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HR is a vibrant skill-set, needed in industry, government, heath care, and not for profit organizations. Each sector (all of which hire HR professionals) is only as good as the people it can attract, develop, retain and mobilize. The Bureau of Labor Statistics expects the profession to grow 22% between now and 2018.
HR is about building the systems and processes to attract, develop, mobilize and retain the critical talent organizations need to compete in a competitive marketplace. These processes include recruitment, rewards – benefits, base pay and incentives, building a culture that fosters performance, yet respects critical work-life balance issues.
To be “best” in the mind of its customers and to earn their business, an organization must develop and sustain critical capabilities and competencies. These are embedded in the talent base of the firm. Just as the chief financial officer is the chief financial strategist of the firm, so the chief human resource officer is the organization’s chief talent strategist. Just as the organization needs the right financial resources, at the right time, in the right place – so also, it needs the right people, at the right time in the right place.
Organizations compete for talent, just like they do for other scarce resources. HR strategists ensure that the organization can offer an attractive value proposition to attract its critical talent needs – this can come in the form of pay, developmental opportunities, the opportunity to be a part of a team, pursuing a mission that is meaningful to them. When you have the best talent, you must compete to keep and retain the people with your organization-essential skills. As organizations grow, as markets change, talent needs shift, and their development must accelerate. Who will ensure that the talent portfolio of the organization keeps pace in a rapidly changing global market place?
To play in today’s competitive market, HR professionals must be business savvy. They need to understand what keeps the CEO up at night, what keeps the CFO, the chief operations officer (COO) and the chief marketing officer up at night. In most cases, what keeps these professionals up at night is ensuring that the organization keeps its promises to customers, shareholders, and communities alike. In the end it is a collection of really talented people who keep these promises and deliver the results upon which the organization and its critical stakeholders depend. What keeps HR up at night? Making sure the organization has the right talent, in the right place, at the right time to deliver superior performance in the marketplace. | <urn:uuid:cd8fea50-6180-43f9-9bc7-c6e22f599af9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.huntsman.usu.edu/mshr/htm/about-the-mshr-program | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00072-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959625 | 511 | 1.648438 | 2 |
In response to the plague of fraudulent debt and mortgage relief services, the FTC enacted new regulations, effective January 31, 2011, below is the official announcement.
The advance fee ban under the FTC’s Mortgage Assistance Relief Services (MARS) Rule is designed to protect financially distressed homeowners from mortgage relief scams that have sprung up during the mortgage crisis.
“Banning the collection of up-front fees will protect homeowners from being victimized,” FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz said. “This is especially important at a time when so many people are behind on their mortgages or facing foreclosure.”
As of January 31, 2011, companies that offer to help homeowners get their loans modified or sell them other types of mortgage assistance relief services are no longer allowed to charge up-front fees. Under the rule, a mortgage assistance relief company may not collect a fee until the consumer has signed a written agreement with the lender that includes the relief obtained by the company. When the company presents the consumer with that relief, it must inform the consumer, in writing, that the consumer can reject the offer without obligation and, if the consumer accepts, the total fee due. Before the consumer agrees to accept the mortgage relief, the company must also provide a written notice from the lender or servicer showing how the relief will change the terms of the consumer’s loan (including any limitations on a trial loan modification).
During the past three years, the FTC has filed 32 lawsuits against mortgage assistance relief companies for deception and abuse, and state law enforcers have filed hundreds of additional cases. The MARS Rule issued in November gives the FTC and the states an additional tool for combating deceptive and unfair acts or practices by these entities.
Attorneys are generally exempt from the rule if they provide mortgage assistance relief services as part of the practice of law, are licensed in the state where the consumer or dwelling is located, and comply with state laws and regulations governing attorney conduct related to the rule. To be exempt from the advance fee ban, attorneys must also place any advance fees they collect in a client trust account and abide by state laws and regulations covering such accounts.
Information for Businesses and Consumers
FTC staff has issued two new business education publications. “The Mortgage Assistance Relief Services Rule: A Compliance Guide for Business” describes the key provisions of the MARS Rule to help covered businesses ensure that they are in compliance. “The Mortgage Assistance Relief Services Rule: A Compliance Guide for Lawyers” contains specific guidance for attorneys who provide mortgage assistance relief services. The staff has also issued a consumer publication, “Mortgage Assistance Relief Scams: Another Potential Stress for Homeowners in Distress,” which relates how to spot and avoid these scams. | <urn:uuid:ea8c89c7-6c2d-414f-95ba-cae989175ca4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://realestatecondo.net/ftc-bans-mortgage-assistance-relief-service-advance-fees/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00030-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952174 | 560 | 1.523438 | 2 |
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“The Consolation of Slavery.” The Economic History Review (UK), August 1976: 491–503.
R. W. Fogel and S. Engerman in their book, Time on the Cross (1974), claim to make “ten principal corrections of the traditional characterizations of the slave economy.” The central proposition asserts that American slaveholding was economically rational from the point of view of the owner; that they saw it as a profitable investment; and that the use of slave labor in agriculture and other activities was predictable from the theory of optimum use of economic reasources.
Fogel and Engerman base the measurement of profitability on a very simple model: the consol price/yield relationship where the slaveholder expects his slaves to yield a constant net revenue stream over their lives (on the average). One can question this model on the grounds that its simplicity precludes its use for analyzing the yield of any asset—human or otherwise—to which risk attaches. Even in the case of an equity, one cannot use the current rate of interest as a proxy for all future expected rates of interest because no guaranteed market exists for a particular equity.
Given the price of slaves, Fogel and Engerman derive estimates of the net revenue expected to accrue from a slave over a life time. For this they use a production function for southern agriculture. In estimating a production function it is crucial that we derive the physical marginal product of the input independently of the input price. If we fail to do so, a tautological situation arises where one cannot know if the measure of net revenue justifies the price paid. All attempts to measure physical marginal productivity risk falling into this trap of circular reasoning. It seems that Fogel and Engerman have done so. If we are to specify correctly the production function, we must obtain measures of input services derived from homogeneous units of inputs. We cannot aggregate them by their market value to estimate the marginal physical productivity of inputs. In the case of Fogel and Engerman, it begs the question of profitability and rational allocation at the outset. Besides, even if we assume that the supplies of factor inputs are infinitely elastic at the market price (as far as the individual entrepreneur is concerned), we should still simultaneously estimate the production function and the demand equation. In Time on the Cross, however, the two authors estimate the production function singly.
Thus we find the measurement of outputs and inputs is inadequate for testing the hypotheses concerning profitability of inputs, i.e., slaves.
The main criticism against Fogel and Engerman lies in their search for certainty and finality in their answers. This may be understandable in terms of the political background to the debate about slavery in the U.S. But we must employ patience in seeking elusive finality about such an issue. Economic historians can fruitfully use “cliometrics” (the application of measurement and econometric techniques to historic events) only on those questions which lend themselves to quantitative answers. Even when modestly employed, cliometrics will give answers that by their nature must be qualified by our doubts about the correctness of the data. | <urn:uuid:26ef53f7-26a1-4646-9539-4891a724506b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=907&chapter=99541&layout=html&Itemid=27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00047-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.919946 | 827 | 2.1875 | 2 |
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Ken SteiglitzDescribe your latest project.
First, Snipers, Shills, and Sharks is about why eBay is so tremendously successful as a business, essentially dominating the online auction market. If you were thinking for the first time about putting an auction up on the internet, well, the most obvious thing to do is to just keep posting the highest bids, and then, at some deadline, award the item to the highest bidder. I explain in the book why this wouldn't work well, and how eBay is exquisitely tuned to the internet in ways that are not obvious. eBay combines three elements: (1) the winner pays the second-highest bid; (2) at any point in the auction, only the second-highest bid so far is posted the highest bid is hidden; and (3) there is a hard deadline, when bidding ends. The interplay among these three features encourages early bidding and competition, crucial to eBay's success.
On another level, the book is about what is called "auction theory", which is the economist's theory of what auctions are best for sellers and buyers under many different circumstances. The idea of a second-price auction comes from the first paper ever written on auction theory: by William Vickrey in 1961. And the theory depends critically on John Nash's idea of equilibrium behavior. The mathematics (essentially freshman calculus) is carefully hidden in the appendices, and (I promise) there are no equations in the main text.
At another level and this is where the practical aspects of auctions meet theory the book is about human behavior, how the theory fails in important ways, and how real behavior plays perfectly to the advantage of eBay in making the auctions competitive and exciting some might say addictive.
Another important reason eBay works as well is it does is that it is transparent, and is therefore readily accepted as a trusted third party to users. Because of its transparency, eBay has become a gigantic fishbowl of economic behavior, and anyone can watch the millions of little fishes deal all day and night. This has greatly facilitated data collection, and field experiments, where researchers can carry out their own experiments by buying and selling themselves.
I should add that the book is not a manual or a collection of tips about how to start a business on eBay. Rather, it is about why eBay works well, how it fits into auction theory, and how people decide how to spend their own money, for things they really care about, sometimes passionately.
There are many different reasons I find myself writing. The physical act of sitting quietly and composing is pleasurable in itself. But I think the most powerful force is the need to set things down as simply as possible to separate the important from the irrelevant, the necessary from the inessential. I think this comes at a point when I think I've gotten to the bottom of something, or least when I feel I understand at least the foundations of a subject. To explain further, I'd like to talk about specific books.
It was like this in writing the book with Papadimitriou on Combinatorial Optimization (1982), in which we tried to lay out what it was that made some problems hard and some easy. Christos of course has gone much farther along this path in the twenty-five years since that book was written, and the boundary between hard and easy has developed further as a fascinating playground for computer scientists.
My DSP Primer (1996) is, similarly, an attempt to boil the subject down to its essentials. The linear theory can all be motivated by a few natural and physically appealing ideas, and this foundation serves as a necessary starting point for the really complex and interesting world of nonlinear phenomena.
Snipers, Shills, and Sharks is also, at one level, a minimal exposition of a theory auction theory. But it would be downright wrong to present it as an explanatory theory in the same way that algorithm complexity or digital signal processing is. In Snipers the fundamental theory reaches the usual sort of technical difficulties when more general, but well defined questions are asked. But the theory of auctions stands in a totally different light here, because we are, after all, dealing with what is somewhat optimistically called a social science, with questions of human behavior.
The job of writing with the mathematical theory in the background instead of center stage was the most challenging and interesting part of this most recent project, and it was the difficulty of simplification that really kept me going.
Describe your favorite childhood teacher and how that teacher influenced you.
Chess or video games?
What was your favorite book as a kid?
What new technology do you think may actually have the potential for making people's lives better?
If you could be reincarnated for one day to live the life of any scientist or writer, who would you choose and why?
Describe the best museum of science and/or industry you've ever visited and what made it great.
By the end of your life, where do you think humankind will be in terms of new science and technological advancement? | <urn:uuid:02623ff9-3e3f-4ff5-9f32-633fdc82ec3e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.powells.com/tqa/steiglitz.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00041-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96453 | 1,119 | 1.929688 | 2 |
WASHINGTON - Can it be true - a dessert that is actually healthy for you?
When faced with the option of chocolate cake or pumpkin pie this holiday season - go with the pie.
A half cup of pumpkin pie filling provides nearly a quarter of the daily fiber recommended for adults, according to eHow.com.
One slice of pumpkin pie contains more than the recommended daily value of vitamin A, which benefits eyesight and the immune system. Pumpkin filling also has potassium, vitamin C and iron, which will all boost your mood.
Nutritionists at the National Institutes of Health say eating carotenoids, or yellow and orange vegetables such as pumpkins and squash, can help lower the risk for some cancers.
Just one disclaimer: Beware of the crust - as it can contain up to 188 grams of fat and a quarter of the recommended amount of daily cholesterol. So have a slice of pumpkin this Thanksgiving. As for the crust and whipped cream - well, you're on your own for justifying those.
WTOP's Megan Cloherty contributed to this report. Follow @WTOP on Twitter.
(Copyright 2012 by WTOP. All Rights Reserved.)
An 800-pound alligator? That's not bad for a first hunting trip.
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More cursing happens in Maryland than across the Potomac River.
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Logan Village, a rural/residential town and district in Beaudesert Shire, is 35 km south-east of central Brisbane and 28 km north-east of Beaudesert. A short distance east of the Logan River, it is crossed by several tributaries, the Quinzeh Creek being closest to the town. Further east (eight km) there is the Albert River.
Permanent European settlement spread through the Logan and Albert valleys in the 1860s-70s, and the Logan Village primary school was opened in 1872. In 1885 a branch line was opened from Bethania Junction on the South Coast railway, and three years later it was extended from Logan Village to Beaudesert. The post office directory (1902) recorded the Logan Village Hotel, the school, some timber-getters, 15 farmers (three of German origin) and Herman and Otto Wendt, butchers. Not recorded, was the newly built State primary school (1900) which was a high-set, two-room timber building now listed on the Queensland heritage register.
In 1915 Logan Village itself became a railway junction when Lahey Bros Sawmills built a tramway to Tamborine and Canungra to bring out timber. The tramway carried mixed freight until 1955 when it was closed. Logan Village was still a rural district: about half the farmers in 1949 were recorded as dairying, as produce could be railed to the Kingston butter factory; and about one-fifth of the farm families had German surnames.
The railway line was closed in 1996 and re-opened between Logan Village and Beaudesert as a tourist attraction a few years later. Fire damage has delayed the railway's continuation.
Logan Village is predicted to become a growing district, situated on the Waterford-Tamborine Road. Its present boundaries give it an east-west distance of about 9 km. It has local shops, two public halls, a primary school, golf links, several parks, an historical centre and a library. There is an historic cemetery south of the town, unfortunately next door to the town tip. An industrial area is on the west of the business centre.
Logan Village's census populations have been:
D. Jenkinson, comp, Logan Village School Centenary, Logan Village, Logan Village State School Centenary Committee, 1976
Doreen Wendt-Weir, Barefoot in Logan Village: tales of life on the Logan: an anecdotal and oral history of the Logan Village District, North Tamborine, Doreen Wendt-Weir, 2003 | <urn:uuid:df03a952-4010-4642-88ad-77ecd19ff0ea> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://queenslandplaces.com.au/logan-village | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00019-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969008 | 533 | 2.34375 | 2 |
MANHATTAN, Kan. -- A Kansas State University-led research project is helping high-speed rail systems handle the stress of freezing and thawing weather conditions.
The university's Kyle Riding, assistant professor of civil engineering, is leading a three-year study that looks at the freeze-thaw durability of concrete railroad ties. The research is essential to developing safe and durable high-speed rail systems.
Riding is collaborating with Mohammed Albahttiti, civil engineering doctoral candidate from the United Arab Emirates; the university's Institute of Environmental Research; as well as a colleague at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and commercial partners Canadian National Railroad and CXT Concrete Ties Inc. The Federal Railroad Association recently awarded Riding more than $1.2 million to study the materials and fabrication process, and to develop quality control tests that ensure safe freeze-thaw durable concrete railroad ties.
"Freeze-thaw is a stressor that happens in pretty much all concrete when it is exposed to water and then freezing and thawing temperatures," Riding said.
When water freezes it grows in size by roughly 9 percent, Riding said. These increases, coupled with the decreases when the ice melts, cause stress on the container the ice forms in. When too much stress occurs the container can break -- similar to what happens when a full soda bottle is left in the freezer.
In concrete rail ties water collects and freezes in the pores of the concrete. As the liquid freezes it creates stress in the railroad tie, which can crack the ties. High-speed rail systems are more sensitive to these problems because of the high speed at which the trains travel on the tracks.
As high-speed rail systems become more widely adopted around the world, it becomes essential to keep passengers safe and maintain the rail system infrastructure against freezing and thawing conditions, Riding said.
To study the freeze-thaw conditions in concrete rail ties, researchers will add surfactants to the concrete as it is being mixed in the laboratory. These compounds produce millions of microscopic bubbles in the concrete that act as pressure release valves to help protect the concrete against damage.
One of the challenges will be to ensure that the bubbles are evenly dispersed through the concrete rail ties and small enough to protect the concrete from damage.
Researchers will evaluate the vibration conditions and air voids created by the bubbles in rail ties produced from various other materials, including surrogate clear materials, cement paste and mortars before scaling up to concrete. The ties will also be studied to determine if they get wet enough on the tracks to cause damage.
Additionally, the team is developing evaluation methods that will help railroad tie manufacturers determine the freeze-thaw resistance of concrete rail ties once they are produced.
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Persistent Droughts Plaguing Much of the World
Long dry spells have been a problem in various parts of the world including China, Africa, Russia, Australia, the southern and western United States, and Western Europe. Many are hoping that this is just a cyclical nuisance and not evidence of a permanent change in climate patterns. England in particular is used to being a damp and rainy island, but has been surprised now with three straight winters of drought-level precipitation. The first to notice and be affected by the changing levels of rainfall are the farmers. However, now public officials are beginning to worry about the long-term stability of their water supplies and the effects that lower rainfall will have on the environment as a whole.
The European Union is taking a lead role in making water resources an important issue in the international community. Occurring next week in Marseille, France, is the World Water Forum, a meeting to discuss the status of water supplies around the world and steps that must be done to protect them. At the June UN Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, EU officials intend to make water conservation a major agenda item. Furthermore, the European Commission has named 2012 as the Year of Water, planning an in depth review of the continent's water legislation and policies.
France, Spain, Portugal, and large sections of England have all been affected by recent droughts. As major agricultural areas, many are concerned with food output. The level of food supply would also then affect food prices.
In Europe, the issue is mostly a lack of rainfall. However, around the world, officials agree that the biggest source of water shortages is how the water is used. First of all, populations are exploding in the regions that already strained with water supplies. This includes the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia.
In many areas, water is wasted with overwatering crops and gardens, taking long showers, or just general abuse. Just as importantly, water quality is reduced, especially in developing nations, due to pollution.
EU officials urge significant steps be taken immediately to protect what is left of the world's water supplies, in order to avoid future social and ecological disasters. European nations are doing what they have to do to be prepared, but cannot do it for the rest of the world.
Future events that are being held include the following:
March 12-17: World Water Forum in Marseille
March 22: World Water Day
May 15-16: Water Innovation Europe Conference in Brussels, Belgium
June 20-22: UN Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
August 26-31: World Water Week, organized by the Stockholm International Water Institute
For more information: http://www.worldwaterforum6.org/en/
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Located in Agra city of Uttar Pradesh
Constructed in the year 1565 by Emperor Akbar
Completely made up of the red sand stone
Principally constructed as a military base established by Emperor Akbar in the year 1565, the Agra Red fort of Uttar Pradesh is one of the major prides in Indian history. It had been transformed to a palace, partially, all through the time of Emperor Shah Jahan. In spite of the principal configuration of the fort being built by Akbar, there were quite a lot additions more made to this royal structure by his later grandsons. The enormous fortress is 2.5 kms in length and it is regarded as a forerunner of the Red Fort in Delhi.
The immensely built walls of the Agra Red fort are as high as 20 feet and the entire fort is surrounded by a putrid moat. The Amar Singh gate, which lay towards the south of the fort campus, is the one and only point of entrance in the fort. The other smaller buildings and numerous fortresses like structures inside give a total notion of a smaller city within the greater city of Agra. Numerous buildings inside the fort are now no more open for the visitors to view. There is a marble pearl mosque which is inside the fort and which is one of the most gorgeously attractive mosques in the whole of India.
Diwan - e - Am :
This structure, called the Diwan -e- Aam - a hall for the common guests, had been built of wooden material and architecture, originally. Later on, there were renovations and newer constructions done and the hall was made in the manner, as it stands presently, by Emperor Shah Jahan. There is a clear sway of this emperor in the throne room of the fort, which can be judged by the style with which the carvings have been inlaid and marble panels have been adorned with floral ornamentation. This public hall serves as a courtroom for the common men and the Emperor, and was used for hearing the appeals of the public and meeting the administrative officials. From the Diwan -e- Aam, there led a way to the two most exciting and enchanting places in the fort – the Ladies Bazar and the Nagina Mosque, respectively. The Ladies Bazar was a shopping area, or market, where only ladies merchants and buyers were allowed to sell and purchase items like clothes, jewelry, robes, ornaments, footwear, decorative stuff, other accessories, and so on, only to the Mughal ladies.
Diwan - e - Khas :
The Diwan -e- Khas, used to be one of the most important places inside the fort. This was the hall for all the private audience of the ruling Emperor's family and friends. This one of all the halls was also included in the fort by Emperor Shah Jahan. The hall is segregated into two separate rooms which were linked via arches, three in number. The popular peacock throne was placed here before it got shifted to Delhi by Emperor Aurangzeb and was then finally flew away to the country of Iran.
Octagonal Tower :
This is one more exquisitely carved tower of the forts, which is built in close proximity with the Diwan -e- Khas. Emperor Shah Jahan had spent the final seven years of his life in imprisonment, by his son Aurangzeb, in this very tower. This tower had been used to have one of the best views of the Taj Mahal, but the increased pollution today has diminished the efficient visibility from this tower. The shape of the tower today is pitiable, yet the blank spaces and the inlay works that are empty give an idea of the look of this great old building in its days of liveliness.
Jehangir Palace :
It was the efforts of Emperor Akbar that brought about the existence of the Jehangir Palace. The Emperor built it for one of his beloved sons, Jehangir, so as to provide the prince with all the comfort, privacy and luxury inside the fort.
Mina Masjid :
There is a Mina Mahal located just over the place where the Sheesh Mahal is located in the fort. It is believed that this palace was erected by Shah Jahan to realize his strictly private use. Enclosed on all sides by four high walls, this Mina Masjid housed a Marble Mosque. The facade of this mosque consists of three small, plain and unadorned arches.
Moti Masjid :
This is another magnificent wonder inside the Agra Red Fort, called the Moti Masjid. It is located to the exact right side of the hall, named Diwan-E-Aam, inside the fort. The domes of this shrine can be easily seen from the outskirts of the fort, and hence the Moti Masjid is regarded as the prettiest building of all those at the Agra Fort. How does this Moti Masjid look like? Well, it is a mosque structure made completely of white marble and was built by Shah Jahan so that all the members of his family and all the court chiefs can have an in house mosque to pray. Since the construction of the Moti Masjid is done from full white marble, it is one of the most beautiful and ancient mosques of all those sited in or around Agra. Once, there used to be a time when the moti masjid used to shine like a brand new white pearl, ad upon that only, the name of this mosque had been decided.
Machhi Bhawan :
The Diwan-E-Khas, opposite to itself, holds a place named as the Machhi Bhawan which means the fish enclosure. The ruling emperor of the fort used to sit on a white marble platform which faced the enclosure. This fish field used to consist of marble fountains and pools once upon a tiem, and these were later uprooted and taken away by Raja Suraj Mal, the Jat King, to his Deeg palace.
Sheesh Mahal :
Inside the fort enclosure, there is a place named the Mussaman Burj, opposite to which lays the Sheesh Mahal, meaning the glass palace, or the palace of mirrors, and just above this palace lays the Diwan-E- Khas hall. This palace is believed to have served as a dressing room for the women, just like a harem. The walls of this palace are decorated with little mirrors and glasses, which seems truly ornamental. Due to these best specimens of glass in a beautiful mosaic decoration, this palace and the entire fort has become a destination for such glasswork in the whole of India.
Jahangiri Mahal :
There is the Jahangiri Mahal and the first prominent edifice inside the circumference of the Agra Red Fort. This palace was erected by Emperor Akbar in the form of women’s quarters. This one is the only structure surviving amongst all the original palaces of Akbar. This palace is completely made of stone and it simply has the best decorated exteriors in the fort. This double storied and elegant palace erection strongly reflects the Hindu influence of the fort and the balconies and galleries that protrude from the palace, along with the domed chhatris.
Anguri Bagh :
The Aguri Bagh is a collection of formally builtgardens in the geometric style, spanning for about 85 square km. They lay in the left part of the Agra fort. During the time of Emperor Shah Jahan, the loveliness and splendor of these park precincts was significantly improved with the help and use of attractive ornamental beds of flowers.
Golden Pavilions :
The small Golden Pavilions, many to count, with curved roofs form the Khaas Mahal. The design of the pavilions is based on the roof like shape of the huts of the Bengali village and is constructed from curved bamboo, and these are especially planned to prevent the heavy rains. This kind of a shape was suggested and expressed, at first, in stone by the Royal Sultans of Bengal. The names of two daughters of Shah Jahan are related traditionally to these pavilions, namely Jahannara and Begum Roshnara.
Musamman Burj :
To the left of the Khaas Mahal, or the special palace, is sited the Musamman Burj, a structure built by the great Shah Jahan again. It is one of the most gorgeous octagonal towers and also has an open pavilion. The significance of this place is that it had witnessed the final moments of Shah Jahan in this fort, as this is where the emperor had laid on his death bed, gazing towards the Taj Mahal .
Timings & Entry Fees :
We conclude the wonderful description about the beautiful Agra Red Fort, there is something which is quite essentially informative for the visitors. The entrance and visit to the fort is charged and the fees for foreigners is Rs 520/-, including camera and video recorder charges, while that for Indians is a bit less. The fort is open for tour on all days of the week. Happy journey to Agra. | <urn:uuid:7663a784-baca-44dd-9a5e-1211991fc4c4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.traveladda.com/north_india/uttar_pradesh/forts_and_palaces/agra_fort.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00070-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973277 | 1,908 | 2.390625 | 2 |
by Louisa Young
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, KG, PC, FRS
(21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881)
I considered lying about this, but decided not to. Here are my straightforward honest reasons for loving him. They are all quite bad reasons, and they haven't changed much since I was 17.
1) Because he told Gladstone that he (Gladstone) was 'intoxicated by the exuberance of his own verbosity'.
2)Because when I was asked my favourite historical character in my university entrance interview, I said him.
3) Because when the interviewing professor asked me why, I said 'because he's sexy', and I got away with it, and I got in.
4) Because Sybil is a damn good novel.
5) Because it seems to me quite wonderfully inspiring that a person can run the country rather well and be a good novelist simultaneously.
6) Because even his bad novels have streaks of utter brilliance in them.
7) Because he was so utterly un-pin-downable - a conservative and a radical, a Jew and a Christian, a ladies' man and quite possiby gay, a charlatan and a hero, moral and amoral, loved and hated, admired and despised.
8) Because he brought out the best in other people's insults: The Irish MP Daniel O'Connell, for example, said of him that he was a reptile . . . 'just fit now, after being twice discarded by the people, to become a Conservative. He possesses all the necessary requisites of perfidy, selfishness, depravity, want of principle, etc., which would qualify him for the change. His name shows that he is of Jewish origin. I do not use it as a term of reproach; there are many most respectable Jews. But there are, as in every other people, some of the lowest and most disgusting grade of moral turpitude; and of those I look upon Mr. Disraeli as the worst. He has just the qualities of the impenitent thief on the Cross, and I verily believe, if Mr. Disraeli's family herald were to be examined and his genealogy traced, the same personage would be discovered to be the heir at law of the exalted individual to whom I allude. I forgive Mr. Disraeli now, and as the lineal descendant of the blasphemous robber, who ended his career besides the Founder of the Christian Faith, I leave the gentleman to the enjoyment of his infamous distinction and family honours.'
To which Disraeli replied: 'Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the Right Honourable Gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the Temple of Solomon .'
9) Because he argued for an alliance between the aristocracy and the working class.
10) Because he argued that the Jews did Christians a favour by killing Christ, because if they hadn't where would Christianity be?
11) Because he inspired Robert Blake to write one of the best historical biographies I've ever read.
13) Because his bohemian poetic Jewish intellectual look is still inspiring bohemian poetic Jewish intellectuals today (See Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, etc)
Because he said, and I quote:
a) The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it.
b) Great services are not cancelled by one act or by one single error.
c) Change is inevitable. In a progressive country change is constant.
d) Justice is truth in action.
e) I repeat . . . that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people, and for the people all springs, and all must exist.
f) The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.
g) Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.
h) Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
i) The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
j) I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.
k) How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
l) Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.
m) A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
I am not sorry to give you a list of quotations. When somebody speaks and writes so well, why would I rewrite or paraphrase him?
All right, he was not the most influential, the most moral, the most important person in history. But if I am honest, he was the one who really tweaked my interest when history was being presented as a syllabus heavy with corn laws and Bismarck and gold standards. (To this day the only thing I can recall about Bismarck is that he invented Black Velvet - Champagne and Guinness. Actually perhaps I should have chosen Bismarck . . . )
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The best doctors are not only intelligent and compassionate, but adept at weighing medical evidence and looking for answers beyond the obvious.
Their adjustment to the new-normal of the health-care industry in the coming years of implementing the Affordable Care Act will not be easy, says Ken Weixel, Columbus-based leader of Deloitte’s U.S. Healthcare Practice.
A provision of the law that seems to have its future assured with Tuesday’s election results creates an institute for “comparative effectiveness” research. Its mission is to review and conduct research on what tests, medications and procedures lead to the best patient outcomes – such as radiation pellets vs. surgery for prostate cancer. Eventually, insurance would preferentially pay for what the evidence shows is best. Ideally, that reduces overall health-care spending.
“It’s going to have to come with physician acceptance,” Weixel said Wednesday in a talk before the Ohio Society of CPAs.
The business side of running a doctor’s practice will change, too, he said. With a greater number of insured people, an emphasis on prevention and a shortage of primary care doctors (internists, family docs and pediatricians), the physician’s role in primary care will shift to a supervisor of a team that includes nurse-practitioners, physician assistants and allied health professionals who will be delivering most of the annual checkups and strep swabs.
The future is more murky, he says, but it’s also possible the independent physician practice will disappear because nearly all doctors will become employed by hospitals or health insurers. That will take away the administrative headaches of running a small business, but means independent-minded, naturally inquisitive clinicians will have to act like employees and listen to what their bosses tell them to do.
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Dixon, John Boynton
The following data is extracted from Genealogy and Biography of Ontario County, New York.
John Boynton, only child of John and Hannah Dixon, was born in Rellington, England, February 3, 1812, died in Geneva, New York, March 4, 1890. He was reared and educated in his native town, where he also served an apprenticeship at tile and brick-making with his grandfather, and in 1832 he engaged in that business for himself at Leeds, England, remaining in that city about twenty years. Arriving in New York in 1851, he proceeded to select a suitable place in which to locate, and being favorably impressed with the inducements offered at Geneva he established a tile and brick yard in that town. This industrial enterprise proved successful from the start, and its promoter built up an extensive and profitable business. Mr. Dixon introduced the manufacture of drain tile, and through his efforts the farmers in Western New York became convinced that by its use their lands could be made to yield larger and better crops. He also introduced numerous improvements in tile-making and was the inventor of the "Down Draft Inside Flue" tile kiln, which is now (1910) extensively used in the burning process of all clay products. He was frequently consulted as an expert in matters relative to his business, and in 1870 he was employed to establish a tile brick plant at Anderson, South Carolina, for Senator Creighton. In addition to his regular business he was quite largely interested in the production of nursery stock. In his religious faith he was an Episcopalian and attended Trinity church. Politically he was a Republican.
Mr. Dixon married (second) in 1867, Mrs. Nancy Tyler (nee Slarrow). Children: 1. John Boynton, born September 28. 1868, died at the age of one year. 2. Katherine Elizabeth, born April 2, 1870. 3. A. Clark. born December 20, 1871, married Nora L. Catchpole, January 18, 1899; children: John B., born August 22, 1905; Dorothy Clark, born in Corning, New York, August 1q, 1908. 4. James B., born July 15, 1875. Mr. Dixon had a step-daughter Frances, who became the wife of Charles Scott. She died in 1868, leaving six children, five of whom were reared and educated by Mr. and Mrs. Dixon.
Mrs. Nancy Dixon was born in Geneva, January 10, 1831. Her father was Sidney Slarrow, a native of Dutchess county, New York, who settled in Geneva when a young man and learned the carpenter's trade with John 1. Morrison, of that town, where he died in 1846.
Her mother, Ann (Taylor) Slarrow, who was born in Seneca, New York, died in 1835, when Mrs. Dixon was but four years old, and she was reared and educated by Mrs. John M. Woods, of Seneca, who in every way proved equal to her self-imposed task. Mrs. Woods, who lived to the good old age of ninety years, was sincerely loved by all who knew her, and Mrs. Dixon holds her in the most affectionate remembrance. Nancy Slarrow married for her first husband William C. Tyler, a native of Massachusetts, who fought for the preservation of the Union in the civil war and was killed in the battle of Cold Harbor, in June, 1864. The children of this marriage are: 1. Mary May Tyler, born May 5, 1852, died November 2. 1856. 2. Amanda Jane, born April 28, 1854, married William Frautz, of Geneva; children: Nellie E. Frautz, now (1910) Mrs. 1. Winton, of Lodi, New York, and has two children; Nancy Dixon Frautz, died January 9, i 10; Mary Frautz, now (1910) Mrs. Winfred Turk, of Geneva, one son, Henry, who died in infancy; William Henry Frautz, born July 8, 1890; Catherine Frautz, born April 2, 1893. 3. Nellie Tyler, born in 1861, married John Beard, June 1880, and have two children : Thomas and Sylvia.
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"The National Science Foundation is requesting $5.036 billion
for FY 2003, $240 million or 5% more than the previous fiscal year.
For the United States to stay on the leading edge of discovery and innovation,
we cannot do less," declared NSF Director Rita Colwell at her
briefing on the FY 2003 request.
There are three major research components to the NSF budget.
Funding for Research and Related Activities would increase
5.1% to $3.78 billion. The Education and Human Resources
budget would increase 3.8% to $908 million. The Major
Research Equipment budget would decline 9% to $126 million.
Of note in the FY 2003 budget is the requested 11.3%
increase for nanoscale science and engineering. Graduate
stipends in three NSF programs would increase from $21,500 to
$25,000 for the academic year 2003-2004. Two new facility
projects would be started: the National Ecological Observatory
Network ($12 million) and Earthscope ($35 million.) $15
million would be allocated for a climate change research
initiative. Grant size would increase to an annual $120,000,
up $30,000 since 1998.
A closer look at the aggregate figures shows that of the $240
million requested increase, almost one-third, or $76 million,
results from the transfer of three programs from other
agencies: NOAA's National Sea Grant program would be
transferred to NSF for $57 million, USGS's toxic substances
hydrology research program would be transferred for $10
million, and $9 million would be moved from an EPA
environmental education program. An Office of Management and
Budget document stated that "these transfers will take
advantage of NSF's competitive culture and demonstrated
quality of results." At her briefing, Colwell said that she
had "no personal opinion" on the transfers, and would not
predict program changes that might occur as a result of the
transfers. After subtracting the transferred money, the
requested increase in the NSF budget is 3.3%, or $164 million.
Comparing this 3.3% increase (or the 5.0% unadjusted increase)
to other S&T agency requests provides perspective. The budget
for the Department of Energy's Office of Science would remain
flat. The National Institutes of Health budget would increase
Requests for physics-related programs follow. NSF's Education
and Human Resources budget request will be covered in a later
FYI. Figures compare the current budget to the requested FY
PHYSICS SUBACTIVITY: Down 1.3%, or $2.57 million, to $193.31
Lower priority research would be reduced $3.76 million, to be
offset partially by increased funding for Physics Frontiers
Centers. Facilities funding would increase by $190,000;
support would be terminated for IUCF, while funding would
increase for the Michigan State National Superconducting
Cyclotron Lab's radioactive ion beam facility and for LIGO.
This subactivity's budget would provide $60 million for high-
MATERIALS RESEARCH SUBACTIVITY: Down 0.1%, or $0.19 million,
to $219.32 million.
Funding would increase by $5.61 million to $70.93 million for
Nanoscale Science and Engineering and would increase for
Information Technology Research. Support would decline
approximately 4% for the National High Magnetic Field
Laboratory. Funding for lower priority research will be
ASTRONOMICAL SCIENCES SUBACTIVITY: Down 2.8%, or $4.61
million, to $161.25 million.
The budget document states that $64.32 million will be
allocated for research and instrumentation support to advance
cosmology and the origin and evolution of the universe and
planet and star formation. Support for the Gemini
Observatories would increase $340,000, NIAC support would
decline $400,000, NOAO funding would decline $1.0 million, and
the NRAO budget would decline $800,000. $4.0 million is
provided for the Telescope System Instrumentation Program.
GEOSCIENCES ACTIVITY: Up 13.4%, or $81.60 million, to $691.07
Within this activity are three subactivities. Atmospheric
Sciences Subactivity funding would increase 8.4%, or $16.9
million, to $218.92 million. Earth Sciences Subactivity
funding would increase 21.2%, or $26.74 million to $153.14
million. Ocean Sciences Subactivity funding would increase
13.5%, or $37.96 million, to $319.01 million. Note that the
NOAA, USGS, and EPA programs that would be transferred to NSF
would be placed in the Geosciences Activity. These transfers
total $74.09 million. Subtracting this amount reduces the
Geosciences Activity requested increase to 1.2%.
ENGINEERING ACTIVITY: Up 3.3%, or $15.66 million, to $487.98
Within this activity are six subactivities. Bioengineering and Environmental
Systems Subactivity funding would increase 5.0%, or $2.08 million, to
$43.87 million. The budget for the Chemical and Transport Systems Subactivity
would increase 3.8%, or $2.17 million, to $58.94 million. The Civil
and Mechanical Systems Subactivity budget would increase 3.0%, or $1.69
million, to $57.75 million. The Design, Manufacture, and Industrial
Innovation Subactivity budget would increase 3.7%, or $5.03 million,
to $141.23 million. The budget for the Electrical and Communications
Systems Subactivity would increase 2.9%, or $1.87 million, to $66.70
million. The Engineering Education and Centers Subactivity budget would
increase 2.4%, or $2.82 million, to $119.49 million.
The above research is funded through the NSF's Research and Related
Activities budget. Another component of the NSF budget is that for MAJOR
RESEARCH EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIES CONSTRUCTION, which "supports
the acquisition, construction, and commissioning of major research facilities
and equipment." Planning and design, and follow on operations and
maintenance expenses are provided through the Research and Related Activities
budget. Funding for the MREFC budget is down 9.0%, or $12.52 million,
to $126.28 million. Funding would continue for Atacama Large Millimeter
Array, Large Hadron Collider, Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation,
South Pole Station Modernization Project, and Terascale Computing Systems.
Two new projects would be started: Earthscope and the National Ecological
Observatory Network Phase I. NSF did not request funding for the IceCube
R&D project and the High-performance Instrumented Airborne Platform
for Environmental Research. The budget document notes that NSF is also
not requesting funding for the Rare Symmetry Violating Processes (RSVP),
the Ocean Observatories Initiative, and Scientific Ocean Drilling.
Another component of the NSF budget is that for U.S. POLAR
PROGRAMS. The request is up 2.0%, or $6.0 million over the
current year to $303.81 million. Funding for the U.S. Polar
Research Programs Activity would increase 2.6%, or $6.0
million to $235.75 million. Within this activity are five
programs. Arctic Research Program funding would increase
2.9%, or $1.06 million, to $37.84 million. Arctic Research
Support and Logistics funding would remain constant at $26.00
million. The budget for the Arctic Research Commission would
increase 5.9%, or $0.06 million to $1.08 million. The budget
for the Antarctic Research Grants Program would increase 1.7%,
or $0.68 million. The Operations and Science Support budget
would increase 3.3%, or $4.20 million, to $130.36 million.
Funding for U.S. Antarctic Logistical Support Activities would
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- 1 Now when the seventh month came, after the Israelites had settled in their cities, the people gathered at Jerusalem as one man.
- Then Jeshua, son of Jozadak, together with his brethren the priests, and Zerubbabel, son of Shealtiel, together with his brethren, set about rebuilding the altar of the God of Israel in order to offer on it the holocausts prescribed in the law of Moses, the man of God.
- Despite their fear of the peoples of the land, they replaced the altar on its foundations and offered holocausts to the LORD on it, both morning and evening.
- They also kept the feast of Booths in the manner prescribed, and they offered the daily holocausts in the proper number required for each day.
- Thereafter they offered the established holocaust, the sacrifices prescribed for the new moons and all the festivals sacred to the LORD, and those which anyone might offer as a free-will gift to the LORD.
- From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer holocausts to the LORD, though the foundation of the temple of the LORD had not yet been laid.
- Then they hired stonecutters and carpenters, and sent food and drink and oil to the Sidonians and Tyrians that they might ship cedar trees from the Lebanon to the port of Joppa, as Cyrus, king of Persia, had authorized.
- In the year after their coming to the house of God in Jerusalem, in the second month, Zerubbabel, son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua, son of Jozadak, together with the rest of their brethren, the priests and Levites and all who had come from the captivity to Jerusalem, began by appointing the Levites twenty years of age and over to supervise the work on the house of the LORD.
- Jeshua and his sons and brethren, with Kadmiel and Binnui, son of Henadad, and their sons and their brethren, the Levites, stood as one man to supervise those who were engaged in the work on the house of God.
- When the builders had laid the foundation of the LORD'S temple, the vested priests with the trumpets and the Levites, sons of Asaph, were stationed there with the cymbals to praise the LORD in the manner laid down by David, king of Israel.
- They alternated in songs of praise and thanksgiving to the LORD, "for he is good, for his kindness to Israel endures forever"; and all the people raised a great shout of joy, praising the LORD because the foundation of the LORD'S house had been laid.
- Many of the priests, Levites, and family heads, the old men who had seen the former house, cried out in sorrow as they watched the foundation of the present house being laid. Many others, however, lifted up their voices in shouts of joy,
- and no one could distinguish the sound of the joyful shouting from the sound of those who were weeping; for the people raised a mighty clamor which was heard afar off.
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1 [1-2] The seventh month: Tishri (September-October), apparently of 538 B.C.; cf Ezra 1:1; 4:5. In this case, it was Sheshbazzar who erected the first altar, since he began the work on the foundations of the temple in Jerusalem; cf Ezra 5:16. It was in the second year of Darius I, i.e., in 520 B.C., that Jeshua and Zerubbabel resumed the work on the temple that had been temporarily interrupted (Ezra 4:24-5:1; Haggai 1:1; 2:1). The Chronicler or a later editor of the text here attributes to them the beginning of the work which, in reality, they merely completed. Shealtiel: the eldest son of King Jehoiachin of Judah and the brother of Sheshbazzar (1 Chron 3:18-19); Zerubbabel was therefore the grandson of Jehoiachin; see note on Ezra 1:8.
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This is the East Harlem branch of the N.Y, Free Circulating Library, (NYFCL), at 18 East 125th Street on July, 1895.
The photograph was taken outside in front of the cobblestone and trolley track street of the public libraries of New York Public Library (NYPL).
The Harlem Branch developed from the opening on July 7, 1892, of a small distributing station in part of a room at 2059 Lexington Avenue on the corner of 125th Street, between five and six hundred volumes being drawn off from Bond Street and Jackson Square Branches. During the lifetime of the NYFCL in Harlem moved from there, to two rooms at 1943 Madison Avenue, to 18 East 125th Street on July 1895 (above) and finally to the beautiful glass Harlem Branch of the NYFCL, No. 18, at 218 East 125th Street in 1892 (below). The kids stand outside in front of the cobblestone street in May, 1899.
The NYFCL was begun in 1879, and incorporated in 1880. Its aim was to supply free reading material and reading rooms to the people of New York City. Over its lifetime, it expanded from a single location to eleven locations and an additional traveling department. It was notable for the large part women played in its administration and staffing. In 1901, the system became part of the New York Public Library.
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McHale scores 1st, 2nd in every Caledonia poll
Gary McHale recently received the poll-by-poll results for Haldimand-Norfolk which show, among other interesting stats, that he scored 1st or 2nd in every Caledonia poll!
Just as interesting, 62% of Gary’s votes came from outside Caledonia. This means that there is a broad base of support both in and outside Caledonia for his/our efforts to fight race-based policing. Caledonia’s victims should be pleased to know that some of their neighbours really do care about their plight.
Congratulations to Gary. Thank you to all those who supported him during the election!
For other election news and background visit www.GaryMcHale.ca.
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1. Seat CushionA semi-inflated rubber cushion with bumps for lots of sensory input can literally give your child some wiggle room -- he can get the feeling of movement without making too much of it. The circular Disc O' Sit, in 12" or 14" diameters, is one to try.
3. FootrestOften, kids whose feet don't reach the floor feel unsettled and unbalanced, and are more likely to kick, fidget, rock and roll in their seats as a result. You don't need to buy a fancy footrest; just place a brick, block, box or other hard heavy item beneath your child's feet so that his feet rest firmly on it and his legs are bent at a comfortable angle. Make sure the item's heavy enough that he won't be pushing or kicking it around.
4. Separate Desk and Chair
All-in-one desk-and-chair combos are dangerous for active kids, since rocking the chair means rocking the whole desk and sometimes knocking things off it. Your child may be more comfortable in a desk with a separate chair; if the teacher can find one, it may make a real difference in classroom decorum. (Slipping a cut-open tennis ball at the end of each chair leg takes the noise out of any scooching and sliding that does happen.) | <urn:uuid:4a6a1509-d5e9-42bd-8566-ae21d6b4fbb4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://specialchildren.about.com/od/behavioranddiscipline/tp/seatingplans.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706890813/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122130-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956208 | 278 | 2.40625 | 2 |
Low enforcement weakens environmental fight: new course to help
02 March 2011 | News story
A new Environmental Compliance & Enforcement Certificate course will be offered from August this year as part of the University of the South Pacific’s calendar. This was revealed today when the British High Commission officially handed over the initial funding for the development of the course to IUCN, the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
The new course will specifically train participants in the detection of environmental offences, use of powers by authorized officers, collection of evidence that will withstand scrutiny in court, giving evidence in court as well as the preparation of charges and presentation of charges in court.
Policing of environmental legislations is very limited in many Pacific Island Countries due to the lack of skills and understanding of basic legal processes.
“This course will help address this need and enable environmental regulators to acquire the skills to properly police compliance with environmental legislation within the region,” says Taholo Kami, Regional Director of IUCN Oceania Regional Office.
“In most cases environmental law offenders go unpunished and our environment and our natural resources, the rivers, the sea and our land are polluted, protected species of fish are eaten and so forth, are further damaged,”added Taholo Kami.
The initial funding of FJD$76,000 provided by the British High Commission will allow IUCN, together with the Law Faculty of USP and the Australian Centre for Environmental Compliance to develop, deliver and offer the course at different USP campuses in the region.
“The British government is delighted to be part of this exercise, a small step but an important one for enviromental compliance, and we look forward to working with USP and IUCN in how they can take this course further,” says British High Commissioner, His Excellency Mr Mac Mclachlan.
The course is a two-week certificate course and will initially be offered at the Laucala and Emalus campuses of USP from semester two of this year. There are no prerequisites for the course but it will be useful for enforcement and field officers in environment and natural resource agencies; lawyers who are interested to refresh their skills; voluntary local wardens and enforcement officers and environmental non-government organizations.
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Death Blossoms: Reflections from a Prisoner of Conscience
Book: Death Blossoms: Reflections from a Prisoner of Conscience , by Mumia Abu-Jamal, Cornel West (Foreword by), Julia Wright, ISBN10: 0896086992, ISBN13: 9780896086999, South End Press, July 2003, Paperback
Mumia Abu-Jamal, an award-winning journalist, is America's best-known political prisoner. Sentenced with execution, Mumia has lived on Death Row since 1982. Ever since he wrote for the Black Panther Party's national newspaper as a youth, Mumia has reported on the racism and inequity in our society. He soon added radio to his portfolio, eventually recording a series of reports from death row for NPR's All Things Considered. However, NPR, caving in to political pressure, refused to air the programs. Mumia Abu-Jamal is still fighting for his own freedom from prison, and through his powerful voice, for the freedom of all people from inequity.
Mumia's Abu-Jamal's poetic observations and reflections examine the deeper dimensions of existence, resulting in a powerful testament to the human spirit.
It is impossible to escape the irony that a man so impassioned about life has spent the last 15 years on death row. A journalist (Live from Death Row, LJ 5/1/95) and self-described "professional revolutionary" accused of killing a Philadelphia police officer, Abu-Jamal has won international attention for his case. Prison walls, however, have done little to deter his activism. His latest book has a markedly spiritual undertone, as he discusses his views on religion and fellow inmates' thoughts on the subject. In this compilation of over 35 short commentaries and poems, the author questions the validity of Christianity and traces his struggles with religion. In one touching essay, he compares children to acorns, saying that they possess the power to grow into mighty oak trees. Abu-Jamal's words flow like the very sap of those trees, pulsing with energy and capturing the essence of life. Recommended for both public and academic libraries.Erin Cassin, "Library Journal"
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A private intelligence firm issued a report today arguing that the recent attacks against government and military locations are indeed examples of domestic terrorism, despite what government officials and politicians say.
The report, "Terrorism: Defining a Tactic," revisits three recent incidents—Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan's November shooting rampage at Fort Hood; Joseph Stack's suicidal plane crash into an IRS building in Austin, Texas, nearly a month ago; and John Patrick Bedell's shoot out at the Pentagon last week—and confronts the arguments that say these attacks do not qualify as terrorism.
"Arguments used to not classify these attacks as terrorism include the failure to generate large numbers of casualties, a lack of foreign ties and the absence of a larger conspiracy," observe Stratfor's Fred Burton and Ben West. The authors further note that not defining these incidents as terrorism conflicts with the Patriot Act's definition of what terrorism is under U.S. law.
Two days ago, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano appeared on a Washington, D.C., radio show and said Stack's attack against the IRS building in Austin, Texas, was not terrorism.
"To our belief, he was a lone wolf," Napolitano told the "Diane Rehm Show." "He used a terrorist tactic, but an individual who uses a terrorist tactic doesn't necessarily mean they are part of an organized group attempting an attack on the United States."
Stratfor's Burton and West disagree with this line of thought. First, violent attackers do not have to be part of a larger network or organization to qualify as terrorists, as Napolitano states. Actually, Burton and West say lone wolves can be a more dangerous form of terrorist because its harder to detect and deter their attacks. "Theodore Kaczynski (aka the 'Unabomber') is the archetypal lone-wolf operative who used violent attacks to publicize a social and political message," the analysts write. "Therefore his violent acts qualify as terrorism."
Furthermore, terrorist attacks do not have be catastrophic like 9-11. Rather, terrorist attacks historically have been the opposite. "Often these events are no more violent or consequential than a common criminal incident — what sets them apart are the political motivations of their perpetrators," Burton and West note. "Indeed, catastrophic attacks are the exception to the rule, though the memory of these spectacular incidents is burned indelibly into the public mind."
Also the geographical source of the attack has no bearing on whether or not an attack is terrorism. As Burton and West point out the majority of attacks historically against the United States have been conducted by domestic groups or individuals, such as Timothy McVeigh's 1995 bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City.
In the end, what matters most when determining whether or not a terrorist attack has occurred is whether or not the perpetrator's motivation was to coerce a population or a government to change policy because of political, religious, or ideological beliefs. And by this standard, recent attacks qualify, Stratfor says.
"According to the definition of terrorism laid out in the USA PATRIOT Act, the cases of Hasan and Stack clearly fit the label of terrorism and Bedell’s is certainly looking that way," write Burton and West.
Properly categorizing attacks as terrorism isn't just an academic debate, the authors argue. By designating an act that could be terrorism as simply a crime, investigators could miss evidence that suggests trends or further threats.
"But not examining the possibility of terrorism in the first place risks overlooking important pieces of information that could prove useful in preventing the next attack, or fully understanding the last one."
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The name of Kom Ombo comes from the Coptic word "Umbo" and the Ancient Egyptian "Nub" which means "Gold". It is a small town and a capital of a parish serving the agricultural villages around it. In Ptolemaic and Roman times, Kom Ombo was a station for elephants caravan imported from Africa to be used in armies and was also a station on the road to the desert's gold mines and caravan routes to the western oases and Sudan.
The reason behind the prominent of the city currently is the existence of prominent tourist attractions which are Sobek and Haroris Temples. These are widely visited monuments in Aswan and this makes tourism the main economic resources of the city. There are some other resources such as services, administration, and the sugar industry. The majority of the inhabitants ar...Read More | <urn:uuid:130e5d66-9648-4f98-a6c3-31fa624d2324> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://egyptopia.com/Guide+and+Information+for+Kom+Ombo_30_100_6_67_en.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00066-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968686 | 174 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Steady growth for farmed Scottish salmon
Statistics published in the Scottish Farm Production Survey 2011 reveal that last year Scottish farmed salmon production was at its highest level since 2004, with 158,018 tonnes produced.
The farmgate value of Scottish farmed salmon was £584.7m last year – a year-on-year increase of 5.6%, taking account of inflation. The rise in production of 2.5% in 2011 follows steady increases over recent years.
Environment Minister Paul Wheelhouse said, “Scotland has a world renowned reputation for high quality, delicious and healthy farmed fish and shellfish. Salmon is our largest food export and I welcome the continued growth in production and value in 2011.
“Fish farming is a key food sector for Scotland, providing an important contribution to the economy – particularly in remote and rural communities in the west coast and Northern Isles. The industry employs almost 1,500 people, while many more jobs are underpinned by aquaculture indirectly.
“We support the industry’s ambitions for sustainable growth – as demonstrated by our intention to bring forward an Aquaculture and Fisheries Bill – and we are working with them to keep the focus on minimising the impact on the marine environment and adopting best practices. More than 60% of Scottish farmed salmon now has the RSPCA’s Freedom Foods accreditation, which is a great endorsement and selling point.”
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Finance in the creative sector
Money for fun
Shunned by investors, creative firms are looking forward to a new tax break
BRITAIN'S politicians lament its loss of industrial prowess and cringe at its gift for banking. One kind of enterprise that cheers them is the creative sector, which has grown twice as fast as the rest of the economy over the past decade. Fashion, entertainment, advertising and digital technology are all strengths. Britain was well represented at this year's South by Southwest, a music and film festival in Texas—where, on March 11th, it was announced that Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, would join the government as an adviser. George Osborne, the chancellor of the exchequer and a culture vulture, has taken an interest in the sector since his days in opposition.
The creative industries are less popular with investors. Banks and venture capitalists tend to regard the sector as riskier—and less motivated by profit—than more humdrum parts of the economy. “The mindset of a creative entrepreneur and your average investor are poles apart,” says Andy Heath of Beggars Group, an independent record label. A report for the government by Stuart Fraser of Warwick Business School found that creative firms are likelier than other businesses to be discouraged from even applying for finance.
Something of a fightback against the doubting money-men has begun. The sector is increasingly quick to challenge assumptions about its riskiness. Figures unearthed for the Demos think-tank last year by Helen Burrows, a former adviser to Ed Vaizey, the culture minister, showed that the survival rate for creative start-ups is slightly higher than for other young businesses. Survival is not the same as success, of course. But the numbers suggest that creative entrepreneurs are hard-headed about cutting costs during tough times.
The government is trying to help. On April 6th the Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS) will come into effect. This allows an investor to put up to £100,000 ($157,000) into a small business and claim 50% tax relief. Although it is open to almost all firms, the policy was designed for those which find it hard to raise external finance because investors see them as risky. The music and film sectors are especially excited. But the government expects that technology, including the cluster of internet firms around the Old Street roundabout in London (pictured) will be the main winner. ASCEND, a new seed investment fund specialising in creative businesses, will launch on the same day.
The Treasury usually counsels against fiddly, market-distorting schemes. Civil servants like to say that their ideal budget speech would last ten minutes. Some suspect that Mr Osborne's announcement in November had a chilling effect on seed investment in the first quarter of this year, as financiers sat on cash until April. But even Nigel Lawson, the chancellor most taken with the Treasury's doctrine of simplicity, introduced a “business expansion scheme” in 1983 which SEIS resembles. And the hunger for growth means Mr Osborne has to be seen to be doing something beyond macro-economic strategy.
It may be that underlying trends will alleviate the problem. Previously safe investments such as equities and sovereign debt are looking risky. Some investors confess that there is social cachet in being able to tell people that they are involved in fun sectors such as music. And technology has driven down entrance costs, and thus financing needs, in much of the creative sector. If the SEIS only amounts to a nudge, that may be all that is required. | <urn:uuid:fcf68558-5f89-4d7d-be5d-57aed73d5552> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.economist.com/node/21550277 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00021-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971263 | 729 | 1.632813 | 2 |
The Royal B.C. Museum expects to unveil a new master plan by next September and finish a major redevelopment of its 2.7-hectare property in time for Canada's 150th birthday in 2017.
No costs or plans are in place on the project, although new zoning would permit towers of 12 and 14 storeys and some existing buildings would come down. Museum officials say the goal is to consolidate operations and better preserve collections and archives while enhancing the visitor experience.
Angela Williams, director of business and operational services, said federal and provincial governments will be approached on financing and a fundraising campaign is planned.
Williams is hoping for cross-country support for the endeavor. Her personal dream is to see the ribbon-cutting event on July 1, 2017. "Why can't this project be Canada's project for the sesquicentennial?" she asked on Tuesday. "Why not dream big?"
The master plan plays a key role. "It will help us create all of the documents and all of the information we need to cost out this proposal," said Williams.
Victoria city council approved a comprehensive rezoning plan in 2011 for the museum's property at Belleville and Government streets. The museum is one of B.C.'s premier tourist attractions, bringing in between 300,000 and 350,000 visitors a year.
The museum is currently in six-and 14-storey buildings. The neighbouring B.C. Archives is underground in a building below sea level. Two off-site storage locations are used for overflow for the expanding collections.
Detailed architectural designs and building sizes have not been finalized. Although zoning allows certain heights and densities, Williams said that does not mean the museum proposal will reach those limits.
Williams said the museum would seek more community input as the plan unfolds. The museum's service plan states if construction starts in 2014, the project would be ready for 2017. Williams figures the drop-dead date for starting two years of construction is 2015.
Short-listed architects are responding to a request for proposals, closing in January, for the job of preparing the master plan. The winner will be picked in February, with the plan developed by the end of September, she said.
A review by consultants looking at the needs of the museum and the archives is expected to be completed by the end of March. That information will feed into the master plan, Williams said.
The primary purpose of the redevelopment is to ensure the museum and archives collections are maintained for future generations, she said.
Although there will likely always be off-site storage, Williams said the idea is to "consolidate the collection as much as we can."
A visit to the archives, built in 1969, reveals that its extensive collection of Emily Carr works is stored on panels in a vault located below grade. "We have been really lucky that we haven't had a major flood down here," Williams said.
A new cold storage room able to help preserve photographic negatives and film is part of the rebuilding plan.
Negatives are now individually packaged and stored in boxes in rows of refrigerators.
Derek Swallow, archives records curator, said it takes hours to prepare one box. A proper cold storage room would provide a more technically advanced environment and cut back drastically on packaging and staff time, he said.
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PROSTITUTION: THE ACT OR PRACTICE OF PROVIDING SEXUAL SERVICES TO ANOTHER PERSON IN RETURN FOR PAYMENT.
- Human beings are largely unaware that most prostitution is human trafficking. Most girls in brothels, on the streets, in seedy clubs, etc aren’t there by choice. Nearly 90% of the prostitute’s we’ve talked to all over the world told us they’d get out immediately if it weren’t for a pimp, owner, “boyfriend” or manager that was controlling them or watching them. The minority of women that we talked to that weren’t in brothels, on the streets or controlled by a pimp were using their bodies to get money for food (to feed their families, provide for themselves, etc). The glamorous side of prostitution that’s marketed in places like Las Vegas and Bangkok aren’t actually glamorous at all. Our team worked with a guy in South Africa this summer who used to traffic Thai girls into Johannesburg to work as prostitutes. He said “It began with a break in process. They’d get off the airplane, we’d tie them up to a toilet and several Nigerians would come in and rape them to prepare them for what their work would be like. After that, we’d throw them into the whole network of brothels, clubs and other venues where people paid for sex.”
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Supplemental Material Concerning James v. Campbell
Has the Supreme Court Held that Patents Are Property?
Consolidated Fruit-Jar Co v. Wright
(The “Mason Jar Case”)
United States Supreme Court
94 U.S. 92 (1876)
Mr. Justice Swayne
The appellants sued to enjoin the appellee from infringing a patent to John L. Mason for an improvement in fruit jars. The invention was completed in 1859. The application for the patent was made in 1868. The intervening period was between eight and nine years. There is no conflict in the testimony. No sufficient reason is disclosed in the record why the application for the patent was not made earlier.
In the mean time, large interests had grown up in the way of the manufacture and sale of jars substantially the same as Mason's, and of others more or less like it. He was stimulated to make his application by seeing such jars in the market. Large amounts of money must then have been invested in the business of making and selling such jars by various persons. It is sufficient to mention the case of Rowley, who is defending this suit in the name of the appellee. Prior to 1868 he had sold 36,000 jars. Thus, before Mason applied for his patent, and as early as 1866, the public was in possession of the invention in question from sources entirely independent of Mason.
It is enough to say, without recapitulating the facts, that in our judgment the defense of abandonment to the public is also clearly made out. He who is silent when he should speak must be silent when he would speak, if he cannot do so without a violation of law and injustice to others. The supineness of the patentee is unexplained and inexcusable. A principle akin to the doctrine of equitable estoppel applies.
Inventors are a meritorious class. They are public benefactors. They add to the wealth and comfort of the community, and promote the progress of civilization. A patent for an invention is as much property as a patent for land. The right rests on the same foundation, and is surrounded and protected by the same sanctions. There is a like larger domain held in ownership by the public. Neither an individual nor the public can trench upon or appropriate what belongs to the other. The inventor must comply with the conditions prescribed by law. If he fails to do this he acquires no title, and his invention or discovery, no matter what it may be, is lost to him, and is henceforward no more his than if he had never been in any wise connected with it. It is made, thereupon, as it were by accretion, irrevocably a part of the domain which belongs to the community at large. The invention here in question is within this category.
Hollister v. Benedict & Burnham Mfg. Co.
United States Supreme Court
113 U.S. 59 (1885)
This is a bill in equity to enjoin the alleged infringement of letters patent No. 93,391, issued to Edward A. Locke for certain improvements in identifying revenue marks or labels, dated August 3, 1869, the appellees being assignees of the patentee, and the appellant, the collector of internal revenue for the district of Connecticut.
One of the defenses relied on by the appellant is thus stated in the answer, and is by stipulation admitted to be true:
That any and all acts complained of in said bill by the said petitioner, as done by the respondent, were done and performed by him in the discharge of his duties as Collector of Internal Revenue for the United States for a designated collection district of the State of Connecticut, and by direction of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, an officer of the Treasury Department of the United States; that any revenue stamps by him used have been furnished by the Bureau of Internal Revenue, for use in the discharge of said duties as collector, and the same have been used solely as a means of collecting the taxes due to the United States, which said taxes have been imposed by the laws of the United States, and the manner of said collection, as followed by said collector, regulated and authorized by such laws.
It was authoritatively declared in James v. Campbell, 104 U. S. 356, that the right of the patentee, under letters patent for an invention granted by the United States, was exclusive of the government of the United States as well as of all others, and stood on the footing of all other property, the right to which was secured, as against the government, by the constitutional guaranty which prohibits the taking of private property for public use without compensation; but doubts were expressed whether a suit could be sustained, such as the present, against public officers, or whether a suit upon an implied promise of indemnity might not be prosecuted against the United States by name in the Court of Claims. If the right of the patentee was acknowledged, and without his consent an officer of the government, acting under legislative authority, made use of the invention in the discharge of his official duties, it would seem to be a clear case of the exercise of the right of eminent domain, upon which the law would imply a promise of compensation, an action on which would lie within the jurisdiction of the Court of Claims. And it may be that, even if the exclusive right of the patentee were contested, such an action might be brought in that court involving all questions relating to the validity of the patent; but as we have concluded to dispose of the present appeal upon other grounds, it becomes unnecessary to decide the question arising upon this defense. It is referred to only for the purpose of excluding any that might be drawn from our passing it over without notice.
The counsel for the appellee describes the Locke stamp as a combination of three parts:
(1) a part which is designed to become a stub when the stamp proper is separated therefrom, and displays a serial number;
(2) a constituent part of the stamp proper which is designed for permanent attachment to the barrel;
(3) a constituent part of the stamp proper displaying the same identifying serial number as the stub, which part, after the stamp proper has been affixed to the barrel, bears such relation to the permanent part that it can be so removed therefrom as to retain its own integrity, but mutilates and thereby cancels the stamp by its removal.
In this combination it will not be questioned that the first and second elements were well known, and that the third, so far as its contents are identical with those on the stub, is not new. The question turns on that feature of the third element where, by a removable part of the stamp proper, the contents of which indentify the stamp with the stub after the stamp has been attached, can be so removed as to retain its own integrity, but mutilates and thereby cancels the stamp by its removal. This is what we ascertain to be the precise idea embodied in the invention described and claimed in the patent, and which, although we find to be new in the sense that it had not been anticipated by any previous invention, of which it could therefore be declared to be an infringement, yet is not such an improvement as is entitled to be regarded in the sense of the patent laws as an invention.
No change, it will be observed, was made in the character of the stamp, so far as the relation between the stamp proper and the stub is concerned, nor in the identifying marks which constituted the written and printed matter upon both; and the expedient of using a paper backing which prevented the adhesion to the package of the part intended to be detached and removed, it is manifest would be adopted by any skilled person having that end in view. The idea of detaching that portion of the stamp, with the double effect of destroying the stamp by mutilation and preserving the evidence of the identity of the package on which it had been first placed in use, which is all that remains to constitute the invention, seems to us not to spring from that intuitive faculty of the mind put forth in the search for new results or new methods, creating what had not before existed, or bringing to light what lay hidden from vision; but, on the other hand, to be the suggestion of that common experience which arose spontaneously, and by a necessity of human reasoning, in the minds of those who had become acquainted with the circumstances with which they had to deal.
Cutting out a portion of the stamp, as a means of defacing and mutilating it so as to prevent a second use, was matter of common knowledge and practice before the date of this patent; and cutting out a particular portion on which the identifying marks had been previously written or printed was simply cutting a stub from the stamp instead of cutting the stamp from the stub, as before. So that when the frequency and magnitude of the frauds upon the revenue, committed by the removal of tax-paid stamps from packages on which they had been originally placed by the officer to others surreptitiously substituted for them, or by emptying the packages of their original contents and fraudulently refilling them with spirits on which no tax had been paid, attracted the general attention of the revenue department, the answer to the problem of prevention was found by immediate inference from the existing regulations, in the adoption of the expedient now in question. As soon as the mischief became apparent, and the remedy was seriously and systematically studied by those competent to deal with the subject, the present regulation was promptly suggested and adopted; just as a skilled mechanic, witnessing the performance of a machine, inadequate by reason of some defect, to accomplish the object for which it had been designed, by the application of his common knowledge and experience perceives the reason of the failure and supplies what is obviously wanting. It is but the display of the expected skill of the calling, and involves only the exercise of the ordinary faculties of reasoning upon the materials supplied by a special knowledge, and the facility of manipulation which results from its habitual and intelligent practice; and is in no sense the creative work of that inventive faculty which it is the purpose of the Constitution and the patent laws to encourage and reward.
On this ground the decree of the circuit court is reversed, and the cause remanded, with directions to dismiss.
Does Hollister hold that which James v. Campbell is said to have “authoritatively declared”?
Does Hollister hold that a government officer's unconsented–to infringement of an acknowledged patent right gives rise to an implied promise of compensation? Combined together, what do Hollister and James hold?
Return to the James case
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Host: flue-cured tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum (flue-cured type)
Description: Magnesium (Mg) deficiency, sometimes called "sand drown," occurs primarily on sandy soils during seasons of excessive rainfall. The first symptom of deficiency is loss of green color from lower leaves. On individual leaves it begins at the tips and margins and proceeds toward the base and center. Interveinal tissues become chlorotic while veinal areas remain green (photo). In extreme cases, lower leaves turn almost white and chlorotic symptoms progress to higher leaves. Mg deficient leaves rarely develop necrotic spots. It may occur at any stage of growth but occurs most often following rapid growth during the leaf production phase (4-8 weeks after transplanting). High rates of K and/or Ca on low Mg soils may enhance Mg deficiency.
Image type: Field
Image location: United States
Name: R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company Slide Set
Organization: R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
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What It Is
Puzzle Pouch USA is a soft, portable jigsaw puzzle. This puzzle is a smaller version of Geo Toys' USA/Canada GeoPuzzle, which helps kids learn about geography. Each 36-piece puzzle includes a print-out to help kids put the puzzles together at home or on the road. The names of each state or province are clearly printed on the puzzle. Once pieced together the puzzle is nine inches long by nine inches wide. When you are finished with the puzzle, it easily zips back up inside the pouch.
Why It’s Fun
Puzzle Pouch is a fun way to help teach kids the names and relative positions of the 50 states and Canadian provinces. This can also be a good travel toy for families on the road and serve as a way for kids to learn the different states they travel through.
Who It’s For
The puzzle was not age graded, however we recommend it for kids ages 6 and up. It is also a good tool for kids in elementary school that are just starting to learn the 50 states.
What To Be Aware Of
The puzzle pieces lock together, however you can't move the puzzle around too much or it will fall apart. We suggest putting it together on a hard surface.
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New Mexico filmmaker Melinda Hess produced "Letter from Cloudcroft: Lost and Found Memories of My Father."
And, Saturday, Hess read a sealed letter from her father, which was written to his parents 66 years ago.
Hess' father, Sanford Oscar Hess, was involved with research and testing, assigned to work on the V2 rockets in Fort Bliss, Texas
"Several years ago, I was going through some random boxes inside. It was an old suitcase inside the suitcase were a bunch of letters. I started reading them out loud to Patricia," Melinda Hess said.
She found about 40 letters written by her Sanford Hess addressed to his parents living in New York City in 1946.
"I asked my partner to hand me a letter-opener and she ran across the room and said 'you are not opening it' and I asked why," Melinda Hess said. "Patricia said, one day you are going to open it on camera.'"
Hess said that's when the idea of the documentary began. She said the whole idea of this film is a two-person perspective, one from her father from his letters talking about his experiences in the region and the other is her story telling the story from a contemporary perspective. This is the fourth year of the documentary's production.
Sanford Hess was the first American engineer to be assigned to work with the German Nazi rocket scientists. He was a 21-year- old, second-generation German-Jew from New York at the time the letters were written.
"The thing I found shocking is that he admired I think a great deal the intellect of the German Nazi rocket scientist. They were smart guys and he was a smart kid," Melinda Hess said. "He speculates, at one point, 'I wonder if they know I am Jewish and he doesn't say much more about it after that."
"We decided to finally open the letter at the Lodge in Cloudcroft where the unopened letter was originally written. The three-page letter opens, "Dear mom and dad, I'm writing this while sitting next to the fireplace and listening to the radio. It's pre-supper time at Cloudcroft."
Melinda Hess said her father's writing in the letter was just as sweet and conversational as his other letters.
He wrote about his experiences, what it was like eating Mexican food for the first time going to Cuidad Juarez, what it was like drinking with the German scientist, who Melinda said, were "essentially were prisoners which Hess' father had to supervise on and off the base.
He wrote about his outings with the German scientist outside the base.
The event in Cloudcroft was a humanities forum that had scholars from across the country to discuss several topics related to family Jewish and military.
"It's not a story that a lot of people know. The point of the film is through the personal story of my father's story and my story. We have an entrance into that bigger story that is historic, national and international."
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This should have appeared on page 59.
Jedediah Huntington was born in Norwich Conn., August 4, 1743, and died in New London, September 25,
1818. He came of a family distinguished for patriotism, his father, General Jabez Huntington, and his
four brothers, taking an active part in the Revolution. He himself raised a regiment, in which he
was a captain, which joined Washington's army at Cambridge; and from that time until the end
of hostilities he took an active part in its campaigns, attaining the rank of Brevet Major General. After
peace was declared he held various positions of trust and honor in his- native state, culminating in the
Collectorship of New London, to which he was appointed by Washington, in 1789, and which he retained
until 1815. He was one of the original members of the Cincinnati.
(As the portraits of most of the members of the Andre1 court-martial are well known, I have not thought it
necessary to reproduce them. General Huntington's, however, is very scarce, and I am indebted to Dr.
Emmet for it. Of General Parsons I believe no portrait exists.)
Sutherland's letter, page 79, should be dated 1780, not 1781.
Andre's Statement.—On the 20th of September I left New York, to get on board the Vulture, in order (as I
thought) to meet General Arnold there in the night. No boat, however, came off, and I waited on board
until the night of the 21st. ***** 1 went into the boat, landed, and spoke with Arnold. I got on horse-
back with him to proceed to-----f house, and in the way passed, a guard I did not expect to see, having
Sir Henry Clinton's directions not to go within an enemy's post, or quit my own dress. (The rest
corresponds with the general narrative as given.—w. a. )
This should have appeared as part of note on page 23.
Richard Varick was born in Hackensack, N. J., March 25, 1753, and died in Jersey City, July 30, 1831.
Commissioned a Captain in McDougall's New York Regiment in 1775, he rose to the rank of Lieutenant
Colonel in 1777 as Deputy Muster-master General. He was an ardent admirer of Arnold's military genius
and became his Aid. The. discovery of the treason nearly upset his reason (as it did that of Major Franks).
He became Recording Secretary to Washington soon afterwards, and after the war was Recorder of New
York City (1783-89), and from 1791 to 1801 he was Mayor (the first) of the city. He was many years
President of the Merchants' Bank and of the American Bible Society. In all the relations of life he was
most exemplary, a model man in both public and private life.
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Alex Libby, a 12-year-old in Sioux City, Iowa, is a sweet, smart kid with a passing resemblance to a pre-teen David Letterman. For Mother’s Day he gave his mom Jackie a card promising special gifts (“This coupon is good for one breakfast in bed”). She wants to believe that if other boys got to know her son, “he’d probably be the most devoted friend they ever had.” But Alex knows better—knows worse. His classmates call him Fish Face, and that’s when they’re being nice. On the school bus, the boy in the next seat tells him, “I will f—in’ end you, and stuff a broomstick up your ass.” Another time, Alex tells a school official, “This high-schooler was stranglin’ me, but I think he was just messin’ around.” When Jackie warns him, “Your only connection with these kids is that they like to pound on you,” Alex replies, “If you say these people aren’t my friends, then what friends do I have?” A thought occurs to him: If you can’t beat ’em, join the beaters. “They push me so far that I want to become the bully. “
Alex is one of the engaging, endangered stars of Lee Hirsch’s Bully, a documentary as vivid as any horror film, as heartbreaking as any Oscar-worthy drama. Hirsch, who says he was a victim of bullying as a child, spent the 2009-10 school year tracking the cases of five abused kids, including two who had committed suicide. The focus is on the receivers of badgering, not on those who dish it out, But the scene with the boy who threatened Alex on the school bus makes you wonder: Did he know he was being filmed? And if so, why did he so rashly incriminate himself? And what sort of hurt does he lay on kids when he’s not being filmed?
(READ: John Cloud’s Can Bullying Be Stopped?)
Because the boys who hand out verbal punishment occasionally use the F word as a tool of intimidation, the Motion Picture Association of America slapped Bully with the proscriptive R rating. (On appeal, most of the MPAA board members agreed to overturn the original rating, but the motion failed because it fell one vote short of the two-thirds threshold.) Thus Bully will be denied to the very children it means to help, predators and prey alike. Imagine that a bully turns 17, finally sees the film and thinks, “Oh, I shouldn’t have done that when I was a kid. Why didn’t someone show me this movie then?”
A March 15 Washington screening hosted by MPAA boss and former Senator Chris Dodd was jammed with supporters of the film. Katy Butler, an Ann Arbor, Mich., teen whose petition on behalf of a milder, PG-13 rating for the film has attracted more than a half-million signatures, was there. “How many 15- and 14-year-olds want to see it with their parents?” Butler asked Dodd. “That’s just not cool.”
(READ: Bonnie Rochman’s Should Bully Be Rated R?)
Another testifier was David Long, whose 17-year-old son Tyler is featured in Bully. Shortly before hanging himself after a torrent of taunting, Tyler made a video in which he advised a friend, “If all the kids insult you, and all things like that, forget about them.” But Tyler couldn’t forget. As his father says in the film, “Kids would throw his books on the floor and say ‘Pick em up, bitch.’” At the Dodd meeting, David Long argued that “A picture’s worth a thousand words. Thousands, if not millions, of parents and children are crying for our help.”
The hubbub was heaven to Harvey Weinstein, whose Weinstein Company is distributing the film. A year ago, after his R-rated The King’s Speech won the Academy Award for Best Picture, Weinstein softened one scene with a dozen f’s and released this tidier version of the film with a PG-13 rating. The same word in Bully could have been bleeped, but it would have lost the scalding sting of its impact on a 12-year-old. Weinstein kept the movie intact and, with Bully now a cause for concerned parents and kids, decided this week to release it unrated, leaving to movie-theater owners the decision whether to admit children unaccompanied. One chain, AMC, has announced it would let kids see it if they are accompanied by an adult guardian (as is theoretically necessary for R-rated films) or if they bring a note from their parents. Nice try, but that makes the picture seem too much like homework. Meanwhile, comedies rife with penis jokes and ritual humiliation are rated PG-13. The internal contradictions of the MPAA’s classification system could make even a Mormon explode in a four-letter barrage.
The sad joke of this ruling is that the children depicted in Bully already live in an world rated R — for the physical or psychic violence they suffer, and for and the vicious language directed at them. In a society that tolerates or rewards hazing, gangsta rap and trash talk in sports and in political discourse, boys may think that parading their domination over others is a sign of maturity or machismo. (Girls can be brutal too, but in Bully most of the sadists are boys.) Middle school becomes a prison, the lifers are in charge, and a kid like Alex is their bitch. Should the family of a victimized child move him in another school? In many communities, there is none. To another city? Most parents can’t afford it; and to leave town would admit that the bullies have won.
(READ: Belinda Luscombe’s What If My Son Is a Bully?)
So Kelby Johnson, a 16-year-old lesbian in “Bible Belt Oklahoma,” has to endure locker signs saying “Faggots aren’t welcome here.” Kelby’s presumed pestilence also infects her family. Says her father Bob: “There are people we spent years with, side by side, coaching their children, that will not even wave to us anymore.” But Kelby is strong enough to stay put. It helps that she has found some outlaw buddies and a pint-size sweetheart. (“I got my four-foot-ten girlfriend to protect me,” Kelby says with a smile.) New friends may await the victimized in the bigger world — where the misfits might find a place to fit — if they can just survive high school.
Many children are suicides or homicides waiting to happen, yet the schools do little. “Kids will be kids, boys will be boys,” says Dean Donehoo, the Director of Administration for Murray County, Ga., schools, at a town hearing on the Tyler Long death. “They’re just cruel at that age.” Donehoo — and another school official who shrugs off violence by saying, “Buses are notoriously bad places for lots of kids” — must think bullying is a rite of passage, like the scarring of an Africa village boy. They’re wrong. This toxic practice must be called what it is: child molestation by other children.
“I don’t believe in luck,” Alex says, “but I believe in hope.” The film ends with a little hope: on the last day of class in Sioux City, a girl gets Alex to sign her T-shirt, and she signs his. In another town, David Long convenes parents of abused children to commemorate lost souls, agitate for school reform and wear T shirts that read “Tyler, you voice will be heard.”
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The executive committee of the Boy Scouts of America recently proposed revising its membership policy as a sort of compromise that might please everyone on the issue of homosexuals. Unfortunately, as is the case with most compromises, nobody seems pleased.
The Boy Scouts are an admirable organization with a commitment to helping boys become men. It's been amazingly successful. And it's that success that's made it a target. The Scouts are now facing legal challenges, media bullying, and some good ol' fashioned name calling from opponents of the ban on actively gay scout leaders.
Even President Barack Obama publicly urged the Scouts to admit homosexuals. "The Scouts is a great...READ MORE | <urn:uuid:c20405c3-0914-47f7-8c3d-daf7257ffa75> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ncregister.com/blog/archbold/P8 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00031-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968339 | 132 | 1.59375 | 2 |
JACKSON, Miss. (WTVA) -- The Mississippi State Department of Health has issued a boil water notice for four water associations in Choctaw County.
The notices say tests showed the presence of total coliform bacteria in a majority of the samples taken.
The water associations affected include the Pan Handle Water Association, Reform Water Association, Fentriss Community Water Association, and the town of Weir.
The associations serve nearly 3,600 customers.
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The University of Glamorgan and leading Information Security Company 7Safe have teamed up to launch a world-first Postgraduate Certificate (PgC) in Penetration Testing and Information Security.
The unique qualification offers IT professionals the opportunity to learn about penetration testing (ethical hacking) and information security in depth, acquiring a recognised qualification in the process.
Principal lecturer at the University of Glamorgan's School of Computing Dr Andrew Blyth said, "The introduction of this specialist qualification broadens the scope of our existing IT education programme. It will assist the career development of individuals wishing to progress in this fascinating area. The theoretical and practical elements of the programme will provide students with transferable skills which are of tangible benefit in the industry".
The content of the qualification includes penetration testing, wireless security and computer forensics, plus a course devoted to implementing BS 7799 - the government-recognised Information Security Standard now swelling in importance within the industry. This is a comprehensive PgC which will help students in the development of their professional careers.
7Safe Managing Director Alan Phillips commented, "This respected university has further enhanced the credibility of our education and certification programme. The accreditation recognises our commitment to promoting best practice within the IT industry and creating a benchmark by which IT professionals can demonstrate their competence. The industry has been asking for this for a long time".
The need for this type of qualification has been highlighted by the huge rise in cyber-terrorism and internet related crime in recent years and the associated costs. According to a recent survey conducted by The Department of Trade and Industry, the average cost of a security breach equals £30,000.
The PgC includes the Certified Security Testing Associate and Professional (CSTA, CSTP) and Certified Forensic Investigation Analyst (CFIA) qualifications. It also earns students Masters-level credits which can contribute towards a Postgraduate Diploma (PgD) or a Masters (MSc) in one of several computer security-related subjects, should they wish to undertake further study. Please contact 7Safe or The University of Glamorgan for further information.
About the University of Glamorgan
The University offers a range of postgraduate and undergraduate courses in computer security. Course leaders are well respected in the field of computer forensics. For more information, please visit www.glam.ac.uk/soc
About 7Safe Information Security
7Safe is an Information Security services practice established by experienced IT security professionals. Independent of IT security vendors and their products, 7Safe has built a reputation for the development and delivery of an innovative portfolio of information security training and consulting, including penetration testing, computer forensics investigation and risk management. Information security concerns all organisations and this is reflected by the diversity of 7Safe clients which include the Police, Ministry of Defence, as well as corporates from the retail, finance, insurance, telecoms, oil, pharmaceutical and leisure sectors. For more information, please visit www.7safe.com . | <urn:uuid:c9163406-03d9-4e3f-9a97-83a686b7d2c6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.itsecurity.com/security.htm?s=7295 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00052-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927394 | 608 | 1.789063 | 2 |
There’s been a fair bit in the news about vast poppy fields in Afghanistan, but if you think most of the world’s opiates come from the Middle East you’re around 10,000kms off the mark. An interesting fact tailor-made for dinner party conversation is that over half of all pharmaceutical-grade alkaloids are derived from crops grown in Tasmania. How do we know this? Because stoned wallabies have started making crop circles.
Last week, reports surfaced of mobs of wallabies eating the poppies, getting munted, and hopping around until weird circles were formed in the poppy stalks. It’s been documented that when people get lost in the wilderness, they invariably start travelling in the direction of their dominant hand, causing them to walk in sweeping circles. Apparently the same thing goes for drug affected marsupials.
Now, we couldn’t rustle up any pictures of said wallabies or crop circles but I’m inclined to believe any and all stories about strange things happening in the Apple Isle because let’s face it, it’s kind of a weird place.
Currently, two corporations control opium production in Tasmania, GSK and Tasmanian Alkaloids. Both companies offer pretty extensive support to farmers, providing cash advances, seeds, harvesting and cartage. The current price for a tonne of reasonable grade morphine crop is just over $1,800 and you get around two times that per hectare. So, if you’re planting a decent size crop of say 200 hectares, you’re looking at a pretty easy $700,000. Minus whatever the wallabies eat.
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Part of this new fence erected at Gauthier’s Saranac Lake Inn at Lake Flower Avenue was being taken down Monday, June 25 after some residents complained in the local media.
Photo by Andy Flynn.
Saranac Lake The Saranac Lake Village Board of Trustees Monday, July 23 unanimously approved a new fence law after two months of revisions shaped by public concerns.
Unlike previous board meetings, there were no public comments regarding the fence law revisions on July 23. Since unveiling the amended fence law in May, residents have commented on its regulations and asked many questions. Concerns include a 2-foot setback, temporary fencing for gardens and snow, and whether existing fences are “grandfathered.”
Here are the highlights from the village’s amended law for fencing, retaining walls and hedges:
•A “garden fence’ is defined as a fence that is used to protect gardens from animals. Garden fences shall only enclose areas dedicated to the growing of fruits, vegetables and ornamental flowers. Temporary garden fences may only be erected between April 15 and Oct. 15 and may only be constructed of materials commonly used for such applications but are otherwise exempt from the provisions of this chapter. Permanent garden fences shall require a building permit, may be constructed of materials commonly used for such applications, and may not exceed 8 feet in height or be located in the architectural front yard as defined in this section, and shall otherwise be subject to the provisions of this chapter.
•A “retaining wall” is defined as a wall 3 feet tall or higher that resists lateral pressures and limits lateral displacement caused by soil, rock, water or other materials, except that basement and vault walls that are part of a building or an underground structure shall not be considered retaining walls.
•Prior to the construction of any fence or retaining wall a building permit shall be obtained.
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I've often wondered why people through the ages, from cultures all around the world, have found it compelling to write their names on buildings, trees, rock walls and other public spaces. This isn't a new phenomena to be certain.
I've witnessed Maori graffiti in New Zealand and Native American carvings estimated to be nearly a thousand years old just minutes from my home. Other examples show up in Mulka's Cave in Hyden, Western Australia and we've all heard of France's famous Lascaux.
What is the driving force that compels mankind to strive for a lasting legacy; to carve expressions of puppy-love into the bark of the biggest beech tree? In many instances –especially in times past– I'm sure these things were done to stake a territorial claim not unlike the Vogelkop bower bird of New Guinea, which builds a most beautiful structure to make its presence known. Other marks have undoubtedly been made out of a desire for self-expression of a more artistic nature or for documentary purposes as well.
There is a beautiful granitic outcrop about fifteen minutes from where I now sit that has been painted again and again by visitors. The vandals come in the late hours and cast out their undying affections like multi-colored nets across the surface of the rock. In spite of this, the view is still amazing but I can't help but feel that some of the magic has been robbed away.
As I write, I am struck by the thought that maybe even this blog is a sort of digital graffiti. Possibly my own way of saying "Hello world, here are my thoughts, don't forget me when I'm gone." We are funny creatures indeed. | <urn:uuid:5037a4d6-72ab-465b-a62c-1e213b03dfdf> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://naturalimagery.blogspot.com/2009/11/digital-graffiti.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00061-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972402 | 347 | 2.109375 | 2 |
Hibernation is a state of inactivity and metabolic depression in animals, characterized by lower body temperature, slower breathing, and lower metabolic rate. Hibernation conserves energy, especially during winter. Hibernation may last several days, or weeks depending on species, ambient temperature, and time of year. The typical winter season for a hibernator is characterized by periods of hibernation interrupted by sporadic euthermic arousals wherein body temperature is restored to typical values. Hibernation allows animals to conserve energy during the winter when food is short. During hibernation, animals drastically lower their metabolism so as to tap energy reserves stored as body fat at a slower rate.
Animals that hibernate include bats, some species of ground squirrels and other rodents, mouse lemurs, the West European Hedgehog and other insectivores, monotremes and marsupials. Even some rattlesnakes, such as the Western Diamondback, are known to hibernate in caves every winter. Historically, Pliny the Elder believed that swallows hibernated, and ornithologist Gilbert White pointed to anecdotal evidence in The Natural History of Selborne that indicated as much. Birds typically do not hibernate, instead utilizing torpor. However the Common Poorwill does hibernate. Many experts believe that the processes of daily torpor and hibernation form a continuum.
One animal that some famously consider a hibernator is the bear, although bears do not go into "true hibernation". During a bear's winter sleep state, the degree of metabolic depression is much less than that observed in smaller mammals. Many prefer to use the term "denning". The bear's body temperature remains relatively stable (depressed from 37 °C to approximately 31 °C; about 98.6° to 88 °F) and it can be easily aroused. In contrast, hibernating ground squirrels may have core body temperatures as low as -2 °C (about 28 °F). Some reptile species are said to brumate, or undergo brumation, but the connection to this phenomenon with hibernation is not clear.
Before entering hibernation most species eat a large amount of food and store energy in fat deposits in order to survive the winter. Some species of mammals hibernate while gestating young, which are born shortly after the mother stops hibernating.
For a couple of generations during the 20th century it was thought that basking sharks settled to the floor of the North Sea and hibernated; however, research by Dr David Sims in 2003 dispelled this hypothesis, showing that the sharks actively traveled huge distances throughout the seasons, tracking the areas with the highest quantity of plankton.
The epaulette sharks have been documented to be able to survive for long periods of time without oxygen, even being left high and dry, and at temperatures of up to 26 °C. Other animals able to survive long periods without oxygen include the goldfish, the red-eared slider turtle, the wood frog, and the bar-headed goose.
Until recently no primate, and no tropical mammal, was known to hibernate. However, animal physiologist Kathrin Dausmann of Philipps University of Marburg, Germany, and coworkers presented evidence in the 24 June 2004 edition of Nature that the Fat-tailed Dwarf Lemur of Madagascar hibernates in tree holes for seven months of the year. This is interesting because Malagasy winter temperatures sometimes rise to over 30 °C (86 °F), so hibernation is not exclusively an adaptation to low ambient temperatures. The hibernation of this lemur is strongly dependent on the thermal behavior of its tree hole: if the hole is poorly insulated, the lemur's body temperature fluctuates widely, passively following the ambient temperature; if well insulated, the body temperature stays fairly constant and the animal undergoes regular spells of arousal. Dausmann found that hypometabolism in hibernating animals is not necessarily coupled to a low body temperature.
Noise and vibration from snowmobiles, all-terrain vehicles (ATV) and the like is said to sometimes awaken hibernating animals, who may suffer severely or die as a result of premature awakening in times of food shortage.
Erika Nordby, a toddler of 13 months in Edmonton, Alberta, wandered outside her family home on February 23, 2001. The outside temperature was -24°C (-11°F). When she was found, her heart had stopped beating for two hours and her internal body temperature had fallen to 16°C (61°F). Other sources say there was a slow pulse of 30 beats per minute but no blood circulation when paramedics arrived. In either event she was clinically dead. She suffered severe frostbite, yet required no amputation and made a full recovery.
In October 2006, a Japanese man, Mitsutaka Uchikoshi, was believed to have been in a "denning"-like state for three weeks. He had fallen asleep on a snowy mountain and claimed he had only woken up after being discovered 23 days later; doctors who treated him believed his internal body temperature had fallen to 22°C (71°F) during that period.
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So last night, I stayed up late watching a PBS special on Lewis & Clark. I love their story. I love the idea of journeying across an unknown continent, seeing things that no one around you has ever seen, has ever imagined.
I love that they went on the Voyage of Discovery for their country. That Lewis was called by Thomas Jefferson to explore the United States, and that Lewis chose his friend William Clark as his traveling companion.
Lewis and Clark took 40 people with them (the Corps of Discovery), and only lost one companion on their two and a half year journey. By the time they reached the Pacific, they were like family. Even York (Clark’s black slave) and Sacagawea (a Shoeshone and a woman) were given the oppertunity to vote on where the group would spend the winter. This was long before slaves would be emanicpated and about 100 years before women would be given the right to vote by our governement.
Unfortunately when they returned to St. Louis, their commaraderie dissapated, and Lewis fell into depression, eventually taking his own life.
But I find their story facinating. It’s inspiring, and extemely patriotic (well, except the suicide part). I love that they were so democratic on their journey. Lewis and Clark could have easily ordered the Corps to go where ever they pleased. Instead they voted. Every single person had a say. I love that they went all the way to the other side of the country, trading with native peoples, learning, seeing new (to them) species. They litterally traveled almost 10,000 miles on foot and by boat. WOW!
After the return of the Corps of Discovery, Thomas Jefferson predicted that it would take 100 generations to populate the United States. Americans did it in only five. I love our spirit as a nation!
So, after the show I went off to bed (after doing a little childbirth education reading), and I started to think about my friends. They are all spread out from me…. Jenny in Texas, Doreen in California, Juliana in Connecticut, Richard in Hawaii, Amy in Kansas, Jen in New York… I’m beginning to feel a little abandoned here in Colorado.
It’s interesting how important friendships are. I believe that God did not intend for us to be alone (He gave Adam, Eve for this very reason). I think the Voyage of Discovery could easily be parabled into a spiritual journey.
This is how the roles would line out… God would be Thomas Jefferson, telling us to go out into the world. And we are the Lewises and Clarks. The smart ones invite our friends along (after all, who could conquer all that wilderness alone). And somewhere on the journey the friends become our family. So when we get to the Pacific in the middle of the winter, we love each other and are no longer “slave or free” we are one family.
We need each other, just as Lewis needed Clark and the other members of the Corps of Discovery, especially the ones who many would think were needed the least (where would they have been with out Sacagawea?). Out of the many members, was formed the Corps of Discovery. Simialrly, out of many Christians is formed a church (Christ’s body).
It’s intersting what happened when the expidition was over and the Corps broke up. Many of the members got married and settled on the land given them as a reward for the journey. Clark was given a government position, and kept York on as his slave (who, by the way was the only person who did not receive a reward). Clark even documented beating York after their return for asking for his freedom. Eventually Clark gave it to him after a number of years. Lewis never married, and as stated before, ended up commiting suicide.
I find this so facinating because as a unit, the Corps did amazing things for their countrymen and the future generations. But when the group broke apart, they failed. I think it’s a great example of why God wants us to be with a body of people.
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Why It's FilmBuff
Over five years since Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans and the subject is just as relevant as ever. An in-depth look at what made Katrina a man-made disaster, this documentary is one of the first to have a famous resident, Harry Shearer, use his clout to get answers regarding what actually happened to New Orleans. Hearing from the scientists on the scene right after the hurricane, they make engineering elements accessible. Also, the video graphics explaining how each area of New Orleans was struck during the disaster brings the viewer into an even deeper level of understanding. Never have we seen such an insiders account be so moving and informative. | <urn:uuid:b014f8ed-257a-4a50-bcc8-19c5b9c76524> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.filmbuff.com/movies/the-big-uneasy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00044-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966321 | 131 | 1.757813 | 2 |
Michigan State University's Agricultural Experiment Station system and MSU's Extension program were seen as likely candidates for a line-item veto amid a budget battle in which Gov. Jennifer Granholm was fighting for more revenue for college scholarship programs.
The agricultural programs have a combined budget of $64 million.
But Granholm released a statement Wednesday night in support of the two programs and their efforts at restructuring.
She acknowledged the "relevant, responsive services" the programs historically provided to rural communities.
"As Michigan moves from rust to green, these programs will be focused on enhancing our local communities' efforts to collaborate and innovate in the new clean energy economy," she said.
"I support continued funding for this restructuring."Cedar Springs sheep farmer Doug Uzelac is hopeful. He is a 4-H parent and volunteer and uses the extension services on his farm.
He has been making trips to Lansing and giving his cell phone a workout this week lobbying for the two programs, which not only help more than 200,000 young people in 4-H each year, but provide valuable research and expertise to farmers, social programs to low-income people, community development assistance in urban and rural areas and several other services.
"I would be relieved that our efforts actually turned into something worthwhile if the funding does come through," he said.
Here are the new focus areas for Michigan State University's Extension program and the Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station system:
• Supporting urban farming that builds regional food systems
• Fostering agricultural innovation to succeed in the new economy
• Enhancing energy efficiency and use of renewable energy
• Providing expertise to restructured state and local agencies
• Urban revitalization for stronger businesses and communities
• Encouraging cooperation for regional prosperity
MSU Extension Director Tom Coon said redesigning the two programs has been under way for more than six months. They moved up revealing the plans because of the budget process, he said.
"I think some of the things we're planning to do resonated with some legislators, others with the governor and her staff," he said. "As we shared that with the governor's staff, they felt compelled to make the statement that the governor included in that release.
"We saw it as a very positive sign," he said.
The restructuring includes ramping up some things they already do, but adding new services, too, he said.
"Our programs really need to be more responsive or fluid because of the challenges we're addressing change," he said.
The two programs employ about 3,000 people statewide, including about 50 in the Kent County area.
Kent MSU Extension Director Betty Blase said people would be surprised to see what programs disappear if the extension funding is eliminated.
In addition to agricultural education, research and consulting, the extension provides classes for low-income people on nutrition, budgeting, parenting and breastfeeding.
It offers after-school programs and partners with school districts for healthier lunches. It assists community development organizations in urban and rural areas. And it holds Citizen Planner and other workshops for people who serve on government boards.
"I think a lot of people will notice, in a very, very sad way, if we were not here," Blase said. "We have a lot of families who have gotten information on nutrition and food safety that's really important in these difficult times and they wouldn't be getting it."
Farmers would miss out on the expertise of extension educators like Amy Irish-Brown. She is one of 10 educators with differing specialties who keep farmers in the Kent County area informed of the latest research.
"If someone has a problem that they can't figure out, they call me and we look at it together," she said. "Farmers would have to buy (those services) if they weren't available from us."
Officials with the programs say a cut seems illogical considering that agriculture contributes $71.3 billion annually to the state's economy, and the two programs leverage their funding -- bringing in $2.33 in matching grants for every $1 they receive.
A cut also would cripple the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, officials say, as it receives 70 percent of its funding from the two programs.
But agriculture is often seen as a Republican issue, and the governor is playing hardball.
As Coon waits to hear his program's fate, he is focusing on the positive. He said the staff is excited about the restructuring.
"We really feel that with this new set of priorities and structure, we're going to be able to have an even greater impact on Michigan's economic future."
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As I’ve matured as an athlete, I’ve learned many things. But the most important lesson has been that you can learn to do a lot more in less time. You can spend ten hours a week training for a marathon. You can move mountains to get to a yoga class twice a week. But all of that takes time out of your busy day, away from kids and family, and away from your normal commitments. It doesn't need to be that way. If your goal is to get fit, all you need is fifteen minutes and a commitment. Some ... Continue Reading
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LGBT couples may have more than one reason to celebrate this Valentine's Day. State Senate President John Cullerton told the Chicago Sun-Times that he wants to pass a bill legalizing same-sex marriage Feb. 14.
"I'd like to pass it out of committee next week and pass it on Valentine's Day," Cullerton told the paper.
Cullerton's comments come as LGBT activists amp up efforts to build support for the bill.
The bill was expected to pass out of committee Feb. 5, the first possible day that the Senate Executive Committee could hear the measure since new lawmakers were sworn in last month.
Bernard Cherkasov of Equality Illinois, said that Illinois Unites for Marriage, the coalition formed to pass the bill, has added field organizers dedicated solely to the marriage campaign. Equality Illinois has also added staff, he said.
The coalition has been holding in-district meetings and reaching out to constituents, Cherkasov said. It is asking that supporters contact their lawmakers in Springfield, either in person or by phone.
Rick Garcia, policy advisor of The Civil Rights Agenda, said his group has been holding forums throughout the state. The group is also calling Illinoisans and urging them to contact their lawmakers.
"I'm very confident in the Senate," Garcia said.
The push is the second effort this year to pass equal marriage in Illinois. At attempt last month during the General Assembly's lame duck session fell short in the Senate. However, Cherkasov said he thinks the time is right now.
"I believe that the Senate president would not have announced a timeline on the bill if he did not think it had the votes to pass," Cherkasov said.
Randy Hannig of Equality Illinois said that sponsors are aiming pass the bill through both houses within the coming weeks.
"We've had time to reflect in the last few weeks," said Hannig. "We're confident that now is the time to pass the marriage bill, not just out of the Senate but out of the House as well."
Anthony Martinez, executive director of The Civil Rights Agenda, said the bill could be heard in both houses by month's end. He said that supporters were confident of the bill's fate in committee.
"We'd like to get it done as soon as possible," Martinez said.
Democrats currently dominate both chambers. But while a Senate vote could be weeks away on the bill, a harder fight is expected in the House, where many downstate Democrats may oppose the bill.
Sponsors of the measure have been working with religious leaders to make the bill more palatable to those who have concerns about religious protections.
Senate sponsor Heather Steans has said that no church will have to perform a same-sex marriage against its beliefs.
Sponsors will tack the revised bill as an amendment onto a shell bill, said Hannig. Hannig said he expected sponsors to amend Senate Bill 10 to carry the "Religious Freedom and Marriage Fairness Act."
LGBT activists are anxious to bring the measure to a vote in the Senate and have strongly encouraged lawmakers to act on it as soon as possible.
"Because the House is going to take time," Garcia said. Once the bill clears the Senate, he said, supporters can turn their focus on the House, where the bill will be a harder sell.
Gov. Pat Quinn has voiced strong support for the bill, and he is expected to sign the measure into law should it pass in the General Assembly.
Illinois Unites for Marriage is currently is seeking volunteers for a phone bank. More information is available at www.IllinoisUnites.org .
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On every patch cycle, someone somewhere freaks out. It's life. After so many years of working in exploit development everyone learns to make peace with that fact (well, maybe not Max).
This time Esteban had valid reasons. As it turns out Java decided to burn all their bridges and basically set their default security level to High. Which means that every-time a website serves an applet you get an awful warning message that requires a user's confirmation.
This pretty much kills all your Java bugs... Why? Because if your attack strategy relies on a user clicking through a prompt then it's just better to self-sign an applet and it will run out of the sandbox when they click ok. Simple right?
But then, we are talking about Java, right? So we decided to take a look at the implementation to see if there was any way we could bypass it.
Fifteen minutes later Esteban came back to my desk. The job was done. The high fives were his.
Bug? Feature? Miscarriage?It hard to classify this vulnerability especially since this was supposed to be the main security implementation that Java released and something that people were blogging about.
The function responsible for initializing the Java applet Plugin2Manager.initAppletAdapter, is the one that contains the new security protections.
I will give you 5 second to read the code and facepalm.
5... 4... 3... 2... 1... boom!
At the beginning of the function, the code obtains a serialized object (str1 variable) and the code (str2 variable) and only one of them can be used (line 7 and 8).
The normal way people use applets is through the “code” attribute (str2 variable), and as a result the fireAppletSSVValidation method (line 41) is called thus displaying the warning to the end user. In order to bypass this protection, the exploit has to take the second route and load the applet through a serialized object (line 56).
Oracle's fix was as one-liner, they added a call to fireAppletSSVValidation() before line 56. Job Done.
Is Java dead now? I will leave that as an exercise to you, and if you don't know how to approach this, maybe you are interested in learning how to audit and find your own bypass? In that case we can discuss it in April during Master Class Java Auditing Extravaganza.
Since Immunity is very pleased with the revamped blog page, we decided to share this happiness by offering discounts for INFILTRATE 2013. Send an email to firstname.lastname@example.org with the subject "KEEP CALM and Run this Applet" and you will receive a 10% discount off of the conference briefings pass, Unethical Hacking training and/or Web Hacking training. This is a limited time promotion. You have until Friday February 8, 2013 @ 4pm EST to take advantage of these savings! | <urn:uuid:35d7d5db-5526-474e-bcd1-565fd41bc0f3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://immunityproducts.blogspot.ca/2013/02/keep-calm-and-run-this-applet.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00044-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953806 | 626 | 2.125 | 2 |
Phil OchsPhil Ochs (December 19, 1940 - April 9, 1976) was a protest singer of the early 1960s, perhaps best known for his songs "Power and Glory", "There But for Fortune", "Changes", "When I'm Gone", and "I Ain't Marching Anymore". He studied journalism at Ohio State University, but dropped out in his last year. He moved to New York City and became an integral part of the Greenwich Village folk music scene. He emerged as an unpolished yet passionate vocalist who wrote poignant lyrics about war, civil rights, labor struggles and other topics of the time. He wrote many more songs than were recorded on his first three albums (All the News That's Fit to Sing (1964), I Ain't Marching Anymore (1965), and Phil Ochs in Concert (1966)), but these records contained some of his best work. During this early period of his career, his friend Bob Dylan said "I just can't keep up with Phil. And he's getting better and better and better."
In his later studio albums (Pleasures of the Harbor (1967), Tape From California (1968), Rehearsals for Retirement (1968), and the ironically titled Phil Ochs' Greatest Hits (1970)) he moved away from topical songs and experimented with ensemble and even orchestral instrumentation in the hopes of producing a pop-folk hybrid that would be a "hit."
The most popular tunes from these albums were "Outside of a Small Circle of Friends," "Chords of Fame," "Pleasures of the Harbor," "Crucifixion," and "Jim Dean of Indiana". None actually became hits, although "Small Circle of Friends" received airplay before being banned from many radio stations for suggesting "smoking marijuana is more fun than drinking beer".
He was profoundly concerned with the escalation of the Vietnam War and sang with Chile's President Allende before his election and subsequent assassination in 1973. Ochs organized concerts to protest these Nixon-era developments, and re-recorded his old song "Here's To The State Of Mississippi" as "Here's To The State Of Richard Nixon".
Intensely disappointed by his lack of commercial success, however, and haunted by other personal demons -- namely alcoholism, writer's block and depression -- Phil Ochs hanged himself in 1976. His songs have been covered by Jim and Jean, Joan Baez, Billy Bragg, Ani DiFranco, Dick Gaughan, Eugene Chadbourne, John Wesley Harding and They Might Be Giants among many others. | <urn:uuid:907053f7-2460-4db9-ba6a-a7548fcb1957> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.encyclopedia4u.com/p/phil-ochs.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00030-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985911 | 529 | 1.914063 | 2 |
Vladimir, Equal-to-the-Apostles of Kiev
Grandson of Saint Olga, Saint Vladimir ascended the throne of Kiev in 980. Though a zealous idolater, he was illumined by the grace of God, accepted the Christian Faith, and completely changed his ways. He was baptized in Cherson in 988, receiving the name Basil; he came forth from the font not only healed of a blindness lately afflicting him, but also from being passionate and warlike, he became meek, peaceable, and exceedingly godly. Whereas his grandmother had refused marriage with the Emperor in Constantinople (see July 11), he married Anna, sister of the Emperors Basil and Constantine, and was accompanied home by priests from Constantinople. Diligently seeking to spread Christianity throughout his realm like a new Constantine, he destroyed the idols (having the chief diety Perun scourged and then cast into the Dnieper River), and summoned all his subjects to Holy Baptism. He reposed in peace in 1015.
Apolytikion in the Fourth Tone
Thou wast like a merchant who seeketh a goodly pearl, O glorious Sovereign Vladimir, sitting on the height of the throne of the mother of cities, God-protected Kiev. Searching and sending to the imperial city to know the Orthodox Faith, thou didst find Christ, the priceless Pearl, Who chose thee as a second Paul, and Who did shake off thy spiritual and bodily blindness in the holy font. Wherefore, we who are thy people celebrate thy falling asleep. Pray that thy land of Russia be saved, and that Orthodox people be granted peace and great mercy.
Kontakion in the Plagal of the Fourth Tone
Like the great Apostle Paul, O most glorious Vladimir, in thy maturity thou didst forsake all zeal for idols and a childish sophism, and as a full-grown man thou wast adorned with the royal purple of divine Baptism. And now as thou standest in joy in the presence of Christ our Saviour, pray that thy land of Russia be saved, and that Orthodox people be granted peace and great mercy. | <urn:uuid:f83a18df-953b-43b8-9cb5-aedfad813581> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.goarch.org/chapel/saints_view?contentid=129&type=saints | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00020-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953402 | 442 | 2.28125 | 2 |
Premiere Pro CS5.5 has made some significant improvements in the user interface and the options for customizing and quickly finding keyboard shortcuts. This chapter will show you how to take advantage of the changes.
Keyboard Shortcut and User Interface Changes
In this lesson you will see how customizing and loading keyboard shortcuts has become much easier. You'll also learn a couple of keyboard shortcuts for maximizing a panel.
The new and improved free trial version of Premiere Pro CS5.5 will give you a chance to try out all of the new features, including advanced support for RED digital media. This chapter will walk you through the changes.
Trial Version Improvements and Import Format Changes
Watch this lesson to learn about improvements in the free trial version of Adobe Premiere Pro-most notably, the inclusion of all encoders and decoders. Now the trial version can import and export the same formats as the full version.
Premiere Pro CS5.5 has added many features that will streamline your audio and speech workflow. This chapter provides a tour of some of the improvements, including synchronizing audio and video tracks, applying audio effects, and attaching and previewing closed-caption data, and speech-to-text analysis.
Audio and Speech Improvements
In this lesson you will learn how to synchronize video and audio tracks and then combine the synchronized tracks into a single merged clip.
You can now associate a script (screenplay) from Adobe Story with an asset in Premiere Pro and then use the script data to improve the accuracy of speech-to-text analysis. In this lesson you will learn how to make edits based on the dialogue in a scene.
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Former Tyson Foods, Inc., Chairman/CEO Don Tyson has passed away at age 80 after a brief illness. The son of company founder John Tyson, he led the company from the late 1960s into the early 1990s before retiring in 1995.
Don Tyson was integrally involved in the company's first major stepping stone to becoming a food industry giant: the building and opening of its first chicken processing plant in 1958, a move that first allowed what was then known as Tyson Feed & Hatchery to become a "vertically integrated" concern. He oversaw construction of the plant and served as its first manager.
He was named president of the company in 1966 and then added the titles of chairman and CEO the following year when his father was killed in a car accident. His tenure leading Tyson Foods included a series of acquisition deals culminating with the 1989 purchase of Holly Farms, which more than doubled the size of the company and made it the country's largest poultry producer.
He successively gave up his titles as president (1983), CEO (1991) and chairman (1995) but continued to provide guidance to the leadership team, including son John, on major moves such as the 1998 acquisition of Hudson Foods and the blockbuster 2001 purchase of IBP, Inc., which made Tyson not only the world's largest poultry producer, but also its largest beef processor and the second largest pork processor.
In addition to his business successes, Don Tyson was a world renowned fisherman, a founder of the Billfish Foundation that promotes the catch and release of marlin and other billfish, as well as a longtime member and benefactor of the International Game Fish Association (IGFA), a group that tracks and certifies world records for fishing.
He also created and led the Tyson Family Foundation, which among other things provides scholarships for post secondary students from communities where Tyson Foods has operations. He has been a well known philanthropist in Arkansas and elsewhere, supporting countless causes, primarily in the fields of education, conservation and the arts. | <urn:uuid:9f92da45-1cb0-4320-adc1-4c3ba7dc92f3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://food-management.com/news-amp-trends/former-tyson-ceo-don-tyson-passes-away | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982565 | 403 | 1.585938 | 2 |
TV soap star has timely advice for youth
Set goals, have role models and aspire to be great.
These were the life lessons that Shortland Street's Benjamin Mitchell, otherwise known as Dr TK Samuels, had for the youth of Riverton.
He spoke to 130 people at the Riverton Community Charitable Trust free parent and youth evening last night, sharing his life experiences and the principles he lives by.
"I was fortunate with the influences I had and the choices I made. I believe we are all here for a purpose and once you discover that your job is to figure out how to get that," he said.
Step one for young people was to have a vision and a target because without it they could end up nowhere, he said. "People who don't have a vision end up involved with crime and drugs in loserville."
He was a powerful believer in role models for youth.
"No matter what you want to do, whether it's athletics, a career goal or a personal goal, learn from the people who have already done it, don't try to spend your whole life trying to figure it out or you will get stuck," he said.
Riverton Community Charitable Trust youth facilitator Tanya Colyer said it wasn't easy being a teenager and the choices were endless.
She set up the evening to help the youth of Riverton (11 years plus) talk openly and make better choices.
It was part of the "Be inspired" programme funded by the Child Youth and Family Fresh Start Innovation Fund, that aimed to address youth offending.
Parents Inc Attitude presenter James Beck spoke about choices and consequences, good and bad decisions.
He shared life skills with the teenagers and said he hoped it would help them to make life-enhancing choices about sex, drugs and alcohol. He regularly spoke to high school students about topical issues. Young people and parents found certain topics awkward but both needed to be educated, which was another aim of the evening, he said.
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Trust Based Resource Allocation Technique for Anonymous Secure On-Demand Routing in MANETs
In this paper the scheme called Trust based management system is defined to allow trustworthy intermediate nodes to participate in path construction with resource reservation technique to allow trusted nodes to select a path which has minimum cost, congestion and bandwidth. In reservation technique, if available bandwidth is greater than traffic jam bandwidth. Using rate monitoring and adjustment methodologies, rate control is performed for the overcrowded flows and then an Anonymous Secure On-demand Routing scheme (ASOR) is proposed to offer complete anonymity, unlinkability and unobservabilty for all types of packets. ASOR uses novel combination of group signature and Id based encryption techniques for route discovery. | <urn:uuid:0c16fa22-5ecc-4cd4-a038-81056b033dbb> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.techrepublic.com/whitepapers/trust-based-resource-allocation-technique-for-anonymous-secure-on-demand-routing-in-manets/32869817 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.910197 | 146 | 1.71875 | 2 |
This chapter examines psychosocial therapies and non-pharmacological interventions for dyspnoea. It suggests that psychosocial management should include an exploration of the meaning of dyspnoea for patients, to help them to understand that meaning and its significance for them and their families. The chapter discusses research findings which indicate that art therapies can both help restore creativity and act as a diversion, and that music therapy can be helpful in facilitating feelings and in communication.
Oxford Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.
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Poet Laureate Robert Frost is among the best known American poets. Although he died in 1963, he is the poet of this financial crisis. His Roaring Twenties poem "Fire and Ice" is about how the world may end and also captures the two scenarios of consequences of the crisis.* Fire is inflation. Ice is deflation.
Many, if not most, fear the consequences of the expansion of the Federal Reserve's balance sheet and that the prospect of hundreds of billions of dollars in new government debt will lead to inflation. Debtors typically prefer inflation and the US government is taking on huge liabilities, increasing the budget deficit and the debt levels. The risk, they say, is that the debt will be monetized over time, which is to say that, in essence, the US will just fire up the printing press and print more fiat money. Some measures of inflation expectations did rise. Fed officials have often cited the five-year-five-year forward as one of the measures of inflation expectations it tracks. It is a comparison of a 5-year forward of a 5-year Treasury Inflation Protected Security (TIPS) and a conventional Treasury note. The five day average went from 2.27% on Sept 17 to 2.66% on Sept 22.
The US yield curve has also steepened sharply. Over the past week, the 2-year to 10-year curve has steepened by 14 bp to 179 bp. This is twice the pace of steepening seen on average over the past three weeks. Gold, often identified as an inflation hedge, rallied by nearly 25% in six sessions around the middle of the month. The demand for gold has been particularly acute, acute enough for the US government to "temporarily" suspend the sales of the popular American Buffalo one-ounce gold coin after running down its inventories. The US Mint reported that it sold 164k such coins since January, which is around 54% more than the same year ago period. Last August, the US Mint had to suspend sales of its American Eagles one-ounce gold coins and later to limit the number of shipments to dealers. Since last January, the US Mint has sold nearly 420k of these gold coins, which is more than twice the 2007 full-year total.
The fear of inflation is palpable, but the threat of deflation is also real. This is the Japanese scenario. A real estate bubble pops, leading to a banking crisis as real estate loans sour. Officials respond by flooding the system with money. Banks hoard the funds and officials are left pushing on the proverbial string. If Frost is the poet of the crisis, then Hyman Minsky is its economist. Minsky argues that a long period of rapid growth, low inflation, and macro-economic stability breeds complacency and encourages excessive risk taking. He shows how and why stability leads to instability. Banks already appear to be hoarding the liquidity the Federal Reserve is providing. The latest two-week reserve period that ended September 24 showed that excess reserves averaged almost $69 bln a day, which is roughly twice the previous record set around 9/11.
Deflationary forces also pose a risk to the real economy. The US economy contracted in Q4 07, but expanded at a below trend pace in the H1 08. The risk of contraction in H2 08 has increased. The paralysis in the capital markets and the rising cost of capital for businesses, rising unemployment, and weakness in domestic demand may very well lead to the first back-to-back quarterly contractions in US GDP since the Q4 90-Q1 91 period, which featured the first Gulf War and the S&L crisis.
Doom and Gloom
Ironically, whether by fire or ice, many say the dollar will be undermined. Under the inflation scenario, a cheaper dollar may make it easier for the government to repay its debt. However, both domestic and international investors will demand a high yield to compensate for the currency risk. Under a deflationary view, the central bank will have to pump even more money to the banking system. Bernanke has derisively been called "Helicopter Ben" and this comes from when he was a Fed governor suggesting that to combat deflation, a central bank could drop currency from a helicopter to debase it.
The pendulum of market sentiment has swung hard away from a rate hike that the market had flirted with and toward a rate cut. Recent comments from Bernanke seem to reflect a growing concern about the downside risks to growth. The Fed funds futures strip has an October rate cut and a December rate cut nearly fully discounted in current prices. In addition, given the financial stress, bringing down the discount rate to the Fed funds rate, as the Greenspan Fed did during the S&L crisis, seems likely.
Some Fed officials have resisted this step because they argued that it would be more difficult to target the Fed funds rate. Yet the financial crisis and the expansion of the Fed's balance sheet is already making Fed funds (the effective rate, which is a weighted average of transaction rates) quite volatile.
There are a couple of considerations that may help blunt the negativity and pessimism. Bank credit is still expanding. The data is reported on a monthly basis, and next week's report for the month of September will be important, but here is what it looked like through August (and can be found on the St. Louis Fed web site): Commercial and industrial loans are were up about 25% from a year ago at $1.5 trillion. Real estate loans were up about 5.8% from a year ago at $3.6 trillion. Loans to consumers are up about 14.5% from year ago levels at $845 bln.
Money supply, as measured by M2, which includes M1 currency held by companies and individuals and adds money market mutual funds, has risen at a 5.2% pace over the past year. The Federal Reserve does not target M2, but this pace is above the upper end of its previous desired range. The pace is also above nominal growth rate. During its deflationary crisis, Japanese money supply often contracted. That said the 5.2% rate is the slowest not only of this year, but the slowest pace seen in the US since early 2007.
Also recall that after the 1987 equity market crash that saw a quarter of US market cap wiped out in a single day, there was no recession, despite the fears of one. The recession did not come for several years. The resilience of the US real economy to the events on Wall Street is remarkable. Another mitigating factor is that as Nixon infamously said, and Reagan, Bush-the Elder, Clinton, and Bush-the-Lesser tried to refute by deed, "We are all Keynesians now." Counter-cyclical spending and the remainder of a social safety net may help limit protect Main Street from the full impact of the crisis on Wall Street.
Fire and Ice - by Robert Frost
Some say the world will end in fire;
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate<
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
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A bit of luck and a gift from a serviceman's
family member helped save six U.S. service members currently deployed in
U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Christopher Fessenden used a
basic RC truck with an attached wireless video camera able to scout ahead while
out on patrol. After loaning the truck to a different unit, the little RC
vehicle set off a 500-lb. IED blast triggered by a hidden trip wire.
Since he first
received the device in 2007, it helped locate multiple suspected IEDs
designed to cause as much devastation as possible. Staff Sgt. Fessenden's
brother and shop friend plan to try and create a new truck that can be shipped
for use in Afghanistan.
It may sound silly that a small RC toy truck is being
used to detect IEDs, but troops on the ground are willing to accept any help
they can. Techniques have ranged from trained dogs to sniff out IEDs to
better intelligence from locals that run the risk of repercussion from the
The U.S. Air Force continually uses
high-resolution cameras to try and locate IEDs, while ground troops use metal
detectors and similar devices to find IEDs. Growing use of unmanned
aerial vehicles (UAVs) has also helped identify insurgents planting roadside
bombs, along with pinpoint precision strikes to destroy the munitions.
Insurgents routinely use IED attacks -- including booby-trapped
items and bodies -- before sometimes launching small-arms attacks on soldiers.
Unfortunately, soldier amputations from Afghan IED
dramatically increased as soldiers dismount armored vehicles to carry out foot
Using cell phones, devices with on-off switches,
or connecting wires to set off IEDs, insurgents are very familiar with U.S.
patrol tactics -- an important lesson to military officers trying to stifle the
catastrophic damage from IEDs.
U.S. lawmakers and Pakistan are already testing
the boundaries of a weary relationship with growing concern that about 84
percent of ammonium nitrate used in IEDs comes from two Pakistani plants.
Questions related to IED attacks should remain a
major topic as the number of killed and wounded by these sometimes
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Lab Course Modeling and Automated Verification Summer Term 2012
This lab course is for students in the master program "Computational Logic". The course language is English.
This lab course gives the students the opportunity to participate in state-of-the-art (both theoretical as well as applied) research projects. Most problems used in this course are closely related to (or a part of) current research projects of our workgroup. See for example:
Within these projects problems/tasks arise in different areas, including
- symbolic methods in model checking
- explicit model checking techniques
- reduction techniques
- (probabilistic) omega-automata
- numerical solution methods
- specification formalisms
- abstraction techniques
- and many more
- Solid foundations in algorithms and data structures, in automata theory and formal languages, in complexity theory
- Basic mathematical foundations
- A successfully completed Model Checking course is beneficial, but not mandatory
- Programming skills in C/C++
Rules for Lab Course
The following rules need to be followed in order to assure a successful participation:
- There will be an initial event at the end of April 2012, where some different topics will be presented.
- Every participant will be assigned to one such topic. The aim of the Lab Course is the independent editing and a following presentation of the results. A date for this presentation will be fixed at the initial event for every participant. The presentation needs to be done at the end of Mai / beginning of June 2012.
- A tutor is assigned to every participant during the initial meeting.
- The developed code needs to be commented in a proper way and needs to be documented as PDF.
- The concluding presentation should not exceed 30 minutes.
Awarding of Credit Points
The Credit Points will be awarded when all of the following conditions are fulfilled:
- Every deadline was kept.
- The source code is commented and documented properly.
- The presentation of the own results was in an acceptable way.
- The presentations of the other participants were attended.
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In the midst of the jobs crisis in America, members of the House of Representatives Republican majority are holding hearings trying to prevent an end to the transportation and importation of nine varieties of snakes, including the Burmese Python, Boa Constrictors, and Anacondas, that have become to inundate the Florida Everglades, posing a risk to other species, and ultimately, to humans! We have the report of a Burmese Python swallowing a live alligator whole and then exploding from the effect of doing it!
A snake breeder testified that the ban proposed by Florida Democratic Senator Bill Nelson and Interior Department Secretary Ken Salazar, would interfere with the right of snake owners and snake breeders to purse their hobby and livelihood, and prevent them from moving interstate!......
This is a regulation that the Republicans want to eliminate because they say it will create more jobs?????!!!!! They are out of their minds! Shame on the Republicans. President Obama has presented a plan that would get millions of people back to work, yet the GOP is using snakes to spur job growth.
Politico has this response from Democrats about the Republican House Oversight Committee that held the hearings:
“With all due respect to our witnesses from the Association of Reptile Keepers, repealing a so-called job-killing regulation to allow more pythons, boa constrictors and anacondas into the United States is not the kind of bold, bipartisan solution Americans are looking for to help the economy,” said Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), ranking member of the oversight panel.
In a statement Wednesday afternoon, a spokesman for Nelson (D-Fla.) said that “respectfully, the House Oversight Committee might just be wrong on this one.”
“I mean, how many people line up outside Walmart on Black Friday to buy a python?” the spokesman said. “Rules like this are carefully weighed, narrowly targeted and aimed at protecting the public safety and welfare.”
Then, we find out this information posted at TheHill:
....According to Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee held 22 hearings on federal regulations this Congress “but not a single hearing on job creation.” Connolly said Wednesday’s hearing on a snake transportation ban was a prime example.
Holding a hearing about “snakes on a plane” when Congress should be focused on job creation bordered on a “theater of the absurd,” according to a press release from Connolly’s office..... | <urn:uuid:5e39965f-2730-4c29-a30a-8e7b3ad22271> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://stubbornliberal.blogspot.com/2011/09/snakes.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00062-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942373 | 535 | 1.648438 | 2 |
Despite the controversy over the Bush administration's warrantless domestic surveillance and whether telecommunications companies should receive immunity for their alleged involvement, only one question about wiretapping has been asked of any presidential candidate of either party during the numerous debates over the past year. The lone question was asked of Republican Mitt Romney in September 2007; no Democrat has been asked any question relating to the topic.
Despite the ongoing controversy surrounding the Bush administration's claims that executive power alone allows it to engage in warrantless domestic surveillance that public officials and legal experts across the political spectrum have said violates the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and the U.S. Constitution, only one question on the issue has been asked of any presidential candidate of either party during the numerous debates over the past year.
The New York Times first reported on December 16, 2005, that President Bush had issued a secret presidential order shortly after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that authorized the National Security Agency (NSA) to eavesdrop on international phone calls and email communications that originate from or are received within the United States and to do so without the court approval normally required under FISA.
In August 2007, after months of heated debate over civil liberties and the administration's claim of executive power, Congress passed the Protect America Act, which, as The Washington Post reported, gave "U.S. spy agencies expanded power to eavesdrop on foreign suspects without a court order." The New York Times further reported that the act "broadly expanded the government's authority to eavesdrop on the international telephone calls and e-mail messages of American citizens without warrants," "as long as the target of the government's surveillance is 'reasonably believed' to be overseas." According to the Times, the law "gives the attorney general and the director of national intelligence the power to approve the international surveillance, rather than the special intelligence court." The bill contains a 180-day "sunset provision" and will expire February 1. Congress resumed debate on the issue on January 24.
One of the issues surrounding the debate over Bush's warrantless surveillance concerns the telecommunication firms that assisted the NSA program. On May 11, 2006, USA Today reported that the NSA "has been secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans, using data provided by AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth." Following additional reporting on the issue, several organizations filed lawsuits against the telecommunications companies alleging violations of the U.S. Constitution, FISA, and other state and federal laws. In a class-action lawsuit against AT&T, the Electronic Frontier Foundation alleged that the company is "collaborating with the NSA in a massive warrantless surveillance program that illegally tracks the domestic and foreign communications and communication records of millions of Americans." On October 22, 2007, Director of National Intelligence Michael McConnell stated in an interview with the El Paso Times that "under the president's program, the terrorist surveillance program, the private sector had assisted us. Because if you're going to get access you've got to have a partner."
In the wake of litigation against several telecommunication companies over their alleged cooperation with the NSA program, a debate emerged on Capitol Hill over whether to provide these companies with retroactive immunity. The Protect America Act did not include a provision granting the telecommunication companies legal immunity for their compliance with the program, and the debate continues over whether Congress should provide for such a provision when it considers the act's renewal.
However, in the numerous presidential debates conducted over the past year, not one question has been asked of any of the Democratic candidates regarding wiretapping, FISA, or immunity for telecommunications companies, and only one has been asked of a Republican candidate. At least 10 of the candidates who have participated in presidential debates in the past year have been in Congress as it has considered legislation concerning FISA, wiretapping, and the immunity issue. As Media Matters for America Executive Vice President Jamison Foser documented on November 16, 2007, the debates held prior to November 15 featured "[o]nly one question about wiretapping" and "[n]ot a single question about FISA." The sole question on the issue of wiretapping occurred during the September 5, 2007, Fox News-sponsored Republican debate and did not relate to retroactive immunity. During the debate, Fox News White House correspondent Wendell Goler asked former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney about eavesdropping on mosques "even without a judge's approval."
A Media Matters review of all the nationally televised debates held since November 15, 2007 -- as well as a Democratic debate on National Public Radio, two Democratic presidential forums, and a Republican forum -- found that the pattern has continued. Not one question has been asked of any of the candidates regarding issues related to Bush's warrantless domestic surveillance program during any of the subsequent debates. The following debates were included in the follow-up review:
- The January 21 Democratic debate in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
- The January 15 Democratic debate in Las Vegas
- The January 10 Republican debate in Myrtle Beach
- The January 6 Republican forum in Manchester, New Hampshire
- The January 5 Republican debate in Manchester
- The January 5 Democratic debate in Manchester
- The December 13 Democratic debate in Johnston, Iowa
- The December 12 Republican debate in Johnston
- The December 9 Republican debate in Coral Gables, Florida
- The December 4 Democratic debate in Des Moines, Iowa
- The December 1 Democratic forum in Des Moines (Brown & Black Forum)
- The December 1 Democratic forum in Des Moines (Heartland Presidential Forum)
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1-What Does Fanon mean by "For not only must the black man be black; he must be black in relation to the white man"? Can you explain that? Please provide real life examples?
When Frantz Fanon wrote, "for not only must the black man be black; he must be black in relation to the white man," I believe he was talking about the relativity of race. Being black means nothing by itself; however, when being black is compared to being white, the two colors have a meaning attached to them. The roles of "white" and "black" in society could have been completely reversed if it was originally established that black was a superior skin color. The way that individuals interpret race is socially constructed in that we have completely created was defines a race, and we continually amend that definition. Black people were oppressed in slavery because society was conditioned over time to believe that they were inferior to white people, when in reality there is no real reasoning for this declaration.
An example of how race has been socially constructed is the word "Caucasian" and its meaning. The use of "Caucasian" today is used to define people who look "white" or of north western European decent. Originally, this word was used to define the people of Caucasia. Today, the people of Caucasia would not even fit under the American definition of "Caucasian" because they do not fit the typical profile. We have redefined the word "Caucasian" to fit a specific race. Race is a constantly changing, socially constructed idea in society.
2--Fanon writes: "Man is human only to the extent to which he tries to impose is existence on another man in order to be recognized by him. As long as he has not been effectively recognized by the other, that other will remain the theme of his actions. "What does this mean for the power relationship among social groups in a society? Can you explain by providing examples from social life?
I believe that this quotation is very similar to both Collins' idea of bifurcated consciousness and Marx's idea of "ruling class; ruling ideas". In my interpretation, Fanon is suggesting that individuals are constantly struggling for recognition. Those who have gained recognition have the ability to recognize others, while those who have not yet been recognized do not have the ability to recognize others. Therefore, those who have not yet been recognized are constantly working toward being recognized by the already recognized group. The group of individuals who we recognize in society have power over our ideas because we give them that power by recognizing them as superb, superior, etc. This is similar to bifurcated consciousness because those who have not been recognized are in local understanding, while those who have are able to transcend into conceptual mode. Relating to Marx, the ruling class, or those who are recognized, rule the ideas, or the "theme" of peoples' actions. For power groups in society it means that those in power will stay in power as long as we continue to recognize their power. In addition to this, no one is able to come into power unless those who are already in power allow them to be recognized, because the already powerful control the ideas in society. An example in social life is workplace hierarchies. Individuals apply for positions (and technically choose where they want to work). By accepting a job they are offered they agree to abide by the laws of that work place. The higher up in the hierarchy of that workplace, the more power an individual has and vice versa. In a work place we constantly work toward a promotion, and in order to get a promotion (be accepted into the recognized class) we must constantly act in the way that the hierarchy above us would have us act. The entire concept of "sucking up" is a direct example of this idea. | <urn:uuid:29fb244f-55e8-4536-a59b-ccdf102475cf> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.lib.umn.edu/whet0013/theory2012/2012/04/molly-weaver-race-gender-difference-ii-fanon-and-patterson-3.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981296 | 784 | 3.1875 | 3 |
Ashkan Dejagah, a German-Iranian soccer player refused to go with his team on its scheduled visit to Tel Aviv for a game. His reasons for refusing are varied ranging from telling his coach they were “of a personal nature and have to do with my close family” to telling the newspaper BZ they were “political” and that “I have more Iranian than German blood in my veins.” He also claimed it would be difficult seeing his family which is in Iran if his passport had a visa stamp from Israel. Theo Zwansiger, President of the German Football Federation, stated ‘we will not tolerate a German national player cancelling his participation in an international match because of his world view. A player who wears our team stripe must identify with this country and it values. Otherwise, one has to do without him.” The German Jewish council expressed its anger at the actions of Dejagah.
If Mr. Dejagah believes having an Israel stamp on his passport will impede his ability to visit Iran and see his family, he certainly has a right to express these concerns to his coach. However, if he is making an anti-Israel statement that is a different matter. The contradictory statements made by Dejagah certainly don’t help in this situation. Sports is a wonderful way for people with differing views to bond with one another. | <urn:uuid:8712dbb1-dfe9-4cd4-84b5-08c6aa5bc97b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://theimpudentobserver.com/world-news/german-furor-over-soccer-player-refusal-to-play-israel/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.990538 | 288 | 1.703125 | 2 |
Bhanwari Devi urges women to vote for parties that guarantee security
The diversity was apparent — from Halakki tribals in Ankola district to Bangalore’s garment workers to daily wage workers from H.D. Kote and sex workers — but the intent was the same: “To unite against violence on women”.
Interspersed with protest songs and sloganeering against attacks on women, writers, social activists, workers and journalists urged the large gathering at the Karavali Utsav Ground here to consider Women’s Day on Friday as the new beginning of women’s liberation.
This was preceded by a rally from PVS Circle to the venue of the meeting. At the forefront of the rally was Bhanwari Devi, whose struggle for justice against societal, police and judicial oppression after she was gang-raped by seven men in 1992, culminated in the Supreme Court coming out with Vishaka Guidelines against sexual harassment at workplace.
“There have been so many atrocities against women. How long can we tolerate this?” she said. She urged those present to respond with their votes, choosing parties that guarantee security for women. “There are so many rapists in Parliament. Do not vote for parties that protect them instead of protecting us,” said Ms. Devi, whose speech in Marwadi was translated into Hindi by her daughter Rameshwari.
Writer Sara Aboobakker lamented the inefficacy of the nascent woman’s rights movement in Dakshina Kannada. “For no reason women are being taken (moral policing) to police stations here. If it had happened in Kerala, hundreds of women would have gone to the streets. Yes, there have been protests against rape here, but no protest of a sort that would have served a warning to the police,” she said.
Urging women to stand up against patriarchy, Ruth Manorama of the National Federation of Dalit Women, decried fundamentalist forces that “tell women to stay within boxes”.
Shahnaz M., Editor of women’s magazine Anupama, said respect for women should start within the domestic set-up, and by standing up to representations of misogyny. “There is a deodorant advertisement that says if men spray it, women will follow like animals. What kind of depiction is this?” she said.
Ankola taluk-based Halakki tribal folk artiste and Rajyotsava Award winner Sukri Bomma Gowda said women and men should unite and put an end to the discrimination of women.
The convention also protested against economic discrimination as those from women-majority sectors such as garment workers, anganwadi workers, civic workers aired their grievances.
Gowri from the BBMP Pourakarmika Sangha, said women who swept streets from 4 a.m. risking their safety were paid only around Rs. 2,000 per month. B.R. Jayashree, representing anganwadi workers from the district, said workers were door-to-door agents for numerous government schemes, apart from anganwadi duties and election duties, and yet, were not considered government workers. “We have no benefits at all. The government should follow Puducherry model, where anganwadi workers are recognised as Grade C workers,” she said.
Sexual minorities and sex workers were represented by Nisha, who said: “Sex workers are the worst treated. On the roads, they are harassed and assaulted by rowdies and the police, and in the brothel, by brokers.” | <urn:uuid:cb283228-09c1-4a20-9133-e48cdcf7b8ff> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Mangalore/women-resolve-not-to-take-it-lying-down/article4491213.ece | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00030-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978228 | 756 | 1.75 | 2 |
About the Know Before You Go Campaign
What is the Know Before You Go Campaign?
‘Know Before You Go’ (KBYG) is an ongoing campaign with around 250 travel industry partners to help Brits to stay safe and healthy abroad.
The campaign was launched in 2001 to promote these key messages:
- get adequate travel insurance
- check the FCO’s country travel advice
- research your destination – know the local laws and customs
- visit your GP as soon as possible before travelling
- check your passport is in good condition and valid and you have all necessary visas
- make copies of important travel documents and/or store them online using a secure data storage site
- tell someone where you are going and leave emergency contact details with them
- take enough money and have access to emergency funds
Every year thousands of British travellers seriously regret not taking these simple steps.
If you’re planning a trip you should read the travellers checklist – it’s full of practical tips for having a safe and enjoyable time.
See our full list of campaign partners and learn about the benefits of becoming a Know Before You Go campaign partner.
Targeting different types of British travellers
Our research has shown that particular groups of travellers experience unique problems. We use mini-campaigns to reach these groups with our advice:
- independent travellers
- hen and stag parties
- package holiday makers
- gap year travellers
- sports travellers
- ethnic minorities
- elderly and retired travellers
For example, younger travellers are the least prepared group of UK travellers – that’s why we launched the dedicated GoGapYear.com website and work with specialist travel companies and universities to get our message to them.
Recent KBYG mini-campaigns include:
- Cricket World Cup 2007
- Rugby World Cup 2007
- Post Office campaign on getting insurance
- backpackers & independent travellers
- gap years
- visiting friends and relatives
- winter sports
- over 55's
KBYG publications include:
- Support for British nationals abroad: a guide
- Passport to extreme fun
- Going To live abroad
- Victims of crime abroad
- Lonely planet travel safe
- In prison abroad
- World Wise
All KBYG publications can be ordered on the travel advice publications page.
The Know Before You Go Campaign is a joint venture between the FCO and the travel industry to ensure that British travellers are better prepared when they go overseas. The FCO does not endorse any of the companies who are part of the KBYG campaign. We are not involved in the production or sale of the companies’ products, nor do we monitor their quality.
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I figured I’d post these. Many poets employ them without ever knowing their names, and that seems to work, but I like knowing the names of things. There’s something thrilling and wise ass to me about going through the world, saying: “Oh look! A Eurasian tree sparrow!” At age six, I fell in love with a girl because she would say things like “isn’t the planet Venus lovely tonight? Look, Joseph, it is rising over the Chivas Regal billboard sign across the street!” Who wouldn’t love a girl who talked like that? I guess a lot of people might find her a trifle pedantic, but the pedantry of never being allowed to know anything gets on my nerves. It’s as if everyone were being stingy and saving it up for a test or waiting for me to make a mistake so that they could hammer me over the head with my own ignorance. This little girl was generous, and her bestowing of information seemed forthright. She taught me birds, and planets, and little facts about rivers that ran backwards. I loved her. So it is in memory of her, forever lost in the murky waters of my past, that I post rhetorical devices for the next two or three posts, hoping someday, a person reading these might turn to their companion and say: “Oh look James, a stunning example of chiasmus!”
Let’s start with Anadiplosis (and discover others along the way). I love this name. I think of it as “Anna Di Plosis, a stunning old woman from Florence who knows how to hold her scotch (in her herbal tea) Anadiplosis pretty much means to begin the next phrase as you ended the previous. It could be one word, or a couple words. I’ll give you an example:
Wind rousted waves,
waves tousled and torn
torn from all thought and all humor:
Humor me if you will:
Kiss the bright hem of my garment,
garment of silk, and inlaid pearls,
pearls milk white as your foam,
foam that has carried the stars,
and will carry them back,
back where all pearls are born.
kiss the gold sandaled feet of Deirdre,
Deirdre, of the sorrows
this pearl tossed into the sea.
Now even though this poem has no regular meter, it sounds metered. In point of fact, it sounds like something more than meter, and that something more is what I call “invocative pulse.” Whitman has invocative pulse beyond any American poet. Invocative pulse is born from rhetorical devices such as Anaphora, enumeration, apostrophic address, and, in this case, anadiplosis. Invocative pulse functions in both poetry and prose that is meant to give a sense of speechifying– not casual speech, but the speech of orators and bards. When the modernists came along, they purged poetry of more than just regular meter and rhyme. They took away most other rhetorical devices as well. Ginsberg, following along the line of Whitman, made popular again the act of speechifying. To many ears raised on modernist and postmodernist free verse, deeply invocative poetry sounds over blown and tacky, but, to many ears longing to hear something out of ordinary journalistic speech, the free verse written bereft of all rhetorical devices, sounds flat and drab. To those who hunger for sound, a poem stripped of all such devices is neither poetry, nor even well varied prose
No poet escapes rhetoric entirely. I see rhetoric (persuasion by ear) as a sort of ongoing address to the sea, to posterity, even when it’s being used to address a rotary club. Such poems have a sense of ritual. We might call it eloquence. Sounding appeals to us through more than mere information. Using Kenneth Burke’s definition of form, and modifying it somewhat: “The building of and fulfillment of a desire in an audience or reader beyond mere information.”These devices were a vital part of the oral tradition, and one can still hear their echoes in speeches and legal documents. Used in moderation, they don’t have to sound high-falutin. And that is your first mission: write a short prose piece or poem that uses anadiplosis. Example:
Fuck (A blow to The Head)
So, like she clocks her brother Igor upside the head with this enormous cabbage? Cabbages can be lethal, man. Man, the poor dude goes down for the count, I mean he’s out, and starts foaming at the mouth–Mouth, full of drool and blood, no shit, and she’s standing over him like the queen of Sheba… hey, what time is it? It better not be nine dude. Dude, If it’s nine, I’m fucked. Fuck it. I’m fucked.
Certainly not eloquent, but it can help render this idiot’s character just by the way it sounds and, here, the anadiplosis just seems part and parcel of his poverty of speech.
There are other rhetorical devices employed in the first example: personification, apostrophic address (talking to something that does not usually talk back: like the dead, or the sea, or America, or a microwave). Alliteration figures into the poem: wind/ waves, tousled/torn. Anadiplosis could also be considered identical rhyme (rhyming look with look). I want to call rhymes that take place at the end and the beginning of lines Anadiplosic rhyme. Example:
Diving Into The Sea
I dove into the sea,
me, who never swam.
Damn it was cold.
Old men ogled my tits.
Bits of sea weed got caught in my hair.
There is no way I’ll do that again.
I guess the point of this beyond giving you some names is to show that there are hundreds of ways to create invocative pulse beyond rhyme and meter. Most of the devices of rhetoric are sonic, rhythmic, and mimetic—usually all three. They originated in a time when words were heard rather than read. Usually, when a poet declares that he writes poems that are meant to be read on the page, and only on the page what he really is telling me is that he hates “sounding.”In a sense, he has been won over to the rhetoric of silence and has a pure streak, but even punctuation “sounds.” It is meant to control and vary the speed at which we read. Even the white space is deeply rhetorical, whether we admit it or not. A period is a call to a full stop. A comma is a lesser pause. All this belongs to rhetoric since it is about pulse, the persuasion of varied or regular pulse.
If you want to escape all rhetoric, you are out of luck. Poets who hate their poems leaving the page often read in as flat and uninteresting a tone as possible. Often, very arrogant haters of poetry read aloud will ignore their own punctuation and just read through the periods, commas, or white space. This is childish and stingy, and is based on no aesthetic merit save meanness and hatred of sounding. Of course, too much rhetorical might can piss anyone off, but violent, “on the page” poets (I love calling them violent) are not being honest. The reader will impose a rhythm as he reads where none exists. Not finding any rhetorical devices, the reader will usually create them. So even if you are poet of the page, and nothing but the page so help me God, it is good for you to know the devices of rhetoric, if only to avoid them.
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Australia's best kept secret is the nutritional quality of the wild foods which have sustained the world's longest living culture, the Australian Aborigines, for over 60,000 years. These plants still grow abundantly in the Australian Outback and are of such high food value that they are changing the science of nutrition and redefining our ideal health.
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Today I am going to review how to clean and sanitize your brewing equipment. We will go over the difference between cleaning and sanitizing, and how best to do both. I will tell you why each is so important to making great tasting beer and wine. Then we'll go over what needs to be cleaned or sanitized. I'll be splitting this up into two sections. Cleaning first, then sanitizing.
So what is the difference between cleaning and sanitizing? They are two different things, and you should pay equal attention to both. Cleaning is the removal of large debris. This is the visible junk such as yeast, hops, and proteins. Removing stains is also considered cleaning.
Sanitizing is the reduction of the number of living organisms that are on your equipment. These living organisms are what spoil beer and turn wine into vinegar. They are not visible to the naked eye, but getting them down to safe levels is critical. Clean equipment will make clean beer. Dirt and debris will harbor tons of critters that will ruin your beer. Getting rid of all the grime will ensure that your sanitizer will work properly. The old saying goes, ''you can't polish a turd.'' Well you cant sanitize dirt either!
The list of item you need to keep clean includes your fermenter, your airlock, and any hoses you use to transfer. You'll also need to keep your spoon, your kettle and anything else that you use during the brewing process spotless. Be sure to clean any testing equipment you use. Always fill clean bottles, and cap with clean crowns. Finally, wash your hands!
Now that we have an idea of what we need to clean, lets look at the best ways to clean these items. The trusted set of steps is ''wash, rinse, sanitize.'' I highly recommend cleaning dirty equipment as soon as possible. The longer you wait, the worse off you will be. Using hot water with cleansers is always a good idea, and it will make cleaning much easier. Using scrub-pads and brushes will make your life much easier. Be careful not to scratch plastic buckets and hoses. The scratches will hide organisms from sanitizers. Be sure to fully rinse all soap from your equipment. Some soaps will counter-act sanitizers, making them useless!
Now, what kind of soap and cleansers are OK to use on brewing equipment? We recommend that you use a mild, brewing specific chemical called PBW. This is a chemical very similar to ''Oxy-Clean'' and works wonders. Be sure to follow the directions on the package that tell you how much to add. It works best in very hot water, and you can soak really dirty items over night with no problem. Be sure to completely rinse off all the chemical when you are done cleaning.
You can also use dish soap or mild unscented hand soap. These types of soap work great on grease, but you'll find that extra scrubbing will be required to clean your brewing equipment. Be sure to use only enough soap to make a little bit of foam. If you use too much, you'll leave a soapy residue behind. If your soap is scented, be extra sure to fully rinse all of it off. You don't want soap-scented beer or wine!
The third cleaning method involves a lot of hot water paired with a lot of elbow grease. Simply scrubbing at dirt under hot water is an effective way of cleaning. Please be careful not to burn yourself in scalding hot water. An extended soak or pre-rinse with hot water will loosen the dirt for you, and will make your job a little easier. Remember, its easy to scratch plastic buckets and hoses, so use a soft sponge on these items.
Now lets move on to the next step, which is sanitizing. Remember, sanitizing is a separate step from cleaning. We are not sterilizing, which is completely removing all living critters. We are sanitizing, which is bringing the amount of critters down to safe levels. This is a very important step in making fresh tasting beer and clean wines. The critters I mentioned include wild yeasts and bacteria. There are no known harmful viruses or bacteria that will survive in beer or wine. They will only make your beer and wine taste terrible.
So what should be sanitized? Be sure to sanitize anything that comes into contact with the beer after the boil. This includes your fermenter and airlock, your siphoning equipment, your bottles and caps, and anything else that you touch the beer with. Be sure to sanitize your siphon equipment when you test gravity. When you sanitize your fermenter, be sure to fill it all the way full with sanitizer. What kind of chemicals should you use to sanitize your equipment? All of the chemicals I will mention have a minimum amount of time that they need to act on critters, called âÂÂcontact time.â Be sure to always give your sanitizer enough time to do its job. Using more sanitizer will not make it work faster, it will only cost you more money. All of the following chemicals can be added to clean, warm water. Make sure there is no cleaning chemicals left behind after rinsing. Except for one exception, all of your sanitizers should be used only once. All the sanitizers I will mention are safe to flush down the drain, and will not effect septic systems.
The easiest sanitizer to use is called âÂÂOne Step.â This dry powder is easily dissolved in water, and does a very good job of sanitizing. Be sure to follow the directions on the package to make sure you use enough. The contact time of one step is 5 minutes. One step does not need to be rinsed off after sanitizing. Simply drain out all of the liquid, and allow your equipment to drip dry. One step works very well on all of your brewing equipment.
The next chemical you should know about is called Star San. This liquid is an acid based chemical that creates a powerful sanitizer when mixed in the correct amount of water. Star San has only a one minute contact time, and the foam will sanitize as well as the liquid. Star San doesn't need to be rinsed off either, but you should let any residual foam dry off before touching any beer or wine. You can store this sanitizer in a spray bottle to have at hand for quick sanitizing jobs. Because Star San is such a powerful sanitizer, you can store it and re-use it later. Keep it in a container with a tight fitting lid, and discard it when it gets cloudy.
The third sanitizing chemical you should know about is sodium metabisulphate, also called campden tablets. This chemical is well known in the wine world, and is commonly used to sanitize all wine making equipment, including bottles and corks. It works well for sanitizing brewing equipment, but it must be fully rinsed off, or else some off flavors will be found in your beer and wine. Some people are sensitive to sulfates, so care should be taken to fully rinse off this chemical. Add 1 Campden tablet per gallon of water, or 2 oz of sodium metabisulphite per gallon. The contact time for sodium metabisulphite is 5 minutes.
There are several more sanitizers that could be mentioned, such as quaternary sanitizers, but they are not as common and can be expensive. If you use one of the three sanitizers I described, you wont have any problems.
Clean and sanitized equipment will make clean, great tasting beer and wine. You now have the tools you need to keep all your equipment clean and ready to use. You know the difference between cleaning and sanitizing, and how to do both. If you have any more questions, feel free to call us at 1-800-450-9535, or e-mail us at email@example.com. | <urn:uuid:aa618612-336f-4d05-a35d-307e14cbf5e7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.homebrewers.com/category/aatdvarks.videos.001_beginner.cleaning_and_sanitizing/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00048-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962324 | 1,695 | 2.1875 | 2 |
Kids this age need physical activity to build strength, coordination, confidence, and to lay the groundwork for a healthy lifestyle. They're also gaining more control over how active they are.
School-age kids should have many opportunities to participate in a variety of activities, sports, and games that fit for their personality, ability, age, and interests. Brainstorm with your kids on activities that feel right. Most kids won't mind a daily dose of fitness as long as it's fun.
The National Association for Sports and Physical Education recommends that school-age kids:
get 1 hour or more of moderate and vigorous physical activity on most or all days
participate in several bouts of physical activity of 15 minutes or more each day
avoid periods of inactivity of 2 hours or more
Fitness at Home
Many parents and kids think of organized sports when they think of fitness. Though there are many advantages to signing a child up for the softball team, practice and games once or twice a week will not be enough to reach activity goals. In addition, parents can no longer rely on physical education in schools to provide enough physical activity for kids.
Here are some ways to keep your kids moving at home:
Incorporate physical activity into the daily routine. From household chores to an after-dinner walk, keep your family active every day.
Allow enough time for free play. Kids can burn more calories and have more fun when left to their own devices. Playing tag, riding bikes around the neighborhood, and building snowmen are fun and healthy.
Keep a variety of games and sports equipment on hand. It doesn't have to be expensive — an assortment of balls, hula-hoops, and jump ropes can keep kids busy for hours.
Be active together. It'll get you moving and kids love to play with their parents.
Limit time spent in sedentary activities, such as watching TV, going online, and playing video games.
When you have exhausted the possibilities at home, take advantage of local playgrounds and athletic fields. Make family fitness outings part of your regular routine. Let family members choose an activity — go hiking, ice skating, or try out the rock-climbing gym. Anything goes, as long as everyone can participate.
You can help show your kids that exercise is important by regularly exercising yourself.
Through physical activities, kids learn about sportsmanship, setting goals, meeting challenges, teamwork, and the value of practice.
Keep in mind your child's age and developmental level, natural abilities, and interests. Between the ages of 6 and 8, kids are sharpening basic physical skills like jumping, throwing, kicking, and catching. Some kids enjoy doing this in organized sports teams, but non-competitive leagues are best for younger kids. Show your support by coaching your child's team or cheering from the stands on game days.
Kids 9 to 12 years old are refining, improving, and coordinating skills. Some become even more committed to a sport while others drop out as competition heats up and level of play improves.
It's OK if a child isn't interested in traditional sports, but it's important to find alternative ways to be active. Encourage a child who doesn't like soccer, basketball, or other team sports to explore other active options, like karate, fencing, golf, bicycling, skateboarding, and tennis.
Kids who participate in sports are at risk for injuries, so be sure yours wear the appropriate protective equipment, such as a helmet and protective pads when roller-blading. Kids who specialize in one sport are also at risk of overuse injuries, including stress fractures and joint injuries.
A child with a chronic health condition or disability should not be excluded from fitness activities. Some activities may need to be modified or adapted, and some may be too risky depending on the condition. Consult your doctor about which activities are safe for your child.
Kids who enjoy sports and exercise tend to stay active throughout their lives. And staying fit can help improve self-esteem, maintain a healthy weight, and decrease the risk of serious illnesses such as high blood pressure, diabetes, and heart disease.
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But some Department of Energy (DOE) officials doubt that the entire system will be light enough for onboard use. Sunita Satyapal, the hydrogen-storage team leader at DOE, notes that the researchers’ estimates do not include the weight of the water or the other equipment needed to produce the hydrogen. These things could more than double the weight of the system, she says, even if water produced by the fuel cell is recycled. The system will probably be too heavy to give the vehicle a driving range competitive with gasoline engines, suggests Satyapal.
She also notes that the rate of hydrogen production is now orders of magnitude lower than it would need to be for use in vehicles, and it will be very difficult, if not impossible, to sufficiently improve the rate.
But even if the new system is not useful as a way of producing hydrogen in a car, it eventually could prove useful for producing hydrogen at fueling stations. One of the challenges with hydrogen production is the cost of compressing and transporting hydrogen from central locations. On-site production using enzymes at filling stations, or even in people’s homes, could get around these issues. In such applications, the hydrogen production rate can be lower than it is aboard a vehicle, as the hydrogen can be produced around the clock in relatively large tanks.
Still, some are skeptical of the basic concept of using starch to create fuel. “Making food into hydrogen is not such a great idea,” says John Deutch, a chemistry professor at MIT. Indeed, demand for corn to make ethanol is already increasing food prices. Using corn starch to make hydrogen could exacerbate the problem.
But Zhang notes that employing starch to make hydrogen would be a much better use of the available corn than turning it into ethanol: fuel cells can be three times more efficient than ethanol-burning internal combustion engines. Nevertheless, he sees starch as a temporary solution. Zhang is also developing a version of the process that starts with cellulose, found primarily in the nonfood parts of plants. | <urn:uuid:55a16230-b1d7-4e25-b512-4b35d1a6d852> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.technologyreview.com/news/407966/running-cars-on-hydrogen-made-from-starch/page/2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00030-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953275 | 413 | 3.6875 | 4 |
An insidious invention of that theoalchemical mastermind Harv Gretborn, the snotgun is the finest example of applied biological warfare known to Ghyll. As implied by the name, the snotgun fires mucous missiles of incredible infectiousness. Very similar to the ingenious repeating musket recently seen in the hills surrounding the Sarfelogian Mountains, the snotgun fires its slimy slug, encased in a crunchy shell, with great velocity. The impact, though stinging, is generally only enough to rupture the casing which then exposes the target to the gruesome goober contained therein. And there lies the genius of the weapon! For what soldier of any stripe can resist sticking their finger in something alien and gooey! Once the poor front-line grunt has fallen for the lure, then the baneful bullet goes to work.
The really nasty thing about the snotgun is not the slimy slug itself, but the deadly diseases carried in the runny round. These are gathered by various low-wage workers in assorted zoological venues. Freshly made mucous is harvested from many different animals, including, but not limited to Aelfants, Burnflies, Dwarf Tree Aelfants, Eye Suckers, Phaelrosen, Pyxies, and Tree Eels. Of course, some of the potent projectiles are manufactured from the mucous drippings of the terrible Ebony-Headed Marrow-Sucker and, while few things are worse than a case of Burnfly Blight or The Pyxie Pukes, neither of these compare with Zygotic Dermatosis.
Most of the concoctions in these sickly slugs are very high military secrets, of course, and their effects are learned only after they have been used in battle. One such mysterious malady has been described by a doctor attached to the Tarkherk Corps in Doctoring Disease for Dimwitts:
"We once came across a strange new illness while fighting in the Xurient. We were quite surprised, of course, when we found ourselves assaulted with snotguns, seemingly to no effect. The inscrutible Xurientals simply fired, turned and ran. We chased them as far as we could, but they disappeared into the local countryside. The men, in celebration, kept the camp followers busy for a full fortnight. Alas, it was almost 20 days later that the first chancres began to appear. They manifested themselves as a single, painless papule that rapidly becomes eroded and indurated. The ulcer has a cartilaginous consistency at the edge and base. These chancres were to be found on the external genitalia of most of the men, but in a few they were found in the anal canal and/or mouth. These odd lesions were discrete, firm, mobile, and painless, without overlying skin changes, and healed spontaneously in 3-7 weeks.
"However, 4-10 weeks after the appearance of the primary lesions, the men began to report a host of symptoms, including malaise, fever, myalgias, and arthralgias with a generalized body rash and lymphadenopathy. The symptoms that were not immediately reported usually included a localized or diffuse mucocutaneous rash and generalized nontender lymphadenopathy. The exanthem may be macular, papular, pustular, or mixed. Typically these lesions were round, discrete, nonpruritic, and symmetric macules distributed on the trunk and proximal extremities. Red papular lesions also appeared on the palms, soles, face, and scalp and, in some cases, became necrotic. Patchy and nonpatchy alopecia occurred in some cases. In intertriginous areas, papules occasionally coalesced to form highly infectious lesions which I promptly dubbed "condylomata lata". It should also be noted that these mucous patches were superficial mucosal erosions, usually painless, and seemed to develop on the tongue, oral mucosa, lips, and genitalia.
"In the few cases where symptoms recurred a third time, they were associated with serious illness and disability; death was the result in approximately 20% of the patients.
"We found no cure."
Of course, the snotgun's inventor, Harv Gretborn, had hoped that such a contemptible creation would make war so horrific that Ghyllians would be obliged to cease making it upon each other.
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Jean Ribault Monument,
Donated by the Florida State DAR Chapters in 1924
In 1924, during the 300th anniversary of the beginning of the immigration of the Huguenots to the Americas,
the Florida Chapters of the Daughters of the American Revolution unveiled a granite monument at Mayport, Florida, just a few
miles from the monument's present location close to the Fort Caroline National Memorial. On a high bluff, overlooking the St. Johns River, it now stands on land set aside and designated as its permanent home.
The unveiling of the Ribault Monument at Mayport was the genesis of the eventual creation of a national
memorial for the Florida Huguenots. The original site at Mayport was popular, quickly becoming a gathering place for family
picnics and Easter Sunrise Services. However, the monument was not destined to remain in this location.
During World War II, the U.S. Navy took over the land where the monument was located, eventually moving
the monument twice. In July, 1958, the monument was moved a third time to its present location, with a rededication performed
in October of that year.
This gray granite monument, memorializing Captain Jean Ribault's feat and the establishment of the brave
little colony of French Huguenots, was sculpted by the renowned Floridian, Charles Adrian Pillars. It is a replica of the
stone column placed by Jean Ribault at the mouth of the River of May (renamed the St. Johns River), on May 2, 1562.
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Thu 6 Sep 2012
Filed under: Business / Trade,Inside Burma,International,News
The controversial Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) law will be debated at Burma’s Union Parliament on Friday after the Upper House objected to certain restrictions.
Upper House MPs approved the FDI draft as amended by their bill committee on Wednesday, but the proposed changes will have to be put to the vote during Friday’s combined-houses session.
“We will try to get it out to the Union parliament on Friday as the FDI bill has been debated for such a long time,” Phone Myint Aung, Upper House MP for the New National Democratic Party, told The Irrawaddy on Thursday.
He said MPs objected to some restrictive amendments made by the Lower House last month.
“We agreed to remove the minimum amount of US $5 million for foreign investments; the maximum 49 percent foreign ownership on joint ventures; over protection on small and medium enterprises, and many others,” he added.
The minimum capital for foreign investment in Burma under the draft FDI was $5 million—the highest capital amount in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean)—with neighbors Cambodia, Laos, the Philippines and Thailand only having low restrictions in certain important sectors.
Foreign ownership is allowed for restrictive businesses—such as agriculture, livestock and offshore fishing—but set at a maximum of 49 percent while the minimum level is 35 percent across even nonrestrictive sectors. Foreign investment in areas which would damage culture, health, natural resources or the environment would be prohibited.
Critics allege that these new restrictions were added to the amended bill to protect Burmese crony tycoons with close links to the former military junta who fear becoming uncompetitive if unfettered foreign ownership is allowed.
Earlier this week, the Union of Myanmar Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry (UMFCCI) also urged MPs to relax these restrictions if the country is to welcome foreign investors. Business owners say foreign capital and technology is vital to help develop the economy and create jobs.
Phone Myint Aung said, “in the previous drafts, which the Upper House agreed, such controversial amendments were not included as these were newly added by the Lower House last month after the Lower House Speaker [Shwe Mann] and his delegation met with the local businesspeople.”
There is also a fear that restrictions on overseas investment will result in ownership fraud, which is currently rife in garment businesses as legislation passed in 1982 prohibits 100 percent foreign ownership. Many international businessmen use their local manager’s name to register factories and so dilute lines of responsibility for worker rights.
The draft FDI law also contains provisions for local workers in foreign-invested industries. In the first year, 25 percent of the total workforce must be Burmese, with this expanding to 50 percent and then 75 percent over the following two years. Foreign investors also must help with the technical transfer of skills to domestic workers through their local business partner. | <urn:uuid:de122028-eead-444f-b30e-e4631288c13c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.burmanet.org/news/2012/09/06/the-irrawaddy-upper-house-rejects-fdi-restrictions-%E2%80%93-nyein-nyein/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00018-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959159 | 620 | 1.640625 | 2 |
Engineered bacteria armed to fight infection
Scientists have taken a common bacteria found in the body and engineered it to a form that will seek out and destroy a potentially harmful microbe.
The team at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore has designed harmless E. coli (Escherichia coli) bacteria that are able to detect and kill another bacteria called Pseudomonas aeruginosa which is a serious problem to some hospital patients.
The work, which is published this week in Molecular Systems Biology, is an example of the emerging field of synthetic biology - in which researchers use engineering principles to design novel living systems.
Assistant Professors Chueh Loo Poh and Matthew Wook Chang led the team that designed the new E. coli bacteria. "To our knowledge, this is the first study to use synthetic biology to tackle infectious diseases," they say.
P. aeruginosa is a bacteria which infects the digestive and respiratory tracts and is one of the leading infections acquired in hospitals. It is resistant to many antibiotics and rapidly becomes drug intolerant. For people who have compromised immune systems, such as cancer patients on chemotherapy, it has a 50 per cent mortality rate, say the researchers.
Chang and Poh set out to design a guided missile in the form of an E. coli bacteria with three added 'devices' to sense, prepare a weapon and then release that weapon in response to the presence of P. aeruginosa .
The weapon used is a substance called pyocin, which is made by some bacteria to kill specific competitors, such as P. aeruginosa, while leaving E. coli unscathed.
The sensing device harnesses a system that P. aeruginosa uses to detect its own population numbers called 'quorum sensing'. Quorum sensing enables each P. aeruginosa to be aware of the presence of other P. aeruginosa microbes.
"Most microbial species have their own quorum-sensing [system]", says Poh. By putting the P. aeruginosa quorum-sensing machinery into the E. coli missile the researchers created a detection device which would notice when there were P. aeruginosa nearby.
Within the E. coli, they enabled the quorum-sensing device to act as a switch, starting pyocin production. The switch then triggers the release of pyocin from the E. coli by 'lysis', or rupture, of the cell.
Poh says that their system is far more specific than standard antibiotics. "When you have an infection and take a drug it kills all the beneficial bacteria too. In this case we are only killing the bad guys."
The researchers have demonstrated that their system works in cultures. Their next step is to test it in mice.
'Neat little system'
Professor Lars Nielsen of the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology at the University of Queensland says this is "a neat little system" and "very solid science".
He sees the potential more as a preventative "surveillance and attacking" mechanism catching P. aeruginosa in the gut rather than fighting already existing lung infections, as E. coli isn't normally found in the respiratory system.
"You would have to go through lots of regulatory hurdles before it could be used in humans," cautions Nielsen. He also raises concerns that the device genes may spread to other bacteria.
Chang and Poh point out that with the "stalled development of new antibiotics and increasing emergence of multi-drug resistant [bacteria]", this approach may become necessary. They now plan to adapt their system to tackle other pathogens such as cholera. | <urn:uuid:465689d0-33c3-4335-9516-4cf725866b98> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2011/08/17/3294789.htm?topic=health | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00042-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945825 | 760 | 3.109375 | 3 |
Chalk a win up for the environmentalists. On Wednesday, the White House announced that it was rejecting—on the recommendation of the State Department—the proposed Keystone XL pipeline that would have brought 700,000 barrels a day of oil sands crude from western Canada into the U.S. In many ways the announcement—forced by Congressional legislation passed late last year that required an expedited decision on the pipeline—reinforces a move made by Obama in November to essentially kick the final decision on Keystone XL to 2013, after the Presidential election. But Congress forced Obama’s hand, and left him little choice but to stop the pipeline for now, as the President made clear in a statement:
As the State Department made clear last month, the rushed and arbitrary deadline insisted on by Congressional Republicans prevented a full assessment of the pipeline’s impact, especially the health and safety of the American people, as well as our environment. As a result, the Secretary of State has recommended that the application be denied. And after reviewing the State Department’s report, I agree.
So why did Obama and the State Department decide to reject the pipeline? And does this mean the Keystone issue has been settled once and for all?
While protesters like Bill McKibben have tried to make the case that allowing the pipeline to go forward would be disastrous for the climate because it would speed the development of oil sands, which have a bigger greenhouse gas footprint than conventional crude, there’s little sign in the White House’s public statements that preventing climate change was a main reason behind the decision. From the State Department’s release:
Specifically, the Department called for an assessment of alternative pipeline routes that avoided the uniquely sensitive terrain of the Sand Hills in Nebraska. The Department estimated, based on prior projects of similar length and scope, that it could complete the necessary review to make a decision by the first quarter of 2013. In consultations with the State of Nebraska and TransCanada, they agreed with the estimated timeline.
While McKibben and his allies were able to build an impressive public movement against the pipeline—a project most energy insiders thought was a done deal as recently as the fall—it was concern over the local environmental impact of the pipeline in Nebraska and the upper Midwest that really galvanized opposition, rather than the larger issue of climate change. That’s not a knock on the protest movement—obviously they have concerns about the risk of pipeline safety and spills as well—but it makes the Keystone decision less a climate victory than a victory for traditional environmental politics, as I wrote earlier.
But while building the pipeline would help Canada further develop its oil sands reserves, blocking the pipeline, even temporarily, doesn’t mean Canadians will simply close up shop in Alberta. By some estimates all the crude in the oil sands is worth more than $15 trillion—unless the price of oil suddenly plummets (unlikely) or policies are undertaken to artificially raise the cost of carbon-intensive fuels (also unlikely, at least now), I have a feeling the Canadians will find a way to keep pumping it and keep selling it.
Of course, to oil company executives and their allies in Congress, Obama’s decision was a mistake no matter what his justification. Here’s Republican Senator John Barrasso of Wyoming:
His decision today is a victory for the few extreme environmental activists who have lined up to protest Keystone and a defeat for the tens of thousands of Americans who are lining up to find a Keystone job. The president chose to shore up his voting base instead of standing up for unemployed Americans.
A few things here: one, while the number of active protesters against Keystone may not be huge, neither was there overwhelming support for the pipeline. A poll by Rasmussen Reports at the end of 2011 found that 53% of Americans “somewhat favored” building the pipeline—and that’s coming from a polling service that tends to lean conservative. And then there are the job claims—proponents of Keystone have claimed that the pipeline would create 20,000 temporary jobs in the U.S., and lead to hundreds of thousands of new jobs thanks to the lower oil prices that would result from all that Canadian oil sands lowering the price of crude. But Michael Levi of the Council on Foreign Relations shows why those claims are ridiculous:
However, the first number refers to “person-years” of employment — a single job that lasts two years is counted twice; and in any case, it pales compared with the overall U.S. employment challenge. The second number is more impressive but relies on an overly optimistic estimate of how much the pipeline would have reduced global oil prices. The administration’s rejection of the pipeline will probably add less than a dollar a barrel to the long-term price of oil, hardly a decisive factor when prices are already around $100 per barrel.
Of course, there’s little question that more Canadian oil production would trim world oil prices slightly and thus help the U.S. economy. But the net impact of the Keystone XL pipeline would have been smaller than its proponents claim.
One thing that’s worth noting, however, is that even if the Keystone XL pipeline never comes to fruition, there are all sorts of ways for oil to get from Canada down to refineries on the Gulf Coast. Enbridge Inc. recently announced plans to reverse the flow on the Seaway pipeline between Oklahoma and Texas, which would achieve part of what the Keystone XL pipeline would’ve done. There are also a few other pipelines in the works, and oil companies could even start shipping by rail if they found it profitable to do so. As one analysis commissioned for the Energy Department noted, “It would take a total moratorium on new pipeline — and also rail — capacity” to stop the development of Canada’s oil sands. | <urn:uuid:69aba5ad-99ad-4963-815a-00e8b9837b3a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://science.time.com/2012/01/19/pipeline-politics-keystone-is-dead-for-now-what-happens-next/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966446 | 1,198 | 2.453125 | 2 |
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South Africa Travel Diary -
25 August 2006
We headed out for Mata-Mata camp this morning, and immediately came upon a knot of parked cars, which means someone has spotted something. What have we got? A fine leopard, surveying his kingdom from atop a bluff along the Nossob river. Satisfied that all was well, he meandered down into the rocks for, what else, a nap.
Along the Mata-Mata road we found Lilac-breasted Roller, so called because of the aerial displays that it performs during courtship. One of the most common and colorful birds around, the Lilac perches in trees and swoops down to the ground to nab insects, showing off bright ultramarine wings in the process. It sometimes hangs around herds of springbok and gemsbok, looking for insects scared up as they walk along. Every nature photographer who comes to Africa must get dozens of great shots of this most photogenic bird.
Another nice thing about Kgalagadi is the solitude. Sometimes you can drive for half an hour without meeting another car. But when a pair of cheetahs came out from riverbed vegetation late this afternoon, every car around converged on the spot. About half a dozen watched the two felines as they stretched, washed their faces, and rolled in the grass. Then, because Mata Mata camp closes its gate for the night promptly at 6:30 p.m., we all rushed back to camp in a cloud of dust, arriving with just moments to spare.
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Someone at the House financial services committee was kind enough to post the entire Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act online, and so the idle pleasures of speculation must give way to the real work of reading the reams printed with the narrow column of the bill.
Glass Steagall was 34 pages long, the overhaul is 2,300, so if you want to know what the bill will accomplish (or at least what it says it will accomplish), the summary may do the trick. These 10 pages cover a lot of ground.
We discover, for example, that someone on the committee has a taste for the Eagles, and has christened this clause — “large bank holding companies that have received TARP funds will not be able to avoid Federal Reserve supervision by simply dropping their banks” — the “Hotel California” provision.
We assume they’re referring to the “you can never leave” line, and not the stuff about the wine, although banks are probably telling themselves they are just prisoners here, ahem, of their own device.
One of the clearest measures taken against “too big to fail” — which the bill purports to end — is Title I, Sec. 121, called “Mitigation of risks to financial stability.”
If the Financial Stability Oversight Council, a creation of the overhaul, decides that a bank with more than $50 billion in assets “poses a grave threat to the financial stability of the United States,” the board can vote:
(1) to limit the ability of the company to merge with, acquire, consolidate with, or otherwise become affiliated with another company;
(2) to restrict the ability to offer a financial product or products;
(3) to terminate one or more activities;
(4) to impose conditions on the manner in which the company conducts one or more activities; or
(5) if the Board of Governors determines that such action is inadequate to mitigate a threat to the financial stability of the United States in its recommendation, to sell or otherwise transfer assets or off-balance-sheet items to unaffiliated entities.
Worldwide, 184 banks have assets above $50 billion, according to Bloomberg data.
While the council can wield the ax if need be, the overhaul gives it other powers, which go beyond addressing the idea of the size of a bank to its role in the system. In addition to “too big,” an institution may simply threaten to be “too interconnected” to fail. In such a case, under Sec. 115 and 120, the council can propose to revamp the rules that apply to it.
IN GENERAL.—The Council may provide for more stringent regulation of a financial activity by issuing recommendations to the primary financial regulatory agencies to apply new or heightened standards and safeguards, including standards enumerated in section 115, for a financial activity or practice conducted by bank holding companies or nonbank financial companies under their respective jurisdictions, if the Council determines that the conduct, scope, nature, size, scale, concentration, or interconnectedness of such activity or practice could create or increase the risk of significant liquidity, credit, or other problems spreading among bank holding companies and nonbank financial companies, financial markets of the United States, or low-income, minority, or underserved communities.
The idea is, the riskier they are, the more regulated they get, in a sort of pre-emptive escalation.
And in a move (see Sec. 165) that makes Lehman’s repo 105 shenanigans less tempting, the bill says banks need to take into account off-balance sheet activity when calculating their capital requirements.
And that was just a brief tour of Title I — only 15 left.
James Bullard, a member of the Federal Reserve’s policy committee, warned Europe of becoming trapped in the economic stasis from which Japan is only now emerging.
Rising bond yields left the central bank with less room to maneuver as it injects money into the economy, analysts said.
In the convoluted world of corporate tax accounting, corporate money that is technically overseas is often held in American banks.
Why do communities fail to secure the buildings that house their children against momentous hazards?
There are affordable ways to live more safely in tornado zones.
Poland, pushed by E.U. directives to change the way it deals with waste, is adopting a Canadian technology that allows energy to be created through the burning of trash.
The Army is trying to produce commercials styled like a television reality series because younger people increasingly ignore traditional forms of advertising.
Microsoft’s new game console also serves as a home entertainment hub, a response to the rising popularity of mobile devices for playing games.
Paul Finebaum, the radio host known for his popular college football show, will reportedly start his new job Aug. 1.
A federal judge’s ruling could halt the resale of digital music as well as other digital good like e-books.
A world-renowned physicist meets a gorgeous model online. They plan their perfect life together. But first, she asks, would he be so kind as to deliver a special package to her?
The Winklevoss brothers have moved on from their battle with Mark Zuckerberg and are more active than ever.
An important new study suggests that statins, the cholesterol-lowering medications that are the most prescribed drugs in the world, may block some of the fitness benefits of exercise, one of the surest ways to improve health.
While a recent article by Angelina Jolie about her mastectomy and reconstruction raised awareness, it may have left the impression that the surgeries are quick and easy procedures, some doctors fear.
Although most attention is focused on the safety of infants and toddlers, their sudden jabs, bites, head-butts and kicks can inflict injuries on parents and other caregivers.
To understand Yahoo’s acquisition of Tumblr, consider Yahoo’s deal for GeoCities in 1999. | For technology deal makers, business is booming. | SAC Capital Advisors is bracing for another round of withdrawal requests. | Apple avoided billions in taxes in the United States and around the world, Congressional investigators disclosed.
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Dummies Home Theater Reviewers
When you go to a movie theater, you get your first indication that the movie is about to begin when the lights turn off. So what's the big deal over lighting systems if we only plan to watch movies in the dark?
A good lighting system enhances your theater room in a couple of ways. From a performance point of view, the system needs to provide light so that people can safely move around the room. You should also arrange the light sources so that they don't cast any glare or light on the image, which would wash out the picture. If you have a direct-view or rear-projection display, the folks at the Imaging Science Foundation (ISF) recommend that you place a bias light behind the display. This reduces eye fatigue by providing a constant light source, and it doesn't compromise image performance.
Beyond the performance issue, lighting provides an aesthetic benefit. The theater room should be an inviting, comfortable space, and a lighting system that sets the right mood is invaluable. For added wow factor, you could integrate a lighting-control system into your theater's remote system.
A theater system that's integrated into a family room brings a whole bevy of lighting needs along with it. In this situation, you'd need a lighting system that's artistic, good for video performance, and functional enough for playing games, doing homework, reading, and entertaining friends.
Years of experience have taught the editors of Home Theater that lighting is an important issue. Their old listening room, for example, is a dungeon. Even with the lights turned all the way up, you can still barely read a receiver's back panel. The main light fixtures cast a glare on monitors; and, before senior technical editor Mike Wood ripped them out and went back to an old-fashioned switch, there were problems with two different lighting-control systems. Clearly, there was room for improvement.
Lighting designers classify lighting into three types: task, accent, and ambient. When you want to do something, you need task lighting. Examples of task lighting are the lamp that lets you find the right button on the remote or the light your spouse uses to read a magazine while you watch that action film for the 50th time. Accent lighting gives your room character by highlighting architectural details or illuminating a favorite piece of artwork. Lastly, ambient light is filler. It's diffuse foundation lighting that fills every corner of the room. For a lighting system that really works, each of these elements needs to be in balance. For flexibility, you should use several different types of light sources. Your light fixtures should also be able to pivot to keep up with new furniture or artwork.
The starting point for every lighting design is a brainstorming session with the family. Make a list of your room's different functions and take note of all of the areas that you'd like to highlight. It's valuable for the whole family to give input. You may want to pick up a few home-decorating or architectural magazines, as well as a copy of Audio Video Interiors, to get some ideas. Steal their ideas enthusiastically and without reservation! When you discuss the room's lighting with your family, you should consider what moods you want to evoke. Even subtle changes in lighting can significantly affect people. The light's color is one consideration. Do you want the room to have the warm, cozy feel of a candlelit room or the strong, vibrant feel of a modern art gallery?
I start with a drawing of the room that maps out all of its seating possibilities and accent interests. The drawing's quality isn't important at this stage; it's just a visualizing tool to get the conversation going with the family. Later, you'll redraw the plan based on the results of this session and take it to a lighting showroom to pick out fixtures and get advice. Most good lighting designs have only a few lights per dimmer. This setup offers maximum flexibility, and your control system will help you manage all of these lighting loads.
Lamp selection is your lighting plan's starting point. Once you've identified your task and accent areas, you need to find a lamp that will get the job done. The most common types of home theater lamps are incandescent, halogen, and fluorescent. LED and fiber-optic are also very popular light sources for special feature applications. Each type of lamp has its advantages and disadvantages. Incandescent light has a warm color with orangish overtones. It's the source of choice for creating a cozy, inviting space. Halogen lights are a favorite for making bold statements. They're great for artwork because their slightly bluish color most accurately mimics sunlight. The idea of using fluorescent lights brings a chill to most people's spines, but the fluorescent lamp has seen radical improvements in quality since its inception. Now it's a viable source for home theater applications. I like to use a fluorescent lamp as a reflected light. This lamp radiates light in all directions, so the fixture or its installation will have to direct light away from you. For an ISF-approved bias light, cover a fluorescent fixture (filled with a daylight-colored bulb) with a Rosco neutral-density filter. This will provide a color-corrected light source to place behind your monitor. Prefabricated units are available from www.ideal-lume.com. | <urn:uuid:6ba1fe4f-23fb-47b6-b95c-69f786142f69> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.hometheater.com/bootcamp/163/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00039-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953269 | 1,098 | 1.828125 | 2 |
Alabama leads the country in BCS national championships with the University of Alabama and Auburn University claiming four football titles in the past four seasons.
But the state also ranks among the leaders in the country in a more chilling category — the number of teen drivers killed on Alabama roadways.
For every 100,000 teen drivers, Alabama had 31.2 fatalities, which tied for fourth with Arkansas and West Virginia. Wyoming led with 36.5 deaths, with Montana (34.1) second and Mississippi (32.3) third based on data collected from a five-year period in a study conducted by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
The District of Columbia had the lowest rate with 1.7 per 100,000 teen motorists, followed by New York (7.6), Rhode Island (8.5) and Massachusetts (8.8) based on the study’s data collected from 2006 to 2010.
Leading causes of teen motorist deaths include the use of alcohol, lack of seat belt usage and distracted driving, especially the use of electronic devices, according to the Alabama Department of Public Health.
Based on ADPH figures, approximately 450,000 teens are injured in vehicle crashes, 27,000 are hospitalized and 5,500 die each year in the U.S.
Alabama’s graduated driver’s license law, which was passed in 2002, was amended in mid-2010 and limited drivers ages 16 and 17 to only one non-family passenger other than the parent, guardian or a supervising licensed driver at least 21 years old; enacted a restricted driving curfew between midnight and 6 a.m.; and banned the operation of any non-essential handheld communication device.
In the past two years Alabama has been able to decrease teen driver deaths from 96 in 2010, 54 in 2011 and less than 50 last year.
Based on preliminary figures, the Alabama Department of Public Safety listed 45 teen driver deaths for 2012, including one teen killed in each of the counties of Limestone, Madison and Morgan.
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Let us know that you’d like to bring your child in for a Happy Visit, and we’ll schedule it consecutively with your checkup or cleaning. Your little one will take a ride in the dental chair, meet our happy team, and begin to see that the oral healthcare providers at our Elizabeth office are friends who want to keep your child’s smile strong, healthy, and beautiful.
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Can anyone tell me how the placenta is removed from the uterus with a caeser? Is it 'cut' out along with the baby, or is it pulled....?
Hi, after the baby is pulled out by its head or bum with hands or with forceps and the cord is clamped. The doctors doing the operation put their hands inside your uterus and scoop it out sometimes it takes an injection like given in a vaginal birth to get the uterus to contract and push the placenta off the wall of the uterus. They suck out as much blood ect as they can and wipe out the cavity of your uterus with sterile cloths. then they set about stitching you up.:)
You can ask you midwife to pick it up from the OT staff and bring it back to the ward for you if you want to look at it or take it home. Some people eat it .
Soldiers going to war even used to take it with them for good luck.
Dunno bout the smell though.
But its good fertiliser so you could even plant something in line with bubs birth & use the placenta as fertiliser !
Thats a great idea allyoo, never thought of that one, and its too late for me now, wish i would have thought of it at the time! Very special.....
I got mine after a c-sec. It's in the freezer LOL. I've also known a few women to have lotus birth c-secs. That's in my birth plan for next JUST IN CASE in the MOST UNLIKELY event that I need a c-sec so my baby doesn't have it's cord cut too soon.
(not to any post in particular - just all of them in general!)
Im with you Rach! Hehehehe! ;)
I had a c-sec, and they just pull it out after the bub, I took mine home and had a naming ceremoney at a national park, and planted it into a huge pot with a banyan tree.....and it's the healthiest looking tree I did ever see!
It was a really special day........:)
Didn't even think about looking or taking the placenta... Personally think it is a bit gross, but each to their own...
But do they have to give you an injection of hormones to have your uterus contract for it to come away? Surely they don't just give a tug and away it comes....?
On the aside I have been really surprised at the number of people who take home the placentas for burying. Haven't heard of anyone eating theirs though - and I don't think I want to!
I wrote this up the top of the page.
The doctors doing the operation put their hands inside your uterus and scoop it out sometimes it takes an injection like given in a vaginal birth to get the uterus to contract and push the placenta off the wall of the uterus.
All about eating Placentas and why you would do it?
Eating the placenta is actually more common than you realise .......... :eek:
LOl boomtish, Yeah tis not everyones taste thats for sure but as they say each to their own :D
[. I've also known a few women to have lotus birth c-secs. ]
excuse my ignorance but what is a lotus birth c-section??
A Lotus Birth is when after the baby is born/delivered the cord is not cut and it stays attached to the placenta untill the hole lot falls off 4-10 days postpartum. Some people make special bags to keep the placenta in that are salted and sented. Try a google search on the term:)
I really wanted to see my placenta after my caesar, I had it in my birth plan, but they didn't end up showing me - not sure why. I was going to ask, but it all the post-birth excitement I plum forgot! Apparently I had a very unusually shaped placenta & I was soooo.... curious to see it!
On the removal though, I did quite a lot of reading on the subject & apparently there are 2 main ways they can do it. The first is to basically just cut & pull until it comes out. The second is by controlled cord traction - same exact thing as in a vaginal delivery. They do give you an injection of syntocin (sp??) to contract your uterus and then they just gently tug until your body releases it. Only takes a minute or so. I had in my birth plan that I wanted controlled cord traction (I knew I was having the caesarian, I had placenta praevia) and one of my Drs at my pre-natal checkups said that they usually do that anyway at my hospital.
If you ask your Dr, they should be able to tell you.
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At the Bench Memos blog at National Review, Mathew Franck linked to a rather hysterical screed written by Marie Griffith. The object of Griffith’s scorn: the annual Red Mass that takes place at St. Matthew’s Cathedral in Washington, DC before the opening of the Supreme Court term. Griffith is not at all pleased that two-thirds of the Supreme Court attended the latest Red Mass a couple of weeks ago.
Last Sunday, September 30, witnessed one of the most vivid and, to many (emphasis mine), disturbing examples of this religion/politics paradox.
Right out of the gate we get some good old-fashioned intellectual dishonesty. Who are the “many” that are disturbed by this visual? I would wager that the overwhelming majority of people have no idea that this Mass even exists, and that a scant few who are aware of its existence are very bothered by it. Rather than taking ownership of an opinion and writing that she is offended by the Red Mass, Griffith assigns a feeling to a mythical many. It’s a passive aggressive trick employed when a writer either lacks the guts to openly state their feelings, or when they want to conjure up support for an opinion that is not wildly shared by actual open beings.
In his address to the crowd, Timothy P. Broglio, archbishop for the U.S. military, called for people to become “instruments of a new evangelization” and stated, “The faith we hold in our hearts must motivate the decisions, the words, and the commitment of our everyday existence.” In these times, as Catholic leaders have increased their public speech on any number of political issues, from contraceptive coverage and abortion to gay marriage, these words are anything but impartial. This year, the subject of gay marriage will be particularly important as the Court considers the Defense of Marriage Act. Catholic bishops are currently spending money to fight same-sex marriage. Timothy Dolan, the head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, has been an outspoken critic of legalizing same-sex marriage, saying it’s not about gay rights, and concluding in a press release, “You don’t redefine marriage—a given—just to accommodate people’s lifestyle.”
She only quotes one line from the Archbishop’s homily and uses it to imply that it was an overtly political homily. If only that were the case (I would have enjoyed watching the liberal jurists reaction to the homily given at my local parish yesterday on the subject of gay marriage), but Franck notes that the homily was fairly benign. A sample:
[W]e gather as a community of faith to beg an abundance of blessings upon the women and men of our judiciary and the legal profession. It is a moment to pause and pray for those who serve our Country and foster justice for all. We know that a believing community engages in prayer for the needs of all, but especially for those who face arduous tasks.
Indeed “Justice is radically intolerant of injustice; justice seeks out injustice to destroy it. To emphasize security at the expense of eradicating injustice creates a fool’s paradise” The Romans put it more succinctly: “Justitia non novit patrem nec matrem; solum veritatem spectat justitia.” Justice knows neither father nor mother; justice looks to the truth alone.
For that reason we are here primarily to pray with you and for you as you execute the daunting task assigned to you at various levels. We beg a blessing for all of you and for all of those who assist you in this important ministry. We invoke the only Just One so that He might inspire all that you do. We recognize “that those who involve themselves with human law are doing God’s work. . . .”
Yes, how dare we expose Supreme Court Justices to such blunt religious truths. Truly our republic is threatened with these words.
Elena Kagan’s presence at Sunday’s Red Mass, her first appearance, may seem the most surprising. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a fellow Jewish member of the court who holds a similar stance on questions such as abortion, has been openly critical of the Red Mass, citing one sermon she heard there as “outrageously anti-abortion.” As she wrote later, “Even the Scalia’s—although they’re much of that persuasion—were embarrassed for me.”
Well, if Griffith is quoting Ginsburg completely accurately, I’m a little embarrassed that a Supreme Court Justice used an apostrophe to form a plural, but that’s beside the point. While I’m sure that there are some Catholics – they’re busy reading the National Catholic Reporter right now – share Ginsburg’s discomfort and wish that our Priests wouldn’t preach on such touchy subjects ever, let alone in front of such important dignitaries, it isn’t the responsibility of the clergy to water down their sermons in the interests of not offending anybody. Moreover, any sensible person attending a Catholic Mass should guess that the subject might come up. Justice Ginsburg made a choice to attend the Mass, as did Justice Kagan. In fact I take it as a sign of respect that Justice Kagan bothered to attend. I somehow doubt that she is suddenly going to do an about-face on the issue of abortion simply because she attended a Red Mass, though wouldn’t it be nice if she did.
In fact by highlighting Justice Ginsburg’s annoyance with the homily she heard, Griffith destroys her own argument. If her overwrought concern is that by attending the Red Mass the Justices will soak in that subversive Catholic theology and become foot soldiers for Christ, then obviously that hasn’t happened.
Perhaps one day we will learn what Justice Kagan thought of Broglio’s message of living one’s Christianity in every part of one’s life. “We are instruments in the hands of the Lord, and so we pray to be ever open to his presence.” As Barry Lynn, president of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, noted, “There is one purpose to have this. It is to make clear … just what the church hierarchy feels about some of the very issues that are to come before the court.” Those issues, of course, are the very ones on which some in the Catholic hierarchy have vociferously advocated.
Again, any educated person already knows how the Catholic Church feels about these issues. Assuming that Justice Kagan has picked up a newspaper anytime over the past six months, she has been clued in to the Church’s positions. Does Griffith think that Kagan lived such a cloistered experience that she had no idea how what the Church taught, and it wasn’t until Archbishop Broglio offered some general words about living one’s Christianity that it suddenly clicked for her?
At Religion & Politics, we welcome all viewpoints, on the conviction that ‘tis better to air strong arguments openly and civilly than to foster likeminded cliques that echo and leave unchallenged one another’s biases. Challenge me, do, but I must register deep discomfort with the cozy government-church embrace represented by the Red Mass in Washington D.C. However well intentioned, the attendance of 2/3 of the U.S. Supreme Court at a holy service that explicitly promotes the Catholic faith sends a bewildering message to citizens who hold other religious beliefs, and those with no religion at all. Perhaps the real question to ask is why some Supreme Court justices who clearly disagree with current Catholic pronouncements on political matters that divide the court—or who disagree with any perceived religious interference whatsoever, despite their own beliefs—nonetheless, apparently, feel the need to attend the Red Mass. Why?
Well, I’ll give her credit that at least in this paragraph she makes it clear that she feels the discomfort rather than assigning it to “many” people. But Matthew Franck expresses why this discomfort is rather silly.
Viewed in the sunlight of American fellow-citizenship, rather than in the dim corners of strict separationism, there is no “bewildering message” at all. Here’s a shocking thought. Perhaps the justices are just really nice people. You know, decent, civic-minded public servants, who appreciate that the leaders and laity of the Catholic community actually want to pray for them as they embark on the solemn business, on behalf of all Americans, of the administration of justice. That is the point of the Red Mass, after all, though you’d never learn it from the director of the John C. Danforth Center on Religion & Politics.
Griffith thought it important to make this point:
In case it needs noting—and these days, who knows—let me note that it is not anti-Catholic to ask these kinds of questions.
Oh of course not, and I would totally not even imply as much, though I must say that as I read her article I couldn’t help but think of this cartoon:
In other words, if any religious body—Christian, Jewish, Muslim, or you-name-it—imposes upon political leaders some supposed necessity to attend its own worship service in order to be considered legitimate, beware.
I’m pretty sure the Archdiocese of Washington exerts absolutely zero pressure on any Supreme Court Justice to attend the Red Mass. Considering that three Justices did indeed skip the Mass, including, by logical deduction, at least one of the Court’s Roman Catholics, then this closing statement is even more preposterous.
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A new dawn awaits the Libyan people now that Colonel Muammar Gaddafi can no longer undermine their efforts to build a democratic state.
So long as Gaddafi and his diehard loyalists remained at large there was always the possibility that the deposed dictator might serve as a rallying point for those Libyans who were wary of embracing Western-style democracy.
Libya, after all, is a deeply conservative Arab country where loyalty to tribe and family will always take precedence over the demands of the state.
Advertisement: Story continues below It is thus a fitting end to a conflict that was in danger of deteriorating into a bitter civil war that Gaddafi's demise coincided with the rebels' capture of Sirte, the last major stronghold of pro-Gaddafi loyalist.
The fall of Sirte means that the National Transitional Council (NTC), the body that represents the main opposition groups, can now officially declare the liberation of Libya from Gaddafi's 42-year dictatorship and begin the hard work of building the country anew.
Mahmoud Jibril, the head of the NTC's interim government, has said that he wants to hold parliamentary and presidential elections next year, which will be the first time in the country's short history that Libyans have been able to participate in the democratic process.
And with Gaddafi out of the way, the prospects for Libya's renewal could not be brighter. In the past the riches generated by the country's vast oil and gas reserves were only distributed among Gaddafi's ruling elite, allowing them to indulge their passion for conspicuous consumption of high-end consumer goods.
But a democratic Libya would undertake a more equitable distribution of its oil wealth generated by the largest known oil reserves in Africa. Those Western countries, such as Britain and France, that have backed the opposition's attempt to overthrow Gaddafi's regime will also be hoping for improved relations with Tripoli, as well as lucrative oil and gas contracts.
That said, the scale of the task facing the interim government should not be underestimated.
The pressures of running a country that is three times the size of France and is racked with tribal divisions are so great that Mr Jibril has already indicated he wants to step down once the liberation operation has been completed.
Until Mussolini created modern Libya in 1934, the region was divided on the basis of strict tribal loyalties between Cyrenaica in the east, with Benghazi as its capital, and Tripolitania, the region around the modern capital, Tripoli.
While these tribal divisions have become blurred during the Gaddafi era, the strong passions they inspire can still be detected within the NTC, where some opposition groups have objected to the dominant influence of Benghazi-based tribes over those from other parts of the country.
The other challenge that the NTC must contend with is the growing influence of Islamist groups throughout Libya.
Last July's murder of Abdel Fattah Younis, a former Gaddafi loyalist who commanded rebel forces in Benghazi, has been blamed on Islamist militants. Meanwhile Abdel Hakim Belhaj, the head of the Tripoli Military Council, is a former head of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, an Islamist movement with close ties to al-Qaeda.
Libyan Islamists have already made public their objections to the NTC's proposal to replace Gaddafi's regime with a secular, pro-Western government, and friction between the two groups could yet result in further bloodshed.
In Iraq, the worst sectarian violence took place after Saddam Hussein's capture, not before.
It is vital, therefore, that the Libyan people rise above their tribal and religious differences if they are to avoid a similar fate.
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Can't y'all just see it carved into that 5th grade desk? "Classic Bitch loves Joseph Conrad." Well it's true. Conrad is an author I had never read prior to starting my Modern Library project, likely deeming him too masculine or too difficult. Funny thing is, his writing is both masculine and difficult...but I like it. There, I've said it.
This is the second Joseph Conrad on the list thus far, and I shall state right now that while I like Heart of Darkness, I like Lord Jim far better. (Note that for the Modern Library, as far as placement on the list goes, it's the exact opposite!) Both books share a narrator (who is not always the narrator, which is hard to explain). He is a fellow called "Marlow." In fact Joseph Conrad stopped writing Lord Jim, published in 1900, to take up the writing of Heart of Darkness, published in 1902. The similarities between the two bookssuch as having a narrator in commonare apparent. The character of Marlow is a beloved storyteller, a seafaring man who may alternately enrapture, challenge, or even bore his listeners (other seafaring men). In Lord Jim, Marlow has a greater vocabulary, a longer story to tell with more variety of nuanced viewpoints to offer, and less direct connection to the story's true protagonist, Jim. In Heart of Darkness, Marlow himself is the protagonist of the tale he tells about Mr. Kurtz (i.e., he's telling a story from his own past). But in both books, Marlow is this wonderful, somewhat inscrutable character who cares so deeply about the men in his tales and the men in his audience. The subjects of Marlow's stories are complex, troubled, fallible, human...as is Marlow himself. (Hmm...I'm beginning to wonder if what's carved into that grade school desk isn't: "Classic Bitch loves Marlow.")
Taking that point a little further, what's funny about believing Joseph Conrad's writing to be too masculine on the surface is that the thing I love about Marlow is that he cares so much about the men who populate his stories. He takes a psychological interest in them, he struggles to understand them and to convey that understanding to others, he even falls a bit in love with them. To elevate the stories of their lives to something worthy of lengthy tellings & retellings, and to hold an audience's attention, one would have to! And all this type of behavior strikes me as...female. It's appealing to read about a man who takes an acute interest in men; it is validating. Marlow absolutely falls under the spell of the men he talks about, and that bewitchingwhether you personally would agree with it or notis successful so as to slough off on the reader.
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Millard C. Morrison Article
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Millard Campbell Morrison was born on March 11, 1899, in Frankfort, Clinton County, Indiana. His parents were James W. and Alice Morrison. He attended Purdue University, the University of Washington, Harvard Law School, and Yale University. Morrison was admitted to the bar in 1923. On November 13, 1926, he married Grace E. Morrill of Saco, Maine. They had at least one son, M. Morrill Morrison. Millard Morrison served four terms as prosecuting attorney of Clinton County (1929-1938). He went on to serve as County Attorney (1936-1940, 1964-1968). From 1941 to 1946, he was Government Appeal Agent for the Selective Service Board. He died on August 23, 1981.
Ancestry Library. Indiana State Library. 27 Apr. 2006.
“100 Years of Law.” Res Gestae. 7 (April 1963): 5-6.
“In Memoriam.” Res Gestae. 25 (October 1981): 542.
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1916 “The History of Our Schools,” typescript of article
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Mary E. Henry, 19 October 1969
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We went on two tours today. The first was of the city planning area. This was interesting because they talked about how Tianjin has been split into districts for specific reasons and how they intend to continue to build Tianjin to expand and grow.
The next was the Master Kong food company. Here they crank out cup noodles like it's no one's business. Unfortunately, no photos were allowed in the factory area, but it was definitely mind boggling to see. I can understand why instant noodles can be so 'cheap' now. I'm surprised as to how much quality control goes into the product, though... but I suppose it is required for something that gets so massively produced for ingestion.
It occurred to me today that through everyone's different cultural backgrounds, foods can seem exotic or natural to them. Having grown up in a Chinese household, most of the foods we have eaten here are commonplace for me. While I am still able to try new things, I am finding that I have already tasted most of the things that are 'out of the ordinary' for the other students. I find it interesting that, despite being raised in America, I still can find my roots on the other side of the world.
Every culture also seems to put emphasis on different kinds of food. In America, there are countless types of burgers (among other foods). From the type of meat used in the burger, to its preparation, to the way it is cooked. Here in China, that can also be said about noodles. While at Master Kong's, we saw the different product innovations developed for just instant noodles. There are different flavors, packaging styles, and cooking methods for pretty much the same product. You can cook it in a pot, the microwave, or even just put boiling water in a pre-prepared cup. The noodles may also be served in a soup, or some packaging allows you to cook it then easily poor out the liquid for the noodles to be served 'dry'. Each culture seems to emphasize specific foods that they prefer, and innovate various different ways to cook those foods.
Here are the highlight pictures of the day:
Mini city scape
Group picture at the city planning place
Monica in front of Master Kong
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The Technology Crystal Ball
If you’re a parent of children today, chances are a decade ago you were still "without children" or perhaps had a young toddler. And, as you watch your offspring get taller, louder, and develop an ever-increasing ravenous appetite, you may be wondering where the past ten years went.
“Children are often more aware of upcoming technologies than their parents are.”
Now look at what went on outside your home in the media world. Ten years ago, the Internet was barely becoming a household word, attracting a mostly male culture reserved for computer nerds. Portable music devices relied on tape cassettes or, for the privileged, CD discs, and the DVD was just being talked about as the next $2,000 addition to your home theater.
I'm not likely telling you anything you don't already know. But if you still expect to have children in your home for the next five to ten years, it may be appropriate to consider what media devices are on the horizon, and how will they affect your ability to help your kids make wise choices.
Obviously, I don't have a crystal ball. However, when not writing about the effects of media on families and society, I have a definite passion (my wife might say, "obsession") for consumer electronics. If it plugs in or takes batteries, and has a visual or aural output, I'll likely be in line to try it out. (Again, my wife pointedly mocked this inclination when she gave me an exciting looking Christmas present a few years ago. It was an ice cream scoop that plugged into a wall outlet. "How cool," I exclaimed, and then discovered she has taped an extension cord to the inside of the handle. "How cruel...")
Yet, when speaking with other parents, I recognize their children are often more aware of upcoming technologies than they are. Thus, I think it would be useful to visit this topic a couple of times each year, so that parents may become more aware of what trends are developing that may change the way media is used within and outside of their homes.
Perhaps the greatest single concern for parents when considering the future of entertainment hardware is the trend toward individualization. The days of one TV the family gathers around have been replaced with multiple media appliances that are coming in smaller and tinier sizes, along with gargantuan alternatives. The range from 60-inch plasma to 2 1/2 inch Video iPod is wide, and will only grow greater. Obviously, the former will likely grace a family room and be used in a relatively public environment. However, the tiny screen is far more able to "sneak under the radar" of a monitoring parent.
If you look at the evolution of how we listen to music, it's only natural to assume visual entertainment will follow the same course. Sound-only entertainment involves simpler technology than video, and has preceded screen-based diversions by a couple of decades. The transistor radio allowed people to disconnect from their hi-fi in the early 1960s. By 1980, truly portable music players of reasonable quality gave listeners an additional ability to control what music they listened to along with where they enjoyed it.
Now, video is maturing as the next ultimate portable device. Apple's iPod has become the ultimate answer for many desiring to have a virtual library of tunes at their fingertips. The company's newest incarnation, the Video iPod, marries the two media of music and video together, and while the little device may be the most popular, it's hardly alone. Many other "toys" on tech store shelves are able to replay whatever video is loaded into them... anytime, anywhere.
However, at this point most of these devices still require a home computer with a broadband connection to acquire the media they will play. Or, physical CDs or DVDs will need to be copied to the computer and reformatted for these ultra-small screens. (And it's noted the process of re-compressing DVDs for portable players is seen by the motion picture industry as an illegal activity.)
But this attachment to a feeder computer won't last long. Already, some of these small-screen TVs are able to play back broadcast television, and the options for "live" entertainment will keep growing. Cell phone companies are making quick use of the color screens on their phones for this very purpose.
There are no V-chips in this new frontier of ultra-portable TV. Not only is it impractical (perhaps impossible) to regulate video content downloaded from the Internet, the V-chip legislation only covers televisions with screens 13 inches and larger. That was adequate in 2000, but in years to come, I suspect young people will be viewing more and more episodic TV, movies and music videos on tiny screens.
While the devices shrink, the content available to them will continue to grow. Today, tens of thousands of songs, thousands of music videos, and hundreds of TV shows and movies are available for legal download. (I won't even try and estimate how many illegal items are finding their way through peer-to-peer file sharing services.) As mentioned, cell phone companies are catering with live television feeds.
Entering into the satellite era, delivering media anywhere will be a definite reality. Remember those huge satellite dishes in the 1970s? Then came the smaller ones we have today to receive direct-to-home satellite signals. Next, the receiving antenna will shrink into a size suitable for handheld use. That means a veritable 500-channel universe may reside in the palm of your child's hand.
Not wanting to be ousted by the competition, cell phone companies will continue to provide faster Internet access. Already, some have download speeds that are comparable to basic home broadband services. That means the streaming audio and video services (and peer-to-peer file sharing) you have available with a home Internet connection will be a portable offering.
This new frontier of handheld entertainment will undoubtedly make those waiting times at the doctor's office more enjoyable, and has the potential to deliver educational services in new and unique ways. However, parents will need to keep a close eye on these future developments to ensure they are being used in ways that are in keeping with their family entertainment standards. | <urn:uuid:6afa4a29-81fb-45b9-8943-99f49518ee83> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://parentpreviews.com/the-big-picture/post/the-technology-crystal-ball | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00060-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965744 | 1,275 | 1.914063 | 2 |
Thanks to Towleroad and Outsports, I came across this blog by a high school kid named Sam. Sam just recently came out to his family, and is beginning his journey toward gay adulthood, which runs on a different time scale than that of heterosexual teenagers because of a later starting age (although it’s been getting younger and younger in the past decade.) Sam is three years younger than I was when I came out, and I admire his bravery. He is also, I gather, from an area near-ish to where I grew up, so I understand the community and the culture.
Sam’s posts got me thinking about what I would tell a newly-out gay teenager (other than “It Gets Better,” to which I direct you to this website.) Gay people, unlike most other minority groups, cannot generally look to older people in their families as role models. It is rare for a gay child to have a gay older sibling or a parent, and one is very fortunate if he or she has gay uncles, aunts, or older cousins. Instead they have the Internet, which is not necessarily a force for good.
So dear gay teenagers, consider this post advice from an ersatz older brother.
1. If things have gone well thus far, congratulations. If not, I’m so sorry. Please know that your life will change.
2. It gets better is a misnomer. “It” does not get better. You get better. You get stronger. The situation may or may not change, but you will develop enough strength to make it tolerable or even enjoyable.
3. If your parents are having a hard time with this, be patient. Give them a year. Remember that in their eyes they are seeing all their dreams for you fall apart. Given time (and help from PFLAG), they will realize that is not the case, and will embrace you for who you really are. If their behavior does not get better though, find some adult who will support you emotionally.
4. Just because you can pass as straight and consider yourself masculine, doesn’t give you the right to ever look down on the effeminate gay kids. Unlike you, they could not hide, and they got the beatings that you escaped. As a result, they got tougher, and they fought back. The benefits and the progress that we all enjoy now are because of the effeminate kids. And the lesbians. Never think otherwise.
5. There’s no way around it, American television and movies are almost universally terrible when it comes to LGBT-themed projects. The things that we are told we should like–Will & Grace, the American Queer as Folk, Brokeback Mountain, Glee–are not actually that good, and occasionally insulting. If you want good quality gay-themed entertainment, look to the British who have some excellent gay-themed movies (Beautiful Thing, My Beautiful Laundrette, Derek Jarman’s Edward II) and television shows (Beautiful People and the original Queer as Folk.) The excellent movie Maurice is an American film, but it was adapted from a British novel.
6. Make sure you read books and make sure they have some kind of lasting value. Trust me when I say that people can take only so much talk about Glee and the items you find in Entertainment Weekly. Books will help you develop interesting things to talk about. Beauty fades, but intelligence does not.
7. Music did not start in 2004, and Lady Gaga, as wonderful as she may be, is not God’s gift to us all. There is a whole world of music spanning centuries and countless genres. Take in as much of it as you can.
8. Don’t be too eager to go to bars and clubs; you’re too young. I know you don’t want to hear that, but it’s true. You’re not ready for that kind of predatory atmosphere, and you will be preyed upon. Hell, most of the people who legally frequent these places aren’t ready. Be comfortable in your own skin first. The bars will be always be there, even if the names and locations change.
9. Along the same lines, don’t be so eager to get a boyfriend now that you have just come out. Believe me I understand why you want one. Our culture tells us we need to be in relationship, your straight friends are all dating, and you’re lonely. Here’s the problem though, boyfriends are a lot of work and a lot of drama. I agree that you need love right now, but this is the time when friends and family have to give you that love. The boyfriend will come later. That’s what college is for.
10. Keeping your virginity throughout high school is not the worst thing in the world, but if you do insist on having sex, always use condoms. If you don’t want sex, don’t let him pressure you. If you just want to be held, say so. Don’t mistake sex for intimacy even if the two are closely related. If he is not willing to accommodate what you need, get the hell out and never look back. You’re life is precious, and you’re a worthy human being.
11. Get involved with your Gay/Straight Alliance. If your school does not have one, consider starting it. If your school protests, know that you are in the legal right so long as there are other extracurricular activities at the school. That’s the law. Here is where you go if you need information to start a GSA.
12. Keep informed about politics. Gays don’t just have to worry about physical threats. There is a whole American political party, as well as multiple religious hierarchies and organizations, devoted to keeping us from full equality and to rolling back the gains we have made. Ignorance of this will not protect you.
13. Read Dan Savage’s column, and listen to his podcast. He’s one of the most prominent and important gay thinker/activists out there, even if he pretends he’s not. Also you’ll learn how to deal with sex in a much more mature way.
14. Don’t fall in love with the first gay person you meet; it will only lead to heartache.
15. Drugs are bad, particularly drugs found in clubs and bars (stay the hell away from meth.) And remember that alcohol is a drug. I’m not telling you what to do, just begging you to act prudently.
16. Finally, read this advice that was published in The Stranger some time in the early 2000′s I believe. The original page seems to be gone (and the author no longer works for The Stranger), but it is the best advice out there, and for an entire year I had it posted on my apartment wall.
Good luck, kiddo. I’m rooting for you. | <urn:uuid:95e0d1b8-4fe5-47a5-8edf-602c254ca9eb> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://tracingthetree.wordpress.com/2011/09/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962075 | 1,481 | 1.515625 | 2 |
4th EARSeL Workshop on Education and Training
Remote sensing of the earth covers many topics that are significant for natural science disciplines in school and university curricula. Satellite imagery and data derived from satellite sensors enable studies ranging from local phenomena around schools, up to large-scale perspectives showing the diversity of nature in the various climatic regions on earth. This allows thus to point out the dependence between local and global scales. Remote sensing data are used to observe and understand actual conditions on earth, but they also ingested into models allowing the prediction of future developments (e.g., of the climate).
All relevant institutions and interested individuals are invited to participate. In particular the workshop is also addressing the Global Environment and Security (GMES) programme of the European Commission and the European Space Agency. The success of GMES services and information products, especially in the fields of environment, climate change and natural disasters depends on specific training activities which include remote sensing for earth observation as a core element.
Moreover, the workshop will focus on the planned foundation of the International Remote Sensing Academy (IRSA), initiated by EARSeL and proposed to international remote sensing organisations in early 2012. The goal will be to discuss the strategic framework of the Academy.
EARSeL members interested in the subject of education and training in remote sensing are strongly encouraged to participate in the workshop and to actively contribute with their ideas and suggestions to the concept of the International Remote Sensing Academy.
Presentations are invited on the current use of earth observation as support tool for education, training and capacity building, with emphasis on the following topics:
- Earth observation for kids
- Earth observation and its associated use to support science education at schools, high schools and universities
- Environmental science as a tool in cooperative learning and teaching, in enquiry-based learning and in other educational practices for tomorrow's schools
- Earth observation and its use as educational support in areas like biology, chemistry, geography, physics and mathematics curricula in the classroom but also in continuous individual learning
- Training activities in GMES, with a focus on environment, climate change and natural disasters, in GEOSS, and other international programmes
- Earth observation and its use for public outreach of Environmental Sciences and Global Change
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Each January, people make New Year’s Resolutions that are hard to stick too. One of the top resolutions is always working towards “getting healthy,”—whether that means eating better, exercising or shedding pounds.
The Avon Walks for Breast Cancer can help provide the needed motivation to keep ones resolution. In 2013, there are eight Avon Walks happening a crossed the US (Houston, DC, Boston, Chicago, Santa Barbara, San Francisco, New York, Charlotte). Each Avon Walk for Breast Cancer takes place over the course of two days and totals 39.3 miles (a marathon and a half!). While it is a noncompetitive event--having a set training program to reach this goal is still highly encouraged to increase one’s endurance.
Eloise Caggiano, a breast cancer survivor and has a passion for fitness as a marathon finisher. In January 2005, at the young age of 33, Eloise was diagnosed with breast cancer. With no family history of cancer and a healthy and active lifestyle, the diagnosis was a true shock. After five surgeries, four months of chemotherapy, and losing both her left breast and her signature long hair, Eloise came through the experience successfully thanks to the great care of her doctors as well as the endless love and support of her friends, family and coworkers. Eloise celebrated her seven-year “cancerversary” in 2012 and is proud to be putting both her professional expertise and personal experience to good use at the Avon Foundation for Women, which provides her with a fulfilling career and the ability to use her own breast cancer battle to help others.
This year Avon is offering you the chance to learn more about the Avon Walks and even give you a special $10 discount off the registration fee by using promo code “WALK2” when registering at www.avonwalk.org.
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Two studies out Wednesday — one on energy trends, one on climate as a security issue — bode poorly for those seeking to prevent global warming from passing dangerous thresholds. Coal and oil use climb relentlessly, at a rate similar to that for growth in wind, solar, and nuclear power, but in vastly larger quantities.
The report on global warming as a source of conflict sees climate change amplifying discord in parts of Africa and Asia, but not enough to destabilize governments — and even as its impacts through 2020 in rich countries remain small. The “climate divide” we explored last year is alive and well.
As I wrote the other day, it looks like countries are going to remain focused on addressing real-time problems related to energy security (most notably high oil prices) for the time being, even as evidence builds that global warming could fuel turmoil, particularly in already-troubled places like sub-Saharan Africa, in the long run. I ran a panel at a meeting on China, energy, and climate at the Council on Foreign Relations on Tuesday, and in the preceding session, Zhou Dadi, one of the leading figures shaping China’s energy and climate policies said energy security will remain China’s top priority for a long while to come. He restated the longstanding mantra from China on climate, saying the responsibility for blunting emissions curves for greenhouse gases will remain with industrialized powers for a long time to come.
Here’s are the take-home points from two assessments, one from the Energy Information Administration and the other provided to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence by the National Intelligence Council:
Energy and CO2 Trends
The energy forecast (keep in mind such forecasts are often way off, but at least the sign, plus or minus, has tended to be right) highlights:
World marketed energy consumption is projected to grow by 50 percent between 2005 and 2030, driven by robust economic growth and expanding populations in the world’s developing countries…
Coal’s share of world energy use has increased sharply over the past few years, and without significant changes in existing laws and policies, particularly those related to greenhouse gas emissions, robust growth is likely to continue. Coal accounted for 24 percent of total world energy use in 2002 and 27 percent in 2005, largely as a result of rapid increases in coal use in China. China’s coal consumption has nearly doubled since 2000, and given the country’s rapidly expanding economy and large domestic coal deposits, its demand for coal is projected to remain strong…
Concerns about rising fossil fuel prices, energy security, and greenhouse gas emissions support the development of new nuclear generating capacity. World nuclear capacity is projected to rise from 374 gigawatts in 2005 to 498 gigawatts in 2030. Declines in nuclear capacity are projected only in OECD Europe, where several countries (including Germany and Belgium) have either plans or mandates to phase out nuclear power, and where some old reactors are expected to be retired and not replaced. China is projected to add 45 gigawatts of net nuclear capacity over the projection period, India 17 gigawatts, Russia 18 gigawatts, and the United States 15 gigawatts.
…In the IEO2008 reference case, which does not include specific policies to limit greenhouse gas emissions, energy-related carbon dioxide emissions are projected to rise from 28.1 billion metric tons in 2005 to 42.3 billion metric tons in 2030 – an increase of 51 percent. With strong economic growth and continued heavy reliance on fossil fuels expected, much of the increase in carbon dioxide emissions is projected to occur among the developing nations of the world, especially in Asia…
Climate and Conflict
Thomas Fingar, the chairman of the National Intelligence Council, provided an unclassified statement to the select intelligence committee. Some of the background analysis was done by researchers in a branch of the Earth Institute of Columbia University. Mr. Fingar’s statement concluded:
We judge global climate change will have wide-ranging implications for US national security interests over the next 20 years. Although the United States will be less affected and is better equipped than most nations to deal with climate change, and may even see a benefit owing to increases in agriculture productivity, infrastructure repair and replacement will be costly. We judge that the most significant impact for the United States will be indirect and result from climate-driven effects on many other countries and their potential to seriously affect US national security interests. We assess that climate change alone is unlikely to trigger state failure in any state out to 2030, but the impacts will worsen existing problems—such as poverty, social tensions, environmental degradation, ineffectual leadership, and weak political institutions. Climate change could threaten domestic stability in some states, potentially contributing to intra- or, less likely, interstate conflict, particularly over access to increasingly scarce water resources. We judge that economic migrants will perceive additional reasons to migrate because of harsh climates, both within nations and from disadvantaged to richer countries.
The findings largely reflect those of other recent reports, including the section on climate impacts in last year’s assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. And while it’s certainly not good news, it’s clear that climate impacts remain one of many elements in the mix driving tensions in poor places — ranging from bad governance to high food prices to, yes, high energy costs. | <urn:uuid:6d343186-42a6-4f59-b0e4-1e3ec96de884> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/25/reports-energy-thirst-still-topping-climate-risks/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00024-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939909 | 1,089 | 2.40625 | 2 |
The Never Ending Diatribe of
Digital vs. Film
Every time I
write a column that compares some aspect of digital photography to conventional
silver photography, (1) about 40 percent of the email I get is from
photographers saying that they are glad that I agree that digital photography
is better than traditional film-based photography. (2) About 40 percent
say they are glad that I agree film-based photography is better than
digital. (3) About 20 percent say they don't understand which I think
is better; would I please tell them.
If a carpenter said an electrically-powered nail gun was better than
a band saw, you would say, "Better for what?" What is there
in photography that makes someone think a tool is so special, it can
be used for everything?
When it comes to journalism, the speed of delivery clearly favors digital
photography. Any argument about the superior image quality of film falls
a little short when the film is invariably high-speed negative in 35mm
format. If you think digital photojournalism is the coming thing, you
missed the boat.
It was the coming thing when the wires were shooting digital and the
papers and magazines were using film. Even then, when "digital
quality" was noticably lower than film, I never heard a reader
say, "You know, this digital image is so much lower in quality
than the film image across the page from it."
Now, it's not the "coming thing;" it's the thing. Very few
news publications have their own film darkrooms any more. And the custom
lab across town is not really the answer for breaking news. Photographers
who shoot film are quite often expected to have it processed themselves
and to provide scans from that film.
As the way a publication produces, edits, lays out and stores images
becomes more exclusively digital, the path of least resistance will
be to shoot even feature stories with a looser deadline digitally. I
am told that National Geographic has begun looking at shooting stories
digitally. I would imagine that this bastion of technical quality, but
small page size, will not suffer from digitally shot stories.
Perhaps the final proof that digital is here is the number of good photojournalists
who grew up on film, love film and shoot much of their current work
digitally. Gilles Peress, one of the best photojournalists in the racket,
did his last trip to the Israeli-Palestinian border digitally. Pulitzer
Prize winner Bill Foley was shooting an editorial-style commercial job
and remarked, "I don't even know why I brought my film cameras."
And, remember, these folks are shooting with small, handholdable digital
cameras like the Canon D60, not the larger, less portable digital cameras
and backs with more impressive technical specifications that are used
for studio shooting.
How can they get away with it?
(1) The most obvious limitation of any digital news camera is it's inability
to produce a file that is big enough to produce a really large print
without falling apart. Newspapers and magazine pages aren't big enough
to hold really big prints. The big bugaboo that everybody talks about
doesn't really exist in practice.
"But what about exhibitions of my lifetime of work which is so
much better than everybody else's?" It's not an anwer, but I have
to say that I will be relieved not to see prints as large and as unnecessary
as some photographers' egos. And I will be pleased to see photographs
that could fit on my walls instead of being sized for galleries and
the hallways of corporate buildings.
(2) The highest possible level of technical excellence is not a necessity
in news photography or we would all be trying to cover wars with 8x10
view cameras. The earliest photographs of war were made with view cameras.
But they appeared in print weeks laters as artists renderings made from
the photographs. And, yes, they were often posed.
News photography has changed. Both esthetically and technically. It
is a gross oversimplification, but I suppose you could say today's news
photographs have more immediacy. Digital photography is where we currently
are as we walk down that long path that was started in the middle of
the 19th century.
Next month - why you shouldn't throw away your film cameras.
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US Chamber of Commerce
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is a lobbying group which represents the interests of businesses and other industry associations. During the 2010 cycle, the conservative-leaning organization spent nearly $33 million on electioneering communications, making it the biggest spender among organizations that were not national party committees. The U.S. Chamber generally supports Republican candidates or opposes Democratic candidates in its communications. Because it is a nonprofit business association organized under section 501(c)6 of the Internal Revenue Code, the Chamber does not have to disclose its donors. In the 2012 election cycle, the Chamber for the first time began sponsoring ads that overtly urge people to vote for or against a candidate, also known as "independent expenditures."
Outside Spending Summary 2012
Discloses Donors? NO
Type of group: 501c; Independent expenditures only
Grand Total Spent on 2012 Federal Elections: $32,255,439
97.7% spent in general election
General Election Spending - How Successful Were They?$794,566 spent supporting 4 candidates who won
$1,410,000 spent opposing 3 candidates who lost
$31,516,401 total spent in general election on 57 candidates
Total Independent Expenditures: $32,255,439
For Democrats: $305,044
Against Democrats: $10,804,999
For Republicans: $1,134,015
Against Republicans: $0
Total Electioneering Communications: $0
By definition, electioneering communications do not explicitly advocate for or against the election of a candidate, but simply refer to a clearly identified federal candidate in a broadcast ad. Because of that, the Federal Election Commission requires that groups disclose only which federal candidate(s) were mentioned in the communications - not whether the communications supported or opposed the candidate(s).
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The department’s role is to serve the Senate and its committees, and its workload and functions are almost entirely determined by their activities. In supporting the operations of the Senate and its committees, the department provides services in four main categories: Senate support, committee support, senators’ services, and public education and awareness.
The department is responsible to the Senate and all senators, and maintains complete impartiality in serving senators from all political parties and independent senators.
Aim and objectives
As stated in the department’s corporate plan, our aim is:
To provide effective services to support the functioning of the Senate, and its committees, as a House of the Commonwealth Parliament.
Within that broad aim, our objectives are to:
- continue to develop our expertise in the constitutional and procedural bases of the Senate and its committees
- maintain and improve services to the Senate, its committees, senators and other users of departmental resources using efficient and up-to-date technology
- ensure the highest standard of accurate and prompt procedural advice
- publish a range of practical, procedural resources on the work of the Senate and the Parliament and maximise awareness of and access to those resources
- produce and deliver effective education and information programs
- implement effective workforce planning, recruitment and staff development practices to ensure that we have a highly skilled, knowledgeable and motivated workforce.
The department is responsible to the Senate through the President of the Senate. During 2006–07 the President was Senator the Honourable Paul Calvert. After five years in the position, Senator Calvert resigned as President on 14 August 2007. Senator the Honourable Alan Ferguson was elected in his place.
The Secretary of the department is the Clerk of the Senate, Mr Harry Evans.
The department is organised into five offices:
- Clerk’s Office—which provides procedural and constitutional advice in relation to the proceedings of the Senate and its committees, strategic direction for the department and secretariat support for the Procedure Committee, the Committee of Privileges and the Committee of Senators’ Interests; and maintains the Register of Senators’ Interests
- Table Office—provides procedural advice and programming services; processes legislation and documents, and archives records of the Senate; produces formal and informal records of Senate business; provides an inquiries service; and provides secretariat support to a collection of domestic committees
- Procedure Office—provides advisory and drafting services to non-government senators, secretariat support for the legislative scrutiny committees and policy support for interparliamentary relations; conducts parliamentary research; and promotes community awareness and knowledge of the Senate and the Parliament
- Committee Office—provides secretariat support for most Senate and certain joint committees and strives to increase the public’s awareness of the work of committees
- Black Rod’s Office—provides office, information technology, printing and ceremonial support services, and human resource, financial and records management services, for senators and departmental staff; and provides security advice.
Figure 1 identifies the elements that make up each of the offices. Contact details are listed in Appendix 1.
Figure 1 Organisational structure, 30 June 2007
|President of the Senate
|(Senator the Honourable Paul Calvert)
Clerk of the Senate
||Black Rod’s Office
Usher of the
|Journals and Notice
a Jointly funded by the department and the Department of the House of Representatives.
b Jointly funded by the department and the Department of the House of Representatives and administered by the Department of the House of Representatives.
c Included in this program for budgetary purposes only.
Outcome and output structure
Figure 2 illustrates the relationship between the department’s organisational and output structures, and summarises the outputs delivered by each output group. The report on performance for each output group begins with a detailed statement of each set of outputs.
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Posted on 07. Apr, 2013 by Davidson Lands Conservancy.
Saturday was Reptile Day at Davidson College. What a great day! Besides beautiful weather there was a great turn out for this event. We got to see so many great animals and to talk to many experts who could tell us about these interesting animals. Some of the animals were natives and some were exotic [...]
Posted on 16. Mar, 2013 by Davidson Lands Conservancy.
Several families with children had fun today at Lake Davidson Nature Preserve with a late winter nature scavenger hunt. This event was friendly to all ages as children could find “something green” or “something round like a ball” while their parents or older siblings could identify Red Oak trees or Raccoon tracks. And the weather [...]
Posted on 16. Feb, 2013 by Davidson Lands Conservancy.
It’s happening right now! The Great Backyard Bird Count is this weekend. You can go to this website- http://www.birdsource.org/gbbc/ to submit your count and to see what others are doing. And, as promised, we have pictures from the local area. New birders Michele and Arielle Trovanto sent me pictures they made this morning! And I’m including [...]
Posted on 02. Feb, 2013 by Davidson Lands Conservancy.
“Scaly, Slimy, but Never Scary – Come Pet Something That’s Not Hairy” Led by Ms. Nitya Rao Saturday, February 2nd This was WOW’s third year with the really cool animals of Davidson College’s Herpetology Lab. We were very lucky to have Ms. Rao lead this event again, too. Snakes, turtles, toads, frogs, and salamanders, all [...]
Posted on 30. Jan, 2013 by Davidson Lands Conservancy.
“What’s this Rock?” Led by Dr. Brad Johnson. Saturday, January 26, 10:00am to 11:45am. This event was hosted by the Environmental Studies Department at Davidson College. Co-sponsors were World of Wonder, Davidson Lands Conservancy and Woodland Discovery. Many thanks are owed to Dr. Johnson and his student, Ms. Audra Regan, who, along with a number [...]
Posted on 23. Jan, 2013 by Davidson Lands Conservancy.
World of Wonder is very happy to let you know that we have an outing scheduled for February: “Scaly, Slimy, but Never Scary – Come Pet Something That’s Not Hairy” Led by Ms. Nitya Rao, Herpetology Lab Saturday, Feburary 2nd, 10am to 11am. Davidson College Campus “Scaly, Slimy, but Never Scary – Come Pet Something That’s Not Hairy” [...]
Posted on 14. Jan, 2013 by Davidson Lands Conservancy.
Mark your calendars for the 9th Annual Green Ball on February 8th at Davidson College! Hosted by Davidson College’s Environmental Action Coalition, the Green Ball is a night of dancing, fun and fund-raising for the Davidson Lands Conservancy. The dance runs from 7:30-10:30 in the Lilly Family Gallery of Chambers Hall on the Davidson Campus. The [...]
Posted on 15. Nov, 2012 by Davidson Lands Conservancy.
The picture above is of a root cellar. “What does that have to do with Thanksgiving?” you might ask. I’ve been thinking about our modern Thanksgiving Day celebration and how far removed it is from the first Thanksgiving the Plymouth Colonists celebrated around 1621 or so. We can go to the local supermarket and buy [...]
Posted on 24. Aug, 2012 by Davidson Lands Conservancy.
The Davidson Lands Conservancy is again sponsoring Run for Green, a series of races that support our efforts to protect land and educate the public about the benefits of nature and open spaces. This year’s Run for Green will be held on Saturday, September 15, and will again feature a half-marathon, 10K and 5K. To [...]
Posted on 22. Aug, 2012 by Davidson Lands Conservancy.
Davidson is home to many pollinators including various species of bees, wasps, and butterflies and a few species of flies, beetles, birds and bats. What is pollination and why is it important? Pollination allows for plant fertilization through the transfer of pollen in between flowers and is critical to successful seed and fruit production. Pollinators [...] | <urn:uuid:50427f2e-1db0-439c-9ce8-7511f373d5d0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.davidsonlands.org/tag/davidson-college/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00011-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944731 | 948 | 1.765625 | 2 |
In Japan, you are what your blood type is
In Japan, "What's your type?" is much more than small talk; it can be a paramount question in everything from matchmaking to getting a job.
By type, the Japanese mean blood type, and no amount of scientific debunking can kill a widely held notion that blood tells all.
In the year just ended, four of Japan's top 10 best-sellers were about how blood type determines personality, according to Japan's largest book distributor, Tohan Co. The books' publisher, Bungeisha, says the series — one each for types B, O, A, and AB — has combined sales of well over 5 million copies.
Taku Kabeya, chief editor at Bungeisha, thinks the appeal comes from having one's self-image confirmed; readers discover the definition of their blood type and "It's like 'Yes, that's me!'"
As defined by the books, type As are sensitive perfectionists but overanxious; Type Bs are cheerful but eccentric and selfish; Os are curious, generous but stubborn; and ABs are arty but mysterious and unpredictable.
All that may sound like a horoscope, but the public doesn't seem to care.
Even Prime Minister Taro Aso seems to consider it important enough to reveal in his official profile on the Web. He's an A. His rival, opposition leader Ichiro Ozawa, is a B.
Nowadays blood type features in a Nintendo DS game and on "lucky bags" of women's accessories tailored to blood type and sold at Tokyo's Printemps department store. A TV network is set to broadcast a comedy about women seeking husbands according to blood type.
It doesn't stop there.
Matchmaking agencies provide blood-type compatibility tests, and some companies make decisions about assignments based on employees' blood types.
Children at some kindergartens are divided up by blood type, and the women's softball team that won gold at the Beijing Olympics used the theory to customize each player's training.
Not all see the craze as harmless fun, and the Japanese now have a term, "bura-hara," meaning blood-type harassment.
And, despite repeated warnings, many employers continue to ask blood types at job interviews, said Junichi Wadayama, an official at the Health, Welfare and Labor Ministry.
"It's so widespread that most people, even company officials, are not aware that asking blood types could lead to discrimination," Wadayama said.
Blood types, determined by the proteins in the blood, have nothing to do with personality, said Satoru Kikuchi, associate professor of psychology at Shinshu University.
"It's simply sham science," he said. "The idea encourages people to judge others by the blood types, without trying to understand them as human beings. It's like racism."
This use of blood-typing has unsavory roots.
The theory was imported from Nazi race ideologues and adopted by Japan's militarist government in the 1930s to breed better soldiers. The idea was scrapped years later and the craze faded.
It resurfaced in the 1970s, however, as Masahiko Nomi, an advocate with no medical background, gave the theory mass appeal. His son, To****aka, now promotes it through a private group, the Human Science ABO Center, saying it's not intended to rank or judge people but to smooth relationships and help make the best of one's talents.
The books tend to stop short of blood-type determinism, suggesting instead that while blood type creates personality tendencies, it's hardly definitive.
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Tsarskoye Selo Station to Regain Historic Name Topic: Tsarskoye Selo
The administration of the Pushkin District have voted to restore the historic name of the main train station at Puskhin. The station will be renamed Tsarskoye Selo-Pushkin.
According to Tatiana Bogulyubova, Deputy Head of the Administration, "the return of the historic name will assist visitor's with orientation". During the Soviet years the train station was known as Detskoe Selo (Children's Village), the name of which has no association to Tsarskoye Selo or Pushkin whatsoever.
After the Russian Revolution, Tsarskoye Selo was renamed Detskoe Selo, and in 1937 was renamed Pushkin.
The renaming of one of Russia's oldest train station's also has the support of Russian Railways.
Tsarskoye Selo can be reached from the Vitebsky Railway Station in St. Petersburg. Upon arrival, there are local buses or taxis that will take visitors to the Catherine and Alexander Palaces, or it is a 45-minute walk.
The Alexander Palace: A Walk Through the State Rooms Now Playing: Language: NA - Music. Duration: 16 minutes, 50 seconds Topic: Alexander Palace
The following 16-minute video (with musical accompaniment) takes us through the State Rooms of the Alexander Palace at Tsarskoye Selo.
The restoration of the Portrait, Semi-Circular and Marble Halls were completed in 2010, marking the 300th anniversary of Tsarskoye Selo.
It was from the Semi-Circular Hall that Tsar Nicholas II, his family and retinue departed the Alexander Palace for the last time on August 1, 1917. From here they were taken to the Alexandrovsky Station, and taken by train into exile to Siberia.
Synod of Bishops of the ROCOR Issues Statement on Royal Remains Topic: Holy Royal Martyrs
During its regular session on June 14, 2012, the Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia deliberated on the matter of the discovery of the remains and other possessions relating to the martyrdom of the Royal Family which had been hidden in the walls of the stavropighial Memorial Church in Brussels.
During renovations on St Job the Much-Suffering Church, which is also dedicated to the memory of Holy Royal Martyr Nicholas II, the Royal Family and all those martyred during that time of troubles, a sealed lead cylinder was discovered along with a glass tube with a handwritten document containing an inventory of the contents of the cylinder.
The fact that the Memorial Church was in possession of these remains and other objects connected with the brutal murder of the Royal Family in Ekaterinburg had been known to the Synod of Bishops. It was also known that they were handed over by the investigator of the murder of the Royal Family, Nikolai A. Sokolov, before his death (November 23, 1924), to Prince Alexei Alexandrovich Shirinsky-Shikhmatov, and in 1940 were given to Metropolitan Seraphim (Lukianov), who at the time headed the Western European Diocese, and that further, on October 1, 1950, when the Memorial Church was consecrated by Metropolitan Anastassy, the First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, they were inserted into a sealed lead cylinder and built into the walls of the church.
The Synod of Bishops did not deem it proper to organize a search for the sealed capsule following the death of all the living witnesses, though naturally, over the recent two decades, many people exhibited an active interest in its existence.
Now, after its discovery, in light of the fact that the important question of the remains of the Royal Family is coming to a final conclusion based on new evidence and serious scientific research, and since controversy yet remains, the Synod of Bishops expresses its willingness to cooperate in the further study of this matter on the basis of the discovery together with the Church in Russia. An absolute condition of such research will be a pious attitude towards everything relating to the martyric end of the Royal Family and its faithful servants.
The Synod of Bishops believes and hopes that this will help achieve the final answer to this matter, which is so important to the Russian Orthodox Church.
New Political Party Seeks Restoration of Monarchy Topic: Russian Monarchy
Russian pro-Orthodox Church activists have set up a party called Samoderzavnaya Rossiya (Autocratic Russia) with the stated objective of restoring the monarchy via parliamentary procedures and, according to one of its leaders, brings together several thousand people.
Without monarchy, Russia would be unable to carry out tasks put before it in the 15th century, "when God put Russia in the place of Byzantium," Valentin Lebedev, head of the Union of Orthodox Citizens and one of Autocratic Russia's leaders, told the Interfax-Religion portal.
"Building the Third Rome is the task of the Russian people. By their work to carry out this task, our ancestors built the greatest state in the world, the Russian Empire," he said.
"We set ourselves the task of bringing the lofty spiritual ideals that the Orthodox Church enshrines into all spheres of society, primarily into government, in other words into political life," Lebedev said.
The leader of Autocratic Russia is Dmitry Merkulov, a journalist and public figure.
Lebedev said the creation of the party started last year, before Russia simplified its legislation on setting up parties.
"At the moment, the registration process is underway," he said. "After its registration the party will launch a practical struggle for power, first locally and then in the State Duma."
Lebedev said Autocratic Russia has several thousand members living in various parts of the country.
Watercolor Paintings by Emperor Alexander II to be Unveiled Topic: Alexander II
The yet unknown drawings by Emperor Alexander II will be unveiled at the Alexander Solzhenitsyn Center for Russian Emigres in Moscow on August 31, Voice of Russia reports. The exhibition is dedicated to the 200th anniversary since Russia`s victory over Napoleon in 1812.
The collection comprises the items contributed courtesy of the descendants of those who took part in the 1812 war. Apart from albums with lithographs, illustrations, rare books and magazines, visitors will see watercolor paintings made by Alexander II, featuring officers and men of 1812-1814.
Time Running Out for Grebnevo Estate Topic: Country Estates
Citizens of the Moscow Region are appealing to local authorities to rescue Grebnevo Estate, the security zone of which, though a monument of architecture, culture and history, is being sold out piece by piece.
They have forwarded a request to draw attention to the situation and to undertake appropriate measures for prevention of destruction of the estate to the regional culture minister A. Gubankov.
In order to avoid repetition of the situations in Borodino, Arkhangelskoye Estate, and now in Veshki, we request to stop urgently the sale and surveying of sites in the security zone of the Grebnevo Estate and seize all transactions with these lands”- the letter reads.
Local authorities have transferred a part of lands of Grebnevo from the status of a security zone to the status of summer cottage sites.
The historical and cultural monument Grebnevo Estate is located 30 km to the northeast from MKAD (Moscow Circle Road) in the vicinity of Fryazino town. The estate was built in 1780-1790 and its main building with two churches has survived to this day.
Massive Reconstruction of St. Petersburg Outlined Topic: St. Petersburg
Russia’s tourist Mecca, St. Petersburg, is bracing for a large-scale renovation of its historical center worth trillions of rubles, according to Georgy Poltavchenko, the city’s governor.
The seven neighborhoods of those making up the UNESCO world heritage site are getting ready for a thorough “inventory taking” and for two others – Kolomna and Konyushennaya Ploshchad – restoration projects are to be prepared, Poltavchenko said in an interview to Gorod 812.
“When we started working, we realized that we can’t do everything at the same time, and therefore we divided the [restoration] program into stages,” the city boss told the publication. The estimated cost of the entire project is 4 trillion rubles “according to the most modest calculations,” he added.
‘St. Petersburg is not Pompeii’
The large-scale project will not preserve every historical building in the area, and the city boss doesn’t conceal this fact.
The demolition ban eating away the city center is to be lifted, Poltavchenko said. “If we don’t change the legislation, we can just give up the preservation program of the historical center,” he was quoted as saying.
“St. Petersburg is not Pompeii, thank God, it’s a living city,” he said. Historical buildings considered as having no special value and providing poor living condition for their residents are to be knocked down, he added.
Preservation activists have prepared a 200-page book listing all the threatened historical monuments in the city on the Neva for the June’s UNESCO session in the city, according to heritage watchdog Arkhnadzor.
Poltavchenko’s deputy, Sergei Vyazalov, set the price for restoration works as 75 percent less in an earlier interview with Interfax. He also said that the city’s administration was going to endorse the program in the upcoming autumn.
The city governor, however, seems to have already approved the financial schemes for the project. The restoration of the first two neighborhoods carried out between 2013 and 2015 will require 69 billion from the budget.
Five other city areas will need more 360 billion, he said, from which 160 billion are expected to come from private investors.
Editor's Note: During a recent visit to St. Petersburg I was walking across the Troitsky Bridge which spans the Neva River while taking in the beautiful views of the city. It was from this vantage point that I noticed a number of new modern glass and steel buildings nestled between historic buildings, as well as building cranes in various locations on the horizon. Sadly, the historic skyline of St. Petersburg has already been ruined, thanks to greedy developers and crooked politicians. Paul Gilbert
Tsaritsyno Displays World's Largest Collection of Samovars Topic: Tsaritsino
Samovar presented to the Japanese emperor from Tsesarevich Nikolai Alexandrovich during his trip to the Far East in 1890-91
The samovar is one of the most iconic symbols of Russia, along with onion-domed churches, matryoshkas and fur hats. A temporary exhibition at the Tsaritsyno Estate provides a rare glimpse at the broad variety of these fancy “self-boilers.”
Some 200 samovars from the 18th to early 20th centuries are on display, all from the private collection of three generations of the Lobanov family from St. Petersburg. According to the curators, it’s the world’s best collection of samovars from those times, including items by renowned craftspeople and producers from various regions of Russia. In compiling the collection, the Lobanovs sought to bring together objects reflecting the history, origins and development of the samovar as an integral part of Russian domestic culture, while at the same time showing the wealth, variety and talent of local craftspeople.
Curator Yelena Dremova told RIA Novosti that the most interesting exhibits include a samovar decorated with laurel and maple leaves, made especially as a gift to the Japanese emperor from Tsesarevich Nikolai Alexandrovich (the future Tsar Nicholas II) during his trip to the Far East in 1890-91. Others belonged to such notables as writer Mikhail Bulgakov and Provisional Government Prime Minister Alexander Kerensky.
To further immerse visitors in the atmosphere of the Russian tea ceremony, the exhibition includes related objects such as tea pots and cups, sugar bowls and serving trays.
“Birds of Gzhel” is included as an extra exhibition, consisting of Archpriest Alexei Potokin’s private collection of the distinctive blue and white ceramics. The 140 items include vases, jugs, tea pots, sugar bowls, plates, trays, beer mugs, clocks, and figurines.
New Romanov Evidence Can be Studied Without Reopening Investigation Topic: Holy Royal Martyrs
The Russian Investigations Committee currently does not see any reason to resume the investigation into the murders of Nicholas II and his family based on the materials collected by White Guard investigator Nikolay Sokolov which were recently discovered in a Brussels church.
"There will probably be no initiatives from us to resume the criminal case. If the church files a request, we will decide what to do," Vladimir Solovyov, senior investigator with the Main Criminalistics Department of the Investigations Committee who investigated the case involving the killing of the tsar's family, told Interfax on Monday.
"We don't know for sure yet what has been found in Brussels," Solovyov said.
"We have no position that a criminal case will not be opened. Everything depends on what has been found. However, it's no longer 1992, when we did not have any evidence. Since then a lot of tests have been performed, so any new evidence which will prove that the remains are those of the tsar's family are unlikely to provide us with anything new," Solovyov said.
"We have no doubt that the remains are those of the tsar's family. As to the materials found in Brussels, the Russian Orthodox Church and the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia have not asked the Investigations Committee to perform additional studies. Such studies can be performed without opening a criminal case," Solovyov said.
According to earlier reports, materials by investigator Sokolov, who investigated the killing of Russia's last Tsar Nicholas II and his family on the orders of Admiral Kolchak in 1919, were found during the reconstruction of the Church of Job the Long-Suffering in Brussels.
Representatives of the Romanov family said a study of the Brussels materials is likely to yield evidence on the issue of the authenticity of the tsar's family remains.
In January 2011, the Investigations Committee completed the investigation into the criminal case involving the killing of Nicholas II's family, recognizing the remains found near Yekaterinburg as those of the tsar's family.
The Russian Orthodox Church and the Romanov family have not recognized the remains as those of the tsar's family.
In late July 2012, it became known that the Moscow patriarchate may reconsider its stance on the "Yekaterinburg remains." Patriarch Krill told the Holy Synod in Kyiv that important information on the circumstances of the death of the tsar's family had been received from New York, where the spiritual center of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia is located.
The Romanov family said it will accept the position of the Russian Orthodox Church on the issue of the remains of Russia's last emperor.
Search Continues for Remains of Red Terror Victims at Peter and Paul Fortress Now Playing: Language: Russian. Duration: 53 seconds Topic: Bolsheviks
The search for the victims of the “red terror”, begun in the Peter and Paul Fortress, St. Petersburg, during the summer of 2010 will now continue, reports Vodye Zhivoi (To the Living Waters), an organization under the auspices of Vice Governor Vasily Kichedzi of Leningrad Province.
Money for the work will be provided by the State Historical Museum of St. Petersburg.
DNA testing will also be financed in order to identify the discovered remains. The goal is to find and identify all the victims of the mass repression that took place in the former Russian capital during the years just after the Bolshevik revolution. The victims’ remains will then be given over to the earth with a solemn burial service.
In 2009, during construction work on Zayachy Island, the buried remains of prisoners executed by the Cheka from 1917–1921 were discovered. Among those who were innocently put to death in 1919 were Grand Dukes Pavel Alexandrovich, Dimitry Constantinovich, Nicholas and George Mikhailovich (three of whom were canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad in 1981). The excavation continued through the summer of 2010, and the remains of over 100 people were exhumed. Tsarist Army officer’s caps were found, along with boots, sailor’s ribbons, baptismal crosses, medals, miniature icons, and fragments of soldier’s blouses and jackets.
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GOOD MORNING! For the past several thousand years Jews -- and the majority of the world's non-Jewish population -- believed that God gave the Torah to the Jewish people on Mt. Sinai 3,311 years ago. Almost the totality of Jews during this time believed that God dictated the Torah to Moshe who wrote it down word for word, letter for letter. This means that what is written in the Torah is precise and meant to convey a specific meaning.
The Torah is an instruction book for life. We study it and the commentaries, particularly the Mishna and Gemara, to understand those lessons. This week's Torah portion, Va'etchanan, contains the listing of the Ten Commandments (not the "Ten Suggestions" as some might think....) The Ten Commandments were previously listed in the Torah portion of Yitro in the Book of Exodus. It is fascinating to note that there are many differences in the wording of the Ten Commandments in the two sections. Sloppy editor? Not if you believe that God dictated the Torah and that Moses wrote it down exactly word for word, letter for letter. So, what can we learn from these differences?
The following piece compares the differences regarding the Commandment of Shabbat. It is adapted from a piece which originally appeared in another Aish list, "Ask the Rabbi" or "Shraga's Weekly" (you can subscribe via the internet at www.aish.edu). Note the differences which are CAPITALIZED.
Q & A: WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM DIFFERENCE IN THE TEN COMMANDMENTS REGARDING SHABBAT?
In the Book of Exodus (chapter 20, verse 9) the Commandment is stated:
"REMEMBER the Day of Shabbat to sanctify it. Six days you should work, and do all of your craftsman-type-work. And the Seventh Day, should be a Shabbat to the Almighty your God, you should not do any craftsman-type-work you, your son, your daughter, your servant, your maidservant, YOUR ANIMAL, or your convert that is in your gates. BECAUSE SIX DAYS THE ALMIGHTY CREATED THE HEAVENS AND EARTH, SEA AND ALL THAT IS IN IT, AND HE RESTED ON THE SEVENTH DAY, therefore the ALMIGHTY BLESSED THE SHABBAT AND MADE IT HOLY."
In the Book of Deuteronomy (chapter 5, verse 12) the Commandment is stated:
"OBSERVE the Day of Shabbat to sanctify it, LIKE THAT THE ALMIGHTY YOUR God COMMANDED YOU. Six days you should word and do all of your craftsman-type work. And the Seventh Day, should be a Shabbat to the Almighty your God. You should not do any craftsman-type-work you, your son, your daughter, your servant, your maidservant, YOUR OX, YOUR DONKEY, AND ALL YOUR ANIMALS, and your convert that is in your gates, FOR THE SAKE THAT HE SHOULD REST YOUR SERVANT AND HAND MAID LIKE YOU. YOU SHOULD REMEMBER BECAUSE YOU WERE SLAVES IN EGYPT, AND THE ALMIGHTY YOUR God TOOK YOU OUT FROM THERE WITH A STRONG HAND AND OUTSTRETCHED ARM, THEREFORE, THE ALMIGHTY YOUR God COMMANDED YOU TO DO THE DAY OF SHABBAT."
Here are explanations of two differences:
1) "REMEMBER" vs. "OBSERVE"
The commandment to REMEMBER means that one should remember Shabbat throughout the week. Buying something special for Shabbat can fulfill this commandment. Also, the Song of the Day, which is part of the morning service, also fulfills this commandment seeing that its introduction always mentions Shabbat. Even merely reciting the day of the week in Hebrew can fulfill this commandment since the name of the days in Hebrew are "First Day", "Second Day", "Third Day" ... as they count towards the Shabbat!
The mitzvah of REMEMBERING also includes the positive commandments of the day -- to make Kiddush, have special meals. The word "OBSERVE" means to not transgress the prohibitions forbidden on the Sabbath -- i.e., lighting a fire. (There are 39 Categories of Creative Acts which one refrains on Shabbat.)
2) "THE ALMIGHTY CREATED" vs. "YOU WERE SLAVES IN EGYPT"
The Torah tells us in Exodus that we should keep Shabbat as a testimony to God's creation of the world. In Deuteronomy it says we should keep Shabbat because God took us out from Egypt.
If a person were to keep Shabbat only because God created the world, he would miss an important point -- that God didn't merely create the world and step out of the picture. God has a personal relationship with every human being and constantly involves Himself with the world that He created.
Keeping Shabbat because God took us out of Egypt, is testimony that God is involved in our lives. That is because God stated, "I took you out of Egypt to be your God" (Numbers 15:41). In other words, "I TOOK YOU OF EGYPT on condition that we should have a relationship. You will be My nation and I will BE YOUR God." God not only created the world, but has a living relationship with us.
If you are interested in learning more about Shabbat, read "Sabbath Day of Eternity," by Aryeh Kaplan (published by Moznaim.) If you are interested in the evidence that God dictated the Torah to Moses who faithfully transcribed it, read Permission to Receive by Kelemen (you might as well order Permission to Believe by Kelemen, too. It gives the evidence for God's existence.) Available by calling toll-free: 877-758-3242.
Portion of the Week
Moshe pleads with God to enter the Holy Land, but is turned down. (Remember, God always answers your prayers -- sometimes with a "yes," sometimes with a "no" and sometimes with a "not yet".) Moshe commands the Children of Israel not to add or subtract from the words of the Torah and to keep all of the Commandments. He then reminds them that God has no shape or form and that we should not make or worship idols of any kind.
The cities of Bezer, Ramot and Golan are designated as Cities of Refuge east of the Jordan river. Accidental murderers can escape there to avoid revengeful relatives.
The Ten Commandments are repeated to the whole Jewish people. Moshe then expounds the Shema, affirming the unity of God, Whom all should love and transmit His commandments to the next generation. A man should wear Tefillin upon the arm and head. All Jews should put a Mezuzah upon each doorpost of their home (except the bathroom).
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Report of the Secretary General's Panel of Experts on Accountability in Sri Lanka
via UN News Centre
The United Nations has today made public the advisory report of the Secretary-General's Panel of Experts on accountability with respect to the final stages of the decades-long armed conflict in Sri Lanka, which was submitted to him on 12 April 2011. The decision to release the report was made as a matter of transparency and in the broader public interest.
The report was shared in its entirety with the Government of Sri Lanka on 12 April. The Secretary-General has indicated his willingness to publicize the Government's response alongside the report. This invitation was extended to the Sri Lanka Government throughout the week, including again on Saturday by the Secretary-General to the External Affairs Minister of Sri Lanka. The Government has not responded to this offer which nonetheless still stands.
The Secretary-General expresses his appreciation to the advisory Panel of Experts who have provided their advice on how the undertaking on accountability in the joint communiqué that he had made with the President at the conclusion of Sri Lanka's war can be fulfilled.
The Secretary-General is carefully reviewing the report's conclusions and recommendations with regard to events that took place during the final stages of the conflict, including its assessment that there are a number of allegations of serious violations of international humanitarian and human rights law committed by both the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the Government of Sri Lanka, some of which could amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The Panel's first recommendation is that the Government of Sri Lanka should respond to the serious allegations by initiating an effective accountability process beginning with genuine investigations. The Secretary-General has consistently held the view that Sri Lanka should, first and foremost, assume responsibility for ensuring accountability for the alleged violations. This and a number of other short and medium-term recommendations that the Panel proposed in regard to steps that could be undertaken by the Government of Sri Lanka, have now been shared with the Government. He encourages the Sri Lankan authorities to respond constructively.
The Secretary-General has decided that he will respond positively to the Panel's recommendation for a review of the United Nations' actions regarding the implementation of its humanitarian and protection mandates during the war in Sri Lanka – particularly in the last stages. The exact modality of such a review will be determined after consultations with relevant agencies, funds and programmes.
In regard to the recommendation that he establish an international investigation mechanism, the Secretary-General is advised that this will require host country consent or a decision from Member States through an appropriate intergovernmental forum. The monitoring and repository functions it was suggested this mechanism undertake will continue to be performed by the United Nations Secretariat.
The Secretary-General trusts that the Government of Sri Lanka will continue to respect the work of the UN and its agencies as well as its obligations to the safety of UN staff in Colombo. He regrets the inflammatory tone of some of the recent public statements emanating from Sri Lanka.
The Secretary-General sincerely hopes that this advisory report will make a contribution to full accountability and justice so that the Sri Lankan Government and people will be able to proceed towards national reconciliation and peace.
Full Report: http://www.un.org/News/dh/infocus/Sri_Lanka/POE_Report_Full.pdf
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Did NASA's Voyager 1 Spacecraft Just Exit the Solar System?
Artist's concept of Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 at the edge of the solar system.
It will be another giant leap for mankind when NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft becomes the first manmade object to venture past the solar system's edge and into the uncharted territory of interstellar space. But did this giant leap already occur?
New data from the spacecraft indicate that the historic moment of its exit from the solar system might have come and gone two months ago. Scientists are crunching one more set of numbers to find out for sure.
Voyager 1, which left Earth on Sept. 5, 1977, has since sped to a distance of 11.3 billion miles (18.2 billion kilometers) from the sun, making it the farthest afield of any manmade object. (It has 2 billion miles on its twin, Voyager 2, which took a longer route through the solar system.) Still phoning home (via radio transmissions) after 35 years, the Voyagers are the longest operating spacecraft in history.
For two years now, data beamed back to Earth by Voyager 1 has hinted at its close approach to the edge of the solar system, a pressure boundary called the heliopause. At this boundary, the bubble of electrically charged particles blowing outward from the sun (called the heliosphere) exactly counterbalances the inward pressure of the gas and dust from interstellar space, causing equilibrium between the two. But scientists have had trouble figuring out what, exactly, happens at or near this boundary — making it hard to tell whether Voyager has crossed it.
In 2010, Voyager passed the point where the solar wind, a stream of charged particles flowing outward from the sun, seemed to reach the end of its leash. The probe's detectors indicated that the wind had suddenly died down, and all the surrounding solar particles were at a standstill.
This "stagnation region" came as a surprise. Scientists had expected to see the solar wind veer sideways when it met the heliopause, like water hitting a wall, rather than screech to a halt. As Voyager scientists explained in a paper published last month in Nature, the perplexing collapse of the solar wind at the edge of the heliosphere left them without a working model for the outer solar system.
"There is no well-established criteria of what constitutes exit from the heliosphere," Stamatios Krimigis, a space scientist at Johns Hopkins University and NASA principal investigator in charge of the Voyager spacecraft's Low-Energy Charged Particle instrument, told Life's Little Mysteries. "All theoretical models have been found wanting."
However, Ed Roelof, also a space scientist at Johns Hopkins who works with Voyager 1 data, said that in any model of the heliopause, an object exiting through it should experience three changes: a sharp rise in the number of collisions with cosmic rays (high-energy particles from space), a dramatic drop in the number of collisions with charged particles from the sun, and a change in the direction of the surrounding magnetic field.
Based on two of those criteria, Voyager 1 looks as if it passed through the heliopause at the end of the summer. Since May, the spacecraft has experienced a steady rise in the number of collisions with particles whose energies are greater than 70 Mega-electron-volts, indicating they are probably cosmic rays emanating from supernova explosions far beyond the solar system. The level of these cosmic ray collisions jumped significantly in late August.
As first reported by Houston Chronicle science blogger Eric Berger, that jump coincided with another change in late August: The spacecraft also experienced a dramatic drop in the number of collisions with low-energy particles, which probably originated from the sun. [See graph]
In short, in late August, cosmic ray collisions sharply rose, and solar particle collisions sharply fell: two indicators of a transition through the heliopause.
"Most scientists involved with Voyager 1 would agree that [these two criteria] have been sufficiently satisfied," said Ed Roelof, also a space scientist at Johns Hopkins who works with Voyager 1 data.
To officially declare Voyager's crossing, the scientists need to check if the third condition holds. "Point 3 (the change in magnetic field direction to that of the interstellar field beyond the influence of the sun) is critical because, even though there is debate among astrophysicists as to what direction the field will lie in, it seems unlikely that it is the direction that we have been seeing at Voyager 1 throughout the most recent years," Roelof wrote in an email.
"That is why we are all awaiting the analysis of the most recent magnetic field measurements from Voyager 1. We will be looking for the expected change to a new and steady direction. That would drop the third independent piece of evidence into place — if indeed that's what will be seen," he said.
The scientists could not say when the magnetic field analysis would be finished. But when it is — and if it also indicates that the field's direction recently underwent a change — the world will know. "Once we have a consensus within the team we will inform NASA for a proper announcement," Krimigis said.
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The Guardian reports:
The UK will come under increasing pressure to ban all smacking and corporal punishment of children as the European human rights body steps up pressure for a change in the law.
The Council of Europe – which monitors compliance with the European convention on human rights – will criticise the UK because it has not banned smacking more than 10 years after a ruling in 1998 that the practice could violate children’s rights against inhuman and degrading treatment.
“The campaign to abolish corporal punishment across the Council of Europe is gathering momentum; 20 countries have formally abolished laws allowing it in the past three years,” said Maud de Boer-Buquicchio, deputy secretary general of the Council of Europe.
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Sonoma, Napa counties set six-week dry weather record
Published: Monday, February 11, 2013 at 9:13 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, February 11, 2013 at 1:28 p.m.
The first six weeks of 2013 have been the driest on record for Sonoma County and neighboring Napa County, based on measurements at their respective airports, the National Weather Service reports.
Just 1.02 inches of rainfall were recorded at the Charles M. Schulz-Sonoma County Airport from Jan. 1 to 4 p.m Sunday, besting the same time period in 2011 for a new record, meteorologists said.
In 2011, 1.85 inches of rain were measured at the airport, the National Weather Service said.
Total rainfall of 9.13 inches is considered normal.
But rainfall varies at different locations around the county.
Data from the downtown Santa Rosa gauge would have put 2013 in second place in a dry weather contest, by fractions of an inch, meteorologist Steve Anderson said.
Downtown measurements show .57 inches of rain for the 41-day-period, compared to an even more paltry .41 inches in 1976, meteorologist Steve Anderson said.
At the Napa County airport, there has been .37 of an inch of rain so far this year, compared to normal of 5.62 inches for the time period, the weather service said.
Thanks to abundant December rainfall, Sonoma County's seasonal rainfall totals are very close to normal, however, with 23.43 inches from July 1, 2012 through Sunday.
Normal is 23.32 inches, so “we are exactly normal on the season,” Anderson said.
The water supply at lakes Sonoma and Mendocino is at 100 percent of capacity, as well, with plenty of room still available for flood water, if needed, Sonoma County Water Agency spokesman Brad Sherwood said.
“We rely heavily on mid- to late spring rains to 'top off' the reservoirs for the summer,” Sherwood said in an email.
There is no rain ahead in the immediate forecast, however.
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