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The Middle East stirrings for “freedom” indeed are democracy movements. Give them “freedom.” Don’t give them a democracy. It’s disgusting for informed Americans to hear politicians, political talking heads, false academics, and counterfeit historians describe incorrectly the historic American political system as a democracy.
The founders of our nation considered democracy a contemptible form of government. In The Federalist Papers, Essay 10, James Madison wrote “Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security of the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.”
Nowhere in our Constitution does the word “democracy” appear. Article IV, Section 4, guarantees “…every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government.” Our Pledge of Allegiance to the flag is ‘…… to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible,……”
As late as 1928 the difference between a Republic and a Democracy was widely understood, especially among the American Military. War Department Manual 2000-25, used for training military personnel, defined Democracy as: “a government of the masses; authority derived through mass meeting or any other form of direct property expression; results in mobocracy; attitude toward property is communistic, negating property rights; attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate, whether it be based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences; results in demagogism, license, agitation discontent, anarchy.”
The First Amendment to the Constitution says, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press……” It doesn’t say Congress shall grant freedom of religion, speech, or press.
The essence between republican and democratic forms of government was well expressed when John Adams said, “You have rights antecedent to all earthly governments; rights that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; rights derived from the Great Legislator of the Universe.” That means Congress is to protect our God-given rights, not grant us rights.
At the 1787 Constitutional Convention Alexander Hamilton said, “We are now forming a Republican form of government. Real liberty is not found in the extremes of democracy, but in moderate government. If we incline too much to democracy, we shall soon shoot into a monarchy, or some other form of dictatorship.”
Also at that Convention John Adams said, “Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There was never a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.”
In a democracy the majority rules, either directly or through elected representatives, whether right or wrong. The law is whatever the government determines it to be; they do not represent reason; they represent force. Restraint is upon the individual instead of government. Unlike that envisioned under a republican form of government, rights are seen as privileges and permissions granted by government and can be rescinded by government.
The basic principles of truth and right are the guiding force to our Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and American Law; sovereignty resides with the people; the government is a servant of the people and obliged to its owners – We The People.
Our founding fathers made a marked distinction between a republic and a democracy, saying repeatedly and emphatically that they founded a Republic. They understood the only entity that can take away the peoples’ freedom is their own government, either by being too weak to protect them from internal or external threats or by becoming too powerful and taking over every aspect of life.
Although our Republic uses democratic processes to elect members of Congress and to pass new Laws, etc., the critical difference is America’s Republic has a Constitution that limits the powers of Government, spells out how Government is structured, creates checks on its power, and balances power between three different branches.The oath of office taken by members of Congress and by the president is to the Constitution, not to a political party. Many sitting Congressmen have lost sight of that fact; the sitting president indeed ignores that fact.
Simply stated, since the current administration came into power, America has been governed by tyrants who have usurped the will of the people. Throughout 2009 and 2010, our unprincipled Congress did anything upon which it could muster a majority vote. And in 2011, the president overtly promotes divisiveness and class warfare instead of unity. For Americans, and for humankind around the world, we must more strongly advocate liberty, not the representative democracy that we seem to have allowed America to become.
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Resist-dyed, painted, and embroidered silk gauze (ro)
59 1/2 x 49 1/8 in. (151 x 124.6 cm)
Gift of Naoki Nomura, 2006 (2006.73.2)
Clothing worn for rites of passage is often treasured and saved. This kimono was worn by Naoki Nomura's grandmother, one of four generations of female textile artisans in Kyoto, during her thirteenth year, in about 1876. The occasion was her jusan mairi (literally, thirteenth temple visit), her final visit as a child to Arashiyama Horinji, a temple in Saga, Kyoto. The jusan mairi, which involves the blessing of young people as they enter adolescence, is sometimes practiced today, and Horinji, located in the scenic Arashiyama district west of the city of Kyoto, still welcomes more than 20,000 participants every year.
The vivacious and youthful pattern and the high quality of the textile workmanship distinguish this kimono. A pond with carp and water lilies decorates the lower part, and morning glories bloom at the shoulders. The early summer scene is set on a blue and white background of silk gauze subtly patterned in the weave with fantailed goldfish in water. | <urn:uuid:dce4549b-d408-45b6-a5f6-7a0ee75f4352> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/2006.73.2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00069-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945988 | 281 | 2.4375 | 2 |
The iconic 1978 image of Grace Jones [wiki] as depicted by Jean-Paul Goude [wiki] is neither a photograph nor a painting. It is actually a series of photographs, cut and pasted together, with the seems painted in by the artist, to create the illusion of a single photograph. Crafty photoshop' for an image that's 35 years old.
“Unless you are extraordinarily supple, you cannot do this arabesque,” Goude has explained. “The main point is that Grace couldn’t do it, and that’s the basis of my entire work: creating a credible illusion.” He photographed Jones in a variety of positions, using boxes to help prop up her body. [globalgrind.com] | <urn:uuid:4ca04077-066f-4aa9-a897-219fb4ba7863> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://gammagoblin.blogspot.com/2013/01/grace-jones-by-jean-paul-goude.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957436 | 161 | 1.898438 | 2 |
ED 438: P-6 School Immersion II
This field-based practicum provides students with the opportunity to apply and assess the math, science, and social studies concepts they are studying in this second block and to adapt instruction for students with exceptional and diverse needs. 224 hours of field study.
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Terry McGuire was at a crossroads.
It was the early 2000s and the Clinton resident had been a genetics professor at Rutgers University for more than two decades.
Although he loved teaching, and was passionate for the subject matter, he felt he was reaching only a small percentage of his students.
“Year after year I generated a predictable grade distribution with about 10-12 percent getting A’s and a good number of F’s and D’s,” said McGuire, a professor in the university’s School of Arts and Sciences. “I really saw no way to reach the lower 50 percent of the class who seemed immune to my teaching style.”
But over the last decade McGuire has reinvented himself as a professor, finding bold new ways to engage students, and joining a national movement aimed at making science education more relevant to people’s everyday lives.
“People think of science as this special thing that scientists do that has no connection to their lives,” McGuire said recently. “If there is one goal I have it’s to show students that science is not separate from our lives.”
McGuire, an Ohio native, has lived in Clinton since 1994 with his wife, Jeannette Haviland-Jones, a professor of psychology at Rutgers.
He has long been interested in connecting science education to contemporary social problems. As a graduate student in the 1970s he worked with the trailblazing behavior geneticist Jerry Hirsch, known both for his scholarship, and his outspoken commitment to social justice. Hirsch used his understanding of genetics to challenge racism in science and society.
Shortly after McGuire arrived at Rutgers in 1979, he introduced a course called Genetics, Law and Social Policy.
In the early 2000s, as he began rethinking his teaching mission, McGuire came full circle and reconnected with his earlier interest in social issues. He became involved with the national group Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities, or SENCER.
SENCER provides programs and professional development aimed at broadening the scope of STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) courses, with a strong emphasis on connecting core class material to critical issues at the local, national and global levels.
McGuire, now a senior associate with SENCER, said the group’s approach had a profound impact on his teaching – to both science and non-science majors.
“The idea is to start with what people understand, what they are interested in; how did they evolve, why do they have blue eyes?” McGuire said. “Then you drill down through those issues into the science.”
But that is just the beginning. When taught effectively, McGuire said, science can help illuminate issues that affect everyone’s lives, such as why people get sick. Science can also present a fuller picture of current problems, like obesity, which McGuire said can be caused by a range of factors, not just diet.
“Many things in our society contribute to obesity, including overly processed foods, the loss of well adapted cuisines, industrial pollution, disruptions in our circadian rhythms, lack of sleep, and excessive period of sitting still,” he said. “So if you are going to deal with the social issues, you’re going to have to know the science. You can’t just say: ‘it’s your fault, you have to be a better person.’’’
In addition to the stress on real-world issues, McGuire also has altered his classroom approach to include more interactive discussion, small-group work, and having students demonstrate what they have learned by teaching the concepts to others.
“The idea that my job is to have my students memorize the material and hope they retain it makes no sense,” he said. “My feeling is they need to cope with the material, to deal with it, and to be able to write it up and teach it to others.”
McGuire has noticed the grade distribution changing, particularly in upper-level courses where it has become heavily weighted toward the A’s.
“My approach now is based on the assumption that everyone has the potential to get A’s,” he said. “It’s my job to make that possible.”
This fall, he is teaching a special large-group Signature Course aimed at a broad audience and which will reflect some of the innovative ideas and approaches he has absorbed.
“We are going to be spending time just looking at what it means to be human,” McGuire said. “How did we evolve? We migrated all over the world. We adapted to harsh climates. I want students to understand it’s a long struggle, and it shapes who we are and what we do.” | <urn:uuid:2d0ec051-ba3d-4427-ac36-54e51aa678ba> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.nj.com/hunterdon-county-democrat/index.ssf/2012/12/for_this_rutgers_professor_sci.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00034-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977208 | 1,027 | 2.3125 | 2 |
dr. wendy walsh
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While my nearly 13-year-old daughter is mature enough to manage a schedule, politely extend an invitation and iron out details like admission fees, many of her peers' parents are still hovering and micromanaging.
Most of our families render us powerless to pretend, yet empower us with something else.
For many rape victims, the prospect of childbirth and breastfeeding brings a particular brand of fear. But one brave woman who had endured a violent gang rape ignored the lack of positive literature. In fact, she credits breastfeeding with empowering her and helping her take back her body from her assailants.
Thanks to a new California law, minors 12 and over will now be able to get mental health services without parental consent.
The beer in question is called Witch's Wit, a limited-edition pale ale produced by the Port Brewing Company in California. The label, which shows a woman being burned at the stake, was intended as a satire by one of the brewery's owners, who calls himself a "recovering Catholic." Obviously, he has yet to recover from stupidity. | <urn:uuid:eda7fd76-9bcf-4f94-8747-88266ed422f1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.momlogic.com/experts/wendy_walsh/stories/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956756 | 256 | 1.671875 | 2 |
Many learning and behavior problems begin in your grocery cart!
Did you know that the brand of ice cream, cookie, and potato chip you select could have a direct effect on the behavior, health, and ability to learn for you or your children?
Numerous studies show that certain synthetic food additives can have serious learning, behavior, and/or health effects for sensitive people.The Feingold Program (also known as the Feingold Diet) is a test to determine if certain foods or food additives are triggering particular symptoms. It is basically the way people used to eat before “hyperactivity” and “ADHD” became household words, and before asthma and chronic ear infections became so very common.
ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) is the term currently used to describe a cluster of symptoms typical of the child (or adult) who has excessive activity or difficulty focusing. Some of the names that have been used in the past include: Minimal Brain Damage, Minimal Brain Dysfunction (MBD), Hyperkinesis, Learning Disability, H-LD (Hyperkinesis/Learning Disability), Hyperactivity, Attention Deficit Disorder, ADD With or Without Hyperactivity.
In addition to ADHD, many children and adults also exhibit one or more other problems which may include: OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder), ODD (Oppositional Defiant Disorder), Bi-polar Disorder, Depression, Tourette Syndrome (TS), and Developmental Delays. These people often have food or environmental allergies. Many have a history of one or more of these physical problems: ear infections, asthma, sinus problems, bedwetting, bowel disorders, headaches/migraines, stomachaches, skin disorders, sensory deficits (extreme sensitivity to noise, lights, touch), vision deficits (the left and right eyes do not work well together, sometimes nystagmus).
While all the above symptoms might be helped by the Feingold Program, generally the characteristic that responds most readily is behavior. Although the symptoms differ from one person to another, the one characteristic that seems to apply to all chemically-sensitive people is that they get upset too easily. Whether the person is 3-years-old or 33, they have a short fuse.
Dr. Feingold began his work on linking diet with behavior back in the 1960′s. He soon saw that the conventional wisdom about this condition was not accurate. At that time most doctors believed that children outgrew hyperactivity, that only one child in a family would be hyperactive, and that girls were seldom affected. Parents using the Feingold Diet also saw that these beliefs were not accurate. Years later, the medical community revised their beliefs, as well.
Another change in the medical community has been the increased use of medicine to address ADHD. In the 1960′s and 1970′s medicine was used with restraint, generally discontinued after a few years, and never prescribed to very young children. If there was a history of tics or other neurological disorders in a family member, a child would not be give stimulant drugs. The Feingold Association does not oppose the use of medicine, but believes that practitioners should first look for the cause(s) of the problems, rather than only address the symptoms. For example, ADHD can be the result of exposure to lead or other heavy metals; in such a case, the logical treatment would be to remove the lead, arsenic, etc.
The Feingold Association believes that patients have a right to be given complete, accurate information on all of the options available in the treatment of ADHD as well as other conditions. Sometimes, the best results come from a combination of treatments. This might include using the Feingold Diet plus allergy treatments, or plus nutritional supplements, or plus a gluten-free/casein-free diet, or even Feingold + ADHD medicine. We believe that it’s useful to start with the Feingold Diet since it is fairly easy to use, not expensive, and because removing certain synthetic additives is a good idea for anyone.
Used originally as a diet for allergies, improvement in behavior and attention was first noticed as a “side effect.” It is a reasonable first step to take before (or with if already begun) drug treatment for any of the symptoms listed on the Symptoms page.
The Feingold Program eliminates these additives:
- Artificial (synthetic) coloring
- Artificial (synthetic) flavoring
- Aspartame (Nutrasweet, an artificial sweetener)
- Artificial (synthetic) preservatives BHA, BHT, TBHQ
In the beginning (Stage One) of the Feingold Program, aspirin and some foods containing salicylate (Suh-LIH-Suh-Late) are eliminated. Salicylate is a group of chemicals related to aspirin. There are several kinds of salicylate, which plants make as a natural pesticide to protect themselves. Those that are eliminated are listed in the salicylate list which is included also in the Program Handbook. Most people can eventually tolerate at least some of these salicylates.You will notice this dietary program is often referred to as a program because fragrances and non-food items which contain the chemicals listed above are also eliminated.
Where do food dyes come from?
Those pretty colors that make the “fruit punch” red, the gelatin green and the oatmeal blue are made from petroleum (crude oil) which is also the source for gasoline.You will find them on the ingredient labels, listed as “Yellow No. 5,” “Red 40,” “Blue #1,” etc. The label may say “FD&C” before the number. That means “Food, Drug & Cosmetics.” When you see a number listed as “D&C” in a product, such as “D&C Red #33″ it means that this coloring is considered safe for medicine (drugs) and cosmetics, but not for food. See more about colorings.
What are artificial flavorings?
They are combinations of many chemicals, both natural and synthetic. An artificial flavoring may be composed of hundreds of separate chemicals, and there is no restriction on what a company can use to flavor food.One source for imitation vanilla flavoring (called “vanillin”) is the waste product of paper mills. Some companies built factories next to the pulp mills to turn the undesirable by-product into imitation flavoring, widely used in many cookies, candies and other foods. See more about food dyes and flavorings.
What are BHA, BHT and TBHQ?
Those initials stand for three major preservatives found in many foods, especially in the United States. Like the dyes, they are made from petroleum (crude oil). Often, they are not listed in the ingredients.These chemicals may be listed as “anti-oxidants” because they prevent the fats in foods from “oxidizing” or becoming rancid (spoiling). There are many natural, beneficial anti-oxidants, but they are much more expensive than the synthetic versions.
There are other undesirable food additives (MSG, sodium benzoate, nitrites, sulfites, to name a few) but most of the additives used in foods have not been found to be as big a problem as those listed above. See more about these preservatives.
Food additives are not new.
Artificial colors have been around for more than 100 years. (Originally they were made from coal tar oil.) And children have been eating artificially colored and flavored products for decades.But then . . . most children ate these additives infrequently. They got an occasional lollipop from the bank or barber shop. Cotton candy was found at the circus. Jelly beans were given at Easter, orange cupcakes at Halloween and candy canes at Christmas.
Today . . . the typical child growing up in the United States is exposed to these powerful chemicals all day, every day.
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As part of the project, four reviews were produced based on some of the database material. These reviews were written to provide an overview of what is and is not known in four key areas:
Review 1. What attitudes do people (professional and lay) have to promotion?
Issues covered include attitudes to pharmaceutical company sales representatives, gifts and sponsorship of conferences. Attitudes of doctors, consumers and others to direct-to-consumer drug advertising are also reviewed. In addition, there are reviews of differences in doctors’ attitudes to promotion and whether they think that promotion affects their prescribing.
Review 2. What impact does pharmaceutical promotion have on attitudes and knowledge?
In addition to studies on the effect of promotion on attitudes and knowledge, this review looks at how much doctors report using promotion as a source of information (either for all drugs, or particularly for new drugs).
Review 3. What impact does pharmaceutical promotion have on behaviour?
This review looks at the evidence for several different possible effects of promotion on behaviour. These are the impact of promotion on individual prescribing behaviour, on overall drug sales, and on requests for formulary additions; the effect of direct-to-consumer drug advertising on consumers’ decisions, the effect of promotion on the content of continuing medical education (CME) courses, and the impact of industry funding on research outcomes.
Review 4. What interventions have been tried to counter promotional activities, and with what results?
This review reports on research on interventions to control or counter promotion, and the effects of such interventions. It is not a comprehensive review of interventions, because there are many descriptive reports on these in the database.
The purpose of the reviews was to allow users of the database to understand the research that has been done on promotion, the strengths and weaknesses of that research, and to suggest directions for future research. The reviews were lodged on the web site in mid-2003. | <urn:uuid:1eed9410-1b3d-4dc1-a221-78378a4f1cad> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://apps.who.int/medicinedocs/en/d/Js8109e/3.5.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00010-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965881 | 387 | 2.0625 | 2 |
My new favorite blog of the moment is Thad Komorowski’s “Identifying Animators and Their Scenes.” The site has only been up for a few days and it’s already packed with excellent material. As the name of the blog implies, its concept is dead simple: post clips from Golden Age cartoons and identify who animated the scenes. For example, check out this great post about Walter Lantz shorts where Thad identifies scenes by Fred Moore, Ed Love, Pat Matthews and Grim Natwick. Absolutely incredible detective work. The site has plenty of other animation clips posted already, animated by the likes of Emery Hawkins, Virgil Ross and Manny Gould.
If there’s one thing that ties together the work of all of these distinctive animators, it’s how beautifully they communicate with cartoon imagery. I had the sound on my computer turned off when I first started viewing these clips, and I’d watched four or five clips before even realizing that there was no sound. There are significant lessons to be learned here about visual storytelling and clarity in staging and acting.
One more impressive thing worth pointing out: according to Thad’s Blogger profile, he’s only 16-years-old. These crazy animation historian types…they’re getting younger everyday. | <urn:uuid:1207975d-8f7c-4acc-92f2-4315c936b26a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.cartoonbrew.com/animators/identifying-classic-animators-1719.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00061-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.930446 | 272 | 1.554688 | 2 |
Mt. Wilson Stations Slapped With RF Violation Fines
For the first time, the FCC proposed forfeitures against four licensees for violating the radiofrequency radiation maximum permissible exposure limits at a multi-user site - Mt. Wilson in Los Angeles. The commission said the power density level produced by each individual licensee was within acceptable limits, but the cumulative effect exceeded allowable limits. The commission said the seriousness of the safety violation warrants a proposed forfeiture of $10,000 for each station, for a total of $40,000.
Fined are KBIG(FM), KKBT(FM), KRTH(FM) and KWHY(TV). The licensees are Clear Channel, Radio One, Infinity and Telemundo, respectively. All of the licensees whose transmitters exceed the limits share responsibility for reducing RF to permissible levels, stated the agency.
FCC agents inspecting the Mt. Wilson transmitter site in July 2002 determined that RF levels in a publicly accessible area, located approximately 100 feet from a U.S. Post Office, exceeded the maximum permissible exposure limits by 60.5%.
The antenna farm was not fully gated and not marked with RF warnings, stated the agency. Broadcast engineers familiar with the site told field agents said contractors working at the site had most likely taken down the sign. The agents cited the stations for failing to prevent the public from accessing areas that exceeded the RF exposure limits.
The stations then installed more fencing and RF warning signs. But during an inspection in September, an agent said a gate leading to one of the site entrances was left open. Along with the money, the commission directed the licensees to submit their plans to ensure the fences surrounding the antennas are shut and the gates are locked. | <urn:uuid:a841a6aa-899a-44bd-8264-ea24636ede06> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.rwonline.com/article/mt-wilson-stations-slapped-with-rf-violation-fines/9238 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00046-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949814 | 356 | 2.25 | 2 |
622 New South Head Road,
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The Wintergarden Theatre, in the Sydney up-market suburb of Rose Bay (next to Double Bay), opened on 24th February 1928.
The theater was built in true picture palace style, although its entrance vestibule and exterior were quite austere. The auditorium was decorated in the usual semi-classical style of architect Henry White (who worked with American John Eberson on the Sydney Capitol Theatre).
In June 1929, the Wintergarden became the first Sydney suburban theater to install sound equipment for the ‘talkies’. The projection equipment chosen was ‘Raycophone’ – the Australian invention of Ray Allsop, chief engineer at a Sydney radio station, 2BL.
The Wintergarden continued to delight local audiences for the next six decades, including famous Australian director Peter Weir, who is said to have attended the theater as a young boy. In 1987, however, after exhaustive protests to save the theater, it was finally demolished.
An apartment building now stands on the Wintergarden’s site overlooking Sydney Harbour.
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A wonderful episode from one of my favorite shows as a kid:
What a fantastic piece of scientific advocacy, not to mention all the nuggets of skeptical goodness in there! It’s funny, it’s approachable, it offers practical ways to test pseudoscience yourself, and best of all it stresses the power of science and how it can help us discover the universe. James “The Amazing” Randi, of the very educational foundation with whom I am a research fellow, even shows up!
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof…
Bill Nye’s show definitely put me on the track to becoming a scientist myself, and the healthy dose of skepticism and critical thinking in the episode above is something that all children should receive. Though I’m sad I didn’t realize how jam-packed the episode was with modern skepticism at the time, I’m so grateful that shows like this were out there, advancing reason in the face of superstition. | <urn:uuid:4ff714a0-4783-4e30-96ad-4c200626d713> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://sciencebasedlife.wordpress.com/2012/08/07/bill-nye-the-science-guy-pseudoscience/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941236 | 204 | 1.695313 | 2 |
Facing the Music? Panel to Explore Battle of iTunes v. MediaPlayer in EU
“Facing the Music? Microsoft, Apple and International Antitrust Law in the EU,” a panel discussion about international businesses and antitrust issues in the European Union, will be held Thursday, Feb. 22, in the Chesterfield Smith Ceremonial Classroom (HOL 180) at the Levin College of Law, 8-9:30 p.m. This event is free and open to the public.
Students and other members of the UF community are invited to take part by the Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER), the UF College of Journalism and Mass Communication, and the Center for Governmental Responsibility in the Levin College of Law. The conversation will explore recent EU antitrust cases involving U.S.-based companies Microsoft and Apple. These cases involve competition issues concerning Windows MediaPlayer and iTunes software.
The expert panel will discuss the background and ramifications of recent rulings and the effect they will have on international business and entertainment in the 21st century. Attendees will be able to take part in a Q&A session as well, since these cases raise pertinent issues for anyone who usesthe Internet and computer technology to send, share, download and view audio and video files. The program will be recorded for broadcast on WUFT-TV.
The expert panel will include Dr. Andrew Chin, a professor of antitrust, intellectual property, and patent law at the University of North Carolina School of Law and counsel to Intellectual Property Solutions, P.L.L.C., who also prepares and prosecutes patent applications in computer and Internet technology; Dr. Mark A. Jamison, director of the Public Utility Research Center and director of Telecommunications studies at UF’s Warrington College of Business, who served as the special academic advisor to the chair of the Florida Governor’s Internet Task Force; Dr. Jesper Strömbäck, professor in media and communication from Mid-Sweden University and research director at the Demokratiinstitutet Centre for Political Communication Research, who will provide not only a journalistic point of view, but a European one, as well.
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Dolphins can leap above the water surface and perform acrobatic figures (e.g. the spinner dolphin). Scientists aren't quite certain about the purpose of this behavior, but it may be to locate schools of fish by looking at above water signs, like feeding birds. They could also be communicating to other dolphins to join a hunt, or attempting to dislodge parasites. Perhaps they just do it for fun. Play is a very important part of dolphins' lives and they can often be observed playing with seaweed or playfighting with other dolphins. They have even been seen harassing other creatures, like seabirds and turtles. Frequently dolphins will accompany boats, riding the bow waves.
They are also famous for their willingness to occasionally approach humans and playfully interact with them in the water. There have been reports of dolphins protecting swimmers against sharks by swimming circles around the swimmers.
Dolphins are social animals, which live in pods (also called "schools") of up to a dozen animals. In places with a high abundance of food, schools can join temporarily, forming an aggregation called a superpod; such groupings may exceed 1000 dolphins. The individuals communicate using a variety of clicks, whistles and other vocalizations. They also use ultrasonic sounds for echolocation.
Membership in schools is not rigid; interchange is common. However, the animals can establish strong bonds between each other. This leads to them staying with injured or ill fellows for support.
Because of their high capacity for learning, humans have employed dolphins for any number of purposes. Dolphins trained to perform in front of an audience have become a favorite attraction, for example Sea World. Dolphin/Human interaction is also employed in a curative sense at places where dolphins work with autistic or otherwise disabled children. The military has employed dolphins for various purposes from finding mines to rescuing lost or trapped persons
Q: How does a group of dolphin's make
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About Ernestina ex Effie M. Morrissey
Ernestina-Morrissey is about People
Fishermen ~ Arctic Explorers ~ WW II Surveyors ~ Cape Verdean Immigrants ~ Students ~~ People have depended on this beloved ship for their livelihoods and their lives since 1894. Ernestina-Morrissey’s legacy has brought so many people together from around the world,
Explore her stories and return to this website often for latest news of this National Treasure.
Ernestina-Morrissey is a Gift.
As Effie M. Morrissey she was a gift to the Morrissey family as a highlining fishing schooner out of Gloucester.
She was a gift to the many fishermen she brought safely back from the Grand Banks with her holds full of salt cod.
She was a gift to Captain Bob Bartlett at a time when his life needed a new direction, returning him to his beloved Arctic for 25 years.
As Ernestina, she was a gift to Cape Verdeans, a packet ship bringing immigrants to the United States and serving as a link between families.
She was a gift from the Cape Verdean people to the United States when she was returned to Massachusetts in 1982.
She was a gift to the thousands of people who have learned on her decks since her return.
Now she needs our help. We need your vision of Ernestina’s future.
It is time to give back, and give forward, and give Ernestina a future we can all be proud of.
Comments by Mary Anne McQuillan, October 30, 2010 at the Ernestina Forum.
A link to a brief summary of Ernestina ex Effie M. Morrissey‘s HISTORY.
Ernestina ta camba na Sul
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Minnesota SELF Loan
Educational Loan Fund (SELF) Program
The Minnesota SELF Loan helps students who need assistance in paying for education beyond high school. Loan eligibility is not based on need. To be eligible for the SELF program, a student must be a Minnesota resident who maintains satisfactory academic progress, is enrolled at least half time in a degree seeking program and is attending an eligible institution. In addition, the student must have a credit worthy co-signer and not be delinquent or in default on a SELF or other outstanding student loans.
Borrowers are required to pay interest quarterly while in school. After graduating or leaving school the student enters repayment. The interest rate charged to the borrower changes throughout the life of the loan, and can change every three months. SELF Loan applicants are required to complete SELF Loan Entrance Loan Counseling. For more information visit the Minnesota Higher Education Coordinating Board, www.selfloan.org.
Annual Loan Limit:
Undergraduate and graduate $10,000 per grade level
Cumulative Loan Limit:
Graduate $70,000 including undergraduate SELF
You must make interest payments while
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Do you experience emotional symptoms like depression, moodiness, anxiety and irritability prior to your period? Are these symptoms severe enough to interfere with your day-to-day functioning? You may have premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD). Get answers here to some of your most frequently asked questions about PMDD.
PMS is often the brunt of jokes. But, it, and its more serious form, PMDD, are no laughing matter. The symptoms of PMDD may be severe enough to interfere with your daily life.
PMDD includes a range of symptoms, both physical and emotional. Do you experience any of these symptoms prior to your period?
These two conditions may share the same symptoms, but they are not the same. There are some important differences that you should know about.
The diagnosis of PMDD begins with the information that you provide to your doctor. If you are planning to see a doctor about your premenstrual moodiness, collecting information about your symptoms with our PMDD Symptoms Tracking Chart
will help your doctor make his diagnosis.
You don't have to suffer in silence with your PMDD symptoms. Effective treatment is available.
The causes of PMDD are not well understood. However, the interplay of multiple factors may be to blame.
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The Principle of Proximity
New York University School of Law
January 17, 2011
NYU School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 11-08
How should we think about, how should we model the basis of political community. To the extent that it is a matter of choice, what should be the basis on which the people of the world divide themselves up into distinct political communities. This paper seeks to cast doubt on the proposition that it is a good idea for people to form a political community exclusively with those who share with them some affinity or trust based on culture, language, religion, or ethnicity. I want to cast doubt on that proposition by articulating an alternative approach to the formation of political communities, which I shall call the principle of proximity. People should form political communities with those who are close to them in physical space, particularly those close to them whom they are otherwise like to fight or to be at odds with. This principle is rooted in the political philosophies of Hobbes and Kant. The suggestion is that we are likely to have our most frequent and most densely variegated conflicts with those with whom we are (in Kant’s words) “unavoidably side by side”, and the management of those conflicts requires not just law (which in principle can regulate even distant conflicts) but law organized densely and with great complexity under the auspices of a state. The paper outlines and discusses the proximity principle, and the conception of law and state that it involves, and defends it against the criticism that it underestimates the importance of pre-existing trust in the formation of political communities.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 27
Keywords: community, conflict, ethnicity, Hobbes, identity, Kant, law, nationalism, proximity, state, state-buildingworking papers series
Date posted: January 20, 2011 ; Last revised: February 1, 2011
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If this goofy-assed little car showed up at your premium brand’s doorstep and told you it was an unwanted orphan, would you let it in? And keep it as a foster child, or adopt it as your own? That’s the scenario Mercury found itself in with the Comet. And true to form, Mercury waffled.
The Comet was planned as a compact Edsel, but when that expensive little venture went belly up, it needed a home. Mercury let it into its dealers, but not branded as a Mercury, just Comet. After all, Mercury had a finely-honed brand identity to protect: uninspired, overwrought, wallowing Buick wanna-be barges that sold poorly. It wasn’t about to let the Comet sully that.
Was Mercury dutifully obeying Robert Farago’s oft-repeated maxim against eroding a brand by extension? Perhaps. Mercury was in the depths of its perpetual self-identity crisis, which was exacerbated by the whole Edsel debacle. Ford wanted Mercury to aim up even higher, at Buick; thus the Comet solution. But two significant events changed Mercury’s mind.
First, Buick came out with its own compact Special in 1961.
In GM’s heyday in the 1920’s, when the various divisions each decided to expand and fill the gaps between them, their off-shoots were sold under new names: Cadillac spawned LaSalle, Buick birthed Marquette, Olds created Viking, and Pontiac itself was an offshoot of Oakland. GM has quite the cemetery of failed brands. But GM’s decision to let Pontiac, Olds and Buick have compacts in 1961 changed the rules forever. And soon there was the addition of premium Chevys like the Monte Carlo and Caprice. The GM brand muddle was in full swing.
The second thing that changed Mercury’s mind was that the Comet sold quite well for the first couple of years, during those compact boom years. The real Mercuries didn’t. In fact the Comet outsold the big Mercs almost two-to-one in ’61. Probably explains best why the Comet became a genuine Mercury in ’62.
The Comet was a stretched and re-skinned Falcon. Actually, only the sedans rode on a lengthened wheelbase and had that loopy rear end. For cost-efficiency’s sake, Comet wagons were thinly disguised Falcons with a Comet front clip. Since Comets were planned to be Edsels, some parts still carried the “E” prefix. And that rear taillight lens looks mighty similar to those on the 1960 Edsel.
Except for the taillights and finlets, the Comet’s styling was actually ahead of the whole Ford clan in 1960. It almost perfectly predicts the ’62 Fairlane and Meteor twins, as well as Ford’s general styling trend in the first half of the sixties. Of course, it wears that ’58 T-Bird roof proudly, like so many other Fords of the era. And by 1962, the Comet’s tail entered a more mainstream galaxy.
Except for that longer wheelbase, the Comet shared its mechanicals with the Falcon. That meant only one engine for the Comet’s abbreviated first year: the 144 cubic inch (2.5 liter) six that packed all of 90 hp (gross) at 4200 rpm. That would be about 75 of today’s (net) ponies. That made it the feeblest of the semi-upscale new compacts.
The two-speed automatic strangled that herdlet of ponies dead in their tracks. Good thing the slightly stronger 170 cubic inch came along in ’61, as well as the little 260 V8 in ’62. But with a stick and a glass-pack muffler like this one, the little six at least sounds like it’s making half-way decent forward progress.
There’s a distinctive tone to these small Ford sixes. If they’re wheezing through the stock muffler, it’s very nasal, as in dire need of an antihistamine. With a less restrictive muffler, it reminds me of European and other vintage small displacement in-line sixes, like the old Opels, the Triumph six, and others of the period. It’s a pleasant, roarty throb, but smooth and obviously harmless. We’ll indulge in the joys of inline sixes more in the future.
Speaking of European influence, the Comet and Falcons actually had a four-speed column-shifted stick option for a couple of years starting in 1961. It was sourced from the British Consul or Zephyr, and was a pretty rare bird. Four-on-the-trees were almost unheard of in the US. Oddly enough, according to one source, last week’s GMC Handi-Van and its twin Chevy Van were supposedly available with a column-shifted T-10 four speed in 1968. Weird. Can anybody confirm that, or know of any other US four-on-the-trees?
Like its namesake, the Comet’s sparkle was short lived. Once it earned itself the Mercury name, it became a slacker, and sales began a long decline. Maybe the Mercury name is a jinx. The ill-fated mid-sized Meteor, which appeared in 1962, didn’t help. It was a lightly reskinned Fairlane, but because the Comet was already a lengthened Falcon, it was almost mid-size itself. The Comet and Meteor were almost indistinguishable, and it all devolved into a typical Mercury muddle. It was not the winged god that gave Mercury its name; it was the mineral: it’s impossible to give it definition, and it’s deadly.
For a few years starting in 1964, Mercury tried to inject some performance vitality into the Comet, including some wild factory-supported drag racing Cyclones. Amusing wheelie machines and cult favorites, but they didn’t really help sell the metal on Mondays. By 1966, Comet morphed into a mid-sized car, which then became the Montego. And by 1971, the Comet’s highly irregular orbit was completed, and it suddenly reappeared as a badge-engineered Maverick. Wish me luck on finding one of those. And if history repeats itself, maybe we’ll see a 2011 Comet badge-engineered from the coming new Focus, if Mercury is still around by then. | <urn:uuid:34bd7e14-a91b-491c-ba9e-1bad335686f7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2009/10/curbside-classic-1960-comet/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962255 | 1,385 | 1.679688 | 2 |
Catalogs are the problem!
Librarians are the problem!
Students are the problem!
A new Chronicle article on trends in library catalog software has touched off an online reader debate about who’s to blame for patrons’ search frustrations and how to fix the situation. The article discussed how libraries are trying to out-Google Google with easy-to-use, online catalog-search software, while “pockets of resistance” in library circles feel the new products dumb down the research process.
That resistance was on display in reader gripes like this:
“Unfortunately, instead of teaching students how to conduct a precise search with few relevant results, faculty and librarians have found an easy way out — googlize everything.”
“Today it seems that just because our students come in knowing how to perform a Google search that that is all they need. Library databases are ‘tools.’ Knowing how to use a tool properly must be taught.”
But other readers rose in defense of users. Sort of:
“Much as I am also irritated by users who don’t know a keyword from a hole in the ground, the tendency to blame the user for not knowing how to use a catalog is exactly the kind of thinking that got us into this mess to start with. Yes, users are idiots. But good systems are designed for idiots and help idiots be successful despite their idiocy. That’s why Google is so popular, and why catalogs are not. Any tool that requires ‘instruction’ to use is doomed.”
Others pointed to the logistical problems of teaching better catalog use:
“Commenters who claim that students need to be taught the correct way to use existing catalogs need to come up with a comprehensive way to teach every student at a university this information. Librarians don’t often have access to a wide swath of students for instructional purposes; at many institutions, they are dependent on teaching faculty and instructors to want to integrate library instruction. More user-friendly catalogs seem much more realistic at this point.”
And here’s a blame-the-librarians take:
“Fact of the matter is students don’t know how to use the catalog, library instruction is limited and frankly usually offered by people who are terrified of Google and Web 2.0. You don’t need to revamp the library catalog and interface, you need to revamp the librarians and how they are taught.”
Susan L. Gibbons, vice provost and dean of the River Campus Libraries at the University of Rochester, summed up the discussion in an e-mail to The Chronicle:
“The commentary shows the all-too-common divide within libraries about information literacy. Some pine for the good old days when students had no choice but to come to the physical library and be forced to learn the idiosyncrasies of mastering a research tool, such as journal indices and the power of Library of Congress subject headings. Personally, I think libraries have gone from being in a monopolistic to a competitive marketplace for information; and that marketplace shift requires different thinking about services. I am of the opinion that libraries should do everything they can to lower the barrier of entry. Nothing should stand in the way of a student entering some search terms and discovering good resources. Once the student has entered into the (virtually or physically) library, then the rich complexities can be revealed.” | <urn:uuid:621ac004-37d1-4ecc-bf04-130a9618eebe> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/the-library-catalog-wars-chronicle-readers-weigh-in/8300 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00002-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939969 | 724 | 1.9375 | 2 |
LONDON.- Stuart Shave/Modern Art
presents a solo exhibition of new work by the British painter Nigel Cooke, Night Crossing. This is Cookes fourth solo exhibition with Modern Art.
Nigel Cookes paintings construct a dark and melancholic world; a deeply psychologised landscape filled with an atmosphere that articulates the trauma of creative dereliction. At its core, Cookes work is an allegorical conception of creativity and production, played out in a world populated by artists and philosophers. This is a place haunted by vagrant and degenerate martyrs who have caved-in to a parody of existentialism and committed themselves to experience over abstractions of thought. These characters abandon reason, wilfully and foolishly throwing themselves headlong into the unseen and unknown.
In this new exhibition Night Crossing, Nigel Cookes dramatic centre-piece is the monumental triptych Departure. Describing a voyage of discovery, Departure is set amidst the artists re-reading of Max Beckmanns triptych of the same title (1933-1935). Conceived in a climate of fear, the central image of Beckmanns work culminates in a belief in redemption and metaphysical release from worldly horror. Turned inside out, it is here that the action of Nigel Cookes Departure takes place. Where Beckmanns characters stand departed in a small boat on the calm open sea, Cookes characters are cast of their own volition into the unpredictable yet inevitable turmoil of a devastating storm, enduring a grave reckoning against nature. Having embarked upon an ill-fated trip that is to mark the triumph of experience over thought, Cookes protagonists are at the same time the subjects of existential crisis and an absence of redemption. Hubris is destructively confronted by the indifference of the world, and philosophy offers little in the way of consolation.
The abjection that Cookes characters evince from their circumstances manifests as a kind of courage: a mindless valour in the face of doubt. In the tradition of the fool drawn from Rousseau, Dostoyevsky, Nietzsche and Sartre, Cookes characters play out acts of failure, ignorance and thoughtlessness. These are states of potential rather than straightforward negatives. Throughout all Cookes work, foolish characterisation embodies a ridiculing of the vanities of artistic production, as well as celebrating the creative capacity for intellectual renewal, visionary thought and self-criticism.
Yet with all the uncertainty and incapacity that Cooke describes in his paintings, their coming to be is the result of his own pursuit of purpose and of painting. He demonstrates a technical faculty and deftness of painterly touch that is at complete odds with the pathetic, hackneyed daubs of his subjects. Cookes restless intellect has always fed continuous progression. Recent years have seen a subtle transformation of the pictorial content of his paintings as portraits of solitary figures succeed their ghostly, even absent, predecessors.
Cookes new series of full length portraits dictate a new and as yet unseen set of circumstances in which Cookes thickly bearded heroes of experience immerse themselves in the moment, isolated within a nightclub of some sort. Theirs too is a world of darkness and inescapable solitude, but bluntly contrasted with the palpable dejection and misery of Departure. Their moment is a euphoric peak, captured in full steam on a trip of a different kind. These characters loom large, painters painted in desperate, inglorious isolation: archetypes of creative martyrdom beset by unrelenting dystrophy.
Nigel Cooke was born in Manchester in 1973 and lives and works in London. Cooke was awarded a PhD in Fine Art from Goldsmiths College, London, in 2004, and MA Fine Art from the Royal College of Art, London, in 1997. Nigel Cooke has been the subject of solo museum shows at the Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2007), The Musuem of Fort Worth, Fort Worth (2006), Art Now, Tate Britain (2004), and South London Gallery, London (2006). Paintings by Nigel Cooke are held amongst the most esteemed international collections, including Tate, London; British Council, London; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art; UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Dallas Museum of Art; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; and Moderna Museet, Stockholm. Forthcoming solo exhibitions include Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, and Sammlung Goetz, Munich. Nigel Cookes work is currently on display in the exhibition Skin Fruit, curated by Jeff Koons, at the New Museum, New York. A new monograph featuring essays by Michael Bracewell and Martin Herbert is to be published by Walther König in late 2010. | <urn:uuid:a9272e54-feda-435f-a849-b12204e06963> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.artdaily.com/section/lastweek/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=37729&int_modo=2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00019-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.929911 | 990 | 1.609375 | 2 |
California is set to join 24 other states in prohibiting its Public Utilities Commission from imposing new regulations on VoIP and other Internet services without explicit authority from the state legislature.
SB 1161, a bill endorsed by major Silicon Valley trade groups, passed the California Senate by a wide bi-partisan majority in May, and recently cleared the state Assembly 63-12. It now awaits Gov. Jerry Brown’s signature.
Any law keeping would-be regulators from tinkering with the mechanics of the Internet ought to be greeted as a glorious victory for Internet freedom. But SB 1161 and its kin have been condemned by a vocal minority of academics and self-proclaimed consumer advocates.
Unable to impose their policy agenda at the federal level, these activists are now trying to fashion a crazy quilt of state and even local rules on everything from privacy to cybersecurity. SB 1161 would require them to make their case to state legislators rather than small groups of unelected state and local commissioners.
Even then, the prospect of fifty conflicting bodies of rules and rulemakers is frightening enough, as the sorry state of the E.U.’s Internet economy amply demonstrates. But their rationale for turning Internet governance over to local regulators is even scarier. Internet services have become so important, their argument goes, that local authorities ought to manage them like gas, water, or electric companies—that is, as public utilities..
Those calling for public utility treatment for VoIP and other Internet services clearly haven’t had much experience working with state PUCs, either as businesses or consumers. More to the point, they don’t seem to have the slightest idea what a “public utility” is.
While the effectiveness of state utility regulation has been hotly debated for the last century, the definition of a public utility hasn’t changed in hundreds of years. According to the classic 1964 book Public Utility Economics, they are that tiny subset of companies that “operate with government approval as monopolies and supply a service which is indispensable to modern life.” These, everyone agrees, are the two “unique characteristics” that justify public control of privately-owned services.
For true public utilities, monopoly is hard to avoid. If the cost of serving every resident requires enormous investment in infrastructure, effective competition is unlikely. Public utilities are therefore said to be “natural” monopolies. A public utility is thus a necessary evil—the single source for an indispensable service.
PUC regulation, in turn, is an extreme response to an extreme condition. In practice, public utilities operate much more like government agencies than like businesses. Regulated utilities are granted the power of eminent domain to build and maintain their infrastructure, but in return must offer service to all residents. Without PUC permission, they cannot “enter new markets, supply a new service, or abandon an existing market.”
But the most severe penalty for operating a regulated monopoly is losing control of prices. Throughout the long history of public utility regulation, the principal job of local PUCs has been to determine, in excruciating detail, what consumers will pay for the indispensable service--and precisely how much profit the provider is allowed to make.
As the California PUC puts it, rate-setting cases are the agency’s “major form of regulatory proceeding,” ensuring that “customer rates ultimately are based on the CPUC’s determination of how much revenue the utility reasonably requires to operate.” Rate-setting is a PUC’s hammer, whether the problem they’re trying to solve is a nail or not.
The case against public utility treatment for VoIP is strong. While applications such as Skype, Google Voice and Apple’s FaceTime bear a superficial similarity to still-regulated switched network local telephone service, the two have nothing in common when seen through the lens of PUC regulation.
For one thing, the genius of the packet-switched network means new VoIP services can reach every user worldwide without any specific infrastructure investment. You don’t need eminent domain to build software. No surprise, then, that even without regulation, competition is robust. According to the FCC, California consumers can already choose from over 125 VoIP providers.
Now consider the limited toolkit of a PUC: the power to set prices, levy taxes to subsidize residents who can’t afford basic service, require specific equipment, establish minimum service levels and pre-approve any change in offerings.
Force-fitting any of these remedies on VoIP providers would spell disaster. By using the Internet to route voice calls, for example, the physical distance between parties has no impact on cost or service level. “Local” and “long distance” mean nothing in the VoIP context. Why should a Skype call to my next-door neighbor cost any more or less than to a friend in London? (Both are free and untaxed.)
Speed also matters. PUC regulation necessarily slows—or worse—the rate of innovation in the industries it regulates. Digital entrepreneurs keep innovating faster, while the pace of regulators decelerates. Internet services are enhanced and redesigned on an on-going basis, sometimes several times a year. California’s PUC took seven years just to approve Caller ID.
And the cost of public utility “proceedings” is hardly trivial. The California PUC’s budget soared from $1.1 billion in 2011 to $1.4 billion in 2012. (The agency’s annual report doesn’t even bother to note that amount, or how it was spent.) Consumers have ample reason to doubt whether even under the best of circumstances that cost was offset by benefits. And there are other costs to public utility regulation, including long histories of scandal and corruption.
Finally, there is the endemic problem of “regulatory capture,” which, in its least insidious form, means that decades of intensive oversight traps both career regulators and company management in a deadly embrace. Both sides see each other as their one true client; a kind of mutual Stockholm Syndrome. After a hundred years of PUC operation, actual customers have been demoted in agency jargon to mere “rate-payers” or simply “meters.”
In objecting to SB 1161, notably, PUC Commissioner Mike Florio never once mentioned California consumers. Instead, he argued that leaving VoIP regulation to the FCC would be even worse. “I think that's a far bigger risk to the future of some of these technologies,” he said in an interview with Bloomberg BNA, “than anything this commission would ever do.”
(Indeed, the FCC has already imposed much of its wireline telephone rulebook on VoIP. Providers have been forced to re-architect their services to handle 911 services, and must follow data protection rules that have long applied to wired carriers. In April, the agency began looking to levy Universal Service fees, currently charged on every consumer's phone bill, to VoIP providers and possibly other Internet companies.)
The mutual dependence of PUCs and the industries they regulate explains why the prospect of losing out on a growing VoIP market sent California regulators into a tailspin. In a strange and unintentionally revealing report on SB 1161, for example, the agency’s legal division concluded that implementing a ban on future regulation would require 57 new hires and cost the state $1 billion or more.
Later, the PUC’s own General Counsel complained that the report had been issued without his approval, reflecting a “lapse in our system of internal controls.”
The agency’s Communications Division, meanwhile, determined that the bill would have no impact on currently regulatory activity. (The bill was later amended to make even clearer that traditional PUC power over legacy telephone carriers was unaffected).
In the end, the PUC voted to take a neutral position on the legislation. The decision not to decide, of course, took months. Which perhaps is all the proof needed of the wisdom of SB 1161, and of keeping Internet services as far from the world of public utility regulators as possible.
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Food processors and manufacturers are among those who should be forced to report tonnages of food waste from their business on an annual basis, a UK parliamentary report has said.
This was one of a raft of recommendations proposed by a House of Commons select committee as it strongly criticised the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) over its Waste Strategy for England 2007.
The plan and its follow up reports are “are long on rhetoric but short on a detailed action plan to deliver a low waste society”, said a statement from the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee. It said the department’s strategy had left “England’s waste mountain with no clear targets for its reduction, and leaves 90 per cent of waste without specific recycling targets”.
It criticised Government knowledge of commercial and industrial recycling rates as “patchy and outdated”. Instead Defra concentrates its efforts on achieving improved recycling rates in the domestic sector which accounts for only 10 per cent of England’s waste, the committee added.
Chairman of the cross-party group, the Rt Hon Michael Jack MP, said: "Defra must give a clear lead on what it thinks the potential is for business to reduce its waste levels and increase its rates of recycling. At the same time it must encourage companies to take a completely new view of waste and see it as a valuable source of raw material which must not be squandered in these difficult economic times".
The report highlights the “key role” that food suppliers, manufacturers and retailers have in reducing the “significant volume” of food wasted before it reaches the consumer. It said the food, drink and tobacco manufacturing industry produces some 7.2 million tonnes of waste a year. The committee acknowledged the majority of this is returned to the supply chain for reprocessing but that 1.9 million tonnes of is still sent to landfill.
In a bid to combat littering and fly-tipping, the committee recommended the Government look at the practicalities of applying a “clean up” tax on products that create most rubbish. Pinpointing the drinks and confectionery sectors – including chewing gum – the group suggested a charge on those industries which, “together with their packaging, contribute the largest volumes of litter”. Revenues from the clean-up levy could be given to councils to clear their areas of trash.
The report also said that all retailers with a turn-over greater than £50 million should publish details of their waste prevention strategies and recycling performance.
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This project was implemented by RADI to address discrimination suffered by Senagalese women in relation to inheritance and land ownership. Although women’s equal right to inheritance is recognized in the Constitution, certain interpretations of Muslim laws and customary laws continue to discriminate against women in Senegal. The project was undertaken in the Senegal River Valley, using three strategies: (a) social mobilization, (b) capacity building, and (c) advocacy with decision-makers.
The mission of REDRESS is to obtain justice for survivors of torture; hold accountable governments and individuals who perpetrate torture; and develop a means of ensuring compliance with international standards and securing remedies for victims. They pursue their mission through casework, advocacy, and capacity building. REDRESS has been actively documenting and acting upon the situation in Sudan since 2003. They have a wealth of resources on issues of sexual violence and are part of a joint initiative on criminal law reform in Sudan. They are based in London.
ZWD is a community-based organization working to create sustainable agriculture initiatives for women farmers; prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS; eliminate the practice of FGM; and respond to the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Darfur. A special focus of the organization is promoting girls’ education, especially in poor communities, and to provide capacity-building workshops for women leaders. ZWD has offices in Khartoum, Darfur, and El Gedarif as well as in the United States and has UN consultative status.
Founded in 1997, Salmmah’s goals are the establishment of a women's resource centre working on gender related issues and feminist theory in relation to the practices of women today. Salmmah also hopes to create a just society through spreading ideas of feminism, enhancing Women's Human Rights and Gender Equality. Salmmah's target group is women and youth, and it's programmes includes training, documentation and research. The centre provides information skills to women and conducts education on domestic violence and sexuality.
An organisation established to provide legal aid to women and paralegal training program for community leaders. Mutawinat also runs literacy, human rights, and legal rights awareness campaigns; fosters communication between women’s groups in Africa; works to eradicate FGM by developing and implementing new legal and educational strategies; and assists displaced and rural women. The organization also conducts and publishes studies and research concerning women’s development. Samia El-Hashmi is also a WRRC Programme's Women, Inheritance, and Property Rights working group member.
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Draghi Bank of Italy Knew of Monte Paschi Missteps in ’10
The Bank of Italy under former Governor Mario Draghi spotted accounting irregularities that allowed Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena SpA to mask losses more than two years before the lender was forced to say it will have to restate profit.
In 2010, “a problem came to light” on Monte Paschi’s booking of a structured deal called Santorini, Italy’s Rome- based central bank said in a report dated Jan. 28. The Bank of Italy alerted “other authorities” a year later and talks with those regulators, which it didn’t identify, haven’t concluded. It didn’t explain the delay in forcing the bank to disclose the information.
The Bank of Italy’s account of Monte Paschi’s use of derivatives, released yesterday, calls into question its oversight of the world’s oldest bank, which is seeking the second taxpayer bailout in four years. Bloomberg News revealed the Santorini deal in an article on Jan. 17. Monte Paschi (BMPS) borrowed about 1.5 billion euros ($2 billion) in December 2008 from Deutsche Bank AG (DBK) as part of a derivative deal, dubbed Project Santorini, that helped it disguise losses. Hours after the Bloomberg report, Monte Paschi said it will conduct a “thorough” review of several structured deals to determine their effect on previous years’ accounts as well as any future impact.
“I would have expected the Bank of Italy to have requested transparency from Monte Paschi back in 2010 after reviewing the transactions,” said Carlo Alberto Carnevale-Maffe, professor of business strategy at Milan’s Bocconi University. “Hidden documents found recently wouldn’t have changed the substance of the original findings.”
The Bank of Italy said that as early as 2010 it sought daily liquidity reports from the lender as margin calls on Santorini drained funds. The regulator said a week ago Monte Paschi hid documents, impeding its analysis of the “true nature” of the company’s dealings.
Regulatory oversight of Monte Paschi was “continuous and thorough” and the bank remains solid even with a capital shortfall and possible losses linked to structured deals, Finance Minister Vittorio Grilli said in parliament yesterday.
Monte Paschi fell as much as 6.8 percent in Milan trading and was down 5.9 percent to 25.2 cents at 1:45 p.m., giving the bank a market value of 2.94 billion euros.
Draghi, 65, led the Bank of Italy from 2005 to 2011, when he left to succeed Jean-Claude Trichet, 70, at the helm of the European Central Bank. He has worked as an economics professor in Italy, a financial diplomat at the World Bank, a bureaucrat at his country’s Treasury and a banker at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) In December 2005, he was named to replace Italian central bank Governor Antonio Fazio, 76.
Officials for the Bank of Italy didn’t have an immediate comment. Asked about Draghi’s role in overseeing Monte Paschi, an ECB spokeswoman declined to comment.
Prosecutors in Trani, Italy, opened an investigation into the Bank of Italy and market watchdog Consob’s supervisory activity on Monte Paschi, consumer group Adusbef said in an e- mailed statement today. The investigation follows a complaint submitted by the lobby earlier this year.
Santorini helped Monte Paschi obscure a 367 million-euro loss from an older derivative contract with Deutsche Bank, according to more than 70 pages of documents outlining the deal and obtained by Bloomberg News. As part of the arrangement, the Italian lender made a losing bet on the value of the country’s government bonds. The bank’s new management is still trying to determine the extent to which Santorini and two other derivative deals were used to distort earnings. Monte Paschi never disclosed the effect of the 2008 deal in its annual reports.
The bond bet was among transactions that drew the Bank of Italy’s scrutiny as early as 2009 as repo operations were “resulting in the absorption of high liquidity margins,” the regulator said in its Jan. 28 report.
The bank’s government bond holdings rose five-fold between 2009 and 2011 to more than 25 billion euros, resulting in deterioration in its capital level when the sovereign-debt crisis hit and Italy’s debt securities plunged. The bond losses and the strain of its 9 billion-euro purchase of Banca Antonveneta SpA in 2008 left the lender as the only major Italian bank to need a government bailout.
The central bank followed up with more probes in 2011 and 2012, though the 2010 “inspection did not reveal any information to support the launch of a sanctions procedure or an alerting of the legal authorities,” the central bank said.
Monte Paschi told the Bank of Italy in 2011 the structured deals were part of its “carry trade” strategies and weren’t submitted to its administrative body. Meantime, the U.S. Federal Reserve, Britain’s Financial Services Authority and Hong Kong’s regulator helped monitor the bank’s liquidity at its branches in New York, London and Hong Kong, the Bank of Italy’s report said.
Italy’s third-largest bank and prosecutors are now reviewing three money-losing derivative deals, Santorini, Alexandria and Nota Italia. The lender said it discovered in October that former managers signed a “mandate agreement” with Nomura Holdings Inc. (8604) to cover losses on a mortgage-backed derivative called Alexandria with new, riskier derivatives.
The hidden document, proving the link between the unprofitable Alexandria derivative with the new one, should have led the bank to book a loss of more than 200 million euros on the original transaction, instead of spreading it over the 30- year maturity of the new deal.
Monte Paschi Chief Executive Officer Fabrizio Viola, who took the helm a year ago, said Jan. 28 the bank has been unable to find a similar mandate agreement for the Santorini financing.
Monte Paschi will complete the review of the losses, which haven’t been quantified yet, in the first half of February, and they will be included in the bank’s 2012 accounts, Viola said.
The Bank of Italy’s role isn’t to “police” Monte Paschi, the current governor, Ignazio Visco, 63, said Jan. 25 in an interview with Bloomberg Television in Davos, Switzerland.
The Bank of Italy “summoned the senior management of Monte Paschi” and of the foundation that is its biggest shareholder in November 2011 “to make them face up to their responsibilities and ask Paschi to quickly and definitively turn around the way it conducts its business,” the report said.
Monte Paschi risks further losses of as much as 500 million euros on a 2010 securitization of about 1.5 billion euros of real estate loans, dubbed “Chianti Classico,” weekly Panorama said today, citing documents that include minutes of board meetings from November and December of last year. The bank “forcefully denied” in an e-mailed statement that the deal would produce losses.
Paschi’s general director Antonio Vigni left in January 2012, after almost six years at the top job. Executive Chairman Giuseppe Mussari, 50, who led the bank since 2006, stepped down in April and last week resigned as chairman of Italy’s banking association.
Italian consumer association Codacons is seeking to block Monte Paschi’s bailout. The group said it will file a complaint in a Rome administrative court against the Cabinet, Economy Ministry, Italy’s central bank and market regulator Consob, seeking 3.9 billion euros in damages from the Bank of Italy for not adequately monitoring the bank’s activities.
Codacons’ request follows criticism about the central bank’s supervision raised by some politicians, including former Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti and another consumer group, Adusbef.
“New derivative accounting policies are needed in Europe to avoid similar situations in the future,” said Giuseppe Di Taranto, professor of financial history at Rome’s Luiss University. “There’s too much room for interpretation under current rules.”
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Kabul, Afghanistan • The U.S.-led military coalition in Afghanistan is limiting airstrikes against houses to self-defense for troops, following a strike last week that killed women and children alongside insurgents, a spokesman for the alliance said Monday.
Such airstrikes are now being designated a weapon of last resort to rescue soldiers, cutting back their use.
Though airstrikes on homes are a small part of the international operations in Afghanistan, they have brewed resentment among Afghans, even when there are no casualties, because of the sense that homes and privacy have been violated.
Civilian deaths from such operations have threatened to derail the Afghan-U.S. alliance.
A pact signed by the Afghan government and the U.S. military in April putting Afghans in charge of joint raids in villages was supposed to ease these tensions, but the aftermath of Wednesday’s airstrike against a home in eastern Afghanistan has shown that the Americans are still making the decisions on the ground.
Afghan officials have said that 18 civilians were killed in the strike. President Hamid Karzai rebuked U.S. forces for failing to consult their Afghan counterparts before calling for an airstrike in the house where insurgents had taken cover. NATO discovered that civilians had died the next morning when villagers piled the bodies into vans to display to Afghan officials.
Karzai demanded in a meeting Saturday night with NATO and U.S. forces commander Gen. John Allen that the international troops ban all airstrikes on homes.
A spokesman for the alliance, Lt. Col. Jimmie Cummings, said Monday that airstrikes were being severely curtailed.
"We will continue to conduction combat operations against insurgents who use civilian dwellings, but we will not use air-delivered munitions against civilian dwellings unless it is a question of self-defense for our troops on the ground," Cummings said.
Commanders previously could order airstrikes against insurgents on houses, as long as they were confident that there were no civilians present. Cummings says that the new restrictions mean commanders will not be able to call in a strike unless it is necessary to save the lives of their troops. This applies even if it is clear there are no civilians in the house.
Lt. Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti, second in command in Afghanistan, said the new rules will not mean a large change for troops overall, because such air strikes make up a small portion of total. Of the more than 1,300 cases in which air support was called in since January, 32 damaged civilian compounds and five civilian casualties were confirmed, the Pentagon said in a statement.
"So the point I’m making is most of our .... engagements are engagements with the enemy that are not in compounds," he told Pentagon reporters in a video-conference from Afghanistan.
NATO forces are also in negotiations with Afghan officials about how to involve the Afghan military in decisions on airstrikes, Cummings said. Afghan forces have already had to sign off on joint operations in villages, but there has not been a procedure for involving them in the often split-second decision of when to call in air power.
Last year was the deadliest on record for civilians in the Afghan war, with 3,021 killed as insurgents stepped up suicide attacks and roadside bombs, according to the United Nations. The number of Afghan civilians killed dropped 36 percent in the first four months of this year compared with last year, though U.N. officials have said that a likely cause of the drop in violence was the particularly harsh winter.
Anti-government forces, including the Taliban and other militants, were responsible for 79 percent of civilian casualties in the first four months of this year, according to the U.N. tally, while Afghan and international forces were responsible for 9 percent.
Violence has started to increase with the warm summer weather, including regular reports of civilian casualties. Nine civilians were killed Monday in two separate incidents, including one in which an ambulance rushing a pregnant woman to a hospital struck a roadside bomb. The woman and four of her family members were killed in the blast in Sar-e-Pul province, the Interior Ministry said.
Also, two women and two children were killed Monday in the east when a mortar fired by insurgents hit their home in Ghazni province’s Gilan district, said Ghazni provincial spokesman Fazel Ahmad Sabawon. The militants appeared to be aiming for a government building nearby, he said.
In another development, the United Nations reported that it fired three Afghan officials as part of an investigation into allegations of fraud in the management of a $1.4 billion fund for the training and support of the Afghan police force. The program, which pays police salaries, is an important part of the effort to maintain security in Afghanistan as international forces draw down over the next two years.
"This ongoing investigation indicates zero tolerance toward fraud," said Brian Hansford, a spokesman for the U.N. Development Program, which oversees the Law and Order Trust Fund for Afghanistan. He declined to give specific information on those fired or the exact accusations. It was not immediately clear how much money was involved.
In Kabul on Monday, French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian met with Karzai and coalition officials, including Allen, as part of his trip to pay homage to four French soldiers who were killed on Saturday in eastern Kapisa province and visit the five other French soldiers who were wounded.
The recently elected French President Francois Hollande has promised to pull France’s 2,000 combat troops out of Afghanistan by the end of the year — well before the 2014 goal for the majority of NATO combat troops to leave the country.Next Page >
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Action! packed presentations
Is it possible to accurately tell a history story on film, and and have it also be engaging and entertaining to viewers?
What about in a theatre setting? When historians collaborate with actors, directors, cinematographers and others, is the final project a reflection of compromise, or does one participant's vision have to ultimately rule?
This morning, I managed to fit in two separate presentations, each dealing with history on film, or more accurately, historians participating in filmmaking.
The first presentation was a round table, titled "Theatre, History, Storytelling."
Participants came from the full spectrum -- there were historians who acted or act as consultants to theatre companies, historians who have had their works adapted into films, as well as directors, and playwrights, who are both tasked in their own ways with interpreting history and presenting it in a fashion that engages their audience.
Tough questions were raised.
What is the role of the historian? To ensure accuracy in the details of the history displayed in the production?
What if the movie or play is a revisioning of something like Macbeth, and the director wants to move the time period several centuries into the future to "update it" for the audience? Does a historian argue that this destroys the accuracy of the piece? Or are they really there to ensure authenticity -- that the work is true to the intentions of the person who first produced it?
The second session, titled Film and Public Memory, explored the way film can help us understand our understanding, and in some cases, misunderstanding, of the way we think we understand the past. (Now that's a mouthful!)
The bottom line for both presentations? That film is an extremely complicated medium in which to tell a history story, raising many questions for both the people who make them, and the audience that views them.
Thankfully, many historians are up to the challenge.
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Indoor Tanning: The Risks of Ultraviolet Rays
Brittany Lietz Cicala of Chesapeake Beach, Md., began tanning indoors at age 17. She stopped at age 20 when she was diagnosed with melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer. The former Miss Maryland says she used tanning beds at least four times a week, and sometimes every day.
"Growing up, until I started using tanning beds, my parents were very strict about me wearing sunscreen," says Cicala. Although she also tanned in the summer sun during her 3 years of tanning bed use, Cicala estimates that 90 percent of her UV exposure was in tanning beds during this period.
In the 4 years since she was diagnosed with melanoma, Cicala’s surgeries have left her with about 25 scars. Cicala gets a head-to-toe skin exam every 3 months, which usually results in removal of a suspicious growth.
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Let's look at this issue from a historic perspective. In 2010, the federal government spent 92 billion dollars on transportation, while the total government (federal, state and local) transportation bill was 271 billion dollars. As a matter of perspective, the federal spending in 2010 was 3,456 billion dollars, and the total government spending was 5,799 billion dollars. In other words, out of every dollar that Obama spent in 2010, only 2.7 cents went for transportation. For all levels of the US government, the number was only slightly higher - 4.67 cents on the dollar. In short, the spending on roads, bridges, airports and "everything else that has to do with transportation" is a minor portion of the budget - practically a rounding error. So, every time when a liberal tells you that he needs more of your money to fix the roads - show him this statistics.
Now, while the transportation costs are a minor blip compared to the entire government spending, these are far from being small if you put them in historical perspective. Here is a singular point of reference - the launch of Interstate Highway System during the Eisenhower presidency. During the first 5 years of the project (1956-1960), the federal government built 10,000 miles of highway. It was far from an easy task, according to this government publication:
High standards were adopted for the interstate highway system. Access to all interstates was to be fully controlled. There would be no intersections or traffic signals. All traffic and railroad crossings would be grade separated, requiring the construction of more than 55,000 bridges. Interstates were to be divided and have at least four wide traffic lanes (two in each direction) and adequate shoulders. Curves were to be engineered for safe negotiation at high speed, while grades were to be moderated, eliminating blind hills. Rest areas were to be conveniently spaced. Each interstate was to be designed to handle traffic loads expected 20 years after completion.I've collected the information on the cost of this project during these 5 years, and the total federal transportation spending from 1956 to 1960 was 110 billion dollars (in 2010 dollars) - which is only slightly above the federal transportation spending for 2010 alone (92 billion dollars). In fact, in 2009, the federal government spend another 107.2 billion dollars for the transportation improvement. If one includes the fact that technology advanced considerably during the last half a century, it remains remarkable that president Obama was able to spend so much money on "roads and bridges", enough money to build 20,000 miles of the interstate highway - and yet deliver so little. For all intents and purposes I could not even find any publication which would tell us how many thousands of miles of highway the federal government built in 2009 or 2010 - and I strongly suspect that the actual number is probably measured in hundreds of miles, if even that.
In order to illustrate the absurdity of the current situation (and to demonstrate how difficult it would be for the Democrats to make the federal government work), let me show a comparison between two projects, 80 years apart.
Empire State Building
The Empire State Building is an architectural marvel, and one of the most striking attractions in New York City. The building itself was constructed during the Great Depression and is a living monument to that era and the city it so proudly illuminates... For 40 years after it was constructed, it held the record for being the largest skyscraper in the world. The building has starred in over 90 movies, and it remains one of New York City's most popular tourist attractions.
At the time it was built, the Empire State Building was the center of a competition between Walter Chrysler, of the Chrysler Corporation, and John Raskob, creator of General Motors. The competition, appropriately enough, was to see who could build the highest building first... In the year 1929, Mr. Raskob set about this task with a group of very well known investors...
The excavation for the project began on January 22, 1930 and took only one year and 45 days to complete, or 7 million hours. The masonry for the structure was completed on May 1, 1931, significantly ahead of schedule. On that date, President Herbert Hoover pressed a button in Washington, D.C. to officially open the building by turning on the Empire State Building's lights.
The total cost to construct the skyscraper was $40,948,000, including the cost of the land. The building alone was constructed with a little over $24,000,000.
According to this site, in 2010 dollars, the total cost of the Empire State building is 500,000,000 dollars (in my calculation, it's closer to 590,000,000 dollars, but I digress). So, on one side we have an "architectural marvel", "one of the most striking attractions in New York City", which is 1,050 feet above ground with 102 floors and 6,500 windows. What have we got on the other side?
Columbia River Interstate Bridge
The Interstate Bridge (also Columbia River Interstate Bridge, I-5 Bridge, Portland-Vancouver Interstate Bridge, Vancouver-Portland Bridge) is a pair of nearly identical steel vertical-lift, through-truss bridges that carry Interstate 5 traffic over the Columbia River between Vancouver, Washington, and Portland, Oregon, in the United States...On one side, this bridge is no "Empire State Building", not even close. The Oregon architects also don't need to buy the land in Manhattan to build a architectural marvel. And yet, note that the estimated cost of replacement is nearly 8 times the cost of the Empire State Building. But that's not all - there is more.... According to the official site:
The bridge is frequently a bottleneck which impacts both traffic on the freeway, as well as on the river. The Oregon and Washington state departments of transportation are jointly studying how to replace the bridge. Initially, the estimated cost for a replacement bridge was around $2 billion, but that number has climbed steadily to around $4.2 billion.
1. How much have we spent on the project [rebuilding the Columbia River Interstate Bridge], what do we get from it, and where did the money come from?After spending 6 years deliberating on how to replace the Interstate Bridge (3 times longer than it took to build the Empire State Building - from a concept drawn on napkin to the actual building open for customers) and spending 127 million dollars (more than 20% of the total cost of the Empire State Building project), the governments of Oregon and Washington still could not decide on what they wanted to build. According to another official site,
Since 2005 the project has spent a total of $127 million. It has been funded about equally by Washington and Oregon, with additional contributions from the federal government. The current phase of the project is wrapping up this year. Since 2005, the funds have been spent on engineering, project management, transit planning, public involvement and communications (required by the federal NEPA process), and environmental studies, including preparation of a Draft and Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). The majority of the money spent to date in all project areas supports the current project design, including the bridge type.
The Columbia River Crossing project team is currently refining designs for each of the project’s components based on public and local partner agency input.In case you are wondering, the governors of both states, Oregon and Washington are hard-core liberals.
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Should Your Family Share a Bed?
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And, for working parents, the family bed may provide a chance to spend extra time bonding with the children.
Proponents of the family bed point out that in most cultures around the world, cosleeping is the norm. They say studies show the benefits are myriad: Babies who sleep with their mothers will nurse more, have better immune systems from the increased breastfeeding, are more secure and develop stronger self-esteems. Bed sharing also helps the baby regulate his heart rate and temperature, and facilitates mother-child bonding, studies show.
But it's not without controversy.
The American Academy of Pediatrics cautions against sleeping with an infant in your bed because of the danger of accidental suffocation or death. And while the AAP doesn't discount the benefits of sleeping in proximity to a child, it holds that babies reap similar benefits if they are in a bassinet near the parents' bed, or are provided with other nearby but separate sleeping arrangements.
The statistics certainly indicate that cosleeping can be dangerous and even deadly, but family bed advocates say the numbers paint an inaccurate picture because they include babies who suffocated when a parent accidentally fell asleep in an easy chair or on a couch with them. These proponents counter that cosleeping is safe as long as parents are thoughtful and deliberate about a baby's sleeping environment, take care to remove hazardous objects such as thick duvets and fluffy pillows, and never sleep with a baby when impaired by alcohol or medication.
Once a child passes infancy, the family bed raises other issues. Tova Klein, director of the Barnard Center for Toddler Development, says that while co-sleeping arrangements may make sense in other, more collectivist cultures, in our highly individualistic society co-sleeping may send a mixed message.
"As children get older in our culture, toddlers begin to separate," she says. "It can get confusing for a child sleeping with a parent at a time when they're supposed to be separating."
Claire Jones, a sleep specialist at parent coaching service Urban Nurture, echoes that.
"It helps them to be more independent when they are sleeping in their own beds," she says. "They're going to be going to school, they're going to be napping in the day, they need from an early age to be able to soothe themselves."
But Susan Goodwyn, emeritus professor of psychology and child development at Cal State University, Stanislaus, sees it differently. While we certainly are living in an individualistic culture, children who sleep with their parents feel more secure, she counters.
"When they're confident, they're able to wander out and learn more," she says. In her experience, children eventually decide for themselves when they feel ready to sleep in their own beds.
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Yet another week has passed in Mrs. Carmack’s kindergarten classroom. Like always, our kindergarteners were excited to see what was in store for them. Unlike our normal game day plans for our kindergartners, today was quite different. Students were asking one another to be their valentine for the day. But, in addition to a regular Valentine’s Day celebration, our celebration was updated to include a variety of Valentine’s Day math activities. Let me clue you in on these special activities for the day.
Hearts Dice Game:
The purpose of this game was for children to practice recognizing number patterns on the dice, as well as recognizing the total number of dots that were rolled. So, the students would have to add the two numbers that they rolled. Students had a heart worksheet with the numbers 2-10 (a number in each heart) and were trying to be the first one to color in all of their hearts on the worksheet. The student would roll 2 dice, add them together, and then color that number. When 2-10 is colored, the student was to roll 1 die until all of the one’s were colored. One freebie was given as everyone would color the zero as a “free space.”
We’ve Got the Beat:
In this game, the kindergartners were learning about their hearts by taking their pulses after participating in jumping jacks. The students learned what makes the pulse they feel and were able to figure out how many times their heart beats in a minute by estimating what their heart rate will be. Students would take their heart beat before and after exercise, and then double the number.
Be My Valentine (100’s chart)
What number is more than 74? What number is 1 less than 39? These were the type of questions which students had to answer in order to color a number on their chart. Eventually, when students were done filling out their charts the colored numbers turned out to be a heart.
Independent Group (Valentines to parents)
The students were directed to make two Valentine’s Day cards to anyone of their choice. This was just a fun activity for the students to participate in, when they are not involved in the other math activities going on.
Mrs. Carmack was in charge of this particular activity. She is assessing the students to see how well they are starting to recognize the patterns on the dominoes, and see if they can start to grasp the idea that there are two sets of patterns on one domino.
The game that I was in charge of was the “Hearts Dice Game”. Like I stated above, the purpose of this game was for the students to practice recognizing the patterns on the dice and adding the two die together. I noticed that most of the kindergarteners still had difficulty with being able to consistently recognize these patterns. There were some students who could recognize some patterns such as three, four, or five, but the majority of the time they would have to count the number of dots for the remaining numbers. One particular student impressed me because she was the only student who could recognize the pattern in her head, add the two numbers to herself, and finally say the answer aloud. It was also a challenge for the students to recognize the number symbol. Many of the students would continuously ask me what number 7, 8, 9 and so on looked like.
Overall though, the Valentine’s math celebration for our kindergartners was a success. The students were able to engage in a variety of math activities, as well as interact with one another to have fun on this special day. I hope each of you were able to celebrate Valentine’s Day celebration just like our kindergartners. Please continue to follow our kindergartners progress on our blogs when we return from spring break!
Posted on February 15th, 2010 by dana-wleklinksi
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A major in linguistics can lead you toward a diverse career path. So, it is best to identify your interests and skill set before graduation day arrives. In order to successfully prepare for the linguistic job of your choice, get acquainted with your career options early on. Keep in mind that some jobs for linguists may require you to have a graduate degree.
Translator or Interpreter
Linguists who are fluent in two or more languages can choose either translation or interpreting (or both) as a profession. Translators and interpreters convert one language into another language. However, translators work only with written texts and interpreters only with spoken language. Both career paths involve some degree of specialization, as it is important to be knowledgeable about the material you are working with. Translators and interpreters often work on a contract and/or freelance basis. They can find jobs within the government, schools, hospitals, courts, corporations, and publishing.
English Language Teaching
Linguists are ideal candidates for teaching languages, especially since they have a specialized understanding of how languages are structured and learned. One popular option is to teach English as a Second Language (ESL). As an ESL teacher, you plan and tailor lessons according to your students' language needs. You can teach at private language schools or within the public school system. In addition to a linguistic degree, it might be necessary to obtain a teaching certificate. ESL teachers are in demand within the United States and overseas.
If you have a passion and fascination for the law, then forensic linguistics might be a career path to pursue. Forensic linguists specialize in analyzing and interpreting the language of the law. They are often called upon in criminal and civil court cases. Duties can involve analyzing legal documents, police reports, criminal confessions, eyewitness testimony, and audio voice recordings. Forensic linguists sometimes play a major role in freeing people wrongly accused of a crime. To qualify for this career, you generally need a master's degree.
Linguists who have knowledge of computer science can choose to specialize in computational linguistics. Although the field can be quite varied, computational linguistics involves helping computers develop language skills. Popular examples of computational linguistics include such computer tools as automated grammar correction, language translation, and voice recognition programs. There are majors devoted entirely to computational linguistics, and career options include working for corporations, government agencies, and research universities.
The traditional route for linguists is to teach and research at the university level. A graduate degree is usually required, as is previous research and/or publication experience. Linguists can teach in academic departments such as English, linguistics, anthropology, sociology, and foreign languages. It is important to note that tenure-track positions in linguistics can be highly competitive.
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Having had a mother who was ill most of my childhood, I have grown up believing you get the health care you demand in this country. Did you know that 80% of the caregiving in this country is provided by families? And – since families are really the front line of health care, it’s important for all of us to be as well informed as is humanly possible. If you’ve got older parents, chances are you’ll be one of their best resources as they negotiate the healthcare system.
What do you do? #1 – Get familiar with the various Medicare plans, deadlines, and other health coverage they might have.
#2 – Assess your parents’ overall health. Are they active or chronically ill. Travel frequently or are they homebodies? Do they take regular medications? Does their doctor accept Medicare? Are they in and out of the hospital frequently? The answers to these questions will help you choose the best Medicare options for them.
#3 –Determine your parents’ resources? Everyone over 65 must sign up for Medicare, but it also has co-pays and deductibles. Do they have other coverage a former employer? Do they have resources available if something unexpected happens? Can they afford extra insurance – there are plans to cover the gaps and there are ways to compare them.
Time is the one thing none of us have enough of – and this process DOES take time. But if time is also money, then chances are you’ll save quite a bit of it by doing your homework before crisis hits. Not long ago, I taped a show for RLTV on Medicare and we shared a ton of great resources that can be helpful. You’ll find them HERE. | <urn:uuid:4bd6890a-ab68-4b80-9f95-d31f9342d097> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://dnorville.com/article.php?id=208 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00019-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969259 | 357 | 1.726563 | 2 |
Jenkins Dance Company
Each persons unique memory is equally valid. That was what Margaret Jenkins and Ellie Klopp said in an online discussion on Voice of Dance. And that was an idea their performers expressed in Breathe Normally, the current project on display by the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company.
In a piece executed onstage by five dancers including Jenkins and Klopp, who is the Associate Artistic Director and two actors, the performers recall, reenact and recount tragedies in their family history. They contradict each other and themselves as they agonize over the details. How many people were in the car when it fell over the bridge, who was in the front seat, who was in the back, how many brothers were there, how many wives, how many died This obsession to piece together the past becomes comical at times, tickling the audience in spite of the sad subject.
But Breathe Normally is more than the eight performers on stage. A screen that decisively separates the rear half of the stage from the fore not only provides a third dimension to the stage but is also used to project video images of an hourglass and black-and-white family photos, invoking the passage of time and nostalgia. The lighting design effectively creates a mood of melancholy. The chairs are cleverly used and rearranged to project a home at rest, a family in anguish, a vehicle before the accident or immigrants settling. The most dramatic element however of Breathe Normally is the text by Rinde Eckert. And the most dramatic representation of the text comes in the form of taped voices, including that of Olympia Dukakis, who is also credited as a creative consultant.
At times, Breathe Normally appears to belabor its points. The details of the tragedies constantly being contradicted makes the audience stop caring about the stories. However, the beauty of the movements such as, for example, the graceful passing of furniture and suitcases by the immigrant family manages to keep the audience focused on the stage.
Still, the text is what holds this piece together and in a memorable sequence, two voices are heard recounting the accident. A daughter, in her narration, contradicts her mothers version of the story. The audience may be inclined to believe the mother, as she is one of the survivors. However, the mother falters in her recollection, contradicting herself and leaving the audience wondering if one version of the incident is more valid than the others. Or if they are all equally valid.
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Wireless Communication Policy
The purpose of this policy is to identify the requirements that wireless communications technology must meet to provide the University with reliable and secure wireless services.
Access Point: An access point is a piece of hardware that serves as a common connection point for devices on a wireless network and also connects to the wired network allowing wireless access to the campus network.
This policy covers all wireless data communication devices (e.g., personal computers, cellular phones, PDAs, etc.) connected to any of Longwood University's networks. This includes any form of wireless communication device capable of transmitting data over a network. Wireless devices and/or networks without any connectivity to Longwood University's networks do not fall under the purview of this policy.
Implementation of Wireless Access:
- All wireless services in use at Longwood University will be supported, maintained and protected by Information and Instructional Technology Services (IITS) for use by its faculty, staff, students and any other authorized individuals.
- Wireless networking is provided as a supplement to wired networking, but due to issues including bandwidth and reliability wireless networking is not a substitute for wired connections.
Protection of Wireless Services: All users of University wireless services should be aware that IITS will implement the following standards for protecting wireless services:
- Will maintain encryption between the data communication device and the access point.
- May register and track a hardware address (ex. MAC address) of those devices accessing the network.
- Will prohibit physical access to wireless access points by anyone other than authorized IITS staff.
- Will support the use of Longwood's virtual private network (VPN) technology. Further details may be found in the Remote Access policy.
Expectations of Use: Due to its dependence on a scarce and shared resource, radio communication is subject to additional rules concerning interference and shared use.
Interference or disruption of authorized wireless communications or unauthorized interception of any wireless communications is prohibited.
The University regards any violation of this policy as a serious offense. Violators of this policy are subject to disciplinary action, in addition to possible cancellation of information technology (IT) resources and systems access privileges. Users of IT resources and systems at Longwood are subject to all applicable local, state and federal statutes. This policy does not preclude prosecution of criminal and civil cases under relevant local, state, federal and international laws and regulations.
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Revised and approved by the Board of Visitors, September 14, 2006.
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A protest group more than 1,000 strong has marched into the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince to combat the government’s plans to clear out poor neighborhoods. With some of the protestors threatening to burn down affluent neighborhoods in the area, police have taken action to try to break up the group with tear gas.
Haiti’s government claims that the neighborhoods are located on instable hillsides, and are in direct danger from landslides. Meanwhile, the residents of these places say they cannot afford to make anywhere else their home. The government eviction plan is part of a project to protect citizens from natural disasters like floods.
According to Pierre Andre Gedon, an official within the country’s environmental ministry, the government plans build channels and replant trees in the hillside region to redirect flood waters that plague the city during the rainy season.
In the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake, housing continues to be an issue for the citizens of Port-au-Prince. Minister for Human Rights Rose-Anne August has said the government would provide new homes for the displaced people. “We can’t allow people to endanger their lives in slums that can collapse any moment,” she said.
Still, the protesters are not confident in their government’s plan. One of the protestors expressed his doubts to a local news agency. “These decisions are always made against the poor; the rich have huge homes that aren’t affected,” he said. | <urn:uuid:9f151acc-c8a9-4dc9-9978-c18af5484f4f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://atlantablackstar.com/2012/06/26/haitians-protest-government-eviction/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00073-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961935 | 307 | 2.28125 | 2 |
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery City bus in Alabama on Dec. 1, 1955.
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — As part of the town’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day week-long celebration for town employees, Chapel Hill Transit workers will reenact Rosa Parks’s historic bus sit-in, reported The Daily Tar Heel
. The town was one of the first in North Carolina to recognize Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a town holiday in 1984— two years before it was a national holiday.
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HB 437 (BR 1611) - T. Riner
AN ACT relating to awards for students and teachers.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to establish a fund to provide awards to high achieving high school students and to their teachers; identify the corporation responsible for administering the awards program; amend KRS 164A.337 to conform; name Section 1 of this Act for the Commonwealth's official Latin motto in honor of the students who advocated the passage of legislation designating the phrase in the 2002 Regular Session of the General Assembly.
Feb 11-introduced in House
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Today and yesterday, Grierson & Leitch honors America by spotlighting films that exemplify the best our country has to offer—and the worst. Yesterday: Movies that made us feel worse about America. Today: Movies that made us love this goddamned country.
Tim Grierson: JFK
Twenty-one years after the fact, it's still amazing that JFK was ever made. A film that doggedly, fanatically pursues the conspiracy theory that President Kennedy's assassination was orchestrated by, among others, the CIA and Lyndon Johnson, JFK is that rare Hollywood film that caused controversy not because of its violence or sexual content, but because it unapologetically insisted that everything the government told us about the events of November 22, 1963, was a lie.
Only someone who had won two Best Director Oscars in the span of three years would have the clout to get a movie like this made. But even then, only someone like Oliver Stone would have the gumption to do it. Watching this three-hour behemoth, you got the sense that Stone was willing to set his career on fire, that he was pouring every ounce of his skeptical heart and paranoid soul into this hyperbolic whodunit. Working with Oscar-winning cinematographer Robert Richardson and editors Joe Hutshing and Pietro Scalia, Stone didn't just recreate an era—he made it feel as vital and alive as the present, as if the filmmaker were insisting that we're all still living in the shadow of that dark period in American history. Even more astoundingly, he got a big star (Kevin Costner) and a major studio (Warner Bros.) to get behind it. Big corporations exist to keep such subversive, reckless art from reaching the masses—how the hell did this thing escape?
But JFK isn't a great American movie because Stone lays out an airtight case for his conspiracy claims. (He doesn't. His theory's nuts, not to mention offensive. When in doubt, Stone seems to be saying, suspect anybody who's homosexual—after all, you know how "they" are.) No, what makes it great is how Stone brings all his talent and passion to bear on a cause he cares so much about. And that cause isn't so much "Who killed Kennedy?" as it is preserving the dream of the 1960s counterculture that's been his Rosebud in films as different as Platoon, The Doors, and Nixon. And so it was perfect that he cast Costner to play New Orleans D.A. Jim Garrison. After Bull Durham, Field of Dreams, and Dances With Wolves, Costner was Hollywood's official American Everyman, and Stone utilized his star's air of Reagan-era righteousness to show that dissent was as patriotic as waving the flag.
For all of Stone's bluster and hyperventilating stylishness, JFK has a steady, rising anger that goes beyond magic bullets and Clay Shaw. It's a rallying cry for ordinary Americans to expect their leaders to live up to the high ideals they profess to hold dear. JFK wouldn't be nearly so stirring if, deep down, it wasn't about what a great country this is—not a perfect one, but a land with such promise that has yet to be fulfilled. Costner's concluding speech—though terribly sappy—is still uplifting because it argues for the power that individuals have in a democracy, and its messiness is part of what makes it compelling. When I think about America, I always consider what a blessing it is that it's a country that allows people to take chances, fail, pick themselves up, and try all over again. That's what makes JFK such a quintessential American film: It sets its goals high, and even if it falls short, it reaches anyway.
Will Leitch: There Will Be Blood
Americans love a self-made man. We love the idea of someone starting with nothing and building himself up, through good old American know-how and elbow grease, to become a captain of industry. We fetishize this American entrepreneur, to the point that we imagine the most wealthy in our society to be like this, rather than silver-spoon trust-fund kids who keep finding ways to fall upward. (You see this with every professional sports labor dispute: People imagine the team owners to be the ones who earned their wealth rather than the players, when it's of course the exact opposite.)
I am not immune to this: This is part of the great American myth that we all sort of need to survive even if we know it's not real. I know that Daniel Plainview is a monster, a devouring miscreant who openly "hates most people" and who "looks at people and sees nothing worth liking." But I also understand his perfectly logical response: "I want to earn enough money that I can get away from everyone." Today, he'd be in a gated compound in Florida, screaming at the president when he comes on television, fighting his heirs incessantly and on his fifth trophy wife, whom he hates (and who returns the favor).
This might not be the prettiest picture of America, but I prefer to think of that part, the fall, as more Daniel Plainview than Typical American. (And even Daniel is hopeful, in his own way; after admitting he doesn't care about his son, he wonders whether that'll change, like a man regaining his hearing.) To me, I like to believe in the first 45 minutes, the idea that a man can show up in the middle of nowhere—in a truly dreadful, dead part of nowhere—and make something of himself through hard work, determination, and a willingness to break his damn leg to get by. He doesn't need anyone but himself. This has always been an American ideal, for better or worse. Plainview will let nothing stand in his way. We love a self-made man. It's a driving force behind our economy, our desires, our dreams, our platonic ideals. We will always believe anybody can make something of himself. This is empirically false. That doesn't mean it doesn't matter that we still all believe it.
I can look at Plainview's indulgences and excesses and misanthropy and pity him, but that doesn't mean deep down I don't respect how he built himself up from nothing. It's in our bones; it ultimately hurts us more than it helps. I still love it, about us, about America; we still, always, believe. He is an American ideal. He is a monster. You can watch There Will Be Blood and know that Paul Thomas Anderson knows that there's nothing wrong with him being both. I'm not sure the American Dream has ever been summarized better than this exchange:
Plainview: There was that house in Fond Du Lac that John Hollister built—do you remember? I thought as a boy that was the most beautiful house I'd ever seen and I wanted it. I wanted to live in it, and eat in it and clean it. And even as a boy, I wanted to have children to run around in it.
Henry Brands: You can have anything you like now, Daniel, and you should. Where are you gonna build it?
Plainview: Here, maybe. Near the ocean.
Henry Brands: Would you make it look like that house?
Plainview: I'm sure if I saw that house now it'd make me sick.
America is about dreams, and wanting, and aspiration: And never being satisfied. It's not good for us. It hurts the world. But it's who we are. It is undeniably, and sorta proudly, who we are.
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Chowrastha in Nepali means a place where four roads meet. The promenade is also popularly known as the “Mall”. Situated on the upper ridge of the town Chowrastha truly reflects the charm of this hill station. One will invariably find local relaxing on the benches, gossiping and lazing around the square. A walk around the Mall road provides you a panoramic view of the glistening Kanchenjunga towering over the rolling mountains. The roads leading to Chowrastha are dotted with glittering shops filled with the famous Darjeeling tea, curio shops offering local handicrafts, information centres, studios, cafes and restaurants and also an arena for pony rides.
Also Know to the locals as the "Holy Hill", it is just a few minutes walk from Chowrasta and is situated on the highest ridge of the town. The Mahakal temple atop the hill is a revered place for the locals and visitors will be surprised to find a hindu priest and a Buddhist monk sharing a common altar.
Dhirdham temple is modelled on the lines of the famous Pashupatinath temple of Kathmandu and was built in 1939. It is a mere two minutes walk from the Darjeeling Railway Station.
Japanese Temple and The Peace Pagoda
The Nipponzon Myohoji Buddhist Temple, was set up in 1972. The Peace Pagoda provides the perfect place to rediscover the serenity in your life and a stunning view of the hills.
This monastery is situated at Dali, about 4 kms away from Darjeeling town. This is one of the most famous monasteries belonging to the Kargyupa sect. The pioneer of this monastery was Thuksay Rimpoche, who died in 1983 and his incarnate is reported to have been born in 1986 at Ladakh. This monastery is theheadquarters of Drukchen Rimpoche, XII, the supreme head of the Kagyupd lineage.
Built in 1875 by Lama Sherab Gyatso, this ancient monastery is said to have been blessed by the renowned Tomo Geshe Rimpoche of Tibet. The specialty of this monastery is that it contains the statue of the 'Future Coming Buddha' known as Maitreye Buddha. The Monastery has also preserved some of the rare handwritten Buddhist manuscripts. You could visit the monastery on your return journey to Darjeeling from Tiger Hill.
Note: One can visit Tiger Hill, Batasia Loop and the monasteries at Dali and Ghoom, as a single package.
Tashi Dargyalingh Monastery or the Tamang Ghumba
The Tamangs are a sub community of the Gorkha / Nepali and mostly belongs to the Nyingmapa sect. Established in 1926 this is one of the oldest monasteries of the community.
The Mag - Dhog Yolmowa Buddhist Monastery (Aloobari Monastery)
Situated on the Old Military Road commonly known as the Aloobari road, the Mag-Dhog Yolmowa Buddhist Monastery was founded by its, Ven. Sangay Lama, the head priest who originally hailed from Nepal. The construction of the monastery, coincided with the beginning of the First World War in 1914. The monastery was therefore name Mag-Dhog or warding off the war and is dedicated to the cause of world peace. The statues of Lord Buddha depicting different forms and the statue of Padma Sambhava at this religious place is stunning. The paintings on the wall are said to be done with the help of herbs and are an amazing work of art. Other interesting features of the monastery are the valuable ancient scriptures lying inside the monastery
The park has been recently renovated by the Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council and is now a major attraction in town. One can also witness different cultural programmes organised by the DGHC, Department of Culture and Information every evening . The park is situated close to the PNHZP but tourists are advised to visit the park during the evening.
Himalayan Mountaineering Institute
The Himalayan Mountaineering Institute was set up following the successful ascent of Mount Everest- the highest peak in the work by the local hero Tenzing Norgay Sherpa and Sir Edumund Hillary on 28 May 1953. The oldest mountaineering institute in the country carries out various mountaineering courses every year. Apart from Tenzing, legendary mountaineers like Nawang Gombu (the
first man to climb Everest twice) and Lattoo Dorjee Sherpa have helped build the reputation of this pioneering institute. The institute is presently under the purview of the Minstry of Defence, Government of India and its museum is worth a visit. For further details visit: www.hmidarjeeling.com
Tibetan Refugee Self-Help Centre
"Our way may be hard and long one, but I believe that the truth and faith must ultimately prevail". -- His Holiness the Dalai Lama. After his Holiness escaped from Tibet, thousands of Tibetan refugees came to reside in India. Darjeeling too became a home away from home for the Tibetans in exile. le. To rehabilitate the community a ten-member committee was formed in Darjeeling to organize a rehabilitation centre which was known "Tibetan Refugee Self-Help Center". The centre was established on October 1, 1959 and the residents of the centre are today known for their handicrafts. The centre makes excellent carpets, woolen goods, woodwork etc which are famous across the globe.
Note: While visiting the centre one can also stop by Tenzing and Gombu rock to watch the HMI students perfecting the art of rock climbing.
Thongsha Gumpa -Of Bhutanese origin and one of the oldest monasteries in the region.
Zong Dong Palri Fo-Brang Monastery-Situated at Durpin Dara
Tharpa Choling Monastery-Situated at Tirpai Hill.
Gauripur House- Rabindra Nath Tagore first recited his poem Janmadin live on All India Radio from this place. | <urn:uuid:019654e2-a21d-40b0-bc87-73aa32e94a1e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.khochateas.com/Places-of-Interest.asp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00014-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951568 | 1,283 | 1.640625 | 2 |
Cape Naturaliste Lighthouse on Cape Naturaliste, Western Australia.
Cape Naturaliste is a headland in the south western region of Western Australia at the western edge of the Geographe Bay.
Cape Naturaliste is also the site of a lighthouse. It was built in 1903 from locally quarried limestone. It is a 20 m high cylindrical tower built of limestone that still uses its original first order Fresnel lens made by Chance Brothers.
235 Views: 18 February 2013.
Olympus E-30, Zuiko 12-60mm SWD, 12mm, f/8, 1/250 sec., ISO 200. | <urn:uuid:c1f8e5ae-dd53-4cfd-b7d9-e873f0213f41> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.redbubble.com/people/johnsharp/works/8869998-the-lighthouse-and-the-flag?c=155323-featured&p=framed-print | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00056-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.903943 | 135 | 2.15625 | 2 |
The rules for Yacht are largely the same as for Yahtzee (roll five dice up to three times, fill in one category on the score sheet), with the following exceptions:
- There are only 12 categories.
- There is no "Three of a Kind" category.
- The "small straight" is five-in-a-row starting with "1" (1-2-3-4-5) and the "large straight" is five-in-a-row ending with "6" (2-3-4-5-6); both are worth 30 points.
- "Full House" (three of one value and two of another) scores the total pip value of all dice.
- Five of a kind is called "Yacht", and is worth 50 points.
- The catch-all category is called "Choice".
- There is no bonus scoring.
The player with the highest score after filling all 12 categories is the winner!
Yacht Rule Variations
- Some players allow bonus scoring (35 points bonus if 1's through 6's total 63 or more).
- Some players set a fixed value of 40 points for Full House.
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Gov. Gary Herbert’s office Friday received a packet of pollution-cutting ideas from Utah Moms for Clean Air.
"We all need to take more action than we have," said environmental adviser Alan Matheson, who accepted the report, called Path to Improving Air Quality in Utah. "It’s going to take a lot of effort from all of us."
The group sketched an outline of its multi-faceted approach at a meeting last week with Herbert. One key recommendation is for the Republican governor to use his executive powers to establish a task force to assess the problem; examine its health consequences and study its economic impacts, including health-care costs related to pollution.
The panel’s goal would be to suggest legislation and other strategies for cleaning up air pollution.
Northern Utah has gotten national attention in recent weeks as particulate pollution hovered at generally unhealthy levels for 23 days this winter and the bad air triggered rallies, petition drives and protests at the Capitol.
Another proposal: airshed user fees similar to those charged for managing garbage and sewage. Having polluters pay to cover the public cost of airborne pollution releases is a fair, free market, libertarian solution to our air pollution problems, the advocacy group said.
"If you want to pollute, fine," said Cherise Udell, president of the Utah Moms, "but it’s gonna cost you."
A University of Utah student who organized a Capitol protest last month and met with Herbert last week, Carl Ingwell, said he was "hopeful and optimistic."
"At the same time, I think this is going to be a monumental task we’ll need to look at from many different angles," he said at a news conference. "It’s going to require solutions on the individual level, on the industry level, on the governmental level. So, this is a good first step, but sentiment must be followed by action, and we need our government to lead us."
Ingrid Griffee, a member of Utah Moms, called the pollution problem "a classic Tragedy of the Commons" that warrants government leadership. In fact, with so much at stake for so many people, "it is right and justified for the state to impose regulations and offer incentives to protect that resource."
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With high hopes, birders flock to Sax-Zim Bog festivalOn one weekend in mid-February each year, this quiet country buzzes with activity. Big yellow school buses crawl along the gravel roads. Inside the buses, with faces pressed to windows, ride dedicated birders bearing binoculars, spotting scopes and telephoto lenses.
By: Sam Cook, Duluth News Tribune
At first glance, the Sax-Zim Bog seems nondescript, empty and drab, especially on a cold day in February.
It is bog country, after all, low and damp. Abandoned hayfields are bordered by islands of spruce, tamarack and aspen. Tidy rural dwellings share the landscape with abandoned double-wide mobile homes.
But on one weekend in mid-February each year, this quiet country buzzes with activity. Big yellow school buses crawl along the gravel roads. Inside the buses, with faces pressed to windows, ride dedicated birders bearing binoculars, spotting scopes and telephoto lenses.
The birders come from across the country for the annual Sax-Zim Bog Winter Birding Festival. This year’s sixth annual festival runs from Friday through Sunday, with headquarters at the community center in Meadowlands, population 134.
With recent exposure in the New York Times and a mention in the birding movie “The Big Year,” the festival filled quickly to its maximum 153 participants, said founder Mike Hendrickson, a Duluth birder and birding guide.
“That New York Times story blew things up,” Hendrickson said. “It’s just crazy.”
He had to turn away at least 20 people, he said.
The festival provides a mid-winter boost to the few local businesses in Meadowlands and a motel in nearby Floodwood.
Participants pay from $110 to $175 depending on how many field trips and meals they want. With some of the money earned in the previous five years, the local development board bought bird-related banners for the town’s streets, Hendrickson said.
Best boreal birding
Few places in North America offer a better opportunity than the Sax-Zim Bog to see boreal birds such as great gray owls, northern hawk owls, boreal chickadees and northern finches. It isn’t that boreal species are scarce elsewhere, but the habitat and the lattice-work of rural roads in the bog allow birders close access to the birds.
Great grays, North America’s largest owls at 24 to 33 inches in height, are a big draw.
“It’s always that hope of seeing the phantom of the north,” says Mark “Sparky” Stensaas of Wrenshall, who is executive director of Friends of Sax-Zim Bog.
The bog has been designated an “Important Bird Area” by the National Audubon Society.
Some years, thousands of great grays move down from Canada to feast on meadow voles and red-backed voles in the bog’s meadows. Such events, called “irruptions,” are amazing. In the winter of 2004-05, about 5,200 great grays were estimated to winter in northern Minnesota, and birders flocked to the bog to see them.
This year, Stensaas said, is not such a year, but there are always a few resident owls around. They find the habitat perfect for hunting.
“They have places to roost and places to hunt,” Stensaas said.
Serious birders chase hard-to-find birds the way surfers chase big waves. Many birders keep detailed lists of birds they’ve seen. Boreal species such as owls, boreal chickadees, gray jays, black-backed woodpeckers, pine grosbeaks and white-winged crossbills are sought-after birds.
People like Hendrickson and others, including some rural residents, maintain feeder stations along roads, which draw and concentrate the birds. The buses stop. The birders pile out. The cameras click.
“Those boreal chickadees on Admiral Road are probably the most photographed boreal chickadees in North America,” Stensaas said.
Hendrickson conceived the idea for the festival the year after the big irruption of great gray owls. Meadowlands resident Helen Abramson called Hendrickson that year wondering why birders hadn’t returned. At a meeting with the local development board, Hendrickson said a festival might help draw birders on an annual basis, not just in irruption years.
“Originally, I thought we’d have everything in Duluth and just bus up there,” Hendrickson said. “They said, ‘No, we want it here.’ ”
The Toivola-Meadowlands Development Board rents the buses from the school district, organizes meals at the community center and takes care of registration. Hendrickson sets up the field trips and arranges birding guides. Birders from 35 states and two foreign countries have attended the festival over the years.
“The bottom line is, it has made the residents proud to have the birders in the area,” Hendrickson said.
In the irruption year of 2004-05, some birders would just stop in the middle of the road and set up a spotting scope if they saw a desirable bird. That annoyed local residents who were trying to use the roads. Now, in part because of the festival, most birders have improved their habits.
“People in the community are being more accepting of the birders,” said David Abramson, Helen’s husband.
Local residents mix with the birders at evening meals during the festival, he said.
Hendrickson said community residents aren’t interested in increasing the size of the festival, and that’s fine with him.
“They want to keep it this size,” he said. “I have such a strong love and fondness for the people up there. They put me on their development board. I’m going to stick with them.” | <urn:uuid:35e2568e-a5a5-41bc-b0a1-7330144ce8c7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/258434/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946175 | 1,327 | 1.828125 | 2 |
Cape Fear Community College was recently awarded a grant by the North Carolina Community College System to support the educational success of minority males. The Minority Male Mentoring (3M) Leadership Initiative Program is designed to provide strategies aimed to improve the retention and transition of minority males into college level coursework. The grant will address two core strategies: (a) development of student retention strategies for minority male students enrolled in developmental coursework; and (b) professional development for faculty and staff.
The 3M Program has a project coordinator, an advisory committee, and two faculty advisors.
The Minority Male Mentoring Initiative (3MI) is a program that is focused on increasing collegiate minority male retention and graduation. This initiative is a part of the North Carolina Community College Minority Male Mentoring Program is which is designed to support the educational and professional aspirations of minority males in the Community College System.
The objectives of this program are to help minority male students accomplish the following:
- Develop and enhance a sense of identity
- Become familiar with campus resources and use them as needed academically
- Become active members of the college and campus community
- Articulate a sense of purpose about being in college and pursuing goals relative to their program of study
- Acquire the skills needed to become leaders and lifelong learners.
- Graduate and seamlessly transition from community college programs to 4-year college and university programs
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Protecting and Safeguarding NASA Information and Information Systems (page 6), IT Talk, July-September 2012, NASA CIO
"What if this article was the national headline across the United States? Is NASA protecting and safeguarding its information and information systems? Is it possible to protect and safeguard information and information systems 24/7?"
Keith's note: Well, it happened. No fancy cyber break-ins occurred. No massive network failure was at fault. Nothing complicated or deliberate happened - the sort of stuff where overt high-tech protection and safeguards would be called into play. Instead, a NASA employee was dumb enough to leave an agency laptop with sensitive information in her car such that it could be stolen. And that laptop had a substantial amount of personal information on 10,000 or more NASA employees that the CIO's office was inept enough to allow to be on a laptop taken out of NASA in the first place.
The CIO's own official publication openly talked about what might happen if the theft of a NASA laptop with "10,000 employees private information" became "an actual NASA Headline". But instead of focusing on the real world where people can and will do dumb things, the CIO focused only on all the complicated technological threats to NASA's IT. The CIO utterly ignored simple human behaviors that could be just as damaging as a cyber attack if not dealt with. Other than than a memo (2 weeks after the theft) to employees announcing an emergency disk encryption program and a half-hearted attempt to assist employees in case of identify theft, the NASA CIO has done absolutely nothing to address the core issues at hand. And now the NASA CIO cannot even bear to mention this situation on her own website - with the exception, of course, of this hypothetical article written months before the event. | <urn:uuid:78e5a410-20ee-4d3e-89da-43cdaedbf622> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=1689 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00009-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939625 | 367 | 2.15625 | 2 |
After months of stop gap measures, Congress is poised to approve a $120 billion transportation bill today to fund highway and public transit projects over the next 27 months. The Washington Post reports that the bill remains biased toward highways, even as more Americans use public transit.
But Crain's Chicago Business finds parts of the bill Illinoisans should like. The legislation slightly increases the money in the state's formula highway fund, money that is largely used for routine road work. Also, there is federal "new start" funding for public transit infrastructure projects, including cash that might be available to rebuild, and possibly extend, the Chicago Transit Authority's Red Line. | <urn:uuid:74b260d1-a2f9-4333-a114-7715424cbd0d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://progressillinois.com/news/content/2012/06/29/transportation-bill-could-be-ok-illinois | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938005 | 130 | 1.789063 | 2 |
If you are bored with your traditional solid-colored nails, then try this trend on for size! These “word nails” are like decopauge for your nails and they are amazingly cute. The best part is you can choose any newspaper wording you want, from the text of the business section to comic strips. This is a great way to re-define the tradtional newspaper: by placing it on your nails!
What you will need:
*Light Colored Polish
*Rubbing Alcohol or Vodka
*Small Ceramic Dish
1. Find a section in a newspaper that you want to copy onto your nails and cut it out. I say newspapers because their ink is easily transferrable onto a painted surface. Make sure you cut the pieces to cover each of your nails. I would like to suggest using the crossword puzzle, advertisements, or comic strips for some awesome shapes.
2. Varnish your nails by applying a base coat followed by two coats of a nail color of your choice. I suggest using a lighter color, such as pastels, so that your print is visible.
3. Pour rubbing alcohol, or vodka, into a small dish. Once your nails are dry, briefly soak them in alcohol. I suggest vodka as an alternative because this liquid tends to not be as harsh on your polish.
4. Cover your nails with the ten small pieces of paper you cut out earlier. Press down firmly and hold it still for about thirty seconds. Remove the small pieces of paper slowly, so that all of the print is transferred onto your nail.
5. Let your nails dry and apply a top coat to finish them off. I would like to suggest a clear polish with sparkles, just to add a little shimmer into the mix! | <urn:uuid:14ba382d-18a1-420a-bc06-73962c2bd068> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.lulus.com/beauty/beauty-trend-word-nails/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959508 | 365 | 1.671875 | 2 |
LPAC is the first lesbian super PAC to jump into the political game, rolling out today after forming because "women’s equality and well-being is under attack in a way this country has not seen in decades," according to the group's Web site.
The independent super PAC, aimed at supporting candidates who support LGBT rights while "giving lesbians a real seat at the table in politics", has Chicago ties. Laura Ricketts, co-owner of the Chicago Cubs and co-chair of the Democratic National Committee’s LGBT Leadership Council, helped the group get started.
“Being a woman and being gay is really a unique position in our society,” Ricketts told the Associated Press. “I know in my experience of activism, oftentimes it makes a difference if something is women-focused. It’s likely to get the attention of women much more easily.”
The super PAC reportedly already has some $200,000 in pledges, along with high-profile supporters like tennis great Billie Jean King and Glee actress Jane Lynch, who is also from the Chicago area. The group hopes to raise $1 million to put into the 2012 races, although no beneficiaries have been formally named as of yet.
LPAC is set to back candidates from both parties and genders as long as they support sexual and reproductive rights and freedoms as well as access to quality healthcare; will work to put an end to discriminatory laws and practices against the LGBT community; and will promote "social, racial, and economic justice for all Americans." | <urn:uuid:b797a5ec-91b1-421b-a1fd-4094d6866b4c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.progressillinois.com/quick-hits/content/2012/07/11/first-its-kind-lesbian-super-pac-has-chicago-ties | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00046-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972223 | 316 | 1.5625 | 2 |
First, Build it Right - Home Theater Soundproofing
There's 'traditional soundproofing' and there's 'audio soundproofing'.
Either method of soundproofing will keep the sound from coming in or leaving the room. But, while one will improve and enhance the listening experience, the other type will wreak havoc on even the finest audio playback system.
Do you know the difference between the two? We do.
For over 20 years, we have been helping to build some of the world's finest Recording Studios and dedicated Hi-Fi Listening Rooms. Our engineers have designed the 'gold standard' in audio reproduction soundproofing walls. The Iso-Wall system not only blocks sound, it helps to condition and absorb unwanted low-frequency sound reflections--minimizing room modes and standing waves.
Second, Maximize the Listening Experience - Home Theater Room Acoustics
Just like a music performance hall, a home theater room needs to be designed to minimize acoustic room distortions. Each seat in the theater should have crystal clear sound, and the sound system should be able to be played back at it's optimal performance levels.
A theater room without acoustic treatments, would be comparable to a symphony playing in a gymnasium--versus a concert hall. In the concert hall, the sound will be engaging and enveloping to the audiance. In the gymnasium, it will sound distorted, overpowering, and lack clarity. Custom Home Theater Designers have known for years the value of including room acoustics into their plans. | <urn:uuid:018af821-814b-4c3d-9c79-6a6dbadf1ed4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://acousticsciences.com/home-theater | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00044-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.911751 | 319 | 1.617188 | 2 |
Applied Cognitive Psychology Resources
|The Applied Cognitive Psychology Program utilizes resources from The Claremont Colleges Consortium. On a regular basis, graduate students and cognitive psychology faculty from The Claremont Colleges gather for brown bag lunch talks about topics of current interest in cognitive psychology.
Grants, contract research, and field work opportunities for applied cognitive psychologists are available. One focus of research at CGU is memory and the aging process. The affiliated Pomona College Project on Memory and Aging has received support from the National Institute of Health for 19 years and offers our graduate students a number of opportunities to study cognitive aging. Drawing on the population of older adults in Claremont, this project investigates changes in attention, memory, and language associated with normal aging.
See below for a list of faculty members who teach and supervise graduate research in the cognitive psychology program.
Faculty in Applied Cognitive Psychology
Core Faculty Members
Other Graduate Faculty in Cognitive Psychology
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The MathMaze team (Hui Soo, Pranav, Shuchi, Ila, and I) have developed the first rough prototype of MathMaze (which lasted for two months). Guided by a few learning principles, MathMaze is to be developed as an adaptive math game which has self-reported (informal) evaluation and data generation function for students, teachers, and parents. We aim to provide students with multiple opportunities for choices, while acknowledging multiple intelligences, including mathematical decision making, spatial navigation, and reasoning, as well as kinesthetic involvement.
It was tested within the Development & Research Group last week and received extremely helpful feedback/suggestions/comments. We have further generated the following questions after wrapping up the group feedback: | <urn:uuid:eb21dfe7-7ba2-41a8-9186-02600b10861d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://edlab.tc.columbia.edu/index.php?q=blog&from=4140 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00058-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961118 | 156 | 2.109375 | 2 |
The contribution of Bering Sea water to the Arctic Ocean
Arctic, v. 14, no. 3, Sept. 1961, p. 146-161, figures, table
Contribution - University of Washington. Dept. of Oceanography, no. 249
ASTIS record 9856
Summarizes the characteristics, especially temperature-salinity of these waters as they flow north through Bering Strait, and as they modify the surface water, deeper water, and ice cover of the western Arctic Ocean. Analysis of about 200 deep-water stations reveals regularity in the vertical distribution of temperature and salinity. The shallow 75-100 m depth, temperature maximum observed in the western as distinct from the eastern Arctic Basin is maintained by advection from some external source, in part the flow through the Strait. Bering Sea water apparently flows north into Chukchi Sea, where it mixes with Siberian shelf water then joins the general circulation in the area northwest of Point Barrow. The intruding Bering Sea water separates deeper Atlantic water from Arctic Ocean surface water; this Bering water may be traced by the shallow temperature maximum; but it affects ice conditions in the Basin very little.
Discusses procedures for making local estimates of population density and prospective catch of the Eskimo hunters. A method is outlined for counting seals from ships in open water; and for determining population density by the amount and quality of fast ice, with regard to complexity of the coastline. From hunting trips in various parts of the Eastern Arctic, average daily catch to be expected is estimated at 3.6 seals from a boat in summer on a complex coast and 1.4 on an open coast, 2.8 on the ice before the peak of the spring basking season, and 6.8 at the peak. From these and other calculable variables, such as loss of kill by sinking, weather conditions, etc., an equation is formulated for predicting the potential annual catch of a hunter in a given region.
Compares Aug. 1958 photographs and observations of this valley glacier in the Romanzof Mts. with those of Leffingwell in 1907, cf. No. 9835. The indicated recession and thinning of the glacier in 51 years are confirmed by aerial photographs and topographic maps. The 1000 ± 100 ft, mean rate 20 ft/yr, probably increased in the 1950s. Thinning, estimated at 150 ft in the lower 1.2 miles of the glacier, occurred at about 3 ft/yr. The advance from which the ice is retreating is correlated with the Fan Mountain glaciation. Similar evidences of retreat and thinning are found in neighboring glaciers.
In spring, when sea-ice is mostly snowcovered, the albedo of the surface is 80-90%, that of melting sea-ice in summer 65-46%, according to the proportion of puddles. Excluding puddles, the albedo of melting shelf-ice is about 77% and that of melting sea-ice about 65%; hence under similar conditions ablation of sea ice is 1.5 times greater than that of shelf ice. Based on airborne and surface measurements, on Ptarmigan flights, T-3, etc.
A number of observers, working in arctic and antarctic waters, have commented on the discoloration of sea-ice caused by unicellular algae, mainly diatoms, that are frozen into the ice. The discoloration is usually seen when the ice is broken and over turned, because it occurs principally on the lower surface of the ice and occasionally on its sides. The brown or greenish-brown colour is due to the chloroplasts in the algae and undoubtedly indicates the presence of a potential source of food in polar seas in addition to the phytoplankton and the benthic algae. The algae associated with the ice present interesting problems concerning the adaptation of protoplasm to life under conditions of low temperatures (maximum about -1.68°C.) and of the adaptation of photosynthetic activity to low light intensities. Although they have been frequently observed, these algae have been very little studied, partly on account of collecting difficulties. Investigations of algae frozen into sea-ice have been started at the Devon Island station (75° 42'N.) of the Arctic Institute and some preliminary results are reported here. ... | <urn:uuid:49021cfd-c33c-4081-814b-d84479ca8040> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.aina.ucalgary.ca/scripts/minisa.dll/144/proe/proarc/se+arctic,+v.+14,+no.++3,+Sept.+1961,*?COMMANDSEARCH | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00060-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943442 | 885 | 3.09375 | 3 |
Tourism and religion
Hotels Lake Garda
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Tourism and religion - There are many antique churches of interest to the visitor, due to the architectural styles and the precious works of art or simply for reasons of worship with particular emphasis on the Mariolatry. The most popular sanctuaries are: Madonna della Corona of Spiazzi on Mount Baldo and Madonna del Frassino of Peschiera. Sanctuary of the Madonna della Corona is generally regarded as the most "daring" point of prayer in Italy, as it requires courage to get there. Perched like an eagle's nest at a height of about 800 m against the sheer western rockface of Mount Baldo overlooking the Adige Valley, the sanctuary can be reached via Spiazzi following the country lane from Caprino. A place of worship since medieval times with residents monks from the Monastery of San Zeno in Verona, the sanctuary passed into the hands of the holy order of the Knights of Malta in 1434. According to a legend this statue of the Madonna, depicted with her dead son, escaped from the island of Rhodes, which had fallen into the hands of the Turks in 1522, by flying all the way to Mount Baldo. The building complex dedicated to the Madonna del Frassino (Peschiera) dates back to the years following 1510, the year in which, it is said, the Madonna appeared in an ash (11th May) to a shepherd boy. Hence the name of the apparition and the sanctuary entrusted to the Franciscan Order of the Padri Francescani Minori. In 1848 the monastery, having been used for different purposes after the Napoleonic decree of 1801, which suppressed all religious institutions, became the headquarters of the Piedmontese army. It was, in fact, the sanctuary bells which announced the victory to the inhabitants of the area whose homeland had been turned into a fierce battleground. But it was not until after the Peace Treaty of Villafranca that the Franciscans once again took possession of the sanctuary on November 16th, 1898.
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Ear to Ear
A new infant hearing rescreening service has this dedicated Mary Greeley Medical Center nurse smiling.
Lucinda Hollingshead, R.N., takes 1-day-old Adam Hintz into the nursery on the Birthways Unit at Mary Greeley Medical Center. She swaddles him in a blanket and pauses for a moment as she cradles him in her arms, admiring all of his tiny features. Next she lays the sleeping baby down in a bassinet and attaches a few sensory pads to his head, which will detect Adam’s brain response to a sequence of beeps being played through small coverings over his ears.
Lucinda Hollingshead performs a hearing
test on newborn Adam Hintz, of Ankeny.
Hollingshead is conducting a state-mandated hearing screening using an Automated Auditory Brainstem Response (AABR) machine called the ALGO 5—the newest generation of AABR testing equipment made by the Natus Corporation.
Thankfully, Adam passed his hearing screening. Had he not, the Hintzes would have needed to get his hearing rescreened. Central Iowa parents who need to have their infant’s hearing rescreened now have a convenient option right here in Ames.
The ALGO 5 in the Birthways Unit at Mary Greeley Medical Center will be used to perform hearing rescreens not only for infants born at the medical center but also for any infants referred by another hospital. There are only five AABR machines capable of doing rescreens located in the central Iowa region, including Des Moines and Mason City hospitals. For families living in Ames and the surrounding area, a lengthy trip for a short test will no longer be necessary.
Dr. John Paschen, a pediatrician, encouraged the hospital to purchase the equipment, calling it some of the best hearing screening technology now available. The infant hearing screening and rescreening is a fantastic service, especially for parents, he says.
“We often simply ask parents if they think their newborn’s hearing is good, and that’s generally a very good gauge,” Paschen says. “Even so, I’ve had a few cases where children had no hearing in one ear, and the only reason we discovered the hearing was abnormal was through hearing screenings. We just kept following up and following up until we confirmed it. And we also now know that if you have abnormal hearing in just one ear, it can still impact speech development.”
According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, hearing loss is one of the most frequently occurring birth defects. Approximately three infants per 1,000 are born with moderate, profound or severe hearing loss. If hearing loss is not detected and treated early, it can impede speech; language; and cognitive, social and emotional development.
According to Iowa’s Early Detection Hearing Intervention program, based on national statistics, approximately 120 Iowa children (out of approximately 40,000 births per year) would be expected to be born with a permanent hearing loss. Because learning early if a baby has a potential hearing problem is so important, there are federal mandates, and it has been written into Iowa law that newborns should have their hearing tested within a few days of birth. If they fail the test, the baby must be retested within 30 days on an AABR machine. If the retest is failed as well, further diagnostic testing and a treatment plan need to be in place by age 3 months.
While Paschen is glad Mary Greeley Medical Center now has this new equipment, he has even more praise for Hollingshead’s dedication to making sure infants have good hearing.
“You can push all you want, but you need someone who is going to take the ball and run with it. That’s Lucinda,” says Paschen. “I can’t say enough good things about her commitment to this.”
Hollingshead has been a nurse for 35 years and has spent most of her career at Mary Greeley Medical Center. She worked in Pediatrics until 2010, when she opted to leave the unit. Due to an illness she had as a young woman, Hollingshead had been gradually losing her hearing. When she became concerned that her hearing loss might inhibit the care she was providing in Pediatrics, she made the decision to seek other opportunities.
But Mary Greeley Medical Center did not want to lose Hollingshead’s skills. She is now a First Nurse, supports employee health programs and oversees the infant hearing testing. She conducts tests, makes sure results are properly filed with state and federal agencies, and does follow-up with parents who need to retest their infants. These responsibilities involve a lot of one-on-one interaction in quiet settings, which works great for Hollingshead, who wears bilateral hearing aids.
Watching her at work it’s easy to tell that Hollingshead loves her job.
“I enjoy knowing that I’ve done just this very little part in this little newborn’s life,” she says. “When I do a hearing screen on a babe and they pass, it’s like ‘YES!’ ”
It’s also apparent that Hollingshead is quite appreciated around the medical center. Just about every other person who passes by her comes to say hello with a big smile and hug.
“They say when a door closes, a window opens,” says Hollingshead. “Mary Greeley is my window.” | <urn:uuid:cbffad0a-8d7a-4cee-89ac-45fa209a959f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.mgmc.org/MaryGreeley/ear-to-ear/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00046-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972203 | 1,159 | 2.09375 | 2 |
In this section, you'll find all of our retail banking jobs.
Large banking institutions often carry out transactions with other large banks or big corporations. They also deal directly with consumers on a retail level, where jobs in this sector fall.
While these banks generally have a brick-and-mortar presence, retail banking is increasingly taking place online, so jobs in retail banking now extend well beyond just working in a branch. Checking accounts, savings accounts, debit/credit cards, mortgages, online banking and personal loans are all included under retail banking services, as are some insurance considerations such as household and car insurance.
Some wealth management services are also included under retail banking, but rather than offering investment advice for wealthy individuals, this is more helping less affluent people grow their finances wisely. Financial planning services supply savings and investment advice, generally to secure a comfortable retirement for clients.
Junior bankers working in branches will likely be those handling customer questions and complaints directly. They are required to service customers at the counter and recommend and sell further suitable products and services. On a day to day basis, they'll handle basic administrative functions like opening or closing accounts, changing customer details or setting up standing orders.
Because some of these support functions can also be carried out over the phone, retail banks hire armies of people for customer service call centers.
Graduates are often the targets of retail banking recruitment. If they start out in the branches, they are usually advanced quickly to management positions. After a two-year training program, spent learning about financial products offered by the bank, leadership and customer service, candidates are either responsible for managing a branch or leading a sales function.
There are also many other careers in retail banking outside the more traditional jobs outlined above.
Banks seek product managers and product developers to develop and deliver the services offered to customers, including credit cards, improvements to online or mobile banking or insurance. Naturally associated with these positions are marketing jobs, which identify consumer demand for products or services and develop promotional campaigns to target those needs. The prevalent term for these jobs is "customer propositions."
You'll also find jobs in operations management, for positions such as business analysts, change managers or project managers. These people devise operational efficiencies (including downsizing strategies), run the bank's systems and processes, diversify its product offering and work out ways to improve business operations across finance, risk and technology functions.
Risk is another important function of retail banking. This is risk at a company level, with positions for credit, operational and market risk managers, but it also includes advising on whether to issue personal loans and mortgages. Fraud prevention jobs are also essential in retail banks' risk divisions. Jobs can include protecting customers' personal details (or information security), anti-money laundering (AML) or preventing bribery and corruption.
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Date: Friday, July 2nd, 2010, 04:30
Category: iPhone, News
First, as you may have noticed, there are issues with the iPhone 4′s reception. Still, Apple says this might not be what you think according to a recent press release from the company:
“Upon investigation, we were stunned to find that the formula we use to calculate how many bars of signal strength to display is totally wrong. Our formula, in many instances, mistakenly displays 2 more bars than it should for a given signal strength. For example, we sometimes display 4 bars when we should be displaying as few as 2 bars. Users observing a drop of several bars when they grip their iPhone in a certain way are most likely in an area with very weak signal strength, but they don’t know it because we are erroneously displaying 4 or 5 bars. Their big drop in bars is because their high bars were never real in the first place.
To fix this, we are adopting AT&T’s recently recommended formula for calculating how many bars to display for a given signal strength. The real signal strength remains the same, but the iPhone’s bars will report it far more accurately, providing users a much better indication of the reception they will get in a given area. We are also making bars 1, 2 and 3 a bit taller so they will be easier to see.
We will issue a free software update within a few weeks that incorporates the corrected formula. Since this mistake has been present since the original iPhone, this software update will also be available for the iPhone 3GS and iPhone 3G.
The full press release can be found here and it seems a bit strange that Apple is once again blaming the formula.
Still, this is what it is and stay tuned for the software fix as well as additional details as they become available. | <urn:uuid:7f6a7a84-7566-4a05-8fc6-ac32407a5f41> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.powerpage.org/2010/07/page/7/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965878 | 380 | 1.5625 | 2 |
i need some assistance with sketchup. since it's free i thought i'd post here. is there anyone who could help me with a model? i've been trying to do it for some time, but haven't been able to. i would like to model a small lathe chuck, so i can produce it on my little machine. i already mastered sketchup to a point where i can use it easily, but some bumps still slow me down a bit. pic with the part of the model is below.
any help is more than appreciated!
dimensions are not that important, but i planned the diameter of the chuck itself to be around 80-100mm.
thought i answer my question: link to the part of the solution below. a simple SU plugin i needed for this, but it's not hard to find. hope this helps
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Clear Light, New Mexico
A special feature of the New Mexico landscape is the Southwestern cedar tree that flourishes here. Cedars spread their beauty across the mountains, bringing a clean crisp scent to the high desert air. In some cultures, the cedar is a sacred tree, and burning cedar needles as incense evokes mystical memories. For thousands of years, Native Americans here have known about cedar's healing properties and have used it for both therapeutic and ceremonial purposes. For generations it has been used to give homes a clean, refreshing scent and keep insects away from clothing and other stored treasures.
Joshua Peine began studying the lore of New Mexico mountain cedar while hiking through the aromatic forests of New Mexico's high country in the early 1970s. He learned about the herbal and medicinal qualities of green cedar from the Navajo and Hopi and from Nature herself. As Joshua studied native cultures, he began giving away little pouches filled with the green cedar needles he'd collected. Everyone asked for more, and Clear Light • the Cedar Company was born. It struck a responsive chord in those who took the time to savor life.
Today, we carefully watch over the harvest, making sure it is done to Joshua's exacting standards. The needles are picked at precisely the right moment, leaving the trees healthy and happy; then they are cured only long enough to preserve their clean, everlasting fragrance. Joshua invented and refined this unique method of collecting and curing green cedar needles; it enhances and preserves their tangy aroma. | <urn:uuid:2b4a593e-a84f-4cbe-a1a5-6150cf4e6cc2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.shamansmarket.com/clear-light.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00022-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956362 | 313 | 2.25 | 2 |
When Learners Shut Down: How to Help Your Academically Discouraged Child
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Your teenager is struggling in school, and you’re convinced it’s because he’s just not applying himself. He barely does his homework, there’s a constant struggle at home, and the more you push, the more he retreats.
This is the classic case of a shut-down learner, says Dr. Richard Selznick. Selznick, who serves as director of the Cooper Learning Center, a division of the Department of Pediatrics of Cooper University Hospital in New Jersey, assesses and treats a broad range of learning and school-based academic and behavioral problems. Over the years, Selznick has consulted with thousands of families and has discovered that, unfortunately, shut-down learners are a fairly common group of learners. “The prototype shutdown learner is a teenager who feels pretty beaten down by the time he comes to me,” Selznick says. “He has an emotional block, and his battery is depleted. He’s got his parents coming at him, the teacher. It’s too much.”
Selznick’s recent book, The Shut-Down Learner: Helping Your Academically Discouraged Child, is written for parents of just this kind of kid. “I try to present things to parents in a very down-to-earth way, without any jargon, so that it’s digestible and not threatening,” Selznick says. “The message is this: parents need to understand these kids. Yelling at the kids, telling them they’re not trying hard enough—this doesn’t work.” Selznick explains that in many cases, parents just need to back off, be less aggressive about the homework, and find a way to relate to their child’s struggles.
“These kids may have a range of learning disorders,” Selznick says, “but I want to stay away from the labeling because in the end, these kids have a great number of strengths that they need to key into.”
As Selznick explains it, the shut-down learner tends to be a problem-solver, someone who learns spatially and thrives with hands-on tasks that load on visual and spatial abilities. On the downside, they often lack the core skills necessary for success in school. “These kids often get all the way through the system, getting more and more disconnected because they simply can’t learn the way teachers want to teach,” Selznick says. “But when you say to the kid, ‘Look, you’re really good at this stuff—if I put you in a room with a hundred kids, you’re better than ninety of them’—then the kid feels okay, like ‘I’m good at a lot of things. I’m smart.’”
Selznick says the key is that these children learn differently; they need patience and understanding from parents, and they also need their parents to believe in their strengths and to empower them.
“They can be a hard group to work with. They’re giving their parents a hard time, they look bored in class, they’re disconnected,” Selznick says. “Or, the second type I see is the ones who are more pleasant in the social area, but they’re masking their insecurities. Either way, they need to understand that they’re really smart kids and they’re good at things, too.”
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Cracker Barrel restaurants agreed Monday to overhaul their training and management practices after the Justice Department accused the country-style chain of widespread discrimination against black diners in about 50 locations.
A civil rights investigation found that black diners at Cracker Barrels in seven Southern states were routinely given tables apart from whites, seated after white customers who arrived later, and given inferior service, the department said in announcing the settlement.
Managers allowed white servers to refuse to wait on black patrons, and blacks were given less favorable treatment than whites when they complained about service, investigators found. Interviews with dozens of employees suggested that managers ''often directed, participated in, or condoned the discriminatory behavior,'' the department said.
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, a chain based in Tennessee that has 497 locations nationwide and is known for its country-style cooking and folksy retail stores, denied the accusations in a lawsuit that the Justice Department filed on Monday in Georgia. But in an agreement filed with the lawsuit, the company agreed to wide-ranging steps to combat discrimination against black diners. Among them are new training programs, random testing by undercover diners, the posting of nondiscrimination statements on menus, and the hiring of an outside auditor.
The agreement ''moves Cracker Barrel forward in a direction we were already moving,'' said Julie Davis, a company spokeswoman. She said that while Cracker Barrel did not believe the accusations, it agreed to the six-point plan in part to avoid ''protracted, distracting, costly, multiyear litigation.''
The laws under which the suit was brought did not allow the department to seek money. But in recent years some 100 blacks have pressed discrimination claims and are seeking money from the company in four lawsuits in Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi and North Carolina. Stores there and in Alabama, Louisiana and Virginia were subjects of the department investigation.
''It's shocking that something like this still happens 40 years after the passage of civil rights legislation,'' said Heidi Doerhoff, a Washington lawyer involved in the Arkansas and Mississippi lawsuits. ''It harkens back to the back-of-the-bus treatment of African-Americans.''
Ms. Doerhoff said the widespread discrimination detected by the department was similar to the experiences of the dozens of plaintiffs. One black employee at a Cracker Barrel in Mississippi said that white waitresses would pay her $3 per table to serve their black customers, Ms. Doerhoff said. And a black diner said that when he complained to a manager that whites were treated better, he was told he should go to Burger King, she said.
Her one disappointment, Ms. Doerhoff said, was that Cracker Barrel ''is unwilling to admit that it's done anything wrong.''
''They're still fighting tooth and nail against all the private plaintiffs,'' she said.
In past months, some civil rights advocates and Democrats in Congress have accused the Bush administration of failing to aggressively pursue civil rights cases, particularly those involving patterns of corporate misconduct, and they said they worried that cases like Cracker Barrel's were allowed to lag.
But R. Alexander Acosta, the assistant attorney general for civil rights, said that the agreement filed on Monday demonstrated the Justice Department's resolve. ''Where we find evidence, as we did here, that individuals of any race are receiving anything less than full and equal access to public accommodations, we will act,'' Mr. Acosta said.
The N.A.A.C.P. and other civil rights advocates said that the requirements imposed on Cracker Barrel sent a strong message but that the test of the company's image would be whether the plaintiffs won money.
''It's unclear if this will be a big black eye,'' said John Relman, a lawyer whose discrimination lawsuits against the Denny's restaurant chain in the early 1990's helped lead to a $54 million settlement. ''What happens with those lawsuits will really determine whether Cracker Barrel gains the type of notoriety that Denny's did.''
Cracker Barrel's anti-discrimination measures are not expected to have any material impact on its earnings, said Ms. Davis, the company spokeswoman. The stock of Cracker Barrel's corporate parent, CBRL Group, closed up 39 cents to end Monday at $37.94. | <urn:uuid:9b59a7d3-397a-4d0b-8fa3-c62717c92994> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/04/us/cracker-barrel-agrees-to-plan-to-address-reports-of-bias.html?ref=cbrlgroupinc | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00045-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96632 | 868 | 1.867188 | 2 |
1. Choose a Name for Your LLC
Under Iowa law, an LLC name must contain as the last words, “Limited Liability Company,” or the abbreviations “L.L.C.” or “LLC.” “Limited” may be abbreviated as “Ltd.” and “Company” as “Co.”
Your LLC’s name must be recognizably different from the names of other business entities already on file with the Iowa Secretary of State. Names may be checked for availability by searching the Iowa business name database. You may reserve a name for up to 120 days by filing an Application for Reservation of Name with the Secretary of State. The application may be filed online, or by mail. The filing fee is $10.
2. File Articles of Organization
An Iowa LLC is created by filling Articles of Organization with the Iowa Secretary of State of Business Services Division. The articles must include the LLC’s name and address and the name and address of the LLC’s registered agent. The articles may be filed online or by mail. The filing fee is $50.
3. Appoint a Registered Agent
Every Iowa LLC must have an agent for service of process in the state. This is an individual or business entity that agrees to accept legal papers on the LLC’s behalf if it is sued. A registered agent may be an individual who resides in Iowa, or a domestic or foreign business entity authorized to do business in Iowa. The registered agent must have a physical street address in Iowa.
4. Prepare an Operating Agreement
An LLC operating agreement is not required in Iowa, but is highly advisable. For help creating an LLC operating agreement, see Form Your Own Limited Liability Company, by Anthony Mancuso (Nolo) or use Nolo’s Online LLC. If an operating agreement is created, it need not be filed with the Articles of Organization.
5. Publication Requirements
6. Comply With Other Tax and Regulatory Requirements
Additional tax and regulatory requirements may apply to your LLC. These may include:
EIN: If your LLC has more than one member, it must obtain its own IRS Employer Identification Number (EIN), even if it has no employees. If you form a one-member LLC, you must obtain an EIN for it only if you elect to have it taxed as a corporation instead of a sole proprietorship (disregarded entity). You may obtain an EIN by completing an online application on the IRS website. There is no filing fee.
Business Licenses: Depending on its type of business and where it is located, your LLC may need to obtain other local and state business licenses.
7. File Biennial Reports
All LLCs doing business in Iowa must file a Biennial Report with the Secretary of State every two years. The Secretary of State will send the LLC a report for completion before the due date. The report can be filed online or by mail. The filing fee is $30.
8. Foreign LLCs Doing Business in Iowa
To do business in Iowa, all LLCs organized outside of the state must register with the Iowa Secretary of State. Foreign LLCs must appoint a registered agent for service of process physically located in Iowa. To register, file an Application for Certificate of Authority. The application may be filed online or by mail. The filing fee is $100.
The completed application must be accompanied by a Certificate of Good Standing or Existence from the foreign LLC’s home state, dated no more than 90 days prior to the filing of the certificate.
Before filing, make sure the LLC’s name is available in Iowa by checking the Iowa business name database. If the name is not available, the foreign LLC must adopt a fictitious business name for use in Iowa. In this event, it must file with the application a copy of the LLC resolution adopting the fictitious name.
Last updated February 2012.
Article Resource: http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/iowa-form-llc-31783.html
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HOUSTON, July 9 -- BP Shipping has taken delivery in early July of the British Emerald LNG carrier, which the company called the "world's largest" with a capacity of 155,000 cu m. The vessel has an overall length of 288 m and a width of 44.2 m.
British Emerald is powered by four diesel-electric engines and is equipped with a bow thruster to assist in mooring operations. It's the first in a series of four diesel-electric gas ships.
Built by Hyundai Heavy Industries in South Korea, the vessel was designed for reduced fuel costs and greenhouse gas emissions compared with conventional LNG carriers. The dual-fuel technology allows the diesel engines to run on "boil-off" gases from the cargo tanks or on conventional diesel fuel.
The 23-man crew will put the vessel though an extensive commissioning program that is scheduled to take 10 days.
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This excerpt taken from the SOHU 10-Q filed May 8, 2007.
Terms of Common Area
The use right of the roof of the building attributes to all the owners.
The use right of the metope of the building attributes to all the owners.
The Buyer shall have the right to share all the profits generated from any advertisements by exploiting the building on the basis of the proportion of the purchased area of the
house to the saleable area of the building.
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In 1980 four U.S. women were engaged in Christian mission work in El Salvador: Maura Clarke, Ita Ford, Dorothy Kazel and Jean Donovan.
On November 20, 1980, Kazel and Donovan happened to meet U.S. Ambassador Robert White and his wife at a Roman Catholic religious service in San Salvador, and the Whites invited them to come to the Embassy on December 1st for dinner and to stay the night. Over dinner that night they discussed their differing views on U.S. policy regarding El Salvador. Kazel and Donovan told the Whites that the next night they would be picking up their friends, Maryknollers Clarke and Ford, at the airport.
The next morning (December 2, 1980), Kazel and Donovan had breakfast upstairs at the Embassy with Mrs. White while the Ambassador had one of his frequent breakfasts elsewhere at the Embassy with the Salvadoran Minister of Defense, General Jose Guillermo Garcia.
Later that same day, Kazel and Donovan went to the airport in their white van as planned. Clarke and Ford were returning to the country on a flight from Nicaragua, which then was under the control of the leftist Sandanistas and where they had attended a regional assembly of their order. Around 7:00 p.m. the four women got in the white van to drive to the capital city of San Salvador.
Soon after leaving the airport, their van was stopped by several men in plain clothes. The men took over the van and drove the women to an isolated area about 15 miles east of the airport near the town of Santiago Nonualco in the Department of La Paz.
That night peasants in the area saw the white van drive to an isolated spot. Then they heard machine-gun fire and single shots followed by five men leaving in the van. (Later that night the van was found on fire at the side of the airport road.)
The next morning (December 3rd) the peasants went to the road where they had seen the van and heard the shots. There they found four female bodies. Local authorities told the peasants to bury the women in a common grave in a nearby field. The peasants did as they were instructed, but they also told their priest about what had happened, and the priest relayed the news to his local bishop.
That same morning (December 3rd), a diplomat at the U.S. Embassy called a local police official to report three nuns and a lay worker were missing, and the official asked whether the nuns were in habits and was told they were not. Later that same day General Jose Guillermo Garcia asked Ambassador White the same question. (In the Salvadoran military lexicon, “good” nuns wore habits; “bad” nuns did not.) The four women did not wear habits, and they worked with the poor, also marking them as troublemakers to Salvadoran officials. Later that same day the office of San Salvador’s acting Archbishop, Rivera y Damas, told Ambassador White that the women’s bodies had been found in an unmarked grave.
On December 4th, Ambassador White drove to where the four bodies had been found, and at his insistence the bodies were exhumed from the shallow common grave, identified and taken to San Salvador. There a group of forensic doctors refused to perform autopsies on the ground that they did not have surgical gloves.
In accordance with Maryknoll custom, the bodies of Clarke and Ford were taken for burial to the city of Chalatenango, where they had served. Fourteen priests celebrated their requiem mass at the city’s main church as soldiers with automatic rifles patrolled outside.
These murders immediately became big news leading to various investigations and prosecutions as well as tension between the U.S. and El Salvador over this crime and continuation of U.S. military aid. Later the crime was investigated by the Truth Commission for El Salvador and was the subject of a civil lawsuit in a U.S. federal court under the Torture Victims Protection Act by relatives of the women. These topics will be explored in subsequent posts.
See Post: The Four American Churchwomen of El Salvador (Dec. 12, 2011).
Steinfels, Death & Lies in El Salvador–The Ambassador’s Tale, Commonweal (Oct. 26, 2001).
See nn. 1, 2 supra; Commission for the Truth for El Salvador, Report: From Madness to Hope: The 12-year war in El Salvador at 62-63 (March 15, 1993), http://www.derechos.org/nizkor/salvador/informes/truth.html.
Id.; Sancton & Willwerth, El Salvador: Aftermath of Four Brutal Murders, Time Mag. (Dec. 22, 1980).
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Organizing a Lifes Work: Finding Your Dream Job
The many stages of our lives can best be described as seasons. According to Levinson (1978), a season is an organic part of the total cycle, linking past and future and containing both within itself. Every stage in our lives (childhood, teenage years, adult life, family, and work) is connected and when closely examined provides a framework. This framework of everyday living holds the key to our lifes passion.
As a professional, meeting the demands of your clients, employers, or both, it is easy to lose sight of your passionthe work that brings you fulfillment and connects you to the much larger picture of work. Your passion is what keeps you encouraged despite the long hours and hard work. Your passion brings a smile to your face while helping and showing others the way. Your passion gives you a sense of being whole and reduces the amount of stress you endure day to day.
While going through graduate school, many of you stumbled upon an area in your studies that not only sparked an interest but gave you a sense of urgency to learn more about it and a readiness to get involved. Your plans were to graduate with a well-deserved degree and to commit yourself to your lifes passion. If you managed to find that passion in your consulting work, teaching experiences, within an organization, or all of them, then you should count your blessings. For the majority that graduate with lifes passion in tow, we find that just maintaining it in our place of employment becomes our primary focus. We lose sight of that fire, the passion that gave us hope of connecting to humanity by making a positive difference in the lives of others.
As adults, work is an activity that we all have in common. Work life is symbolic of how we are socialized as adults; how we continue or discontinue to grow intellectually; how we are challenged to resolve conflict; how we are allowed to create, build, and maintain healthy relationships; and how we are encouraged to help others (building community).
Our work provides a sense of self and can be utilized as a vehicle to pursue our dreams (Levinson, 1978). Our career choices have the potential of meeting basic values and goals. However, a career that is oppressing and de-pressing can lead to alienation from self, work, and society (Levinson, 1978). If you believe that you are engaged in work that is not connected to your lifes passion then it is time to organize your life to attract your dream job!
In order to organize your life experiences and to find meaning, take a look at your present condition. Ask yourself, How did I get here? Did I find this job or did it find me? Do I feel satisfied everyday for a job well done? Does the work relationship allow me to bring my entire being into the workplace to be utilized as a resource? If my passion is the same as it was before entering into this work relationship, what steps do I need to take in order to get back on track?
Staying connected to work that is fulfilling, inspiring, and challenging adds significant meaning and value to your existence and to the lives of others.
Levinson, D.J. (1978). The Seasons of a Mans Life. Ballantine Books: New York.
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Memorandum by the Secretary of State
[WASHINGTON,] August 17, 1941.
The Ambassador of Japan called to see the President at the latter's request. Following some few exchanges of preliminary remarks, the President then became serious and proceeded to refer to the strained relations between our two countries. He referred to the Ambassador's visit to me and the latter's request for a reopening of the conversations between our two Governments. The President commented briefly on the policies and principles that this Government has been standing for in its relations with Japan, and he made some contrast to Japan's opposite course of conquest by force, et cetera. He concluded by saying that our attitude of opposition to Japan's course has been made well known, and that the next move is now up to Japan. The President inquired of the Ambassador if he had anything in mind to say in connection with the situation. Thereupon the Ambassador drew out of his pocket an instruction which he said was from his Government, in which the Japanese Government set forth some generalities and asserted very earnestly that it desired to see peaceful relations preserved between our two countries; that Prince Konoye feels so seriously and so earnestly about preserving such relations that he would
be disposed to meet the President midway, geographically speaking, between our two countries and sit down together and talk the matter out in a peaceful spirit.
The President thereupon said that this Government should really bring the matters between the two Governments literally up to date and that he would, therefore, offer certain observations about the position of this Government; he added that he regretted the necessity of so doing but that he had no other recourse. The President said he had dictated what he was about to say and that he would read it to the Ambassador and then hand him the written instrument containing the oral conversation. This the President proceeded to do as follows
[Here follows text of the oral statement printed infra.]
The President, after some little delay in the conversation so as to set apart the first statement which he read to the Ambassador, then proceeded to turn to the Ambassador's request to the Secretary of State and to himself for a resumption of the conversations. The President made further references to Japan's opposing course of conquest by force and bitter denunciation of this country by the Japanese Government-controlled press and then coming to the request for a reopening of the conversations he repeated our former statements to the Japanese Government that, of course, we could not think of reopening the conversations if the Japanese Government is to continue its present movement of force and conquest supported by its bitter press campaign against this country.
Thereupon the President proceeded to read to the Ambassador the following statement, which is self-explanatory:
[Here follows text of the statement printed on p. 715.]
The Ambassador received each paper in writing and said he would communicate both to his Government. He reiterated from time to time that his Government was very desirous of preserving peaceful relations between the two countries and he took no issue with the President relative to the reasons set forth by this Government for discontinuing conversations with Japan.
ORAL STATEMENT HANDED BY PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT TO THE JAPANESE AMBASSADOR (NOMURA) ON AUGUST 17, 1941
During past months the Governments of the United States and of Japan, through the Secretary of State and the Japanese Ambassador in Washington, have engaged in protracted conversations directed
toward exploring the possibility of reaching a sound basis for negotiations between the two countries relative to the maintenance of peace with order and justice in the Pacific. The principles and policies which were under discussion in these conversations precluded pursuit by either Government of objectives of expansion by force or by threat of force.
Only 24 last the President of the United States informed the Japanese Government through the Japanese Ambassador in Washington that he was willing to suggest to the Governments of Great Britain of The Netherlands and of China that they make a binding and solemn declaration that they had no aggressive intentions with regard to Indochina and that they would agree that the markets and raw materials of Indochina should be available to all Powers on equal terms. The President stated further that he would be willing to suggest to the Powers mentioned that they undertake this declaration, in which the United States would be willing to join, upon the understanding that the Government of Japan would be disposed to make a similar declaration and would be further disposed to withdraw its military and naval forces from Indochina.
Notwithstanding these efforts, the Government of Japan has continued its military activities and its disposals of armed forces at various points in the Far East and has occupied Indochina with its military, air and naval forces.
The Government of the United States is in full sympathy with the desire expressed by the Japanese Government that there be provided a fresh basis for amicable and mutually profitable relations between our two countries. This Government's patience in seeking an acceptable basis for such an understanding has been demonstrated time and again during recent years and especially during recent months. This Government feels at the present stage that nothing short of the most complete candor on its part, in the light of evidence and indications which come to it from many sources, will at this moment tend to further the objectives sought.
Such being the case, this, Government now finds it necessary to say to the Government of Japan that if the Japanese Government takes any further steps in pursuance of a policy or program of military domination by force or threat of force of neighboring countries, the Government of the United States will be compelled to take immediately any and all steps which it may deem necessary toward safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of the United States and American nationals and toward insuring the safety and security of the United States.
STATEMENT HANDED BY PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT TO THE JAPANESE AMBASSADOR (NOMURA) ON AUGUST 17, 1941
Reference is made to the question which the Japanese Ambassador raised on August 8 during a conversation with the Secretary of State whether it might not be possible for the responsible heads of the Japanese Government and the Government of the United States to meet with a view to discussing means whereby an adjustment in relations between the United States and Japan might be brought about. The thought of Prince Konoe and of the Japanese Government in offering this suggestion is appreciated.
Reference is made also to the desire expressed by the Japanese Ambassador during a call on the Secretary of State on August 16 that there be resumed the informal conversations which had been in progress between the two Governments toward ascertaining whether there existed a basis for negotiations relative to a peaceful settlement covering the entire Pacific situation.
When the Japanese Ambassador brought up these suggestions, the Secretary of State reminded the Ambassador that the Government of the United States had shown great patience and had been prepared to continue in that course of patience so long as the Japanese Government manifested a desire to follow courses of peace. It was pointed out to the Ambassador that while proceeding along this course this Government had received reports indicating clearly that the Japanese Government was adopting courses directly the opposite of those on which the recent conversations between the Ambassador and the Secretary of State had been predicated. It was pointed out also that the Japanese press was being constantly stimulated to speak of encirclement of Japan by the United States and was being officially inspired in ways calculated to inflame public opinion. The Secretary of State made it clear that he did not see how conversations between the two Governments could usefully be pursued or proposals be discussed while Japanese official spokesmen and the Japanese press contended that the United States was endeavoring to encircle Japan and carried on a campaign against the United States.
On two occasions officers of the Department of State, pursuant to instructions from the Secretary of State, called on the Japanese Ambassador to indicate concern over the reports that Japan intended to acquire by force or threat of force military and naval bases in French Indochina. Subsequently, on July 21 and July 23 the Acting Secretary of State raised with the Japanese Minister and with the Japanese Ambassador the question of Japan's intentions with regard to French
Indochina and pointed out that the Government of the United States could only assume that the occupation by Japan of French Indochina or the acquisition of military and naval bases in that area constituted notice to the United States that Japan had taken by forceful means a step preparatory to embarking on further movements of conquest in the South Pacific area. The Acting Secretary pointed out further that this new move on Japan's part was prejudicial to the procurement by the United States of essential raw materials and to the peace of the Pacific, including the Philippine Islands.
The Government of the United States accordingly had no alternative but to inform the Japanese Ambassador that, in the opinion of this Government, the measures then being taken by the Japanese Government had served to remove the basis for further conversations relative to a peaceful settlement in the Pacific area.
Informal discussions between the Japanese Government and the Government of the United States directed toward ascertaining whether there existed a basis for negotiations relative to a peaceful settlement covering the entire Pacific situation would naturally envisage the working out of a progressive program attainable by peaceful methods. It goes without saying that no proposals or suggestions affecting the rights and privileges of either the United States or Japan would be considered except as they might be in conformity with the basic principles, to which the United States has long been committed. The program envisaged in such informal discussions would involve the application in the entire Pacific area of the principle of equality of commercial opportunity and treatment. It would thus make possible access by all countries to raw materials and to all other essential commodities. Such a program would envisage cooperation by all nations of the Pacific on a voluntary and peaceful basis toward utilizing all available resources of capital, technical skill, and progressive economic leadership for the purpose of building up not only their own economies but also the economies of regions where productive capacity can be improved. The result would be to increase the purchasing power of the nations and peoples concerned, to raise standards of living, and to create conditions conducive to the maintenance of peace. If such a program based upon peaceable and constructive principles were to be adopted for the Pacific and if thereafter any of the countries or areas within the Pacific were menaced, the policy of aiding nations resisting aggression would continue to be followed by this Government and this Government would cooperate with other nations in extending assistance to any country threatened.
Under such a program for the Pacific area Japan would, in the
opinion of the Government of the United States, attain all the objectives which Japan affirms that it is seeking. This program would not enable any country to extend its military or political control over other peoples or to obtain economic rights of a definitely monopolistic or preferential character. In those cases where the production and distribution of essential commodities are vested in monopolies, the Government of the United States would expect to use its influence to see that all countries are given a fair share of the distribution of the products of such monopolies and at a fair price.
If the Japanese Government is seeking what it affirms to be its objectives, the Government of the United States feels that the program above outlined is one that can be counted upon to assure Japan satisfaction of its economic needs and legitimate aspirations with much greater certainty than could any other program.
In case the Japanese Government feels that Japan desires and is in position to suspend its expansionist activities, to readjust its position, and to embark upon a peaceful program for the Pacific along the lines of the program and principles to which the United States is committed, the Government of the United States would be prepared to consider resumption of the informal exploratory discussions which were interrupted in July and would be glad to endeavor to arrange a suitable time and place to exchange views. The Government of the United States, however, feels that, in view of the circumstances attending the interruption of the informal conversations between the two Governments, it would be helpful to both Governments, before undertaking a resumption of such conversations or proceeding with plans for a meeting, if the Japanese Government would be so good as to furnish a clearer statement than has yet been furnished as to its present attitude and plans, just as this Government has repeatedly outlined to the Japanese Government its attitude and plans.
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Carnation recovers its history
October 3, 2008 · Updated 12:24 AM
The ball of granite is still missing and the $500 reward awaits someone who can be instrumental in the prosecution of the perpetrators. However, the Carnation Cemetery volunteers introduced a restoration project that culminated in a Memorial Day gift to the people.
Several groups were involved in the restoration. Most prominent and knowledgeable was the Quiring Monument Company from Seattle, headed by Dave Quiring, president. Years had taken a toll in stones sinking, tilting, etc. These professionals had the expertise and were able to repair the damage done by vandals. They also repaired all the stones that were loose from their bases by putting metal rods in some and sealing all of them so they are impervious to water damage. All of this work was volunteer on the part of the monument company.
Also a volunteer organization from Black Diamond known as E Clamus Vitus and headed by Dan Kerege, offered help. They keep trim by going around doing good for others, and the others this time was the Carnation Cemetery restoration project. These people did the leveling of about one third of the stones before getting drenched in a downpour.
The city provided bark where needed and power washed all the stones, which really improved their looks. Donald Davis still must weed around each stone as a part of the maintenance of the cemetery. It is hoped that later each stone can have a beveled edge so this weeding can be eliminated.
Isabel Jones, the local historian, has been active in the project and along with Robert Stallman of Spokane, updates the Internet listing of cemetery occupants every May. The sign that was once displayed beneath the cemetery directory is gone but will be replaced courtesy of the Tolt Historical Society, the same group that updates the directory each May.
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The latest Golden Calf being worshipped in the Cult of Global Warming is the Compact Fluorescent Lightbulb -- CFL for short.
Australia, Canada, the European Union and -- of course, California -- are either in the process of mandating the use of CFLs, or have already done so.
We are assured by High Priest Algo-Re that replacing good old incandescent bulbs with CFLs will "reduce greenhouse gas emissions", save the planet, cause lions and lambs to lay down with each other, convince Third World countries to have our children, put a Democrat in the White House and convert Muslim radicals to the Way of Peace.
There's always a snake in Eden. In this case, the snake is a wicked element called mercury.
Yes, the same element whose presence in tuna causes environmentalists to foam at the mouth like a pack of rabid chihuahuas is found in their holy CFLs -- about five milligrams worth per bulb, more or less.
That fine print will get you on the arse every time.
So. The peons are forced to convert to CFLs -- because the environmental movement and the Gummint know what's best for us -- which leads to ...
How many extra CFLs in the garbage that first year? Which adds up to how much extra mercury in various landfills that same year?
Oh, Holy jumping Al Gore on a pogo stick! We're poisoning the Earth with mercury! Think of the chilllll-dren!
So, to prevent the mercury and methylmercury poisoning of Mother Gaia, the enviromentalists will suggest that disposal of used CFLs and clean-up of broken CFLs should be paid for by the peons what bought and broke them -- two grand and change according to Ms. Brandy Bridges.
Two thousand dollars ($2000) to clean up one (1) broken five-dollar ($5) CFL. And these things are supposed to be easier on our checkbooks?!
And since people are people and don't want to drive 60 miles to find a CFL/mercury Disposal Centre -- or shell out two grand because Junior was bouncing a baseball inside the house -- they're going to quietly wrap the burnt-out or broken CFLs in a newspaper and stuff them deep in the dumpster.
Which, of course, will lead to further mercury/heavy metal poisoning of the environment.
And since the government is the government -- they will quietly criminalize the improper disposal of burnt-out or broken CFLs.
Al Gore and the rest of the Watermelon* Environmental Movement can take their mercury-laden CFLs and stuff them up where the sun don't shine.
Give me my incandescent bulbs -- good enough for Thomas Edison, by God -- and bugger off.
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Shuttle Endeavour to take 12-mile drive through LA
The US space shuttle Endeavour is about to begin its very last journey, a 12-mile drive through Los Angeles to a museum where it will go on display.
The shuttle, which once travelled at more than 17,000mph, will be moved on the back of a special truck at two miles per hour.
Trees have been cut down, power lines have been moved and traffic signals removed to allow the shuttle to pass through the streets.
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Wolfman Jack was a gravelly-voiced, American disc jockey who became world famous in the 1960s and 1970s, and whose real name was Robert Weston Smith (January 21, 1938 – July 1, 1995).
Wolfman Jack released two albums on the Wooden Nickel label: Wolfman Jack (1972) and Through the Ages (1973). His 1972 single "I Ain't Never Seen a White Man" hit #106 on the Billboard Singles Charts. In 1973 he appeared in director George Lucas' second feature film, American Graffiti, as himself. His broadcasts tie the film together, and a main character catches a glimpse of the mysterious Wolfman in a pivotal scene. In gratitude for Wolfman Jack's participation, Lucas gave him a fraction of a "point"—the division of the profits from a film—and the extreme financial success of American Graffiti provided him with a regular income for life. He also appeared in the film's 1979 sequel More American Graffiti.
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Elizabeth Foote was a homebody, and her home was on a high-desert mesa in western Colorado. Her house had a wide-angle view of the West Elk Mountains and overlooked a river valley and the raw, ambitious small town of Paonia. The mesa was sun-baked in summer, alternately snowy and muddy in winter, and windy all year round.
Elizabeth's father, George Foote, bought the land in 1907, when Elizabeth was 8 years old. The government had broken its treaty with the Utes a quarter-century earlier, opening most of their Colorado reservation to eager settlers. The choicest parcels of land in the river valley were already claimed, but cheap, promising acreage remained.
George registered a claim to 200 acres and cleared the scrubby juniper trees and sagebrush from the mesa top. He pried a small mountain of rocks from the hard ground, dug irrigation ditches to water his crops, and planted hay. He also championed the local fruit industry -- the valley became known for its cherries and peaches -- and dealt energetically in real estate, earning a reputation as an aggressive businessman. Before long, his homestead became known to its neighbors as Foote Fields.
The valley was remote -- the nearest sizable city was 70 miles away, and in 1910, there were only nine cars in town -- but life was busy. Elizabeth and her three younger sisters could go to sledding and skating parties in the winter, to ice-cream socials and baseball games and the marble-topped soda fountain in summer. The circus came to town, and the Kit Carson Wild West show; the annual chautauqua brought mind-readers and magicians, violinists and organists. But people said that Elizabeth was happiest home on the ranch. With her mother, Mary, and her sisters Barbara, Antoinette and Susan, she helped irrigate the fields and raise the cows. Sometimes, one of the girls would ride a Shetland pony around the mesa, their baby brother Dan propped in front of her on the saddle.
With the rest of the valley, the Footes likely battled measles, bedbugs, spring freezes and hailstorms. Following a run of disastrous fruit crops in the teens, so many people left town for better prospects in California that 30 former neighbors gathered for a picnic in Long Beach. But the Footes stayed on the mesa, perhaps buoyed by canny land deals, hard work, stubbornness, or a dose of each.
Elizabeth had her bold moments; in 1918, her senior year in high school, she played a bit part in a Civil War drama at the local opera house. She and Barbara both graduated later that spring, and their class pictures show girls with light, wide-set eyes and wavy, softly gathered hair. Barbara, a year younger, looks directly at the camera, a half smile on her face. Elizabeth looks slightly away from the lens, her face serious. It was a sad year; dozens of young men in town had volunteered or been drafted for the war in Europe, and the Spanish flu would soon burn through the valley, killing many.
Some graduating seniors left for college, some for teaching positions. Some signed on for the last months of the war. Some got married. But Elizabeth simply went home to the mesa and resumed her chores.
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December 14, 2012
A proposed global telecoms treaty that would give national governments control of the internet has been blocked by the US and key western and African nations. They said they are “not able to sign the agreement in its current form” at the end of a International Telecoms Union (ITU) conference in Dubai.
The proposals, coming after two weeks of complex negotiation, would have given individual governments greater powers to control international phone calls and data traffic, but were opposed as the conference had seemed to be drawing to a close late on Thursday.
The move seems to safeguard the role of the internet as an unregulated, international service that runs on top of telecoms systems free of direct interference by national governments.
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Recent Accessions: Prints
- Dates: June 1936 through date unknown, 1936
- Organizing Department: Prints, Drawings and Photographs
June 12, 1936: The French section of the Brooklyn Museum Print Department has been strengthened and enlivened by important recent accessions; the exhibition of prints newly acquired, which opened today (Friday, June 12), makes this clear. Pierre Bonnard (1867–), Felix Bracquemond (1833–1914), Paul Cezanne (1839–1906), Honore Daumier (1808–1879), Edgar Degas (1834–1917), Andre Derain (1880–), Jean Louis Forain (1852–1931), Alphonse Legros (1837–1911), Edouard Manet (1832–1883), Henri Matisse (1864–), Georges Rouault (1871–), Paul Signac (1863–), and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) are the French artists represented by the current exhibition. A drawing by Jean Francois Millet (1814–1875) is also included.
Among other items shown are an Abstraction from a "Portfolio of Ten Blockprints" by Werner Drowes, prominent young American abstract painter and print-maker; "Jean le Musicien" a large decorative head in lithograph by Juan Gris (1887-1927), Spanish School; two Street Scenes from "Paysages Urbains," a portfolio of expressionist prints by Stanley William Hayter (1901-), English School; several items by Pablo Picasso, his "Groupe de Tois Femmes Nues," line etching, being one of the most sheerly beautiful prints in the exhibition; "The Poet" by Giuseppe Ribera (Lo Spagnoletto) (1590–1352), Spanish School; "Zapata" by Diego Rivera (1886–), Mexican School, and two etchings by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696–1770) from the series "Scherzi di Fantasia," acquisition of which has been previously announced. Both the Bonnard prints are lithographs in color, one a very lively sunlit scene of a market, chiefly in pink and yellow, but with three accents of black masses. "Les Saules de Mottiaux" by Bracquemond is an extremely pretty and romantic landscape but handled with great clarity and light in a pattern of free open lines that keeps the more or less typical subject from the banal. The Cézanne is a quick sketch (etched) of the painter "Armald Guillaumin,” a nervous characteristic drawing. The Daumiers are clear and fine, one the “Madeleine Bastille" an amusing comic episode of the entrance of a fat woman in a railway carriage, one a full length satirical portrait of a French politician “Charles Guillaume Etienne,’ the third a group of fifteen grotesque Masques of 1831.
"Apres le Bain" (lithograph), "Au Louvre, Musee des Antiques" (aquatint), and "Au Louvre, La Peinture (Mary Cassatt)" (etching and aquatint), by Degas are all studies of groups of figures, the last two being variations on the same theme of composition. Their strength, breadth and rich darkness surprise in contrast with the lightness and delicacy of his more familiar work. "Danseuse Mettant son Chausson" is a hasty line sketch in etching. Three of these prints are from the artists collection.
The abstractions by Werner Drewes satisfy by really decorative add evocative composition and by richness of detail. They remain purely abstract. But the expressionistic performances by Hayter will take more explaining and justification. Each features a somewhat distorted landscape superimposed upon a sketch of something entirely unrelated, for instance a vase of flowers, a reclining nude. The two are connected by placing in composition and usually the connection is emphasized by otherwise meaningless caligraphic lines. If one disregards this trick, the landscapes please by light, clarity and decisive line. | <urn:uuid:56f9ae4a-8178-4b00-bac3-3509818afc94> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/exhibitions/2946/Recent_Accessions%3A_Prints | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.917995 | 884 | 2.03125 | 2 |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center
Houston, Texas 77058
RICHARD H. TRULY (VICE ADMIRAL, USN, RET.)
NASA ASTRONAUT (FORMER)
PERSONAL DATA: Born in Fayette, Mississippi, on November 12, 1937. Married. Three children.
EDUCATION: Attended schools in Fayette and Meridian, Mississippi; received a bachelor of aeronautical engineering degree from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1959.
SPECIAL HONORS: Decorations include the Defense Distinguished Service Medal, Defense Superior Service Medal, two Legion of Merit, Navy Distinguished Flying Cross, and the Meritorious Service Award. His NASA awards include the NASA Distinguished Service Medal, two NASA Space Flight Medals, and two NASA Exceptional Service Medals. He is also the recipient of the Air Force Association’s David C. Shilling Award (1978), Society of Experimental Test Pilot’s Ivan C. Kincheloe Award (1978), the American Astronautical Society’s Flight Achievement Award (1977), the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Haley Space Flight Award (1980), the Robert H. Goddard Memorial Trophy (1982), the Thomas D. White Space Trophy (1982), the Robert J. Collier Trophy (1982), the Harmon International Trophy (1982), the Federation Aeronautique Internationale Gold Space Medal (1984), the Boy Scouts of America Distinguished Eagle Scout Award , and the Medal of Honor of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
EXPERIENCE: Truly was ordered to flight school and was designated a Naval Aviator on October 7, 1960. His initial tour of duty was in Fighter Squadron 33 where he flew F-8 Crusaders aboard USS Intrepid (CVA-11) and USS Enterprise (CVN-65) and made more than 300 carrier landings. From 1963 to 1965, he was first a student and later an instructor at the U.S. Air Force Aerospace Research Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base, California. In 1965, he was among the first military astronauts selected to the USAF Manned Orbiting Laboratory program in Los Angeles, California. He became an astronaut for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in August 1969. He was a member of the Astronaut support crew and capsule communicator for all three of the manned Skylab missions (1973) and the Apollo-Soyuz mission (1975). Truly was pilot for one of the two-man crews that flew the 747/Space Shuttle Enterprise approach and landing test flights during 1977. He was then assigned as a backup pilot for STS-1, the first orbital flight test of the Shuttle. His first flight into space (STS-2, November 12-14, 1981) was as pilot of the Space Shuttle Columbia, significant at the first manned spacecraft to be reflown in space. His second flight (STS-8, August 30 to September 5, 1983) was as commander of the Space Shuttle Challenger, which was the first night launch and landing in the Shuttle program. As a Naval Aviator and test pilot, Truly has over 7,000 hours in numerous military jet aircraft.
Truly left NASA in 1983 to become the first commander of the Naval Space Command, Dahlgren, Virginia. He served as NASA Administrator from 1989-1992.
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Tree of Life
This is a tree of life--a diagram that shows how different types of living things, or species, are related. If you follow the lines connecting any two species on the tree, you'll get an idea of how closely related they are. The longer the path is, the more distant the relationship. The 479 species listed on this tree represent only a tiny fraction of the more than 1.7 million species scientists have identified. Many millions more species are believed to exist. Our species, Homo sapiens, is labeled in green in the top left part of the tree.
How was it made?
Generations of scientists have created tree-of-life diagrams by studying and comparing the physical features of different species. But this tree of life was made by comparing DNA sequences, with physical features playing a supporting role. All living things have some DNA sequences in common because they evolved from a single ancestral species. Closely related species have more DNA in common than distantly related species do, so they are positioned closer to each other on the tree. | <urn:uuid:d9793264-e7aa-404d-b436-b6555ec8d06f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/past-exhibitions/human-origins/understanding-our-past/tree-of-life | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956437 | 216 | 3.546875 | 4 |
Three young students were suspended in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting for playfully making a gun with their forefingers and thumbs, as children are wont to do.
Such is the overreaction among many school administrators attempting to remove any semblance of a firearm on campus.
A first-grade teacher in Georgia apparently didn’t get the memo, though, and caused students to have nightmares after a ridiculously ham-fisted lesson in which he pretended to shoot and kill his own students.
His attempt to teach them about gun violence during a game of hide-and-seek could not have been more shortsighted as he chased the youngsters around, making the hand sign of a gun and shouting.
“You’re dead,” he yelled, after “shooting” them with his finger.
Thankfully, this teacher was disciplined, though not before traumatizing many of the students under his supervision. The school admitted that several of the students complained of nightmares following the terrifying classroom game.
This teacher’s ignorance in addressing such a sensitive matter with young children should have cost him his job, in my opinion.
A director of the school district explained this instance “shows, if nothing else, that you just can’t do security off the cuff.”
While that might be true enough, I think the more important lesson to be learned is: never pretend to murder young kids.
The spokesperson, whose child was in the class during the incident, continued by conceding the teacher “made a bad decision” but was “the first person to volunteer for things” and “would be the first person to protect kids in a crisis.”
Unfortunately, not only did he not protect his students from this trauma; he was its sole cause.
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The primary parts distribution center for North America is located in Milan, Illinois, and serves the John Deere regional depots and dealers.
John Deere Parts Distribution Center - Milan, Illinois
The John Deere Parts Distribution Center was established in 1975 to provide timely and efficient delivery of service parts to depots,
independent dealers, and customers around the world. The Parts Distribution Center facility houses a multitude of different parts. The latest in technology enables the receiving, storing, picking, and shipping functions to be performed in the most efficient manner possible - supplying customers the right part at the right time. Each day, about 80,000 "lines" are shipped from Milan - as many as 450,000 lines a week. (A "line," or "line item," is the term for a single order that is shipped as a unit, regardless of the actual quantity. It may be one tractor hood, a dozen batteries, or a hundred cap screws.)
A facility in Indiana houses and distributes high-activity parts.Distribution System Computer Network
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The treatment of an overweight child should focus on the entire family. The eating and exercise habits of the entire family nearly always need to be improved. Efforts to treat the child without addressing the lifestyle of the parents and other members of the family living under the same roof are likely to fail. Targeting only the child for treatment may stigmatize the overweight child and can be counter-productive and even harmful.
- The eating and exercise behavior of the parents will be the most important influence on the behavior of the child over the long term. Parents must see themselves as important role models in the areas of healthy eating and regular physical activity.
- The environment in which the child lives may need to be evaluated and changed.
- Questions for evaluating physical activity:
- Does the child walk to school?
- Can the child safely play outdoors? If so, how much time does he or she spend outdoors?
- Does the child receive physical education that involves plenty of physical activity at school each day?
- Are after school and weekend recreation programs available that emphasize physical activity?
- How much TV, videos, or computer games is the child doing each day?
- Does the child have unlimited access to TV? Is the TV in the child's bedroom?
- Questions for evaluating diet:
- Does the child have his or her own money to spend on food? If so, what food is being purchased?
- What foods and beverages are readily available to the child at school? At home? In the community?
- How often does the child eat out each day? What food choices is he or she making?
- Parents may need guidance in choosing and cooking foods low in fat.
- Families may need to learn what an appropriate portion or serving size is for adults and children and how many servings from each food group should be eaten over the course of an entire day.
- Parents may need different approaches for managing problem foods. Some programs treat candy, desserts, sweets, cakes, cookies, and soda and ice cream as "red light foods" that may not be consumed more often than 3 or 4 times a week. It may be necessary to stop bringing red light foods into the house.
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Healthier Dinner With 1 Easy Change
By: Lori Thayer
A healthier dinner is obtainable. Small steps will make it easier. Today we will start with 1 easy change: starting dinner with a salad.
Benefits of starting dinner with a salad
- It's quick and easy to make
- Consume more vegetables during dinner. Of course we want more vegetables for better health and nutrition.
- Eat fewer calories overall
Making the salad
- Purchase a bagged salad mix – if you aren't used to making salad and think it will take too much time start with a prepared mix. Sure it is a little more expensive but if this is what you need to get started do so. Purchase a large bag of mixed salad, including dressing. The ones from Costco will last 2-4 dinners. depending on the size of your family.
- Gradually switch to making your own salad. We use spinach as the foundation for most of our salads. Then add some additional vegetables to the salad. Tomatoes, carrots and cucumbers are great on a salad. We often add black olives for the taste and the good, healthy fat.
- Dressing – Start with store bought if that is where your family is. We did this for a long time. We recently switched to making our own mix of Balsamic Vinegar, Olive Oil and Garlic. It is healthier and tastes wonderful.
How to get your family eating salad
- Make salad the first course of the meal. There is no other food on the table until the salad is eaten.
- If your kids or husband is picky start with a very simple salad (no extra vegetables). Over time add in additional vegetables. We require our kids to eat their entire salad before starting on the entree. Some of the toppings are optional, e.g. we don't require them to eat all the almond slivers or olives.
- Let each person choose which dressing to use and how much they want to put on. Some kids may not want any dressing at all and that is perfectly alright. Over time move to healthier dressing options.
- Bottom line – don't give your family a choice. Everyone is going to eat salad before dinner. Play with different salad types and you may find certain types are more popular. Over time they will get used to the salad and even like and request it.
- To engage your children more have them make the salad for dinner. If they've made it they are more likely to eat it.
Have you tried starting your family on a healthier dinner? Will they eat a salad before dinner? Share your success and challenges with us in the comments below.
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VDI, or Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, is becoming one of the new buzz phrases and technologies that is heard more often lately. We're currently running a Proof of Concept to see if it something that we can use in our environment. So I now get to play with some new technologies. I'll be posting from time to time my experiences, what I like/dislike and such.
Today I wanted to just point you to a quick "tutorial" that shows how an application (in this case Adobe Reader) is virtualized. When it works, this is actually pretty slick. When I have more experience, I'll give a fuller report. In the meantime, check out this.
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As lawmakers and others continue to focus on our state's transportation funding challenges, they'd be wise to look beyond the gasoline tax as a long-term solution.
Raising the gasoline tax fails to reflect a major shift in national energy policy; Americans’ changing driving habits and, finally, hard political realities here in Harrisburg and in Washington, DC.
The fact that the gasoline tax no longer works as the principle means of funding transportation projects should be axiomatic by now: if it did work, we would not be in a crisis. We simply have no choice in Pennsylvania but to look beyond the gasoline tax.
In December, President Bush signed into law an energy bill that mandates a 40-percent improvement in vehicle mileage standards by 2020. This law tightens Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards that regulate the average fuel economy in the vehicles produced by each major automaker.
This may be sound energy and environmental policy – that’s a debate for a different day - but there can be no question that it will weaken our transportation system. More efficient cars and light trucks by definition will result in less gas tax revenue.
The fact that Congressional leaders delivered the legislation to President Bush in a hybrid vehicle is telling – not for the photo op it provided – but for the change in our national driving habits the ploy represents.
In 2007, for the first time in our nation’s history, the total of Vehicle Miles Traveled went down. At the same time, the sales of hybrid vehicles continue to climb. As Americans drive less and use less gasoline when they are driving, the gap in our transportation funding will continue to widen.
The federal gas tax of 18.4 cents a gallon has not been increased since 1993. Pennsylvania’s gas tax of 32.3 cents a gallon – the 4th highest in the nation -- has not been increased since 1997. There is absolutely no reason to believe that the General Assembly will embrace an increase to the gasoline tax.
The debate surrounding the state’s new transportation funding law – Act 44 – and other alternatives will intensify in the coming weeks as we move into the annual budget season. We plan on playing a role in that debate.
In August, 2007, The Susquehanna Valley Center for Public Policy issued a policy paper “The Yellow Brick Road Really is Gold: The PA Turnpike and Transportation in the Commonwealth” which examined some of the inherent shortcomings in privatizing the Turnpike.
One of the principal issues we raised persists: Why should the Turnpike’s users shoulder the responsibility for all of any new revenue for transportation funding projects around the state?
Under Act 44, the burden is shared by the Turnpike’s users – through increased tolls – and I-80 motorists through new tolls. Under a lease, every dollar comes from the Turnpike’s customers. This is not an equitable solution.
We are currently engaged in researching a second paper that takes a more detailed look at transportation funding solutions in practice or under study across the nation. We expect to issue that report in the coming months.
We already know that many states are crafting alternative solutions. Commuters in six states are engaged in a study to determine whether it makes sense to pay a fee for the number of miles they've driven – as opposed to a gas tax.
The Road User Charge Study mirrors an effort in Oregon to study a GPS-based road tax system on a pilot basis which levels taxes based upon miles driven. If applied statewide, the state would not lose revenue with every resident that purchases a more fuel efficient vehicle. In Virginia, a new law empowers the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority to collect seven new regional taxes and fees for transportation projects.
Lawmakers and Gov. Rendell need to continue the work that was started with passage of Act 44 to ensure that our Commonwealth has a viable transportation infrastructure and a fair and balanced means of maintaining that infrastructure.
Recent news articles from around the U.S. outlining toll increases (including plans for toll hikes in most bordering states) demonstrate that tolls – a users’ fee - are being counted on by state governments to finance crumbling highways and bridges more than ever before.
Taxes on fossil fuels represent the past in highway and bridge financing, not the future.
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“The Lord showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord, whie Satan stood at his right hand to accuse him. And the angel of the Lord said to Satan, “May the Lord rebuke you, Satan; may the Lord who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Is this man not a brand snatched from the fire?” Now Joshua was standing before the angel clad in filthy garments. He spoke and said to those who were standing before him, “Take off his filthy garments and clother him in festal garments.” He also said, “Put a clean miter on his head.” And they put a clean miter on his head and clothed him with the festal garments. Then the angel of the Lord, standing, said, “See, I have taken away your guilt.” Zechariah 3:1-5
I read this passage in the Office of Readings on the Wed, the 17th of Oct. The reading struck me in an incredibly powerful way as I read it, the way poetry does. It hits on a subconscious level first, the imagery resonating, saying, “Pay attention. This is Good.” Only later does the conscious mind begin to access the richness of what was said. As it was, I read this and then re-read it, and then re-read it again. I finished the rest of the reading and then came back and read this section again. It struck me so strongly that I copied it out in an email and shared it with someone before leaving for work.
All day long I turned it over and over in my head. The first thing that crossed my mind was the fact that the names “Jesus” and “Joshua” are the same name in Hebrew. “Yehoshua” meaning “Yaweh is Salvation.” In my Vulgate the passage actually says, “Jesus the High Priest.” This is most wonderful, for it lends an incredible prophetic significance to this passage. Joshua the High Priest was the High Priest called by God to rebuild the temple after the Babylonian captivity, (Haggai 1) just as Jesus is the true High Priest who said, “Destroy this Temple and in three days I will raise it up again.” (John 2:19) Jesus, who took upon himself the filthiness of our sins that we might clothe ourselves in His Righteousness as a wedding garment. (Isaiah 61:10) Actually, the whole of Isaiah 61 is speaking of Jesus in this context as our savior. The man at the banquet without a wedding garment (Matthew 22:12), the description of Baptism as having “put on Christ” (Galatians 3:26-28), the image of those who have washed their robes in the Blood of the Lamb (Revelation 7:13-15), and the Church adorned as the Bride of the Lamb (Revelation 21:2) all flashed through my head, called up by the image of the High Priest, representing all of His people, standing before judgment and being clothed in white robes.
I thought of what it would be like to be stripped of all my filthy garments, and clothed in a white wedding garment. The image of dirt and filthiness contrasted with cleanliness is a powerful one. On the one hand I thought of a beautiful woman dressed in her wedding gown, cleaned, groomed and smelling of vanilla or lavender or some such beautiful thing: fresh and happy, clean and pure inside and out. On the other hand I thought of some of the patients I had in the ER on rotations: street people, homeless people, some of whom had not changed their clothes in weeks, months or years. I have heard of homeless people, mentally ill, addicted, sick and disgusting in mind and body who had not changed their clothes or showered in over a decade. Perhaps not since they were children, and maybe not even then. At that level of filthiness the clothes are literally adhered to the patient’s flesh, and the flesh underneath the clothes is macerated, necrotic and rotten. When the hospital or clinic staff, or the Missionaries of Charity, remove that person’s clothes, sheets of rotten, gangrenous skin come with it. I thought of a diabetic patient who had fallen asleep in an abandoned building and had his lower legs eaten away by rats, but he couldn’t feel it because of diabetic neuropathies.
Just hearing about this sort of filthiness is enough to put most people in the fetal position. I have a strong stomach and it makes even me nauseous. But I want you to visualize this degradation on one hand, and contrast it with the bride in her wedding gown on the other hand. Both are human beings. Both were created in the image and likeness of God. Both were created for an infinite weight of beauty. Who could look at the crack whore on the street, toothless, emaciated, sick in body and mind, and see her one day dressed in white, radiant, healthy, holy and happy? Who could love like that? What man would be willing to take her into his heart, into his home, into his bed?
But God does love like that. This is what my soul looks like in mortal sin. Habitual sin is like that homeless man whose clothes are so rotten that removing them takes the skin with them. The rottenness extends even into the soul itself, so I cannot feel the teeth gnawing away at the deadened parts. This is where some are, where some of us have been, and where all of us would be except for the grace of God. Most of us aren’t there, but we are still not clean. I may not wallow in my own filth day in and day out, never going to confession, never praying, never showering and changing my clothes, but I have been known to go to confession on a Saturday and be right back at my sins on Monday. I have been the dog that returns to its own vomit (2 Peter 2:22). Thanks be to God for never ceasing to forgive, for never getting tired of taking me back.
God is there. He sees us as we are, filthy, addicted, toothless, mumbling strange nothings in our senseless fears, and He loves us. He does not just love us, but He is in love with us. He stands ready to take us back, not just waiting at the door but running to meet us (Luke 15:20). He waits with a steaming bath, clean clothes, hot tea with honey, chicken soup, and crisp clean sheets, all ready and waiting for us.
This is why I don’t understand Catholics who don’t go to confession. Even when we don’t wallow in the cesspool, we still get dirty. Except by a miracle no one walks through this world without getting a little dirty from time to time. Not going to confession regularly makes about as much sense to me as only showering once a year, only changing my clothes every other month. I cannot put on clean clothes if I am not willing to strip off the old nasty ones and make myself naked.
The cleanliness of Heaven is a terrifying thing. The fact that God wishes to betroth us to Him, (me, with all my dirt and sins and failures glaring me in the face) and is willing to do whatever it takes to make us clean, even take our filthiness upon Himself, is a frightening thing. Most homeless people I have worked with didn’t want to change their clothes, or take a bath. They were attached to their ways, and couldn’t understand the joy of clean sheets in a warm bed. In the same way we are attached to much that is wrong and dirty — perhaps sin, perhaps the shame and guilt attached to past sins, perhaps just failures and regrets. God wants to remove them from us, but we have trouble letting go. We must look as ridiculous to Him as the homeless man looks to the nurse who wants him to take off his overcoat before he gets into bed. But God is patient. You might say, he is patient with His patients. (See what I did there? Sorry, couldn’t help it!)
He’s patient, but he is also determined. He doesn’t rush us, but there is a time limit. Eventually we must trust Him and surrender or die of our filthiness. He will not settle for half measures, for merely not being totally disgusting. In the end nothing will do for Him but for us to be radiant and glorious, adorned as a bride for her Lover.
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After deriving the equation, I solicited other brewers' data. I don't have the numbers on me, but six or seven people contributed 70 or so data points, and the standard deviation for those was 0.0013 - a little more than one "gravity point". So statistically speaking, you could expect the correlation to be within one point 56% of the time, two points 88% of the time, and four points >99% of the time.
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Elevator Operating Certificates
The purpose of elevator inspections is to provide safety standards for the design, construction, installation, operation, inspection, testing, maintenance, alteration and repair of elevators, dumbwaiters, escalators and inclined lifts, moving walks and their hoistways.
The units included are passenger elevators, freight elevators, escalators, and moving walks in public places. Passenger and freight elevator safety inspections are required for all elevators. Following the annual safety inspection, the correction of any deficiencies found during inspection and the payment of the elevator certificate of inspection fee the owner and/or user of the elevator will be issued an ELEVATOR OPERATING CERTIFICATE which authorizes the elevator to be operated until the next date of inspection. | <urn:uuid:9cb040b9-0a1b-45e6-bb0b-b6e3e39cc46d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://bsd.dli.mt.gov/bc/elev_crt.asp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00009-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.92425 | 156 | 1.851563 | 2 |
Recalled: Boys' hooded jackets
Thu, May 7, 2009 (BabyCenter News) — Jason Evans Associates has announced a recall of about 1,300
boys' hooded jackets with drawstrings in cooperation with the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).
The jackets have a drawstring through the hood which can pose a strangulation hazard to children. In February 1996, CPSC issued guidelines to help prevent child entanglement from jacket and sweatshirt drawstrings. From 1985 to 2007, CPSC has received reports of 27 deaths and 70 non-fatal incidents involving the entanglement of children's clothing drawstrings. There have been no reports of injury or death related to the jackets currently being recalled.
The recalled boy’s jackets are black and gray and have a drawstring through the hood. They were sold in boys' sizes 4, 5, 6, and 7. The RN number 30842 is printed in the center back neck and the style number 1708 is printed on the hangtag on the center back neck.The hooded jackets were sold at
Burlington Coat Factory from September 2006 through April 2009 for about $17.They were made in Pakistan.
-- Grace Blasco
What you can do:
- Remove the drawstring to eliminate the hazard. You can also return the jacket to the place where you bought it or to Jason Evans Associates for a full refund.
- For additional information, call Jason Evans Associates toll-free at (888) 683-0063 between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. Eastern time, Monday through Thursday.
- See a photo of the recalled jackets on the CPSC's website.
- Keep abreast of children's safety recalls by checking our recall finder.
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One of the great "What if?" questions of the 20th century is how America would have been different if Henry Wallace rather than Harry Truman had succeeded Franklin Roosevelt in the White House. Filmmaker Oliver Stone has revived this debate in his current ten-part Showtime series, "The Untold History of the United States," and his new book (written with historian Peter Kuznick) of the same name.
In the late 1930s and early 1940s, only FDR eclipsed Wallace - Roosevelt's secretary of agriculture (1933-1940) and then his vice president (1941-1944) - in popularity with the American people. Stone's documentary series and book portray Wallace as a true American hero, a "visionary" on both domestic and foreign policy. Today, however, Wallace is a mostly forgotten figure. If Stone's work helps restore Wallace's rightful place in our history and piques the curiosity of younger Americans to learn more about this fascinating person, it will have served an important purpose.
Wallace almost became the nation's president. In 1940, he was FDR's running mate and served as his vice president for four years. But in 1944, against the advice of the Democratic Party's progressives and liberals - including his wife Eleanor - FDR reluctantly allowed the party's conservative, pro-business and segregationist wing to replace Wallace with Sen. Harry Truman as the vice presidential candidate, a move that Stone calls the "greatest blunder" of Roosevelt's career. Had Wallace remained as vice president, he would have become president when FDR died in April 1945.
Wallace opposed the cold war, the arms race with the Soviet Union and racial segregation. He was a strong advocate of labor unions, national health insurance, public works jobs and women's equality. He would have been, without question, the most radical president in American history. He would have served out the remaining three years of FDR's fourth term and certainly would have sought to be elected on his own in 1948.
Stone raises several titillating but unknowable questions: Had Wallace become president, would the United States have dropped the atom bomb on Japan? Would the country have spent several decades engaged in a costly cold war and arms race with the Soviet Union? Would we have created a permanent war economy (one that President Eisenhower later warned had become a "military-industrial complex") and replaced England as the world's most assertive imperialist and colonial power, leading the country into numerous military adventures, including Vietnam? Would our society have postponed for at least a decade the civil rights and women's rights revolutions?
Today, if Wallace is remembered at all, it is as a fringe candidate who ran on the Progressive Party ticket against Truman in 1948 and garnered less than 3 percent of the popular vote. That is unfortunate, because Wallace was a remarkable public servant. He was, according to John Kenneth Galbraith, "second only to Roosevelt as the most important figure of the New Deal."
Wallace was born on an Iowa farm in 1888. After graduating from Iowa State College in 1910, he went to work for his family's newspaper, Wallaces' Farmer, which was widely read by farmers and was influential in educating farmers about new scientific techniques and political issues shaping agricultural life. In 1921, Wallace took over as editor when his father became secretary of agriculture in the administrations of Warren G. Harding and then of Calvin Coolidge.
Wallace had a great passion for what was then called "scientific agriculture" and a talent for agricultural research. In 1926, he started the Hi-Bred Corn Company - later renamed Pioneer Hi-Bred - to market a new high-yield corn seed he had developed during his years conducting scientific experiments on a part-time basis. The company was hugely successful, making Wallace rich and his heirs secure. The new company revolutionized American agriculture. (DuPont bought the business for $9.4 billion in 1999.)
Wallace recognized that farming followed an unpredictable boom-and-bust cycle due to the weather, overproduction and consumers' ability to pay for food. In the 1920s, almost half of all Americans made their living directly or indirectly from agriculture. Wallace saw that farmers had not shared in the decade's prosperity and that their plight worsened when the economy crashed in 1929. Between 1929 and 1932, farm income fell by two-thirds. Farm foreclosures were occurring at a record pace. Farming communities were emptying as family farmers and sharecroppers abandoned the land looking for jobs elsewhere, a situation portrayed in John Steinbeck's 1939 novel The Grapes of Wrath and in the film based on it.
As Adam Cohen recounts in Nothing to Fear (2009), his book on the first 100 days of FDR's administration, these experiences radicalized many farmers throughout the farm belt. In May 1932, for example, 2,000 farmers attended a rally at the Iowa state fairgrounds and urged fellow farmers to declare a "holiday" from farming, under the slogan "Stay at Home - Buy Nothing Sell Nothing." In effect, they were urging farmers to go on strike - to withhold their corn, beef, pork and milk until the government addressed their problems. They threatened to call a national farmers strike if Congress did not provide farmers with "legislative justice." In Sioux City, Iowa, farmers put wooden planks with nails on the highways to block agricultural deliveries. In Nebraska, one group of farmers showed up at a foreclosure sale and saw to it that every item that had been seized from a farmer's widow sold for five cents, leaving the bank with a total settlement of just $5.35. In Le Mars, Iowa, a group of farmers kidnapped Judge Charles Bradley off the bench while he was hearing foreclosure cases and threatened to lynch him if he did not agree to stop foreclosures.
Wallace, a scientist and economist as well as a farmer, believed that the solution to the farm crisis was a combination of better farm management and government relief. Both Wallace and his father had been loyal Republicans, but in 1928, the younger Wallace changed his allegiance, supporting Democrat Al Smith for president. Four years later, Wallace endorsed FDR in the pages of his newspaper. Iowa, a traditionally Republican state, gave FDR almost 60 percent of its votes. Soon after winning the presidency, FDR recruited Wallace to become his secretary of agriculture - at 44, Wallace was the youngest member of the cabinet.
The Farm Belt protests continued after FDR took office in March 1933. Wallace used the growing farm rebellion to persuade the president to support a number of innovative and controversial programs, including crop subsidies, to keep farmers afloat. Wallace was the key advocate for the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, the Rural Electrification Administration, the Soil Conservation Service, the Farm Credit Administration, and the food stamp and school lunch programs. Wallace added a program for erosion control. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) sponsored research to combat plant and animal diseases, to locate drought-resistant crops, and to develop hybrid seeds to increase farm productivity.
As a result, the USDA changed from a marginal department into one of the largest agencies, in size and influence, in Washington. Wallace's agency was also widely considered the best-run department in the federal government.
Business groups and Republicans in Congress opposed Wallace's plans, as they did most of the New Deal initiatives. Radical farm groups, like the National Farmers Union, thought the plans did not go far enough. But it is clear that the New Deal farm programs saved the farm economy and helped stabilize rural areas.
Wallace, Frances Perkins, Harry Hopkins, and Rex Tugwell formed the progressive wing of FDR's inner circle. Wallace had FDR's ear on a wide variety of issues, and he used that influence to push for policies to help industrial workers and the urban poor as well as farmers. Wallace became the New Deal's evangelist. In 1934 alone, he traveled more than 40,000 miles to all 48 states, delivered 88 speeches, signed 20 articles, published two books, and met regularly with reporters to promote the president and his program.
Because the fate of American farming is closely linked to global issues - particularly the export and import of food, but also hunger and famine around the world - Wallace was well versed in foreign affairs. In the late 1930s, he became alarmed by the rise of fascist dictatorships in Germany, Italy and Japan. Many Midwesterners, including progressives, were still isolationists, but Wallace had become a vigorous internationalist and a strong advocate for "collective security" among the United States and its allies.
During FDR's first two terms, Wallace developed a broad following among farmers, union activists and progressives. FDR was impressed by Wallace's popularity, his intelligence, and his integrity and believed that they shared a common view of government's role in society. In the summer of 1940, having decided to run for an unprecedented third term, FDR picked Wallace to be his vice presidential running mate.
During World War II, FDR involved Wallace in many military and international matters. Wallace also traveled throughout the war-torn world. FDR encouraged him to speak out about the possible shape of the postwar world. "Henry Wallace," wrote columnist James Reston in The New York Times in October 1941, "is now the administration's head man on Capitol Hill, its defense chief, economic boss and No. 1 post war planner."
Wallace faced significant opposition from the Democratic Party's conservative, business and segregationist wings. He feuded openly with Jesse H. Jones, a one-time Texas banker and businessman who was FDR's secretary of commerce and head of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC), which controlled the purse strings for purchasing wartime supplies. For example, Wallace and Jones disagreed over the importing of essential materials for the war effort, such as rubber from South America. Wallace knew that about 40,000 workers were needed to extract the 20,000 tons of rubber that the United States needed each year. But each year, one-third of the rubber workers died and another third were too sick to work, afflicted with malaria, malnutrition, venereal disease, contaminated water, and other conditions. To guarantee a steady supply of rubber, Wallace (with the support of Perkins, the labor secretary) wanted the United States to provide the workers with healthy food and to require labor clauses in contracts with South American suppliers that mandated health and safety standards. Jones was adamantly opposed to Wallace's proposal and rounded up allies within the Roosevelt administration (including the State Department) and in Congress, including Republican Sen. Robert Taft of Ohio, who accused Wallace of "setting up an international WPA."
On May 8, 1942, Wallace delivered a talk in New York City that became famous for his phrase "the century of the common man." It was, noted John Culver and John Hyde in their biography, American Dreamer: A Life of Henry A. Wallace, "as pure an expression of progressive idealism as Wallace could muster." Wallace defined America's wartime mission as laying the groundwork for a peaceful world of global cooperation, "a fight between a slave world and a free world." Modern science has made it possible for everyone to have enough to eat, Wallace said, but it will require cooperation among the major nations to raise the standard of living for the common man in every corner of the world.
The speech was Wallace's response to a 1941 article by Henry Luce, the publisher of Time and Life magazines, which called for an "American century" after the war - meaning a century dominated by the United States, "to exert upon the world the full impact of our influence, for such purposes as we see fit and by such means as we see fit."
Wallace's rebuttal was very explicit. He envisioned an end to colonialism, a world in which "no nation will have the God-given right to exploit other nations. Older nations will have the privilege to help younger nations get started on the path to industrialization, but there must be neither military nor economic imperialism." Wallace was aiming for a kind of global New Deal.
Millions of copies of Wallace's speech were distributed around the world in 20 languages. It drew praise in liberal and progressive circles, but it also stirred controversy. The British prime minister, Winston Churchill - who hoped that Britain would still have an empire to run after the war - was upset by Wallace's stark anticolonial sentiments. American business groups objected to Wallace's views about economic imperialism. The New York Times and, of course, Luce's publications, thought it was too radical.
Wallace's speech framed the debate between progressives and conservatives. Opponents viewed Wallace as naive, a dreamer and a radical. These opponents included influential Democrats who worried that FDR might anoint Wallace as his successor, or at least give Wallace a big enough stage from which to launch a presidential bid once FDR had retired.
Led by Robert Hannegan, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, local and state party bosses quietly lobbied FDR to replace Wallace with Truman. Going into the 1944 Democratic convention in Chicago, Wallace was strongly favored to keep his position as FDR's running mate. Too ill to attend the convention and too busy overseeing the American war effort to get in the middle of an intraparty battle, FDR let it be known that either Wallace or Truman (a little-known senator from Missouri with few accomplishments to his credit) would be an acceptable vice presidential pick. On the first ballot, Wallace beat Truman, but lacked sufficient votes needed to secure the nomination. Then the party's conservative influence-peddlers went to work making deals with leaders from different states to gain votes for Truman. They maneuvered successfully and handed Truman the
Wallace was deeply hurt by FDR's failure to back him. After the election, FDR appointed Wallace to be secretary of commerce, but he stripped Wallace of control of the RFC, which he left in Jones' conservative hands. Wallace had a prestigious title, but he was no longer an influential insider. After FDR died in April 1945, Wallace continued to speak out in public, often in terms critical of Truman. Within a year, Truman had purged most of FDR's key appointees. In September 1946, he fired Wallace, too.
On the major issues facing postwar America - the cold war and the arms race (particularly the atomic bomb), strengthening New Deal social policies and boosting organized labor, and addressing segregation and racism - Wallace believed that Truman was too cautious and conservative. These were themes Wallace would pick up on when he campaigned for president against Truman on the Progressive Party ticket. He attacked Truman's support for loyalty oaths to root out communists and radicals from government jobs, unions, and teaching positions in schools and universities. He called for national health insurance, an expanded public works program, and reparations for Japanese Americans who had been interned during the war. He said it was time to elevate women to "first-class citizenship." And when Wallace campaigned in the South, he refused to speak to segregated audiences.
On foreign policy, Wallace opposed the so-called Truman Doctrine, which aimed to contain communism through military intervention if necessary. He refused to support the Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe, considering it an instrument of the cold war. He preferred a multilateral aid program that would be administered through the United Nations.
Some early polls showed that Wallace had the support of more than 20 percent of the voters. Democratic Party officials, as well as some left-leaning union leaders, feared that even if Wallace could not win the election, he might attract enough Democratic voters that the White House would fall into the hands of the Republicans. Although his campaign initially attracted support from a wide political spectrum of liberals and radicals - including high-profile figures like scientist Albert Einstein and singer and actor Paul Robeson - much of that support soon withered as Wallace became closely identified with communists.
There were communists in key positions within the Wallace campaign, particularly among the left-wing unions that supported him after most other unions had abandoned his crusade. In some ways, Wallace was naive about the Soviet Union. He visited the port city of Magadan in Siberia in 1944 and described it as "combination TVA and Hudson's Bay Company." In reality, it was a slave-labor camp filled with political prisoners. Only later did he acknowledge that he had been conned by his Soviet guides.
Wallace believed in what would decades later be called "détente" - finding ways to cooperate with the Soviet Union rather than getting trapped in a spiraling arms race. Even as cold war tensions were growing, Wallace simply did not subscribe to the anticommunist hysteria that emerged after the war. "I say those who fear communism lack faith in democracy," he said.
In the 1948 contest, Truman beat New York Gov. Thomas Dewey, the Republican candidate, in a historic upset. Wallace received only 2.38 percent of the national vote. He even trailed third-place Strom Thurmond, the Democratic governor of South Carolina, who was running on the segregationist Dixiecrat Party ticket.
After this humiliating defeat, Wallace bought a farm in New York State, where he enjoyed working with plants and keeping chickens and made only occasional forays into public life. He was soon forgotten or reviled as a misguided radical. It is easy to see, with 20-20 hindsight, that running as the Progressive Party's presidential candidate transformed Wallace into a marginal figure. But an honest examination of his 1948 platform reveals that most of the ideas for which he was condemned as a radical are now viewed as common sense.
For further reading
Adam Cohen. Nothing to Fear: FDR's Inner Circle and the Hundred Days That Created Modern America. New York: Penguin Press, 2009.
John C. Culver and John Hyde. American Dreamer: A Life of Henry A. Wallace. New York: W. W. Norton, 2000.
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Iran is about a year away from developing a nuclear weapon and the United States remains committed to doing everything in its power to prevent that from happening, U.S. President Barack Obama said in an exclusive interview that aired Thursday on Israeli TV.
Just days before he is to arrive in Israel for his first presidential visit, Obama told Israel's Channel 2 TV that while he still prefers diplomacy over force, a nuclear Iran is a "red line" and all options remain on the table to stop it.
"Right now, we think it would take over a year or so for Iran to actually develop a nuclear weapon, but obviously we don't want to cut it too close," he said. "So when I'm consulting with Bibi (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu) as I have over the last several years on this issue, my message to him will be the same as before: 'If we can resolve it diplomatically, that is a more lasting solution. But if not I continue to keep all options on the table."'
The timeline for action against Iran has been one of the most fraught disputes in an already tense relationship between Obama and Netanyahu. Israel has repeatedly threatened to act militarily should Iran appear to be on the verge of obtaining a bomb, while the U.S. has pushed for more time to allow diplomacy and economic sanctions to run their course.
Obama's forecast gives more time than that of Netanyahu, who has signalled that the coming months present a point of no return in dealing with Iran.
The American president nonetheless took a stern tone toward Iran in the half-hour-long interview.
"What I have also said is that there is a window, not an infinite period of time, but a window of time where we can resolve this diplomatically and it is in all of our interests" to do this, he said. "They (Iran) are not yet at the point, I think, where they have made a fundamental decision to get right with the international community ... I do think they are recognizing that there is a severe cost to continue on the path they are on and that there is another door open."
Israel considers a nuclear-armed Iran to be an existential threat, citing Iranian denials of the Holocaust, its calls for Israel's destruction, its development of missiles capable of striking the Jewish state and its support for hostile Arab militant groups. Tehran says its nuclear program is peaceful and designed to produce energy and medical isotopes, a claim that Israel and many Western countries reject.
Obama said that a nuclear Iran would also be "dangerous for the world. It would be dangerous for U.S. national security interests."
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MPEG-2 video and audio compression, the current standard for digital broadcasting, has been a strong point of stability in designing and building digital broadcasting systems. However, new algorithms are emerging that are poised to create a fundamental change in broadcast video compression.
MPEG-2 made digital satellite and multichannel broadcasting explode and as bit-rate requirements fell and more products were developed, it created and fulfilled new markets: digital SNG, distribution, high definition broadcasting, wireless cameras, and most recently, video over IP. MPEG-2 has been refined since its early installations such that channels once requiring 8Mbps now require only 2 or 3 for the same picture quality. The codec has delivered excellent performance, but MPEG-2’s coding efficiency is reaching its peak.
While advances in MPEG-2 over the years have delivered new efficiencies and improved the business and quality case for broadcasters everywhere, each increase in performance is getting smaller and more difficult to implement. This slowed performance upgrade has opened the doors for new standards within the professional broadcast codec market.
MPEG-4 and Windows Media 9 Series are at the top of this group. The common theme of both techniques is the ability to reduce the bit-rate required to carry video content by up to a factor of three over current MPEG-2 solutions. MPEG-4 has been a topic of conversation in recent years, but it has many different flavors and classifications. In broadcast television, the only classification that counts is MPEG-4 part 10. Earlier versions, such as “Simple Profile,” “Advanced Simple Profile,” and “part 2” never escaped the Internet and mobile telephony arenas. These have now been technically superseded by “part 10” for digital broadcasting.
Just as the launch of MPEG-2 in the mid-1990s created the digital broadcasting industry, the emergence of Windows Media 9 and MPEG-4 will take broadcast video and audio to new levels. Possibilities include broadcast-quality television at 1Mbps, high definition at 5Mbps and television broadcasting to PDAs and cell phones at rates as low as 100kbps. This massive shift in bit-rate requirements will alter business models and make possible many new video services that would have been impossible against the bit-rate constraints of MPEG-2 environments.
With two or more televisions in the home, MPEG-2 over ADSL struggles to provide telcos, for example, with a competitive solution to today’s digital cable offerings. With advanced codecs providing better bit-rate management or the ability to increase audience reach, ADSL providers can offer multiple channels of television to the home on a single twisted-pair connection, making MPEG-4 and Windows Media 9 powerful weapons in the telcos’ battle to provide “triple-play” (television and video on demand, telephony, and high-speed Internet access) to the home.
In the high definition realm, ATSC HD offers 19Mbps in the MPEG-2 environment. Reducing that bandwidth by a factor of four dramatically changes the economics of multichannel HD broadcasting. Along with the growth in multichannel HD on satellite and cable that the new codecs enable, another exciting proposition is the possibility of HD DVDs.
Outside of traditional means, broadcast television to new devices opens interesting avenues for revenue generation. MPEG-2 was never designed for very low bit rates and consequently does not perform well at bit rates of 2Mbps or lower. Delivering low-bit rate, realtime content, such as sports and news channels, over a cell phone network to PDAs or new-generation smart phones (hybrid PDA/cell phone devices) creates new revenue opportunities for broadcasters and content owners.
Manufacturers throughout the industry are working on products to enable these visions. Companies such as TANDBERG Television and Pace Micro Technologies are building Windows Media 9 Series broadcast headends and set-top boxes. MPEG-4 part 10 is not expected as a standard until summer 2003 but the eventual products based on it should be impressive.
Even with this headlong rush toward new codecs and business models, MPEG-2 has a healthy future. There are almost 80 million MPEG-2 set-top boxes installed today, and compression technology cannot be swapped overnight. Additionally, while 2003 will be a year of much visionary work on Windows Media 9 Series and MPEG-4 part 10, it will be light on deliveries. Because not all manufacturers have taken the opportunity to work on Windows Media 9 Series and MPEG-4 part 10, it will likely be some time before hardware product solutions reach the market. Even then, only a few will have something of real value to offer. A good compression product or algorithm does not make a business solution. These new techniques need new systems from experienced and skilled providers.
Still, 2003 is and will continue to be a year in which a large amount of interest will be shown toward powerful new codec technologies. This technological effort will drive growth in core TV markets and enable some exciting new opportunities for manufacturers and broadcasters. The broadcasters, operators, and owners first to grasp these opportunities will have much to gain. However, as with any new technology, broadcasters should be careful to evaluate and choose the right products as they strive to reduce costs and increase revenues derived from the increased bandwidth efficiency of MPEG-4 and Windows Media 9 Series codecs.
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May 5, 2012
'It's Go Time': SpaceX Heads for the Int'l Space Station
The Economist, The Economist
SIX years ago, when NASA, America’s space agency, announced it wanted the private sector to take over responsibility for ferrying cargo to the International Space Station (ISS), many scoffed that it was a fantasy. But yesterday’s fantasy has become today’s reality, and private enterprise is busy putting together rocket-propelled delivery vans to do just that—and, eventually, to take astronauts as well. One of the leading firms in the field, SpaceX, has already notched up a string of successful flights (and a few failures, too) with its Falcon rockets, pictured above. This month it will attempt its most ambitious mission yet: a rendezvous with the space station.
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Intel updates Xeon six-shooters for servers
Gunning for Opterons high and low
Advanced Micro Devices was not the only server chip maker in the x64 racket that updated its chips for Valentine's Day. Yesterday evening, chip giant Intel slipped out a blog posting announcing that it too had tweaked its server chip lineup.
Specifically, Intel has added nine new chips in its "Westmere-EP" Xeon 5600 lineup and called out two others that were announced a year ago. Three of the new chips are functionally identical to the quad-core Xeon 5500s that were announced a year ago with the six-shooter Xeon 5600s, with the same core counts, thread counts, clock speeds, and such, but the new chips include two features - TXT and AES - that were missing from the 5500-class chips.
The Westmere-EP chips have a set of native cryptographic instructions that implement the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm for encrypting and decrypting data. These server and workstation chips also have taken the Trusted Execution Technology (TXT) security features from the vPro business PC platform and hardened it so it can be used to secure virtualized server environments, preventing the insertion of malicious software prior to the launching of the hypervisor when a server boots.
The Xeon quad-core E5607 and E5606 chips and the dual-core E5603 chip, shown in the table below, now have these TXT and AES features, which is what makes them different from the E5507, E5506, and E5503 chips they replace. (The newer chips also have two dud cores on them that BIOSes and software can't see because they don't work.)
Intel's revamped "Westmere-EP" Xeon 5600 server chip lineup
The new top-end Westmere-EP part is the X5690, which Intel was sampling last summer. This is a six-core, 12-thread chip that runs at 3.46 GHz, about four per cent more raw clock oomph than the X5680. These chips are rated at 130 watts using Intel's Thermal Design Point power rating.
The slightly faster X5690 has the same price as the X5680, which means the extra oomph passes straight through as better bang for the buck. Intel has also launched an X5687 part, which has only four cores activated and that clocks at 3.6 GHz. That's four per cent faster than the quad-core X5677 it replaces. All four of these chips cost $1,663 each when you buy them from Intel in 1,000-unit trays.
The X5675 and X5672 parts, which have six and four cores, respectively, running at 3.06 GHz and 3.2 GHz, are perhaps more interesting in that they fit into the standard 95 watt TDP envelope.
If you look at Intel's chip price list, you might get the impression that the four-core X5667 and the six-core E5645, were launched today. But these chips, shown in blue, were launched last March with the rest of the original Westmere-EPs.
All of the new Xeon 5600 chips, which are implemented in Intel's 32 nanometer wafer-baking processes, are socket-compatible with the existing Westmere-EP platforms and their LGA 1366 sockets. Vendors will start rolling them out into their server platforms as soon as they are certified. ® | <urn:uuid:b607dfac-afe3-4f10-912f-d8046f9b7c13> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/02/15/intel_updates_xeon_5600s/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00060-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961952 | 724 | 1.695313 | 2 |
Hello Mr. Market
In my previous articles (Part I, Part II), I have described some of our thought processes and mind sets when we are buying or selling a stock. We discussed our fear of losing, our cravings to be liked, and our need to act now. We also discussed how overconfidence and commitments to previous decisions or information can impact our investment decision process.
My intention in this article is to introduce you to Mr. Market, the manic-depressive figure that was created in the mind of the brilliant professor Benjamin Graham. I will also provide a different point of view for investing in the stock market.
Before we start talking about Mr. Market, let me ask a very simple question:
What is a stock?
Easy question isn’t it? Before continuing reading, give yourself 30 seconds to answer this question. Well, here are some answers that I got when I asked other people, “A stock is a sure way to make (lose) money”, “A stock is a company”, “A stock is the price of a company”, “A stock is this really annoying 3 letter words that run on the bottom of my CNBC screen and makes me dizzy”
A stock represents a partial ownership of a business/company. For example, think of a media company, let’s call the company MyMediaCompany. The company has 1 million shares (stocks) outstanding, which means that by buying one share of MyMediaCompany you really own one millionth of MyMediaCompany. This is a very important concept. A stock is not just a ticker or a 3 letter word, a stock represent a partial ownership in a business, which means that as a partial owner of MyMediaCompany you partially own its web site, movie studios, TV channels, book publishing, theme parks cruise lines, hotels, media stores etc’. You get my point; by owning a stock of MyMediaCompany you are a partial owner of all that MyMediaCompany owns.
Why is this so important to understand this concept?
Let’s explore some of the answers that I received about why a person bought a stock of a company (or shares of a company):
- I bought the stock at $5 because $5 is a cheap price
- I bought the stock because my friends owns it
- I bought the stock because it use to be $50 and now it is $20 so it must be cheap
- I bought the stock because it has to go up
- I bought the stock because the yelling news anchor said the price graph is in an head and shoulders formation and it is reaching the price breaking point. Yes, someone really told me that!
All of these answers focus on the one piece of information that is the easiest to get – the stock price and ignore the most important question that we should ask ourselves – What is the value of the business behind the ticker, the business that this stock represent?
Just by understanding the value of the company you can tell if the price of the stock is cheap or expansive.
Valuing a company is not an easy task, but it is the first and most important step that needs to happen before you purchase a stock, Peter Lynch once said “Spend at least as much time researching a stock as you would choosing a refrigerator”. I will write more about why companies issue stocks, ways of valuing stocks, research and refrigerators in my next article.
Now that we know that a stock represents a partial ownership of a company, and that the most important activity is first to value the company and only then to look at its price, it is easy to conclude that only once you know the value of the company and the offering price you will be able to make a prudent investment decision. Mr. Buffet tells us “Price is what you pay, Value is what you get”. Always demand more value for your purchase price.
So, who decides the price of the companies?
Again, I went out and asked a few people. Here are some of the more interesting answers that I have received:
- The market decides the price
- The government decides the price
- The companies decide the price
- It is all one big gambling machine
- The ticker decides the price (yes, I have heard that as well)
There is probably some truth in every answer. The real answer is that in the short term we, the investors (and all sort of other automatic software programs), decide the market price of the companies. In the long run, the company’s results impact its market price.
Where is this price being decided? Ok, that’s an easy question; it is decided in the stock exchange. But what is the stock exchange? For the sake of simplicity, let’s think about the stock exchange as a big market in which people decide how much they are willing to pay in order to buy a share of a company and at what price they are willing to sell a stock.
At last, here comes Mr. Market.
Prof. Benjamin Graham, which is known as the dean of value investing, and has written two fabulous books that are a must for any serious investor (“Security Analysis” and “The Intelligent Investor”) have used a character which he called Mr. Market to explain the above concepts.
You can think of Mr. Market as a character that has one unique characteristic; he will come every day and offer to buy or sell a fractional share in a company at a price that he sees fit. The most useful characteristic of Mr. Market is that he will not take any offence if you ignore him, he will still come the next day with another price offer.
If you are investing from a business prospective you will ignore Mr. Market until your facts (obtained by your research) will indicate that Mr. Market’s quoted price has a wide discount from the true value of the business that he tries to sell or buy from you. You can ignore him in all other cases; remember Mr. Market will always show up the next day with another offer. The important question that you should ask yourself is:
Will you let Mr. Market daily quotation determine the true value of the business, or will it be you who determine the true business value and use Mr. Market manic-depressive behavior for your advantage, buy from him when he offer you the business at a foolishly low price and sell to him when he offer to buy at an equally foolish high price.
It is you who decides if you want to let Mr. Market influence your investment decisions or if your research, facts and reasoning prevail. As Benjamin Graham said “Mr. Market is there to serve you, not to guide you. It is his pocketbook, not his wisdom that you will find useful”.
And what should you do in all the other times?
You do nothing. Yes, remember a decision not to buy and not to sell is one of the most important decisions that an investor can make. All you need to do is to deepen your knowledge and wait for the next time in which you will be able to take advantage of dear Mr. Market.
Mr. Charlie Munger (Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman) likes to say that “you don’t make money when you buy stocks. And you don’t make money when you sell stocks. You make money by waiting”
What to do when you wait? Why can’t we wait? Is waiting really that simple? I will answer these questions and many more in the next article.
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The wetlands are associated with Strongs Creek, which flows approximately 1.3 miles west to the Eel River, a priority resource for maintaining cold, freshwater habitat for salmon and steelhead. The Lower Eel River is considered impaired under the Clean Water Act due to excessive sediment loads, low dissolved oxygen and high temperatures that exceed water quality standards.
”Salmon and steelhead populations have been hit hard on the North Coast due to the unfortunate destruction of their aquatic habitat,” said Jared Blumenfeld, EPA’s regional administrator for the Pacific Southwest. “This action ensures the restoration of wetland habitat along Strongs Creek, and will advance the recovery of these valuable fish species.”
The illegal fill activities took place between 2005 and 2008 at two adjacent development sites, the Strongs Creek Plaza site and the East Littlefield property and impacted a total of 4.18 acres of wetlands. Wendt Construction will pay a $170,000 penalty for dumping fill material into wetlands connected to Strongs Creek, a tributary to the Eel River located in the City of Fortuna.
As part of the settlement, the company will undertake a multi-year project to restore the damaged wetlands, including the creation of vegetated pond that will support wildlife while filtering water and recharging the groundwater aquifer. Restoration will allow the creek to perform the important ecological functions of retaining soil and nutrients, attenuating floodwaters, and providing movement corridors for wildlife and habitat for the northern red-legged frog, which is a threatened species in California.
The federal Clean Water Act protects the nation’s coasts, rivers, lakes, streams, and wetlands, which are vital to the protection of human health and the environment. Section 404 of the CWA requires anyone who proposes to fill and alter protected waterways, including wetlands, to first obtain permit authorization from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
The proposed consent decree for the settlement, lodged with the federal district court on May 30, 2012, is subject to a 30-day comment period and final court approval. A copy of the proposed decree is available on the Justice Department website at: http://www.justice.gov/enrd/Consent_Decrees.html.
For more information about the Clean Water Act Section 404 regulatory program, visit: http://www.epa.gov/owow/wetlands/pdf/reg_authority_pr.pdf.
Photos of the site along with a map of the Eel River Watershed will be made available at: http://www.epa.gov/region9/press_media/wendt/photos.html. | <urn:uuid:106a8226-6314-45a9-9aa6-f707ec8283b0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.redwoodtimes.com/garbervillenews/ci_20787622/wendt-construction-pay-320-000-unpermitted-dumping | 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 | 0.918885 | 546 | 2.828125 | 3 |
Even if you haven't previously bothered with exercise, getting fit in middle age appears to reshape the landscape of aging. <a href="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/05/the-benefits-of-middle-age-fitness/">Read more...</a>
Americans are living longer, with our average life expectancy now surpassing 78 years, up from less than 74 years in 1980. But we are not necessarily living better. The incidence of a variety of chronic diseases, like diabetes, cancer and heart disease, has also been growing dramatically, particularly among people who are not yet elderly.
The convergence of those two developments has led to what some researchers have identified as a “lengthening of morbidity.” That means we are spending more years living with chronic disease and ill health — not the outcome that most of us would hope for from a prolonged life span.
We can't hope to live forever ( at least not yet), but we should aim for two things as we age: 1. a "compressed" period of infirmity and 2. the ability to be well enough to qualify for technological advances that improve and prolong life. I fully agree with everything in this article and have found that my own health and physical abilities at age 64 are vastly different than those of people who have not stayed active. I have one quibble with this piece, and it is the final statement. I firmly believe that becoming as active as possible--not simply settling for a walk---has enormous benefit. You can do much more than you think you can. Take that from a former couch potato who after becoming a convert to exercise can still run, aerobicize and play singles with the young 'uns. | <urn:uuid:019472b0-4384-46ad-bb31-f7256b0f7a49> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.refusetoregain.com/2012/09/the-benefits-of-middle-age-fitness-nytimescom.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00018-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972005 | 360 | 2.109375 | 2 |
Answer: It _is_ corporate welfare, the practice of government picking corporate winners and losers, something any govmint isn’t really so hot at doing. Oh well.
“Corporate Welfare – Free Market Fundamentalism often leads to corporate welfare because deregulated markets often allow corporations to become so overgrown, even to the point of monopoly, that their influence over the government balloons and balloons. They can game the system so that government programs end up funneling money straight into their own pockets.”
Is the Furniture Mart building covered in this deal? Don’t know. It shouldn’t be.
As seen from Fell Street. They used to have furniture shows here twice a year, don’t know if they still do.
What’s that? You say, “This boondoggle isn’t just for Twitter?”
Oh yes it is! Right now it is, anyway. Next question.
“But this scheme is ‘revenue neutral’ right?”
“But at least we saved the Twitter from moving away.”
Uh, maybe. The problem with the proposed corporate welfare is that it won’t save Twitter all that much money. So it’s like the Mayor recently signing up for the Twitter service – it’s a nice gesture, it shows we care about Big T, but we’re not talking big bucks here anymore. Maybe there was talk of that last year, but the current proposal is pretty weak tea.
So it’s corporate welfare, but Twitter won’t benefit too much from it. Is this really going to keep Twitter here? And if they end up staying, how do you know they based their big decision on such a small amount of money?
And then they’re saying how Twitter will have 3000 employees in San Francisco in 2020. Can I get in on this action? Can I place a bet saying how that’s not going to happen? What color is the sky in your world, the world where you know The Future? Why did you change your green eyeshades for rosy rosy rose-colored glasses?
Oh well. Maybe we’ll end up loving the Twitter from afar. But that’s O.K.
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Clinical Efficacy of Homeopathy
This LMHI Research Working Group report has been requested by the LMHI's National Vice-President for Belgium, Dr. Léon Scheepers. He asked for scientific advice about an official Belgian report published by the Federal Health Care Knowledge Centre (KCE) on 24 May 2011. The Belgian homeopathic association Unio Homeopathica Belgica (UHB) expresses some doubts about the scientific relevancy of certain parts of the KCE report, especially the part evaluating clinical efficacy concluding that "no convincing proof of efficacy exists for any condition for which a systematic review was available". The Research Working Group (RWG) agreed to scrutinize and comment on this report using the normal scientific perspective for evaluation of efficacy in medicine. | <urn:uuid:b5cd60e2-b90b-42c8-ae22-7d178b0b4722> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://liga.iwmh.net/index.php?menuid=49&reporeid_send=1&reporeid_print=215 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00032-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.911516 | 156 | 1.703125 | 2 |
March 2, 2009
RSU to Unveil Pictorial History Book ‘100 Years on the Hill' March 25
A new pictorial history book chronicling the history of Rogers State University and its predecessor institutions titled "100 Years on the Hill" will be available to the public for the first time on Wednesday, March 25 – the university's 100th birthday.
The oversized, hard-cover "coffee table book" was written by John Wooley, who also captured the history of the institution's military era in his recent book "Voices from the Hill: The Story of the Oklahoma Military Academy."
The book will be offered to the public for the special price of $29.95. Wooley will sign copies of the book during the RSU 100th Birthday Celebration at 12 noon on Wednesday, March 25, in the new Student Center on the Claremore. The book also will be available for sale in the RSU Bookstore, located in the Student Center.
The book was designed by Tulsa graphic designer Carl Brune, published by Hawk Publishing and its owner William Bernhardt of Tulsa and funded by the RSU Foundation.
"Very few institutions have a history as rich and varied as Rogers State University," said RSU President Dr. Larry Rice. "We are proud and honored to commemorate our 100th anniversary with this book, which features painstaking research, some interesting and heretofore unknown tales by John Wooley and beautiful photos in color, sepia and black and white tones."
In writing the unique story of RSU and its previous incarnations, Wooley drew from a doctoral dissertation by President Rice titled "Eighty Years of University Preparatory Education on College Hill," written in 1992.
The book tells the story of the institution, which was founded as Eastern University Preparatory School in Claremore by an act of the Oklahoma Legislature on March 25, 1909. The school prepared the children of area residents for college. The school closed in 1917 but reopened in 1919 as the Oklahoma Military Academy, one of the nation's most prestigious military institutions. More than 10,000 cadets attended the OMA, 2,500 of its students served in the armed forces during various conflicts and 108 graduates gave their lives in service to their country.
The OMA operated until 1971 when it became Claremore Junior College. The junior college was later renamed Rogers State College, gaining a reputation of academic quality among two-year institutions in the state. The RSU campus in Pryor was established in 1986 and the Bartlesville campus began operation in 1988.
In 1998, the Oklahoma Legislature renamed the institution Rogers State University, assigning it a new mission to gain accreditation at the baccalaureate level. In 2000, RSU became a four-year university, offering bachelor's and associate degrees. Today, RSU has nearly 4,000 students on campuses in Claremore, Bartlesville and Pryor.
Wooley is the author, co-author or editor of 21 books. A former entertainment writer for the Tulsa World, he has been a finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award in both the fiction (2000's "Dark Devil") and nonfiction (2006's "From the Blue Devils to Red Dirt: The Colors of Oklahoma Music") categories. He was also the first journalist to be inducted into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame.
He is currently working on a book about Oklahoma's movies, titled "Sooner Cinema," for the University of Oklahoma Press, as well as a history of Tulsa's Cain's Ballroom, with co-author Brett Bingham, and well known Oklahoma political figure Mike Turpen. In addition, he's teamed with his filmmaker son Jonathan to work on a feature-length documentary about an Oklahoma-based comic-book collectors club from the 1960s.
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Scholarly Dispute Reconciled
Publication Date: 2/6/2008
Rhodes Religious Studies professor Ryan Byrne recently made international headlines by correcting an interpretation error by a leading Israeli archaeologist.
Dr. Eilat Mazar, who is supervising a dig outside the Old City walls of Jerusalem, reported to the media that she had discovered a 2,500-year-old black stone seal from Babylon with the name "Temech" engraved on it. As Dr. Mazar told the Jerusalem Post, "The seal of the Temech family gives us a direct connection between archeology and the biblical sources and serves as actual evidence of a family mentioned in the Bible…One cannot help being astonished by the credibility of the biblical source as seen by the archaeological find."
Professor Byrne was less astonished. In fact, he said, Dr. Mazar appears to have read the inscription backward. Stamp seals were engraved with inverted words, so that the script would appear in the correct direction when pressed into clay bullae to seal documents. Instead of Temech, the seal reads Šlomit, a different Hebrew name, which (since it is sometimes female) might indicate that the owner of this precious status object was a woman of high social standing. Byrne also questioned the relic’s date and place of manufacture.
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Liz Chimienti and Dean Baker
Truthout, May 8, 2008
Alternet, May 15, 2008
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Falling home prices, rising foreclosures rates, and a slowing economy have created a perfect storm for homeowners who bought in bubble-inflated markets, or used subprime, adjustable-rate mortgages to purchase their homes.
Members of Congress have responded to the crisis facing their constituents by proposing various measures, some strong, like amending the bankruptcy law to cover primary residences, and some misguided. The following are three major proposals that would actually do more harm than good. As Congress seeks to pass legislation to stem the foreclosure crisis, legislation containing elements of these proposals should not be on the table.
1. Subsidies for Home Buyers
Homeownership can be a useful way for families to accumulate wealth and to provide good secure housing. However, if families are buying homes with bubble-inflated prices, then they are not likely to accumulate any wealth in their home, since the price is likely to fall back to its trend level before they sell their home. (The median period of homeownership for moderate-income families is just four years.) Furthermore, they are likely to pay far more in housing costs each year, than they would to rent a comparable unit.
In the case of moderate-income families facing serious budget constraints, the additional housing costs associated with owning an over-priced home are likely to come at the expense of other necessary items, such as health care and child care. It is difficult to see how the government will have helped a family by encouraging them to buy into such a situation.
Additional tax credits for home buyers in a bubble-inflated market can put more people at risk by encouraging them to buy an over-priced home that will fall in value. In addition, tax credits for the purchase of homes that are in the foreclosure process, but have not yet been returned to the lender, provide a perverse incentive to lenders to foreclose on current homeowners, since they increase the resale value of the house following a foreclosure.
2. Artificial Price Floors
This has nothing to do with linoleum, and everything to do with how prices get set for homes that are refinanced and backed by FHA loans as proposed in legislation being considered by Congress.
If home prices continue to decline, and the government issues guarantees of mortgages at prices that are near current levels, then the government is likely to face a substantial cost associated with a high default rate. The most important factor determining both the default rate and the cost of each default is the movement in house prices.
If prices continue to fall, then many homeowners will again find themselves owing more than the value of their home. This situation leads to defaults for two reasons. First, if a homeowner owes more than the value of her home, then she does not have the option to borrow against equity in order to make her mortgage payments. This eliminates an important source of security if job loss or unusual expenses leaves the homeowner temporarily unable to pay his or her bills.
The other reason why this situation increases default rates is that homeowners who owe more than the value of their home can effectively save themselves money by simply surrendering their house to the bank. If a homeowner owes $200,000 on a home that is currently worth $180,000, the homeowner can effectively save $20,000 by just giving the house back to the bank. While this move will hurt the homeowner's credit rating, if they don't have any special attachment to the house, a homeowner may choose this option.
In addition to increasing the number of defaults and foreclosures, falling house prices will also increase the loss on each foreclosure. If the house is still valued at close to the amount of the mortgage, then the losses on the foreclosure will just be the administrative and transactions costs associated with carrying through the foreclosure and reselling the house. However, if the house sells for less than the value of the mortgage, then this can be a substantial source of additional losses for the government.
The government can limit the risk that it will set the guarantee price on new mortgages too high by using an appraisal of rental price as the basis of the guarantee, rather than an appraisal of the sale price. Since rents never rose out of line with fundamentals, an appraisal based on some multiple of annual rent (e.g., 15 times annual rent) should ensure that the government's guarantee price is set at a level that is close to the price that the home will command after the bubble has deflated.
3. Incentives to Build More Homes
Not letting prices fall back to their equilibrium (see above), or giving generous tax credits to homebuilders will encourage them to build more homes. The more homes that get built, the greater the over supply. This will imply a longer adjustment process and a larger price decline. There is no public interest in taking any steps that can delay the process of price adjustment in the housing market. This process is very painful, but delaying it will only make it more painful.
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