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...gives students what they need.
Because our students are part of a small, friendly community of scholars, they develop a love of learning.
Because our students are immersed in a remarkably supportive social environment, they develop strong identities and self-understanding.
Because our students are meaningfully engaged by a curriculum designed to meet their developmental needs, they grow into well-rounded and competent adults.
“I have witnessed how this small community fosters support, friendship, and creativity among students of all grades and interests, and an atmosphere where everyone can be heard. In these critical years of teenage development, High Mowing feels like a haven from the rat race, a place where students can develop solid values and lasting friendships to take with them into the world.” ~ High Mowing parent
At High Mowing School we recognize students' potentials, stir their passions, nurture their innate human sympathies, and help them develop their intellectual, artistic, and physical capacities. We truly offer a holistic education. Students, parents and alumni/ae use many words to describe this small private school — creative, challenging, experiential, integrative, engaging, inspiring, holistic, caring and personal. It's great to hear what others say, but the best way to learn about High Mowing is to visit us.
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Read on for mural techniques and tips for painting wall murals! Now that you've gathered all the mural painting supplies that you'll need, read through these pages to learn:
First, make sure that the wall is clean and not suffering from any moisture damage or structural problems, such as cracks. If you notice cracks, spackle them, but be aware that there may be an underlying structural issue that could eventually cause cracks across your mural. Examine the wall closely for signs of mold, dirt, wax, oil or grease. If you find any, clean it off thoroughly, and be aware that mold or mildew may return unless the underlying cause has been rectified. Even if the wall looks clean, it's a good idea to wash it anyway with a mild soapy solution, such as T.S.P. Cleaner (trisodium phosphate), to ensure that you are starting with as clean a slate as possible.
Priming the wall is an important step in creating a mural, because the primer will help the paint stick to the wall more easily.
In some cases you can apply the primer directly over the pre-existing paint on the wall, and the mural will be fine. It depends on how much elbow work you want to put into it and also on how long you want the mural to last. If you are really concerned about the longevity of the mural, then you should take some additional preparatory measures before you start painting.
To get the most permanence and best adherence of acrylic paints onto the wall, strip the existing paint off the wall by sanding it with a sanding block. To reduce the amount of dust caused by dry sanding, prepare a mild soapy solution by mixing TSP or dishwashing liquid with in a bucket of water. Dip the sanding block in the bucket of cleaning solution, squeeze out the excess water and sand the wall thoroughly. Allow the wall to dry.
After the wall has thoroughly dried, apply a coat of acrylic primer over the entire wall. You don't want to buy regular acrylic primer (such as gesso) that you would use for a painting because it's expensive when used in large quantities. Instead, buy something like Ronan Prime-All or get acrylic primer from a home improvement / DIY store in a gallon can, which will get you better bang for your buck.
Now, you have three choices:
To get started, you'll need to transfer your image onto the wall. By now you should have a sketch of what your mural will look like, so you'll need to enlarge the image into the wall using either one of these mural techniques: the grid method or an art projector. Use a pencil to trace the image onto your wall.
Now that you have your pencil outline, you can start the underpainting. The underpainting consists of large blocks of color, over which you will paint more detail later. Depending on the colors in your image, you can use interior household paint for large areas of color (blue skies, green fields, etc), or you can mix your artist-quality acrylic paints with a Liquitex Ultra Matte Gel or Matte Gel Medium by using a 1:1 ratio.
From here on out, most mural techniques are similar to the painting techniques that you would use when painting with acrylics on canvas. Here are some of the many different mural techniques at your disposal:
Sponging - Sponging is a good way to create the sense of texture in a mural, such as clouds in the sky or leaves on a tree. You can also sponge a color on top of another color to create more of a sense of depth and interest, rather than leaving an area as a flat, single block of color.
Sponging is also one of the handy mural techniques for quickly filling in large areas with color.
To sponge, first wet your sponge and squeeze out the excess water. Dip your damp sponge lightly into your paint, then lightly blot the sponge on some paper towels. You don’t want your sponge to be too loaded with paint, or it will ruin the effect.
Apply a green underpainting, then after it is dry, paint a thin coat of a different color over top of it (for example, a yellow-green or a darker green).stippling brush and dab the new color around until the new layer is all stippled. If done correctly, the new color will no longer looked "brushed on" and some of the underpainting will show through. You can repeat this mural technique as many times as you need (with as many colors as you want) until your desired area is covered.
This is a nice mural technique for creating the illusion of a field alive with shades of green, dappled in yellow sunlight.
To stencil, use a painters' tape to adhere the stencil to the wall. With one hand, hold the stencil in place and with your other hand, paint in the color. You need to be cautious around the edges, because you don't want too much paint build-up on the edges when you lift the stencil away. Use a sweeping, circular motion when applying paint near the edges to avoid build up.
You can also use a stencil as an outline, and paint in details later. For example, you can follow the mural technique described above to stencil the image of an alligator in a solid shade of green. Then remove the stencil and paint in details, such as eyes, teeth, and bumpy skin.
Congratulations! You've gotten this far – your mural is finished. Now you need to protect it to ensure that it stays vibrant and beautiful for a long time to come.
The final step to finishing your painted wall mural is to seal it. This means applying a varnish. Use a clear, non-yellowing archival varnish in a matte or satin sheen. (Glossy varnish would be too reflective for a wall mural, and probably look weird under interior lighting conditions.) Choose a varnish that is removable, in case you need to get underneath the varnish for conservation purposes. (Who knows, they might take out your wall and put it in a museum someday!)
To apply the varnish, refer to the back of the bottle for the correct ratio of varnish to water. Start in a corner, using a wide paintbrush to brush on the varnish, going in a cross-hatching manner (little x's) across the wall. This varnish mural technique will help the varnish look more even. Voila! Your fabulous wall mural is complete! | <urn:uuid:cd28d090-b34e-47ad-9ee0-5613f4f07774> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.art-is-fun.com/mural-techniques.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00072-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94358 | 1,369 | 2.078125 | 2 |
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Veterinary pharmaceuticals are biologically active and potentially persistent substances which are recognised as a continuing threat to environmental quality. Whilst the environmental risk of agricultural pesticides has had considerable attention in recent decades, risks assessments for veterinary pharmaceuticals have only relatively recently began to be addressed. Risk assessments and risk modelling tend to be inherently data hungry processes and one of the main obstacles to consistent, accurate and efficient assessments is the need for a reliable, quality and comprehensive data source.
The University of Hertfordshires Pesticide Properties Database (PPDB) provides this data source for agricultural pesticides and this has in recent years become a respected and relied on resource. To compliment the PPDB we can now offer the VSDB which is a comprehensive relational database of physicochemical and toxicological data for veterinary substances.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has warned that the country's unemployment situation “remains a grave concern” as the hiring process in the job market stays sluggish.
“Fewer than half of the eight million jobs lost in the recession have been restored and at 8.1 percent, the unemployment rate is nearly unchanged since the beginning of the year and is well above normal levels,” Bernanke told reporters on Thursday, AFP reported.
“The weak job market should concern every American. High unemployment imposes hardship on millions of people and it entails a tremendous waste of human skills and talents,” the official added.
Bernanke also pointed out that the Federal Reserve does not have the means to offset the economic shock from the public spending cuts and tax hikes, scheduled for the end of 2012.
“If the fiscal cliff isn't addressed, as I've said, I don't think our tools are strong enough to offset the effects of a major fiscal shock, so we'd have to think about what to do in that contingency,” he said.
“I think it's really important for the fiscal policymakers to work together and try to find a solution for that,” he added
Bernanke made the remarks after the Federal Reserve revised down its economic growth projection for 2012 to 1.7 to two percent, compared to its expectations in June of growth between 1.9 and 2.3 percent.
Meanwhile, the US Labor Department announced that applications for weekly benefits rose by 15,000 to a seasonally-adjusted 382,000 for the week, which ended on September 8, the highest level since mid-July.
Nearly six million Americans are currently receiving jobless benefits. But the actual figure would have been much higher if state authorities had not stopped extending benefit programs.
The figures come after a disappointing jobs report last week, indicating that employers added only 96,000 jobs in August, compared to July's gain of 141,000 and the average 226,000 a month, added in the January-March quarter.
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"Anticipation in music making is the most important element. Have you realized what happens if someone doesn't anticipate why speaking: this - is - what - happens. There is no fluency, no continuity,"
cellochan is a program for cellists created by Director/Teacher Suzanne Smith that has thrived and evolved for over fifteen years. Located in Ann Arbor, MI., it represents a coming together of her life experience, teaching, and performing for almost thirty years. The program provides an especially supportive and enjoyable environment for study while pursuing excellence, personal fulfillment, and artistic growth. This unique Ann Arbor cello school offers a number of optional activities that are designed to enhance the private lesson and can be found on the Event Calendar. Some of these include: frequent performance opportunities, master classes, cello ensembles, home concerts, and other concerts we present to the community. * We recently created a retreat style cello camp called "CelloChanWoods" located in southeastern Michigan. Its theme of "well-being and the arts", as applied to cello playing, creates an opportunity for a special type of musical community by combining the traditional fun of summer music camp in the afternoon and a more focused, retreat like atmosphere during the morning. You may learn more about it on this site.
Playing the cello involves all facets of a person: physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual. From one perspective, music is a kind of language of the self. Finding our musical "voice" can open us up to greater levels of awareness, self-acceptance, and personal satisfaction. In fact, music can bring enjoyment on so many levels that there is truly something for everyone regardless of age or level. Students in cellochan come to value and understand their unique learning styles and clarify their cellistic goals. Pablo Casals, one of the greatest of teachers, once said, "I always practiced as if I had forever." The mindset this suggests is one of confidence, patience, love of the cello, self-acceptance and a passionate commitment to the work at hand.
The word Chan comes from the Chinese word Ch'an, meaning insight. The three parts of the cellochan mission statement are mutually reinforcing with the sum often being greater than the parts.
The cellochan program: The following activities enhance private study and participation is optional.
cellochan teaches the cello from a wide perspective. The following are some thoughts related to the cellochan philosophy:
What are some differences between cellochan and other studios?
I think every studio is a combination of the particular teacher's artistic temperament, training, and perspective on people and life. Here are a few things a student would find in any good cello studio:
But there are other things that, (though they may be involved in all good studios to one extent or another) I am perhaps more interested in emphasizing. Here is a list of those things the cellochan studio is especially interested in:
I have been interested in Eastern philosophy and psychology for many years. These interests have contributed greatly to my teaching style. The cello is seen almost as a tool for meeting oneself as well as for creating beauty. I often say, music is not in you.... it is you. So, to recap, I believe the whole person has to be taken into account when learning the cello because people, more often than not, have resistances and other issues that block their expression. Many times these blocks are misinterpreted as lack of ability or talent. My goal is to optimize the chance that a person can find a way to his/her music through a combination of techniques I use in my particular approach. There is a kind of "doing"(that is far too common in my view) without being fully present. No matter what level of mastery one is aspiring to on the cello, or anything for else for that matter, one can benefit from the process of being fully there and fully engaged. The rewards, as one might imagine, go way beyond cello playing.
Is there a perfect age to begin the cello?
I believe that every situation is unique in life from moment to moment. The same holds true of people. We are all different. So nailing down a one size fits all "best age" cannot really be done without first seeing the child, as I see it. However, that said, a few children may be ready at age 3 or 4, while some are not ready until around 8 to 10. Isaac Perelman, the famous violinist, likes age 5 as a general starting age and I basically agree with him in general. Parents should certainly take the child to concerts and expose him/her to music in all sorts of other ways. To quote Pablo Casals (my teacher's teacher) once again: "I always practiced as if I had forever." Think about that. It gives one a feeling of a lot of space around the project doesn't it? There is no rush to start a child before age five. And if this child starts at age 8, they are not "behind." Starting at age 10 is perhaps a tiny bit late......but again, everyone is different.
What are some characteristics and knowledge that future cello majors should have?
More thoughts from Suzanne:
Mastery, for everyone, has inevitable ups and downs. An ebb and flow is part of the learning process. Too much pressure from outside or inside for that matter, can lead to unrealistic demands and jeopardize the entire process. And it is a path. To put it more simply, a lot is solved if one continues to come back to the path after occasionally getting frustrated or stuck. In Zen they say: "fall down seven, get up eight." If a student can sit at the cello and hang in through all the various fears, impatience, and self-doubt, the chances of success have just more than doubled. Hanging in builds personal confidence. There is excellence but there is not perfection. As Janos Starker says, a young musician needs to learn to walk before learning to run. If a student is talented, it can be tempting for a teacher to move too quickly. In other words, one can successfully "spoon feed" a piece to a talented student that is far above the student's actual technical level but is a short-term trade off not worth the price. The result will be a student without the foundation to play from a place of solidity and comfort.
Teaching different aged cellists:
I enjoy teaching all ages. Each age, and each person for that matter, presents a fascinating array of challenges that I find interesting. And I like people. My desire is to help that person get where he/she desires to go with the cello. That may be to a conservatory, to play chamber music with friends, to have the cello as a refuge in the middle of a busy life, to play in an orchestra, and/or to express and learn things that this person cannot express any other way.
How do the cellochan principles and philosophies help students in other aspects of their lives?
I've spoken about this above but will try to clarify it somewhat. When we sit at the cello we are trying, in part, to gain control over something. Most people (if not all, given what it means to be alive) are somewhat insecure about controlling certain aspects of their lives. It's a common, natural problem that we all come by honestly! We fundamentally are limited in this life as to what we can control. If a person can learn how to "control" the cello while at the same time not forcing things, and learn to "go with the flow" that is a powerful metaphor for living and a huge accomplishment. Music is motion. Life is motion. We tend, as humans, to clutch at things for dear life sometimes and then we get stuck. We want to nail things down. So I think people can benefit from some of the ideas I've surrounded learning the cello with by accepting their own learning style, speed, and respecting the outcome of their best efforts. This is so much of the game as I've said before. Another benefit is the actual reduction of stress upon learning how to relax into an activity. This may sound like a contradiction, but activity and stillness are mysteriously interlocked! Connecting with one's musical energy, which is really one's basic life energy is such a fundamental need. Being able to then make music with others fulfills our need to be social.
Everyone is an artist to one extent or another. People are hungry to open up that side of them. I have seen this again and again. The satisfaction of putting one's hands to something and effecting and transforming it is the artistic process at the core. Connecting to ones medium (rolling up one's sleeves so to speak and diving in) and merging with it is a wonderful experience. That "something" we are merging with, in my view, is our very selves. Being an artist, I believe, is in fact a sort of dialogue. When we are in the dialogue of playing the cello, we are speaking out to someone or something (even to ourselves) in the hopes that it will be received. When it is received, a basic human need has been met. We can receive it ourselves.....even if no one else is listening. :)
An example of success:
Last year one of my students, of about 8 years, was one of the winners of the Pioneer High School Concerto Competition. She is a shy, sensitive, and special girl. Much of being able to play the cello well, in her case, had to do with learning to affirm who she was warts and all rather than waiting for some future perfect state. We worked on this a lot. She had fears many teenagers face unfortunately. Winning this honor had been a goal of this student for at least 3 years. After playing her audition she then had to wait to see if she made the second cut to be called back the following day. She was so convinced she would not be called back that she left her cello at home that next day. This was how frightened she was. She was trying to protect herself from the possible loss. In the morning of the call back day while at school, she learned that she was indeed in the second round of contestants and she basically fell apart. She called me and we hurriedly arranged a lesson in the afternoon before the second round of auditions. We talked of many things. We talked about what she felt she deserved, for example. I told her to draw a circle around herself while seated at the cello and decide what was allowed within it. To make a long story short, this she did, and she was able to maintain her poise and focus for the audition. She had decided to take control. Though she happened to win, I believe she would have accepted a loss having gained something very important about her ability to define herself due to how she prepared for the audition. cellochan students attended her concert and it was a wonderful performance.
An adult cellist's story:
I had an adult student while living in Princeton, NJ that was a cardiologist. He simply loved his cello and took it to the office every day, practicing during his lunch hour. He was extremely tense to the point of being like a robot at the cello. We were able to change that and when I moved to Ann Arbor from Princeton, he continued his study with the principal of the Philadelphia Orchestra. This was a dream come true for him.
My goals for my students, distilled:
I want my students to enjoy making music, to grow in self-acceptance, to learn new ways to share music, to be exposed to as many musical/cellistic resources as possible, and to reach the level of technical proficiency and expressive freedom they desire.
"Cello students come from a wide radius in Southern Michigan. We extend a warm welcome to you to join the fun and become part of the cellochan family!" ~ Suzanne
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The decisive moment: Essential tips for taking multiple-choice exams
When you get your exams back, do you hear yourself say, “Why did I mark that answer?” You might want to rethink how you take multiple-choice exams. Aside from studying to master the content being tested, here’s a step-by-step process to ensure that your test-taking skills are at their best when multiple choice gets tricky.
Step 1: Take a blank 3×5-inch index card to the exam to cover answers as you go through the test. Show it to the professor before the test, and get permission to use it. If the professor tells you not to use the card, use your hand — but make absolutely certain you have nothing written on your hand! Also ask your professor if you may mark on the exam or if you may use scratch paper (see Step 4).
Step 2: Scan the exam to see how many questions there are.
Step 3: Before you read the first question, cover up the answers with the index card or your hand; then carefully read the question.
Step 4: Re-read the first question and underline all key words and phrases if your professor agreed that this was okay in Step 1. Do this to make sure you know what the question is asking and to narrow down possible answers. Key words can range from “not,” “never,” “always,” and “rarely,” to phrases like “the primary purpose,” “one recommended technique,” or “the researchers’ conclusion.”
Step 5: Before you look at the answer options, quickly jot down any possible answers that come to mind in the margin of the test or on a piece of blank scratch paper — again, if the professor allows you to mark on the test or to use scratch paper.
Step 6: Now uncover the first option, read it carefully, and underline key words (if allowed). If it looks like a good answer, put a • to the left of the option. If you aren’t sure, put a ? mark, and if you know it’s wrong, put an X.
Step 7: Repeat this step for each of the remaining options.
Step 8: Finally, look to see how many •s, ?s, and Xs you have and whether the answers are obvious or whether you need to choose between two or more options.
While this process doesn’t guarantee that you’ll always identify the correct answer, it does prevent you from misreading questions and choosing incorrect answers on impulse just because they jump out at you at first glance.
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Last Thursday was Tax Day, a day when many Americans pause to consider the impact that rising taxes have on their life and what they could have done with all that money they sent to the government. To memorialize the day, Heritage released a video “Tax Day By the Numbers” to help illustrate the burden that our out-of-control fiscal policy places on Americans. Additionally, we joined Americans around the country who attended local tea party protests.
During the D.C. protest, organized by FreedomWorks, we went around and chatted with many attendees from all across the country and a handful of the speakers, like Andrew Breitbart, Victoria Jackson, and Congressman Tom Price (R-GA). The video above is a short compilation of a handful of those interviews. The event was a great example of how informed and energetic Americans are to reign in government. As one retired Marine from Florida told me, “I’d like to see smaller government. I’d like to see a balanced budget. I’d like to see term limits. I’d like to see, for once, more men and women of character in our Congress.” | <urn:uuid:f8e9d89b-de07-46cc-81fb-deab833f4ef0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.heritage.org/2010/04/21/tax-day-tea-party-protests/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00012-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966579 | 239 | 1.578125 | 2 |
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Editor's note: Mary Ellen O'Connell holds the Robert and Marion Short Chair in Law and is research professor of international dispute resolution at the Kroc Institute for Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. She is a specialist on the international law of armed conflict and is the editor of "What Is War? An Investigation in the Wake of 9/11" (Martinus Nijhof/Brill, 2012).
(CNN) -- The Bush and Obama administrations' extraordinary program of targeted killing has resulted in the deaths of as many as 4,400 people to date. Books such as Daniel Klaidman's "Kill or Capture" and David E. Sanger's "Confront and Conceal" are appearing thick and fast, focusing on the program and particularly on the use of drones to carry it out.
The belated scrutiny is welcome. Yet it still fails to critically assess the essential question: Is this killing occurring in war?
Both Presidents Bush and Obama have attempted to justify thousands of drone attacks as part of a "war" or "armed conflict." But is that correct?
The question must be answered in terms of international law. When the United States kills people in foreign, sovereign states, the world looks to international law for the standard of justification. In war, enemy fighters may be killed under a standard of reasonable necessity; outside war, authorities are far more restricted in their right to resort to lethal force.
Independent scholars confirm that many drone attacks are occurring outside war zones. These experts know the legal definition of war, and they understand why it is important to know it: Above all, protecting human rights is different in war than from protecting them in peace.
Admittedly, this dual standard for justifiable killing makes the law protecting the right to life more complicated than the law protecting other fundamental rights. Torture, for example, is absolutely prohibited in international law at all times, in war and peace.
The law on killing is different. The human right to life codified in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, to which the United States is a party, prohibits the "arbitrary" deprivation of life. It does not prohibit absolutely all taking of life.
The military may use lethal force against enemy fighters during an armed conflict if the use of force meets the requirements of military necessity, and if it will not have a disproportionate impact on civilian lives and property. Countries may lawfully initiate armed conflict in self-defense if the state is the victim of a significant armed attack, as long as the self-defense is carried out against the state responsible for the armed attack.
President Bush declared a "global war on terror" after 9/11 to, presumably, gain the advantage of more relaxed rules on killing and detention. Some of the same lawyers who tried to develop legal cover for the use of torture produced an even flimsier analysis of why the entire world was a war zone, so that the president could authorize killing and detention of individuals worldwide.
Lawyers in both the Bush and Obama administrations have reportedly prepared memos that according to the media assert the CIA may lawfully conduct so-called "targeted killings" of the "war on terror" without violating President Reagan's ban on assassination. Legality seems to turn in this analysis on the president personally approving a "kill list."
In November 2002, the first killings occurred under this "global war" assertion. Six people, including a 23-year-old American, were killed by Hellfire missiles in Yemen fired from CIA-operated drones based in Djibouti. The UN special rapporteur for extra-judicial killing condemned the attack as an arbitrary deprivation of the right to life, but it would take over six years and a change of party in the White House before human rights advocates, international law scholars, moral philosophers, theologians, and others would begin to focus on targeted killing as they had focused on the use of torture.
Why has it taken so long to focus on so many questionable deaths? As already indicated, the law is more complicated on killing than on torture. To make the legal argument against targeted killing requires sophisticated knowledge of a broader range of international law than is involved in defending a human right such as the right to be free from torture.
Also, the Bush administration carried out fewer targeted killings: Of the 336 attacks as of July 2012 in Pakistan, 284 have occurred under Obama. Bush officials were better able, therefore, to suppress discussion. Also, human rights advocates had their hands full with the more visible problems of the Bush era: torture, Guantanamo Bay and military commissions. A number of them then joined the Obama administration; rather than condemn targeted killing as the violation of international law that it is, some former critics are defending it, presumably as part of their job.
The job of the International Law Association is to report on international law in a scholarly and objective fashion. The ILA has had a Committee on the Use of Force for decades. From 2005 to 2010, when I was its chair, the 18-member committee, including members from five continents, undertook to produce a report on how "war" is legally defined.
That report assesses hundreds of violent incidents over a period of 65 years. It concludes that under international law, war or armed conflict exists only when there is intense inter-group fighting by organized armed groups.
These are objectively verifiable criteria that cannot be fabricated by politicians. The International Committee of the Red Cross recently invoked them with respect to the violence in Syria. The situation in Syria became a civil "war" when organized armed groups were fighting with intensity of some duration.
Targeted killing with drones in Yemen, Somalia, and Pakistan have generally violated the right to life because the United States is rarely part of any armed conflict in those places. The human right to life that applies is the right that applies in peace.
Today, the United States is engaged in armed conflict only in Afghanistan. To lawfully resort to military force elsewhere requires that the country where the United States is attacking has first attacked the United States (such as Afghanistan in 2001), the U.N. Security Council has authorized the resort to force (Libya in 2011) or a government in effective control credibly requests assistance in a civil war (Afghanistan since 2002).
If the president has been advised otherwise with regard to his "kill list," he should read "What Is War?"
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There are many different reasons for Americans moving to London. Whether it is an unplanned corporate relocation or just a new start for a family the move is often anticipated and feared at the same time. Most often children feel the most stress during an international relocation because they feel they are powerless. They, also, are leaving their friends, homes, extended family and even schools. Little things they have spent their entire lives learning about their American culture are suddenly dismissed and they are asked to learn an entirely new set of cultural norms.
After moving to London parents often worry about their children’s adjustment both socially and emotionally. One option for easing the transition is to enroll them in an American school. The American School, located in the St. John’s Wood neighborhood in London, is a school devoted to teaching Americans using American curriculum.
Unfortunately, there is no definitive answer as to whether American children should go to The American School. Parents have to weigh several factors when making the decision, first of which is how long they plan on living in London. Some corporate relocations are short, just a year or less, while others may be upwards of five years or more. If the move is temporary and the child plans on returning to the states to finish their education attending The American School may be a good idea so that their educational path will not be disrupted.
Those Americans moving to London with no length of stay determined may opt to send their child to a local school instead so as to immerse them in the English culture. The English school system is very good and a child’s education will not suffer for having attended an English grade school. There are many benefits besides the quality of education at English schools. Children will be introduced to local traditions and culture. They will acclimate to their new environment quicker and they will get to experience England in its entirety.
There isn’t a right or wrong decision on where parents should send their students after moving to London. Every parent has to weigh their child’s personality, educational needs, and life facts (like ability to pay tuition and home location within London) before deciding on the best educational placement. Arming oneself with the most information possible is the best way to tackle the education dilemma after an international relocation. | <urn:uuid:f64a3fa4-3c77-4d69-a889-191d7b7625b6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.londonrelocationservices.com/blog/tag/education | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00040-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973755 | 460 | 2.140625 | 2 |
The evolution of US Army’s TOCs during the Iraqi conflict may be among the biggest reasons why the military "surge" in the past year has helped cut year-on-year violence in the country by up to 80 percent, according to the Department of Defense.
The near instantaneous, error-free communication between air surveillance and ground troops has allowed much fewer troops on the ground to coordinate with air support and Iraqi forces, making units such as the 10th Mountain Division a potent constabulary force using a fraction of the troops normally necessary for such role.
"The ground units have been ... getting high-value individuals, time-sensitive targets," said Apache pilot Chief Warrant Officer 4 Jeffrey Dumond. "They were sporadic before in Sadr City. Then, it became everyday, then, several times a day. It seems to have worked. It’s uneventful out there now."
Wednesday, July 09, 2008
Battle Over Sadr City Defines Apache Helicopter Regiment’s Tour in Iraq
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Hindi and English are the languages spoken. Aliyar Park, Thirumurthy Dam, Amaravathi Dam, Siruvani Dam, Black Thunder(Water Sports), Parambikulam Dam,
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During World War II, a time when most manufacturing was concentrated on the war effort and Americans were living with ration books and scrap metal drives, advertising became a very strange thing. Companies wanted to make people aware they still existed, even though they weren't currently offering much for sale and unnecessary consumption was being discouraged. More importantly, the companies wanted Americans to associate their brand name with the promise of life after the War. So, what you got, were a lot of advertisements touting what this or that company was going to do just as soon as the Germans and Japanese were defeated.
The image above comes from a 1944 advertisement by the Association of American Railroads. That room is actually the lounge car on a train — or, rather, the hypothetical lounge car on an imaginary train that might be built after the War is over (provided the development of air travel and the construction of the interstate highway system don't doom the train industry to a slow decline). Basically, you had a lot of time when companies had little more than dreams to offer, so the dreams just kept getting bigger and bigger.
At the Paleofuture blog, Matt Novak writes about this ad as part of a larger trend, and offers up some examples of how the tendency to make big promises about the future of technology was being heavily critiqued even as it happened. Novak's posts help make sense of some of the more-ridiculous branches of midcentury futurism. For instance, by 1944 techno-dreamers were already beginning to imagine a future with a flying machine in every carport. At the time, it was helicopters, but it's not much of a leap to catch up to the more-iconic flying car.
The trouble — as pointed out in a 1944 issue of Science and Mechanics — is that owning a flying machine comes with safety and social concerns that make it a hard sell in the real world:
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I’m very surprised at how some individuals continuously raise the dust about the second article in the Egyptian Constitution, which defines Egypt’s identity, language, religion and the source of its legislation.
So far, the majority of Constituent Assembly (CA) members are in favor of Article 2 text as per 1971 Constitution, including Christian and Muslim members, as well as those representing all political and social currents, like secularists, liberals and leftists. The question, then, is: over what do they differ in the CA?
Those belonging to the Salafist movement demanded the Article must be amended, either by deleting the word ‘Principles’ or inserting the word ‘Rulings' in the text of the Article, which states, "Principles of Islamic Sharia are the main source of legislation".
Doubts persisted, while some even demanded that a phrase be added to state that Al-Azhar should be referred to for interpretation of Article 2 in any disputes. Some others demanded that a phrase should be added to specifically mention that non-Muslim followers of heavenly religions may appeal to their religious strictures on matters pertaining to personal status and their religious affairs.
Some got involved in the dispute just to stoke the fire of sedition, while others rejected the whole Article. Conflicting extremes seem to take center stage, although things are a lot simpler than all that, when we consider history and experience.
There are two situations which I will mention here to illustrate that dispute does not entirely serve patriotic Egyptians, but opens the gates of unwarranted sedition and strife, that the text of the Article as it is, in fact, is good for Muslims and Christians, and that it is the optimal solution – without any deletions or insertions.
First: Pope Shenouda III based on the text of Article II, as it is today, his rejection of a court ruling allowing divorce for reasons other than those agreed upon by the synod, a ruling issued by the Supreme Administrative Court.
At the time, Pope Shenouda III mentioned that his refusal was in compliance with Article 2, which states that Islamic Sharia is the main source of legislation, which allows for Christians to appeal to their own religious strictures on matters pertaining to personal status and their religious affairs – a refined, clear and direct understanding of the Article.
Second: Under this Article, with the same wording, the People’s Assembly (lower house of Egyptian Parliament) records document that in session seventy, in July 1982, codifying Islamic Sharia was completed, after four years of hard work by specialized committees and scholars of Egypt expert in all fields.
In the words of Dr. Sufi Abu-Taleb in that session (where he was the People’s Assembly Speaker):
"Putting Islamic Sharia into practice, properly applying its provisions, is a return of the Egyptian people – indeed the whole Arab and Muslim nation – to their true Arab and Muslim identity, after the long alienation we experienced under foreign law for more than a century. This puts an end to the contradiction between the moral principles and values ??– that grew from this good earth and the civilized framework that connects its people – and between man-made laws.
"In codifying and applying Sharia, both the provisions of Islamic law and constitutional principles are taken into account, including freedom of religion for non-Muslims, and ensuring equality between Muslims and non-Muslims in rights and duties.
"The interpretation of any provision in the Constitution must be in line with and not in isolation from the rest of the Constitution’s texts. It is also recognized that the principles of Islamic Sharia allow non-Muslim followers of heavenly religions to appeal to their religious strictures on matters pertaining to personal status – like marriage and divorce. Law scholars have long since settled on this established opinion.
"The most important features of the new legislation are as follows:
1. Provisions are taken from the letter of Islamic law or derived from a relevant rule or from one of its basic sources of legislation, without adhering to a particular jurisprudential doctrine. Hence, provisions are derived from the views of scholars relevant to the conditions of society today.
2. The technical committees entrusted with preparing this legislation were careful to mention the original statement for each of the legal texts, or the legal source, basis, principle or rule on which it was based or from which it was derived, so that in interpreting any of these, one can refer to Islamic jurisprudence, instead of always resorting to foreign frameworks.
3. As for new social relationships and financial transactions which law scholars have never addressed, the committees endeavored to set down provisions consistent with the conditions of society and the spirit of the era, making sure they also conform to the spirit of Islamic law and its principal sources. Examples include: bank and insurance transactions, and tools of financial investment.
4. In order to preserve the heritage of Egyptian jurisprudence and the principles of justice, historically established over the past century, the committees were careful to use familiar legal terms, in all legislation and Article wording, unless absolutely necessary. The content and meaning remained always compliant with Islamic jurisprudence.
"Legislations already completed:
1. Draft Law of Civil Transactions – more than 1000 Articles (committee rapporteur: Dr. Gamal Al-Otifi)
2. Draft Law of Evidence – 181 Articles; and Draft Law of Litigation – 513 Articles (committee rapporteur: Mumtaz Nassar)
3. Draft Penal Law: General, Punishment and Judicial Sentences – 635 Articles (committee rapporteur: Hafez Badawi)
4. Draft Law of Maritime Trade – 443 Articles (committee rapporteur: Justice Ahmed Ali Moussa)
5. Draft Code of Commerce – 776 Articles (committee rapporteur: Dr. Mohamed Kamel Leila)."
Those words of the People’s Assembly Speaker remind us of the great effort made over four years, and should calm the minds of both zealots and agitators, so everyone should put their efforts to good use, in the right direction, without delay.
More importantly, the speech of the People’s Assembly Speaker describes how to implement these legislations.
"This historical achievement, which was instigated and launched by your venerable Assembly, still requires a huge effort that must be made by all those who wish success for Sharia laws, each in his or her respective areas of specialization. This also requires that we should start now, as follows:
1. Create a social climate for the acceptance of new legislations, using all media outlets, holding hearing sessions to explore the subjects that came into being in society after ending Independent Reasoning, where the relevant committee has already adopted some of the suggested views.
2. Organize training courses to give judges the opportunity to study and absorb the new legislations.
3. Modify law school programs in Egyptian universities in line with new legislations."
The People’s Assembly Speaker then gave the rapporteur of each committee an opportunity to review the general outlines of each law.
Incidentally, when a Nour Party MP submitted a bill for banditry punishment, I said - in the Proposals and Complaints Committee – that there was no need for new additions that have not been carefully thought out, but collected from various books without in-depth knowledge or sufficient analysis, and that we should instead breathe life into existing legislation – so we would not undermine or subvert powerful legal frameworks.
I would certainly urge those who cause confusion, chaos and controversy for no good reason, to leave alone Article 2. Based on it, without any amendments, Christians in Egypt were referred to their own laws.
Islamic law was codified into law articles ready for review and approval by the People’s Assembly, which has been prevented from performing its role, after it won legitimacy exceeding all other institutions in the history of Egypt.
But what can we do with conspirators and plotters desperately endeavoring to stop Egypt’s natural evolution after the January 25 revolution? They are determined to derail the revolution which threatened their power and influence and exposed their corruption and treachery.
I urge all to rethink their discourse before raising problems, to look for points of agreement, and to consider what has been achieved already, so we do not waste time that we may well come to regret later.
Dr. Mohamed Gamal Heshmat
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Home Free is a domestic violence victim service agency in Portland, Oregon that provides an array of services including a hotline, emergency housing assistance, advocacy, support groups, and child- and teen-programs for families impacted by violence. In 2003, the program closed their emergency shelter and developed a Housing First program to more effectively meet the housing needs of survivors. Currently, the program provides rapid re-housing assistance to 80 to 100 households annually.
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Home Free’s initial outcomes were very positive. Through its motel vouchering program, Home Free provides emergency housing to 4 times as many families as was possible through its facility-based shelter, expanding the capacity of the community’s emergency housing response. Additionally, about 97 percent of households enrolled in Housing First obtain safe housing, with 86 percent of these households remaining stably housed one year after exiting services.
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The meaning of 666
Revelation 13:18 “Here is wisdom: The one who has understanding must calculate the number of the beast, because it is the number of a man. His number is 666.”
The number 6 represents imperfection. The number of the beast is calculated by this meaning: 6 – 6 – 2 – 7 – 6 When this Spiritual War first began, Yahweh looked ahead to see who the key players would be. He encoded the information in mathematical calculations. Here’s what the numbers above represent: 6 – 6 represents the name of the beast; 2 represents the “pair” or coming together of two things that represent the 666′s meaning. The two 6′s are the numbers of Satan Dawn Lucifer’s imperfection. The last 6 represents the Dragon and this reveals that Dawn himself is to become the Anti-Christ.
United States of America + Dawn Lucifer Satan the Devil. The calculation is:
U-N-I-T-E-D = 6. S-T-A-T-E-S = 6. D-R-A-G-O-N = the third 6, making it 666 in union with Satan.
The “of” = 2, meaning JOINED together with the Dragon as one. The “America” = 7, meaning the unity with the Dragon has been perfected.
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What of the dead?
Most people live and die without the opportunity to hear of Jesus Christ or his atonement.
Yet, his atonement is the only way for us to return to live with our Heavenly Father. And, God requires that we accept Jesus’ atonement by making promises (covenants) through ordinances (such as baptism), and keeping those promises.
This is one key reason that Mormons build temples. Within temples, members of the Church engage in proxy ordinances–this means that they perform the ordinances in behalf of someone who is dead.
For example, let us imagine that John is a member of the Church. John loves the gospel and the atonement of Jesus Christ. He realizes, however, that his grandfather Henry did not know about Jesus Christ. Henry was a good man, but he was not a religious believer. John wishes to provide Henry the opportunity to accept Jesus’ atonement.
Therefore, John would go to a temple, and would be baptized in Henry’s name. The ordinance would be the same as it was for John when he was baptized–a member of the Church’s priesthood would say the baptismal prayer, then place John beneath the water, and raise him up again. The only difference is that the prayer offered would say, “I baptize you in behalf of Henry, who is dead.”
Proxy baptism does not automatically save
Just as members of the Church believe that we existed as spirits with God before we were born, they also believe that our spirits continue to exist after death. Our personality, ability to choose, and sense of right and wrong continue after we die. Those who have not heard about the plan of happiness and Jesus’ atonement will be taught after their death. They can choose to accept or reject that message, just as those on earth can accept or reject it.
But, because the dead do not have physical bodies, they cannot be baptized–therefore, members of the Church provide the baptism in their behalf as a service.
Members do not know who will accept the baptisms, and who will not. It is possible that John’s grandfather Henry will not choose to accept Jesus. In this case, the baptism would be null and void–only Henry’s willingness to make the covenant of baptism gives it any power. Thus, John does not believe that he has “made Henry a Mormon.” He has merely given Henry the chance to accept the gospel if Henry chooses to do so.
The idea of baptism in behalf of the dead is not new. It is taught in the Bible, and practiced by some early Christians.
To learn more:
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revious State of the State’s Health reports have documented the compound problem of skyrocketing health care costs and a declining health status. Again, reducing the prevalence of health risk behaviors in adolescence is one way we can significantly begin to turn this trend around. This in turn will reduce the burden on the health care system, both by a reduction in expenditures and by an increase in productive adult years, thereby improving our economy. If we want our future workforce to stay competitive with the rest of the nation, and the rest of the world, we must assure that children and adolescents are able to get the most from their educational opportunities by reducing the significant hindrance to learning that these health risks impose. Schools, though often linked with discussions of youth risk behaviors, are only one player in the process of improving youth risk behaviors. Indeed, the majority of the risk behaviors mentioned in this report do not occur at school. Schools cannot, and should not, be our only venue for health promotion efforts.
Finally, we must acknowledge that these health risk behaviors, and the underlying influences associated with them, are interconnected. If we are to adequately address teen pregnancy, substance abuse and violent behaviors, the shared issues of coping skills and positive peer influence must be improved. We cannot afford, either financially or practically, to tackle these one by one in a compartmentalized fashion. The individual risk behaviors we measure are but indicators of the shared root problems we want to solve.
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Here is one for "Web presence designers" - Designing for the colour-blind can be troublesome for designers who aren’t actually colour-blind.
How do we take into account accessibility when we do not suffer from the condition in hand?
Luckily, there’s a handful of accessibility “simulators” available on the web where a web page is rendered in a certain way. The Colour-blind Web Page Filter takes your website and filters it as if you were colour-blind.
The tool is still in development and can take some time for a render to become available for viewing. However, the range of colour filters available is fairly extensive, covering all major types of colour-blindness.
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I have had a few people say I should say my beginner tips that I have learned over the years, So I put together a Top Ten Tips for Beginners. These tips I have used and are still using. There is nothing wrong with continuing to learn photography. Photography is ever changing, you must always continue your educated. So these tips are to help you get in the game!
1. Shoot, Shoot, Shoot, Shoot!: The more you shoot the more confidant you become with your camera and its buttons. You will learn composition and you will also learn what inspires you by shooting more. Shoot everyday you can.
2. You will not going to be Trey Radcliff over night: A DSLR DOES NOT make you magically know and understand photography. A camera is just a tool, Like a brush but a brush doesn’t create paintings, the artist does! And its ok if not every single image you take is a masterpiece, Photography is a journey and your on the right path.
3. Learn how your camera works!: if you have a little understanding of how your camera works, and what functions are available to you, like how it deals with light e.g. shutter, aperture and ISO. Then a lot more shooting opportunities become available to you, and you are able to shoot in low light, night and sport photography situations with confidence.
4. SHOOT IN RAW: Do it now! You have a lot more editing options when you shoot in RAW like being able to adjust white balance, contrast, exposure etc… which gives you more creativity as a photographer. And if you save the original RAW file then you can go back in the future and still play around with it. Check out my buddy Jared Polin he runs a Website called FroKnowsPhoto, He is all about shooting RAW! Do it now!
5. Posting Processing is not something you should hate!:Some photographers hate it and some love it. For me personally, I think post processing is an extension of and compliments what we do with a camera, and is part of the creative process of a photographer. Remember a human eye is a lot more complex than a camera no matter how good they are, they haven’t caught up yet… so you never get exactly what you see in real life.
6. Inspiration isn’t always right in front of you!: Look for inspiration all around you. You’ll notice that this becomes easier the more you shoot. Or look on Flickr, Digital Photography School forum,or a favorite magazine perhaps? Follow the pros and see what they do, try to emulate what they’ve taken to see how the image works. I’ve done this myself and it’s a great way to learn new things. How do the camera settings affect how the image looks?
7. Check your gear before you go out…: If I had only listened to my own advice! I have done this so many times, Got out to a location and no memory cards or batteries! It drives me nuts sometimes! It only happened once – ok maybe twice, but it’s a real pain when it happens!
8. DO NOT BUY A CHEAP TRIPOD: Why buy cheap, when there are so many inexpensive tripods out there! Cheap tripods are like cheap umbrellas. They will inevitably break and you will be back buying another one. Further, they won’t work right, won’t get your camera at the right angle, will shake in the wind when it’s blowing, etc. Tripods are one of those areas where you truly do get what you pay for. Especially if you are going to be shooting at night budget for a quality tripod that can last you for years. Check out Induro pods! They have the best tripods I think. My buddy Eric did a great review of the one I have! Find it here!
9. It’s all about the glass: I have seen people blow 3k on a DSLR but have inexpensive lenses. I have a Canon EOS 50D which by no means is a top grade camera these days but I have the best glass I can afford and It make my older camera take the best images possible! So when that new camera comes out and you want it! Think of the glass you could get with that 3000 bucks!
10. Join 500px: In my opinion 500px.com is the best photo sharing service out there. I have my profile linked here, So check it out and follow me! I have only been using this service for a short time. But I find it to be perfectly suited for pros and beginners alike. Its a great place to find other photographers and find inspirations!
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The developers logged 3,997 distinct devices, the most popular of which was the Samsung Galaxy S II. This figure was inflated quite a bit by custom ROMs, which overwrite the android.build.MODEL variable and cause those phones to be logged as separate devices. 1,363 types were logged only once, and while some were custom ROMs bucking the numbers, a good few were just massively unpopular devices—for example, the Hungarian 10.1-inch Concorde Tab.
It's not only the sheer count of devices that's daunting, either—the spread is also intimidating. It's easy to imagine a practical Android developer who doesn't want to waste time supporting niche devices restricting the app to require high-end hardware and recent APIs, covering only the 25 or so most popular phones, and devil take the hindmost. But in OpenSignalMaps' case, the top 25 devices don't even encompass half of the map, and would still exclude well-known and popular (if old) models like the Samsung Nexus S. The developers would be missing out on over 50 percent of the Android market. | <urn:uuid:e0d3afeb-8622-408e-8983-1b6790bd6d14> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.maxconsole.com/maxcon_forums/showthread.php?188741-Android-fragmentation-one-developer-encounters-3-997-devices! | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959877 | 226 | 1.539063 | 2 |
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How does alcohol affect your heart?
Heart disease is so common that about one in 12 of us suffer from it. There are many links to diet and lifestyle both for causes and for treatments of this disease. Alcohol has been promoted on both sides. Research is clear that heavy, long-term drinking damages your heart by weakening your heart muscle and causing a condition known as alcoholic cardiomyopathy. What many don't realize is that drinking a large amount when you are not used to drinking can be just as dangerous. This is typically seen at parties during the holiday season and has been nicknamed "holiday heart syndrome." Excess quantities in the short- and long-term will damage your heart so limitations need to be set.
On the flip side, research has shown that moderate drinking may have health benefits for your heart. This is often the reason people use for having their glass of wine each day. A Danish study of 27,178 men and 29,875 women who were free of coronary heart disease (CHD) monitored their intake of alcohol over 5.7 years. The men who drank the most alcohol had a lower risk of CHD. One drink a week lowered the risk by about 7%, two to four drinks by 22%, and five or six drinks a week by 29%. Those who drank every day had a 41% lower risk of heart disease than those who did not drink at all. The women also experienced a decrease in risk, but the frequency of drinking did not have the same impact as with the men. One drink a week lowered the risk by 36%, but daily drinking lowered it by 35%. The limitation to this study was that binge drinking and the number of drinks at each occasion were not studied. The pattern of drinking seems important for the possible cardioprotective effect of alcohol, and the risk of CHD is generally lower for steady versus binge drinking. Higher drinking levels increase the risk of death from cancer, liver cirrhosis, trauma, and other types of heart disease.
Unfortunately, there are several other limitations to the possible heart benefits of alcohol. The research that has shown a lower risk of developing heart disease is based on moderate drinking; no more than two drinks per day for men and one drink per day for women. Many other factors also play a role in the development of heart disease. Your diet, your health and any medical conditions that you have, your genes, your age, and medications that you take will all change how alcohol affects your heart. These limitations mean that you can end up damaging your heart instead of helping it. Your doctor is the one to help you determine if a moderate amount of alcohol will provide any benefits for lowering your risk of heart disease.
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Can you believe that Google’s co-founder(Sergey Brin) is using facebook secretively?We have found that Google’s co-founder Sergey Brin has a facebook a/c but not many people know that.
Why Google’s co-founder Sergey Brin is so secretive about having a Facebook account?
Brin appears to be using an account named “Sergey Sergey.” The account carries no picture, but lists Google and Brin’s Alma mater Stanford University among its networks and Google’s Chrome web browser as its lone public “interest.”
Though Brin keeps his friend list private and does not allow himself to show up other people’s friend lists, people in his greater social circle are able to see friends in common and report that they are mostly, if not entirely, Google veterans, people such as Facebook chief technology officer Bret Taylor, a former Google product manager, and Chris Sacca, a tech investor who used to be Google’s head of special initiatives.
So it means you can find out about (few of his)his friends and circles.
So,if we can find out then facebook must be also knowing this a/c of Google’s co-founder.
So why doesn’t he want anyone else to know?
Brand owners never left their brand whatever condition it may in as it sends wrong signals to customers or users. Imagine if any Orkut users or Google’s friend connect users find that, its product’s founders themselves are not using their products then(users may think) why they should use it.
It’s classic case of brand mis- representation.
However, in few cases, it can be useful as well. For example, if we want to know about (success of) any brand or products then we have to use it first hand to get fair idea about its technology. What things that makes that product successful? Right?
But, we don’t think Sergery Bin need this (sort of way to know about facebook) as he can get all feedback from their staff itself.
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Flashing space station with beams of light as it passes overhead had never been successfully done—until yesterday.
It sounds deceptively easy. In an earlier post I wrote about the technical requirements. But like so many other tasks, it becomes much more involved in the execution than in the planning.
Early Sunday morning, at 01:27 our time, the San Antonio Astronomical Association, an amateur astronomy group, succeeded in flashing the space station with a one-watt blue laser and a white spotlight as we passed overhead. This took a number of engineering calculations. Projected beam diameters (assuming the propagation of a Gaussian wave for the laser) and intensity at the target had to be calculated. Tracking space station’s path as it streaked across the sky was another challenge. I used email to communicate with Robert Reeves, one of the association’s members. Considering that it takes a day, maybe more, for a simple exchange of messages (on space station we receive email drops two to three times a day), the whole event took weeks to plan.
I was ready with cameras for the early morning San Antonio pass and can report that it was a flashing success. Here’s one of the pictures to prove it:
Light (top center) flashed from the Lozano Observatory, about 40 miles north of San Antonio, was easily visible from orbit. Click on the image to see it full-sized.
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Puffins star in live HD video streaming
This still frame from streaming online video, provided by explore.org, the Annenberg Foundation and the National Audubon Society, shows puffins on the shore of Seal Island, Maine, Wednesday, June 27, 2012
PORTLAND — Two high-definition cameras began streaming live video Wednesday of clown-like Atlantic puffins waddling, preening and nesting on a remote Maine island.
The National Audubon Society and explore.org teamed up to stream video from Seal Island National Wildlife Refuge to anyone with an Internet connection. Located about 20 miles offshore, the island has the largest puffin colony in the U.S.
The video marks the first time high-definition cameras have been used in North America to stream video of Atlantic puffins, said Steve Kress, director of Audubon's seabird restoration program.
One camera shows puffins and other seabirds on the island's rocky ledges, flapping their wings and coming and going while waves crash on shore. The other camera is underground, inside a burrow showing a puffin in her nesting site. It is so close to the bird you can look into its eye.
The goal is to engage the public and spur interest in seabird restoration, said Kress, who has worked with puffins for nearly four decades.
"About a third of all seabird species in the world are threatened with extinction," Kress said. "It's the most troubled group of birds in the world. And the puffin is the bird among seabirds that people can relate to."
The Atlantic puffin is sometimes called the "clown of the sea" with its colorful striped beak, its diminutive stature and the comical way it waddles.
The birds live across a vast expanse of the North Atlantic from Maine to northern Russia, but they almost disappeared from Maine when settlers hunted them to near-extinction for food and feathers in the 1800s. By 1900, only small numbers of puffins nested on just two Maine islands.
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If you’re in New York please consider joining me and Robert Krulwich of Radiolab on April 2 for a fascinating debate about the future of neuroscience. Tickets are free, but limited, so grab them when they become available on noon, 3/12.
Here are the details from the event page:
Does the brain’s wiring make us who we are?
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|Sebastian Seung (MIT)||vs.||Anthony Movshon (NYU)|
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What will be the next big breakthrough in neuroscience? What will finally explain how brains work, how they fail in disease, and what makes us each unique? Some neuroscientists believe that research would be radically accelerated by finding and deciphering “connectomes,” maps of connections between neurons. Funding agencies are wagering millions of dollars on the idea that connectomics will be as fundamental to neuroscience as genomics is to molecular biology.
But others disagree, arguing that maps of the brain by themselves cannot offer much insight into how this remarkable organ does its job. Just as a genome by itself is only a blueprint with little power to explain how an organism works, a connectome is at best a framework with little power to explain brain function. Should neuroscience make it a priority to launch a significant connectomics program, diverting human and financial resources from other worthy goals?
Join us as leading “connectomist” Dr. Sebastian Seung defends his position in public against the formidable neurophysiologist Dr. Anthony Movshon. Award-winning science writer Carl Zimmer teams up with co-creator of NPR’s Radiolab, Robert Krulwich, to moderate this debate on neural cartography, guiding the audience through both known and unknown territory as we ask the question: Are brain maps the future of neuroscience or an empty promise?
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of Plants Day aims to get as many people as possible – farmers, gardeners, children, students, scientists, politicians and journal- ists – fascinated by plants and enthused about their importance.
“We want to show all the different aspects of plants,” says EPSO Executive Director, Karin Metzlaff. “They have such a huge role in our lives, in plant science, agriculture, horticulture, forestry, chemicals, energy, pharmaceuticals and the environment.”
EPSO is coordinating Fascination of Plants Day (FoPD), but encourages coun- tries to nominate a national coordinator to help them with logistics. So far, 29 countries and more than 70 organizations have regis- tered to host events on 18 May. EPSO has
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EPSO’s mission is to
➔ Promote plant science and scientists ➔ Represent plant scientists in discussions about
future plant science programme priorities across Europe
➔ Provide an authoritative source of independent information on plant science
➔ Promote training of plant scientists to meet twenty-first century challenges in breeding, agriculture, horticulture, forestry, plant ecology and sectors related to plant science
FoP facts & figures
250,000 plant species 28,000 plant researchers and staff belong to EPSO membership
3,000 personal EPSO members 227 research institutes and universities represented by EPSO
56 UK institutions already signed up for FoPD 29 countries signed up for FoPD 13 Portuguese institutions already signed up 12 German institutions already signed up
3 countries outside of Europe signed up 1 country – Australia – plans a YouTube competition for FoPD
prepared a public relations toolkit, with logos, PowerPoint presentations, flyers and downloadable photographs that anyone can use to promote their Fascination of Plants Day celebrations.
EMBO Members organize FoPDs Chiara Tonelli is part of the organizing committee for FoPD in Milan, where large public meetings will be held, including a maxi-screen to highlight the importance of plants and plant- related research for society. Caroline Dean of the John Innes Centre says her institute will host an Evening with Plant Scientists, moderated by BBC presenter Sue Nelson, followed by a FoPD for schools, while Jonathan Jones
of the Sainsbury Laboratory will be talking to schools about the field trial of genetically modified potatoes.
“What we want to emphasise,” says Karin,“ is that everybody is welcome to join in. People should contact their National Coordinator via the website, contact me or EPSO Coordinator Jan-Wolfhard Kellmann to discuss and access our FoPD corporate design toolkit.“
See the website for more details: www.plantday12.eu
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There’s a photoset going around Tumblr showcasing some photos of the insides of musical instruments. Let me share a small piece of the genius behind a violin’s design.
I’m going to tell you about something called a sound post.
Inside every violin, viola or cello there is a narrow little wooden dowel. It rests inside the instrument, propped between the front and back plates. Its placement has to be perfect, meticulously set by a violin-maker in precisely the right spot, down to the millimeter.
A violin is such a delicate piece of acoustical engineering that a slightly offset sound post will leave the instrument’s tone sounding empty and hollow. It’s an unassuming, humble little piece of wood… with all the importance in the world.
In Italy the sound post is referred to as anima. In France it’s âme. Both words mean “soul.”
Let us consider the fact that sound posts are never really at risk of being dislodged. They are never glued in place because there is no need; the faceplate of a violin is under hundreds of pounds of pressure at all times, exerted by the tension of the strings. This is enough force to break bone, but a fragile violin weighing only a few pounds is built in precisely the right manner not only to withstand the stress, but to use it as an advantage. It is this same tension that allows the vibration of the strings to resonate through the body of the instrument, resound within it, spill into the surrounding air and ultimately reach our ears as song.
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The General Aviation Airport Coalition has initiated a petition on the White House website that, if signed by 25,000 people or more by May 16, 2012, will elicit an official response by the administration about how they determined that the proposed $100 fee for general aviation aircraft is fair.
“Even if we don’t get the 25,000 signatures, a significant showing on this petition will help us continue to make noise on this issue that just won’t go away,” say officials with the GA organization.
The proposed fee would impose a $100 per flight fee for aircraft that use ATC services. Piston aircraft and GA recreational flights are exempt from the fee.
The new petition asks the Obama administration to explain in detail, its continued push for a $100 per segment aviation user fee.
“In the interest of transparency and in order to maintain a healthy aviation industry, we request that the White House explain how it calculated that a $100 per flight segment user fee is a fair contribution to fund FAA,” the petition states. “We further request an explanation of how the White House determined that the most effective method of collecting this user fee should be through a new, yet-to-be-developed taxing system, rather than the successful aviation fuel tax currently in place.”
You can see the petition here.
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Jon Shafer on Civilization V
Martin sat down with Civilization V lead designer Jon Shafer, to talk about the changes made to the Civ formula and the state of PC gaming.
I haven't played all of the Civilizations, but I felt this one looks a lot different from the last one?
With Civ 4 it was the first one in 3D and you could change the views around. Each Civilization game has had a different designer, so everybody has had a different philosophy and approach to the game. I played a lot of Civ 3, so that's the one that's closest to me.
What was the main reason for switching to hexagons?
There are two really big reasons. The first is the gameplay reason. As you know, you've played a lot of Civ, when you have the square grid there are corners that connect tiles. Units can move along these corners and that can be kind of confusing sometimes, because where land and water meet or you have mountains then you can't move unit through them anymore. It can be hard to tell when a unit can move somewhere and when it can't. The move to hexes means that every tile shares a whole tile, there are no corners anywhere. So it's very clear when a unit can move somewhere and when it can't. Additionally there is also no distortion in terms of distance. If you move diagonally along the corners you actually cover more distance than if you move along a straight line. For people who are really into the game, that's kind of an exploit that was in there. With hexes that's not an issue anymore. It's a subtle change, but it's one that adds up over time as you are playing the game, and it's definitely a good move.
In addition, it helps us on the graphics side as well. Because we don't have those corners, like I was talking about, the game looks less blocky, it's more organic. The hexes are circular than squares, and we don't have those corners. We have coastlines that are more smooth and organic, we have mountain ranges that are more organic, they don't have that zigzag look. So they help us in a couple of really big ways. Some other things as well, but those are the really big changes that are caused by the hexes.
How important are graphics for a game like Civilization V? Do you think there will be a lot of fans, just playing the mode in the strategic view, which looks a kind of old school?
We definitely feel that this is a game appeals to a broad enough audience, so there are going to be a lot of different interests in the game. Some people think that the graphics are the most important part, while some people don't care at all.
Because the game has such a broad audience, the graphics are something that we do think about. The gameplay is always going to be most important. But especially now with how much technology has advanced in different types of games that are out there we want to appeal to more than just the really hardcore fans. We need to expand out beyond that, and one way we can do that is to make it look more appealing. Also that the graphics are part of the experience. An example of that would be, when we were starting to work on the game we built the gameplay from Civ 4. So, we used the Civ 4 code for a while, and we moved that over into a new engine that the graphics and engine programmers had been working on. But what was interesting is we had the exact same gameplay from one end to the other, but the game felt different after moving it over. It's very strange because you wouldn't think that would be the case. The game's rules were exactly the same. But it did feel different, it felt like a new game. It had impact, and I think every part is important and I want to make sure the looks good and plays good.
We definitely want to pull some of them in. The game is not going to appeal to all of them, some of them won't have an interest in it. But we do think that's a good group of people that we should bring in.
With Civ 5 one of our goals was to keep the same amount of depth, same amount of complexity as Civ 4, but then focus on the interface and the advisers making it easier to learn, easier to play. We know that there is a lot of people who are either not that interested in Civ or have tried to play Civ but just couldn't get into it because of how difficult the learning curve is at the start. So a big focus for us has been trying to make the game easier to get into, if not necessarily to keep things out of the game to make it easier to play.
Civilization has a strong fanbase. You always have to be aware of not changing too much. Is that difficult?
We try to balance everything. Like I said I played a lot of Civ 3, and I played some Civ 4, I worked on Civ 4 as well, and I definitely recognize that the game has a big fault line in that it needs to appeal to them. That is honestly our biggest goal is to make a game that follows up the earlier Civ games for the PC. That's the number one goal. If we had to pick any audience to go for it's the people that loved Civ 4, who loved Civ 3, and loved Civ 2. We have to be mindful, we have to be careful with what we change and what we do. And a good example of that is the changes made in combat, if anything it's more deep, there is more strategy, more to consider than ever before.
In a lot of cases people will change their games and make them simpler so that people will understand them. But this is something where we feel that, this is a PC strategy game, we want to make sure that there is still that content, still that depth in there. And not just say "you know what, we're gonna remove stuff just because we want to appeal to more people". We do want to appeal to more people, but we think we can do that with the interface, with the advisers, with the look of the game, more so than what you actually do when you play.
You mentioned that you switched over to the new engine after developing the game with the old Civ 4 engine. Did you have one of the older games in mind at that time, or did you start out with a blank page?
We definitely are thinking about what has come before, because we built it on Civ 4 there are still a lot of things that are still from Civ 4. It's one of those things where game follows Civ 4, so that's the game it's most important to us that it's similar to.
Civ is about economy, military, culture and the balance of these elements. What did you do for reach this goal in Civ 5?
I wouldn't say that it's too hard, because the goal is to try and have all of it. Early on we pick up ideas on how to change it and what to add in each area, and when you're in that planning part of development it's easy to step back and look at the stats and say "how does everything fit together?". When you actually put it into the game, it may not actually be fun and you have to change it. But at least you have an idea of the different parts of the game you're working on and change each. For us changing the combat system was a pretty big deal, but obviously it's not something where we want the game to become a war game, something that is way beyond, or way different from what it has been. We felt that was the best way to go, and the biggest change, but it wasn't the only one. City states, social policies are other additions, and we try to make sure that the changes we make are balanced in different areas, so we're not adding content too much in one area or another.
A game of Civ could last for a couple of hours - is this still true? Having just one unit per tile, maybe they could last even longer?
It's balanced in length to Civ 4, that's the comparison, which is similar to the earlier ones. But we're definitely mindful that the changes to the combat system, could potentially slow things down too, you have more to do rather than just send a big stack off. But what we've been trying to do as well was limit the number of total units you can have, so you won't see a hundred units in an army anymore, you might see 40 or so. Of course, it varies based on the type of map you're playing on and how you play the game.
The main goal was to make the usage of units, where you position them and how you use them the most important part. To do that we did reduce the count. A couple of ways that we've done that. We've increased the cost of units. We've also changed the way resources work, so instead of needing one iron to build a billion swordsmen, if you have a source of iron you may only be able to build two with that source then you have to go and get more. So it limits the number of these really strong and powerful units you can train.
In terms of capturing every city and it taking a while, the military conquest victory is now so that all it requires is that you capture the capitals of the enemy players. In order to win at least, you don't have to capture every single city. You can just take the capitals and end it that way. If you want to take every city you can, but you don't have to anymore.
It's something we borrowed from Civilization Revolutions, we thought it worked well there as a way to speed up the game and make it more focused. And more interesting, because if all you really need to do is take the capital then you have the ability to win earlier, but it will be more challenging. Because you're going to try to take just the capital, and you're going to have to fight them off while they try to recapture it, instead of fighting a long war beating them and then having to take their other 18 cities when you know you've won. The game ends earlier, but there are more interesting things going on.
PC gaming has been said to be dying for ages. What's your opinion about that?
I think it's a good platform, I think it's a good place. I think this has been a really good year for PC gaming. And strategy in particular, Starcraft II just came out and it's going to be great. I haven't bought the game yet, but I'm looking forward to playing it as soon as I get back... Elemental: War of Magic is coming out this year from Stardock, Victoria II from Paradox, R.U.S.E. from Ubisoft. We like that there are so many different kinds of games, Civilization is just one of them, and we have to be the biggest and best, but it's good to see PC gaming doing well and I think this will be a good year for it and I'm looking forward to seeing where it goes. Personally, I really enjoy playing PC games. I can't predict the future, but my hope is that games like Starcraft II, Civ 5 will show that it is a good platform that you can do games just for PC and have them sell well.
You mentioned Starcraft II, but what other games do you enjoy playing?
I like RPG's. I'm playing Dragon Quest IX right now.
What did you think of it? I was a bit disappointed...
It's okay, but it's hard to innovate in a RPG because of the way the industry is right now, because there are so many games, and so many interesting visions. I think shooters are similar in that sense, a game does something and then everybody has to do that. And then it's much harder to do something very different. I've enjoyed it [Dragon Quest IX] so far, but I really didn't expect it to be a lot different. I haven't played a lot of JRPG's recently, I've been busy, but it's a good game for the DS. I'm happy with and about halfway through it. And I'm looking forward to Diablo III, whenever it comes out even if it's 2015.
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I love to craft with cardboard tubes. After all, they are readily available and a craft surface that is really easy to work with–especially for kids. These cute snakes are colorful and fun and allow your kids to express their creativity using their favorite colors.
- a cardboard tube that can be cut up
- tube from wrapping paper or similar tubular item
- two googly eyes (optional)
- toothpick (optional)
- Paint the inside and outside of the cardboard tube. Apply second coat if needed.
- Cut the tube into coils. If your cardboard is still a little damp, it might not hold its round shape. Using the tube from wrapping paper, or something similar, wrap the cut cardboard around the tube loosely. Use the handle end of a paintbrush to add polka dots to the cardboard with a contrasting color of paint. Let dry completely, then flip over on the other side and finish your polka dots.
- Remove from tube and wrap the painted cardboard in coil fashion around your fingers. Place the coiled cardboard on the table. Paint one end with red and let it dry. This will be the head. Meanwhile, glue on the googly eyes just above the red part, adding the glue with a toothpick if desired since they are small.
- After the red paint is dry, use small scissors to snip the end into a forked tongue. An easier option, if your kids are smaller, is to cut a forked tongue from red construction paper, snip the end of the cardboard to cut off the point, and glue that paper tongue in place instead.
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Short Summaries of Articles about Mathematics
in the Popular Press
"Erasing the divide that keeps many from grasping numbers," by Laura Pappano.Boston Globe, 8 December 2002.
Many do not question "the common wisdom in the United States that mathematicalability is somehow innate, and there are people who, no matter how hard theytry, will not be able to achieve in mathematics" and that "struggling in mathis socially acceptable, while having trouble reading is reason for worry." Inaddition, many make assumptions based on gender---that boys are better at math.Among those quoted regarding their thoughts on the matter are some teachers,Johnny Lott (president of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics), andKeith Devlin (author of The Math Gene: How Mathematical Thinking Evolved AndWhy Numbers Are Like Gossip). This was one of several articles onmathematics published in the newspaper's section that focused mainly on highschool math education (in which some teachers have experimented with Japaneseand Russian methods).
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A pair of new vaccines designed to combat cocaine and methamphetamine dependencies not only relieve addiction but also minimize withdrawal symptoms, according to study results presented today by Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) researchers at the Annual Meeting of the College on Problems of Drug Dependence in Quebec City, Canada.
The vaccines stimulate the body to produce antibodies which then attack the drug while it is in the blood stream. This prevents the drug from reaching the brain and creating the reactions that contribute to dependency.
?These are therapeutic, not preventative, vaccines,? said lead investigator Dr. Thomas Kosten, Jay H. Waggoner Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at the Menninger Department of Psychiatry at BCM and research director of the Veteran Affairs national Substance Use Disorders Quality Enhancement Research Initiative. ?They are meant for those who are already suffering from drug addiction.?
Kosten stresses that while the vaccines have been shown to help overcome drug addictions, they do not necessarily curb relapse.
?This is not a stand-alone treatment,? Kosten said. ?There is a reason drugs were used in the first place, and that needs to be dealt with either through counseling or behavioral therapies.?
TA-CD, the cocaine vaccine, works through a series of injections over a three-month period. Study participants began to respond favorably to the vaccine after about a month. TA-CD has one more large scale human study scheduled before it is ready for the FDA approval process.
?The vaccine slowly decreases the amount of cocaine that reaches the brain,? Kosten said. ?It?s a slow process, and patients do not go through any significant withdrawal symptoms.?
Antibody production was sustained for another nine months following the vaccine treatment. Additional injections were subsequently administered every four to eight weeks, if needed at all.
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A Short History of Recording Studios in Toronto
By Bill Delingat
The modern recording studio owes a great deal to that phonograph invented by Thomas Edison in 1877 and its early recordings, made outside of a studio environment. Early recording studios often lacked isolation booths, baffles, and sometimes even speakers. Designed for live recording of an entire band or performance, they attempted to record a group of musicians and singers, rather than to record them separately.
With the introduction of multi-track recording, it became possible to record instruments and singers separately and at different times on different tracks on tape. From then on, the recording process shifted to isolation and soundproofing. In the 1960s, recordings were analog, made using ¼-inch or ½-inch eight-track magnetic tape. By the early 1970s, recordings progressed to using 1-inch or 2-inch 16- or 32-track equipment. Most contemporary recording studios now use digital recording equipment and the number of tracks is limited only by the capacity of the mixing console or computer.
Toronto, the heart beat of the Canadian banking and economy was a natural place for attracting international and national artists to record and relax in a metropolitan atmosphere using state of the art equipment without the street hassles and urban pressures of New York or L.A. Billboard reported glowingly in a 1972 story on Toronto’s emergence as Canada’s recording capital.
Having built it, they did come; the steady stream of top flight artists including The Rolling Stones, Rush and Rod Stewart, ushered in an era of booming business for the Canadian music scene and recording industry.
Studios like McClear in the heart of the downtown scene at the nondescript McClear building, at 225 Mutual St., near Carlton and Jarvis Sts., flourished until the digital age came in.
Recently that famous building on Mutual was demolished to make room for a parking lot and its history now rests with the stories and recordings of some of the great legends that recorded inside. The roll call included Rush, a regular visitor, Ringo Starr (to record vocals — for Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends.), Aretha Franklin (to re-record “Respect” for the film Blues Brothers 2000.), Rosemary Clooney, Steve Winwood, George Hamilton IV, Anne Murray, Chubby Checker, Bachman-Turner Overdrive, James Brown and, Gordon Lightfoot (to record Old Dan’s Records.)
“Its beauty,” said former McClear owner Bob Richards “was that people could come and go and nobody really knew. They had no idea.”
Richards, 62, bought the facility in 1979 from RCA Records, which had used it as its Toronto studio since 1954. RCA bought it from CHUM, which built it in the late 1940s as the studio for the fledgling radio station. Richards was a former RCA employee who turned McClear into one of Toronto’s three most important studios. By 1974, Billboard reported, the studio was producing three-quarters of all Canadian country albums. That was in addition to rock bands like Bachman-Turner Overdrive, music for films and television programs like CBC’s “The Tommy Hunter Show,” and jingles
Much of that business vanished in the 21st century, he said, as computers and home studios diminished the need for large orchestra-ready studios like McClear. It was also clear to Richards that the landlord for 225 Mutual would not let his company extend its stay indefinitely. He took McClear into bankruptcy in 2005.“I’m a little saddened that it’s gone,” said former house chief engineer Jeff Wolpert. “It could have been designated historical. It had a lot of great ghosts.”
“Someone should at least put a plaque out front,” said Richards.
Scott Yellan, property director for Arsandco Investments, referred further questions to Primrose public relations manager Mary Theodosiou, who said she did not know whether the owners of 225 Mutual would honour Richards’ request for a plaque.Richards said he watched the demolition. It was difficult for him. But he took comfort in his McClear memories.
“We had a good run,” he said.
In the 21st century, some of McClear’s contemporaries have managed a successful transition from the analogue to the digital age. We’ve selected a few of the 20 year plus studios that through adapting and with a strong client base, have continued from the heydays of rock n roll to a mainstream business in the digital age.
Located in the heart of Kensington Market, one of Canada’s most eclectic, artistic neighborhoods, Kensington Sound is one of Canada’s oldest recording studios. Recently renovated, the studio has developed into the quintessential combination of old and new, where analog and digital technologies are effortlessly combined to provide the ideal environment for the creative, soulful mind and at the same time offer seamless and productive efficiency.
With a vintage circa 70’s British Midas console, outboard Neve compressors, and a great selection of precious vintage microphones, Kensington Sound provides a truly authentic vintage ‘front end’ recording platform that is second to none.
From there, the digital domain is state of the art Logic Pro 9 with a 27” Quad Core i7 iMac. The studio will also be offering 2″ 30 or 15 ips. recording on its MCI tape machine as well circa 70’s (all formats supported i.e. 8, 16, 24 track). Monitors are high-end boutique Tetra speakers (based in Ottawa, Canada) exclusively designed for Kensington Sound’s parameters. Interested parties can check out the studio by appointment
Since opening its doors in 1974, Phase One has been privileged to be an integral part of countless albums, more than 100 of which have gone gold or platinum.
Some of the best known Canadian and international artists have recorded here .The studio’s earned its reputation by maintaining top notch equipment in excellent condition, having a skilled and down to earth staff, and looking after the large and small details that keep our clients relaxed and happy.
A Hammond B3 organ w/ Leslie 122, Yamaha C7 Disclavier Pro, great mics, comfy lounges, clean kitchen with a variety of coffees and free parking are just some of the reasons why this studio has built a rep for excellent customer service.
Cherry Beach Sound is a full service facility for music, mastering, voice-overs, audio postproduction, Film / TV commercial production, digital multimedia, and audio enhancement.
They’ve been at it for 28 years during which it’s grown into the multi-million dollar studio it is today. Cherry Beach prides itself on an atmosphere of comfort and professionalism, with a mandate to pursue perfection in delivering the highest quality and value of service to its clients, and to maintain its position as a leader in the recording industry.
Number 9 Recording Studio's is famous for music, narration, post production and ad production with complementary departments in recording schools/courses, CD duplication, DVD duplication, DVD authoring, graphic design, web design, video production, audio and video transfers and pro audio rentals.
Number 9’s been providing professional audio services since 1981 and this better than a quarter-century of industry experience has allowed the studio to hone its skills and develop versatile methods to properly serve anyone who steps into the studio.
This Toronto facility houses two live floors, one more useful as a "general purpose" space and the other custom-built for a unique C. Bechstein Concert Grand Piano. Alternately, they’re geared to provide quick edits and to handle projects that don’t require a full-scale recording studio. A client list that includes the Barenaked Ladies, Rush, Amanda Marshall, K-os, Van Morrison and The Rolling Stones, speaks of the studio’s international reputation for delivering a quality product.
With all the technology debates swirling around the world of professional audio, one thing everyone can agree on is that success in the recording studio business can be very difficult to achieve, let alone sustain. Metalworks, located in Mississauga, ON, has not only sustained its success, but has evolved into three diverse business lines. Its three decades of success are the culmination of many things – including a staunch refusal to be a one-dimensional operation.
Since founding the recording studio, Metalworks has added Metalworks Institute (the educational division) and Metalworks Production Group (the sound and lighting division). The three companies thrive in a symbiotic relationship.
Metalworks originally had its start as a sound and lighting company. Canuck metal band Triumph’s drummer Gil Moore founded the business in 1975 and, over time, his band would come to rely on the capabilities of the company more and more. By 1978, the members of Triumph had set up a demo studio and just months later “professionalized it” so they could cut their own records there. Soon after, the band helped the studio to become one of the first 48-track recording facilities in the world.
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Lake, east-central Northern Ireland. It is the largest lake in the British Isles, with an area of 153 sq mi (396 sq km). It is about 15 mi (24 km) wide and 18 mi (29 km) long, though it is only about 40 ft (12 m) deep. Ancient deposits in Toome Bay, on its northwestern shore, have yielded the oldest recorded human artifacts in Ireland. In 1959 flood-control works significantly lowered the lake level.
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Otto Miller Hall: Renovation Creates Sophisticated New Home for SPU Scientists
AT THE SEPTEMBER 22 dedication of Otto Miller Hall at Seattle
Pacific University, the printed program posed the question, “Who said the sciences are dry?” alongside a playful photo of a bicycle-riding Albert Einstein. After all, SPU’s celebration — a fun-filled street fair with live jazz and a heavy helping of Seattle
rain — was anything but dry.
The event marked the end of a yearlong, $5.4-million renovation
of the former Miller Science Learning Center (MSLC), transforming
the building into a state-of-the-art facility with new classrooms and research
labs dedicated to the “dry sciences”: the disciplines of physics, electrical engineering, mathematics,
and computer science.
Once a repair “barn” for the Seattle trolley system in the 1930s, the structure was acquired by Seattle Pacific years later and turned into an award-winning facility for science education
in 1975. By the outset of the 21st century, however, it clearly needed an overhaul. “We were beginning to burst at the seams in the old building,” explains Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Bruce Congdon.
In a significant commitment to the sciences,
Seattle Pacific constructed a new building
for the “wet sciences” of biology, chemistry, biochemistry, and psychology, then turned its attention to renovating the MSLC. “We renovated
this facility with a vision for student learning, so that it could become a new place of discovery and inquiry,” says Congdon. “That’s the legacy we want to continue.”
Along with a fresh interior and state-of-the-art technology,
the facility also received a new name: Otto Miller Hall, which
again honors the late Professor of Physics Otto Miller, whose
moniker has become synonymous with excellence in the sciences
at Seattle Pacific. As SPU President Philip Eaton spoke at the
dedication ceremony, several of Miller’s descendants,
including his daughter, looked on. “I am thankful to Otto Miller’s family as we rededicate
this facility in his name,” said Eaton.
“Dr. Miller really cared about young people
and the vision of this institution,” said Leonard Root ’50, a past SPC student body president who attended the dedication ceremony
with his wife, Edith Root ’49.
It was a day that honored both the past and the future, Eaton
emphasizes. “We are grounded by a vision for excellence in the
sciences,” he says. “This kind of investment in our facilities will allow our
programs and our students to flourish.”
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Using DirectX 11 with Unity 4 means taking full advantage of features like:
Shader model 5
The main purpose of this feature is to solve a common problem in current game engines: the upsurge in the number of shaders due to the large number of permutations. In other words, for each kind of material and light the game developers must include a shader in order to handle all cases.
DirectX 11 offers an elegant solution through dynamic shader linkage.
Tessellation is one of the biggest features around DirectX 11 and Unity 4. It is simply breaking down polygons into finer pieces which brings profound improvements to 3D graphics. For example, game developers can cut a square across its diagonal to make 2 triangles and use them to depict new information. You can see the difference in the images below.
Compute shaders provide high-speed general purpose computing and takes advantage of the large numbers of parallel processors on GPU. They provide with memory sharing and thread synchronization features to allow more effective parallel programming methods.
A great example is this demo made by Nvidia showing a real-time simulated ocean under twilight lighting condition.
Unity 4, DirectX 11 and UI
As you may already know, Coherent UI have been recently integrated with Unity. Coherent UI natively supports DirectX 11 rendering and we are really happy that in Unity 4 it is supported too so users will be able to use its features to create better game UI. Inspired by this we integrated one of the Unity 4 samples with Coherent UI components and we made this demo to show you what Coherent UI, Unity 4 and DirectX 11 can do together.
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Wellness and Women's Program
The Elsie S. Shenk Wellness and Women's Program provides lifestyle education programs, hosts awareness events and information tables, and provides educational resources to students on a wide collection of topics including: alcohol, body image, healthy relationships, nutrition, safer sex, sexual assault, and stress. Students are trained as peer educators (Empower Peer Educators and Peer Health Educators) to reach out to the campus community and provide individuals with important information on the benefits of leading a healthy lifestyle, resources and services available at Millersville University, and how to safely make the most out of their college experience.
The Wellness Center at Millersville University promotes a campus environment supportive of healthy lifestyles. Through peer education and collaborations with campus and community organizations, the Wellness Center engages students in making educated and responsible choices about their health, and provides health information, referrals, and awareness programming on a variety of wellness-related issues.
The Women's Center at Millersville University promotes equity and enriches the personal, professional, and academic lives of women within the University community. Through peer education, the Women's Center educates men and women of the University community about gender-related issues, empowers women to make healthy lifestyle decisions, and promotes a safe campus climate. The Women's Center collaborates with campus and community organizations to provide information, advocacy, referrals, and awareness programming on a variety of gender-related issues including sexual assault, domestic violence, body image, healthy relationships, and harassment.
The Elsie S. Shenk Wellness and Women's Program will educate, empower and engage students in making responsible lifestyle decisions and will be identified as a significant resource for information and referrals on campus.
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On the road to freedom, one (gradual) step at a time
Another fascinating piece of history arrived at the Constitution Center last week – Pennsylvania’s Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery passed by the General Assembly on March 1, 1780. It is on loan from the Pennsylvania State Archives and will be on display in our core exhibition through July.
There are several reasons why the Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery is a remarkable document. First, a fun fact: It’s signed by Thomas Paine of Common Sense fame, who was Clerk of the General Assembly at the time. Paine also became a member of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society, the country’s first anti-slavery organization.
More importantly, it is the first legislative act that abolished slavery anywhere in the United States. (Another fun fact: Vermont abolished slavery in its constitution when it declared its independence from New Hampshire and New York in 1777, but it would be another 14 years before Vermont joined the Union as our 14th state.) Inspired by the spirit of the American Revolution, Pennsylvania led the way for a series of laws passed by northern states between 1780 and 1804 that emancipated slaves.
Not that Pennsylvania did that particularly well. The key word is “gradual.” According to the provisions of the Act, very few who were enslaved at the time it was passed were immediately freed. Children born into slavery after 1780 would only be free once they reached 28 years of age. At its peak in 1750, there were approximately 6,000 slaves in Pennsylvania. It would be 100 years later (1850) before there were none under the terms of gradual abolition.
Nevertheless, Pennsylvania’s Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery was an important step. The Act pointed out the hypocrisy of slavery existing in a nation fighting for liberty from the “Arms and Tyranny of Great Britain.” It also had an impact upon the number of slaves in Pennsylvania, dropping from 3,737 in 1790 to 1,706 in 1800. Eventually, Pennsylvania did achieve its goal:
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- When China Met Africa
- Production year: 2011
- Country: Rest of the world
- Runtime: 90 mins
- Directors: Marc Francis, Nick Francis
An eye-opening documentary that puts into concrete images that truism of the geo-political commentariat: that China is a new economic superpower. Specifically, it illustrates a new type of colonialist exploitation in present-day Zambia, enthusiastically aided and abetted by the national government. On a micro level, it involves individual Chinese emigres buying large plots of scrub, and hiring locals to clear and farm the land. On the macro, giant Chinese corporations are handed contracts to improve infrastructure: we follow one such, building a highway more than 300km across the country. On the face of it, there's an anti-western, post-imperial rhetoric fuelling the relationship, but fairly evidently it's a grossly lopsided one, with considerable benefits to China in the form of plentiful and cheap natural resources. If this documentary is anything to go by, the Chinese incomers are just as suspicious and disrespectful to the Africans as their European forebears; you have to wonder how long it will take the Zambians to become aware of what they've let themselves in for. | <urn:uuid:19615082-8174-4af5-9149-99a59d38cf76> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/oct/06/when-china-met-africa-review | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00005-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932791 | 254 | 1.59375 | 2 |
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Being physically active is one of the most important steps that people of all ages can take to improve their health.
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Exercise doesn't have to be a chore. Therapists from Sister Kenny Rehabilitation Institute make it fun.
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Quality Education for Minorities Network
The QEM Network is a non-profit organization based in Washington,
D.C. dedicated to improving the education of African Americans, Alaska
Natives, American Indians, Mexican Americans, and Puerto Ricans.
Center for Research on Education, Diversity, and
The Center for Research on Education, Diversity, and Excellence
assists the nation's population of diverse students, including those at
risk of educational failure, to achieve academic excellence. The purpose
of CREDE's research is to identify and develop effective educational
practices for linguistic and cultural minority students, such as those
placed at risk by factors of race, poverty, and geographic location.
The Center for Gender Equity
The goal of the Center for Gender Equity is to promote technology,
science, and mathematics as careers and as areas of civic literacy among
girls and women, primarily by strengthening the gender equity knowledge
and skills of K-12 teachers and teacher-educators.
NativeWeb: Resources for Indigenous Cultures around the
NativeWeb offers a vast range of resources for indigenous cultures
around the world. Site visitors can conduct searches for education
National Association for Bilingual Education
Promoting educational excellence and equity through bilingual
education, the National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE) is
the only national organization exclusively concerned with the education
of language-minority students in American schools.
National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education
The National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education (NCBE) is funded
by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Bilingual Education and
Minority Languages Affairs (OBEMLA) to collect, analyze, and distribute
information relating to the effective education of linguistically and
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The Misa Digital Guitar, The KITARA, is an experimental new instrument, similar to an electric guitar in shape, but with an interface designed to easily and intuitively control digital audio.
Most musicians today use some form of audio synthesis or sampling in their music. Virtually any type of sound can be created using these methods. Traditionally, digital piano keyboards have been the dominant instrument for controlling these sounds real-time in a musical setting.
This new instrument that not only unites traditional guitar playing technique with digital sound, but allows digital guitarists to use playing techniques that are not possible or comfortable on a digital keyboard.
GUITARS ELECTRIC are the UK agent and stockist for this amazing new instrument.
Have you got the talent and creativity to take digital guitar music into the next genration?
The Misa Kitara consists of three main components: a full fretboard, a multi-touch screen and an onboard polyphonic synthesizer with sounds and effects.
The kitara’s neck has 24 frets, but instead of strings each fret contains buttons.
You play notes by touching on the screen. The position and movement of your touch determine how the sound is generated and processed.
You can apply a number of digital effects, including distortion, delay and modulation, and you can control these effects through the touch panel interface.
You can save sounds as presets, and you can swap preset files online.
You can assign one sound to all six strings, or assign different sounds to different strings. The kitara can control compatible MIDI devices too. Everything is configurable. It runs Linux and is open source.
In electronic music, the timbre (or colour) of the sound can be morphed in an infinite number of ways. For a guitar to accommodate this, the right hand needs more control than just plucking strings. You need to be able to control elements of the sound, such as sustain, pitch, filter or any other synthesizer parameter, in a way that has no physical constraints.
This was the thought process when designing the Misa Kitara. There are no strings on this instrument. The right hand doesn't pluck strings, it controls sound.
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With all the battles going on over guns, now there is a new one: whether there is a constitutional right to carry a firearm in public. The Supreme Court has said the Second Amendment guarantees the right to have a gun at home, but it left open whether that right extends to the street. Last month, two powerful federal courts came down on opposite sides of the question. The issue will no doubt eventually land in the Supreme Court – and the stakes will be high.
In 2008, the Supreme Court overturned a lot of accepted wisdom about gun control when it ruled in District Columbia v. Heller that the Second Amendment creates an individual right to possess a firearm. Until then, it was widely – if not universally – believed that the amendment was about raising “a well-regulated militia” – not about guaranteeing individuals the right to carry a gun.
Still, that 2008 ruling was essentially narrow: it struck down a Washington, D.C. law that banned possession of handguns in people’s homes. Heller was a huge victory for the gun-rights movement, but it was unclear how sweeping its impact would be. There has been a flurry of cases working through the legal system trying to see just how far the constitutional right to own a gun goes.
Late last month, the Denver-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit ruled that there is no Second Amendment right to carry a concealed weapon in public. A man who had been denied a concealed handgun license – because he was not a state resident – sued, insisting his constitutional rights had been violated. He said the denial had left him “completely disarmed” in public.
The court rejected the man’s claim. It said that all constitutional rights come with limitations – including the Second Amendment right to be armed. And it said that the Supreme Court in Heller had specifically noted that America has a long tradition of bans on concealed weapons – and of courts upholding them. Given all of this, the court concluded that there is no Second Amendment right to carry a concealed weapon in public.
The same day, however, another federal appeals court came out the other way. The Chicago-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit declined to set aside a December ruling that the Second Amendment does protect people’s right to carry concealed weapons in public. (Confused yet?) The court struck down an Illinois state law banning concealed weapons. Judge Richard Posner, who wrote the decision, said, “The Supreme Court has decided” that the Second Amendment “confers a right to bear arms for self-defense, which is as important outside the home as inside.” He added that a Chicago resident was “a good deal more likely to be attacked on a sidewalk in a rough neighborhood than in his apartment on the 35th floor of the Park Tower.”
But there’s a lot of grey area between a rough sidewalk and a luxury highrise. The Chicago court left opened the possibility that a narrower concealed weapons ban could be constitutional. The Illinois legislature is now working to come up with one, possibly a law that requires people to get training and a permit to carry a concealed weapon in public, and bans concealed weapons from schools, daycare centers, government offices, and other sensitive locations.
The conflicting Denver and Chicago rulings underscore just how uncertain gun law is now. Does the Second Amendment simply confer a right to have a gun at home? Does it mean there is a right to have a gun in public – but that states can still ban concealed weapons? Does it prohibit complete bans on concealed weapons – but allow more narrowly drawn ones, such as a requirement that people get permits to carry concealed weapons? Or does it, as some gun-rights advocates believe, bar any restrictions on carrying guns – in home or on the street, in the open or concealed?
It is unlikely that Second Amendment law will end up in such an extreme position – and it should not. There are two kinds of rights involved in gun regulations: the right that the Supreme Court recognized in Heller to have a gun, and the right of the public not to be unduly exposed to the considerable dangers imposed by widespread availability of guns. It is one thing to say that there is a constitutional right to keep a gun at home for protection. It is quite another to say there is a constitutional right to bring a hidden gun into a daycare center. Even though the Supreme Court has expanded the Second Amendment, there is little reason to believe it will take it that far. | <urn:uuid:e106df5e-7224-4826-abad-143d2139c4bb> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://ideas.time.com/2013/03/04/the-next-gun-control-battle-a-right-to-carry-firearms-in-public/print/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00033-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97317 | 927 | 2.046875 | 2 |
Germany after the fall of the wall: Trabi revived as electric car
Shunned for Western cars after the Iron Curtain was lifted, the iconic car is back.
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It had a lawn mower engine and a Duroplast body made of plastic resin, paper, and cotton. The back windows didn’t roll down, it had no side mirrors, and blinkers and windshield wipers were optional.
You could jog around the block in the time it took the Trabant to get up to highway speed, but this little engine that couldn’t became the square icon of a generation of East Europeans trapped behind the Iron Curtain.
The Trabi is pushing for a comeback. A repackaged, retooled, and refined Trabi concept car will première this month at the Frankfurt Auto Show.
The last model tumbled off the assembly line in 1991. By that time, the Berlin Wall had completely crumbled, and East Europeans had forsaken the trusty Trabi (often abandoning them on the side of the road) for used Western cars.
Herpa, the German toy carmaker, has sold hundreds of thousands of toy models of the Trabi since the 1990s, one of the most successful scale model cars on the market.
Driven by the success and sentiment of the toy model, Herpa snapped up the trademark a few years ago. Together with German busmaker IndyKar and engineering firm IAV, along with designers from Volkswagen, they have created an ecological, economical, electric car.
This is not your father’s Trabant.
The old joke about the Trabant goes something like this: How many workers does it take to make a Trabi? Two. One to cut and one to paste.
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Nobel Laureate Ferid Murad '58 Cited in Story on Potential Medical Breakthrough
July 11, 2008
July 11, 2008, Greencastle, Ind. - New research suggests that consuming watermelon rinds -- which contain the amino acid citrulline -- could play a role in relaxing blood vessels and creating what is known as a "Viagra effect." The work finds that the body converts citrulline to arginine, which in turn boosts nitric oxide. The work was conducted by Bhimu Patil, director of the Vegetable and Fruit Improvement Center at Texas A&M University in College Station.
An article in New Mexico's Las Cruces Sun-News notes, "Dr. Ferid Murad, who shared a Nobel Prize in 1998 for his research on nitric oxide, including identifying its role in nitroglycerin, told the Washington Post in 2003 that citrulline 'acts only marginally in recycling L-arginine' to increase nitric oxide." Murad is a 1958 graduate of DePauw University.
Read the complete article at the newspaper's Web site.
Last month, Dr. Murad and his team announced a breakthrough that may lead to a "magic bullet" treatment for diarrhea, which kills approximately 2 million children in developing countries each year.
Murad also delivered the golden anniversary address to his Class of 1958 at DePauw's Alumni Celebration on June 14, in which he expressed his concern that the United States "may be starting to lose the race" in science and technology. A brief summary of his remarks and a link to an MP3 file of the complete speech can be found in this story.
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HAZLE TWP. – Hazleton Area School District dropped a training program provided by Step by Step Learning, a company recently linked loosely to former Pittston Area Superintendent Ross Scarantino. Hazleton Area Superintendent Francis Antonelli confirmed Thursday that the contract was not renewed, and said it was because the program was not providing expected results.
"With money being very scarce, we have to make decisions about program effectiveness vs. cost effectiveness," Antonelli said, "and this just didn't add up for us."
Administrators at several school districts have said Scarantino has called them on behalf of Step by Step Learning, though his relationship with the company is unclear.
Wilkes-Barre Area recently used about half of a $623,733 literacy grant to contract with Step by Step, but Superintendent Jeff Namey said that, while Scarantino made an initial call suggesting the district consider the company, he was not involved in discussions with the company or the decision to contract with it.
Scarantino pleaded guilty to federal charges he accepted money from a contractor in exchange for helping the contractor land district work. He served 13 months in prison and is currently on two years supervised release. His plea led to the loss of his state pension and a substantial retirement payout he could have received from the district.
Antonelli said Scarantino never contacted him or the district. Nor would he need to. The district used federal stimulus money to contract with Step by Step Learning in 2009, under a prior administration, Antonelli said. When the stimulus money ran out, the district used federal money provided under Title I, a program aimed to aid disadvantaged students struggling with reading and literacy.
"To date, the program has cost us $3.25 million," Antonelli said. Not renewing the contract will save the district $234,000.
Step by Step Learning specializes in providing extensive training to teachers and administrators on how to improve literacy outcomes for early grades, focusing on pre-kindergarten through second grade. The goal is to catch and correct problems early, reducing the need for remediation and special education services later.
Antonelli said the district is not discontinuing the effort, but he believes enough teachers have been trained, and any additional training can be obtained from the Luzerne Intermediate Unit, a Kingston-based, state-formed agency providing a variety of services to area districts.
"We're not abandoning this approach," he said. "We just believe we can do it at no additional cost."
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President Barack Obama's high-speed rail initiative is in danger of turning into the Big Engine That Couldn't.
As part of the economic stimulus plan of 2009, Obama pushed through more than $8 billion in initial funding to extend high-speed intercity rail service to 10 major U.S. rail corridors by 2034. The idea is to create superfast rail service — like Japan's futuristic bullet trains — that would be available to 80 percent of the U.S. population.
A quarter of that money — a little more than $2 billion — went to California, where voters in 2008 approved a plan to build a 220-mph line between Los Angeles and San Francisco. The California High Speed Rail Authority promised voters that the line would open in 2020, at an overall price of about $33 billion.
Since then, not a single segment of track has been laid and not a single station has opened.
That 2020 ribbon-cutting? It's now projected to be no earlier than 2033 — at least 13 years late. That $33 billion price tag? It's been recalculated at $98.5 billion — nearly three times the original estimate.
The news came from the state's High Speed Rail Authority, which issued an updated "business plan" (.pdf) last week at the direction of California Gov. Jerry Brown. The good news, said Tom Umberg, chairman of the authority, is that "we understand the project better." The bad news is that "as time goes by, things get more expensive."
Actual construction must begin by next October or federal funding, which has grown to nearly $4.7 billion, goes away. Republicans in the Legislature want to give sticker-shocked voters a chance to change their minds by holding another referendum next year, warning that California shouldn't risk starting construction only to have future appropriations dry up.
The construction schedule calls for the first segment to be built not in heavily populated areas around Los Angeles or San Francisco, but in a relatively lightly trafficked corridor between Fresno and Bakersfield, in the Central Valley. Critics say that if the project has to be abandoned, Californians would be stuck with an uncompleted spur serving only a few thousand passengers — what they're calling "the train to nowhere."
"Knowing what we know now, we think the time is now to pull the plug on this project," said Jon Coupal, president of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, a conservative activist group.
The California line is the first of the major high-speed rail stimulus programs to get up and running toward real construction. The status of the other projects also is in flux.
Most of them are still in planning phases, but a second complication has been resistance from Republican governors in three states — Florida, Ohio and Wisconsin — who turned down high-speed rail funding when it was initially offered. That money was redistributed among two dozen rail projects — some of them high-speed, including the California line, as well as maintenance or infrastructure improvements. (See box.)
White House press secretary Jay Carney said last week that Obama was still committed to the the plan, telling reporters that "we've let our infrastructure decline, and we have ceded the cutting edge in many areas to our global competitors. And that's certainly the case with regards to high-speed rail."
Carney said the White House was ready to "continue to work with lawmakers of both parties around the country, as well as local officials, who are interested in this kind of investment, because it really is the kind of thing that will help create a better future for the individual states and the country."
Last week, Florida Gov. Rick Scott wasn't shy about saying "I told you so."
Scott said he rejected a federal offer of $2.4 billion because he didn't want Florida to get stuck with a wildly inflated bill. Now, Californians are "on the hook for another 50-some billion dollars," Scott told reporters. "So I know all of you were very supportive of my decision on high-speed rail."
And even if California officials go full speed ahead, the federal money could be drying up.
Supporters of high-speed rail in Congress couldn't overcome a threatened Republican filibuster last week to the transportation section of Obama's proposed American Jobs Act, which effectively killed the section and the $4 billion extra it would have spent on the rail initiative.Story: What happened to super-speedy trains?
And the Senate flat-lined overall spending when it passed its 2012 transportation bill last week, agreeing to budget a meager $100 million for Obama's plan — in essence, approving just enough money to act as a placeholder so the program isn't "zeroed out," or killed. The bill — including the placeholder money — passed with the support of the White House (.pdf).
The Republican-controlled House hasn't passed its transportation bill yet, but it's expected to cut overall funding even more.
It wasn't supposed to be this way
The U.S. had ambitious plans to connect the country with a network of high-speed trains when it inaugurated Amtrak's Acela Express service between Washington and New York in December 2000. Eleven years later, the Acela remains the nation's only high-speed line, and it's not really accurate to call it even that.
The Acela is capable of running as fast as 165 mph, well above the government high-speed definition of 150 mph. But it averages only about 80 mph, because it has to share tracks with conventional trains and because some of those tracks are supported by infrastructure dating, in some stretches, back to 1935.
That's why so much attention is being paid to the project in California — it effectively would be the first truly high-speed rail line in the U.S. But the attractiveness of that distinction is wearing off with Californians, whose support for the line has dropped sharply amid delays and ballooning costs.
In September 2010, 76 percent of Californians told pollsters that they fully or somewhat supported building the Los Angeles-to-San Francisco line. Only 13 percent said they opposed it completely.
One year later, opposition to the line had nearly quintupled, to 62 percent, according a poll by Probolsky Research of Newport Beach, Calif. Moreover, "the more voters know about high-speed rail, the more they are likely to vote to stop the project," Probolsky reported.
Another big problem is that the biggest resistance is in the area where the first line is planned: the Central Valley. By October, California officials must overcome not only the cost roadblocks — "each year we delay, the project adds about 2 (billion) to 3 billion dollars to the project price tag,” said Umberg, head of the High Speed Rail Authority — but also intense opposition from people like Jack Vesely, a retired brewery worker whose home in Rosedale is in the segment's path.
“I'm 72. I don't want to move. Nobody wants to move," Vesely said. "We all love our land."
The proposed initial line would also go right through Bakersfield High School and Bethel Christian School in Bakersfield, along with as many as 239 homes, 282 business and eight churches, according to calculations by Citizens Against High Speed Rail, a local activist group.
Jeff Taylor, the owner of a landscaping business in Bakersfield who joined the group, said that was an unacceptable hit on the area's infrastructure.
The concerns — the delays, the soaring costs or the disruption to local landowners — have not changed the mind of Gov. Brown, who has championed the initiative from the beginning.
In a statement after the High Speed Rail Authority put out its gloomy new business plan, Brown reiterated his conviction that the rail line would "create hundreds of thousands of jobs, linking California's population centers and avoiding the huge problems of massive airport and highway expansion."
Even with its alarming new numbers, the plan remains "solid," Brown said, and it "lays the foundation for a 21st century transportation system."
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Poets on Prozac is the short title of a book by
psychiatrist-poet Richard M. Berlin, MD. The full title is: Poets
on Prozac: Mental Illness, Treatment, and the Creative Process.
Berlin was an associate professor of psychiatry at the University of
Massachusetts Medical School; now he’s in private practice, and a
Senior Affiliate at U Mass. And a writer. His personal
website is here.
A sample of his work is href="http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/extract/296/7/737">here;
After Reading Music From Apartment 8
for John Stone, MD
When I started out in medicine,
before I married and before
I had written a single poem,
I read your poetry like a hiker
on a treacherous trail who finally
stops to rest and drink and admire
the view of snow-capped peaks.
Three decades later I imagine you,
ten years younger than my father
would be if bad genes, bad luck, and bad
doctoring hadn’t killed him long ago.
Without a father to guide me north,
your poems were a compass
pointing toward a world
where doctors can be poets,
where the pulse of each line
begins with the heartbeat we hear
when we bend close to our patients.
I pray you, too, are drinking deep
from whatever stream brings you
to your knees, and I hope
you can hear my boots striding
behind yours, cracked from the heat,
covered with dust, both soles still strong.
Richard M. Berlin, MD
This is not a review of the book, or his other work. For a review
of the book, see the article in href="http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/display/article/10168/1444245">Psychiatric
Times. While there, see the href="http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/display/article/10168/48971?pageNumber=1">essay
he wrote in 2001, about how he happened upon the subspecialty of
Naturally, his path from medicine to creativity was not a straight
line. There were lots of little offshoots.
Is there an interesting tangent we can take, looking at the publicly
available material here?
The book review in Psychiatric Times explains that the book consists of
sixteen essays, many written by poets who are undergoing, of have
undergone, some sort of psychiatric treatment. Two themes emerge:
1) “The struggles of the impaired mind and troubled soul are not what
make quality poetry. It is instead hard work guided by clarity and
Whether from pharmacology or psychotherapy, the essayists in Poets on
Prozac often find new precision through treatment.”
This implies that, for the poets involved in the book, the treatment
2) “Despite this largely unanimous appreciation of treatment in the
book, a second, more subtle theme arises. Although the existence of
illness may not define the poets, healing from illness is entwined with
their paths as artists.”
I have some comments on this. First, despite the
title, this is not a work about the effects of serotonin reuptake
inhibitors upon the creative process. The essayists received
medication in some case, or psychotherapy, or both. Second, it is
most distinctly not a scientific study. It was not randomized, it
was not blind, and it was not controlled by placebo or anything
else. Thus, any conclusions we might draw are necessarily
It says nothing about what usually happens to the creative
process when people undergo treatment, just what happened to a poet’s
dozen of individuals. These are not typical patients. Plus,
the creative process involved in the writing of poetry may not
represent the creative process in general.
Is it possible that some persons find that psychiatric treatment
inhibits creativity; or, could it have both beneficial and deleterious
effects, in some people? Of course.
I once attended a seminar about psychoanalytic psychotherapy, in which a
case was mentioned of a creative person who had expressed a worry that
therapy could diminish creativity. One of the senior analysts
rendered the pronouncement, that creativity that arises from untreated
mental illness is not true creativity. The idea there, is
that psychoanalytic psychotherapy can only improve things. As
appealing as the notion is, it probably is incorrect.
Over the years, I have seen some people complain about the dulling
effect of medication, in particular. Various kinds of emotional
dulling can occur with any class of medication. The complaints
usually arise in persons taking mood stabilizers, or antidepressants,
or sometimes antipsychotic medication. Dulling also can occur
with sedatives and opioids, although for some reasons people don’t seem
to complain about that as much.
We already know that different treatments do different things to
different people. Sometimes, the effects are positive, sometimes
negative; often, the outcome is a mix of positives and negatives.
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The omniscient, all-controlling father figure-or, his professional namesake, the maestro-has played an inordinately large role in the last hundred years of classical music. It’s worth remembering, however, that before the second half of the 19th century, when the first professional conductors like Hans von Bulow and Arthur Nikisch emerged to handle the bloated forces required for symphonic performances, the fellow up there beating time was either just a slightly elevated musician or the composer himself. Since then, the fortunes of classical music have largely been dependent on the will and whim of the man on the podium-the Toscanini, the Furtwangler, the Szell, the Bernstein, the Solti.
The benefits of this are obvious. For one thing, it’s impossible to keep a symphonic epic by, say, Mahler from falling apart without a pretty strong traffic cop. For another, maestros have been very good for the box office: Their uplifted profiles look good on record jackets and PBS specials and, in our personality-obsessed century, they’ve given audiences something more to think about than just the music.
But for the poor vassals at their patent-leathered feet-the players-the obligatory deference extended to the maestro has been little more than grudging. A few years ago, a study reported that symphony orchestra musicians felt worse about petty revolts among the rank-and-file, such as the one about a player in the New York Philharmonic who expressed his disdain for Erich Leinsdorf by repeatedly dropping a set of keys on the stage during rehearsals-not on Leinsdorf’s beat.
In recent years, this restiveness has taken a more productive turn. New York’s Orpheus Chamber Orchestra is the most celebrated example of how assiduously cultivated collective empathy can make good music without a conductor. However happy the Orpheus musicians are, it’s an approach that limits them to repertoire that doesn’t demand more than a few dozen players. A better, even more challenging solution to the Maestro Dependency problem has been found by an ensemble in England whose recordings I have long admired. Its members are all specialists in playing period instruments-that is, instruments made according to the standards of the period in which the music was written. They call themselves the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, which is much too unwieldy a name to convey what is so remarkable about them: their fluency with music written over two centuries, from Vivaldi to Tchaikovsky, and their eagerness to adapt themselves to as many conductors as they can find who share their goal of zestful-and egoless-music-making. They made their New York debut on Aug. 3 and 4 at the Mostly Mozart Festival; in person, their effect was even more exhilarating than I had imagined.
There can’t be many virtuosos on the level of the pianist Emanuel Ax who would willingly give up the cushy splendor of a modern Steinway for the timorous quaintness of a 19th-century Broadwood. However, that’s what happened at the O.A.E.’s first concert, in Avery Fisher Hall, for a performance of Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21, which was composed in 1829-11 years before the piano that Mr. Ax had at his disposal was built. In recent years, there has been much de-vaporizing of Chopin as the arch-Romantic of the salon, with the aim of showing him to have been a rigorous, even percussive, classicist and contrapuntalist with unmistakable affinities to Mozart and-farther back-to Bach. Mr. Ax’s resplendent playing of the concerto-written when Chopin was, astonishingly, just 19-made the case for the revisionists more incisively than any modern instrument could have.
Although the piano’s middle register seemed lusterless and its tone got clangy on the fortissimos (cavernous Avery Fisher was hardly the most congenial setting), its way with Chopin was revelatory. The action of its keys had a springiness that made the composer’s ravishing cascades and jumps sound like a sure-legged colt being let out in the morning air. (Mr. Ax’s subtleties on a period piano in this piece are even more pronounced in a new recording of the concerto and other Chopin works with the O.A.E. and the conductor Sir Charles Mackerras; Sony 63371.) For once, this Chopin did not wash over you; it recalled a piece of advice an old piano teacher once gave me about a fleet passage in one of the Ballades: “Think of it like water rushing over pebbles. “This time you could feel the pebbles.
During the Chopin, as well as in the “Paris” and “Prague” symphonies by Mozart, the O.A.E., wonderfully led by conductor Paul Daniel, played with a forcefulness that belied the antiquity of the instruments. The natural-gut strings had a bracing stringency; the horns and winds had a wonderfully clear “hole” in the middle of their mournful clarion calls. As I am often reminded, period instruments more readily summon up the sounds of nature. Above all, I was impressed by the cohesiveness of these players: Behind the crispness of sound, the unanimity of purpose and approach was palpable.
And so the O.A.E. demonstrated the following night at Alice Tully Hall, when-this time without a conductor and in smaller numbers-they took up an earlier set of instruments for a program of William Boyce, Vivaldi, Handel and Bach. Once again, the soloists were electrifying-the flutist Lisa Beznosiuk and the soprano Emma Kirkby, whose many recordings are cherished by early music lovers the world over. The program’s tour de force was their “Sweet Bird” from Handel’s oratorio L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato in which flute and singer matched each other in avian acrobatics.
But for me, the highlight was the O.A.E.’s playing of a work I could whistle in my sleep-Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major. What was it that made me feel as though I were hearing the work for the first time? My gaze settled on two players: the wonderfully named leader in the concertmaster’s seat, Margaret Faultless, and the first-chair bass player, Chi-chi Nwanoku. Whereas Ms. Faultless, with her baroque violin tucked under her chin, displayed an almost seraphic command of the music, Ms. Nwanoku, with her bulky instrument cradled firmly between her legs, seemed to be driving the music from within, like some ecstatic engine.
The next morning, I had breakfast with David Pickard, the O.A.E.’s general manager. He told me that the orchestra had been founded in 1986 by a group of period musicians in and around London who wanted to maintain an “identity” unfettered by any one conductor. One result of putting themselves first, he said, was that the musicians were in the unusual position of being able to pick and choose among many of the leading British and European conductors, who loved nothing better than getting an invitation. In London next year, the orchestra will be performing all nine Beethoven symphonies under five of their “favorite” conductors: Roger Norrington, Charles Mackerras, Simon Rattle, Frans Brueggen and Ivan Fischer. “The challenge of working with conductors, each of whom has a completely different approach to Beethoven, shows exactly what the orchestra is all about,” Mr. Pickard said.
The orchestra, he said, drew from 50 to 75 players, all of whom had flourishing careers outside the O.A.E., many of them with small chamber groups. Along with the cross-fertilization that results from the pooling of so many different experiences, he said, the orchestra benefits from the players’ constant research into the instruments used in the composer’s own time. For example, the first oboist, Anthony Robson, owns at least 20 different oboes, all of which meet specific historical requirements.
It occurred to me that Mr. Pickard had not used the term that causes such hair-pulling when the subject of “period” instruments comes up-authenticity. “We try never to use the word ‘authentic,’” he said. “It smacks of self-righteousness and superiority, and that’s not what we’re about at all.”
“What are you about, then?” I asked.
“Let’s put it this way,” he said. “What we do is just offer a different way of hearing this music.” It’s quite an experience.
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I need to arp poisoning / redirect clients in some how the traffic from the LAN goes to my own machine (not forward to just sniff). Let me explain, I'm inside a network and I want to setup a fake custom service (it's part from a ERP) to steal authentication.
What's the problem?
They do not use DNS queries to arrive at this server (they use direct IP).
They do not use DHCP in this LAN.
Is there a way I can impersonate local users (a kind of arp poison, etc) to make all requests that should go to server 10.0.0.2 (MAC 01:02:03:04:05:06) goes to my machines 10.0.0.26 (MAC 66:66:66:66:66:66) ? Yes, I do not want to forward the traffic, I want to bind a port and myself response to this services.
Any ideas about how to do it in Windows or Linux?
How are you?
Sure, I work for a security company and one of my jobs are internal penetration tests, as I already had explained it here in another post I was believing it was clear.
Some evidences goes here:
Sorry if it was not clear since the first post.
Related with the thread, someone have some suggestion for me?
If you are on the same network segment as the victim, try using arpspoof.
Thank you for reply.
I did think in use dsniff package (arpspoof) but I got no sucess. In theory I should only setup a one way arp spoof and disable ip_forward, not?
However in my tests it do not work, it poison (the arp entry in VictimIP is forged), but if I setup a service in my attacker machine and try to connect from the VictimIP it gives connection refused.arpspoof -t VictimIP IPofMachineIWantToBe
echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
off: Is there a way to use arpsoof to poison a entire segment (like a class C network) instead of a machine? I did look at man page and it do not say anything.
Thank you in advance.
Edit: Forgot to mention: A segment arpspoof WILL set off a IDS if there is one on the network. Not sure of your contract terms, but can you be caught/blatantly obvious or do you need to remain stealthy? An arpspoof that big is a dead give away. | <urn:uuid:608aec92-5b8a-4d56-b9b6-ecb89fbbfe5c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.backtrack-linux.org/forums/showthread.php?t=15613&p=99442&viewfull=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00007-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.925732 | 545 | 1.546875 | 2 |
By: ISU Communications and Marketing Staff
September 28, 2010
Two years after its launch by displaced employees of pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, a Terre Haute business has outgrown its original location and within two more years may get too big for its current site, the company's president said.
"It's really going to start taking off," Brent Schludecker of Midwest Compliance Laboratories said of the chemical testing business he and four other former employees of Pfizer's Vigo plant started in September 2008.
The business has seen its client list from the pharmaceutical, dietary supplement and food industries grow to 25 companies and recently added a third full-time employee. The lab provides analytical and microbiological testing that companies need to ensure product quality and comply with federal regulations. Clients range from Clabber Girl, a more than 150-year-old Terre Haute food manufacturer, to new and established businesses as far away as California, Florida and New York.
"We set new sales records monthly," Schludecker said, noting that 80 percent of the lab's business comes from dietary supplement manufacturers who face new federal requirements. "All of them now have to make sure that what's on their label matches what's in their finished product."
Originally located in a converted office on Indiana 46, the business moved in May to Indiana State University's John T. Myers Technology Center, adjacent to the university's Center for Business Support and Economic Innovation.
The location not only provides plenty of space and ample electrical and plumbing connections, but also makes it easier to access the business expertise and other resources Indiana State provides, Schludecker said.
Midwest Compliance Labs is a client business of the Center for Business Support and of the Terre Haute Innovation Alliance, an economic development and education partnership between Indiana State, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, the city of Terre Haute and the Terre Haute Economic Development Corp.
"That's one of the key items that has made us successful," Schludecker said of the relationship with Indiana State and the Innovation Alliance, which used federal funds to help with the lab's start-up expenses. "The relationship with the Business Center and the support they have given us from the business side and assisting us in finding resources has been invaluable."
The Center for Business Support and Economic Innovation not only helped Midwest Compliance Labs find a facility from which to operate - twice - but also helped arrange private financing through a Terre Haute bank, identified sources of accounting and legal services "and all the other things that we weren't thinking about as a startup company," Schludecker said.
Indiana State, Rose-Hulman and Ivy Tech Community College-Wabash Valley also provide skilled student workers that have been essential to helping the business grow - especially since it was launched on a shoestring in the midst of the worst economic downturn in decades, he said.
"They've been huge," Schludecker said of student workers who serve primarily as laboratory analysts but who also provided a ready source of labor for the lab's two moves and helped research sources for low-cost equipment and furnishings.
"Midwest Compliance Laboratories is the quintessential company for what the Innovation Alliance is trying to accomplish," said Chris Pfaff, director of the Center for Business Support and Economic Innovation and ISU's liaison with the Innovation Alliance.
"We've got a group of dislocated workers in the local economy and instead of taking that next corporate move to wherever Pfizer would have asked them to go, they decided they were going to start something themselves. We had business faculty engaged with them on marketing plans and internships that ISU and Rose-Hulman have provided have been key to helping them get started and lowering their operating costs. We are helping grow jobs locally and we are also providing experiential learning opportunities for our students. MC Labs is an ideal company that has represented both of those goals well."
With the economy now looking a little brighter, and with continued demand by an aging American populace for dietary supplements, Schludecker is bracing the still small workforce at Midwest Compliance Labs for continued increases in its workload.
"This lab is getting ready to hit a point where we're going to see some pretty big growth. In fact, we've gone from having a few samples in the lab at a time to where we're starting to load up. It's really going to start taking off, he said.
But no matter how much growth the business sees, it will remain locally owned, Schludecker said.
"Midwest Compliance Labs will always be Terre Haute and stay away from any type of foreign investment. Our business plan is very explicit that we want this to be a Terre Haute business. Terre Haute will always be the headquarters."
Photos: http://isuphoto.smugmug.com/photos/955820979_ktd8n-L.jpg - Interns Tyler Fromm (seated), a 2010 Indiana State University graduate now attending the Indiana University School of Medicine-Terre Haute; Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology student Cari Harper (center); and Beth Lutz, co-founder of Midwest Compliance Labs, look over test results in the lab, located in ISU's John T. Myers Technology Center. (ISU/Tony Campbell)
http://isuphoto.smugmug.com/photos/955815103_Vgjfw-L.jpg - Tyler Fromm, a 2010 Indiana State University graduate now attending the Indiana University School of Medicine-Terre Haute, is among student interns who have gained experiential learning at Midwest Compliance Laboratories, a client business of ISU's Center for Business Support and Economic Innovation and the Terre Haute Innovation Alliance. (ISU/Tony Campbell)
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Two years after its launch by displaced employees of pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, a Terre Haute business has outgrown its original location and within two years may get too big for its current site, the company president said. | <urn:uuid:3957eac7-0e51-4b2d-a287-83e93ba855fb> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.indstate.edu/news/news.php?newsid=2440 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00058-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958092 | 1,350 | 1.539063 | 2 |
Retirement and Taxes
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Individual Retirement Accounts
An individual retirement account is a savings plan offering tax benefits. Some types of IRAs provide a tax deduction, reducing your current income. Other IRAs provide no deduction, but offer tax-free distributions. Learn about the different types of IRAs available.
Roth individual retirement accounts provide potentially tax-free savings and distributions. While taxpayers cannot take a deduction for contributing to a Roth IRA, distributions from a Roth IRA are completely tax-free if certain conditions are met. Up to $5,500 can contributed to a Roth IRA for 2013.
401(k) Contribution Limits
Individuals can contribute up to $17,500 as an elective deferral to their employer's 401(k) plan. Additionally, individuals age 50 or older can contribute an additional catch-up contribution of $5,500. This article discusses 401(k) by year.
Retirement Savings Plans
You can save for retirement using a number of tax-deferred or tax-free retirement plans.
Roth IRA Conversions
If you have been saving for retirement in a traditional IRA, you are eligible to convert some or all of your traditional IRA funds into a Roth IRA. Beginning in the year 2010, all restrictions on converting to a Roth IRA have been removed. Prior to 2010, individuals were not allowed to convert to a Roth IRA if their income exceeded 100,000. Is converting to a Roth a good idea? That depends on sev…
403(b) Contribution Limits
Individuals can contribute up to $17,500 for 2013 as an elective deferral to their employer's 403(b) retirement savings plan. Additionally, if you are age 50 or older, you can contribute an additional catch-up contribution of $5,500. This article discusses annual contribution limits to 403(b) savings plans.
457 Contribution Limits
Contributions to a section 457 deferred compensation plan is limited to $17,500 for the year 2013. Participants age 50 or older may save up to an additional $5,550 as a catch-up contribution.
Individual Retirement Accounts for Americans Working Abroad
Americans working in foreign countries may able to set money aside in a IRA. However there are some technical rules that call for close scrutiny to ensure that your savings achieve the maximum tax savings. In particular, the foreign earned income exclusion coordinates with the rules for IRA eligibility, and this creates a very narrow range of options for Americans living and working abroad. | <urn:uuid:fe5abf34-32c8-4e67-a934-16ec5757769c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://taxes.about.com/od/retirementtaxes/Retirement_and_Taxes.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00006-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.916685 | 573 | 2.046875 | 2 |
European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the SkyMade in England, Europe
Benjamin West, English (born America), 1738 - 1820
Oil on slate
1958-132-1Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Wharton Sinkler, 1958
LabelThis dramatic painting by Benjamin West commemorates the 1752 experiment in Philadelphia in which Benjamin Franklin demonstrated that lightning is a form of electricity. West was born in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, in 1738, when the American colonies were still part of the British Empire, and became an renowned history painter and the second president of England’s Royal Academy of Arts. While in London, West befriended Franklin, a fellow Pennsylvanian, but did not render this likeness of the celebrated scientist and American statesman until after his death, creating it as a study for a larger, unrealized portrait that he planned to give to Pennsylvania Hospital, an institution Franklin founded in Philadelphia. West intended to display the larger picture with another of his compositions and a self-portrait, perhaps as an homage to Americans who had achieved international acclaim in science and the arts.
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* Works in the collection are moved off view for many different reasons. Although gallery locations on the website are updated regularly, there is no guarantee that this object will be on display on the day of your visit. | <urn:uuid:cbee379b-1c35-4b23-a89a-e05b2ca2343e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/57044.html?mulR=27369%7C11 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954219 | 377 | 2.78125 | 3 |
The Turquoise Trail cuts through the middle of Madrid, New Mexico a former mining town in the Ortiz Mountains inhabited by artists, hippies and bikers. Once a ghost town Madrid got a second lease on life in the 1970s when artists started to move in. Art galleries, shops and coffee houses as well as the locals now occupy what were once humble miners’ homes.
The vibe is crunchy eclectic with a bit of small town attitude - That’s a fancy camera lady. The rebellious along with the eccentric would feel at home here. Harley riders park their bikes outside the Mineshaft Tavern, a proper roadhouse. The front porch appears to function as the town square.
Dozens of art galleries feature a variety of art including Native American, photography, pottery and pop art depicting the Southwest. One store features hundreds of vintage cowboy boots and rodeo wear.
Not far from a street called Peaceful Way residents have fashioned former railroad cars into an abode. Part of the former coalmine is now a museum.
Madrid is a place to spend an afternoon or stop on the way for a few hours if you are driving the scenic Turquoise Trail from Albuquerque to New Mexico. | <urn:uuid:81aac74c-cd2b-442e-934b-10f2654cdcc5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://escapenewyork.blogspot.com/2009/09/madrid-new-mexico.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00032-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968604 | 247 | 1.578125 | 2 |
PALMYRA, N.Y. — Scattered throughout what Mormons call the Sacred Grove are a few living witnesses of the First Vision of Joseph Smith. These are the trees that were there in 1820 when young Joseph saw God the Father and his Son, Jesus Christ.
Today about 150,000 people come each year, walk through the grove and pass by these silent witnesses: beeches and ironwoods that were among those trees that Joseph thought would burst into flames when touched by the glory of God.
There are no monuments. No signs. No indication which trees are which.
__IMAGE1__One man knows these trees like a shepherd knows his flock. For 45 years, he has walked the paths of the Sacred Grove. For almost a dozen years, Bob Parrott has been its caretaker.
Parrott, owner of Custom Forestry Services in Palmyra, remembers how the grove used to be.
"It was just open and park-like. It was so open that from one side you could see right out the other side. Every tree and branch and twig that came down was cleaned up and hauled away," Parrott said in a telephone interview. "It was pretty — and some people like that parklike appearance — it bore little or no resemblance to the forest that the Smiths would have encountered or that Joseph would have gone to."
It was almost an artificial environment with little wildlife and almost no indigenous wildflowers.
When The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints first acquired the 100-acre farm in 1907, the forested grove was only about seven acres, according to Parrott. After the church acquired Hyrum Smith's farm to the north, the church-owned grove expanded to about 13 acres. It remained that size until 1998, when the church acquired adjoining wooded property. bringing the number of mature forested acres to 30 with another 30 acres of younger reclaimed forest that are 30 to 50 years old.
"Ultimately we'll have in the neighborhood of 150 acres of forest with the original grove right at the center of it, where it will be protected from winds and storms and so forth," 61-year-old Parrott said.
When the church decided in 1997 to reconstruct the Smith family's original log cabin, Parrott was hired to haul the logs from a nearby section of forest. The next year, 1998, the church decided Parrott was the person to implement a new forestry management plan, the Sacred Grove Conservation Program.
"The church wants it to look as much as it did in 1820 as possible," Parrott said.
Since the new plan was implemented, a lot has changed. Wildflowers have returned. Ferns are growing. Colorful fungi and moss are on the decaying logs. Wildlife has come back. Songbirds' music rings again through the grove.
"Ten years is very little time, in nature's time frame, for that sort of change to take place. But it's been very dramatic. It's been so dramatic that people often ask now ... 'Why does it look so different?'" Parrott said. "I think it is due, in part, to the management direction we've initiated. And it's due, in part, to Heavenly Father's saying, 'There. If you do the right things, this is what you get.'"
"He's an artist. Honestly, he's an artist with nature," Elder Marlin K. Jensen, LDS Church Historian, said of Parrott. "I was just stunned by what he can do with the management of a forest."
But the forest has also done things with Parrott, who is not a Mormon.
"In my view, I feel there is no question that that's where the vision took place and that the vision did take place, and the events that Joseph described were as it happened," Parrott said. "I always feel the Spirit in the grove, regardless of the season or the weather. The Spirit is always there. There's no question in my mind that what we now call the grove is, in fact, where Joseph went and where the vision took place."
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CLEVELAND -- University Hospitals is leading an international trial investigating a first-of-its-kind on-demand drug for pre-menopausal women with sexual dysfunction.
Sheryl Kingsberg, PhD says this international Phase II study is one of the largest clinical studies to ever explore a "use-as-needed" treatment, Tefina, for women experiencing orgasmic disorder.
Tefina is a nasal gel containing testosterone and is inserted in the nose with an easy to use applicator 1-4 hours before sexual activity. The study, which will involve 240 patients in the U.S., Canada and Australia, will evaluate if there is an increase in the occurrence of orgasm over the treatment period, compared against baseline levels.
Anorgasmia, also known as female orgasmic disorder, is defined as the persistent or recurrent delay in or absence of orgasm. Although this condition affects 1 in 5 women worldwide, there are no approved treatments for anorgasmia.
Low testosterone is linked to low sexual desire and the development of climax problems. Testosterone therapy not only improves sexual desire through central actions in the brain but also results in increased vaginal blood flow, which is critical for sexual satisfaction.
Participants must be aged 18 to 49 and be unable to be sexually satisfied after previously having had no problems. For more information, call 440.995.3810. | <urn:uuid:ca4c44d1-5e0f-4c1f-abdc-e667345335d1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wkyc.com/news/article/270061/7/UH-testing-female-version-of-Viagra | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00031-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.930804 | 280 | 1.609375 | 2 |
I don’t know what Bill O’Reilly is talking about when he says there’s a war against Christmas. As Jon Stewart (Daily Show) pointed out yesterday in a comic bit, there’s Christmas everywhere: lights galore, stores open all year devoted to Christmas, a TV program devoted to Christmas. Go on the radio: many stations are playing nothing but Christmas carols. Some TV cable channels are playing Christmas movies over and over.
My holiday in December (next year November) is Chanukah. It isn’t really the most important holiday on the Jewish calendar, but since it coincides with Christmas, some people make a bigger deal of it. You do give a present for each day of Chanukah. It’s a happy celebration!
I learned all the words to the Christmas carols in school, and I enjoyed singing those songs. It didn’t bother me in the least, especially singing “Jingle Bells,” and “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.”
I love it all. The music, the lights, and the good cheer. I always knew it wasn’t really “my holiday” It’s hard to compete with Christmas lights, presents, and everything that goes along with it
Santa Claus brought me my Chanukah presents
Unlike many Jewish children, I earnestly believed in Santa Claus. I thought he brought by Chanukah presents. I have to admit, this wasn’t a big stretch for me. I liked to believe in fairies, magic, goodness, and kindness. I’m not sorry I was given the chance to believe in him. Plus, what does it have to do with religion anyway?
My mother used to tell a story about how her brothers and sisters would hang up stockings on Christmas Eve and her parents would take them right down. I guess she thought this was unfair, and she thought believing in Santa Claus wouldn’t make us traitors to the Jewish people. To partake in some parts of this holiday, made me feel a part of things.
As I got older, I used to wonder. Why didn’t Santa Claus come to my other Jewish friend’s houses? I forget what the answer was, but I guess I happily accepted it I did keep this celebration a little quiet because I didn’t quite feel right about the whole thing.
When I had children, I put Chanukah first. Santa Claus did show up, but he came at the very end, and he brought inconsequential goodies. It didn’t happen every year. My kids never bought the story. Sometimes I wondered if that was a mistake.
It’s hard not to partake in some form of celebrating this holiday. It consumes everyone after Thanksgiving and the entire month of December.
As far as worrying about Christmas going out of style, Bill O’Reilly doesn’t have to worry. As Jon Stewart said, “it’s infringing on other holidays like say…. Thanksgiving. (Referring to Black Friday that was on Black Thursday this year.)
I don’t mind saying the following words either “Merry Christmas!” I wonder if O’Reilly is going to say, “Happy Chanukah.”
What do you think? Any opinions?
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- Jon Stewart Tears Into Fox News And Bill O’Reilly For Outrage Over The War On Christmas™ (mediaite.com) | <urn:uuid:4927144f-104f-41c9-9b7a-7e3016766a2e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://joyat60.wordpress.com/2012/12/04/bill-oreilly-doesnt-have-to-worry-about-christmas-disappearing-talk-about-ridiculousness/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939934 | 817 | 1.507813 | 2 |
Year Honored: 2011Townsend Harris High School
At the time of the Award, Rafal Olechowski was:Teacher
Townsend Harris High School
Subject(s) taught: English (ELA)
Grade(s): 9, 10, 11, 12
Rafal Olechowski's classroom may be classified as "reading," but beyond its walls, students engage in a world connecting literature, art, music and history. Olechowski's passion for literature and the broader humanities is reflected in his instructional methods as well, using close reading literary analysis, a “words on walls” strategy, and a white board to demonstrate parallel trends such as those connecting Romantic art and poetry.
Whether students have spirited discussions about the material or incorporate technology to create 3-D book jackets, each is challenged to make the words jump off the page and come to life. One-hundred percent of Olechowski's students passed the New York State Regents Exam in English, with 90 percent earning mastery or higher.
Olechowski's talents have benefited the school as a whole. He transformed the student literary magazine into an award-winning publication, and advises the MALcontents (Music, Art, Literature) student book club. The Phoenix, the student-run literary magazine he oversees, was awarded an esteemed Gold Crown by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association in 2012. In addition, he mentors teachers and participates in professional development for the Common Core Standards.
Olechowski enjoys infusing his students' and fellow faculty's learning experiences with the cultural richness of New York. He established relationships with the 92nd Street Y, as well as the Theater Development Fund's (TDF) Open Doors mentoring program, which pairs high school students with theater and dance professionals. Believing that teachers are lifelong learners, he led a faculty field trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to explore interdisciplinary opportunities for creating student projects. | <urn:uuid:508b4c59-a5e8-4dc2-8722-51d07d0a892a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://milkeneducatorawards.org/educators/view/2517 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00029-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936083 | 397 | 1.820313 | 2 |
December 17, 1939, two months after joining World War II,
Canada signed on to the British Commonwealth Air Training
Plan (BCATP). Far from Europe and destructive German attacks,
yet closer to Britain than Australia or New Zealand, Canada
was the ideal training ground for Commonwealth air force
Dozens of training schools opened across Canada,
including 18 in Alberta. In small prairie cities and
towns such as Vulcan, Claresholm and Medicine Hat, budding young airmen
from around the world arrived to train for the battle that
raged in the skies over Europe.
Wings Over Alberta explores a unique period in the formation
of the province and the role that it played in Canada’s
contribution to World War II. Canada’s Air War provides
a background to the Royal Canadian Armed Forces efforts
overseas and at home, as well as the development of the
BCATP itself. The Homefront examines the ins and outs of
the Plan in Alberta and the relationship between the training
centres and the communities that they functioned within.
The Stories section contains just that: stories, first hand
recollections of those who trained in Alberta.
This digital collection was produced with
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Beyond new construction there's little evidence of the tornado that struck Ladysmith in September of 2002.
Although miraculously no lives were lost, 30 people were treated for injuries.
Since then, the town has been focused on recovering and bringing business back to life.
Moslty built in the 1920's the central business district was showing its age with little recent investment, but the town now, has a fresh, new look, and a lot of money invested.
In all 103 businesses were destroyed or damaged;only six did not open again, and nine are brand new. | <urn:uuid:3b3cdbc3-e938-47e6-b63e-73f4cc4593d1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.weau.com/home/headlines/1644466.html?site=full | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00074-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.989808 | 118 | 1.523438 | 2 |
St. Paul, MN (NNCNOW.com) - A Bi-partisan group of Minnesota lawmakers unveiled legislation Wednesday that would establish a Healthcare Exchange in the state.
The program, established under the federal affordable healthcare act, is a new online marketplace at which Minnesotans will be able to choose health insurance.
DFL State Representative Joe Atkins and DFL Senator Tony Lourey are the authors of the bill and say by 2016 roughly 300,000 currently uninsured Minnesotans will gain coverage through the exchange.
They say 200,000 small businesses would also benefit from the program.
"Minnesota has a unique and historic opportunity to lead the country in health reform, and help roughly 300,000 uninsured Minnesotans gain coverage by 2016," said Sen. Lourey. "A Minnesota-based exchange allows Minnesota the opportunity to modernize our public systems. With this exchange, we can ensure that Minnesota moves forward in providing individuals with access to affordable, quality health care."
The legislation is co-authored by two leading House Republicans: Rep. Greg Davids (R – Preston), the GOP Lead on the House Tax Committee, and Rep. Jim Abeler (R – Anoka), GOP Lead on the House Health and Human Services Finance Committee.
Minnesota must pass health exchange legislation by March 31, 2013, to avoid having a federally-run health exchange imposed on the state.
Rep. Tom Huntley (DFL- Duluth) is the Chair of the House Health and Human Services Finance Committee and says there is a lot of work to be done.
"Time is running out on the Insurance Exchange," he said. "That’s got to be ready by February and it’s not ready yet."
The Minnesota Management and Budget received conditional approval from the Federal Government in December. | <urn:uuid:9fd38fed-f676-47cf-af35-902981fb0b6e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.northlandsnewscenter.com/home/Bipartisan-Legislation-to-Establish-Health-Insurance-Exchange-186203912.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00032-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959283 | 370 | 1.523438 | 2 |
TI News: An information service from Office of Travel & Tourism Industries (OTTI)
February 03, 2010
INTERNATIONAL VISITATION UP ONE PERCENT IN NOVEMBER 2009
Year-to-Date Arrivals Six Percent Below Last Year
The U.S. Department of Commerce today announced that 3.6 million international visitors traveled to the United States in November 2009, an increase of one percent over November 2008. November 2009 marks the second straight month of increases in U.S. arrivals. However, for the first 11 months of 2009, visitation was down six percent compared to the same period in 2008. International visitors spent $10.2 billion in November 2009, seven percent less than in November 2008. In the first 11 months of 2009, visitors spent $111.2 billion, down nearly 15 percent from the same period in 2008.
Top 20 Countries
In November 2009, 12 of the top 20 countries posted increases in visitation to the United States. Visitation from four of the top 20 countries registered double-digit increases: Brazil, Australia, South Korea, and the People’s Republic of China and Hong Kong.
International Arrivals to United States for November and Year-to-Date (YTD) 2009
- Visitation from Canada was up five percent in November but down six percent YTD.
- Arrivals from Mexico were up two percent for the month but down five percent YTD.
- Overseas arrivals (excluding Canada and Mexico) totaled 1.7 million for the month, down one percent over November 2008, and totaled 21.6 million YTD, down seven percent over 2008.
- Visitation from Western Europe decreased 10 percent in November and 11 percent YTD.
- Visitation from top Western European markets was mostly down for the month of November 2009 as well as for the first 11 months of the year: United Kingdom, down 16 percent for the month and down 15 percent YTD; Germany, down four percent for the month and down six percent YTD; France, down three percent for the month and YTD; Italy, up three percent for the month but down five percent YTD; the Netherlands, down six percent for the month and down 10 percent YTD; Spain, down three percent for the month and down 10 percent YTD; Ireland, down 20 percent for the month and down 23 percent YTD; Sweden, down 14 percent for the month and down 19 percent YTD, and Switzerland, up nine percent for the month and up three percent YTD. Eastern European arrivals decreased eight percent for the month and two percent YTD.
- Visitation from Asia increased three percent for the month but decreased 10 percent YTD. Arrivals from Japan decreased two percent for the month and 12 percent YTD; South Korea increased 24 percent for the month but decreased six percent YTD; China increased 13 percent for the month and five percent YTD; and India grew four percent for the month but declined nine percent YTD.
- Arrivals from South America increased 13 percent for the month and seven percent YTD.
- Oceania visitation was up 24 percent in November and up two percent YTD.
For the first 11 months of 2009, visitation through the top 15 ports of entry accounted for 85 percent of all overseas visits, one percentage point higher than last year. The top three ports (New York JFK, Miami, and Los Angeles) accounted for 39 percent of all overseas arrivals, up nearly two percentage points from the first 11 months of 2008. Miami, Orlando (MCO), Philadelphia and Fort Lauderdale are the only top ports that posted an increase in arrivals for the year.
Manufacturing and Services’ Office of Travel and Tourism Industries (OTTI) collects, analyzes and disseminates international travel and tourism statistics for the U.S. Travel and Tourism Statistical System. To view OTTI visitation data tables, including a business and pleasure arrivals rate of change analysis and a more detailed region and country analysis, please visit: | <urn:uuid:ee3bac69-9290-48a8-a9a9-7211cbd2e3fe> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://tinet.ita.doc.gov/TINEWS/archive/tinews2010/20100203.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00051-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.906202 | 816 | 1.835938 | 2 |
The Gosau Group at Muttekopf is one of the key research areas regarding synorogenic sediments and soft sediment deformation. It is the most spectacular and highest outcrop of the Gosau Group in the eastern Alps and sits on top of one of the large thrust sheets of the Northern Calcareous Alps (location map). Deep water sediment gravity flow deposits were deposited onto a growing syncline-anticline system during the Late Cretaceous. Some highlights of the geology of the Muttekopf area are shown here. Most of the images were published in Ortner (2001) and Ortner (2007), where you find further details on the geology of the area.
Click on the active areas of the imagemap below or use the links below to see panoramic views of the area. | <urn:uuid:0cb674ee-09da-47a8-a643-92ffaa6a9e12> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.uibk.ac.at/geologie/staff/the_hugo/muttekopf.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00072-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935041 | 168 | 2.15625 | 2 |
Rent Notes from a Small Island
"Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain--which is to say, all of it. Every last bit of it, good and bad--old churches, country lanes, people saying 'Mustn't grumble' and 'I'm terribly sorry but,' people apologizing to ime when I conk them with a careless elbow, milk in bottles, beans on toast, haymaking in June, seaside piers, Ordinance Survey maps, tea and crumpets, summer showers and foggy winter evenings--every bit of it."After nearly two decades in Britain, Bill Bryson, the acclaimed author of such bestsellers as The Mother Tongue and Made in America, decided it was time to move back to the United States for a while. This was partly to let his wife and kids experience life in Bryson's homeland--and partly because he had read that 3.7 million Americans believed that they had been abducted by aliens at one time or another. It was thus clear to him that his people needed him.But before leaving his much-loved home in North Yorkshire, Bryson insisted on taking one last trip around Britain, a sort of valedictory tour of the green and kindly island that had so long been his home. His aim was to take stock of modern-day Britain, and to analyze what he loved so much about a country that had produced Marmite, zebra crossings, and place names like Farleigh Wallop, Titsey, and Shellow Bowells.With characteristic wit and irreverence, Bill Bryson presents the ludicrous and the endearing in equal measure. The result is a hilarious social commentary that conveys the true glory of Britain. | <urn:uuid:4890d1b2-13d7-410b-bc0c-464cef02d7eb> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.booksfree.com/titles/Rent-Notes-from-a-Small-Island-Bill-Bryson-Audiobook-CD-9780553455939.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00032-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97297 | 362 | 1.804688 | 2 |
MMEI was founded in 1994 by three people with strong scientific and financial backgrounds, a very long investment horizon, and a belief in the importance of nanotechnology. In addition, MMEI attracted several advisors with outstanding backgrounds in a variety of areas, both technical and non-technical, including Nobel laureate Roald Hoffmann (chemist), Dr. Ralph Merkle (computer scientist), and a broad range of business, legal, and financial experts. Also, from its founding, MMEI has always enjoyed a good working relationship with the Institute for Molecular Manufacturing (IMM) and the Foresight Institute (FI).
MMEI was the first funding organization dedicated to nanotechnology or molecular manufacturing. Though it was arguably ahead of its time, it had high leverage because the field was so small in the early years. It made several investments in tools to enable the advancement of this important field, including:
- A radically lower-cost scanning tunneling microscope aimed at nanotechnology applications.
- Molecular design software focused on diamond-based, atomically-precise structures.
- Improved Molecular Modeling algorithms.
- A CRADA grant for leading-edge work at Oak Ridge National Lab.
In 2001, the U.S. government started the National Nanotechnology Initiative Soon, several other countries started their own programs to invest in this rapidly-expanding field. In a short time billions of dollars were flowing into nanotechnology, allowing MMEI to evolve from just investing to focusing on consulting and public speaking. Today it still is a leader in these areas. Contact us to learn more. | <urn:uuid:a6ea3662-52b3-48f3-a21a-68a0f1ed1054> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://mmei.com/enabling-nanotechnology-since-1994/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00042-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959676 | 325 | 2.015625 | 2 |
With the unsurprising result that the hardcore fan ends up following Dr Goldacre on Twitter.
Thereby discovering, for example, a link to a fabulous post on Churchill, bunkers and the chemical composition of wood, of which this is a sample:
Wood is made principally of cellulose, which is the same stuff from which cotton clothes and paper are constructed. Cellulose is difficult to break down, as the individual molecular strands are tightly packed together by hydrogen bonding, making a near-crystalline material that is very impermeable to water, and even more impermeable to digestive enzymes. Most herbivorous animals subcontract out the work of breaking-down cellulose to the bacteria and fungi that live in their guts.
Although cellulose is difficult to break down, the other main component of wood, lignin, makes cellulose look positively fragile. Plants make lignin by secreting phenolic alcohols into their cell walls, and then semi-randomly polymerising these alcohols together using free-radicals. The mechanisms of lignin synthesis and its global structure are still areas of active research (or furious argument, depending on your point of view). From the plant’s perspective, lignin is a marvellous glue: it creates a substance that cannot be broken down by conventional enzymes, as you’d need hundreds of them, one for each of the many kinds of linkage found in the lignin.
(Note that it would be impossible to quote this splendid post, with diagram of cellulose, on Twitter. SHAME, Ben, SHAME.)
The rest, anyway, here. (Yes, I know the font has changed. And if I went into HTML I could fix this. But I am catching a plane at 7 am, so sloth prevails.)
I have now sublet my apartment in Berlin and am going back to the States for a while. I will be spending 2 months in Vermont in a place with no Internet access, with the faint frail hope of finishing a book. After that, who knows? As Bialystok says in The Producers, in the months to come you will hear little of me. But I leave you with a link to an excellent blog, and those who have hitherto sneered at Twitter may like to follow the feckless Dr Goldacre, @bengoldacre. | <urn:uuid:53bd097f-2594-412b-954c-9e7da2bc34c4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://paperpools.blogspot.jp/2012/09/bunkers-cellulose-get-thee-behind-me.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00073-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942484 | 491 | 2.15625 | 2 |
Figures suggest that absences in the workplace are declining, but this does not necessarily paint a positive picture for small businesses or large corporations.
That is according to the recent Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and Simplyhealth Absence Management Survey.
The study found that the number of days that the average UK employee is absent from work has decreased from 7.7 in 2012 to 6.8 in 2012.
However, their research also revealed that there was an increase in the number of workers heading into the office even when they felt ill and should be taking the time off work.
According to the CIPD, this rise in presenteeism is a result of the challenging job market. Many workers fear the threat of redundancy and therefore may not feel confident taking sick leave even when it is necessary.
This coincides with an apparent increase in stress-related absences, as, according to the survey, four in ten employers felt that this type of occurrence had increased over the last 12 months.
Dr Jill Miller, research adviser at CIPD, commented on the figures by warning that the drop in absences may not be as positive as it appears.
"We must air caution before celebrating lower absence levels because they may be masking deeper problems in the workplace."
"Failing to address employees' concerns is likely to confound the issue, impact on morale and commitment and may cause or exacerbate stress or mental health problems," she concluded.
It follows a recent study entitled The Impact of Depression in the Workplace in Europe Audit (IDEA) which found that British workers are the most likely in Europe in to be diagnosed with depression, and that one-tenth of workers on the continent have missed work due to this illness.
Simon Lawton, head of policy at the Mental Health Foundation, warned that the "looming threat of redundancies" was putting workers under an increasing amount of pressure and leaving them at risk of depression and anxiety.
Moreover, he added that this probably could impact business growth by leading to an increase in absences and a decline in productivity.
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Every human being has within him two opposing drives. One is to behave generously and give of his time, possessions and energy. The other is to behave selfishly, hang on to everything he has, and even try to take away from others. The Jewish people were confronted with the opportunity to choose whether or not to be givers when they saw that collections were being made to gather the gold and silver needed to build the Tabernacle - that very special and beautiful structure that God told them to build and worship Him in as they sojourned through the wilderness on the way to the land of Israel. Anyone who went into the Tabernacle could actually feel that God was right next to him! Nobody was forced to give - volunteers only. Though it was a challenge to have to part with their precious possessions, the Jews passed the test and gave freely, with open hearts. In fact, they were so generous that they gave even more than the builders needed! We can learn from here to strive to be givers rather than takers in every opportunity that arises.
In our story, a girl opens up her heart to give to a friend in need.
"GIVE AND TAKE"
It was the nicest class trip anyone could remember. The awesome scenery and spectacular waterfalls of Teva national forest seemed to cast a spell over the entire class. The weather had been perfect, and after a long hike the kids all sat down by a soothing stream to relax and enjoy the lunches that each of them had packed.
Everyone ate hungrily, and for a moment, the gurgle of the stream was the only sound that could be heard among this normally lively and talkative group. The silence was soon broken by a gasp. "Oh no! I don't believe it!" cried Jenny as she frantically went through her red and blue knapsack.
"What's the matter?" asked Gail, the girl sitting next to her, with concern.
"I must have forgotten to pack my lunch," she said in a sad voice.
Gail was silent. She felt bad for her classmate and considered offering Jenny some of her lunch. Yet, she herself felt so hungry from the hike, how could she give up any of the little food that she had brought along? But Gail felt her heart open as she looked at Jenny who was still half-heartedly rummaging through the pockets of her obviously lunch-less knapsack.
Gail tapped Jenny on the shoulder. The girl looked up with her eyes, red with tears. Gail held out an apple and a small package of cookies. "You know, I'm a little full, and I have some extra food. Would you like this?"
Jenny hesitated for a moment, then gratefully accepted the food. "Thank you so much!" she said.
But before the girls even had a chance to talk, Debby, one of their classmates, walked over. "Jenny, please take half of my sandwich. I'm stuffed."
Soon someone else came over with a bag of chips. A can of soda appeared. Then some pretzels. Before long, nearly the whole class was gathered around, laughing and happily sharing the food that had piled up around the amazed Jenny. It was one of those magic moments none of the kids would soon forget. The rest of the trip was even more wonderful than the first part had been. The class felt a special sense of togetherness that only comes from giving.
As the girls boarded the bus to return home, Gail winked at Jenny and said, "Thanks for forgetting your lunch and giving us all a trip to remember!"
Q. How did Gail feel when she first realized that Jenny had forgotten her lunch?
A. While she felt bad for the girl, she didn't really want to give her any of her own food.
Q. How did she feel after she decided to share?
A. She felt great. By sharing their food she and the other kids came to experience the special good feelings that come only from giving.
Q. Why do you think the other kids started to share only after they saw Gail give some of her food to Jenny?
A. Many of them also likely noticed Jenny's distress. But they were hesitant to open their hearts and tap into their ability to give. But when they saw that Gail could overcome selfishness, they felt empowered and realized that they could too. By giving to people in need we can help teach others how to give as well.
Q. How does trust in God help make a person into more of a giver?
A. People often hesitate to give because they feel that it will cause them to somehow lose out. But when we trust in God and realize that He has unlimited means and resources to give us what we need, we will lose that fear and gain the confidence to give to others. This is especially true when we come to understand that God, the ultimate giver, wants us to develop into giving, loving people and will certainly help us when we do so.
Q. Can you think of a time when you extended yourself and gave to another? How did you feel?
Ages 10 and Up
Q. Why do you think that the kids all felt so close to each other after they chipped in to help their friend?
A. A sense of selfishness, or an unwillingness to give, creates barriers between people. We are afraid to grow to close to others in fear that it will require us to give more of ourselves than we are prepared to. When we take the risk to give, as did the kids in the story, we come to feel an almost magical breaking down of these uncomfortable barriers and a sublime sense of unity with those around us. This is what the class experienced. Ironically, it is those who are willing to give the most away that are generally the happiest people.
Q. To what extent should one be willing to give of himself?
A. The Torah asks us to "Love others as we do ourselves." This means that ultimately we should try to reach a level that the other person's needs are literally no less important to us than our own. At this level there is no limit to what one would be willing to give. However, realistically this is a goal that can only be reached over a long time with much practice. A good rule of thumb as we work toward this level is to be willing to give a bit more than one is comfortable doing. Little by little he will feel his heart open and his ability to give expand. This is a very satisfying feeling and one of life's foremost spiritual goals.
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Social Media at UDC
Over the past several years, the use of social media has increased exponentially. It is now a way of life for many of us, just like our morning workout or cup of coffee. People are using more than just Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. The use of popular sites such as Pinterest, Flikr, Digg, StumbleUpon, Google+, and many others, are also gaining much traction.
At the UDC, we recognize that social media sites have become important and influential communication channels for our community. To assist in posting content and managing these sites, the University has developed Social Media Guidelines for official and personal use of social media. These guidelines apply to University faculty, staff and registered student organizations and can be used in connection with social media accounts associated with schools, colleges, departments, programs and offices.
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Mitt Romney has been the Republican Party's presumptive nominee since April, but the 2012 presidential field is still more crowded than you might think: More than 400 candidates have filed statements of candidacy with the Federal Election Commission. You've probably heard of some of them, like comedian Roseanne Barr, Quran-burning pastor Terry Jones, and anti-abortion activist Randall Terry. But you probably haven't heard of these wacky would-be presidents:
Lester Byerley, hydrogen peroxide drinker
Lester Byerley MySpaceA fan of FDR who nevertheless filed as a Tea Party candidate, Byerley warns that Obamacare will "put people in jail for not buying insurance." He recommends regularly consuming hydrogen peroxide to cure cancers, colds, and other viruses. By reducing the need for doctors and hospitals, Byerley's cure-all would kill jobs, he conceded to the Philadelphia Weekly. "But human health should supercede everything, including the economy." Byerley also said that as president he would "hand out Federal Reserve debit cards to anyone earning under $50,000 a year, and it'll start off with $12,000."
Warren Ashe, Time Traveler
While working for the Reagan administration, Ashe claims, he developed a "program of time travel communications" that reached out "at least and no less than 500 years into the future." He says he has transported sperm and DNA into the 24th century and has built flying saucers "that are capable of going to another solar system at high warp speed." Ashe, a Democrat who has done stints in the Air Force, Army, and Navy, and owns the Jyperonix Astrophysics company, has been running for president since 2000. His hobbies include computers, pool, tennis, listening to "Snoops Dog," and "inventing electromagnetic hover devices."
Douglas "Dutch" Van Raam, roller derby fan
"Dutch" Van Raam Project Vote SmartThe all-but forgotten Free Soil Party lives on through Van Raam, who says the party's 1848 nominee, Martin Van Buren, is his favorite president. Unlike Old Kinderhook, Van Raam rides a Harley, loves nachos and Heather Graham, and has been a roller-derby referee. Other modern-day Free Soilers have questioned Van Raam's claim to the mantle of the mid-19th century antislavery party, accusing him of being "a pirate with no honor."
Rutherford B. Hayes, EX-Beauty Pageant EXEC
In an earlier age, Rutherford B. Hayes served as our 19th president. Today, Hayes (no relation) has ambitions to return his name to its former glory, vowing to rid Washington of "socialists, communists, and marxists, as well as sensatiable [sic] condescending egos." He'd also reestablish the gold standard and get the country out of Afghanistan and the UN. Hayes is the former CFO of Miss Liberty America, in which contestants are judged in swimsuit, founding-father trivia, and marksmanship competitions. He says he responds to all of his prospective supporters' Facebook messages, "even if someone's being a turd."
Jack Fellure, teetotaler
Jack Fellure Wikimedia CommonsFellure is a perennial candidate from West Virginia who has run for president as a Republican since 1988. This year, he switched his affiliation after winning the nomination of the anti-booze Prohibition Party, the country's oldest active third party. Fellure's platform is the Authorized 1611 King James Bible, the "supreme constitution and absolute authority in the affairs of all men for all time and eternity." He seeks to protect the nation from a New World Order takeover orchestrated by "atheists, Marxists, liberals, queers, liars, draft dodgers, flag burners, dope addicts, sex perverts, and anti-Christians."
Randal Trackwell, Anti-globalist
Another throwback candidate, Trackwell is trying to revive the Bull Moose Party, which Teddy Roosevelt founded in 1912. During a recent bid for Topeka's top job, he argued that his hometown's mayors are "kind of the Vanna White of the city," that is, high-profile champions of the working class. A former private eye and school janitor, he told WIBW TV that's it's high time to "get some common folks elected" and "take the billionaires out of politics." He believes that Democrats and Republicans are members of "globalism parties" destroying America.
Laurie Roth, Birther radio host
Laurie Roth laurieroth2012.comKnown as the "Annie Oakley of the airwaves," Roth has been a right-wing radio host for the past decade. One of several birthers to enter the presidential fray, she was a plaintiff in one of Birther Queen Orly Taitz's frivolous lawsuits challenging President Obama's eligibility. But, Roth insisted, "I am not running for President as a gimmick to simply get me the standing to be able to sue Obama." As president, she would strike down the National Defense Authorization Act and Obamacare since they violate the Constitution, outlaw all abortions, eliminate nearly all federal taxes, and wage war on radical Islam (PDF).
Jefferson Howard Taft Davis, presidential descendant
In addition to sharing a name with Jefferson Davis and William Howard Taft, Davis says that he's distantly related to George Washington, John Adams, James Madison, James Monroe, Martin Van Buren, Zachary Taylor, Franklin Pierce, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Grover Cleveland, Herbert Hoover, Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, the Roosevelts, and the Bushes. His platform: Pushing a world peace treaty, entering the United States into the EU, and shutting down the IRS.
Andy Martin, rumormonger
Andy Martin Wikimedia CommonsAnother regular candidate, Martin is considered to be the originator of the rumor that President Obama is a secret Muslim, something he told journalist Chris Hayes that he learned from "people in London, among other places." Martin has filed hundreds of lawsuits over the years, including one against the state of Hawaii alleging that Obama is not a natural-born citizen. In 1993, a federal appeals court judge called him a "notoriously vexatious and vindictive litigator who has long abused the American legal system." In 1996, Martin was arrested for attacking two TV cameramen and staged a nude hunger strike in jail. During his 2000 presidential campaign, he ran an ad accusing George W. Bush of using cocaine.
Leroy Saunders, Reformed drug dealer
Leroy Saunders saunders2012.orgSaunders grew up hustling on the streets of Harlem with his mother. At 21, he was charged with drug trafficking; he discovered God in jail and vowed to quit dealing. Armed with a business management and corporate finance degree, he's now running for president on an economic recovery platform and plans to recruit an eclectic mix of politicians for his administration, including former governors Eliot Spitzer, Mark Sanford, Jennifer Granholm, and Buddy Roemer. (It's not clear if they have been notified of their anticipated roles in the Saunders administration.)
Frank Michael Weyer, litigious lawyer
Weyer is a Los Angeles attorney who secured a patent in 2010 for databases that allow "online users to communicate with each member of a given group regardless of whether or not the member has an existing internet presence" (PDF). Because he claims that he first filed for the patent in 1999, Weyer is suing Facebook for profiting off his "invention." He has also sued Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, and Rick Santorum for refusing to pay him $500 in royalties for their Facebook accounts. He's also filed an FEC complaint alleging that Romney has been violating election laws by using campaign money to defend himself against the patent lawsuit (PDF). Move over, Winklevii!
Jonathon "The Impaler" Sharkey Wikimedia Commons• Jonathon "The Impaler" Sharkey: A perennial Republican candidate, professional wrestler, and drinker of human blood who dropped out of the race last year.
• Harry Braun: Fears we're approaching a technological utopia in which medicine "will eliminate aging and disease" and we'll all starve to death.
• Douglas Clement: Claims that his "father sold President Reagan a chainsaw." (PDF)
• Pastor Wiley Drake: Prayed for the death of Barack Obama.
• Bob Leonard Forthan, who wants everyone to live in "dome houses" in a "cash-only society."
• Herman Lee Goodman: Would give $1 million to every citizen who passes a background check, has 20 years of work experience, and owns a checking account.
• Rev. William Shaw: Told the FEC that "scientific research proves to me that I'm to be the only candidate to keep America safe."
• Rocky Wang: Has declared his intentions to seek the vice presidency as a member of the Peoples Ping Pong Party (PDF). | <urn:uuid:272dc478-45bd-4c07-9415-3de5bcabb3ef> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/07/wacky-presidential-candidates | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00031-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951 | 1,871 | 1.546875 | 2 |
To boost job creation, President Obama announced a National Export Initiative to boost American exports during last night's State of the Union address. He says he won’t settle for second place when it comes to revamping our economy.
That’s good, because preliminary data from last year are showing that the
The President seems serious, even mentioning the
He is unlikely to drop the
So here’s a more modest idea. Since President Obama made special mention of American farmers, and since farm income was down by one third last year, why not change American policy to expand agricultural exports to
To do this, he could take a few steps – and protectionists can relax, since none involve opening the
But our exports suffer from self-imposed restrictions.
And American companies are not permitted to extend credit to
These are all policies that, to date, President Obama has preserved even though he says he wants to “recast” our relations with
He has also preserved President Bush’s travel restrictions, with the exception of allowing Cuban Americans to travel to
If President Obama were to end travel restrictions, American travelers – religious and civic groups, sports teams, universities, and even tourists – would create a flow of information and ideas between our countries and correct a mistaken foreign policy that pretends to extend American influence while building a wall between our peoples.
An open travel policy would affect agriculture too: the revenues from American travelers will lead to increased purchases of our farm products.
Together, these measures would make the
About one third of those imports come from
That translates to half-billion dollar boost in American farm exports.
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Peter Bonde (1958-), Untitled, 1995-97
Peter Bonde contributed works to the exhibition Kniven på hovedet shown at the exhibition venue Tranegården in Gentofte in 1982. The exhibition not only ushered in a new generation of artists within the art scene, it also heralded a revival of figurative painting.
The Young Savages
Soon known as ”De unge vilde” (The Young Savages or The Wild Young Ones), these artists painted themselves out of a rebellion against the minimalist and conceptual art of the 1970s and into a renewed faith in creativity and the picture. Like their European contemporaries, this new generation of artists formulated a belief in free expression and the validity of all things in relation to painting. In principle, everything could be used: from personal experiences to historical or mythological scenes, the scenographies of the unconscious, etc. Similarly, the stylistic features of all periods from art history could be activated, changed, and combined according to the artist’s needs.
An expressive vein of painting
Since that time, Peter Bonde has continued his work with an expressive vein of painting. He has increasingly linked painting with objects, photographs, and text. Individual paintings rarely stand alone; they are part of a series, as is the case here, linked with art history, or with popular culture in a dynamic relationship that is both restless and precise. | <urn:uuid:bd5016f1-9e8c-4b95-ad14-a56f4fbb58d6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.smk.dk/en/explore-the-art/highlights/peter-bonde-untitled/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00011-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943444 | 293 | 1.96875 | 2 |
Research In Motion (RIM) has this week introduced the BlackBerry Java SDK v7.0 beta. This updated set of tools and APIs is logically aligned to work with devices running the latest BlackBerry 7 OS.
RIM is making much of the SDK's suitability to the needs of developers interested in gaming, augmented reality, and Near Field Communication (NFC) applications.
The BlackBerry developer release notes detail the SDK's new features in full. To take one example, geocoding improvements are explained thus: "The Locator class in net.rim.device.api.lbs has been deprecated, and replaced by new geocoding and reverse geocoding APIs. Using these APIs, you can perform geocoding and reverse geocoding requests asynchronously and synchronously."
Also new to the party are RIM's magnetometer APIs, which the company says will enable developers to create better navigation applications, augmented reality applications, and games that require changes in the device's orientation.
Also new is the Native Window API (something RIM denotes as "critical" for augmented reality apps), which allows OpenGL ES and Java UI elements to be rendered on a surface that overlays a native window, such as a camera, video view finder, or web browser.
In the Near Field Communication (NFC) area, new APIs equip developers with the ability to set and read the NFC chip to communicate with other NFC-enabled devices and build innovative mobile payment and e-commerce solutions. There is also support for the OpenGL ES 2.0 standard, which allows developers to build 3D mobile gaming experiences.
Note: For developers new to NFC technologies, Oracle's Sun Developer Network sets out the following definition: "Near-field Communication (NFC) is characterized as a very short-range radio communication technology with a lot of potential, especially when applied to mobile handsets. Imagine yourself using your cellphone to interact with posters, magazines, and even with products while at the store, and with such interaction initiating a request or search for related information in real-time. Other usages of NFC include the electronic wallet to make payments using your handset, the same way you do with your credit card. With NFC all this is possible. But NFC is still a young technology." | <urn:uuid:2d1e3dbd-0830-4201-947a-2c9d78394b79> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.drdobbs.com/mobile/blackberry-java-sdk-v70-hits-beta/229900053 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00059-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.910097 | 462 | 1.875 | 2 |
E. Coli outbreaks spark raw milk warning
Updated: Friday, May 18, 2012 10:10 AM
Four children sick; odds against drinkers of unpasteurized milk, CDC report says
By MITCH LIES
Oregon public health officials have confirmed that raw milk from a Wilsonville, Ore., dairy was responsible for an E. coli outbreak that has sickened at least 18 people and left four children hospitalized.
The outbreak is the second in the Northwest in 18 months linked to a raw dairy product and comes one month after a Centers for Disease Control report showed that 60 percent of disease outbreaks caused by dairy products between 1993 and 2006 were caused by nonpasteurized products.
The preponderance of outbreaks from raw dairy products grows in significance when considering only about 1 percent of U.S. households consume raw dairy products, the CDC report found.
"The fact that 60 percent, almost two-thirds, of the outbreaks can be traced to a nonpasteurized product means that the risk of disease associated with nonpasteurized products is much higher than it is with pasteurized products," said Dr. Katrina Hedberg, state epidemiologist at the Oregon Public Health Division.
"It isn't clear to me why people continue to consume nonpasteurized dairy products," Hedberg said. "The consequences are so severe."
In December 2010, a national food recall was issued after raw milk cheese from an Oroville, Wash., dairy, was found contaminated with E. coli. Eight people were sickened in the Sally Jackson Cheese outbreak.
The most recent outbreak proved more severe as numerous samples from the 17-acre Foundation Farm tested positive for E. coli 0157:H7, as did leftover milk recovered from a customer.
Four children were hospitalized after drinking milk from the farm. Two developed hemolytic uremic syndrome, a type of kidney failure that can lead to death.
"This many people, this severely ill in this many households must mean that the milk was pretty contaminated," Hedberg said.
In the CDC report, the authors found that of 121 outbreaks for which the product's pasteurization was known, 73 involved unpasteurized products, resulting in 1,571 cases, 202 hospitalizations and two deaths. And 55 of the outbreaks occurred in states that permitted sale of nonpasteurized products, prompting health officials to continue to call for laws restricting the sale of raw milk.
Interstate sale of raw milk is prohibited, but 21 states allow in-state sales of the milk. Thirteen states include some restrictions on sales.
Oregon bans retail sales of raw milk, but allows on-farm sales under certain conditions. Raw milk consumers also can get product through herd-sharing programs, such as was conducted at Foundation Farms. In herd-sharing programs, consumers purchase shares in a herd.
Foundations Farms distributed raw milk to 48 households.
The outbreak apparently hasn't convinced raw milk advocates to curtail use of the product. Raw milk advocates say pasteurizing milk removes vitamins and nutrients and alters its taste.
Friends of Family Farmers, a group that backed a bill to expand the sale of raw milk in the 2011 Legislature, wrote in an e-mail it circulated April 13 that "we do not believe that access to raw milk should be eliminated."
The group wrote that hundreds of people have been sickened by foodborne pathogens from mainstream foods from licensed, inspected plants.
"We believe that people should be able to choose what they eat, and that it is not the government's role to tell us what we can and cannot eat," the group wrote.
Hedberg, meanwhile, took a different stance.
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It plays a key role in the Organisation’s work with and for young people by providing financial support for international and local youth activities which promote peace, co-operation and understanding, human rights, democracy, tolerance and solidarity.
With an annual budget of approximately 3 million euros, the EYF provides grants for meetings, studies, research, campaigns, films and pilot projects, thereby promoting non-formal education. It also funds the administrative expenses of international non-governmental youth organisations and networks.
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Kicking the Dogma: squares the concept of equality with the scriptures of organized religion. The 14th Dalai Lama writes about his one belief, and a Charter for Compassion is launched for the world’s religions. Instead of Black Friday, there are Post-Thanksgiving Eat-Ins, and StoryCorp recreates a day of spending into a day of listening. Last Sunday creates a forum for spiritual politics in Austin.
- The Doctrine is Compassion by Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
- What Would Jesus Buy? by Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping
- Post-Thanksgiving Eat-In from Slow Food Nation
- What Happy People Don’t Do by John Robinson from CharityFocus
- A Lifestyle for the 21st Century from The Center for Screen-Time Awareness
- A National Day of Listening from StoryCorp with a Do-It-Yourself Guide
- Beck Hansen on making up your own songs
- Robert Jensen on Last Sunday, a monthly gathering in Austin, Texas
- Bill Arnal on the pro-Imperial stance of the scriptures
- Lillian Howell, 89, on moving from Ohio to Virginia during the Depression
- A Charter for Compassion by Karen Armstrong
- Swati EPK
- The Great Correction by Eliza Gilkyson
- Small Gods by Swati Sharma
To read scripture through the lens of compassion is to take the perspective of any person who might feel diminished, hurt, or excluded by it. If we define scripture as the Word of God and it implies that some people are less valuable than others, we’re accepting a God of inequality. We might read compassion and others condemnation, but what matters is how those people feel who it refers to or leaves out. Equality needs to be our single dogma, and any scripture questioned that kicks the dogma…The scriptures create victims – there are people whose sanctity is violated by the demeaning and injurous way that they’re presented, which has led to the worst of physical injuries, land theft, enslavement, being stripped of human rights, torture and death…As justice comes before charity, so equality has to come before compassion. | <urn:uuid:c598949f-8085-4f06-8ea3-fb4a0f0563b2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thirdparadigm.org/wordpress/?tag=rabbi-michael-lerner | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00060-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933439 | 451 | 2.0625 | 2 |
By Larry Buhl, for Yahoo! HotJobs
There was a time when moonlighting -- taking on work in addition to your full-time employment -- was for underemployed workers and the severely cash-strapped.
Today, even working professionals can be strapped for cash, and people in all fields and income groups are supplementing their main income by moonlighting. For some, the second job isn't just for the bucks but also for the skills and the sense of being a free agent. And although extra, part-time jobs used to be verboten, many supervisors are flexible about a team member who picks up a gig on the side.
Experts suggest weighing the pros and cons carefully before you take on a second job.
- Money: That's still the biggest reason people take on extra work. And with gas prices and health insurance premiums on the rise and many incomes frozen, extra income can be a lifeline.
- Security: "Many professionals today are looking at second jobs as a fallback because they feel, correctly, that their main job is not completely safe," according to John McKee, president and founder of BusinessSuccessCoach.net and author of Career Wisdom.
- Freedom: A second job or career can bring psychological benefits, such as the feeling of not being shackled to one company, experts say.
- New Skills: If you're thinking about switching careers but can't take the plunge, taking a part-time job could be a way to test the waters or boost your entrepreneurial skills, McKee said.
- Time: Do you really want to spend 10 or 20 hours a week on another job, not to mention the commute hassle and the disappointment of significant others who'd rather see more of you, not less?
- Conflict of Interest: Consulting for a direct (or even indirect) competitor can put you in a dicey situation, according to J. Daniel Marr, managing director of the New Hampshire law firm Hamblett and Kerrigan. "This is a big issue in software and industries where you use part of what you learned from your primary employer," says Marr. "Employers insist they have rights to your intellectual property."
- Performance Slippage: One reason many employers look askance at moonlighters is the fear that they'll burn out. Some companies may demand your full-time attention, even off-hours.
- Employer Irritation: Even if the company allows moonlighting, supervisors might not like the idea. "Some will say angrily, 'We're paying this guy X dollars a year and it's still not enough?'" Marr says.
Tips for Making It Work
If you are considering a second job, the experts add these three tips:
- Pick an Unrelated Field: You'll reduce the risk of burnout and conflict of interest. A nurse who builds Web sites on the side, a marketing professional who teaches music or an insurance adjuster who moonlights as a landscape architect would be safer bets.
- Check with HR: Many companies have moonlighting policies. But even if they don't, it's wise to see if your second job might be a conflict, especially if you're considering a professional part-time job or one that's related to your full-time job, Marr says.
- Consider Why You're Doing It: "Supplementing income is fine, but it's best if a second job is part of an overall life and career plan," McKee says. "Otherwise you risk scattering your resources." | <urn:uuid:5d8fae9a-0439-4a46-9ccc-ef96bf48f9ad> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://career-advice.monster.com/job-search/getting-started/moonlighting-pros-and-cons-of-a-second-job-hot-jobs/article.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00029-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960322 | 725 | 1.570313 | 2 |
From Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
“In Soviet Russia, sick gets YOU!!”
“Sick doesn't mean this! It's a lie! AAAARRRRGGG!!! ”
Sick means one thing in British speaking wank country and quite another in Big Hat Loud People Country. Though the meanings are quite similar, thousands of undersexed researchers have dedicated their pointless lives to extricate the parallel sophistry betwixt the two.
edit How to get sick
Once you are sick, that is, sick in the American sense of sneezing, coughing, bleeding from your eyeballs or just insane, it is your sworn duty as a human to lick, suck, kiss and fondle every healthy person you find. Not only will this spread joy and happiness thought the world, but it will also allow viruses of every kind to multiply and grow stronger. Anything named cocci deserve a fighting chance!
edit What Oscar Wilde Thinks
“You make me sick!”
“Oh, goody gumdrops!”
And he should really get off of him - the guy's dead already!!
edit French Disease
Other than commons sicks like colds, Herpes, AIDS, vomiting, and diarrhea, there is one especially potent sick known as the dreaded French Disease. Some symptoms are excessive sweating leading to odor, nasal speech with very disturbing R sounds that sound kind of like BLECCCHKHKXKKKMXH, decrease in hygiene and bathing, rewearing of clothes for more than one day, attraction to girls that don't shave their armpits, fear and wimpyness and instinct to surrender to everything, Satanism, urge to eat snail, frog, and other delicious foods, and, in some rare cases, loss of 3 or more arms.
Baskets are made of Sicker as are chairs and other furniture. Most people hate sitting on them, though, they poke in places that are usually sore from overuse.
“I'd hit that”
“I'd hit that!”
“Doesn't he mean wicker?”
“Way to ruin a joke!”
In America there is a popular candy bar called a Sicker's bar, filled with partially digested peanut butter and Chinese peasant shavings. It can usually be bought for US$2.00 (UKl$0.03) (CDN$4567.22).
That's not exactly true. In point of factus rhombus, the author previously composing was reffing to a different form of comestable entirely. As shown in WILFORD v BRIMLEY, the party of the first part had not taken part in the party of the party of the second part. Therefore and forthwith, the matter at ad is heretofore provably a Hereford and should be producing 13 pints of raw milk per day. The judgement put forth (ipso facto elviso) states clearly that the party of the second part should have invited the party of the first part to their (his/her/their/woof) party.
The word sick can be traced back to Old English bangersundmash meaning "vile" or "disgusting." Some experts with completely too much time on their hands have found vestiges of the word in Old High Howyadoin writing, it's use, mostly in porn tablets is difficult to ascertain.
The word sick itself comes from the Greek ἔτυμον (syculuso, true meaning, from 'sycerthunudog' yukky) and λόγος (messwithhed, poopoo). The term was originally applied to the search of supposedly "gross" or "yukky" meanings of words, on principles that are rejected as unscientific by modern linguistics. Pindar employed creative vomiting to flatter his patrons. Plutarch employed repeated gagging sounds and sneezing insecurely based on fancied resemblances in sounds. Isidore of Seville's Sykologiae was an encyclopedic tracing of "disgusting things" that remained uncritically in use in Europe until the fifteenth century. Barfologicum genuinum is a grammatical encyclopedia edited at Constantinople in the ninth century, one of several similar Byzantine works. The fourteenth-century Legenda Aurea begins each vita of a saint with a fanciful excursus in the form of projectile vomoting.
The earliest theory of sick can be found in the works of early Greek philosophers from the pre-Socratic period, such as Pythagoras. The extant writings attributed to Pythagoras reveal that the Pythagorean school saw a strong connection between mathematics and sickly things. In particular, they noted that objects proportioned according to the golden ratio seemed more sick. Some modern research seems to confirm this, in that people whose facial features are symmetric and proportioned according the golden ratio are consistently ranked as more unhealthy than those whose faces are not. Or something like that.
edit Modern Uses
Because of its aggressive spread, vigorous growth, allergenic and allelopathic chemicals, it has become a problem in many areas, out-competing native species. It often grows directly up against a building or structure, where the roots can damage sewers and housing foundations. Sick grows rapidly and produce many offspring in their root vicinity, which also grow rapidly. They also shed many small branches at regular intervals. Digging or breaking the saplings yields an unpleasant smell and a sticky liquid. However, due to their sunlight requirements, their invasive behavior occurs mainly along roadsides and cleared fields, and they are not as successful in invading an already wooded area.
Sick is used mainly to promote apparel, accessories, and cosmetics. There are two types of sick: high fashion and commercial. High fashion sick is an art form of fashion. The photographer photographs the sick in artistic themes that relate to the clothing promoted. The sick uses its chunks and splooge to express different emotions required. High fashion is typical for work on campaigns, collections and magazine editorials for high fashion designers. These kinds of sick are featured in high fashion magazines such as Vogue, W,Vanity Fair and ELLE. Clothing designers traditionally show their new collections in an annual fashion show, for buyers, the fashion industry, and the general public. Fashion sick is found on the runway, and pose to display clothing. High fashion sick has strong, unique and distinctive features. "Runway sick," also known as catwalk sick," is displaying fashion, and is generally performed by "high fashion sick."
Sick is also used to describe something that is "cool" or "classy." For example, "That car is sick!"
edit What to do when someone is sick or injured
Usually when someone is sick or injured you send them a "Get Well" card. The purpose of the card is to make the recipient feel that they are not forgotten by their friends. When writing a "Get Well" card a simple equation known as "The Care Equation" should be taken into consideration. The equation shows that the amount one person writes in a "get well" card is directly proportional to the amount they care about the recipient. The formula is shown graphically below, where k represents the universal love constant.
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Deni Béchard's Cures for Hunger
Some writers’ blurbs beg for expansion into full-length memoirs. Take, for instance, that of Deni Y. Béchard, a writer “born in British Columbia to a loving and health-conscious American mother and a French-Canadian father with a penchant for crime and storytelling.” Here is a writer born into not only a conflict of cultures, but also conflicts of care and violence, self-preservation and self-destruction. In Cures for Hunger, his memoir of youth, Béchard attempts to reconcile these conflicts.
At its heart, Cures for Hunger is a story of how family history can influence personal identity. It’s an idea Béchard explored in his debut novel Vandal Love, winner of the 2007 Commonwealth Prize for best first book. (Although Vandal Love was previously available in Canada, France, and Egypt, Milkweed Editions released the first U.S. edition concurrently with Cures for Hunger.) Now, in his first memoir, Béchard finds that it isn't until he understands his enigmatic father that he can truly understand himself. Yet understanding his father, André, proves difficult and elusive. André’s past is near impossible to recapture, because of its recklessness, the aliases André used throughout his criminal life, and the unreliability of oral history and self-disclosure.
Were it not for the seductive prologue, in which we learn that André will eventually die a quiet, penniless death in the woods outside Vancouver, Cures for Hunger would read very much like a standard coming-of-age memoir. As it is, the prologue allows us to glimpse Deni as a young adult attempting to make sense of his father’s murky past. Prior to his death, André leaves a few details as to his true identity: the name of his mother; the location of the homestead he had fled thirty years earlier; and his birth name, Edwin, signaling that he'd lived much of his adult life under an assumed identity. Deni is thus charged with first defining the father he knew and then supplanting that information with what he hopes, in time, will resemble the actual truth:
I considered the names like keys to his past: the landscape of his youth, the face he’d worn as a boy. I’d never seen a photo of him from before he met my mother. Through his family, would I be able to make sense of the man whose reckless passions had shaped my life? (xii)
With this goal in mind, then, Cures for Hunger narrates the events that both drive Deni and André apart and draw them back together. Throughout his youth, Deni moves between his mother, brother, and sister in Virginia and his father in Vancouver. This constant migration comes to be his method of rebellion, fleeing his separate families and for a time even living out of his car. What this arrangement lacks in stability, it makes up for in freedom and opportunity. Deni’s hunger is for adventure. So when he learns of his father’s rap sheet—which includes, of all romantic criminal endeavors, robbing as many as fifty banks—he turns his attention to teasing out the truth of André’s past rebellion and history of violence.
Over the course of years, father and son construct a tenuous relationship built upon storytelling, in which André is at first reluctant to delve into his criminal past but in time regales Deni with lurid, detailed accounts: a Hollywood burglary gone bad, an assault on a pimp in Miami, blown earnings in Las Vegas and Lake Tahoe. The two men’s most intimate moments come in a series of late-night collect calls while Deni is enrolled at college, shortly before André's death.
Cures for Hunger illustrates the ways in which storytelling can act as a means of self-discovery. By crafting his criminal past into a series of narratives, André comes to understand the motives that shaped his hardscrabble existence. And in listening to his father’s tales and recording them in his notebooks, Deni recognizes their role in defining his own identity. The robberies and fights—the rebellion in general—become unimportant and are replaced by unanswered questions about André’s boyhood in Quebec and the story of how he once fled his own parents and siblings. In grappling with this hunger for escape shared between father and son, Béchard writes,
Where did such longings reside in us, passed on through blood or stories, through a father’s distant gaze as he tells his son of far-off places? It seemed to me then, hearing his words, that a father’s life is a boy’s first story. (263)
Writing the manuscript that would become Cures for Hunger served as Deni’s act of discovery. But that’s not to say that his self-awareness came easily; in fact, Béchard writes in the epilogue that he composed the first draft of this memoir in two weeks, then spent seventeen years revising and refining the material.
Béchard’s writing style is workmanlike and spare, an approach that leads to a couple of outcomes: although moments of insight appear that much more revelatory, they can also feel a bit overwrought. Sections and chapters often begin with pastoral description meant to establish the physicality of scene, but because the memoir crosses such a broad spectrum of time and location, these transitions sometimes fail to indicate the continuity of one experience to the next.
In the end, Cures for Hunger is flush with tenderness. Its characters fail to adequately care for one another, but that’s not to say that they are careless, carefree, or that they lack compassion. They mistreat each other not out of dislike or disregard, but because in the hostile, volatile world one must attend first to his own survival. Though they are destined to remain unsatisfied, they are entirely free from self-pity—refreshing for a memoir about (among many other things) a dysfunctional family. And Cures for Hunger is much more than a memoir of youthful misadventure, though it contains plenty of that. It’s also an exploration of the oppression of lineage, of familial duty, wanderlust, and perennial dissatisfaction, and the most American theme of them all: personal reinvention.
Joseph Holt teaches at the University of Minnesota. His book reviews have also appeared in North Dakota Quarterly and Colorado Review.
Cures for Hunger
Deni Y. Béchard
Milkweed Editions, 2012
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NASA / LMSAL via SpaceWeather. com
This color-coded image combines observations made by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory in several extreme ultraviolet wavelengths, highlighting a bright X-class flare toward the upper left of the sun's disk on March 6.
The sun unleashed one of the biggest flares ever seen during its current activity cycle late Tuesday — an X5.4-class outburst strong enough to trigger a radio blackout. The resulting geomagnetic storm could affect electrical grids, communication links, satellite navigation systems and airline schedules over the next couple of days.
The outburst at 7:24 p.m. ET was followed about an hour later by an X1.3-class blast. Solar flares are rated on a letter-plus-number scale, with X being the most powerful category. Usually the numbers run from 1 to 9, but X-class flares can run higher. The highest reading recorded recently is an X28, observed in 2003.
Joe Kunches, a space scientist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Weather Prediction Center, says the double blast made for a "Super Tuesday," in a different sense from the political meaning.
The big question is, what effect will this solar activity have on Earth? The solar blasts threw off waves of electrically charged particles known as coronal mass ejections, or CMEs. Those waves are now speeding outward, and space-weather forecasters expect them to touch off strong geomagnetic storms when they interact with Earth's magnetic field late Wednesday and early Thursday.
"The most northern states in the 'Lower 48' should have a chance to see the aurora," the prediction center reported on Facebook.
Could something more serious happen? All this activity is already whipping up an S3 solar radiation storm. "Such a storm is mainly a nuisance to satellites, causing occasional reboots of onboard computers and adding noise to imaging systems," SpaceWeather.com's Tony Phillips said.
The coming geomagnetic storm is predicted to reach the G3 level, which could trigger alarms on electrical power systems and create intermittent problems for GPS navigation services. Some airline flights are likely to be rerouted so they don't fly so close to the poles, and problems could arise with communication systems in polar regions. That's the bad news. The good news is that NASA and NOAA have lots of resources in space to monitor solar activity, giving network operators more time to assess and prepare.
Check out NOAA's chart of space weather scales to learn more about what S3, G3 and the other storm desigations mean.
Experts at the Space Weather Prediction Center say the storm generated by the X5.4-class flare is on a trajectory to deliver a glancing blow rather than a direct hit on Earth, but they caution that the sunspot region responsible for the flare, AR1429, "remains potent, and subsequent activity is certainly possible."
For now, chances are that the most noticeable effect for most people will be an upswing in the number of fantastic pictures of the northern lights. AR1429 has been acting up over the past few days, and SpaceWeather.com has been adding plenty of stunners to its aurora gallery. If you get a nice snapshot, please consider sharing it with us via the Cosmic Log Facebook page or msnbc.com's FirstPerson in-box.
The solar storm could cause communication problems, affecting radio and satellite systems. NBC's Tom Costello reports.
Update for 4:40 p.m. ET March 7: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center reports that the coronal mass ejections sent out on Tuesday are projected to impact Earth and Mars as well as several interplanetary spacecraft, including NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, the Messenger probe at Mercury and the sun-watching STEREO-B satellite. The NASA advisory also notes that the X5.4-class flare was the strongest solar outburst since an X6.9 blast on Aug. 9, 2011. In that previous case, the resulting CME was not directed at Earth, and no ill effects were felt.
Update for 5 p.m. ET March 7: A lot of commenters are talking about the Carrington Event of 1859, a solar storm that was so strong it frazzled telegraph wires. That was associated with what was surely an off-the-scale solar flare, much more powerful than the X28 referenced at the beginning of this item — so I've rephrased that reference accordingly.
More about solar storms and auroras:
- Northern lights shine through a crack
- Rocket flies into the northern lights
- Aurora extravaganza glows in space
- Planet looks back at the northern lights
- Slideshow: The best of the northern lights
- Cosmic Log's auroral archive
This item was first published at 12:30 a.m. ET March 7.
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Hope for A Cure
After years of baby steps in the march against breast cancer, new research has resulted in a giant leap forward. Doctors who once hoped, at best, to minimize the devastation of this disease are now peppering their conversations with that four-letter word—cure.
"We’re very careful about using words like cure, but I think it’s time to go back to those words," says Eric P. Winer, M.D., director of the breast oncology center at Boston’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Among the changes doctors expect in the next decade: targeted therapies that attack cancer without harming healthy cells, better detection methods, and treatments to prevent the disease entirely. "Breast cancer is going to be different in five to ten years," says Winer. "I believe we could see a 75 percent reduction in death rates, meaning that instead of 40,000 women dying annually, it will be more like 10,000."
The mood of the cancer-research community has shifted noticeably since May, with news of two drugs. While the compounds themselves (Herceptin and Avastin) are promising, it’s the scientific theory behind the drugs that researchers feel will unlock the secrets of breast cancer.
The Breast Cancer Breakdown
Until recently, breast cancer was seen as a single disease, and many woman were treated the same: "Slash, burn and poison," says Los Angeles breast surgeon Susan Love, M.D., referring to surgery, radiation and chemotherapy.
Now scientists believe that the disease should never have been named after body parts in the first place. Cancer, it turns out, is defined by its genetic blueprint, not just its location. Breast cancer is really a collection of a half-dozen, and possibly more, diseases. Some can be defined by their hormonal activity; estrogen and progestin receptor positive cancers may have three or more distinct forms. Another is distinguished by multiple copies of a particular gene, HER2. Finally, a "basal-type cancer"—linked neither to hormones nor HER2—has also been identified.
Pinpointing the specific type of cancer in the breast will allow researchers to develop new drugs that fight tumor cells with fewer side effects or the collateral damage of chemotherapy.
Such therapies are already being prescribed. Herceptin, used in women with HER2-positive breast tumors (particularly aggressive when untreated), binds to certain proteins, blocking tumor growth and harnessing the body’s own immune system to heal itself. In a study by Mayo Clinic researchers, Herceptin plus chemotherapy prevented recurrences in about half of women who would have had a recurrence. But the true potential of this research goes beyond the drug itself. "The fact that we have identified this key pathway implies to me that other agents will be available in the future that may do even better," says Winer.
The war against breast cancer will be won or lost in a Petri dish, as laboratories identify exactly what type of cancer a woman has, so the most effective agents can be prescribed to combat it. "We used to blanket the whole Amazon rain forest with chemicals," says Larry Norton, M.D., deputy physician-in-chief, Memorial Hospital at Memorial Sloan- Kettering Cancer Center in New York. "Now we design molecules to hit a single tree. It’s a new level of detail."
New Avenues of Attack
Recent findings on Avastin have boosted the profile of anti-angiogenesis drugs, which choke off the blood supply to tumors. This drug, FDA-approved to treat advanced colorectal cancer, is showing promise in breast cancer, too. Theoretically, all cancers produce proteins that direct the formation of new blood vessels that ultimately feed tumors. Studies of Avastin plus chemo showed that blocking those signals could starve colon cancer cells, so researchers began to study the drug for treating other solid tumors. A National Cancer Institute study showed that among women with advanced breast cancer, Avastin plus chemo slowed cancer progression by half. Researchers are now looking at long term survival as well as whether the drug can also benefit women with early stage disease.
New Drug-Delivery Systems
Nanotechnology is a term you’ll hear more of when it comes to breast (or any) cancer research. Basically, nanotech involves devices 80-100,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair. Since cancer happens at the cellular level, these tiny technologies have the potential to prevent, detect and treat cancer in ways never before imagined.
Earlier this year, one nanotech drug, Abraxane by American BioScience, was approved for advanced breast cancer. The active ingredient is Paclitaxel, also found in the chemo drug Taxol, but Abraxane’s tiny particles ferry the therapy right to the tumor, so patients don’t need extra drugs or ingredients to dampen down side effects.
Nanotechnology can also make drugs more effective. Initial studies have found that Abraxane may allow patients to safely receive 50 percent more active ingredient per dose than the traditional delivery method, shrinking tumors faster and to a greater degree. The verdict is still out on whether this will affect survival rates, but models developed by Larry Norton and his colleagues at Sloan-Kettering already support the idea that "dose-dense" treatment—delivering the most doses possible in the shortest period of time—is the most effective way to stop cancer. This treatment is based on the notion that tumors grow and die according to predictable patterns. The trick is frequency; giving a small dose more often means more medicine can be administered over the same time period with less toxicity, so the drug knocks out as much cancer as possible without taking as great a toll on the patient. "Now that we know certain patterns of growth are important, finding the molecules responsible for them may lead us to the cure," says Norton.
Better, Earlier, Detection
Nanotechnology may also be used to detect cancer at earlier stages. Launched into the breast or elsewhere, such particles will act as tiny probes, taken into cancer cells too small to be detected by conventional methods. These anocrystals may be used to bind to cancer or normal cells, making them more visible with MRI or other types of scans.
It’s not nearly as futuristic as it sounds. In March, the FDA moved a step closer to approving a nanoparticle known as Combidex, developed by Advanced Magnetics, Inc., which, when used with an MRI, will help distinguish normal from cancerous cells. Right now, the only way for doctors to find out if cancer has spread is to remove or biopsy one or several lymph nodes. The nanoparticles have the potential to detect cancers accurately without the removal of even a single lymph node. Soon, nanoscale devices may allow doctors to multitask, both detecting cancer at its earliest stages and simultaneously delivering anticancer agents.
Other new detection methods identify the growth of new blood vessels that could signal the emergence of cancer. Clinical trials have begun on ComfortScan, a new device from DOBI Medical International that detects increased blood-vessel creation. The ten-minute scan won’t be dramatically different from a mammogram
Another tool, iFind, may revolutionize breast self exams. The handheld device responds to the higher level of hemoglobin found in cancer tissues, which require more blood and oxygen than surrounding tissues. In a small study, the device was96 percent reliable in detecting cancer. Although larger trials are needed, developers say the device, expected to cost less than a few hundred dollars, could be available in as few as two years. It won’t replace mammograms, but it will give women a useful tool for monitoring their breasts between screenings.
New Tools to Prevent Cancer
Drugs are also being studied for their prevention potential. Aromatase inhibitors, such as AstraZeneca’s Arimidex, Novartis’ Femara and Pfizer’s Aromasin, dramatically reduce recurrence in women with early stage disease; now investigators hope to design studies to determine if the drugs can just as dramatically cut the rate of occurrence in women at high risk for the disease.
Just as a colonoscopy can now detect and remove polyps before they become cancerous, researchers are working to develop methods that will allow them to seek out and destroy precancerous breast changes. Already, researchers at Sloan-Kettering are studying the use of focused ultrasound to eradicate precancerous breast lesions. Unlike the ultrasound used to scan for irregularities, this technology uses focused, high-energy sound beams to destroy suspicious cells, leaving healthy tissue untouched. "It’s like a Flash Gordon ray gun," says Norton. "It’s possible that we’ll find tiny lesions, diagnose them and destroy them so they never grow into cancers."
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NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian Gallery
will present two important sculptures by Richard Serra. Related in both form and scale, "Blind Spot" (2002-2003) and "Open Ended" (2007-2008) entail similar concentric structures, each consisting of six weatherproof steel plates. "Open Ended" was recently exhibited at Gagosian Gallery in London in 2008. The upcoming exhibition brings both sculptures together for the first time.
Serra produces unparalleled large-scale sculptures, many of which are in major museum and private collections worldwide. "Blind Spot / Open Ended" is his first major exhibition in the United States since the retrospective "Richard Serra, Sculpture: Forty Years" at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 2007.
In 2008 he installed "Promenade," a course of five massive vertical steel elements, each towering more than fifty feet, at the Grand Palais in Paris for the MONUMENTA exhibition. That same year, a survey of his drawings from 1989-2008 entitled "Richard Serra: Drawings --Work Comes Out of Work" was exhibited at the Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria. | <urn:uuid:c299174a-442a-49a2-9e6a-6db552cc74b1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=33866&int_modo=2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00064-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940792 | 239 | 1.648438 | 2 |
Nationwide, health organizations are paying more attention to the way legal problems create real obstacles to their patients’ well-being. Challenges with housing, utilities, employment, family disputes, discrimination and other legal matters can drain resources that patients would otherwise use to get well. Issues with insurance coverage can prevent patients from seeking the care they need altogether. With so many possible impediments, patients, particularly those who are low-income, frequently go without the medical care they need. Medical/legal partnerships can help to remove these impediments and provide the necessary medical care to patients who are otherwise unable to seek this complement of services.
Nationally, the medical/legal partnership is getting more notice and, in Philadelphia, we are paving the way for a new health-care model. In September 2011, U.S. Sens. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Dan Inouye (D-Hawaii) introduced a bill to create, strengthen and evaluate medical/legal partnerships around the country, if passed. Right here in Philadelphia, Mazzoni Center offers a continuum of medical, counseling, case management and legal services to the LGBT community. As a pioneer in the field of medical/legal partnerships, Mazzoni Center is helping shape the very notion of how they might operate, with its eye to holistic wellness.
At Mazzoni Center Legal Services, LGBT individuals can receive legal assistance on a wide variety of matters including discrimination, advanced planning, marriage dissolution, insurance and legal name changes. With the help of the legal clinic, many people resolve ongoing legal disputes, plan for the future of their families, appeal insurance decisions or adjust identity documents. All of these services lead to greater access to benefits, including health care. The ease of locating resources to resolve all possible obstacles to wellness in a single organization makes health and well-being a reality for individuals who might have otherwise found such goals unattainable.
At first glance, it might not be obvious why legal services might be necessary or helpful within a medical setting. At Mazzoni Center, our legal-services staff frequently works with transgender clients who are seeking legal name changes, to update their documentation to reflect their transition and altered gender expression. These clients often report refusal of services, difficulty accessing benefits and even significant challenges obtaining identity documentation in their original legal name as a result of identification that appears not to match its holder. A legal name change often removes significant impediments to public assistance, as well as obstacles with other forms of health insurance, in addition to providing people with greater peace of mind and safety in public forums where they are required to produce identification. Legal name changes alone go a long way toward improving clients’ quality of life.
Perhaps even more salient are the struggles that many clients have with health insurance policies that do not acknowledge that gender markers on official documentation are not determinative of medically necessary treatment. Mazzoni Center has assisted a number of transgender clients in months-long appeals processes to convince insurance policy administrators that a male gender marker does not preclude the necessity of gynecological treatment or a female gender marker the necessity of urology treatment. What the insurance companies call a “gender mismatch,” the practice of refusing treatment associated with certain genders to people of the opposite gender, without investigation, places many people in danger. The onerous appeals process to reverse such decisions can delay medical care for long enough to see their illnesses worsen beyond repair or even claim lives. Without access to legal services, far fewer people would have access to appropriate medical coverage and would undoubtedly go without the treatment they need.
2012 Philadelphia Trans-Health Conference
All of these services and a wide variety of educational workshops for both providers and community members alike come together once a year at the Philadelphia Trans-Health Conference, which takes place May 31-June 2 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. This free event offers three days of workshops covering all aspects of health and wellness, aimed at transgender-identified individuals, as well as their family, friends and allies. Last year it drew more than 2,000 people from around the U.S. and the world to Philadelphia. Workshops range from physical and mental health to spirituality and legal rights, and this year’s conference includes a major focus on international issues, including panels on immigration and the challenges faced by refugees and asylees, transgender activism in Europe and spotlight discussions on the state of trans communities in Latin America and South Asia.
From its inception, the Trans-Health Conference has taken a holistic approach to the definition of health and well-being, recognizing that accessible and quality health care is an integral part of self-determination when it comes to presenting one’s body and identity in the larger world. As much as possible, PTHC strives to ensure it addresses the diverse needs of all transgender communities: transgender men, transgender women, gender-queer and gender-variant people, as well as their partners, families and allies. In addition, in an effort to increase the availability of quality, culturally competent care for transgender communities, PTHC also provides workshops for medical, mental health and social-service providers.
On a historical note, this year marks the 10th anniversary of the addition of gender identity to Philadelphia’s Fair Practices Ordinance. The protections apply to public accommodations, housing and employment and are enforced by the Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations. (City Council passed the bill on May 16, 2002, and it was signed into law by then-Mayor John Street on May 29, 2002.) A celebration of this milestone will take place at the opening reception of the PTHC from 7:30-9 p.m. May 31 at the William Way LGBT Community Center, 1315 Spruce St. The reception will also provide an opportunity to browse the exhibit presented by the center’s John J. Wilcox Jr. Archives celebrating this milestone anniversary and the dedication of the community activists who made it happen.
For more information or to register for this year’s Trans-Health Conference, go to www.trans-health.org.
R. Barrett Marshall is a staff attorney at Mazzoni Center Legal Services, the only LGBT health center in the Philadelphia region. Visit www.mazzonicenter.org
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HPE has long been recognised as a key contributor to a comprehensive and balanced curriculum. It enables students to make responsible decisions about health and physical activity and to promote their own and others' health and wellbeing. The importance and value of health and physical education and physical activity for the social, emotional, spiritual and mental wellbeing of each individual can not be emphasised strongly enough.
Health Studies focuses on the study of health as a dynamic quality of human life. Students undertaking this course will develop the knowledge, understanding and skills necessary for health. The syllabus focuses on the importance of developing knowledge and understandings about health, the influence of beliefs, attitudes and values on health behaviour, and skills in self-management, communication and health inquiry. Knowing about factors and actions that influence health, and how values and skills develop, can help people to make informed choices that enhance and promote their own and others’ health. Using a health inquiry process, students draw on their knowledge and understandings of health concepts, and inquire into health issues of interest.
These courses from 1AB, 1CD, 2AB, and the Stage 3 WACE course will prepare students for career and employment pathways in a range of health and community service industries. Students will have the opportunity to develop key employability and life skills including communication, leadership, initiative and enterprise. Inquiry skills will equip students well to adapt to current and future studies and work environments.
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The DEBT! The BUDGET! The POOR! The CHURCH!
Emotions flare easily when we are talking about the places where the country's budget could really hurt us. Or people we care about. It's complex, yes, but deacons can help the dialog as well as the decisions to be Christ-like.
Amidst the turmoil about the national debt, the budget, and the political process to address the situation, Christians and Christian organizations are weighing in too - probably more than usual. One of the most important dimensions of the budget conversation is its impact on the poor and the weak. Surely that’s an area of passionate concern for Christians and the Church!
I have Jesus-following friends who disagree – strongly – about what the budget should look like. I have conflicting convictions within myself! And I’m struck that the word “sacrifice” is turning up so often. Sacrifice is a religious word! Maybe that’s why these Christian organizations familiar to many of us have issued a statement.
Not all Christians agree. Check this site for one example.
What’s a deacon to do?
The national budget moment has powerful stewardship dimensions. Surely it’s a worthy goal to learn as much as possible about the issues, and to the best of our ability help conversations stay rational, calm, and helpful.
I wonder about convening some evening coffee conversations where members of the congregation can discuss together, learn together, hone each other’s understanding, and maybe go home grateful for faithful friends who care as much as we do about how to be Kingdom citizens. There are certainly a lot of discipleship issues to be discussed when we are making budgets!
But how is this a diaconal matter? Well, I’m wondering…. Does this national conversation have echoes in our churches? In our families? Should it? Are there implications for how we make OUR budgets? And what about our families? Is there an opportunity here for some fresh conversation about family spending patterns? Can we talk about the choices we make with our money, and the expectations we have for the money we spend on charity? Where has the church spent benevolent money that really had the result we hoped for? What can we learn from that? How are we shaping our family lives and our congregational lives in ways that address need in truly Christ-like ways?
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On the first day of
your procedure you should arrive at the office as rested and relaxed
as possible. Don't wear make-up for your initial fitting. It may
interfere with the cleanliness of the procedure. Expect this visit
to last approximately one hour.
The new contact lenses will be placed on your eyes. You will have an
adaptation period of 10 to 20 minutes. During this time, you will
feel a slight awareness of the lens on the lid. You will be
instructed in the proper method of lens insertion and removal and
the hygiene associated with the lenses. You will be given all the
solution and instructions necessary to handle this at home.
We will train you until you have demonstrated proficiency with
insertion, removal, and centering of your lenses. We will then
discuss your lens-wearing schedule with you. To ensure the best
possible results, it is essential that the wearing schedule be
followed closely. Your exact wearing schedule depends on the
severity of your myopia and your lens-wearing success.
During night wear, the eyelid covers the lens. This results in very
little lens movement. You likely will have very little feeling of
the lenses the first night. The lenses are highly oxygen-permeable,
so the cornea will not be deprived of oxygen even when the lenses
are worn while sleeping. After the initial session of contact
fitting, you will be scheduled for an appointment one to two days
later. This is a very important visit since the cornea and resulting
vision are rapidly improving at this stage.
A follow-up exam will include an exam while wearing the lens, which
includes an evaluation of the lens fit and visual acuity, and an
exam with the lens removed. This includes measuring unaided visual
acuity, corneal curvature measurements with keratometry, and corneal
topography. The objective and subjective refraction determines your
new vision correction, and biomicroscopy evaluates the health of the
eye. A refitting of new accelerated contact lenses as necessary or
possible contact lens modifications may take place.
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Mae Sot, Thailand
After two decades, the ramshackle scrap-wood hut here that Cynthia Maung turned into a temporary clinic for destitute refugees is still in use.
She found shelter in the Thai border town of Mae Sot herself as a refugee in 1989, following the Burmese junta's brutal crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations the previous year. She'd fled through land-mine-infested jungles from the region of eastern Burma (Myanmar) where she'd worked as a village doctor among the indigent hill tribes.
Appalled by the misery of impoverished Burmese exiles in Thailand, Dr. Maung set up a free clinic for them. She scrounged medicine from foreign aid agencies and used a rice cooker to sterilize her instruments in boiling water.
She expected to go home within months.
Twenty years later, like hundreds of thousands of other Burmese migrants, Maung remains illegally in Thailand, living within sight of a homeland to which she can't return.
Yet she hasn't been idle. Her former clinic now houses volunteer medics and stands beside several concrete-block buildings with corrugated iron roofs in the self-contained leafy squatters' village that has grown up around it.
Her Mae Tao Clinic today boasts a trauma unit, a laboratory, and several patient wards, where emaciated men and women lie wrapped in their , or Burmese sarongs, on simple wooden trestles covered with linoleum and bamboo mats. Relatives hold vigils by their sides, performing simpler nursing duties.
The conditions may not be ideal, yet Maung's clinic saves lives and limbs daily by providing treatment to those who couldn't get it anywhere else. "People come here with a lot of pain and suffering," she says. "Some of them arrive on their last legs in search of help."
"Dr. Cynthia," as the ethnic Karen physician is known here, is an unassuming woman who shuns jewelry and cosmetics, even the beige ground-bark paste that Burmese women smear on their cheeks. Dressed simply without a white coat or stethoscope, she mingles among patients with casual familiarity. A mother of four, she lives at the clinic with her family. She has adopted two of her children from its Bamboo Children's Home orphanage. | <urn:uuid:6d04a286-ce72-4669-967e-4e40fef414e4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://m.csmonitor.com/World/Making-a-difference/2010/0208/At-her-Thai-border-clinic-Cynthia-Maung-treats-victims-of-war-from-her-native-Burma | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00052-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967581 | 488 | 2.4375 | 2 |
Distribution of North Pacific right whales ( Eubalaena japonica ) as shown by 19 th and 20 th century whaling catch and sighting records
North Pacific right whales (Eubalaena japonica) were extensively exploited in the 19th century, and their recovery was further retarded (severely so in the eastern population) by illegal Soviet catches in the 20th century, primarily in the 1960s. Monthly plots of right whale sightings and catches from both the 19th and 20th centuries are provided, using data summarised by Scarff (1991, from the whale charts of Matthew Fontaine Maury) and Brownell et al. (2001), respectively. Right whales had an extensive offshore distribution in the 19th century, and were common in areas (such as the Gulf of Alaska and Sea of Japan) where few or no right whales occur today. Seasonal movements of right whales are apparent in the data, although to some extent these reflect survey and whaling effort. That said, these seasonal movements indicate a general northward migration in spring from lower latitudes, and major concentrations above 40N in summer. Sightings diminished and occurred further south in autumn, and few animals were recorded anywhere in winter. These north-south migratory movements support the hypothesis of two largely discrete populations of right whales in the eastern and western North Pacific. Overall, these analyses confirm that the size and range of the right whale population is now considerably diminished in the North Pacific relative to the situation during the peak period of whaling for this species in the 19th century. For management purposes, new surveys are urgently required to establish the present distribution of this species; existing data suggest that the Bering Sea, the Gulf of Alaska, the Okhotsk Sea, the Kuril Islands and the coast of Kamchatka are the areas with the greatest likelihood of finding right whales today. | <urn:uuid:3f7de911-09ae-40a0-b0ce-971606f688a6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.mendeley.com/catalog/distribution-north-pacific-right-whales-eubalaena-japonica-shown-19-th-20-th-century-whaling-catch-sighting-records/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00054-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959397 | 378 | 3.53125 | 4 |
One of the best ways to Teach Kids English is through the medium of ESL Word Games for Kids. Students love to play games, and it’s also a great way to introduce English grammar to them without boring them rigid in the process!
Whether you’re teaching English to older Mattayom level Kids or younger Prathom levels . The kids will sure appreciate you as a teacher if you introduce some ESL Word Games for Kids into their lessons. Here is one such activity that they’ll love. And it requires little or no prep time!
The ESL Spelling Game
*Split the kids up into two teams, team Cats & team Dogs for example.
*Divide the whiteboard up into two equal sections by drawing a dividing line down the middle.
*Get the kids to write their team names on each section of the board.
*Write down a list of random or chosen words on a piece of paper.
*Get two students out at the front with marker pens in their hands.
*Call out a word from your list.
*The students must then write the words down and spell them correctly.
*The team that spells the word correctly will be given a point.
*At the end of the game the winning team will be the one with the most points.
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The NATO nation’s military transformation is flavored by the dust of Afghanistan.
|Rüdiger Wolf, the State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Defense in Germany (r), visits German army troops with Army Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Hans-Otto Budde, GEA (l). Wolf predicts that better use of information technology will reshape the German military, especially in terms of personnel allocations.|
Germany’s operations in the coalition supporting Afghanistan are helping reshape a force transformation that is well on the way to bringing the NATO nation military fully into the network-centric world. The harsh and complex environment of the Southwest Asian battleground has re-emphasized some traditional approaches and illuminated others that will require changing the country’s military procurement.
Much of Germany’s transformation into a fully network-centric force follows patterns similar to those of other Western militaries. The country is using information technology to increase effectiveness and improve efficiencies. The goal is a better use of assets, faster command and control, and a reallocation of vital personnel.
The mountainous terrain of Afghanistan has provided a real-world laboratory that no amount of research can equal. Given that Germany’s future military operations are likely to be as part of a coalition, the NATO ally has learned valuable lessons in interoperability and network centricity. And, Germany has learned the importance of new technologies that now are moving up the country’s priority list.
This force transformation is essential for Germany to achieve command and control (C2), information and effects superiority, according to Rüdiger Wolf, the State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Defense in Germany. Being able to conduct network-enabled operations is the key to this capability, he says, adding that the Bundeswehr has made substantial progress in recent years.
“Large-scale networking offers us chances to go beyond the boundaries set by the way in which functions are assigned at present and to render our organization and procedures more flexible and agile,” Wolf offers.
“The old way of thinking—in terms of platforms—must make way for a network-based approach,” he declares. “An increase in the possible ways of communicating and gathering information, however, also poses new challenges for command personnel at different levels. I am sure that this will bring about changes in all sectors of the armed forces.
“We must change our way of thinking and learn how to deal with the chances the technology offers,” Wolf states.
Greater use of information technology will help reshape the German military, he warrants. The force will be able to release personnel for core functions and operations, and it will lessen the threat faced by deployed forces. Germany will be able to reduce the number of personnel deployed in theater, as it will be able to employ reach-back activities to tap resources based in Germany.
“By using information technologies, we are providing our staffs and commanders a secure data and information network that grants them access to the information and services relevant for the accomplishment of their jobs anywhere,” Wolf declares.
This does not mean that Germany is prepared to eliminate the traditional chain of command. “I am convinced that in our principle of mission command, we in the Bundeswehr already have a foundation on which to build our capability to conduct network-enabled operations,” Wolf says. “We must stick to it, strengthen the responsibility of our command personnel at every level, and at the same time we systematically have to counter the opportunities advanced information technology offers for personnel to communicate across all the command echelons down to a single tactical vehicle.”
Wolf reflects on how Afghanistan has illustrated for German forces the importance of interoperable and secure equipment for tactical communications with multinational partners. This interoperability can allow nations to swap equipment and systems while ensuring seamless combined operations. The use of common standards is a key enabler, he notes.
On a more operational level, German commanders now recognize how they need access to relevant reconnaissance data. Given the nature of coalition operations, Wolf is calling for reconnaissance systems that can provide their sensor data to all participating national forces at the appropriate echelon levels.
|All data center and network activities are monitored centrally at a new BWI Monitor and Control Center. Germany’s public-private partnership approach to information technology incorporation is designed to speed the newest capabilities to the force.|
Above all, Afghanistan’s operational and environmental conditions mandate flexible, robust and adaptable information and communications infrastructure, he relates. These capabilities must be built into future systems before they are developed and procured.
Germany has several programs underway to provide network centricity to the force. Because its current radios cannot meet existing demands, it is striving to network on the tactical level. An ongoing software-defined radio effort aims to fill that high priority. And, to reflect its new global perspective, Germany is planning to orbit two new military communications satellites by 2010.
The country already has established an important base by introducing the Joint CCIS, an open command, control, communications, computers and intelligence (C4I) system that is based on commercial off-the-shelf technology. This system lies at the heart of German efforts to improve interoperability in information sharing. Wolf allows that the goal is to have a shared common operating picture.
But interoperability remains a major challenge, particularly with more complex information systems and increased multinational operations. Wolf notes that this challenge entails technical interoperability as well as procedural and operational interoperability. Germany’s proactive approach involves working with multinational bodies such as NATO along with international cooperation to establish multinational standards. Using these standards for national projects already is providing Germany with greater international interoperability, Wolf says.
However, German forces must adopt commercial technologies to a greater degree than they have done previously, he adds. And, the nation “has a long way to go” in using interoperability standards in a comprehensive migration strategy for Bundeswehr information technology subsystems.
One area that will see increased emphasis in the coming years is reconnaissance, which is a need that was highlighted in Afghanistan. Wolf states that unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) will be a boon for the German military by providing the ability to cover the entire reconnaissance spectrum. Data from new UAVs would be combined with that of other systems such as Germany’s Lupe synthetic aperture radar satellite system.
Germany has committed €7.1 billion to a 10-year information technology program known as HERKULES. A consortium featuring Siemens Business Services and IBM will upgrade nonmilitary defense information technology. This effort involves building a fiber network to link 50 Bundeswehr sites throughout Germany and upgrading computer software and services (see page 69).
Moving military technologies rapidly to the force is another priority for Germany. Wolf explains that the country has a multistage research and technology concept that allows it to continuously examine developments in technology. Researchers can develop specific system demonstrators and prototypes for suitability testing in the armed forces.
And this is important to ensure that German forces receive the right technologies. Wolf allows that, in the future, Germany will define projects to limit a system’s functional requirements. This approach also will take into account technology innovation cycles for rapid development and procurement. The goal is to speed the right operational products to German forces as quickly as possible.
“We make extensive use of the openings that CD&E [concept development and experimentation] yields us,” he continues. “We already can exert an influence on projects in their early stages and adjust them to meet our requirements.” He adds that the country’s extensive networked simulation and test environment allows researchers to examine both a technology’s applicability and its interoperability.
Since 2001, Germany’s customer product management process has emphasized economically rational procedures to provide German forces with goods and services. Describing this process as highly flexible, Wolf adds that it includes using proven technologies, particularly commercial off-the-shelf components. For critical needs, the country resorts to its Urgent Operational Requirements procedure that allows exceptional rapid response.
“We must pay greater attention in the future to ensuring that the terms allowed for projects are short and that, whenever possible, use is made of commercial products already on the market,” Wolf declares. “This will minimize the financial and time-related risks our projects involve.”
One strong point for German military information technology is that the small and medium-size companies that constitute that sector of industry are known for their innovativeness, Wolf says. These companies are involved with research heavily and are networked with related companies throughout Europe and, in some cases, firms in other continents. This makes Germany particularly strong in the development of information technology components and subsystems, he explains.
However, incorporating advanced information technology systems is not an inexpensive process, even with the use of commercial components. Germany faces the same budget pressures that its allies are confronting with the global economic slowdown. Wolf emphasizes that the nation must maintain a balance in development of key capabilities such as C2, intelligence collection and reconnaissance, protection, effective engagement, mobility, support and sustainability. While Germany must continue to protect its forces, the ability to conduct intelligence and reconnaissance operations and to exercise C2 also are key. “We will continue to attribute these areas the importance the overall budget permits us to,” he says.
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One of my earliest food memories as a child is of pumpkin pie. The creamy texture and mild flavors just make my heart and my taste buds melt.
You have to get the seasonings just right for pumpkin pie. I don’t like the frozen store pies that are loaded with cinnamon and nutmeg. The spice should be very subtle, just a note to accompany the orchestra.
Only pie will do for me. Fakers need not apply. No pumpkin pie-ish shake, cheesecake, or cookie will ever cut it in my book.
In my years of playing with recipes, I have come to realize that the best pumpkin pie is made from fresh processed pumpkin and simple ingredients.
If you have never cooked and processed your own pumpkin before there is no better time to start. The holidays are just around the corner and pie pumpkins are abundant in the store. Pie pumpkins are small yet heavy for their size. They yield more and sweeter flesh than the pumpkins you buy to make jack-o-lanterns. A larger pumpkin will work if that is all you can find.
You will need 2 small pie pumpkins or one largish regular pumpkin for 2 pies.
If you can’t find a suitable pumpkin, you can always make sweet potato pie. The process is identical and the recipe is very similar.
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
To process your pumpkin you will need 2 13×9 pans. Cut your pumpkins in half and scoop out all the seeds and goopy innards. Just get as much as you can, don’t worry about making it look perfect.
Pour about 1 inch of water into the bottom of your pans. For a larger pumpkin, you want to cut it into smaller chunks. Place your pumpkin pieces flesh-down into your pans. Bake for 15-20 minutes or until you can stick a fork into the skin. (It’s like testing potatoes, the pumpkin will be soft and the fork will just slide through)
Let the pumpkin cool until you can handle the pieces. Peel the skins off slowly. When you have all the chunks ready you are going to process the flesh with a blender or food processor. A potato masher will work but you won’t get the pumpkin as fine as canned pumpkin.
I store my pumpkin in canning jars in my fridge until I am ready to make my pies. Usually 2 pie pumpkins will yield 3-4 pint jars. This is more than you will need for 2 pies but I use the extra in my baking. Try making these Pumpkin Apple Streusel Muffins with your leftovers.
2 deep dish pie crusts
3 1/2 cups pureed pumpkin
2/3-1 cup raw organic sugar
2 tsp freshly ground cinnamon
1 tsp ground ginger
1/2 tsp grated nutmeg
1 1/2 cups fresh raw cream (more if you want to make whipping cream)
*you can substitute half and half for the cream
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees
- In a large bowl combine pumpkin, sugar, eggs, and spices. Mix thoroughly.
- While stirring or beating on low, slowly add cream 1/2 cup at a time.
- Pour 1/2 of the mixture into each pie crust.
- Bake for 50 minutes or until center of pie no longer wiggles when you shake it gently.
Are you wondering about the crust? The truth is, I cheat. However, there are some great organic crust recipes out there. Here are two:
- One with white flour from The Day After An Inconvenient Truth
- One that uses whole wheat flour from Food.com
Article by Aadel Bussinger
Aadel has been married to her career Army man for 11 years and they have 2 daughters and a freshly made son. She is a homeschooling mom, volunteer, and online college student. Her hobbies include cooking, organic gardening, sewing, and crocheting. She blogs sporadically at These Temporary Tents.
Aadel has written 82 awesome articles for Natural Family Today.
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