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NEW NVIDIA TESLA DOUBLES THE PERFORMANCE FOR THOUSANDS OF CUDA DEVELOPERS WORLDWIDE
NVIDIA Tesla® and CUDA™ Technologies Together Deliver a Complete Computing Solution for the Entire HPC Industry
DRESDEN, GERMANY—JUNE 17, 2008—From video encoding to oil and gas exploration and from medical imaging to scientific research, thousands of CUDA developers in the high performance computing (HPC) community are leveraging a revolutionary GPU computing platform that was announced just one year ago. With over 60,000 downloads of the C-compiler to date, the combination of CUDA™ and Tesla® technologies have been the foundation for industry changing applications, making it the most rapidly adopted GPU computing technology platform in the HPC community.
“GPU Computing is coming at a time when we are running out of gas for time-critical forecasts on conventional clusters,” says National Center of Atmospheric Research’s John Michalakes, lead software developer for the Weather Research & Forecasting Model “We aim to cut the time for a forecast by at least a factor of two as we incorporate NVIDIA’s GPU computing technology into more of WRF. I expect the affect of accelerators in weather and climate modeling will be transformative.”
This year at the International Supercomputing Conference, NVIDIA Corporation, the leader in GPU technologies, has strengthened the CUDA and Tesla technology platforms with the introduction of its second-generation platform, the new Tesla 10 series computing solutions. Binary compatible and supporting the industry standard language of C, the new products enable developers to solve their computational challenges in a common and familiar development environment that scales effortlessly from one generation to the next with no re-coding required.
“The path to great discovery is filled with many challenges and for today's scientists, engineers and researchers, in fields such as drug research, seismic exploration or medical science, one of the biggest challenges is computation,” said Jen-Hsun Huang, president and CEO of NVIDIA. “The GPU is taking high performance computing in a fundamentally new direction. Now, hundreds of processor cores are able to work together to give scientists and engineers massive jumps in performance, while dramatically reducing the footprint in their datacenter.”
The new Tesla product family includes the Tesla S1070 1U computing system and the Tesla C1060 computing processor and delivers:
“As a world leader of derivatives, BNPParibas is constantly investing in research for more efficient financial calculations. To this end, we are currently conducting research on the use of GPUs to speed up options processing and early access to the new NVIDIA Tesla products has been highly beneficial. These experiments, done with ANEO consulting firm, delivered very promising results with impressive performance speedup and exceptional accuracy. NVIDIA Tesla computing products, which offers IEEE 754 double precision compliance, is also a very important step forward for us,” declares Stephane Tyc, BNPParibas Global Head of Equities & Derivates Quantitative Research.
When combined with the award-winning CUDA C-language development software for parallel computing, the new Tesla products extend the reach of GPUs to any computationally intensive applications requiring double precision accuracy. To date, over 70 million CUDA enabled GPUs have been sold into the market and over 60,000 downloads of the C-compiler have been recorded through the community Web site, CUDA Zone, which is located at www.nvidia.com/cuda. As a result, developers across a wide variety of fields including financial analysis, astrophysics and seismic imaging are leveraging NVIDIA’s CUDA development tools. These developers can now simply parallelize their software and exploit the GPU’s parallel computing architecture to automatically distribute computing work to hundreds of processor cores.
“CUDA has allowed us to tap into the processing power of the GPU with tremendous ease, saving us time and money,” says Jim Hardwick, Senior Software Engineer at Techniscan. “A single host system and two Tesla D870s are considerably cheaper than the 16-core cluster. This is significant not only for production and sales, but also reduces research and development costs in engineering.”
“Using only 12 GPUs, Volera is capable of analyzing the entire U.S. options market, in real time, with latencies of less than 10 milliseconds,” says Gerald A. Hanweck, Jr., founder and principal partner of Hanweck Associates. “That sort of result would usually require at least 60 traditional 1U servers. By using NVIDIA GPU technology, our clients are able to see better results while saving maintenance costs, with lower power consumption, and a smaller real-estate footprint.”
The Tesla S1070 1U computing system and Tesla C1060 computing processor board will be available for purchase for $7999 and $1699 respectively. These products are sampling today and will ship in August 2008.
NVIDIA (Nasdaq: NVDA) is the world leader in visual computing technologies and the inventor of the GPU, a high-performance processor which generates breathtaking, interactive graphics on workstations, personal computers, game consoles, and mobile devices. NVIDIA serves the entertainment and consumer market with its GeForce® products, the professional design and visualization market with its Quadro® products, and the high-performance computing market with its Tesla™ products. NVIDIA is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and has offices throughout Asia, Europe, and the Americas. NVIDIA's inaugural NVISION 08 conference will be held August 25-27, 2008 in San Jose, California. For more information, visit www.nvidia.com and www.nvision2008.com.
Certain statements in this press release including, but not limited to, statements as to: the benefits, features, uses, performance, and capabilities of the new Tesla product family, the GPU computing technology platform, CUDA C-language development software, high performance computing; and product availability and pricing information are forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause results to be materially different than expectations. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include: delays in ramping new products into production; our reliance on third parties to manufacture, assemble and test our products; unexpected loss of performance of our products or technologies when integrated into systems; development of faster or more efficient GPU or computing technology; the impact of technological development and competition; changes in consumer preferences and demands; customer adoption of competitors' products; design, manufacturing or software defects as well as other factors detailed from time to time in the reports NVIDIA files with the Securities and Exchange Commission including its Form 10-Q for the period ended April 27, 2008. Copies of reports filed with the SEC are posted on our website and are available from NVIDIA without charge. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and speak only as of the date hereof, and, except as required by law, NVIDIA disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking statements to reflect future events or circumstances.
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Matt Loughrey had just finished his 218th consecutive climb of Croagh Patrick, the third-highest mountain in County Mayo, when I spoke to him on a recent Saturday evening. “It’s cold up there now,” he said. “We’ve been getting temperatures of -17˚c, -18˚c up on the top. We’re climbing in ice and snow at the moment, it’s a different animal altogether.” But Matt wasn’t complaining. Shortly after, he recounted that two peregrine falcons had nested on top of the mountain. “Every now and then you get one of them flying over your head, you’re that close to nature up there,” he explained, with palpable awe in his voice.
But the 32-year-old Loughrey isn’t just your average climbing enthusiast: he’s also a talented photographer, a father of two, and the man behind the ambitious and inspiring Croagh Patrick 365, a charitable project founded last summer. Since June 5, 2010, Loughrey has ascended the mountain each day, no matter how grueling the conditions, and has pledged to continue to do so through June 4, 2011, at which point he will have completed 365 days of climbing and hopes to have raised €100,000. All proceeds go to Ireland’s St. Vincent de Paul charity, for the benefit of poverty-stricken and homeless families in the West of Ireland.
It seems that Loughrey has always had a connection with the mountain. He grew up in a small village called Murrisk, which sits at the base of Croagh Patrick. Starting in 2005, he spent some time leading tour groups up the mountain, and became increasingly familiar with its terrain. Then, last year, he decided to use his passion and expertise to help others: “It came to me around the end of May,” he recalled. “I was thinking about the way the world has changed financially, economically, and I figured there had to be something I could do about it, starting first with people in my area. I enjoy the outdoors and I love climbing mountains, so I thought ‘why not do something useful with it and make some money for charity?’”
Since then, he’s been consistently scaling the mountain and documenting each day’s climb with a photograph. Photography, it seems, is Matt’s other passion: he’s been documenting his travels since he was a teenager. “I write about it,” he acknowledged, “but a picture says 1,000 words, does it not? I try to keep a visual diary for people.”
Once the year of ascents is over, Matt hopes to produce a book in collaboration with some of his fellow climbers, friends and supporters. For now, his supporters can buy his photographs from the Croagh Patrick 365 website or see them on the project’s Facebook page.
Loughrey actually credits the social network for contributing significantly to his success: “The public response has been fantastic,” he remarked. “At the start I was trying to promote this event by myself, trying to make it grow, so for the first three months it was very difficult. But Facebook has been absolutely tremendous. It’s a free tool, it’s great for spreading the news about an event. I mean, today there were 22,500 post views on the [Croagh Patrick] 365 page. It’s just amazing; the awareness is really getting out there now.
When asked why he chose Chroagh Patrick, Loughrey points to its roots as a place of pilgrimage, as a place where people come together. “It’s such a positive place,” he reflected. “It’s a place of pilgrimage. I’m not a particularly religious person – I’m a spiritual person, but what’s wonderful about Croagh Patrick is that everyone climbs it for different reasons – for religious reasons, for spiritual reasons, for challenge, for scenery – they’re all great reasons to climb and I’m really enjoying being caught up in all that and meeting people and hearing about why they climb it. You’d be surprised who you get talking to up there. Everyone has a story.”
There’s no doubt that Loughrey’s is one of the most remarkable.
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By CAROL RYAN DUMAS
Volunteers turned out Friday morning to Cummins Family Produce in Twin Falls to load boxes of potatoes to local food pantries in the Magic Valley.
The 8,000 pounds of spuds sent to feed the hungry in the valley was a representation of the 36,000 pounds of potatoes Idaho growers are donating to the Idaho Foodbank.
The donation is the final portion of Idaho Grower Shippers Association's commitment of a full-truckload donation to the Foodbank as part of Community Cares Days in December. IGSA members had already donated 28,000 pounds of potatoes.
Potatoes were also donated by Magic Valley Produce, Arrowhead, Sun Valley Potatoes, Mart Produce, and Southwind Potatoes.
Friday's donation was loaded into the vehicles of local food pantries and soup kitchens by volunteers from Cooper Norman.
Foodbank representatives were grateful for the donations.
"This means so much to us. We can feed so many; this is just awesome," said Carmen Ortiz, secretary for the Center for Prayer and Worship in downtown Twin Falls and the manager of its food pantry.
The church's pantry is open three days a week, feeding 900 people, and it's always packed, she said.
"We definitely count on donations," she said.
The church received 12, 50-pound boxes of Idaho potatoes, which will be distributed in bags of 5-, 10-, and 15-pound lots. Ortiz said they will be gone by Monday, demonstrating how great the need is for donations.
The Salvation Army in Twin Falls will use the potatoes in its soup kitchen's daily lunches and in emergency food boxes, said Nicki Kroese, the agency's business manager.
The agency was down to its last 50 pounds of potatoes and found them frozen in the basement yesterday, she said.
"We're so excited" to be getting the potato donation, she said.
Idaho potato growers are excited about the opportunity to feed Idaho's hungry, said Mark Klompien, executive director of Idaho Grower Shippers Association.
It's a great thing to be able to donate these potatoes. It fits well in the arena of hunger relief because potatoes are very nutrition and because of their economic value, he said.
Cummins Family Produce, itself, donates at least 10,000 pounds of potatoes a year to area relief agencies, said manager Lance Cummins.
The recipients are always happy for the donation, and Cummins works with them to provide the size of potato to help them maximize their hunger-relief efforts, he said.
The 8,000 pounds of potatoes distributed on Friday is enough for 6,240 meals to Magic Valley recipients, said Laurie Lickley, food resource coordinator for the Foodbank and a Jerome cattle producer.
In 2012, The Idaho Foodbank distributed 1.45 million pounds of food in the Magic Valley and 12.2 million pounds statewide, she said.
Idaho Foodbank: www.idahofoodbank.org
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Proponents of a program to expand access to health care made the last stop on a statewide tour promoting the initiative at Northwest Hospital Center in Randallstown on Tuesday. They recounted several stories of the more than 52,000 adults enrolled in the Health Care for All program.
"This means people are getting primary care that is keeping them out of hospital emergency rooms," said Del. Dan Morhaim, an emergency medicine physician who pushed for the bill. "It might cost this program 50 cents a day for blood pressure medicine, but that is preventing a $20,000 medical bill for a stroke."
Nearly 7,000 adults in Baltimore County, the most of any jurisdiction in the state except Baltimore City, qualified for free coverage as a result of the state's expanded Medical Assistance for Families Program. More than twice as many adults have qualified for the program as officials anticipated when the bill passed in 2007. A family of four with an annual income less than $25,600, for example, is eligible.
"We are celebrating the numbers who now have full coverage," said Vincent DeMarco, president of the Maryland Citizens' Health Initiative. "There is room for more to enroll, and we are trying to reach them."
The program, funded by a $1 increase in the cigarette tax, has pushed Maryland to the forefront in health care for adults, taking the state from 44th to 16th in the nation for the coverage it provides, DeMarco said. Morhaim, whose efforts led to the Governor's Working Families and Small Business Health Care Coverage Act of 2007, said the program is helping the economy, particularly companies dealing with spiraling costs of providing health care to employees.
"Insurance is all about getting a big pool of people and spreading the cost risks," he said. "The more people you have in the pool, the less expensive it is for everybody."
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Q: About a year ago my RA count was very high. My family doctor thought I had rheumatoid arthritis while an arthritis clinic physician thinks I have lupus. I show very little signs of either disease but am taking Plaquenil for lupus. Is there a way to definitely tell which one I have?
A: Sorry to hear that you are having these problems, but I am very glad that you are doing some investigative work to educate yourself.
It can be very difficult to diagnose these disorders because the blood markers that we have for them are non-specific. For instance, rheumatoid factor can be elevated in both conditions or can be elevated as a result of some other infection in the body that has nothing to do with either.
Both lupus and rheumatoid arthritis are autoimmune disorders which the body starts to attack its own connective tissue. Other closely related disorders are: Polymyositis-dermatomyositis (PM-DM), systemic sclerosis (SSc or scleroderma), Sjogren’s syndrome (SS) and various forms of vasculitis.
These diseases have a number of common features:
1. They affect women much more frequently than men.
2. They are “multisystem” diseases, capable of affecting the function of many organs.
3. They “overlap” with one another, sharing certain clinical symptoms, signs and laboratory abnormalities.
4. Blood vessels are the most common target of injury in all of these diseases.
5. The immune system is abnormal and accounts, at least in part, for the observed tissue damage.
Although lupus most often occurs alone, many people with lupus also have symptoms characteristic of one or more of the other connective tissue diseases. In this circumstance, a physician may use the term “overlap” to describe the illness. There are several well-recognized overlaps that may affect people with lupus.
In lupus, joint pain is common. Joint swelling may be present in some cases, but the majority of those with lupus experience joint pain without swelling or only intermittent swelling. In rheumatoid arthritis (RA), joint swelling is always present and pain is common but less prominent. If a person with lupus develops severe arthritis with joint deformities, he/she should be considered to have rheumatoid-like arthritis. In some instances, the physician might have reason to believe that both diseases–SLE and RA–have occurred in the same person. When arthritis develops in the course of lupus, treatment with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), low doses of cortisone, and the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine (Plaquenil) are usually helpful. People with lupus who have typical rheumatoid arthritis are prescribed the standard forms of RA treatment. These include methotrexate, sulfasalazine and in some cases, more potent drugs to suppress joint inflammation.
Although we don’t have the definitive diagnosis in your case, the treatment for your joints would be the same regardless. It is important to continue to follow up with your doctors so that any potential damage to other organ systems can be caught early.
Dr. Brent Ridge is the health expert for Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia. You can call and ask him a question live every Tuesday at 2 p.m. Eastern on Sirius Satellite Radio, Channel 112 (1.866.675.6675). You can also follow along as he learns to grow his own food and raise goats on his farm in upstate New York by visiting www.beekman1802.com.
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Google the corner of East Garfield Boulevard and South Prairie Avenue. Map it, zoom in: If you're using Google Maps, you'll see an old picture of the corner, a long marble building just west of Washington Park, a former Walgreens, boarded-up, decaying, flanked by a fried chicken stand and a former currency exchange.
Walk by right now, and you will see something very different: The University of Chicago's new Arts Incubator, polished, sleek and housed in the same corner space, given a $1.85 million restoration by the university and the stewardship of an art superstar, Chicago's Theaster Gates.
The Arts Incubator, which opens Friday to the public, is 10,000 square feet of studio, performance and gallery space; there's a woodwork shop being used by 10 apprentices (Gates' medium tends to be reclaimed wood); there are five artists-in-residence, using studios still smelling of fresh paint (each of the artists, culled from 150 applicants, was given a $10,000 university grant); and on the second floor, there's a sweeping hall intended for performances and talks that can hold an audience of 150. (Indeed, the Incubator's calendar is already well stocked with record-release parties, artist talks and performance pieces.)
Gates arrived early Thursday morning for a walk-through.
He wore a tweed orange sportscoat and cowboy boots. He paced around the ground-floor exhibition hall. "I have personal ambitions, as do a lot of people, to see this neighborhood alive," he said. "But what does the neighborhood want this block to look like? What does it want it to feel like? Let's have town halls here! The thing I want to do is focus on getting this space as legible to the world as possible, to having this building act as a creative catalyst, both as a home to things happening inside and things radiating outward from it."
It's also the flagship project of Gates' Arts and Public Life initiative at the University of Chicago, started in 2011 as a way of fostering the ambitions and collaborations between the university and South Side artists. Beyond the university-led restoration (and additional operating funds), the center also received a $400,000 grant from ArtPlace, a consortium of national and regional institutions (the National Endowment for the Arts, for instance) and large banks.
Asked how the center plans to stay afloat in the long term, Gates said "we're in the process of identifying additional (funding) sources." A university spokesperson said the university's financial commitment will be ongoing.
He walked through the studios and then bounded up the stairs, two steps at a time. Asked if he's worried about that vagueness of mission that often comes with a new neighborhood art center — that uncertainty of what of broad community interest actually goes on inside it — Gates walked to the tall second-floor windows and put a hand to his face. He looked out on Garfield and its trickle of morning commuters scrambling over melting mountains of snow and into the Garfield CTA station.
"In some ways I think the roll-out has to be slow," he said. "I think you try to get as many events as possible in that exhibition space downstairs, so people see things going on here and it intrigues them — I think we make sure we use that window downstairs, it says as much as possible about what is going on inside here."
Right now in the window are large white letters spelling "FEEDBACK," a reference to the center's first major exhibition (running through April 28), a series of art pieces and programs about collaboration and dialogue.
"But yes, we're also going to have to figure out what it means to be a neighbor and friend here," he said. "It's unquestionably going to look very different for the university to have a big presence like this, in this spot."
On the wall behind him, scribbled in red marker was a child-like drawing of the block, the result of a recent brainstorming session. It was labeled "The Future of 55th Street," and below that an addendum, "The Arts Block." It showed the Arts Incubator on one corner and, on the adjacent corner, where now there is only a vacant lot, a gallery space. In between it showed a cafe, a speakeasy, a black-box theater and storefronts.
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NASA Says Northern Ozone Pollution Spurs Arctic Warming
WASHINGTON Ozone pollution in the Northern Hemisphere, churned out by factories and vehicles that burn fossil fuels, is a major factor in the dramatic warming of the Arctic zone, NASA climate scientists reported Tuesday.
This finding is surprising, since ozone has been considered a minor player in the study of global climate change, according to Drew Shindell, a research scientist at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City.
Carbon dioxide has long been considered a key cause of overall global warming, because it remains in the atmosphere for a long time, Shindell said in a telephone interview.
But ozone -- the damaging, heat-trapping tropospheric ozone encountered at lower levels of the atmosphere, as opposed to the protective ozone observed at higher altitude -- was seen as fairly perishable and therefore less of a factor, he said.
Globally, ozone accounts for perhaps one-seventh of the global warming and climate change that carbon dioxide does, Shindell said. However, a new study of climate change over the past 100 years indicates that ozone may be responsible for as much as 50 percent of the warming in the Arctic zone.
This is because many of the world's most highly industrialized nations are in the Northern Hemisphere, and at relatively high latitudes. For most of the year, that means the ozone produced in these countries is blown by prevailing winds north and east, toward the Arctic Circle.
"Instead of being this tiny player, (ozone) can be more like 30 or 40 or even 50 percent of the cause of warming that we're seeing in the Arctic now," Shindell said. "It's very dramatic."
In computer models using climate data going back to 1880, environmental scientists found Arctic temperatures remained normal until about 1950. After that, the model shows higher temperatures, widely spread around the Arctic region.
This rise in temperatures is linked to the rise in tropospheric ozone at northern latitudes, Shindell said.
"Global warming has really taken off since the 1970s," he said. "The warming in the past several decades has been more than it was the whole previous record, which is about 100 years before that."
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Gloria Steinem is an American icon. At an early age, she lived on the brink of poverty with her insane mother. Steinem went on to graduate magna cum laude from Smith College, and later studied in India. Returning to the United States, Steinem became a journalist and while on assignment went to a feminist meeting where she realized how much women were discriminated against. She founded Ms. Magazine, which looks at contemporary issues from a feminist perspective. Gloria Steinem paved the way for independent women and made her mark on American culture.
Steinem was born March 25, 1934 to Ruth and Leo Steinem. Leo was from a prominent family in Toledo, Ohio; his father was a successful businessman and his mother a pioneer in the women's suffrage movement. She helped write Ohio's first juvenile court laws, founded a vocational high school and was the first woman on the Toledo Board of Education. Her work ethic, however, did not rub off on her son and Leo was a poor student with big dreams but no head for finance. Gloria's mother, Ruth, was the daughter of a railroad engineer and a teacher. Growing up in Toledo, she was an enthusiastic scholar, taught college calculus, and became a much-respected newspaperwoman. By the time Gloria was born, Ruth had stopped working and been hospitalized for a nervous breakdown. During the winter, the Steinem family travelled, buying and selling antiques and Ruth home-schooled Gloria and her sister. The rest of the year, they lived at a resort in Michigan that Leo built in hopes that it would attract big bands. There, a cigarette girl taught Gloria to tap dance, fueling her dream of becoming a Rockette.
When World War II started, the resort closed and Ruth sank deeper into depression. With her father gone and her sister at college, Gloria cared for her mother alone. To raise money, Gloria put her dance lessons to use and danced everywhere, holding several jobs. These early years taught her self-sufficiency and the ability to cope with uncertainty.
Gloria enrolled at Smith College, a female counterpart to the virtually all-male Ivy League schools. When Ruth discovered her daughter had been accepted, she sold her house to help pay for tuition, determined to give her daughter the college experience she'd never had. Gloria majored in government and spent her junior year in Switzerland studying European politics. Gloria accepted a two-year post-graduate fellowship in India. Right before leaving, Gloria found out she was pregnant. Since abortions were illegal in the United States, she went to England. As a result, Gloria understood how women felt about unwanted pregnancies, leading her to organize women's fight to control their bodies.
In India, she took classes in New Delhi and Calcutta, but decided she could learn more experiencing India firsthand. She became active in Indian politics and traveled the country. Involved in the Bhoodan (land gift movement), Gloria walked all over India, protesting the landlord-tenant system. During these two years, Gloria also wrote for Indian newspapers and created a guidebook for the government whose purpose was to encourage more American students and professors to study there. Gloria reluctantly returned home in 1958.
In the 1970s, a new wave of feminism washed over the country with Gloria Steinem as its face. She believed that men and women should be treated equally, just as whites and blacks were regarded as equals under the law. Gloria supported the Equal Rights Amendment which declared that women could not be discriminated against because of their sex. She also was a pro-choice representative, believing that women should be able to decide what's best for their bodies. During this decade, Gloria organized the largest women's-rights demonstration in American history: the Women's Strike for Equality. Across the country, rallies, marches, pickets, sit-ins and lectures marked this event held half a century after women won the right to vote. In 1971, she founded the National Women's Political Caucus, an organization that encouraged women to run for political office, and the Women's Action Alliance, supporting feminist projects.
Gloria created a newsletter for the WAA, titled Ms., the first national feminist magazine since Susan B. Anthony edited Revolution. It discussed women's problems: working/managing a home, relationships with husbands, medical/sexual issues, and getting an education. No fashion pages, recipes or make-up tips were included.
The idea that women should be treated as equals to men rocked America. Gloria Steinem is arguably the most prominent mover and shaker in the Women's Rights movement of the twentieth century. Women were given the green light to demand equal pay for equal work. Men were encouraged to participate in family life, from caring for children to cooking and cleaning. Women were no longer viewed as needing a man for survival; they could stand on their own. These concepts were popularized in Ms. Magazine, and as an intelligent, outspoken, and attractive woman, Gloria embodies her ideas.
There is much to admire about Gloria Steinem. She stood up for what she believed and did what few women even considered by founding a national feminist magazine. From her tumultuous childhood in Ohio to Ms. Magazine's headquarters in Manhattan, Gloria has always been a leader. She is an American icon in every sense.
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"Burn the Land, and Boil the Sea - You Can't Take the Sky from Me." Firefly
Fortuna Audaces Iuvat - "Fortune Favors the Bold"
Twenty four years ago today, in the Florida sunshine the space shuttle Challenger roared to the cold sky, its solid rocket boosters burning rapidly towards a failing joint and O-Ring seal that had cracked in the cold. Seventy-three seconds into the flight when the fire reached the joint it blew out the side, and hit the fuel tanks - A fiery blow as if from an angry and fearful god, selfish of his skies. The explosion took the lives of seven crewmembers, six astronauts and one civilian who were daring to follow mankind's dream of the stars. Astronauts Ellison Onizuka, Mike Smith, Dick Scobee, Greg Jarvis, Ron McNair and Judy Resnick, and schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe experienced one minute and thirteen seconds of the dream before their lives were cut short in a fireball and they took the bigger journey into the greater unknown. They were not the first to die, finger tips brushing at the black, and they would not be the last.
On January 27th 1967 Virgil “Gus” Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee died aboard Apollo 1, still on the launch pad, when a spark ignited the pure oxygen atmosphere of the sealed capsule during pre-flight tests.
On April 24th 1964 Vladimir Komarov reentered the earths atmosphere in the malfunctioning Soyuz 1 capsule and died when the parachute lines tangled plummeting Soyuz 1 into the earth at two hundred miles an hour.
In May of 1967 the crew of Soyuz 11, Georgi Dobrovolsky, Viktor Patsayev, and Vladislav Volkov, died when a malfunctioning valve caused the capsule to depressurize just prior to reentry.
Between then and the morning of January 28th 1986 no astronaut or cosmonaut would die engaged in a mission. Then following that cold January, it would be fifteen years before sacrifice was once more demanded. On February 1st 2003 the crew of the space shuttle Columbia - Rick Husband, William McCool, Michael Anderson, David Brown, Dr. Kalpana Chawla, Laurel B. Clark and Ilan Ramon - died when the shuttle, suffering damage to its protective tiles, blew up over the western United States during reentry. It is quite possible that these seven people knew or at least suspected they were going to die and proceeded ahead, chasing the dream to infinity.
This is not taking account of, but in no way to discount, the sacrifices of test pilots, engineers and others who have died in explosions, plane crashes or as a result of other accidents associated with the various space programs. They are many, and their sacrifice is as great.
We live in a world of sports heroes, movie stars and rock gods. People who, on whole, are shallow, fatuous, and often as not disgusting and disagreeable individuals, more concerned with image, money and whatever “cause of the month” will get them the most attention. Among them are rapists, thieves, murderers, and narcissists of the highest order who have no greater dream or vision. No desire to live for something greater, and certainly, perhaps most certainly of all, no strength to die for something greater.
While those people are made heroes, there are quieter, smarter, stronger men and women who dare to brave the unknown, the unknowable, and the dangerous to chase down what may be the greatest dream of the human race: The secrets of the heavens - The glittering and shimmering unknowns of that great expanse of possibility and hope.
In the end, it will not be the movie gods and rock stars who will carry mankind into the future, into new hope, new worlds. It will not be the sports hero’s who open the doors for us all. It will be such quiet people willing to serve a dream, and if necessary, die for it.
It is my prayer, whispered desperately to those heavens, that we will hold on long enough, that they may deliver that dream to us before it is lost to the murky depths of forgotten consciousness.
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Timm Chapman Photography
Exhibited January, 2009
marked the first official start of Winter -- how appropriate that images of
polar bears and stark landscapes graced the walls of the visitor center gallery
at Boyce Thompson Arboretum during January. Pinal County resident and professional
photographer Timm Chapman was out featured guest a solo exhibition.
"The Arboretum show featured a variety of my images including shots from the Lords of the Arctic series which captures the great Polar Bear on the tundra of Northern Canada," said Chapman, whose photography manages to encompass dramatic landscapes -- and also intimate spaces. His unique Sands of Time series showcases the power and beauty of sand, particularly focusing on an eerie town that is being consumed by the sands of the Namib Desert in Southwest Africa.
"I moved to Arizona primarily to live amongst the spectacular landscapes we are so fortunate to be surrounded by," said Chapman. "My home, which is located in the foothills of Superstition Mountain is an ideal base for photography as there are so many options nearby, most notably Superstition itself and of course, the Arboretum. What makes the Arboretum a destination for photography? For me its the chance to experiment with texture. The cacti and succulents are spectacular models for going in close to reveal the intricate patterns and textures of their composition. They make for ideal abstracts that lend themselves equally well to black-and-white or colour."
Photographers who wished to learn from the artist enrolled in a three-hour "texture walk" offered twice during the month, where the artist lead a dozen photographers through the Cactus Garden talking about photography techniques and offering tips about improving composition and capitalizing on natural textures. To learn about photography classes here, call 520-689-2723 during daytime business hours.
Chapman is an award-winning photographer whose work hangs in both private and corporate collections in North America and Europe. His images have been featured in publications including National Geographic Traveler and United Airlines' Hemispheres' magazine.
Chapman purchased his first 'real' camera at age 12, embarking on a self-taught education in the art of photography. "At the time, I didn't know this would become a life-long journey of learning, filled with challenge and reward," said Chapman. "Over the years I've dabbled in all aspects of the medium, before finally settling on my greatest love: landscape portraiture with Mother Nature as my model. Capturing Mother Nature is a daunting task. She has many moods..many faces and a spectrum of beauty that is a true challenge to capture accurately. All elements have to come together to give her the justice she deserves. Light. Composition. Drama. Each must be present to capture an image that evokes emotion."
"It is a challenge that I calculate as ninety-nine percent frustration and one percent elation," said Chapman. Vivid colour saturation and sharp, detailed realism of his images are partly attributable to his chosen equipment. He shoots almost exclusively in film using a 6-by-7 format camera which produces original images four times larger than standard 35 millimeter film. As such he is able to capture actual colours (as opposed to 'perceptual' colour), subtle tonal ranges and details that remain beyond the grasp of digital cameras.
Born in the United Kingdom and raised in Canada, Chapman currently finds his home at the foot of the Superstition Mountains in Arizona, the heart of the Desert Southwest, "but I know that my pursuit to capture Mother Nature in all her glory will continue to take me all over the globe."
Limited edition museum mount and canvas gallery-wrapped works on exhibit ranged from 16x24 to 30x40 and were available for purchase on site. Many of his images can also be found in the galleries of his website onevisionphoto.com. For Custom needs and inquiries he can be reached at 480-671-4979 or browse galleries and read more at http://onevisionphoto.com
Boyce Thompson Arboretum is located near Highway 60 milepost #223, just three miles west of the town of Superior - a drive of about one hour east of Phoenix or two hours from Tucson. Pima County drivers should take Oracle Road North to Highway 79 past Florence to Highway 60, then East for another 12 miles. Monthly exhibits may be seen in our Visitor Center gallery daily from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. from September-through-April. Summer hours during May/June/July/August are 6:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. The Arboretum is an Arizona State Park and daily admission must be paid to enter the Visitor Center where the gallery is found. Admission is $7.50 for adults and $3 for ages 5-12. Annual memberships at the Arboretum begin at $45, and include a year's access, guest passes for your friends and family, along with many other benefits. A membership may be purchased in the gift shop on the day of your visit. Review other recent gallery shows by ...
Paul Kinslow December, 2008
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Sharon Sieben October 2008
Nicole Royse September 2008
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Judy Bottler Photography May 2008
Bob Estrin Photography April 2008
Mary Isham Watercolors March 2008
Susan Strom and Cathy Franklin Lightning Photography February, 2008
Arizona State Parks Plein Air Paintings January, 2008
Carolyn Gray & Connie Thomas December, 2007
Jean Sullivan November, 2007 Sue Cullumber October, 2007
Adriane Grimaldi September, 2007
Pima College print-making students July-August, 2007
Mesa Arts League June-July, 2007
Fred Charlton May, 2007
Paul Mudersbach March-April, 2007
Linda Kaiser February, 2007
Edith Kreueger-Nye December, 2006 - January, 2007
Cindy Carrillo October-November, 2006
Bob Rice September, 2006
Bud Heiss July-August, 2006
Mesa Arts League June-July, 2006
Sandy Tracey April-May, 2006
CJ Rider March, 2006
Jessica Green February, 2006
Steve Davidson January, 2006
Don & Carole Schupp December, 2005
Carolyn Gray November, 2005
Martha Burgess October, 2005
Boeing Photographers September, 2005
Lightning Lady Susan Strom July/August, 2005
Mesa Arts League June/July, 2005
Jeanette Bronson May, 2005
Tom Stanley April, 2005
Kathy McClure February-March, 2005
Pam Smyth January, 2005
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By Doug Bradley, NAMI HelpLine Coordinator
One of the biggest stories in mental health over the past few years has been the proposed revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). As the main guide used by psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers in the U.S. to diagnose mental illness, the DSM is an important factor in our mental health system. The manual often influences what type of care people get (or should get), how practitioners are reimbursed, and how people diagnosed with mental illness view themselves and their recoveries.
While the DSM-5 has not been finalized, there are several big changes from the last manual (DSM-IV) starting with the title. The American Psychiatric Association (APA) used roman numerals (i.e., I, II, III) on previous editions but will now use Arabic numbers (i.e., 1,2,3) for two reasons. Firstly, Arabic numbers are more universally recognized. Secondly, updates to the manual will be easier to track. Prior changes were denoted by abbreviations such as –R or –TR, which did not indicate which came first. New updates will be denoted DSM-5.1, DSM-5.2, etc., to clearly show which version is latest.
Another noticeable change is the lack of axes (e.g., Axis I for mood, anxiety and thought disorders; Axis II for personality disorders) to classify illnesses. The DSM-5 work groups felt that there was no scientific basis for this separation and abandoned the axis system for this version.
Instead, an attempt has been made to group similar disorders into 20 categories. However, there have been changes to the familiar DSM-IV groupings. The former “Mood Disorders” chapter is now divided into two sections: “Depressive Disorders” and “Bipolar and Related Disorders.” A brand-new category is “Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders” which includes OCD, hoarding, compulsive hair-pulling, Body Dysmorphic Disorder and others. While all these disorders can cause anxiety, their main distinguishing features are repetitive thoughts and behavior. Also, as the treatment for them is often different than for other anxiety conditions, they have been separated from Anxiety Disorders , which in DSM-5 still contains Panic Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, etc.
Some other changes are elimination of Aspergers as a separate disorder and merging it into Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The section on Personality Disorders has changed with new criteria for some and the elimination of Schizoid, Paranoid, Histrionic and Dependant Personality Disorders. Researchers feel that people in these categories rarely needed professional help and that many of their symptoms could be better described by the remaining personality disorders. Also, two controversial diagnoses (Attenuated Psychosis and Mixed Anxiety-Depression) have been kept but are in a section for topics needing further study.
As people following the creation of DSM-5 know, this process has been more contentious than past revisions. Opponents of the new manual feel that thresholds for the diagnosis of many disorders have been lowered and many people whose behavior is not currently considered “disordered” will now be labeled as ill. For example, some fear that the removal of the “grief exclusion” from Major Depressive Disorder will cause a normal and necessary part of life to be treated as a sickness. The APA has tried to address this issue by adding a note to the proposed criteria for depression clarifying that while grief itself is not a disorder, grief and depression can co-occur. Since this difference is not noted explicitly in the criteria, however, some feel that practitioners may overlook the distinction.
On the other hand, the new definition of ASD may result in fewer diagnoses. This possibility concerns some who feel that children may lose their ASD diagnosis, ending their eligibility for public programs that their parents have found useful, if not invaluable, for their children’s development.
Critics also claim that researchers have not done all the testing needed to validate the new criteria, perhaps to meet deadlines in the development of DSM-5. The APA counters that more field work and validity testing have been done for this revision than for any in the past. It also claims that there has been more input, partly thanks to the internet, from many mental health professionals and the public. Opponents say that while the APA has accepted much input, it has disregarded most from outside the association.
How will the new DSM affect the practice of psychiatry and people living with mental illness? Will it change who is considered to be living with mental illness? The maddeningly vague answer is that we will only know after DSM-5 is released in 2013. The intent of the authors of the manual, and the hope of everyone touched by mental illness, is that the new DSM will produce more accurate diagnoses leading to better treatment. The fear is that many normal behaviors will be considered symptoms of illnesses resulting in unnecessary labeling and intervention. Ideally, DSM-5 will make for better diagnoses, allowing practitioners to identify and treat mental illness before it shatters people’s lives, yet without wrongly labeling others. It’s a tall order but, at the very least, both sides in this debate will have learned much on how well this process has worked and how it can be improved in the future. | <urn:uuid:92836198-9aef-4264-840d-02565c43a2a6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.nami.org/template.cfm?Section=Top_Story&template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=143362 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961978 | 1,108 | 2.84375 | 3 |
Windows and OS X: One of the more cumbersome elements of video chatting is that it isn't always as simple as connecting with another person and talking to them. It can fail to connect and you can often try to reach someone without knowing if they're available since many people just leave their normal status as "away." QuicklyChat aims to solve those problems with a simple push-to-talk process.
At first glance, this may seem like a bad idea: someone can push a button and suddenly you're up on their screen. This wasn't designed for people walking around their homes, but rather around the office. If you need to get ahold of someone quickly, you can just click their name and you'll be talking face-to-face in a matter of seconds. This is convenient if you need to ask a coworker a quick question but don't necessarily want to walk across a large office to do it. (On the other hand, that might be in your best interest depending on the situation.) Users can set status to let others know whether they're available to be contacted (green), should only be contacted if it's important (yellow), or not be disturbed unless it's extremely urgent (red). I think this would work better if these statuses didn't just indicate but rather served a function as well. Perhaps green could allow instant chatting, yellow could require the recipient to approve the incoming request, and red would prevent requests. That does reduce the quickness of it all in some circumstances, but it would be nice to have some sort of do not disturb mode available without the need to quit the app.
QuicklyChat is also pretty rough software at the moment, but that's to be expected because it's a beta. While it is imperfect, it is a cool and useful idea if used in the right situations. Again, you probably don't want to set this up in your house so people can just see what you're up to whenever they feel like pushing a button. That said, to each his/her own.
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Exxonmobil HighlandsSite Summary
1.0 Site Identification
|Type of Site:||Uranium Recovery Facility|
|Location:||Converse County, WY|
|License Status:||Possession Only License|
|Project Manager:||Ted Carter|
2.0 Site Status Summary
The Highland uranium recovery facility included a conventional surface uranium mine with an associated mill. The site also included ore storage pads, four mine pits (two of which have been backfilled), several waste rock piles, one tailings impoundment and an environmental laboratory. Surface mining (beginning in 1970), solution mining (beginning in 1972) and underground mining (beginning in 1977) were used to recover the uranium ore. The first ore was processed at the facility in October 1972. Approximately 11.3 million tons of ore were processed at the Highland mill using an acid leach circuit between 1972 and the end of operations in mid-1984. The resultant tailings consisted of sand and slimes fractions, which were discharged to the tailings basin around the perimeter of the tailings basin and via causeways built out into the tailings basin. Solution contained in the basin was occasionally recycled to the mill, and pilot aquifer restoration waters were discharged to the tailings basin.
The uranium mill area, including the ore storage pads and the laboratory, has been cleaned up and the tailings buried are under a radon barrier, eliminating nearly all potential for radiation exposures to workers or members of the general public from these sources. However, ExxonMobil reclamation operations may result in minimal exposure of workers to radioactive materials. All windblown material has been reclaimed to unrestricted release standards. The byproduct material exposure is limited to the groundwater pathway. However, there is no current use of groundwater. The water in the pit lake has slightly elevated concentrations of Ra226 + Ra-228 (- 5 pCi/L), gross alpha (- 6 pCi/L), U-nat (-5 mg/L), and selenium (-0.12 mg/L).. All other COCs in the pit lake are below WDEQ Class III standards. The site is fenced with restricted access through Power Resources, Inc.'s (PRI's) gate to the premises. The pit lake has a cliff highwall over more than 50 percent of its circumference, with no fence or berms at the pit rim. The operations of co-located facilities not under ExxonMobil control (PRI facilities) are governed by PRM radiation safety procedures. Exxon Mobil maintains an office in the PRI facility. The HASP assumes that no uranium mill tailings or other radioactive materials will be excavated, exposed, or handled as part of the work. The HASP also assumes that the site meets the radiation-related requirements for unrestricted release.
3.0 Major Technical or Regulatory Issues
A plume of contamination has been detected flowing to the east of the site onto private property. New wells have been installed and samples are being collected to determine the extent of the plume. The pit lake has also been contaminated and has elevated levels of uranium and selenium. These areas of contaminated will delay the closure of the site. No new closure date has been estimated. ExxonMobil has submitted a notice of intent to apply for Alternate Concentration Limits and an expanded long-term care boundary to include the pit lake and property to the east. The application is expected to be submitted to NRC in early 2011.
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Life of St. Athanasius and Account of Arianism
A. §§1–3. To the Council of Nicæa, 298–325.
§1. Early years, 298–319.
§2. The Arian controversy before Nicæa (319–325).
§3. (1.) The Council of Nicæa (325).
§3. (2.) Situation at the close of the Council (325–328).
a. Novelty of Arianism. Its Antecedents in the history of doctrine.
b. The ‘Ομοούσιον.’
c. Materials for reaction. 1. Persecuted Arians. 2. Eusebius and the Court. 3. Ecclesiastical conservatism. Marcellus and Photinus.
B. §§4–8. The Conflict with Arianism (328–361).
§4. Early years of his Episcopate (328–335), and first troubles.
§5. The Council of Tyre and First Exile (335–337).
§6. Renewed troubles and Second Exile (337–346).
(1) At Alexandria (337–339).
(2) At Rome. Council of Antioch, &c. (339–342).
(3) Constans; Council of Sardica, and its sequel (342–346).
§7. The golden Decade (346–356).
(1) Athanasius as bishop.
(2) Sequel of the death of Constans.
§8. The Third Exile (356–361).
(1) Expulsion of Athanasius.
(2) State of the Arian controversy:—(a) ‘Anomœans’; (b) ‘Homœans’; (c) ‘Semi-Arians.’
(3) Athanasius in his retirement.
C. §§9, 10. Athanasius in Victory (362–373).
§9. Under Julian and his successors; Fourth and Fifth Exiles (362–366).
§10. Last years. Basil, Marcellus, Apollinarius (366–373).
xivId primum scitu opus est in proposito nobis minime fuisse ut omnia ad Arium Arianos aliosque haereticos illius aetatis itidemque Alexandrum Alexandrinum Hosium Marcellum Serapionem aliosque Athanasii familiares aut synodos spectantia recensere sed solummodo ea quæ uel ad Athanasii Vitam pertinent uel ad eam proxime accedunt.—Montfaucon.
Athanasius was born between 296 and 29811 He was unable to speak from memory of the events of the persecution of 303 (Hist. Ar. 64), but (de Incarn. 56. 2) had been instructed in religion by persons who had suffered as martyrs. This must have been before 311, the date of the last persecution in Egypt under Maximin. Before 319 he had written his first books ‘against the Gentiles,’ the latter of which, on the Incarnation, implies a full maturity of power in the writer, while the former is full of philosophical and mythological knowledge such as argues advanced education. But from several sources we learn that his election to the episcopate in 328 was impugned, at any rate in after years, on the ground of his not having attained the canonical age of thirty. There is no ground for supposing that this was true: but such a charge would not be made without some ground at least of plausibility. We must therefore suppose that on June 8, 328, he was not much beyond his thirtieth year. His parents, moreover, were living after the year 358 (see below, p. 562, note 6); allowing them over fourscore years at that date, we find in 298 a reasonable date for the birth of their son. We must remember that in southern climates mind and body mature somewhat more rapidly than with ourselves, and ‘contra Gentes’ and ‘de Incarnatione’ will scarcely appear precocious.. His parents, according to later writers, were of high rank and wealthy. At any rate, their son received a liberal education. In his most youthful work we find him repeatedly quoting Plato, and ready with a definition from the Organon of Aristotle. He is also familiar with the theories of various philosophical schools, and in particular with the developments of Neo-Platonism. In later works, he quotes Homer more than once (Hist. Ar. 68, Orat. iv. 29), he addresses to Constantius a defence bearing unmistakeable traces of a study of Demosthenes de Corona (Fialon, pp. 286 sq. 293). His education was that of a Greek: Egyptian antiquities and religion, the monuments and their history, have no special interest for him: he nowhere betrays any trace of Egyptian national feeling. But from early years another element had taken a first place in his training and in his interest. It was in the Holy Scriptures that his martyr teachers had instructed him, and in the Scriptures his mind and writings are saturated. Ignorant of Hebrew, and only rarely appealing to other Greek versions (to Aquila once in the Ecthesis, to other versions once or twice upon the Psalms), his knowledge of the Old Testament is limited to the Septuagint. But of it, as well as of the New Testament, he has an astonishing command, ᾽Αλεξανδρεὺς τῷ γένει, ἀνὴρ λόγιος, δυνατὸς ὢν ἐν ταῖς γραφαῖς. The combination of Scriptural study and of Greek learning was what one expects in a pupil of the famous Alexandrian School; and it was in this School, the School of Clement and Origen, of Dionysius and Theognostus, that young Athanasius learned, possibly at first from the lips of Peter the bishop and martyr of 31122 The statements of Greg. Naz. that he frequented classes of grammar and rhetoric is probable enough; that of Sulpitius Severus that he was ‘juris consultus’ lacks corroboration.. The influence of Origen still coloured the traditions of the theological school of Alexandria. It was from Alexander, Bishop of Alexandria 312–328, himself an Origenist ‘of the right wing,’ that Athanasius received his moulding at the critical period of his later teens.
Of his first introduction to Alexander a famous story is told by Rufinus (Hist. Eccl. I. xiv.). The Bishop, on the anniversary of the martyrdom of his predecessor, Peter, was expecting some clergy to dinner after service in a house by the sea. Out of the window, he saw some boys at play on the shore: as he watched, he saw that they were imitating the sacred rites of the Church. Thinking at last that they were going too far, he sent some of his clergy to bring them in. At first his enquiries of the little fellows produced an alarmed denial. But at length he elicited that one of them had acted the Bishop and had baptized some of the others in the character of catechumens. On ascertaining that all details had been duly observed, he consulted his clergy, and decided that the baptisms should be treated as valid, and that the boy-bishop and his clergy had given such plain proof of their vocation that their parents must be instructed to hand them over to be educated for the sacred profession. Young Athanasius accordingly, after a further course of elementary studies, was handed over to the bishop to be brought up, like Samuel, in the Temple of God. This, adds Sozomen (ii. 17), was the origin of his subsequent attachment to Alexander as deacon and secretary. The story is credited by some writers of weight (most recently, by Archdeacon Farrar), but seems highly improbable. It depends on the single authority of a writer not famed for historical judgment, and on the very first anniversary of Peter’s martyrdom, when Alexander had hardly ascended the episcopal throne, Athanasius was at least fourteen years old. The probability that the anniversary would have been other than the first, and the possibility that Athanasius was even older, coupled with the certainty that his theological study began before Peter’s martyrdom, compel us to mark the story with at least a strong note of interrogation. But it may be allowed to confirm us in the belief that Alexander early singled out the promise of ability and devotion which marked Athanasius for his right-hand man long before the crisis which first proved his unique value.
His years of study and work in the bishop’s household bore rich fruit in the two youthful works already alluded to. These works more than any later writings of Athanasius bear traces of the Alexandrian theology and of the influence of Origenism: but in them already we trace the independent grasp of Christian principles which mark Athanasius as the representative of something more than a school, however noble and many-sided. It was not as a theologian, but as a believing soul in need of a Saviour, that Athanasius approached the mystery of Christ. Throughout the mazes of the Arian controversy his tenacious hold upon this fundamental principle steered his course and balanced his theology. And it is this that above all else characterises the golden treatise on the Incarnation of the Word. There is, however, one xvelement in the influence of Origen and his successors which already comes out, and which never lost its hold upon Athanasius,—the principle of asceticism. Although the ascetic tendency was present in Christianity from the first, and had already burst forth into extravagance in such men as Tertullian, it was reserved for the school of Origen, influenced by Platonist ideas of the world and life, to give to it the rank of an acknowledged principle of Christian morals—to give the stimulus to monasticism (see below, p. 193). Among the acclamations which accompanied the election of Athanasius to the episcopate that of εἷς τῶν ἀσκηῶν was conspicuous (Apol. Ar. 6). In de Incarn. 51. 1, 48. 2, we seem to recognise the future biographer of Antony33 The actual connection of Athanasius with Antony at this period is implied in the received text of ‘Vit. Anton.’ Prolog., for it could scarcely fall at any later date. At the same time the youthful life of Athanasius seems fully accounted for in such a way as to leave little room for it (so Tillemont). But our ignorance of details leaves it just possible that he may for a time have visited the great hermit and ministered to him as Elisha did of old to Elijah. (Cf. p. 195, note 2.).
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In the age of computer design, why do engineers still send airplane models to the wind tunnel?
- By Peter Garrison
- Air & Space magazine, March 2007
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Long’s model ship—delicately detailed, down to each railing, antenna, and hatch—came into being in Valencia, California. Valencia’s industrial parks contain several firms engaged in the futuristic business of stereolithography (SL), a way to manufacture single examples of complex objects by a completely robotic photochemical process.
SL creates solid objects of extreme complexity by selectively hardening an epoxy-like liquid with laser light. The process begins with a computer file, a cloud of numbers defining the shape of an object as a series of cross-sections at intervals of a few thousandths of an inch. Inside the SL machine, a simple metal cabinet with an angled window—think of it as a three-dimensional printer—an ultraviolet laser dances across the surface of several gallons of liquid photopolymer, a clear plastic liquid that hardens when the laser contacts it. A perforated floor immersed in the polymer drops by a few thousandths of an inch and the tremulous blue-violet light, directed by the computer file, sketches anew. Over and over and over—there is no sound, no one watches, no waste results. When the process, which advances at a rate of inches per hour, is finished, the perforated floor rises to the surface and the newborn object—a gear, a turbine, a wing, a ship, anything you like—emerges from the liquid like Aphrodite: perfect, virginal, and untouched by human hands.
Stereolithography and numerically controlled machining represent the final stage in the withdrawal of the human touch from the making of wind tunnel models. The craftsmen who carved mahogany for Douglas and Northrop and Lockheed are mostly gone; likewise the sheet metal men who built up countless impeccable wing sections for NACA, and the artisans whose files and sanders sculpted massive steel to the precision of a clockwork. Their skill was impressive, and no doubt their satisfaction was great. But technology moves forward, toward pilotless airplanes built by pilotless machines, and the art and science of wind tunnel testing moves with it. | <urn:uuid:85c16c48-138f-4193-bd52-ad9eca41ffa6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.airspacemag.com/flight-today/model_behavior.html?c=y&page=3 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00060-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938391 | 474 | 3.140625 | 3 |
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Can emerging technologies aid in filtering out the untrusted and unverified chattering of the masses? Using the recent Boston Marathon bombings as an example where this kind of technology would be useful, the MIT Technology Review article “Preventing Misinformation from Spreading through Social Media” explains some possible solutions on their radar.
When people play detective on Reddit and other social media sites with the goal of sharing information quickly as opposed to ensuring accuracy, false accusations can be made – such as the case with Sunil Tripathi. Researchers from Masdar Institute of Technology and the Qatar Computing Research Institute plan to launch Verily as a platform that could combat situations like that one.
The article states:
“Verily aims to enlist people in collecting and analyzing evidence to confirm or debunk reports. As an incentive, it will award reputation points—or dings—to its contributors. Verily will join services like Storyful that use various manual and technical means to fact-check viral information, and apps such as Swift River that, among other things, let people set up filters on social media to provide more weight to trusted users in the torrent of posts following major events.”
This will be an interesting sector to watch as there is a growing awareness of social media’s distortional lever.
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Game On: Energize Your Business with Social Media Games
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As one of the few entrepreneurs in the world with expertise building both social media and games, author Jon Radoff brings a one-of-a-kind perspective to this unique book. He shows that games are more than a profitable form of entertainment the techniques of social games can be used to enhance the quality of online applications, social media and a wide range of other consumer and business experiences. With this book, you ll explore how social games can be put to work for any business and examine why they work at all. The first part of explains what makes games fun, while the second part reviews the process and details of game design.
- Looks at how games are the basis for many everyday functions and explains how techniques of social games can be used by businesses as money-making tools
- Drills down the process of game design while focusing on the design, analysis, and creation of games
- Features screen shots, diagrams and explanations to illuminate key concepts, accessible to anyone regardless of game playing or design experience
- Reviews what works and what doesn t using a range of real-world scenarios as examples
- Author Jon Radoff has a unique blend of experiences creating games, Internet-based social media, and Web technology.
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Maryland’s Bay Grasses Increase in 2008
Susquehanna Flats continued expansion drives 20% Increase
Annapolis, MD (April 29, 2009) — Bay grasses, a favorite home to the blue crab, increased 20 percent in 2008 in Maryland’s portion of the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries. The majority of the 7,221-acre increase resulted from a continued expansion on the Susquehanna Flats, home of the largest bay grass beds in the Chesapeake Bay. While the new number — 42,237 acres (up from 35,016 acres in 2007) — marks a significant increase, Maryland bay grass acreage remains far short of the 2010 restoration goal of 110,000 acres.
“Whether they fish, boat, swim in its waters, or simply enjoy its world-class seafood, the waters of the Chesapeake Bay are a vital resource for Maryland families… and bay grasses are vital to a healthy Bay,” said Governor Martin O’Malley. “While this increase is encouraging, we must continue to take aggressive action, collectively and individually, to reduce nutrient and sediment pollution from the major Bay sources. By properly maintaining septic systems, practicing sensible lawn care or planting trees, every Marylander can make a difference.”
Bay grasses, or submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) are critical to the Chesapeake by providing food and shelter for a wide range of fish, shellfish and waterfowl including largemouth bass, blue crabs and the canvasback duck. Healthy bay grass beds also protect shorelines from erosion, produce oxygen, remove excess nutrients from the water and trap sediment that would otherwise cloud the water.
“Because bay grasses are sensitive to even minor changes in water quality, they serve as a key indicator of the health of our waterways,” said Natural Resources Secretary John Griffin. “So, while these increases are good news for some portions of the Bay, there are still places where poor water quality continues to restrict recovery.
Maryland’s increase in bay grass acreage has been driven by the Susquehanna Flats beds, which now cover about 15,000 acres or about 23 square miles. The Flats, located at the top of the Chesapeake Bay, is actually a delta formed below the mouth of the Susquehanna River near Havre de Grace. These thriving beds are home to over 12 different types of bay grasses.
Increasing in size since 1991, these vast beds have also become more dense. Today they act like a giant water filter, often producing visibility up to eight feet, a level unrivaled in other areas of the Bay. These substantial increases have co-occurred with long-term reductions in nitrogen loads reaching the Bay at the Susquehanna River as confirmed by State monitoring.
In addition to the remarkable growth on the Susquehanna Flats, bay grasses in the Elk River increased nearly 20 percent to 2,347 acres meeting its acreage goal for the first time in 2008. Expansion of bay grass beds in the Northeast River continued a 3-year trend, increasing an additional 60 percent to 182 acres in 2008, far exceeding the 89-acre goal for the river.
Numerous other areas have also met bay grass restoration goals for several years now, including the Bohemia, Bush and upper Potomac Rivers, and Mattawoman Creek, though grass in the Bohemia and Bush have been declining in recent years. Also encouraging, bay grasses in the middle Patuxent and Middle Rivers, Piscataway Creek, and the upper Chesapeake Bay directly below the Susquehanna Flats are all approaching their restoration goals.
Grasses in the Potomac River — from near the Woodrow Wilson Bridge south to about Mattawoman Creek — have shown steady increases since 2000, and have exceeded the restoration goal by 47 percent. This is due in part to major upgrades in wastewater treatment at the Blue Plains Facility in Washington, DC. Long-term water quality monitoring has confirmed reduced levels of nitrogen in the Potomac River since the partial wastewater treatment plant upgrade in 1996 and the full upgrade was completed in 2000.
Increases in bay grass coverage on Maryland’s lower Eastern Shore were driven primarily by the recovery of eelgrass, a higher salinity-tolerant type of bay grass, after significant reductions in eelgrass populations resulting from a bay-wide dieback in 2005. Several regions, including Tangier and Pocomoke Sounds and the Manokin and Big Annemessex Rivers, have seen increases in eelgrass since 2006. In the Honga River, bay grass acreage nearly doubled in 2008 due to a resurgence of widgeon grass, another type of bay grass tolerant of saltier waters.
Despite this encouraging progress, other Bay areas are showing steady declines in bay grass acreage. Poor water quality continues to hamper bay grass recovery in the middle zone (Kent Island south to the Potomac and Pocomoke Rivers). Several regions, including the Choptank, Little Choptank and lower Potomac Rivers, continue to experience substantial declines in bay grass acreages.
Bay grasses acreage is estimated through an aerial survey, which is flown from late spring to early fall. Additional information about the aerial survey and survey results, is available at www.vims.edu/bio/sav/
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The fall semester is well under way and high school kids everywhere are looking for some help with their schoolwork.
Some of us in the past have turned to CliffsNotes, but the newer generation has looked to SparkNotes
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To access the site, you will have to register with an e-mail address and password, but once you do, you'll have access to hundreds of study guides summarizing practically everything that's required reading -- from "Great Gatsby" to "Great Expectations" to more modern novels such as "Cold Mountain" and the steamy "Like Water for Chocolate."
Of course, these guides, and the Harvard students who write them, say that these summaries are not meant to replace the reading you do on your own, it "supplements a student's understanding" of the novel, according to the site. Besides summaries, you'll find sample exam questions a teacher may ask, and essays on the symbols and themes in the novels that any thorough reader should be aware of. There's also an online discussion where you can share your thoughts or your questions about the book with other students.
SparkNotes are not just limited to literature. There are also study guides for philosophy, physics and math. And they have a new section for college prep tests, too.
The guides are free to read but will cost $4.95 to print.
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"The Fifth Guy" is a sophisticated and highly entertaining social marketing campaign. Its message is based on two concepts: 1) Low interest in pandemic flu would undermine audience receptivity to campaigns about an influenza pandemic, and 2) Enhancing basic hand and respiratory hygiene is a valuable, pandemic-relevant lesson that people would absorb today. The campaign rests on the data that four out of five people wash their hands, which led to the creation of the character "The Fifth Guy." Viewers can feel disgusted by his slovenly behavior and watch co-workers struggle to cope with The Fifth Guy in television spots, radio promotions, and on The Fifth Guy's MySpace page.
The campaign is noteworthy because it uses humor to reinforce healthy behaviors that could reduce the impact of respiratory infections. Included among the humorous materials are useful items such as: a grocery stockpile list; criteria for staying home from work; suggestions on how to create a workplace environment where sick employees stay home; and tips on how to cope with the flu. A report evaluating the impact of the campaign is also included.
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This morning the CBS Early Show featured our marine scientist Margot Stiles in a segment about this summer's preponderance of jellyfish. Why all the jellies? Suspected reasons include the overfishing and bycatch of their predators, such as the loggerhead sea turtle, tuna and swordfish, as well as pollution and global warming.
- Puffins Are Struggling with Warming Waters Posted Thu, June 13, 2013
- Scottish Government Welcomes New Wind Subsidies! Posted Thu, June 13, 2013
- Oceana Testifies in Support of MA Seafood Labeling Bills Posted Fri, June 14, 2013
- Meet the Faces of the Ocean Hero Junior Awards! Posted Fri, June 14, 2013
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'I had a rich husband, beautiful children, a fabulous career. But I was doomed to a life of self-destruction': Tessa Dahl on how she rebuilt her troubled life
07:11 GMT, 20 August 2012
When my father died in November 1990, I might as well have been handed a Monopoly card that read: ‘Go to the loony bin. Do not pass Go. Do not collect 200.’
I had received a phone call from my stepmother’s secretary, Wendy, telling me to rush to England as he was on his way out. I took the Concorde home. Praying all the while he would not die. We had such unfinished business.
But when I arrived at John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford I was met by my laughing sisters. ‘Lazarus has risen,’ said Ophelia.
Mother's pride: Tessa with her children Luke, Clover and Sophie – now the celebrated model – in 1989
I walked into his room. ‘Oh Teddy [his name for me], I nearly died today, but I could not.’
‘Why not’ I asked cockily.
‘Because you were not here and I couldn’t die without you here.’ He smiled wearily and added: ‘I am sorry I have not made your journey worthwhile.’
Oh, he had, he had. He had been an incredible father. A man I had gazed up at with awe and love. Of course, there were the wonderful books. There was his career as a fighter pilot in the war.
But this was also a man who helped our mother recover from her strokes by inventing his own rehabilitation scheme for her. When my little brother developed hydrocephalus (water on the brain), he was part of the inventing team for a type of valve – or shunt – to ease the pressure.
When my older sister Olivia died of measles, he campaigned ceaselessly for inoculations in schools. He was a giant among men. Probably the reason I never met a man who would or could live up to him.
But there we were, in the grim little hospital room in Oxford. I stayed awake every night, me sitting beside him and he, semi-conscious, dreaming.
Road to recovery: Tessa in 2005
In the morning, I would see my stepmother Lic [Felicity] coming through the car park, and let him know she was on her way to see him. He would buck up, and almost completely recover for her visit. It was testimony to Lic that Dad loved her so much.
The night before Dad died, I told him I was leaving to go into Oxford. ‘But, I’ll see you later,’ I assured him.
‘Perhaps,’ he said quietly.
As I walked towards the door my inner voice told me to ‘kiss him and tell him you love him’.
So, I did. And just as I was about to leave I heard him say: ‘And I love you too, so very much indeed.’ This was the last thing I heard him say to me. I had waited my whole life to hear these words, and now he had been taken away. I thought my world would collapse. For the next 16 years, I was doomed to a life of self-destruction and destroying the lives of the people closest to me.
Outwardly, I was blessed: the lucky daughter of celebrated author Roald Dahl and the beautiful Oscar-winning actress Patricia Neal. I was married to a kind, wealthy man, I had three beautiful children – later four – and a successful career writing children’s books and magazine articles.
It was not enough. My need to deaden my feelings manifested in every possible form. So, not for the first time in my life, there was a private nurse at home injecting painkillers and anxiety-busting lorazepam. It was Dad who first put me on medication, and he too used drugs. I remember him saying: ‘Ah, that lovely feeling when they inject it and you have no problems in the world.’
But I had lots. I had children I could not mother. Everything I had been told would make me happy – fame, fortune, children, husbands . . . nothing worked. Only drugs. Doctors began to realise I was an addict and my supplies of prescription medicine dried up. So I started to use cocaine.
Around this time I had a psychotic breakdown. I was sent, travelling by myself, to Arizona and the Sierra Tucson Treatment Center for Addictions. It was a mistake. I was far too ill to be on my own and was found wandering around Los Angeles airport ‘looking for my mother’, which made a sort of sense as my mother had had her strokes in Los Angeles.
When I did reach Sierra Tucson, they realised I was far too loony for them, so they sent me to a lock-up psychiatric unit.
The doctors decided I might be faking as I was too articulate and clever to be insane, so they asked my permission to administer a truth drug, Sodium Pentothal, to test me. I agreed. Well, if there were any doubts about my sanity before, there were not afterwards. What is your hobby ‘W******,’ I replied to this and every other question I was asked.
Glamorous lifestyle: Tessa with her father Roald Dahl and actress Joan Collins in 1979
I was flown back to England to be a
long-term patient at St Andrew’s psychiatric hospital in Northampton, in
a comfortable private wing. Scans had revealed plaque on my brain, a
sign of incipient dementia. It was said I would never recover.
insightful nurse asked me if I had ever read the condolence letters I
was sent for Daddy. So, as I had not, every night Nurse Kay and I
would go gently through the stack together. I would weep hysterically. I
would rail. All I wanted was something to take away the pain, but I
It turned out that they were wrong about the plaque. God was good to me.
But reading the condolence letters provided only a sticking plaster. The doctors knew all about my history, the post-traumatic stress disorder, the hint of narcissism, the borderline personality problems (borderline syndrome which can result from multiple losses and shows itself in immensely manipulative behaviour).
What they did not see was the bipolar condition that lay beneath it all and wouldn’t be diagnosed for years to come. So they put me on a huge dose of Valium. I had to self-medicate (as do a majority with undiagnosed bipolar disorder). And I went back to the coke.
I was so used to spending money without thinking – also a bipolar trait – that I spent constantly and wildly: manic shopping sprees, ill-judged parties, lavish donations to charity. In 1997, I was declared bankrupt.
I missed my father beyond comprehension. Both my parents had done their very best for me and I loved Mum, but she was never good with problems.
Everything always went back to being about her. Sometimes, to stop her talking about herself, I used to put my nails in my arms and scratch deeply to draw blood so she would stop and hear me. ‘Why do you hate yourself so much’ she would ask.
Mixing cocaine, Valium and vodka, I was truly insane and started to plan my suicide, convinced that everyone would be better off without me. I felt like a beautiful piece of china that had just been broken and dropped so many times it could not be invisibly mended.
On July 27, 1997, I went into a field in Oxfordshire, took massive amounts of barbiturates – handfuls of pills – drank half a bottle of vodka and chased it all with half a gram of cocaine. I was in a coma for 23 hours but, ironically, the cocaine kept my body functioning.
I felt like a beautiful piece of china dropped so often I was beyond repair
I saw no bright lights. I had no God moments and was found by a dog who would not leave my body until her owner came to find her. I awoke in hospital in phenomenal pain, the nerves in my leg feeling like an exposed tooth filling being touched with silver.
So once again, my family took responsibility for me. And I was sent off in a wheelchair to my next series of lock-up loony bins. At the Payne Whitney Clinic in New York I became fluent in the dialogue of crack whores in order to survive. It was the main holding pen for crazies in New York City. I was a prisoner in a huge glass box. Then I survived ten days at the clinic for borderline personality disorder at Cornell Medical College in New York. These acute borderline ladies are scary. Kicking my bad leg under the table was their sport.
In contrast, Silver Hill was heaven, the Elizabeth Arden of psychiatric hospitals. My bed was made for me. I had my own bathroom and my room could have been slept in by any president’s wife. I loved it there. I had a consultation with a very respected neurologist and psychiatrist from Yale who told me my symptoms were characteristic of bipolar disorder. At last, a breakthrough.
Later on, after yet another relapse, I found myself at Tucson again for out-patient ‘psychodrama’. It was a recipe for disaster. There was no way I was going to stay clean or sober when re-enacting some of the biggest emotional, trauma-inducing moments of my life.
One night my old rehab mates and I went out to find cocaine. We were in a crack house in the most dangerous part of the city. Two enormous drug dealers took me into a room and asked to see my t**s. I tried to talk them out of it.
‘Oh you don’t want to see them. I have breastfed four children,’ I said.
‘Lift your shirt up and then you can get your cocaine.’ So I did.
Tessa with her father Roald in 1986
They did not want to see my boobs. They thought I was wired, a drug sting. Who would choose a 6ft Englishwoman for a drug sting
We never got our coke and we were lucky we were not killed.
I was a lousy mother, not because I wanted to be. In fact, all I longed for was to be able to give my children a better and happier upbringing. But, as I discovered, until you heal your own childhood pain, you are not very good at taking care of anyone else.
I had had fabulous role models in many ways, but I had never had a childhood. Until Dad died, I had managed to make my life a good one to prove myself to him – to prove I was as worthy of life as my older, adored sister Olivia, who died when we were young. But once I lost him, I lost my motivation.
Throughout all of my children’s growing-up years they had a fabulous nanny. Maureen Noble worked with us for more than 30 years and it is her constancy and devotion to the children that I should be really grateful for.
My own wonderful mother died gracefully in August 2010. I miss her desperately. She was generous in not putting us through a long, excruciating death.
I moved to the tiny town of Lincoln in Massachusetts. I have a ‘team’ at McLean, the top psychiatric hospital in America. For the past three years, I have been going three times a week to see an addiction psychiatrist, a top psychiatrist, a psychopharmacologist, a social worker and I do dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) to help me communicate with modified emotions. I have started writing again. I am developing a relationship with my family.
I live with three lovely rescue dogs and four cats. I get huge satisfaction from having a four-legged family to welcome me when I get home and snuggle up with at night. I don’t mind being ‘that crazy cat woman’. If I never fall in love again, it does not bother me. It has taken me so long to love myself.
I do not feel sorry for myself, nor have I ever. I was handed a huge amount on a plate. Sadly, though, my most obvious diagnosis went unrecognised for so many years.
I suppose because my finances accommodated endless treatments and clinics, it was not until I went bankrupt in 1997 that my bipolar disorder became impossible to ignore. Today I am clean and sober.
As a small child I was taken to see Anna Freud, the great psychoanalyst. We were all so traumatised – the crushing of my baby brother by a New York taxi, the death of my older sister Olivia, my father’s absolute favourite. Anna described me as a ‘melting pot’ of dangerous feelings and behaviours.
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I saw the TV news about Combretastatin. Can you tell me how this drug works?
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Phase I studies evaluate the maximum tolerated safe dose and are offered to patients with cancer that has not responded to conventional treatment. The Combretastatin trials, as with other phase I studies, are available for virtually all cancer types. These studies allow patients access to novel treatments which would otherwise not be available. Patients should discuss with their oncologist in detail whether or not there are other conventional treatments available and whether the patient would be eligible for the study.
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1 These seven hundred wives, or the daughters of great men, and the three hundred concubines, the daughters of the ignoble, make one thousand in all; and are, I suppose, those very one thousand women intimated elsewhere by Solomon himself, when he speaks of his not having found one [good] woman among that very number, Ecclesiastes 7:28.
2 Josephus is here certainly too severe upon Solomon, who, in making the cherubims, and these twelve brazen oxen, seems to have done no more than imitate the patterns left him by David, which were all given David by Divine inspiration. See my description of the temples, ch. 10. And although God gave no direction for the lions that adorned his throne, yet does not Solomon seem therein to have broken any law of Moses; for although the Pharisees and latter Rabbins have extended the second commandment, to forbid the very making of any image, though without any intention to have it worshipped, yet do not I suppose that Solomon so understood it, nor that it ought to be so understood. The making any other altar for worship but that at the tabernacle was equally forbidden by Moses, Antiq. B. IV. ch. 8. sect. 5; yet did not the two tribes and a half offend when they made an altar for a memorial only, Joshua 22; Antiq. B. V. ch. 1. sect. 26, 27.
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Wheel Alignment or 4 Wheels
Symptoms: Pulling to one side of the road, wear on tires is uneven, and problems with steering
When you drive your car in a straight line, its left wheels should be parallel with its right wheels. If even one wheel is slightly off, you might feel like your vehicle is pulling or drifting to one side. Some Tunex Complete Car Care Centers offer alignment checks where we compare your vehicle’s alignment with the manufacturer’s wheel alignment specifications for your specific make and model to keep you and your car on the straight and narrow.
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First Hot Air Balloon Ride
While there were a few hot air balloon rides before June 4, 1783, when the Montgolfier Brothers did their first public demonstration - most ended in disaster with very short flight times. And so, the Montgolfier Brothers are usually credited with the first successful hot air balloon ride. (for more background info, try wikipedia).
So to celebrate the event, let us recommend some choice videos. First, watch Conquest of the Air, a very dry humored British film on the history of flight, starring Sir Laurence Olivier, as Vincent Lunardi one of the early pioneers of hot air balloon flight.
Another highly recommended title is Buster Keaton in Balloonatic.
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In January this year, SCAMwatch issued a radar alert warning consumers about classified ads offering non-existent pedigree puppies for sale. If you are in the market for a new puppy, you should be extra careful—the ads have resurfaced in local newspapers across the country, as well as online classifieds.
Once again, scammers are offering 'AKC registered' puppies for sale at too-good-to-be-true prices. However, the number of breeds on offer has expanded from Yorkies and bulldogs to include pugs, Boston terriers, Australian shepherds and beagles. Some of the ads also include photos of very cute puppies.
The aim of the scam is to try to persuade potential buyers to pay to have the puppy transported to their address. The puppy could be located in Australia or overseas. Payment is to be made via money transfer, but the puppy is never delivered and the scammer pockets your money.
Protect yourself from these scams
Too-good-to-be-true prices for pedigree pups call for caution.
If you are unsure about an ad that you have seen, seek advice from a breeder or kennel association, a vet or your local pet shop.
Avoid any arrangement with a stranger that asks for up-front payment via money order, wire transfer or moneygram.
Do an internet search using the exact wording in the ad—many well-known scams can be found this way.
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Continuing our Champagne theme for the Weekly Wine Quiz, we’ve got a relatively tough question queued up this week. Let’s see which of you Champers fans really knows his or her (or, if you’re a hermaphrodite, his AND her) stuff…
When It Comes To Bubbly, Do You Know Your Letters?
Champagne production is one of the most highly-regulated in all of the wine world, with each bottle receiving a registration number for its producer issued by the region’s governing body, and each label receiving a designation code that represents how the wine was made. What Champagne label code signifies that a Champagne was produced independently by an individual estate / grape grower?
- A. CM
- B. MA
- C. NM
- D. RC
- E. RM
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14-Jun-2004 -- This is the second of two Intrnational co-operation visits today, about 90 minutes ago we visited 52N 1W....
....and now we are pulling up and parking. We are about half a mile from the CP. This road actually passes over the Prime Meridian, but is a narrow country lane so parking there is not practical. We stop at the entrance to the Bridleway and put on our walking gear.
It has been the hottest day of the year so far and the heat has mellowed to become a glorious early summer evening, just a hint of a breeze to take the edge of the warm sunshine. We set off confidently for the CP - after all it is my third visit to this place - more of which later.
What you see is typical English countryside with gently rolling fields bounded by woodlands. As we are walking along the path towards the CP we saw something unusual - two small deer burst out of one field, ran along the path and plunged into another field. Far too quick to get a photograph of.
The bridleway then goes under tree cover, and is a very pleasant walk, in a nearby field a farmer was baling hay, looks like Peter found it interesting! After a nice 20 minute gentle walk we arrived at the Prime Meridian.
We can confirm - via three separate GPS units - that the tractor tracks through the crop are aligned exactly with 0.0.0, Peter speculated that perhaps the farmer had done this so that people like us wouldn't damage the crops...now there's a thought. I had told Peter and Werner about my Garmin unit flipping between showing W 0.0.0 and E 0.0.0 and Peter's unit did the same. After a bit of discussion we decided that maybe it measured more precision than it displayed hence the flip/flop.
We then simply walked from the edge of the field out into the wheat crop along the tractor lines. As I remarked earlier this is my third visit to this visit, the most recent being just two months ago. Then the crop in the field was just two inches high, this shot shows it has grown slightly!
I have made repeat visits to several sites - 55N 2W, 54N 2W, 53N 3W, 53N 1W, 52N 1W, 52N 1E, 51N 0W - in the hope that they would look different, but disappointingly the views hadn't really changed much. A big change this time though and I am glad we made the visit, particularly as this is the first visit to the Prime Meridian for either Werner or Peter.
Location shots were taken - North, East, South and West, the GPS Montage completes the set. On the way back we came through the small village of Barkway, stopping to look at the 700 year old church.
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World Mental Health Day: All about mental disorders
World Mental Health Day, celebrated annually on October 10, is a global awareness program about various mental health issues.
Mental disorder is a physiological condition that can cause distress and is reflected through a person’s behavior. Here is a list of mental disorders listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (manual used by clinicians and psychiatrists to diagnose psychiatric illnesses):
Anxiety disorder is a blanket term used for various psychiatric disorder characterized by excessive and abnormal fear, worry, apprehension and anxiety.
Types of anxiety disorders include:
i) Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD): A chronic disorder, GAD most commonly affects elderly people as compared to others. It is characterized by long-lasting anxiety which may or may not be focused on any one object or situation.
ii) Phobias: Phobia is the sense of endangerment or fear of harm from an object or situation. Phobic disorder affects 5% to 12% of the world population.
iii) Panic disorder: People suffering from panic disorder experience brief attack of extreme fear leading to rapid breathing and increased heart rates.
iv) Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD): People who have been in extreme situations like combat, hostage situation, rape, child abuse etc. are more prone to developing PTSD.
v) Childhood anxiety disorders: Triggered due to biological and psychological factors, childhood anxiety disorder affects about 13 of every 100 children with girls being at a higher risk compared to boys.
vi) Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD): As the name suggests OCD is characterized by the compulsion to do specific acts repeatedly.
Common symptoms include:
a) Feelings of anxiety, anger and fear
b) Rapid heartbeat, raised blood pressure, trouble breathing, dizziness and nausea
c) Increased sweating from the hands, feet and axillae
d) Hypervigilance, flashbacks, avoidant behaviors in case of PTSD
Mood disorders is the term used for a person`s mental state characterized by extreme highs and lows in mood. Bipolar disorder and Major depressive disorder are two broadly recognized categories of mood disorders.
i) Major Depressive Disorder (MDD): Also known as clinical depression, major depression or unipolar depression, MDD is the state in which the affected person loses interest in routine activities and appears depressed almost through out the day. Though most of us go through the phase of feeling down and out one time or the other in our lifetime, it is termed a clinical depression only when the symptoms persist for weeks or longer and interferes with one’s routine. Depression affects men, women and infants equally and can appear at a young age of just 6 months.
a) Depressed mood through out the day continuing into weeks and longer
b) Withdrawal symptoms marked by prolonged fatigue, loss of energy and diminishing interest in routine activities
c) Dramatic change in appetite marked by significant weight loss or weight gain
d) Insomnia or hypersomnia i.e. trouble sleeping or too much of sleep
e) Lack of concentration
f) Feeling of worthlessness, self-hate, guilt with recurrent suicidal thought
g) Instance of hallucinations, delusions
ii) Bipolar disorder (BD): Characterized by alternating periods of mania and depression, BD can set in at the age of 15-25 affecting men and women equally. Due to the extreme and rapid mood swings between mania and depression, BD was formerly known as manic depression.
Classed into three categories – Bipolar I (cycle between mania and depression), Bipolar II (cycles between hypomania and depression), cyclothymia cycles (episodes of recurrent hypomanic and dysthymic); the risk of BP is higher in people having a family history.
Manic and depressed phase of bipolar disorder include following symptoms:
a) Lack of self control, poor temper, reckless behavior
b) Trouble sleeping, eating
c) Easily distracted, difficulty in remembering, making decisions
d) May show hyperactivity, prolonged fatigue
e) Poor judgment, agitated and irritated
f) Withdrawal into seclusion accompanied by suicidal thoughts
Cognitive Disorders involves trouble with memory, perception, and problem solving. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR) describes it as disorders with “a significant impairment of cognition or memory that represents a marked deterioration from a previous level of function”.
Three main areas outlined by the DSM-IV-TR of cognitive disorders are:
i) Delirium: People diagnosed with this condition tend to find it difficult to process new information. Delirium can be caused due to pre-existing medical condition. Symptoms include shift in attention, mood swings, violent or unordinary behaviors, and hallucination.
ii) Dementia: Dementia is the loss of brain function that erases part of patient’s memory due to conditions like brain trauma, stroke, heart diseases and genetics.
iii) Amnesia: Patients diagnosed with amnesia often find it difficult retaining long term memories.
Psychotic Disorders is a mental state that involves a loss of contact with reality. Schizophrenia, the condition in which the patient is unable to distinguish between what is real and what is not, is one of the most well-known disorders in this category.
Though symptoms vary from patient to patient major signs include:
a) Hallucination and delusion
b) Extreme mood swings, loss of interest in routine activities
c) Confused thinking and disorganized speech
d) Have detached, cold attitude
e) Behave strange, rather dangerously
Primarily caused due to psychological trauma, a person diagnosed with dissociative disorders has trouble recalling past and can exhibit more than one distinct personality.
DSM-IV-TR list five types of dissociative disorders-
i) Dissociative identity disorder, formerly called Multiple Personality Disorder, is a state in which a person exhibits more than one distinct personalities
ii) Depersonalization disorder in which one feels detached from self or surrounding
iii) Dissociative amnesia is characterized by retrospectively reported memory gaps
iv) Dissociative fugue is characterized by reversible amnesia for personal identity
v) Dissociative disorder not otherwise specified
The condition which interferes with the normal development of cognitive skills during some stage or the other of a child’s development is termed as development disorder. Children diagnosed with development disorder may show signs of mental retardation, learning disabilities, communication and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. Autism and dyslexia are examples of development disorder.
a) Impairments in social interactions, communication
b) Repetitive or restricted patterns of interest or behaviors
c) Inattentiveness, impulsiveness, and hyperactivity or poor control over actions
d) Face academic problems
e) Exhibit poor interpersonal relationships
Patient suffering from samatoform disorder mimic symptoms of real diseases without actually showing any physical signs of illness. However somatoform disorders is different from factitious disorders as people suffering from it do not exhibit fake symptoms.
a) Constant worrying about one`s health due to lack of physical evidence
b) Stress, anxiety and depression
c) At times symptoms are similar to that of the other illnesses
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SHAKO: Memorial Day 2012
Lest We Forget
Here in the United States, it is easy to understand why Memorial Day is seen by many as a national holiday that marks the unofficial beginning of summer — especially since its date of observance was changed in 1971 from May 30 to the last Monday in May.
But the holiday started out as a day set aside to decorate the graves of the fallen from the Civil War and to remember their sacrifice. Originally in the North it was known as Decoration Day and Memorial Day in the South. In November, on Veterans Day, we honor the living who have served their country in uniform.
Your 4GWAR editor thought it was important to note — as newspaper editorial writers have done for decades — that Memorial Day is more than a collection of patio furniture sales, ball games, car races, band concerts, picnics and fireworks. It is a day to remember those who made the supreme sacrifice for their country. Their deaths may not have all been heroic — many a warrior succumbed to disease or accident without ever meeting the enemy — but they are all certainly heroes, and deserve at least a pause in holiday activities to be remembered.
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Transport or transportation is the movement of people and and cargo.The fields of transportation studied by psychologists include:
The field can be divided into infrastructure, vehicles, and operations. Infrastructure consists of the fixed installations necessary for transport, and may be roads, railways, airways, waterways, canals and pipelines or terminals such as airports, railway stations, bus stations and seaports. Vehicles traveling on the network include automobiles, bicycles, buses, trains, people and aircraft. Operations deal with the way the vehicles are operated, and the procedures set for this purpose including the financing, legalities and policies. In the transport industry, operations, and ownership of infrastructure, are both public and private, depending on the country and mode.
Passenger transport may be public or private. Freight transport has become focused on containerization, while bulk transport is used for large volumes or durable items. Transport plays an important part in economic growth and globalization, but has a deteriorizing impact on the environment. While it is heavily subsidized by governments, good planning of transport is essential to make traffic flow, and restrain urban sprawl.
- Main article: Mode of transport
A mode of transport is a technological solution that used a fundamentally different vehicle, infrastructure and operations. The transport of a person or cargo may be by one or more modes, the latter called intermodal transport. Each mode has its advantages and disadvantages, and will be chosen for a trip depended on the nature of the purpose, cargo and destination. While there transport in air and on water has their own mode, land transport has several modes.
- Main article: Human-powered transport
Human-powered transport is the transport of person(s) and/or goods using human muscle-power. Like animal-powered transport, human-powered transport has existed since time immemorial in the form of walking, running and swimming. Modern technology has allowed machines to enhance human-power. Many forms of human-powered transport remain popular for reasons of lower cost, leisure, physical exercise and environmentalism. Human-powered transport is sometimes the only type available (especially in underdeveloped or inaccessible regions), and is considered an ideal form of sustainable transportation.
Although humans are able to walk without infrastructure, the transport can be enhanced through the use of roads, especially when enforcing the human power with vehicles, such as bicycles and inline skates. Human-powered vehicles have also been developed for highly encumbering environments, such as snow and water, by watercraft rowings and skiing; even the air can be entered with human-powered aircraft.
- Main article: Animal-powered transport
Animal-powered transport is the use of working animals (also known as beasts of burden) for the movement of people and goods. Humans may ride some of the animals directly, use them as pack animals for carrying goods, or harness them, singly or in teams, to pull (or haul) sleds or wheeled vehicles. Animals are superior to people in their speed, endurance and carrying capacity; prior to the Industrial Revolution they were used for all land transport impracticable for people, and they remain an important mode of transport in less developed areas of the world.
- Main article: Aviation
A fixed-wing aircraft, commonly called airplane, is a heavier-than-air craft where movement of the wings in relation to the aircraft is not used to generate lift. The term is used to distinguish from rotary-wing aircraft, where the movement of the lift surfaces relative to the aircraft generates lift. A heliplane is both fixed-wing and rotary-wing. Fixed-wing aircraft range from small trainers and recreational aircraft to large airliners and military cargo aircraft.
Two necessities for aircraft are air flow over the wings for lift, and an area for landing. The majority of aircraft also need an airport with the infrastructure to receive maintenance, restocking, refueling and for the loading and unloading of crew, cargo and passengers. While the vast majority of aircraft land and take off on land, some are capable of take off and landing on ice, snow and calm water.
The aircraft is the second fastest method of transport, after the rocket. Commercial jets can reach up to Template:Convert/km/hTemplate:Convert/test/A, single-engine aircraft Template:Convert/km/hTemplate:Convert/test/A. Aviation is able to quickly transport people and limited amounts of cargo over longer distances, but incur high costs and energy use; for short distances or in inaccessible places helicopters can be used.
- Main article: Rail transport
Rail transport is the transport of passengers and goods along railways (or railroads), consisting of two parallel steel rails, generally anchored perpendicular to beams (termed sleepers or ties) of timber, concrete or steel to maintain a consistent distance apart, or gauge. The rails and perpendicular beams are usually then placed on a foundation made of concrete or compressed earth and gravel in a bed of ballast to prevent the track from buckling (bending out of its original configuration) as the ground settles over time beneath and under the weight of the vehicles passing above. The vehicles traveling on the rails are arranged in a train; a series of individual powered or unpowered vehicles linked together, displaying markers. These vehicles (referred to, in general, as cars, carriages or wagons) move with much less friction than on rubber tires on a paved road, making them more energy efficient.
A train consists of rail vehicles that move along guides to transport freight or passengers from one place to another. The guideway (permanent way) usually consists of conventional rail tracks, but might also be monorail or maglev. Propulsion for the train is provided by a separate locomotive, or from individual motors in self-propelled multiple units. Most trains are powered by diesel engines or by electricity supplied by trackside systems, but other sources of power such as steam engine, horses, wire, gravity, pneumatics, or gas turbines are possible.
Rail transport remains the most energy efficient land transport, and used for long-distance freight and all distances of passenger transport. In cities rapid transit and trams are common parts of public transport.
- Main article: Road transport
A road is an identifiable route, way or path between two or more places. Roads are typically smoothed, paved, or otherwise prepared to allow easy travel; though they need not be, and historically many roads were simply recognizable routes without any formal construction or maintenance. In urban areas roads may pass through a city or village and be named as streets, serving a dual function as urban space easement and route.
The most common road vehicle is the automobile; a wheeled passenger vehicle that carries its own motor. Other users of roads include buses, trucks, motorcycles, bicycles and pedestrians. As of 2002 there were 590 million automobiles worldwide.
The first forms of road transport were horses, oxen or even humans carrying goods over dirt tracks that often followed game trails. The Roman Empire was in need for armies to be able to travel quickly; they built deep roadbeds of crushed stone as an underlying layer to ensure that they kept dry, as the water would flow out from the crushed stone, instead of becoming mud in clay soils. John Loudon McAdam designed the first modern highways of inexpensive paving material of soil and stone aggregate known as macadam during the Industrial Revolution. Coating of cobblestones and wooden paving were popular during the 19th century while tarmac and concrete paving became popular during the 20th.
Automobiles offer high flexibility and with low capacity, but are deemed with high energy and area use, and the main source of noise and air pollution in cities; buses allow for more efficient travel at the cost of reduced flexibility. Road transport by truck is often the initial and final stage of freight transport.
- Main article: Ship transport
Ship transport is the process of transport by barge, boat, ship or sailboat over a sea, ocean, lake, canal or river. A watercraft is a vehicle designed to float on and move across (or under) water. The need for buoyancy unites watercraft, and makes the hull a dominant aspect of its construction, maintenance and appearance.
The first craft were probably types of canoes cut out from tree trunks. The colonization of Australia by Indigenous Australians provides indirect but conclusive evidence for the latest date for the invention of ocean-going craft. Early sea transport was accomplished with ships that were either rowed or used the wind for propulsion, or a combination of the two.
In the 1800s the first steam ships were developed, using a steam engine to drive a paddle wheel or propeller to move the ship. The steam was produced using wood or coal. Now most ships have an engine using a slightly refined type of petroleum called bunker fuel. Some specialized ships, such as submarines, use nuclear power to produce the steam. Recreational or educational craft still use wind power, while some smaller craft use internal combustion engines to drive one or more propellers, or in the case of jet boats, an inboard water jet. In shallow draft areas hovercraft are propelled by large pusher-prop fans.
Although slow, modern sea transport is a highly effective method of transporting large quantities of non-perishable goods. Transport by water is significantly less costly than air transport for trans-continental shipping; short sea shipping and ferries remain viable in coastal areas.
Spaceflight is transport out of Earth's atmosphere into outer space by means of a spacecraft. While large amounts of research have gone into technology, it is rarely used except to put satellites into orbit, and conduct scientific experiments; man has landed on the moon, and probes have been send to all the planets of the Solar System.
- Main article: Travel
Passenger transport, or travel, is divided into public and private transport. Public is scheduled services on fixed routes, while private is vehicles that provide ad hoc services at the riders desire. The latter offers better flexibility, but has lower capacity, and a higher environmental impact. Travel may be as part of daily commuting, for business or leisure.
Short-haul transport is dominated by the automobile and mass transit. The latter consists of buses in rural and small cities, supplemented with commuter rail, trams and rapid transit in larger cities. Long-haul transport involves the use of the automobile, trains, coaches and aircraft, the last of which have become predominantly used for the longest, including intercontinental, travel. International travel may be restricted for some individuals due to legislation and visa requirements.
- Main article: Shipping
Freight transport, or shipping, is a key in the value chain in manufacturing. With increased specialization and globalization, production is being located further away from consumption, rapidly increasing the demand for transport. While all modes of transport are used for cargo transport, there is high differentiation between the nature of the cargo transport, in which mode is chosen. Logistics refers to the entire process of transferring products from producer to consumer, including storage, transport, transshipment, warehousing, material-handling and packaging, with associated exchange of information. Incoterm deals with the handling of payment and responsibility of risk during transport.
Containerization, with the standarization of ISO containers on all vehicles and at all ports, has revolutionized international and domestic trade, offering huge reduction in transshipment costs. Traditionally, all cargo had to be manually loaded and unloaded into the haul of any ship or car; containerization allows for automated handling and transfer between modes, and the standardized sizes allow for gains in economy of scale in vehicle operation. This has been one of the key driving factors in international trade and globalization since the 1950s.
Bulk transport is common with cargo that can be handled roughly without deterioration; typical examples are ore, coal, cereals and petroleum. Because of the uniformity of the product, mechanical handling can allow enormous quantities to be handled quickly and efficiently. The low value of the cargo combined with high volume also means that economies of scale become essential in transport, and gigantic ships and whole trains are commonly used to transport bulk. Liquid products with sufficient volume may also be transported by pipeline.
Air freight has become more common for products of high value; while less than one percent of world transport by volume is by airline, it amounts to forty percent of the value. Time has become especially important in regards to principles such as postponement and just-in-time within the value chain, resulting in a high willingness to pay for quick delivery of key components or items of high value-to-weight ratio. In addition to mail, common items send by air include electronics and fashion clothing.
Transport is a key necessity for specialization—allowing production and consumption of product to occur at different locations. Transport has throughout history been the gate to expansion; better transport allows more trade and spread of people. Economic growth has always been dependent on increased capacity and more rational transport. But the infrastructure and operation of transport incurs large impact on the land and is the largest drainer of energy, making transport sustainability a major issue.
Modern society dictates a physical distinction between home and work, forcing people to transport themselves to place of work or study, supplemented by the need to temporarily relocate for other daily activities. Passenger transport is also the essence tourism, a mayor part of recreational transport. Commerce needs transport of people to conduct business, either to allow face-to-face communication for important decisions, or to transport specialists from their regular place of work to sites where they are needed.
- Main article: Transport planning
Transport planning allows for high utilization and less impact regarding new infrastructure. Using models of transport forecasting, planners are able to predict future transport patterns. On the operative level, logistics allows owners of cargo to plan transport as part of the supply chain. Transport as a field is studied through transport economics, the backbone for the creation of regulation policy by authorities.
Transport engineering, a sub-discipline of civil engineering, and must take into account trip generation, trip distribution, mode choice and route assignment, while the operative level is handles through traffic engineering.
Because of the negative impacts made, transport often becomes the subject of controversy related to choice of mode, as well as increased capacity. Automotive transport can be seen as a tragedy of the commons, where the flexibility and comfort for the individual deteriorate the natural and urban environment for all. Density of development depends on mode of transport, with public transport allowing for better spacial utilization. Good land use keeps common activities close to peoples homes and places higher-density development closer to transport lines and hubs; minimize the need for transport. There are economies of agglomeration. Beyond transportation some land uses are more efficient when clustered. Transportation facilities consume land, and in cities, pavement (devoted to streets and parking) can easily exceed 20 percent of the total land use. An efficient transport system can reduce land waste.
Too much infrastructure and too much smoothing for maximum vehicle throughput means that in many cities there is too much traffic and many—if not all—of the negative impacts that come with it. It is only in recent years that traditional practices have started to be questioned in many places, and as a result of new types of analysis which bring in a much broader range of skills than those traditionally relied on—spanning such areas as environmental impact analysis, public health, sociologists as well as economists who increasingly are questioning the viability of the old mobility solutions. European cities are leading this transition.
- Main article: Peak oil
Transport is a major use of energy, burning most of the world's petroleum; creating air pollution, including nitrous oxides and particulates and being a significant contributor to global warming through emission of carbon dioxide—the fastest growing emission sector. Environmental regulations in developed countries have reduced the individual vehicles emission; this has been offset by an increase in the number of vehicles and more use of each vehicle. Energy use and emissions vary largely between modes, causing environmentalists to call for a transition from air and road to rail and human-powered transport and go to transport electrification and energy efficiency.
By subsector, road transport is the largest contributor to global warming. (74%) Other environmental impacts of transport systems include traffic congestion and automobile-oriented urban sprawl, which can consume natural habitat and agricultural lands. By reducing transportation emissions globally, it is predicted that there will be significant positive effects on earth's air quality, acid rain, smog, and climate change. A detailed description of transport energy issues and options is obtainable in PDF format at the Claverton Energy Research Group website.
See also Edit
- Acceleration effects
- Aerophobia - fear of flying
- Amaxophobia - fear of traveling in vehicles
- Commuting (travel)
- Transportation accidents
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- ↑ Road Infrastructure Strategic Framework for South Africa. A Discussion Document. National Department of Transport (South Africa). URL accessed on 2007-03-24.
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- Bardi, Edward; Coyle, John and Novack, Robert (2006). Management of Transportation, Thomson South-Western.
- Chopra, Sunil and Meindl, Peter (2007). Supply Chain Management, Pearson.
- Lay, Maxwell G (1992). Ways of the World: A History of the World's Roads and of the Vehicles that Used Them, Rutgers University Press.
- Stopford, Martin (1997). Maritime Economics, London: Routledge.
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The City of San Jose’s Diridon Transit Station has the potential to become a world-class hub of people, activity and ideas, one that celebrates San Jose’s diverse population, stimulates the local economy and promotes environmental sustainability.
Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition and the cyclists that we represent are pleased to see two years worth of outreach and consensus building come to fruition. In various community and neighborhood meetings we sought and received bottom up suggestions for a vibrant Diridon Station Area that represent the desires of a diverse group of constituents. To see a more detailed look at our vision please continue to:
Diridon Station Area Vision
Thank you to all those who came to our second Diridon Station Community Meeting. Carlos Babcock, our community outreach coordinator gave a presentation outlining steps to place-making in the Diridon Station.
The Diridon Station Area is set to be one of the largest multi-platform transit hubs in the nation. This is an exciting opportunity to be involved in city planning and let it be known that bicycle resources are an important feature in a modern community.
It is our goal to make sure community leaders shape a plan for Diridon Station that:
Improves mobility for pedestrians, cyclists and transit-users
- Incorporate pedestrian and bicyclist friendly design
- Expand connections to Downtown San Jose
- Include environmentally sensitive street design
Promotes the public realm and includes access to parks and trails
- Preserve and enhance the local natural habitat
- Design quality community gathering spaces
- Celebrate San Jose’s cultural and agricultural history
Encourages a mix of homes, shops and jobs attractive to a creative and diverse workforce
- Pursue appropriate and well-designed densities
- Create a thriving, inclusive and interactive urban setting
- Provide quality jobs and homes affordable to a range of incomes
These elements will reduce San Jose’s impact on climate change, promote a healthier lifestyle for its residents and create a complete and well-integrated community!
Please share your thoughts with us on this platform for the San Jose Diridon Station Area by leaving us a comment at the bottom of the page.
The Diridon Station Area Project is a collaboration between Greenbelt Alliance and the Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition, as part of the Great Communities Collaborative. A special thank you goes to the San Francisco Foundation, the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, and the East Bay Community Foundation for assisting with funding for the Great Communities Collaborative.
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"Getting at the Roots of Arab Poverty"--A Commentary by Prof. Alan Schwartz
Getting at the Roots of Arab Poverty
By Alan Schwartz, Sterling Professor of Law
Since the terrorist attacks, Americans have learned that in many Arab and Muslim nations there are large numbers of angry young men with time on their hands, unable to find jobs--or jobs that make use of their education--because of their countries' poverty. We've also learned that many Muslims blame us for their poverty. But in fact they are not poor because we are rich; they are poor because of the policies their countries pursue.
What matters for economic growth is what a country does, not what it has. Japan, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Israel have no natural resources, yet they have successful, developed economies; Nigeria and the Congo, with abundant resources, do not. Nor is the availability of capital, by itself, the answer. In many Arab nations, the local rich invest their money outside their own countries and may have good economic reasons for doing so.
Perhaps the most important cause for some countries' continuing to fall behind is the monopolies that many of them tolerate or even create. The bin Laden family, for example, is rich because it was given a monopoly over much construction activity in Saudi Arabia. A recent estimate for sub-Saharan Africa estimated that the growth rates in all but a few countries could triple with no infusion of additional resources if state-created monopolies were dismantled in businesses like buying and selling grain or exporting textiles.
Not only does the absence of competition in a business lead to inefficiency, but monopolies also sustain an elite class that may block new technology and new industries--or permit them and tax them heavily--as it guards its own power and wealth. In some Arab countries, state-protected monopolies distribute part of their profits to people in the government, creating a powerful coalition against change.
Some Muslim and Arab countries also fail to provide the basic certainties that investors receive from the rule of law. Without an independent, noncorrupt judiciary and transparent laws, the ability of an investor to reap the rewards of a good idea turns on the discretion of the ruler and his favorites of the moment. Where whims rule, investors vanish.
Then there is trade. Generally, income for each citizen grows by 0.5 percent to 2 percent whenever the amount of total national income that comes from trade grows by 1 percent. Yet many Muslim nations discourage trade with import duties, as well as with their broader economic policies.
And there is human capital. A modern economy cannot grow without a population able to do its work. A good measure is the skill of a nation's young people in science and mathematics. Since most Arab nations do not give the usual standardized tests, it is not easy to see how well their students are doing. But it is deeply disturbing that countries like Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan have either turned their national schools over to Muslim clerics or underfunded education so that the clerics' schools fill the gap. Because they seldom teach math and science or other modern skills, the ascent of these schools may retard economic growth for decades. And of major importance is the failure of many Muslim countries to invest at all in the human capital of half the population--that is, women.
Even though the poverty of Muslim countries is not America's doing, the United States may be able to help these nations work their way out of it. We can push them toward more constructive economic policies with free-trade treaties, like the one we have with Jordan, and through our influence with the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. We can explain, loudly and often, the link between local economic performance and local political institutions. We should support local democratic movements not only because of the intrinsic merits of democracy, but because it is more difficult to pursue bad economic policies when one's citizens can openly criticize them.
Sept. 11 has taught us anew how important it is for the United States to take this kind of active interest. If we do not promote economic growth in Muslim nations, we will by default promote growth in the supply of potential terrorists.
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Despite the momentous social and economic change of recent decades, patterns of social stratifi cation have proven to be remarkably stable. In this volume, an expert team analyzes the current state of social stratifi cation research from a comparative, international perspective. The volume presents theoretical knowledge as well as empirical evidence on questions such as intergenerational social mobility; inequalities of educational opportunity, gender and ethnicity; and the role of education in the labor market.
Introduction: from origin to destination
I. Trends and mechanisms in educational inequality and social mobility
The persistence of persistent inequality
Social selection in Stockholm schools: primary and secondary effects on the transition to
upper secondary education
"Cultural capital": some critical observations
Social mobility and education: a comparative analysis of period and cohort trends in Britain
Variations on a theme: trends in social mobility in (West) Germany for cohorts born between
1919 and 1971
II. Special issues in current stratification research
Self-employment and social stratification
Youth unemployment in the enlarged European Union
Disentangling recent trends of the second generation's structural assimilation in Germany
Lessons from social mobility research: could the index discussion in occupational sex
Linked lives in modern societies. The impact on social inequality of increasing educational
homogamy and the shift towards dual-earner couples
Containers, Europeanisation and individualisation: empirical implications of general
descriptions of society
Silke Aisenbrey is a postdoctoral associate at the Center for Research on Inequalities and the Life Course at Yale University, U.S.A. Her research interests lie in the areas of gender, social stratification and the life course.
Richard Arum is professor in the Department of Sociology (Faculty of Arts and Sciences) and professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences in the Professions (Steinhardt School of Education) at New York University, U.S.A. His primary areas of interest are the sociology of education, social stratification and the sociology of organizations.
Eyal Bar-Haim is a graduate student at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Tel Aviv University, Israel. Using hierarchical models he analyses ISSP data to study the effects of educational expansion on inequality of educational opportunity in 23 countries.
Hans-Peter Blossfeld holds the Chair of Sociology I at Bamberg University and is director of the State Institute for Family Research at Bamberg University, Germany. Currently, he is interested in the flexibilisation of work in modern societies, the division of domestic work in the family, and the development of individual competences and the formation of educational decisions in early school careers.
Richard Breen is professor at the Department of Sociology at Yale University, U.S.A. His research interests are social stratification and inequality, and the application of formal models in the social sciences.
Robert Erikson is professor at the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI) at Stockholm University, Sweden. His research interests include social stratification, education, family, and health, especially the study of individual change over the life course and how it can be understood with regard to individual and structural conditions.
Markus Gangl holds the Chair of Methods of Empirical Social Research and Applied Sociology at the University of Mannheim, Germany. His main fields of interest are social stratification and inequality, labour markets, poverty, welfare states and social policy, and the development of statistical methods for the analysis of longitudinal data.
John Goldthorpe is an emeritus fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, UK, and a Fellow of the British Academy. His research interests are in social stratification and mobility, and he has also written on methodological problems, especially concerning the closer integration of sociological theory and research. His work on social class has led to the Goldthorpe class schema which is now widely used in empirical social research.
Nadia Granato is research associate at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) of the German Federal Employment Agency. Her research interests are migration and labour market integration.
Johann Handl is professor of Sociology at the University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. He has received his degrees in Sociology, Economics and Statistics at the Universities of Vienna and Mannheim. He has published on methodological and substantive problems in several areas of social stratification, e.g. labour force participation of women, demographic problems and aspects of ethnic inequality.
Frank Kalter is professor of Sociology at the University of Leipzig, Germany. His main research areas are migration and integration, esp. conditions and mechanisms of structural assimilation. He has also worked on the sociology of the family, formal models, and quantitative methods.
Irena Kogan is senior research fellow at the Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung (MZES), Germany. Her main research interests include immigration and ethnicity, transitions in youth, social stratification and inequality in comparative perspective.
Ulrich Kohler is senior research fellow at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB), Germany. His research interests include social inequality, political sociology, and empirical research methods. He has published on individualisation theory and on social bases of voting behaviour.
Cornelia Kristen is senior research fellow at the University of Leipzig, Germany. Her research is in the areas of migration and integration, educational sociology, and social inequality.
Ruud Luijkx is a lecturer of Sociology at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. He contributed to international benchmark studies on social mobility and published further in the field of (educational) heterogamy, social inequality, career mobility, and labour market transitions and on log-linear and latent class analysis. Recently his focus shifted partly towards research on (European) values.
Karl Ulrich Mayer is Chair of the Department of Sociology and director of the Center for Research on Inequalities and the Life Course (CIQLE) at Yale University, U.S.A. His research is in the areas of social stratification and mobility, sociology of aging and the life course, social demography, occupational structures and labour market processes, and methods of survey research.
Gunnar Otte is senior research fellow at the University of Leipzig, Germany. He received his doctoral degree in sociology at the University of Mannheim. His main research area is the interplay of social stratification and culture, i.e. the structural dimensions, origin and impact of values, lifestyles and preferences.
Reinhard Pollak is research fellow at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB), Germany. His main research areas include social mobility, social stratification, sociology of education, comparative welfare state analysis and measures of social inequality.
Ellu Saar is senior researcher at the Institute of International and Social Studies and Professor at Tallinn University, Estonia. She works on social stratification.
Stefani Scherer is research fellow at Milano-Bicocca University, Italy. She received her doctoral degree in sociology at the University of Mannheim. Her current research interests include social stratification and inequality, the analysis of life courses and labour market dynamics in comparative perspective.
Yossi Shavit is professor at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Tel Aviv University, Israel. He is also Head of the B. I. and Lucille Cohen Institute for Research on Public Opinion at Tel Aviv University. His main areas of interest are social stratification and sociology of education.
Stephanie Steinmetz is doctoral candidate at the Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung (MZES), Germany. Her research interests are social inequality, comparative labour market research, labour market segregation, comparative welfare state research, and gender studies.
Marge Unt is researcher at the Institute of International and Social Studies, Tallinn Pedagogical University, Estonia. Her research interests lie in social stratification and class analysis, methods of data analysis, labour markets, occupations and careers in comparative perspective.
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Herring Gut Community Market Open Thursdays!
Herring Gut Learning Center is teaming up with Port Clyde Fresh Catch and Bittersweet Farms to host a Community Market every Thursday from 10-3 throughout the summer at the Port Clyde Fresh Catch processing facility and retail store on Lobster Pound Road in Port Clyde. Community members are encouraged to stop by the market to purchase fresh fish, handmade cheeses, and student-grown vegetables in one convenient location. Students will also be available on Thursdays to provide free public tours of Herring Gut’s campus to those interested in learning more about aquaponics.
Herring Gut’s First Work Experience students will be selling the fresh vegetables and herbs they grow throughout the summer. The First Work program is a summer work opportunity for 13-15 year olds in R.S.U. #13. This program, in partnership with the K-2 Foundation, aims to provide mid-coast Maine with a new generation of capable and responsible employees by developing critical employment skills in young teens that will enable them to secure jobs as they get older. Other supporters of the program include the Davis Family Foundation, Owl’s Head Garden Club, and Granite Gardens.
Bittersweet Heritage Farm is a Maine State Certified Dairy offering fresh made goat’s milk and cheeses from its American Dairy Goat Association registered herd. Bittersweet is a startup sustainable farm located on the St. George peninsula that is dedicated to the preservation of a farming heritage through best farming practices, conservation and common sense animal husbandry.
Port Clyde Fresh Catch sells fresh fish, harvested using environmentally sustainable fishing methods that reduce by-catch, habitat impact, and fossil-fuel consumption. PCFC guarantees customers receive the freshest seafood available by tracing its products from harvest through packaging at its Port Clyde-based, HAACP-certified processing facility.
Herring Gut Learning Center is a non-profit education center in Port Clyde, partnering with public schools to present hands-on classes in aquaculture and marine science to engage students, provide teacher training and offer a summer first work experience for young teens.
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Fast food lovers tired of the same old grub may soon have a few more options downtown.
A central Berkeley merchants group asked the city’s Planning Commission Tuesday to recommend lifting a three-year-old moratorium on new fast food restaurants on University Avenue between Oxford Street and Martin Luther King Junior Way. And some city officials agree.
“It doesn’t seem like fast food proliferation is a problem anymore,” said Ted Burton of the city’s office of economic development.
City Council adopted the fast food moratorium in 1999 amid concerns of local restaurant owners that fast food and take-out restaurants were increasing in number and threatening to drive out their businesses.
There are about three fast food restaurants, according to city officials, on the disputed section of University Avenue, including national chains and independent shops.
Burton says the local business climate has changed markedly since 1999. He noted that the city has no pending applications for fast food restaurants downtown and that the Burger King on Shattuck and University avenues recently closed.
Planning commissioners, however, said they want more information about the moratorium before making a recommendation to City Council to life the restriction. They decided to schedule a public hearing on the matter, at an undetermined date.
Several commissioners expressed concern that lifting the moratorium would result in an influx of chain restaurants in the downtown.
“The balance of business is one of the wonderful things about this city,” said Commissioner Zelda Bronstein, noting that Berkeley’s General Plan calls for Berkeley to limit the development of chain stores.
Burton, however, said the city was prohibited from discriminating against any applicant and that he could not promise that chain restaurants would be excluded if the moratorium ended.
Although the Downtown Business Association, run by local merchants, supports lifting the moratorium, several University Avenue restaurant owners said they could not afford more competition.
“A lot of restaurants are going out business because there are too many,” said Manuche Fany, operator of Round Table Pizza. “The moratorium supports restaurant owners and helps us keep stores open and paying taxes to the city.”
Mehdi Kashef of Au Coquelet Cafe said that without a moratorium the city would fail to bring in different types of retailers. “It’s not in the public’s interest to have 10 shops serving the same thing on different plates,” he said.
The merchants have allies in City Council, which voted unanimously for the moratorium in 1999.
Councilmember Dona Spring, who represents downtown Berkeley, said that lifting the moratorium would unfairly blight University Avenue, while other major thoroughfares maintained strict limits
“Why should University Avenue become the dumping ground for fast food,” she asked, noting that College and Solano Avenues have quotas on the number of allowable fast food restaurants, and San Pablo Avenue has an outright ban.
Burton insisted that lifting the moratorium would not signify a city endorsement of fast food restaurants, but would only return fair market conditions to a thriving section of town.
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Tribal members and descendants have reached out to President Barack Obama to make the site of the Wounded Knee Massacre a National Monument, which would better guard it against development and commercialization.
Kristi Eaton, Associated Press / Philly.com
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This undated file photo shows the historical marker commemorating the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890 on the road near the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Wounded Knee, S.D. (AP Photo - File)
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The assessed value of the property: less than $14,000. The seller's asking price: $4.9 million.
Tribal members say the man who owns a piece of the Wounded Knee National Historic Landmark on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation is trying to profit from their suffering. It was there, on Dec. 29, 1890, that 300 Native American men, women and children were killed by the 7th Cavalry in the final battle of the American Indian Wars. | <urn:uuid:36ea115a-e14b-4ca5-a304-6947020da9fb> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://evergreenedigest.org/category/section/race-ethnicity | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944811 | 277 | 3.1875 | 3 |
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Peninsula group begins search for a permanent space for women to gather.
Thursday, August 26, 1993
It was Virginia Woolf who articulated the need of creative women for a fixed income and "a room of one's own." Several women on the Monterey Peninsula are trying to meet that second need with the founding of the Women's Community Center--a group, really in search of a center.
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[Fred] likes to squeeze every cycle possible out of his graphics card. But sometimes pushing the clock speed too high causes corruption. He figured out a way to turn a knob to adjust the clock speed while your applications are still running.
The actuator seen above is a Griffin Powermate 3.0. It’s a USB peripheral which is meant to be used for anything you can imagine. [Fred] uses an AutoHotKey script that he wrote to capture the input from the spinner, process that information, then adjust GPU clock speed in the background. Since the clock on his ATi Radeon 5800 can be adjusted using the AMD GPU clock tool, it’s an easy choice for this application. Now better graphics are at the tips of his fingers. See for yourself in the video after the break.
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In all probability, everyone survives at least one breakup of their relationship, once in their lifetime.
Although it may not help you much, it is a fact that breakups happen very often, it happens to almost everyone, and everyone survives, although everyone has a different healing capacity and capability.
Never forget; although things may look bleak and miserable in the immediate aftermath of the breakup in your relationship, the hurt and pain do dissipate gradually, eventually.
Here are some tips that will show you how to cope with the breakup:
- It is okay if you are feeling sad and depressed about life in general; everyone who has had to suffer through a breakup of a relationship, no matter how long it may have lasted will go through a period of sadness, almost like mourning.
- Do not hesitate to ask your close friends or relatives for help; they will only be too glad to support you through this turbulent period of your life. In addition, having a person you know cares for you close by will work wonders on your lost self esteem, and you will be able to recover from that all enveloping feeling of loneliness and desperation that accompanies a breakup.
- If you feel up to it, remove all the things, including the small mementos that stand as a testimonial to your relationship. Take a large box and pack these things away even though it may all feel too final for you. It does help not to be constantly reminded of the relationship you have lost, for whatever reason.
- Although this may come as a surprise to you, you must take care of your own feelings of hurt and disappointment first, before you think about your boyfriend’s or girlfriend’s. Do not ignore your own feelings just so that you may be able to offer consolation to your ex partner; it will only prolong the agony, and for what purpose? Try to stay away from all contact with your ex partner at the same time.
- Never enter into another relationship although you may be tempted to do so, in the immediate aftermath of the breakup of your relationship. It will only end in disaster, because you would have simply chosen this person out of your own need and not for that person’s endearing qualities. This will never do in a relationship.
- Consider the breakup as a learning experience, remain positive, and learn to take things in your stride. Feel sure of yourself, and stay confident of your abilities to rise above all adversity.
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I was camping in Big Cottonwood Canyon this weekend. Sunday Morning a large beetle landed on my leg. I flicked it off. As we were taking down camp more of this same beetle kept landing on me. It had about and inch long body and almost double that with the antenna. I was hoping you could help me identify it and tips that may be useful for preventing them from pursuing me in the future.
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Neither of these beetles will harm you. Your body must
have been emitting some type of pheromone that resembled
a stressed tree. I have had a lot of beetles land on
me while out in the field, and I am not sure why this.
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Why is Oral Health Important for Men?
Men are less likely than women to take care of their physical health and, according to surveys and studies, their oral health is equally ignored. Good oral health recently has been linked with longevity. Yet, one of the most common factors associated with infrequent dental checkups is just being male. Men are less likely than women to seek preventive dental care and often neglect their oral health for years, visiting a dentist only when a problem arises. When it comes to oral health, statistics show that the average man brushes his teeth 1.9 times a day and will lose 5.4 teeth by age 72. If he smokes, he can plan on losing 12 teeth by age 72. Men are also more likely to develop oral and throat cancer and periodontal (gum) disease.
Why is periodontal disease a problem?
Periodontal disease is a result of plaque, which hardens into a rough, porous substance called tartar. The acids produced and released by bacteria found in tartar irritate gums. These acids cause the breakdown of fibers that anchor the gums tightly to the teeth, creating periodontal pockets that fill with even more bacteria. Researchers have found a connection between gum disease and cardiovascular disease, which can place people at risk for heart attacks and strokes. See your dentist if you have any of these symptoms:
Do you take medications?
Since men are more likely to suffer from heart attacks, they also are more likely to be on medications that can cause dry mouth. If you take medication for the heart or blood pressure, or if you take antidepressants, your salivary flow could be inhibited, increasing the risk for cavities. Saliva helps to reduce the cavity-causing bacteria found in your mouth.
Do you use tobacco?
If you smoke or chew, you have a greater risk for gum disease and oral cancer. Men are affected twice as often as women, and 95 percent of oral cancers occur in those over 40 years of age.
The most frequent oral cancer sites are the tongue, the floor of the mouth, soft palate tissues in back of the tongue, lips and gums. If not diagnosed and treated in its early stages, oral cancer can spread, leading to chronic pain, loss of function, irreparable facial and oral disfigurement following surgery and even death. More than 8,000 people die each year from oral and pharyngeal diseases. If you use tobacco, it is important to see a dentist frequently for cleanings and to ensure your mouth remains healthy. Your general dentist can perform a thorough screening for oral cancer.
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If you participate in sports, you have a greater potential for trauma to your mouth and teeth. If you play contact sports, such as football, soccer, basketball and even baseball, it is important to use a mouthguard, which is a flexible appliance made of plastic that protects teeth from trauma. If you ride bicycles or motorcycles, wear a helmet.
To take better care of your oral health, it is important to floss daily, brush your teeth with fluoride toothpaste twice daily and visit your dentist at least twice a year for cleanings. Here are some tips to better dental health:
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I’ve just come back from a wonderfully restful holiday on the outskirts of Rothbury, Northumberland. Rothbury is most famously associated with the great industrialist, inventor and philanthropist, Lord William Armstrong. His spectacular home at Cragside was the first in the world to use electric lightbulbs and to be powered by hydroelectricity. Signs of Armstrong’s generosity can be seen all over the North East of England: he donated money to build the Royal Victoria Infirmary where my daughter was born, he founded Newcastle University where I teach in journalism, he donated acres of parkland around Jesmond Dene in the middle of the city where I walk my dogs, and was the benefactor of dozens of charities.
But Armstrong made most of his fortune from the manufacture of armaments (my dad got his first job at the Vickers Armstrong plant that builds tanks). Like most men of his time, he never saw any contradiction in this and his charitable work. To the modern eye, Armstrong was a contradiction. But Rothbury itself is a place of contradictions.
More recently, the country town has been in the news as the site of the last stand of the infamous gunman killer Raoul Moat, who died on the banks of the river Coquet where previously I had walked with my daughter and fed the ducks.
This was the first time I’d visited Rothbury since that manhunt 18 months ago. I couldn’t help thinking of the terror that must have gripped the people there as their whole town was cordoned off by police. Yet, ironically, Moat chose Rothbury because it was the place he felt most at peace.
I was thinking about this tension between war and peace and life and death as I worked on a devotional booklet for CWR called Inspiring Women Every Day. I have been commissioned to write a series on the book of Ecclesiastes. While in Rothbury, I was thinking about the famous passage in chapter three that was immortalised as a protest song by The Byrds in the 60s – Turn, Turn, Turn. (This is a 1990s version by an all-star band, including David Crosby and Roger MGuinn).
The tension between life and death, war and peace and the cycles of nature are found in much of my writing. My literary thriller, The Peace Garden, is a good example.
My thoughts on Ecclesiastes will only be published next spring, but for now, here is a taster:
Reading: Ecc 3:1-8
“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven.” (Ecc 3:1)
I am writing this in a rented country cottage. There are baby rabbits and lambs in the fields. There are blue tits and robins building their nests and a male pheasant impressing his lady friend. Spring flowers are everywhere; the world is full of hope. The last time I was here was it was the end of autumn and birds were fewer and rabbits scarcer. A fox wandered by but didn’t stop, hurrying home before the winter snow set in.
Nature has its seasons. There is a time to be born and a time to die; a time to plant and a time to uproot. We also have patterns in our lives: we are born, we grow up; we die. In between we might get married and have children; we learn; we work; we retire. Each season has its own challenges.
Spiritually too there are seasons. There is a period of awakening to the whispers of the Holy Spirit; then the moment of immense relief when we ask God to inhabit our hearts. There is the season of rapid growth as we devour the Word and enter into discipleship. There is excitement when we glimpse a potential future and the lull of disappointment when we never seem to reach it. There are the dark nights when God cannot be felt, the spring mornings when hope is renewed, the summery days when we are comfortable in his companionship and the approach of autumn when we start preparing for meeting Him face to face.
Recognising your spiritual season allows you to have grace for your soul. Do not be frustrated if you are no longer busy doing things for God when He has called you to a time of preparation or withdrawal. But learn too to recognise when He is stirring you again to enter a new season of growth.
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Technical analysis does not have to be overly complicated. There are many quick and easy-to-learn tools at your disposal. The key is to identify a pattern that has worked in the past and has the potential to continue. A good place to start is with trendlines, moving averages and Fibonacci levels.
When drawing trendlines it is important to use significant lows or highs, and for the trendline to have been touched three or more times. When looking at trendlines, view hourly, daily and weekly charts for correlations. A good hourly trendline can indicate a key intraday move, especially when an economic report is due, and can impact price quickly. Usually when looking at longer-term trendlines, you can see an area instead of one level to key. When a trendline in more than one time frame is broken, it tends to have more impact and helps avoid being whipsawed.
It also is important to look at related markets to confirm a trend. For example, a trendline in the S&P 500 Index may have broken, but a similar trendline in the Dow Jones Index remained intact. This could mean a weaker signal.
Also, when trading futures, keep in mind that there are several different ways to view the same product. For commodities such as crude oil, which have an expiring contract every month, we can look at the near deferred contract for additional confirmation. For contracts that trade in serial months, such as the S&P and U.S. Treasuries, there can be tricky times when the expiring contract still has volume and important price levels to watch.
During the roll period when liquidity begins to shift from the front month contract, it is worthwhile to keep an eye on the next active contract. If we view only the new active month contract, the data may not be reflective of price action for an extended time frame. Looking at the continuation charts gives a better picture, but what type of continuation should you use? Standard charting shows prices after expiration and keeps the same chart until expiration. Active only jumps right to prices in the new most active contract and can leave gaps. Equalizing the closes in active charts uses a theoretical price depending on the spread during the period, but does not reflect real prices in some instances. All should be viewed because what we are looking for is a pattern that is working during our trade.
Traders generally remember prices when they either caught the move or lost money. Buying the high or selling the low tends to leave a price imprint in a trader’s mind. In this way a pivotal price level in the March contract still can be pivotal in the June contract, especially when there is another technical indicator close.
On Dec. 23 the 38.2% Fibonacci retracement was broken in the front month 30-year Treasury continuation chart, yet held on the March contract.
Moving averagesMoving averages are simple and used by many technical as well as fundamental traders. Traders can test various spreads of moving averages, but the 21-, 50-, 100- and 200-day moving averages tend to work well, especially the 200-day. However, some contracts can key another time frame for extended periods. It also is important to note that just because the 21-day average has been working in the 10-year Treasury note future doesn’t mean it will work as well in the 30-year Treasury bond.
We also should view moving averages using line charts. Line charts connect closing prices and don’t give intraday highs and lows. Many large institutional traders, including pension funds, trade at end of day, which makes closing levels very important. Closing keys can be found in moving averages, trendlines and Fibonacci levels. Many times it can be to your advantage to stay in a position until the closing chart dictates an exit. It often is difficult to find a good technical pattern in a chart until viewing the closing chart. In “Toeing the line” (below), we can see some short covering in December as gold climbed back above its 200-day moving average intraday, but settled back below it that same day. Knowing the pattern in the closing chart would have kept the short trade on for another 100 pts. until front-month gold held a three-year trendline support.
Fibonacci levels don’t signal a trade every time one is hit, but can be very explosive when they are working. It is helpful to start your analysis using Fibonacci levels because it is easy to see if there has been a pattern within the levels (see “Fibonacci: Trading the numbers game” by Jeff Greenblatt, page 26). The most common Fibonacci levels are 38.2%, 50% and 61.8%, and can be used as retracements or extensions (technically 50% is not a fib level, but is a key technical benchmark). If Fibonacci levels seem to highlight key inflection points in the specific contract, check to see if there are trendlines or moving averages that also hit at these levels. This can give added significance to the level. A 61.8% retracement that matches a 200-day moving average will have many eyes on it and should be viewed with greater significance (see “Confirmation,” below). Notice how support was formed at the 38.2% level after the rally failed to take out the 61.8% fib/200-day level and resistance at 61.8% failed after the 200-day was breached.
Finally, when trading markets with related contracts or equivalent cash markets, keep an eye on the underlying contract. For example, when analyzing the E-mini S&P look at the S&P cash SPX. And while you’re at it, see if the big S&P has a pattern not noticed in the E-mini. Many times the E-mini can break a key support or resistance level only to see it work nicely during the day session when more traders are on it. The same goes for Treasury futures. Keep up on the yield charts and the curve for added emphasis. It may keep you from getting stopped out at inflection points. | <urn:uuid:1829c1af-188f-41dd-9ea4-619ac7ae7a44> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.fxstreet.com/education/technical/demystifying-technical-trading/2012/08/23/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00008-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950917 | 1,274 | 2.3125 | 2 |
Human herpesvirus-8 (HHV-8) infection is endemic in Uganda and has an estimated 36%-60% seroprevalence. This virus is in the oropharynx and peripheral blood of Ugandans with Kaposi’s sarcoma, and viremia is increased in those with HIV-1. While Kaposi’s sarcoma is widely recognized as both endemic and with HIV epidemic, HHV-8 associated lymphoproliferative disorders have not been previously reported in Uganda. Evidence for these disorders was sought in lymphoma surveys conducted by sub-Saharan African Lymphoma Consortium (SSALC) consortium members in Uganda.
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Samples of 456 malignant lymphoma and adenopathy cases in formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) blocks from the Uganda SSALC and the Uganda AIDS and Cancer Specimen Resource (ACSR) were examined for morphology and Lana-1 (immunohistochemical, IHC) for diagnosis of HHV-8 lymphoproliferative disorders. Samples were also tested (IHC and in situ hybridization, ISH) using 20 monoclonal antibodies for common NHL antigens, ISH for EBV-encoded RNA, and kappa/lambda light chains (ISH, Ventana, Tucson).
HHV-8 proliferative disorders excluding Kaposi’s sarcoma are present but generally not recognized by Ugandan clinicians and pathologists. Disorders are present in Uganda, especially in HIV-positive patients, in association with the high infection rates of both HIV-1 and HHV-8. Recognition is important because HHV-8 infection in HIV-1-positive patients associates with poor prognosis. Familiarity with the clinical presentation and tissue morphology of these disorders will likely result in recognition of the full range of reported HHV-8 proliferative complications. HHV-8-related lymphoma has increased prevalence in the HIV-1 infected. It arises and progresses in the face of highly active antiretroviral therapy immune reconstitution, making recognition of these disorders critical to patient care. We participate in the Sub-Saharan Africa Lymphoma Consortium [http://www.ssalc.org webcite] to expand the understanding of HIV/AIDS-related malignancies and viral proliferative disorders in this region of the world.
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ALBANY, N.Y. — Anti-hunger advocates in New York want to change the name of the food stamps program to help avoid the stigma of receiving the benefit for the poor and working poor.
Assemblyman Jose Rivera of the Bronx says the stigma appears to be part of why many older New Yorkers eligible for the subsidy fail to take advantage of it. AARP says 23 states have changed the name of their food stamps program to SNAP. That stands for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
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The 79-year-old Talabani, who suffered a stroke six weeks ago, had assumed the role of father figure, the only leader seemingly capable of transcending Iraq's sectarian politics, including his own as a Kurdish nationalist.
The wily political veteran was also seen as an important counterweight to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, a Shiite Muslim accused by opponents of trying to impose authoritarian rule.
Talabani fell ill at a time of escalating confrontations between al-Maliki's government and the country's large Kurdish and Sunni minorities.
The government and the Kurds, who have autonomy in northern Iraq, have traded threats and dispatched troops in recent weeks in their dispute over oil contracts and contested oil-rich areas.
Tens of thousands of Sunni protesters, complaining of official discrimination, have called for al-Maliki's resignation after a senior Sunni politician's bodyguards were arrested.
"One of the biggest problems with him (Talabani) being ill is that there is no check on al-Maliki," said former U.S. diplomat Peter W. Galbraith. "Simply, al-Maliki respected him. He felt he couldn't be quite as dictatorial in the presence of Talabani."
The prime minister's supporters deny he is a dictator-in-the-making, saying he has not
Iraq has been roiled by sectarian-based political crises, particularly since Iraq's inconclusive 2010 election, in which a Sunni-led bloc emerged as the largest party in parliament, but short of a ruling majority, allowing al-Maliki to keep his job with a broader Shiite coalition.
The political turmoil and a rise in attacks by Sunni insurgents, particularly since the 2011 departure of U.S. troops, have prompted concerns the country could fall apart or descend into another round of sectarian strife, similar to bloody fighting in 2006-2007.
Stephen Wicken of the Washington-based Institute for the Study of War said al-Maliki may have overplayed his hand and that Iraq seems to be at greater risk of disintegration.
"Antagonizing the Kurds to the extent that he did at the end of 2012, and turning on the Sunni Arabs really raised the stakes and ratcheted up tensions," Wicken said.
Toby Dodge, an author on Iraqi politics, said al-Maliki has restricted the space for dissent, but argued that the prime minister commands a strong enough armed force to keep the country together.
Iraq's sectarian conflicts have always seemed insurmountable, even for a mediator as skilled as Talabani. But at least, said Galbraith, a long-time friend, "he was able to talk to everyone."
Talabani, overweight and afflicted by heart problems, suffered a stroke in December and was flown to Germany. A spokesman for his office, Barazan Sheik Othman, said Talabani "can hear the voices around him," but needs more rest, suggesting the president is far from recovery.
Talabani has two years left on his second four-year term. His largely ceremonial post has not been declared vacant—a step that would start the countdown toward replacing him in 30 days. Iraq's factions seem to prefer to wait for Talabani's possible return and avoid a potential succession fight.
As a politician, Talabani seemed able to rise above sectarian considerations. "Contrary to all Iraqi politicians, Talabani believes that making concessions to other groups in order to save his country does not represent a humiliation to his personal dignity," said analyst Hadi Jalo.
During Sunni-Shiite violence in 2006 and 2007, Talabani approved the dispatch of Kurdish troops to Baghdad to act as a buffer. In 2010, he refused to sign off on hanging one of Saddam Hussein's closest aides, arguing that 70-year-old Tariq Aziz was too old for execution.
Last year, he sheltered Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi, a leading Sunni politician whom the government accused of running death squads. After staying at Talabani's guest house, al-Hashemi, who dismissed the charges as politically motivated, escaped to Turkey and was later convicted in absentia.
Before falling ill, Talabani tried unsuccessfully to defuse the confrontation between the Kurdish regional government and al-Maliki's government over the Kirkuk region claimed by both.
In the latest sign of tensions over oil contracts, Iraq's oil minister told energy company Exxon Mobil this week it must choose between its oil deal in Kurdistan and a project in southern Iraq. Kurdish officials, meanwhile, urged the British oil company BP to abandon plans to work in Kirkuk under Baghdad's auspices.
In Kurdistan, Talabani's absence could reopen rifts between his party, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, and the Kurdish Democratic Party of Massoud Barzani, president of the Kurdish region.
The two parties waged a power struggle in the 1990s, but then forged an alliance. The parties "are holding constant meetings to overcome any problems that might emerge in the post-Talabani era," said Alla Talabani, a Kurdish legislator and distant relative.
Kurds and Shiites, persecuted under Saddam, had become political allies after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and the fall of the Sunni dictator a decade ago. Sunnis, privileged in the Saddam era, now complain of discrimination and demand the cancellation of anti-terrorism laws and other policies they believe overwhelmingly target them.
Wicken said al-Maliki seems to be goading his opponents into uniting against him with his tactics. Last weekend, parliament approved a law with the help of Sunni and Kurdish lawmakers that would limit prime ministers, presidents and parliament speakers to two terms. It was seen as a warning to al-Maliki, though largely symbolic, since Iraq's supreme court could quash the measure.
Last year, Talabani blocked an attempt to unseat al-Maliki with a no-confidence vote in parliament. Some, portraying Talabani as beholden to Shiite-led Iran, say he averted the vote to save the al-Maliki government, which has close ties to Iran. Others argue that Talabani tried to end a potentially destabilizing contest that had little chance of success.
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For patients with neuroendocrine tumor (NET) liver metastases, resection of the primary tumor may prevent local complications (obstruction, ischemia, and bleeding) and improve survival. Despite preoperative evaluation, the primary tumor location may remain unknown.
Retrospective cohort analysis of pathology database from January 1, 1993, to August 15, 2008.
Academic medical center.
One hundred twenty-three patients with NET liver metastases.
Main Outcome Measures
Successful identification and resection of the primary tumor.
Fifteen patients underwent surgical exploration. The primary tumor was located in 13 patients (86.7%) in the small intestine and resected in 12 patients. Primary tumors in the small intestine found during surgical exploration were significantly smaller than those identified preoperatively (1.38 vs 1.91 cm, P = .03) and were often multifocal (54.2% [n = 15]). Computed tomography (34.6% [n = 78]) and somatostatin receptor scintigraphy (26.2% [n = 42]) were not sensitive in locating a primary NET in the gastrointestinal tract. Colonoscopy was sensitive in detecting colonic NETs (86.7% [n = 15]).
For patients with NET liver metastases and unknown primary tumor, surgical exploration effectively identifies and resects occult primary tumors that are often located in the small intestine. Primary tumors are usually small and multifocal, so careful palpation of the small intestine is essential. Before patients are considered for surgery, a multidisciplinary team assessment and evaluation consisting of computed tomography, somatostatin receptor scintigraphy, and upper and lower endoscopy should be done. | <urn:uuid:4edf8646-f2f2-4add-bdbf-4dd0e07690cf> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://archsurg.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=405786 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00064-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93169 | 354 | 1.867188 | 2 |
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Reims is a city of the Champagne-Ardenne region in northeastern France. It lies 129 km (80 miles) east-northeast of Paris. Founded by the Gauls, it became a major city during the period of the Roman Empire. Reims played a very important role in French history, as the place where the kings of France were crowned. The most famous of these events was the coronation of Charles VII in 1429 in the company of Joan of Arc. Thus, the Cathedral of Reims played the same role in France as Westminster Abbey did in England. Some sources regard Reims as the capital of the province of Champagne, given its size as by far the largest city in the region.
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|<< Jeremiah 39 >>|
Darby Bible Translation
The Fall of Jerusalem
1And it came to pass when Jerusalem was taken, in the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem, and they besieged it.
2In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth of the month, the city was broken into;
3and all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in the middle gate: Nergal-sharezer, Samgar-nebu, Sarsechim, chief chamberlain, Nergal-sharezer, chief magian, and all the rest of the princes of the king of Babylon.
4And it came to pass when Zedekiah the king of Judah and all the men of war saw them, that they fled, and went forth out of the city by night, by the way of the king's garden, by the gate between the two walls; and he went out the way of the plain.
5And the army of the Chaldeans pursued after them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and they took him, and brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, unto Riblah in the land of Hamath; and he pronounced judgment upon him.
6And the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes, and the king of Babylon slaughtered all the nobles of Judah;
7and he put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with chains of brass, to carry him to Babylon.
8And the Chaldeans burned the king's house and the houses of the people with fire, and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.
9And Nebuzar-adan the captain of the body-guard carried away captive into Babylon the rest of the people that were left in the city, and the deserters that had deserted to him, with the rest of the people that were left.
10But Nebuzar-adan the captain of the body-guard left certain of the people, the poor who had nothing, in the land of Judah, and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time.
11And Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had given charge concerning Jeremiah by Nebuzar-adan the captain of the body-guard, saying,
12Take him, and keep an eye upon him, and do him no harm; but do unto him even as he shall say unto thee.
13So Nebuzar-adan the captain of the body-guard sent, and Nebushazban, chief chamberlain, and Nergal-sharezer, chief magian, and all the king of Babylon's princes,
14even they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court of the guard and committed him to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, that he should conduct him away home. And he dwelt among the people.
15And the word of Jehovah came unto Jeremiah, while he was shut up in the court of the guard, saying,
16Go and speak to Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring my words upon this city for evil, and not for good, and they shall come to pass before thy face in that day.
17And I will deliver thee in that day, saith Jehovah; and thou shalt not be given into the hand of the men of whom thou art afraid;
18for I will certainly save thee, and thou shalt not fall by the sword, but thou shalt have thy life for a prey; for thou hast put thy confidence in me, saith Jehovah. | <urn:uuid:d2b29f53-673a-4787-9b79-ae36c978c4a4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://biblehub.com/dbt/jeremiah/39.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00068-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958876 | 803 | 1.929688 | 2 |
The Lantern Project is a series of lantern making workshops with actors from Staging Reflections of the Buddha lead by artist and cultural activist Juan William Chavez and light sculptor Bob Hartzell. Chavez and Hartzell worked with the actors to create 17 lanterns, to be installed in the Pulitzer’s reflection pool, to create an installation inspired by the lotus lantern festival. The lanterns are symbols of light, wisdom and compassion. Through the lanterns, the dark becomes bright, symbolizing the Buddhists belief in the power of enlightenment to dispel human suffering.
The lantern installation can be viewed during the closing performance and lantern ceremony (see below for a schedule of events and more information).
“The lanterns represent togetherness, creating something from scratch as a group. Think positively that we can do something greater, seeing the light and following it into the future.”
-Lamonte Johnson, Actor
On March 10, the final evening of Reflections of the Buddha, the public is invited to participate in a lantern dedication ceremony on the grounds of the Pulitzer. Lanterns that have been created by Chavez and Hartzell will be hung from trees behind the Pulitzer’s galleries. The dedication refers to both a dedication of merit to recognize all good will and works created by this exhibition, as well as the new relationships that have formed through the Staging process and performances. Participants in this final ceremony will be invited to take a lantern home with them to remind them to carry forward positive social change. The ceremony is scheduled to begin at 7:00pm on Saturday, March 10, 2012.
Lantern Dedication Ceremony Schedule
6:30 pm Visitors may arrive. Reception in the Courtyard.
7:00 pm Ceremony begins.
Monks from the Mid-America Buddhist Association (MABA), Thai monks, Actors from the Staging project, Pulitzer Director, Kristina Van Dyke, and other Pulitzer staff will conduct the dedication. Members of the public will have the opportunity to participate, and to take home a lantern.
8:15 pm Ceremony ends. Participants are invited to enjoy the exhibit for one last time before the building closes.
9:00 pm Building closes.
Juan William Chavez (born in Lima, Peru) is an artist and cultural activist whose studio
practice focuses on the potential of space by developing creative initiatives that address
community and cultural issues. He has exhibited at venues such as Art in General,
Contemporary Art Museum Saint Louis, White Flag Projects and Van Abbenmuseum.
From 2006-2010, Chavez founded and served as director for Boots Contemporary Art Space,
a non-profit organization that supported emerging artists and curators. Since 2010, Chavez
has focused on public projects in North St. Louis. Such projects include Urban Expression
for the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, Pruitt-Igoe Bee Sanctuary and the Northside Workshop.
In 2011, he was awarded the Art Matters Grant, the Missouri Arts Award and nominated for
the United States Artists fellowship. Chavez has a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and
an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Bob Hartzell is a printmaker and light sculptor, who is active in
community arts and education. He grew up in a series of small
Missouri towns as he followed his education administrator father
from school to school. After a few failed attempts at a degree from
NMSU (now Truman State University), he moved to Chicago were he
completed his BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. During
his twenty year unofficial fellowship in the art and music scene in
Chicago he worked at Steve Walter’s Screwball Press and as lighting
director at the famous rock club, Lounge Ax.
After starting graduate school at Columbia College Chicago’s Center
for Book and Paper Arts, he was lured to the University of Missouri to
study fibers with Jo Stealey and the opportunity to teach and restart
the silkscreen program at Mizzou. While completing the work for
his MFA, he was active in the local community – volunteering for
numerous local organizations including the True/False Film Festival,
Access Arts, Columbia Art League, and the Blue Bird Music and Art
Having moved to St. Louis a few years ago, Bob has been active in
the local arts community both through teaching and volunteering. He
is a graduate of the Regional Arts Council’s Community Arts Training
program. In 2011, working with Washington University in conjunction
with the Southern Graphic Council’s International Conference in St.
Louis, he organized the Lights Along the Cherokee project that helped
build a series of twenty seven light towers that marked a variety
of venues on the night of the SGC visit to Cherokee Street. He is
currently a resident artist at the South Broadway Art Project in south
city, and the owner and chief everything officer of his print-shop alter-
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a short book based on an email exchange between Zygmunt Bauman and Italian
journalist Benedetto Vecchi, the sociologist discusses the question
of identity in the context of what he calls 'liquid
modernity'. Bauman's thesis, set out in his book of that
name (2000), is that we have moved from
a solid to a fluid phase of modernity, in which nothing keeps its shape,
and social forms are constantly changing at great speed, radically transforming
the experience of being human.
of liquid modernity could be seen as Bauman's attempt to resolve the
tension that exists in much social theory between explaining social
phenomena as aspects of modernity, and accounting for their appearance
only recently. After all, the modern condition, with its overturning
of tradition, has dominated the past two centuries. Liquid modernity
seems perhaps to be the late realisation of a tendency that has characterised
modernity from the start. What remains at issue is whether the 'solid'
institutions of prior modernity were merely the residue of tradition,
or pointed towards a more enduring potential of modernity itself. Most
pertinently, is the rational self-determining subject of modernity any
more than an illusion that has had its day?
Inevitably, the undermining of familiar institutions, an aspect of modernity
that has certainly been intensified in recent years, has had important
consequences for people's sense of identity. There is nothing new about
the observation that national and class-based identities (both of which
had seemed almost definitively modern) have been upset by the end of
the Cold War and various other developments discussed under the heading
of 'globalisation'. Similarly, Bauman notes that while the workplace
was traditionally a very important source of personal identity, changes
in the economy have rendered it far less reliable. He suggests that
the enduring identities once associated with work have given way to
looser and more provisional identities, and conceptions of community,
that are subject to constant change and renegotiation. Indeed, Bauman
points to a more profound transformation of how we understand what it
means to be human in the absence of transcendent ideologies (traditional
or otherwise) such as have characterised modernity until recently.
The liquidity of which Bauman writes is nowhere more evident than in
his own writing, which, even when not based on email, tends of late
to be aphoristic, even whimsical. Reading Liquid
Love (2003) is not so much like taking an academic course
with Professor Bauman, as being stuck in a lift with him after a particularly
well-catered social function, perhaps having set the old man off with
an ill-judged confession of new love or a broken heart. 'Ah, love
Nonetheless, it is in the context of personal relationships (especially
what Vecchi quaintly calls 'amorous relationships'), that Bauman is
most insightful. What do these represent in the absence of a traditional
framework within which to make sense of them. Is there indeed any basis
for enduring relationships if we dispense with traditional notions of
duty, responsibility and self-sacrifice?
In Identity, Bauman cites French philosopher Michel Serres' nomination
of Don Juan as the first hero of modernity, delighting in spontaneity
and inconstancy. 'The strategy of carpe diem is a response to
a world emptied of values pretending to be lasting,' Bauman suggests.
The strategy is well captured in Penny Woolcock's 2003 film The
Principles of Lust, in which the protagonist is attracted
to a demonic character who rejects commitment of any kind and lives
by a credo of instant and disposable gratification. That film's lack
of success may indicate that Don Juan has lost his glamour as his worldview
has become too real.
As Bauman notes, 'Most of us, most of the time, are in two minds about
that novelty of "bond-free living" - of relationships "with
no strings attached". We covet them and fear them at the same time.'
The flipside of freedom from ties rooted in social convention is a lack
of guarantees, and a heightened consciouness of the risk involved in
relationships. Bauman refers to the old idea that to love someone means
giving a hostage to fortune, but what he goes on to describe is very
different from Francis Bacon's famous and essentially pre-modern observation
(borrowing in fact from the Latin poet Lucan): 'He that hath wife and
children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to
great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief'.
What Bauman means is not simply that the object of one's affections
is vulnerable, and therefore a liability, but that in modernity the
object of one's affections is also a subject. Loving a subject means
'making oneself dependent on another person endowed with a similar freedom
to choose and the will to follow that choice - and so a person full
of surprises, unpredictable.' That person's surprising choices can be
painful. In the absence of the guarantees offered by tradition, the
whole enterprise of commitment is fundamentally unilateral, and consequently
precarious. Traditional marriage, in contrast, meant staying together
'through thick and thin' for the sake of convention rooted in practicality,
rather than as a fully autonomous decision. Bourgeois marriage is, or
was, emblematic of 'solid modernity', combining, never quite satisfactorily,
traditional function with an ideal of free choice. That tension between
practicality and romance is not resolved in 'liquid modernity', merely
Where subjectivity is unconstrained by tradition, then, it is instead
inhibited by uncertainty. Dea Birkett argued recently in the Guardian:
'Falling in and out of love is unpredictable. Promising to love someone
forever is a promise no honest person would make.' But this apparent
hard-headed realism is really the flipside of sentimentality. Both attitudes
abandon responsibility to the Fates, casting love as a mere subjective
feeling rather than, as it might be, a rational determination. True,
feelings change, but decisions can affect the way they change. If we
are rationally convinced of something, rather than simply following
a whim, we can put ourselves in situations more amenable to some feelings
than others, and wait out the bad days (precisely because we interpret
them as such, rather than as changes of mind).
Arguably, this is the first time we have been able to make such risky
commitments autonomously, not to be defined by others, but to choose
to define ourselves through others - and not just in personal relationships.
This is very different from the traditional taken-for-granted character
of commitment-identities. With the disenchantment of marriage, the rationality
of relations between human subjects is revealed. But this doesn't make
them any simpler or less risky; in fact, in the current context it seems
to have inspired a calculating cynicism. Why choose to constrain oneself?
Faced with an unexpected turn in a relationship, the easiest thing to
do is to reinterpret one's earlier commitment as a mistake, and 'move
This kind of reinterpretation of past commitments has obvious consequences
for identity, however. Bauman mentions in passing another French philosopher
Paul Ricoeur's terms, la mêmete (sameness) to describe
consistency of self over time, and l'ipseite (selfness) to describe
what distinguishes us from others. His contention is that both categories
are increasingly problematic in 'liquid modernity'. Certainly, these
are less 'given' than in the past. There is no overbearing social script
dictating how we should live our lives, and placing individual biographies
in the context of a greater whole. Tradition is a collection of disenchanted
stories with little grip on our lives.
Modernity, or 'solid modernity' can be understood as one more such disenchanted
story, but this to miss what is unique about it; that it requires not
enchantment but active commitment. The modern ideal of rational self-determining
subjects is indeed a script of sorts, but one which allows, indeed requires,
people to take authorship. This implies a subjective commitment to particular
goals and even institutions that embody those goals. What Bauman calls
liquid modernity is a consequence of the failure of the 'grand narratives'
of modernity, most obviously nationalism and socialism. (In that sense,
of course, his theory is a more graphic variant of postmodernism.) This
failure has cast doubt on possibility of subjective, voluntaristic narratives
as much as traditionally imposed ones.
In an essay in the Times Literary Supplement (15 October 2004),
the paper's philosophy editor Galen Strawson challenged the idea that
'narrativity' is necessary to 'the good life', essentially arguing that
it is irrational to insist on la mêmete. Why not just accept
that we change over time, and decisions we make at one point will seem
inappropriate or plain silly further down the line?
On an individual psychological level, this makes sense. In many senses,
the 'me' of now bears little relation to the 'me' of several years ago.
Strawson says he doesn't mind whether 'he' endures into the future.
I think I'd rather 'I' did, albeit bigger and better. In fact, Strawson
describes two distinct psychological types to account for this, which
he calls diachronic and episodic. The former is given to narrative;
the latter is not, and Strawson insists that while each type is disturbed
and confused by the alternative disposition, neither is ethically superior.
Strawson lists writers who conform to each type. These span the ages:
the episodics go back as far as Michel de Montaigne and the Earl of
Shaftesbury and up to AJ Ayer and Bob Dylan, while the diachronics include
Plato, Augustine, Heidegger and Patrick O'Brian. Nonetheless, narrative
thinking has surely characterised certain historical periods and societies
more than others, and Strawson's attitude does seem particularly contemporary.
It is, perhaps, an outlook peculiarly suited to Bauman's liquid modernity.
At a time when it is difficult to sustain a coherent identity over time,
it is reassuring to be told that it doesn't matter. Instead of lamenting
the absence of stories through which to make sense of our lives, we
should celebrate our liberation from narrative (not to mention metanarrative)
and get on with our lives-es.
AC Grayling recently argued similarly in The Liberal magazine
(December 2004) 'against monogamy' on the grounds that people change
and it would be cruel to force people to persist in unhappy marriages.
In fact, this was an argument for (retaining) legal divorce and (continuing
to allow) remarriage rather than against monogamy. It is telling that
Grayling seems unable to imagine what monogamy might mean if not legal
enforcement of marriage vows. He posits a peculiar weak version of the
individual, a flighty creature cruelly ensnared by the authoritarian
institution of marriage. But this is a caricature even of marriage in
traditional society. Individuals can actually choose to define themselves
through social institutions such as monogamy. It is perfectly consistent
to oppose the legal enforcement of marriage vows, then, while endorsing
the idea of monogamy, either as a social good or as an individual choice.
Indeed, it is at this level, rather than that of state coercion, that
such institutions are actually constituted.
Whether or not one does believe in monogamy, to oppose it on the grounds
that it is necessarily coercive is to underestimate human beings' capacity
to determine their own lives, both as individuals and through cultural
norms and aspirations shared with others. Dea Birkett's insistence that
'no honest person' would commit for life reduces a solemn determination
to a wild and surely inaccurate guess. In this former sense, however,
'narrative' offers the possibility not just of describing and giving
meaning to our lives, but of shaping and giving direction to our lives.
Not so paradoxically, then, the demise of social narrative has not led
to greater individual freedom, but to unreflective conformism to what
is considered to be human nature.
Bauman considers this demise of narrative an inevitable consequence
of modernity. He describes the modern scientific mindset as saying:
'If God's mind is inscrutable, let us stop wasting time on reading the
unreadable and concentrate on what we, humans, can understand and do.'
For all the ensuing benefits, Bauman blames this mindset for undermining
any kind of eternal values. Whereas all cultures historically have tried
one way or another to bridge the gap between mortal life and the eternity
of the universe, 'We are perhaps the first generation to enter life
and live it without such a formula.'
For Bauman, mere humanism offers no foundation for lasting values. 'Like
all other postulated identities, "humanity" as an identity
embracing all other identities can ultimately rely solely on the dedication
of its postulated adherents.' This is perfectly true, and the frailty
of such concepts as 'human rights' is all too evident, but arguably
this is because, like Grayling's humanism, these tend to portray human
beings as fundamentally vulnerable. If the postulated adherents of contemporary
humanism cannot even make decisions about their personal lives, their
dedication to any identity embracing all other identities has to be
in question too.
Nonetheless, this is not the only way to think about humanism. The dedication
of adherents to the institutions of what Bauman calls solid modernity
was not soley based on values borrowed from tradition or religion, but
reflected genuine shared interests and solidarities rooted in the material
world. While there has undeniably been a great deal of change in the
world, it is questionable whether things have altered so fundamentally
that those solidarites, and the identities based on them, are no longer
'liquidity' of our times may be less the consequence of structural change
than intellectual exhaustion, the failure of the great ideologies of
the twentieth century to bring about change on a scale that really would
transform what it means to be human. Bauman rightly warns against attempts
to seek refuge in the identities of the past, but in his lament at the
passing of lasting values, he perhaps underestimates the possibilities
for self-assured human beings unencumbered by the past, and brave enough
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By Wire News Sources on June 30, 2009
Australian authorities have warned the public to stay away from a rare white humpback whale named Migaloo that has made an appearance off the east coast.
Officials in Queensland state have declared Migaloo a "special-interest whale" and banned anyone from coming within 500 metres of him.
Anyone coming too close by boat, jet ski or aircraft will face a fine of ,500 (£8,000).
Officials said the whale needed to be left alone to migrate up the coast.
"The whale-watching regulations are there to protect the whales, but also to protect people from these huge, unpredictable animals," said Queensland’s Environment Minister Kate Jones.
"Adult humpbacks can weigh more than a fully-loaded semi-trailer so you need to stay out of their way," she added.
Migaloo is the only known all-white humpback whale in the world, Prof Peter Harrison of the Southern Cross University Whale Research Centre told the BBC News website.
"He’s a very special whale," Prof Harrison said. "Nothing should divert him on his migration route to the Great Barrier Reef."
Migaloo, which means "white fella" in a Queensland aboriginal dialect, is from Australia’s Great Barrier Reef area, but migrates every summer to the waters off Antarctica to feed on krill.
He has attracted a loyal following since he was first spotted as a young whale in 1991. There are websites dedicated to him and he inspired an anti-whale hunt campaign, Operation Migaloo, last year.
Aside from curiosity seekers, the other big threat to Migaloo and other humpbacks is the potential resumption of hunting by Japanese whalers in the Southern Ocean, Prof Harrison said.</p
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BrightSource Energy, an Oakland, Calif., solar thermal startup, has landed a hefty $115 million funding round from investors including Google to develop its solar power tower technology.
Solar thermal technology is one the leading hopes for alternative energy. It uses like mirrors and lenses to boil water, the steam of which is harnessed to generate electricity.
This third round was led by Google.org, VantagePoint Venture Partners, BP Alternative Energy, Statoil Hydro Venture and Black River; returning investors included DBL Investors, Draper Fischer Jurvetson and Chevron Technology Ventures. The company has now raised $160 million.
The company recently signed a massive contract with PG&E to supply it with up to 900 megawatts from its plants, whose construction will begin in 2009. Its Distributed Power Tower (DPT) technology is basically an array consisting of thousands of small mirrors, called heliostats, which concentrate sunlight on a single point — in this case, a boiler chamber mounted on top of the tower. Because its heliostats are able to follow the sun in two dimensions, BrightSource claims they are much more efficient than rival solar thermal technologies.
Each field of heliostats, dubbed a Solar Power Cluster (SPC), can produce 20 MW of solar power; a typical BrightSource power plant, made up of five SPCs, is therefore capable of generating up to 100 MW. To reach the 900 MW mark, the company plans on having one 100 MW plant up and running by 2011 and four 200 MW plants up by 2016.
Rivals Ausra, Solel and eSolar use similar technologies to produce electricity, though their specific designs differ. The latter, for example, uses flat mirrors in smaller groupings to produce up to 33 MW at a time –a practical strategy that allows the firm to plug directly into the existing grid and to eschew the burdensome process of obtaining permits. Costs will likely remain the biggest obstacle for these companies, but BrightSource, which is chaired by Arnold Goldman, a man with an extensive background in solar thermal, will be well positioned to handle them.
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WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonians National Portrait Gallery
will continue to display AA Bronsons work Felix, June 5, 1994 in its exhibition, Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, through the shows scheduled closing Feb. 13, 2011.
Bronson recently requested the portraits removal in protest over the deletion of a video segment by David Wojnarowicz titled A Fire in My Belly.
Martin Sullivan, director of the Portrait Gallery, and curators David C. Ward and Jonathan Katz carefully considered Bronsons request. They also considered concerns expressed by supporters of Hide/Seek that the theme and impact of the overall exhibition would suffer significantly if the work were removed. Sullivan consulted with the National Gallery of Canada, which owns the work and loaned it to the Portrait Gallery for the exhibition.
I have great empathy toward AA Bronson and his request, said Sullivan. However, we want visitors to the National Portrait Gallery to experience the exhibition without further alteration. Mr. Bronsons photograph is a brilliant and sobering meditation on the human tragedy of AIDS and the power of portraiture.
The Portrait Gallery has invited Bronson to make a formal statement of his views, which would be installed next to his work for visitors to see, together with other public comments. The museums online audience is also invited to comment on its blog: face2face.si.edu.
Bronson has been invited to be a speaker at a symposium on Hide/Seek at the Portrait Gallery scheduled for Jan. 29, 2011; details of the symposiums schedule will be announced at a later time.
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Schools are among the possible targets of imminent threats to westerners in the Libyan city of Benghazi, according to reports.
All Britons have been urged by the Government to leave the city after it became aware of the "specific and imminent threat", just days after a deadly hostage crisis in the neighbouring country of Algeria. Germany, Canada and Netherlands citizens have also been warned by their governments to immediately leave the eastern Libyan city.
European officials, who did not want to be named, told The Associated Press that schools, businesses and offices of non-governmental organisations were among the potential targets.
The UK Foreign Office has been advising against all but essential travel to most of the country since last September, but stepped up its warning on Thursday.
A spokesman said: "We are now aware of a specific and imminent threat to westerners in Benghazi, and urge any British nationals who remain there against our advice to leave immediately. The British Embassy in Tripoli has been in contact with British nationals for whom we have contact details to alert them to the advice."
Adel Mansouri, principal of the International School of Benghazi who has both British and Libyan citizenship, said UK and foreign citizens were warned in the last few days about a possible threat to Westerners.
He added that the school's teachers were given the option of leaving but decided to stay. The school has some 540 students, most of which are Libyan with 40 holding dual nationality and less than 5% are British. He said: "We told the British ambassador we are staying, and we'll be in touch. We don't see a threat on the ground."
The dangers in the wake of Muammar Gaddafi's overthrow are said to include "indiscriminate" terrorist attacks against foreign travellers and kidnapping. The French military action in Mali, which has received British logistical support, has also raised the threat of retaliatory strikes on westerners.
Benghazi was the stronghold of the Western-backed revolt that eventually ended Gaddafi's hold on power in Libya. However, Britain has not had any diplomatic presence in the city since an attack on the US mission last September that killed American ambassador Chris Stevens and three of his colleagues.
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Rights with meaning: Protecting the independence of advice and advocacy charities
The Baring Foundation has published 'Rights with meaning', a report on the work of its Strengthening the Voluntary Sector programme in 2008. It focuses on the independence of advice and advocacy charities.
The foundation, which awarded grants worth £1.2m in 2008 to seven initiatives established to increase the sector's independence, says in the report Rights with Meaning that increased commissioning and the personalisation of public services are among the main dangers.
See some of the key findings below, Third Sector news item at http://www.thirdsector.co.uk/news/980893/
Advice organisations are currently facing a range of threats to their independence
Fixed fees – as part of major government reforms of the advice sector, organisations delivering legal aid are now paid at a standard fixed rate per case, replacing a system based on funded posts delivering an agreed number of hours. This approach is putting severe pressure on the ability of organisations to maintain levels of quality and remain financially viable.
CLACs, CLANs and integrated social welfare centres – these are a government-led attempt to make local advice services better integrated and coordinated. They potentially involve a number of advice organisations funded under a single contract and are jointly commissioned with local authorities. Serious concerns about this
development from advice agencies include over-prescription in the types of services provided, reduction in quality,dismantling of local advice services and damage to the public’s perceptions of the delivery organisation’s independence from government.
The rise of New Public Management and commissioning – the problems being faced are symptomatic of the government’s approach to funding and administering services delivered by the voluntary sector. The principal mechanism for administering this is commissioning, which emerges from activity across the STVS programme as a formidable threat to independence. The approach means that whilst there is reduced public sector provision of services, there is an increase in central control over the incoming providers of those services. It assumes that performance and value for money are best improved by introducing competition, targets and extensive reporting arrangements, reflecting a model of service provision that does not take adequate account of the needs of users or the expertise of providers. Commissioning is duly criticised by organisations for reducing flexibility, the ability to meet needs, the capacity to dissent, the ability to collaborate, the freedom of organisations to set their own priorities and to provide the wider benefits of services beyond the tightly defined contract outputs.
Click here to access the report: 'Rights with meaning', research report: Protecting the independence of advice and advocacy charities
To request a hard copy of the report, contact firstname.lastname@example.org
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Best Way To Get Rid Of Mice
Mice are nocturnal creatures and that means they roam around looking for food when it is dark. They are hardly seen during the day unless there is a heavy infestation. There are many ways to know if there is a mice problem in the house.
- Funny noises at night like gnawing and scratching
- Little holes with chewed edges that the mice gnaw away. One should also look for tooth marks and shredded paper
- Mice droppings that are soft, shiny and dark
- Mushy odor in the house
- Nests made of chewed paper or clothes that are hidden in dark corners
Placing baby powder in some areas of the house when going to bed and in the morning, one may notice footprints of the mice and this makes them know where they are getting in through.
The best way to get rid of mice in the house include:
- Removing their supply of food – mice like eating grains, cereals and crumbs. They also easily adapt to anything they put their teeth on. All the food should be placed on air tight containers
- Growing mint plants in the house. The mint smell is too strong for the mice and they avoid places with such smells. On can also sprinkle the fresh leaves in areas where the mice pass through. Bay leaves, pepper mint and other plants that have an offensive smell can also be used
- Putting onions in areas where the mice pass through. The onion odor is very offensive to them
- One can place bait with peanut butter. The mice like eating it and in the process they get trapped
With many options to choose from, the best way to rid of mice in the house is to use a method that does not interfere with the day to day activities. One should choose one that is also convenient for them.
There are also some pesticides that can be used but the problem with this is that when the mice eat the poisoned food, they go to hidden corners where they die and it becomes very difficult trying to trace where the bad smell is coming from.
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I don’t know about you, but I hate the fact that there’s so much amusing, interesting, and thought-provoking stuff going on in the world about which I am unaware.
One problem is that new information is being generated and disseminated at such a mind-boggling rate. Do you know that it took at least 10,000 years between the first shell fishhooks being invented (the oldest found to date is from 16,000 years ago, but they are thought to have been used much earlier) and the development of the barbed fishhook (these emerged roughly 6000 years ago). Compare this to the rate of new inventions today … no wonder my mind is so boggled.
A recent article in Time magazine stated that for every minute that passes in real time, 60 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube. This equates to five months of video every hour or ten years of video every day. To put this into perspective, more video is uploaded to YouTube every month than has been broadcast by the three big American television networks in the past 60 years!
It’s scary to realize that there is no way one can stay on top of everything… but, having said this, we should not allow ourselves to go under without fighting back. Fortunately, I have friends who devote vast amounts of time to scouring the Internet for the latest and greatest and weirdest and wackiest “happenings” around the globe, and I intend to share these nuggets and gems with you in a series of Weird, Wacky, and Wonderful “Stuff” columns.
So tighten up your belts, hold on to your hats, and prepare yourselves for a roller-coaster ride of fun and frivolity…
Do you know how many different computer programming languages there are in the world? I was just looking at a list of “notable” programming languages on the Wikipedia. There are 50 languages that begin with the letter ‘A’ alone, including A#, A+, A++, Action! ALF, Alice… all the way to Axum (Click Here to see the full list).
Here’s an oldie but goodie – even if you’ve seen it before it will make you laugh out loud – I know some people who laughed until tears came out of their eyes when they saw it for the first time. I am of course speaking of the legendary Rockwell Retro Encabulator:
Another absolute classic is the computer-generated Pipe Dreams piece from the folks at Animusic. I could watch this over and over again. In fact I do watch it over and over again, because I have the Animusic #1 and #2 DVDs, and cannot wait for Animusic #3 to come out:
As you probably know by now, I’m a huge fan of all things Steampunk. Who amongst us could forget the classic Steampunk Abe Lincoln, for example?
Can you imagine going to a fancy dress party wearing this costume? I keep on thinking about making one of my own, but I don’t have the patience to grow the beard to go with it (that’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it). Actually, I just ran across another incredible picture of a guy wearing a Steampunk-styled arm prosthesis … the attention to detail is glorious:
All of which leads me to the following video of a Steampunk Wine De-corking Machine that completes its task by pouring a glass of wine. This Heath Robinson / Rube Goldberg-styled machine, which took around three years to build, is thought to be the world's largest corkscrew. If I had one of these, I’d be drinking a heck of a lot of wine while showing it off to all my friends:
On a slightly more scientific bent … did you hear the recent announcement about a light-emitting diode (LED) that pulls heat energy from its surroundings and emits it as light? This results in more light output than electrical input power. Click Here to see the full article on PhysicsWorld.com.
Click Here to see other articles in this "Weird, Wacky, and Wonderful" series...
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Sylvia Olden1917 - 2004
Obituary: Sylvia Olden Lee
Published in the Philadelphia Daily News, 16 Apr 2004.
Philadelphia Daily News (PA) - April 16, 2004
Deceased Name: Sylvia Olden Lee, 86, music-world icon
SYLVIA Olden Lee was a grand diva of music. She was a vocal coach to great opera luminaries such as Jessye Norman and Katherine Battle. A classical-trained pianist, she had a sharp mind and could play more than 300 arias from memory.
"She was a brilliant, innovative, fascinating musician," her daughter, Eve, said. "Her music was her life. There was nothing she didn't know. She never needed the music sheets; it was in her head."
"She was an icon in the music world," said Blanche Burton-Lyles, the founder of the Marian Anderson Historical Society and a longtime friend. She was very spirited and outspoken, but she knew what she knew and so you listened to her. People came from all over the world to sit at her feet and hear her wisdom."
Lee, whose impact in the world of opera and classical music is legendary, died Saturday of complications from old age. She was 86 and lived in Germantown.
Born in Meridian, Miss., Lee began studying piano when she was 5, and her career took off. She studied the piano and organ at Howard University. She was invited to play at the White House for President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first inauguration. In 1935, she was recruited to Overlin Conservatory. Three years later she was teaching, first at Talladega College, Ala., then at Dillard University in New Orleans.
But Lee also had a great career as a performer. She toured with singer Paul Robeson throughout the South and was invited to play at the White House for Eleanor Roosevelt. She was also the first African-American winner of the Naumberg Music Competition.
In 1944, she married violinist/conductor Everett Lee, and continued playing and accompanying in the studios of Elisabeth Schumann, Eva Gautier, Konrad Bos, Rosalie Miller, Fritz Lehmann and many others.
She also trained singers for the New York City Center Opera and the Metropolitan Opera, coached at Tanglewood Music Festival and was technical adviser for the world premiere of Benjamin Britten's "Peter Grimes." She helped her husband prepare an opera performance for his cosmopolitan little symphony (the first interracial symphony), and for
the Columbia University Opera Workshop.
Lee was a Fulbright Scholar at the Santa Cecilia Academy in Rome, and was invited to the Metropolitan Opera, to be a Kathryn Tourney Long Scholar. Lee was the first African-American to be employed at the Met. While there, she worked with singer Marian Anderson.
In 1956 she received a grant, along with her husband, from the German government to study music at the Munich Conservatory of Music.
In 1963, she moved to Sweden and performed as a piano soloist with her husband throughout Scandinavia and Germany. The couple later separated.
In 1970 Lee moved to Germantown because she had been invited to teach at the Curtis Institute of Music. She was the first African-American member of the faculty. And the high-profile opportunities continued to pour in. She coached the singers in the premiere of "Porgy and Bess" at the Metropolitan Opera and coached the Russian Company, which performed it in their native land.
She served as musical consultant and artistic director of the Spirituals broadcast starring Jessye Norman and Kathleen Battle, which was broadcast internationally. She most recently was the musical and vocal coach to the Marian Anderson Historical Society for which she taught her Project Sylvia master class to Marian Anderson scholars.
But no matter how accomplished she was, Lee never hesitated to tell everyone around her that she was the granddaughter of a slave. She wanted no one to think she was white because she had fair skin and blonde hair.
She is also survived by a son, Everett Lee III, and two granddaughters.
Memorial service: 1 p.m. June 26 at Union Baptist Church, 1910 Fitzwater St.
Donations can be sent to the Sylvia Olden Lee Voice Scholarship, Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, 77 W. College St., Oberlin, Ohio, 44074-1588. *
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Origami Effect by Andrew Mayne
Item Number: DA5977
Instantly turn a slip of paper into the origami shape of the animal a person is visualizing in their mind. Turn a borrowed bill into a butterfly. Tear up a newspaper and produce an animated origami rabbit. Andrew Mayne presents The Origami Effect; powerful, visual magic that lets you give form to thoughts.
The Origami Effect: A spectator thinks of an animal from a list of over 40 different origami shapes and you change the Post-It-Note into the animal instantly before their eyes.
The Recycled Rabbit: Tear a sheet of newspaper to pieces and then restore it into an origami rabbit that can't sit still. Great for kids and grown-ups alike. Takes only minutes to prepare.
Psychic Origami: Borrow a dollar from a spectator and change it into the animal they're visualizing in their mind. Includes multiple presentations.
Wineglass Origami: A devious way to change a borrowed bill into an origami shape right under your spectator's noses.
The Origami Effect is a one-on-one teach in style DVD. You'll learn different handling techniques as well as Andrew's extremely practical and deceptive method for forcing words and images.
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How many students does it take to power a light bulb?
Just one, if that student works out on an elliptical machine at the Cal State San Bernardino fitness center.
"The harder they work out and the longer they work out, they'll generate more electricity," said Rick Craig, director of recreation.
Each elliptical machine generates about 100 watts of power per hour. The electricity flows to a power grid, which is located in a fitness center closet.
A 30-minute workout can power a laptop for about a half hour. The same workout can power a flourescent bulb for 90 minutes.
"I think it's really good idea," said student Sara Calderon. "We might as well be generating clean energy. We're all here to get our energy and relax. Obviously there are a lot of health benefits."
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MY ORANGES, which usually ripen in spring, are already brighter than Caltrans vests, and the peach trees will have to be pruned in December rather than in January. A neighbor who's a physician taught me the orchardist's art of editing the shoots a few years ago. I call him "prune picker" since he claims to have harvested them as a boy, back when people did that sort of thing around here. I ask the doctor if he thinks it's global warming. I'd read the New York Times article about how New England's storied fall foliage no longer screamed with the fiery reds, yellows and oranges of the past. If climate change could dull the intense colors of a Connecticut autumn, could it not be wreaking similar havoc on the tattered vestiges of Santa Clara Valley's orchards? My two trees hatched only a few ratty specimens last summer, rather than the voluptuous bushels of oversized, juicy, sweet peaches that hung from their branches in previous seasons.
Like me, the doctor's a sucker for a conspiracy theory. He agrees that something's strange. He says he plans to prune as well this week.
Leland Lester, whose apricot-, peach- and prune-growing family landed in the valley in the 1880s, knows when to unholster the clippers. "The best time to prune is when the leaves are off," he advises when I interrupt him during a televised Sharks game. Because there hasn't been much cold this fall, "we're going to have an early year," Lester says. "It's not unusual. I don't think it's global warming. Personally, I don't believe in that."The 82-year valley native says he's seen mild winters before. "I've been here a long time."Camel breeder and winemaker Jon Anderson, who moves trees and landscapes corporate campuses in his day job, doesn't think the sky is falling either. "There have always been cycles, even when we didn't have cars warming things."
We're having an early spring, Anderson explains, because "it never really got cold."
"When the temperature gets below 54 degrees, the plants slow down like a bear in hibernation. But if it doesn't get cold, they tend to want to bloom earlier."
Carl Cilker, a fifth-generation grower and Lester cousin whose valley agricultural roots go back about 140 years, tracks cumulative cold hours on UC-Davis' website to project his crop yields, and he's concerned about two consecutive warm, rainless winters. "There are always seasonal variations, but with all the news and all the discussion about global warming, it makes you more aware of those things."
At his San Jose home, his citrus, like mine, is maturing precociously. "They don't normally get ripe until January, and they've got color on them now," Cilker observes. "The orange tree this year is definitely early."
Last year's walnut crop at his family's Central Valley groves was off, and he blames the decline in the number of cold hours during wintertime. "Trees that go dormant need to have that," Cilker says.
Though hardly an Al Gore–style redwood hugger, Cilker worries about climate change's effect on California agriculture. "It's not like it's all going to fall apart all at once. But the economics are based on some anticipated yields. And if the trees don't produce what you expect them to—especially orchard crops that take a lot of capital investment and time for them to produce what you want them to—the economics can come apart in a hurry."Another region that shares our "Mediterranean climate" is Southern France, where researchers from the French National Institute for Agricultural Research, who are studying the effects of climate change on apple, peach and apricot trees in the Rhone Valley, have identified earlier flowering patterns. "The trend to earliness observed in the last decade" leads them to believe that the "evolution has already started, pointing out the need for breeders and farmers to reconsider the geographical adaptation of genotypes."
The Agricultural Institute of Canada, studying fruit production in eastern Canada, developed climate models that project winter temperatures rising by 2 to 6 degrees Celsius by 2050, according to the Canadian Journal of Plant Science.
In India's Kashmir Valley, academics have spotted rises of 3 to 8 degrees that have caused formerly fruitless orange trees to sprout fruit. In the Southeastern United States, one study measured the loss of as many as 11 chilling days. Georgia might have to take the peach off its license plate someday.
Closer to home, at the California Climate Change Center, Dennis Baldocchi and Simon Wong wrote in 2006: "Global warming seems to be in motion, as all sites studied are experiencing a negative trend in winter chill accumulation. Calculations of trends in future chill ... indicate that by 2100, the occurrence of adequate winter chill may be lost for many fruit species."
"California produces over 95 percent of the United States' apricots, almonds, artichokes, figs, kiwis, raisin grapes, olives, cling peaches, dried plums, persimmons, pistachios, olives and walnuts," Baldocchi and Wong add. "In principle, a reduction in chill degree hours will result in a reduction in crop yield and quality. If true, this effect could have major economic and social consequences on fruit products in California. And if critical thresholds are reached with further warming, sustained production of high-value fruit crops like almonds, cherries, apricots and others will be in jeopardy."
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In Brentwood, just a half-hour north of Livermore, the two scientists documented between 1986 and 2005 "a significant trend indicating a reduction in accumulated chill degree hours," an observation they called "alarming." If trends continue, there will be no chill hours at all before long, they say.
That's why even conservative orchardists like Cilker are thinking greener these days. "When you see the glaciers melting, you say, 'Damn, what's happening here?' Human or not, it's happening, and we do have a food supply issue. As a result, it makes me nervous."
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Mansfield Law Director Misses Facts on Injection Wells
Recently, the City of Mansfield’s Law Director, John Spon, has made a string of misleading statements on Class II injection wells to the Mansfield News Journal as a part of his campaign to pass an anti oil and gas development “Bill of Rights” amendment to the city’s charter. His statements not only miss facts, but they also hinder business and industry development that could come to Mansfield and bring much needed jobs to the region.
First, let’s get a background on Ohio injection wells. Injection wells have been regulated by the U.S. EPA for nearly 40 years under the Safe Drinking Water Act. In that time there have been over 144,000 Class II injection wells permitted and constructed in the United States. Here in Ohio, our Class II Injection well program is regulated under the Ohio Department of Natural Resources after they received primacy from the U.S. EPA in 1985. The use of injection wells as a safe disposal means for produced water in Ohio was mandated in April 1985 with the passage of House Bill 501, a bipartisan bill that was signed into law by Governor Celeste. Ohio has permitted 181 injection wells for disposal of produced water from oil and natural gas development.
The oil and gas industry isn’t the only industry that has used injection wells as a safe and well-regulated disposal means. Other sectors that rely on injection wells include: chemicals, manufacturing, food and agriculture, plastics and metal/steel among others.
According to EPA: “Injection [is] a safe and inexpensive option for the disposal of unwanted … industrial byproducts.”
Now, let’s find the truth behind Spon’s statements:
Spon says this proposed charter amendment is the means to assert a voice for local residents when it comes to industrial development that might affect quality of air, water and life—(Environmental Bill of Rights Needed 10/16/12)
Mr. Spon has, apparently, not done his homework on the regulations the state has already put in place – rules and regulations that are arguably the most stringent in the nation. These rules have been put in place to ensure protection for our quality of air, water, and life, and far exceed national standards set forth by the EPA. In gaining primacy from the EPA, the federal government has recognized Ohio has set standards beyond what is stipulated by the national environmental regulatory body.
- Federal regulations require one well inspection each year and a demonstration of mechanical integrity at least once every five years.
- Ohio has unannounced inspections every 11-12 weeks and continuous mechanical integrity monitoring or monthly mini-tests to demonstrate continuous mechanical integrity to ensure proper well functionality. All new wells in Ohio are required to be continuously monitored and will include an automatic shut-off device set to terminate operations if the permitted maximum allowable surface injection pressure is exceeded.
That means that injection wells in Ohio exceed U.S. EPA standards, are inspected at least four times a year, are monitored 24 hours a day, and can be shut off by operators, or regulators, at a moment’s notice.
Also beyond inspectors, monitoring and environmental safeguards, new regulations are also in place to address seismic concerns. As a result of regulatory changes agreed to by all parties, ODNR can require a variety of tests to determine if faults exist in an area where a disposal well is planned. These tests include:
- Pressure fall-off testing to ensure tight seals in the reservoir and casing
- Geological investigation of potential faulting within the immediate vicinity of the proposed injection well location, which may include seismic surveys or other methods determined by the chief which will give not only the operator
- Monitoring seismic activity
- Radioactive tracer or spinner survey
- Gamma ray, compensated density-neutron, and resistivity geophysical logging suite on all newly drilled injection wells to determine slight fractures in unknown geological regions of the state
Mr. Spon also misleads readers on other state’s regulation:
Spon told council some of the fluid reportedly will come from Pennsylvania, where its disposal has been banned. He said New York also recently banned waste fluid injection—Mansfield eyes tougher injection wells 10/17/12
Not sure where Mr. Spon recieved this information, but it is obvious that he did not research what the anti-development crowd told him to be fact. Pennsylvania does in fact have 5 active disposal wells in the state with more being permitted and New York has 3 active disposal wells. Unfortunately neither Pennsylvania nor New York has primacy over their program, so operators must acquire their UIC permits directly from the EPA. These permits take longer to obtain from the EPA than Ohio because in Ohio ODNR has a program specifically tasked with oversight of operating Class II UIC wells.
There are also geologic factors that don’t make Pennsylvania and New York as suitable for injection wells as Ohio. As you move further to the east geologic formations change and are far deeper than comparable formations in Ohio. For geologic purposes and Ohio’s history of significant oil and gas development are the two main reasons we are acquiring the fluids from out of state not because they have been banned as Mr. Spon incorrectly assumed.
Spon’s third misleading statement:
Without evidence that directly ties specific contaminants to a specific company delivering fracking fluid to the disposal site, the city and nearby landowners could never prove who was responsible for any pollution, Spon said.—Mansfield voters will decide city’s rules for fracking waste 10/9/12
Mr. Spon is really reaching here. At the end of the day, the operator of the disposal well is always ultimately responsible for any damages, not a company who delivers or produces brine. Being an attorney Mr. Spon should know that. He also makes brine out to be an illegal substance, which it is not. Disposal wells are the preferred method of disposal by the EPA and there has never been any case where brine has migrated from the injected formation back to the drinking in Ohio since Ohio gained primacy of its program.
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October is Energy Awareness month. In celebration, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) is hosting an energy merit badge/patch class for Boy and Girl Scouts in the Washington, DC area. This event will be held on October 27th, and will help these Scouts learn more about the energy that they use each day.
In preparation for this class, Boy and Girl Scouts will do independent research on energy. Through this process, they will reach articles on energy use with a focus on learning about what energy is, where it energy comes from, and how it is used in the Scout’s home. In their energy class preparation, Scouts will even complete a home energy audit.
The Boy Scouts Energy Merit Badge workbook provides a sample home energy audit worksheet for Scouts. The worksheet includes steps for checking the adequacy of existing insulation and the existence of air leaks.
Want to see if your refrigerator leaking cool air? The Scout workbook suggests that you “…close a dollar bill in the door. If the bill moves with little resistance, the seal is bad.”
The sample audit also includes recommendations for how the Scouts can help their families to reduce their home energy use. These suggestions hit on the expected thermostat setting recommendations, but also touch on topics including peak loads and time of use pricing.
This free event will be held at the U.S. Department of Energy in Washington, DC.
October 11, 2012 – The Girl Scouts energy merit patch (seen above on the left, next to the Boy Scout’s energy merit badge) was designed by Gina Pearson, Assistant Administrator for Communications, and her team at the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Thanks to the EIA for supplying this image. | <urn:uuid:a756c3ab-2e7e-4633-a4fb-5b3655a961ce> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/plugged-in/2012/10/05/dc-area-scouts-learn-about-energy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934138 | 383 | 3 | 3 |
Diabetic patients are more than twice as likely to die from a heart attack as non-diabetic patients, but the mechanisms that underlie increased heart attack-related mortality in diabetic patients are unknown. High levels of the oxidized form of the protein CamKII (ox-CaMKII) have been linked to increased risk of sudden death after heart attack. Additionally, hearts from diabetic patients have significantly greater ox-CAMKII compared to hearts from non-diabetic patients. In this issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Min Luo and colleagues at the University of Iowa used a mouse model of diabetest to determine if ox-CAMKII was an essential component of the molecular pathway that increases heart attack-related mortality in diabetic patients. The transgenic mouse model was engineered to express a form of CaMKII that cannot be oxidized in the heart muscle. Luo and colleagues found that diabetic mice expressed the non-oxidizable form of CamKII were less likely to die after a heart attack than mice that expressed normal CamKII. These findings suggest that ox-CAMKII may also increase post-heart attack mortality in diabetic patients and indicate that therapies that reduce oxidation of CamKII could be useful in treating diabetic patients who suffer from cardiovascular disease.
Diabetes increases mortality after myocardial infarction by oxidizing CaMKII
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NOT OVER YET
Consider that the 9/11 attacks occurred 2,922 days ago. That’s about 70,000 hours. Are memories less visceral? Among some people, perhaps. Among others, an intense vigilance remains.
“The Muslim Brotherhood is on record as wanting to destroy Western civilization from within. While this thought may seem paranoid or farfetched, we have to remember that these organizations take a long view of history. The destruction of the Twin Towers on 9/11 is just one tool in their arsenal,” Dr. Zuhdi Jasser tells Inside the Beltway.
The founder of the Arizona-based American Islamic Forum for Democracy cautions against militant threats - along with “soft cultural jihad … Terrorism is just a tactic. This is a long war, a long ‘contest of ideas’ between political Islam and Western liberty-based societies.”
Dr. Jasser adds, “Americans should mark this eighth anniversary of 9/11 by dedicating ourselves to being vigilant on all fronts - academia, government, media, business, and the interfaith community in the protection of our individual liberties and the founding principles of America. … Until Muslims can lead a movement of reform which separates mosque and state the Islamist threat will only continue to increase.”
LOST IN THE GREENWASH
Some young people reject the idea that the National Day of Service signed into law by President Obama five months ago is an appropriate response to 9/11.
“It’s a disgrace that this administration is attempting to whitewash September 11,” says Patrick Coyle, vice president of Young America’s Foundation. “Let’s not divert attention from the threat we still face. Al Qaeda and other barbaric terrorist cells haven’t signed a truce. As the Left seeks to trivialize 9/11 with ‘green’ fanfare, let’s remind President Obama that there is no number of windmills, solar panels, or compact fluorescent light bulbs would bring back those lost on 9/11 - and temper Osama bin Laden’s hatred of the United States.”
He recommends his organization’s “9/11 Never Forget” project instead. On 214 college campuses - including the University of California at Berkeley - hundreds of college students will create memorial sites on their campuses using clusters of American flags.
“They will remain on silent vigil and pray at 9:11 a.m.,” Mr. Coyle adds.
It was the four-letter word heard ‘round the world. Rep. Joe Wilson will have more than 15 minutes of fame for his “liar” eruption during President Obama’s big speech Wednesday night. The South Carolina Republican now has fans, critics, buzz, notoriety. Gee, when will he get his own talk show?
No way, talk radio host Michael Smerconish tells Beltway.
“The guy is a knucklehead, and he harms his party. When he froths, middle America recoils. And lost in the process is a necessary, serious conversation about what to do with illegal immigrants,” Mr. Smerconish says.
“That is a subject about which I questioned the president about last month. He told one of my listeners that illegal immigrants are not covered. I followed up by asking about the 1986 law that mandates ER treatment for all, and Mr. Obama acknowledged that will remain in effect. But see, that point now gets lost. Instead, we all appropriately spend our time condemning Wilson.”View Entire Story
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|Many ferret owners don't realize just how intelligent their ferrets are, and many think that it is natural for their ferret to sleep 20 or even 22 hours a day. However, this is a sign that your ferret is bored because his daily
|activities and environment have become dull and monotonous. Ferret enrichment is a very important part of ferret ownership, and the purpose of it is to create new situations that stimulate your ferret's natural intelligence and abilities. There are many things that you can do to improve the quality of your ferret's life and to keep him interested in his surroundings.
Choose the right toys
The proper toys can be very enriching for your ferret, and they are necessary to keep your ferret occupied and happy. The toys that ferrets enjoy the most are those that stimulate their natural and instinctual behaviors, such as tunneling, hunting and digging. Toys that move, toys that make noise, and toys that "interact" with your ferret work well to challenge his hunting instinct. Due to their innate curiosity and problem solving abilities, ferrets also enjoy toys that require them to solve a puzzle or figure something out.
Another type of toy that ferrets love is an edible ferret chew toy. Ferrets naturally love to gnaw on rubber-like items, but obviously allowing your ferret to chew on rubber is very dangerous! Ingesting rubber can lead to serious, life threatening blockages, so you want to provide your ferret with a safe outlet for his natural chewing behavior. Ferret safe chew toys include:
One of the toys that ferrets seem to enjoy the most is a tunnel. Ferrets in the wild live in burrows, so providing them with tunnels and tubes to play in simulates their natural environment, which is one of the most important parts of ferret enrichment. Some fun tunnel toys include:
Using the toys in an enriching way
Now that you have the right toys, what do you do with them? Simply purchasing the toys and putting them in your ferret's cage or play area isn't enough. Because they are so intelligent, ferrets will quickly grow bored when they have the same toys to play with all of the time, and the toys will no longer be enriching. They will cease to become interesting and, instead, they will just be another part of a boring environment. The key to successful ferret stimulation, including using toys for enrichment, is to keep things new and fresh. This doesn't mean that you have to buy an endless supply of toys every week! It just means that you have to be creative with the toys that you do purchase.
The easiest way to keep toys new is to vary the toys to which your ferret has access. You can cycle toys out individually, or you can group the toys and give your ferret a different group to play with every couple days. To do this successfully, it must be random. Don't decide that one day it will be hunting toys, the next day it will be tunneling toys, and the next day it will be puzzle toys. Mix a variety of different kinds of toys in one group, and rotate them randomly. "Randomly" means that it should be on different days and at different times of the day.
If it seems that your ferret is getting bored with a particular toy regularly, put that toy away for a couple weeks or even for a month. Then place it back in your ferret's play area, and watch him play with his fun "new" toy.
Fun New Scents
Some examples of different smell enrichments you can do are:
Another way you can keep toys new and interesting is to change the scent of the toy. Ferrets have an incredibly keen sense of smell, so even the smallest change in the smell of a toy can make it more interesting for them. It is also very enriching to expose them to new scents that they haven't smelled before or in a long time.
Place a few drops of a scent like lavender or vanilla on a toy.
Put the toy in a plastic bag with some leaves or grass clippings for a few days.
Leave the toy outside for a period of time (e.g., overnight).
The Ultimate Enrichment
As you can see, toys can play a huge part in ferret enrichment when they are chosen and used properly. However, the most important part of enrichment is you! Playing with their human companions is especially exciting for ferrets because those playtimes are always exciting and unpredictable; they're never the same thing twice. It's important to make sure that your ferret experiences something new each day, and what better way to do that than to play with them? So break out those ferret enrichment toys and go have some fun! | <urn:uuid:27623eec-4eba-4804-a1b9-a155deeb2c9c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.drsfostersmith.com/pic/article.cfm?c=17342&articleid=2049&d=612&category=629 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00041-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971005 | 987 | 2.328125 | 2 |
To increase road safety, The Art of Living launched the Road Peace campaign in association with the Children & Mother Welfare Society in February 2007.
The General Directorate of Traffic supported this initiative that included stress-elimination workshops for 30 drivers.
A workshop for 40 drivers of BRAMCO company was held at the company premises in March 2007. This was the first of similar workshops that reached out to over 400 drivers of the company. About 25 drivers and operators of heavy vehicles took part in the Art of Living Alertness Program at Gulf House Market in July 2007. Many reported better abilities on the road after practicing the stress-elimination programs which were taught at the course.
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That's My Issue: the New Feminism
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
The recent dialogue around feminism is entirely focused on straight women, mostly with high-paying jobs. It no longer takes into account lesbians or women who lead non-traditional lifestyles.
The main trends in media discussions about feminism revolve around how to manage work and having children, how to manage gender dynamics in relationships with men, and once again, birth control. As a lesbian without children, none of these topics relate to me. Being a feminist woman now means negotiating power issues and role expectations with your husband, finding the "equitable" balance in parenting and house chores and wage-earning, and things like whether to change your name when you get married.
These common "feminist" issues are not my issues. The inclusive and idealistic rhetoric of earlier feminist movements has been replaced by the inevitable challenges of the realities of two sexes coexisting with inherent power imbalances and conflicting ingrained social norms. For people like me who do not have to deal with these struggles regularly in a profound way, today's feminism does not represent me.
Lesbian rights and women's rights used to be synonymous in many ways.
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What is a Healthy Church Member?
- Wednesday, June 11, 2008
In 1 Corinthians 5, the apostle Paul instructs the believers in Corinth to "put out of their fellowship" a man involved in sexual immorality. The Lord Jesus commanded a similar action in Matthew 18:15-17. Part of the reason the Bible commands the practice of church discipline is so that clear distinctions can be maintained between God's people, the church, and the surrounding world (1 Cor. 5:9-13). If there is no practical, visible way of determining who belongs to the church and who belongs to the world, this distinction is lost, and "putting out of fellowship" is an impossible feat since there is no real way of being in the fellowship.
KEEPING LISTS AND VOTING
There is slight evidence that the early church kept some lists associated with its membership. For example, lists of widows were kept (1 Tim. 5:9). Also, Christians in the local church voted for some actions. It was the "majority" who voted to remove the man from membership in the church at Corinth (2 Cor. 2:6).
Electing leaders, submitting to them, regulating membership, keeping lists, and voting only make sense if a known, identifiable, and distinct body is recognized. So while the Bible doesn't provide us with a biblical treatise on membership per se, there is enough evidence in the inspired record to suggest that some form of membership was practiced and was necessary to the church's operation. Church membership is no less important in our day.
The Essence of Membership: Committed Love
Our Lord Jesus specified one defining mark for his disciples. Of course, there are many marks of true discipleship, but one mark is singled out as signifying to the watching world that we belong to Christ:
A new commandment I give you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. (John 13:34-35)
The mark of Christian discipleship is love—love of the kind that Jesus exercised toward his followers, love visible enough that men will recognize it as belonging to those people who follow Jesus.
Not surprisingly, then, a healthy Christian is one who is committed to expressing this kind of love toward other Christians. And the best place for Christians to love this way is in the assembly of God's people called the local church. Is it no wonder then that the author of Hebrews instructs us to "consider how to stir up one another to love and good works," and then right away says "not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near" (Heb. 10:24-25)? Faithful church attendance is associated tightly with stirring each other to love and good deeds. The local church is the place where love is most visibly and compellingly displayed among God's people. It's where the "body of Christ" is most plainly represented in the world.
What Does a Committed Church Member Look Like?
In one sense the question "What does a committed church member look like?" is what this entire book is about. But here we want to explore this question in relation to the essential command and mark of love. Below are ways committed membership expresses itself.
This is the first and most important ministry of every Christian in the local church. Being present, being known, and being active are the only ways to make Christian love possible (Heb. 10:24-25).
A committed church member is committed to the maintenance of peace in the congregation. "Let uspursue whatmakes for peace and mutual upbuilding" (Rom. 14:19). "And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace" (James 3:18).
The one consistent purpose or goal of the public meeting of the church is mutual edification, building each other up in the faith (1 Cor. 12, 14; Eph. 4:11-16). A healthy and committed member comes to serve, not to be served, like Jesus (Mark 10:45); to provide, not to be a consumer only.
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Go Green - A Million kids and still counting!
Four months later, after many phone calls and a boatload of emails/sms, here I am in India. leading Friends of Live Earth (FOLE) green activities across 3 cities. As I travel over the next ten days, will try and share some of my experiences with you.
One of our exciting "wins" was when Madhu Sridhar, President of Akshaya Patra Foundation www.foodforeducation.org decided that the million kids they serve across India in 5000 schools would benefit from participating in a green activity. A secular, non-profit organization, the Foundation provides nutritious school lunches to underprivileged children in India. They have won many accolades over the years for their pioneering approach.
Encouraged, we specially designed a school activity for climate crisis in English which any school across the globe can use. It has been translated into two Indian languages (Hindi and Kannada) for non-English medium schools in India. We also partnered with Gupshup and are hosting a national sms eco-quiz contest. I suspect this eco-quiz may be the first of its kind in India for kids with the use of a mobile.
Special thanks to friends who volunteered their time in India and USA when we were in a crunch. At times, it has been a logistical challenge coordinating across oceans, time zones, languages and peoples. But in the end, it has been inspiring to be a part of this trio of diverse entities (Live Earth, Ixoraa Media and Akshaya Patra Foundation) and help take a step in building awareness about climate crisis amongst a million kids in rural/urban India.
So lets keep the ball rolling! Please share the links below and help kids/schools build their awareness about global climate crisis!
To download the school activities in 3 languages that any school can use:
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For Immediate Release: March 24, 2008
Media Contact: Communication Office
Vermont Department of Health
BURLINGTON – The fifth annual Vermont Blueprint for Health Conference will highlight the transformation underway in Vermont from standard care delivery to the creation of a patient-centered approach.
Presented by the Department of Health and the University of Vermont College of Medicine, the conference will be held on Tuesday, March 25 from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Sheraton Burlington Hotel and Conference Center.
Vermont’s new approach to healthcare is changing the way primary care providers operate their practices. Vermont is one of the few states in the nation that is pushing forward, through the Blueprint for Health, comprehensive health reform toward a patient-centered “medical home” model of care. At its core, the “medical home” is an ongoing partnership between each person and a specially trained primary care physician.
“This new model offers patients well-coordinated care that leverages health information technology tools, enhances self-management, and is closely aligned with chronic care prevention efforts,” said Craig Jones, MD, director of the Vermont Blueprint for Health. “The Blueprint for Health involves sweeping health reform and this conference provides us with an opportunity to bring the key stakeholders together, share successes, review progress and refine our plan.”
Health Commissioner Sharon Moffatt, RN, MSN, will provide opening remarks at the conference at 8:30 a.m.
The “medical home” model is recommended by leading medical organizations such as The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) and the American College of Physicians (ACP).
Initiated by Gov. Jim Douglas, the Vermont Blueprint for Health is a public-private partnership aimed at improving health and health care for people living with chronic conditions.
The overall goal of the Blueprint for Health is to reduce the health and economic impact of the most common chronic conditions, such as diabetes and high blood pressure. Chronic conditions are the leading cause of illness, disability and death, and touch the lives of most Vermonters. Fifty-five percent of adult Vermonters have a chronic disease or condition. Eighty-eight percent of the state’s population over the age of 65 suffers from one or more chronic conditions.
Nationally distinguished health experts including Paul E. Jarris, MD, executive director for the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASHTO) will speak at this year's conference. Dr. Jarris is a former commissioner of the Vermont Department of Health.
Thomas S. Bodenheimer, MD, adjunct professor for the Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California at San Francisco; and Russell P. Tracy, PhD, Senior Associate Dean for Research & Academic Affairs at the University of Vermont College of Medicine, will also speak at the event.
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Dr. David Talmage, Assistant Professor, Pharmacological Sciences, discusses the work of Intel finalists Savina Kim and Neil Mehta
First, I would like to express my admiration of Savina Kim and Neil Mehta for their amazing dedication and work ethic. They have been inspiring to watch over that last one-plus years. Second, I want to emphasize the extent to which each of them drove their research - these are two independent young scientists; they formulated and executed their projects on their own with minimal input from me and Dr. Role. The final point I would like to make, is that the talent of the local high school students (with Savina and Neil representing the top) is incredible and that this, and the incredible system for nurturing and maturing this young talent pool that is part of the Stony Brook University culture, were an unanticipated bonus when we joined the faculty here approximately four years ago.
Additional statement from Simon Halegoua, PhD, Director, Center for Nervous System Disorders:
Stony Brook University has been making a big push toward establishing multidisciplinary, collaborative groups for biomedical research. The Center for Nervous System Disorders was the first of such efforts on campus. Two Intel finalists emerging from the collaborative group of Dr. Lorna Role and Dr. David Talmage within the context of our Center is a testament to this approach. These students benefited not only from this collaborative pair of labs, but also from participating in Center-wide weekly meetings and interaction with numerous investigators working from different viewpoints, making for a very stimulating environment. | <urn:uuid:c32b9769-0151-4359-8c92-27cc08ff7bdd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.stonybrook.edu/sb/features-inteld.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00014-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960025 | 322 | 1.640625 | 2 |
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In biology, a species is:
There are many definitions of what kind of unit a species is (or should be). A common definition is that of a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring, and separated from other such groups with which interbreeding does not (normally) happen. Other definitions may focus on similarity of DNA or morphology. Some species are further subdivided into subspecies, and here also there is no close agreement on the criteria to be used.
For more information about Species, read the full article at
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Python molurus bivittatus
Burmese pythons inhabit grasslands, swamps, marshes, rocky foothills, woodlands, jungle and river valleys in Northeast India, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Nepal, Bangladesh, northern continental Malaysia and western Indonesia through southern China. They are carnivores.
Burmese pythons have been introduced into the Everglades in South Florida. Many were pets accidentally released or intentionally abandoned when they grew too big. In the wild, they are proliferating; preying on and competing with native species, some as large as alligators. Biologists are working to remove them via radio tracking, locator dogs and hunting.
Burmese python behavior and facts
- Like all pythons, Burmese pythons are nonvenomous.
- They can climb or swim as they prey on rodents, mammals, birds and other reptiles.
- They use rear-pointing teeth to seize prey and then wrap their body around it, killing by constriction.
- They are mainly terrestrial and are active both in the evening and at night.
- They require a permanent source of water.
From birth to death
- Females typically lay between 1 to 2 dozen eggs in a clutch.
- The female incubates the eggs by coiling atop them.
- Gestation: 60 to 90 days
- Hatchlings: 18 to 24 inches.
- Babies leave the nest soon after hatching and grow quickly when food is abundant.
- Sexual maturity is size- rather than age-based but generally occurs around 4 years of age.
- Lifespan: 15 to 25 years
- Up to 25 feet long
- 200 or more pounds
CITES Appendix II
Burmese pythons, the Oregon Zoo and you
The zoo's Burmese python lives in the Predators of the Serengeti exhibit. He is fed rabbits and rats.
Did you know?
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US cattle herd at 61-year low, but rebuilding may be under way
* USDA cattle herd down about 1.6 pct yr-over-yr
* Cattle herd remains lowest in 61 years
* Ranchers begin retaining breeding stock
* Record high beef prices seen through 2014
CHICAGO, Feb 1 (Reuters) - The U.S. cattle herd shrunk for a sixth straight in 2012 due to high feed costs tied to drought and that should mean consumers will continue paying record high prices for beef. The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Friday said the U.S. cattle herd as January 1 was 89.30 million head, down 1.6 percent from a year earlier and the smallest U.S. herd since 1952. Analysts expected a 1.8 percent decline. However, the data suggests ranchers are beginning to retain female breeding stock, the foundation for herd rebuilding, possibly in anticipation even higher cattle prices. "Ranchers are retaining heifers because of record prices for feeder cattle and the futures market is saying we're going to get higher," said University of Missouri livestock economist Ron Plain. Friday's herd inventory results also reaffirms results issued in the government's report in July 2012 in which the U.S. cattle herd at the start of 2012 was 2.3965 million head larger than 60 years earlier, but dropped below that level around April 2012. U.S. cattle numbers have declined for several years as producers have encountered a number of hardships including mad cow disease that reduced U.S. beef exports for several years, a recession that hurt domestic beef consumption, a lengthy drought that damaged pastures, and record high feed prices. Those who raise, feed and process cattle in the central and western U.S. Plains this year felt the heat from the worst dry spell in more than 50 years. It raised feed and hay costs -- main staples in cattle feeding -- to all-time highs last summer. Chicago Board of Trade corn futures in December averaged $7.24-1/8 per bushel, the fourth highest as drought damaged the crop. Prices reached a record high of $8.43-3/4 on August 10. The smaller cattle herd has increased retail beef prices, with a record high of $5.15 per lb set in November 2012. That slipped to $5.11 the following month but was still up from $5.01 a year earlier.
HERD SIZE MAY BE TURNING Still, Friday's report showed that heifers earmarked for the beef breeding herd were up nearly 2 percent from a year earlier, raising eyebrows among analysts who had expected a 0.4 percent decrease. The increase may indicate that the herd contraction is about over. "Normally, that would mean some measure of expansion, but I believe there are people waiting for the feedlot demand to pick up," said Rich Nelson, chief strategist with Allendale Inc. Feedlot owners, who fatten young cattle for sale to packers, struggled to be profitable as elevated feed costs and record-high prices for incoming cattle eroded margins. Last month, feedyards on average lost $121 per head on cattle, which was about steady with losses in November. In December 2011, the average loss was of $70 per head, according to the Denver-based Livestock Marketing Information Center. Beef packers also fought to maintain market share and plant efficiencies, with Cargill Inc shutting down its Plainview, Texas, beef processing facility due to tight supplies. Typically, Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures traders do not regard the government's semi-annual cattle report as a "market mover." Instead, they see it as more of an forward view of cattle production over the next three years. On Friday, most-actively traded April live cattle closed at 132.175 cents per lb, down 0.600 for the day. However, Plain viewed the calf crop data as "slightly bullish" for 2013 CME live cattle futures contracts, confirming traders' long-held beliefs of fewer cattle this year. USDA reported the latest calf crop at 34.279 million, down 2.9 percent from a year earlier, and the smallest since 1949. In July 2012, USDA had predicted that calf crop at 34.5 million head. Fewer calves born last year is a bullish number, said Plain.
"From a cattlemen's standpoint, they like what they see on calf prices, they just wish they had more grazing grass for their cattle," said Plain. Consumers should brace for record high beef prices this year and in 2014. Not until 2015 are those prices expected to come down when more cattle become available, analysts said. | <urn:uuid:3e762c66-a6d1-4627-90e6-beebed883c11> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.cnbc.com/id/100428522 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00064-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970292 | 956 | 1.953125 | 2 |
by Rev. Austin Miles--Traveling Cross-Country
(Boise Idaho 12/27/10) When one thinks of the State of Idaho, visions of tradition, patriotism, apple pie and picket fences refreshingly comes to mind. Oops--also potatoes. However those days seem to have screeched to an abrupt stop, ending the last vestige of the America we once knew and loved. As kids return to school after Christmas break, one school will have a zero-tolerance Pledge policy.
A lone female Muslim who is a student at Vallivue Academy in Caldwell, Idaho, complained [that] saying the Pledge of Allegience before classes was offensive to her Islamic faith and demanded that the recitation of it be stopped. The school--an American school--in America, readily complied and the national pledge was axed due to the demand of one Muslim girl.
At that same school, we were told, a young man, who our source would not identify for his protection, was temporarily expelled and sent home because he made a comment critical of the government and Obama during a social studies class discussion. If this is true then something must be done.
So here is a public school class discussion where only one point of view is allowed, and if any student has another viewpoint or dares to speak against Marxism, Communism, Islam and Obama, he is kicked out of the school! And it has been strongly implied that if he does not repent and says anything else critical of our government and Obama, he will not be allowed to graduate. | <urn:uuid:3ff3822e-2a91-4e0d-8a6c-ca7525d94b07> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://cc.org/tags/schools | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00045-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963283 | 314 | 1.6875 | 2 |
US secret archives contain records of encounters with winged humansRumors about the “flying beings” have been circulating around the globe from time immemorial. Almost every nation’s fairy tales have a description of a winged creature that looks like a human being. It was not until a few years ago that researchers in different parts of the world began trying harder to crack the mystery of the flying creatures.
American researchers became the first ones to show interest in the “flying humanoids.” The U.S. Air Force archives keep a report on an UFO filed by one William S. Lamb from Nebraska. Mr. Lamb was on a hunting trip near Hewbell at 5 a.m. on February 22, 1922. Suddenly he heard a strange high-pitched sound coming from above. Mr. Lamb looked up and saw a big dark object flying in the sky. Then it landed just like an airplane and started walking across the snow. The stranger was at least eight foot high. Mr. Lamb tried to follow the footprints but exhausted himself trudging through the deep snow.
The archives also keep similar records about several amazing encounters that took place near the small town of Point Pleasant.
On November 15, 1966, two young family couples, the residents of Point Pleasant, went astray while riding on a car to the country to see their friends. Dusk was falling as they were driving past an old mill. All of a sudden one of the women began staring open-mouthed at two red circles that shone brightly in the dark. The circles were about two inches in diameter and seemed to be hanging in the air. Then they started moving towards the car. The driver and passengers finally saw the eyes of a huge living being.
Its frame resembled that of a human but it looked a lot taller, up to six and a half to seven foot. And it had a pair of wings folded behind the back.
The big red eyes seemed to be hypnotizing the riders, everybody was sitting still for a minute or two unable to look away. Then somebody cried out: “Let’s get out of here!” and the driver stepped on it. The car was crossing the top of a hill as the passengers saw another winged creature hovering above the trees. It spread the wings and flew straight up the sky as the car was rolling at a hundred miles per hour.
Thomas Uri, a young salesman from Point Pleasant, was driving his car on early morning of November 25, 1966. Thomas then saw a tall humanlike form standing in the field nearby. Suddenly, the creature unfolded the wings and rose vertically into the sky like a helicopter. It was flying above the car for a while, never falling behind though the car was running at 75 miles per hour.
It is quite noteworthy that an indescribable fear filled all the residents of Point Pleasant who saw the flying monster.
A similar flying creature was seen about the same time in the vicinity of the town of New Haven in West Virginia.
More . . .
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Yesterday, the Zoning Board of Appeals ruled against allowing Deb & Audra to keep the chickens that they lovingly raised in Roslindale before they were asked to leave by the city. Sadly, this means that Yolanda and her chicken sisters won’t be able to come home today. However, the board did encourage us to keep working with city agencies and the city council to make a reasonable process for keeping chickens in Boston.
Now, don’t be discouraged! This is just the first step in our fight to make hens legal in the city of Boston!
What YOU can do to Help!
Going forward we need you to show support by writing to Mayor Menino, the City Councilors at large, and your city council representative (email addresses below). Tell them how important chickens are to you and to Boston’s goal of being a green, sustainable city!
Here’s a sample letter sent by one of our supporters:
Dear Councilor Consalvo,
I am writing in support of legalizing permitted chicken ownership in Boston. After extensive research on the subject, I do not believe that chickens pose a human health risk, would cause excessive noise complaints, odors, or attract rodents.
Properly kept chickens are excellent household pets that provide fresh healthy eggs to their owners, as well as REDUCE rodents by consuming table scraps and keeping them out of the garbage. Chickens do produce small amounts of manure, which can be composted to provide excellent garden fertilizer. I do not support ownership of roosters in urban areas.
I believe that home-grown eggs are sustainable, healthy and ‘green,’ in keeping with Mayor Menino’s campaign to increase Boston’s environmental sustainability.
My biggest concern involves the ability of the city officials to regulate quality of care and consideration for neighbors. I propose that the new policy require chicken owners to apply for and obtain a permit. By maintaining chicken ownership as a revocable ‘privilege’, this would allow animal control to inspect and respond to complaints, and would ensure that chicken owners are kept to high standards of care, and consideration for neighbors.
Thank you for your time,
10 Centre Street, Boston, MA 02130
Mayor Menino: email@example.com
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An exhibition of some 40 of the finest and most celebrated masterpieces by the Dutch 17th-century artist Gabriel Metsu (1629-1667) was formally opened in the National Gallery of Ireland
yesterday by Mary Hanafin, T.D., Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport.
The exhibition, Gabriel Metsu: Rediscovered Master of the Dutch Golden Age features works from all phases of the artist's career, including a number of recently discovered and restored works. It pays homage to his engaging genre scenes which vary from musical companies and amorous encounters, to revellers, street traders and kitchen maids. Examples of Metsu's lesser known yet wonderfully accomplished achievements in the fields of religious painting, portraiture and still life are also highlighted. The works in the exhibition are drawn from public and private collections around the world.
Born in Leiden in 1629, Metsu was, like his contemporary Johannes Vermeer, one of the most important painters of his age. Despite his untimely death at the age of 37, Metsu produced an outstanding oeuvre which provides a fascinating glimpse into love, life and fashion in 17th-century Holland. His remarkable mastery of the brush and talent for imbuing his figures with humanity and personality drew admiration from both artists and collectors of his time. This exhibition is an opportunity to re-evaluate an artist who was one of the most collectable artists of the 17th and 18th centuries.
Among the works in the exhibition are a number of recently discovered paintings that will afford a contemporary audience an opportunity to evaluate the artist afresh, including A Woman Artist (Le Corset rouge), (c.1661-4, Private Collection) which features Metsu's wife, Isabella de Wolff, who frequently modelled for her husband. The exhibition also reunites for the first time since the 18th century, two paintings which hung in the house of his most important patron, Jan Jacobsz. Hinlopen: A Visit to the Nursery (1661, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) and A Portrait of Jan Jacobsz. Hinlopen and his Family (c.1662-3, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin).
Like Vermeer, Metsu began his career as a history painter. One of his earliest surviving biblical paintings, Dives and Lazarus (c.1650, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Strasbourg) is included here alongside The Dismissal of Hagar (c.1653-4, Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden), one of the highlights of Metsu's early career in Leiden.
The exhibition shows that Metsu was a versatile artist who painted subjects ranging from interior scenes to portraiture. His favourite subjects though were women attending to their daily chores, selling food, or engaged in amorous pursuits: A Young Woman Selling Poultry (1662, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden); A Woman Tuning her Cittern, Approached by a Man (c.1659-62, Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Kassel).
Metsu painted himself at least ten times in various guises. In one of the most accomplished of his blacksmith scenes, A Cavalier Visiting a Blacksmith's Shop, (1654-6, The National Gallery, London), Metsu portrays himself as the comically pompous cavalier who orders horse shoes from the smith. In another painting, A Hunter Getting Dressed after Bathing, (c.1654-6, Private Collection), he depicted himself putting on his clothes after a swim in a brook.
In the early 1650s, Metsu moved to the larger and more prosperous city of Amsterdam which had a profound effect on his career; he soon transformed himself from a history painter into one of the leading painters of 'modern companies'.
His later works, painted in Amsterdam in the 1660s, demonstrate the artist's technical virtuosity and also reflect the stylistic influence of major genre painters of the time, most notably Gerrit Dou, Gerard ter Borch, Frans Van Mieris and Johannes Vermeer. Examples include The Intruder (c.1661-3, National Gallery of Art, Washington) and A Woman Composing Music, with an Inquisitive Man, (c.1664-7, Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, The Hague). Among the works which particularly recall Vermeer are the companion pieces, A Man Writing a Letter and A Woman Reading a Letter (c.1664-6, National Gallery of Ireland, Sir Alfred and Lady Beit Gift, 1987) which are considered to be the artist's most renowned works. Another painting showing Vermeer's influence is The Sick Child (1664-6, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam), one of the most iconic images of parental devotion in Dutch art. Towards the end of his life Metsu returned to painting religious subjects, the most dramatic of which is Christ on the Cross (1664, Pinacoteca Capitolina, Rome).
Also on display are the only two drawings that are securely attributed to Metsu: The Resurrection of Christ (c.1650-3, Musée Fabre, Montpellier) and Sketch of a Female Figure (c.1662-4, Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main), which is a preparatory sketch for the painting, A Man Visiting a Woman Washing her Hands (c. 1662-4, Private Collection).
The curator of the exhibition is Dr. Adriaan E. Waiboer whose Ph.D. dissertation and forthcoming catalogue raisonné on Metsu provided the knowledge base for the National Gallery exhibition. He is also editor of the accompanying catalogue to the show which documents the social context in which Metsu lived and worked. In his introductory essay, Dr. Adriaan Waiboer gives an insight into the artist's life, work and reputation both during his own lifetime and over the centuries. Another essay by his hand discusses Metsu's relationship with Vermeer. He says:
"Metsu enjoyed admiration and success as an artist during his lifetime. By the second half of the 18th century Metsu's pictures could be found in some of the most prestigious collections in France, including that of King Louis XV, while as many as 34 authentic works by Metsu were imported into England, with Parisian auctions as their main origin. In recent years however, Metsu has been somewhat eclipsed by the popularity of the Delft artist Vermeer, which has prevented people from properly admiring or evaluating Metsu's work. This exhibition hopes to rectify this and provide visitors with the opportunity to explore and appreciate the full extent of the artist's merits." | <urn:uuid:903f25c6-ab1a-4199-8bbf-ddca340ad22c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=40499&int_modo=2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00044-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960833 | 1,429 | 2.15625 | 2 |
AMOCO OIL COMPANY
BELLEVILLE, ST. CLAIR COUNTY, ILLINOIS
The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) conducted a health consultation for the Amoco Oil Company site at the request of the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (Illinois EPA). As part of that process, IDPH evaluated the available site information to determine if the site poses a public health hazard.
The Amoco Oil Company site is in Belleville, St. Clair County. The site is on the northeast corner of the intersection of Shiloh Station Road and Shiloh Station East Road (Attachment 1). The site is about 0.5 acres in size and consists of two properties leased to the facility operator. The first property is a narrow strip of land owned by the railroad between the railroad tracks and Shiloh Station Road East (Attachment 2). This part of the site consisted of five above ground tanks, an office, and a loading pit. The second portion of the site was a privately-owned grassy field north of the railroad tracks and was used to store ammonia nurse tanks. A ditch was constructed between the railroad tracks and the field.
The facility began rock phosphate fertilizer operations on the property in 1962 and liquid fertilizer operations began in 1965. The Amoco Oil Company site was discovered in 1982 when a complaint was filed with St. Clair County regarding the illegal storage and distribution of pesticides on the site (1).
In 1986, the Illinois EPA conducted a preliminary assessment. The concern then was potential groundwater and surface water contamination. Illinois EPA recommended that a site inspection be conducted (2).
In 1988, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) contractors conducted a site screening inspection. Four soil samples and four residential well samples were collected. At that time, five tanks used to store liquid fertilizers were observed with capacities ranging from 7,500 to 35,000 gallons. One tank appeared to store diesel fuel and an underground tank held approximately 560 gallons of gasoline. Bulk ammonia was also stored in nurse tanks on the site (3).
USEPA published an inspection report in January 1989 that described the facility as a custom blending and storage facility for fertilizers containing nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. No berms or containment structures had been constructed around the tanks and at the time of the federal inspection a green stain on the soil was noted.
In May 2001, Illinois EPA staff collected soil and groundwater samples. Soil samples were tested for volatile and semi-volatile organic compounds, pesticides, and inorganic compounds. Groundwater samples were collected from two private wells and tested for pesticides and inorganic compounds (1).
The nearest neighbors are across the street from the site. A small neighborhood of about twelve homes is to the south of Shiloh Station East Road. Currently, no barriers limit access to the site and some neighbors reportedly maintained gardens on or near the property in the past. Public water service is not available in this small area, so water is obtained from shallow private wells. A newer subdivision with public water was built about 0.5 miles north of the site.
An intermittent stream leads from this area to Loop Creek, approximately 1 mile southwest of the site. These streams are part of the Kaskaskia River watershed that eventually drains into the Mississippi River (Illinois EPA, 2000).
IDPH staff visited the site most recently on May 1, 2001. All of the structures have been removed. The rail line dividing the two site properties is still active. The area topography appears to slope to the southwest toward Loop Creek. Part of the southern portion of the site drains to a low area between two private properties. Two small lakes, Anderson Lake and Miller Lake, are west of the site and an unnamed pond is north of the site property. Most of the surrounding properties are agricultural fields and pasture.
IDPH compared the results of the environmental sampling with appropriate comparison values used to select contaminants for further evaluation for carcinogenic and non-carcinogenic health effects. Chemicals found at levels greater than comparison values or those for which no comparison value exists were selected for further evaluation. A discussion of each comparison value used is found in Attachment 3. Exceeding a comparison value does not necessarily mean that exposure to the chemical will cause adverse health effects. The chemicals of interest at this site are sodium and heptachlor epoxide in groundwater and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), arsenic, and lead in soil.
In 1988, groundwater samples were collected from four private wells. Two were collected north of the site, one was collected south of the site and one was collected from a private well on the site used by the operators. Some samples had elevated levels of sodium as high as 89 parts per million (ppm).
Illinois EPA staff collected samples from two nearby private wells in May 2001. The samples were analyzed for pesticides and inorganic chemicals. A trace of heptachlor epoxide (0.03 parts per billion) was found in one well. No other chemicals were found at levels greater than comparison values.
Three soil samples were collected in 1988 by USEPA, two north of the site near the ammonia nurse tanks and one south of the railroad lines in the area where aboveground tanks were located. No chemicals of interest were found in these samples.
In May 2001, fourteen soil samples were collected from areas in and around the site by Illinois EPA staff and analyzed for volatile and semi-volatile organic compounds, pesticides, and inorganic chemicals. Benzo(a)pyrene was found in the soil samples at levels ranging from 0.16 to 1.0 ppm. Other PAHs were found in the 2001 soil samples but not at levels that exceeded comparison values. Two inorganic chemicals were also found at levels greater than comparison values in the May 2001 soil samples. Lead was found at an elevated level of 83,400 ppm and arsenic was found at a level of 23 ppm (1).
IDPH evaluated surrounding environmental conditions and activities that could lead to exposure to determine whether residents living near the site have been, are being, or might be exposed to hazardous chemicals at the site. A chemical can cause an adverse health effect only if people come into contact with it at a sufficient level. This requires a contaminant source, an environmental transport pathway, a point of exposure, a route of exposure, and an exposed population.
An exposure pathway is considered complete if all these components are present and people were exposed in the past, are currently exposed, or will be exposed in the future. A potential exposure pathway is one in which at least one of the five elements is missing but could exist. If part of a pathway is not present and will never exist, the pathway is incomplete and can be eliminated from further consideration.
The neighborhood near the site uses groundwater for their water supply. For drinking water, we assumed that children drink 1 liter and adults drink 2 liters of well water per day.
Since no barriers exist to prevent site access, people trespassing onto the site could be exposed to chemicals in the soil. We estimated exposure based on a 20 kilogram child playing on the site and ingesting 200 milligrams of soil per day, 3 days per week, 9 months per year.
Many studies have shown that decreased sodium intake is a major dietary factor in reducing the risk of high blood pressure. People drinking from wells with sodium levels more than 20 ppm were encouraged by letter to speak with their physician if they have high blood pressure.
Heptachlor epoxide was detected in only one water sample. Based on our scenario, exposure to heptachlor epoxide would result in no apparent increased cancer risk or non-cancer adverse health effects. The exposure doses calculated were lower than those shown to produce adverse health effects (4).
Benzo(a)pyrene was detected in soil samples in 2001. Based on our scenario, exposure to this level of PAHs would result in no apparent increased cancer risk or non-cancer adverse health effects (5).
Arsenic was detected in soil samples in 2001 at a maximum value of 23 ppm. The average value of arsenic in the fourteen samples collected was 9.4 ppm. Based on our scenario, exposure to this level of arsenic in soil would result in no apparent increased cancer risk or non-cancer adverse health effects (6).
Lead was detected in soil samples in 2001 at a maximum value of 83,400 ppm. This was also the same location where the highest level of arsenic was detected. The next highest level detected was 279 ppm and the average value of lead in the other thirteen samples collected was 108 ppm. Based on our scenario, exposure to soil other than where the maximum value was detected would not be expected to cause adverse health effects.
Although it is not likely to occur, if a child were to routinely play in the area where the greatest level of lead was detected, exposure could result in increased lead uptake. The IDPH Lead Poisoning Prevention Code states that the permissible limit of lead in soil readily accessible to children is 1,000 ppm. Exposure to lead levels greater than 1,000 ppm in residential soil can increase lead levels in exposed persons.
Exposure to lead can cause adverse health effects, especially in young children, since it is a neurotoxin that permanently interrupts normal brain development. Lead has no known beneficial biological function and is known to accumulate in the body. No safe threshold has been identified. Children, especially those of preschool age, ingest more lead through normal hand-to-mouth activity, absorb more of the lead they ingest, and are most sensitive to its effects (7).
IDPH recognizes that children are especially sensitive to some contaminants. For that reason, IDPH includes children when evaluating exposures to contaminants and considers children the most sensitive population considered in this health consultation.
IDPH concludes that under current conditions, the site poses no public health hazard; however, a small area on the site has a very high level of lead in the surface soil. If neighborhood children were to play in this contaminated area routinely, they may increase their exposure to lead, a neurotoxin. Although some chemicals have been detected in the area groundwater in the past, they are not currently at levels that would be expected to cause adverse health effects.
IDPH recommends that Illinois EPA reduce the potential for persons to be exposed to the elevated levels of lead in the surface soil in one area of the site. Covering the contaminated area with gravel or restricting access to the site would reduce the potential for exposure.
Catherine Copley, MS
Illinois Department of Public Health
- Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, Division of Land Pollution Control. Freedom of Information file inspections in December 2000. Springfield and Collinsville, Illinois: Illinois Environmental Protection Agency.
- Illinois Environmental Protection Agency. Preliminary assessment for Amoco Oil Company, Belleville, Illinois. Springfield. 1986 November.
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Screening site inspection report for Amoco Oil Company, Belleville, IL USEPA ID: ILD000670703. Developed by Ecology and Environment, Inc, Chicago. 1989.
- Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. Toxicological profile for heptaclor epoxide. Atlanta: US Department of Health and Human Services; 1993 April.
- Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. Toxicological profile for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). Atlanta: US Department of Health and Human Services; 1995 August.
- Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. Toxicological profile for arsenic. Atlanta: US Department of Health and Human Services; 2000 Sept.
- Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. Toxicological profile for lead. Atlanta: US Department of Health and Human Services; 1999 July.
This Amoco Oil Company health consultation was prepared by the Illinois Department of Public Health under a cooperative agreement with the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR). It is in accordance with approved methodology and procedures existing at the time the health consultation was begun.
W. Allen Robison
Technical Project Officer
Superfund Site Assessment Branch (SAAB)
Division of Health Assessment and Consultation (DAC)
The Division of Health Assessment and Consultation, ATSDR, has reviewed this health consultation and concurs with its findings.
Chief, State Programs Section
SSAB, DHAC, ATSDR
Environmental Media Evaluation Guides (EMEGs) are developed for chemicals based on their toxicity, frequency of occurrence at National Priorities List (NPL) sites, and potential for human exposure. EMEGs are not action levels, but are comparison values. They are developed without consideration for carcinogenic effects, chemical interactions, multiple route exposure, or exposure through other environmental media. They are very conservative concentration values designed to protect sensitive members of the population.
Reference Dose Media Evaluation Guides (RMEGs) are another type of comparison value. They are developed without consideration for carcinogenic effects, chemical interactions, multiple route exposure, or exposure through other environmental media. They are very conservative concentration values designed to protect sensitive members of the population.
Cancer Risk Evaluation Guides (CREGs) are estimated contaminant concentrations based on a probability of one excess cancer in a million persons exposed to a chemical over a lifetime.
Maximum Contaminant Levels (MCLs) have been established by USEPA for public water supplies to reduce the chances of occurrence of adverse health effects from use of contaminated drinking water. These standards are well below levels for which health effects have been observed and take into account the financial feasibility of achieving specific contaminant levels. These are enforceable limits that public water supplies must meet.
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The average person might associate the word "pig" with bacon, pork chops, ham, crown roasts or even Miss Piggy. To me, it's all about the lechón, which is a Spanish term for roasted suckling pig.
Cue blaring salsa music, the intoxicating smell of roasted pork and a salivating crowd ready to pounce on smoky, salty, juicy meat. In my Cuban-American family and culture, a lechón means it's time to party. Every Cuban family has their own lechón recipe. The Italians have their marinara sauce, we have our dry rub.
I recently survived Goya Foods' Swine and Wine, a South Beach Wine and Food Festival event, where I experienced hog heaven.
Nearly two dozen chefs battled it out to be the winner of the coveted 18-karat Piggy Choice Award given to the cook with the most succulent hog.
I caught up with two of the competing chefs, Goya's Executive Chef Fernando Desa and Chef Ryan Nielsen of Bongos Cuban Café and Larios on the Beach, to get pointers on how to become a lechón master.
Nielsen says hogs have, at times, had a bad reputation as a food source because of their religious taboos and association with uncleanliness.
"Once pigs were seen as bottom feeders, but now they are better regulated," said Nielsen, who ended up winning top honors at the event.
Nielsen says that due to pork's versatility, leanness and, not to mention, deliciousness, more high-end chefs are starting to cook with it - especially heritage breed pigs.
First, Chef Desa says you've got to find a superb swine.
"You want to look for a young pig between 34-40 pounds," he said. "The smaller pigs are better because the meat is tender. That will be enough to feed around 100 people at 6 ounces per serving."
Another trick? If you're feeding a big crowd, it's best to roast several pigs instead of one larger pig.
Next, Chef Desa recommends marinating the pig for 48 hours in a dry rub. The key to a great lechón is all in the marinade, and it's best to rub the entire exterior of the pig as well as under the skin. Typical marinade ingredients include garlic, salt, cumin, oregano and naranja agria (the juice of sour oranges).
After the 48-hour period is complete, Desa recommends patting the meat dry with paper towels and re-seasoning it. The chefs also recommend injecting the meat with more marinade.
For the Swine and Wine competition, both Desa and Nielsen used a La Caja China (called "the Chinese box") to roast the pig, which is traditionally used outdoors. The box can cut the roasting time in half and results in tender, flavorful meat.
The total cooking time should be about 4 to 5 hours. Both chefs say you know you've got it right when the pork skin is crisp and crunchy, not rubbery.
"Say what you want [when it comes to eating the skin], but it's such a guilty meat - it's like filet mignon. You know you shouldn't [eat it] but you just can't stop!" Nielsen said.
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Israeli Report Defends Gaza Operation
Israel has released a 160-page report defending Operation Cast Lead in Gaza. The report aims to answer charges that the Israeli counterterror offensive was a “disproportionate” response to Hamas attacks on Israeli civilians, and accusations of war crimes.
The report, titled The Operation in Gaza (27 December 2008 – 18 January 2009): Factual and Legal aspects, is available online through the government website.
The stated goal of the paper is “to place the Gaza operation in its proper factual and legal context.” The paper offers a limited response to some accusations, “as the IDF is still conducting comprehensive investigations” into allegations regarding the conduct of IDF soldiers.
Hamas is blamed for the operation, with the report's authors explaining that Israel had “a right and an obligation” to defend its citizens, who were under “almost incessant” rocket and mortar shell attacks from Gaza. Not only was Hamas launching increasingly frequent attacks and deliberately targeting civilians, particularly children, but the terror group was actively working to increase the range and quality of its rockets.
While the report firmly supports Israel's counter-terror operations in Gaza, it also expresses regret for civilian casualties in Gaza. “Israel makes no attempt to minimize the human costs incurred.” However, the authors point out, “civilian deaths and damage to property, even when considerable, do not necessarily mean that violations of international law as such have occurred.”
The report makes use of Israeli statistics regarding casualties of the Gaza operation. Israeli investigators found that 1,166 Gaza residents were killed in the operation, the majority of them terrorists. Hamas, which does not define Hamas “police” or Hamas fighters aged 16-18 as terrorists, disputes the numbers, and claims that more than 1,400 Gaza residents were killed, most of them civilians.
In defense of Israel's method of counting terrorists, the report makes use of Hamas propaganda and obituaries to prove that Hamas “police” are also active members of Hamas' openly terrorist armed forces.
Pictures Show Use of Civilian Shields
The report includes several pictures and aerial photographs backing Israel's claims that Hamas put Gaza civilians in danger by using them as human shields. Photos show terrorists firing rockets at Israeli towns from within Arab civilian centers, and setting up rockets and mortar launchers near private homes.
Newspapers and human rights groups are also quoted to provide proof of Hamas' abuse of its civilian population. In addition, the report makes use of testimony from Hamas terrorists captured during the operation, who admit to firing rockets from Gaza schools in order to reduce the chances of an Israeli response.
Hamas' weapons arsenal is also illustrated in several pictures, as is the damage caused by Hamas rockets that have hit Israeli towns.
Detailed Response to Allegations
The report gives detailed responses to several specific allegations involving civilian casualties. In some cases the IDF found that deaths were caused by IDF error, while in other cases investigators found that soldiers acted properly, and civilians were killed after choosing not to evacuate despite several warnings of immediate danger.
In still other cases, the IDF found that alleged Air Force strikes never took place, and the “civilians” listed as having died in the strikes were actually Hamas terrorists who had died in fighting elsewhere in Gaza.
Use of White Phosphorous
One of the controversies surrounding the Gaza operation was the IDF's alleged use of white phosphorous explosives. In fact, the IDF did not use white phosphorous as an incendiary or a weapon, but did use the substance to provide illumination or to create a smokescreen.
White phosphorous is not a banned weapon as human rights groups have claimed, the report states, as international treaties banning the use of incendiary weapons ban only those weapons used offensively, to create fires, and not those used to provide a screen.
If the IDF had refrained from using white phosphorous altogether, it would have risked more casualties, the report argues. In many cases, the use of smokescreens containing white phosphorous “prevented the need to use explosive munitions whose impact would have been considerably more dangerous,” it states. | <urn:uuid:946b8077-942e-4a80-a292-ba08ae560a96> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/132663 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00018-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970803 | 857 | 1.601563 | 2 |
Bush remark on Iran creates furore
China on alert against radiation leaks
Rice, Pranab discuss Myanmar, N-deal
Burning of Patka
Bush remark on Iran creates furore
Speaking thousands of miles away from home, US President George W. Bush on Thursday ignited a firestorm by telling the Israeli Knesset that those advocating a dialogue with countries like Iran are like people who favoured engaging Adolf Hitler.
The remark was promptly interpreted as a swipe at Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama who has emphasised the importance of dialogue with America's enemies.
Speaking to Israeli lawmakers in Jerusalem, Bush said, “Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along.”
Describing this approach as a “foolish delusion,“ he said: “As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: 'Lord, if I could only have talked to Hitler, all this might have been avoided.' We have an obligation to call this what it is - the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history”
The remarks won applause in Jerusalem, but a sharp rebuke in Washington. Obama accused the president of trying “to launch a false political attack” against him.
White House spokeswoman Dana Perino promptly countered that Obama was not the target of the remarks and that Bush was echoing “long-established United States policy.”
She noted “there are many who have suggested these types of negotiations with people that President Bush thinks we should not talk to.”
“I understand when you're running for office you sometimes think the world revolves around you - that is not always true and it is not true in this case,” Perino added.
The other presidential candidates promptly weighed in. Senator John McCain, the Republican Party's presumptive nominee, said Obama was showing “naivety and inexperience and lack of judgment" in his willingness to meet with US foes.
Obama has criticised McCain as being too close to Bush and by association a candidate who will usher in a “third term” of the Bush presidency should he win the election in November.
McCain said: “This does bring up an issue that we will be discussing with the American people, and that is, why does Barack Obama, Senator Obama, want to sit down with a state sponsor of terrorism?”
Obama's Democratic rival, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, described Bush's original comments as "offensive and outrageous, especially in light of his failures in foreign policy."
Senator John Kerry, who was the Democratic Party's presidential nominee in 2004, accused Bush of “playing the disgusting and dangerous political game Karl Rove perfected which is insulting to every American and disrespectful to our ally Israel.”
He was referring to Bush's former White House adviser. Kerry noted that Bush's own secretaries of state and defence had advocated talking to Iran.
“If George Bush believes engagement with Iran is appeasement, the first thing he should do when he comes home is demand the resignation of his own Cabinet. Secretary [Robert] Gates and Secretary [Condoleezza] Rice have both favoured negotiations with Iran,” Kerry said.
“The bottom line is that George Bush’s policies have made America less safe.... America needs - and Israel deserves - presidential leadership that actually makes us safer and stronger,” Kerry added.
Beijing, May 16
The disaster area is home to China's chief nuclear weapons research lab in Mianyang, as well as several secretive atomic sites, but no nuclear power stations.
Minister of environmental protection Zhou Shengxian convened an emergency meeting late on Monday, hours after the 7.9 magnitude tremor rocked the southwestern province of
Sichuan, and activated the lowest tier of a four-stage system of ranking radiation leaks, the ministry said on its website
President Hu Jintao flew to Mianyang today, four days after the quake, which is thought to have killed more than 50,000 persons, state television and the official Xinhua news agency reported, in an indication the risk was low. Xinhua didn't say if Hu had inquired about nuclear facilities there.
But nuclear scientists were evacuated from the area as a precaution, a source with knowledge of the evacuation said. "Everyone was evacuated. No one was left," the source, who requested anonymity, told Reuters.
A Western expert with knowledge of the Mianyang lab had said it was unlikely it was at serious risk. A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said this week he had not heard of damage to nuclear facilities in the disaster area when asked at a regular news briefing.
Meanwhile, China struggled to bury its dead and help tens of thousands of injured and homeless today when a powerful aftershock brought new havoc four days after an earthquake thought to have killed more than 50,000.
Premier Wen Jiabao said the quake damage could exceed the devastating 1976 tremor in the northeastern city of Tangshan that killed up to 300,000 people.
Wen called on officials to ensure social stability as frustration and exhaustion grew among survivors, many of whom lost everything and were living in tents or in the open air.
China put the death toll at just over 22,000 on Friday but has said it expects it to exceed 50,000. About 4.8 million people have lost their homes.
Thousands of men, women and children were heading by foot for Mianyang, a city near the epicentre, saying they were abandoning their ruined villages for good.
Anger has focused on the state of school buildings, many of which crumpled in Monday's quake, burying thousands of children and prompting the Housing Ministry to order an investigation. — Reuters
Washington, May 16
“On Burma, she yesterday spoke with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang. I mentioned Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. And she also spoke with Indian foreign minister Mukherjee. Of course, part of their discussion also was about the Indian civil nuclear deal, but they focused quite a bit on the issue of Burma,” spokesman at Foggy Bottom Sean McCormack said.
However, the spokesman was reluctant to give details of the conversation on the civilian nuclear initiative.
McCormack’s refusal to provide details on the Rice-Mukherjee conversation pertaining to the civilian nuclear deal has is being seen against the backdrop of a perception here that the Bush administration does not want the finer details of the deal to be discussed publicly in an apprehension that this could make a volatile issue even more complicated.
The Bush administration is quite aware of the political compulsions in India and according to a media report is disinclined to have members of Congress discussing the responses to queries out in the open.
“The US-India civilian nuclear deal is in ‘such desperate’ straits that the State Department has imposed unusually strict conditions on the answers it has provided to law makers, that it be kept secret even if the materials are not classified,” a report in The Washington Post said.
Officials at Foggy Bottom, according to the media report have made the request to Congress because of a fear that public disclosure would torpedo the deal, unnamed sources have been cited in report said. — PTI
Burning of Patka
New York, May 16
Garrett Green, 18, pleaded not guilty to charges of aggravated assault, bias intimidation, arson and criminal mischief slapped on him.
He was ordered by the Municipal Court Judge Gregory Williams to appear on May 21. The incident occurred on May 5 and Green was arrested immediately after the incident.
Authorities had earlier charged him with arson and criminal mischief but pressed hate crime charges of bias intimidation and aggravated assault yesterday.
Hightstown Police Chief James Eufemia said the two charges were added after the department completed its investigation.
"The aggravated assault charge was added because the student was set afire and that there was intent to cause serious bodily injury. The bias intimidation was added because a patka, which is a Sikh religious symbol, was set afire," he was quoted as saying by the local media.
The 16-year-old Sikh boy, whose family does not wish him to be identified, did not suffer any major injury.
Some of his hair were reported burnt after his headgear was allegedly set on fire by a cigarette lighter during a fire drill while he was talking to a friend.
Victim's uncle Harjot Pannu said the incident had left them scarred psychologically. "It can be mentally damaging and the boy is shocked about what happened.” — PTI
WB loan to support Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan
Deshpande's ashes to be immersed in Indus
California court removes ban on gay marriages
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Appearance And Reality In The Relaunch Of Brand America
In 1997, the British media filled with talk of "historic" change. Blair's victory that year "bursts open the door to a British transformation," the Independent declared. (Neal Ascherson, 'Through the door he can begin to create a freer land,' The Independent, May 4, 1997)
A Guardian leader saluted the nation: "Few now sang England Arise, but England had risen all the same." (Leader, 'A political earthquake,' The Guardian, May 2, 1997)
The editors predicted that, by 2007, Blair's triumph would be seen as "one of the great turning-points of British political history... the moment when Britain at last gave itself the chance to construct a modern liberal socialist order." (Ibid)
The Observer assured readers that the Blair government would create "new worldwide rules on human rights" and implement "tough new limits on arms sales." (http://www.antiwar.com/orig/pilger.php?articleid=5063)
This, after all, was the dawn of Blair's "ethical" foreign policy.
It was a dawn of the dead - Blair left behind him the almost unimaginable horror of Iraq and Afghanistan.
A rare poll conducted by Ipsos last January of 754 Iraqi refugees in Syria found that "every single person interviewed by Ipsos reported experiencing at least one traumatic event in Iraq prior to their arrival in Syria." (http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/ vtx/iraq?page=news&id=479616762)
UNHCR estimated that one in five of those registered with the agency in Syria over the previous year were classified as "victims of torture and/or violence." The survey showed that fully 89 per cent of those interviewed suffered depression and 82 per cent anxiety. This was linked to terrors endured before they fled Iraq - 77 per cent of those interviewed reported being affected by air bombardments, shelling or rocket attacks. Eighty per cent had witnessed a shooting... and so on. (Ibid)
John Pilger was a lonely voice in 1997 warning that Blair was a dangerous fraud, a neocon in sheep's clothing. As Pilger later pointed out, the media could hardly plead ignorance
"Blair's Vichy-like devotion to Washington was known: read his speeches about a new order led by America. His devotion to Rupert Murdoch, who flew him and Cherie Booth around the world first class, was known. His devotion to an extreme neoliberal Thatcherite economics was known..." (John Pilger, Blair's bloody hands,' March 4, 2005; http://www.antiwar.com/orig/pilger.php?articleid=5063
Over the past two weeks - one decade and three wars later - the same media have been insisting, as one, that US president-elect Barrack Obama is another "new dawn". A Guardian leader observed:
"They did it. They really did it. So often crudely caricatured by others, the American people yesterday stood in the eye of history and made an emphatic choice for change for themselves and the world...
"Today is for celebration, for happiness and for reflected human glory. Savour those words: President Barack Obama, America's hope and, in no small way, ours too." (http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/ 2008/nov/06/barackobama-uselections2008)
In the Guardian's news section, Oliver Burkeman described the victory as "historic, epochal, path breaking". But there was more:
"Just being alive at a time when it's so evident that history is being made was elating and exhausting." (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/ 2008/nov/05/uselections2008-barackobama)
In 2003, the Guardian's foreign editor, Ed Pilkington, told us:
"We are not in the business of editorialising our news reports." (Email, November 15, 2003)
Someone forgot to tell Burkeman, indeed the entire Guardian news team. At times like these, the media's claims to balanced coverage seem to belong to a different universe. Over the last two weeks, the public has been subjected to a one-way delusional deluge by the media. The propaganda is such that comments made by independent US presidential candidate, Ralph Nader, appear simply shocking:
"What we're seeing is the highest level of resignation and apathy and powerlessness I've ever seen. We're not talking about hoopla. We're not talking about 'hope'. We're not talking about rhetoric. We're not talking about 'rock star Obama'. We're talking about the question that is asked everywhere I go: 'What is left for the American people to decide other than their own personal lives under more restrictive circumstances year after year?' And the answer is: almost nothing." (Interview, RealNews.com, November 4; http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_ content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=2717)
Nader says of Obama: "This is show business what you're seeing." The crucial point: "Obama doesn't like to take on power." (Ibid)
But our media, passionately committed to 'balance' though they claim to be, are not interested. Their view (or so they claim): Obama's victory is a wonderful, transformational moment for the world.
The message is enhanced by precisely the abandonment of any pretence of impartiality. This might be termed the 'Get Real!' stratagem of propaganda swamping. The suggestion is that the truth is so obvious, so marvellous, that it is churlish to be concerned with balance. When the whole media system is screaming at us to be overjoyed, something is wrong - life is just not that straightforward.
The same version of events has been repeated right across the media. The Times's leading warmonger under Bush-Blair-Brown, Gerard Baker, commented: "there haven't been many days preceded by more energy and freighted with much greater historic significance than this one". (Baker, 'Amid the silence, citizens will make history with their sacred rite,' The Times, November 4, 2008)
The BBC's Justin Webb wrote:
"On every level America will be changed by this result - its impact will be so profound that the nation will never be the same." (http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/justinwebb/)
David Usborne gushed for the non-editorialising news pages of the Independent:
"As tears wetted a thousand cheeks in the Chicago crowd, it was clear that the significance of Mr Obama's victory may take some while to sink in." (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/ barack-obama-wins-his-place-in-history-992750.html)
How to communicate the impact?
"Call it the demise of cynicism or the end of apathy. The country that pretends to be the standard-bearer of the democracy and presumes, indeed, to export it to the other countries around the world was living up to its own standards."
Jon Snow of Channel 4 News did not disappoint:
"Hello history (to use the word of the times). What a staggering and indescribable moment this is. Barack Obama's graceful acceptance of what had seemed both inevitable and impossible is up there equalling any political event since the downing of the Berlin Wall and the release of Nelson Mandela." (Snowmail, November 5, 2008)
And the basis for this staggeringly important moment?
"Even after so many months of speech-making it's still not clear what are the concrete changes that may now ensue and in particular, there are some big foreign policy areas where Obama is not promising a hugely different tack from Bush..." (Ibid)
As we will see below, the amazing fact is that this eruption of media hype is based on essentially nothing. Obama has had little to say about what he will do, and what he has said has been depressing for anyone hoping for genuine change. Matthew Parris summed it up in the Times:
"Here we have a handsome, dashing and intelligent man, a man with generous instincts and a silver tongue; but a man with no distinctive plan for government that he has seen fit to share with us; a daring opportunist; somebody we may one day judge as a sort of Tony Blair with brains. And here we go again, all over again, hook, line and sinker." (Matthew Parris, 'Calm down! He's not President of the World,' The Times, November 8, 2008)
The former Europe minister and arch-Blairite, Denis MacShane, also unwittingly supplied a note of caution:
"I shut my eyes when I listen to this guy [Obama] and it could be Tony. He is doing the same thing that we did in 1997." (Tom Baldwin, 'Blair team look in mirror of history,' The Times, November 8, 2008)
Obama And Iraq
As discussed above, the media's propaganda swamping on Obama - of which we have sampled only a fraction - is based on almost nothing at all. Tariq Ali commented on Democracy Now
"As for what the policies are going to be, the situation is pretty depressing. I mean, Obama, during his campaign, didn't promise very much, basically talked in clichés and synthetic slogans like 'change we can believe in.' No one knows what that change is. In foreign policy terms, during the debates, what he said was basically a continuation of the Bush-Cheney policies. And in relation to Afghanistan, what he said was worse than McCain..." (http://www.democracynow.org/2008/11/6/ president_elect_obama_and_the_future)
Andrew Rawnsley wrote in the Observer:
"Iraq and Afghanistan are the sharp end of the partnership between Britain and the United States. Senior members of the British government quite candidly confess: 'We don't have a particularly clear view about what they want to do.'" (http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/ 2008/nov/09/obama- administration-brown-cameron-sarkozy)
And yet, in the face of Obama's silence, and flat rejection of progressive policies, the media has sought to portray him as an all-new "dawn". Thus, Jonathan Freedland wrote in his open letter to Obama:
"You have promised to... end the war in Iraq." (Freedland, 'A few thoughts on how to handle the world's most potent political weapon,' The Guardian, November 5, 2008)
In the same newspaper, Julian Borger described Obama's goals: "US troops will be pulled out of Iraq in the next 16 months..." (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/ nov/05/uselections2008-barackobama6)
A Times leader asked: "How quickly can the United States military withdraw from Iraq?" (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/ leading_article/article5084156.ece)
We doubt any journalist on the Times actually believes Obama is intending to withdraw US troops from Iraq (in the intended meaning of the term).
In the Guardian, Jonathan Steele supplied a more realistic appraisal:
"... his position contains massive inconsistencies... he has not repudiated the war on terror. Rather, he insists that by focusing excessively on Iraq, the Bush administration 'took its eye off the ball'. The real target must be Afghanistan and if Osama bin Laden is spotted in Pakistan, bombing must be used there too." (http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/nov/06/barack-obama-war-on-terror)
Steele commented on the number of troops Obama is planning to keep in Iraq:
"Officials on his team say it could number as many as 50,000 troops. Even if much of this force remains on bases and is barely visible to Iraqi civilians (much as the 4,500 British at Basra airfield are), it cannot avoid symbolising the fact that the occupation continues." (Ibid)
Obama - Hawk
John Pilger - who was right about Blair in 1997 and who is surely right about Obama now - also rejects the mainstream consensus:
"Like all serious presidential candidates, past and present, Obama is a hawk and an expansionist. He comes from an unbroken Democratic tradition, as the war-making of presidents Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter and Clinton demonstrates." (http://www.johnpilger.com/page.asp?partid=492)
Obama, after all, has supported Colombia's "right to strike terrorists who seek safe-havens across its borders." (http://www.newstatesman.com/media/ 2008/06/pilger-obama-truly-bush) He has promised to continue America's fierce economic strangulation of Cuba. He has promised to support an "undivided Jerusalem" as Israel's capital.
In August, Obama said he would be willing to attack inside Pakistan with or without approval from the Pakistani government:
"If we have actionable intelligence about high-value terrorist targets and President Musharraf won't act, we will." (http://www.reuters.com/article/ domesticNews/idUSN0132206420070801)
He has also said: "We will kill Bin Laden. We will crush al-Qaida." (http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,24464976-912,00.html)
ZNet's Michael Albert commented last week:
"My guess is, sadly, that within one week, literally one week, Obama's staff and cabinet choices will make decisively evident that without mass activism forcing new outcomes, change will stop at the surface. I fervently hope I am wrong." (Albert, 'Obama Mania?', ZNet, November 7, 2008)
Albert appears to have been vindicated. Vice-president-elect, Joe Biden, is a pro-war Zionist. Rahm Emanuel, Obama's chief of staff, helped push through NAFTA and favoured the war on Iraq. Alexander Cockburn writes of him:
"He's a former Israeli citizen, who volunteered to serve in Israel in 1991 and who made brisk millions in Wall Street. He is a super-Likudnik hawk, whose father was in the fascist Irgun in the late Forties, responsible for cold-blooded massacres of Palestinians." (www.counterpunch.org/cockburn11072008.html)
In a co-authored book, Emanuel wrote:
"We need to fortify the military's 'thin green line' around the world by adding to the U.S. Special Forces and the Marines, and by expanding the U.S. army by 100,000 more troops." (Ibid)
Nader comments on Obama:
"What he's basically doing so far is giving the Clinton crowd a second chance. Rahm Emanuel? He's the worst of Clinton. Spokesman for Wall Street, Israel, globalization." (Ibid)
Conclusion - Relaunching The Brand
We are to believe that the US political system that Ralph Nader accurately describes as "a two-party dictatorship in thraldom to giant corporations," has produced a staggeringly different, progressive individual. And yet Nader has described how he was himself locked out of the election. He was not allowed to participate in the televised debates and lack of media coverage consigned his campaign to oblivion. He wrote to Obama:
"Far more than Senator McCain, you have received enormous, unprecedented contributions from corporate interests, Wall Street interests and, most interestingly, big corporate law firm attorneys... Why, apart from your unconditional vote for the $700 billion Wall Street bailout, are these large corporate interests investing so much in Senator Obama? Could it be that in your state Senate record, your U.S. Senate record and your presidential campaign record (favoring nuclear power, coal plants, offshore oil drilling, corporate subsidies including the 1872 Mining Act and avoiding any comprehensive program to crack down on the corporate crime wave and the bloated, wasteful military budget, for example) you have shown that you are their man?" (http://www.globalresearch.ca/ index.php?context=va&aid=10809)
It is no accident that the entire media system is so fervently announcing "historic" change. The American and British political brands have been badly battered and bloodied by utter disaster in Afghanistan and Iraq, and by the fiscal chaos of the "credit crunch". The insanity of greed-driven militarism enforcing catastrophic 'solutions' has become all too obvious, as has the provision of socialism for the rich and capitalism for the rest of us.
And so the American political brand must be rebirthed, resold, relaunched as a fresh start under new management.
We are being put through a crash-course in "Learning to love America again," as the Telegraph put it. (Iain Martin, 'The election of Barack Obama,' Daily Telegraph, November 6, 2008)
A leader in the Times on November 5 could hardly have stated the message more clearly:
"The American nation will replenish the confidence that it has lately lost. In the eyes of the world, the slate will be clean and the pretext, always spurious, for anti-Americanism has been removed." (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/ comment/leading_article/article5084156.ece)
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By Remez Sasson
Do you, like most people feel lazy sometimes? It could be just a momentary feeling of laziness, or it could be a habitual state. You might feel lazy in relation to certain particular activities, but motivated in relation to other activities.
What is laziness? It is a state of lack of energy, lack of desire and often indifference. It is sometimes caused by external conditions, such as the weather, when it is too cold or too hot, and sometimes due to internal causes, such as lack of motivation, an inclination to procrastination or fear.
Sometimes, we might find ourselves in situations, where we enjoy being lazy, such while lying in bed beneath a warm blanket on a cold day, or lying on the beach in the shade on a hot summer day, but life in general, requires that we overcome most of our laziness.
Do you wish to overcome laziness? Do you feel it is holding you back, preventing you from being active, from following your decisions, and from improving your habits and your life?
How you can overcome laziness?
By being active, instead of passive, by not procrastinating, by being aware of the importance of acting, instead of letting laziness get the upper hand.
Things don’t get done by being lazy and making no effort. Success requires activity, doing, initiative, and taking advantage of opportunities. This requires an active person, not a passive one. It requires the ability of resisting and overcoming laziness and procrastinating.
How to overcome laziness
Here are a few tips and suggestions to overcome laziness:
1. Visualize yourself doing the very thing that you feel too lazy and reluctant to do. Imagine yourself doing it energetically and enthusiastically. There will probably be inner resistance and lack of faith, yet, continue visualizing that you are acting with interest and love. Feel that you have already accomplished your task, and enjoy that feeling.
2. Make a list of things to do. Arrange them from the easiest to the more difficult, and start doing them right now. Put simple easy to tasks at first, so as to avoid strong inner resistance. Congratulate yourself, and cross this entry after accomplishing it. Gradually, being a doer will become a habit.
3. Do small acts that you usually avoid doing. They will strengthen your will power and self-discipline. By doing something that you incline to procrastinate or feel inconvenient doing, you strengthen your inner muscles.
Talk with someone you usually avoid.
Talk a walk in the evening.
Repair something at home that you keep putting off
Give up watching a late night show on TV, and go to sleep earlier instead.
4. Do you wish to go for a walk, but feel lazy to do so? Go out and walk right now. Consider it as an exercise that strengthens you.
5. Do you have chore that you must do? Go do it right now.
6. Make it a habit to do right now what you are inclined to procrastinate.
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For me, one of the greatest strengths of this novel-in-verse is the device of choosing the voice of an eighth grader writing to a classmate who committed suicide. How much was the protagonist, Kana Goldberg, to blame for this girl’s desperate unhappiness? How much is anyone? ORCHARDS by Holly Thompson (Delacorte Press) opens:
One week after
you stuffed a coil of rope
into your backpack
and walked uphill into
where blooms were still closed fists
my father looked up
summer airfares to Tokyo…”
That “you” hooked me into following the way a relationship and understanding develops between the protagonist and a girl who is gone. Kana spends the summer on a farm getting to know her mother’s side of the family, which lets her find new strengths, but she also learns from what’s said and not said over the Internet and through her own reflections. I loved the details of life on the farm, loved less an incident toward the end of the book that seemed melodramatic to me, but expect many readers will like. I don’t need a lot of action. I can’t imagine anyone reading this novel being unmoved by its message about the secret hurts too many people carry, and I hope it’s a book that gets discussed among young people as well as read individually. Ancient Asian spirits, emails, mikan orange groves, grandmothers criticizing big butts, and girls trying to act better toward each other: little is more important.
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...following the establishment of an autonomous republic in that former French colony. Like many neighbouring countries, it chose the pan-African colours (red-yellow-green) that had been used by the African Democratic Rally—i.e., the legislators in the French National Assembly who represented French West Africa following World War II. The colours were also associated with Ethiopia, the...
...Cameroons or Cameroon.) In the end, however, the members of the legislature favoured a simple flag of three equal vertical stripes, a design inspired by the French Tricolor. The influence of the African Democratic Rally, the leading local political force in French West Africa, was felt when colours were chosen. Its party colours (green, yellow, and red) symbolized the struggle of Africans...
...French-controlled territories in West Africa, Mali chose for its national flag the popular colours green, yellow, and red, which later came to be known as the “pan-African colours.” The African Democratic Rally, a coalition of African delegates founded after World War II, had utilized those as its party colours. They were also characteristic of the national flags of Ethiopia, Ghana,...
founded by Houphouët-Boigny
...Party of Côte d’Ivoire (PDCI); this party was affiliated with the French Communist Party and was an important component of the interterritorial French West African Federation party, the African Democratic Rally, of which he was also president.
In 1946 Houphouët-Boigny helped found the African Democratic Rally (RDA), a western Africa–based umbrella organization that sought equality for Africans; the Ivoirian branch was the Democratic Party of Côte d’Ivoire (PDCI). Though at first harshly repressed, the RDA achieved many of its goals. In 1960 Houphouët-Boigny, who had been a cabinet minister in two French...
independence movements in western Africa
...systems and that there had developed a new, wider, and mobilizable public to appeal to for support. In 1946 politicians in French West Africa organized a federation-wide political association, the African Democratic Rally (RDA). The RDA and its members in the French National Assembly aligned themselves with the French Communist Party, the only effective opposition to the governments of the...
participation by Touré
Touré became active in politics in the mid-1940s and in 1946 helped Félix Houphouët-Boigny of Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) form the African Democratic Rally. Touré proved to be a powerful orator and was elected to the French National Assembly in 1951 as a representative from Guinea, but he was not allowed to take his seat. Reelected in 1954, he was again barred....
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Many people watch the Super Bowl as much for the commercials as for the game. Historically, companies have pulled out all the stops to buy very expensive advertising time, knowing that as many as 100 million people across the country might be watching. Super Bowl commercials also can generate a huge amount of buzz for a company’s product in the days and weeks following the game. An entertaining Super Bowl ad often becomes a topic of conversation at work for millions of Americans. For example, in 1984, Apple’s Macintosh quickly became a household name after the now famous “Big Brother” ad.
Also, Super Bowl watchers don’t ignore the commercials. During most network broadcasts, viewers will change the channel or, in the age of DVR, simply press fast forward during the commercials. During the Super Bowl, however, the ads are part of the event.
This year, the recession is affecting the Super Bowl, just like it is affecting every other area of American life. NBC had trouble filling the available ad space during the Pittsburgh-Arizona game because most companies are too cash-poor to pay for the multi-million-dollar-per-minute fee. General Motors, FedEx, and several other companies have pulled their scheduled ads this year because they do not have the money to justify buying such expensive ad space.
Despite the economy, Doritos, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, and Monster.com, among others, will have advertisements during this year’s Super Bowl.
Here are some of the best ads from the 2009 Super Bowl:
Coca Cola – Heist
Also, please enjoy some of the most memorable commercials from Super Bowls of the past.
Britney Spear’s Pepsi – 2003
Budweiser Clydesdales – 2002 – Honor September 11
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Celebrated continuously since the devastating quake of 1650, Cusco’s procession of the Señor de los Temblores (Lord of the Earthquakes) traditionally begins at Cusco’s cathedral on the Monday before Easter.
One of Peru’s most enigmatic festivals is Qoyllur R’itti, which takes place in May or June before Corpus Christi on the slopes of the Nevado Ausangate at 4,800 meters. During the three-day festival, elaborately costumed men climb in the middle of the night to hew huge blocks of ice, which they carry on their backs down the mountain at dawn. Thousands of campesinos from neighboring communities come to this spot to bring ice down from the mountain or participate in the colorful masked dances.
This festival, Christian only on the surface, grew out of the Andean tradition of worshipping mountains, or apus, to ensure rains and good harvests. The pilgrims trek toward the mountain from the town of Tinki, which is several hours away from Cusco on the rough road to Puerto Maldonado. If you are in Cusco during this time, you can find agencies along Plateros in Cusco that sell transport and camping.
During Cusco’s Corpus Christi, which usually happens in early June, elaborate processions fill the streets of Cusco as all the bells in the city ring. Each procession carries a different saint, which is treated as if it were a living person, in the same way the Inca paraded their ancestors’ mummies around these same streets five centuries ago.
A country festival that is straightforward for travelers to attend is the June 15–17 festival of the Virgen del Carmen in Paucartambo, a pleasant colonial town that is a four-hour bus ride from Cusco on the way to the Manu. The festival includes an extraordinary range of dances and costumes. Many Cusco agencies offer inexpensive lodge-and-transport packages to the festival, which include a dawn trip to Tres Cruces, a fabulous place to watch the sun rise over the Amazon basin.
Cusco’s biggest festival is Inti Raymi, the Inca celebration of the June 21 winter solstice. The festival, which lasts 10 days on either side of the solstice, was banned by the Spaniards in 1535. But in 1944, a group of Cusco intellectuals re-created the sacred ceremony by studying chronicles and historical documents.
Each year, hundreds dress up as Inca priests, nobles, and chosen women, and one man, chosen by audition, gets to be Inca Pachacútec. The main day, June 24, begins at 10 a.m. at the Coricancha (the sun temple) and ends around 2 p.m. at Sacsayhuamán, where thousands of tourists sit on the fort’s walls for a good view as Pachacútec speaks with a sun god through a microphone. It is a highly staged, touristy production, completely unlike the more down-to-earth countryside festivals.
Fiestas Patrias, the national Peruvian holiday at the end of July, is one of Peru’s most important holidays. The festival honors Peru’s independence on July 28 and Peru’s armed forces on July 29. A large amount of Peruvians travel in the week that falls around these dates. Hotels, transport, and other services are often booked during this time.
Santuranticuy, on December 24, is one of the largest arts-and-crafts fairs in Peru. Nativity figures, miniature altars, and ceramics are laid out on stalls in the Plaza de Armas by hundreds of artists.
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Failure to contain the invasive species in the lake will take an economic toll in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
Boaters alone shouldn't bear the cost; others have a stake in protecting Lake George, too.
It's easy, yet ultimately futile, to ask again why Lake George doesn't yet have a system for inspecting recreational boats for the invasive species that could ruin one of New York's great natural resources.
It will be much harder to continue to resist such a sensible measure, especially in the wake of a report spelling out in alarming detail exactly how the Asian clam and other invasive species could ruin the sparkling water of what is known as the Queen of American lakes.
Harder still, though, will be finding a way to pay for an effective inspection system.
But compared with the staggering price of failing to confront such a deadly threat to Lake George, the course is obvious.
Like many environmental crises, saving Lake George comes down to money. Listen closely, then, to the assessment of the Saratoga Springs engineering consultants known as the LA Group. Its report offers several hundred million reasons why boat inspections and other measures are imperative now.
A lake polluted by algae blooms and vulnerable to five different kinds of invasive species will be a much less appealing place to own property. Lakeshore property values could plummet by up to $386 million, predicts Jim Martin, an economic consultant for The LA Group.
The economic damage of rendering Lake George so much less attractive for recreational boating and swimming hardly stops there. Other estimates are equally overwhelming to the Lake George Park Commission, which is supposed to provide regulatory oversight on a budget of just $1.2 million a year.
The Lake George region's $487 million tourism business, for instance, could decline by anywhere from $9 million to $48 million annually.
So where to find the roughly $1 million a year it will cost to restrict lake access to boats that have been inspected and, where necessary, cleansed of invasive species? The LA Group's report didn't address that, but it's time for local citizens and governments to weigh in.
There is no easy solution, nor is there a single constituency to charge.
The 16,000 boaters who register each year to use the lake surely need to bear part of the cost through a reasonable fee. As for what constitutes part and how to further define reasonable, it's important to note that Dave Wick, executive director of the Lake George Park Commission, says it would be unfair to make boaters pay between $150 and $200 for inspections. He makes a valid point, considering who else has a stake in trying to keep the lake clean.
Among the options that must be considered is allocating a share of the Warren County hotel and sales taxes to pay for boat inspections. An otherwise reluctant state Department of Environmental Conservation ought to contribute, as should the federal government. And so should the private businesses around the lake that stand to lose so much if it isn't clean.
All of those solutions will doubtless meet resistance. The Cuomo administration, for example, is pointedly against any new taxes or fees.
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What happened: Services and programs provided by the Moore County Public Library are worth more than eight times what they cost taxpayers, the library's director told the Board of Commissioners during their meeting on Tuesday night.
Why it matters: Alice Thomas, the director, gave the commissioners an annual report. She said more than 1,500 people used the library's computers and more than 6,500 children participated in library programs during the 2011-12 fiscal year.
Library services and programs provide $8.12 worth of value for each tax dollar spent, Thomas said.
What they said: Jesse Gibson, director of libraries for the Sandhills Regional Library System, also spoke. Moore County is one of five counties in the system.
Gibson said the system is using a $56,000 federal grant to pay for new software that provides summaries and descriptions of books in libraries. Residents also can connect with the library on their smart phones.
"You've got the library on the go and mobile," he said.
What's next: People who go to the system's website can review and give ratings to books, Gibson said. The smart phone interface lets them reserve books and access the library catalog.
Other business: Commissioners also voted to spend up to $54,750 to evaluate the county's fire departments and develop an emergency services master plan. The departments will be able to give input.
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