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Digital revenge tips for you and your ex
Have you ever heard of digital revenge? It usually occurs after a relationship ends badly and when an ex takes to cyberspace to vent their pain and destroy your character in the process.
Unfortunately, in this day and age when passwords, photos and videos are so easily shared with all sorts of people, online attacks have become a valid and growing concern for many people - especially those who have shared private information with a former mate.
• When a relationship ends, change any shared passwords immediately.
• Do not give passwords away early in relationships. It could take years before you truly trust someone enough to share passwords.
• Prevention is key. Turn on password locks for your phone and computer.
SHARING INTIMATE PHOTOS & VIDEOS
• Best advice: don’t share these things.
• Understand that when you text, email or tweet a racy photo, you have no control over future viewers.
• Attempt to reason with your ex. Communicate with them in a calm way about why it is important that these photos and/or videos should be deleted.
• Install tracking software that allows you to erase information remotely in case your phone is stolen or lost.
• Ask your boyfriend or girlfriend about how they handled passwords, social media and other things with their last breakup.
• Never share bank account info or other financial details until you are in a solid, committed relationship.
These tips are pulled from a CNN article titled “How to Protect Your Digital Data from a Vengeful Ex”. You can learn more by clicking here.
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Well I think it depends on what kind of art you'll be teaching. If it's 2D Art, then I would say the portfolio doesn't do you justice (it needs a lot more 2D technique shown). If you'll be teaching 3D modeling, then it's pretty good, but I think more variety could be present.
So overall, I'm not entirely sure. I don't want to crush your dreams, but I think in general, you need a bigger variety of work.
With a teaching degree, its actually more about being better than the other guys i guess. The actual qualification comes first then evidence of my own ability. I only plan to teach the little ones anyway and don't have much traditional work. However schools these days have a super strong emphasis on the use of ICT so a folio of digital works i think is also to my favor.
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Anngela Vasser-Cooper received the 2013 Buffalo Soldier Award from Rockland County Executive C. Scott Vanderhoef on Tuesday. The Nyack resident is the second woman to receive the award since its inception in 1993 and the second member of her family to be presented with it. Vasser-Cooper’s uncle, John Vasser, received the award several years ago.
“It’s given to an outstanding individual who has served in the military but also who as a Rockland resident has gone beyond service in respect to the military and served the community in some form or fashion,” explained Vanderhoef.
Vasser-Cooper is the founder and CEO of Women Veterans Association of Hudson Valley, Inc. The non-profit was created in 2009 to assist all veterans but with an emphasis on women. Vasser-Cooper is also as a medical social worker at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Manhattan. She reaches out to female veterans to make them aware of services and assistance available to help them readapt to civilian life.
“It’s always an honor, an admiration for being recognized for making a difference in one’s community,” said Vasser-Cooper.
Even though women comprise 14.5 percent of the more than one million members of the military, she said little attention is paid their mental health when they return home.
She enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1980 as a communications specialist, served one tour in Seoul, South Korea and received a Sharp Shooter Medal and Leadership Certificate. Upon returning, she graduated from Rockland Community College, earned a bachelor’s degree from Empire State College and her master’s degree in Clinical Social Work from Fordham University.
A committee of previous recipients selected Vasser-Cooper for the 21st Annual Buffalo Soldier Award. The award is given to an outstanding African American veteran who lives in Rockland and is named after the soldiers of the 10th Black Cavalry Regiment, who were nicknamed “Buffalo Soldiers” because of their bravery. The woman to receive the award was Mattie Moore in 1996.
Several former Buffalo Soldier honorees praised her efforts and commitment.
Grady Anderson noted, “She does shoot straight. She shoots from the heart. She shoot from the heart for women veterans.”
Her uncle John Vasser said he was very proud to see her win the award.
“She has the passion in her work,” said David. C Smith. “The work that she is doing makes us all proud.”
Dr. Willy Bryant said, “It’s an historic occasion.”
The Women’s Veterans Association provides referrals, organizes seminars, lectures and events for women veterans including trips to the Women’s Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery.
On Saturday, April 20, the Association is hosting a seminar and luncheon to inform the community about the difficulties faced by veterans who are returning home such as depression, suicide, PTSD and military sexual trauma.
“We bring awareness to the community and address these health issues,” said Vasser-Cooper.
Mental health speakers including a suicide prevention expert and veterans will discuss these topics. Women veterans will be thanked for their service to their country during the event at the Crown Plaza in Suffern. Vasser-Cooper is partnering with the Veterans Administration and Senator David Carlucci to put on the program, which runs from 12:15 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. For more information on the seminar contact Vasser-Cooper at firstname.lastname@example.org or 845-480-5660.
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Does the average baby boomer have time to take on another project? Can Junk King haulers and recyclers make life easier? Would it help if someone fast, green, and reliable came to the house and carried away those years of accumulated junk and debris? You bet. That’s what Junk King does.
In a 2012 survey, 47% of baby boomers said they were responsible for housekeeping, transportation, and the financial management of their parents. Does that mean the average boomer has the spare time to tackle years of clutter—probably not?
Since nearly half of boomers either face the management of two households, or may soon be facing this dilemma, does it make sense trying to clear a lifetime of junk away by themselves, whether at their own homes or the homes of their loved ones? Lifting, loading, and climbing ladders to access lofts or attics can be dangerous, or at the very least, painful work.
Part of dealing with a tough situation is to have a plan. Junk King can be part of a great plan. They are fast and recycle and donate up to 60% of the items they haul. Green boomers can be assured that they aren’t adding unnecessarily to the landfills.
Let’s face it, the boomer generation can be in their mid-to-late sixties—it is a tough time to take on more responsibility much less heavy physical labor. Why waste precious hours or days cleaning when there is an alternative? Getting a lifetime of mess under control once and for all might be the problem--Junk King’s superior service may be the solution. We do all the work. Call 1-800-995-5865.
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More guns not answer to keeping children safe
Re: Train teachers to use firearms, letter to the editor by Lester Karas, Jan. 17.
As one who can’t see the need for any Canadian civilian to own or use handguns, automatic or semiautomatic weapons, I read with astonishment and disbelief Mr. Karas’ letter promoting the carrying of firearms by teachers in classrooms.
Do we add this to the list of their required duties or as extra-curricular activities?
No doubt Mr. Karas believes narcotics do not need to be controlled, either.
After all, needles don’t inject themselves and they also don’t kill from a distance or in the heat of passion, although they may be used passionately.
According to a corporate lawyer of a United States Fortune 100 company I knew, firearms are the only product sold in their litigious society that does not have duty-to-warn liability because they are recognized as inherently and obviously dangerous.
Remember, the U.S. is a jurisdiction whose citizens have the unrestricted right to bear arms, concealed or otherwise, military-grade or not.
The U.S. also has the highest rate of violent crime in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development and rivals the rates in some third-world countries.
The biggest danger to Canadian peace and security has already been identified as the smuggling of guns into this country from the U.S.
How about some of these proven methods instead: lock school doors, strictly control access to the premises, require security-grade ID, install metal detectors where appropriate, install panic buttons to call police and employ professional mediators to diffuse conflict?
And maybe Parliament can define the possession of certain grades of weapons as terrorist activity, subject to military response.
The weapons culture is not a Canadian value.
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Plastic Material Selection and Testing
This course is designed to provide a comprehensive overview of those plastic material tests used to improve plastic products, their processing, and characterize materials in terms of their physical and analytical properties. It also provides a fundamental understanding of structure-property relationships of plastic materials and the criteria for selecting specific plastic materials and processes for individual applications, including process considerations.
There are currently no classes scheduled for this course. Please check back at a later time or contact WDCE to see when the course will be offered again.
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Many companies in our industry are limited in their ability to assemble and manage all the expertise and knowledge required to bring a series of new therapies and vaccines to doctors. Blessed with depth and breadth of scientific talent and considerable resources, Pfizer is able to bring together the experts, the platforms, the technologies and the partnerships to make an impact across many therapeutic areas.
However, even Pfizer, strong as it is, must have focus. Our pipeline of about 500 projects is largely focused on six "Invest to Win" areas, where we believe that we have significant new opportunities for innovation and market leadership. These are:
While our portfolio of research projects is centered on these areas, Pfizer can go where the science takes us. Our overall portfolio of investigational medicines covers many significant unmet medical needs, from neurological conditions such as autism to agents that fight increasingly treatment-resistant bacterial, fungal and viral infections. We continue to challenge some of the most feared diseases of our time, including what have traditionally been termed "neglected diseases"—diseases like malaria that strike millions of people, largely in developing nations. We are also combating "orphan diseases"—often devastating conditions striking limited numbers of people. Our 2009 agreement with the Israeli company Protalix, for example, is focused on developing a plant-based enzyme treatment for Gaucher's disease, an inherited condition occurring just once in every 20,000 live births. This compound is now in Phase III trials and is already being made available, with permission from regulatory authorities, to people suffering from this disease.
Pfizer is among the world's leaders in investments made in biomedical research and development, a commitment that grew with the 2009 acquisition of Wyeth. Today, Pfizer's pipeline of new medicines in development is the largest in the industry. It includes 133 programs in Phase 1 through registration, and shows growth and diversity in each of the areas where the company invests in development.
According to the International Diabetes Federation, the diabetes epidemic has the greatest potential to increase in China, because of its population size, rapid urbanization and economic expansion. In response, Pfizer has become partners with the Japanese company Takeda to co-promote Takeda's Actos for the treatment of type 2 diabetes in China. The exclusive co-promotion agreement will greatly increase the geographic reach and number of medical representatives supporting this needed product.
In early 2010 Pfizer and Fudan University, one of China's oldest educational institutions, launched a joint program in pharmacoeconomics policies and research. Pharmacoeconomics compares the value of one drug or drug therapy to another. This first-of-its-kind program is designed to encourage public policy formulation in the field of pharmacoeconomics evaluation by creating a three-year talent training and capacity development program. It also demonstrates Pfizer's long-term commitment to the development of China's biopharmaceutical industry, in line with China's health care reform initiatives.
In 2007 Pfizer struck an agreement with Bristol-Myers Squibb on apixaban, which targets a protein called factor Xa, theorized to play a role in the development of blood clots. Apixaban is being developed to prevent venous thromboembolism (VTE), a potentially dangerous condition where a blood clot breaks loose from a vein wall and lodges in the lungs. Apixaban may offer more consistency, lower risks of drug interaction, and more flexibility in dosing than the current standard of care for a large variety of patients who need anticoagulants to prevent VTE. More than 17,000 patients are currently enrolled in Phase III studies on VTE prevention, and apixaban is being explored for other indications, including the prevention of stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation and the prevention of major coronary events. Late in 2009, Pfizer and Bristol-Myers Squibb announced their intention to file for regulatory approval in Europe for apixaban as a new medicine for preventing venous thromobembolism.
Explore Pfizer's latest comprehensive update of the pipeline, since the acquisition of Wyeth.Go to the Site
Pfizer is contributing to the modern renaissance of science in China.Go to the Site
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Communication Professor Launches Book on Face of WarContact: Bob Howe
Robin Andersen, Ph.D., associate professor of communication and media studies and director, Peace and Justice Studies program, celebrates the release of her new book, A Century of Media, A Century of War,
with a book signing and reception on Wednesday, Sept. 27, from 5:30 to 8 p.m.
, 12th Floor Lounge, Lowenstein Center, Lincoln Center campus, 113 W. 60th St., New York, N.Y.
A Century of Media, A Century of War
(Peter Lang, 2006) is about the history of struggle between war and its representation, and how that struggle has changed the way war is fought and the way war is portrayed. The event is hosted by the Peace and Justice Studies Program; Brennan O’Donnell, Ph.D., dean of Fordham College at Rose Hill; Robert Grimes, S.J., dean of Fordham College at Lincoln Center; and Peter Lang Publishing.
Founded in 1841, Fordham is the Jesuit University of New York, offering exceptional education distinguished by the Jesuit tradition to more than 15,600 students in its five undergraduate colleges and its six graduate and professional schools. It has residential campuses in the Bronx, Manhattan and Tarrytown, and the Louis Calder Center Biological Field Station in Armonk, N.Y.
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Siku, the baby polar bear in Denmark, has stolen hearts around the world. Both children and adults alike can not get enough of this cute little cub.
So, I thought it would be a great opportunity to highlight a few of the books you can check out about polar bears.
Mama, Why? by Karma Wilson
Beloved children's author, Karma Wilson, blends the finest elements of rhyme and lyricism in this heartwarming picture book, glowing with gorgeous illustrations from Simon Mendez.. When the moon sails high in the arctic sky, Polar Cub asks, “Mama, why?” In this snuggly lullaby, a polar bear cub asks his mother a multitude of “why” questions before he falls asleep: Why is there a moon up in the sky? Why do we dream? Why are there stars in the sky? And why can’t we see the stars during the day? Finally, once she has explained everything to him, Mama ushers her little one off to sleep, explaining that she will sleep too...so she can dream about her dearest cub.
Polar Bear Night, by Lauren Thompson
A polar bear cub . . . A nighttime journey . . . A bedtime story of love and wonder. One keen, clear night, a polar bear cub wakes inside her warm den. Something in the moonlit stillness quietly beckons. What is it? The little cub sets out for the snow and sky and sea and ice, and the moon follows. So begins a magical journey through a starlit world filled with love and wonder. Soothing words and luminous pictures make this nighttime tale as comforting as a goodnight kiss.
The Three Snow Bears , by Jan Brett
Jan Brett, traveled to the far North to meet the Inuit people and see the amazing land where they live. Dramatic illustrations capture the shimmering ice, snow and deep blue seas of the Arctic, and an endearing family of polar bears, and playful Arctic animals in the borders, the result is a picture book that children will want to listen to and look at this exciting version of a well-loved story over and over again.
Polar Bear, Why is Your World Melting? by Robert E. Wells
In the Arctic, the summer ice is melting, making it hard for polar bears to survive. Why is the world getting warmer? The heat of the sun is trapped by the "greenhouse" gases that surround Earth (carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and water vapor).
Polar Bears by Mark Newman
Full of fascinating information, this book explores the world of the polar bear on land and under water. Get ready to be wooed by adorable baby cubs and impressed by majestic adult bears captured in stunning photographs by renowned wildlife photographer Mark Newman.
Polar Bear: Shrinking Ice by Stephen Person.
It was early September 2009. Researcher BJ Kirschhoffer was in Churchill, Canada, to study polar bears. It didn't take long, however, for him to notice that something was wrong. There were bears all over the place, but many did not look healthy. Some were so skinny that BJ could see their ribs through their white fur. Why weren't these bears getting enough food to eat?
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Enterprise Security: No Perimeter Is Perfect
"The fact that somebody that is trying to effect an advanced persistent threat (APT) against a company, means they're not looking to set off any alarms within the organization," said George Turrentine, senior IT manager at a large telecom firm. "They're trying to stay below the radar and stay focused on doing a little bit at a time so that people don't necessarily see what's going on."
Enterprises of all types are increasingly under attack by advanced persistent threats, which pose much greater danger than the lone hacker who just wants to use brute force to get in and deface their website.
They are exploiting the disconnect between application security and perimeter security. The growing sophistication of intruders means they can take advantage of lax application security unnoticed and gain access to an organization's entire infrastructure.
This disconnect often results from a laser focus on the minutiae of security accompanied by a lack of an overall strategic vision.
One major telecommunications provider has been looking at security from this perspective, and tackling the issue by managing the details and the strategy simultaneously, and extending that value to its widely varied types of customers.
Listen to a podcast featuring guest George Turrentine, senior IT manager at a large telecom firm, whose focus is on IT security and compliance. Co-hosting the discussion are Raf Los, chief security evangelist at HP Software and Dana Gardner.
Download the podcast (33:45 minutes) or use the player:
Here are some excerpts:
Dana Gardner: George, many of the organizations that I'm familiar with are very focused on security, sometimes at a laser level. They're very focused on tactics, on individual technologies and products, and looking at specific types of vulnerabilities. But I sense that, sometimes, they might be missing the strategy, the whole greater than the sum of the parts, and that there is lack of integration in some of these aspects, of how to approach security.
I wonder if that's what you are seeing it, and if that's an important aspect to keeping a large telecommunications organization robust, when it comes to a security posture.
George Turrentine: We definitely are at the time and place where attacks against organizations have changed. It used to be that you would have a very focused attack against an organization by a single individual or a couple of individuals. It would be a brute-force type attack. In this case, we're seeing more and more that applications and infrastructure are being attacked, not brute force, but more subtly.
The fact that somebody that is trying to effect an advanced persistent threat (APT) against a company, means they're not looking to set off any alarms within the organization. They're trying to stay below the radar and stay focused on doing a little bit at a time and breaking it up over a long period of time, so that people don't necessarily see what's going on.
Gardner: Raf, how does that jibe with what you are seeing? Is there a new type of awareness that is, as George points out, subtle?
Raf Los: Subtlety is the thing. Nobody wants to be a bull-in-a-china-shop hacker. The reward may be high, but the risk of getting caught and getting busted is also high. The notion that somebody is going to break in and deface your website is childish at best today. As somebody once put it to me, the good hackers are the ones you catch months later; the great ones, you'll never see.
That's what we're worried about, right. Whatever buzzwords we throw around and use, the reality is that attacks are evolving, attackers are evolving, and they are evolving faster than we are and than we have defenses for.
As I've said before, it's like being out in a dark field chasing fireflies. We tend to be chasing the shiny, blinky thing of the day, rather than doing pragmatic security that is relevant to the company or the organization that you're supporting.
Gardner: One of the things I've seen is that there is a different organization, even a different culture, in managing network security, as opposed to, say, application security, and that often, they're not collaborating as closely as they might. And that offers some cracks between their different defenses.
George, it strikes me that in the telecommunications arena, the service providers are at an advantage, where they've got a strong network history and understanding and they're beginning to extend more applications and services onto that network. Is there something to be said that you're ahead of the curve on this bridging of the cultural divide between network and application?
Turrentine: It used to be that we focused a whole lot on the attack and the perimeter and trying to make sure that nobody got through the crunchy exterior. The problem is that, in the modern network scenario, when you're hosting applications, etc., you've already opened the door for the event to take place, because you've had to open up pathways for users to get into your network, to get to your servers, and to be able to do business with you. So you've opened up these holes.
Unfortunately, a hole that's opened is an avenue of an attack. So the application now has become the primary barrier for protecting data. A lot of folks haven't necessarily made that transition yet to understanding that application security actually is your front row of attack and defense within an organization.
It means that you have to now move into an area where applications not only can defend themselves, but are also free from vulnerabilities or coding flaws that can easily allow somebody to grab data that they shouldn't have access to.
Gardner: Raf, it sounds as if, for some period of time, the applications folks may have had a little bit of an easy go at it, because the applications were inside a firewall. The network was going to be protected, therefore I didn't have to think about it. Now, as George is pointing out, the applications are exposed. I guess we need to change the way we think about application development and lifecycle.
Los: Dana, having spent some time in extremely large enterprise, starting in like 2001, for a number of years, I can't tell you the amount of times applications' owners would come back and say, "I don't feel I need to fix this. This isn't really a big risk, because the application is inside the firewall."
Even going back that far, though, that was still a cop-out, because at that time, the perimeter was continuing to erode. Today, it's just all about gone. That's the reality.
So this erosion of perimeter, combined with the fact that nothing is really internal anymore, makes this all difficult. As George already said, applications need not just to be free of bugs, but actually be built to defend themselves in cases where we put them out into an uncertain environment. And we'll call the Internet uncertain on a good day and extremely hostile on every other day.
Turrentine: Not only that, but now developers are developing applications to make them feature rich, because consumers want feature-rich applications. The problem is that those same developers aren't educated and trained in how to produce secure code.
The other thing is that too many organizations have a tendency to look at that big event with a possibility of it taking place. Yet hackers aren't looking for the big event. They're actually looking for the small backdoor that they can quietly come in and then leverage that access. They leverage the trust between applications and servers within the infrastructure to promote themselves to other boxes and other locations and get to the data.
We used to take for granted that it was protected by the perimeter. But now it isn't, because you have these little applications that most security departments ignore. They don't test them. They don't necessarily go through and make sure that they're secure or that they're even tested with either dynamic or static analysis, and you are putting them out there because they are "low risk."
Gardner: Let's chunk this out a little bit. On one side, we have applications that have been written over any number of years, or even decades, and we need to consider the risks of exposing them, knowing that they're going to get exposed. So is that a developer's job? How do we make those older apps either sunsetted or low-risk in terms of being exposed?
And on the other side, we've got new applications that we need to develop in a different way, with security instantiated into the requirements right from the get-go. How do you guys parse either side of that equation? What should people be considering as they approach these issues?
Turrentine: I'm going to go back to the fact that even though you may put security requirements in at the beginning, in the requirements phase of the SDLC, the fact is that many developers are going to take the low path and the easiest way to get to what is required and not necessarily understand how to get it more secure.
This is where the education system right now has let us down. I started off programming 30 years ago. Back then, there was a very finite area of memory that you could write an application into. You had to write overlays. You had to make sure that you moved data in and out of memory and took care of everything, so that the application could actually run in the space provided. Nowadays, we have bloat. We have RAM bloat. We have systems with 16 to 64 GB of RAM.
Los: Just to run the operating system.
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As it becomes increasingly inconvenient and costly for consumers to shop in the store, more and more of them are turning to online stores to make their purchases. Unfortunately for small and mid-sized retailers, many consumers don't step outside of comfortable eCommerce sites like Amazon and Google Shopping to make their purchases.
How can modern retailers compete?
1. Options – The modern consumer expects more options than ever before, and not just in terms of the products to choose from. They want to be able to make purchases and access information not just from your site, but through Facebook, eBay, Amazon, catalogs, call centers, and individual product sites.
Being able to operate through that many channels in a consistent manner is almost impossible without flexible and near-ubiquitous internal CRM solutions.
2. Social Media – Social media is all about building relationships, so it naturally goes together with CRM. Unfortunately, many businesses fail to realize this and use sites like Facebook and Twitter purely as a direct sales channel. It's important to recognize that these channels are also important for customer service and reputation building. Focus on using these technologies to build long-lasting relationships with customers, often one-on-one, in order to boost customer retention.
3. Mobile – Increasingly, users surf the web not from a PC (or Mac) but from a smartphone or tablet. It's extremely important to design your site to be easily used from one of these devices, and it can be helpful to capitalize on the app marketplaces as well. Once again, flexible CRM software is necessary in order to track and perform activity from these devices through the same interface as other transactions and communications.
4. Local – While we tend to think of eCommerce as being the opposite of “local” retail, it is actually moving in an increasingly local direction. Consumers increasingly want the option to pick up or return products from local stores after paying for them online. Online marketing through channels like FourSquare, Google+ Local, and Yelp is also growing in importance for local retail stores.
5. Analytics – This is where CRM really comes into play. With so many channels and so many methods of engagement, it becomes almost impossible to monitor what is happening and what strategies are working without CRM technologies. It's important to identify the channel history of each customer in order to understand which strategies are genuinely paying off. All too often, companies make the error of believing that the channel used at the bottom of the funnel is the only one worth investing in. In reality, a lot of reputation and relationship building is happening higher up the funnel, often through different channels. Much of this is impossible to monitor without CRM.
By CAL Business Solutions –
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Economic Activity and Labor
The ADP National Employment Report
Automatic Data Processing (ADP), a company that provides payroll services to firms nationwide, reports monthly estimates of employment a few days before the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) publishes its Employment Situation. ADP’s estimates, published in ADP National Employment Report, are based on its clients’ payroll data.
According to the estimates released Wednesday, March 7, private nonfarm employment increased nationwide a modest 57,000 in February (on a seasonally adjusted basis), following a strong increase of 121,000 in January. The latest estimate represents the smallest increase in ADP’s total private nonfarm employment series since July 2003.
The service sector added 100,000 jobs, an increase which did not quite reach the past three-month average of 171,000. The goods-producing sector, however, lost 43,000 workers during February, mostly because of a 29,000 decrease in manufacturing jobs. This was the sharpest decline since September 2006.
Small and midsize firms remained the main providers of employment growth in February. Small firms (those with fewer than 50 workers) added 53,000 more employees than midsize establishments (those employing 50 to 499), which added only 33,000. The employment growth at small and midsize employers was partially offset by a decline in payrolls at large establishments. According to ADP’s estimates, large establishments lost 29,000 workers in February, marking the largest monthly decline in firms of this size since June 2003.
ADP National Employment Report sometimes revises its estimates. These revisions can significantly change the initial picture. For instance, in December 2006, ADP first reported a 40,000 decline in nonfarm employment for the previous month, but later revised the estimate up, reporting a strong 118,000 increase in payrolls. Because of potentially significant revisions, it is better to proceed with caution when interpreting initial monthly employment numbers. (This goes for the BLS as well. See a similar picture of revisions in BLS data in last month's Economic Trends.)
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Tuesday, November 13, 2012
LET'S DO SOMETHING RIGHT FOR A CHANGE
There has been a lot of talk lately about “tax expenditures” and the 47% of Americans who either pay absolutely no federal income tax or actually make a profit by filing a tax return (thanks to “refundable” tax credits).
Over the years the idiots in Congress have created a mucking fess of the Tax Code by making it the method of delivery for various social welfare benefits and to encourage certain beneficial purchases, which has created the 47%. This is certainly not the best, nor the most efficient, way to deliver or distribute these benefits – but it is easy. And, as we all know, the idiots in Congress are all for choosing the quickest and easiest way to do things rather than actually having to sit down and think.
While there are many “tax expenditures” that should be completely done away with, many of the social and societal benefit programs run through the Code are actually good and have merit. But they should be delivered and distributed separately out of the budget of the appropriate cabinet department – and not on the 1040.
As I have posted here before, doing this is much “more better” for many reasons -
(1) It would be easier for the government to verify that the recipient of the subsidy or hand-out actually qualified for the money, greatly reducing fraud. And tax preparers would no longer need to take on the added responsibility of having to verify if a person qualified for government funds.
(2) The qualifying individual(s) would get the money at the “point of purchase”, when it is really needed, and not have to go “out of pocket” up front and wait to be reimbursed when they file their tax return.
(3) We would be able to calculate the true income tax burden of individuals. Many of the current 47% would still be receiving government hand-outs, but it would not be tied into the income tax system so they would actually be paying federal income tax.
(4) We could measure the true cost of education, housing, health, welfare, etc programs in the federal budget because the various subsidies would be properly allocated to the appropriate departments and not be reported as a part of net income collected via income tax.
(5) The Tax Code would be much less complicated, the cost to the public for preparing a tax return would be reduced, and the IRS would have much less to process and to audit.
Item (2) is a very important one. A major problem with using the Tax Code to distribute government benefits via tax deductions and credits is that the benefits are provided “after-the-fact” and not at the “point of purchase”.
Let’s look at the deductions and credits for tuition and fees. In order to claim these tax benefits the student, or more likely his/her parents, must spend the money for tuition and fees and then wait until they file their tax return to get the “student financial aid” from the government.
These students, and parents, need the money when the tuition and fees are due. If they do not have it at the point of purchase they often turn to borrowing, placing themselves further in debt.
There is currently in place a process for providing student financial aid at the point of purchase. And this aid is based on student and family income, using information from tax returns. Instead of giving those who qualify a tax deduction or credit on their Form 1040 a year or more later, why not give the same benefit, based on the same income formula, as part of the existing student financial aid system. This way the student, or parents, gets the money upfront to pay for college expenses or, better yet, the money is distributed directly to the college - and there is no need for additional borrowing.
In the past there have been credits for purchasing energy-efficient products and improvements, and some still exist. But again, the money is provided after-the-fact – as much as a year or more after the purchase. I would think more individuals would be encouraged to purchase these items if the money was provided upfront as a point of purchase discount. Again individuals who want to take advantage of the eventual tax credit may be forced to borrow money to make the qualifying purchase, creating more debt.
The “Cash for Clunkers” program of a few years back proves that this can be done relatively efficiently.
And, as I have said over and over again, the Earned Income Tax Credit, refundable and otherwise, and refundable Child Tax Credit, which, if you call a spade a shovel, are really forms of welfare, would be better distributed via the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program – and with substantially less fraud.
Unfortunately, with BO re-elected and the members of Congress being the idiots they are, don’t expect any changes in the current system any time soon.
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Matt Brown is conservation director for the Conservancy’s Africa program. Matt works with local partners and communities to plan and implement conservation projects.
The Nature Conservancy is known as a science-based organization. Forget the stereotype of white-coated researchers peering endlessly into microscopes, though. Our scientists certainly know their way around a lab or an analytical report, but their defining characteristic is action.
When fieldwork beckons, our scientists take off faster than a migrating warbler. They battle through bad weather, pesky insects and some things that are just plain gross.
Nature.org recently spoke with Matt Brown, conservation director for The Nature Conservancy’s Africa program, about his experiences in the field.
Read on for Brown’s behind-the-scenes insights into the highs (local communities) and lows (biting ants!) of working in conservation science.
Nature.org: What do you love most about your job?
Matt Brown: I love that I am exposed to many different projects across east and southern Africa. While many of The Nature Conservancy’s high-level conservation goals are similar across the five countries where we work in Africa, each project is still unique in terms of size, culture, partners, access and so on.
There are community conservation success stories in every location where we work — and what I love most about my job is learning and sharing those success stories with all our partners to improve marine, terrestrial and freshwater conservation results on this vast continent.
Nature.org: What’s the weirdest/most disgusting thing you’ve had to do in the name of science?
Matt Brown: One night in western Tanzania, my bed was attacked by siafu — biting army ants — while at the field station we work out of in Mahale National Park on the shores of Lake Tanganyika.
In a matter of 10 minutes, millions of siafu had entered the house through an open window and covered every surface — tables, beds and even my power cord — in search of food. There was an infant sleeping in the house and we awoke her instantly and successfully removed the biting ants from her arms and legs — the speedy siafu had already invaded her crib.
Like a fire drill, we all safely evacuated the house and let the ants do their inspection. After an hour, the hungry ants had found a few crumbs of food, but decided it was better foraging in the forest — so they left. Thank goodness! We swept out the lingering and lost ants and crawled nervously back into bed. This occurrence is not uncommon and is a great reminder that even the little creatures can be a powerful force when they gain critical mass.
Nature.org: If you were stuck on an isolated preserve with one person, who would you want it be and why?
Matt Brown: My initial reaction is one of survival. I would want to be isolated with a Hadza, Himba, Saan or Maasai person who knows exactly how to survive in the bush — how to find roots and berries to tide us over until we were “unstuck.”
But the truth is that these people are close by in almost every place in Africa. Local community trusts are managing the biological diversity for current and future generations. No matter where I go, I am never truly isolated from the local people.
So rather, I would want to be remote with the country president so that he or she may see firsthand how local communities depend on healthy natural resources and ecosystem services for their survival. It is the lack of understanding at the top that impacts so many pathways to success. And while rural leadership and capacity building is critical, without enabling policies, enforcement and transparent support from the national government, our work will only go so far.
My hope would be to help the president understand how important these community-based conservation efforts really are and to improve policy and support for revenue sharing at the local level.November 21, 2012
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Can Sanctions Force Iran To Change Its Policies?
Originally published on Tue July 3, 2012 7:17 am
Whether economic sanctions can force a government to change course is far from clear, but Iran should be a good test case.
A European Union embargo on Iranian oil took full effect this week, complementing U.S. measures that have grown much more severe in recent weeks. Other Western sanctions now in place target Iranian banks, foreign companies that provide shipping insurance for Iranian oil tankers, and foreign firms that invest in the Iranian oil industry.
The measures are intended to induce the Iranian government to accept restrictions on its nuclear program. Western governments worry that Iran may be intent on developing nuclear weapons, and they are prepared to intensify the economic squeeze until the government in Tehran agrees to open its nuclear facilities to international inspection and cut back on the enrichment of uranium.
'Classic Economic Warfare'
Few countries have experienced such intense external pressure.
"The deeper the isolation of the Iranians, the more that we embargo broad sectors of their economy and their commerce, the more this starts to look like classic economic warfare," says Juan Zarate, who helped design early stages of the Iran sanctions as a Treasury Department official and deputy national security adviser under President George W. Bush.
Not surprisingly, Tehran is pushing back. A group of Iranian parliamentarians this week drafted a bill to close the Strait of Hormuz to tankers carrying oil to countries that have sanctioned Iran. The Iranian Parliament has little power on its own, and the proposed action is seen as largely symbolic. One lawmaker was quoted as saying the bill was a reaction to the EU oil embargo, which took effect Sunday.
Iran has been subject to Western sanctions for years, but in the beginning the measures were more limited, targeting particular entities and specific activities. Now, the U.S. and its allies are taking aim at the entire Iranian economy.
"One of the things we are pursuing is a ratcheting up of the pressure on Iran," says David Cohen, undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence at the Treasury Department. "That means pursuing this program in a way that will have a broader impact on the economic situation in Iran."
The sanctions are clearly hurting. The oil embargo is believed to be costing Iran about $4.5 billion per month in lost revenue. High inflation — conservatively estimated by the government at 25 percent annually — is causing the price of imported items to skyrocket. The Iranian currency, the rial, has lost half its value in the past year, and there is little prospect of an improvement.
In March, European governments pulled Iran out of the international bank messaging service known as SWIFT, effectively disconnecting Iranian banks from the rest of the international banking world. That step followed other measures that exposed foreign companies doing business with Iran to penalties.
"Iran has been dependent on its commercial relationships, dependent on its trade with Europe and Asia," says Zarate, now a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "That's why this matters to them."
Whether the economic pain will prompt Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to accept limits on his nuclear program is another question, however. The Treasury Department's Cohen thinks it might, pointing to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's 1988 acceptance of a cease-fire decision in the Iran-Iraq war.
"The supreme leader agreed to end that conflict in part because of the economic situation at the time," Cohen says. "So we have reason to believe that we can achieve a political change in Iran's approach as a result of economic pressure."
In addition, Cohen argues, the sanctions program can have an effect on Iran's nuclear program even without a change in Iranian thinking.
"It also disrupts the ability of those actors who are trying to build Iran's nuclear program from doing their work," Cohen says. To the extent that sanctions make it more difficult or more costly for Iranian engineers to import the parts and equipment they need, progress on developing the country's nuclear program could be slowed.
So, are sanctions working to make Iran less of a nuclear threat?
Some experts are skeptical.
"The regime has been bracing for this," says Mark Dubowitz, executive director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. "It has large foreign exchange reserves, and it is still earning $40 [billion] or $45 billion a year from oil sales.
"The supreme leader's economic expiration date — when his cash hoard falls low enough to set off a massive economic panic — may still be far off," Dubowitz argues. "If the [Obama] administration wants to bring that date closer, it needs to make clear that the United States and our allies will do everything in their power to destroy Iran's energy wealth unless the regime compromises."
If there is to be any sign of flexibility on the Iranian side, it is likely to come in the ongoing "P5+1" talks, with the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council plus Germany. Those talks continue Tuesday in the Turkish city of Istanbul with a meeting of technical experts.
RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST:
It's MORNING EDITION, from NPR News. Good morning. I'm Renee Montagne.
LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST:
And I'm Linda Wertheimer.
Iran is once again threatening to block oil tankers moving through the Strait of Hormuz. The Iranian parliament says it's in response to the European Union's embargo on Iranian oil, which took effect on Sunday. Western governments want Iran to limit its nuclear program.
NPR's Tom Gjelten says Iran is emerging as a test case for whether economic pressure can force a country to change its policies.
TOM GJELTEN, BYLINE: Iran has been subject to Western sanctions for years. In the beginning, they were limited, targeting specific activities. No more. David Cohen, the Treasury Department's undersecretary for financial intelligence, says the U.S. and its allies now aim at the entire Iranian economy.
DAVID COHEN: One of the things that we are pursuing is a ratcheting up of the pressure on Iran, and that means pursuing this program in a way that will have a broader impact on the economic situation in Iran.
GJELTEN: The idea being that if the economic situation gets bad enough, the Iranian government will accept restrictions on its nuclear program. Oil is the basis of Iran's economy, and as of this week, European countries have halted the purchase of Iranian oil. As for countries that keep buying that oil, the United States is ready to deny them access to U.S. banks.
And there's more. Juan Zarate, a sanctions expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, says the U.S. and its allies have identified Iran's choke points in the international financial system.
JUAN ZARATE: So the Iranian banks have been a key focus, the insurance and reinsurance companies that allow for the shipping that is so important and critical for Iran - not just with its exports, but also its gas imports.
GJELTEN: And finally, blocking investment activity so Iran can't develop its oil industry.
Zarate, who served at both the Treasury Department and the National Security Council under President Bush, says the sanctions program can now be considered a major foreign policy tool, rivaling diplomacy and military force in its intended effect on Iran.
ZARATE: The deeper the isolation of the Iranians, the more that we embargo broad sets of their economy and their commerce, the more that starts to look like classic economic warfare.
GJELTEN: The U.S. and its allies now engaged in economic warfare against Iran, and with devastating effect. About four-and-a-half billion dollars a month in lost oil revenue, inflation of at least 25 percent a year, just by the Iranian government's estimate, the Iranian currency losing half its value.
So will this pain cause Iran's supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, to accept limits on his nuclear program? The Treasury Department's David Cohen points to the resolution of the Iran-Iraq war.
COHEN: The supreme leader agreed to ending that conflict in part because of the economic situation at the time. So we have reason to believe that we can achieve a political change in Iran's approach as a result of economic pressure.
GJELTEN: Plus, Cohen says, the sanctions regime can have an effect above and beyond its impact on Iranian thinking about the nuclear program. It can slow progress on that program just by making it harder for the Iranians to import the parts they need.
MARK DUBOWITZ: It disrupts the ability of those actors who are trying to build Iran's nuclear program from being to do their work.
GJELTEN: So, are sanctions working to make Iran less of a nuclear threat?
Mark Dubowitz of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies says the regime still has abundant foreign reserves, and while its oil revenue is down, it's still making a lot of money.
DUBOWITZ: The supreme leader's economic expiration date, you know, when his cash hoard falls low enough to set off a massive economic panic, may still be far off. And if the administration wants to bring that date closer, it needs to make it clear the administration and our allies will do everything in our power to destroy Iran's energy wealth unless the regime compromises.
GJELTEN: Obama administration officials say there is one sign Iran is feeling some pressure: its relatively new willingness at least to discuss its nuclear program with the five permanent U.N. Security Council members plus Germany. Those talks continue today in Istanbul with a meeting of technical experts.
Tom Gjelten, NPR News, Washington. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright National Public Radio.
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Dec. 11, 2012 by Olivia Drake
Wesleyan University Press’s Music 109: Notes on Experimental Music by Alvin Lucier was named an “Overlooked Book” of 2012 by the Slate Book Review. Lucier is the John Spencer Camp Professor of Music, emeritus.
In the article published Nov. 28, the Slate Book Review critics suggested “20 great books you never heard about—but should’ve.”
Slate editorial assistant J. Bryan Lowder writes, “Gleaned from Lucier’s long-taught contemporary music course (No. 109) at Wesleyan, Music 109 is, indeed, Lucier’s notes, clippings from a lifetime spent making, performing, and, most importantly, listening to the ‘classical’ music of our era. For John Cage and other post-WWII composers, what was in question was the arresting, awe-inspiring possibilities of sound itself. Why bother with full-blown symphonies when just as much beauty may reside in more intimate forms—amplified brain waves, for instance, or a darkened room filled with bat-like sonar clicks. Even four minutes and 33 seconds of so-called silence can have its own kind of harmony. Music like this rewards a childlike spirit of curiosity, an appreciation of nuance, and an openness to surprise; it is often deceptively simple, and unfortunately, as Lucier writes, ‘simple things often get misunderstood.’ For those with the ears to hear, however, Lucier’s warm prose will sound a few notes of welcome clarity.”
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Owners of the Garmin Colorado, Dakota and Oregon series got a nice surprise yesterday, when the company rolled out the ability to create a custom map image in Google Earth, opening the door to viewing aerial photos, USGS topos and park maps on your GPS.
I immediately downloaded a US Forest Service topo (which often have greater FS road detail than USGS topos), transferred a portion to my Oregon, and hit the trail. You can see the results in the image to the left.
Accuracy is completely related to how well you georeference the image, but I was pretty pleased with the results. The red line is a track of the trail created by someone else, so I can’t vouch for the accuracy of that, but my own track lined up well with the USFS trail on the map, and had me on the proper side of the creek, so I was pretty pleased with my first attempt. I’ll also note that the Oregon was in a mesh pocket on the back of my pack, not the ideal spot for reception. Admittedly, I wasn’t going that fast (15 MPH tops), but I noticed no problems with redraws. Others are reporting sluggish behavior for larger mapsets.
Tips for making custom Garmin maps
- Use a DrawOrder of 50+ to keep the custom map on top of other imagery, as I did above. You’ll still be able to see waypoints, tracks, POIs, etc. This is ideal for topo maps.
- Use a DrawOrder of less than 50 and contour lines, roads and depth contours present on the underlying Garmin map will show through. This may be better for park maps, marine charts and aerial photos.
- This site has links for free raster imagery for each of the 50 United States. DRGs are topo maps, DOQQs are aerial photos. This is an older page, but enough links work to make it worth sharing.
- If you need to convert from a particular file type to a .jpg (and don’t have software for it), search for an online file conversion service, or learn to use GIMP.
- Scott at GPSFix had a great tips post yesterday, and has promised another today.
Custom Garmin map discussion threads
We’re all still learning about the process and limitations of this new tool. There are active discussions going on in the following forums:
- Garmin has their own custom map forum
- Custom map thread on gpsfiledepot.com
- Groundspeak forum discussion on custom raster maps
More to come
Stay tuned. Over the next few days I’m expecting a lot of sharing of custom maps (this is already being done on the Garmin forum), tools for converting geo-referenced maps (eliminating the need to do this by hand), and information on using sources of .kmz files with images already posted online. Maybe some of you Google Earth ninjas can enlighten us on the latter in the comments section. And how about the rest of you? Have you tried this? How is it going?
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In partnership with Xavier University, the Freedom Center has been working with an undergraduate course around the exhibition Women Hold Up Half the Sky. This course takes a pedagogical approach to topics of sociology, human trafficking, maternal health and domestic violence. Students will gain a deeper understanding of sociological practice through a marriage of theoretical knowledge and practical experience. In collaboration with the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center this course includes a service learning component and emphasizes theory as a tool to understand activist experiences, and practice. The students started the course with intense study of the content of the exhibition to prepare them for the experience.
Starting on Saturdays beginning March 1st from 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. the students will begin their experience as tour guides in the exhibit.
As part of the internship period each week the students will write a reflection blog about their experiences, interaction with public, and their personal thoughts about the content. This week’s blog is titled Why does Half the Sky Matter?
We hope that you will check back each week for a new blog entry and get involved in the conversation.
Manager of Content Development & Interpretation
Why does Half the Sky matter?
As I sat in the maternal health section of the Women Hold Up Half the Sky exhibit last Saturday, I looked at a bright green homemade banner that read "We lost our only surgeon". The story was of a thirty-four year old woman and successful surgeon in Uganda who lost her life in childbirth. Though she gave birth in a hospital, there were not enough nurses to attend to her, and she died without any doctors or nurses around.
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The Open Air Water-Power Museum in Dimitsana (Peloponnese) is a thematic museum centred on the importance of hydraulic power in traditional societies, which presents the basic pre-industrial techniques using water as their main source of energy to produce various goods.
In an area covering a stremma (1,000m2 or 10,764ft2 – roughly a quarter of an acre), in the midst of luxuriant vegetation and abundant streams, a complex of water-powered installations and machinery has been restored, so as to integrate them into a museum on waterpower. Each of the buildings housing the old traditional workshops has been renovated and now has a permanent exhibition whose thematic content concerns the workshop it is in:
The first building houses a fulling tub and a flourmill. Up to the mid-20th century, a score of (covered or open-air) fulling-tubs functioned in the vicinity of Dimitsana, where woven woollen fabrics were washed (different kinds of blankets, bedcovers and rugs). The art of the fuller (or dristeliari, as he was called locally) resided in his capacity to correctly judge the immersion time of each type of woven textile. Next to it, a flourmill with a horizontal paddle-wheel has been restored. Here the visitor can drop corn kernels into the grain hopper and watch how they are ground by the millstones and via the meal spout fall into the flour bin. The adjoining small room with a fireplace was the miller's house, where his -usually large- family spread out the bedding each night in the loft and slept in rows side by side. Outside the mill, a rough shelter was erected, similar to the one protecting the raki still that was set up after the grape harvest each year to make tsipouro (a kind of schnapps or eau de vie) from the skins of the pressed grapes, and which would function night and day for 3-4 days. Exactly opposite it, there is a two-storey building, with the tanner's house above and the tannery just below it.
The workshop's interior is divided into "zones" corresponding to the different stages of processing animal hides. The first is for the "waters" (the soaking process), the liming and the preparatory stages in general (scudding, deliming, bating). The second contains a series of "limbes" (vats) for the actual tanning, followed by a well-ventilated zone, used for hanging out and drying the tanned hides in the shade. Lastly, a well-lit corner was reserved for the retanning or currying work (which gives the leather the required properties depending on the use it is destined for).
The stone-paved path leads to a flat area, where a natural reservoir has formed, and ends at the gunpowder mill. Dimitsana was one of scores of villages where, from the 16th century onwards, raw potassium nitrate (saltpetre) was collected and handed over to the Ottoman Turks as a tax in kind. During the 1821 Greek War of Independence against Ottoman rule, the inhabitants of Dimitsana played an active part in providing the Greek combatants with the necessary material for ammunition. In his memoirs, Kolokotronis, chief of the irregular troops in the Peloponnese, wrote: "Gunpowder we had, Dimitzana made it".
Gunpowder is a strong element of the region's cultural identity and remains alive in the memory and tales of its inhabitants. It is precisely this historical identity that the Museum brings to the fore by reconstructing the type of powder mill with pestles, which was used in Dimitsana during the 1821 Revolution and up to the early 20th century, simultaneously preserving this particular technology of gunpowder production, which disappeared in the rest of Europe in the 18th century.
After leaving the Museum, visitors can continue their perambulation in the Loussios gorge by following the path that begins at the Museum, descends to the village of Paliochori, continues on to the traditional bridge of Monopori, wends it way first to the monastery of Philosophos and then to the Prodromos monastery, before ending in ancient Gortyna.
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Partisan bickering is complicating next year's high-stakes census count of the nation's population.
Republican Sen. Judd Gregg of New Hampshire on Thursday abruptly withdrew his nomination as commerce secretary, citing in part concerns over handling of the 2010 census. That came on a day when House GOP leaders criticized plans for increased White House involvement in the count.
Gregg's withdrawal is welcome news to black and Latino groups who questioned his commitment to the Census Bureau given his past record in seeking to limit agency funding. But lawmakers worry it could create several more weeks of uncertainty and delay in naming a new Census director who is sorely needed to get to work in ensuring a fair and accurate count.
The Government Accountability Office has said the 2010 census is in "serious trouble," citing it as a high-risk program because the bureau still doesn't know if its operations will be fully in place come next year.
"We are deeply concerned that the Census Bureau will not be able to complete its constitutionally mandated responsibility to count U.S. residents without immediate and sustained attention from the administration," said Reps. Ed Towns, D-N.Y., and William Lacy Clay, D-Mo., who oversee the Census Bureau on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. "And with the clock ticking – we are less than 11 months away from launching the 2010 Census – the Census Bureau has little time to improve its capabilities."
Politicians and special interest groups have already been lining up with fights to pick about the 2010 census, which will be used to determine House reapportionment and redistricting, as well as allocations of billions of dollars in government funding for schools, roads, hospitals and other vital programs.
When Obama nominated Gregg earlier this month, the Congressional Black Caucus and the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials were quick to express disappointment. They noted that as chairman of the Senate panel overseeing the Census Bureau budget, Gregg frequently sought to cut funding that they believe led to an undercount of minorities.
To allay concerns over Gregg, the White House initially indicated that it might take greater control over the Census Bureau. But amid GOP criticism it later clarified that the White House will "work closely with the census director," and that the Census Bureau would not be removed from the Commerce Department.
On Thursday, House GOP leaders held a news conference to decry the possibility of "backroom deals" at the White House that would be guided by chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, the former chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. They threatened to file a lawsuit if the White House was overly active in deciding how the 2010 Census is handled.
House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, also said he was creating a census task force composed of GOP lawmakers from the Judiciary, House Administration and Oversight & Government Reform committees to keep watch.
"If President Obama doesn't trust Sen. Gregg to oversee a fair and accurate census, he should withdraw the nomination," said GOP conference chairman Mike Pence, R-Ind., at the morning briefing.
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What would the Monalisa look like if she was painted in 2012? What would Venus look like if she was to mingle with human in 2012? By the Size 0 trend, both Da Vinci and Botticelli would have to cut pounds and pounds off those icons if they wanted to generate the same image those paintings created hundreds of years ago. However, apparently in 2012, a skinny figure is not enough. As much as I wish that it was a hoax, I have to give, that in some parts of the world a new trend of beauty is spreading and it's scary as hell: the living dolls.
The standard of beauty changes with time. That's a fact we all have to accept. Women in the 15th century plucked their hairline to achieve the look of the century--high forehead, whereas those in the 16th century put a thick layer of white powder on their face to look like Queen Elizabeth and those in the 18th century had to endure having their hair extended up to three feet in the air to look pretty, as women in the 21st century had to starve in order to achieve the 'ideal' size-zero-look. Some girls these days bend over backwards to get what they think is the 'perfect' appearance. They have crossed the line into the impossible. To put it the way I like better, they've reached a new level of crazy.
The most renowned (and one of the pioneers) of this trend is an Ukrainian model, Valeriya Luyanova (Darn! Her name is hard to spell!). Despite her unnatural look, the 21-year-old human-Barbie claims that she has never undergone any plastic surgery to achieve her looks and that she is "endowed by nature with extraordinary external data". But, man, come on! How extraordinary could that external data be? I don't believe that nature even has that sort of data. Of course, we could always turn to the data cosmetics and plastic surgery can provide. Which, it goes without saying, means pretty much all kinds of data. Let's say she has had no plastic surgery performed on her face, what about her ribs? It seems to me that she's lost some. And there is a procedure called rib-removal, you know. And it's just impossible for a human's waist to be that small. It's not even bigger than her head!
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for trying to look pretty, but the essence of looking good is to make us feel good about ourselves. (Or have I been wrong about this?) I don't believe that THAT amount of plastic surgeries and/or cosmetics will make us feel comfortable, let alone good. I can't even begin to understand why, OH WHY, some women are willing to go to such extend to attain the so-called perfect look. Plus, instead of looking pretty, this doll army look downright creepy to my eyes. The red-head in this picture is an Ukrainian real-life anime called 'Anime'--the 19-year-od Anastasiya Shpagina (Forgive me for thinking of another word that rhymes with her last name). She spends 30 minutes on each eye EVERY SINGLE DAY, people! Every day! 30 minutes wasted to look inhuman and creepier than Freddy and Jason walking hand in hand sneakily behind you in a dark, desolate alley.
Altering your body like that is just insane. I think this is the most idiotic and ridiculous beauty trend so far. And those two adjectives don't even begin to explain what I feel about this trend. There are many others that I couldn't even made out into sentences without slamming my head on the keyboard out of frustration--dehumanizing, illogical, disturbing, I could go on and on.
Anyway, if the Mayans were proven wrong and we get to see 2013 and the years to come, I say we better start getting used to this. We should brace ourselves for crazier beauty trends that I'm sure will emerge. Yes, it is extreme and possibly dangerous at some level, but what can we do? After all, we live in a world where people are allowed to hurt themselves.
So, what do you think? Do these living-dolls look pretty or just wrong?
Originally published on November 21, 2012.
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They learned how to make them on the Internet.
Two, 11-year-old boys are responsible for manufacturing 13 soda bottle bombs which were located in the parking lot of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Hagerstown on Saturday. That's according to the Maryland State Fire Marshal's Office, which says the youths have been sent to an organized referral program which addresses the seriousness of their actions.
Investigators say the two kids learned to construct these bombs from the internet.
Authorities say a neighbors of the church heard explosions on Saturday and contacted police. The Washington County Sheriff's Department and the Hagerstown Fire Marshal's Office responded. They determined that ten of the device had exploded, and three had not. The Maryland State Fire Marshal's Office Bomb Squad was summoned to the scene, and rendered the three harmless. Personnel also collected evidence at the scene.
There were no injuries or property damage from these explosions.
"The construction of these types of devices in this and similar incidents have sometimes been misrepresented at fun," says State Fire Marshal William Barnard, in a statement. "However, the seriousness and destructive nature of these devices can cause: loss of vision, respiratory distress, loss of extermities and possibly death."
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I recently wrote this article as a guest blog post on the Startup Professional Musings Blog.
According to a report distributed by the Angel Capital Education Foundation, total startup funding from venture capital funds, state funds, and angel investors totals approximately $20.8 billion annually. Surprisingly, friends and family contributed nearly three times the amount of capital to thousands of startups each year. With approximately $60 billion in startup funding coming from friends and family, entrepreneurs must consider this as an option as they seek to launch new businesses.
Money issues between friends and family can ruin relationships. Due to the risk involved with investing in a startup, if you are requesting investment from friends and family, be sure to consider these five steps before you begin the capital raising process:
Prepare a pitch. Just because you are requesting investment from your mom or a group of your college buddies doesn’t give you an excuse to be unprofessional. Take this opportunity and the potential risk taken by your investor seriously. Do your homework, and prepare a professional, persuasive and passionate presentation. You want your friends and family to buy into your vision, not just hand over some cash because they feel obligated or pressured.
Have a game plan. When you are seeking angel investment or venture capital investment, you will need a strong business plan, but do you really need a business plan for your friends and family? Instead, you might consider a vision, strategy, and tactics plan. You will start by developing a vision for the future of your business, then strategies to reach your vision, and finally day-to-day tactics to accomplish your strategies. For example, assume that you have a vision of becoming the leading online retailer of picture frames. One strategy may be to utilize search engine traffic to bring in customers. Finally, you will develop tactics such as building quality links to your website through social media and professional article writing to boost your rankings in the search engines.
Have an exit strategy. Angel investors and venture capitalists want to know how you intend to grow their investment. They want to know when and how you intend to repay them, with interest. Your friends and family should be no different. Although you want to disclose the fact that investing in a startup is risky, you should also outline a detailed strategy for the investor to exit profitably. Maybe you will structure the capital as a high interest loan, or maybe they will own a percentage of the business and be repaid through the profits. No matter the structure, you should have a detailed plan for repayment.
Consider making it official. Depending on the size of the investment you may consider hiring a lawyer to file the necessary paperwork to make everything official. Obviously this will give the investor peace of mind, and it should help you in the future as you seek angel investment. Making it official gives you credibility for future rounds of investment. Remember to use judgment though, if your buddy is going to invest $10,000, and the legal fees amount to $2,500, you may want to resort to a firm handshake.
Follow through. Again, investing in a startup is risky, and your friends and family probably know that, but they should expect to earn a return on their investment. Don’t view this capital as a gift, instead follow through with what you promised. If things don’t go exactly as planned, be sure to communicate regularly so that they know what to expect. If at all possible, follow through. If you fail to deliver as promised you risk your entire relationship and your ability to raise capital in the future.
As you seek capital for your startup don’t neglect the $60 billion opportunity represented by friends and family, but tread carefully as you risk something far greater than the failure of your business--your relationships.
Today's guest blog is by Adam Hoeksema, founder of the ExecutivePlan. Adam is the author of a blog that primarily assists entrepreneurs in the process of writing powerful executive summaries, preparing elevator pitches, and hurdling the many obstacles encountered during the startup phase of a business. His blog is http://www.theexecutiveplan.com .
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What is in this article?:
- Yield Champ Grows 429-Bushel Corn Efficiently
- Inputs used
It's no small feat to efficiently grow 429-bu. irrigated corn, especially when your watershed heads to the Chesapeake Bay. But Charles City, VA, corn-yield champ David Hula used stewardship and intensive management of his no-till ground to win the 2011 National Corn Growers Association yield contest.
"We have to be good stewards of our land and inputs, because we farm in the Chesapeake Bay area," says Hula, who grows corn, soybeans, wheat, barley and oats with his two brothers, Jeff and Johnny, and his retired father Stanley. The family has practiced continuous no-till, or what they call "never-till" since the mid-1980s to protect against soil and nutrient loss. They also use cover crops and crop rotation to improve soil health and minimize insect and disease pressure.
Along with soil and crop considerations, the family keeps a close eye on their production costs. "In our irrigated program for ordinary soils, the cost of production (not including rent) ran $2.31/bu. and the yields averaged 296 bu./acre last year," Hula says, who counts fixed and variable costs and all equipment, labor and input costs in his calculations. "On our high-yielding ground (which includes the contest field), the cost of production/bu. ran $2.52/bu., and the yields averaged 411 bu./acre."
Hula relies on a Valley center pivot, with an irrigation scheduling system, to help decide when and how much to irrigate. He also uses irrigation to cool down the corn when the weather turns too hot. However, he uses machinery, not irrigation, to apply nutrients and crop protection products.
With nitrogen (N) ranking near the top input cost required to raise corn while also being a volatile element that can be lost to the environment, Hula is careful in how much he applies and how he applies it. "We figure it takes 1 lb. of N/acre to produce 1 bu. of corn," says Hula. "On our contest field, we applied 386 lbs. of N/acre and achieved a 429 bu./acre yield, so we were very N efficient."
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Revivals occurred more or less equally in both the Union and Confederate armies,
in all theaters of the war, and throughout most of the conflict. Some historians
have suggested that they began in the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and became
most noticeable beginning in the spring of 1863, though they occurred before
then, as well. In fact, revivals generally followed an army's first experience
of heavy fighting and high casualties. A Confederate chaplain was not alone in
writing that it was a well established pattern that "scores of men are converted
immediately after great battles."
In Virginia, heavy and sustained fighting on a very large scale began with the
in the spring of 1862. Several weeks later, as soon as the tempo of military
operations allowed, the stirrings of revival began in both the Union and
Confederate armies. Both chaplains and the soldiers themselves cited two reasons
for the increased religious activity. First, many of the men were thankful that
they had survived battle. "What cause for gratitude to God that I was not cut
down when my comrades fell at my side," wrote a Confederate soldier. In
addition, their proximity to death and suffering brought to mind questions of
their own mortality and afterlife. After witnessing the death of a fellow
soldier, a Pennsylvania soldier wrote, "The fact that I must die became to me
living and real."
Revivals in the armies took different forms. In 1862 a Georgia soldier serving in
Virginia wrote that although there had been none of what he called "revival
meetings"—large, enthusiastic, often highly demonstrative religious
services—nevertheless a strong religious movement was in progress, characterized
by nightly prayer meetings in many regiments and a large upsurge in Bible
reading among the troops. At other times the army revivals included more
traditional displays of heightened religious interest. During the first months
of 1864, delegates of the United States Christian Commission, an organization
established by Northern churches to minister to the spiritual and material needs
of the soldiers, set up a tent in the Vermont Brigade of the Union's Army of the Potomac. Though
the tent could hold two hundred men, it hosted overflow crowds at nightly
meetings, with many men unable to get close enough to hear the preaching.
Services lasted an hour and a half, with a short sermon followed by a lengthy
experience meeting in which many soldiers took part. Similar meetings were
taking place throughout the Army of the Potomac that winter, as well as in the
camps of the Army of Northern Virginia.
The revivals in the armies continued until combat operations made them
impractical, then they sprang up again when the campaigning stopped. The Civil
War was the occasion for a series of revivals, occurring in both armies from
1862 until 1865, interrupted by the fighting of battles. The new faith that the
soldiers found through these revivals helped to sustain them amid the carnage
and hardship of war and may have mitigated somewhat the demoralizing effects of
warfare on the men who waged it.
Linderman, Gerald F. Embattled Courage: The Experience
of Combat in the American Civil War. New York: Free Press,
McPherson, James M. For Cause and Comrades: Why Men
Fought in the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press,
Miller, Robert J. Both Prayed to the Same God: Religion
and Faith in the American Civil War. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman &
Woodworth, Steven E. While God Is Marching On: The
Religious World of Civil War Soldiers. Lawrence: University Press
of Kansas, 2001.
Cite This Entry
- APA Citation:
Woodworth, S. E. Religious Revivals During the Civil War. (2012, May 10). In Encyclopedia Virginia. Retrieved from http://www.EncyclopediaVirginia.org/Religious_Revivals_During_the_Civil_War.
- MLA Citation:
Woodworth, Steven E. "Religious Revivals During the Civil War." Encyclopedia Virginia. Virginia Foundation for the Humanities,
10 May. 2012. Web. READ_DATE.
First published: June 17, 2009 | Last modified: May 10, 2012
Contributed by Steven E. Woodworth
, a professor at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas.
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"West Village—A Green Story"
Susquehanna University is committed to environmental consciousness and sustainability. With the second and third phases of the West Village (buildings Laurel, Linden, Elm, Tamarack and Willow Halls) construction, the university recognized an opportunity to pursue certification for the buildings using the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Green Building Rating System. This certification process, requiring that the builder meet over two dozen criteria, demonstrates that a building was constructed using sustainable practices.
Highlighted Green Features
Limiting Waste in Construction
Three quarters of the waste matter produced was sent to recycling centers rather than landfills. Construction firms were trained on the proper disposal of waste and encouraged to start with recycled materials in the first place.
Recycling Made Easy
Recycling areas located throughout the building make it easy and convenient for students to make green practices part of their daily lives. Specific areas in the building are dedicated to the collection of paper, corrugated cardboard, glass, plastic and metal.
Good for You, Good for the Environment
Bicycling is both a healthy and sustainable alternative to hopping in the car for a drive across campus. This is especially true because a significant amount of automobile emissions are generated in the first few minutes of driving. West Village features bicycle racks as well as indoor bike storage areas to encourage students to trade their car keys for a bike lock.
A Green Envelope
The exterior skin of a building—the walls, windows and roof—plays a critical role in its energy efficiency. The buildings feature high-value insulation to keep the building warmer in the winter and cooler in the summer. In addition, the windows have a low-emissivity (Low E) coating. This feature allows light and solar heat to pass into the structure but prevents that heat from escaping, so less energy is used to heat the structure in the winter.
Keeping it Clean and Green
Many traditional cleaning products contain powerful chemicals that are potentially harmful to maintenance staff, students and the environment. A commitment has been made to use environmentally preferable cleaning products and practices in the building to help reduce human exposure to these chemicals and to benefit the environment.
You Are What You Breathe
Air quality is a major factor in the health and wellness of the students living in a residence hall. Prior to installation, all ductwork for the building was sealed so that dust and other particles could not enter into the air distribution system. In addition, the heating and ventilation system incorporates more outdoor air, which is tempered through energy recovery units utilizing the conditioned exhaust air being removed from the space.
Light Where You Need It
We all know that leaving the lights on when you’re not in the room is a waste of energy. But did you know that improper use of light in an occupied space can be just as bad? In the second phase of West Village, light fixtures were strategically placed so that the majority of the light they produce does not shine towards windows where it would then be lost. In addition, fixtures were installed so that light radiates downward rather than upward toward the ceiling.
Other Green Spots
- Each building utilizes a 95 percent efficiency domestic water heater.
- Wires and conductors used to carry electrical energy are sized to minimize heat loss.
- The geothermal well system uses on-site resources for heating and cooling instead of less sustainable resources like oil, coal or gas.
- Potable water is reduced by 40 percent through the use of low and ultra-low flow bathroom fixtures.
- High-efficiency heat pumps decrease the energy needed to heat and cool the building.
- During construction, materials were installed in a sequence to prevent absorption of pollutants and later off-gassing in student space.
- Paints and sealants having no harmful vapors were used throughout the buildings.
- In common areas, lighting is controlled by a wall-mounted switch as well as an occupancy sensor.
- To limit the environmental impact of transporting raw materials, products and materials harvested or manufactured within 500 miles of campus were used.
Susquehanna University’s Project Partners
- Spillman Farmer Architects
- R.S. Mowery and Sons
- Derck and Edson Associates
- Dave Gutelius Excavating Inc.
- Edwin L. Heim Company Inc.
- Silvertip Inc.
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By Alma Joyce Hahn
My comments about books the past few weeks have generated interesting emails from readers, some of them out of state. Generally, they took sides in the ebooks vs. traditional books discussion. Younger readers favored the computerized books while older ones still prefer the printed format. One reader said she didn’t want to give up paper books because she always embroidered book marks for Christmas and birthday gifts.
I enjoy making bookmarks too. As a matter of fact, I sort of collect them, and I have a number of interesting ones stuck back somewhere. Most people though do not actually use bookmarks; when they stop reading for a time, they just stick what is nearby in the book, close it and put it aside for later. My daughter, who is a librarian in Little Rock, tells me they find a lot of unusual items left inside books when they are returned.
Not having a suitable subject for today’s column, I decided to call the local library and see if they ever found anything unusual in books returned by Saline County’s readers. “Well, yes, we sometimes find some interesting stuff,” said Sarah Sewell, head of Adult Services. “People tend to pick up whatever is nearby to mark their place when they quit reading.”
It is common to find letters, envelopes, grocery lists, ticket stubs, cash register receipts and even credit cards. Photographs and post cards turn up too. Recipes, especially those torn from magazines and newspapers, also get left in library books .
Non-paper items make good book marks. I used to use a stray bobby pin for a book mark. (Anybody remember those?) They were thin, they didn’t damage the paper, and they stayed in place. Paper clips were often used too, but they fit a little tighter and often left an impression in the paper. String, ribbon and scraps of material also make good book marks.
But what are some of the really odd things people find in books? Sarah mentioned folded Kleenex and even toilet paper (clean she stressed.) Little Rock library has found keys in their books.
But what is especially surprising to me is that a lot of people use money for book marks. Dimes are often used because they are thin and small, and if you should lose it, you have not suffered a serious financial hardship. But it is paper money that is used most frequently.
Foreign currency is common; people tend to use these because they have no way of converting them to American currency. Normally these bills are for small amounts anyway, though occasionally a foreign bill of a large denomination finds its way through the circulation desks.
But librarians and sellers of used books always check their stock carefully. The internet has a story about a customer who purchased an old cookbook from a thrift store as she was traveling across the New England states When she got home and started to examine the book, she found forty $1000 bills inside. She took them to her bank to have them authenticated, but according to the story, did not inform the owner of the thrift shop.
People who buy books at estate sales of well known people often report finding autographed letters or cards in books that are worth money too.
What is the most valuable thing our library has found? According to Sewell, a lady left $2000 in a book she returned. The library checked their records to see who had checked out the book. They were able to return the money to a very relieved library patron.
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RAV KOOK - Master Of The Lights
by Rabbi Itzchak Marmorstein
"A world of chaos stands before us, all the time that we have not yet reached the 'tikkun Ẹlyon' - the highest level of healing, repairing, transforming - by uniting all life forces and all their diverse tendencies. As long as each one exalts himself, claiming, I am sovereign, I and no other--there cannot be peace in our midst..." (Notebook 8:429, written in 1919)
In the early 1980s, in a sunlit cottage in Winnipeg Beach, Canada, I sat down to read from the writings of Rabbi Avraham Yitzḥaq (Itzchak) HaCohen Kook, TZ'L (1865-1935). I knew well the world of chaos. I am an Israeli-born only child of Holocaust survivors whose mother was in Auschwitz. I absorbed on the cellular level the reality that a huge darkness and evil had recently occurred in the world. For some time, and in response, I had been seeking the greatest possible light.
My search brought me to serious study of the Torah in 1973 though I remained disturbed by the manifestations of parochialism in the 'religious' world.
"All our endeavors must be directed toward disclosing the 'or hashalom haclali' - the light of universal harmony, which derives not from suppressing any power, any thought, any tendency, but bringing each of them within the vast ocean of infinite light, where all things find their unity, where all is ennobled and exalted, all is hallowed." (Ibid)
As I read, I experienced an internal expansion, an inner recognition.
"We must liberate ourselves from confinement within our private concerns... This reduces us to the worst kind of smallness, and brings upon us endless physical and spiritual distress. It is necessary for us to raise our thought and will and our basic preoccupations toward universality, to the inclusion of all, to the whole world, to humankind, to the Jewish people, to all existence...The firmer our vision of universality, the greater joy we will experience and the more we will merit divine illumination." (Orot HaQodesh - 3:147)
Continuing to read, I felt my soul stirring, touched by an extraordinary consciousness whose grasp of the brokenness and wholeness of existence and the possibilities for perfection was breathtaking and clear.
"Tshuva (return/repentance) is inspired by the yearning of all existence to be better, purer, more vigorous and on a higher plane than it is. Within this yearning is a hidden life-force for overcoming every factor that limits and weakens existence." (Orot HaTshuva - 6:1)
Since that light-filled afternoon, I have often been inspired deeply by the writings of Rav Kook- known by some as Baal Ha'Orot -The Master Of The Lights. I have dedicated my life to sharing his song with the world. On the occasion of his 75th Yaartzeit - (date of passing) and it is my privilege to share with you a little of his story and some highlights from the Kook book.
Everyone in contact with Rav Kook described a similar picture.
Here was a rabbi, a Cohen, with unparalleled knowledge of the breadth and depth of the entire Torah. Here was an enlightened soul whose illumination shone powerfully. Here was a fearless leader, instrumental in the process leading to the Balfour Declaration, the first Chief Rabbi of the nascent Land of Israel, whose love for all humankind was boundless.
He was respected and loved by Ashkenazi and Sefardi, religious and secular, intellectual and worker, right and left. Chagall said upon meeting him that he now knew what holiness is. Einstein on conferring with him in 1925 said that Rav Kook is one of the few people who understood his theory of relativity. He told Einstein about passages in Kabbalistic texts that speak of varying experiences of time in different 'hekhalot'-chambers of experience. Gershom Scholem explained that Rav Kook was the "last [newest] example of productive Kabbalistic thought that I know." (Jewish Mysticism, Scholem, Notes to Lecture 1, Note 18).
The noisy opposition of a small percentage of the old ultra-Orthodox Yishuv did not prevent him from boldly putting forth a vision of integration, a vision of universal peace and love
"The whole Torah, its moral teachings, commandments, good deeds and studies has as its objective to remove the roadblocks so that universal love should be able to spread, to extend to all realms of life." (Midot HaRaya: Ahava-12)
He first arrived in the land of Israel on the 28th of Iyar, 1904. He stepped off the boat in Yaffo and prayed for the rebuilding of Jerusalem and Israel. This day is now forever stamped in Jewish history as Yom Yerushalayim - Jerusalem Day. On that same day, in 1967, the IDF captured the Old City of Jerusalem in the midst of the 6 Day War. Rav Kook was the first to use the term Medinat Israel - the State of Israel.
In 1908, he wrote a letter calling for the reconciliation of Jews, Moslems and Christians. He explained that the Torah records Yaaqov saying upon his emotional reunion with his twin brother/enemy, Esau:
"I have seen you; it is like seeing the face of Elohim". (Genesis 33:10)
Rav Kook continued:
"The words of Yaakov shall not go down as a vain utterance. The brotherly love of Esau and Yaaqov, of Yitzḥaq and Ishmael, will rise above all the 'mehumot'-disturbances - and transform them to 'Or ve'ḥesed Ọlam' - universal light and compassion." (Letters 1:112)
Jewish tradition explains that the feud between Yaaqov and Esau is the prototype for the hostility between Jews and Christians and that the history of Yitzḥaq and Ishmael seeded the tension between Jews and Moslems. At the beginning of our return to the land, Rav Kook called for the core of love that exists between each brother and sister to re-emerge:
"This broad understanding [that we are all actually brothers and sisters each reflecting Divinity] must be our guide in all our ways in the end of days... turning the bitter to sweet and darkness to light." (Ibid)
His entire life and thought was dedicated to tiqqun, to directing life toward the light of harmony:
"When love possessed people see the world, living creatures full of quarrels, hatred, persecution and conflicts, they yearn with all their being to share in those aspirations that move life toward wholeness and unity, peace and tranquility... They want that every particular shall be preserved and developed and that the collective whole shall be united and abounding in peace."
(Notebook 1:101, written 1904)
He encouraged the inward journey:
"The greater a person is, the more they must seek to discover themselves. The deep levels of our soul remain concealed, so that we must be alone frequently, to elevate our imagination, deepen our thought, and to liberate our mind. Then our soul will reveal itself to us by radiating some of its light upon us." (Orot Ha'Qodesh 3:270)
He invited each person to value and share their inner truth:
"Let everyone express in faithfulness and truth whatever their soul reveals to them, let everyone bring forth their spiritual creativity from potentiality to actuality without any deception. Out of such sparks torches of light will be assembled and they will illuminate the whole world out of their glory. Out of such fragments of inner truth, will the great truth emerge." (OQ, 1:166)
He supported the highest possible idealism:
"The great dreams are the foundation of the world... The crudeness of conventional life, wholly immersed in its materialistic aspect, removes from the world the light of the dream... The world is in convulsion with pains engendered by the destructive toxins of reality, devoid of the brightness of the dream... The free dream, which is in revolt against reality and its limitations, is truly the most substantive truth of existence." (OQ 1:226)
People often ask 'what would Rav Kook say if he were alive today?' I feel he was too original, too independent a thinker for anyone to really know, though many are happy to speculate:
"The inner essence of the soul... must have absolute inner freedom. It experiences its freedom, which is life, through its originality in thought." (OQ 1:177)
I write this as a personal tribute to a sage who has brought so much light into my life and the lives of countless others, and as an invitation to anyone seeking deeper understanding to read directly from the wisdom of Rav Kook. Contemporary idealists, spiritual seekers and world fixers off all backgrounds will find much of interest in his sophisticated and holistic teachings.
We, like him, continue to be faced with the immense challenge of Tiqqun Ọlam - repairing the world. In exploring the dynamics of repair, Rav Kook emphasized that tov/good is the strongest force in existence and our dedication to it is our most powerful tool.
"Its the good that I desire,
Its broad expanses entrance me,
Its lips, its roses, I kiss,
Its glorious vision exalts me.
Absolute good, without limitation,
Without end, constriction or boundary,
That does not separate from anyone alive,
And with its love fixes everything broken.
Good for me, good for all,
Good without evil or fear,
Good full of pleasure for all,
Full of tranquility, without anxiety.
Good forever, good right now,
Good for every people and nation,
For all who seek for the good and not for the bad,
And the light and the delight, as the One is there.
(Nafshi Taqshiv Shiro/My Soul Will Hear Its Song, P. 18)
"Tov le kol ạam ve'ạam - good for every people and nation..."
Bemhera BeYamenu - May it be soon and in our days.
Rabbi Itzchak Marmorstein, MSW is a rabbi whose teachings integrate the depths of the ancient teachings and the breadths of the contemporary unfolding.
As a passionate student of the teachings of Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak HaCohen Kook for over 30 years, he is doing pioneering work in bringing Rav Kook to the public through classes, both online and live. His current focus is creative jazz poetry collaboration with Greg Wall’s Later Prophets, known as “Ha’OROT: The Lights of Rav Kook”. Their acclaimed CD was recently released on John Zorn’s Tzadik Records. www.myspace.com/orotharav
Tikkun Magazine website: www.tikkun.org
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Loudoun tops nation with $119,525 in median household income
Six of the 10 richest counties in the nation are in the Washington region, as median household incomes rise and Washingtonians benefit from a government-driven economy.
Loudoun County maintained its crown as the wealthiest county in the nation, with a median household income of $119,525 in 2011, according to data released Wednesday by the U.S. Census Bureau. And Montgomery County crept back into the top 10, as its household median income rose from $88,559 in 2010 to $92,288 in 2011 -- a spike of more than 4 percent.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
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|2||Los Alamos County, N.M.||$110,204||$105,987|
|4||Hunterdon County, N.J.||$99,216||$97,532|
|7||Douglas County, Colo.||$95,973||$97,806|
|8||Somerset County, N.J.||$95,915||$93,777|
|9||Prince William County||$93,101||$91,290|
Fairfax County held on to its ranking as the third-richest county in the country, while Stafford County was bumped from the top 10 by Prince William and Montgomery counties.
Statewide, Maryland's No. 1-ranked $70,075 household median income ranks well ahead of the national median of $50,502 annually -- so do the District and Virginia, with median household incomes of $62,087 and $61,877, respectively.
"I think this is probably the nation's wealthiest region overall, and that wealth supports an array of public and private services that are in many ways a lot better than what poorer parts of the country can enjoy," said Alan Berube, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.
Credit for the high pay can be given to a job market focused around federal and state government work, according to Tad DeHaven, budget analyst at the Cato Institute.
"I don't think there's any doubt about it. I'd also throw into that private government contractors as well. Then you get the lobbyists, folks involved in the legal profession," DeHaven said. "This is the epicenter of government."
The demographics of the Washington region's workforce play a part in the high wages for residents as well -- a white-collar job market and a high percentage of women in the workforce contribute to many houses where multiple residents bring in top dollar, according to Stephen Fuller, director of the Center for Regional Analysis at George Mason University.
What the census data doesn't show are the higher costs of living in the region, but that contributes to a high quality of life -- Washingtonians can afford a network of consumer services that allow residents to continue working in their high-power jobs while keeping their personal lives in order, Fuller said.
But it also means it's an unequal region, according to Berube.
"We have a lot of landscapers and a lot of child care workers, people whose livelihood depend on the people on the high end," Berube said.
Even with some disparity, the nation's capital region compares favorably with most other parts of the country, DeHaven said.
"You ever seen or read 'The Hunger Games'? It's Panem -- everybody is in various districts producing stuff so D.C. can get a nice, big chunk of the loot," he said.
The new census data are similar to the American Community Survey numbers released by the agency in September, but provide a more thorough picture of each county's wealth.
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Geomagic released yesterday its newest version of Geomagic Freeform 3D modeling software. Geomagic Freeform is a unique, touch-enabled solution that facilitates fast 3D modeling of highly detailed, organic shapes; these shapes can then be easily combined with geometric shapes for prototyping or manufacturing. In combination with Geomagic's Sensable Phantom haptic 3D input devices, users can navigate in true 3D and design with virtual clay as if sculpting by hand.
Yesterday in an interview on BBC News Geomagic CEO Ping Fu showcased her shoes, a pair of 3D designed and 3D printed shoes made to the shape of her feet. "I think in the future the product design will be in the software code, the product fabrication can be local. We call it mass customization". Says Ping. She thinks the 3D printing technology "is as big as steam engines... as big as the internet".
Born on the eve of China's Cultural Revolution, Ping Fu was separated from her family at the age of eight. She grew up fighting hunger and humiliation, and shielding her younger sister from the teenagers in Mao's Red Guard. At 25, she escaped to the United States; her only resources were $80 in traveler's checks and three phrases of English: Thank you, hello, and help.
Three decades later she has become a strong, independent, entrepreneurial leader and mother. She founded Geomagic with her husband in 1997, a software company which pioneers 3D technologies aiming to enable design and production of one-of-the-kind products and services at a cost less than mass production.
She was awarded in 2005 by Inc. Magazine as "The Entrepreneur of the Year", and now she is an adviser to President Barack Obama on innovation and is one of America's most celebrated female entrepreneurs.
She is also the author of book "Bend, Not Break" (detailed introduction here) and two books in Chinese and inventor of five U.S. and international patents. Coming straight to the U.S. from a Chinese prison, Ping's journey to entrepreneurship is a remarkable American dream by itself. Her childhood aspiration was to be an astronaut. Today her company's software is used to ensure safe return of every NASA space shuttle. "There is a deep current of humanity in the way we approach innovation and business" she says.
Below is the press release of the Freeform 2013:
With this release, Freeform becomes the only system to give product designers the freedom and flexibility to combine up to four different modeling approaches - voxels, subdivision surfaces, polygons and NURBS (Geomagic Freeform Plus only) - in the same manufacturable model.
With the new SubD surfacing, designers reap the benefits of SubD modeling: more control over smooth forms, hard edges, transitional blend control, and the ability to refine the mesh to allow detailed features such as textures to be captured - all while retaining fast and precise editing of the underlying base forms.
"Freeform 2013 improves upon an already fantastic digital sculpting package with a whole slew of new features," said Nick Whitmore, digital sculptor at Designworks Windsor Ltd., a design consultancy with offices in the United Kingdom, Hong Kong and Australia. "The new Manual Pattern Piece construction tool alone, which enables me to select a number of digital clay pieces, replicate them incredibly quickly and directly control the scale of each piece, increases my productivity in sculpting complex forms by over 200 percent! I also see a whole new world of even more productivity with the addition of subdivision modeling and the ability to combine the strengths of SubD and digital clay sculpting."
Geomagic Freeform 2013 software also includes complex patterning tools that empower users to create patterns from existing geometry along one or two curves, or across broad areas. In seconds, designers can add details, such as zippers along a single curve or laces between two curves, to make realistic designs. The software also includes the ability to create customized bitmap files for patterning and texture creation from existing geometry.
Another new feature is the ability to easily add detailed annotations to models, so that designers, clients and manufacturing partners using Geomagic Freeform caneach add pointers, comments, image links and web page links to models, thus streamlining collaboration throughout the design and production workflow. Geomagic Freeform 2013 also enhances standard tools such as 2D Lattice Deform and measurement functions. Lastly, new user-defined workflow wizards guide designers through repeatable workflows with simple, clear steps, allowing even novice users to become productive in a matter of hours.
Posted in 3D Software
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- 3D Systems launches Cubify development tools: AppCreate and Cubify API
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Visitor wrote at 3/19/2013 11:56:00 PM:
Ping Fu lies, fabricates, exaggerates till now. A woman with shallow character.
jason holmes wrote at 2/1/2013 11:07:02 AM:
can we learn more about 3d software an technolgy fo design and engineering, in london england.
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Ceramics Handbuilding: Coil and Pinch Pots — Artist Mollie Favour explores basic handbuilding technique, different types of clays, and simple tools. She demonstrates wedging and creates a pinch pot and a box with a lid made from two joined pinch pots. This DVD also features demonstrations of making coils, constructing a coil bowl and coil coffee cup, plus decorating and firing techniques. 28 minutes.
Ceramics Handbuilding: Slab Construction — Artist Mollie Favour shows tools and clays as well as wedging, then proceeds to making slabs by throwing and rolling. She constructs a box with a lid, demonstrating how the pieces are joined utilizing scoring and slip. Other pieces are created and decorated, including bowls that are draped over forms, a vase, and a wall mural. 27 minutes.
Ceramics Handbuilding: Basic Throwing Skills — This DVD is an excellent introduction to throwing on the wheel. Artist Alleghany Meadows illustrates wedging the clay, centering it on the wheel and throwing a cylinder. The step-by-step demonstration with cross-sections clearly explains the technique of throwing. 34 minutes.
Ceramics Handbuilding: Throwing Functional Forms — Alleghany Meadows illustrates how to throw basic forms in this introduction to throwing functional pottery. He creates a drinking mug, vase, pitcher with handle, and platter. How to trim finished pieces is also demonstrated. Close-ups and cross-sections of the forms bring the process to life. 37 minutes.
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Your teeth pattern rooted within the first reptiles struggling to turn into mammals. A new fossil mammal species from the Jurassic era, during the full blown dinosaur evolution, reveals that the basic tooth pattern encountered in all mammal species today emerged independently at least twice in the past, and also points that early mammals were much varied than previously believed.
The remains of Pseudotribos robustus were discovered in 165-million-year-old lakebeds in the Inner Mongolia (northeastern China). The 4.7in (12 cm) long mammal could have been a digger feeding on insects and plants. But what took by surprise the researchers were creature's molar teeth.
"This thing is very advanced in
terms of its tooth structure. It has departed considerably from the ancestral pattern where it could only cut up things; now it can grind things up," said Richard Cifelli, a paleontologist at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, not involved in this research.
This type of molar is believed to have boosted the high diversity of modern mammals, but Pseudotribos belongs to a long-lost lineage, with no connection with today's placentals and marsupials, thus its cut-and-grind molars must have evolved independently though convergent evolution. "It shows that this key feature ... evolved in two completely different ways but with the same functional outcome," said Hans-Dieter Sues, associate director for research and collections at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., not involved in this research.
"It has long been supposed that the adaptation that allowed them (placentals and marsupials) to be so successful was a multifunction molar that can both cut and grind," said Cifelli. "For mammals you are what you eat with. Essentially all mammalian diversity is broken down pretty much by the different dental design that we each have," said co-author Zhe-Xi Luo, a paleontologist at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
No matter the diet of today's mammals, the bone-crushing molars of the carnivores and the hay-grinding ones of the hoofed mammals, all evolved starting from the same basic teeth pattern.
The new discovery also shows that early mammals started to diversify much earlier than commonly believed, and it should be no wonder as two-thirds of mammalian existence occurred during the dinosaur age. The dinosaur age mammals are depicted as small, furry, nocturnal, insectivorous, at the periphery of a stage were the dinosaurs were the main actors. "Our general view of what happened is that they didn't really go into any extravagant ecological niches until dinosaurs became extinct. Now we're finding that wasn't the case." said Cifelli.
The same lakebed delivered fossils of gliding and swimming mammals 165 million years ago. "Along with the new find, the discoveries suggest that mammals underwent tremendous diversification during the middle of the Jurassic period. We're seeing a host of skeletal adaptations that say, hey, mammals were doing these wild and crazy things-they weren't just lying around in their little hidey holes," said Cifelli.
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The Droid Rights movement was an attempt to "liberate" droids from their "forced servitude" and give them legal protection under the Rights of Sentience clause of the Galactic Constitution. It opposed ownership of droids and anybody advocating anti-droid propaganda, instead advocating that their sentience programming and personality matrices gave them said protection.
Problems arose as, at times, droids started their own uprisings against their organic masters, such as the infamous Great Droid Revolution started by HK-01 and his droid army. Such incidents only hindered the movement and sentients who believed in it continued the struggle.
- Coalition of Automaton Rights Activists
- Droid Abolitionist Movement
- Mechanical Liberation Front
- Servo Seven
- Vixani March
- Star Wars: The Old Republic (Mentioned in Codex entry)
- AI Equality on Wikipedia
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- GRADUATE STUDIES
- STUDENT LIFE
Maria F Minickiello
Ecofeminism is a feminist movement in which action is taken to raise the awareness of what is happening to the Earth—specifically the degradation of the planet. There are women environmental artists who create work with the same desire to raise awareness, consciousness and understanding of what is happening to the essential resources necessary to sustain life on our planet.
The study explores women environmental artists who aim to communicate their concern about the destructive dominance over many of the resources on our planet, many of who support, perpetuate, and identify with the Ecofeminist agenda and some who do not. The reasons why some women artists do not identify with an Ecofeminist agenda and why that is or is not important will also be explored and discussed in this study.
Research methods include gathering data from feminist literature, artist literature, biographies, memoirs, monographs, photographs, and personal interviews with the artists.
The student plans to complete the dissertation by May 2011.
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Five Ways Courts Say Texas Discriminated Against Black and Latino Voters
by Lois Beckett and Suevon Lee ProPublica, Sept. 4, 2012
How does Texas discriminate against minority voters? Federal judges counted the ways.
Last Tuesday, a panel of federal court judges ruled that new district maps drawn by Texas' Republican-controlled legislature weakened the influence of Latino voters and in some cases evinced "discriminatory intent" against both Latinos and African Americans. Two days later, another panel of federal judges unanimously struck down a voter-ID law passed by the legislature in March 2011, arguing that it would disproportionately harm African-American and Latino voters. The judges did not address whether there was discriminatory purpose behind the legislation, but they noted that the legislature failed to pass amendments that would have mitigated the law's discriminatory impact.
Minority groups have outnumbered whites in Texas since roughly 2004, and 55.2 percent of the state's residents are now minorities, according to Census figures. As of 2011, the state's legislature was more than two-thirds white.
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott's office declined to comment on the specifics of the rulings, but Abbott has promised to appeal both cases to the U.S. Supreme Court. In news releases, he said that the Supreme Court had already upheld voter-ID laws, and that the redistricting decision "extends the Voting Rights Act beyond the limits intended by Congress and beyond the boundaries imposed by the Constitution."
Both decisions hinged on Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, which requires certain states with a history of racial discrimination in voting — including Texas — to prove that any changes in their voting laws or procedures do not hamper the voting rights of minorities. Enacted in 1965, the Voting Rights Act aimed to eliminate discriminatory voting practices that had long been used to suppress the black vote, particularly in southern states. Section 5 has been challenged, including in two cases pending before the U.S. Supreme Court, as an outdated provision that unfairly singles out certain states. The Court has not decided if it will hear the cases.
The rulings detailed several examples of discriminatory practices in Texas:
1. Lawmakers drew some districts that looked like Latino majority districts on paper — but removed Latinos who voted regularly and replaced them with Latinos who were unlikely to vote.
In the redistricting case, a panel of three federal judges found that Texas lawmakers had intentionally created districts that would weaken the influence of Latino voters, while appearing to satisfy the requirements of the Voting Rights Act.
In drawing Texas' 23rd congressional district, the judges found that "The mapdrawers consciously replaced many of the district's active Hispanic voters with low-turnout Hispanic voters in an effort to strengthen the voting power of [Congressional District] 23's Anglo citizens. In other words, they sought to reduce Hispanic voters' ability to elect without making it look like anything in [Congressional District] 23 had changed."
In 2010, the 23rd district narrowly elected a Latino Republican, Francisco "Quico" Canseco. One email to a Republican mapdrawer, released during the legal battle over the maps, shows that Republicans were trying to increase the chances Canseco would be re-elected.
Lawmakers used a similar tactic in redrawing a state house district, modifying it "so that it would elect the Anglo-preferred candidate yet would look like a Hispanic ability district on paper," the court ruled. An "ability district" is one in which a minority group has the capability to elect representatives of its choosing. The judges concluded that the legislature had been trying to make this district appear as if it satisfied the requirements of the Voting Rights Act, while actually trying to benefit white voters.
Judge Thomas B. Griffith, writing the unanimous opinion of the three-judge panel of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, called it "a deliberate, race-conscious method to manipulate not simply the Democratic vote but, more specifically, the Hispanic vote."
2. Lawmakers widened the gap between the proportion of the population that is Latino and African Americans and the proportion of districts that are minority-controlled.
In the years leading up to the 2010 census, Texas' population increased by 4.3 million people, 65 percent of them Latino. As a result, Texas gained four seats in Congress.
In their decision, the federal judges in the redistricting case noted that minority voters have no constitutional right to proportional representation. But the Voting Rights Act says states can't weaken the electoral power of minorities. So, the judges reasoned, if there is already a gap between the minority population of a state and its political representation, states can't let that gap grow wider.
In Texas, the judges observed, African Americans and Latinos were already underrepresented in Congress. Given the number of voting-age minority citizens in the state, Texas's old maps should have had roughly 13 congressional seats that represent districts in which minorities have a strong voice, the judges calculated. Instead, Texas only had 10 such districts.
Instead of narrowing this "representation gap" as the minority population grew, the legislature increased it.
With four additional congressional seats, Texas should now have 14 districts in which minorities have the ability to elect their chosen representatives, the judges concluded. But the state's new plan still included just 10 minority districts.
3. Texas removed economic centers and district offices from African-American and Latino districts, while giving white Republicans perks.
In defending its new maps, Texas argued that the districts had been shaped to help Republicans and hurt Democrats — a perfectly legal tactic — and that race had been irrelevant to its choices.
The Associated Press reported that the state's lawyer had argued before the court that "'a decision based on partisanship' is not based on race, even if it results in minority voters having less political influence."
The judges noted that while there was no "direct evidence" that "discriminatory purpose" animated the new maps, circumstantial evidence indicated the design of the new congressional districts "was motivated, at least in part, by discriminatory intent."
Texas' gerrymandering was not limited to manipulating the kinds of voters within districts. By reshaping a district, mapdrawers can determine whether key businesses, schools and tourist attractions are removed from a district or added to another.
The redistricting opinion dwelled at length on "unchallenged evidence that the legislature removed the economic guts from Black ability districts." African-American Rep. Al Green testified that the "economic engines" of his district — including a medical center, a university, and the Reliant Park sports mega-complex that includes the Astrodome — were removed. African-American Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson's district lost a sports center and an arts district, while Latino Rep. Charles A. Gonzalez from San Antonio said that both a convention center and the Alamo were drawn out of his district.
These three members of Congress, and African-American Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, all Democrats, also testified that their district offices were drawn out of their districts — a detriment because constituents want easily accessible district offices.
"No such surgery was performed on the districts of Anglo incumbents," the judges found. "In fact, every Anglo member of Congress retained his or her district office."
"The only explanation Texas offers for this pattern is 'coincidence.' But if this was coincidence, it was a striking one indeed," Judge Griffith wrote. He noted that Texas had argued that "without hearing from the members, the mapdrawers did not know where the district officers were located." But, he wrote, "We find this hard to believe as well. We are confident that the mapdrawers can not only draw maps but read them."
The judges noted that members of Congress who represented minority districts testified that they were largely shut out of the map-drawing process. At the same time, white Republican members asked for tweaks to their districts and were often accommodated. "Anglo district boundaries were redrawn to include particular country clubs and, in one case, the school belonging to the incumbent's grandchildren," the judges wrote, referring to requests related to the districts of Republican Congressman Lamar Smith, and Kenny Marchant, respectively.
Not all white lawmakers were happy with their new districts. Democratic Congressman Lloyd Doggett, who was forced to run in a new district as a result of the Republicans' maps, told the Texas Tribune last year that map plans "plunged a dagger into the heart of our community."
4. Divide and conquer: Texas "cracked" minority voters out of one district into three.
One common tactic of racial gerrymandering is "cracking" a minority community into different districts so it cannot elect a minority politician.
Looking at a State Senate district in Fort Worth, the judges cited testimony that lawmakers reshaped the district in a way that "cracked the politically cohesive and geographically concentrated Latino and African American communities," and placed those voters "in districts in which they have no opportunity to elect their candidates of choice."
The judges cited "well supported" testimony that African Americans in Fort Worth had been "exported" into a rural, "Anglo-controlled" district to the South, while Latinos on the North side of the city had been put into another white, suburban district, leaving the "reconfigured" Senate District 10 a "majority Anglo" district.
The judges rejected Texas' argument that "its decision to 'crack' [Senate District] 10 is best explained by partisan, not racial, goals," and concluded that the district map "was enacted with discriminatory purpose."
5. Texas passed a voter-ID law with requirements that would make it disproportionately difficult for African Americans and Latinos to vote.
A three-judge panel found last Thursday that Texas' voter-ID law discriminates against minorities, since the costs of obtaining the required identification would place a greater burden on low-income Texans, who are more likely to be minorities than white.
Although the state issues free election IDs, the cost of a birth certificate, one of the underlying documents needed for the ID, is $22 — and that's if voters can get to the right government office in the first place. At least one-third of Texas' counties don't have a state Department of Public Safety office, which issues state IDs.
"It is virtually certain that these burdens will disproportionately affect racial minorities," wrote Judge David S. Tatel for the unanimous panel of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. He cited "undisputed U.S. Census data" showing that Hispanics and African Americans in Texas are more likely to be poor and more likely to live in households without a car.
"Simply put, many Hispanics and Africans Americans who voted in the last election will, because of the burdens imposed by [the new voter ID law], likely be unable to vote in the next election," he wrote.
The judges agreed ahead of last month's trial to keep out any evidence indicating motivations for the voter-ID law, so they didn't address whether or not there was intentional discrimination behind the creation of the law. But the 56-page decision pointed out that the Texas legislature could have made its law more accommodating by, among other things, waiving documentation fees for the election IDs, reimbursing travel-related costs or expanding DPS office hours to evenings and weekends — amendments that were either defeated or tabled.
Finally, the judges agreed with Texas that the state had an interest in preventing voter fraud, even though there is little documented evidence of current voter fraud in Texas. However, they noted that circumstantial evidence "could nonetheless suggest that Texas invoked the specter of voter fraud as pretext for racial discrimination."
The 2012 election
Whatever the Supreme Court's response to Texas' voter-ID law, Texans will not be required to present a photo ID to vote this November.
"As a result of the court's decision, Texas is not permitted to implement the photo ID law," Texas Secretary of State Hope Andrade announced in a news release last week.
As for the redistricting maps, Texas will use a set of interim maps drawn by federal judges in Texas. Those interim maps were part of a contentious battle that earlier went to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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A lot of folks have moved beyond the "paper vs. plastic" grocery bag debate, having settled on neither.
With Earth Day fast approaching, there are so many other bags from which to choose, made from materials both familiar and unusual, at price points both affordable and astronomical.
It appears everyone - from grocery stores to online sellers - wants in on this eco-friendly game. Nonprofits have jumped into the fray, trading sturdy totes for donations.
For the shopper, it's a matter of how much to spend and where.
For many, the sturdy, 99-cent grocery-store totes will do. But maybe you'd like a little more bling in your bag? Then this list is for you.
The Recycled Denim Tote ($95, MoMA Store), from the gift shop at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, is made from repurposed denim collected by a South Korean non-profit group that promotes recycling and sustainability. It comes in black or blue (selected at random).
The medium or large tote ($50 donation, World Wildlife Fund) offered by this non-profit group that champions wildlife and land conservation is made from canvas and jute, and features the WWF's trademark panda bear.
The "This Bag is Garbage" Tote ($44.95, Original Good) turns trashy into trendy: It's made in New Delhi, India, from plastic-bag litter, which is melted down and handcrafted into these totes.
http://www.originalgood.com or http://www.worldofgood.com
This grocery bag ($24.95, Bazura Shop) is made from recycled juice boxes at a women's cooperative in the Philippines.
Each of these four reusable bags touts an ecological message ($5.99 each or $18.99 for all four, Green Concept Online), including this one: "Plastic bags take 1,000 years to degrade. This bag won't."
This grocery tote ($25, Green With Envy) is made from recycled advertising banners, such as those from past AFI Film Festivals. The company also can make totes from banners that customers provide.
The "Shopper Tote" ($24, UncommonGoods) is a canvas bag made from recycled cotton that aims to add some style in the aisles. There's a companion tote ("Nuts About Recycling") with a squirrel motif.
The FEED 2 bag ($100, The FEED Foundation Inc.) is reversible organic cotton and burlap with two green straps (including a messenger strap). The foundation says the purchase of this bag will feed two children in school for one year through the United Nations World Food Program.
The "New Black is Green" Market Bag ($12.95, The Rainforest Site) is a stylish organic-cotton tote made in India. Purchases at this site, managed by the GreaterGood Network, help fund land preservation.
The polyester Envirosax ($7.95 or 5 for $37.95, ReusableBags) is so lightweight and compact it can tuck inside a purse or pocket. There are many colorful, artsy designs from which to choose, including several made for kids.
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Working Group Objectives and Activities
Teach a Kid to Fish Working Groups are made up of individuals and organizations representing the key areas of our community. The working groups have committed to attacking this multi-dimensional epidemic by setting long-term and measurable objectives and identifying activities to engage in as we partner to carry out the mission of Teach a Kid to Fish.
See the menu on the left to learn about a specific working group.
To carry out the TKF goals, all working groups will:
• Increase community awareness, participation and support of TKF mission
• Collaborate with other working groups on specific initiatives and work to broaden the net of working group members.
• Work with the TKF Board to prioritize the specific action plans of the working group
• Promote consistent evidence-based prevention messages
• Advocate for environmental and policy changes to increase opportunities for healthy eating and physical activity
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Nanny 911: Saying No to Your Kids
"NO!" is a heavy word. It should only be used when something is completely inflexible or where there is imminent danger. Unfortunately though, "No!" is such a reflexive word. Most people don't realize how many times they say it and the impact it has.
Think about it: How would YOU feel if you excitedly said to your partner, "Honey, I was thinking maybe we could ..." And he said, "NO!" before you could even finish your sentence. That's how your kids feel every time you shut them down with a no. What's more, if children hear the same thing repeatedly, with inconsistent consequences, they merely tune it out and go on their merry ways.
Here are five no "No" tips:
- State the facts simply. So if your child asks you to stay longer at his friend's house, instead of saying no, try saying, "We have to go now. But next time, we can stay longer."
- Acknowledge what your child wants. If your child asks you for a cookie at a 10:00 AM (or any non-cookie time), simply say, "I know you want a cookie. After lunch we can have one."
- Rephrase your child's question into a sentence. If he says, "Do I have to go to bed?" You can say, "I know you don't want to go to bed. But it's bedtime and we have to wake up early." Again, acknowledge their request, because all kids (and adults) want is to be heard.
- Create a Wish List. I once took care of a little 3-year-old who was the queen of tantrums. She always wanted something at the store and she'd throw a fit until her mom gave it to her. I had to teach her that was not going to work anymore. So we came up with the Wish List. I kept a pen and notepad in my bag and used to make lists with her whenever she would say, "I want that!" or "Can I have that?" And I'd say, "Great. Let's put it on the list." It worked. I wrote everything down, and she had something to hang on to. She absolutely loved her lists!
- Take a pause. It only takes a moment to stop yourself from saying no. And if you feel yourself getting upset, take a breath. Don't scream, don't yell, just calmly say, "One minute." And if you find yourself too heated, simply excuse yourself.
I know not saying no is going to be hard, but this exercise will help you be a better listener to your kids—and it will help them be a better listener to YOU!
Get more child behavior tips from the Nanny 911 Nannies!
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TA65 30 capsules
In recent times the discovery that the telomerase enzyme can lengthen telomeres has caused a great buzz in the anti-aging and medical fraternity, they’ve caused both controversy and excitement, so what’s it all about?
Well, telomeres are the protective tips or ‘strands’ found on the end of chromosomes that help to keep them from fraying, a bit like in the same way that aglets - the pieces wrapped around the end of a shoelace do.
In fact it is believed that telomeres don’t play a genetic function but exist solely to protect the DNA itself.
In the last few years telomeres have been getting a lot of attention because the animal studies have been showing that shorter telomeres not only appear to equate to a shorter life, but also poorer health too and vice-versa that longer telomeres could equate to a longer and healthier life.
DNA theory of aging
For some time the ‘DNA theory of aging’ has predisposed that damaged DNA leads to a worsening repair of cells and therefore, like a builder who each time he builds a house loses part of the plans, eventually leads to a cell (or a building in this case) which is no longer functional.
It could also be related to the Hayflick theory of aging whereby Professor Leonard Hayflick estimated that a cell can only divide itself by about 50 times before it could no longer function. Scientists are now asking themselves if it is the loss (shortening) of telomeres that causes this ‘countdown’ loss of functionality.
Could it be that the loss (shortening) of telomeres is a direct result of that DNA damage and the lengthening of telomeres the key to DNA repair? Well the ‘school is still out’, but since the animal models show much promise in terms of improving telomeres, ergo improving life and longevity, there has been a lot of excitement about the possibility of doing the same for humans.
Even in the much vaulted stem cells, the older we become the shorter the telomeres become even in stem cells, thus they progressively become impaired losing their ability to produce new healthy cells. Thus we see the importance for younger humans to store (freeze) their stem cells so that they may be injected back later into the same individual - but obviously this is a problem if you are already ‘older’ and don’t have a time machine to use and go back and store your stem cells! However a telomerase activator could in theory negate that need, because they can be used virtually at anytime to improve the condition of the individual’s cells - it is perhaps a true example of not just anti-aging medicine, but indeed regenerative medicine.
There is published information that substances and protocols such as the omega oils (1), carnosine (2), vitamin D (3) multi-vitamins (4) and healthy lifestyle choices (5) have been found to help slow down the rate of telomere shortening. This may help to explain how those people who look after themselves and take key supplements age better than those who don’t, but until recently there wasn’t anything that was proven that could actually lengthen the telomeres themselves.
Telomerase and telomeres
One of the key DNA and aging research facilities - the US based Geron Corporation, discovered several years ago that a ‘telomerase activator’ could help lengthen telomeres. That substance that Geron discovered was a highly purified and concentrated extract of the Chinese herb astragalus; this extract has become patented and produced by TA Sciences under the name of TA65®.
Recent studies have shown that the shortest telomeres can be lengthened, (which may be the most important factor - rather than improving overall average telomere length).
Telomerase is the enzyme used within the body to help repair telomeres and when activated can help repair and lengthen them. Why is this potential so exciting? Well let’s look at some of the experiments with telomerase activation to improve telomere length.
In January 2011, the scientific journal - Nature - published the results with telomerase deficient mice. (6) These mice had conditions of pro-aging resulting in smaller organs than normal, less neurons in their brains and poorer structural integrity and even an inability to produce sperm.
As telomerase was introduced and their telomeres lengthened the scientists noted that after only 30-days there was a reversal in every test conducted, with greater neuronal growth, better myelin sheath linings (that protect neurons), heightened sense of smell, plus intestinal and organ damage was repaired and even sperm was produced again.
Even though these mice were expected to live shorter lives than normal, after their telomeres were improved they went on to live longer and healthier than could have ever been expected. In conclusion the authors of the study stated; “...this unprecedented reversal of age-related decline in the central nervous system and other organs vital to adult mammalian health justify exploration of telomere rejuvenation strategies for age-associated diseases, particularly those driven by accumulating genotoxic stress.”
Other interesting evidence that telomeres may play an important role in longevity and health are from research that has shown that centenarians (people who live to be 100 years of age or more), have longer telomeres than the average individual in the population. (7)
Another interesting thought for the day is this one; why can ‘older’ individuals conceive healthy (and obviously young) children - despite the fact that their own DNA (and by association their own telomeres) have been damaged by aging?
The answer to that question is because all reproductive cells have their DNA switch for telomerase activation always turned on, (as opposed to all other somatic cells wherein their DNA switch for telomerase activation is always turned off). Therefore by consequence reproductive cells always have long telomeres and little or no DNA damage, (as opposed to the age affected somatic cells that have short telomeres and damaged DNA).
Are these strong clues as to the ‘power’ of telomeres to protect DNA and thereby protect our cells, our organs and our entire being from aging? Time will surely tell.
TA65® tried and tested
TA Sciences have conducted a number of clinical experiments, the most pivotal of which was published in the Journal of Rejuvenation Research.
These trials have highlighted that even when taken orally TA65® could alter a number of factors favorably, principally those related with the immune system as well as helping to normalize blood pressure and improve skin elasticity.
These experiments and others conducted by Dr. Bill Andrews at Sierra Sciences have also shown that TA65® when taken orally can lengthen the shortest telomeres in humans.
TA65® versus astragalus
Some have asked that if TA65® is effective in lengthening telomeres by telomerase activation - and if it is extracted from the herb astragalus, then surely consuming astragalus will have the same or similar effects? Unfortunately there is no evidence to suggest this; in fact there is evidence to suggest that it will not. TA Sciences tested several food supplement astragalus extracts and found none of them to contain any trace of the active element and this was utilizing laboratory equipment that is accurate to finding one part in a million.
The astragalus in TA65® is sourced at monitored and approved farms in China and is then analyzed in an FDA approved laboratory to ensure a minimum of 90% purity, this process is kept proprietary. Under tight quality control conditions the extract is sent to New Jersey, USA for formulation and packaging, all according to ISO and cGMP standards.
Therefore, TA65® can guarantee its label claims and is the only product currently tested and proven to active telomerase and induce lengthening of telomeres. All other ‘products’ currently making such claims appear to be trying to piggy back on the work of Geron , Dr. Bill Andrews and TA Sciences and do not appear to have any proven clinical support and therefore simply do not have the ‘proof’ of efficacy.
Currently only TA65® can substantiate its right to be the world’s first proven telomerase activator that is commercially available today.
TA65 availability and dosing
Dosing would ideally be based upon the need, so after a telomere test, (which are now available from some laboratories in the USA and Europe for a few hundred Dollars) the result would be an examination of the shortest telomeres, (this is now considered to be more important than the overall average telomere length). Obviously the shorter the telomere the greater the dose of TA65® should be given.
Without a telomerase test the so-called Patton dose is based upon age (which could be adjusted for the perceived health condition of the patient in question) and approximates as follows:
- Under 54: 1 capsule daily
- 55-69: 2 capsules daily
- 70-79: 3 capsules daily
- 80+: 4 capsules daily
Side effects and availability
World Anti-Aging Store has been watching this product with a great deal of interest for a couple of years and in that time many hundreds of people have consumed it on a regular basis. To date there has not been any report of a negative side effect or contraindication with its use.
Clearly TA65® represents the cutting-edge of commercially available anti-aging medicine and until recently TA65® has only been available through a handful of anti-aging clinics, but now for the first time, World Anti-Aging Store is excited to be the first organization to make TA65® available directly to the public.
1. Farzaneh-Far R, Lin J, Epel ES, Harris WS, Blackburn EH, Whooley MA. Association of marine omega-3 fatty acid levels with telomeric aging in patients with coronary heart disease. JAMA. 2010 Jan 20;303(3):250-7.
2. Shao L, Li QH, Tan Z. L-carnosine reduces telomere damage and shortening rate in cultured normal fibroblasts. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2004 Nov 12;324(2):931-6.
3. Richards JB, Valdes AM, Gardner JP, et al. Higher serum vitamin D concentrations are associated with longer leukocyte telomere length in women. Am J Clin Nutr. 2007 Nov;86(5):1420-5.
4. Xu Q. Multivitamin use and telomere length in women. Am J Clin Nutr. 2009 Jun;89(6):1857-63
5. Puterman E, Lin J, Blackburn E, O’Donovan A, Adler N, Epel E. The power of exercise: buffering the effect of chronic stress on telomere length. PLoS One. 2010 May 26;5(5):e10837
6. Jaskelioff M, Muller FL, Paik JH, et al. Telomerase reactivation reverses tissue degeneration in aged telomerase-deficient mice. Nature. 2011 Jan 6;469(7328):102-6.
7. Gil Atzmon, Yousin Suh et al ‘Genetic variation in human telomerase is associated with telomere length in Ashkenazi centenarians.’ PNAS, 11/ 2009
Frequently Asked Questions About TA65
Disclaimer: Please note that only your own physician can determine your precise needs, but in order to give you some information these answers are based upon the ‘average person’ and clinical/ published results.
Q. Is TA65 a drug?
A. TA65 is a nutritional supplement not a drug and we make no claims that it prevents or treats any disease. TA65 is proven to activate telomerase which keeps cells functioning healthily as we age.
Q. How long will I have to take TA65 before I could see a measurable difference in my telomeres?
A. Many people’s telomeres measure longer after 6 months, but one year is recommended before users have their telomeres tested again.
Q. Can I expect anything to happen?
A. After 90 days of use, many patients reports an increase in energy levels, improved vision, improved sexual drive and less gray hair etc., but the time period and effects do vary from individual to individual.
Q. What happens if I miss the occasional dose?
A. Nothing, but don’t double up, just keep taking the same dose. The bottle will simply last a bit longer. However it is not recommended to make a habit of habitually missing regular dosing.
Q. If I stop taking TA65 after the end of the minimum recommended period, how long before the improvement in my telomere length would return to what it was before I started?
A. When a person stops taking TA65 nothing happens immediately. Telomeres will stay at whatever length they were when you stopped and then they will start to shorten again with normal aging and cell division. It is not like with hormones where you lose all the benefits when you stop taking them. Of course how fast this renewed shortening occurs would be influenced by lifestyle: Does the person exercise regularly, smoke, consume too much alcohol, have a lot of stress, etc?
Q. Is there a minimum age limit, i.e. can a 21 year old use TA65?
A. The minimum age currently recommended is 40 this is because it is believed that people under the age of 40 wouldn’t see much of a difference in their daily lives and they normally don’t have short telomeres. However if a young person has their telomeres measured and they are unduly short, they should take TA65, so in this respect there is no minimum age for an adult. Of course TA65 is not recommended for children, pregnant or nursing mothers.
Q. How long should I continue to use TA65 and can I reduce the dose without loss of action at any time?
A. It’s recommended to take the current/ starting dose for at least 2 years and ideally to just keep on going after that indefinitely, however if a person is on a budget he/she could cut down to a lower ‘maintenance’ dose of one capsule a day after 2 years. Of course ideally one should be responding to the lab tests indicating the length of the telomeres themselves, focusing on the shortest ones rather than the average length and adjusting the doses of TA65 accordingly.
Q. I’ve read that as cancer cells have long telomeres that long telomeres may be associated with cancer and that some of the animal trials that used telomerase activators appear to have induced cancer - can you comment on that in regard to TA65?
A. It’s a complicated question to address but we will try. Firstly let’s state that there are many more published papers that don’t suspect telomeres of being involved with cancer formation and only a handful that do. The papers that do actually used a process of whereby telomerase enzyme was injected specifically into the cells in question and that some scientists have suggested that this direct injection method was more likely the trigger for cancer rather than the telomerase enzyme (and long telomeres) themselves. It is true however that cancer cells do have long telomeres, as it is well known that cancer cells are virulent and not easily destroyed cells and in some cases have proven themselves to be ‘immortal’ or at least very long lived, (samples of cancer cells are still living in test tubes decades after their ‘owners’ have died). It is believed that cancer cells make use of telomerase and desire long telomeres to protect themselves to go on living etc. Meanwhile TA65 has not to date shown any carcinogenic properties despite having been used by hundreds of people regularly for a number of years and despite a number of clinical and published trials with it - all of which have reported no such cancer related findings. Taken in normal (Patton regime) doses to date there have no reported side effects or contraindications, but to err on the side of caution, if a patient has a pre-existing cancer condition then we would advise TA65 use only under the close guidance of a physician.
These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA or Health Canada. This product is not intended to diagnose, cure or prevent disease.
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Juneau Hosts Mine Rescue Competition
Published: 05/26/2011 03:39:35
When mining accidents happen, specialized Mine Rescue Teams are tasked with getting everyone out safely.
The Central Mine Rescue group holds a competition every year to put team's skills to the test. This is the competition's 27th year, and last week it came to Alaska for the first time.
Joshua Murrell of the POGO Mine Rescue Team, based just outside Fairbanks told us about the event: "We have teams from Idaho, Washington, a team from Russia this year, 3 teams from Alaska.
Our role in mining; we're all miners, but we kind of volunteer our time so that if something ever goes wrong; we're the first ones in, last ones out. That's kind of the motto for most teams."
The competition sends each team into a simulated scenario that puts all their skills to the test.
Tim South is the Captain of Coeur's Mine Rescue Team. He explained how the teams work: "This exercise we go through, I have to check the area and make sure it's safe for my team to enter, entering smoke; making sure that all apparatus is operating properly in smoke, and general safety of the team; that's my first priority. And my 2nd priority is recovering any people, or bodies. And 3rd would be to extinguish all fires and recover the mine.
Teams set it up the way they like it; my map man is right behind me, mapping everything we come encounter with. Behind him would be the gas man, he just helps me read all the gas readings and makes sure that we don't come in contact with any toxic gases. The 3rd man in line would be my medic, who would, if I have somebody that's going down; a victim, a team member; he'll check them, take care of them. And last is the co-captain who would bring up the rear and take my place if something happens."
The teams also have members stationed above ground to help the team below with a 2nd map and other tasks like checking gas readings at vents.
Mine rescue teams train regularly so they are ready at a moment's notice.
"We do this because it's a good opportunity for all the teams in this area, Central Mine Rescue; to get together, get to know one another, in case one of our mines anywhere in the north-west has a problem, we can all come together and work together and save anybody we can" South said.
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You Aren't the Church of the Future, You are the Church Now"'Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I dedicated you, a prophet to the nations I appointed you.' 'Ah, Lord GOD!' I said, 'I do not know how to speak. I am too young!' But the LORD answered me, Do not say, 'I am too young.'" - Jeremiah 1:5-7
There are many ways to deepen your relationship with God, take ownership of your faith, and develop your leadership as a young Catholic. Check out the camps, events, and service opportunities below.
Small Group Discipleship MinistryJesus didn't just drop the Bible in the laps of His followers and then head back to a cushy spot in Heaven with His Father. No. He came, ate, spoke, listened, laughed, cried, preached, and served among and with us. Jesus started with a small group and then branched out from there. Small Group Discipleship Ministry follows the model that Jesus gave us.
A group of peers gathers with a leader about twice a month at a day, time, and location convenient for the group to share what's going on in their lives, encouragement, and formation of their faith. There are also opportunities to serve various communities in need as a small group and to connect with other small groups for social events.
Sign-up for Small Group Ministry for the 2013-2014 year on the High School Youth Ministry Registration Page.
St. Denis Green Initiative
Service & Outreach Opportunities
We are looking for several high school students interested in establishing a "Green" program here at St. Denis. If you are interested in taking on leadership or being involved in the implementation of the program, contact Lindsey - lwest at stdenisparish.org or 650-854-1081.
Events, Camps, Retreats, Etc.2013 Diocesan Youth Retreat - "Catching Fire"
Saturday, June 8th through Wednesday, June 12th, experience an amazing week of faith, friendship, and fun at "Catching Fire" the Diocese of San Jose's Annual Retreat for Youth. Join over 200 other high schoolers (incoming freshman through graduated seniors) for a life-changing week. Watch the promo video, save the date, and look for registration in the first of the 2013 Year.
World Youth Day 2013
July 15th through July 30th, 2013, millions of Catholic youth and young adults will gather in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to celebrate our global Catholic family. Check out our World Youth Day page for information on the pilgrimage from St. Denis to World Youth Day.
2013 NCYC - Signed.Sealed.Delivered.
Save the date: November 21st - 23rd, 2013, one of the largest American conferences for Catholic Youth will be happening in Indianapolis. Watch the video, save the date, and then check back as NCYC gets closer for more information.
If you like "dubstep" check out the video below:
For More Information Please Contact: Lindsey West, DRE & YM - 650-854-1081 or email@example.com
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THE RAF’s fleet of Puma helicopters faces the axe.
The 34 choppers — due to safeguard airspace during the London Olympics — are threatened amid new defence savings.
Hundreds of jobs depend on the versatile Pumas, based at RAF Benson in South Oxfordshire.
A £300million revamp to extend their lives by ten years began in 2009.
But last night a military insider said: “The upgrade is officially ongoing, but the word is that actual work has ground to a halt. The loss of the Puma would be a huge blow. The decision will be made this month, but the signs aren’t good.”
The Sun understands that military top brass, under massive financial pressure, volunteered Pumas for the chop to free cash for other projects.
The three-man crewed Pumas went into service in 1971 and saw action in both Gulf Wars, Bosnia and Kosovo.
They are currently used in Britain and in Kenya-based training exercises for Afghanistan. It is not known how long phasing them out would take, but a final ruling rests with Defence Secretary Philip Hammond.
An MoD source said: “There is a military proposal to spend money on other projects instead of the Puma, which is seen as a low priority as it’s not due to serve in Afghanistan.
“But although military advice is taken, ministers would need some convincing to do this.”
BRITAIN’S oldest military helicopter is set to return to Afghanistan — seven months after a Taliban rocket blasted a giant hole in its side.
Chief Petty Officer Neil Copeland led a brave task to recover Navy Sea King ZA298, which began service in 1982. It was rebuilt in Gosport, Hants.
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Russia To The People of Syria: “Drop Dead”
On February 4, 2012 one of the saddest events in the history of the United Nations Security Council occurred. A resolution seeking to end the violent suppression of the pro-democracy movement in Syria and largely sponsored by the Arab League was vetoed by Russia and China. Though 13 out of 15 Security Council members voted in favor of the draft resolution, the fact that the objecting nations are permanent members of the Security Council meant that the latest effort by the UN to end the bloodbath in Syria was torpedoed.
Since China makes no pretense to being a democratic country, and has a consistent policy of not “interfering in the internal affairs” of other countries (and ensuring the issue of Tibet does not make it onto the agenda of the United Nations), it is not surprising that Beijing sided with the Bashar al-Assad dictatorship. However, since Moscow at least claims that it is a democratic country and is genuinely concerned about the plight of the Syrian people, the Kremlin’s stubborn defense of Bashar Assad is as inexplicable as it is cynical. In effect, Moscow is telling the suffering people of Syria, as they are being bombarded by heavy artillery, to “drop dead.”
While the city of Homs was being shelled into oblivion by the dictatorship in Damascus, simultaneously with the draft UN resolution being watered down to appease Russia’s “concerns” (specifying no military intervention was being authorized by the Security Council) the Russian foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, was rationalizing with tortured nuance his government’s defense of the Assad crackdown on the Syrian people, seeking to equate the Syrian people’s resistance to the tyrannical Baathist regime to the violence of President Assad’s security forces. Thus, by seeking to halt the massacres being perpetrated by the Assad regime, the United Nations is “encouraging” violence, according to the policymakers in the Kremlin, whose views are amplified by Moscow’s state-controlled propaganda arm, Russia Today.
Since the views articulated by Lavrov are inherently illogical, one may ask what the true reason is for Moscow’s rigid support of one of the most brutally repressive regimes in the Middle East, at a time when the winds of change are blowing throughout the Arab world. It could be that Moscow wishes to preserve the Assad regime as a client state that has purchased billions of dollars worth of weapons (some of which are now being used by Assad against his own people). Some have theorized that the Kremlin fears that if the Assad regime falls, it will be replaced by an Islamist government, which would encourage Islamic separatist movements in Russia’s troubled Chechnya and Dagestan republics. What makes this reasoning questionable is that the most entrenched allies of the current regime in Damascus are the Islamic Republic of Iran and its Lebanese proxy, Hezbollah.
Mr. Lavrov may do well to reflect on a predecessor of his from Soviet times, Vyacheslav Molotov. It was Molotov, on behalf of Soviet dictator Stalin, who negotiated a non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany, unleashing the Second World War. When the Nazis unleashed their aggression against Western Europe in 1940, Molotov actually sent the German foreign minister a telegram indicating full support and understanding for the measures taken by Hitler. When German troops marched through Paris, Molotov congratulated the Nazis. One year later, the same army that conquered Western Europe with Moscow’s approval invaded Russia, and nearly destroyed the country.
The Kremlin’s policy in support of the bloodthirsty Assad dictatorship may be cynical. However, based on Russia’s own calamitous history of aligning with foreign tyrannies, it is certainly not wise and may in the end harm Moscow’s most vital interests irreparably.
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Deadly Doctors? What It Means for Health Care & If It Will Happen
Will Obama's healthcare reforms create deadly doctors? New York Post writer Betsy Mccaughey, who coined the phrase "deadly doctors" certainly thinks so, as does Sarah Palin. Both argue that Obama's healthcare reforms will create "deadly doctors" by transferring the decision with regards to what treatment is best for patients from the hands of doctors into the hands of bureaucrats who want to save money.
In one of her most recent facebook statements, Palin even went so far as to liken Obama's healthcare plans to a death panel:
"The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their “level of productivity in society,” whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil," Palin wrote.
But will this really happen? Sometimes it hard to make sense of the issues surrounding the healthcare debate, as the Republican and Democratic parties bicker back and forth about "deadly doctors" and the like.
So, how exactly would Obama's healthcare reforms create "deadly doctors"? Under the current private system, the doctor can select any treatment for a patient, as long as the patient can afford it or has insurance that can cover it. However, under a national healthcare system or insurance program in which the government foots the bill, certain treatments might be restricted or not funded by the government so that the government can save money. New York Post writer Betsy Mccaughey argues that this may result in "deadly doctors" who have to choose who gets what type of care based on factors like their age.
Critics of the "deadly doctors" theorum say that the debate casts a shadow over a similar problem we already face: the private healthcare system already acts as a jury of sort by making it difficult for those with lower income levels to access the health care they need.
The problem "Deadly Doctors," and with both of these rants is that they imply that the health care reform currently moving through comments would ration health care, to the point of euthanasia. What's wrong with that view is there's already such a bureaucracy in place: it's called the health care industry.
The health insurance industry already doles out and denies care every day. Instead of hyperbolic headlines like "Deadly Doctors," how about "Deadly Health Insurance Coordinators?"
However, others have pointed out "deadly doctor" situations in other national healthcare systems.In the UK's national healthcare system, cost-saving on the part of bureaucracy leads the public system to refuse patients drugs that are deemed too expensive relative to their potential effectiveness. If the treatments offered by the public system do not work for the patient and they want a drug that the public system cannot pay for, they have to turn to the private system. If this is too expensive for them, then they have no other options.
What it comes down to? The "deadly doctor" debate presents a trade-off between the number of people who can access decent care for most healthcare problems and allowing a few rare cases to access expensive treatements for free.
Attaining an efficient, equitable, and effective healthcare system will not be easy and will involve trade-offs. No system can be perfect and America's current system is definitely far from where it needs to be. However, rather than ruling out a whole health care idea by focusing on "deadly doctors", perhaps it would be possible to learn from the flaws of public systems like that in the UK. The USA might be able to implement a better health care system by taking a look at specific situations in which doctors have been become "deadly" as a result of cost-saving decisions by the bureaucracy.
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RE: Bambiraptor complete!
Ronald Orenstein wrote:
> >But I agree with your point. The notion that aerodynamic wings (or
> >proto-wings) were incompatible with predation is difficult to take too
>However, I would still suggest that if forearms were used to control or
>subdue struggling prey, long remiges would be at considerable risk of
>damage or fouling. That might be a better reason for expecting such an
>animal to lack them than aerodynamic considerations.
Yep, this has come up before. Though I doubt if this was such a big deal
either. If modern birds are prepared to strike each other using their wings
(and some species even have metacarpal spurs expressly for this purpose),
and risk damage to the remiges, then I don't see why predatory
"dinobirds" would have hesitated at using their forelimbs for prey capture.
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This was an article I came across and as a Professor, I had to share:
How Higher Education in the US Was Destroyed in 5 Basic Steps
Higher education is not what it used to be, and that’s no accident.
In 1920 H.G. Wells wrote, ‘History is becoming more and more a race between education and catastrophe.’ I think he got it right. Nothing is more important to the future of the United States and the world than the breadth and effectiveness of education, especially of higher education. I say especially higher education, but not because pre- school, elementary, and secondary education are less important. Success at every level of education obviously depends on what has gone before. But for better or worse, the quality of postsecondary education and research affects the quality and effectiveness of education at every level.”
In the last few years, conversations have been growing like gathering storm clouds about the ways in which our universities are failing. There is talk about the poor educational outcomes apparent in our graduates, the out-of-control tuitions and crippling student loan debt. Attention is finally being paid to the enormous salaries for presidents and sports coaches, and the migrant worker status of the low-wage majority faculty. There are movements to control tuition, to forgive student debt, to create more powerful “assessment” tools, to offer “free” university materials online, to combat adjunct faculty exploitation. But each of these movements focuses on a narrow aspect of a much wider problem, and no amount of “fix” for these aspects individually will address the real reason that universities in America are dying.
To explain my perspective here, I need to go back in time. Let’s go back to post-World War II, 1950s when the GI bill, and the affordability – and sometimes free access – to universities created an upsurge of college students across the country. This surge continued through the ’60s, when universities were the very heart of intense public discourse, passionate learning, and vocal citizen involvement in the issues of the times. It was during this time, too, when colleges had a thriving professoriate, and when students were given access to a variety of subject areas, and the possibility of broad learning. The liberal arts stood at the center of a college education, and students were exposed to philosophy, anthropology, literature, history, sociology, world religions, foreign languages and cultures. Of course, something else happened, beginning in the late ’50s into the ’60s — the uprisings and growing numbers of citizens taking part in popular dissent — against the Vietnam War, against racism, against destruction of the environment in a growing corporatized culture, against misogyny, against homophobia. Where did much of that revolt incubate? Where did large numbers of well-educated, intellectual, and vocal people congregate? On college campuses. Who didn’t like the outcome of the ’60s? The corporations, the war-mongers, those in our society who would keep us divided based on our race, our gender, our sexual orientation.
I suspect that, given the opportunity, those groups would have liked nothing more than to shut down the universities. Destroy them outright. But a country claiming to have democratic values can’t just shut down its universities. That would reveal something about that country which would not support the image they are determined to portray – that of a country of freedom, justice, opportunity for all. So, how do you kill the universities of the country without showing your hand? As a child growing up during the Cold War, I was taught that the communist countries in the first half of the 20th century put their scholars, intellectuals and artists into prison camps, called “re-education camps.” What I’ve come to realize as an adult is that American corporatism despises those same individuals as much as we were told communism did. But instead of doing anything so obvious as throwing them into prison, here those same people are thrown into dire poverty. The outcome is the same. Desperate poverty controls and ultimately breaks people as effectively as prison…..and some research says that it works even more powerfully.
So: here is the recipe for killing universities, and you tell me if what I’m describing isn’t exactly what is at the root of all the problems of our country’s system of higher education. (Because what I’m saying has more recently been applied to K-12 public education as well.)
Step I: Defund public higher education.
Step II: Deprofessionalize and impoverish the professors (and continue to create a surplus of underemployed and unemployed Ph.D.s).
Step III: Move in a managerial/administrative class that takes over governance of the university.Step IV: Move in corporate culture and corporate money.Step V: Destroy the students.
- TurboTax – Video: What Educational Expenses Are Tax Deductible? (turbotax.intuit.com)
- U.S. Colleges and Universities Must Take Entrepreneurial Approach to Overcome Challenges, According to Kauffman Foundation Report (kauffman.org)
- The future of higher education [infographic] (holykaw.alltop.com)
- The Corporatization of Higher Education (3quarksdaily.com)
- The Corporatization Of Higher Education (metafilter.com)
- Editorial: Colorado’s higher education promise (denverpost.com)
- The economics of higher education 101 (educationviews.org)
- Shake Up In Higher Education (jmarbach.com)
- Dewhurst talks higher education for 2013 session (sfgate.com)
- Student Debt: A Necessary Evil (bestcreditrepaircompanys.com)
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IPSWICH residents interested in the state's wartime history are invited to take advantage of the government's two interactive websites.
In the lead-up to Anzac Day, Housing and Public Works Minister Bruce Flegg said the Queensland War Memorial Register and the Queensland World War II Historic Places websites were valuable resources for those wishing to know more about the state's involvement in international conflicts.
Dr Flegg said that as Australians reflected on those who served, and on those who made the ultimate sacrifice with their lives, it was important to remember how Queensland played its part, and how the state has honoured those who fell.
"Each year, the Anzac Day Commemoration Committee conducts ceremonies in every town in Queensland in commemoration of our fallen and the acknowledgment of the suffering of our wounded," he said. "In addition, the government's online Queensland War Memorial Register records the sites that are sacred to the memory of those that served.
"It is designed to provide information for families, researchers and historians and to assist present and future generations to understand how the dedication and courage of Australia's youth created a spirit and national identity for our country."
Dr Flegg said the other valuable resource was the award-winning Queensland World War II Historical Places website.
"This site allows users to discover the places across Queensland that had military significance or supported the war effort, during World War II."
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Comma Before And
If there are only two things in a list, they do not need to be separated by a comma. If there are more than two ideas, the comma should be used as it would in a list. (See Oxford Comma.)
The purpose of a comma is to clarify lists, and conjoin ideas.
The compound predicate, is to clarify lists and conjoin ideas, does not require a comma. The comma should be removed.
The dog is young but well-trained, and good-natured.
The dog is young, well-trained, and good-natured.
The comma in the last sentence is correctly placed as it is being used to clarify the elements in a list.
A comma should also be placed before and if and is at the beginning of an independent clause.
The purpose of a comma is to clarify list, and it also conjoins ideas.
The dog is young, and it’s also well-trained.
It’s cold outside, and I can’t find my coat.
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Despite some indicators that an economic recovery is underway, most Americans are still trying to cut expenses, according to a survey conducted for Buffalo-based M&T Bank.
Reducing debt and increasing savings were the two other most reported financial behaviors among respondents.
A national telephone survey of 1,000 randomly selected adults found that 66 percent are focused on cutting expenses and sticking to a monthly budget, the bank said today.
Additionally, 18 percent said they are paying off or refinancing debt, and 15 percent reported saving more money in a 401(k) or IRA, among those surveyed by GfK Custom Research North America.
Only 6 percent of respondents reported that they were not taking measures to deal with the current economic conditions. In addition, only 5 percent reported that they are starting to make major purchases again.
At a time when job losses have slowed, home sales are beginning to rise in some areas and the stock market is coming off its biggest 12-month increase in nearly 70 years, 55 percent of consumers surveyed nonetheless feel that the economy is still in a downturn, the bank said. Forty-three percent believe economic conditions have begun to improve.
Full results of the bank’s survey are available online at www.mtb.com/newsroom.
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Virtual Currency 101
Virtual currency is the key revenue driver among free-to-play games on the AppStore. But how exactly does one monitor and make sound economic decisions in order to maximize profits?
Once you’ve integrated virtual currency into your game you’ll have to follow key metrics in order to improve your revenue. To follow such parameters, you’ll need to design and integrate deep analytics events, that monitor everything from purchases all the way to how your user interacts with your store. You might find that changing the orders of items in the store will improve daily revenues or perhaps different icons can trigger better purchase hits. Furthermore, performing A/B testing on your store can show you what’s your weakest link.
As a game developer you should be aware of pricing strategies and economics. Taking one of our games as an example, we implemented a virtual currency called ‘Hearts’. The game sold ‘Hearts’ using different packages. Below is the chart for the amount of ‘Hearts’ along with their price and the amount of sales (amounts altered but reflecting the same rate).
We came to the conclusion that the 1 USD category (a single package of 200 Hearts) wasn’t managing to yield enough revenue. After further examination we came to the conclusion that dropping the 1 USD category will probably end up increasing our total sales. In the end, that’s exactly what happened, and even though there were fewer sales profits actually increased.
Being able to analyze your sales, adapting business intelligence and optimizing your prices in real time can make the difference between a losing game and a sustainable business.
If your game uses in-app purchases then another thing that should be taken into consideration is security. You should, by all means, perform receipt validation, use a secured server connection and store all the data in a secure fashion.
Some users will try to work the system and as your game gets to be more popular you will probably find some weird youtube videos on how to hack your game. So don’t be naive and be sure to protect your business model.
Also, know that users love to see customization, so if you planning to do a X-Mas sale you better have a mechanism to change assets on the fly, so that your store will be X-Mas ready. In our experience, customized stores can really help to boost revenues.
For a typical scenario. let’s say that after examining data you decide to run a ‘weekend sale’ for your least sold item. If you will not let your users know about the sale, it will be difficult to drive them into that particular menu. Our studies have shown that sending a simple push notification message improves store engagement and revenues as well.
Moreover, targeting the right users is also essential for sales. If a user has just purchased a big stack of coins he or she will probably not be too inclined to commit another purchase. However, a user which has already examined the store and has small amount of coins might find your offer a lot more attractive.
In conclusion, integrating consumable virtual currency into your game could be a bit of a hassle, as you need to take care of security, analytics, real time optimizations and of course tight product integration. Fortunately, several 3rd party services can be utilized to make your job easier. What’s even better is to have all those services under one roof, and that’s exactly what we decided to do when we created Nextpeer. Our goal, is to make your life easier as a developer.
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Probably the most inspiring picture ever, I believe it was the 2008 Beijing Games and the guy gave up the race to help another
why doesn’t this have a million notes? this is actually amazing.
no hipster chicks deem it starbucks enough? damn awesome picture
i like this, a lot
love so much true sportsmanship
to work your whole life to get to the Olympics just to throw a race to help another is really inspiring.
me: tumblr is so depressing.
me: there's a cute relationship i'll never have
me: food i can't make
me: why can't i be that pretty
me: I WANT THOSE CLOTHES
me: wow just bring up those old feelings, thanks
me: why do i even come on here??
me: ooo reblogging that
You know what’s sad about reading books? It’s that you fall in love with the characters. They grow on you. And as you read, you start to feel what they feel - all of them - you become them. And when you’re done, you’re never the same. Sure you’re still you, you look the same, talk in the same manner, but something in you has changed. Something in the way you think, the way you choose, sometimes, even the things you say may differ. But it all comes down to the state you go to after a nice novel. The after-feeling. It’s amazing, but somehow, you feel left alone by that world you were once in. It’s overwhelming. But it makes you sad. Cause for once you were this, this otherworldly being in… Neverwhere, and then you suddenly have to say goodbye after a few weeks from when you read the last page. When you’ve recovered from that state it’s just… quite sad.
Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
(Taken with picplz.)
NGC 3621: Far Beyond the Local Group
Credit & Copyright: Robert Gendler
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UN Durban II Regional Meeting Confirms Worst Fears of Antisemitic and Anti-Democratic Agenda
New York -- Preparations for the UN Durban II racism conference are confirming the worst fears about the conference's anti-Israel and anti-democratic agenda, EYEontheUN reports. At the African regional meeting on Durban II in Abuja, Nigeria, which ended yesterday, UN member states "employed the old tactics of singling out Israel, ignoring egregious human rights violations such as genocide, and challenging fundamental democratic freedoms," said Anne Bayefsky, Senior Editor of EYEontheUN.org.
The Abuja Declaration
adopted by the regional meeting "reiterates its [the UN's] concern about the plight of the Palestinian people under foreign occupations." No other country-specific victims are identified. The Declaration also calls on states "to avoid inflexibly clinging to free speech...with absolute disregard for religious feeling."
"The obvious result of mentioning only the Palestinians as victims of racism is to demonize the Jewish state," noted Bayefsky.
UN member states gathered in Nigeria projected a clear commitment to democratic principles, calling on states to codify "permissible limitations on the exercise of the right to freedom of expression" and to elaborate "a voluntary ethical code of conduct...to address racism in the media and other modern information and communication technologies while taking into account fundamental issues, such as the right to freedom of expression..."
The Abuja Declaration also gives Islam special preference by calling on states to "pay attention to the serious nature of incitement to religious hatred such as anti-semitism, Christianophobia and more particularly, Islamophobia."
Furthermore, the Abuja Declaration attempts to stifle efforts to combat terrorism by linking counterterrorism measures to "the rise of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance..."
"The United Nations, which still cannot manage to define terrorism, has instead focused on placing roadblocks in the way of counterterrorism measures," said Bayefsky. "Charging counterterrorism activities with racism is a favorite."
Like many UN endeavours, the Abuja Declaration attempts to institutionalize the Durban agenda under the guise of "follow-up."
The Abuja meeting is part of ongoing preparation for the Durban II conference, slated to take place in Geneva in 2009. The African conference is the second regional preparatory gathering, and the Abuja Declaration will be used to prepare the final outcome document of the Durban II conference itself. Canada, the United States, and Israel have been boycotting the meetings associated with the Durban II conference, recognizing that the forum has been hijacked by human rights violators to the detriment of human rights victims everywhere. "The Abuja Declaration indicates that continued participation by democratic nations in the Durban II process sends precisely the wrong singals to rights-abusing states and their victims," Bayefsky warned.
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Talking Points is published by WLU, the Whole Language Umbrella, a conference of NCTE. Talking Points helps promote literacy research and the use of whole language instruction in classrooms. It provides a forum for parents, classroom teachers, and researchers to reflect about literacy and learning. (Published semiannually, October and May.)
Editors: Edie Lanphar and Phil Fitzsimmons
San Roque School University of Wollongong
Santa Barbara, CA Wollongong, Australia
May 2009 Talking Points
These budding young artists and writers are learning about the power of pictures and the magic that happens when words and pictures work together to make their picture "come alive." This deepening of understanding about the relationship between words and pictures, and particularly about the power of strong verbs to make their picture appear to come to life, is part of the magic of artists/writers workshop.
Beth Olshansky, "Making Magic: Bringing Words and Pictures Together" (October 2008 Talking Points, p. 10-11)
Call for New Talking Points Editors
The WLU Board is seeking a new editorial team for Talking Points beginning with Volume 22, Number 1, the October 2010 issue. Deadline for applications is July 16, 2009. Read about the process and apply today!
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With the world's rich economies struggling and the leaders of the European Union intent on making things worse, the gravity of the economic crisis still confronting the West is hard to exaggerate. Nonetheless, it can be done.
According to what I read, we face not just the worst recession since the 1930s, but a challenge to the West's entire economic order. The Great Recession exposes the poverty of orthodox economics. It constitutes an ideological crisis. It shows that capitalism itself is "fundamentally" flawed. If all this were true, I'd be a lot more worried about the coming year than I am -- which is saying something.
A new year's corrective is in order. Reports of the death of capitalism are greatly exaggerated.
Read on: A Crisis of Leadership, Not a Crisis of Capitalism.
This article available online at:
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Got Migraines? See a Professional, Experts Advise
Although negotiating your way through the healthcare maze can be a headache in itself, people who have recurrent, disabling headaches and think they may be suffering from migraines can help themselves by seeking the right professional care, headache experts say.
Jill Lieberman, a 30-year-old Atlanta resident, has been suffering from migraines for about five years. "When I first got [migraines], I had no way of predicting them and I had not yet gone to the doctor," she says. "So it completely affected my personal life. I was on vacation once and pretty much missed the whole vacation because I had to stay in the hotel room."
Not surprisingly, people who have migraine attacks will try almost anything to relieve the pain. But the old saying "A doctor who treats himself has a fool for a patient" could apply to patients as well, warns Stephen D. Silberstein, MD.
"One of the great tragedies is that a patient might figure out he has a migraine, try over-the-counter medications, get minimal, if any, relief, and keep making the same mistake over and over again," says Silberstein, a professor of neurology at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University and director of the Headache Center at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia. Silberstein is a member of the U.S. Headache Consortium, a group of six medical organizations that banded together to develop guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of migraine headaches.
According to the American Headache Society, migraine headaches affect about 28 million Americans -- 13% of the population -- but less than half of all migraine sufferers have been diagnosed by a doctor. Migraines, for those who are fortunate enough never to have experienced them, are not garden-variety headaches, but a disabling condition characterized by throbbing pain, usually on one side of the head, and often accompanied by nausea and vomiting and by extreme sensitivity to light and/or sound.
According to the consortium's guidelines, presented at a recent scientific meeting here, there are 10 specific steps patients can take to help ensure that they get the appropriate treatment:
- Know your diagnosis. "The treatments are different for migraine, tension, or sinus headaches, and I don't think it's appropriate for patients to go out to drugstores and pick herbs and spices and everything else if they're having disabling headaches," Silberstein tells WebMD. The headache consortium recommends keeping a daily "headache diary" that can help patients identify times and situations when headaches are most likely to occur.
- Find a doctor who understands headaches and has an interest in working with patients to find the best treatment. The doctor can be a primary-care physician or a specialist; the consortium emphasizes that in most cases, migraines can be diagnosed without expensive tests.
- Tell the doctor exactly how headaches affect your life -- inability to work or concentrate, mood changes, visual problems, etc.
- Avoid headache triggers. For some people, the trigger is certain types of food or drink -- like chocolate or nitrites (chemicals used to preserve hot dogs and other meats), and coffee or alcohol (particularly red wine). For others, it may be lack of sleep or changes in sleep patterns, or stress.
- Find the appropriate medication for your attacks.This could be an over-the-counter medication -- such as aspirin, Tylenol, or Advil -- or a prescription drug. "Look for the drug that will not only offer relief from pain, but will, as we call it, 'abort' the headache," or stop it from developing further, Seymour Diamond, MD, executive chairman of the National Headache Foundation and director of the Diamond Headache Clinic in Chicago, tells WebMD.
- Don't overuse pain medication. Overuse of either prescription or over-the-counter painkillers can cause rebound headaches, in which a new headache is triggered as the medication wears off.
- Have at least two treatment options available."Ask your doctor to prescribe a 'rescue' medication that you can use if your regular medication fails," the guidelines advise.
- If one medication doesn't work, try another. If a drug doesn't give satisfactory relief after three migraine attacks, ask the doctor for a different medication.
- Ask your doctor about preventive drugs. People who have two or more migraines per week may benefit from preventive medications that can be taken on a regular basis. Preventive drug therapy requires patience, however, because the benefit builds slowly over a period of several months.
- Consider alternative therapies.People who can't take medications (such as women who are pregnant or nursing, as well as those who are concerned about rebound headaches from taking too much medication) may be able to find relief from non-drug treatments such as relaxation training or biofeedback. Just be sure to tell your doctor about all treatments you want to try.
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Robert Morse: The Original Mad Man
One Saturday in the early spring of 1963, the Cosgroves schlepped out to Huntington, Long Island, for a party hosted by the publisher of the magazine where my mom worked as an associate editor. I believe the party was a birthday celebration for the publisher’s son. Since the son and I were roughly the same age (eleven), my parents dragged me along.
My mom’s magazine was “Sportswear Merchandiser,” a trade publication of McCall’s aimed at the buying departments of clothing stores big and small. She often traveled around the country interviewing buyers and profiling their stores. I remember one trip took her to Phoenix to do a piece on Goldwater’s Department Store, a chain then owned by Barry Goldwater’s family.
That day at the party, we met a friendly, older man whose name I’ve sadly forgotten. Somehow the discussion turned to the theater and the fact that I’d never seen a Broadway play or musical. The man asked me what show I’d like to see, and I said, “How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying.” I’d seen the cast perform on “The Ed Sullivan Show,” and my dad, who played piano, had bought the sheet music. We didn’t have a record player that worked, but I knew the score well before I saw the show.
A few days later, my mom received two front-row tickets for a matinee during Easter Week. It turned out that the man we’d spoken to at the party owned the company that printed tickets to all Broadway events. I’ve been in his debt for nearly 50 years.
With one exception we got to see the original cast: Robert Morse, as the charming, conniving J. Pierrepont Finch, Rudy Vallee as the slightly bewildered company head J.B. Biggley, and Charles Nelson Reilly as the ridiculous, conniving Bud Frump (both Morse and Reilly won Tonys, as did the play and its creators. It also won the Pulitzer Prize).
The exception was the actress who played Finch’s love interest, Rosemary Pillkington. Bonnie Scott, the original Rosemary, had left, replaced by a talented young actress named Michele Lee (more on her later).
“How To Succeed” had been running for 18 months, but the cast performed like opening night. Morse’s energy was contagious, and after a few minutes he started glancing at my mother and me and grinning “that grin of impetuous youth” as Finch sings—to himself in the mirror—in one of the show’s famous songs, “I Believe In You.” My mother, who had a distinctive laugh, was enjoying herself so much that Morse could hardly avoid gazing her way. The fact that she was a very pretty woman might also explain his attention (that’s my mom circa ’62 at her desk at the magazine).
A thrilling day: walking around Manhattan—or “The City” as we bridge-and-tunnelites referred to that borough—striding through the lobby of the just-opened Pan Am Building (my mother’s office was next door at 230 Park, the skyscraper then known as the New York General Building before the Helmsleys got their gilded hands on it), having lunch somewhere in Times Square, then going to the show. This was big stuff for a kid from Queens. I’ve never forgotten the excitement—even today I knew exactly what box to unearth in the garage to find the Playbill I’d clutched going home on the subway five decades ago.
Robert Morse, of course, now plays the enigmatic, goateed Bertram Cooper on “Mad Men,” a brilliant piece of casting not just because Morse is such a good actor but—at least for me—because of the association with the original mad man he played in “How To Succeed.”
Morse himself has said in interviews that he feels that on “Mad Men” he’s playing Rudy Vallee’s part in a non-musical version of “How To Succeed.” Wouldn’t it be great if they did a musical episode of “Mad Men,” using some of Frank Loesser’s great songs? I can see Don Draper staring at himself in the mirror in the executive washroom, crooning a variation of the original showstopper tune, retitled “I Can’t Believe In You.”
As for Michele Lee, who would go on to a terrific career on TV (notably on “Knots Landing”), we met about ten years ago at a black-tie event in LA during my days at TV Guide. After I told her I’d seen her in “How To Succeed,” I started singing “Rosemary”: Suddenly there is music/In the sound of your name/Rosemary! Rosemary! /Was the melody locked inside me/Till at last out it came? /Rosemary! Rosemary!
Instead of running away from an obvious lunatic, Michele Lee started singing from the score, and soon we were duetting, despite the sad fact that I cannot carry a tune. Thankfully, Michele Lee has a wonderful voice. A lovely moment with a lovely lady.
It’s just a few hours until the “Mad Men” season-opener. I hope Robert Morse is in it. I think before that, I’ll play the original cast album of “How To Succeed” and pretend it’s that memorable day in 1963, when my mother laughed and laughed.
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Even though several significant paleontological finds had previously been made around Clarno, this area did not interest the state until the early 1960s. At that point the proposed park's rock formations, not its fossils, took center stage because of their proximity to State Highway 218. As a result, the state targeted only 100 acres for this park and saw it as little more than a wayside.
The possibility of acquiring a 22 acre parcel by donation appears to have given preliminary park planning some impetus in 1962. On July 11, 1963, the Frank W. Lee family donated this tract with two conditions. In addition to installing a bronze plaque to Lee's memory within the parcel, state officials also agreed to "Clarno State Park" as the park's official name.
The state once again utilized the Recreation and Public Purposes Act in negotiating a twenty year lease of public domain land. Located west of the donated parcel, this 40 acre tract cost the state $50.00 every five years in rental fees beginning January 20, 1965. Nine months later, state parks officials bought land located between the leased tract and the donated parcel. After paying the holder $760.00 for 38 acres, the state had a park which one writer described as being "geared to the pleasures and fascinations of geology as well as recreation."
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The Federal Communications Commission voted 5-0 last week to prohibit businesses from offering broadband or Internet phone service unless they provide police with backdoors for wiretapping access. Formal regulations are expected by early next year.
But the commissioners didn't give the FBI and its allies at the Justice Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration everything they wanted.
In the police agencies' original request, submitted in March, they asked the FCC to force surveillance back doors into instant-messaging programs and voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) applications that do not use the traditional telephone network. The FCC politely declined, with Chairman Michael Powell saying those services were exempt from the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) and that it was "unnecessary to identify future services and entities subject to" mandatory wiretapping requirements.
By Declan McCullagh at CNET.
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WEST Vancouver is looking to the public to help shape the look and placement of future cell towers - to the extent that it can, anyway.
The municipality announced late last month that it was looking for feedback from residents on a proposed revision to its Wireless Communications Facilities Policy, a 15-year-old document that sets out guidelines for reviewing applications for antenna construction. The new regulations were hatched in response to a flood of new applications and rising public concern over the perceived health and esthetic impacts of wireless arrays.
Where the old one-page document spelt out the requirements in broad strokes - namely that applications had to be reviewed by the municipal design advisory committee and presented at a public information meetings - the new, five-page policy document is much more detailed. It outlines the district's expectations relating to three different categories of applications - rooftop communication structures, structures mounted on existing poles and cell towers - and includes guidelines focused on minimizing the visual impact of each particular type and on keeping the structures away from sensitive areas, such as schools.
The municipality has warned, however, that its power over cell tower construction only goes so far. The structures and the signals they emit are regulated by Industry Canada. And while municipalities issue the building permits - and can bounce applications back to the applicant if they don't like them - the federal body can ultimately override the community if the company and the municipality reach an impasse. Ottawa, in other words, has the final say.
The current policy review was prompted in part by a controversial proposal tabled by Rogers Wireless in January that would have seen a 30metre cell tower appear just north of Highway 1 at Taylor Way. Council balked at the idea, saying such a huge structure in such a central spot would spoil the scenery. Councillors asked the company to come back with suggestions for less obtrusive sites and to take those to a public meeting.
Rogers did that in June, and based on the feedback, returned once again to council with a revised, long-term plan for improving coverage in the area. The new proposal would see 10 30metre towers built at intervals along Hwy. 1 from the Capilano River to Horseshoe Bay. Since it would be difficult, if not impossible, to make them blend into the background, that carrier suggested instead that the towers be designed to be pleasing to the eye. The plan has yet to be approved.
It was during this back-and-forth that council decided it needed to update its policy, and in June it asked staff to do that. The Rogers proposal and other smaller plans are on hold until the revised rules have been finalized.
For more information or to give feedback on the proposed policy changes by Nov. 2, visit westvancouver.ca/celltowers.
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Main lesson books are made of high quality drawing paper 120 GSM. The paper accepts crayons, colored pencils and writing ink. The covers are made of a heavy 280-300 GSM English cardboard with a leather grain surface, giving an attractive finish. All books are stapled with 3 staples. This is an all-purpose book for lower and upper grades. Paper is chlorine free! Great for a real main lesson book or for writing and drawing practice at home. 9x12 inches. 32 pages - 64 sides as a book would be numbered front and back, 32 individual pages per book.
We currently have two models of Main Lesson Books. There is the one shown in the picture with the binding on a short side, this is called a Wide Book. We also have the same sized book with the binding on the long side, this is called a High Book (see images below). You may choose the type of book you would like on the option bar.
Some books have Divider Sheets. These are protective pages, thinner than the page the student draws or writes on, used to keep the work from smudging onto the opposite page.
See pull down menu for current cover colors and sizes.
"YOU ARE AMAZING! Our main lesson books just arrived today. I can't believe how quickly they arrived. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you! Alison, Florida 11/8/2010"
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Volunteerism should promote peace: Zardari
* Gilani says perception about volunteers as free labour should be changed
ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari has stressed the need for recognising and utilising the power of volunteerism to promote peace, harmony and development around the world.
“We need to recognise and utilise the power of volunteerism to promote peace, harmony and development not only in Pakistan but around the world,” the president said in his message on the occasion of International Volunteer Day observed every year
on December 5.
He said, the day is being observed “to show common concern for welfare of whole community and re-dedicate ourselves for this noble cause selflessly and dedicatedly”.
Zardari said, “it is reassuring that the government has encouraged volunteerism by developing infrastructure and volunteers are now participating in service delivery in all walks of life”.
He, however, added that as volunteerism and social work could not be accomplished anywhere without the active participation of the people, “it is therefore important that philanthropists, civil society organisations and NGOs come forward and supplement provision of various types of services for the welfare of the people”.
He said that global trends towards greater self-help, decentralisation, participatory democracy and networking all had contributed to encouraging citizen participation and volunteerism.
“The government has also adopted a strategic approach to develop and sustain an environment that promotes volunteerism and social work. That is one reason that there are more that 70,000 NGOs in the country providing various types of services for the welfare of the people”, he added.
Free Labour: Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani, while appreciating the services and contribution of volunteers in difficult situations across the world, has stated that the perception about volunteers as free labour should be changed.
“There is a persistent notion that volunteers are essentially free labour. Their efforts are not appreciated and, indeed, are often criticized,” he said.
“We need to shift our perception and see that it is because of volunteers that so many of the services we need are available even at far flung areas with very difficult terrain”, he said in his message on the occasion of International Volunteer Day.
The PM said Pakistan, being an Islamic Republic, had a strong ethic of volunteerism. “For the sake of this purpose, we stand with the international community to celebrate International Volunteer Day on 5th December, 2010 to acknowledge their valuable services,” he added.
He said, “In pursuit of our religious and international obligation of care the government and the people of Pakistan greatly value the voluntary service.”
Gilani said there was a need to highlight and acknowledge their contribution in ameliorating the sufferings of the marginalised segments of the society.
“It also focuses on stimulating people to offer their services as volunteers, both at home and abroad. Over the years, governments, business, nonprofit organisations, and individuals have been contributing to the efforts of volunteers and also acknowledging their services through various activities including parades, marches, or rallies and award ceremonies for volunteers who made significant contributions to their communities,” he added. The PM said, “Today is the day when the whole world as one community salutes the contribution of the volunteers.” app
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Protecting employees, minimizing machinery downtime, maximizing health
Safety is a necessity for any industrial plant. Around the world, the focus on the safety and health of employees in the workplace is a growing priority for individuals and organization. In the U.S., for instance, the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE), the International Safety Equipment Association (ISEA) and the American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) recently combined to express a commitment to safe work, which they say must be prominent in a congressional jobs bill now under consideration.
That concentration, first and foremost, protects a company’s most valuable assets: the employees who knowledgeably keep a plant’s products and services moving forward.
As the economy exhibits fragile signs of stabilizing, workers who create momentum for recovery and the companies they serve can ill afford to lose time and opportunity due to injuries in the workplace. A safe operation minimizes downtime, which offers the least possible interruption in business.
When evaluating an operation for safety, a key area to address is the mechanical equipment within the plant. There are three important facets of machinery safety: Making appropriate use of machinery monitoring instrumentation; specifying machinery design features that contribute to safety; and developing a rigorous machinery safety culture / program with your staff.
Here’s a more detailed exploration of those areas:
Making appropriate use of machinery monitoring instrumentation
Condition monitoring can be a key part of enhancing machinery integrity by preventing unplanned mechanical failures. The wireless vibration and temperature monitoring system shown here is designed specifically for hard-to-reach assets where conventional wiring can be cost-prohibitive. Such systems can alert operators to degrading conditions.
Various aspects of machines can be measured, including the temperature of bearings or the amount of vibration, both critical elements to the safe operation of several types of turbo machinery. The critical change over time has been the location of monitoring devices, which now provide more accurate, useful measurements.
Until the 1950s or so, vibration, for example, was measured on the outside of machines. If you had a ping-pong ball, placed it inside a cast iron safe and then shook the safe, there wouldn’t be very much vibration detection. This is analogous to machines, where, in many instances, the casing is very heavy relative to the spinning rotor. Additionally, there’s viscous oil that dampens the vibration.
Today’s technology allows you to monitor vibration inside a machine using probes that are about the diameter of a pencil and screw inside the machine. Monitoring enables companies to maximize safety by sensing if there are missing parts, unwanted rubbing inside the assembly or imminent failures that could lead to a catastrophic event. Monitoring enables automated shutdown systems before critical levels are reached. This protects human health and as well as machinery assets.
While safety standards are achieved, monitoring also contributes to maintenance programs. OEMs, for instance, may dictate that some machines be taken out of service every three years for maintenance to ensure optimum and safe operations. In many cases, three years may be overly conservative. Experience with certain machines, for instance, tells users that the safe operating time frame before maintenance may actually be closer to five years.
Through monitoring, managers can reliably predict when maintenance needs to be performed. In the past, some plant operators changed the oil on systems, whether the asset needed it or not. More sophisticated monitoring changes that. In some ways, today’s monitoring technology represents the difference between taking a patient’s temperature and examining a subject via an MRI. The depth of information creates a richer layer of data that can be acted upon to ensure maximum safety while minimizing production losses.
Historically, vibration measurements were taken on the outside of machines using sensors such as the accelerometer.
Specifying machinery design features that contribute to safety
Whether they’re buying new equipment when it is time to replace a machine or retrofitting an existing machine, plant managers and engineers should review safety-related attributes and not just machine performance. They should look for modern upgrades, some of which are fairly simple but very effective innovations.
For instance, lug attachments built into motor casings enable consistently safe transport of machines throughout a factory. Some plants have been known to simply attach large eyebolts to machines to move them — a potential safety hazard, even when lifting smaller loads.
Some machines can total several tons, but even smaller motors, pumps and compressors weighing just a few pounds pose a tremendous safety issue if they come loose from attachments and fall to the floor below. Unfortunately, lug attachments can’t be retrofitted but the purchase of new machines that have lifting lugs built into the frame can improve safety immensely.
While evaluating design features of newer assets, it’s also important to evaluate maintenance points. Redesigned machinery may help keep workers safe and minimize downtime. Conveniently located re-lubrication ports, for instance, add safety. A port in the 12 o’clock position with an extended nipple for lubrication makes it easier for workers to perform the routine task without reaching into a machine at an awkward or vulnerable angle.
Further, comparing the workmanship and overall quality of all kinds of a machine will contribute to safety. For instance, determine the robustness of the bearing system, one of the first items that typically fail. Additionally, improved seals keep out contaminants that may contribute to premature failure. A quality insulation system also is a worthy feature, especially when combined with temperature detectors, since prolonged heat exposure is hard on turbo machinery.
Developing a rigorous machinery safety culture / program with your staff
Most companies have broad safety programs and cultures. However, machinery deserves special attention because it represents substantial kinetic energy (energy in motion) and potential energy (stored energy) that can result in personnel injury or even fatalities. There’s also the potential for environmental harm, not to mention the financial implications of failures or impact on customer good will.
It’s imperative to be aware of industry standards for machines, monitoring devices and equipment based on the setting. In particular, many safety incidents occur during machinery maintenance, such as when lock-out/tag-out is not observed, arc flashes during welding or overspeed events when testing speed-control governors and/or safety devices.
Because the types of machinery and energy sources often differ between plant types—for example, a copper mine using large excavating equipment powered by electricity and an offshore platform using large gas turbines powered by natural gas—the specific safety considerations are industry, application and site specific.
Safety is a behavior that should be ingrained. Discussions should happen on a regular basis that make safety real—rather than an abstract topic.
The introduction of proximity probes in the early 1960s allowed observation of the rotating shaft inside the machine, where vibration originates, greatly improving the capabilities of machinery condition monitoring. A pencil-sized proximity probe is shown here.
For example, presentations should include actual incidents and photos, rather than contrived scenarios. Signage should be used proactively and effectively to create awareness and at point-of-hazard locations; for instance, general signage alerting about arc flash dangers creates awareness. Signage on the welding equipment itself provides specific guidance on avoiding the hazard.
When plants make safety a priority, they inspire confidence and trust. Employees convey the important message by exuding the ideals of a conscientious work environment. A protected workplace delivers productivity in a manner that is cleaner, smarter and more efficient. Safe solutions promote both sustainability and reliability—hallmarks of today’s modern industrial operations.
Jeff Schnitzer is the Product General Manager for the Bently Nevada product line and Jim Rogers is the General Manager – Industrial Services & Motors, both part of Atlanta-based GE Energy Services. They work with producers in power generation, oil & gas and process industries to find cleaner, smarter and more efficient energy solutions.
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Make a puzzle
Make a puzzle is designed to improve your little one's drawing, colouring and problem-solving skills as they attempt to create and solve a unique puzzle of their own.
What you need:
- Black marker pen
Draw and colour a picture on the cardboard (you may wish to assist with the drawing and let your little one colour in your pictures or let them have free reign of the activity).
Once the picture has been coloured, draw puzzle pieces on top of the picture.
Cut out the puzzle pieces. Again this could be an activity you perform, or you could allow your little one to complete it depending on their dexterity and precision.
Once cut, place the pieces into an envelope and give it a shake to mix them up then have your child recreate the picture with the puzzle pieces.
After you have finished playing with the puzzle, place the pieces in the envelope so you have them all together for next time..
Extension: Once your little one has completed a couple of puzzles and is now quite proficient at this task you may wish to make it more difficult by having them use both sides of the cardboard.
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I’ve often advocated on this blog that Hispanic college students do not fit the typical “pipeline” description when it comes to their higher education experiences. A “pipeline” in the educational context often denotes linear progression – a process that is continuous and developmental at the same time. In theory, this model makes a lot of sense; however, from a Hispanic perspective a different metaphorical model is needed. This El Paso Times article captures the essence of the Hispanic college student experience nicely. Hispanics often face many challenges on their path toward being a college graduate: work, family, and lack of financial resources are just a few. Having worked at the University of Texas at El Paso Career Center for almost five years, I can attest to the consequences of Hispanic college students “on ramping and off ramping” their college careers due to a lack of financial resources. Given the consequences of cutbacks state schools face around the country, it seems the challenege is getting even steeper.
As the EPTimes article accurately describes, Hispanic college students often leave school to earn additional monies in order to help pay for another quarter, semester, or year of college. I waited FIVE years after graduating from high school before setting foot on 4 year institution, meticulously saving money while I worked full time. Ironically, I saved enough for only two years of school before having to apply for student loans and other grants (another issue for first generation Hispanic college students altogether). I realize this trend is not concentrated to Hispanic college students. Women and other minorities face similar challenges while trying to obtain their college degrees. So rather than depicting education as a pipeline, I again advocate that for Hispanics and other minorities, the education process resembles more that of a matrix or a circuit with entry and decision making points being made at different points within and outside of the higher education process. Some colleges and universities are beginning to take note that the increasing presence of Hispanics on campuses requires change and I applaud their efforts; it’s just not happening as fast as I’d like to see.
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- Special Sections
- Public Notices
It might not be R2D2 or advanced cybernetics, but students in Central Hardin High School’s principles of engineering class are learning though creating their own robots.
The class is a part of local funding provided by Project Lead the Way, a national provider of science, technology, engineering and mathematics curriculum in middle and high schools.
Students in the class and the Technology Student Association are preparing their robots for a state advanced robotics competition in April. They’ve been working on their robots during class, before school and after school.
This year’s competition task is to build a robot that can drop bean bags into a tray.
“It’s more difficult than it looks,” teacher Jason Neagle said.
To create the robot, you have to build a chasse to run it and create a remote control to maneuver it, he said.
The robots place bean bags and knock out the other teams' bags. It’s difficult to build a device that high that can still function and not tip over, he said.
The project combines skills learned in a variety of classes including electronics and engineering.
In the past, many of the schools that have won were vocational schools that have more time to work on the robots, Neagle said.
Students learn problem solving, teamwork, mechanics of simple machines, engineering, electronics and programming.
They not only build the robot but also program the robot and its remote.
For the first part of the competition, the robot has to be computer programmed to do the task on its own and then a remote control is used, Neagle said.
Through hands-on learning, students apply math principles through gear ratios, pulleys and input verses output, he said.
In the class, Neagle said, students can apply what they previously learned on paper to the robots they build.
Jacob Wooton, vice president of the TSA club, is doing the programming for his robot and has learned a lot about the mechanics, he said.
His project partner and president of the TSA club, Michael Riggs, is learning a lot about inventing and how to design and create things used in his robot. The competition form makes the entire project fun, he said.
In its fifth year for Project Lead the Way, Central Hardin's program offers five classes — introduction to engineering design, digital electronics, engineering design and development, civil engineering and architecture and principles of engineering.
Two of the students, Weston and Kenton Nall, have a senior engineering design and development assignment, Neagle said. They completed four courses for a career major program.
It’s a problem-solving project. The engineering problem they are focusing on is children being left in cars. The solution they are working on is a warning device or app that alerts the parent that their child is still in the car.
They are applying all the skills they learned from other classes to solve their problem by building mechanical devises, researching patents, the design process and engineering.
Weston and Kenton also are teaming together to build a robot for the competition. They are in the trial and error stage of their design, Weston said.
Weston learning basic skills he might use in the future if he decides to go into a robotics field.
Kenton is learning basics in robotics, programming and physics using gears and leverage. He’s also developing good teamwork skills.
He’s hoping to use what he learns in Project Lead the Way classes for a future engineering degree.
All students who take these classes do not go into the engineering field but can use what they learned in any technical field related to mechanics, math or science.
“We’re not just teaching towards students to be engineers because not everybody’s going to be an engineer and take four years of calculus in college,” Neagle said.
Most career fields are getting more technical and the classes teach students the problem-solving and analytical thinking skills to apply science and math courses to real-life problems, to think like engineers, he said.
Becca Owsley can be reached at (270) 505-1741 or firstname.lastname@example.org.
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Published in Women's Health Weekly, November 22nd, 1999
HPV is well known to be associated with cervical cancer and vulvar cancer. Studies have suggested that it may play a role in other cancers, such as penile, bladder, ovarian, and endometrial cancer (Dianzani et al., Urology, 1998;51:1046-1048).
W.R. Brewster, MD, of the University of California, and associates assessed the role of HPV in uterine cancer. Their findings were published in the October 1999 issue of the journal, Gynecologic Oncology ("Does Human Papillomavirus Have a Role in Cancers of the Uterine Corpus'" Gynecologic Oncology, October...
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Positivism Before Hart
University of Virginia School of Law
November 24, 2009
Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2010-01
Many contemporary practitioners of analytic jurisprudence take their understanding of legal positivism largely from Hart, and the debates about legal positivism exist largely in a post-Hartian world. But if we examine carefully the writings and motivations of Bentham and even Austin, we will discover that there are good historical grounds for treating both a normative version of positivism and a version more focused on legal decision-making as entitled to at least co-equal claims on the positivist tradition. And even if we think of the inquiry in philosophical and not historical terms, there are reasons to doubt the view that a theory of the nature of law is the exclusive understanding of the core commitment of legal positivism. Positivism as a descriptive theory of the nature of law is important, but so too is positivism as a normative theory about the preferable attitude of society or theorists, and so too is positivism as a normative or descriptive theory of adjudication and other forms of legal decision-making. Those who understand positivism and the positivist tradition as being more normative or more adjudication-focused than the contemporary understanding allows are not committing either historical or philosophical mistakes, and little would be lost were we to recognize the multiple important contemporary manifestations of the legal positivist tradition.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 34working papers series
Date posted: November 25, 2009 ; Last revised: January 20, 2010
© 2013 Social Science Electronic Publishing, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Global Defence Technology: Issue 159 May 2012
In this issue: India’s F-INSAS programme, top ten energy-saving tech, the F-35’s F135 engine from concept to testing, Australia’s urgent naval upgrades, and more.
India is a leading light of the rapidly developing BRICS countries, with military ambitions to match its expanding economy. The multibillion-dollar F-INSAS programme is one of the Indian Army's many modernisation initiatives, but little is known about it. We unravel the facts behind the future soldier programme that aims to put India at the forefront of soldier tech.
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Spiralling energy costs and environmental concerns have left militaries seeking ways to become more eco-efficient. We identify the top ten green military energy technologies in development, and take a look at BAE's structural battery technology which has been welcomed as a new dawn in the search for portable military power solutions.
The engines for Lockheed Martin's next-generation F-35 fighters have been almost 30 years in the making. We take a look inside the development of Pratt & Whitney's F135, the engine capable of catering to the demands of all three F-35 variants, from concept to refinement. We also feature a video from the F-35 integrated test force reviewing last year's F-35 development milestones.
With the Royal Australian Navy in dire straits, Australia's shipyards and bases are under pressure to support major upgrades across the navy. We explore the role land-based naval infrastructure plays in the urgent reform programme, and profile HMAS Stirling, one of the country's major naval bases.
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The 2012 London Olympics is the largest and most expensive security operation in recent British history. We round up the technology used to keep the Games safe, and ask a cybercrime expert why cyber security is just as important as physical security.
We also profile top multirole attack helicopters used in conflict zones around the world today, and explore the latest air-to-air missiles that meet the needs of high-tech fifth generation fighter jets.
And, diving down deep, we investigate how quantum key distribution technology could enable submarines to communicate securely at depth and speed, and look at the US Navy's plans for persistent littoral surveillance.
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Data Shows Quality Jobs, Solid Wages, and Overall Economic Impact
WASHINGTON, April 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new economic impact study shows that America's beer industry, made up of brewers, beer importers, beer distributors, brewer suppliers, and retailers, directly and indirectly contributes $12,296,832,219 annually to Florida's economy. The study, commissioned by the National Beer Wholesalers Association (NBWA) and the Beer Institute, also shows that the industry's economic impact in Florida includes 125,643 jobs -- paying $3,927,704,248 in wages -- as well as $864,312,905 in federal, state, and local taxes.
"Beer distributors are proud providers of 95,000 quality jobs with solid wages and great benefits in every state and congressional district across the country," said Phil Terry, chief executive officer of Monarch Beverage Company in Indianapolis, Indiana, and chairman of NBWA. "As privately owned businesses, beer distributors are invested in their communities and work hard to ensure the effective state-based system of alcohol regulation, which works to keep communities and consumers safe."
"America's brewing industry continues to play a pivotal role in supporting this nation's economic viability," said Tom Long, president and chief commercial officer of MillerCoors, and chairman of the Beer Institute. "Brewers in Florida have been a driving force in their communities for years by creating jobs and tax revenue for public services, and promoting alcohol awareness responsibility initiatives for retailers, schools, and families."
According to the study, the beer industry directly employs 68,015 people in Florida, paying them $1,747,045,676 in wages. The 104 beer distributors in Florida employ 5,822 people. Large and small brewers and beer importers employ approximately 2,400 people. Beer sales help support roughly 59,793 jobs at licensed retailers, which include supermarkets, convenience stores, restaurants, bars, stadiums and other outlets.
"In addition to providing quality jobs with solid wages, the three-tier beer distribution system provides transparency and accountability and works to keep American consumers safe," added NBWA President Craig Purser. "This time-tested, effective system of state controls, in which America's beer distributors play a critical role, works to ensure alcoholic beverages are sold only to licensed retailers who in turn are responsible for selling only to adults of legal drinking age."
Nationally, the beer industry directly and indirectly contributes more than $198 billion annually to the U.S. economy and provides nearly 1.9 million jobs -- generating nearly $62 billion in wages and benefits. The industry also paid $41 billion in business, personal and consumption taxes in 2008. Consumption taxes included $3.8 billion in federal excise taxes, $1.7 billion in state excise taxes and $5.7 billion in state and local sales taxes.
"These numbers demonstrate that our industry is essential to several sectors of the U.S. economy, particularly as the nation struggles to regain its footing in this uncertain climate," said Jeff Becker, president of the Beer Institute. "For this reason, it is important that state and federal officials consider equitable tax policies that do not unduly harm an industry that provides so many domestic jobs and so much economic growth."
In addition to strengthening the Florida and U.S. economy, the industry plays a significant role in promoting responsible consumption of its products. Beer distributors (which are licensed by the state and the federal government), brewers and importers have invested in communities across the country to develop and implement programs that promote responsibility and help fight alcohol abuse. These efforts, along with those of parents, law enforcement, federal and state alcohol beverage regulators, educators and other community groups, have worked to contribute to declines in illegal underage drinking and drunk driving over the past two decades, according to independent and government data.
The Economic Impact study was conducted by John Dunham & Associates based in New York City and covers data compiled in 2008. The complete study, including state-by-state and congressional district breakdowns of economic contributions, is available at Beer Serves America, www.BeerServesAmerica.org.
The National Beer Wholesalers Association (NBWA) represents the interests of 2,800 licensed, independent beer distributor operations in every state, congressional district and media market across the country. Beer distributors are committed to ensuring alcohol is provided safely and responsibly to consumers of legal drinking age through the three-tier, state-based system of alcohol regulation and distribution. To learn more about America's Beer Distributors, visit http://www.nbwa.org.
The Beer Institute, established in 1986, is the national trade association for the brewing industry, representing both large and small brewers, as well as importers and industry suppliers. The Institute is committed to the development of sound public policy and to the values of civic duty and personal responsibility: www.beerinstitute.org.
SOURCE National Beer Wholesalers Association
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HYDERABAD: A pair of hi-tech spectacles called Kinectacles that will help the visually challenged navigate their way and Kinect Bridge - an innovative product that will enable the speech impaired to communicate with others seamlessly using Microsoft's Kinect motion sensor that is used in its Xbox gaming device.
A Windows 7 phone software - My Obstetrics -- that will serve as a 'personal doctor on the move' helping pregnant women keep track of their journey into motherhood and constantly monitor vitals like BP and weight through the nine months while keeping them abreast of the various stages in their pregnancy.
These are some of the nearly 60 innovations designed by techies at Microsoft's India Development Centre (MSIDC) that are being showcased as part of the IT giant's third edition of the annual Garage Science Fair in India.
The Kinectacles prototype, developed by a three-member team comprising Rishabh Verma, Atul Sharma and Aditi Goswami, hopes to be able to eventually design a pair of spectacles with a Kinect PCB (printed circuit board) mounted atop along with an audio output device to enable the visually impaired safely navigate not just indoor spaces but outdoor spaces as well, team leader Verma told newspersons at the Garage Science Fair.
Talking about the Kinect Bridge, Bangaru Venkatesh said that hand gestures or body gestures of speech and visually impaired would be recognised by the device and converted into text or voice. Venkatesh is part of the five-member team that has invented this product that would work not only on Windows but Xbox as well.
The Microsoft garage fair, which is into its third edition in India, is aimed at fostering innovation among Microsoft employees in their spare time and is also a moonlighting programme that gives employees an opportunity to monetise their inventions, Matt Hempey, principal solutions manager, Microsoft Corporation, said.
He pointed out how innovations from India were growing by leaps and bounds and making their mark felt at the global level in Microsoft with nearly 40,000 people within the company using these 'garage fair' innovations. "This edition of the garage fair is the biggest in India with around 60 projects. We started out with 30 ideas in the first edition. We are seeing a lot of experimentation with Windows Phone, Xbox and Kinect," he pointed out.
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The Legacy of Edith Wharton's The Decoration of Houses
Hundreds of interior design books are published every year, from nitty-gritty how-to guides to lavish volumes that are the publishing world’s answer to lifetime achievement awards. But they all owe their existence to a pioneering guide that was all the rage in 1897: The Decoration of Houses, written by Edith Wharton and Ogden Codman Jr.
Wharton, at the time, was a 30-something Manhattan society matron with a keen interest in architecture and interior design, rather than the Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist she would become. Codman was a blue-blooded architect, one year her junior, with whom Wharton and her husband were remodeling a summer place in Newport, Rhode Island. Poor taste and vulgarity of all kinds reigned in that New England resort town, thanks to an influx of Vanderbilts and other newly moneyed clans anxious to put their lucre to conspicuous use, so much so that Wharton and Codman decided to write a book about how to build and decorate houses with nobility, grace, and timelessness. It would, they hoped, lead its readers out of what Wharton called (pace the Vanderbilts) a “Thermopylae of bad taste” and into an aesthetic Promised Land.
Today, however, not many people read the 198–page book. But last week I was delighted to participate in a panel discussion about it at the New York School of Interior Design. The talk was sponsored by the Mount, a historic house museum in Lenox, Massachusetts, that was once Wharton’s country residence and, like the book, was another Wharton-Codman collaboration, at least at first. (The persnickety pair’s relationship eventually proved combustible, so the architect ended up losing the job to a less-volatile competitor.) Architectural historian, University of Virginia professor, and Wharton expert Richard Guy Wilson was the moderator, and my co-panelists were the interior designer Charlotte Moss and writer/decorator Pauline C. Metcalf.
The subject of the talk was whether The Decoration of Houses, now nearly 120 years old, still had any relevancy in the Age of IKEA. The general conclusion was a qualified “yes.” Wharton and Codman’s book does have drawbacks, we all agreed. Its tone can be superior and schoolmarmish. Its photographs are black-and-white, which many people today cannot abide in a book about interior design. Its examples of good taste are invariably the ballrooms, antechambers, staircases, and other grandiose spaces in European palaces and villas—not exactly what today’s average homeowner finds particularly inspirational. Perhaps most damning, The Decoration of Houses is devoid of how-to projects and idiotproof color schemes. So why do Moss, Metcalf, Wilson, and I revere this relic of late-Victorian days? (Which, it was quickly pointed out, is still in print.) Well, because practicality and common sense are never out of fashion.
The Decoration of Houses is like the King James Version of the Bible. Thousands of interior design books have come and gone since, but most, I would argue, merely repackage Wharton and Codman’s lessons in brighter colors and snappier prose. Today we all know, to a degree, that pleasingly proportioned rooms inspire, almost magically, a sense of calm. That it is best, when on a budget, to invest in comfortable chairs and sofas rather than flashy knickknacks. That we should build and decorate houses based on our individual needs rather than popular trends. (Not for nothing was Wharton born a Jones, a New York society family whose indulgences, architectural and otherwise, reportedly led to the coining of the phrase “keeping up with the Joneses.”)
Such advice, and so much more in Wharton and Codman’s pages, seems so basic, so obvious. But it wasn’t in 1897, when many wealthy individuals, the target of the barbed arrow that is The Decoration of Houses, were doing all they could to build opulent houses glittering enough to do justice to the Gilded Age. Wharton and Codman wanted to educate the rich, to challenge them to build beautiful, practical, and pleasing residences whose details, from meaningful moldings to efficient floor plans to well-made, well-mannered furniture, would trickle down into every neighborhood in America in one form or another.
They were, of course, being irrationally optimistic—our time is as plagued with domestic horrors as was the 1890s. That said, sound advice has timeless value, which is why the book’s commandments, suggestions, and observations remain insightful and inspiring, whether your taste is ancien régime or ultramodern. After all, as Wharton and Codman wrote in their introduction, “Architecture and decoration, having wandered since 1800 in a labyrinth of dubious eclecticism, can be set right only by a close study of the best models.” Who would disagree with that?
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Infrastructure Report State of Disrepair
Our state’s transportation infrastructure is crumbling. We’re not maintaining our roads; we’re not expanding our systems to meet the state’s growing population; and we’re not thinking creatively to engineer solutions. If we don’t repair things soon, our highways and bridges will be in jeopardy—along with our treasured Colorado lifestyle.
Explaining Colorado’s outdated motor fuel tax.
You know that small sticker you see on every gas pump that tells you part of the $3.46 per gallon you’re pumping goes to state and federal taxes? That money is how Colorado funds most of its transportation infrastructure.
In Colorado, the state tax is 22 cents per gallon of gasoline. The federal tax is just over 18 cents per gallon (although it was slated to expire on September 30). Those monies, combined with a handful of other income streams, create CDOT’s annual budget.
Here’s the problem: Colorado’s state gas tax has been 22 cents per gallon for 20 years—and it’s not likely to change any time soon. That the gas tax is not adjusted for inflation, which typically averages 3.38 percent, only compounds the problem. And with vehicles becoming more efficient (a Ford Explorer now gets 25 miles per gallon on the highway; a Toyota Prius gets 48), biofuels becoming more common, and hybrids filling the roads, our gasoline consumption appears to be on a downward trend. In 2010, Americans’ thirst for gas was eight percent less than in 2006, and some experts are predicting that by 2030 it will have dropped by at least 20 percent.
Our need for gasoline may be waning, but Colorado’s roads and bridges still hunger for the tax money fuel sales generate. It would cost about $10 billion to ensure that three-quarters of our roads are in good or fair condition in the next 10 years. Against currently projected revenue, we will be off that mark by $8.3 billion. So while that Prius seemed like the way to go environmentally, you may wish you’d invested in a Jeep—you might eventually need four-wheel drive to navigate I-70.
No. Higher Taxes?
“Most smart people that I speak with are amazed we haven’t raised the gas tax,” says Don Hunt, executive director of CDOT. And by “we,” Hunt means those with political clout. To raise the gas tax, someone with influence and the ability to raise the necessary funds would need to campaign to get a measure placed on a November ballot so Coloradans—a notoriously tax-averse group—could vote on it. Not surprisingly, no one has stepped up to deal with this political hand grenade since 1991. Which means Coloradans haven’t even been given the chance to vote on whether or not they’re OK with unsafe roads, crumbling bridges, increasing traffic congestion, and decreasing access to the mountains.
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Well I have to admit that I'm stumped with an energy audit I've been working on for the past two months. Perhaps someone can point me in the right direction...
My client contacted me concerned that his electric bills were atrocious. They were, to the tune of 34,680 kWh per year (average monthly at 2,890 kWh, and a baseline of 2,347 per month!). And after my first visit to his home, it was very obvious to me that, although he has a big house (3700 sq-ft), he and his family of four were energy frugal, being careful to shut off lights when not in use, using power strips for entertainment centers, etc.
He was particularly concerned about the phantom consumption when he and his family would leave for several weeks at a time. When they did he'd shut off everything but the alarm system. And even then he'd see a bill of 1900 kWh for that month, and for what?
So I dove in deep, taking this on as a personal project, since he'd had an auditor from the utility company come out previously and they couldn't find anything. One of the first things I did was to install a PowerSave EnviR monitor on the two mains into the main circuit panel and let that thing collect data for exactly two weeks. I compared this kWh total to what the utility company's meter read and found a discrepancy of about 500 kWh in favor of the utility company. This closely paralleled the additional 10k kWh per year that I could not account for in my projected analysis. Hmmm.... found it! (or so I thought)
So I got on the phone and was soon in touch with the supervisor of the electric meter department. I told him my findings so he and I got together at the client's home one day so that he could test their equipment, which consisted of a transformer/transducer system which reduces the incoming current from the main transformer at the street. After a good hour of testing he informed me that their equipment tested okay. Hmmmm.... bummer.
After many hours of monitoring individual circuits, extrapolating the long-term consumption, I still can't account for this additional 10k kWh per year anomaly. I even looked for hidden conduits coming off the wiring gutter under the transformer, assuming a neighbor might be "borrowing" some power for their growing operation. Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
And now that I've been so thorough with my investigation and extrapolation, I'm left scratching my head, wondering if, even though the utility company tested their equipment as good, perhaps it is not over a long term. I honestly don't know where to go from here... Suggestions?
I have a good friend who is head of demand side management for a large regional utility. He tells me that if someone complains that the meter is bad and pushes the issue, they will replace it. They will always test the meter just to see, and he says they see far less then 1% that are bad.
Not sure how to add to watch list... (sorry for the post)
Ted, There is a Follow link just under the Reply box above, but by default you automatically follow any discussion that you comment on or reply to.
Rod, your case interests me. I also have a client who is having these sorts of issues. The problem has only come to light in the past few months, and I believe that they are located in your neck of the wood. I have begun basic evaluation of the 3 services on the property but am most troubled about one of them in particular. I have not yet installed independent metering equipment because I don't see how this could solve anything. I have a feeling this will settle itself out in the coming months but I have a distrust of some of the utility and communications companies based on a studied paranoia and am always looking to become more informed. I have some ideas about strategies that might reduce the disadvantages of buying power from monopolies.
Peter, if you "have some strategies that might reduce the disadvantages of buying power from monopolies", by all means, you might want to share those. I'm sure everyone would love to hear about it. Otherwise, your posting might look as though it is a phishing or spamming attempt. Sure hope it isn't.
Independent monitoring equipment is really the only way in which you can identify the problem. If the problem has only come to light in the past few (record heat) months, then I would certainly focus my attention on sources of cooling, like A/C and fans. And if they have a pool, I'd also look there.
I intend to post more of my findings after my return to NM on the 7th of August. I hope to find out more when I'm able to perform a few more onsite diagnostics and monitoring. Stay tuned....
So sorry about that phishing comment, Peter. I think I read your comment immediately after I read this article by Bill McKibben and my blood was still boiling in anger over the whole mess. Seems our jobs in this industry might not make a difference whatsoever...
But I continue to plod on, 'cause it's got to make a difference...
Anyways, I'm still going to monitor this client for another complete 7 days. But this time I'll do it with another manufacturer's product. I've asked the utility guy to get me the make/model of the monitoring system they use. I'm still waiting for that reply. I'm optimistic that he will. If not, I'll suspect something is askew and become the newest Bill McKibben...
GE seems to think electric meters are super-duper accurate! : Ask the Ge engineer . Waiting to see how your client issue plays out.
An update for you all...
The utility guy has used their own 3rd party monitoring system twice now at my client's place. The first was for a week while the clients were home and the second was for a week while they were out of town and had shut off all circuits except the one for the alarm system.
It had been a while since I last heard from the utility guy so I sent an email with a request that he provide all of the data he'd collected. No response. I've tried calling and left messages. No response. Not sure what's going on with this, so I called his boss and left a message. No response yet.
Hmmmmm......... makes me wonder what's in that data?
Why don't people realize that honest mistakes are only honest when you don't hide them?! Only transparency can set them free!?!
We are all human, so we all are likely to make multiple mistakes every DAY. We are all juggling a LOT of balls, isn't dropping them once in a while to be expected? Addressing a small problem up front prevents it from becoming magnified 1000's of times, turning into a Federal case. Prevents it from turning into a fire-able offense.
Hiding an honest mistake can turn it criminal really quickly. That kind of bad judgement should get people fired.
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Amyloid beta deposits in brain of Alzheimer’s patient.
What’s the News: A drug used to cure skin cancer is also a possible treatment for Alzheimer’s, according to a new study in Science. The drug not only reduced levels of amyloid beta—a protein whose elevated levels are a hallmark of the disease—but also reversed cognitive decline. In mice, dramatic effects were evident after just 72 hours.
How the Heck:
- Based on known molecular pathways, the researchers thought that the skin cancer drug bexarotene could enhance expression of a gene called apoE. apoE activates the immune system to break down amyloid beta, and mutations in the apoE gene are a major risk factor for Alzheimer’s.
- Turns out the researchers were right. Mice with genetic mutations that make them prone to the disease are the standard model for Alzheimer’s research. When these mice were treated with bexarotene, macrophages in their brain gobbled up amyloid beta, and the levels of amyloid beta fell by 40% in just 72 hours.
- Molecular changes are good and all, but an effective drug for Alzheimer’s also has to treat the behavioral symptoms. Bexarotene actually reversed cognitive deficits. The team put treated mice through standard memory tests, including fear conditioning, the Morris water maze, and odor habituation. Bexarotene improved their performance in all of them.
Not So Fast:
- Just because something works in mice doesn’t mean it will work in humans. According to a Trends in Neuroscience review, there have been 300 reports of treatments that ameliorate Alzheimer’s in mice since 1995. But the number of cures in humans in 2012: Zero.
- That’s because the brain of a 6-month-old mouse with genetic mutations is an imperfect model for that of an 80-year-old Alzheimer’s patient. No single mouse recapitulates all the symptoms of human Alzheimer’s—for example: some “Alzheimer’s mice” will have amyloid beta deposits but no cognitive deficits. This study actually used three different strains of mutant mice, but that’s three out of dozens available. The exact cause and progression of Alzheimer’s is still mysterious, so finding a cure is difficult when we haven’t even unwrapped the problem.
- Even if bexarotene works in humans, a miracle cure it isn’t. It wouldn’t be of much help to patients with advanced Alzheimer’s, whose dementia is the result of neurons being killed in what scientists think is a process trigged by amyloid beta. Bexarotene can go as far as reducing levels of amyloid beta, but it can’t reverse cell death.
The Future Holds:
- Human trials await. The authors of this study have already formed a company called ReXceptor Therapeutics to begin human trials in a few months, though those trials could take years. All caveats aside, the good news is that as far as cancer drugs go, bexarotene has fairly mild side effects.
Reference: Cramer, et al. ApoE-Directed Therapeutics Rapidly Clear Beta-Amyloid and Reverse Deficits in AD Mouse Models. Science (9 February 2012) DOI: 10.1126/science.1217697
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Anthony Wayne Branch was born and raised in rural Barbados in St. Elizabeth Village nestled in the parish of St. Joseph. The early influence of his uncle Keith Blackett, an artist in his own right, fueled Wayne’s passion for fine arts. This was further encouraged by the renowned Barbadian artist Fielding Babb who in those early days spent much time painting in the neighborhood as a plein-air artist.
Wayne, as his grandmother preferred to call him, received his very basic training in Art during his secondary school years at the then West St. Joseph Secondary School. There he acquired his Cambridge Advanced Level Certificate in Art. He subsequently won several national awards including 1st prizes in the National Independence Festival of Creative Arts and he remains the youngest recipient of the Award of Excellence from the Art Collection Foundation.
Wayne’s work was selected by jury to be part of an exhibition representing Barbados in the 1988 “Emerging Artists of the Caribbean and Latin America” which was exhibited in Nagoya, Japan. This exhibition was dubbed “New World Art” and his work received highly favorable reviews.
In the fall of 1990 he enrolled in the Bachelor of Fine Arts Program at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Four years later he graduated after having received numerous awards including the Lambert & Emma Wallace Calwalder Prize for landscape painting; and the Cecilia Beaux Memorial Prize for portraiture. He then journeyed on scholarship to New Haven, Connecticut to pursue his Masters in Fine Arts at the Yale University School of Art.
Wayne's work was included in “Caribbean Artists Today”, a touring exhibition to the Caribbean, Europe and North America, curated by Mercia Grassi, Professor Emeritus of Drexel University, Pennsylvania, USA. His painting “Little Diamond” was selected as the poster for the event. This body of work which later gave rise to a book published in 2006 and bearing the same title as the exhibition can be seen at its permanent home at the St Joseph’s University in Pennsylvania, USA.
On returning to Barbados in 1996, Wayne embarked on a quest to fuse his informal and formal years’ experiences onto each canvas. Over a decade later his work has evolved with some shifting from pure landscape to figurative subject-matter. In fact, in recent times the works have been more about the indigenous people of a South American country and how they have been influenced by modern trends while maintaining old traditions.
Wayne is currently a tutor at the Barbados Community College where he shares his wealth of knowledge and passion for fine arts. He has held many classes in painting, drawing and plein-air painting and is much sought after to conduct workshops and courses.
He continues to successfully create captivating works of art which highlight the overall effect of natural light and shade while expressing the reflective moods, emotion, life and customs of his subjects.
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Confession: I have a handful of dirty little secrets when it comes to my health and fitness. One of them is that I harbor a serious Diet Coke addiction. I've been known to have a regular two cans on a weekday, partially for the caffeine jolt, and partially because I like the taste (I know, I know).
Recent studies have shown that even diet versions of popular sodas aren't good for you, and can lead to obesity. I've even heard them described as "chemical water with a little caffeine." I recently noticed that after drinking more than one Diet Coke during the day, I've started getting dull headaches. After one too many DC-induced headaches, I switched my second soda of the day to a caffeine-free Diet 7-Up hoping that would stop the problem, but it did just the opposite — the headaches got worse. To see what I think is causing them and what other problems my Diet Coke habit may be causing, read more.
I remembered reading about the artificial sweetener aspartame and potential side effects in the past; turns out the sweetener — better known as Nutra-Sweet — is found in most diet sodas, including Diet 7-Up. While the FDA's acceptable intake of aspartame is the amount found in about four cans of soda (yikes!), a sensitivity to the sweetener can cause other side effects: headaches, dizziness, mood changes, and even skin reactions. In addition, soda consumption has been linked to lower bone density, since it can block your bones' absorption of calcium. Plus, if you're drinking a soda, you're choosing not to drink something else — a glass of water, juice, or anything with actual health benefits.
While the satisfying sound of a fresh can of Diet Coke popping open will probably always cause a reaction, I'm better off switching to an afternoon iced coffee. Besides being a great caffeine fix, it's full of benefits, from antioxidants that lower disease risk to helping to ease post-workout muscle pain.
Source: Flickr User Svadilfari
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Mar 3, 2009 03:59 PM
Saturn's G ring, a faint band of material near the outer bounds of the planet's famed ring system, hosts a bright arc about 90,000 miles (150,000 kilometers) long. The arc, or partial ring, which stretches through about a sixth of the G ring's length, is believed to provide the rest of the ring with dust and ice, but its evolution has remained a mystery.
Recent images from the Cassini spacecraft (at left) point to a moonlet embedded in the G ring. The moonlet, the Cassini team speculates, might help to repopulate the arc, and then the ring as a whole, with material as it suffers collisions with meteoroids or other small bodies within the ring.
The moonlet, which showed up as a bright speck in the ring's arc, appears to be approximately 0.3 mile (0.5 kilometer) in diameter, based on its reflectance. The finding was reported today in a circular from the International Astronomical Union.
"Before Cassini, the G ring was the only dusty ring that was not clearly associated with a known moon, which made it odd," Matthew Hedman, an astronomy research associate at Cornell University and a member of the Cassini imaging team, said in a statement. Data from the same mission in 2007 indicated that the ring-feeding arc could stem from an orbital relationship with Mimas, one of Saturn's proper moons, but the arc's composition remained a puzzle. "The discovery of this moonlet, together with other Cassini data," Hedman said, "should help us make sense of this previously mysterious ring."
Photo credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
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I was talking to a resident who knows a whole lot more about affordable housing than I do (basically I know zip.)
What I was told is although the Community Preservation Act (CPA) money will go far for open space and historic preservation, affordable housing is very, very expensive.
Housing needs to be bought, and is incredibly expensive, then most probably it needs to be rehabbed, more expense, and then I gather a long term maintenance program needs to be set up. All of this, I would imagine would require a great deal of red tape and an amazing amount of time and energy.
The term “linkage fees” came up.
Now I’ve never heard of linkage fees before, but looking it up very quickly on the Web I got this information:
A linkage fee “requires developers to pay into a housing trust fund. The rationale for linkage is that developers should pay for the impact their projects have on the community.” (Boston Globe, September 9, 2002)
“Boston’s linkage program requires that developers pay an exaction to construct affordable housing.” (Boston Redevelopment Authority)
If the City of Newburyport ever decided to set up linkage fees for affordable housing, which I gather from the little research I’ve done, it would be extremely complicated and it would require an intact and skilled Planning Office. (And we know at the moment that our Planning Office under Mayor John Moak is in complete disarray.)
So why bother with affordable housing? If Newburyport had an appropriate number of affordable housing units (as far as I’m concerned, the more the merrier), Newburyport would not be under the shadow of 40B housing projects like the one Mayor John Moak has resurrected on the Woodman property on Low Street.
40B housing has a huge impact on the historic character, charm and beauty of Newburyport, MA and also, at least in the case of the Woodman property, adversely affects the environment (see previous posts.)
And it would also make Newburyport more economically diverse, a concept I happen to like. It would obviously give people who do not make unbelievable amounts of money or who were lucky enough to buy property before housing prices went through the roof, to have a chance to live in our seaport city, which I happen to think is a good thing.
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Just a quick food post for you today. I've done a few food related posts in the past, but they are mostly just fun and aren't actually healthy in any way shape or form ;) For example the giant cookie pizzas and spaghetti hotdog freakshow. I did do a post about an orange treat a couple of years ago, but um, well, I filled an orange with Jello, so, er, not a terribly healthy treat either! Well, this time I've got a treat that is both cute, fun, and involves eating fresh fruit! It's really cheap too, because you just need half an orange for each dessert and the kids love them because they look all dinky and tea partyish.
Here's how you put them together...
Chop your orange in half, so that you get the navel parts at the bottom center of each half.
Next take one of your halfs and chop the bottom off it (keep that bottom bit to use later)
Now you will have a ring of peel that you can cut around with a knife to extract the edible part of the orange inside. This is the trickiest part and really it's not tricky at all. You just want to insert your knife at the edge of the pith and carefully rotate the orange on the chopping board to cut out it's center, leaving the peel in a complete ring.
Sit this ring with the wide side up (it's going to make the little bowl for the orange treat to sit in). Then turn the little base bit that you cut off upside down and pop it into the ring to make the bottom of the peel bowl. Now flip the edible part of the orange you cut out over so that it's widest flat surface is on the chopping board.
Cut it into six sections with your knife and pick it all up and place it into the peel bowl that you have made.
Then you get to decide how much of a treat you want it to be ;) I let my kids use a cocktail stick to eat the orange pieces because they are five and six years old, so aren't likely to hurt themselves with them, but I'd give a smaller kid a little fork. The kids like a bit of dried pineapple and a marachino cherry with theirs.
If you want to avoid the cocktail stick then a squirt of whipped cream and a cherry looks very treaty too. There must be loads of ways to dress this cute little dessert up to your own tastes :)
I don't know if your kids are anything like mine, but if my kids asked if there was dessert and I came back with "Why yes! Dessert today is half an orange!" I would be met with incredulous stares and likely be informed that half an orange wasn't a kid approved dessert, but they totally go for it when it's presented in this cute way and it only takes about 30 seconds to make each one.
I'd just like to take a moment to say that if you have emailed me recently and are waiting patiently for a response, I really am trying to get through my mail to write back to readers. We've had two birthdays and our anniversary last week and the last month has been a even more of a circus than things usually are around here. A nice and fun circus, but I'm a rather tired and pregnant ring master, so bare with me :)
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GARY, IN — Only 25 miles from downtown Chicago, Gary/Chicago International Airport (renamed to reflect its location) here hopes to establish itself as the region’s third major airport, along with O’Hare and Midway. And while the airport has faced some struggles attracting and retaining air service, officials here are positive that the latest displays of confidence in the airport — in the form of funding — will put Gary in a position to help meet the demands of northwest Indiana and the Chicagoland area. Public support of the airport, including the mayors of Chicago and Gary, the governor of Indiana, as well as a non-profit organization (Friends of Gary/Chicago Airport), and the creation of a Regional Development Authority, will be one of the main drivers of the future success of the airport, according to director Paul Karas.
Marketing director Denise Williams says a new focus on the airport “in terms of seeing it as a viable economic development arm — not just for this city, not just for this county, but for the entire state” is responsible for much of the positive news that has come out of Gary lately. And the incremental growth plan the airport has implemented over the years has helped poise Gary/Chicago International for continued growth.
Regional Collaboration, Support
The Gary/Chicago International Airport Authority which governs the operations, policies, and use of funds at the airport is made up of a six-member board. A second board, the Gary/Chicago Regional Airport Authority, is a 12-member board that the governors of Indiana and Illinois and the mayors of Gary and Chicago make appointments to. This board is responsible for managing the compact that the airport entered into with the City of Chicago and the Chicago Department of Aviation in 1995. Under this collaboration, between $1.5 million and $2 million is annually put into a fund to support “the growth and development of infrastructure at Gary/Chicago International Airport,” explains Williams. “That fund approaches about $15 million over the course of the agreement.”
A recently established Regional Development Authority is comprised of three Northwest Indiana counties — Lake, Port, and LaPorte — and was developed to address transportation issues in the region. Neighboring cities which have casinos, including Gary, East Chicago, and Hammond, had to put $5 million into a pool. Lake and Porter counties also contributed $5 million and the State of Indiana then matched those funds.
According to Karas, $20 million from the RDA will be available to Gary beginning in July. The current agreement has the RDA funded for a period of ten years at some $120 million.
Karas considers the airport’s growth and development a four-legged stool with general aviation, corporate aviation, cargo, and passenger service. “They’re not mutually exclusive and they’re fully complimentary here.”
$85 Million Initiative
The airport’s most recent feather in its cap is a letter of intent (LOI) from FAA for $57.8 million (equals $6 million per year for nine-plus years). Karas says the amount is particularly significant because the airport received 96 percent of the amount it requested. The $57.8 million represents 68 percent of the total program cost of $85 million (not including inflation or capitalized interest), which includes relocation of railroad tracks currently located at the end of the airport’s 7,000-foot runway.
In addition to the LOI, funding for the project comes from the following sources: $2.8 million, 2005 AIP; $7 million from the Federal Highway Act; $20 million, Regional Development Authority (RDA). Additionally, the Gary/Chicago Airport received $2 million from the transit administration for relocation of the railroad.
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Vision loss documentary Feb. 18
Thursday, February 14, 2013
EXETER -- Joseph Lovett a 2005 Peabody award winner, decided to confront his fears of vision loss (he has battled glaucoma over 20 years) by directing and producing “Going Blind Going Forward”, a documentary examining the lives of six different people with visual impairment. Joe’s film was released in 2010 and has made a significant educational and inspirational impact across the nation.
Come enjoy the film, light refreshments, and a panel of speakers that will be available for questions. Any questions? Please contact Dana Trahan 603-580-5096 or email@example.com
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Remember when the advice to married couples was to schedule a private getaway weekend every now and again, the better to preserve a relationship under siege from children?
Well, now couples are scheduling private getaway weekends in order to have those children.
They are called "conceptionmoons," a derivation of "babymoon," a trip couples take just before the birth of their first child, and, of course, "honeymoon."
"It looks like it is a great way to relax and reduce the stress of trying to get pregnant," said Linda Murray, editor in chief of babycenter.com, which gave the trend its name.
She noticed that couples who visited the fertility areas on the Web site were talking about these trips. "We decided to do a little more research."
A survey of more than 1,000 members, sponsored by the folks who make Clear Blue Easy, the ovulation test sticks, revealed that more than three-quarters had taken a "conceptionmoon" to relax and rekindle the romance in their relationship and - get this - four out of 10 couples came home pregnant.
"I was surprised at how many people are going on these little vacations," said Murray. "But I was really surprised at how many people got pregnant. Most of the people said they had been trying to conceive for about eight months."
The average age of these vacationers is just over 30. "It is one of those birthdays that wakes women up," said Murray. "The clock is ticking."
While most couples go to the beach - Hawaii and Florida are the top spots - many visit a city, and Las Vegas is the favorite.
Also, according to the survey, 68 percent of the couples have at least one child already and are going for No. 2. And about 40 percent of those first children are under a year old.
"Trying to conceive with a 6-month-old in the house must be crazy," said Murray.
The average cost of a conceptionmoon? $1,700. It sounds like an extravagance until you put it up against the cost of fertility treatments.
"We have all seen so many people go through fertility treatments that we know it is not an enjoyable process," said Murray.
"[Couples] know the technology is there, but they don't see it as the ideal way. They are taking control of their conception and trying to conceive on their own terms. A conceptionmoon is another arrow in their quiver."
The negative impact of stress on fertility is more than an old wives' tale. "Just relax and it will happen" is probably true.
Research has suggested that stress causes hormone fluctuations that can delay ovulation or cancel it altogether. And almost 70 percent of the survey couples who said they took a conceptionmoon reported being stressed or somewhat stressed about trying to conceive.
What interested me about this survey is this: It takes an average of six months of trying for a couple to get pregnant. Most of the couples in the survey had been trying for only eight months.
There doesn't seem to be much patience out there. All those thirtysomething couples must believe that they have only minutes to create their 2.5 children.
"Trying to have a baby is stressful for the couple," said Murray. "It becomes a job, and a lot of disappointment sets in when they get their period at the end of the month.
"A trip like this can be a conception tool. But it brings couples closer, even if the result is not a pregnancy."
To hear audio clips of selected Susan Reimer columns, go to baltimoresun.com/reimer.
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Faith and Reason
$69.95 Buy and instantly download this paper now
The following paper discusses the distinction between faith and reason and questions whether it is possible to live with both of them at the same time. The writer contends that the path of reason requires that there be a rational explanation to everything, and any lack of human understanding along this path is a sign of ignorance only, an ignorance that can be erased by further knowledge. The paper contends that the path of faith demands that one believe in forces and entities unseen, and that one believes that human understanding is incomplete not only now but for always. This paper examines how these paths are so far distant from each other that there is no possible way for a person to travel both for the course of an entire life. The philosophies of Aristotle, Kant and Plato are used as references in this paper.
From the Paper:"We are not angels domiciled in heaven, and if faith promises us a place after death amongst such exalted creatures, then it does little to explain our experiences in our physical bodies on earth. To understand hunger, pleasure, cold, pain all the sensations of our body, we must turn to reason and rational explanations. And having turned to reason to explain the particulars of daily experience, we are necessarily confronted with a contradiction if we then try to rely upon faith in other areas of our lives, for faith " that belief in things unseen " asks us to abandon the evidence and witness of our own senses.\"
Cite this Term Paper:
Faith and Reason (2003, February 07) Retrieved June 19, 2013, from http://www.academon.com/term-paper/faith-and-reason-7151/
"Faith and Reason" 07 February 2003. Web. 19 June. 2013. <http://www.academon.com/term-paper/faith-and-reason-7151/>
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Honestly I think as a beginner language it shouldn't be taught because of the wierd syntax..after all these guys have no idea what a loop or if statement is.
Pascal Example File I\O
C++ Example File I/O
You may compare the 2 programs above.
I want to know a few things.
What language did you guys start off with, and what language do you think is best for absolute beginners and why?
N.B.(Everyone should in fact start with pseudo code but in this case I'm looking for a real life language because I'm planning on writing a letter to these guys)
My answer to those questions are:
I started off with QBasic but i think C++ is best for absolute beginners since the syntax is similar to that of many other languages and it is Object-Oriented.
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04-04-2012 02:10 AM
I need to run a Labview program version 8.2 in computer with version 7.
And I need to run a program 2011 in computer with version 8.2.
I cannot save the program with version 7
and when I save the program with from 2011 to 8.2 the block diagram is broken.
04-04-2012 07:44 AM
I believe in the previous versions you could only save back one version. So, 8.2 can only be saved for 8.0, then open the VI in 8.0 and save it back to 7.1 etc. If you don't the intermediate versions, then post your VI in the Version Conversion forum and hopefully somebody should be able to do it for you.
How is the block diagram broken? Are you get any errors when you switch over to the block diagram or is the program not able to run because of a broken arrow? If it's the latter case, then it might be because something that has been introduced in 2011 wasn't there in 8.2. You can post your VI here for us to have a look.
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Afghan President Karzai promises will step down in 2014
WASHINGTON: Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai said Friday that he would stand down at the end of his second term in 2014 and allow a successor to be freely elected.
“The greatest of my achievements eventually, seen by the Afghan people, will be a proper, well-organized, interference-free election in which the Afghan people can elect their next president,” he said.
“And certainly I will be a retired president, and very happily a retired president,” he vowed, in response to a question about the 2014 vote at a joint White House press conference with US President Barack Obama.
Karzai was elected in 2004 and re-elected in 2009, in two votes marred by allegations of widespread electoral fraud and held against the backdrop of an ongoing war between Nato-backed government forces and Taliban guerrillas.
Both the leaders agreed that American forces would hand the lead in the fight against the Taliban to Afghan forces in the next few months.
“Starting this spring, our troops will have a different mission — training, advising, assisting Afghan forces. It will be a historic moment and another step toward full Afghan sovereignty,” said President Obama.
He said US forces would “still be in harm’s way” in Afghanistan after the handover, at least until 2014, but would take a backseat to Afghan forces in offensive operations and the drawdown would come a little quicker than planned.
“Because of the progress that has been made in terms of Afghan security forces, their capacity to take the lead, we are able to meet those goals and accelerate them somewhat,” Obama said.
Karzai agreed, saying: “I’m very happy to hear from the president as we also discussed earlier that in spring this year, the Afghan forces will be fully responsible for providing security and protection to the Afghan people.
“And that the international forces, the American forces, will be no longer present in the villages, that it will be the task of the Afghan forces to provide for the Afghan people in security and protection.”
The presence of US troops in a training and support role after 2014 would depend on the United States negotiating a security agreement with Afghanistan that would give them protection from Afghan law.
“And if we have a follow-on force of any sort, past 2014, it has got to be at the invitation of the Afghan government and they have to feel comfortable with it,” Obama told the White House news conference.
“I will say and I’ve said to President Karzai that we have arrangements like this with countries all around the world. And nowhere do we have any kind of security agreement with a country without immunity for our troops.”
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In the News
- February 6th, 2012
This week, Microsoft and the AARP share new statistics demonstrating how seniors and youth are increasingly adopting technology to connect their generations.
From Phone time to Face time—No Disconnect Here!
New technologies bridge the generation gap to promote closer bonds
The internet provides unprecedented opportunities for extended families and generations to stay in close contact even when geographically separated. Creating and maintaining a bond with grandparents or other seniors benefits youth in several ways.
Seniors can be great role models, teachers and influences. They can provide a sense of cultural heritage and family history. They frequently have more time than busy single, or two career parents to spend interacting with a child. And, because they aren’t the parents, they are often better at helping troubled teens.
Similarly, grandparents and other seniors reap real benefits from interacting with their grandchildren or other youth. These benefits include staying more active and engaged, and an ongoing sense of value and purpose.
According to a new study released by Microsoft and AARP, “Connecting Generations,” researchers found that teens actually communicate more with their parents and grandparents, and vice-versa, due to the use of social media tools. This lesson discusses how to expand cross-generational opportunities and engage even more students in richly rewarding multi-generational connections.
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Tolerating the distress that an anxious child experiences when his fears are triggered can be challenging. Some parents have particularly low levels of tolerance for the distress of their anxious child and jump in to remedy any distress by any means they can. We have discussed in the previous three blog entries the myriad of ways that parents unintentionally reinforce their child’s fears in their attempts to quell their child’s distress. Aiding and abetting avoidance of feared situations, arguing, reassuring and over-explaining/rationalizing are a few we discussed in detail. If you’ve read previous blog entries, you also know that engaging in these behaviors with your anxious child actually results in feeding his fears rather than helping him conquer them.
Let’s shift our focus from your child’s responses, to yours. Let’s talk about your own responses and fears regarding the distress that your child exhibits in the face of fearful situations. What scares you about Sally’s shaking and crying in the face of being urged to; for example, take medicine that she is afraid to swallow? What scares you about Johnny’s agitation and uncharacteristic serious stance about going to baseball practice in spite of his love of baseball? What distresses you about hearing your child crying to you about her fears that she might not do well on her spelling quiz? Think about it for a few minutes. Ask yourself; “What bothers me about witnessing my child’s distress?” I’d like to hear some actual responses to this question from parents reading this blog entry. Please take the time to send a comment so that I can include it in further discussion and so that parents of anxious children can see that they often share similar fears:
“I am a bad parent if I allow my child to suffer.”
“She will get so upset that it will damage her in some way.”
“It disrupts our routine and causes serious problems for me and other family members.”
“It is incredibly stressful and distressing to see my child so upset.”
“I want to be able to make my child feel better; it is my job to be able to help her.”
“It will just get worse and he will be worse off if I don’t do something.”
”It is embarrassing.”
As a parent myself, I often have the conditioned instinct to step in and do something when I hear a crying baby or distressed child. We are genetically programmed to protect and nurture our offspring. If we were not, we would not have survived in the wilds as humans had to to evolve and continue on this earth as a dominant species. That being said, if you are the parent of an anxious child, you’ve already come to the understanding that your child’s responses to anxiety trigger situations are repetitive and far more extreme than the situation warrants. Furthermore, you know that the situations that trigger the anxiety are far from life threatening or dangerous. The things about which your child worries are simply more extreme and more fixated upon than the average same-aged child would experience in a similar situation.
By learning to manage your own responses to your child’s fears, you can help your child learn to be less afraid. Consider the possibility that your own anxiety about your child’s fears may play a role in influencing your behaviors toward your child. In other words, your own distress about your child’s distress could be compelling you to engage in behaviors that reinforce your child’s fears. Once you identify the role of your own fears, you have the power to change your behaviors so that you are helping your child conquer his fears rather than feeding them.
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How to Deal with Sheeple
“Sheeple (a portmanteau of “sheep” and “people”) is a term of disparagement in which people are likened to sheep, a herd animal. The term is used to describe those who voluntarily acquiesce to a suggestion without critical analysis or research. By doing so, they undermine their own individuality and may willingly give up their rights.” – Wikipedia
Sheeple are all around us. Beware, as they will suck out of you every drop of Enthusiasm, if you let them. They will drag you down to their level of miserable life, because they don’t want to feel worse seeing you Succeed.
It works like this. While you search for Solutions they search for reasons not to try and proof that you’ll fail. Like everybody else sheeple too want to validate their beliefs. If they let you try something new you might prove they’re wrong and that’s a feeling to avoid.
Therefore, if you want to acheive anything of importance you have to Shut Your Ears to sheeple, no matter how old and close friends they might be, and do what feels right.
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On December 7, 2011, the Portland, Maine City Council will hold an open hearing on the future of the camp at Lincoln Park. The City deserves praise for not resorting to violence and threats in dealing with the people who have been camping in the park for two months. It seems that the city and the Portland police have respected the right of protestors to exercise free speech and have exercised understanding and patience while much of the rest of the country has resorted to violence and brutality on innocent citizens.
However, I believe the city has legitimate concerns about health and safety issues at the camp such as the danger of fire. Smoking and the use of propane heaters in proximity to bails of hay and straw surrounding tents is a tragedy waiting to happen. Concerns about cleanliness in the preparation of food is also another legitimate public health concern.
Serious discussion about the future of the encampment has been ongoing for two weeks and many of the occupiers are resigned to being evicted. Before it comes to that, it would be best if the occupiers would leave on their own and seek a compromise with the city to allow the dome, library, and an information tent in Lincoln Park as a focal point for the protest and a visible symbol of the movement.
Unfortunately, all of the attention by the media has been on the camps and violence while the core messages of corporate greed, political corruption, and the crimes committed by Wall St. and the banks have been ignored.
The fact that occupiers of the camp are mostly homeless people says more about the city’s homeless policy than it does about the Occupy movement. Most of the 99% live at home; we work, raise families and pay our bills. The park should be available as a focal point for the exercise of freedom of speech and public discourse on the state of the union.
Not everyone is talking about the camp. Here’s what some of Maine’s 99% had to say on Sunday in a strategy sessions looking to the future of the movement.
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Originally Posted by kruser
I know our MODOT guys cannot talk to one another when they are gang plowing and trying to use the repeaters. They are too close and one must back away from the other before the can talk if using the repeater(s).
(This is part of an over-simplified presentation I use in Firefighter training. Please take it in a good way. We Firefighters sometimes have a difficult time grasping technical concepts, hence the simplistic format. These numbers and frequencies are for explanation and have no real world value.)
Receiver desensing bites folks in the rear all the time. It goes like this:
A transmitter sends signals in strengths from 1 to a brazillion. The farther away from the transmitter you are, the weaker the signal gets like water pressure in a hose. No new news there.
For a receiver, any signal over 10,000 melts solder joints. 300 lets the smoke out of transistors. The FCC 'Safe Harbor Rules' limit signals to a maximum of 125. 100 is Binford
strong. Anything above 5 is clear. Your squelch is set at 2, and mutes the receiver so you don't hear static for strengths of 0 to 2. Again, no news.
Every transmitter, without exception, sends off-frequency signals. It is unavoidable. The farther away / weaker the signal, the less off-frequency energy is received. Picture it as mist coming off an adjustable nozzle set to stream.
Simplex or talkaround: I transmit on 154 MHz. You hear me on 154 MHz. Simple, hence the name. I am hitting you directly with a master stream.
Duplex or repeaters: Mobiles transmit on 155 into the repeater. The repeater simultaneously 'repeats' whatever it hears on 155 back out on 154. A receiver listening to 154 will hear nearby simplex (if the signal is strong enough) or the repeater (again, if it is strong enough). All is well with the world.
Squelch codes: Picture the carnival ride with the sign "You must be this tall to ride." "This tall" equates to the receiver's signal squelch. Squelch codes add "This tall AND a green ticket." Green ticket, you go. Red ticket, blue ticket or no ticket, no go. Squelch codes are like tickets. Again, nothing earth-shattering.
Here is where it gets interesting: Say you and I are in different apparatus driving a hundred feet apart, and a fair distance from the repeater. Our squelch settings mute all signals less than a 2. The repeater is far enough away it comes in at a clear 5. No problem… so far.
I call you simplex on 154 MHz, and your radio receives me at a 70 signal. I transmit my signal with a green ticket. You hear me with no problem. Remember that my radio is also transmitting off frequency noise, and as close as we are it covers 2 MHz either side of 154 at a 10 signal for your radio, but we don't care... so far.
You answer back, but use the repeater; your radio transmits on 155 (with the same amount of off-frequency noise as mine did). My receiver hears your transmitter’s off-frequency 155 MHz noise at a 10 signal, but there is no green ticket so I hear nothing. The repeater kicks on and a 3rd truck 10 miles away hears you just fine through the repeater.
Here is where we get zapped: My receiver still hears your off-frequency noise at a 10. The repeater's signal hits my truck at a 5, but your off-frequency 10 covers up the repeater’s 5 signal. In that barrel battle I hear exactly zilch. I back off two hundred feet. The repeater signal may drop to a 4 but your garbage signal has dropped to a 1. We can talk again.
Bingo! Receiver desense.
Note that desense also takes place in situations where users aren't trying to talk to each other. Example: I, your friendly chief, use my 5-watt portable to call you, the poor schmuck on the wet end of the hose, to pass along the interesting information that the roof is collapsing. By order of the head of the IT and Communications Bureau (a fine fellow with a Cal-Tech Doctorate in SQL statistical database administration), all fireground communications must be on his spiffy repeated system. You are far enough away from the repeater and deep enough inside the house that your radio hears the repeater at a 5.
Nobody will ever explain to your widow that a long-winded taxi driver stuck at the road block was arguing with his dispatcher about overtime. His transmitter’s off-frequency noise was hitting your portable radio at a 10, so you didn't hear the repeater's 5 signal carrying my suggestion that you cut and run for your life.
Analog radios may let you hear something, probably just unintelligible noise, but maybe a word or two, perhaps sounding something like “EVACUATE!” At least enough ‘something’ to pique your interest. Digital radios simply flat fail. There is not enough frog DNA in the world to error correct the mess your receiver is hearing.
In the City’s defense, they will play the dispatch center recording clearly showing that I issued an evacuation order and that the repeater faithfully and crisply rebroadcast it. There will be testimony from a brother firefighter listening from across town that he heard everything perfectly. The blame falls on you, the dumb schmuck at the wet end of the hose, because your didn’t heed my suggestion.
Sounds silly, but over the past five years, this exact scenario has contributed to the death of half a dozen firefighters. Read the published firefighter death and injury reports.
Don't believe it? Grab three portables. and 'go inspect something' several miles away from the closest repeater site. Put two of the portables on repeated TAC3. Put the other on TAC4. Send a greenhorn jogging down the block with one TAC3 radio. Keep the other two. Have him talk to you on TAC3- he will come in just fine. Then, while he is talking on TAC3, key up the TAC4 radio in your other hand. I'll bet dish washing for a week that the TAC3 radio will go silent. Hand the TAC4 portable radio to someone else and find out how far away they have to go before TAC3 comes back. Then try it on different channels, and again with a truck radio transmitting on the different channel. That is useful knowledge.
Beware the evil receiver desense on repeated systems!
PS: With the planned number of MOSWIN sites, this will be a problem there as well. Maybe worse as MOSWIN is P25 digital and even with the latest-greatest error correction digital radios are troubled by strong off-frequency interference that can easily put the BER above the fail point.
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Finding a job during a recession has been trying for Christine Gales, who tried again yesterday by attending a job fair meant to evoke the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s anti-poverty message.
"It's up and down," said Gales, 31, who has been out of work since October and living at Night of Peace Family Shelter outside Randallstown with her 12-year-old daughter. "I feel like I'm making an achievement by going out and putting out my applications, but I get discouraged when I don't hear anything back."
Gales and hundreds of other job-seekers filled the St. Frances Academy Community Center's gymnasium for its career fair and job skills event, held every year on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
That this year's event took place on the eve of President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration was not lost on the organizers or the job-seekers.
"It's a new year, a new president. It feels like stuff is going to happen," Gales said, despite the slow progress of her job search.
Ralph E. Moore Jr., director of the community center in East Baltimore, likes to point out that the March on Washington in 1963 was about jobs and freedom. Now another black man will be in charge of trying to improve the economic condition of all Americans, Moore said.
"I think the fact that so many people are here is a sign of how dire things are and how hopeful they are," said Moore, who started the job fair seven years ago to help residents of the economically depressed neighborhood just east of Mount Vernon.
U.S. job losses have reached a level not seen since the end of World War II, with 2.6 million jobs lost last year. The unemployment rate rose to 7.2 percent last month.
Baltimore resident Brandon Hardy, 24, was looking yesterday for a second job to supplement his income as a cashier and stock clerk at Harvest Fare Supermarket. Hardy was laid off from his job as a teller at Municipal Employees Credit Union eight months ago, he said.
"I know we're in a recession ... but people have families, and bills to pay," said Hardy, who recently moved in with his mother to save money.
Reflecting the worsening labor market, many more job-seekers and fewer employers attended yesterday's event. Participating businesses were hiring, though.
Humanim, a nonprofit human services agency in Columbia, is looking for direct-care counselors and information technology help staff, while insurer Aflac is hiring sales associates.
The event also featured workshops on resume writing and interviewing skills, while several nonprofits set up booths yesterday, handing out information about free job-counseling sessions and skills-training programs.
Felicia Wells, a program manager at GenesisJobs, which helps Marylanders find and train for work, said she has seen an increase in clients seeking the group's help in the past year. More than ever, job counselors are seeing unemployed people who are older and have more job experience and skills.
"People are desperate across the board," she said.
Elizabeth Burrell, 51, of Pikesville has been out of work since November when she was laid off after 25 years at Solo Cup Co., the maker of food and beverage containers, which has a plant in Owings Mills.
Burrell said she has gotten one response from a potential employer after sending out numerous applications.
"It hits you to see the amount of people out there looking for employment," she said, noting that she has attended a few job fairs in recent months.
Like several job-seekers, Burrell said she remains hopeful that the new year will bring better economic conditions, especially as Obama and Congress work on an economic recovery plan.
"I know the president-elect has a lot on his plate. It would be great if he could boost the economy. I believe he could accomplish that, but not right away," she said.
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How To Profit From Natural Gas
Americans aren't quick to embrace large-scale change, and the dependence on fossil fuels is no exception. Despite the attempts of the natural gas industry to position it as a cleaner, more efficient fuel, natural gas remains largely confined to household use.
TUTORIAL: The Industry Handbook: The Oil Services Industry
T. Boone Pickens made a fortune in the oil industry. In 2008, he launched an $82-million campaign to promote the Pickens Plan, an initiative to drastically reduce the United States' dependence on foreign oil. At the heart of this plan is the use of natural gas in trucks and buses, which would naturally lead to adoption in personal vehicles. The plan didn't immediately get attention, but in November, after repeated attempts to gain momentum in Washington, the NAT GAS Act of 2011 was introduced to Congress, with the intent of encouraging the use of natural gas in automobiles. This may be good news to the natural gas industry, as well as Pickens, but does the everyday consumer benefit?
If the bill passes as it was introduced, consumers who purchase a natural gas powered vehicle could receive a tax credit of up to $7,500 for a smaller vehicle and up to $64,000 for a larger truck. Up to 80% of the incremental cost of purchasing the vehicle could be eligible for the credit. (For related reading, see New Wheels: Lease Or Buy?)
A recent CNN study found that Americans are spending 9% of their total income on gas. That amounts to an average of $368.09 per month or $4,417.08 per year, just on fuel. A natural gas powered vehicle could cut your annual fuel costs by more than 50%. As of August 2011, natural gas for use in an automobile was less than $1.50 per gallon compared to gasoline powered vehicles filling up for more than $3.50.
Direct savings from the bill aren't the only way that consumers could see a potential profit from an increased use of natural gas, and Boone Pickens knows that. Pickens was a co-founder and his wife still remains a major shareholder in Clean Energy Fuels, a company that builds natural gas fueling stations.
Clean Energy Fuels is only a $856 million company, but if this bill is signed into law, this company, as well as other integrated energy companies like Chesapeake Energy Corporation, ConocoPhillips and Halliburton, would all see long term gains. If this bill passes, individual investors who are looking for energy stocks to add to their portfolio should include companies with large exposure to natural gas. (For related reading on natural gas, see Natural Gas Industry: An Investment Guide.)
The Bottom Line
The NAT GAS Act of 2011 has supporters from both parties. With more than 150 sponsors, Washington insiders believe that this bill has a high probability of passing. If it does, the benefits to the natural gas industry will be vast. The bill includes tax subsidies for companies that build natural gas filling stations, therefore, this money saving fuel will become more widely available to consumers, saving them a substantial amount of money; something desperately needed in an economy that has made consumers much more cost conscious. (For related reading on subsidies, see Government Subsidies For Business.)
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Alpha Chi Sigma –
Alpha Chi Sigma brings together people from all fields related to Chemistry.
Collegiate members benefit from a local group to not only help with their
studies, but also projects which teach the roles of leadership and management,
invaluable in their careers. We also provide an opportunity to create lifelong
friendships with others interested in chemistry.
American Chemical Society –
Student Affiliates – The Student Affiliate Chapter at NCSU is a means
by which students can become involved in the American Chemical Society. Activities
include tours of nearby research facilities at the Research Triangle Park,
trips to national and regional conferences, a student/faculty mixer to
acquaint students with faculty, and presentations by guest speakers
covering the entire spectrum of possible fields of study and careers
in chemistry or chemistry-related occupations.
Chemistry Graduate Student Association – The purpose of the
Chemistry Graduate Student Association is to provide Chemistry Graduate
Students with a voice in the University Graduate Student Association and
to function in conjunction with the North Carolina State University
Chapter of Phi Lambda Upsilon Honorary Chemistry Society, to promote
seminars, graduate student orientation events, and social events for
the Chemistry Department.
Materials Research Society –
In the late 1960's, the Materials Research Society was formed in an
effort to bring together people in the field of Materials Science. The
Society's core principles are centered around interdisciplinary, focused
symposia and fostering a greater interaction among researchers.
National Organization for the Professional
Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE) –
NOBCChE is committed to the discovery, transmittal, and application of
knowledge in the fields of science and engineering. The mission of
NOBCChE therefore is to build an eminent community of scientists and
engineers by increasing the number of minorities in these fields.
NOBCChE will achieve its mission through diverse programs designed to
foster professional development and encourage students to pursue careers
in science and technical fields.
Phi Lambda Upsilon – The Beta
Lambda Chapter of Phi Lambda Upsilon promotes chemistry through the
sponsorship of both scholarly and social activities.
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By Larry Birns, Director of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, and
Frederick B. Mills, Senior Research Fellow at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs
The spirit of Hugo Chávez, in death as in life, has inspired a region-wide movement to overcome five centuries of rampant inequality and eliminate crippling poverty. At the same time, much of Latin America has witnessed an upturn of experiments in more participatory forms of democracy that extend the concept of human rights to include intrinsic social and economic benefits.
There is a clear call for further equality as a greater good derived from public accessibility, rather than from private property. Instead of seeking to subvert such rare periods of enlightenment, the Obama administration, which might have displayed an act of grandeur and generosity, ought to have engaged in an act of bona fide change and in a spirit of mutual respect.
It is time to abandon a long history of ill-serving hemispheric policy driven by what has been called the Washington Consensus. Now is the moment to put aside the strategy of containment and subversion of democratic revolutions. Such an approach has fewer and fewer converts and belongs with the rubble the Berlin wall.
Chávez took up the Bolivarian sword, and with it a determination to advance the unfinished dreams not only of Bolivar, but of Allende, Arbenz, Cárdenas and other giants of the left who were murdered or disappeared before they could fulfill their legitimized populist democratic mandates. It was Chavez’s destiny to be linked to the unfinished business of his predecessors and the dramatic political transformations that have taken place throughout the region.
Perhaps one of Chavez’s great accomplishments in his relatively short life would be to have helped make the trend toward emancipation in the Americas irreversible. Indigenous peoples now can be seen rising up to defend their ancestral claims to their ancient land; nation states are reclaiming control over their natural resources; the poor are to an increasing degree becoming the protagonists of their own emancipation; and Latin America and the Caribbean are forming new associations that enhance their mutual interests.
Chavez’s repeated references to the Bolivarian cause are part of a general cultural development throughout the region to recuperate the historic memory from the point of view of the oppressed and those who championed their liberation. Many of the crimes against humanity perpetrated by the right wing regimes dotting the last three decades of the twentieth century are only just now being adjudicated by national and international courts of law.
For example, Rios Montt, the unforgiving former dictator of Guatemala who came to power during the 1982 coup and proceeded to unleash a reign of terror, is currently on trial. Lamentably, in the so called new world order, there seems to be no room in Washington’s foreign policy calculations to adjust, in a productive way, to this new reality and its exciting possibilities.
Washington’s natural proclivity for corporate elites unsurprisingly has formed the core of its hemispheric policy. The bottom line is that structural changes in the region mean that some of the previously privileged elements of the population will have to do with less and that national resources, in large part, will prudently be better invested in a process that prioritizes human needs and sustainable development. It is no surprise that given these priorities, Chávez had to confront a persistent and relentless hostile opposition both in Caracas and in Washington.
Hugo Chávez, like Bolivar, will continue to leave his mark on generations to come. Shamelessly, Washington could not afford a cost-free act of magnanimity and extend at least a perfunctorily warm abrazo to a nation where millions are grieving their great loss.
The Comandante Chávez, we can safely say, perhaps more than any other public personality of this generation, has helped to keep hope alive for the dispossessed of our hemisphere, while back in Washington, Obama’s campaign promise of a new relationship with Latin America has come apart brick by brick.
Perhaps now Washington might take into account the changing economic and political landscape to the South and forge a new hemispheric policy based on mutual respect.
The Council on Hemispheric Affairs, founded in 1975, is an independent, non-profit, non-partisan, tax-exempt research and information organization. It has been described on the Senate floor as being "one of the nation's most respected bodies of scholars and policy makers." For more information, visit www.coha.org or email email@example.com
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My personal opinion is that the dairy industry is feeling very threatened by the new popularity of soy products (as they tend to replace dairy products)...
I went to medical school for three years and from my knowledge the phyto-estrogenes found in soy are different from human estrogenes and subsequently have a different effect in the body. It is *not* proven that plant-derived estrogenes have harmful effects.
I am 38 weeks pregnant, on a vegan diet, and I eat soy products every day. I am perfectly healthy, and according to all the medical information I have received, my baby is too.
I don't know if this is due to my diet (wholefood organic vegan
) but I have had none of the typical pregnancy complaints: no oedema, no heartburn, no stretch marks, no back pain, no anemia, perfect blood pressure... and I still have LOTS of energy at 38 weeks!
If I am feeling this good, and my baby is this active, perky and happy, I don't see how my diet could be all that bad. www.vegfamily.com
has some good articles on soy, and doctors and nutritionists opinions on it.
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Mentions Dutch translation [of Origin].
Discusses evolutionary origin of sexuality.
Asa Gray's suggestion that variation was directed by a higher power and Herschel's view of providential arrangement in nature.
Compares variation in domestic and wild species.
Asks CL for introductions for his son William in Southampton, where he has joined a bank.
2. Hesketh Crescent. Torquay
My dear Lyell
Emma has gone a little tour with Etty, but I have forwarded
Lady Lyell's letter with the sad account of M
I declare that you read the Reviews on the Origin more carefully than I do.— I agree with all your remarks.— The point of correlation struck me as well put, & on varieties growing together; but I have already begun to put things in train for information on this latter head, on which Bronn also enlarges.—
With respect to Sexuality, I have often speculated on it, & have always
concluded that we are too ignorant to speculate— no physiologist can
conjecture why the two elements go to form the new being; & more than that why
nature strives at uniting the two elements from two individuals; what I am now
working at, viz Orchids, is admirable illustration of the law.— I
There is another point on which I have occasionally wished to say a few
words.— I believe you think with Asa Gray that I have not allowed enough for
the stream of variation having been guided by a Higher power.— I have had lately a good deal of correspondence on
this head. Herschel in his Phy. Geograph. has
sentence with respect to the Origin something to the effect that the higher
law of providential arrangement sh
I doubt whether I have made what I think clear; but certainly A. Gray's notion of the course of variation having been led, like a stream of water by Gravity, seems to me to smash the whole affair. It reminds me of a Spaniard whom I told I was trying to make out how the Cordillera were formed; & he answered me that it was useless for ``God made them''. It may be said that God foresaw how they would be made. I wonder whether Herschel would say that you ought always to give the higher providential Law, & declare that God had ordered all certain changes of level that certain mountains should arise.— I must think that such views of Asa Gray & Herschel merely show that the subject in their minds is in Comte's theological stage of science.—
I have one other very distinct subject. William will, I apprehend, now certainly join
Of course I do not want any answer to my quasi theological discussion: but only for you to think of my notions, if you understand them.
I hope to Heaven your long & great labours on your new Edit. are drawing to a close.
Farewell | My dear Lyell | Yours most truly | C. Darwin
Very kind remembrances to all your party.—
- f1 3223.f1Dated by the endorsement. The first of August fell on a Thursday in 1861.
- f2 3223.f2Emma Darwin's diary records that she and Henrietta Emma Darwin, accompanied by Hope Elizabeth Wedgwood (the youngest daughter of Hensleigh and Fanny Mackintosh Wedgwood), went on a tour of the Dartmoor area of Devon from 30 July until 5 August. Their tour included visits to Ashburton, Holne Chase, Lushleigh, Whyddon Park, Chagford, Fingle Bridge, and Drewsteignton. According to Henrietta Litchfield, this was the only tour Emma Darwin `ever took without the family in all her married life.' (Emma Darwin 2: 178).
- f3 3223.f3Frances Elizabeth Longfellow, wife of the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, was burned to death in her home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, after her dress caught fire. She was the sister of Mary Mackintosh, the wife of Robert Mackintosh, who was the brother of Fanny Mackintosh Wedgwood.
- f4 3223.f4The address is that of CD's brother, Erasmus Alvey Darwin, where CD stayed when in London.
- f5 3223.f5Winkler trans. 1860. The Dutch palaeontologist Tiberius Cornelius Winkler had sent a copy of the translation to Lyell to be forwarded to CD. See letter from T. C. Winkler, 7 July 1861.
- f6 3223.f6CD probably refers to George Maw's review of the third edition of Origin (Maw 1861a). The points he refers to are addressed in Maw's review and in Heinrich Georg Bronn's criticism of Origin in chapter 15 of Bronn trans. 1860. See letters to George Maw, 13 July , and to H. C. Watson, [17 July 1861].
- f7 3223.f7On CD's views on the origin and functional importance of sexual dimorphism in evolution, see Ghiselin 1969 and Hodge 1985.
- f8 3223.f8Thwaites 1847.
- f9 3223.f9Asa Gray argued in A. Gray 1861a that natural selection and natural theology were consistent if one conceived of the `stream' of variations, from which nature selects, as having been `guided' or `designed'. For the correspondence between Gray and CD on this point, see Correspondence vol. 8, letters to Asa Gray, 3 July , and 26 November . See also letters to Asa Gray, 5 June and 21 July .
- f10 3223.f10In addition to the letters to Gray (see n. 9, above), see the letters to J. F. W. Herschel, 23 May , and to F. J. Wedgwood, 11 July .
- f11 3223.f11Herschel 1861, p. 12 n.
- f12 3223.f12Auguste Comte viewed the development of knowledge as having progressed through three stages: theological, metaphysical, and positive. CD had read an extensive review of the first two volumes of Comte's Cours de philosophie positive (Comte 1830--42) in 1838 (see Correspondence vol. 2, letter to Charles Lyell, September ).
- f13 3223.f13William Erasmus Darwin was preparing to become a partner in the Southampton and Hampshire Bank.
- f14 3223.f14The sixth edition of Lyell's Elements of geology did not in fact appear until 1865. The delay was due to Lyell's eventual decision to publish the results of his study of the antiquity of man as a separate volume (C. Lyell 1863) rather than as a section within Elements.
- f15 3223.f15The Lyells were staying in Folkestone, Kent. Among their party was George Bentham (K. M. Lyell ed. 1881, 2: 347--8).
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A few key insights that I have gleaned from my reporting.
The DoD is generally considered to be exceptionally good at emergency care – perhaps the best in the world for traumatic injuries. However, its focus is on returning soldiers to duty, to getting them back to the fight. As a result, the DoD medical system is not well designed for, and often not particularly good at, chronic problems. These are things like serious cases of PTSD, long-term problems arising from traumatic brain injuries and other so-called invisible wounds. Soldiers with chronic problems often wind up in a holding pattern, waiting to be discharged from the military.The process by which the DoD processes medical discharges is complicated and filled with delays. Army Gen. Peter Chiarelli tacitly acknowledged this in recent roundtable where he noted, accurately, that nobody ever does stories about military treatment of amputees or burn victims – the negative press is all centered on PTSD and TBI.
- In many medical circles, the VA is considered to provide pretty decent health care. However, since it also handles disability issues, that care is often overshadowed by the controversy over benefits.
- Tricare is one of the country’s most generous health plans, in terms of how much you have to pay for it. However, it has trouble in providing access to doctors, especially in rural areas. And its high cost freaks out the DoD. When Sec. Robert Gates talks about growing medical expenditures “eating the Defense Department alive,” he’s talking about Tricare and its ever-expanding pool of beneficiaries. The military now spends about $12 billion per year on medical care – the equivalent of developing a new weapons system every year from now through eternity.
- The DOD health system is supposed to work as a smooth, functioning whole. It does not. In practice, each branch (the Army, Navy, Air Force) has its own Surgeon General, who is the highest ranking medical officer. They do not always agree on the best way to do things. For instance, the Army gives out Purple Hearts to any soldier who suffers a concussion, whether knocked out or not. The Marine Corps, operating with the advice of its own doctors, has decided to only award Purple Hearts to Marines who were visibly unconscious. Although in the civilian world, there’s no distinction between the two types of concussion, the Marine Corp and Army simply have decided to disagree.
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Field Marshall Douglas Haig is most associated with the Battle of the Somme in World War One. Douglas Haig was Britain’s commander-in-chief during the Somme battle and took much criticism for the sheer loss of life in this battle.
Haig was born in 1861 in Edinburgh. He was commissioned in the cavalry in 1885 and served both in the campaigns in the Sudan and in the Boer War in South Africa between 1899 and 1902. In the Boer War Haig served with distinction and he was swiftly promoted to the War Office. Here Haig helped to implement the military reforms of Richard Haldane.
In August 1914, when the war started, Haig was the general commanding the First Army Corps. He and his men fought at the Battle of Mons and the first Battle of Ypres. In December 1915, Haig succeeded Sir John French as commander-in-chief of the British Army in the Western Front.
Haig had little time for new military ideas. He was very much steeped in the ways that he knew – conventional tactics. In 1916, Haig put his belief in one final mighty push against the Germans to be executed in the Somme region of France. The French had been asking for some form of military assistance from the British to help them in their battle with the Germans at Verdun. Haig’s plan was to launch an attack on the Germans that would require them to remove some of their troops from the Verdun battlefield thus relieving the French in Verdun.
The Somme led to the loss of 600,000 men on the Allies side; 400,000 were British or Commonwealth troops. When the battle had ended, they had gained ten miles of land. Haig has been criticised by some for his belief in the simple advance of infantry troops on enemy lines. With 20,000 Allied soldiers killed on Day One and 40,000 injured, some historians have claimed that Haig should have learned from these statistics and adjusted his tactics. He did not. However, the Somme attack was not just about antiquated tactics as the battle witnessed the use of the rolling artillery barrage that should have helped the Allied troops as they advanced. That it did not was more a comment on the fact that the Germans had dug in more deeply than British intelligence had bargained for and was less susceptible to artillery fire. Once the artillery firing had stopped, the British had all but signaled that the infantry was on its way.
The tank was first used en masse at the Somme but it did not receive the enthusiastic backing of Haig – though many senior cavalry officers were against the tank and Haig was not alone in his suspicion of it as a weapon.
Haig served until the end of the war. He was created an earl for his leadership in 1919. He died in 1928, but spent the last few years of his life working for ex-servicemen, though primarily those who had been disabled in the war. Haig was a leading light in the “Poppy Day Appeal” and the British Legion movement.
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