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April 5, 2012
BLM Approves Enhanced Geothermal Systems Demonstration Project
CENTRAL OREGON—USDI Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is issuing a decision authorizing a demonstration project to evaluate the potential for producing energy through the use of Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) technology near Newberry Volcano. If successful, this project could advance EGS technology and facilitate the development of a domestic, renewable, clean energy option for the United States through the extraction of heat from engineered reservoirs of underground hot rock.
The Environmental Analysis (EA) was initiated after the BLM received a Notice of Intent to Conduct Geothermal Resource Exploration Operations from Davenport Newberry Holdings, LLC and AltaRock Energy, Inc. (the proponents) in May 2010. The project area is located approximately 22 miles south of Bend, OR on the Deschutes National Forest along the western flank of Newberry Volcano. With the exception of one strong motion sensor and one seismic monitoring station, the project is located outside the Newberry National Volcanic Monument. Although the project is located entirely within the Deschutes National Forest, the BLM is the lead agency as it has jurisdiction over geothermal leases on Federal lands. In addition, the U.S. Department of Energy is funding a portion of the project through the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act. The Forest Service and Department of Energy are cooperating agencies for this project.
The proposed project will create an EGS Demonstration Project over a two-year period involving new technology to test the feasibility of EGS for renewable energy production. The project proposes to develop and test an EGS reservoir using an existing 10,060-foot geothermal well. The reservoir will be created using a process called “hydroshearing,” in which cold water is injected through the well and into existing fractures of hot rock at depths between 6,500 and 10,060 feet. The cold water slightly expands and extends the fractures creating additional surface area where water can circulate through hot rocks and heat up, much like the heat exchange process of a radiator. Diverters will be used to direct the water to specific areas of pre-existing fractures and small amounts of tracers commonly used in groundwater studies would be injected to monitor water flow. Shallow groundwater wells will provide water for the project. Prior to the injection of water, an array of sensitive seismometers will be installed on the surface and in bore-holes for real-time monitoring of the EGS stimulation.
The hydroshearing process will produce microseismic events. While these microseismic events have the potential to be felt in nearby communities like La Pine, engineering evaluations determined the seismicity had a very low risk of being felt by people in the vicinity of the project and an even lower risk that any damaging seismic events could occur. In addition, an Induced Seismicity Mitigation Plan has been developed which will take proactive measures to prevent microseismicity from escalating into felt or damaging seismic events.
Issues raised and addressed during review of the EA included concerns over groundwater quality, sources of water for the project, wildlife, scenic resources and the potential effects of induced seismicity.
Prineville District BLM District Manager, Carol Benkosky, has determined that the proposed actions will not significantly affect the quality of the human or natural environment, individually or cumulatively with other actions in the general area; therefore, the decision Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) has been reached by the BLM. The DOE has also issued a FONSI and the Forest Service will issue a special use permit authorizing installation of seismic monitoring equipment.
All documentation associated with this project including the EA, FONSI, Decision Record, and maps are available on the Prineville BLM website at:
Persons or organizations who previously commented on the EA are eligible to appeal this decision. Any notice of appeal must be filed with the Prineville District BLM office, 3050 NE 3rd St, Prineville, OR 97754, within 30 days of receipt of the decision notice.
About the BLM: The BLM manages more than 245 million acres of public land – the most of any Federal agency. This land, known as the National System of Public Lands, is primarily located in 12 Western states, including Alaska. The BLM also administers 700 million acres of sub-surface mineral estate throughout the nation. In Fiscal Year (FY) 2011, recreational and other activities on BLM-managed land contributed more than $130 billion to the U.S. economy and supported more than 600,000 American jobs. The Bureau is also one of a handful of agencies that collects more revenue than it spends. In FY 2012, nearly $5.7 billion will be generated on lands managed by the BLM, which operates on a $1.1 billion budget. The BLM's multiple-use mission is to sustain the health and productivity of the public lands for the use and enjoyment of present and future generations. The Bureau accomplishes this by managing such activities as outdoor recreation, livestock grazing, mineral development, and energy production, and by conserving natural, historical, cultural, and other resources on public lands.
For more information contact:
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Mussels are a delicious and sustainable way to get your heart-healthy omega-3 fatty acids, writes Martha Rose Shulman in this week’s Recipes for Health.
I always associated high omega-3 content with fatty cold-water fish like salmon, mackerel and tuna, but it turns out that there are 1,472 milligrams of omega-3s in 6 ounces of mussels (the approximate amount of meat you get from a pound in the shell), only 400 milligrams less than the same amount of salmon.
Farmed mussels are a much more ocean-friendly seafood choice than farmed salmon…. Look for mussels that are shiny and black, and somewhat heavy for their size. When you get them home, take them out of the wrapping immediately, give them a quick rinse and put them in a big bowl. Cover the bowl with a damp cloth and refrigerate until you’re ready to clean and cook them.
Here Ms. Shulman gives us five new ways to cook mussels.
Oven-Roasted Mussels With Fresh Spinach: Mussels don’t have to be steamed. They will pop open in a hot, dry cast iron skillet, on a grill or in the oven.
Spicy Spanish Mussels: Inspired by a tapas bar in Valencia, this dish is made special by the crunchy almond and hazelnut picada added after the mussels are steamed.
Mussel Risotto: Brown rice can be added for a mixed-grains risotto.
Curry-Laced Moules à la Marinière With Fresh Peas: These are classic wine-steamed mussels, but the broth is seasoned with a little curry powder.
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From UA Libraries Digital Services Planning and Documentation
Ruby is object-oriented: every value is an object, including classes and instances of types that many other languages designate as primitives (such as integers, booleans, and "nil"). Variables always hold references to objects. Every function is a method and methods are always called on an object. Methods defined at the top level scope become members of the Object class. Since this class is an ancestor of every other class, such methods can be called on any object. They are also visible in all scopes, effectively serving as "global" procedures. Ruby supports inheritance with dynamic dispatch, mixins and singleton methods (belonging to, and defined for, a single instance rather than being defined on the class). Though Ruby does not support multiple inheritance, classes can import modules as mixins.
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Washington : Government Printing Office
|Chap. 258||Five Civilized Tribes, Okla. Special postage stamp.|
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, to commemorate the centennial celebration of the Trail of Tears, the Postmaster General is hereby authorized and directed to issue a special postage stamp bearing the likeness of the great seals of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians in Oklahoma: Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Creek, and Seminole. Such stamp shall be issued in the denomination of 3 cents and for such a period, beginning October 15, 1948, as he may determine. Such special stamp shall be placed on sale in Muskogee, Oklahoma, one day before it is made available to the public elsewhere.
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Political currents in a number of financially troubled states are sending a chill through Hollywood -- a tax-incentive chill.
Worry that such vital incentives will be cut significantly -- or entirely -- have producers and studios worried about how they will finance domestic film and TV production, with several important tax-credit states seriously reconsidering their programs.
"We're at a critical stage right now," Rob Carliner, who produced the Oscar-winning "Crazy Heart," which was filmed in New Mexico, told TheWrap. "The state of the incentives all over is changing radically, so we’re all communicating with one another just to make sure we have the most accurate, up-to-date information.”
“They are as important as any talent attachment,” he said. “They are critical. You just can’t make a movie in this environment without chasing the rebates. It’s just not economically viable.”
Indeed, New Mexico is just one of a number of states reviewing their incentive programs. There, the state's newly elected Gov. Susana Martinez has said she wants to cut that state’s popular tax credit from 25 percent to 15 percent.
And in Michigan, Gov. Rick Snyder, a Republican elected this past November, has ordered a review of the state’s incentive program -- one of the most popular and generous in the nation. Snyder said he wants to reduce the 42 percent credit, which currently makes it the second most generous in the nation after Alaska and its 44 percent credit.
Both governors cited budget concerns in calling for the cuts.
Even small incentive programs attract filming. The movies “Winter’s Bone” (pictured) and “Up in the Air” were filmed in Missouri. But that state, too, is considering ending its incentive package, said state Sen. David Pearce, a Republican who favors the incentives.
“Right now, there is somewhat a backlash against tax credits,” he told TheWrap. “The governor has not included it in his budget package for the year … For this upcoming year it’s on life support.”
Bruce Deichl, co-founder of Tax Credits LLC, a New Jersey company that helps filmmakers get incentives, said that without incentives in the United States, more filming will occur in Canada and Europe.
He said that each state that has incentives benefits from them. "Why did Disney shoot the movie 'Annapolis' in Philadelphia instead of Maryland? Because of the film credit," Deichl said.
Peter Dekom, an entertainment lawyer in Los Angeles and consultant for New Mexico, said that tax incentives are "mission critical" to motion pictures, and that they will continue in some form -- somewhere.
Fortunately, not all the news is bad.
Vans Stevenson, senior VP for state government affairs at the Motion Picture Association of America, pointed out that although the Illinois legislature recently increased the state’s income tax, “their tax credit was not even on the table,” and that New York, North Carolina and Florida recently increased their incentive package.
Florida offers a 20 percent credit, plus 5 percent for off-season filming and 5 percent for “family-friendly” projects.
On Jan. 1, North Carolina’s refundable credit increased from to 25 percent, and last year, New York increased the amount of money it has available for its 30 percent credit. The state had previously budgeted $85 million for 2010, $90 million for 2011 and 2012 and $110 million for 2013. Now, the state has $420 million available each year.
And of course the home state of Hollywood has its own place in the game.
A spokeswoman for Gov. Jerry Brown told TheWrap that despite the cuts he is recommending, “the budget that Gov. Brown proposed maintains the same tax credits for the film industry that the previous governor had in place.”
Paul Audley, president of FilmL.A., said that California’s incentive plan has increased the number of feature filming in the state by 26 percent.
“In the first year, with $200 million in tax credits, we were able to show a $2 billion tax expenditure in California, and about 20,000 jobs,” he said. “And every single bit of that increase was a result of incentivized filming.”
Another benefit to the incentives, he said, is that skilled workers stay in California.
He said that tradespeople, like producers, follow the incentives.
Skilled people, he said, permanently moved to other states as work became available in them. If the tax incentives in those states vanish, he said, those people will have to move elsewhere.
Stevenson said the credits “create jobs, they create economic activity, they create, in some cases, sustainable businesses.”
They’re also complicated, said Marco Cordoba, director of business development and production planning at Entertainment Partners, who provide detailed information of tax incentives and production credits across the United States and the world.
“Right now, there is some uncertainty,” said Missouri's Sen. Pearce. “However, there are some very stable states, and also states that have more incentives this year which have drawn more business to them.”
"If one state stops, another state will pick up and Hollywood will follow," he said. "Where states have amazing infrastructure and quality production but lose their incentives, Hollywood will leave."
Filmmaker Rob Carliner is not so sure. If New Mexico, a destination for numerous film and TV productions, cuts its program, he told TheWrap, “there will be a domino effect all over.” And without tax incentives, he said, "there is no independent movie business." | <urn:uuid:faf18847-9bd9-4456-b5e8-dd776c473b91> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thewrap.com/media/article/film-tax-incentives-24458 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00026-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966363 | 1,209 | 1.570313 | 2 |
THIS MONTH'S ISSUE:
Health Care on Main
A 70-year-old rancher whose family has worked the same land for 150 years is diagnosed with possible coronary artery disease. The nearest acute-care hospital is 200 miles away. The ranchers problem is highly treatable but will involve several tests, possible surgery and continuing medication.
He tells the family doctor that he has no medical insurance nor anything to sell to pay for extensive medical care. He does not wish to pursue treatment or discuss options with his wife. His primary concern is to preserve the ranch land for future generations.
If I ransom this place to pay for a heart, he says, there wont be much left for anyone to live for.
The doctor, a close family friend, is left to sort out a tangle of ethical questions: Does his patient have enough information about his condition to make a fully informed decision? What are the doctors obligations, if any, to the patients family? How far can he go to persuade his patient to seek further treatment? Respect for patient autonomy is put into direct conflict with questions of cost, competency and doctor-patient trust.
The hypothetical case study outlined above is part of a new manual being developed by Ann Cook and Helena Hoas of the High Mountains High Plains Rural Bioethics Project at UMs Rural Institute on Disabilities. Its purpose is to help staff in rural hospitals address ethical questions that arise when distances to health care are great; financial, medical and personnel resources are scarce; and the tight-knit social fabric of small, scattered communities means that privacy, confidentiality and objectivity are difficult to maintain.
Health-care providers in rural communities encounter these types of bioethical dilemmas all the time, project director Ann Cook says. But so far little research has been done on how they might best be resolved in such settings.
Filling the gap
From their analysis of 123 surveys representing about 56 percent of hospitals in the area the researchers are developing and evaluating specially tailored bioethics materials, including bibliographies, case studies, how-to worksheets and summaries of pertinent legal and legislative issues. They hope to identify the tools most useful in rural settings and create a sustainable resource network for staff and community education.
The project began in January 1998 with a three-year, $270,000 research grant from the Charles E. Culpeper Foundation, the first such grant ever awarded in Montana. Cook expects the first phase of the project to end soon and a revised version of the manual to be distributed to all participating hospitals early next year.
She says that hospitals throughout the study area are eager for information to help them cope with dilemmas arising from patients cost concerns, managed care requirements, and new regulations about the procurement and allocation of transplant organs.
Cook and Hoas received advice on the project from established bioethics centers around the country hungry for information from rural areas and are working closely with regional entities such as the North Dakota Medical Association. The Rural Bioethics Project has become part of a national consortium that shares information from around the country and compares how medical- ethics decisions are made in rural regions with different social, cultural, and economic histories.
Rural vs. urban
They just dont have the time or staff to devote to it, she says.
Rural hospitals tend to be very small 80 percent of those surveyed have 50 or fewer beds with a limited nursing staff and sometimes only one or two attending physicians. Primary care is the main focus; specialists are rare. Many rural hospitals provide both acute and long-term care in the same facility, compounding the types of ethical issues staff must handle.
And, as percentages, rural hospitals often handle more older, poorer and disabled patients many of whom are uninsured or underinsured than their urban counterparts. In some areas of the country, too, differences between Native American attitudes toward medicine and the standard Western tradition also may lead to unique ethical debates.
In small communities, Cook says, patients and health-care providers inevitably know each other outside the boundaries of a professional practice to a degree that makes objectivity and confidentiality difficult.
Familiarity may be a concern in urban hospitals, she says, but it is pervasive in rural settings.
Distance to care is another factor frequently leading to ethical quandaries in rural hospitals. When serious complications develop, patients may need to transfer to a larger hospital far away where specialized care is available. Yet many are reluctant to seek needed services. They worry about the price of care and the risk of losing social supports at home. And while cost-saving measures such as early discharges may inconvenience city patients who live minutes away from a medical center, for patients who live 20 miles down an unpaved road and 70 or 100 miles from the nearest hospital, the consequences can be devastating, Cook says.
On the other hand, patient transfers also can jeopardize the financial well-being of rural hospitals.
The ethics of cost containment is a very real issue because if rural hospitals close, important jobs are lost and medical care becomes even more inaccessible, Cook says.
Over the next two years, the Rural Bioethics Project will focus on developing the tools to help hospital staff address ethical questions surrounding end-of-life care, patient autonomy and competence, and physician-patient trust the areas cited most often by survey respondents as causing debate.
Cook and Hoas also are exploring the use of distance-learning technologies to link hospitals to remote resources and conducting more research on how rural health-care providers identify ethical issues and use the projects materials.
The researchers have been invited to present the results of their work so far at several bioethics conferences, including the National Conference on Organization Ethics and Health Care at the University of Virginia and the Regional Conference on Medical Ethics in Grand Forks, N. D. | <urn:uuid:01c1ae17-dad5-42e5-b0fe-71a4170f7043> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www2.umt.edu/urelations/rview/1298/health.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00026-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950045 | 1,186 | 2.453125 | 2 |
“The GIF is an image format from the early days of the interweb that was designed to support animation by stringing together multiple images into one compressed format–kind of like stop-motion animation. This was quite useful in the days before Flash and HTML 5, and now it is seeing a resurgence as an art form and a way to create stuff like avatars for our social networks.
Here are the top reasons I loved watching the Google Hangout with Jared:
1. He is an expert on GIFs (and cats)
2. He has an awesome moustache
3. His presentation was a perfect example of one of my favorite maker ethos: not being mere consumers of our world, but learning how the things we consume are actually made, and then making them yourself!
If you enjoyed Maker Camp yesterday and want more GIF-y goodness, you’re in luck! Photographer, photo-hacker, Maker Faire Learn-to-Solder alum, and all-around awesome person Shalaco Sching put together this great GIF tutorial (with loads of fun animations). Check it out, play around, and be sure to share your results on our MAKE Google+ page! | <urn:uuid:617b0f1b-9fd5-4741-a069-e50a5fb1ed64> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.makezine.com/2012/07/18/choosy-photographers-choose-gif/?like=1&source=post_flair&_wpnonce=134bd2d71b | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00022-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939239 | 245 | 1.789063 | 2 |
Recently married Victoire Vernet has followed her gendarme husband to Egypt where they are both camped near Cairo after the French victory over the Mamluks in the battle of the Pyramids (July 1798). When her husband is wrongly accused of theft and murder, Victoire sets out to clear his name and save his career. Defying the proper role required of the obedient military wife, she flaunts convention in her investigation by managing to cross the Western desert, boat down the Nile, wander through extremely dangerous Cairo, and, in disguise, enter the Pashas palace. In the process, she uncovers an insidious conspiracy to assassinate Napoleon himself.
The plot makes much of the oppressively narrow social restrictions on both French and Egyptian women. Victoire must overcome fears of potential kidnapping into white slavery when she ventures beyond the protection of the military camp. Upper class Egyptian women are secluded, and veiled outside their homes. Both European and Arab males agree that, There are a few things women must do: they must be mothers, and they must obey the will of their fathers and husbands. Anything else is unnatural. This attitude reflects both the regressive status of post-Revolution French women, enshrined in the harshly patriarchal Napoleonic Code, and the conservative Egyptian reaction to French imperialism.
One of two of the books authors, Bill Fawcett, is a Napoleanic-era history buff. His contribution provides excellent details of the unsavory, unsanitary conditions in the military camp and Egyptian villages. He provides interesting details of the destruction of the French fleet by Nelson in Aboukir Bay and the failed French siege of Acre. The story, however, provides little information about women beyond the sometimes overly relentless male admonitions. Victoire never has even one encounter with her female peers while at camp, and the reader meets only one young relatively well educated upper class Egyptian woman. A more sensitive portrayal of the full range of female experiences would have been welcome.
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The Rule of Five: A Simple Guideline for Effective Training
Ever have one of those conversations where after someone says something you just know it’s going to have a ripple effect onto everything else you do? That the one thing they mention is actually so all-powerful that it can be adapted to suit many, many purposes? I had one of those talks with a client last week.
This particular client is a really interesting guy. While a relative novice to fitness and lifting, he is a very smart guy and has an extensive background in art and philosophy. My knowledge of both pretty much stops with knowing that Socrates was a clever guy who liked to wear a sheet.
We were talking about how people take things and misinterpret them. The particular saying we were focused on was, “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” He believes that not to be true and that it is a modern interpretation of a much older saying that says that “bad company corrupts good character,” which is actually from 1 Corinthians in the Bible.
But then it really went deep.
He explained to me how he saw our five friends as our senses and that we should only allow our senses to be met with high quality substance. Our eyes should watch theater and view art and performances. We should taste only good quality, natural foods. We should listen to classical music. Our sense of smell, he said, dictates that we should be in a clean environment and look after ourselves. And touch related to quality movement.
I’m not going to get all philosophical on you – I only wear sheets at parties - but I am going to take this concept and run with it a bit. I started to look at where else these “rules of five” could be used in the gym and what I’ve seen over the last few days is like a functional training guide. Many people have written extensively about the basic human movements of push, pull, hinge, squat, and gait. But people still are able to take these ideas and ruin them by thinking they need four different push exercises to blitz and bomb their inner pecs.
Breaking strength training down into five parts, once I’d done it, was easy. Here they are:
- Quick lifts
For example, if we select the push category most will know that bench press belongs there. That’s a grind lift. But what are our other exercises for the four categories?
- Quick – push press or jerks
- Grind – all types of pressing whether it be bench or military and any variation
- Linking – the get up (as it has both an open chain push component overhead and a closed chain component in the support hand)
- Single-sided – can be either a quick lift or grind and kettlebells work well here, although can also be one arm push-ups or even weighted throws like shot put. The single-sided exercises are a great way to introduce “core training” into strength work with exercises like the single-arm bench press, just as Paul Chek advocated almost twenty years ago.
- Movement – crawling
If I chose a pull instead, my options are as follows:
- Quick – any of the Olympic lifts
- Grinds – pull ups, chin ups, rows
- Linking – pulling a sled
- Single-sided – again kettlebells work well here and movements like the snatch as well as dumbbell rows (and these can be turbo-charged by removing stability, e.g. not using a hand to balance, removing one foot from the ground)
- Movement – either climbing or swimming.
To me this makes planning for athletes very, very easy. At the start of the year we focus on the grind lifts as they help develop that base strength we need to really develop high degrees of speed and performance closer to the season or an event. As we get closer and closer we focus on quick lifts, linking drills, and movement – the real cement of athletic performance.
I’m sure you’ve all seen guys get into the ring who look like they could crush their opponent with their bare hands yet by the end of the third round they’re gasping for air like a fish out of water, or worse, they’re already flat on their back and the fight is over, defeated by someone who looks far less impressive. What is the defining quality of a great athlete? The ability to link their gym built strength into game speed. The old saying, if you train slowly you go slowly, is true and skipping the other four elements of the rule of five will see you suffer at game time.
My first recommendation if you’re thinking about trying this is to look at your training now and see which of the five you’re currently doing. For many there will be an over-emphasis on the grind lifts. Try adding in a two-week block of quick lifts and some linking movements and see what happens to your performance. Even better, test out the result on the movement that relates to those exercises. Give it a try, I think you’ll be very surprised as well as have a better way to map out your training over long periods without needing complicated periodization plans and percentage tables.
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Bobbing For Apples
Submitted by LeslieAn old favorite. Put apples in a large bucket and let your kids try to get them out with their mouths. (Tip: Use real small apples or apple slices for smaller children because their mouths can not pick up a full size apple)
Who has the Alligator?
Submitted by JulieCut out a Alligator shape. Have everyone close their eyes while you give one child a the cut out. Then have your children guess who has the Alligator
Feed the Alligator
Submitted by an Unknown FriendDraw a large Alligator face on a piece of poster board or the side of a box. Cut a hole out where the Alligator's mouth would be and add paper teeth (make it at least twice the size of the beanbag). Tape the board to a chair and let each of your children take three tries to feed the Alligator (by throwing a beanbag into the Alligator's mouth)
Submitted by an Unknown FriendCut out apples of green, yellow, and red. Put corresponding apples on a manilla folder. Have your children match the apples.
Pass the Apple
Submitted by KarenPlay just like Hot Potato. The children pass an apple until the music stops. Who ever is holding it when the music stops is sent to the apple patch (the center of the circle)
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A Qassam rocket fired from the Gaza Strip today made a direct hit on a house in Kibbutz Karmiya. The rocket crashed through the roof and exploded in the bedroom of an 8-month-old baby Zionist girl.
Fortunately, the child's mother had heard the incoming-rocket warning siren and grabbed the baby from her crib and ran with her to a safer part of the house. Houses on this kibbutz have no reinforced "safe rooms". Three members of the same family - a grandmother, the mother, and the baby - were taken to the hospital for medical treatment. (The picture at right shows the effect on the Zionist crib.)
Yesterday a student at Sderot's Sapir College suffered light injuries when another Qassam from Gaza crashed into the grounds of the college campus. And yet another Qassam landed near a Sderot school on Sunday, causing damage to property but fortunately no injuries.
The Islamic Jihad terror organization claimed responsibility for the rocket fire. Haaretz reports that very shortly afterwards, an Israel Air Force strike elminated two Islamic Jihad terrorists in Beit Hanoun, the town in the northern part of the Gaza Strip from which many of the terror rockets are fired. Palestinian sources quoted in Yediot confirm two Islamic Jihad gunmen were killed and four others injured.
How did the world's media cover the attack on innocent civilians? Google News tells us. The near-disaster in the kibbutz bedroom is reported by the Jerusalem Post and Haaretz; words, no pictures. Non-Israeli media coverage? Nil.
The deaths of the Islamic Jihadists? Associated Press has this and four other pictures just like it. Funerals of dead Palestinians are their own justification in the eyes of many editors. The context is immaterial. That these recently-dead men were cold-blooded fanatical killers is of zero interest to the people who bring us the news. | <urn:uuid:2f1a5b8d-0dd6-4add-80f6-04b4476b7122> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thisongoingwar.blogspot.com/2007/07/24-jul-07-and-on-it-goes.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00055-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958589 | 395 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Abortion advocates are getting bolder in their outlandish opinions on what constitutes a personal right of “choice.” Writing recently on the popular pro-abortion website RH Reality Check, bloggers Susan Yanow and Steph Herold went to bat for a 20-year-old New York City woman who was arrested and charged with inducing her own abortion — then disposing of the baby’s body in the trash.
A week after Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius (left) overruled the FDA’s approval of giving minors access to the Plan B abortion pill, a federal judge is preparng to hear arguments in a suit, filed over a year ago, that may trump the decision of Sebelius.
Pro-abortion groups expressed their anger over a decision by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius (left) to keep the abortion pill Plan B from being sold over the counter to individuals under 17 years of age. Sebelius’ decision overruled an earlier decision by the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which was “preparing to let the pill be sold without a prescription or age limit,” reported the Associated Press. Currently the pill, which pro-life leaders say can cause an abortion in women who have conceived, is only available over-the-counter to women over 17.
Regions Hospital in St. Paul, Minnesota, has announced that it will cease performing abortions in December, becoming the first abortion clinic to close in the state in two decades. The Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported that “Regions is the last remaining hospital in the Twin Cities area that performs elective abortions…. Last year it performed 545 abortions, down from 902 a decade earlier.”
The decision by social workers in Cleveland, Ohio, to take a 200-pound third grader away from his mother and place him in foster care is raising concerns about how much power county and state social service agencies have to interfere in the lives of families.
A month after a similar amendment was rejected by voters in Mississippi, pro-life leaders in Colorado have announced that they will work to place a proposed “personhood” amendment on the ballot in their state. The amendment, which has already failed twice in the state, is meant to “protect every child, no matter their age, race, gender, location, or size,” explained Keith Mason, president of Personhood USA, the Colorado group behind personhood amendment efforts in a number of states.
In a deep bow to the homosexual lobby, a small army of Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives has introduced legislation that would extend employee benefits to the same-sex partners of federal workers. Under H.R. 3485, homosexual partners of federal employees would be eligible for such benefits as retirement, life insurance, health insurance, workers compensation, and death benefits.
A new study by the Family Research Council has found that only 46 percent of children in the United States will reach the age of 17 living in intact homes with married biological parents.
The teen birth rate reached a historic low in 2010, and while abstinence proponents say the drop is encouraging, they note another CDC report that shows climbing rates of sexually transmitted disease among young people.
Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee overwhelming approved a bill that would overturn the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), the federal law that defines marriage for federal purposes as only between a man and a woman. The 10-8 vote in favor of the Respect for Marriage Act, sponsored by Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif., left), marks the first time a committee in either the Senate or the House has voted to repeal the 17-year-old law, and represents a major step toward federal approval of homosexual marriage. | <urn:uuid:7bc7b915-c193-4bb9-9bb0-e0316c480c7a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/health-care/itemlist/user/58-davebohon?start=820 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00024-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957341 | 769 | 1.648438 | 2 |
The Obama administration has responded coolly to overtures by Cuba’s communist authorities.
State Department Assistant Secretary Mike Hammer said that while Washington was willing to engage the regime, the government should first respect Cubans’ human rights.
“This administration has repeatedly stated that the US government is open to forging a new relationship with Cuba, but Castro’s government must begin by allowing the Cuban people to exercise their human rights and determine their future,” Hammer told a press conference.
He also condemned the “despicable” arrests of democracy activists during the funeral of Oswaldo Payá (left), one of the island’s most celebrated dissidents.
“Our message is very clear to the Castro government… that they need to begin to allow the political freedoms that the Cuban people demands,” Mr Hammer added.
The communist authorities targeted Payá because he “crossed a red line in challenging the government’s relations with the church, which had become a pillar of the government’s strategy of survival…. at a time when the regime, emboldened by the cardinal’s silence at the mass arrests during the pope’s visit to Cuba in March, was not about to tolerate criticism,” said Carl Gershman, president of the National Endowment for Democracy.
The regime’s political credentials were on display at this week’s celebration to mark the raid on Moncada barracks, a turning point in the Cuban revolution.
“We will be like Che,’” said first vice-president José Ramón Machado Ventura, repeating a slogan drummed into Cuban schoolchildren.
“The cult of Ernesto Che Guevara is an episode in the moral callousness of our time. Che was a totalitarian. He achieved nothing but disaster,” noted left-leaning analyst Paul Berman. | <urn:uuid:5ad0e7d0-16dc-4a1a-a5eb-ac3629cfa1ce> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2012/07/rights-before-dialog-us-tells-cuba/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955775 | 392 | 2 | 2 |
Setting Up A Corporation
Setting Up A Corporation
Chas Rampenthal (Attorney-at-Law) gives expert video advice on: How do I issue stock in my corporation? and more...
Are there restrictions as to what I can name my corporation?
Just like any other legal entity, every state has restrictions on what you can name it and most of those come from a few different areas. Number one would be you can't name anything where there's a name that's confusingly similar or exactly similar to a name of another corporation that's out there. You can always check that out by taking and reserving the name in advance or having someone do a name check first. Additionally, corporations, states like you to identify them by placing something after the name of the company. Typically it's I N C, Inc. or it's incorporated or corporation or company or corp. or some combination of that, either with or without a comma. What that does is it really identifies to individuals when you put it on a business card or on a website or on a contract that they're dealing with an entity and not with you personally. Also, many states have other regulations that would prevent you from naming a company like a bank or naming it a trust company or naming it 'Police' or naming it, you know, like the 'Federal Bureau of Investigations' or, you know, even if it's something that isn't taken in your state they don't want anything that's going to, kind of confuse you with a government entity or make people think that you might be a bank when you're not an actual bank.
What are a corporation's "articles of incorporation"?
The articles of incorporation are the formation documents; the essence, the beginning of the charter of a company. In the same way that the articles of organisation (or certificate of organisation, depending on your state) are the things that start a limited liability company, the articles or certificate of incorporation are what start up or give birth to the legal entity; your corporation. Every state's law varies as to what's required from the articles of incorporation. Many states have forms they use that delineate exactly what information what needs to go in there. So each state has their own laws, and following those, and complying with them, will give you the proper articles of incorporation and enable you start up your legal business.
What are my corporate "bylaws"?
Corporate bylaws are very similar to how the business is going to be conducted. It's very similar to an operating agreement of a limited liability company, but not nearly as detailed. Corporate bylaws set out and delineate how the directors and officers and the shareholders of the company are going to meet, how they're going to conduct business, how they'll be elected or removed from office and what the duties of certain officers are going to be. The corporate bylaws are really the document along with the articles of incorporation that set out the charter of the company. Those two documents together are like the initial building blocks for a company.
How are corporate bylaws adopted?
Bylaws are adopted generally, if you have an incorporator that sets up the business, a lot of times, the incorporator in the very first meeting will just adopt the bylaws that have been set forth. Additionally the shareholders or directors could adopt the bylaws, depending on what your bylaws say, because it depends on the state and on what your bylaws say. However the bylaws can be amended or adopted, usually it's by a majority of the shares, the shareholders can change the bylaws, or they can adopt new bylaws, or amend them, or restate them in any way. But initially, the very first set of bylaws, typically chosen by the incorporator or the shareholders in the company.
What must corporate directors do in their first meeting?
It really does depend, and I kind of hate that answer, and as a lawyer it's an answer I tend to give a lot. It depends on A: What have you done in the past that you might need to memorialize in your very first meeting minute, what you intend to do in the immediate future, what you are doing right now, and what has been done by the incorporator. So if the incorporator has already elected directors, and the incorporator has already adopted bylaws, you don't need to redo those things over again. However, if you have been running a business before you had incorporated it, and you had signed a very big, major contract with a supplier or a vendor, you might want to ratify that contract. Additionally you might want to set out the corporate bank account and authorize it, ratify any employment agreements, identify what the corporation's fiscal year is going to be, how accounting is going to be done. I mean, they're pretty endless. And what it really comes down to is you should take a look at A: Common sense -- what things do I know I need to do, and let's put those in there, and then I would always suggest talking to a legal professional -- an attorney, typically -- who would have some ideas of some other things that you might want to include in there, and if you ever have a doubt as to whether or not there is something you need to ratify, or not ratify, whether it's in a first meeting, or any meeting, an attorney would be the person who would give you that answer.
What type of bank account does my corporation require?
Well, most personal banks have personal and business services. It does definitely depend on your bank. Some banks don't really do a lot of business banking. You just need to find a bank that does provide personal business banking. You'll need to go to that bank and find out exactly what it is that they require. Typically, what a bank will require is usually three things. Number one, they're going to need a tax ID or an EIN, an employer identification number. Number two, they're going to need a legitimate member or officer or director of the corporation or limited liability company, someone who's authorized to open up the account and be a signatory for it. And then number three, a lot of times they're going to want a resolution. And that is one of the resolutions that the board would adopt that says it's OK to open up that bank account. And most of the time, a bank, when you open it up, will give you a form of resolution, and all you have to do is fill it in with the name of your company and the date that you did it. This can be done and ratified and just attached to meeting minutes that you have at your next board of directors meeting. Typically, at a very first meeting, I would state that we have the ability to open a bank account. For instance, if I knew what bank it was, I might mention it, and I would say that we have the ability and that any officer, proper officer or director, has the ability to go in and sign any paperwork on behalf of the company to make that happen. So the second signing of it doesn't require a whole another meeting. You would just go ahead and attach it and say, "This was the thing that we signed." And that makes it up and on the level, and it allows you to work a lot faster when it comes to dealing with the bank.
After the articles of incorporation, will additional documents be required?
Every states different, and you should obviously check with your states laws on what documents you want to file. In addition to the articles and, the bylaws don't need to necessarily be followed, but in addition to your articles of incorporation, in any business permits or tax exempt status, or state tax sellers, resellers permits that you might want to do, you should always think about your federal and state's securities laws. So a lot of times if you issue securities in a company you might have to make a record of that and alert your state that you've issued securities in a company, so anytime that you have issued stock, that is what's called, that's a security, or any time you issue out a loan that someone can convert into stock, that's a security, and you need to check your states laws and also the federal laws, as to whether or not that security is exempt from registration, and if it is exempt, then usually there's a small filing and sometimes a fee that you have to pay that lets the state know that that's an unregistered security that didn't need to be registered, but it's out there and its been issued.
What happens if I don't file my S corporation election on time?
All is not lost, and there is a way, through the IRS's website, and I would definitely say that you should go there, www.irs.gov, and take a look at "late S-corp election filing". The rules are that if you would otherwise meet the qualifications for filing an S-corp, but have not filed your taxes yet (providing you have some sort of reason why you forgot to file it), you file it on a particular form and there's a rule that you can go to, and all of the directions are right there on the IRS's website. Most of the time, you can actually request it late, and it will still be retroactive to the date that your corporation started or that fiscal year. Again, it's not a guarantee, but it's probably about the best shot that you have. | <urn:uuid:368ec659-af3d-48c9-8368-fc319754be36> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.videojug.com/interview/setting-up-a-corporation | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00044-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976092 | 1,951 | 2.34375 | 2 |
infectious disease expert
Most pediatricians and other doctors who treat children try hard to keep up with vaccine information, so your child's doctor is probably the best place to start.
Other places to go for information on both sides of the vaccine debate:
Every Child by Two is a group dedicated to providing up-to-date information about vaccinations so that as many children as possible will receive their full course of vaccinations in their first two years of life.
The American Academy of Pediatrics website has a designated Immunization section that provides the current immunization schedule, as well as information about vaccine safety and answers to frequently asked questions about vaccinations.
Immunization Action Coalition provides information for healthcare professionals as well as the public. This is a good place to read about specific diseases and vaccines as well as topics like vaccine shortages and pregnancy and immunization.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website offers extensive information, from recommendations for particular vaccines to general discussions of vaccine safety and effectiveness. This site deals with controversial topics in a straightforward manner.
A site affiliated with the American Academy of Pediatrics and other professional health organizations, the National Network for Immunization Information, offers clear explanations of science-based information, as well as printable vaccine schedules and fact sheets.
The website for the Vaccine Education Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia contains accurate, up-to-date information about vaccines.
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Vaccinations (2009), by Michael Joseph Smith and Laurie Bouck, is an excellent book on the topic. It provides a balanced look at the pros and cons.
The goal of my newest book on immunizations, Vaccines and Your Child: Separating Fact from Fiction (January/February 2011), is to put the fear of vaccines in perspective.
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[Don't stop the clock] is doing some work with a projector, a camera, and the Kinect. What he’s accomplished is quite impressive, combining the three to manipulate light with your body. The image above is a safer rendition of the Hadouken from the Street Fighter video games, throwing light across the room instead of fire. This comes at the end of the video after the break, but first he’ll show off the core features of the system. You can hold up your hand and wave it to turn it into a light source. In other words, the projector will shine light on your hand, moving it, and manipulating the intensity based on hand location in 3D space. Since the Kinect is sending fairly precise data back to the computer the projected image is trimmed to match your hand and arm without overflowing onto the rest of the room until you touch your hand to a surface you want illuminated or throw the light source with a flick or the wrist. It may seem trivial at first glance, but we find the alignment of the projector and the speed at which the image updates to be quite impressive. | <urn:uuid:0e3ba8c0-5ea8-4205-b254-5f5b62990d83> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://hackaday.com/2011/01/19/projector-tricks-make-use-of-kinect-3d-mapping/?like=1&source=post_flair&_wpnonce=f5309b4960 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00023-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941419 | 226 | 1.929688 | 2 |
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Diabetes mellitus is a condition that affects how much insulin is made or used by the body. Insulin is a hormone produced by the pancreas that allows the sugar from our food to enter the cells and be used for energy. Without this vital hormone, sugar is unable to enter the cells and remains in the blood stream, resulting in hyperglycemia. This video is a brief introduction to the basics of diabetes and how this condition can affect your health. Watch the complete clip to learn more.
When not managed properly, diabetes can cause damage to almost every organ and tissue in the body. If you have recently been diagnosed with diabetes, call the Southern Hills Hospital & Medical Center Consult-A-Nurse healthcare referral line at (702) 880-2700 today. Our nurses can help you to find an experienced and compassionate diabetes specialist near you.
Southern Hills Hospital has the best staff ever! So far I have had two major surgeries performed at this hospital and both times have been remarkable experiences. The staff that works there are very competent and sincere in what they do. I delivered my son there in March 2012 and the nurses who worked in the labor and delivery room made me...More
Many men and women support the idea of organ donation, but are misinformed about the process and do not register. In this video from OrganDonor.gov, you can learn more about how simple the registration process is and how many lives you can save with your enrollment.
Signing up as an organ and tissue donor can provide a recipient with a second chance at a normal and active life. If you are interested in learning more about enrolling as a donor in your state or if you simply want to find out more about the transplantation process, visit OrganDonor.gov or contact Southern Hills Hospital & Medical Center at (702) 880-2700.
Join the Teachers Health Trust for a free Diabetes Day hosted at Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center. Learn more about how diabetes affects your heart, vision, circulation and health. Educational booths will feature experts on diabetes, stroke, hearts, osteoporosis, breast cancer and wound care. Plus screenings for blood pressure, bone density, blood glucose, vision and more.
Saturday, May 19, 2012
9 a.m. to Noon
Sunrise Hospital Auditorium
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Civil and environmental engineers make modern life possible. They work on planning, design, construction and maintenance of projects such as skyscrapers, motorways, bridges, tunnels and dams.
Expanding populations and growing economies fuel the demand for major construction and design projects and the civil and environmental engineering job market will yield opportunities both nationally and internationally.
A bachelors degree in civil and environmental engineering from The University of Auckland will help prepare you for a future career in an engineering discipline that is expanding and changing in response to the world in which we live.
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Updated on 28 November 2012
ASTAR technology transfer arm ETPL earmarks 5 hotspots to boost innovation pipeline in Singapore
Singapore: ETPL, the technology transfer arm of A*STAR, has earmarked five innovation clusters or hotspots aimed at strengthening Singapore's research and business ecosystem. Its goal is to drive a consistent pipeline of technologies for commercialization as well as build clusters of industries around these hotspots.
Spanning both the biomedical science and engineering sectors, the focus areas include, diagnostics, anti-microbials, and bio-imaging among others. These areas were selected based on market potential as well as the strength and leadership of A*STAR's research in those areas. Patent strength in technologies that support the hotspots was also a factor, along with the speed at which each hotspot is likely to mature, deliver results, and reach leadership position.
"Technology transfer isn't just about numbers and revenue," said ETPL CEO Mr Philip Lim. "ETPL's role includes creating new jobs, transforming industry and giving Singapore businesses a competitive edge. The world beyond 2012 will rely increasingly on ecosystems of partnership for success. Moving ahead, we will continue our focus on integrative industry engagement and look to becoming international in our outlook as well as commandeering industry leadership for all technology transfer services."
ETPL, which was set up in January 2002 to commercialize the outcomes of A*STAR's research institutes and to consolidate the research organisation's patent portfolio, today manages more than 3,500 active patents and applications, has granted more than 400 licences for A*STAR technologies, with expected revenues of more than $500 million, has spun off more than 40 start-ups, and serves diverse industries including biotechnology, ICT, manufacturing and shipping among others.
In 2011 alone, ETPL achieved 40 percent of its five-year targets for licences as well as realized imputed commercial value, defined as the revenue that the licensee is expected to generate from incorporating the technology. Its patent utilization rate tripled year-on-year and it saw double-digit growth in the number of A*STAR start-ups. | <urn:uuid:98333517-eadf-483b-9a48-57217bc1e0b3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.biospectrumasia.com/biospectrum/news/122450/a-star-earmarks-hotspots-boost-r-d-pipeline | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960464 | 433 | 1.585938 | 2 |
Graves High sends 6 to All-State Bands at KMEA | Schools
GRAVES COUNTY, KY (KFVS) - Graves County High School sent six band students to play in the All-State Honor Bands in early February at the Kentucky Music Educators Association’s annual meeting in Louisville.
They were selected for and participated in the All-District Symphonic Band last fall. District officials then recommended the students to audition for a prestigious musical group comprised of the top student-musicians from across Kentucky.
"To have six students from Graves County make an All-State Honor Band is a huge deal for those students and our program," said Graves County band director Jeff Williams. "It’s one of the highest honors a band student can achieve in Kentucky."
The six Graves County members of the 2013 All-State Bands are pictured here.
They include, from left, Zach Smith, trombone, first chair, orchestra; Todd Shiflett, percussion, second chair, symphonic band; Robert Cagle, French horn, eighth chair, symphonic band; Chris Rice, trumpet, twelfth chair, symphonic band; Mitchell Rollins, alto saxophone, second chair, symphonic band; and Hunter Moffitt, trombone, second chair, jazz band.
Smith is the first Graves County Student to earn All-State honors for all four years of high school.
Moffitt is the first Graves County student to qualify for the All-State Jazz Band.
Ellis Shelby, Craig Fuqua, and Jeff Williams direct the Graves County elementary, middle and high school bands, respectively, with assistance from percussion instructor Shane Melvin.
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Carolyn Vachani, MSN, RN, AOCN
Last Modified: October 7, 2002
Catherine DeAngelis, MD, Editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, gave a keynote speech entitled "Conflicts of Interest In Science" at the 44th annual meeting of the American Society Of Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology. Her experiences as editor of the most circulated medical journal have given her a unique perspective on this hotly contested issue. She began by reminding the audience, consisting of mostly physicians, that they are afforded a certain level of respect from the public, whether or not it is deserved.
The pharmaceutical industry has long been a partner with physicians involved in clinical research. This partnership is a necessary one, with over 50 billion dollars in research funding coming from the pharmaceutical industry in 2001. This compares with 27 billion from government funding, 7.5 billion from foundations, and 12 billion from biotech companies. Over 90% of all clinical trials in this country are funded by the pharmaceutical industry. Obviously, without this partnership, numerous advances in treatments would not be possible, but this is not without concerns.
Industry has increased its promotional funding from 6.54 billion in 1996 to 12 billion in 2002. Direct-to-consumer advertising has risen most substantially from 700 million to 2.8 billion. Funding for events (i.e., dinners, sporting events, etc.) has increased from 0.9 billion to 1.9 billion over the same time frame. In addition, the pharmaceutical industry is the largest lobbying effort in Washington, with over 221 million in political spending in 2001. Dr. DeAngelis stated, "This spending arouses public concerns and threatens the credibility of biomedical research and ultimately our practice". In addition, the financial interests of academic institutions may raise concerns. Academic institutions have more patents pending than the top 25 firms and the biotech industries combined, and are highly involved in genomic research and patents.
Dr. DeAngelis used the phrase "you see it when you believe it" to describe the possibility for biases in research. She referred to a survey published in JAMA (Blumenthal, JAMA, 1997), including 2167 faculty members, of which 19.8% reported delaying publication of a study for more than six months for proprietary needs. She also referred to a study comparing synthroid to its generic counterpart (Dong, JAMA, 1997), whose publication was delayed more than three years, allowing the company to gain millions of dollars in sales. Dr. DeAngelis reported several other cases in which she was deceived or threatened with law suits for refusing to publish a study, or publishing unfavorable data, as the editor of JAMA. Dr. DeAngelis reminded the group that even sophisticated, apparently well-done trials are open to the perception of unacceptable influences by the for-profit funder.
In response to these incidents, the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, which includes 150 editors, put together the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals. This document has undergone multiple revisions over the years to address ongoing concerns. Over 500 journals use the guidelines, and state in their instructions to authors that their requirements are in accordance with the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals.
Recent additions to the guidelines include a statement, to be signed by authors, requiring that they have full access to the data, and that they accept responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis. In addition, authors provide financial disclosure.
When held to ethical standards, the partnerships between the pharmaceutical industry and researchers can provide amazing advances in the care of our patients. Dr. DeAngelis concluded by stating "we must work together to assure that our patients are best served", a goal that must be kept in mind by both partners.
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Russian office of WCS practices catching Amur tigers with so-called "ALDRICH type loops" in scientific purposes. According to a scientific paper by biologists S.Kolchin and P. Maistrenko, this method deals fatal harm to animals and provoke conflicts with humans.
Aldrich loops inflict terrible wounds to the animal, making it impossible for them to hunt. Tigers also break their claws trying to get out of the trap.
Being unable to hunt anymore, tiger faces emaciation. It may have to attack human just to feed itself.
This is what happened to an Amur tiger named Ivan, who got captured by WCS with an Aldrich loop 27.10.09. 15.10.10 he attacked a human and was shot down. Ivan had serious wounds on his paw, he also was utterly exhausted.
This issue is not the only one: you can learn more in the paper (http://bigcats-ru.livejournal.com/123531.html).
Besides, Aldrich loops are dangerous for other animals. The catching of hoofed animals by these loops often results in breaking the leg with muscle rupture and hence, the inevitable death.
Please help to ban the usage of Aldrich loops in Russian reserves.
We, the undersigned, ask you to ban the usage of Aldrich loops in Russian reserves.
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When thinking of Quidditch, many don’t believe this fictional sport could get competitive. But Quidditch is much more grueling and demanding than one would think.
“Quidditch is a unique sport,” Eliott Bryson, president of the Quidditch team at Penn State, said. “It’s hard to pick up on, there’s nothing else really like Quidditch.”
The sport forces its players to be able to integrate several sports collectively into one. Michael Parada, the team’s captain, said Quidditch is a combination of handball, rugby and dodgeball.
The combination of these three “intense” sports makes the game not only challenging, but difficult to grasp and dangerous, Bryson (junior-finance) said.
“I got a concussion during a speed drill,” he said. “I had to go to the emergency room and had to stop playing for a couple of weeks.”
The challenging activity causes injuries in many of its players, he added.
“A girl collided with another player and had to get stitches on her eyebrow,” Bryson said.
But the brutality of the sport does not seem to affect the players “other than the occasional twisted ankle and broken finger,” Bryson said.
The team is not only tough on the field, but extremely competitive to be a part of, Parada (senior-electrical engineering) said. Out of 60 participants who love the sport, only 21 members are selected to play in the tournaments.
Parada said being picked for Quidditch’s elite is no easy task.
“It’s pretty hard since it’s divided into four subdivisions, it’s competitive to get in to the top three spots,” he said.
The dedication accounts for the intensity of the game, Kelly Gambocurta, a co-captain said.
“We practice three times a week, two hours each day,” she said.
Add to that weekly weight lifting, Gambocurta said, and the Quidditch team transforms into a not-so underrated group.
But the game isn’t just comprised of injuries, competition and brutal battles against a deadly opponent — fun is to be had while playing the magical game.
Along with playing with friends and combining three different sports, the team plays the game not for the challenge, not for the competition, not even for the title, but for fun, the players said.
The sport even led Parada to the Olympics.
Twenty-three Quidditch players were selected to be on a team to compete in the Quidditch Olympics, one from each region in the United States. Eleven of the players were selected solely on the level of skill. The rest were chosen based on their dedication, leadership and reputation within the sport.
But aside from the technicality of the competitive Olympic slot, the experience was worthwhile, Parada said.
“It was a lot of fun, one of the best experiences to date, it was really cool seeing all these kids from all over the country,” Parada said. “It really shows you how big the sport is getting.”
The bond that Parada describes he made is one that is incomparable and coveted by most.
But the camaraderie that he experienced with fellow Olympians doesn’t overshadow his desire to win, he said.
Parada said there is friendly competition with James Hicks, an Olympic teammate, who he faced at the Turtle Cup on Oct. 14 at the University of Maryland.
“He’s a big guy, his set up, his offense,” Parada said. “But I know what he’s capable of and he knows what I’m capable of.”
Among the challenges, turmoil and joys of Quidditch, the predominant sentiment the players said they felt toward Quidditch is passion. From the moment the players joined the team, they developed an unconditional love for the sport.
“I joined it and I loved it from the first time I played it, so I’ve been playing ever since,” Bryson said.
Parada said he didn’t always know he would love the game as much as he does.
“At first I was like it’s not gonna be fun, I’m not gonna put a broom between my legs,” he said.
But, as he continued playing the sport, he realized how much passion is involved in the sport.
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A few days ago a visitor posted a link to a news story about a patent infringement case involving a successful real estate agent making use of a computer mapping system without acquiring a license for it first. The mapping system wasn't the same as Google Maps but does hold a patent and royalties are owed for those who profit from it. In the story it states that "an average residential real estate agent may owe royalties of as much as $50,000 before the company's patent expires in 2008." Check for the full story here.
The case raises some important questions when considering the possible actions that could be taken for those not making use of a sanctioned API (such as the Google Maps API), thereby licensing the application or mashup you are creating. I found a discussion surrounding this in the Google-Maps-API Google Group where the following question was posed:
> What about for intranet use?
> Say we wanted to use the Google API to plot all the points where our
> company inspects drainage ditches. We're a government agency, and it
> would be on our intranet and of no use to the public (and obviously
The Google Maps product manager Bret Taylor referred the user to the following link which contains this Q&A:
Is the Maps API available for commercial websites?
However, not all commercial uses are allowed. For example,
* Premium websites - If your site is only available to paying customers, you cannot use the Maps API.
* Enterprise websites - The Maps API is not available for use within enterprise or intranet applications.
This is just something to consider as you're building your Google Maps mashups using the Google Maps API, or not using the Google Maps API as the case may be. Otherwise, you might end up like this guy's friend. | <urn:uuid:a3860674-91c6-4e34-9cf0-64b94df66a68> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.mapsmaniac.com/2005/07/sanction-your-mashups-with-google-maps.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00003-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926847 | 369 | 1.65625 | 2 |
How does a horse contribute to medicine?
Premarin is made from the urine of pregnant mares. That’s where the name comes from.
That’s all that I can think of off the top of my head.
Horse Medicine Work with PTSD Vets
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Feb 15, 2013 / 3:06 pm
The ninth annual Global Citizen Kelowna kicked off with a media event Friday morning at the New Life Church on Harvey Avenue. It will encompass two weeks of celebrating the role of Kelowna’s citizens in international humanitarian efforts.
“It provides our community with the opportunity to engage citizens in thinking about our place in the world,” says Ron Cannan, MP for Kelowna-Lake Country.
“By sharing our stories with each other, we not only discover our own roots, traditions and connections, we inspire people – particularly our youth – to think of ourselves as global citizens.”
The event will feature a number of activities organized by local volunteers, through which they hope to bring awareness to the millennium development goals. These goals have been established by the United Nations as a target to reach by 2015. They also hope to promote what Kelowna people are doing internationally to help meet these goals.
One of the standouts of this year’s event will be a live action simulation of a village slum, complete with actors portraying real world conditions found in many countries.
“We want to help families understand and get awareness on what people have in other countries, but also how other people live in other countries,” explains Nico Deschner, a family pastor at New Life Church.
“The slum is meant to show the hardships of different countries and once they exit that area, other kiosks will be set up detailing the lives of others in counties around the globe.”
Cannan was also on hand to announce $38,200 in funding for the event. The Intercultural Society of the Central Okanagan received $26,200 from the Building Communities through Arts and Heritage program and $12,000 in funding through Inter-Action, Canada’s Multiculturalism Grants and Contribution Program, administered by Citizenship and Immigration Canada.
A complete listing of the event calendar can be found here.
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My baby, Ricky, has big shoes to fill. His big sister is in college and is considered a walking encyclopedia. Her nickname is “Fun Facts”. My oldest son, 8, is gifted. He is in 3rd grade and reading at a high school level. He also is doing algebra for fun. Ricky is my baby. Ricky has this opinion of himself that we find bizarre; he doesn’t think he is smart. We have no idea where he has heard this or why he would believe it since he has an amazing vocabulary and a memory that would rival an elephant. But he does.
He just started Kindergarten a few weeks ago. When I gave him the Get Ready for Kindergarten book that you use with the Tag Interactive Pen, he told me “But I’m already in Kindergarten”. I explained to him that he just started so he is more than ready to be ready!
My experience: What I found was that he could do the book on his own or as a joint activity with the family. It is amazing how quickly a child can pick up this information when they are having fun. The “Get Ready for Kindergarten” goes over reading and math fundamentals including the alphabet and counting. Also, most of the interactive toys can be annoying and loud. We found the Leap Frog Tag system enjoyable and easy to use.
What Ricky Experienced: Ricky was able to see how much he already knew. Within the first few minutes he was finding numbers, saying his letters and even identifying dinosaurs by the pictures! His confidence was boosted after only a few minutes of playing with the Tag system! He enjoyed the patterns and consonant blend activities and even discussed them during dinner. He told me he loved it because he was “learning without having to stop having fun”!
Kids are like sponges and the ability to learn is wasted on so many toys. The Tag System with Get Ready for Kindergarten is fun, very educational and a great way to remind your kids how smart they really are.
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|The caption reads "Rabbi Dr. Abraham I. Kook, 4/15/24"|
Where was this picture taken?
Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook (1865-1935) was a renowned Talmud scholar, Kabbalist and philosopher. He is considered today as the spiritual father of religious Zionism, breaking away from his ultra-Orthodox colleagues who were opposed to the largely secular Zionist movement.
Born in what is today Latvia, Rabbi Kook moved to Palestine in 1904 to take the post of the Chief Rabbi of Jaffa. He appears in many of the historic pictures taken by the American Colony photographers, usually as a bystander, without being identified. One photograph, from the Library of Congress' larger collection, identifies the rabbi, but the surroundings do not appear to be in the Land of Israel and actually look incredibly like a street scene in the United States.
Evidence suggests that the picture was taken in Washington DC before or after Rabbi Kook met with President Calvin Coolidge in the White House.
|Coolidge and Johnson, April 15, 1924|
The picture of the rabbi appears in a larger set of unaccredited pictures taken that week of well-known Washington politicians including Coolidge, the White House press corps, Senate leaders William Borah and Burton Wheeler, the Federal Oil Reserve Board, and more.
But why did Coolidge meet Rabbi Kook, and what was the rabbi doing in Washington?
|Rabbi M. M. Epstein, |
apparently on a ship
According to Hoffman, "The rabbis had originally planned to stay in America for about three months. However, because their fund-raising efforts were not as successful as had been hoped, they remained for eight months. In the end, they raised a little over $300,000, far short of the one million dollar goal which the CRC had set."
Hoffman described the April 15 conversation between the president and the rabbi: "Rav Kook thanked the President for his government's support of the Balfour Declaration, and told him that the return of the Jews to the Holy Land will benefit not only the Jews themselves, but all mankind throughout the world.... The President responded that the American government will be glad to assist Jews whenever possible."
|Rabbi Kook leaving a meeting with Winston|
Churchill and Emir Abdullah (1921)
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KH: Your most recent report, and the subject of an upcoming conference, is international branch campuses (IBCs). What are the factors driving the growth of IBC's?
WL: The main drivers identified in our 2009 were: access to a portion of the international student market that do not wish to or cannot afford to study abroad, the revenues associated with that new market, prestige: visibility as an international institution with global ambitions, opportunities for student and staff mobility between campuses, international teaching experience for academic staff, ability for academic staff to maintain research output while working abroad, increased knowledge and understanding of other cultures on the home campus opportunities to develop new curricula, access to local institutions, including government and industry, a competitive edge in the international higher education market. To these we can add what might be a deciding factor in many cases: financial support from the host government. There are governments, notably in east and southeast Asia, that see IBCs as an integral part of their ‘regional education hub’ aspirations.
KH: Is there a picture emerging of what is working and what isn't? Is there anything resembling a success formula for IBCs?
WL: I don’t think this can be characterised in a simple manner. Some might say that smaller ‘niche’ campuses have fewer overheads and simpler business models and can therefore be financially self-sustaining more quickly. But the larger operations that offer the full range of degrees and courses could be said to offer an ‘education experience’ that is closer to what is offered at the home institution. Apart from small postgraduate institutions, IBCs are focused on teaching, but the best universities produce research as well. Whether an IBC model emerges in which the interplay between teaching and research is replicated remains to be seen.
KH: What are "education hubs" and what role do they play in developing international education?
WL: Jane Knight from the University of Toronto has worked on defining hubs. She has come up with: ‘an education hub is a planned effort to build a critical mass of local and international actors strategically engaged in crossborder education, training, knowledge production and innovation initiatives’. She describes a typology of hubs in which, for example, Hong Kong can be described as a ‘student’ hub, UAE a ‘talent’ hub, and Singapore a ‘knowledge/innovation’ hub. This typology indicates an overlapping and increasing level of sophistication in progressing from education and training ‘to the production and application of new knowledge and innovation’. For me, the essence of education hubs is that they are projects directed and driven by governments. They are not designed to develop international education; they are designed to develop national economies. Governments see foreign universities as potential contributors to knowledge and innovation, and there is a prestige element as well.
KH: What role do you see e-learning playing in the expansion of international education?
WL: We see e-learning as a major driver behind the future expansion of international higher education for a number of reasons; the first is economic: technology can, in certain cases, reduce the cost of academic programs for the institution, the student or both. Certain technologies can also alleviate language barriers, which has traditionally been a great obstacle of international initiatives. Digital instruction may increase international opportunities for students in developing nations for whom international travel and residence is not an option. In countries that are unable to meet local demand for post-secondary education, increased access to networks coupled with decreased prices for devices such as tablets, could see tremendous growth. However, the one obstacle technology hasn’t solved is accreditation. We still need the right policies and agreements between jurisdictions that keep up with opportunities that technology presents.
Keith Hampson PhD.
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Dear Dr. Donohue: Please discuss the relationship between bad breath and liver and kidney problems -- diagnosis, treatment and cure. -- D.H.
Dear D.H.: Nine times out of 10, people need not implicate the liver or kidney as the source of bad breath. Its source can usually be found in the mouth.
An overgrowth of mouth bacteria converts food into sulfur compounds that are the olfactory equivalents of rotten eggs.
Ridding the mouth of bacteria usually also rids the mouth of unpleasant breath. Floss religiously. Brush the tongue with toothpaste every time you brush the teeth. If you are not one who easily gags, gently scrape the back of the tongue with a plastic spoon turned upside down.
A dry mouth also spawns mouth odors. Don't let the mouth hang open during sleep. Ask your spouse if it does. If the answer is yes, keep it closed by looping an elastic band under the chin and over the head.
Meat assists mouth bacteria in production of foul-smelling sulfur compounds. Cut down on meat and increase portions of grains, vegetables and fruits.
Liver and kidney disease can impart a noxious odor to the breath. However, other symptoms of liver and kidney failure are so florid that the diagnosis of their failure is rarely missed. Bad breath by itself rarely indicates liver or kidney problems.
The dentist can aid you in a program to eradicate stubborn mouth bacteria. Some people require prescription mouthwashes to decimate those bacteria.
Dear Dr. Donohue: My neighbor has recently been diagnosed with meralgia paresthetica. Please be good enough to offer an explanation of this disease, its treatment and the prognosis. -- E.P.
Dear E.P.: "Disease" is too strong a word for meralgia paresthetica. "Condition" fits the bill better.
It's the result of pressure on a nerve located on the side of the body at about the belt line.
Pressure on the nerve produces numbness or burning pain on the front and side of the thigh. Pressure can come from skintight jeans, too snug a belt or excess fatty tissue. People with diabetes can develop meralgia paresthetica due to diabetes damage to the nerve.
If weight is the problem, dieting is the answer. If constricting garments are the cause, the answer is obvious.
However, there are times when the doctor is at a loss to identify a cause. Then cortisone shots along the path of the nerve can eliminate inflammatory swelling that might be compressing it.
If pain persists, surgically freeing the nerve from entrapping tissues almost always puts an end to the problem.
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Scores of jobs will be axed at an internationally-renowned manufacturing plant in the High Peak – but the site is set to benefit from a major transformation.
Forty roles are to be lost at Dow Hyperlast in Birch Vale as manufacturing activity is being moved abroad, it has been revealed.
However, bosses intend to transform the Station Road site into a state-of-the-art customer service centre – but no jobs will be created.
High Peak MP Andrew Bingham said: “Naturally I’m disappointed at the loss of any jobs – but the retention and transformation of the site into a customer service centre shows that the company is still committed to Birch Vale and the High Peak area.”
The factory produces a material called polyurethane which is used in a wide variety of products including toys, aircraft wings, vehicle bumpers and car park floor coatings.
A spokesman for Dow Hyperlast confirmed that 40 manufacturing roles would be lost at the plant by September.
He said manufacturing activity would be relocated to other locations in Europe.
He added: “The company is providing support for affected employees to ensure they receive career advice and, where appropriate, training to help them secure employment with other companies in the area.”
The manufacturing plant is to be transformed into a state-of-the-art centre – giving UK and northern European businesses the chance to receive technical support and advice on its materials.
The spokesman said: “Birch Vale is ideally located to provide this centre due to its newly-opened state-of-the-art laboratories, which deliver innovative solutions to customers.
“At present there are no plans to increase the workforce at the centre.
“This does not mean that, as the centre grows, there will not be the potential for expansion in the future.”
Dow Hyperlast has been based in Birch Vale for more than 30 years and served as a major employer of local people.
The business is part of the Dow Chemical Company which has its headquarters in America.
Mr Bingham added: “Along with other companies in the High Peak, Dow Hyperlast do some very prestigious and technical work which demonstrates the quality of the labour force available in this area.
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The train station connects the small city of Vigo to more metropolitan areas, linking Madrid to Porto in Portugal. Morphosis’s design echoes the natural mountainous lay of the land, which drops in elevation at the station’s site. Undulating like the native peaked hills, the new station center will have a roof-scape that will double as an elevated public space. Visitors can sit atop the roof and take in views of the surrounding Spanish mountains and seascape. At night, the rooftop plaza is lit, and can be seen and identified from afar.
Beneath the plaza is a public area as well, a soaring four story atrium that is fed natural light from the plaza above. The atrium is the epicenter of the Vialia Vigo, connecting the public space with retail shops, and the transportation hub.
The station will also mesh in well with future plans for the city’s urban landscape. A five kilometer park is planned for the eastern side of the station, and the north will meet with a planned pedestrian bridge.
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Guest Profile: Julie Kleinhans
Julie Kleinhans is a certified life coach, founder of Mind Focus Generation, and creator of the Super Empowerment System for Teens and Young Adults. She is a confidence and youth empowerment expert who helps teens and young adults release their negative self-image and beliefs, enabling them to go beyond their perceived limitations so that they may achieve success and well-being in all areas of their lives.
As a former high school teacher and mentor, Julie has guided thousands of teenagers with numerous difficulties such as bullying, peer pressure, drug use, self-confidence issues, academic struggles, and relationships troubles by showing kids how to focus on their strengths and talents and directing them to create a plan of action to achieve their goals and dreams. Her ability to connect on the soul level with young people and her heart-felt approach toward teaching has made her a favorite amongst young people wherever she goes.
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Oct. 4, 2012 Daily Beast
Tatayana (Tanya) Lokshina reported on egregious human-rights abuses in Russia for years. Only her close friends knew of the risks she faced working on long trips in conflict regions in the Caucasus and Central Asia. Her priority was to tell the stories of people in trouble, and she never talked about the personal danger she often found herself in. But this week, Lokshina—who is now the deputy director for Human Rights Watch in Moscow and a recipient of the Andrei Sakharov journalism award (Russia’s equivalent of a Pulitzer)—couldn’t keep silent any longer. She invited journalists to a press conference and declared that she was being followed around the city, and that somebody had been sending her text messages threatening to murder her unborn baby.
The author of the text messages seemed well informed about the 39-year-old Lokshina’s upcoming trip to Dagestan, as well as of her pregnancy term, the sex of her baby and her home address—“operative information that could be obtained only by special services,” Lokshina said. One of the text messages arrived right at the moment when her husband’s airplane took off. “Now you are alone,” it said.
Reporters Without Borders activists demonstrate with photos of (from left) Russian human-rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov, Novaya Gazeta journalist Anastasiya Baburova, and Anna Politkovskaya on Jan. 21, 2009, in Berlin after Markelov and Baburova were gunned down in Moscow. (MICHAEL KAPPELER)
There is something seriously wrong in Russia: the country’s most-experienced and famous human-rights reporters are being threatened and killed in broad daylight. Anna Politkovskaya was shot dead in the elevator of her Moscow apartment building in October 2006; Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova were killed on the street, less than half a mile from the Kremlin, in January 2009. The same year, in August, a group of men kidnapped Natalya Estemirova from her house in Grozny, killed her and left her body on the side of a road. Last December, Khadjimurat Kamalov, a publisher, was shot outside of his Chernovik newspaper office in Dagestan. Each of them had received similar threats prior to the day of their murder.
In a video presented at the press conference, Human Rights Watch’s executive director Kenneth Roth assured the Russian government that “these threats will have precisely the opposite effect—that Human Rights Watch will double our efforts to do our work in Russia, to defend the rights of the Russian people against this crackdown and other threats that they encounter.” He also vowed that the perpetrators behind the threats to Lokshina and her child would be brought to justice. Human Rights Watch has been working in Russia for 20 years, “in much darker times,” Roth said, “and will certainly continue.” Read More | <urn:uuid:dbb8dbb3-0614-495a-9ce1-5d5cb2f120d2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.crimemagazine.com/russian-top-human-rights-journalists-face-threats-murder?page=3 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00052-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970341 | 682 | 1.609375 | 2 |
Avid Luxist readers may recognize this vintage ambulance from our article earlier this month. The 1963 Pontiac Bonneville is one of only a handful converted to an ambulance and commissioned by the U.S. Navy. It was said to have carried out the solemn duty of transporting the remains and bereaved of the assassinated president John F. Kennedy, and was slated for the auction block under the auspices of Barrett-Jackson at its recently-concluded auction in Scottsdale, Arizona.
The story sounded credible and straightforward enough, but before the auction took place, reports surfaced to question the authenticity of the vehicle's provenance. It seemed, according to the reports, that the vehicle that actually carried JFK's remains and grieving widow and brother from Andrews Air Force Base to Bethesda Naval Hospital was actually destroyed several years ago.
Authenticity notwithstanding, Barrett-Jackson elected to auction the vehicle just the same, where it promptly sold for a high bid of $120,000 – less than it probably would have fetched if not for the question of its provenance, but more than if it were indeed just an ordinary ambulance. The buyer stated her intentions to donate the car for display at the Smithsonian, but to make the story all the stranger, ended up reportedly selling it for little more than she paid for it to the daughter of a limousine collector in Colorado whose father is presently incarcerated for bribing Alaskan legislators. | <urn:uuid:37af02c8-41a4-4caa-b270-0ab36ee3bd32> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.luxist.com/tag/pontiac/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706890813/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122130-00003-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967872 | 288 | 1.804688 | 2 |
Best Partnership Finalists: WellPoint with Boys & Girls Clubs of America
WellPoint’s healthcare expertise, industry insights, employee talent, public policy advocacy, and charitable contributions are all being leveraged to change the course of an important health issue in the United States. The linkages are strong between the value of the company and the health and wellness of its customers. To be a healthy company, WellPoint is making it a point to support healthy individuals. What better partner than Boys & Girls Clubs of America to arm youth today with the tools and knowledge they need to make healthy decisions for a lifetime.
One-third of American children are considered overweight or obese – triple the rate from one generation ago. Overweight adolescents have a 70% chance of becoming overweight or obese adults; untreated, childhood obesity can lead to serious health consequences, including diabetes, heart disease, cancer, asthma, depression, and other life-threatening illnesses. Obese patients spend an average of 42% more for medical care than those within a normal weight range. Additionally, obesity costs the U.S. healthcare industry approximately $147 billion annually.
Triple Play was launched with support from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and aligns with its Steps to a Healthier U.S. initiative.
Triple Play is the largest wellness endeavor undertaken by Boys & Girls Clubs.
WellPoint Inc., one of the nation’s largest health plan providers, formed a partnership with Boys & Girls Clubs of America to expand the nonprofit organization’s “Triple Play” program, a wellness initiative to show youth how eating right, keeping fit, and forming positive relationships add up to healthy lifestyles. WellPoint supports Triple Play through a $5 million multi-year grant, employee volunteerism, and leadership and healthcare expertise that benefits the program’s development.
The goal of the Triple Play program is to improve young people’s knowledge of healthy habits, increase the number of hours per day they participate in physical activities, and strengthen their ability to engage in positive relationships.
The Triple Play program has identified numerous best practices that are producing the greatest results, which it shares across other Boys & Girls Clubs locations. Best practices include:
- Educating children and families about healthy food choices and portion control
- Introducing nutritious daily snacks and water in place of sugary treats and drinks
- Distributing healthy recipes on a weekly basis
- Teaching members how to read ingredients on nutrition labels
- Replacing the kinds of food and drink choices in onsite vending machines
- Partnering with local food banks to provide healthy food for Boys & Girls Clubs members
- Introducing a new fruits, vegetables and sports to children each week
- Initiating a daily “Power Hour” that utilizes high-yield physical activities
What the Partnership Has Accomplished
To date, Triple Play has helped more than 1 million kids learn the importance of physical activity and proper nutrition. Promising Practices Network (PPN) validated and named Triple Play a “Program that Works.” PPN offers research-based information to validate the effectiveness of programs that improve the lives of children, families, and communities and is referred to as a “best practices” resource. PPN-listed programs have met high standards of scientific credibility, objectivity, and clarity. The network is led by the RAND Corporation, one of the world’s premiere research organizations.
Why It Makes Sense
Individually, WellPoint and Boys & Girls Clubs have strong national networks. WellPoint serves 34 million people through its health plans and another 65 million people through its subsidiaries. It has 37,000 employees in U.S. communities. Boys & Girls Clubs extend across the United States and have established relationships with key stakeholders such as parents, health providers, schools, governments, and other nonprofits. Together, these partners are capable of creating a movement that reaches into households and makes a lasting impact against the obesity epidemic. | <urn:uuid:49ba6613-b495-44c2-9e84-bc44de9603ea> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://bclc.uschamber.com/citizens2012/best-partnership-finalists-wellpoint-boys-girls-clubs-america | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00013-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939246 | 817 | 1.640625 | 2 |
What is visual thinking and visual learning?
Visual thinking is a learning style where the learner better understands and retains information when ideas, words and concepts are associated with images. Research tells us that the majority of students in a regular classroom need to see information in order to learn it. Some common visual learning strategies include creating graphic organizers, diagramming, mind mapping, outlining and more.
How does visual learning help students?
Visual learning helps students clarify their thoughts
Students see how ideas are connected and realize how information can be grouped and organized. With visual learning, new concepts are more thoroughly and easily understood when they are linked to prior knowledge.
Visual learning helps students organize and analyze information
Visual learning helps students integrate new knowledge
Visual learning helps students think critically
Visual thinking and learning utilize graphical ways of working with ideas and presenting information. Research in both educational theory and cognitive psychology tells us that visual learning is among the very best methods for teaching students of all ages how to think and how to learn.
Visual thinking and learning in education
Visual learning strategies such as graphic organizers, diagrams, outlines and more are being used in classrooms across the country. These strategies help students or all ages better manage learning objectives and achieve academic success. As students are required to evaluate and interpret information from a variety of sources, incorporate new knowledge with what they already have learned, and improve writing skills and think critically, visual learning tools help students meet those demands. Paired with the brain’s capacity for images, visual learning strategies help students better understand and retain information.
In this section of our website, we offer a variety of resources for better understanding the use of visual learning methodologies and tools to incorporate into your classroom.
Our award-winning software tools, Inspiration®, Kidspiration®, Webspiration Classroom™, and InspireData® are based upon proven visual learning methodologies that help students think, learn and achieve. With the powerful combination of visual learning and technology, students in grades K-12 learn to clarify thoughts, organize and analyze information, integrate new knowledge, and think critically. | <urn:uuid:e670d046-ed5e-457d-bc0b-1a9bca6697a7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.inspiration.com/visual-learning | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.925763 | 422 | 3.671875 | 4 |
Friday, February 25, 2011
We're finally seeing the evidence of QE2 show up in the official numbers. The Monetary Base (the part of the money supply that the Fed controls directly) jumped by $140 billion in the most recent period, and is up about $300 billion since mid-Nov. Virtually all of this increase comes from bank reserves which are sitting idle at the Fed (though they do earn an annual interest rate of 0.25%). The increased reserves, in turn, are what the Fed used to purchase Treasuries.
Despite this new injection of reserves, however, there is no evidence to date of any corresponding increase in the other monetary aggregates. That means that although the Fed has created some $300 billion of bank reserves with a keystroke, the amount of money in the economy continues to grow at a rate that is fully consistent with past growth rates. Conclusion: the Fed has not been printing any more "money" than it has in the past.
As the next chart of M2 shows, it has been growing at a 6% annual rate for the past 16 years, during which time inflation has averaged about 2.4% per year. There was a bulge in M2 during the financial panic, but that has since faded away.
What has happened so far with the Fed's quantitative easing program is this: the Fed has swapped newly-created bank reserves (which are the functional equivalent of T-bills) for Treasury notes, and mortgage-backed securities. This has had the effect of shortening the maturity of the government's debt (a good thing since interest rates are low and the yield curve is steep, but it could prove to be a bad thing if and when interest rates start rising), and it has pumped up the Fed's balance sheet by some $1.4 trillion, but it hasn't pumped up the broader supply of "money" in the economy any more than usual. That's not to say it won't happen, only that so far it hasn't happened. We can therefore conclude that, to date, the banking system has been content to hold more risk-free bank reserves and less of other, more risky securities. Similarly, the world economy has been either unwilling and/or unable to increase aggregate borrowing. Put yet another way, the world has been content to hold the extra reserves the Fed has created.
When the Fed's supply of reserves is equal to the world's demand to hold reserves, than there is no inflationary consequence; that explains why inflation has remained relatively low. But there is no guarantee that the situation won't or can't change in the future. It would not be surprising if Fed weren't able to withdraw all the extra reserves in a timely fashion once the banking system decides it no longer wants those reserves. This is the other shoe that is waiting to drop.
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German-born Johann Wilhelm Wilms was mainly active in Amsterdam, where he established at the age of 19 and lived until his death. He is remembered principally for being the composer of what was used as the Dutch National Anthem from 1815 to 1932. His dates, 1772-1847, make him a near contemporary of Beethoven by birth (1775-1827) and a (less but still) near contemporary of Spohr by death (1784-1859). Those two "brackets" are significant. Wilms may have started his compositional activities under the influence of Haydn and Mozart, but these two late symphonies (and they are Wilm's last two), from 1819 and 1830, fully embrace the new aesthetics of the romantic sensibilities.
Comparing them with Beethoven's symphonies would be unfair to Wilms - such comparison would be unfair to any other contemporary composer, for that matter - but also stylistically inappropriate: there is much more full-blown romanticism in Wilms' style than in Beethoven's; those two symphonies are milestones on the path leading from Spohr to Schumann, really.
Defining precisely what it is that makes you immediately recognize that you are listening to romantic music rather than music from the classical era (that convoluted formulation, because it is not the same as "classical music"!) is way beyond my layman's capacities, although one recognizes it for sure and without the shadow of a doubt when one hears it. Tentatively, listening to Wilms and reminiscing on Haydn, Mozart and all those "minor" composers from the classical era that Concerto Köln served so well (Vanhal, Kraus, Kozeluch, Myslivecek and the likes), I'd say (other than all the harmonic reasons a musicologist would give): the powerful brass and timpani underpinning (I think the timps were rarely present in the orchestrations of the Classical era, and that it is Beethoven who really introduced them as one of the constitutive elements of the orchestra), the weight and impact of the basses, a vehemence in the violins that the "Sturm und Drang" style of the 1780s adumbrated but never approached, and, last but not least, the solo role ofen attributed to horn. There is no mistaking the melody first intoned by horn at 4:12 in the first movement of the 6th Symphony, then picked up by clarinet then flute, for anything a composer from the classical era could have written. There is an interesting stylistic ambiguity in the first minute of the slow and solemn introduction to that same 6th Symphony, but - as if Wilms was passing on to himself the relay baton from the style of his youth to the style of his future - at 1:11 it erupts strikingly: a rising interval of fourth intoned in full force by the brass, followed by a mighty brass choral underpinned by timpani, and you are meditating before the infinite vistas of untamed nature (the paintings of Caspar David Friedrich can't fail to come to mind; significantly, his dates are 1774 - 1840, REALLY contemporary with Wilms). The "Andante quasi allegretto e grazioso" of the same may start in a deceptively galant style and mild atmosphere, but soon powerful, rhythmically robust and Schumanesque utterances enter.
Don't expect Brahms either - we are not there yet. But these are magnificent works in their own style, representative perhaps of a time of stylistic transition (of which Spohr, Raff and maybe even Schumann in his symphonies would be other champions) but no less appealing because of that. There is great sweep, melodic invention, orchestral splendor. Endless gratitude to Concerto Köln for offering this new and invaluable discovery. | <urn:uuid:215f960e-0027-4edc-9635-faf8fd54cce0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.amazon.ca/Syms-6-Johann-Wilhelm-Wilms/dp/B00016OYNW | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00067-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968908 | 817 | 2.703125 | 3 |
Father’s Day is just around the corner. Some of us will spend the day honoring the man who poured his life into ours, while others will have to be content with their memories. Those of us who grew up during the late 50’s and 60’s will remember the fathers from family sitcoms, “Leave it to Beaver”, “Father Knows Best” and “Ozzie and Harriet” to name a few. Then there was Pa Ingalls on “Little House on the Prairie who was firm but very loving to his children. Each of them were wise and had sound advice for their children. However, that was TV and not real life.
Some fathers have been negligent, abusive, cold and aloof or totally absent from their children’s lives. Sometimes dads have had to make hard decisions about the care of their children due to circumstances beyond their control. Perhaps they had poor models in parenting themselves and struggle in raising their families. Whatever the case, it is not easy raising children.
One of my favorite movies is “Field of Dreams.” One of the plots involves the main character played by Kevin Costner coming to terms with his father. He remembers his father as being too busy to have ‘a catch’ with him. When his father arrives in the ‘field’, he sees his father as a young man before all the cares and responsibilities of adulthood had taken its toll on him. In the end, he is able to have ‘a catch’ with him.
I always cry because I would love to go back to see my dad before he became my father. I might understand him better if I could truly understand what he went through as a boy growing up during the depression. The moving around to different pieces of property due to increases in rent, or relocating because of the scarcity of jobs. His parents were in their thirties when they married and his only sibling was born with Down’s Syndrome and had other health problems. He began finding odd jobs to help the family income when he was 7 years old. How did all of these things affect his view of the world? He gave his own plans to stay close to his elderly parents and brother, so that when the time came he’d be able to take over his brother’s care.
We knew he loved us. But it was hard to show that love except by making sure we were cared for in material things. He never wanted us to need basic things like he’d had to go without in his childhood. His job was to provide, not have fun with us.
We all have a Father in Heaven. He, too, loves us. He wants the very best for us. He gave His only Son to die for us. He desires to have a deep relationship with us. He wants to have ‘a catch’ with us. Will you join Him in ‘a catch’ today? | <urn:uuid:b67fdd8e-eaa6-46a4-a6ab-7fd81a73217b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.macarthurchristian.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00024-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.996 | 617 | 1.882813 | 2 |
They say that visualization is the most powerful goal setting tool that has ever been given to us. Yet we almost never use it. Before I tell you about the 6 Steps to setting razor-sharp, polished, shiny goals, let’s take a step back and do a 2-minute visualization. This simple exercise will help you understand what your goals should “feel” and “look” like.
It has been proven that the crystal clear goals we can picture easily in our mind, are much more powerful and much easier to achieve. They stand a higher chance of being followed through and bring much quicker results. And the best thing about visualization is that it does not require hard work or hours of practice. It can be done by anyone, anywhere, at any time.
For example, right now is a great opportunity to sharpen your visualization skills.
I want you to take a deep breath, let go of any thoughts and picture a bowl of freshly-cut lemons with shiny green leaves still attached to the stub. You reach out and select the biggest ripe yellow lemon. You feel the weight of the lemon in your hand…, you slide your fingers over the smooth waxy skin… feel the dimpled texture… You lift the lemon to your face and breathe in that lemony smell… and then you slice the lemon open. As the bright yellow flesh is exposed you see the juice run out… a lovely lemony citrus aroma fills the room. You cut a slice and put it in your mouth. You bite down on it …. the juice runs over your tongue… your mouth fills with the taste of lemon juice…
Have you managed to visualize it clearly? If yes, your mouth is probably watering right now.
This is the power of visualization. It is not just about imagining things. Your thoughts actually provoke very real physical response in your body.
Similar, your goals should make you feel very real, positive emotions. Then they become truly powerful, inspiring and impactful.
Unfortunately, most of the time when people set goals, they state them in a very abstract way that does not evoke any pictures in their mind. This is why we later struggle to stick with them. This is why we cannot keep our motivation up. This is why we get easily distracted by less important things.
If it sounds like a problem you have faced in the past, make sure that you follow these 6 easy steps to setting goals.
6 Sizable Steps to Setting Razor-Sharp Goals
Take an index card and write down a goal that you would like to achieve. Don’t worry about making it sound right or about being specific. We will do this later. For now any goal will do. It can be “getting in shape” or “make more money.” What’s important is your desire to achieve it.
Visualize what “getting in shape” or “having more money” means to you. For example, when I think about “lots of money” I imagine a wooden box on top of my fridge. When I open it, there are $5000 laying there in $20, $50 and $100 bills. This box never gets empty, no matter how much money I take out of it. Similar, when you picture the “getting in shape” goal, you may think of fitting into size 6 pants and easily closing the zipper, without having to hold your stomach in.
Turn your visualization into a statement. For example, “I want to fit into size 6 clothes and lose 20 pounds by giving up hi-calories snacks and doing sport activities such as biking, swimming, jogging at least 3 times a week.” This is the part where you figure out a concrete action plan or the number of steps that you need to take in order to receive what you want.
Add numbers to your goal or your action steps to make them measurable. For instance, “Swimming for 40 minutes 3 times a week.” This step makes it easier to track your progress and hold yourself accountable. Just make sure that you take into consideration external factors and are realistic about your abilities and level of motivation. “Losing 20 pounds in 2 weeks” is not only unrealistic, but dangerous for your health. Your goals should stretch your comfort zone slightly, not overwhelm or de-motivate you.
Attach a deadline to your goals. “By April, 2013 I will fit into size 6 clothes and lose 20 pounds by substituting hi-calorie snacks with fruit, drinking a 2l bottle of water a day, visualizing myself achieving my goal daily and doing sports activity at least 3 times a week”. The deadline creates a sense of urgency and makes it harder for you to procrastinate.
Write a final version of your goal and make sure that you failure-proof yourself by using other techniques that will allow you to stay on track.
• If you find yourself procrastinating you can use one of these super-powerful techniques to beat procrastination.
• When you are struggling to keep your motivation up these inspirational TED videos can turn your day around.
• If your work environment is full of distractions and interruptions, check out these 20 ridiculously easy ways to improve your focus and concentration.
• If you have a habit of leaving tasks incomplete and feel that sometimes you lack consistency, you will benefit from reading and applying quick tips.
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The Circle 03.11
WWF's Arctic History:
20 years of the Global Arctic ProgrammeThis is a special year for WWF's Global Arctic Programme, as it marks 20 years since some visionary people decided to create a WWF body to champion conservation in the Arctic.
The reason for the renewed interest? Arctic temperatures are warming more than twice as fast as they are for the planet as a whole. Sea ice is melting. Northern shipping routes and oil deposits are reliably accessible for the first time.
But as the region warms and development increases, Arctic wildlife and peoples are beginning to live altered lives.
In this issue of the Circle, we celebrate the history of the Global Arctic Programme, and its ongoing mission to ensure a resilient, sustainable future for the Arctic. | <urn:uuid:2af80d6c-231b-43bf-8317-2a39f866bf3b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://wwf.panda.org/what_we_do/where_we_work/arctic/publications/?203099/The-Circle-0311 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00015-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.922932 | 155 | 2.578125 | 3 |
The report begins with an overview of the roofing industry which includes a brief insight into the different roofing materials segmentation. It also highlights the market size and growth for the residential roofing market in India. The market overview section then focuses on the Indian roofing tiles market and gives an overview of roofing tiles adoption in the rural and urban market along with the share of the organized and unorganized sector in the market. This section also highlights the pattern of roofing tiles adoption along with the adoption pattern of alternative roofing materials such as concrete and galvanized iron/ metal/ asbestos sheets. It is followed by market segmentation in terms of man made and machine made tiles. Share of man made and machine made roofing tiles in the urban and rural market along with a brief snapshot of the man made and machine made roofing tiles hub has been incorporated in this section. The section also includes an overview of the roofing tiles adoption share across the Indian states. It further delves into the share of man made roofing tiles adoption and the share of machine made roofing tiles adoption across the Indian states. It is followed by a brief snapshot of the share of roofing tiles in the residential and the non residential segment and also highlights the penetration of different types of roofing tiles in the urban and rural market.
The report provides detailed information about the exports and imports of roofing tiles under specific HS code in terms of value and volume. It provides country-wise import and export data for the year 2010-11, mentioning the major countries exporting and importing from India. This section also includes a brief overview of the custom duty, import tariff and tax along with the central excise duty and tariff prevalent in the roofing tiles market.
An analysis of the drivers explains the factors for growth of the roofing tiles market. Demand for roofing tiles is expected to increase owing to a healthy economic outlook. Growing construction industry is also expected to have a favorable impact on the growth of the roofing tiles market. Rise in population & disposable income is likely to translate into higher demand for roofing tiles in India. Rural development initiatives undertaken by the government will add to the increase in demand for roofing tiles. Rise in steel price and campaign to ban asbestos provides a strong opportunity for the growth of alternative roofing materials such as roofing tiles. Changing consumer outlook and the suitability of roofing tiles for different climates are also influencing the demand pattern of the consumers and are having a positive impact on the growth of roofing tiles market. The key challenges that hinder the growth of the market include rise in cost of inputs and the growth of prep-engineered buildings.
Trends section in the report emphasizes the recent trends that are prevalent in the roofing tiles market and includes growing popularity of micro concrete tiles, the decline in adoption of Mangalore tiles and the growing reliance of the market towards import of roofing tiles.
The competition section begins with the Porter’s Five Forces Analysis, illustrating the competitive rivalry, bargaining power of suppliers and buyers and threat of new entrants and substitutes. It is followed by a SWOT analysis of the roofing tiles market in India. This section outlays the competitive landscape of the roofing tiles market in India briefing about the domestic and foreign players existing in the market. The report also features brief profiles of major domestic and foreign players in the market and a snapshot of their corporation, financial performance along with the key financial ratios, business highlights and their product portfolio providing an insight into the existing competitive scenario.
The report concludes with a section on strategic recommendations which comprises an analysis of the growth strategies for the roofing tiles market in India.
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Inspired by Terrence McNally's "controversial" play about a young gay Jesus, Corpus Christi: Playing with Redemption follows a group of actors who began production on the play seven years ago in a small church. Within months they suddenly found themselves thrust in the world spotlight touring to international acclaim. The documentary follows the troupe and the playwright sharing their stories with supporters and protesters as they continue their tour across the world to communities where hate and bigotry are much more prevalent. Mirroring the reflections of dialogue in society today, especially in regards to civil rights, marriage equality, HIV/AIDS, and separation of church and state, this production has become a vehicle of change for a community struggling to find its voice. Meanwhile, the company of actors find themselves on a journey that would forever change their lives. Written by
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Raincoast Conservation Foundation has now secured the commercial trophy hunting rights across a large portion of B.C.'s Great Bear Rainforest. Coastal bears provide important services to the ecosystem. Killing them not only disrupts these processes but also potentially imperils populations. The very rare Spirit or Kermode Bear is a North American black bear living in the central and north coast of B.C. and it needs to be protected. | <urn:uuid:7b5b45e1-cb05-4a27-ad07-94614bbb8c68> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/tag/spirit-bears | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00029-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928658 | 86 | 1.78125 | 2 |
From Mario Apuzzo, attorney in the lawsuit, Kerchner V Obama, July 31, 2009:
“You are poorly informed on the constitutional issue involved with Obama’s eligibility to be President. The primary issue is whether Obama is an Article II “natural born Citizen,” not whether he was born in the U.S. When drafting the eligibility requirements for the President, the Founding Fathers distinguished between “Citizen” and “natural born Citizen” in Article II, sec. 1, cl. 5 and in Articles I, III, and IV of the Constitution. Per the Founders, while Senators and Representatives can be just “citizens,” after 1789 the President must be a “natural born Citizen.” The Founders wanted to assure that the Office of President and Commander in Chief of the Military, a non-collegial and unique and powerful civil and military position, was free of all foreign influence and that its holder have sole and absolute allegiance, loyalty, and attachment to the U.S. The “natural born Citizen” clause was the best way for them to assure this.
The distinction between “citizen” and “natural born Citizen” is based on the law of nations which became part of our national common law. According to that law as explained by Vattel in his, The Law of Nations, a “citizen” is simply a member of the civil society. To become a “citizen” is to enter into society as a member thereof. On the other hand, a “natural born Citizen” is a child born in the country of two citizen parents who have already entered into and become members of the society. Vattel also tells us that it is the “natural born Citizen” who will best preserve and perpetuate the society. This definition of the two distinct terms has been adopted by many United States Supreme Court decisions. Neither the 14th Amendment (which covers only “citizens” who are permitted to gain membership in and enter American society by either birth on U.S. soil or by naturalization and being subject to the jurisdiction of the United States), nor Congressional Acts, nor any case law has ever changed the original common law definition of a “natural born Citizen.” Congressional Acts and case law, like the 14th Amendment, have all dealt with the sole question of whether a particular person was going to be allowed to enter into and be a member of American society and thereby be declared a “citizen.” Never having been changed, the original constitutional meaning of a “natural born Citizen” prevails today. It is this definition of “natural born Citizen” which gives the Constitutional Republic the best chance of having a President and Commander in Chief of the Military who has sole and absolute allegiance, loyalty, and attachment to the United States. By satisfying all conditions of this definition, all other avenues of acquiring other citizenships and allegiances (jus soli or by the soil and jus sanguinis or by descent) are cut off. I call this state of having all other means of acquiring other citizenships or allegiances cut off unity of citizenship which is what the President must have at the time of birth.
Obama’s father was born in Kenya when it was a British colony. When he came to America, he was probably here on a student visa and he never became a legal resident of the U.S. or an immigrant. He had no attachment to the U.S. other than to study in its prestigious educational institutions which he did for the sole purpose of returning to Kenya and applying his learning there for the best interests of that nation. In fact, when he completed his studies, he did return to Kenya and worked for its government.” | <urn:uuid:bd4dd36a-b98a-4305-bd3b-2f4f14df575a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://citizenwells.wordpress.com/2009/07/31/what-to-tell-the-birthers-bashers-mario-apuzzo-july-31-2009-natural-born-citizen-founding-fathers-free-of-all-foreign-influence/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00011-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.983527 | 788 | 2.40625 | 2 |
U.S. WON'T SACRIFICE TAIWAN TO IMPROVE RELATIONS WITH MAINLAND
Washington, Feb. 6 (CNA) Washington will not sacrifice Taiwan to improve U.S.-mainland China relations, the U.S. deputy assistant secretary of defense for East Asia said Friday.
Speaking at a hearing held by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Commission, Richard Lawless said that U.S.-mainland China relations are not a zero sum game.
The commission, which was set up by the U.S. Congress in 2000, is aimed at regularly reviewing the impact of U.S.-China economic and trade relations on U.S. national security as well as on the effective execution of the Taiwan Relations Act.
Lawless said at the hearing that "Taiwan's development into a true multi-party democracy over the past decade has strengthened America's commitment to the island's defense." "As long as Taiwan has a capable defense, the environment will be more conducive to peaceful dialogue, and thus, the region as a whole will be more stable," he added.
Pointing out that Washington takes its obligations to help Taiwan maintain a self-defense capability very seriously, Lawless said that the Bush administration's national security strategy calls for "building a balance of power that favors freedom, and identifies the spread and protection of freedom and democracy as a national security objective of the United States."
Saying that President George W. Bush has clearly expressed U.S. opposition to any unilateral changes to the current status quo in the Taiwan Strait whether through the use of force or a declaration of independence, Lawless said that "the preservation of Taiwan's democracy depends on effectively balancing these two goals, while providing Taiwan with the support it needs to deter coercion from the People's Republic of China."
He also said that Taiwan has encountered significant defense challenges, including mainland China's ambitious military modernization which has raised doubts about Beijing's claims that it prefers a peaceful resolution to its differences with Taiwan. "Taiwan faces an increasingly powerful PRC with an accelerated military moderation program which is designed to improve China's force options versus Taiwan, and is designed to deter and counter U.S military intervention, " the official noted. "This modernization is focused on exploiting vulnerabilities in Taiwan's national and operational level command and control system, its integrated air defense system, and Taiwan's reliance on sea lanes of communication for sustenance," he added.
He warned that faced with PRC's rapid military modernization, Taiwan's relative military strength will deteriorate unless the island invests sufficiently in its own defense.
While mentioning Taiwan's current isolation in the international community, particularly in the area of security cooperation, Lawless said that although several states may quietly collaborate with the island on security matters, the United States "stands alone in its political courage, strategic imperative and sense of moral responsibility in assisting Taiwan."
Although Taiwan has been facing serious challenges, these challenges are not insurmountable, Lawless said. "Our defense relationship with Taiwan seeks to reverse negative trends in this ability to defend itself, possibly obviating the need for massive U.S. intervention in a crisis scenario, and allowing Taiwan's political leaders to determine the island's future from a position of strength," he explained. "If deterrence fails, we must be prepared to swiftly defeat the PRC's use of force (against Taiwan)," he added.
Meanwhile, the official reiterated that any improvements in the Washington-Beijing relationship will not come at Taiwan's expense, but rather serve to prevent possible misperceptions and promote restraint.
(By Jorge Liu and P.C. Tang)
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Quantum Dots/Semiconducting Nanocrystals: Optical Applications, 14-R9512Printer Friendly Version
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Background - During the last decade or so, there has been great progress in nanotechnology, especially in the field of quantum dots (QDs). Also known as semiconductor nanocrystals, artificial atoms, and so on, their composition and small size (a few thousand atoms) give them extraordinary optical properties, which can be customized by changing the size or composition or both of the dots. These interesting properties are brought about from the "quantum confinement" of the electron-hole pairs. Their optical characteristics are different from standard organic dyes and therefore may have new uses.
Approach - The approach was to gain hands-on experience in the field of QDs, specifically in the various types of QDs. Commercially available QDs were utilized for most of the project; however, some preliminary work on synthesis was also done in SwRI laboratories.
Accomplishments - This project was successful in that we gained experience in handling the various types of QDs that were commercially supplied in several different formats, such as dispersed in bulk polymers, in thin films, or suspended in organic solvents. We have successfully synthesized lead-sulfide QDs in-house; a follow-on internal research project has been funded to continue the synthesis work. (Refer to Project 14-R9643, with Dr. Jonathan Schulze as the principal investigator.) The environmental impact of QDs was investigated in the literature, and this information is valuable for future applications. In particular, we presently feel that projects using aerosolized or loose QDs are undesirable because of the unknown effects they may have on man and the environment because of their extremely small size and composition containing heavy metal atoms. However, we are comfortable with utilizing QDs embedded in polymer matrices and similar arrangements. | <urn:uuid:a2198a05-7b2a-443b-a45f-39d67014f0b2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.swri.com/3pubs/IRD2006/Synopses/149512.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00067-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957203 | 403 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Lyme Disease in Children
What is Lyme disease?
Lyme disease (LD) is a multi-stage, multi-system bacterial infection caused by the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi, a spiral shaped bacterium that is most commonly transmitted by a tick bite. The disease takes its name from Lyme, Connecticut, where the illness was first identified in the United States in 1975.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Lyme disease continues to be a rapidly emerging infectious disease, and is the leading cause of all insect-borne illness in the U.S. According to the CDC, LD cases more than doubled during the surveillance period of 1992 to 2006. In 2010, there were nearly 23,000 confirmed cases and nearly 7,000 probable cases of LD.
Lyme disease is a year-round problem, although April through October is considered tick season. Cases of LD have been reported in nearly all states in this country, with most cases occurring in:
The coastal northeast
The mid-Atlantic states
Wisconsin and Minnesota
Many cases have also been identified in large areas of Asia and Europe.
What are the symptoms of Lyme disease?
The list of possible symptoms for Lyme disease is nonspecific, and symptoms can affect every part of the body. Symptoms usually appear within three to 30 days following a tick bite. The following are the most common symptoms of LD. However, each child may experience symptoms differently.
One of the primary symptoms is often a circular-shaped rash that can be pink in the center and a deeper red on the surrounding skin, resembling a bulls-eye pattern. The rash:
Can appear several days after infection, or not at all.
Can last up to several weeks.
Can be very small or very large (up to 12 inches across).
Can mimic such skin problems as hives, eczema, sunburn, poison ivy, and flea bites.
Can itch or feel hot, or may not be felt at all.
Can disappear and return several weeks later.
Several days or weeks after a bite from an infected tick, flu-like symptoms can appear, including the following:
After several months, painful and swollen joints may occur.
Other possible symptoms may include the following:
Symptoms of LD may resemble other conditions or medical problems. Always consult your child's doctor for a diagnosis.
How is Lyme disease diagnosed?
LD may be difficult to diagnose because the symptoms may resemble other conditions. The primary symptom is a rash, but it may not be present in more than 20 percent of cases. Diagnosis is usually based on symptoms and a history of a tick bite.
Diagnosis of Lyme disease must be made by an experienced doctor. Blood and laboratory tests may be performed to help diagnose LD and to rule out other conditions.
Research is underway to develop and improve methods for diagnosing LD.
What is the treatment for Lyme disease?
Your child's doctor will determine the best treatment plan based on your child's individual situation. Lyme disease is usually treated with antibiotics.
Treatment will be considered based on these and other factors:
Your child's symptoms and test results.
If your child is bitten by a tick that tests positive for spirochetes.
If your child is bitten by a tick and has any of the symptoms.
If your child is bitten by a tick and lives in an area where the ticks are known to be infected.
How can Lyme disease be prevented?
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Illegal drugs are divided into classes according to the harm they cause and the criminal penalties attached:
- Class A: Ecstasy, LSD, heroin, cocaine, crack, magic mushrooms, crystal meth
- Class B: Cannabis, amphetamines, Methylphenidate (Ritalin), Pholcodine
- Class C: Tranquilisers, some painkillers, GHB, ketamine
8.6% of adults and 20% of young adults (16-24) have used illegal drugs in the last year (NHS Stats). 3.1% of adults and 7.3% of young adults have used a class A drug in the last year (NHS Stats).
Risk factors for drug use include: poverty, having been in care, having been homeless, having truanted or been excluded from school, involvement in crime (NHS Stats). 80% of women involved in street prostitution are problem drug users (Hester & Westmarland)
Substance misuse in pregnancy
- An estimated 1% of pregnant women are problem drug users and another 1% are problem drinkers (Hidden Harm)
- Heroin is the main drug of pregnant drug users but many use multiple drugs and alcohol. Cocaine (crack), amphetamines, benzodiazepines and cannabis are also common (Hall & van Teijlingen)
- During pregnancy, heroin dependence is usually managed by prescribing the safe substitute methadone on a dose that stabilises the condition and avoids injecting. Sudden detoxification (“cold turkey”) can be dangerous for the baby, especially in the third trimester when even mild maternal withdrawal is associated with fetal stress, fetal distress, and stillbirth. (NHS Evidence)
Substance misuse and parenting
- 2–3% of children in England and Wales have a parent with serious drug or alcohol problems. (Hidden Harm)
- Almost two-thirds of drug-using women entering treatment are parents, but only half live with their children. (Saving Mothers’ Lives)
Effects of drug and alcohol misuse on babies
- Babies exposed before birth to heroin, other opiates, cocaine and benzodiazepines can be become physically addicted to the drugs and be born with severe neonatal withdrawal symptoms (“neonatal abstinence syndrome” or “NAS”). (Hidden Harm)
- NAS can also develop in babies whose mothers have been prescribed the heroin substitute methadone (NHS Evidence)
- Cocaine damages brain development causing learning and behaviour problems (Hidden Harm)
- Heroin slows fetal growth, causing interuterine growth retardation (small for dates babies) and premature birth (NHS Evidence)
- Problem drug use is associated with low birthweight, premature birth, stillbirth and SIDS, but as most problem drug users are also heavy cigarette smokers, with poor nutrition and complex social circumstances, these outcomes may be due to tobacco exposure and other adverse circumstances (Hidden Harm; NHS Evidence)
- Heavy drinking can cause physical abnormalities, impaired growth and cognitive delay (“fetal alcohol syndrome”) (Hidden Harm)
- If drugs are injected there is an increased risk of the transmission of HIV and viral hepatitis (Hidden Harm)
- Babies born with NAS drug withdrawal symptoms can be very difficult to care for due to their feeding problems, irritability and poor sleep pattern and this may prevent early bonding between mother and baby (Potts)
- A mother’s feelings of inadequacy and guilt if her baby is born drug dependent or otherwise harmed by her drug use may also make it hard for her develop maternal attachment (Potts)
- Drug and alcohol addiction are important risk factors for maternal death through suicide, accidental overdose and medical complications (Saving Mothers’ Lives)
Effects of parents’ drug use on young children
Using drugs does not mean that an adult cannot be a caring and responsible parent (Potts). However, where there is problem drug use, often combined with mental health problems and poverty, children are at increased risk of:
- neglect and abuse
- dangerously inadequate supervision
- inadequate and unstable accommodation
- toxic substances in the home
- social isolation. (Hidden Harm)
Consequences for the children include:
- failure to thrive
- blood-borne virus infections
- inadequate health care and missed immunisations
- emotional, cognitive, behavioural and other
- psychological problems
- poor educational attainment. (Hidden Harm)
In families where the parents are problem drug users, other family members, especially maternal grandparents, may take on responsibility for the children to avoid them being taken into care. (Potts)
Drug users’ feelings about maternity services
Women who use drugs are more likely to attend antenatal care late and/or conceal their drugs use from health professionals (Saving Mothers’ Lives; Hall & van Teijlingen). As well as the pressures of a chaotic lifestyle, this may because of:
- Fear of professionals’ reactions – staff attitudes are more important to women in determining use of services than clinical care
- Anxiety & guilt about impact of drugs on baby
- Fear of the child being taken into care
- Denial – some women avoid facing the reality of pregnancy (Hall & van Teijlingen)
- The difficulty of dealing with multiple agencies (NICE)
On the other hand, pregnancy may be an important opportunity for change, when a woman is highly motivated to come off drugs or stabilise her drug use in order to have a healthy pregnancy and keep her baby. (Hall & van Teijlingen)
Caring for pregnant women who misuse substances (NICE)
NICE recommends that health professionals should:
- integrate care from different services by:
- jointly developing a co-ordinated care plan across agencies
- including information about opiate replacement therapy in care plans
- co-locating services
- offering women information about the services provided by other agencies.
- ensure that the attitudes of staff do not prevent women from using services
- address women’s fears about the involvement of children’s services and potential removal of their child, by providing information tailored to their needs
- address women’s feelings of guilt about their misuse of substances and the potential effects on their baby
- offer the woman a named midwife or doctor who has specialised knowledge of, and experience in, the care of women who misuse substances, and provide a direct-line telephone number for the named midwife or doctor.
NICE further recommends that women who use drugs should have the following advice and support:
- The first time a woman who misuses substances discloses that she is pregnant, offer her referral to an appropriate substance misuse programme.
- Use a variety of methods, for example text messages, to remind women of upcoming and missed appointments.
- The named midwife or doctor should tell the woman about relevant additional services (such as drug and alcohol misuse support services) and encourage her to use them according to her individual needs.
- Offer the woman information about the potential effects of substance misuse on her unborn baby, and what to expect when the baby is born, for example what medical care the baby may need, where he or she will be cared for and any potential involvement of social services.
- Offer information about help with transportation to appointments if needed to support the woman’s attendance.
Breastfeeding and drug and alcohol misuse (NHS Evidence)
- Most women who use heroin or other opiod drugs or substitution therapy (methadone) should be encouraged to breastfeed, but not if they use cocaine/crack or high-dose benzodiazepines.
- Mothers should breastfeed immediately before an opioid dose is taken (to avoid peak concentrations of the drug in breast milk).
- Some methadone passes into breast milk, and where a mother continues to use methadone after birth, her fully breastfed baby is likely to develop fewer withdrawal symptoms.
- Seek specialist advice if the woman is HIV positive or hepatitis C positive
- Alcohol passes into breastmilk at approximately maternal concentrations, and a baby’s growth and development may be affected where the breastfeeding mother regularly drinks more than two units a day (Jones)
Key organisations for women
Tel: 0800 77 66 00
Babycentre information on illegal drugs in pregnancy
Hall J & van Teijlingen E. A qualitative study of an integrated maternity, drugs and social care service for drug-using women. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2006, 6:19 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2393/6/19
Hester M & Westmarland N (2004) Tackling Street Prostitution: Towards a Holistic Approach. Home Office Research Study No. 279. London: Home Office. http://www.mesmac.co.uk/blast/research/pdfs/Tackling_street_prostitution.pdf
Hidden Harm – Responding to the needs of children of problem drug users. The report of an Inquiry by the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (2003) http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/publications/agencies-public-bodies/acmd1/hidden-harm-full?view=Binary
Jones W & The Breastfeeding Network. Alcohol and breastfeeding 2009 http://www.breastfeedingnetwork.org.uk/pdfs/Alcohol_and_Breastfeeding_March_2009.pdf
NHS Evidence: clinical knowledge summaries. Opioid dependence – management. Scenario: pregnant and breastfeeding. http://www.cks.nhs.uk/opioid_dependence#-482510
“NHS Stats”: NHS Health and Social Care Information Centre. Statistics on Drug Misuse: England, 2010 http://www.ic.nhs.uk/webfiles/publications/003_Health_Lifestyles/Statistics_on_Drug_Misuse%20_England_2010.pdf
NICE guidance 2011 Pregnancy and complex social factors (CG110) A model for service provision for pregnant women with complex social factors http://guidance.nice.org.uk/CG110
Potts N. Problem drug use and child protection: Interagency working and policies in Scotland. Infant 1(6):189-193. http://www.infantgrapevine.co.uk/pdf/inf_006_dto.pdf
“Saving Mothers’ Lives”: Centre for Child and Maternal Enquiries. Saving Mothers Lives. Reviewing maternal deaths to make motherhood safer. BJOG vol 18 supplement 1 2011 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1471-0528.2010.02847.x/abstract | <urn:uuid:267662e1-c4f1-4b4c-9a42-94782c6765e3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.bestbeginnings.org.uk/drugs | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00012-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.905657 | 2,255 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Mission Control Center
Discovery astronauts completed their third and final space walk Friday evening, replacing a failed radio transmitter and installing a new solid state recorder. After the successful completion of those tasks, Lead Flight Director Linda Ham announced Friday evening that the STS-103 mission had met all criteria for complete success. Discovery astronauts are scheduled to release Hubble a little before 5 p.m. CST on Christmas Day.
Astronauts Steve Smith and John Grunsfeld on Friday installed a transmitter that sends scientific data from Hubble to the ground. The transmitter replaced one that failed in 1998. A second transmitter had successfully carried the load without any disruption to Hubble scientific operations. Since the transmitters are considered very reliable, they were not designed to be replaced in orbit and special tools were developed to make the job easier.
Smith and Grunsfeld also installed a solid state digital recorder, replacing an older mechanical reel-to-reel recorder version. The digital Solid State Recorder provides more than 10 times the storage capacity of the old unit. They also applied new insulation on two equipment bay doors.
Both the transmitter and the recorder checked out normally on early tests by telescope controllers.
Two previous space walks on Wednesday and Thursday had completed the highest priority tasks of the mission. Those tasks included installation of six new gyroscopes and six Voltage/Temperature Improvement Kits, giving Hubble a new computer 20 times faster and with six times the memory of the old computer, and replacement of one of Hubble’s three Fine Guidance Sensors.
Friday's space walk lasted 8 hours and 8 minutes, ending at 9:25 p.m., making it the fourth longest in history. Part of the reason for the length of the space walk was difficulty in hooking Grunsfeld’s suit up to orbiter power after he had returned to Discovery’s airlock. Friday's space walk brings the total time of STS-103 extravehicular activity to 24 hours, 33 minutes. This mission's three space walks bring the total amount of time spent servicing Hubble to 93 hours, 13 minutes. Space Shuttle Program space walks now total 317 hours, 3 minutes. And Steve Smith now is the astronaut with the second longest combined space walk time, with 35 hours, 33 minutes behind only Jerry Ross, with 44 hours, 11 minutes.
Discovery is in an orbit with a high point of 380 miles and a low point of 363 miles. All of the orbiter’s systems continued to function normally. The next status report will be issued at 11 a.m. Saturday or when events warrant.
NASA Johnson Space Center
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|2012 07 18 Leaving a bitter taste|
Last week residents of the small Mpumalanga town of Carolina were assured by water & environmental affairs minister Edna Molewa their tap water was safe after they had to resort to court to enforce their right to clean drinking water.
But by the beginning of this week the local municipality had still not been able to offer reassuring test results.
The water crisis in Carolina, which has dragged on for over six months, could be a warning signal of what will happen in other areas, if action isn't taken.
Residents were driven to take local and national government to court after their tap water became undrinkable in December. The municipal water treatment plant, which was already handicapped by years of high staff turnover, could no longer cope with a sharp increase in levels of pollution by local coal mines.
According to Federation for a Sustainable Environment (FSE) spokesman Koos Pretorius, it is only a matter of time before other towns such as Middelburg, Breyton, Ermelo and Belfast encounter the same problem. The sulphate levels in Middelburg water are already approaching 500mg/litre, which is the maximum considered safe in SA.
For a town the size of Middelburg, JoJo tanks will not be a practicable solution, Pretorius says.
Signs of Carolina's creaking infrastructure were evident several years ago. In November 2008 over 1000 people in the Albert Luthuli municipality were treated for diarrhoea. Officials said recent heavy rains had diluted the chlorine in the water treatment plant. Another, similar incident had happened a year previously, also after heavy rains.
This year's crisis has been traced to heavy minerals from mining, which has made the water acidic. Pretorius says sustained exposure to elevated sulphate levels in water affects people's absorption of essential minerals such as zinc and selenium. Selenium is particularly important to people who are HIV/Aids compromised, and Aids incidence is high around Carolina.
Last week the FSE and the Silobela Concerned Community, supported by the Legal Resources Centre (LRC), won an order in the North Gauteng high court compelling the Carolina municipality to provide potable water within 72 hours and take measures to ensure it is supplied through the water services system.
The situation has highlighted serious problems, by no means new, that need to be addressed urgently.
The mines have to be policed closely to prevent pollution of increasingly scarce water resources and if they do, they must pay whatever it takes to fix the damage. Earlier this month the North Gauteng high court ruled Harmony Gold Mining was still responsible for water pollution from a mine it sold in 2008.
It is very difficult to force small operators and closed mines to meet their environmental responsibilities. But two of the four coal mines identified by the department of water affairs (DWA) as responsible for the water contamination at Carolina are BHP Billiton's closed Union Mine and Xstrata's recently sold Tselentis Colliery. Both BHP Billiton and Xstrata claim to have a commitment to water conservation.
In response to the directive BHP Billiton received in March, it arranged a site visit by water officials to the defunct and rehabilitated Union Colliery and made written representations setting out the steps it has taken to prevent pollution of the water resources around Carolina, says manager for communications Kesagee Nayager. Billiton is confident it has not contributed to this problem.
Xstrata Coal SA sold Spitzkop and Tselentis to Msobo Group last year, communications manager Gugulethu Maqetuka says. Before that, Xstrata secured integrated water use licences for both mines. "We have co-operated with the DWA fully on all water related matters concerning the mines," she adds.
But the problem cannot be blamed entirely on the mines.
Municipal inefficiency in providing infrastructure services to rate-paying residents is widespread, reflecting lack of skills and the ANC's "jobs for pals" approach to local government. There's a huge gap between what the national government is promising voters and what local governments are delivering, which is the root of ongoing violent service delivery protests around the country.
Even many national government departments are completely unable to enforce a first-class body of law. For example, skills shortages within the DWA have resulted in a huge backlog in processing mines' applications for water use licences. In an attempt to speed it up, the DWA is now granting some water licences without the necessary public participation, Pretorius says.
Government often reacts defensively to criticism instead of taking action. The North Gauteng court declined to enforce a costs order against the DWA because it had provided the necessary funds to the Carolina municipalities to deal with the problem and because the constitution clearly separates the responsibilities of national and local government.
Nevertheless, Molewa complained to the media that "there is a war against the state here" since it was government institutions that were cited by the FSE and Carolina residents, not the mines.
LRC attorney Naseema Fakir, who acted for Silobela and the FSE, says the reason government was cited and not the mines was that it is government's constitutional mandate to provide water. An order requiring the mines to clean up would not have had the same urgency as one compelling the authorities to provide water.
"If government sees this as a war it is misguided," she says. "We hope to work with government."
The most shameful feature of the Carolina water crisis was how 17000 people, who are voters and taxpayers, were let down by mining businesses, local and national government. It was only thanks to the efforts of poorly funded idealists in the nongovernmental sector - in this case, the LRC and the FSE - that Carolina residents were able to enforce their basic rights through the courts. | <urn:uuid:0452b069-d330-4d29-9e69-75aba2f192b2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.lrc.org.za/lrc-in-the-news/2148-2012-07-18-leaving-a-bitter-taste | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00004-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970537 | 1,212 | 2.484375 | 2 |
Oakland Unified School District's academic progress seems to be stuck in the mud.
Despite recent gains, the district is spinning its wheels in trying to reach its benchmark goals around student proficiency in core academic areas.
In a recent report looking at student proficiency over a three-year period, modest academic gains are overshadowed by stagnant or declining results in key areas. In addition, all of the district’s positive numbers are well below state averages.
OUSD board directors say that while they are comfortable with the policy and goals of Superintendent Tony Smith, they want to see more rapid advancements in student achievement.
"It's not moving fast enough, but it's moving," OUSD School Director Christopher Dobbins said. "The important thing is that we're going forward."
The report looks at the Oakland district over a three-year period, from 2009 until 2012, and examines a number of categories including proficiency in math and English.
A bright area in the report notes that gains are being made by district students in the area of English Language Arts, with proficiency jumping from 37 percent in 2009 to 45 percent in 2012. Math proficiency also rose in that time period, from 39 percent in 2009 to 45 percent in 2012.
In science, 50 percent of fifth grade students are proficient for 2012. That's a 6 percent jump from 2010.
But, students of color have mixed numbers in the report.
For this year, the number of African-American students proficient in math is at 36 percent. That's a drop from the year prior which was 38 percent. In 2009 math proficiency was 34 percent.
Hispanic students also saw up and down numbers. About 46 percent of students this year are proficient, a drop from 48 percent in 2011. For 2009, 40 percent of Hispanic students were math proficient.
English learners had yo-yo numbers over the study period. Proficiency in math declined in 2012 to 51 percent from 53 percent in 2011. But, that's higher than the 46 percent in 2009.
Chronic absence also continues to be a challenge for the district. While the number of students chronically absent has dropped from one in 10, overall it's still high. Today, one in nine Oakland public school students is considered chronically absent. This severely impacts student academic achievement, as well as the district's finances, which receives state money on a per pupil basis.
The report notes that 20 schools have recently met the district's goal of reducing chronic absences to five percent. But, the vast majority of OUSD's schools, 75, are still struggling.
In a separate report on student enrollment, the overall pattern for Oakland Unified School District continues to be children leaving the district in large numbers. While key areas like graduation and dropouts rates show improved results, overall the district continues to lose students at a rapid clip.
Oakland Unified has a 36,262 enrolled in its schools; that's a sharp drop from 37,742 that were enrolled last year.
Even when accounting for students that have left the district to attend charter schools, there is still a significant drop in its numbers. In the 2000-01 school year there were 52,842 students enrolled. In addition, while the district presents the enrollment numbers for charter schools, it's unclear how many of those charter students were formerly enrolled in OUSD schools.
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Newborn (0-6 Months)
How to Bathe Your Newborn
Bathing your newborn can seem incredibly daunting. They look so small and vulnerable naked, and can be so slippery and seemingly impossible to get into the tub. Before placing your newborn in the tub, you’ll want to make sure everything is ready for washing, playing, and drying.
- A baby bath tub with a sling or mat to prevent the newborn from being immersed in water (not necessary for sponge bathing, but useful). There are infant tubs which support little heads and necks (like the Washpod, which purportedly mimics the womb experience) or bath positioners you can use in your tub. Before your baby’s umbilical cord stump falls off, you won’t be submerging her or him in water, so you’ll want supplies for a sponge bath. Using any plastic container full of warm water or putting a small amount of water in your infant tub should be enough.
- A baby bath towel washed in appropriate baby detergent. Hooded towels help you keep your baby’s head warm when coming out of the bath – and they are some of the cutest things you’ve ever seen.
- Sterile cotton balls to clean his or her eyes. Cotton balls and Q-tips are also convenient for cleaning behind ears, under arms or anywhere that needs closer attention or is still covered in vernix, the layer of cheese-like coating found on baby’s skin at birth.
- At least two soft washcloths – one for soaping and one for rinsing. It’s not necessary to buy washcloths specifically for baby (though they are typically smaller in size, cuter, and can potentially match your towels or baby d’cor).
- Fresh diapers and ointment for diaper rash and/or circumcision if necessary.
- Rubbing alcohol and cotton swabs if needed for umbilical cord.
- Access to warm water or a bucket filled with warm water.
- Clean clothes
- Gentle soap and/or shampoo. At the very beginning, simply wash your baby with warm water. When the weather is very hot or humid or when baby’s had a bad spit-up or bowel movement, you may decide that a gentle baby soap would be best. If you do use soap, use it toward the end of the bath, so baby doesn’t wade too long in soapy water. It can be very drying to your newborn’s delicate skin.
- Brush and comb. When your newborn has more hair, you might like a brush or brush and comb set.
- Baby skin care. Beyond a gentle soap, you don’t need much, but many parents use sweet smelling lotions, cleansing cloths, powders or other goodies. Just make sureto always check for any skin reactions. Your newborn’s delicate skin can respond differently than adult skin to fragrances.
- Additional items: You may want a few more items to make baths easier or more fun.
- A thermometer to make sure bathwater isn’t too hot.
- Bath toys
- A spout cover to protect baby’s head
- Tub treads to keep a tub in place on the bathtub surface
- A container for bath toys.
How Much Water
Until the umbilical cord stump has fallen off, only sponge-bathe your newborn. Once it’s fallen off and your newborn is ready for the tiny tub, you still won’t be fully submerging your baby. For newborns you need only fill the baby tub with a couple of inches of lukewarm water.
Babies don’t like baths as hot as adults do, so testing the water is very important.
- Make the water warm but not hot. A lukewarm tub is perfect for your newborn, anywhere between 90°F and 100°F.
- Your hands are tougher than your newborn’s skin and therefore won’t feel heat like a baby’s bum will.
- Test the tub by dipping your elbow into the water; it’s more sensitive than your hands.
- Mix the water around with your hands or a cup to ensure there are no scalding spots.
- Intermittently (and carefully) pour small cups of water over baby to keep him from getting cold.
How Often and When
For the first couple of weeks, sponge-bathe your new baby until the umbilical cord stump has fallen off and the circumcision, if one was had, has healed. Newborns only need to be cleaned three or four times a week, but a nighttime bath can be an excellent bedtime ritual.
Holding and Positions
Getting the positions just right can take some time. It’s very important to always keep at least one hand on your newborn as they can be slippery and wiggly in bath water.
- After undressing your baby, place him very gently in the tub feet-first, always making sure you keep one hand supporting his head, neck and back.
- Some baby tubs come with built-in head and neck supports, but still make sure you keep a hand on your baby.
- Wash your baby with your free hand.
- Be careful lifting your baby from the bath. Again, make sure to support the head and neck with one hand and hold their tiny tush and thigh with the other. This is often referred to as the “safety hold.”
- Start with the face. Use one sterile cotton ball for each eye, gently wiping from the inner eye outward. For the rest of the face, wash using just water.
- Then move to the chest and neck. Continue to use only water unless the baby is particularly dirty for some reason. Do the same for the arms, legs and back. Make sure you clean in all of those adorable folds.
- Lastly, wash the baby’s genitals. Follow the care for circumcision instructions for boys, but for girls, wash front to back with water. You might notice a normal vaginal discharge.
- To wash the hair, wrap your baby in a dry towel and hold him in a football hold over a sink. Use a cup to pour warm water over the scalp, and then wash the hair with just water or with a small amount of shampoo.
- Hands and feet will need a small dab of baby soap, but make sure to rinse thoroughly as they’ll most likely be in your baby’s mouth in no time.
Bath time is a perfect time to bond with your newborn. By forming rituals with your children, bath-time can become something you all look forward to.
- Start with a toy, maybe giving a favorite ducky a name or making a puppet washcloth talk.
- Schedule a bath time and be consistent. Some parents prefer morning baths as they can be invigorating for baby, but most parents seem to agree that evening is the best time, as baths can be quite calming and help give baby a good night’s rest. But there is no wrong time of day, so find the time that works for you.
- Making your own rituals will happen naturally. Whether it’s singing a certain song or climbing in too, bath time can be fun. Enjoy it!
Baby’s post-bath routine can take just as long as the actual bath, but it’s important not to miss anything, especially if baby’s next stop is bed.
- Dry your baby well and apply any needed cream for diaper rash or healing ointment for circumcision before diapering, clothing and swaddling.
- Find clothes with snaps or zipper closures and wide openings for the neck. Now is not the time to be fumbling with buttons. Also, onesies with built-in mittens are great to protect your baby from her surprisingly sharp fingernails.
- Take the opportunity to sing and talk to your little one, both for distraction and bonding. Explain what color the shirt and pants are, count how many snaps you’re fastening, and label each body part as you kiss them.
- Instead of trying to shimmy sleeves and pants over uncooperative limbs, try reaching into the openings and pulling his or her extremities through.
- Don’t overbundle babies at night, as instinctive as that seems. Believe it or not, babies are comfortable in 61°F to 67°F. Dress your newborn in light pajamas and a sleeper or swaddling blanket. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, overheating increases a baby’s risk of SIDS.
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Stenton Travel guide
Stenton : Michelin's recommendations
This linear village stretches between the grassy West Square, overlooked by an old school building, and East Square, with its rare public scales once used to weigh wool. In the churchyard, the 16C tower (topped by two saw-tooth gables and a dovecote at its highest section) stands on the site of a church replaced in 1828 by a neo-Gothic parish church designed by William Burn. | <urn:uuid:a9dc5615-fb34-4d5f-b4c7-95b57ca98dca> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://travel.michelin.com/web/destination/Great_Britain-Scotland-Stenton | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00052-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954851 | 112 | 1.734375 | 2 |
Nevada State Income Tax - Tax Year 2012
Nevada Income Tax Table
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Note: Nevada has no state income tax. Only the Federal Income Tax applies.
The Nevada Income Tax
Nevada has no state income tax, so residents of Nevada pay only the Federal Income Tax on most forms of income. In place of a state income tax, Nevada generates revenue through other state taxes like the Nevada Sales Tax and various excise taxes on the sale of certain goods.
Cities and municipal governments in Nevada gain revenue through Nevada property taxes and local sales tax surcharges.
Nevada has no personal income tax or corporate income tax. Most of Nevada's state revenue comes from the sales tax and gambling taxes. There are -39 days left until Tax Day, on April 15th 2013.
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Nov 3, 2012
November Informational Writing and 3D Unit Coming
Monday will begin our November Journal Writing Packet (click for direct TPT link). Our main focus will be writing journal entries with an informational theme. We will be using the social studies standard with learning about your heritage as our theme. We will continue to do a guided writing together on these topics so that the kids understand the main topic, but also pick up other skills. Once we are done, the kids who are ready, will start journal writing on their own with this given topic that we just wrote about together. The kids who are not ready yet for this task, will work in a small group brainstorming what they can write with me helping them stretch out the words. I will definitely share some writings this week from all different levels of writers.
Students who are ready to do their own journal writing will be able to use a Thanksgiving Word List (Click for a direct link on TPT). This will need to be modeled, so I will model it during my guided writing lessons. This will keep kids from just writing a long string of Thanksgiving words that don't make sense in their journal. I will also use this with the students who still need a structure guided writing journal time. This group is now down to 6 kids! YEAH!!! However, this group is flexible. As I am walking around helping kids with independent journal time, I might see someone who I feel still needs the structure writing.
Next up for SueBeth and I is finalizing our 3D Solid Shape packet. It hits ALL geometry standards with many large group, small group, and center activities!! Can't wait to start using it this week!!
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John H. Wilkins Company (1958)
In 1957 Jim and Jane Henson started to make commercials, starting with advertisements for Wilkins Coffee. The pair would eventually make over 300 commercials, just for Wilkins Coffee alone! The commercials were incredibly short and direct to the point, with each one being approximately only seven seconds long.
Wilkins and Wontkins Puppets
was the protagonist, and displayed a lot of the traits which would later
evolve into Kermit. Wontkins was a gruff voiced and cantankerous character
who refused to drink Wilkins Coffee; as a direct result, all manner of
catastrophes befell him. The characters and concept were so popular that
they hawked products in other major TV markets as well.
The original Rowlf puppet is fantastic and resembles the 1978 Rowlf puppet in many ways. However, the eyes on Rowlf are made out of two layers of plastic, the first being the white, the second thicker layer being his black pupil. Like the Fisher-Price, you put your hand in Rowlf's head to make him speak. Unlike the Fisher-Price, the Ideal version has a bright red tongue (not sewed down in his mouth). The Ideal Rowlf also has a neat tail, unlike the Fisher-Price.
The Ideal Kermit is roughly the same length as the Ideal Rowlf, approximately 20 inches. His legs, arms, and head are made of a green plush material and his body is red felt. During much of the sixties Kermit wore a red sweater before he got his collar and became a frog in 1969. His mouth is felt also. At the back of Kermit, a metal rod sticks out which inside splits into two metal rods and goes down each arm. The metal rod at the back allows you to control the arms while you are working the head. He has no collar or pointed flippers, as you can see from the photo, but Kermit was not yet "officially" a frog when this doll was released in 1965.
In this picture taken during the filming of an Ideal commercial, you will also see the third Ideal doll, the Snerf. He was a Muppet monster who's neck would often move up and down. He is a precursor to the Muppet Snerfs who would have horns on their faces more than 10 years later during the run of "The Muppet Show". It is likely this doll was just a prototype and never commercially available.
The Ideal Box
The same box was used for Rowlf and Kermit, except for the round white "my name is" sticker on the front.
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Just Plug It In: Networking Via Power Circuits
No new wires. That's the mantra of almost everyone contemplating a home or small-office network, which is why wireless networks have become so popular. But a new standard that uses existing electrical wiring, HomePlug, could offer users a real alternative to wireless.
We tried out the first HomePlug networking products and found them easy to install, robust, and fast. They're especially suitable for hooking up desktop systems in larger homes and in small offices where wireless options may not be practical because of signal attenuation (related to distance from an access point).
HomePlug isn't the first technology to use existing wiring: The HomePNA standard for networks using telephone circuits was first published more than three years ago, and other power-line products have launched in the past. But previous power-line efforts were hampered by a combination of poor performance and a lack of standards, and HomePNA networks using telephone wires are hampered by the relative scarcity of telephone jacks in most homes. HomePlug, which lets you network devices by plugging an external adapter into a standard wall outlet, delivers performance superior to that of 802.11b wireless networks at only a small price premium--no more than $25 to $50 per computer.
For our tests, we tried out three paperback book-size, preproduction Linksys Instant Powerline products: two EtherFast 10/100 Bridges and one USB adapter (each at a street price of $149).
To network two PCs, we hooked one of the EtherFast 10/100 Bridges to the first system's standard ethernet port, and the USB adapter to the second PC's USB port. To add Internet access, we plugged the second EtherFast 10/100 Bridge into a conventional network router, which in turn was connected to a broadband modem (see diagram). Alternatively, if you have static IP addresses for your computers, you can substitute a hub for a router. By the time you read this, Linksys expects to release a $179 router with HomePlug technology built in, eliminating a box. Other vendors that expect to ship HomePlug components in the next few months include GigaFast, Netgear, Phonex Broadband, and SMC Networks.
We tested the adapters in a single-family home and in a condominium in a 29-unit building, using them to transfer files and surf the Web. The network ran flawlessly everywhere we plugged in, except for one outlet in the single-family home (HomePlug engineers say wiring quirks will occasionally cause this, but typically a nearby outlet will work just fine).
In these informal tests, the network appeared largely unaffected by our use of power strips and household electrical appliances, a problem that had plagued previous power-line networking systems. However, audiophiles who use special power conditioners to "clean up" electrical signals could run into problems if they plug a HomePlug unit into the conditioner, as the filtering system might perceive the network traffic as noise and filter it out.
The HomePlug specification protects your data from the prying eyes of others on your power grid by using DES encryption--as opposed to the RC4 algorithm, whose implementation in 802.11b has known security flaws--that works at the MAC address level (the unique identifier for each piece of hardware). Officials at Intellon, the chip maker that developed the HomePlug spec, say that hacking into a HomePlug network would require cracking the government's DES encryption standard.
HomePlug's theoretical maximum speed of 14 megabits per second is slightly faster than 802.11b's 11-mbps top speed, as well as the 10-mbps speed of older ethernet networks. Because typical broadband Internet access tops out at 1.5 mbps, neither network type gives you an advantage for Web surfing. But we were surprised at how much faster HomePlug was than 802.11b for file transfers. Transferring an 11MB file between our two HomePlug-equipped notebooks took only about 30 seconds, compared with 1 minute, 15 seconds when we substituted 802.11b PC Cards. Intellon engineers say this probably happened because HomePlug allowed data to flow directly between the two side-by-side notebooks (even with the router installed), while the 802.11b traffic had to move via the more distant router and back.
Additionally, HomePlug is not subject to other wireless traffic or to interference from walls and doors, all of which can significantly slow down 802.11b signals, especially if larger distances are involved.
Drawbacks? HomePlug is not supercheap--you can purchase 802.11b USB adapters for slightly less. It's also not ideal for notebooks, especially if you're often on the move: No HomePlug PC Cards have been announced, and having the paperback-size adapter as well as a standard AC adapter hanging off the back of your notebook is definitely cumbersome. In fact, people who wish to network both notebooks and desktop systems should consider creating their own hybrid 802.11b/HomePlug network, built around an 802.11b router with at least one extra ethernet port. Plug a HomePlug ethernet bridge into the router, slip an 802.11b PC Card into the notebook, plug your desktops into the wall outlet, and you have the best of both worlds. | <urn:uuid:129686a5-eeb3-4b90-8fe3-e69b2bc22ce3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.pcworld.com/article/85003/article.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00058-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940037 | 1,090 | 2.109375 | 2 |
Maya Rodriguez / Eyewitness News
NEW ORLEANS -- When the "Women of the Storm" stormed Capitol Hill this spring, they presented a united front calling for the restoration of the Gulf Coast using oil spill related fines collected from BP.
"For Louisiana, we're losing that football field every 38 minutes, so it's really a priority for us," said Anne Milling, founder of "Women of the Storm."
Yet, while the women presented a united front, Gulf Coast members of Congress remain anything but united.
"Surprisingly, many bills have been filed since March," Milling said. "So, you have not gotten the Gulf Coast region to come together as a team or a family, and that's part of the problem today."
The first bills came from Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-L and Rep. Steve Scalise. In essence, both call for 80 percent of the BP fines, collected under the Clean Water Act, to be put towards coastal restoration. The total amount: potentially between $5 billion to $20 billion.
"Louisiana had the largest environmental impact from the BP oil spill, so it makes sense that that money should come back here and help address the problems that the spill created," said Dr. John Lopez, with the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation.
However, other members of Congress have now filed bills, each with slightly different concerns, including one from Alabama Rep. Jo Bonner.
"Each of the five Gulf states was affected differently by last year's oil spill," Bonner, R-Ala., said in a statement sent to Eyewitness News. "This legislation ensures Alabama and the other gulf states have access to funds for economic development, tourism promotion and ecosystem restoration as meets their specific needs."
Scalise said Tuesday he has been meeting with colleagues -- all part of a recently-formed Gulf Coast Caucus -- to see if a compromise bill can be reached in the House.
"We wanted to make sure we could bring all of the states together, so there's not a food fight over the money, so to speak," Scalise said. "The first thing we have to do is set aside the money before it comes in. If the federal government -- through the Justice Department, BP -- agree to an amount tomorrow, or in five years, once they agree and it's set aside, we lose the ability to go and utilize that money."
If that happens, billions in oil spill fines would end up in the federal treasury, with no specified purpose. To try and ensure it is set aside for coastal restoration, the "Women of the Storm" are now mobilizing 75,000 supporters. They want them to call and email their legislators and push for a final bill by the end of the year.
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St. Asklepiodote of Adrianopolis
Commemorated on September 15
The Holy Martyr Asklepiodote suffered with Sts. Maximus and Theodotus at the beginning of the fourth century under the Emperor Maximian Galerius (305-311). Eminent citizens of the city of Marcianopolis, Maximus and Asklepiodote led a devout Christian life. By their example, they brought many to the faith in Christ and to holy Baptism.
Tiris, the Governor of Thrace, went around the city and persecuted those believing in Christ. He summoned Maximus and Asklepiodote before him and demanded they abandon the Christian Faith. When the martyrs refused, he ordered that they be beaten. A certain pious man named Theodotus began to reproach the governor for his inhumanity and cruelty. They seized him also, and hanging him on a tree, they tortured him with iron hooks. After this, they threw the three martyrs into prison. Tiris traveled throughout the land for an additional two weeks taking the holy martyrs along with him.
In the city of Adrianopolis, Tiris put them to still greater tortures, commanding that their bodies be scorched with white-hot plates. In the midst of their suffering, they heard a Voice from Heaven encouraging them to persevere. After several days of torture, Tiris ordered that the martyrs be eaten by wild beasts in the circus, but instead the she-bear released upon Sts. Maximus and Theodotus began to cuddle up to them.
St. Asklepiodote was tied to a bull, but she seemed to be rooted to the spot, and did not budge. Tiris resumed his journey and stopped in the village of Saltis before reaching the city of Philippopolis. Again, he urged the martyrs to renounce Christ. When they refused, he ordered them to be beheaded. God's wrath overtook Tiris when a bolt of lightning struck him as he sat upon the judgment seat.
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You must have seen nature films in which antelope or gazelle are suddenly surprised by a cheetah. Before they run away, and also while they are running, the animals do a weird pouncing prance, in which they leap into the air, all four legs stiff and back arched. This is stotting. Quite why they do it isn’t understood, though it may be a form of alarm signal, or a good way to get a better view of the ground ahead, or they may have been bribed by the producer to make the pictures more interesting.
The word comes from Scots, where it means to bounce, or to make something bounce against a surface. Its origin is sadly obscure. In Orkney, the same verb can mean to stutter, so it may be linked to that verb through Middle English stuten, to stutter.
A rare native English sighting is in R S Surtees’ Mr Sponge’s Sporting Tour of 1851: “Up started a great hare; bang! went the gun with the hare none the worse. Bang! went the other barrel, which the hare acknowledged by two or three stotting bounds and an increase of pace. ‘Well missed!’ exclaimed Mr Sponge”.
There is a story that the famous Newcastle stotty cake — a flat disc of soft bread, traditionally baked from left-over dough in the bottom of the oven — takes its name from the same source. The story goes that no local cook would consider a stotty cake properly made unless it bounced when she threw it on the kitchen floor. Make of this item of comestible folklorics what you will.
You may like to know that there’s another name for the leaping run of the gazelle, pronk, which comes via Afrikaans from the Dutch pronken, to strut. | <urn:uuid:42d6a867-da2f-4540-8695-030f3d4df45c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-sto1.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952187 | 394 | 2.625 | 3 |
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Diurnal Avian Corridor Maps
Identify river and forest systems that are valuable diurnal avian migration corridors.
To determine which river and forest systems act as valuable diurnal migration corridors the following methodology was employed. All river and forest systems with a north-south orientation or northwest-southeast orientation were included in the analysis. East-west rivers were not included in this analysis unless expert opinion or the Important Bird Areas (IBAs) mapping effort pointed out known sites as corridors for at least one group of birds (i.e shorebirds, raptors, etc.). These rivers tend to act more as stopover habitat for most species of landbirds and sometimes for waterfowl and shorebirds rather than as corridors since they are not oriented in the direction of spring or fall migration. Simultaneously, the state’s IBAs associated with a river system were mapped out and tallied. The IBA selection process is based on a combination of existing scientific studies, existing observational data, and the opinion of a panel of experts who determine whether a site is to be included as an IBA.
Corridors with existing IBAs were included if the selection criteria pointed to the value of an IBA as a migration corridor for various species and species groups. The remaining rivers were then analyzed using Google Earth for the presence of significant forest patches or continuous gallery forest along its shores. Selected river corridors required a minimum of 50% forest cover or gallery forest along at least one bank along a stretch of riverine corridor for inclusion. In some cases, portions of the corridor did not meet these criteria and were eliminated from further consideration. In a few instances in heavily agricultural landscapes, large blocks of forest habitat were patchily distributed along the shores, but were likely visible to migrating forest birds from one patch to the next and were included. In other instances, substantial wetlands along a corridor indicated a potentially valuable corridor for shorebirds or marshbirds. There was no attempt to thoroughly analyze waterfowl movement patterns in the state other than to include waterfowl as a potential component in the sites identified for landbirds, waterbirds, raptors, and shorebirds. Such an analysis would be a major undertaking requiring a large effort to radio tag or satellite collar hundreds of birds and dozens of species.
“Dominant bird groups / species”
This categorization is intended to be a general guide gleaned from IBA selection criteria and state expert opinion as to which groups of birds or bird species are most important in a selected river corridor and might be vulnerable to collisions with locally-sited communication towers, bridges, wind turbines, tall buildings, or other similar structures. This is not intended to be a comprehensive vulnerability assessment for a corridor’s avifauna, but serves only as a potential early warning system for biologists and developers. Developers should complete thorough pre-construction avian surveys for various projects sited in or along these corridors, paying special attention to those avian groups for which a river corridor provides known important habitat and passageway. Corridors noted with a double asterisk (**) are the only corridors where bridge construction projects are likely to be a serious issue with migrant birds due to the large river width, broad migration corridor, likelihood of foggy conditions on a regular basis, and potential height of any bridge constructed which may prove to be a hazard for migrant and resident birds.
**Lake Michigan shoreline
(east side of Door County from Rock Island south to Illinois state line)
Likely the most important migratory corridor in the state for 200+ species of migratory birds. Eight individual IBAs are located along the shoreline, namely (from north to south): Mink River Estuary-Newport State Park IBA, Toft Point-Ridges Sanctuary-Mud Lake IBA, Whitefish Dunes-Shivering Sands IBA, Point Beach State Forest IBA, Woodland Dunes Nature Center IBA, Cleveland Lakeshore Migration Corridor IBA, Harrington Beach State Park IBA, and Ozaukee Bight Migration Corridor. This is the major inland USA corridor for fall-migrating Merlin and Peregrine Falcon; other raptors occurring in smaller, but significant numbers include Rough-legged Hawk, Red-tailed Hawk, Sharp-shinned Hawk, Osprey, and Bald Eagle and owls including Northern Saw-whet Owl and Long-eared Owl. Spring shorebird flights along the shoreline and inland in agricultural fields is significant some springs with large late May concentrations of Black-bellied Plover, Dunlin, Sanderling, Semipalmated Sandpiper, and Ruddy Turnstone. In late summer and fall, 20+ species use the local wetlands and beaches on their passage south. Passerine migration is very heavy both spring and fall along the lakeshore and for some distance inland (up to 3 to 7 miles in some locations). The Point Beach IBA is the largest coastal stopover site between Door County, Wisconsin and the parks and preserves of northeastern Illinois and as such is an extremely important refugium.
Dominant bird groups / species: waterbirds, shorebirds, raptors (Northern Harrier, Osprey, Merlin, Peregrine Falcon), migrant passerines.
**Upper Mississippi River
(from Prescott to Illinois state line—an IBA runs from junction with Chippewa River to the Illinois state line):
Major documentation for considering this corridor as an IBA include raptor migration (buteos, both eagle species including wintering birds and breeding Bald Eagles, Osprey, breeding Red-shouldered Hawk, breeding Peregrine Falcon), migrant White Pelican (> 5,000 birds), many colonies of Great Blue Heron, Great Egret, and Green Heron, migrant waterfowl including nationally important concentrations of Tundra Swan, Canvasback, Common Goldeneye, and Bufflehead, numerous bottomland forest breeding passerines including Acadian Flycatcher, Wood Thrush, Kentucky, Cerulean, Prothonotary, and Hooded Warbler, and Louisiana Water-thrush.
Dominant bird groups / species: waterfowl, waterbirds, raptors (eagles, Osprey, Turkey Vulture, Peregrine Falcon), passerines.
**Lower Wisconsin River
(from the dam just north of Prairie du Sac southwestward to the junction with the Mississippi River):
An IBA includes 86 miles running as far southwest as 6 miles above the junction with the Mississippi River. This quite unspoiled area of numerous state wildlife areas, state parks, and natural areas is an outstanding raptor corridor for migrants (buteos, both eagle species, Northern Harrier, Osprey, and accipiter species) and wintering Bald and Golden Eagles, Rough-legged Hawks, and Short-eared Owls. Wooded bluffs are important sites for wintering Bald Eagles and a few Golden Eagles. Large numbers of waterfowl, particularly diving ducks and geese, utilize this corridor. Species likely vulnerable to collisions with bridges include Yellow-crowned Night Heron, Great Blue Heron, Great Egret, and American Bittern, White Pelican, and various raptors. Many bottomland species of concern breed along this corridor including both cuckoos, Whip-poor-will, Red-headed Woodpecker, Acadian Flycatcher, Wood Thrush, Cerulean Warbler, Worm-eating Warbler, Louisiana Water-thrush, Kentucky Warbler, and Hooded Warbler. The upper half of this area from U.S. 12 to the Blue River Sand Barrens State Natural Area is a priority area for breeding grassland birds including Bobolink, Henslow’s Sparrow, Lark Sparrow, Grasshopper Sparrow, and Western Meadowlark, most of which breed on the sand and gravel terraces along the river bluffs.
Dominant bird groups / species: waterfowl; waterbirds; raptors (eagles, Osprey); passerines.
**St. Croix River
(from Taylor Falls south to Prescott):
This corridor is also defined as the St. Croix River Important Bird Area (IBA). Major documentation for considering this corridor as an IBA include raptor migration (mainly Bald Eagle, Osprey, Turkey Vulture, Red-tailed Hawk, Broad-winged Hawk), waterfowl (geese and diving ducks), several Great Blue Heron colonies, and bottomland forest breeding birds including Red-shouldered Hawk, Prothonotary Warbler, and Louisiana Water-thrush.
Dominant bird groups / species: waterfowl—swans, geese, raptors (eagles, Osprey, buteos, Turkey Vulture); passerines
**Lower Chippewa River
(from junction with Mississippi River upstream for 40 miles):
This corridor is also defined as the Lower Chippewa IBA. Documentation for considering this area as an IBA include breeding Yellow-crowned Night Heron, Red-shouldered Hawk, Bald Eagle (including wintering and migrant birds), Black-billed Cuckoo, Red-headed Woodpecker, Cerulean Warbler, Prothonotary Warbler, and Worm-eating Warbler.
Dominant bird groups / species: raptors (eagles, Osprey); passerines.
Lower Black River
(from junction with Mississippi River upstream for 15 miles):
This IBA runs northeast-southeast and acts more as a stopover site than a migrant corridor. Many bottomland species of concern breed in this valley including both cuckoos, Whip-poor-will, Red-headed Woodpecker, Red-shouldered Hawk, Acadian Flycatcher, Wood Thrush, Prothonotary Warbler, and Cerulean Warbler (identified as a core region for this species). Waterfowl from trempeleau NWR heavily use several miles of the bordering wetlands above the confluence with the Mississippi River for foraging and stopover habitat.
Dominant bird groups / species: Most vulnerable group: waterfowl, passerines.
Western Green Bay shoreline
(from Marinette south along western shore to city of Green Bay):
Four IBAs are located along this stretch of shore including Seagull Bar IBA at Marinette, Lower Peshtigo River IBA, Green Bay West Shore Wetlands IBA , and Lower Green Bay Islands-Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary IBA. This corridor is a major fall migration route for raptors including Merlin, accipiters, buteos, and Osprey and an important fall flyway in low water years for shorebirds. Inshore waterbirds include significant concentrations of Double-crested Cormorant, White Pelican, Herring Gull, Ring-billed Gull, Common Tern, Caspian Tern, and a wide variety of waterfowl.
Dominant bird groups / species: waterbirds, raptors (accipiters, Osprey, buteos, falcons, Northern Saw-whet Owl, landbirds
Kewaunee River—East Twin River corridor
(from headwaters of Kewaunee River , Red River Township and headwaters of its tributary Casco Creek, Lincoln Township, Kewaunee County including the adjacent Duvall Swamp 2 miles east of Duvall downstream to Kewaunee Fish and Wildlife Area, Kewaunee Co., then continuing from the south side of the wildlife area along East Twin River to its mouth in Lake Michigan at Two Rivers, Manitowoc Co.).
These two river corridors offer a mostly well-forested corridor paralleling the Lake Michigan and Green Bay shorelines, allowing landbirds birds to move NNW from Lake Michigan to Green Bay in spring and SSE in fall through a largely agricultural region and an alternative route to the Lake Michigan shoreline corridor. The extent to which birds utilize this route is unknown and needs intensive field work. The Kewaunee Fish and Wildlife Area known locally as the Lipsky Swamp has extensive alder, birch, and tamarack stands known for breeding northern birds including Sandhill Crane, Alder Flycatcher, Winter Wren, Brown Creeper, Veery, Northern Waterthrush, Golden-winged Warbler, Nashville Warbler, and Mourning Warbler. At least 25 species of warblers utilize this route. East Twin River is known as a winter waterfowl concentration area at its mouth and in the Michicot area (Tessen, 2000).
Apostle Islands-Chequamegon Bay migration corridor
(from Outer Island in the Apostle Island group south to Ashland) is a noted route for raptors, some shorebirds (on the lake flats in low water years), waterfowl, and large numbers of passerines, especially in the fall. Two IBAs are located here:
Apostle Islands National Lakeshore IBA and Lower Chequamegon Bay IBA. Periodic raptor surveys have indicated substantial numbers of Merlin and Peregrine Falcon occur on the offshore islands in fall while eagles (mostly Bald) follow the shoreline of Chequamegon Bay westward in the spring.
Important flyway for a number of waterbird species including Double-crested Cormorant, Horned Grebe, Red-necked Grebe, Common Loon, Sandhill Crane (flock observed departing Two Harbors beelining it for Wisconsin shoreline west of Apostle Islands at high altitude), Ring-billed Gull, Herring Gull, Bonaparte’s Gull, and for waterfowl including Tundra Swan, Canada Goose, Redhead, Lesser Scaup, Greater Scaup, scoters (3 species), Common Goldeneye, Red-breasted Merganser, Common Merganser, and Bufflehead. A few raptors regularly migrate over inshore waters including Northern Harrier, Bald Eagle, Osprey, Merlin, Peregrine Falcon, and Short-eared Owl. A few shorebirds have been detected regularly migrating over inshore waters including Killdeer, Whimbrel, Dunlin, Marbled Godwit, and Sanderling, but no systematic counts have been conducted to determine how common shorebird migration in inshore waters actually is. Rare gulls such as Sabine’s and Black-legged Kittiwake and Jaegers (3 species) and both Common and Forster’s Tern have regularly been recorded migrating in inshore waters.
Lake Superior (offshore waters >2 miles): little sampled but the following species are known to make flights across Lake Superior: Common Loon, Tundra Swan, Canada Goose, Peregrine Falcon, Merlin, Sandhill Crane (flock observed departing Two Harbors beelining it for Wisconsin shoreline, Marbled Godwit, Red-necked Phalarope, Ring-billed Gull, Herring Gull, Sabine’s Gull, and jaegers (three species).
**Lower St. Louis River--Wisconsin Point corridor
(located in Superior Township along Lake Superior): includes the Wisconsin Point IBA.
A regionally important spring eagle flyway (Bald and Golden Eagle (several thousand Bald Eagles some years) and to a less extent a hawk migration corridor extends in a north-south direction through the city of Superior and crossing the St. Louis River in the vicinity of the US Highway 2 / US 53 bridge towards Duluth. Other raptors using this corridor include Osprey, Turkey Vulture, Sharp-shinned Hawk, Northern Harrier, Red-tailed Hawk and small numbers of falcons. Large numbers of passerines and small numbers of shorebirds follow the shoreline / stopover habitat at Wisconsin Point while significant numbers of geese and diving ducks use the river and St. Louis Bay for staging and migration. A Common Tern colony on Intrastate Island west of the U.S. 2 / US 53 bridge is regionally important. Birds appear to fly under the existing bridge with little chance for collisions except perhaps in inclement weather.
Tessen, D. 2000. Wisconsin’s Favorite Bird Haunts, 4th ed., Wisconsin Society for Ornithology, Inc., De Pere, Wisconsin, 532 pp.
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As a rookie arson investigator in Marietta, Georgia, John Lentini never questioned his training. He once believed the old saw that the spalling of concrete, in which the surface chipped after a blaze, resulted from the kind of high heat indicating use of a liquid accelerant and arson. Likewise, he thought that only intentional use of a flammable liquid could explain walls with burn marks resembling a sharp-angled V or the charring of a floor.
That was before Lentini was called to work on a case in Jacksonville, Florida. In 1990 prosecutors charged Gerald Wayne Lewis with setting a house fire that killed his pregnant wife, her sister, and her sister’s four children. The fire showed all the classic signs of arson, including “pour patterns” on the floor: demarcation lines between burned and unburned areas that suggested a flammable liquid had been poured and ignited. But the suspect, who claimed his innocence, said he had no idea how the fire started.
Given the extensive publicity the case attracted and the fact that the murder charge carried a possible death penalty, prosecutors hired Lentini and John DeHaan, coauthor of a standard fire investigation text, to double-check and rule out other possibilities—including the hypothesis that one of the kids, playing with matches, had started the fire on a couch. As it happened, two doors down from Lewis’s house stood a nearly identical structure slated for demolition. Lentini and DeHaan got permission and funds to furnish the house with the same kind of carpeting and furniture as Lewis’s and wire the place with sensors. Then they lit the couch and got out.
Within minutes the living room had burst into flames, followed quickly by the entire house. The blaze went up much faster than investigators imagined was possible without an accelerant. Clearly flashover had occurred. After the fire Lentini and DeHaan found the same patterns on the floor that prosecutors had thought indicated arson in Lewis’s house. But rather than being produced by a liquid, the markings had been burned into the floor by the radiant heat released during flashover. The experiment, which became known as the Lime Street Fire [pdf], stunned everyone, and prosecutors dropped the charges. “That case opened my eyes,” Lentini recalls. “I was ready to send
Lewis to the electric chair.”
The following year Lentini had another conversion experience in a fire that became known as the Oakland Black Hole. A brush fire swept into that California city, killing more than two dozen people and destroying more than 3,000 homes. Eager to study fire in its natural habitat, Lentini and a crew of investigators moved in, examining 50 houses for postfire patterns. They knew the fire had been accidental, yet they found classic signs of arson: large, shiny blisters on wood resembling alligator skin, chipping concrete, and melted metal doorway thresholds, all typically attributed to accelerant and accelerant runoff, resulting in excessively high heat.
Lentini was particularly struck by the presence of tiny cracks, or crazing, in the window glass in a dozen houses around the periphery, where the firemen had been able to reach with their hoses. Crazing was commonly thought to indicate rapid heating and therefore, once again, the use of a fire accelerant. Back at the lab Lentini tested the idea, taking a dozen samples of window glass and heating them to 1400 degrees Fahrenheit in various ways—rapidly, slowly, some in an oven, some in an open flame. None of the samples exhibited crazing, but they all cracked when he sprayed them with cool water. Rapid heating did not cause the crazed pattern, he determined; rapid cooling did. In other words, one of the classic indicators of arson—one that had been used countless times in court to send suspects to prison—was probably caused by firemen spraying water on hot windows.
Lentini became a science convert, but most of his contemporaries did not. Year after year, poorly trained police or fire department officials contributed to faulty convictions. The most notorious such case reached a tragic conclusion in 2004, when the state of Texas executed a man for a fire that almost certainly was accidental. In 1991 Cameron Todd Willingham was accused of setting fire to a house and killing his three daughters. The prosecution relied on all the usual arson indicators: crazed glass, charred wood at the floor level, a melted aluminum threshold, and pour patterns of a flammable liquid. Witnesses had reported flames exploding out the windows—the main indicator of a flashover fire. Scientists and some field investigators, such as Lentini, knew that flashover fires could char wood at the floor level, melt metal, and create burn patterns that might suggest poured flammable liquid. Yet that information had not reached or convinced the state’s deputy fire marshal, Manuel Vasquez (who died in 1994). In 1992 Willingham was found guilty of murder and sentenced to death.
Years went by, and Willingham lost one appeal after another. Finally, in 2004, just weeks before Willingham’s scheduled execution, Gerald Hurst, an internationally known fire and explosives expert from Texas, was brought in to support a petition for clemency.
After reviewing the evidence and videotapes of the fire scene, Hurst wrote a report debunking the Vasquez findings, calling them “invalid in light of current knowledge.” Hurst said the blaze was almost certainly accidental, perhaps caused by a faulty space heater or electrical connection. But even that would be difficult to prove, because the house had been shoveled out by investigators. The cause of the fire should have been labeled “undetermined,” Hurst said, because there was no evidence a crime had actually been committed.
The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles disagreed and denied the petition. After Willingham was executed, the Innocence Project, a national nonprofit legal organization focused on overturning wrongful convictions, assembled a team of leading arson investigators, who concluded that none of the evidence for arson in the case was scientifically valid. The project’s lawyers later filed an allegation with the newly formed Texas Forensic Science Commission alleging professional misconduct by the fire marshal’s office. The case was such an outrageous example of junk science in the courtroom that it was the subject of several newspaper investigations, a major story in The New Yorker, and a PBS Frontline documentary. Last spring, seven years after his death, a special state commission concluded that the forensic evidence in Willingham’s case was deeply flawed but failed to address whether the original fire inspector had been negligent. | <urn:uuid:69a01a20-601a-4cdf-993d-f79494f7bf70> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://discovermagazine.com/2011/nov/12-spark-truth-science-bring-justice-arson-trials | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971037 | 1,369 | 2.078125 | 2 |
Tajikistan is not an easy place to visit. Visas are almost impossible to get and it is dangerous to go there because the region has been troubled by internal strife since it became independent in 1991. The tortured topography of the high Pamir having isolated the various tribes in their separate valleys for centuries these developed fierce clan loyalties and antagonisms long before the region came under Russian influence in the 19th century. With soviet power removed, civil war erupted between the moderate northern tribes and the conservative islamist southern clans. Truce after truce were negotiated only to be promptly broken. This complex situation is further complicated by the participation of Tajiks in the Afghan conflict and vice versa.
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Large mural depicting the rites of hospitality on the side of a apartment building in Penjikent.
Tourist guide Hamrakul in front of the Rudaki Museum (named after Abu Abdulah Rudaki said to be born here and considered to be the father of Persian poetry).
Tajik hospitality, sharing tea, nuts, sweets and bread with Hamrakul (private guide, ex Intourist), Arty Petrossian (co-owner of the Samarkand agency Afrosiab Travel), Bahodir (our driver from Samarkand) and Nijoskul owner of Tajik Travel.
Ruins of Bunjikath, a major Sogdian city founded by the Achaemenids of Persia in the 5th century BC. It was taken by Alexander in the 3rd century BC, was controlled by the Kushan Empire from the 1st century BC to the 3rd century AD, then by the Sassanid Empire of Iran until invaded by the Hephtalite Huns in the 5th. who held it until the Western Blue Turks from Siberia took it in the 6th. Penjikent felt the Tang Chinese presence early in the 8th century but the city was abandoned after the Tang were chased out of Central Asia by a coalition of Arabs, Turks and Tibetans in 751.
The very competent ex Intourist guide Hamrakul knew every stone of the vast expanse of these ruins. Of the several photos I took of what looks like a chaotic mass of rubble, this one is the most interesting. It shows the remains of a Zoroastrian temple more than 2000 years old. It is said that the two alcoves seen above, held images of Ahura Mazda, the god of good, and of Ahriman, the god of evil.
The market on a Saturday.
Inside the market.
The "New" Mosque.
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New Street : New Start
The New Street Gateway project will turn New Street Station into the world-class station that passengers deserve with more light and space, additional entrances, easier access to platforms and a stunning new exterior.
The project will see 1960s-built New Street station transformed into a bright, modern, 21st century century focal point for Birmingham. It will double passenger capacity and deliver:
- a concourse that is three-and-a half times bigger than at present, enclosed by a giant, light-filled atrium
- more accessible, brighter and clearer platforms, reached by new escalators and new lifts
- a stunning new station facade, adding to Birmingham's growing reputation for good design
- better links to and through the station for pedestrians, with eight entrances
- a major stimulus for the physical regeneration of the areas surrounding the station.
The impact on passengers will be kept to a minimum as most of the work will take place off-site. Phase 1 will see a new concourse built in a former car park next to the station. This concourse is expected to open in 2012 and preparatory work started in September 2009. Phase 2 will then see the existing concourse closed for redevelopment. The project is expected to complete in 2015.
As well as the station itself the project will see a major transformation of the adjoining Pallasades Shopping Centre, which will include the building of a new John Lewis store. The store will directly create 650 new jobs and Birmingham City Council estimates it will boost the local economy by over £25 million per annum.
The Birmingham Gateway Project is funded in partnership by Network Rail, Birmingham City Council, Advantage West Midlands, Centro and the Department for Transport.
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THE OBJECT OF THE LANDLORD'S GAME.
The object of the game is to get as much wealth as possible, and the player
who has the most in cash, cards and houses at the end of the game is the
winner or millionaire. Every card and every house counts the holder or
owner 100 at the end of the game.
1. Buying Titles to Lots. --- Shuffle
the green cards and deal out one around, to the left, until 24 have been
dealt, then place the remainder of the pack on the board. These green cards
represent Title Deeds to Lots, Charters for Franchises, and (one) Broker's
License. The original sale price of each card is marked on the card itself
as well as on the corresponding board space after the words "For Sale."
Each player has the privilege or option of buying any or all of the cards
which have been dealt to him, the sale price of the cards being paid into
the PUBLIC TREASURY. Cards not purchased must be returned to the
pack. The players own the spaces on the board corresponding to the
cards they hold. As one generally needs between $50 and $75 to pay
expenses around the board, or until he has earned his wages, it is always
advisable for him to take this into consideration when purchasing cards.
the game has begun the sale prices of all cards then in use by the players
are regulated by the demand, but no card can be bought from the pack
for less than the original sale price, although these cards may be
up as high as the players please.
2. How to Move Checkers. ---
The players place their checkers upon MOTHER EARTH, the beginning point.
Then the first player throws his dice, and, according to the number
thrown, moves along the first side of the board and follows the rule applying
to the space upon which he has stopped.
Throwing Doubles --- See Rule 17.
When the first player has finished his play, the next player throws his
dice, and moves; then the third player, and so on.
If a player is on any of the spaces between the Chances he may move
either direction. Bear this well in mind as it is sometimes more
desirable to make a backward move than a forward one.
- The number of the rule applying
to each space is printed in the corner or inside edge of that space.
The numbers on the outside of the spaces are placed there for the convenience
of the player in moving. For instance, if he throws a 6 he moves to the
6th space, THE PIKE. If his next throw is an 8 he adds 6 and 8, which
are 14, and moves to the 14th space, which is BEGGARMAN”S COURT, and so
on adding or subtracting according to whether his move be forward or backward.
3. Wages. --- When a player
reaches or passes the beginning point, MOTHER EARTH, he is supposed to
have performed a certain amount of labor worth $100. This amount his "wages,"
is paid to him from MICELLANEOUS pile.
In all money
transactions between any individual player and the board, the next player
to the left may act as representative for the board, paying wages, making
change, etc., before such next player makes his own throw.
4. Taxes. -- the blue spaces; FOOD, FUEL, SHELTER, and
CLOTHING, represent the absolute Necessities of life and window player
stops upon one of these spaces he pays $10 taxes into PUBLIC TREASURY.
5. D. F. Hogg's Game Preserves and Lord Blueblood's Estaterepresent
property held out of use, and when a player's move brings him upon one
of these spaces he is "trespassing" and must go to JAIL -- that is, put
his checker on the JAIL space.
6. Jail. --- A player in JAIL must remain there until
next turn. Then he may come out upon paying into the PUBLIC TREASURY
a fine of $50, or if he throws a double (which is called "serving his time")
he may come out without paying the fine. If he does not pay the fine
or throw a double he must wait until his next turn. He cannot, however,
miss more than three turns if he has sufficient property on which to realize
the amount of his fine. When he does come out of JAIL he must begin
to count is move on the space immediately in front of the JAIL (Shelter).his
7. Land Rent. --- When a player stops upon a lot owned
by another player, he must pay the land rent to the owner. If he
stops upon one of his own lots he pays nothing. If the lot is not
yet owned by any of the players, it is "For Sale" and the player stopping
upon it may purchase it at the original sale price, provided no other
player bids more for it. If the player who has stopped upon it
is willing to pay the highest price bid, he has the first option.
If he cannot or does not want to pay the highest price bid, then the player
bidding the highest price must take the lot at the price he has bid for
it. If the first player does not by a lot and some other player does,
the first player pays the land rent to the purchaser. If no player
buys it the land rent is paid into the PUBLIC TREASURY. If the lot
is thought the purchaser or takes the corresponding Title Deed card from
8. Speculation. --- This space represents all speculation
other than land speculation. If a player's throw would bring him
to this space he may refuse to move -- remaining where he is -- and the
next player proceeds. If he elects to play, the ownership of Speculation
card for Broker's License is determined as are Title Deeds under Rule 7.
Ownership of card being settled, the player pays $10 "ante" into the MISCELLANEOUS
pile; then he throws his dice again, and if he throws a double, he wins
$100; an 11, $90; a 10, $80; 9, $70; 8, $60; 7, $50; 6, $40; 5, $30; and
pays 10 percent of his winnings to holder of the Speculation card, or to
MISCELLANEOUS pile if no one has purchased the card. If a 3 or 4
is thrown the Broker is supposed to be caught in a "skin game," -- the
speculator wins nothing and the Broker or holder of Speculation card (if
it is held by any of the players) goes to JAIL and a card is returned to
are taken from MISCELLANEOUS pile.
9. Franchises. --- The yellow spaces -- SOAKUM LIGHTING
SYSTEM and SLAMBANG TROLLEY, and pink spaces: -- RAILROADS, represent public
utilities owned by private parties. When a player stops upon one
of these franchise spaces he must pay $5 to the owner. If the franchise
is not yet owned by any of the players is for sale and the player stopping
upon it may purchase it at the original sale price, $50, provided no other
player bids more for it. If the player stopping upon it is willing
to pay the highest price bid, he has the first option. If he cannot
or does not want to pay the highest price bid, then the player bidding
the highest price must take the franchise at the price he has bid.
If the first player does not buy the franchise and some other player does,
the first player pays to the purchaser the amount the space calls for.
If no player buys it, the amount is paid into the PUBLIC TREASURY.
It is space is bought the purchaser takes the corresponding card from the
pack and keeps it.
CINCH -- If a player owns both SOAKUM LIGHTING SYSTEM and SLAMBANG TROLLEY
he has a "municipal cinch," raises the rates, and collects $25 instead
of $5 from every other player stopping upon one of these spaces.
--- If one player owns 2 railroads, he charges $10 fare; if 3, he charges
$20; 4, $50.
--- If two players owned all of the RAILROADS between them, they may at
any time pool their railroad interests and form a Trust, charging the other
players $40 for each RAILROAD space and dividing profits.
10. --- CENTRAL PARK is supposed to be maintained by public
funds, and therefore a player may stop in it without paying anything.
11. --- Chances. ---
If a player stops upon one of the CHANCE spaces he draws a card from the
red pack and follows directions on same. In each case the card drawn
is returned to the pack.
12. Poor House. --- If at any time a player has not enough
money to pay his expenses, and cannot borrow any (see Rule 16) or cannot
sell or mortgage any of his property, he must go to the POOR HOUSE, where
he remains until his next turn. Then he throws again and moves out
if he can afford to make the move.
13. Luxury. --- If it player's throw brings him
upon LUXURY, he pays $75 into the MISCELLANEOUS pile and draws a purple
card. This card, with the name of his luxury upon it, he keeps, and
it counts him 100 at the end of the game. He may, however, sell the
card at any time if he so desires.
may purchase the luxury or not, as he chooses or can afford, but if he
does not purchase it he moves backward from the space last occupied by
him. Example: If he is on MADISON SQUARE and throws a 6 a forward
move would take him to LUXURY. If he has less than $75 he cannot
afford the luxury (unless he borrows) and therefore he moves backward 6
spaces from MADISON SQUARE, which would take him to, SLAMBANG TROLLEY.
But whether his move be forward or backward he must pay whatever is called
for by the space upon which he stops.
14. Improvements. --- If a player so desires, and
can afford it, he may, in his turn, improve any of his lots by the erection
of a house thereon. To do this he pays $100 into the MISCELLANEOUS
pile and takes therefrom a house corresponding to the color of his checker,
which house he places upon the lot he desires to improve. One or
more houses may be erected upon the same lot, the owner collecting $10
for each house, in addition to the land rent.
15. The checkers of two or more players may occupy the same space,
each paying whatever the space calls for.
16. Borrowing. --- One player may borrow from
another. If demanded he must give the mortgage on his property or
his wages, making the best bargain he can as to terms of repayment, rate
of interest, etc. These transactions must be kept track of by the
players making them. This can easily be done by making notes on a
17. Throwing Doubles. --- If a player is in JAIL
and throws a double he is supposed to have served his time and may come
out without the payment of a fine.
Throwing a double also means
getting an "official pass" on the railroad, and the player throwing it
may jump the nine spaces between the next two corners. If his count
is exhausted, however, upon reaching or before reaching a corner, he cannot
use his "pass." If he does not choose to use his pass the need not
do so, but simply moves straight a head without jumping any spaces.
Sometimes his pass may take him to JAIL or some high-priced or otherwise
undesirable space, whereas his straight move may take him to a desirable
one. He may take his choice.
when a player is speculating, wins $100.
18. Emergencies. --- Should any emergency
arise which is not covered by the foregoing rules, the matter must be settled
among the players. Players may do anything which suggests itself
to them provided that what they do does not conflict with the rules, just
as a person may be anything he pleases which does not violate the law.
He may squeeze to the utmost and the victim has no protection.
19. End of Game. --- The game ends when one player
has received his wages five times.
may, however, prolong the game at their own pleasure, having no arbitrary
stopping point and continuing the game until the convenience or the inclination
of the players suggests a cessation. Then they may agree to stop,
say, at the next double thrown by any of the players.
in use by the players may be bought, sold, mortgage or traded at the pleasure
of the players. If one player has three railroads it is greatly to
his advantage to own the 4th as he would then have the monopoly, and it
is therefore sometimes advisable, according to the stage of the game, for
him to offer even as high as $150 or more for it, although the card itself
would count him only 100 at the end of a game. In the same way, a
player may seek to buy up all the lots in a certain locality, as the more
he owns in a bunch the more chances he has of renting. Or a player
may, upon observing another player's object, try to forestall it by buying
the certain desirable card thus keeping it out of his opponent's hand,
or making the opponent pay dearly for it.
-- -- --
FOR ADVANCED AND SCIENTIFIC PLAYERS.
have become thoroughly familiar with the rules and principles of the game
they will readily perceive that if the game be continued long enough the
inevitable result will be that one player will own everything on the board.
Under the ordinary rules, however, two or three sittings would probably
be necessary to reach this end; therefore it is suggested that in order
to arrive more quickly at a decisive point, the following rules be observed:
houses have been erected -- whether by one or more players -- taxes (blue
spaces) are doubled (20): when twenty-five houses have been erected taxes
are again doubled ($40), which is the limit.
will note that the railroads divide each side of the board into two sections,
making eight sections on the entire board. When
all the lots in
any one section have been improved with at least one house each the
land rent on every lot in that section is doubled. When the lots
in any one section have been improved with two houses each the land rent
is the end doubled; and three houses doubles it again.
For purposes of
the game the number of houses that may be erected on each lot is limited
to three. The house rent remains fast before -- $10 for each house
in addition to the land rent.
When number of Houses
on board is
25 or more
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Less than half of Maryland's 260,000 families entitled to child support actually receive it. For 123,000 families on welfare, the situation is even worse: 75 percent of these families never receive support payments from spouses. The link between the two groups is more than coincidental. Too often, the state must close the gap between what children need to survive and what they get from absentee parents.
In the '80s, states and the federal government put real teeth in collection efforts, using Social Security numbers and computers to tap wages, income tax refunds and even lottery winnings of spouses responsible for support payments. More get-tough measures are recommended by the U.S. Commission on Interstate Child Support to widen the enforcement web.
One proposal would create a national computer network capable of sifting through state and federal computer banks to find errant providers and tap information about income and other resources. Employers would be obligated to honor paycheck withholding orders from other states; in cases where absentee fathers and their children live in different jurisdictions, mothers could initiate support action in their home states. The commission also has suggested streamlining state procedures to get support payments flowing sooner and keeping support payments current with inflation and with the parents' financial situation.
Under the most radical of the commission's ideas, the federal government would stand in for putative fathers, guaranteeing a minimum level of support in cases where they could not be
found or made too little money to meet support obligations.
None of these ideas is cast in stone, but all are worthy of serious discussion. AFDC rolls and other safety nets are stretched to the limit. The states have for years been beefing up collection efforts with notable success, but policies and guidelines vary greatly. Standardization is essential. Still, further action by the federal government is crucial. Deadbeat spouses should not be permitted to escape their financial obligations to their children. | <urn:uuid:986c1318-bce8-4d07-b1f8-22ec36826941> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1991-09-19/news/1991262042_1_support-payments-child-support-federal-government | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961968 | 380 | 1.90625 | 2 |
Border Patrol outlines policy changes
Nation's border protectors unveil new strategy
If there was one thing nearly everyone in the House subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security hearing room agreed on Tuesday, it was the enormity of the challenge facing U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Border Patrol Chief Michael J. Fisher then rolled out his new border security policy, a policy that hasn't undergone a significant update since 2004. It shifts the focus from efforts to patrol the 8,600 miles of border surrounding the country to identifying the areas of greatest risk and devoting resources there.
"The Border Patrol's strategic plan marks an important point in the growth and development of the U.S. Border Patrol and establishes an approach that is tailored to meet the challenges of securing a 21st century border against a variety of dynamic threats and dangerous adversaries," said Fisher, who says the threat along the border is constantly evolving.
Fisher was joined at the witness table by Rebecca Gambler from the Government Accountability Office and Marc Rosenblum, a specialist on immigration issues.
If there were another thing everyone agreed on, it was that securing the border, which includes the rugged warzone-like conditions in parts of the Southwest to the vast expanses of land along the northern border, is nothing short of a work in progress.
The announcement of the new border strategy comes just days after 23 bodies were discovered in the Mexican border town on Nuevo Laredo. Many of the bodies had been decapitated, and some were hung from a bridge. An unnamed military official told CNN that they thought the killings were likely related to an organized crime group.
Drug-related crimes and criminal organizations operating along the border are one challenge. Another is the possibility of a terrorist slipping into the country, the worse case scenario being that they bring a weapon of mass destruction with them.
Fisher remains convinced that focusing assets on the areas where that is most likely to happen makes far more sense that devoting resources to the areas that are extremely difficult for anyone to navigate. And he's relying on a stronger emphasis on information gathering and intelligence sharing to help pinpoint just where to deploy his department's vast resources.
"Ultimately, leveraging all available actions, programs and techniques encompassed within our strategic plan will strengthen the Border Patrol internally, increase capabilities and our operations and enhance border security and ultimately national security through the use of information, integration and rapid response."
But there are concerns about the new strategy, namely how to measure its effectiveness.
"The department last reported its progress and status in achieving operation control of the borders in fiscal year 2010," Gambler told the committee. "At that time, the department reported achieving operational control for about 1,100 miles or 13% of more than 8,600 miles across U.S. northern, southwest and coastal borders. On the southwest border specifically, the Border Patrol reported achieving operational control of 873 miles, or 44% of the nearly 2,000 miles of the U.S. border with Mexico."
If the idea is to measure the border in miles, that's a number that can be documented. But if the goal is to focus resources in particular areas alone, how do you know whether you've missed anything? Such is the argument over border security, and Fisher agrees that goals and measurement strategies are still being worked out, something Gambler says must be a priority.
"What's really important and really key going forward is for the Border Patrol and the department to move more toward outcome-oriented measures that would allow the department, the Congress and the public to really get a sense of how effective the Border Patrol's efforts are," Gambler said.
The Border Patrol has nine unmanned aerial surveillance systems, better known as drones, in its fleet, and it is expected to take delivery of a 10th this year.
It also relies on a series of foot sensors, fencing and horseback patrols along parts of the border, and an aerial surveillance fleet that includes a Blackhawk helicopter to offer situational awareness in those areas that are less hospitable to patrol on foot, horseback, or ATV.
Still, Fisher argues that the Border Patrol's most effective tool to date has been the 23,000 agents who still take the lead in directing use of the department's resources. But with a border patrol team that has literally doubled in size in the years since 9/11, there are concerns about the level of overall experience, and the department's ability to not only supervise the work of new agents, but to be on guard for signs of corruption, as well.
"Our 2012-16 strategic plan involves a set of objectives, strategies, programs and initiatives that apply information, integration and rapid response to develop and deploy new and better tactics, techniques and procedures to achieve our strategic objectives," Fisher told the committee. "The principle theme of our strategy is to use information, integration and rapid response to meet all threats."
The bottom line to the country's approach to securing the border came perhaps as Fisher compared finding a significant threat along the border to finding a needle in a haystack. Sometimes it's easier to narrow down the search if you can make the haystack smaller. At least that's the plan.
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The latest ones look like a standard sedan, with no visible external antennas.
The DF antenna system uses a set of slot antennas built into the roof. The
only distinguishing characteristic is the radio equipment and displays in front
for the driver, and even those have some sort of cover for when they are
not in use.
So knowing what they look like won't help you detect them, unless you can
memorize all the license plates.
The sedan type was the Mobile Automatic Direction Finding (MADF) car. Those vehicles and the equipment in them are now and have been obsolete. The vehicles were de-commissioned several years ago.
A small number (a very small number) of the vehicles were transferred to another government law enforcement agency now under the Department of Homeland Security. The rest of the vehicles had the electronic equipment removed and disposed of in whatever manner determined by the office in possession. Usually the internal equipment was sold by government auction as excess property.
Some of the vehicles had the annular slot antennas cut from the roof of the vehicles and were also transferred to another government agency for upgrades with new receivers, computer controls, and retrofit into vehicles owned by that government agency. The upgrade and retrofit was performed by an outside business.
The old "sedan" MADF cars were replaced by the Mobile Digital Direction Finding (MDDF) vehicles. The DF'ing electronics are entirely computer controlled with GPS mapping. The most current model is the MDDF 8. I believe there are now four different antennas permanently mounted in these vehicles. All FCC field offices will be have the MDDF 8 by next year if not already in possession of the vehicle. | <urn:uuid:1f620054-8470-4bbd-a878-5ad5e222c787> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.eham.net/ehamforum/smf/index.php/topic,66170.0.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00074-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977252 | 342 | 2.1875 | 2 |
Iran has further stoked Western fears about the purpose of its nuclear activities by starting to enrich fissile material in a new site deep inside a virtually impregnable mountain bunker.
The Fordo site near the holy city of Qom, 150km southwest of Tehran, has begun enriching uranium to 20 percent purity, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said late on Monday.
US Department of State spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said that Iran’s enriching of uranium to 20 percent at the site was “a further escalation of their ongoing violations with regard to their nuclear obligations.”
“We call on Iran once again to suspend enrichment activities, cooperate fully with the IAEA and immediately comply with all [UN] Security Council and IAEA board of governors resolutions,” Nuland told reporters in Washington.
Experts say that the process of obtaining 20 percent enriched uranium represents the lion’s share of the work needed to get the material purified to the level of 90 percent or above required for atomic weapons.
Iran, which says its nuclear activities are peaceful, said the material was for its Tehran research reactor to make isotopes for cancer treatments, but Western powers believe it has a much more sinister and destructive purpose.
“This is a provocative act which further undermines Iran’s claims that its program is entirely civilian in nature,” British Foreign Secretary William Hague said, echoing the concerns of Washington, Berlin, Paris and elsewhere.
Mark Fitzpatrick from the International Institute for Strategic Studies said the action brings Tehran “closer to being able to quickly produce enough fissile material for a nuclear weapon.”
IAEA spokeswoman Gill Tudor said that all nuclear material “remains under the Agency’s containment and surveillance” at Fordo.
However, the fear is that if Iran decided to expel IAEA inspectors and enrich uranium to weapons-grade purity, Fordo would enable them to produce enough fissile material in a short space of time.
France called the move to enrich uranium at the mountain bunker a “particularly grave violation by Iran of international law.”
This, Paris said, leaves “no choice but to strengthen international sanctions and to adopt, with our European partners and all willing countries, measures of an unprecedented scale and severity.” | <urn:uuid:1561a700-2bbc-485f-ac12-e1aea28e5f8c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2012/01/11/2003522976 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00006-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939456 | 479 | 2.015625 | 2 |
Schiller was an enthusiasm which Meyerbeer and Liszt shared. Liszt set Schiller’s poetry, wrote a symphonic poem, Die Ideale
, inspired by him, lived in his town (Weimar) and exalted his memory. So the expedition with with he applied himself to transcribe Meyerbeer’s excellent orchestral March for the Schiller centenary
is not surprising. Like most occasional pieces, and practically all ‘classical’ marches of any sort, the work remains virtually unknown in either version. A pity, because the piece has real distinction beyond the purely festive.
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Federal funding cuts to Perkins will scale back the number of educated and skilled workers who are needed to help rebuild the nation’s economy, according to a recent blog by CompTIA. The non-profit is dedicated to advancing the global interests of information technology (IT) professionals and companies including manufacturers, distributors, resellers, and educational institutions.
CompTIA is urging its members to contact their local Congressman, discuss the importance of career and technical education (CTE), and urge Congress to restore funding to the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act.
“In the IT industry, 400,000 jobs are open on any given day, waiting to be filled with qualified personnel,” says Todd Thibodeaux, president and CEO of CompTIA, said in the blog. “Further cuts to Perkins will damage a key conduit in our nation’s IT workforce pipeline. “
Kimberly Green, NASDCTEc Executive Director, said Perkins supporters should expect a tough fight for Perkins funding as all federal spending is expected to be scrutinized.
“The CTE community has to do a more thorough job of educating the members of Congress about the value and success of CTE programs. We need to shift the mindset that these crucial federal funds are an investment, bringing a positive return to the economy, not just an expenditure.” | <urn:uuid:7d42eeae-a885-4c8a-ac99-f5b975642aa4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.careertech.org/?p=4027 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00059-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939394 | 280 | 1.90625 | 2 |
hi i want to embed an excel spreadsheet in webpage, so if any time i will replace the excel file in my directory, the webpage will automatically show the new file data.
what i need to update webpage data?? it will be an escel file, when i update that or replace that the webpage will be automatically update..
give your solutions...
This is way simple if the server is running on a Windows box. Otherwise you'll want to save that Excel as CSV. In either case the real work will be done with some server side scripting. Find out what you can about the server and then post your question to the forum for your chosen scripting language.
“The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect.”
—Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director and inventor of the World Wide Web
If you don't want to use server side, then instead of embedding excel you can copy paste your excel data on to the design view of dreamweaver and it will automatically make a html table for you. Here you can provide appropriate css properties to the table and make it look like an excel sheet. This would include giving a border and color.
also u can use html 5 which gives an option to include excel sheets.
can you tell me how can i code in php for showing excel data
yes i can use PHP fo this fuction but i dont know how to code, i only want that there is an excel file of price lists is located at my server suppose its list.xls, my webpage will automatically shows it data in an aligned form that looks good
when ever i replace, update or upload a new file with same name list.xls, my webpage will automatically be updated and show the new list from excel.xls
i dont have any thing becasue in need the solution that how it will be done.
i have a website that are using this feature: http://falcon.com.pk/
click on hot deals
it will show the excel file data on a webpage. when they need to update the data they simply replace the new excel file with old one and the webpage shows the new excel data.
can you tell me how it will be possible??
yes, good effort but it has a little problem, check the attachment :(
good effort but it has a little problem, its showing thousand columns and rows even that are null, and in very misaligned form, i tried to fix that, but was unable,
i am attaching the file having your code and my test.csv file
please modify the code that will bold the first row of the test.csv and show the data in aligned tabular form and only shows the cells in which i file contains data,
so as a final product i will get my test.csv data in tabular form in my web-page, please fix it
it needs your little more effort, thanks
Microsoft just released a feature with the Excel Web Apps in November 2010 that lets you embed spreadsheets or portions of spreadsheets including charts into a web page. The feature lets viewers sort and filter data and even add their own values to take advantage of your formulas without altering the original document in anyway.
The advantage of the Web Apps feature is that it's viewable to most popular Web and mobile Web browsers and doesn't require the viewer to have Excel installed. It's also super easy to update the data in Excel.
A few of the data contained in the Excel spreadsheet need to be manually changed before putting the table on the Web, otherwise they would not be understood by visitors. I do not understand what is the easiest method to convert the Excel spreadsheet, change a few data and put the result on a web page as a table. You probably change the data in the excel sheet before converting, then use "Save as" and choose HTML as output format. The resulting HTML file can be directly put on the web server | <urn:uuid:39d2d328-a038-477d-8f07-057863777bc0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?235126-how-to-embed-excel-spreadsheet-in-webpage&p=1112052 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00034-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.922656 | 819 | 1.859375 | 2 |
‘My gastric band gave me an eating disorder’
Tuesday 09 August 2011
After a childhood of unhealthy eating habits, 22½st Siobhan Leighton was forced to face up to the extent of her problems when, aged 21, her doctor diagnosed her as clinically obese.
Shockingly, rather than dieting, she was convinced the “easy” answer to losing weight was gastric surgery and she went abroad to have the op.
But, without dealing with her food addiction first, surgery couldn’t cure her of her overeating and she developed a bulimia-type eating disorder.
She says: “Looking back, I didn’t commit to the idea of eating less to lose weight and that led to problems with my band – I ended up abusing it by overeating which led to me being sick.”
Siobhan, 27, who’s speaking out to warn other women against having surgery as a quick fix, says: “I thought having a gastric band would be an easy option. Now I know I was too hasty. I should have got more help with my eating.
I never learnt proper discipline with food, so instead I had a gastric band. I’m skinny now, but I wish I could change the way I got here.”
Speaking from her home in Glasgow, financial adviser Siobhan admits she’s always been chubby, but was never bothered by her size.
But aged 21 and weighing 21st, a routine trip to the doctor’s highlighted to 5ft 2 Siobhan that she was clinically obese.
She says: “I was shocked. I wasn’t slim, but I didn’t feel my weight was a real problem.”
The doctor advised dieting, but Siobhan gave up after a week. “It made me irritable,” she says.
On a normal day, Siobhan skipped breakfast and had takeaways for lunch and dinner – snacking on crisps, biscuits, chocolate, cakes, ice cream and fizzy drinks.
“I never liked vegetables and I’d eat three portions of dinner,” she says.
But, by January 2006, she’d actually put on weight. Now 22½st, size 30 Siobhan asked her doctor about a gastric band, to limit the amount she could eat. She was refused due to her age.
After researching the internet she found a deal in Belgium, allowing her to get the band for £3,500 – a third of the price of a UK op. “It seemed so easy,” she admits.
A gastric band reduces the size of the patient’s stomach so they can only eat a limited amount. That food must be low fat for them to lose weight.
In Siobhan’s case, her band wasn’t tight enough and she was able to carry on overeating.
“I was advised to eat less and go for liquids to start with but I carried on with my bad eating habits and managed to eat all my favourite fatty foods,” she says.
Gastric-band patients often need their bands regularly tightened, but Siobhan’s too-loose band went undetected for 11 months, during which time she lost just half a stone.
Frustrated, she eventually got a private surgeon in the UK to tighten her band, but the effects were dramatic because Siobhan had never stopped overeating.
“The next day I gulped a big glass of water, but threw it straight back up. I was so shocked. I was used to eating huge portions and now couldn’t handle the same amount of food. I felt so miserable,” she says.
Unable to break the habit of overeating, one night in April 2008 Siobhan polished off a takeaway and a packet of biscuits.
She confesses: “I knew my stomach couldn’t keep all that food down, but I still had the urge to eat.”
Seconds later, she vomited.
She reveals: “I finally felt in control. I’d heard of bulimia, but it didn’t cross my mind that I had similar symptoms – I wasn’t putting my finger down my throat to make myself sick.”
From that point on, Siobhan binged twice a day. She admits: “I knew if I pushed how much I ate, it’d come back up.”
During a typical binge, Siobhan ate a multipack of crisps, a takeaway, biscuits, cakes and fizzy drinks – all foods that gastric patients should avoid as they struggle to digest them.
Shockingly, research suggests eating disorders after gastric surgery often go undiagnosed, as the bulimia-style vomiting can be mistaken for post-op symptoms.
If Siobhan was sick around friends, she blamed it on the gastric band. “No one ever questioned it,” she reveals.
It wasn’t until she got a knock on the door from her neighbour in February 2009 that Siobhan was forced to face up to her problems.
“She told me she could hear me retching and couldn’t handle listening to me being sick,” says Siobhan. “It made me see I had an eating disorder.”
Reluctant to go to her doctor, incredibly Siobhan tackled her problem alone. She got information about eating healthily from magazines and, three weeks later, forced herself to slowly eat a small baked potato.
“I desperately wanted to keep it down. I concentrated really hard on chewing and swallowing slowly,” Siobhan says. “When I finished an hour later, I was exhausted – but it felt amazing knowing I didn’t need to be sick.”
Admitting she relapsed several times, Siobhan says it was “a continual battle” to decrease her binges.
Now, weighing 8st 6lbs,size 8 Siobhan has lost a staggering 14st and is finally in control of her eating habits. But she’s struggling to cope with the loose skin she’s been left with.
In March, her grandad, Ronald Leighton, 89, paid £5,100 for her to have an arm lift, chest uplift and 32F breast implants.
“From afar my body is almost normal but, up close, I have huge scars,” she reveals.
Siobhan still needs a £10,000 tummy tuck and thigh lift, but can’t afford it. She says: “Yes, I’m skinny, but my body’s a mess.”
Siobhan’s continual vomiting has left her with severe acid reflux and she now lives on child-sized portions of fish and puréed vegetables. She says: “I can’t eat salad and fresh fruit as they’re acidic and bulky.”
She adds: “It’s hard to believe but I was actually happier overweight – now I’m a patchwork doll having to be sewn up bit by bit.”
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Hello! I actually only feed dogs once a day, unless they are puppies or very small dogs. But I mainly do this because I'm caring for a large group of dogs.
The whole thing about dry food cleaning the teeth is a bill of goods the petfood companies have sold us, but it's not true. :naughty: 80% of dogs eating commercial foods have periodontal disease by two years old. Dogfood companies are actually working on developing kibbles that will do some scraping of the teeth, but the current types are way too small and dogs don't do much chewing, tending to gulp their food. If you want your dog to have clean teeth and breath, feed him/her some bones every week.
Canned food is perfectly acceptable to feed, and I'm not sure why it seems to have gotten a bad rap. In my opinion, canned foods, while more expensive generally, tend to have less preservatives and possibly a lower amount of grains. Dry foods all have at least 50% grain content, so they are the proper consistency to make it through the extruding machines. Don't know about baked foods like Wellness, though
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Cranston, Rhode Island
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|Cranston, Rhode Island|
|— City —|
|• Mayor||Allan Fung|
|• Total||29.9 sq mi (77.5 km2)|
|• Land||28.6 sq mi (74.0 km2)|
|• Water||1.4 sq mi (3.5 km2)|
|Elevation||62 ft (19 m)|
|• Density||2,814/sq mi (1,086.3/km2)|
|Time zone||EST (UTC-5)|
|• Summer (DST)||EDT (UTC-4)|
|ZIP code||02823, 02905, 02907, 02910, 02920, 02921|
|FIPS code||44-19180 |
|GNIS feature ID||1218689|
Cranston, once known as Pawtuxet, is a city in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States. With a population of 80,387 at the 2010 census, it is the third largest city in the state. The center of population of Rhode Island is located in Cranston. Cranston is a part of the Providence metropolitan area.
The Town of Cranston was created in 1754 from a portion of Providence north of the Pawtuxet River. After losing much of its territory to neighboring towns and the city of Providence, Cranston itself became a city on 10 March 1910.
Cranston is located at (41.7732, -71.4533).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 29.9 square miles (77 km2), of which, 28.6 square miles (74 km2) of it is land and 1.4 square miles (3.6 km2) of it (4.54%) is water.
The following neighborhoods are located in Cranston:
- Alpine Estates
- Apple Hill Estates
- Castleton Estates
- Dean Estates
- Eden Park
- Fiskeville (also in Scituate)
- Forest Hills
- Friendly Community
- Garden City
- Garden Hills
- Glen Woods
- Hillside Farms
- Laurel Hill
- Jackson (also in Scituate, RI)
- Oakhill Terrace
- Orchard Valley Estates
- Thornton (this includes part of Johnston, RI)
- Pawtuxet Village
- Western Hills Village
- Cranston High School East
- Cranston High School West
- Western Hills Middle School
- Hugh B. Bain Middle School
- Park View Middle School
- Saint Paul School
As of the census of 2000, there were 79,269 people, 30,954 households, and 20,243 families residing in the city of Cranston. The population density was 2,774.6 people per square mile (1,071.3/km²). There were 32,068 housing units at an average density of 1,122.5 per square mile (433.4/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 89.19% White, 6.79% African American, 0.30% Native American, 3.28% Asian, 3.10%, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 1.93% from other races, and 1.57% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 4.56% of the population.
Over 30% of Cranston's residents describe themselves as Italian American, one of the highest percentages of this ethnic group in cities with over 50,000 residents in the United States.
Cranston is a part of the Providence metropolitan area, which has an estimated population of 1,622,520 which is located in the eastern part of the state.
There were 30,954 households, out of which 28.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 49.2% were married couples living together, 12.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 34.6% were non-families. 29.4% of all households were made up of individuals and 13.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.41 and the average family size was 3.01.
In the city the population was spread out, with 21.6% under the age of 18, 7.7% from 18 to 24, 31.5% from 25 to 44, 22.0% from 45 to 64, and 17.3% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 39 years. For every 100 females there were 95.9 males. For every 100 females of age 18 or over, there were 92.8 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $44,108, and the median income for a family was $55,241 (these figures had risen to $54,879 and $70,658 respectively as of a 2007 estimate). Males had a median income of $40,031 versus $28,279 for females. The per capita income for the city was $21,978. About 5.6% of families and 7.3% of the population were below the poverty line, including 8.6% of those under age 18 and 8.5% of those age 65 or over.
Government and infrastructure
The Rhode Island Department of Corrections has its headquarters and its adult prison facilities in Cranston. The Rhode Island Department of Children, Youth & Families operates the Rhode Island Training School (RITS), a juvenile correctional facility, in Cranston. The Rhode Island Division of Motor Vehicles in headquartered in Cranston.
Jewelry maker Alex & Ani is headquartered in Cranston.
Four freeways travel through Cranston: I-95, I-295, RI 10 (the Huntington Expressway) and RI 37. Other state-numbered roads in Cranston are U.S. 1, US 1A, RI 2, RI 5, RI 12, RI 33, RI 51, RI 115 and RI 117.
Cranston is served by Rhode Island Public Transit Authority (RIPTA) buses. Amtrak's Northeast Corridor passes through but has no station in the city. The MBTA's Providence/Stoughton Line also passes through but does not include a station in Cranston. However, a station stop has been proposed. Currently, the nearest MBTA stations are in Providence and Warwick at T.F. Green Airport, the former which is also served by Amtrak.
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The first auto race track in the country, Narragansett Park, located off Park Avenue, opened in present-day Stadium Ball Field in September 1886 as a trotting track. Not to be confused with Narragansett Park a Thoroughbred horse track, located in Pawtucket, RI, which closed in 1978.
Cranston is home to the Budlong Pool, one of the largest outdoor swimming pools in the country. Built in the 1940s as a Works Progress Administration project, it is a staple of the community. It is located at 198 Aqueduct Road, off Reservoir Avenue (part of RI 2).
Sprague Mansion, an 18th-century homestead, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Thomas Fenner House, built around 1677, is one of the oldest houses in Rhode Island. Edgewood Yacht Club which is no longer standing was a notable structure on the National Register of Historic Places located on the Providence River.
Notable people
Joseph Domenico, widely considered the top athlete to ever hail from the area.
Flood of 2010
In March 2010, after an overwhelming amount of rain, the Pawtuxet River overflowed. This caused many major sites such as the Warwick Mall, Contour Dental Laboratories, and the CLCF Building to be shut down and repaired.
In popular culture
See also
Sister cities
- Itri, Italy
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RapidEye Infrared image
On 21 October 2008, the first image from the RapidEye satellite constellation, which was launched in late August, was presented in Brandenburg by RapidEye AG, the satellite operator. The image shows the Argentine town of El Bolsón near the Argentine-Chilean border in the Patagonia region. The five identical Earth observation satellites, which are currently undergoing a three-month commissioning phase, are circling the Earth in a 600-kilometre orbit. They are expected to provide high-quality optical datasets in the blue, green, red and near-infrared spectral ranges for many civilian uses from December 2008. The RapidEye project is a "public-private partnership", supported by the Space Agency (Raumfahrt-Agentur) of the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) on behalf of the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Technologie).
Staff at DLR are delighted with the first accomplishment of this mission. "We compliment our partner on this successful kick-off. We are fully confident that the next stages will be equally successful", said Dr Ludwig Baumgarten, the DLR Executive Board member responsible for the Space Agency. "Last year, we put into operation the TerraSAR-X, our first satellite to be realised in a public-private partnership. Today, Germany has yet again demonstrated its extensive know-how in the field of Earth observation", Baumgarten added. The image presented today is the first one to have been recorded by the high-performance camera, manufactured by Jena-Optronik, on board the RapidEye satellite "Choros". The scene covers an area of more than 155 square kilometres at a resolution of five metres per pixel. The data were downloaded to a ground station on Spitsbergen (Norway). From there, the image was transmitted directly to RapidEye AG's headquarters in Brandenburg.
The first RapidEye image, true colour version
In the coming weeks, RapidEye AG plans to take the next step on the road to routine delivery of satellite images by offering the first processed datasets on its website for demonstration purposes. The calibration phase is expected to be completed by the end of the year, by which time the system will be able to meet scientific and commercial demand. Interested parties will then be provided with data, products and services with a special focus on questions of land use and land cover. In addition to this, potential customers have indicated a need for data about the condition of the North Sea mudflats or the concentration of suspended matter in the shallow water of coastal lakes, rivers or inland waters. The RapidEye company is especially geared to commercial applications for the agriculture, insurance and food industries, as well as for disaster relief organisations.
Scientists can obtain data and products for research purposes in the context of regular application and evaluation procedures. An internet-based communication portal is currently being set up under the aegis of the DLR Space Agency. In 2007, the DLR Space Agency already announced a call for proposals for research into synergetic use of TerraSAR-X and RapidEye data. The German TerraSAR-X radar Earth observation satellite has been in orbit since mid-2007.
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Purpose of Lesson: This lesson gives students an overview of some of the common illnesses and medical treatments during the pioneer era in Indiana
Objectives: At the end of this lesson, students should be able to:
Correlation to Indiana Standards (for Fourth Grade Social Studies)
4.1.13 Distinguish fact from opinion and fact from fiction in historical documents and other information resources.
4.1.15 Using primary source and secondary source materials, generate a question, seek answers, and write brief comments about an event in Indiana history.
4.2.7 Define and provide examples of civic virtues in a democracy.
4.2.8 Use a variety of information resources to research and write brief comments about a position or course of action on a public issue relating to Indiana's past or present.
4.5.5 Give examples of the impacts of science and technology on the migration and settlement pattern of various groups.
Content from Oliver Robinson, "Medicine, Pioneer Style, 1825," IMH 35 (March 1939); Leonora Miller, "Doctors, Drugs, and Disease in Pioneer Princeton," IMH 52 (June 1956); Hugh Ayer, "Nineteenth Century Medicine," IMH 48 (September 1952); and Walter J. Daly, "'The Slows': The Torment of Milk Sickness on the Midwest Frontier," IMH 102 (March 2004)
Vocabulary words : hygiene, malnourishment, susceptible, bacteria, parasite, virus, bleeding, purging, poultice
Read the following out loud to the class, pausing to define vocabulary words and answer questions:
Illness was a problem for many pioneer families. Poor hygiene, dirty water, and harsh living conditions contributed to a short life for many people. Pioneers were often malnourished as well, which made them more susceptible to disease.
Question: Ask the class to think about what they have learned about life on the frontier, especially in log cabins. Why would poor hygiene be so common? What might cause malnutrition among the pioneers?
Four common diseases were cholera, malaria, smallpox, and typhoid fever. All four were often deadly; those who lived could be weak and sickly for months or have the disease re-occur throughout their life (malaria).
Suggestion: Put this Chart of 4 Common Pioneer Diseases up on the board or on a screen. Go over the causes and symptoms of each disease.
Seeing a doctor when you were sick was difficult during pioneer times. In most areas of Indiana, like other parts of the frontier, there were very few doctors available and many of those who were available had very little education or training, when compared to today's doctors. For example, Dr. Richard Carter, who wrote a book about cures for common diseases in 1825, studied for a few months with two Native American herbalists and then read through his father's small collection of medical books (probably no more than half a dozen). Within less than one year, he considered himself qualified to be a doctor and began practicing.
Many pioneer women were both nurse and doctor to their families. And when widespread sickness came to a town or rural area, neighbors who were well would often help out families whose members were ill.
Question: Why would help from neighbors be so important?
Pioneers knew nothing of bacteria or viruses and, compared to today, had a very primitive understanding of the workings of the human body. They could observe facts, but their conclusions were often incorrect. Pioneers noticed, for example, that malaria was most common in low-lying areas near sources of water (particularly stagnant water), but they believed that mists (sometimes called a "miasma") that rose up from the water somehow caused the disease. They did not know that the mosquitoes which bred in the water actually carried the disease.
Most doctors and patients relied on homemade remedies. Two favorite remedies for many illnesses were bleeding and purging. Sometimes these "cures" made the ill person so weak, they died. Most people also used herbs and other plants to make poultices, teas, and syrups. Here are some examples:
Question: As you read each of the remedies below, ask the class: Do you think this would cure or even help that particular disease? Why or why not?
"For curing the Ague and fever [malaria]. . . Take one third Rhubarb and two thirds best Barks [bark from a tree or bush—sassafras was widely used in Indiana], mix them with Brandy or old whisky until they are about as thin as rich cream – take a wineglass full, 4 or 5 times a day. If it gripes too severely [causes stomach cramps], dilute it with water." [Written on an 1822 storekeeper's ledger. From Jones and Stockwell's General Store, Princeton, Indiana.]
"For cancer, . . . a salve to be made from pennyroyal, camomile flowers, mullein, and one-half gallon of apple vinegar. After this mixture has been boiled twenty-four hours, we must add salt and a gill [5 fluid ounces] of honey; then we are to simmer to mixture down to a salve – which is to be applied to the cancer with a feather." [from Richard Carter's A Valuable Vegetable, Medical Prescription... (1825) ]
"For Gout, Rheumatism, Cramps, and Weak Nerves. . . Kill the fattest young dog that you can get, in the month of March or April; clean him as you would a pig; gut him; and stuff his body with a pint of red fishing worms, a pint of red pepper, a considerable portion of the bark of the root of sassafras, and water frogs; then sew up the incision, roast the dog well, and save the oil to annoint sores, gouts, weak nerves, etc." [from Richard Carter]
"For bilious, nervous, and putrid fevers [putrid fever is usually typhoid; bilious fever can be jaundice, yellow fever, or typhoid]. . . Get a double handful of the bark of the roots of dogwood, a handful of ground ivy, a handful of mullein roots, and a handful of the bark of the roots of sassafras; boil them all well together in water, strain the syrup and put it in a vessel to itself. Then get a quart of good clean cow dung and put it in a tight little linen bag and boil it well in water; then strain it with the other syrup, boil it down to a quart and bottle it." [from Richard Carter]
In Class or Take Home Assignment: Compare and Contrast
Have the students fill out a worksheet with the following categories:
Ask them to list four medical problems they'd had, who helped them cure each one (i.e., school nurse, parent, doctor), and what cured each one (cast for a broken wrist, prescription medicine for an infection, cough syrup for a cold). Ask them if they can include at least one example of a "home cure" and one example of a "doctor cure."
During the next class (or after a set period of time), write the three categories on the board and write down student answers as they give them. After you have a good sampling, go over the results with the class and see if you've found any comparisons with what the pioneers might have done for an illness. Or have you found mostly contrasts? (If there are no comparisons on the board, mention lemon and honey for a cough, chicken soup, etc.)
Purpose of Lesson: This lesson tells students a story about a specific illness in pioneer Indiana and how it affected the life of Abraham Lincoln.
Objectives and Correlation to Indiana Standards : See part one
Lesson content from: Walter J. Daly, "'The Slows': The Torment of Milk Sickness on the Midwest Frontier," IMH 102 (March 2004)
Lesson Activities: Read aloud to the class or assign as a take-home reading.
When the first pioneers moved into Ohio and Indiana, they discovered an illness they had never seen before. It seemed to be related to a sickness that their farm animals, especially cows and sheep, sometimes developed. The animals would begin to shake and tremble whenever they tried to move very far; within a few days, the sick animals died. The pioneers called the illness the “trembles” or the "slows" (because the few people who survived the illness often spent weeks or months feeling very tired and unable to work or even move around).
Doctors soon could list the symptoms of the disease: weakness, muscle pain, vomiting, bad breath, and extreme fatigue. Many patients, within a few days of falling ill, went into a coma and died.
Pioneers noticed that the animals who became sick with the "trembles" were mostly those who had grazed in oak forests or in low-lying areas with oak trees and smaller plants. For many decades, doctors and scientists tested animals with the disease and tried to find its cause. During this time, the settlers who were most affected by the disease could do little to prevent or cure it, except to move away from one area and hope that the next place they settled would be free from the disease.
In 1816, Thomas and Nancy Hanks Lincoln, along with their two children and Nancy 's young cousin Dennis Hanks, settled in a wooded area near Pigeon Creek, Indiana . They lived in a three-sided lean-to for several months until Thomas finished building a small log cabin. Soon Nancy's aunt and uncle also moved to the same area. In the fall of 1818, several people who lived near the Lincoln's cabin became seriously ill. All of the sick people, including Nancy Lincoln's aunt and uncle, had similar symptoms – the symptoms of the "slows." Soon Nancy also became ill and she, like the others who were sick, died within a few days. Thomas Lincoln was left alone to raise his wife's young cousin and his two sons, including nine-year old Abraham. In December 1819 Thomas remarried, in part to give young Abe a new mother.
In the 1850s, when Abraham Lincoln was a lawyer living in Illinois, scientists finally confirmed the cause of the "slows", or what was now known as "milk sickness." The cause was a poisonous substance in the white snakeroot plant. The snakeroot grew in oak forests and in low-lying areas. If a grazing cow or sheep ate enough snakeroot, it would become sick and its milk and meat would carry the poison to the person who drank or ate it.
It took many years for people to learn about this discovery. In 1859, in Randolph County, Indiana, three children from the same family died from milk sickness. In 1862, Mary Bell Wilson, living in Lockport, Indiana, wrote a letter to her grandparents telling them that "a disease called milk sickness carried off a good many people last fall." Milk sickness began to disappear in the years between 1850 and 1900 as farms became larger, and grazing pastures became fenced in so that animals could not stray into the woods.
For Class Discussion the Next Day:
1. Why do you think it took so long for doctors and scientists to discover the cause of milk sickness? What was lacking in early 19th-century society that might slow down research? [Examples: modern transportation so that people in rural areas receive news; communication technology so that scientists and doctors can share their findings with each other; technology that aids in research; etc.]
2. Read the following text from Dr. Daly's article aloud to the students:
"Treatments [for milk sickness] were varied . . . but none was specific and none effective. Purging the bowels with calomel, sedation with opium and/or alcohol, and bleeding were common."
Ask the students: Why do you think so many people used remedies and treatments that didn't work?
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Picture book art has come a long way. Back in the day, publishers could only afford to do black and white or 2 to 3 colors. Modern day picture books are an explosion of rich details and colors. Through paintings, drawings, photography, mixed media and collage, picture books have become works of art. They can be used as a tool to develop observational skills and art appreciation in children.
Here are some sample questions to ask toddlers, preschoolers, and grade school children:
- What colors did the illustrator use?
- What do you see in the picture?
- Does it look realistic?
- What do you think the artist used to create the picture?
- Why do you think they chose to do it that way? When comparing picture books you can observe how one illustrator drew an alligator with purple squiggly lines and another illustrator used the color green and short straight lines.
- How would you have drawn that picture?
- Is that a happy or a sad picture? How can you tell?
Here are some examples of books that use different illustration techniques:
Smoky Night written by Eve Bunting and Illustrated by David Diaz .
This book won the Caldecott Medal (an award for outstanding art in picture books) in 1995. Smoky Night is the story of how a riot affects a young boy and his mother. Diaz created and photographed collages and paired them with acrylic paintings. The highly detailed collages relate directly to the story on the page. The intensity of the illustrations match the intensity of the story. As things are resolved the illustrations become less intense.
Not A Box written and illustrated by Antoinette Portis.
In direct comparison to the detailed illustrations in Smoky Night, Not A Box uses simplicity to stimulate children’s imagination. There are only five colors in the book and Portis used simple line drawings to show children that a box could become anything they want it to. Even though the book is simple it is done in a way that was thought about carefully. The cover and end papers look and feel just like a cardboard box.
My Dadima Wears Saris written by Kashmira Sheth and illustrated by Yoshiko Jaeggi
Two young girls learn from their grandmother about the beauty and art of wearing a Sari. The illustrations are beautiful watercolors that fill every inch of space on the page. At one point of the book the full color illustrations become sepia to show that the grandmother is remembering the past.
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A stroke, also known as a cerebrovascular accident (CVA), is the rapid loss of brain function(s) due to disturbance in the blood supply to the brain. This can be due to ischemia (lack of blood flow) caused by blockage (thrombosis, arterial embolism), or a hemorrhage (leakage of blood). As a result, the affected area of the brain cannot function, which might result in an inability to move one or more limbs on one side of the body, inability to understand or formulate speech, or an inability to see one side of the visual field.
A stroke is a medical emergency and can cause permanent neurological damage, complications, and death. It is the leading cause of adult disability in the United States and Europe and the second leading cause of death worldwide. Risk factors for stroke include old age, hypertension (high blood pressure), previous stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA), diabetes, high cholesterol, cigarette smoking and atrial fibrillation. High blood pressure is the most important modifiable risk factor of stroke.
A silent stroke is a stroke that does not have any outward symptoms, and the patients are typically unaware they have suffered a stroke. Despite not causing identifiable symptoms, a silent stroke still causes damage to the brain, and places the patient at increased risk for both transient ischemic attack and major stroke in the future. Conversely, those who have suffered a major stroke are at risk of having silent strokes. In a broad study in 1998, more than 11 million people were estimated to have experienced a stroke in the United States. Approximately 770,000 of these strokes were symptomatic and 11 million were first-ever silent MRI infarcts or hemorrhages. Silent strokes typically cause lesions which are detected via the use of neuroimaging such as MRI. Silent strokes are estimated to occur at five times the rate of symptomatic strokes. The risk of silent stroke increases with age, but may also affect younger adults and children, especially those with acute anemia.
An ischemic stroke is occasionally treated in a hospital with thrombolysis (also known as a "clot buster"), and some hemorrhagic strokes benefit from neurosurgery. Treatment to recover any lost function is termed stroke rehabilitation, ideally in a stroke unit and involving health professions such as speech and language therapy, physical therapy and occupational therapy. Prevention of recurrence may involve the administration of antiplatelet drugs such as aspirin and dipyridamole, control and reduction of hypertension, and the use of statins. Selected patients may benefit from carotid endarterectomy and the use of anticoagulants.
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I just posted a blog entry on the main MSP2 blog about a new professional development resource for teachers of algebra and geometry, LessonSketch.
LessonSketch.org is a new website and discussion forum where teachers of algebra and geometry can ponder questions of teaching based on classroom stories like the one below. In addition to engaging with existing stories, in the form of animations and comic strips, teachers can create their own stories to share with other teachers in our forums. LessonSketch supports the creation, examination, and discussion of scenarios that depict the practice of mathematics instruction. These reflections and discussions may help professionals create and warrant good instruction.
To get a taste of the activities available at LessonSketch, read the comic below and then ask yourself the following questions,
LessonSketch is free to join and you will have access to engage with our animated stories, create your own stories, and discuss stories with colleagues in our forums. We're looking forward to seeing you there!
LessonSketch is funded by the NSF through grants to Patricio Herbst at the University of Michigan and Daniel Chazan at the University of Maryland.
Thanks for sharing this. It looks like an excellent tool for teachers. I am sharing it with a friend who teaches pre-service math teachers at our local university.
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Housing market in China drags down economy.
Chinese policymakers have for a while been trying to deflate the nation's property bubble.
While its housing market has been correcting, and prices are deflating at a moderate speed, it hasn't bottomed yet, according to Societe Generale analyst Wei Yao.
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) reports that new apartment prices have declined under 1.5 percent in average terms since their peak in the second half of 2011.
The strong balance sheets of Chinese households are supporting property prices, according to Yao, since few homeowners are in a rush to sell their homes and in turn pressure property prices in the primary market.
Developers on the other hand are slowly lowering the expectations and most of the correction so far has been in the form of sales contraction.
Sales are declining but prices are still high across major cities
Residential sales have contracted on a year-over-year (YoY) basis for eight straight months in terms of both volume and value.
While NBS reported recent surges in sales, rising 137 percent month-over-month (MoM) in March, and 16 percent MoM in May, the trend is heading down when you exclude seasonal factors.
While affordability has improved because of income growth, home prices in major cities are still among the highest in the world. It still takes more than 15 years' annual disposable income for Beijing residents to buy one property there, according to Yao.
Housing still weighs on the economy
Recent relaxing measures will help ease the pace of the decline, but the economy will continue to feel the drag from the housing sector as long as there isn't a significant improvement in developers' access to credit.
The slump in land sales — down 18 percent YoY in volume terms and 10 percent in value terms in the first five months — shows the tight liquidity conditions that private developers face. But local governments still refuse to lower land prices:
"This stalemate has started to exert pressure on the financial situation of local governments, which is one of the reasons we expect less rebound in infrastructure investment than the market. In extreme cases, as reported by local media, some local governments are now even unable to pay the salaries of public sector employees. The housing market correction is still sending shockwaves through the economy."
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A: We each have our own individual personality, and it’s true that some people are harder to get along with than others — sometimes much harder! No wonder the Bible urges us to “clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience” (Colossians 3:12).
Why are some people like this? Sometimes it’s because of pride; they think they’re better than anyone else, and this keeps them from being friendly. Sometimes it may be for psychological reasons they may not even realize. Someone, for example, who’s been hurt by others or was abused as a child often will be angry or suspicious as a result. And sometimes it’s because a person simply wants to be left alone, for whatever reason.
The real question, however, is this: How should we react to people who aren’t easy to get along with? It’s easy to like people who like us, but what about those who are hard to like? Let Jesus Christ be your example. Instead of lashing out at those who hated Him, He still loved them and was even willing to give His life for them. The Bible says, “If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat; if he is thirsty, give him water to drink” (Proverbs 25:21).
Pray for your cousin, and ask Christ to help you love him just as God loves him. Then do what you can to be a friend to him and point him to Christ, even if this is difficult. Your patience and love could make the difference.
Q: Do angels ever appear to people, or are they always invisible? But if they’re invisible, how do we know they even exist? — Mrs. R. McC.
A: Angels are certainly real; the Bible repeatedly tells us about them and the work God has given them to do. They are spiritual beings, the Bible says, who were created by God to do His will. The Bible says, “Are not all angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation?” (Hebrews 1:14).
Because they are spiritual and not physical beings, the angels usually are invisible and unseen by us. In fact, one of heaven’s joys, I believe, will be the joy of looking back over our lives and discovering just how often the angels intervened to save us or bless us — although we weren’t even aware of it at the time. The Psalmist said that God “will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways” (Psalm 91:11).
Nevertheless, the Bible also tells us that at times the angels have become visible. When God announced to the Virgin Mary that she would bear His Son, He used the angel Gabriel to convey the news to her (see Luke 1:26-38). When Jesus’ birth was announced to the shepherds outside Bethlehem, “a great company of the heavenly host appeared ... praising God” (Luke 2:13). Many other examples from the Bible could be cited.
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Situated in the North-East of Phu Quoc Island in the southern province of Kien Giang, the park has special and unique biodiversity values compared to other national parks across the country.
Located on an island that has a mixture of continental and coastal climate, the park possesses a rich ecosystem of primeval, secondary and indigo forests.
Its indigo forests are distributed across sloping hills and lowlands that are flooded in the rainy season.
The topography of the national park is hilly, although not particularly steep, with its highest point at 603m on Mount Chua.
Drained by numerous, mainly seasonal, streams, the only sizeable river on the island is the Rach Cua Can River, which winds through the southern part of the park before flowing into the sea on the west coast of the island.
Remarkably, the national park alone is home to more than 920 species of plants and a large diversity of coral reef. Phu Quoc Island supports 12,794 ha of lowland evergreen forest, 86 percent of which is within the national park itself.
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PARIS (AP) — It may be the Renaissance equivalent of a royal flush.
A hairpin belonging to 16th century French Queen Catherine de Medici has been discovered at a royal residence outside Paris. What has conservators scratching their heads is exactly where it was found: down a communal toilet.
Officials said it's the first time in modern history that a possession of the Renaissance royal has been found at Fontainebleau Palace.
Though the queen was renowned across Europe for her lavish jewelry, much of her collection has been lost, sold or stolen over the centuries.
The rare 9 centimeter- (3.5 inch-) pin was identified easily because it bore interlocking C's — for "Catherine."
After the age-old soil was cleaned off, Fontainebleau Palace's conservator Vincent Droguet also noted a finish of white and green, known to be Catherine's colors.
Less easy for the experts, however, was to explain why the personal possession of a queen known for luxury would end up in a Renaissance-era communal toilet — as opposed to her royal one.
The artifact was found by accident as archeologists dug around the toilet to prepare the surrounding area for restoration.
Droguet called the find a "mystery."
"But what would Catherine de Medici be doing there? Maybe it was a lady-in-waiting who took it. Perhaps it was stolen, and just fell in."
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A local currency has sprouted up
in western Massachusetts. It is called BerkShares. The details
of the system suggest that it is motivated largely by price discrimination: People who go through the trouble of converting U.S. dollars to BerkShares get a 10 percent discount on things they buy. In this sense, the system is like discount coupons coupled with a new medium of exchange.
Question for budding macroeconomists: If use of the BerkShare system became widespread, what effect would it have on inflation if
(a) the Fed held the supply of U.S. dollars constant?
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|Once every spring,when the Indian Paintbrushes and pink Fireweed begins to bloom along the walls of the Valley of Flags, The Cariboo Sentinel Newspaper publishes a paper. Compiled from the archives of the original Cariboo Sentinel (published from 1865-75) and from other periodicals, manuscripts and relevant sources, the paper is designed to be a window into that period of our history to which Barkerville and the Cariboo Gold Rush were so important.
The following archive represents the last five years of our efforts in publishing the Cariboo Sentinel II. In it you will find stories, accounts, advertising and the like that will illustrate a very different time. A time that left us only a short while ago.
The Sentinel II also contains reports on what is new in Barkerville and area. Curatorial projects, new ventures, mining activity and features on Wells (a 1930's mining community just a short 8km from Barkerville) and the Bowron Lake Provinical Park (a 116 km protected chain of lakes that is a canoeist's paradise).
|Photographs, as one of the more important records of Barkerville's heyday, have always been the 'real gold' to curators, archivists and amateur historians alike. Under the watchful supervision the onsite curator and his staff, Barkerville's Resource Information Centre maintains a large and invaluable collection of photographic plates, negatives &c. in humidity and temperature controlled environments. |
Due to the size of the RIC collection and the current limitations of Internet technology, we can only hope to scratch the surface of this impressive resource. Our web-archive presents a brief glimpse of some of the existing work of a few of Barkerville's more prominent photographers; from the enigmatic Louis A. Blanc, who disappeared without a trace after leaving Cariboo and may have been shot to death in Tombstone, Arizona to; C. D. Hoy, a Chinese immigrant who braved substantial odds, from head taxes to language barriers, in becoming one of the founding pioneers of this province. | <urn:uuid:6f2d7451-e81d-426f-b528-6d6d94d0d9e9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.cariboo-net.com/sentinel/nwarchf.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00026-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927081 | 415 | 2.015625 | 2 |
First, I want to affirm with all evangelical Christians that the Bible is the Word of God, inerrant, inspired, and our final authority for faith and life. However, nowhere in the Bible am I told that only one translation of it is the correct one. Nowhere am I told that the King James Bible is the best or only ‘holy’ Bible. There is no verse that tells me how God will preserve his word, so I can have no scriptural warrant for arguing that the King James has exclusive rights to the throne. The arguments must proceed on other bases.
Second, the Greek text which stands behind the King James Bible is demonstrably inferior in certain places. The man who edited the text was a Roman Catholic priest and humanist named Erasmus.1 He was under pressure to get it to the press as soon as possible since (a) no edition of the Greek New Testament had yet been published, and (b) he had heard that Cardinal Ximenes and his associates were just about to publish an edition of the Greek New Testament and he was in a race to beat them. Consequently, his edition has been called the most poorly edited volume in all of literature! It is filled with hundreds of typographical errors which even Erasmus would acknowledge. Two places deserve special mention. In the last six verses of Revelation, Erasmus had no Greek manuscript (=MS) (he only used half a dozen, very late MSS for the whole New Testament any way). He was therefore forced to ‘back-translate’ the Latin into Greek and by so doing he created seventeen variants which have never been found in any other Greek MS of Revelation! He merely guessed at what the Greek might have been. Secondly, for 1 John 5:7-8, Erasmus followed the majority of MSS in reading “there are three witnesses in heaven, the Spirit and the water and the blood.” However, there was an uproar in some Roman Catholic circles because his text did not read “there are three witnesses in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit.” Erasmus said that he did not put that in the text because he found no Greek MSS which had that reading. This implicit challenge—viz., that if he found such a reading in any Greek MS, he would put it in his text—did not go unnoticed. In 1520, a scribe at Oxford named Roy made such a Greek MS (codex 61, now in Dublin). Erasmus’ third edition had the second reading because such a Greek MS was ‘made to order’ to fill the challenge! To date, only a handful of Greek MSS have been discovered which have the Trinitarian formula in 1 John 5:7-8, though none of them is demonstrably earlier than the sixteenth century.
That is a very important point. It illustrates something quite significant with regard to the textual tradition which stands behind the King James. Probably most textual critics today fully embrace the doctrine of the Trinity (and, of course, all evangelical textual critics do). And most would like to see the Trinity explicitly taught in 1 John 5:7-8. But most reject this reading as an invention of some overly zealous scribe. The problem is that the King James Bible is filled with readings which have been created by overly zealous scribes! Very few of the distinctive King James readings are demonstrably ancient. And most textual critics just happen to embrace the reasonable proposition that the most ancient MSS tend to be more reliable since they stand closer to the date of the autographs. I myself would love to see many of the King James readings retained. The story of the woman caught in adultery (John 7:53-8:11) has always been a favorite of mine about the grace of our savior, Jesus Christ. That Jesus is called God in 1 Timothy 3:16 affirms my view of him. Cf. also John 3:13; 1 John 5:7-8, etc. But when the textual evidence shows me both that scribes had a strong tendency to add, rather than subtract, and that most of these additions are found in the more recent MSS, rather than the more ancient, I find it difficult to accept intellectually the very passages which I have always embraced emotionally. In other words, those scholars who seem to be excising many of your favorite passages from the New Testament are not doing so out of spite, but because such passages are not found in the better and more ancient MSS. It must be emphatically stressed, however, that this does not mean that the doctrines contained in those verses have been jeopardized. My belief in the deity of Christ, for example, does not live or die with 1 Timothy 3:16. In fact, it has been repeatedly affirmed that no doctrine of Scripture has been affected by these textual differences. If that is true, then the ‘King James only’ advocates might be crying wolf where none exists, rather than occupying themselves with the more important aspects of advancing the gospel.2
Third, the King James Bible has undergone three revisions since its inception in 1611, incorporating more than 100,000 changes. Which King James Bible is inspired, therefore?
Fourth, 300 words found in the KJV no longer bear the same meaning—e.g., “Suffer little children…to come unto me” (Matt 19:14). “Study to shew thyself approved unto God” (2 Tim 2:15). Should we really embrace a Bible as the best translation when it uses language that not only is not clearly understood any more, but in fact has been at times perverted and twisted?3
Fifth, the KJV includes one very definite error in translation, which even KJV advocates would admit. In Matthew 23:24 the KJV has ‘strain at a gnat and swallow a camel.’ But the Greek has ‘strain out a gnat and swallow a camel.’ In the least, this illustrates not only that no translation is infallible but also that scribal corruptions can and do take place-even in a volume which has been worked over by so many different hands (for the KJV was the product of a very large committee of over 50 scholars).4
Sixth, when the KJV was first published, it was heavily resisted for being too easy to understand! Some people revere it today because it is difficult to understand. I fear that part of their response is due to pride: they feel as though they are able to discern something that other, less spiritual folks cannot. Often 1 Corinthians 2:13-16 is quoted with reference to the KJV (to the effect that ‘you would understand it if you were spiritual’). Such a use of that text, however, is a gross distortion of the Scriptures. The words in the New Testament, the grammar, the style, etc.—in short, the language—comprised the common language of the first century. We do God a great disservice when we make the gospel more difficult to understand than he intended it. The reason unspiritual people do not understand the scriptures is because they have a volitional problem, not an intellectual problem (cf. 1 Cor. 2:14 where ‘receive,’ ‘welcome’ shows clearly that the thing which blocks understanding is the sinful will of man).
Seventh, those who advocate that the KJV has exclusive rights to being called the Holy Bible are always, curiously, English-speaking people (normally isolated Americans). Yet, Martin Luther’s fine translation of the Bible into German predated the KJV by almost 100 years. Are we so arrogant to say that God has spoken only in English? And where there are substantial discrepancies between Luther’s Bible and the KJV (such as in 1 John 5:7-8), are we going to say that God has inspired both? Is he the author of lies? Our faith does not rest in a singular tradition, nor is it provincial. Vibrant, biblical Christianity must never unite itself with provincialism. Otherwise, missionary endeavor, among other things, would die.
Eighth, again, let me repeat an earlier point: Most evangelicals—who embrace all the cardinal doctrines of the faith—prefer a different translation and textual basis than that found in the KJV. In fact, even the editors of the New Scofield Reference Bible (which is based on the KJV) prefer a different text/translation!
Finally, though it is true that the modern translations ‘omit’ certain words and verses (or conversely, the KJV adds to the Word of God, depending on how you look at it), the issue is not black-or-white. In fact, the most recent edition of a Greek New Testament which is based on the majority of MSS, rather than the most ancient ones (and thus stands firmly behind the King James tradition), when compared to the standard Greek New Testament used in most modern translations, excises over six hundred and fifty words or phrases! Thus, it is not proper to suggest that only modern translations omit; the Greek text behind the KJV omits, too! The question, then, is not whether modern translations have deleted portions of the Word of God, but rather whether either the KJV or modern translations have altered the Word of God. I contend that the KJV has far more drastically altered the scriptures than have modern translations. Nevertheless, I repeat: most textual critics for the past two hundred and fifty years would say that no doctrine is affected by these changes. One can get saved reading the KJV and one can get saved reading the NIV, NASB, etc.
I trust that this brief survey of reasons I have for thinking that the King James Bible is not the best available translation will not be discarded quickly. All of us have a tendency to make mountains out of molehills and then to set up fortresses in those ‘mountains.’ We often cling to things out of emotion, rather than out of true piety. And as such we do a great disservice to a dying world that is desperately in need of a clear, strong voice proclaiming the gospel of Jesus Christ. Soli Deo gloria!
One further point is necessary. With the recent publication of several different books vilifying modern translations, asserting that they were borne out of conspiratorial motives, a word should be mentioned about this concocted theory. First, many of these books are written by people who have little or no knowledge of Greek or Hebrew, and are, further, a great distortion of the facts. I have read books on textual criticism for more than a quarter of a century, but never have I seen such illogic, out-of-context quotations, and downright deceptions about the situation as in these recent books. Second, although it is often asserted that heretics produced some of the New Testament MSS we now have in our possession, there is only one group of MSS known to be produced by heretics: certain Byzantine MSS of the book of Revelation. This is significant because the Byzantine text stands behind the KJV! These MSS formed part of a mystery cult textbook used by various early cults. But KJV advocates constantly make the charge that the earliest MSS (the Alexandrian MSS) were produced by heretics. The sole basis they have for this charge is that certain readings in these MSS are disagreeable to them! Third, when one examines the variations between the Greek text behind the KJV (the Textus Receptus) and the Greek text behind modern translations, it is discovered that the vast majority of variations are so trivial as to not even be translatable (the most common is the moveable nu, which is akin to the difference between ‘who’ and ‘whom’!). Fourth, when one compares the number of variations that are found in the various MSS with the actual variations between the Textus Receptus and the best Greek witnesses, it is found that these two are remarkably similar. There are over 400,000 textual variants among NT MSS. But the differences between the Textus Receptus and texts based on the best Greek witnesses number about 5000—and most of these are untranslatable differences! In other words, over 98% of the time, the Textus Receptus and the standard critical editions agree. Those who vilify the modern translations and the Greek texts behind them have evidently never really investigated the data. Their appeals are based largely on emotion, not evidence. As such, they do an injustice to historic Christianity as well as to the men who stood behind the King James Bible. These scholars, who admitted that their work was provisional and not final (as can be seen by their preface and by their more than 8000 marginal notes indicating alternate renderings), would wholeheartedly welcome the great finds in MSS that have occurred in the past one hundred and fifty years.
1 Now a humanist in the sixteenth century is not the same as a humanist today. Erasmus was generally tolerant of other viewpoints, and was particularly interested in the humanities. Although he was a friend of Melanchthon, Luther’s right-hand man, Luther did not care for him.
2 It is significant that Erasmus himself was quite progressive in his thinking, and would hardly be in favor of how the KJV Only advocates have embraced him as their champion. For example, every one of his editions of the Greek NT was a diglot—Latin on one side and Greek on the other. The Latin was his own translation, and was meant to improve upon Jerome’s Latin Vulgate—a translation which the Catholic church had declared to be inspired. For this reason, Cambridge University immediately banned Erasmus’ New Testament, and others followed suit. Elsewhere, Erasmus questioned whether the pericope adulterae (the story of the woman caught in adultery [John 7:53-8:11]), the longer ending of Mark (16:9-20), etc., were authentic.
3 “Suffer” in Matt 19:14 means “permit”; “study” in 2 Tim 2:15 means “be eager, be diligent.” See the Oxford English Dictionary (the largest unabridged dictionary of the English language) for help here: it traces the uses of words through their history, pinpointing the year in which a new meaning came into vogue.
4 There are other mistakes in the KJV which persist to this day, even though this translation has gone through several editions. For example, the KJV in Heb 4:8 reads: “For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.” This sounds as though Jesus could not provide the eternal rest that we all long for! However, the Greek word for Jesus is the same as the word for Joshua. And in the context of Heb 4, Joshua is obviously meant. There is no textual problem here; it is rather simply a mistake on the part of the translators, perpetuated for the last 400 years in all editions of the KJV. | <urn:uuid:02f0727d-1c53-47fd-b89c-dcf51e6be62e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://bible.org/article/why-i-do-not-think-king-james-bible-best-translation-available-today | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00069-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970395 | 3,146 | 1.976563 | 2 |
The Howard County Council is considering this month a bill to authorize property tax credits for homeowners whose property meets environmental design standards, a measure that would make the county one of the few local governments to give such breaks.
Under the bill, owners of newly built homes that meet the "silver" standard in Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, or LEED certification, awarded by the U.S. Green Building Council, could receive up to a 25 percent discount on their county property tax bill, while homes with the highest LEED rating could earn a 75 percent discount the first year.
LEED ratings award points for environmentally sustainable building design, construction and maintenance.
"We need to be leaders on the things that count — how we hand this world over to our future," said Council Chairman Calvin B. Ball, a Columbia Democrat who sponsored the bill.
The legislation would give homeowners in Howard who have a LEED-certified silver rating a 25 percent tax credit. Those with "gold" certifications would receive a 50 percent discount, and "platinum" ratings would yield a 75 percent discount against county property taxes.
After the second year registering for the credit, a homeowner would have a 25 percent decrease each year, lowering their tax credit allotment. After four years, the credit would expire.
"It's an incentive to offset the cost for building. It's not intended to be a tax credit forever," said the bill's co-sponsor, Councilwoman Courtney Watson, an Ellicott City Democrat.
But she added that a sunset clause is included in the bill to allow the council to re-evaluate its effectiveness in five years.
"I think it's a good bill. I think it will provide real incentives for folks considering green building" in Howard County, said Stuart Kaplow, chairman of the Maryland chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council, which administers LEED standards. "Howard County has been and continues to be a leader in the nation of promoting green building."
In May 2010, Baltimore County adopted a bill that provided up to a full property tax credit for those homes that attain the highest LEED certification, while gold certification would earn a 60 percent tax credit and silver certification would earn a 40 percent tax credit. Tax credits for all ratings last three years, according to the county's website.
Montgomery and Anne Arundel counties have similar tiered incentives that expire after several years, according to according to the Database of State Incentives for Renewable Energy, which is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.
Carroll County has a measure similar to the proposal in Howard, according to the site, but the incentives are limited to commercial buildings only. Several counties provide tax breaks for commercial buildings only.
Howard already offers green tax credits for commercial development, but only five buildings in the county received the credit.
"We want to encourage energy efficiency and green building tech wherever we can," Watson said, adding that the bill also aims to promote new home building, which remains slow in the recovering economy.
Michael Harrison, director of government affairs for the Home Builders Association of Maryland, agreed that the "voluntary and incentive-based" bill would encourage green development.
He said however, "we'd like to see the tax credit expanded to another program similar to LEED." He mentioned that similar rating systems are offered by the International Codes Council and other credible third-party groups.
Harrison said the challenge to developers when it comes to LEED certification is that LEED can be more favorable to urban environments, where public transportation more accessible. In Howard, it's harder for developers to find land that could be served by public transit.
"LEED is easier to get credits in metropolitan area — if you are closer to public transit, pathways," Harrison said.
Watson said the measure limits the third-party rating to LEED standards because the county is limited by state laws, which only recognize LEED certification.
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Hiya! I'm new to the 80/10/10 diet, and I'm still kind of confused about how much protein I need. I'm 93 pounds, 5'5, and almost 15. I love the Vegan lifestyle, but I just feel better mainly consuming raw. On chronometer it's saying that I need 48 grams of protein a day.....but that's not ten percent, correct? When I was eating a cooked diet I was getting around 60 grams. I just need a daily goal that I need to reach. What's the minimum grams that I need? I eat around 1700-2000 calories a day. Thanks!
The ADA (american dietetics association) recommends a minimum of 4.5% calories from protein. The WHO (world health organization) recommends minimum 3% calories from protein. Don't worry about protein. There is no such thing as a protein deficiency. Just fill yourself with sweet, juicy fruits and all the greens you care for and you will get enough protein.
FYI the minimum recommended intake for females is 2500 cals, regardless of your weight/body size. (Unless you are a dwarf or something.) You might do fine now on 1700, but then you may get cravings/low energy/etc in the future. If you don't have the energy/motivation/willingness to exercise, it is a good sign that you need more calories.
So look at the % in the pie chart. If you are getting at least 3% protein you are fine. Protein needs are greatly exaggerated. Cronometer's recommendations are based on the USDA and SAD (meat + dairy galore.) Human breast milk, which is consumed at a time where body size is tripling, quadrupling in a short period of time, only contains 5-6% calories from protein.
Thanks for pointing out this inconsinstancy. How can the WHO make two recommendations, one based on calorie percentage, the other based on grams per bodyweight, and the two recommendations are completely incompatible. hmm...
How are you getting 3% protein diet needing to be 7500 calories? 3200 cals is 41 grams of protein of just bananas. One head of greens would be abou 7 ish grams, so add a few more veg to your nightly salad and it's very easy.
Just curious about the math on it after calculating what my daily intake usually is.
Nobody has mentioned 7500 calories so I'm not sure where you're getting that figure from, unless there is a deleted reply I'm not seeing.
yes, the reply has since been deleted. That member has since chosen to leave the forum.
Or, if you simply eat the "30 bananas a day" or close to it then you're golden for the protein intake. Today I got in 32 banana, so about 41 grams of protein, and that's before a salad
No need for protein supplements. 3 easy smoothies and a salad, can't get more practical than that.
How active are you?
I'm 15 as well, and I must say you need to eat more! You're very underweight (I was only 3 pounds less than you are now when I was at my lowest during anorexia, plus I was an inch shorter, too!). I'm your height now; but weight about 20 pounds more than you. We are teenagers and we need to consume more that way we properly grow.
The minimum required amount for females on this lifestyle is 2500; I'd say you should probably eat 3000. I tend to get around 2700, if I try hard enough, but I'm trying to eat more because I am active generally 1 hour a day, usually more. Insufficient carb calories can lead to insomnia (when I ate 2300 on this lifestyle I couldn't sleep to save my life), which can severely hinder growth and development.
Don't worry about protein so much; worry about sufficient calories and a good 811 ratio. You'll get enough.
Also, eat a lot of greens; they have a ton of important minerals for us teens ;)
Believe it or not, I had anorexia for a while, too. My lowest was 74. I come from a naturally lean family, so it's quite normal. I've always been like this. I live at the beach during the summer and I tend to walk around an hour a day. Fast pace, though. Thank you so much for replying to this! I thought I was the only person my age going into this.....So this has worked out pretty well for you? I would really like talking to you more! We'll keep in touch! Thanks!
Oh, well even if you are naturally very lean, I would still suggest upping your calories! Not necessarily for gaining weight (because you probably won't, given your leanness), but for energy, growth, and so you won't "fall off the wagon". :)
I've been vegan for about a year and a half now, but HCRV since April. For the most part, it's been working out; I mean, it took me awhile to get over the weight gain and I still occasionally have restrictive thoughts, but I push them aside. :) Otherwise, this lifestyle totally works out, I can finally stop thinking about what to eat and how to exercise to burn it off, haha.
And definitely keep in touch! :)
"I can finally stop thinking about what to eat and how to exercise to burn it off"
Love this ! And is so true, because I used to think that way and I know cf eaters still do ands its just funny that I have no problem with this anymore so we are one step ahead if not more"
Yeah, it's fantastic :)
Here is Adam's post on nutrients which is in the 30BaD FAQ section:
From what I understand WHO protein recommendations were based on the average of what people get and then doubled. It takes 4-41 days for your body to adjust to lower protein amounts, just as it takes time to adjust to lower sodium intake. The body adjusts in many ways. Empirical evidence shows that getting enough protein on 811rv is a non issue, (most people get too much protein). Just make sure you eat enough calories from the highest quality fruits and tender leafy greens you can acquire and keep track using chronometer. | <urn:uuid:7808a30e-8967-4f57-bc09-5dd377001964> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.30bananasaday.com/forum/topics/protein-how-many-grams-do-i-need?commentId=2684079%3AComment%3A2745291&xg_source=activity | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00045-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974116 | 1,309 | 1.742188 | 2 |
In a US$14 million initiative Chad will upgrade housing for poor families in the capital, N'Djamena, and the construction and renovation work will offer job opportunities and improve livelihoods, helping reduce poverty in the central African country.
The Government is providing nearly $12 million for the work, adding to a $2 million UNDP contribution, and UN HABITAT is executing the project. Solving urban problems, particularly housing, is an important public issue and a government priority.
Chad is one of the world's poorest countries, but new oil earnings enable the Government to fund most of this effort to transform poor areas. The initiative marks a new era in cooperation with UNDP.
Mahamat Ali Hasan, Minister of Planning, Development and Cooperation, emphasized that UNDP support in many forms is helping the Government's development efforts. The UNDP funds will go to technical assistance and management to strengthen public administration and good governance.
Under the initiative, 1,000 plots of land will go to families in slum areas and low interest loans to enable them to build new homes. It will build infrastructure such as schools, health centres and markets in the area.
Because a main element of the project involves loans for home building, repayment will provide resources to replicate the initiative in other towns, and continue it on an ongoing basis.
This will promote progress towards two of the Millennium Development Goal for 2015 endorsed by every world leader: Goal 1 of halving extreme poverty and Goal 7 on the environment, which includes the target of improving the lives of slum dwellers.
Other phases include refurbishing a rundown neighbourhood consisting of 5,000 dwellings and preparing development plans for the country's main urban areas. This will also enable residents in poor areas to gain secure tenure rights.
Involvement of local businesses and civil society groups in construction and renovation will strengthen the private sector and improve skills.
Although the country adopted a national housing strategy five years ago, with help from UNDP and UN Habitat, it still lacks an urban planning framework and housing finance institutions, and procedures for developing and improving parcels of land are slow and inefficient.
Chad ranks 165th among 175 countries on the UNDP Human Development Index 2003 — based on how long people can expect to live, educational attainment and average income per person — and two thirds of the population lives in poverty on an average of $14 a month. | <urn:uuid:b74b5d88-0439-410f-8742-e1a70fa1343b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.unhabitat.org/content.asp?cid=2521&catid=312&typeid=6 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00024-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.92458 | 489 | 2.125 | 2 |
Photo Printers; Pigment, Dye Sub & Desktop Photo Labs
change. Last year, dye sublimation snapshot printers were all the rage. This
year the focus on printers at PMA was on permanence with more and more printers
available with archival image-printing capabilities. Many included the availability
of multiple cartridges capable of using pigment-based inks for creating long-lasting,
gallery-quality output. The upside is, of course, better output quality. The
downside is more different cartridge types to stock and purchase. I guess that's
the upside for the manufacturers.
HP, for example, holds 9000 patents related to imaging and printing, 4000 of them for consumable supplies such as ink and cartridges. According to CNET News.com, last year HP asked Cartridge World (www.cartridgeworldusa.com) to stop using inks with the identical chemical composition of its patented Vivera inks.
In other ink news, HP settled its false-advertising lawsuit against Rhinotek (www.rhinotek.com) who allegedly refills used HP ink cartridges with generic ink prior to resale. HP's suit alleged that Rhinotek's packaging failed to inform consumers that "compatible" products are used. While financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, Rhinotek denied any wrongdoing and agreed to modify its packaging.
HP's Photosmart Pro B9180 is a 4800dpi printer that uses the company's Vivera pigment ink technology stored in eight individual high-capacity ink cartridges, outputting 4x6 photos in as fast as 10 seconds and 13x19" prints in 1.5 minutes. The inks produce waterproof photos that resist fading for more than 200 years and, in what is increasingly a trend, offers a plug-in that automatically synchronizes Adobe's Photoshop and the printer driver into a single user interface for color management. The printer should be available by the time you read this and carries a $699 price tag.
As is becoming another trend in the fast-paced Internet-based digital imaging world, many products were announced before PMA but made their physical debut at the show, including Epson's Stylus Photo R220 and R340. At less than $100, the Stylus Photo R220 is the most affordable six-color photo printer in Epson's line.
The Stylus Photo R340 is a full-featured, PC-free printer that offers a 2.4" LCD monitor and memory card slots. The Stylus Photo R340 prints 5760x1440 optimized dpi using ink droplets as small as 3 picoliters and can output onto inkjet printable CDs and DVDs as well as photographic media. This printer also offers BorderFree a.k.a. borderless printing in frame-ready sizes such as 4x6, 5x7, 8x10, and 8.5x11, and outputs a 4x6 photo in as fast as 57 seconds. Other features of the Epson Stylus Photo R340 include the ability to save images to an external CD-R, Zip, or Flash memory drive and the option of direct printing from Bluetooth-enabled phones. (A Bluetooth adapter is available for $69.) Like all Epson printers, this one is compatible with both Mac OS and Windows and offers USB 2.0 connectivity at an estimated street price of $199.
Over the years Canon has gradually improved their printers and the new offerings shown at PMA are bound to make big ripples in the inkjet pond for years to come. The PIXMA Pro9000 Photo Printer uses a high-density 6144 nozzle print head to deposit 2-picoliter ink droplets, delivering approximately 11 million droplets per square inch, and prints on a variety of specialty media and fine art papers up to 13x19". The eight dye-based inks include cyan, magenta, yellow, photo cyan, photo magenta, black, red, and green.
The PIXMA Pro9500 Photo Printer uses Canon's Lucia pigment-based inks in 10 individual tanks and is sprayed through a 7680 nozzle print head. The Lucia inks--photo black, matte black, gray, cyan, magenta, yellow, photo cyan, photo magenta, red, and green--are spritzed out in 3-picoliter droplets. All 10 individual ink cartridges reside in the print head, saving time and ink by eliminating the need to swap tanks before printing. Wilhelm Imaging Research (www.wilhelm-research.com) is currently testing Lucia ink but preliminary test data indicates that "prints made with the Lucia pigmented inks and select Canon photo and fine art papers will have WIR Display Permanence Ratings in excess of 100 years for color images and significantly beyond that for monochrome."
Both the PIXMA Pro9500 and the PIXMA Pro9000 are bundled with Canon's Easy-PhotoPrint Pro software, which is a Photoshop compatible plug-in, and Canon's Digital Photo Pro 2.1, which facilitates the printing of raw images (as a TIFF or JPEG) without having to first save from their Digital Photo Professional software.
The Panasonic KX-PX10 can produce prints in about a minute and, unlike other printers, can read image data from recording modes that are unique to Lumix digital cameras, such as Skin, Night Scene, and High-Sensitivity modes. In addition to the standard post card size, the KX-PX10 can print 16:9 images, enabling users to print images captured in Wide Aspect mode in their original format without trimming. Using the built-in Secure Digital card slot on the KX-PX10, users can print their images easily and quickly by selecting them from the card on the TV screen. It's also possible to connect the printer directly to any PictBridge-enabled digital camera via USB cable or use the same cable to connect the printer to a computer.
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Castle PlansOkay, so there are too many mountains called “Castle Peak” in the United States, much less the world. There are 26 in the United States and three of them are in Washington. How many Castles does one climbing kingdom need?
And what’s so special about this here Castle?
Well, this Castle is a special place. With its 3226 feet of prominence, it ranks as the 42nd-most-prominent peak in Washington out of 3600+ peaks in the state. Furthermore, with its 8306 feet of elevation, it ranks as No. 100 among the Washington Top 100 by 400 feet of prominence. Any peak that can be on two important lists ought to be on summitpost. So here it is, crenellations and all…
This Castle Peak is located in the northwest corner of the Pasayten Wilderness. (It ranks as the 16th-highest and 5th-most-prominent peak in that vast wilderness.) The mountain is 1.2 miles south of the Canadian Border. It also happens to reside on the Whatcom-Okanogan county line. It is the highest summit for miles around. The next-higher peak in the chain is 8,400+ ft Azurite Peak 20 miles to the south. Between them, Holman Pass, at 5080 feet, is the low point by which Castle’s prominence is calculated.
The Castle massif is fairly complex, like a fortification should be, I guess. There are five principle drainages and four ridges descending from its upper ramparts. Pass Creek is on the northwest. It flows into Canada but winds up in Lightning Creek, which itself flows back into the United States. Freezeout Creek is on the west. It also flows to Lightning Creek. On the south is Castle Creek. And on the east is Crow Creek, flowing to Castle Creek.
Castle’s long North Face is an imposing wall of granite ribs, gullies, and couloirs with ice sheets or remnants of ice sheets. There are several rock climbing lines available on the face. Some have been tried and completed. Still others await the intrepid stormtroopers among us. The southeast side of the mountain drops in a series of chossy gullies and ribs to Castle Creek. It’s probably the mountain’s ugliest side. The west side above Freezeout Creek would be the aesthetic contribution. From this angle—especially from the mountainsides above the valley floor—the mountain has a Karakorum aspect (when snowcovered). In short, it’s a pretty cool looking mountain and a worthy objective to more than just the oddball prominencian or onehundredian.
May you successfully plunder this Castle too. Try to avoid the boiling oil pouring down one of its many gullies…
Siege TacticsThis Castle Peak is hard to get to. So before you enact your siege tactics, you had better figure out how you’re going to trek there. The shortest approach is from the north but this is no walk in the park (Manning Provincial Park in British Columbia, to be exact). There is another approach from the east (from the Pacific Crest Trail) and still another from the west from Freezeout Creek. It was the last of these approaches that we did and so therefore the one I’m most familiar with.
For the Freezeout Creek Route, click here.
To be provided by Martin Shetter in a separate route page.
Done by Mike Collins and Dave Creeden in late May 2006. Click here for the trip report.
Boiling Red TapeThe International Border is one long ribbon of red tape. Figure out your own way across. I’m not going to spell it out for you. Do you acquire permission ahead of time? Do you simply cross the border quasi-illegally? Do you think anyone will care?
For the beginning of the Freezeout Creek approach, while in the Hozomeen Creek drainage, you are in the Ross Lake National Recreation Area where permits are apparently required for camping. Once you cross Lightning Creek at Turner Bridge and ascend the abandoned Freezeout Creek Trail for a couple of miles you will cross into the Pasayten Wilderness where standard wilderness policy applies: leave no trace, take no bikes, but take your time if you like.
EncampmentsFor the Freezeout Creek approach several campsites are available but the most useful ones will be Willow Camp at Willow Lake (5 miles in), Nightmare Camp at Turner Bridge (7.5 miles in), at the cabin at 3,500 ft in Freezeout Creek (11.3 miles).
Some things to note:
Stromberg Cabin just before Willow Lake apparently does not exist anymore.
The cabin in Freezeout Creek is about 75 vertical feet higher up than shown on the map. Basically, it’s right on the trail so if you’re on the trail you can’t miss it. If the ground is snowcovered, take the time to find the cabin on the way in. This cabin is in very good shape and can be bunked in without problems (that lock on the door might be a ploy). The cabin is obviously kept up (fresh chopped wood available for the iron stove inside) with loving care, so please don’t destroy or trash it. | <urn:uuid:019401d4-b202-448a-9580-ac2057c49029> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.summitpost.org/castle-peak/295595 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00066-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939176 | 1,107 | 2.015625 | 2 |
This was posted today on the Missouri Synod’s “Witness, Mercy, Life Together Blog” by the Synod’s Chief Mission Officer, Rev. Gregory K. Williamson, a long time US Army chaplain. I thought it was excellent.
The Fifth Commandment
You shall not murder.
What does this mean? We should fear and love God so that we do not hurt or harm our neighbor in his body, but help and support him in every physical need.
The recent murders in Connecticut have spawned debates about the growing violence within American society. Debates include gun control, mental health, school security, and parental responsibility. Most experts recommend action by local, state, or federal governments to better secure our society—legislate new laws to protect our children, more aggressive intervention for the emotionally disturbed, more oversight by social welfare agencies, but few, if any, have addressed the acts of murder as a moral and spiritual problem.
Simply put, the experts do not include sin and the old nature. The Bible records the first murder in Genesis chapter 4, “And Cain talked about Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.” Not long into mankind’s history do we encounter murder, and not much has changed.
The old nature’s inclinations are close at hand every moment of every day. Scriptures exhort the wise to flee temptation; yet, to flirt with sin is titillating and stimulates the worst within us. Even those who do not process evil from a Christian perspective recognize the danger of a society that inoculates itself to violence and stimulates the passions within by vicarious means.
Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, author of “On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society,” writes in 1996,
In video arcades children stand slack jawed but intent behind machine guns and shoot at electronic targets that pop up on the video screen. When they pull the trigger the weapon rattles in their hand, shots ring out, and if they hit the “enemy” they are firing at, it drops to the ground, often with chunks of flesh flying in the air.
Grossman goes on to say,
This new “pseudo reality” will make it possible to replicate all the gore and violence of popular violent movies, except now you are the one who is the star, the killer, the slayer of thousands.
He concludes by saying,
That force [innate rebellion against killing] has existed in man throughout recorded history, and military history can be interpreted as a record of society’s attempt to force its members to overcome their resistance in order to kill more effectively in battle.
Following the massacre in Connecticut, Lt. Col. Grossman shared his concerns about the desensitizing of our society to violence via movies, television, and video games. I, for one, appreciate his call for less violence within the media; however, what Grossman fails to see is what faith reveals. That is, the innate force within mankind is not rebellion against killing; but, on the contrary, the old nature seeking to satisfy bloodlust.
Without God’s intervention there would be no moments of safety, peace, and tranquility; rather, the constant world state would be violence, murder, and massacre. No human laws, ordinances, or constraints can check this “old Adam.” This is the tragic plight of humanity without the gracious intervention of God through Christ Jesus our Lord.
Another soldier, General Douglas MacArthur, references this innate propensity to violence and war in his speech at the surrender of the Japanese on September 2, 1945 and again in his farewell speech to congress April 19, 1951 where he said,
Men since the beginning of time have sought peace. . . . The problem basically is theological and involves a spiritual recrudescence and improvement of human character that will synchronize with our almost matchless advances in science, art, literature and all material and cultural developments of the past two thousand years, It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh.
MacArthur points to a solution to war and violence that is spiritual, a spiritual “recrudescence.” More precisely, and from a Lutheran understanding, it is only through the atoning work of Christ and the renewing of the Spirit that any has hope. This hope was given to us through the waters of Baptism where we were clothed with the righteousness of Christ—a true spiritual renewal.
In a society desensitized by violence, it behooves Christians to walk circumspectly, not in accordance with the wisdom of this world, but by faith. As St. Paul writes to the Colossians,
Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful. Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts. And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
–Gregory K. Williamson
Chief Mission Officer – LCMS
Lt. Col. David Grossman, On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society, 1st ed., (New York: Back Bay Books; Little, Brown and Company, 1996) 314.
Ibid., 316.
Ibid., 332.
General Douglas MacArthur, “Surrender Ceremony Speech,“ U.S.S. Missouri, Tokyo Bay, September 2, 1945, Radio broadcast to the world following the formal surrender of the Japanese.
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By Kathleen Madigan
Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like a rented apartment.
That may be the mantra of U.S. households for the next three years, according to a new study released Tuesday by the Demand Institute division of the U.S. Conference Board. Most Americans still hope to own a home, the study found — but that home will be smaller than the MacMansions of the housing boom.
Housing and the related mortgage industry helped to tip the U.S. into the Great Recession. Data suggest the sector is bottoming out, but its recovery will be unlike that of past business cycles, according to the Demand Institute’s report, entitled “The Shifting Nature of U.S. Housing Demand.” (See the most recent data on home prices by city here.)
The first stage of this recovery will be led by rental properties. Past homeowners who lost their houses to foreclosure, young adults who are now living at home or who haven’t saved a down payment, and new immigrants will drive the demand to lease rather than to buy.
As a result, new construction will be concentrated in multi-unit projects, a shift already evident in 2012 data. At the same time, speculators hoping to cash in on increasing rents will buy up vacant properties with an eye to leasing them, helping to pare down the huge oversupply of existing homes on the market.
Renting households who tend to own fewer cars than home owners (in part because of the expense of parking) will prefer apartments within walking distance to retail, school and work, or towns with good mass-transit systems. That will make certain urban areas more attractive than the suburbs and rural areas, the study said.
Homeownership isn’t dead, however, argued Louise Keely, chief research officer at the Institute and one of the study’s authors. It will simply be delayed, because consumers are still repairing their finances, and reconfigured, because big is no longer better in housing.
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“Many [buyers] will scale back their housing aspirations,” according to the report, which projected that the average size of a newly built home will shrink to 2,150 square feet by 2015 from a housing-boom high of 2,500 square feet. The downsizing will bring home sizes back to mid-1990s levels.
Less space will change spending patterns. “Almost every consumer-facing industry will feel this effect as consumers adapt” to new housing choices, the report said.
Activities once reserved for home will be outsourced–creating business opportunities, Keely said. These includes commercial storage spaces in place of big basements and attics, and gym membership instead of a personal work-out room at home. Food and nondurable retailers may find shoppers making more visits but buying less each time because of fewer cupboards in their homes.
Keely also said banks could develop financial products that help renters go from leasing to owning. This is because, after all the havoc wreaked by the housing sector on the economy and many consumers’ individual finances, homeownership remains a key goal for many Americans. The report cited a Pew Research survey that showed 80% of respondents still think buying a home is the best long-term investment they can make.
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