," says Gunnar Lindahl.
The micro-organisms' ability to sneak under the immune system's radar, as it were, was already suggested in certain scientific articles in the 1950s. But this ability was then overshadowed by their other defensive mechanism, i.e. the ability to vary their surface structure. And since a strong variation was considered to be obviously connected to strong antibody pressure -- that the micro-organisms were simply forced to vary in order to elude the antibodies -- no one has paid any attention to investigating whether there really was any strong antibody pressure.
The findings of the Lund researchers are part of basic research in molecular biology, but have consequences for the development of new vaccines. The vaccine developers must in future take account not only of the capacity for variation in bacteria, viruses and other micro-organisms, but also of their ability to avoid activating the immune defence system.
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- Jonas Lannergård, Mattias C.U. Gustafsson, Johan Waldemarsson, Anna Norrby-Teglund, Margaretha Stålhammar-Carlemalm, Gunnar Lindahl. The Hypervariable Region of Streptococcus pyogenes M Protein Escapes Antibody Attack by Antigenic Variation and Weak Immunogenicity. Cell Host & Microbe, 2011; 10 (2): 147-157 DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2011.06.011
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Who knows how many other young men arrived in New York City in the winter of 1961 looking like James Dean and talking like Jack Kerouac? It would have been difficult to pick Bob Dylan out of the crowd at first, considering how much he had in common with the other Bohemian kids kicking around Greenwich Village. Artistic ambition? Check. Antipathy toward mainstream culture? Yes. A desire to put his middle-class identity behind him? Definitely. But the singular creative vision that would separate Dylan from the rest of his peers and change the face of popular music wasn't really in evidence yet. What Bob Dylan did have, though, in addition to his guitar and harmonica, was a unique stage presence and a vast library of American folk songs in his repertoire. On April 11, 1961, he got his first real chance to put those on display with his first major gig in New York City, opening for bluesman John Lee Hooker at Gerde's Folk City.
Bob Dylan had just arrived in town a few months earlier, but as the prominent producer/talent scout John Hammond would write in the liner notes of his debut album one year later, "The young man from the provinces began to make friends very quickly in New York, all the while continuing, as he has since he was ten, to assimilate musical ideas from everyone he met, every record he heard." Dylan befriended not only his idol Woody Guthrie—whose hospitalization in New Jersey had been the initial impetus for Dylan to come east from Minnesota—but also some of the significant figures on the burgeoning Downtown folk scene, like Jack Elliot and Dave Van Ronk. Dylan would write about this period in "Talkin' New York" (1962), which included a verse about his breakthrough gig at Gerde's:
After weeks and weeks of hanging around
I finally got a job in New York town
In a bigger place, bigger money too
Even joined the Union and paid my dues.
Gerde's was probably the most important folk-music venue in New York City at the time—the club that every folk act with a national profile played when they were in town. Dylan had previously joined other unknowns like himself onstage at Gerde's during the club's Monday "Hootenanny Night," but the invitation to appear on a regular bill presented a bit of an administrative problem. At just 19 years old, Bob Dylan was too young to obtain the necessary union card and cabaret license. One of the clubs owners, Mike Porco, was interested enough in getting the young man on the bill, though, that he signed on as Dylan's guardian—"the Sicilian father I never knew I had," as Dylan put it.
A number of major developments in the year that followed would set Bob Dylan on his road toward stardom, but the very first of those was his appearance at Gerde's Folk City on this day in 1961.
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An IT recruiting watchdog group says some staffing companies are abusing the U.S. visa program, advertising jobs that may not even exist, and limiting applicants to non-citizens.
“The public is led to believe that companies can’t find Americans to fill high-tech jobs when, in fact, they are not searching for Americans — as these ads show,” said Donna Conroy, a founder of Bright Future Jobs and author of “No Americans Need Apply.”
Her report details an analysis of 100 IT ads, posted on tech job board Dice.com, which all include language referencing various visa programs, and which, Conroy said in an interview, are phrased as “code for foreign workers only.”
The Bright Future Jobs analysis of the ads found 37 percent of them made no mention of IT job terms or skills in the ad title. Instead, they contained only references to visa types, says Conroy’s report. “These 37 ads also repeated these USCIS (US Citizenship and Immigration Services) terms in the skills section,” says the report.
The balance of the ads all included visa terms, with many restricting applicants to those with H1-B visas (work visas) or with work permits granted to foreign students attending U.S. colleges and universities.
Remarkably, one ad reproduced in the report, makes no reference to skills at all. Another ad seeks entry-level computer science graduates, telling potential applicants they’ll get help doctoring their resume:
We will provide you the sample resumes with which you need to prepare blueprint of your resume with 5-8yrs of exp, as per current market needs to compete with others and we will assist you further in all aspects while finalizing your resume.
That’s not unusual, says Conroy, who called the recruitment ads a “scam and a fraud. It’s been going on for 20 years, and not only here, but in Australia, the United Kingdom and other places.”
Referred to as body shops, these mostly Indian-owned IT staffing firms recruit in India, promising jobs and training in the U.S. Hopeful candidates pay for the placement — as much as $10,000 Conroy said — and go to work for a staffing firm that arranges their work visas. Contrary to popular belief, few jobs must first be advertised to American citizens.
These firms have their own network, and share candidates during down times. Wikipedia’s body shop entry explains one sort of sharing arrangement.
“Essentially,” says Conroy, “it’s a guarantee (for the workers) of a bright future when they return to India in a couple of years.” Not only is their U.S. experience highly valued by software firms in India, the earning potential of those with that kind of experience significantly increases marital dowries, Conroy explained.
The ins and outs of this global staffing network was detailed in Global “Body Shopping”: An Indian Labor System in the Information Technology Industry, by anthropologist Xiang Biao, a professor at Oxford University.
Although salaries and opportunities have risen sharply in India since the emergence of body shops in the mid-1990s, IT graduates there find so much advantage in gaining overseas experience, that they are willing to pay the fees and even endure often uncomfortable periods of unemployment — with no pay — living in housing that may be owned by the staffing firm.
Besides collecting fees from the candidates, the staffing companies bill out their workers at rates approaching as much as $100 an hour, while paying them far less. Many times, however, the hourly rate is far less than what an employer would have to pay an American IT staffing firm. Consequently, some employers choose not to look too closely at the workers provided by these firms.
Most of the staffing firms involved in these body shop arrangements, Conroy said, are small operators, though her report lists ads by firms with revenues of several million dollars.
Infosys, one of the largest software services and staffing providers with 15,000 workers in the U.S. and revenue of more than $6.8 billion, is under investigation for alleged visa fraud. The firm is also being sued by a former consultant whose allegations of visa fraud prompted the criminal investigation.
Visa fraud takes many forms; the most common is when the holder does work not allowed under their specific visa. In other cases, the staffing company, which is the actual employer of record, fails to comply with the rules under which the visa is granted, claiming the worker is paid a salary large enough to be exempted from them.
Beyond the visa issues are those involving EEOC compliance. Discrimination on the basis of national origin is prohibited under American law. Since only non-Americans would need a visa to work in this country, ads requiring a visa would likely be discriminatory.
The report quotes visa and immigration attorney Michael F. Brown of Peterson, Berk & Cross saying, “If the employer in fact does not hire U.S. citizens as a matter of practice, this could potentially involve the violation of discrimination law for a U.S. citizen job applicant who is bypassed based on his or her national origin.”
How widespread a problem this is, isn’t known, since no agency is specifically charged with monitoring and tabulating all the various visas issued and which are still active. Conroy suggested it is into the tens of thousands.
While Congress may act later this year to tighten up restrictions on work-related visas, Conroy said recruitment sites like Dice “are part of the problem. They don’t enforce their own policies.”
“Until these companies go to EEO-rehab, Dice must step in and remove all job ads that even have a hint of discrimination, “ said Conroy in a press release announcing the report.
A Dice spokeswoman said, “We’ve addressed 167 job advertisements this year that violated our terms of service.”
Silver noted that, “Visa language in a job advertisement doesn’t amount to discrimination in and of itself, job postings with these terms and others are reviewed on a case by case basis.” And indeed Dice (as well as Monster and CareerBuilder) all have ads that in some cases say applicants with such visas won’t be considered or that the company won’t assist in obtaining them.
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Thursday, December 28, 2006
Oil discoveries in Huntington Beach, California in 1920 and 1921 drove local residents in the words of one observer, "stark. staring. oil mad." Speculation was in the air because people saw this as the land of easy money. In 1928, Huntington Beach was lined with oil derricks as pictured above.
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Ask a question about 'Flood control'
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In communications, flood control
is a feature of many communication protocols designed to prevent overwhelming of a destination receiver. Such controls can be implemented either in software or in hardware, and will often request that the message be resent after the receiver has finished processing.
Internet forums often use a flood control mechanism to prevent too many messages from being posted at once, either to prevent spamming or denial-of-service attack
A denial-of-service attack or distributed denial-of-service attack is an attempt to make a computer resource unavailable to its intended users...
s. Internet Relay Chat
Internet Relay Chat is a protocol for real-time Internet text messaging or synchronous conferencing. It is mainly designed for group communication in discussion forums, called channels, but also allows one-to-one communication via private message as well as chat and data transfer, including file...
servers will often quit users performing IRC floods with an "Excess Flood" message.
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The anxiety you feel when making a math test or doing some kind of mathematical homework and you need to draw a curved line in a graphic, because you are afraid you will fuck up the entire graph.
Teacher: Where are all your lines in the graphs? Why didn`t you do your homework?!
Suzanne: I tried to draw them but got graphic draw anxiety everytime I wanted to start.
Teacher: That`s the best excuse ever!
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There are few things more iconic of particle physics than Feynman diagrams. These little figures of squiggly show up prominently on particle physicists’ chalkboards alongside scribbled equations. Here’s a ‘typical’ example from a previous post.
The simplicity of these diagrams has a certain aesthetic appeal, though as one might imagine there are many layers of meaning behind them. The good news is that’s it’s really easy to understand the first few layers and today you will learn how to draw your own Feynman diagrams and interpret their physical meaning.
You do not need to know any fancy-schmancy math or physics to do this!
That’s right. I know a lot of people are intimidated by physics: don’t be! Today there will be no equations, just non-threatening squiggly lines. Even school children can learn how to draw Feynman diagrams (and, I hope, some cool science). Particle physics: fun for the whole family.
For now, think of this as a game. You’ll need a piece of paper and a pen/pencil. The rules are as follows (read these carefully):
- You can draw two kinds of lines, a straight line with an arrow or a wiggly line:
You can draw these pointing in any direction.
- You may only connect these lines if you have two lines with arrows meeting a single wiggly line.
Note that the orientation of the arrows is important! You must have exactly one arrow going into the vertex and exactly one arrow coming out.
- Your diagram should only contain connected pieces. That is every line must connect to at least one vertex. There shouldn’t be any disconnected part of the diagram.
In the image above the diagram on the left is allowed while the one on the right is not since the top and bottom parts don’t connect.
- What’s really important are the endpoints of each line, so we can get rid of excess curves. You should treat each line as a shoelace and pull each line taut to make them nice and neat. They should be as straight as possible. (But the wiggly line stays wiggly!)
That’s it! Those are the rules of the game. Any diagram you can draw that passes these rules is a valid Feynman diagram. We will call this game QED. Take some time now to draw a few diagrams. Beware of a few common pitfalls of diagrams that do not work (can you see why?):
After a while, you might notice a few patterns emerging. For example, you could count the number of external lines (one free end) versus the number of internal lines (both ends attached to a vertex).
- How are the number of external lines related to the number of internal lines and vertices?
- If I tell you the number of external lines with arrows point inward, can you tell me the number of external lines with arrows pointing outward? Does a similar relation hole for the number of external wiggly lines?
- If you keep following the arrowed lines, is it possible to end on some internal vertex?
- Did you consider diagrams that contain closed loops? If not, do your answers to the above two questions change?
I won’t answer these questions for you, at least not in this post. Take some time to really play with these diagrams. There’s a lot of intuition you can develop with this “QED” game. After a while, you’ll have a pleasantly silly-looking piece of paper and you’ll be ready to move on to the next discussion:
What does it all mean?
Now we get to some physics. Each line in rule (1) is called a particle. (Aha!) The vertex in rule (2) is called an interaction. The rules above are an outline for a theory of particles and their interactions. We called it QED, which is short for quantum electrodynamics. The lines with arrows are matter particles (“fermions”). The wiggly line is a force particle (“boson”) which, in this case, mediates electromagnetic interactions: it is the photon.
The diagrams tell a story about how a set of particles interact. We read the diagrams from left to right, so if you have up-and-down lines you should shift them a little so they slant in either direction. This left-to-right reading is important since it determines our interpretation of the diagrams. Matter particles with arrows pointing from left to right are electrons. Matter particles with arrows pointing in the other direction are positrons (antimatter!). In fact, you can think about the arrow as pointing in the direction of the flow of electric charge. As a summary, we our particle content is:
(e+ is a positron, e- is an electron, and the gamma is a photon… think of a gamma ray.)
From this we can make a few important remarks:
- The interaction with a photon shown above secretly includes information about the conservation of electric charge: for every arrow coming in, there must be an arrow coming out.
- But wait: we can also rotate the interaction so that it tells a different story. Here are a few examples of the different ways one can interpret the single interaction (reading from left to right):
These are to be interpreted as: (1) an electron emits a photon and keeps going, (2) a positron absorbs a photon and keeps going, (3) an electron and positron annihilate into a photon, (4) a photon spontaneously “pair produces” an electron and positron.
On the left side of a diagram we have “incoming particles,” these are the particles that are about to crash into each other to do something interesting. For example, at the LHC these ‘incoming particles’ are the quarks and gluons that live inside the accelerated protons. On the right side of a diagram we have “outgoing particles,” these are the things which are detected after an interesting interaction.
For the theory above, we can imagine an electron/positron collider like the the old LEP and SLAC facilities. In these experiments an electron and positron collide and the resulting outgoing particles are detected. In our simple QED theory, what kinds of “experimental signatures” (outgoing particle configurations) could they measure? (e.g. is it possible to have a signature of a single electron with two positrons? Are there constraints on how many photons come out?)
So we see that the external lines correspond to incoming or outgoing particles. What about the internal lines? These represent virtual particles that are never directly observed. They are created quantum mechanically and disappear quantum mechanically, serving only the purpose of allowing a given set of interactions to occur to allow the incoming particles to turn into the outgoing particles. We’ll have a lot to say about these guys in future posts. Here’s an example where we have a virtual photon mediating the interaction between an electron and a positron.
In the first diagram the electron and positron annihilate into a photon which then produces another electron-positron pair. In the second diagram an electron tosses a photon to a nearby positron (without ever touching the positron). This all meshes with the idea that force particles are just weird quantum objects which mediate forces. However, our theory treats force and matter particles on equal footing. We could draw diagrams where there are photons in the external state and electrons are virtual:
This is a process where light (the photon) and an electron bounce off each other and is called Compton scattering. Note, by the way, that I didn’t bother to slant the vertical virtual particle in the second diagram. This is because it doesn’t matter whether we interpret it as a virtual electron or a virtual positron: we can either say (1) that the electron emits a photon and then scatters off of the incoming photon, or (2) we can say that the incoming photon pair produced with the resulting positron annihilating with the electron to form an outgoing photon:
Anyway, this is the basic idea of Feynman diagrams. They allow us to write down what interactions are possible. We will see later that in fact there is a much more mathematical interpretation of these diagrams that produces the mathematical expressions that predict the probability of these interactions to occur, and so there is actually some rather complicated mathematics “under the hood.” However, just like a work of art, it’s perfectly acceptable to appreciate these diagrams at face value as diagrams of particle interactions. In subsequent posts we’ll develop more techniques and use this to talk about some really interesting physics, but until then let me close with a quick “frequently asked questions”:
- What is the significance of the x and y axes?
These are really spacetime diagrams that outline the “trajectory” of particles. By reading these diagrams from left to right, we interpret the x axis as time. You can think of each vertical slice as a moment in time. The y axis is roughly the space direction.
- So are you telling me that the particles travel in straight lines?
No, but it’s easy to mistakenly believe this if you take the diagrams too seriously. The path that particles take through actual space is determined not only by the interactions (which are captured by Feynman diagrams), but the kinematics (which is not). For example, one would still have to impose things like momentum and energy conservation. The point of the Feynman diagram is to understand the interactions along a particle’s path, not the actual trajectory of the particle in space.
- Does this mean that positrons are just electrons moving backwards in time?
In the early days of quantum electrodynamics this seemed to be an idea that people liked to say once in a while because it sounds neat. Diagrammatically (and in some sense mathematically) one can take this interpretation, but it doesn’t really buy you anything. Among other more technical reasons, this viewpoint is rather counterproductive because the mathematical framework of quantum field theory is built upon the idea of causality.
- What does it mean that a set of incoming particles and outgoing particles can have multiple diagrams?
In the examples above of two-to-two scattering I showed two different diagrams that take the in-state and produce the required out-state. In fact, there are an infinite set of such diagrams. (Can you draw a few more?) Quantum mechanically, one has to sum over all the different ways to get from the in state to the out state. This should sound familiar: it’s just the usual sum over paths in the double slit experiment that we discussed before. We’ll have plenty more to say about this, but the idea is that one has to add the mathematical expressions associated with each diagram just like we had to sum numbers associated with each path in the double slit experiment.
- What is the significance of rules 3 and 4?
Rule 3 says that we’re only going to care about one particular chain of interactions. We don’t care about additional particles which don’t interact or additional independent chains of interactions. Rule 4 just makes the diagrams easier to read. Occasionally we’ll have to draw curvy lines or even lines that “slide under” other lines.
- Where do the rules come from?
The rules that we gave above (called Feynman rules) are essentially the definition of a theory of particle physics. More completely, the rules should also include a few numbers associated with the parameters of the theory (e.g. the masses of the particles, how strongly they couple), but we won’t worry about these. Graduate students in particle physics spent much of their first year learning how to carefully extract the diagrammatic rules from mathematical expressions (and then how to use the diagrams to do more math), but the physical content of the theory is most intuitively understood by looking at the diagrams directly and ignoring the math. If you’re really curious, the expression from which one obtains the rules looks something like this (from TD Gutierrez), though that’s a deliberately “scary-looking” formulation.
We’ll develop more intuition about these diagrams and eventually get to some LHC physics, but hopefully this will get the ball rolling!
[As an aside, a special 'hello' to everyone who reads these posts from the 'Large Hadron Collider' Facebook page. Contrary to some belief, the LHC didn't become sentient and start a Facebook blog. Check out the US/LHC Blog homepage for more information about the physicists who write these posts! PS, while I occasionally browse the Facebook comments, I'm more likely to respond to comments posted to the actual blog page.]
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Residents of the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia voted for a new president Friday, three years after Russia recognized the region, and another breakaway area, South Ossetia, as independent states.
Three candidates are hoping to replace President Sergei Bagapsh, who died in May. They are acting President Alexander Ankvab, Prime Minister Sergei Shamba and Raul Khajimba of the opposition Forum of the National Unity of Abkhazia.
If no candidate wins more than 50 percent of the vote, a run-off election will be held in two weeks. Preliminary results were to be announced Saturday.
Georgian lawmakers have declared the presidential election by Abkhazia illegitimate. Much of the West and Tbilisi maintain that both Abkhazia and South Ossetia are still part of Georgia's sovereign territory.
Russia and Georgia fought a short, but brutal war over the region in 2008, and Russia still has thousands of soldiers stationed in Abkhazia.
The breakaway region has only been recognized by Venezuela, Nicaragua and the tiny Pacific island of Nauru.
Some information for this report was provided by AP, AFP and Reuters.
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The benefits from metal-to-plastic part conversion cuts across all parts of the health-care industry, from device makers, doctors, hospitals and patients, according to Jay Haverstraw of PMC LLC. "Itís really predominately cost drivers, but thereís a bunch of side benefits to the other players in the food chain, so to speak," said Haverstraw, technical sales manager at PMC, a Cincinnati-based injection molder, in a recent presentation at the Plastics in Medical Devices 2012 conference in Westlake. Founded in 1929, PMC is an injection molder and contract manufacturer that serves the medical, commercial electronics and transportation markets. The Plastics News-sponsored conference was held June 11-13.
Plastics in Medical Devices 2012: Elliott Pritikin : Medical-device designers face regulatory pressures.December 12, 2012 6:00 am ET
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While Information Architecture took its name from architecture, it took very little else. This is not surprising, as the early days of the web were about making sites that supported the interaction between people and data. The obvious model back then was a library; a library is a space for humans to receive knowledge. But with the rise of social networks, and the integration of community into almost all online experiences, more architecture practices are directly transferable to design. Online spaces are no longer just about findability, but about falling in love, getting your work done, goofing around, reconnecting with old friends, staving off loneliness… humans doing human things.
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The LEGO UkuleleJuxtapoz // Thursday, 02 Jun 2011
Some great readers of this site, knowing that we enjoy a great LEGO sculpture, sent us this LEGO Ukulele this morning. Because it is amazing, we assume. Ross Crawford made the ukulele out of LEGO bricks, and the kicker is that is even works.
Listen to Crawford play "Puff the Magic Dragon" on the LEGO ukulele here.
Our favorite part of Crawford's explanation of how done it was in regards to the tuning: "Tuning. I had to come up with a way of tuning the strings, that was able to take the tension without slipping, and didn’t look too yucky. I tried a couple of ways, but this one worked best, probably because it’s the simplest! Those of you with eagle eyes will notice the LEGO worm gears are wound the wrong way, so the keys have to be turned the opposite way to normal. I did try putting them on the other side of the main gear, which fixed the turning anomoly, but they ended up way too close to the top of the neck, and I kept knocking them while playing, so I decided this way was best."
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Beautiful and ugly statistics
Positive economic data made Koreans feel pride in the past. However, these days the international praise of Korea’s shiny economic achievements makes many of them feel a sense of alienation and disillusionment.
Many locals believe the rising international ranking of Korea’s economy is not their story. They are now sick and tired of chaebol-led growth, from which benefits seldom trickle down into their pockets.
Despite the bright macro-data, the real jobless rate is high, at least by Korean standard. Many small-and medium-sized companies are struggling. Mom-and-pop shops rise and fall as many retiring baby boomers open them and then go bankrupt. Household debt has approached explosive levels, owing to protracted stagnation in the property market.
Income polarization has been growing and the population is aging fast. By 2030, one out of every four Koreans will be aged 65 or above. Many Black Swan events hang over the economy amid the eurozone crisis and ahead of the presidential election.
In fact, Korea should be the envy of the world if the economic data was the story of ordinary people.
Korea is now the fourth largest economy in Asia and the 12th in the world. Its annual trade surpassed $1 trillion last year, making the country the seventh largest exporter worldwide. It has joined the so-called 20-50 Club, becoming one of the seven countries in the world with per capita income of more than $20,000 with a population of 50 million. It is the only Asian country which has signed free trade agreements with the world’s two largest economies _ the EU and the US. Fourteen Korean companies, including Samsung, were among Fortune’s 500 large industrial corporations in the world last year.
It has already overtaken France in overall R&D spending, becoming the world’s fifth largest spender
The country boasts of the world’s highest scientific and second highest mathematical literacy in the recent ranking of the OECD Program for International Student Assessment.
It had the fourth largest number of patents in force worldwide after Japan, the United States and China as of 2010. Korea ranked top in the OECD IT trade surplus, and has had the highest proportion of users of high speed Internet access in the world since 2001. It has had the fastest average Internet connections with a nationwide 100 Mbps fiber-optic network. Samsung and Toyota are the only two companies in Asia that netted more than $10 billion in profit in 2006.
Korea began a TV-on-your-palm service for the first time in the world by using digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB) technology; the DMB has become the standard for mobile broadcasting in Europe. The country is the originator of wireless broadband and mobile broadband (WiBro) services. Many countries, including Italy and Venezuela, have decided to use this technology.
Hyundai-Kia Motor Group became the No. 5 producer of cars in 2011.
Twenty-one nuclear power stations in Korea have the best safety record in the world.
Korean women won 42 percent of LPGA championships in 2009; and the country had the fifth highest in medal tally at the Vancouver Winter Games in 2010. PyeongChang will host the winter Olympics in 2018. Daegu hosted the International Association of Athletics Federation championships in 2011.
The Summer and Winter Olympics, the World Cup and the IAAF Championships are the big four grand slam sports events. Only France, Italy, Germany, Russia and Japan had hosted them. Even America and Britain have yet to do so.
The country was No. 2 in 2004 in an Edinburgh University study of intelligent quotients, and No. 3 in 2010 in a survey of the test designer Paul Coojimans.
CIS bloc countries use Korea’s rags-to-riches story as a textbook.
Despite such beautiful and prideful statistics, Korea has also many ugly statistics. The nation lags behind other countries in many non-economic sectors although it outperforms the world in exports, growth, sports and culture.
Korea is still an exporter of orphans. It is allegedly the only OECD country where girls go abroad for prostitution. It is arguably one of the few countries where hymen reconstruction surgery is possible to give the appearance of virginity. Korea is the No. 1 in plastic surgery and per capita consumption of cosmetics in Asia. It has the highest suicide rate in the OECD, the second highest divorce rate and ranks bottom (200th) in birthrates. Korea, Taiwan and Ukraine are the only three countries where physical clashes and swearing of lawmakers get the occasional international media spotlight. Korea had the highest number of road accidents among OECD countries in 2010.
It ranked 24th on the OECD happiness index; and the nation is 43rd on the corruption index.
An OECD report shows that Korea’s economy will surge to the 4 percent growth range if it reduces corruption.
The time has come for policymakers to implement microeconomic programs that will make people happy, not crow on macroeconomic data that is only pleasing to chaebol. The bright economic data is the story of the past. The OECD warns that Korea will see its potential growth rate nosedive to the 1 percent range in two decades, partly owing to the fast aging of the population.
Instead of boasting of what they have achieved so far, Koreans need to pay attentions to what they will do and what non-Koreans think of Korea. This will help upgrade the image of both Korea and Koreans.
Lee Chang-sup is the executive managing director of The Korea Times. Contact him at firstname.lastname@example.org.
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For cleansing & covering wounds. Extra Absorbent; Soft & comfortable. 10 - 3 x 3 Inch. Formerly Steri-Pad Sterile Pads. Johnson & Johnson First Aid Gauze Pads are ideal for cleansing and covering larger cuts, scrapes and minor burns because they are highly absorbent. The pads are designed to pull fluids away from the wound site, and comfortably clean dirt and germs from the injured area to help wounds heal faster. Apply soap or medication directly onto pads, then cleanse wound. Pads can be unfolded for broader coverage on larger wounds. A covered wound heals faster than an uncovered one. Sterility guaranteed unless envelope is damaged or opened. Made in USA.
For best results, follow our Step-by-Step Wound Care Directions: 1. Cleanse injured area gently and thoroughly with Gauze Pads, mild soap and water. Pat dry. 2. Treat and protect wounds against infection with medication or first aid cream. 3. Cover injured area completely with non-stick pads to protect wound and absorb fluids. Wrap rolled gauze to secure pads if necessary. 4. Tape on all four sides to firmly secure non-stick pads and help seal out dirt and germs.
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Enriching Life Daily
Written by Vikki Burke
Lack on any level is an enemy.
We were not created by God to struggle with lack throughout our lives. This is seen in the way God placed Adam and Eve in a garden where every need was met. We see it in God’s covenants. The knowledge of those covenants caused David, a former shepherd, to make this bold declaration: “The Lord is my Shepherd [to feed, guide, and shield me], I shall not lack.” (Psalm 23:1 AMP).
God’s dream is that His family live without lack. Lack is at the opposite of the abundant life Jesus came to give us. Jesus said, “The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly” (John 10:10 NKJV).
Yes, we do face adversity and struggles. Every trial, tribulation, or trouble has the potential of leading us into unbelief, frustration, or confusion. The way we handle these times of trouble determines our success in coming out of lack and into abundance. James 1:2-4 says,
My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.
Now that we are in Christ, we are on a God-given course to lacking nothing. But to continue on the road to lacking nothing, we must not be distracted by the trials that arise.
(James 1:2-4 NKJV)
Our part is to walk in Biblical principles that will empower us to attack the lack. The first vital priority toward lacking nothing is to put God and His Word first in our lives—before busyness or business. God must be first before our family, ourselves, our job, or our personal interests. Put Him first in all that we do, and He will direct us. Proverbs 3:6 in The Living Bible says, “In everything you do, put God first, and he will direct you and crown your efforts with success.”
Jesus settled this issue when He dealt with Mary and Martha. Martha had invited Jesus to her home. When her sister, Mary sat at Jesus’ feet listening to His words it upset Martha. She said to Jesus: “Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Therefore tell her to help me” (Luke 10:40 NKJV).
Jesus answered Martha saying, “…Martha, Martha, you are worried and troubled about many things. But one thing is needed, and Mary has chosen that good part, which will not be taken away from her” (v. 41).
Martha wanted to serve the Lord, but she was distracted by many things. Her self-imposed sense of responsibility kept her from the most important thing she could have done—listen to Jesus.
Many times the greatest thing we can do is to sit down and let Jesus teach us in the depths of a quiet heart. Busyness does not mean we are accomplishing what God wants. Jesus did not come to Martha’s house to eat; He came to impart something. Mary was the one who had chosen to receive what He came to give.
Let’s make the decision to put God’s Word first place in our lives and receive what He has come to impart to us. He will not disappoint us!
Dennis Burke Ministries
All rights reserved. Used by permission.
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The 214-year-old Ten Broeck Mansion is the headquarters of the Albany County Historical Association, (ACHA), a non-profit state-chartered organization that helps preserve and exemplify the history and heritage of New York's Capital Region. The association owns and operates the Ten Broeck Mansion, designated by New York State as a "historic house museum", and its programs, and is active in the community as an educational entity and catalyst for historic preservation.
A Book Makes a Great Gift!
People of Albany: The First 200 Years
By Peter J. Hess
WMHT Auction: http://auction.wmht.org
Tulip Mania at Ten Broeck
Over 7000 tulips are in bloom this Spring!
Head to our events page for more info on our summer events!
Head to our Payments page to buy tickets to events.
Get more information by visiting our Events-and-Exhibits page!
Open For Tours May - October
The Mansion may be rented for a private event such as a wedding, reception or party. Read an article on vintage wedding ideas from Brides magazine, perhaps the mansion could be the perfect venue for your big day.
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Serious Eats: New York
Behind the Scenes at Hot Bread Kitchen
Hot Bread Kitchen is so much more than a bakery. This not-for-profit hires and trains low-income immigrant women in the fine art of baking, giving them valuable skills to help them achieve economic security.
We spent some time in the bakery to see what goes into making all those breads, and how Hot Bread manages a thriving business while fulfilling its goal of education. We found, first and foremost, that it's quite possibly the most diverse bakery you will ever find. They bake 35 different breads from eleven different countries, ranging from Jewish challah to German rye, Armenian lavash to Moroccan m'smen. The staff is as diverse as the breads they bake: the women at Hot Bread Kitchen currently range between 19 and 60 years of age and come from ten different countries.
The correlation is no coincidence; preserving multi-ethnic baking traditions is at the core of Hot Bread Kitchen's mission. Many of the breads are inspired or introduced by the staff, and in turn every woman at Hot Bread Kitchen gets the most comprehensive baking education one could ask for.
Exciting things have been happening at Hot Bread Kitchen as of late. It used to be that you could only buy their breads at one of their retail partners or farmers markets, but as of last summer Hot Bread Kitchen opened their first retail space—Hot Bread Almacen in East Harlem's La Marqueta. Now they're hoping to expand to other cities, spreading their good work and good bread to other communities.
While they are currently fueled in part by generous donations, they aim to be financially self-sustaining by next year.
Take a look at the slideshow for a peek behind the scenes at one of New York's most unique bakeries, and how some of their many, many delicious breads are made.
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Physician Seyi Oyesola co-developed the "Hospital in a Box" -- a pop-up, portable, solar-powered OR for off-grid medicine in Africa and elsewhere. But, he says, Africa needs more than new tools to heal itself.
Beyond high-visibility illnesses like HIV/AIDS, Dr. Seyi Oyesola points out that common, survivable ailments and injuries -- burns, trauma, heart attacks -- kill thousands of Africans each year because basic medical care can be so hard to get. To help bring surgical care to every region of the continent, Oyesola co-developed CompactOR, or the "Hospital in a Box": a portable medical system that contains anesthetic and surgical equipment. The operating suite is light enough to be dropped into inaccessible zones by helicopter, and can be powered by solar panels.
Although the Hospital-in-a-Box may save lives, Oyesola reminds us that with meager pay and inadequate facilities, there is still little incentive for medical professionals to remain in Africa. Proper education and technical training could pave the way for more, and more capable, new physicians to learn and stay in Africa -- and start the healing of the continent.
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The following article originally appeared in ArtNet. The author is Joy Garnett. All copyrights are retained by Garnett and ArtNet or the appropriate entities.
As is well-known, the artist Richard Prince has lost his copyright infringement suit to the photographer Patrick Cariou [see Artnet News, March 21, 2011]. The decision is now pending an appeal. The news has prompted heated commentary by almost everyone, including copyright maximalists, photographers, collage artists, painters who use appropriated imagery, New York dealers and “open source” mavens. IP lawyers have written boilerplate statements, typically devoid of any nuance or even the most basic understanding of the visual arts. Artists and photographers who either bear Prince a personal grudge, or else find his and others’ methods of appropriation suspect, have trotted out the usual platitudes: “lazy” “thief” “millionaire.” In fact, one would think from reading the comments sections of art blogs that Prince’s great crime was in being successful, and that copyright is a convenient tool for redistributing some of his wealth.
But copyright law is not about generating or artificially leveraging artists’ income. It is certainly not about redistributing deserved or undeserved wealth. Copyright is about regulating mass production. Its roots are in late 17th- and early 18th-century publishing and the globalization of the printing press (cf: Statute of Anne, ca. 1709). Long before digital technologies changed the game plan, copyright became a way to deal with the new global mass culture.
Later, photography, because it too relied on mass production and distribution, became reliant on copyright. Among other things, copyright could be wielded as a deterrent for those who might reproduce and profit from works without the permission of their authors. The problem lay in the fact that, with mass-produced works of literature, music or visual art, there is no inherent or tangible difference between an original and a copy. Obviously, this is not so for paintings, sculpture, etc. — one-of-a-kind art objects. And authors of one-of-a-kind works have not conventionally relied on copyright to collect licensing fees or royalties, since there are no mass-produced copies that can be sold — only originals. Hence, painters and sculptors have used different earning models, such as the gallery system, for selling their work.
Patrick Cariou comes out of photography culture, which is part of mass culture. Photography culture lives and breathes by licensing agreements and royalties, and through copyright. Richard Prince, comes out of a moment when artists were using “appropriation” as a tool to comment on and criticize mass production. His work has always referenced his source material, and hence mass culture itself. Part of the value of his work today, around which much of the case revolves, is based on his reputation as a critic of and commentator on mass culture.
For the disputed “Canal Zone” series, Prince took copies of photographs from Yes Rasta, Cariou’s book on Rastafarian culture (PowerHouse Books, 2000, $60). In other words, Prince re-used photographs that had been mass-produced in the form of a book, in order to make his collage-like paintings. To say that Cariou’s work was used as “raw material” is not to demean the work; it is simply a factual description of how the photographs were used. The “Canal Zone” series also incorporates works by other photographers, including some by the underground filmmaker Richard Kern. Prince took more than 40 of Cariou’s images, scanned them, blew them up, affixed them to enormous canvases, collaged and squeegeed them together with other elements, oil stick and paint, producing one-of-a-kind objects. These large-scale collaged paintings reference their sources by re-instituting them as singular objects. On that basis alone, Prince’s work is transformative — a determining factor that U.S. District Court Judge Deborah A. Batts unfortunately chose to ignore.
What leaves me breathless is one particular irony, among the many that surround this case, regarding Judge Batts’ decision in the awarding of damages, which include, potentially, the destruction of the offending works. The very existence of Prince’s “Canal Zone” series is apparently now in peril, in part because no one seems to be able to tell the difference between a painting, which is a one-of-a-kind object, and a photograph, which is by definition mass-producible.
Hence the irony. Some things cannot be easily destroyed, and whatever Prince may have done with the mass-produced copies of Cariou’s photographs, the photographs themselves remain intact. But one-of-kind art objects, once disposed of, are deleted forever.
For additional views on this matter, please refer to the WTF column in Artillary Magazine’s May/June 2011 Vol.5 Issue 5. You can also use Google to get information online.
By Jim McKinniss
Gallery 478 is pleased to present Emilio Mercado: LIFEstills, a survey that spans more than four decades of the photographer’s work. The exhibition will open on First Thursday June 2, 6 – 9 PM with an Artist’s Reception on Saturday, June 4, from 4 – 7 PM.
Emilio Mercado is poised and intuitive, understanding of his subject and medium – equally at ease on city streets and rural pastures – and capable of the recognition that transforms split-seconds into images both engaging and informative. He photographs still-life arrangements with humility and grace, landscape and architecture with Zen-like detachment, and fellow travelers with an admixture of curiosity and empathy. His work reminds us of photography’s persistent relevance and value in our lives.
Curated by Ray and Arneé Carofano, LIFEstills runs through August 26.
Gallery hours are Monday – Friday, 11 AM – 5 PM, and by appointment. For visuals or additional information, please call 310-732-2150.
This exhibition is funded in part by generous support from the Community Redevelopment Agency of Los Angeles.
Gallery 478 is located at 478 West 7th Street, San Pedro, CA. 90731
By Jim McKinniss
Copyright Jim McKinniss – The Muse
“Alone in the Moonlight: Portraits of the Muse”
“Alone in the Moonlight” is a collection of photographs, each one an interpretation of the Muse, or poetic inspiration as incarnated in human form. They were taken during over the last year by over two dozen men and women, and yet the same individual appears in each image.
Featuring the photography of Don Adkins, Joelle Adkins, Annie Appel, Bob Barry, Paul Bleiden, Amy Cantrell, Ray Carofano, Deidre Davidson, Slobodan Dimitrov, Philip Earl, David Fairchild, Pauline Falstrom, Barry Fontenot, DeAnn Jennings, Michael Justice, Gary LeBlanc, Gil Mares,Jim McKinniss, John Middelkoop, Jan Milhomme, Kat Monk, Melinda Moore, Tom Sanders, Beth Shibata, Mark Tanner, Cristy Thom, Nancy Webber, and a painting by Harold Plople.
Manhattan Beach Creative Arts Center
The show dates are June 10 throughJune 29, 2011
The opening reception is Friday, June 10,7-9 p.m.
Special Concert “The Muse Music”: June 18th,7-9 p.m. Admission to concert is $10
Gallery Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday & Thrusday2 – 6 p.m. & Saturday 1 – 4 p.m.
Manhattan Beach Creative Arts Center
1560 Manhattan Beach Blvd.
Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
Contact: 310-802-5440 or http://www.citymb.info
Byong-Ho Kim, known as Brad to his friend, has had his beautiful black and white imagery selected as one of the Merit winners in the 2011 B&W Magazine portfolio contest (Special Issue #84). This is not the first time Brad’s work has been selected by the magazine. His work has been shown is several previous special issues of the magazine.
Brad’s photographic portfolio includes American landscapes, children, animal studies, and street photography. Brad is known for his beautiful compositions and the exquisite tonal values in his black and white photos. Besides these technical accomplishments Brad brings a sense of connection to the subjects of his photographs.
Each of the photograph show above was selected for special issue #84.
By Jim McKinniss
Tuesday, May 24 from 7-9 p.m., the reception for the Orange County Annual High School Photography Invitational takes place at Cypress College in the Fine Arts Gallery. This is a juried competition open to all Orange County High School students. It was begun 19 or so years ago by Ellen Butler when she was the photo instructor at Costa Mesa High School. For the past few years it has been organized by Mark Tsang, the photo instructor at Mission Viejo High School. This year the jurors are Larry Vogel, John Montich, Barbara Runge, and Larry Pribble. It’s an exhibit in which artistic creativity and intent is valued in addition to craftsmanship. All of the 200 or so images entered are exhibited. As many students and their work as possible are recognized with awards including Photographer of Merit, Best of Show, the Top Ten images, 25 Honorable Mention images, and Jurors’ Choice for Excellence in Creativity being presented.
This is an opportunity to see some creative work by students with great enthusiasm and fresh perspectives who are learning their craft as photographers and on occasion create images that show ingenuity and thoughtful artistic expression. The reception begins at 7 p.m. and the awards will be presented at 7:30. The closest parking is in Lots 1 or 8. Be sure to bring two $1 bills to purchase a
parking pass for the evening, just in case.
Ellen Butler has an exhibition of her artists books at the Long Beach Public Library until the end of June. At the PhotoExchange meeting, Butler reminded the group of her offer that if you contact her before hand, she will join you at the library and provide a walk-thru narrative of her artist books on exhibition.
These are amusing, interesting and provocative artist books, usually incorporating an element of photography, collage, and text on a variety of mediums and usually accompanied by a wonderful housing for the art work. They also vary in size and complexity, each creating its own poetic narrative.
best regards, Doug
I became aware of Cole Thompson’s photography quite by accident. I saw a feature about his work, “The Ghosts of Auschwitz,” in B&W Magazine quite a while ago. Subsequently, I signed up for his newsletters and so I get updates on his current projects. Reading the current newsletter prompted me to write this brief post.
Cole’s work is beautifully mysterious and moody. He works in black and white and is a master at bring out the light and shadows in a scene.
The following is taken from his website: http://www.colethompsonphotography.com/
“While living in Rochester, NY, I stumbled across an old building associated with George Eastman, which led to my reading of his biography. Before I even completed the book, I knew that I was going to be a photographer and for the next 10 years, photography was my complete existence. If I wasn’t taking pictures or in the darkroom, I would spend countless hours looking at every book and image I could find. There was nothing in my life except photography.
Even at this early age I found myself drawn to a particular style of image, one that would literally cause a physical reaction in me. They were dark images created by Adams, Weston, Bullock and others. I knew that I was destined to create such images.
I am often asked, “Why black and white?” I think it’s because I grew up in a black-and-white world. Television, movies and the news were all in black and white. My heroes were in black and white and even the nation was segregated into black and white. My images are an extension of the world in which I grew up.”
By Jim McKinniss
M+B is pleased to announce New Wilderness, a two-part exhibition of new color photographs by artist Anthony Lepore on view at both M+B and François Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles.
Show dates: May 21 – June 18, 2011 with artist’s Opening Reception: Saturday, May 21, 2011 from 6 to 9 pm
New Wilderness is a provocative series of photographs that lay bare nature as an historical construct governed by human invention and intervention. The series, comprised of numerous landscapes, undermines the commonplace distinction between the real (nature) and simulation (image), alluding to the power of politics and representation in shaping our interactions with the world. Although these photographs often suggest collage or post-production alterations, Lepore eschews digital manipulation and shoots with a 4 x 5 camera in the interpretive visitor centers of designated wilderness areas.
Both exhibitions will run from May 21 through June 18, 2011, with opening receptions for the artist on Saturday, May 21, 2011 from 6 – 9 pm. As the title suggests, Lepore’s images recast the wild as it is restaged in the low-budget theater that is the visitor center. These spaces are the vestibules to wilderness—indoor recreations intended to instruct the newcomer on the open spaces they border, asking only that they walk the distance of the parking lot. By reframing these displays, which usually incorporate other photographs, these images also reflect on our predominant way of experiencing nature—through photography.
While the work nods to the idea that we are detached from the wilderness often by the very actions we take to “know it,” it is far from aloof. Lepore neither tries to simulate the meticulous fervor of the scientific naturalist, nor does he attempt to join that dense history or polemicize it. The pamphlet, the diorama, the topographical model are the iconic result of what resembles reverence. That the artist immersed himself in these environments to get long, 4 x 5 exposures denotes his involvement. He wants to go there too. An avid hiker himself, Lepore knows first hand the achy impossibility of “capturing” the wild in a photograph. It is only the body that can experience it. And this understanding on the part of the artist—that he can and must separate the ontological urge (to be in it) from the indexical urge (to know it)—that gives way to this new body of work that manages to refer to both.
Born in 1977, Anthony Lepore received his BFA from Fordham University in 2000 and his MFA from the prestigious Yale University program in 2005. His work has been exhibited nternationally, from Shanghai to New York to Basel and is held in the permanent collections of the Guggenheim Museum (New York), the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art (Kansas City, Missouri) and Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Connecticut). Lepore currently lives and works in Los Angeles, and this will be his first exhibition with M+B.
Location: M+B, 612 North Almont Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90069 and François Ghebaly Gallery, 2600 S La Cienega Blvd, LA, CA 90034
Exhibition Dates: May 21 – June 18, 2011 with artist’s Opening Reception: Saturday, May 21, 2011, 6 – 9 pm
Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 10 am – 6 pm, and by appointment
For more info, please contact Shannon Richardson at M+B at (310) 550 -0050 or email@example.com
By Jim McKinniss
Opening Reception: Thursday, March 31st, 2011 7-9 p.m.
The Fahey/Klein gallery is pleased to present a selection of photographs from contemporary French photographer, Sarah Moon, in her first Los Angeles exhibition. This exhibition features a selection of over seventy color and black & white photographs from both her personal bodies of work, as well as her seminal fashion photography. Sarah Moon’s unique photographic style and printing techniques result in a distinctive aesthetic that blurs the line between image and object, fantasy and reality.
Sarah Moon has been a photographer, filmmaker, and artist for over 35 years. As one of the first female haute couture photographers, she has created images for designers including Chanel, Cacharel, Comme des Garçons, Christian Lacroix, and Issey Miyake. Sarah Moon’s textural and moody images transcend and redefine the genre of fashion photography. Moon’s images depict a poetic and fictional aesthetic which borders on the surreal. She manipulates and flattens her photographs’ palette to result in what she refers to as ultimately “untrue color” which vaguely suggests, rather than accurately depicts, the garments she is capturing.
“In the world of Sarah Moon, life and death are woven together in the same cloth. They are without frontiers. For both, the world is a child grown old in a day. It is not blood, but dreams, that run through her veins. Everywhere beauty is the outlet of loneliness, it is the patina.” (1,2,3,4,5, Dominique Eddé )
Although she may be best known for her distinctive fashion images, her oeuvre includes a large body of photographs and films that blend genres as she depicts haunting landscapes and captivating portraits, as well as reinvents and reinterprets classic, macabre fairytales in several of her personal projects. Moon meticulously directs and stages her photographs, and then patiently waits for the unexpected to happen- attempting to capture an elusive and fleeting single moment.
“For me photography is pure fiction, even if it comes from life. I photograph people, of course, as I do nature – trees, flowers, animals – but I charge it with some thing other than reality, with feeling, with a certain feeling depending on the day. I compare myself to reportage photographers, who make some sort of statement about life. I don’t believe that I am making any defined statement. Instead, I am expressing something, an echo of the world maybe.” (“Frocks and Fantasy”, Guardian UK)
Sarah Moon was born in 1941, she currently lives and works as a filmmaker, director, writer, and photographer in Paris.
By Jim McKinniss
I am scheduled to do Photoshop presentations again this year at the 2011 San Diego Fair. I will be having drawings at all of my events for free plug-in software, see promo below. For more information about the fair and photography exhibition check out their website, www.sdfair.com. Special note: checkout my website for information and special discount codes for purchasing select plug-in software www.lavogel.com/workshops
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Money & Your Business
It takes money to start a business. The amount will vary, depending on your business. Here are some details to think about.
Your father may lend you his paintbrushes to get your painting business started, but after that, you should buy your own. If you're making cookies to sell at school, you can't expect your mom to pay for the flour, butter, sugar, etc. You have to set aside part of your profits to buy the items you need to stay in business.
Once you've bought what you need to get your business started, you have to take care of your things – be careful with them, clean them, and put them away. You've bought equipment once – you don't want to have to dip into your profits to buy it all over again.
What about different pricing levels? If you are in the car washing business, washing a van takes more soap, water, and time than washing a car. You should charge more for vans, trucks, and utility vehicles. If you're a baby sitter, you should charge more for taking care of hard-to-handle kids. You should also charge more for taking care of two or three kids than you would charge for just one.
Getting the word out
Can you just hang a sign on the bulletin board at the grocery or hardware store? Email your contacts? Or must you go door to door? Hand out flyers? Do you have to spend money on advertising, like putting an ad in the newspaper? If you must spend money to get the word out, you must charge a little more to make up for the money you spent to get the job.
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Jamaica 'to cut ties with British monarchy'
New prime minister says country will establish itself as a republic and break ties with former colonial power.
Jamaica's new prime minister has said that it is time for her country to cut ties with the British monarchy and declare itself an independent republic.
Speaking at her inaugural address on Friday, Portia Simpson Miller, said her government would "initiate the process of detachment from the monarchy", establishing a republic with a president as head of state, and breaking off links with the former colonial power.
Jamaica is a constitutional parliamentary democracy and also a Commonwealth realm.
"I love the Queen. She's a beautiful lady and apart from being a beautiful lady a wise lady and a wonderful lady. But I think time come," Simpson Miller said. More...
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The Smart Moms program is aimed at empowering Expecting mothers, Parents and Grand Parents on various techniques in dealing with children and enabling the children to discover their capabilities. This course is conducted by Mrs. Meenakshi Sivaramakrishnan, Founder Member of the Indian Montessori Centre, Bangalore.
The topics covered are:
· Understanding and spending quality time with your child
· Stages of development
· Communicating with children
· Learn to raise your child the Montessori way
· Facilitate the development of your child’s personality
· And much more…
For further details refer to the attached flyer.
The session has been rescheduled to Saturday and sunday.
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Same-Sex Marriage Is Anti-Gender Marriage
If we redefine marriage to include same-gender couples, we're saying there is no important difference between the partnership of two men, and the union of one man and one woman. In other words, women are disposable. They can be excluded from marriage and replaced with men. This is gender discrimination. This eliminates femininity and motherhood from the basic family unit. This is anti-gender.
Example: Sex advice columnist and SSM advocate Dan Savage likes to refer to a woman's birth canal as the "hole that sh**s babies." If a Christian like Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy uttered such a sexist slur, the media would rip into him. But because Savage speaks for the gay community, he gets a media pass and an invite to the White House.
At the same time, allowing unigender couples to marry means that two women can marry each other, eliminating men from the family. Again, this is gender segregation and gender discrimination. This is anti-gender.
Because same-sex marriage is gender-exclusive, government forms need to be changed. Gender-specific words such as "bride" and "groom" are eliminated and replaced with the gender-neutral and less-inspiring word "spouse." "Mother" and "father" are old-school; it's "Parent A" or "Parent B."
Example: Harvard College recently hired Vanidy "Van" Bailey as the first permanent director of bisexual, gay, lesbian, transgender, and queer student life. According to the Harvard Crimson, "Bailey prefers not to be referred to by any gendered pronoun." For only $54,496 per year, your
son or daughter ... child, can learn that using gender-specific words such as he and she is taboo.
Although liberals prefer to call it marriage "equality," how is intentionally depriving a child of a lifelong relationship with her mother "equality"? Is separating genders in marriage the best method to foster tolerance in children? Do we really want to go back to the "separate but equal" mentality?
Who the heck wants to be called "Parent B"?
Before we self-righteously vote for same-sex marriage, it's crucial to examine the ramifications. Same-sex marriage denigrates gender and denies developing children gender-diversity in the home. SSM advocates talk about the loving and committed relationship it honors until death do them part, but by its very nature, same-sex marriage automatically deprives children from having a loving and committed relationship with both a mother and a father for their entire lives. Same-sex marriage promotes an anti-gender mentality.
Read the labels carefully.
Only 1.4% of the population has same-sex attraction. But we all have a gender.
Defend pro-gender marriage.
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NORMAN — The Environmental Protection Agency published the proposed settlement Wednesday between the Public Service Company of Oklahoma, the State of Oklahoma and the Sierra Club, which brings the Northeastern coal plant near Oologah one step closer to retirement.
Previously, all parties had announced an agreement in principle in April to phase out the aging coal plant as part of legal disputes concerning air pollution coming from the plant.
“I am pleased that the plan to phase out the Northeastern coal plant is moving forward,” said Whitney Pearson, organizer with Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal campaign. “In preparing for the plant’s retirement, PSO has been a leader and a model for prioritizing its workers while also honoring their duties under the Clean Air Act.
“Oklahomans will breathe easier once the Northeastern plant is retired, but we must also remember that there are still aging, dirty coal plants in Oklahoma contributing to serious air-quality concerns. We need further action.”
Under the agreement, the first coal-burning unit at the Northeastern plant will be phased out by April 16, 2016. The second unit will remain in use but will have pollution control technology installed by April 16, 2016. Between 2021 and 2026, AEP-PSO will significantly reduce the amount of coal burned at the unit until it is decommissioned no later than Dec. 31, 2026.
OG&E is the largest electricity generator in Oklahoma and is fighting Clean Air Act health protections, with litigation now pending.
“OG&E has the opportunity to show the same type of leadership for Oklahoma that PSO has shown in this responsible plant retirement,” Pearson said. “Instead of shirking their responsibility to provide electricity without harm, OG&E should prioritize protecting public health and keeping rates stable with cleaner sources of energy.”
Currently, Oklahoma has six coal-fired power plants that collectively emit significant amounts of soot, smog and mercury pollution.
Coal-fired power plants are a major contributor of ozone-forming pollution, and air quality data for 2011 and 2012 has shown that Tulsa and Oklahoma City exceeded federal limits on ozone pollution, threatening Oklahoma’s most vulnerable citizens, such as children, the elderly and people who work or exercise outdoors.
Oklahoma has significant clean energy potential, which could power the state while protecting public health. Oklahoma’s wind resources rank ninth in the United States, with more than 50,000 megawatts of wind power potential.
Wind power in Oklahoma supports thousands of jobs. According to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, wind can provide more than 31 times as much electricity as Oklahoma currently uses. States such as Alabama are already purchasing Oklahoma wind power.
Nationwide, Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal campaign has worked with allies and partners to prevent the construction of 168 new coal plants and has helped secure the retirement of 125 coal plants.
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Top 10 Marketing Flops
1.Chevrolet Nova didn't do well in Spanish speaking countries ... Nova means 'No Go' ...
2.Bacardi concocted a fruity drink with the name 'Pavian' to suggest French chic ... but 'Pavian' means 'baboon' in German.
3.A peanut-packed chocolate bar targeted at Japanese teenagers needing energy while cramming for exams ran headlong into a belief that eating peanuts and chocolate causes nosebleeds.
4.Parker Pens translated the slogan for its ink, "Avoid Embarassment - Use Quink" into Spanish as "Evite Embarazos - Use Quink" ... which also means "Avoid Pregnancy - Use Quink."
5.When Gerber first started selling baby food in Africa, they used the same packaging as in the USA - the cute baby on the label. Later, when investigating lower than expected sales figures, they found out that it is common practice in Africa to put pictures of the contents on food package labels.^
6.Coors slogan, "Turn it Loose," translated into Spanish as "Suffer From Diarrhea."
7.Puffs tissues had a bad name in Germany since "Puff" is a colloquial term for whorehouse.
8.Jolly Green Giant translated into Arabic means "Intimidating Green Ogre."
9.When Coca-Cola first came to China, it was given a similar sounding name ... but the characters used for the name meant "Bite the Wax tadpole."
10.Chicken magnate Frank Perdue wants us to know that "It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken," but the Spanish translation came out as "It takes a sexually stimulated man to make a chicken affectionate."
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Title: Counterfeit Gods
Author: Timothy Keller
In recent years Tim Keller, the pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian in New York City, has become quite a prolific author. And his latest offering may be his most important book yet.
Counterfeit Gods explores the empty promises by the idols found in the human heart—sex, money, power, pride—and our only hope of experiencing true satisfaction and fulfillment in the gospel.
“[An idol] is anything more important to you than God, anything that absorbs your heart and imagination more than God, anything you seek to give you what only God can give,” writes Keller (p. xvii). It’s a broad definition, but fitting. As Keller rightly says, “Anything in life can serve as an idol, a God-alternative, a counterfeit god” (p. xvi).
It’s easy for us to think about idols as being statues in a temple somewhere “over there” (wherever that is). But if it’s true that anything can be an idol, it’s not nearly so simple. “The biblical concept of idolatry is an extremely sophisticated idea, integrating intellectual, psychological, social, cultural, and spiritual categories.” (p. xix). Romantic love, sex, physical beauty, moral virtue, intellectual ideologies, profit, self-expression… “There are idols everywhere” (p. xxi).
They are the things we love, trust and obey, even at the expense of our relationship with Jesus. “Idols dominate our lives,” says Keller.
Throughout the book, Keller illustrates the insidiousness of idolatry through the biblical accounts of Abraham, Jacob, Zacchaeus, Naaman, Nebudchadnezzar and Jonah. The lives of each show us a pattern of idolatry: For Abraham, his son Isaac had the potential to be a powerful idol; for Jacob, his grandson, it was love as illustrated by his obsession with Rachel and behavior reminiscent of an addict. For Zacchaeus, it was money. For Naaman, success; Nebudchadnezzar, glory & power. And Jonah—well, his idols were perhaps the most complex of all.
Revealing Our Hearts
Jonah had a personal idol. He wanted ministry success mor than he wanted to obey God. [He] was shaped by a cultural idol. He put the national interests of Israel over obedience to God and the spiritual good of the Ninevites. Finally, Jonah had a religious idol, simple moral self-righteousness. He felt superior to the wicked, pagan Ninevites. He didn’t want to see them saved. Jonah’s cultural and personal idols had melded into a toxic compound that was completely hidden from him. It led him to rebel against the very God he was so proud of serving. (p. 136)
As we read Keller’s exposition on each of these figures, we are forced to consider our own hearts. What has the potential to displace God as the One whom we love, trust and obey?
Jonah’s heart is laid bare as his rages against the Ninevites positive response to his preaching (and what a simple message it was: “God’s going to kill you. Bye.”). Instead of praising God for the mercy He shows, he laments and demands that God kill him. “Jonah shows us that it is one thing to believe the gospel with our minds, and another to work it deep into our hearts so it affects everything we think, feel, and do,” writes Keller. “He is still being largely controlled by idolatry” (p. 145).
So what happens to us when the stresses of life become to much to bear? What is the true nature of my heart when the experience of life presses down on us? These are important questions—ones too important to not take time to consider. Pointing us back to Jonah’s story, Keller reminds us that the book of Jonah ends with a question:
God asks Jonah: “Shouldn’t your love be like mine? Will you come out of your self-absorption and idolatry and begin to live for me and for others?” We wait for an answer, and it never comes! Because the book ends. (p. 152)
So why don’t we get an answer? Keller writes, “It’s as if God aimed an arrow of loving rebuke at Jonah’s heart, set it a-fly, and suddenly Jonah vanishes, leaving us in it’s path” (p. 153).
The question for us is, when our idols are revealed, are we willing to change?
If we are, then we must look to the Ultimate Jonah and to his sign, the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. (p. 153)
Discovering the Solution
Throughout Counterfeit Gods, Keller illustrates that idols cannot be simply removed: They must be replaced. But what will replace them? All too often, when we put an idol to death, another one crops up to take its place. So food might be replaced with physical fitness. A desire for the affection of a spouse with the attentions of children. But these will never satisfy. Idols must be replaced by God himself.
“If you uproot the idol and fail to “plant” the love of Christ in its place, the idol will grow back,” writes Keller (p. 172). But even as we repent of our idolatry and grow in our love for Christ, it’s still a struggle. It demands patience. Putting idols to death is hard work but as Keller, quoting John Newton writes,
I find that to keep my eye simply on Christ, as my peace and my life, is by far the hardest part of my calling. . . . It seems easier to deny self in a thousand instances of outward conduct, than in ceaseless endeavors to act as a principle of righteousness and power. (pp. 176-177)
But, the one who knows the difference between outward conformity and inward transformation is the one who “is on the road to freedom from the counterfeit gods that control us” (p. 177)
Counterfeit Gods will challenge you to discover which path you are on. Are you on the one that leads to freedom from the control of idols or the one that leads to the despair that comes from their empty promises?
Read the book. Engage the questions that will confront you and embrace the only hope we have for freedom from our counterfeit gods: Jesus Christ.
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Sort of like the "lucky" country
Assistant Governor Philip Lowe told a conference in Sydney that productivity growth had slowed to a crawl, halving from more than 2 per cent per year in the 1990s to a little over 1 per cent - despite a boost investment that would typically be expected to boost output per worker."
"Normally slower rates of productivity growth lead to slower increases in living standards," he told the conference. "But this has not occurred. Indeed, growth in income per hour worked has been unusually strong."
The answer to the mystery was extraordinarily high export prices, which were pushing up income regardless, something that would not continue.
"With the proceeds of a tonne of iron ore we now can buy more LCD TVs and domestic services than we could a decade ago," he said. "This has allowed our living standards to increase at a faster pace than if we had to rely on productivity growth alone. Looking forward, this situation cannot continue indefinitely."
Australia's near record commodity prices were likely to fall in the next few years taking living standards with them unless productivity growth returned.
Australia was more dependent than ever on the performance of China and would probably soon be more dependent than ever on the performance of India...
"It would be unrealistic to assume that the growth paths in these countries will be without bumps, perhaps large ones," Dr Lowe said. "These bumps will have an impact upon Australia, and there is always the possibility of new technologies reducing the demand for our main resource exports. There is very little we can do about these risks."
Making Australia more vulnerable was that it was already near full employment, using almost all of the available workers.
"For the next year I think we’ll be travelling along pretty much close to full capacity, but probably just a little under it," said the Assistant Governor. "My judgment would be we're almost at what would be considered full employment."
A newfound reticence to spend and borrow was to be welcomed.
"Despite the considerable optimism about the future, household spending has been relatively restrained over the past couple of years and the appetite for debt has declined," Dr Lowe said.
"One interpretation is that the household sector, after having increased its debt levels for many years and witnessed the problems elsewhere in the world, has a better appreciation of the risks."
The reticence would provide "some insurance against the possibility that things do not work out as well as expected".
Australia's minority government was not a cause for concern.
"I don't think it is particularly important,'' Dr Lowe said in answer to a question. "The investment that is taking place in the resources sector is really motivated by long term growth in Asia. Most of it has a horizon of decades."
The Reserve Bank decided at its September to keep interest rates steady noting that for the moment inflation was within its target band.
Published in today's SMH and Age
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I recently returned to an article of Tom's called ‘Bodies in Transit: The Plastic Subject of Alphonso Lingis’, in which Tom clarifies Lingis’ substantial (if currently underrated) contribution to understanding both the primacy of sensation and what I refer to as ‘ontological vulnerability’ or the fundamental openness of things. Tom compares and contrasts Lingis’ views on embodied subjectivity and the flesh of the world with those who Lingis draws upon most – his predecessors in every sense – on the way to suggesting what could easily be held up as a radical philosophy of corporeality. The paper is substantial.
Below are some of the more interesting passages from the text:
Sensation intervenes in our practice and lets slip our hold on things and on ourselves. To deny its interruptive power is to deny the subordination of consciousness to the world of corporeal experience, to assert the primacy of human access to the sensuous world which we live from. It is to pretend that the phenomenal world has never once collapsed its appearance and asserted its fantastic weight upon our bodies…Read More: Here
There is a type of intelligibility nascent in sensibility, an intelligibility that is affective before it is intelligible and vital before it is rational. We might call this, following Straus, an alingual animal intelligibility. It is a pre-rational intelligence that we humans share with the other fleshy beings. We, as human-animal subjects, are already subjected to a sensuous medium that preempts the judgments and rational discourses we have either invented or acquired in order to master this medium and attempt to break off from the animal kingdom.
The circuit of rational discourse which is developed and deployed, the technological and sociocultural manufacture that we toil over to wrest ourselves free from the demands of our biological composition, and the community of modern individuals that each one of us is born into—all of this is preempted by our encounter with other bodies, intruder or seducer bodies, and the appeals they make on our own. This singular community of sustenance and separation is a community which is marked by the exposure of oneself to another in the sensuous medium. My flesh is nothing other than your flesh. But my body is at the same time exposed to your body, the body of some animal, and the totality of objects which are folded into the levels of the world.
Tom Sparrow is a philosopher currently teaching at Slippery Rock University. His forthcoming book, Plastic Bodies: Rebuilding Sensation After Phenomenology is highly anticipated, and he blogs at Plastic Bodies. I have also discussed his work previously here, here and here.
UPDATE: Tom just announced he will be publishing a new collection of essays called Levinas Unhinged with Zero Books. The book will explore what Tom describes as “the darker side” of Levinas’ philosophy, and will attempt to reach out to a new Levinas readership "by downplaying the usual slogans and paying more attention to aspects of Levinas that are typically overshadowed by his ethics, the face, the other, etc." Learn more: here.
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Fraudulent hedge funds pose greater threat in 2013, says Hetherington
Thanks to the recent JOBS Act (Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act), signed by President Obama last year, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has lifted advertising restrictions for hedge funds and other kinds of private investment offerings as of 2013, allowing for direct solicitation to individual investors.
The goal of the JOBS Act was to make it easier for small businesses to raise money, which would create more jobs and put people back to work. As part of that act came the lifting of a 70-year old mandate where hedge funds and private equity groups could only solicit investors with whom they had a pre-existing relationship with and were prevented from advertising directly to individual consumers. Relaxing the mandate will open up the markets for any potential investment money, despite the requirement that you need to be an "accredited investor" in order to actually participate, and hedge funds and private equity groups will be able to solicit directly to potential investors of all financial standings.
So what does this mean for the consumer looking to invest? Cynthia Hetherington (pictured), president of the Hetherington Group, a private firm specialising in intelligence, investigations and fraud, says: "This is unchartered territory and the key venue for solicitations is expected to be social networks. Consumers need to be mindful of the potential for investment fraud and that irresponsible and under-regulated opportunists may directly solicit the ‘little guy’ with pipe dreams of large returns on his few thousand dollars."
One avenue to this potentially fraudulent solicitation is called "Crowd Funding" (aka Crowd Financing), which originally began as an online way to build capital for special projects, such as raising money for a charity or artistic projects, that people in will put their money into even in small amounts. Now, it will also refer to the funding of a company by selling small amounts of equity to many investors.
The Hetherington Group offers the following tips to help protect investors from being caught in any potential fraud net:
1. Although they can advertise to consumers, bear in mind that hedge funds are required to accept only serious "accredited investors," having at least USD1m in liquid assets, or a USD200,000 annual income for an individual or USD300,000 for a couple. If you don't meet the criteria you shouldn't be participating in a hedge fund.
2. When in doubt check the broker's background. Each broker must be registered with the Securities Exchange Commission in its state and with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. Visit North American Securities Administrators Association at www.nasaa.org, select the NASAA Fraud Center under Investor Education and click on "How to Check Out Your Broker or Investment Adviser”.
3. Beware of offerings that seek investments immediately. Investors will be taking on a very high risk, even for legitimate solicitations since about 50 per cent of all small businesses fail within the first five years.
4. Issuers using funding portals to raise money may be inexperienced. Their track records maybe unproven, unsubstantiated or outright fraudulent. Request full and complete disclosure beyond what is available on a website.
5. Crowd funding portals claiming an accreditation or "seal of approval" from a standards program or board may not be legitimate. Funding portals must be registered with the SEC, belong to a self-regulating organisation (SRO), and comply with other rules the SEC may issue.
6. Social media sites are the connection point of the day. However, even friends and families are not aware of the vulnerabilities and deceit that can occur. They may innocently forward a link or application to try via this media and you will inadvertently infect your computer with malware or a virus. As a user of Facebook, LinkedIn and other social networks, be absolutely vigilant about what you necessarily need to communicate and skip all the extras that compromise your security.
"Nothing beats good old common sense when it comes to your money," says Hetherington. "Even though there were thousands of victims Bernard Madoff took advantage of, there were even more who considered his offer ‘too good to be true’ and avoided the Ponzi that destroyed so many. By keeping these points in mind and consumers should remain at ease with their investment choices."
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I realize that my whole journey to the East looking for Guan Yin the Bodhisattva of Compassion has actually been a lesson in letting go. Letting go and seeing what comes to fill the space created . . .
Searching for Guan Yin follows Canadian-born Sarah E. Truman, a dedicated follower of the Bodhisattva of Compassion, on her travels through China. A popular figure in East Asia, Guan Yin has achieved enlightenment but chooses to remain in this world in order to help others. Because of her extreme compassion, Guan Yin is believed to manifest in a variety of forms to help any one who calls on her. Though Truman admits that imagining this figure anchored to a particular form or place is an illusory fixation—Guan Yin is everywhere, in all things, form and non-form both—the author cannot shake the feeling that she must go to China to find the bodhisattva. And so she does.
Like other popular “journey” narratives, Truman’s story sets a spiritual quest against the backdrop of physical travel to a foreign place. While this can make for good storytelling, providing a vehicle for entertaining tales and lively descriptions of living abroad in China, it also relies on certain Orientalism; it requires unquestioned acceptance on the part of the readers that it makes sense to go to the mysterious East, the seat of spiritual knowledge and wisdom, to seek enlightenment and the meaning of life. After all, one can’t do those things at home.
From the minor role of the “natives” who occasionally offer bits of wisdom or chances to ponder the extreme differences between Western individualism and China’s collectivist mindset, the people and places the writer visits serve as a background for her own self-discovery. It is a familiar formula: Westerners with money gain an “authentic” experience of foreign culture, confident in their right to be there but free to go home anytime it gets too real—which Truman does, following her arrest over a Mid-Autumn Festival scuffle and the ensuing unsavory settlement negotiation.
Although belonging to a genre that problematically relies on a need to explore, experience, and consume the culture of an “Other” to gain understanding, Searching for Guan Yin occasionally recognizes that it is told from the privileged position of a foreign and comparably rich tourist in a country where a large portion of the population is very poor. As she travels, Truman uses Guan Yin to connect with the people around her, and introduces her readers into the mythology surrounding the Bodhisattva of Compassion.
From the heights of the Tibetan plateau, to the crowded cabaret bars of Nanjing, to the misty island of Putuo, Truman’s search for Guan Yin takes her all over China. Beginning as a hunt for physical representations of the deity, the book ends up chronicling the author’s search for spiritual ease and openness as she chases the vestiges of Buddhism in the modern world.
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