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“Jesus is Christianity’s founder,” writes Chilton, “but Paul is its maker.”
No news there: the Pauline contribution to Christianity has been well documented. But Chilton (Religion/Bard College; Rabbi Jesus, 2000) capably complicates the story, teasing out the elements of Paul’s making as they grew from his knowledge of many religious and philosophical practices. Peter and James and other of the disciples saw their faith as an extension of Judaism, so that “non-Jews who wished to be baptized in Jesus’ name . . . had to submit to the Torah as God-fearers—remaining Gentiles but acknowledging the Law of Moses.” But Paul—a native of Tarsus, that center of Greco-Roman stoic philosophy, and early inclined against mysticism by virtue of his training as a Pharisee and in all events a onetime persecutor of Christians—conceived of a universal church that would allow Gentiles to “inherit the sonship that was Israel’s gift to the world without accepting the Law.” That view bordered on heretical, and Paul “managed to scandalize both Jews and Gentiles with exactly the same message.” Other Pauline messages continue to cause controversy; notes Chilton, “He wrote that women in Corinth should shut up in church,” and “he despised homosexuality.” For all those “parochial prejudices,” Chilton observes, many of the ideas that make Paul “the apostle . . . many contemporary Christians—and non-Christians—love to hate,” are post-Pauline, even if Paul may well have endorsed them. Paul’s triumph, Chilton suggests, and the summation of his intellectual quest was the discovery of spirit, the notion that the truer self lay beyond the material and the physical; in doing so, he shifted the emphasis of Christianity from the realization of the kingdom of God on earth to the discovery of “the Christ within one’s being.”
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sri sri guru gauranga jayatah!
Year-5, Issue 12Posted: 2 January 2013
Dedicated tonitya-līlā praviṣṭa oṁ viṣṇupāda
Śrī Śrīmad Bhakti Prajñāna Keśava Gosvāmī Mahārāja
Inspired by and under the guidance ofnitya-līlā praviṣṭa oṁ viṣṇupāda
Śrī Śrīmad Bhaktivedānta Nārāyaṇa Gosvāmī Mahārāja
Those Who Should Not Live in the Maṭha
by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda
Question 1: Who should be staying in the maṭha (monastery)?
Answer: There is no necessity for those who are interested in physical yogic exercises to stay in our maṭhas, nor is there any necessity for those who conceive of themselves as dignified officers. Only bhaktas ought to stay in the maṭha.
If all those who are only interested in eating and in sensual pleasure, but who have taken shelter of the facility of the maṭha, were asked to leave, one after the other, it would reduce the expenses for the maṭha and minimize other worldly troubles.
All those who do not follow the principles and ideals of the maṭha, who lack humility, and who are not inclined to follow the path of bhakti under the guidance of śrī guru, should be sent home in all their pride and insubordination. Even if this reduced the numbers of our ranks, it would still be good. Whoever does not engage in hari bhajana and instead spends their time hankering for acquisition, adoration and recognition, money, and the association of the opposite sex, should not be allowed to stay in the maṭha, for they are inwardly opposed to the very purpose of the maṭha.
“I have stayed in the maṭha for a long time. I have done so much for the maṭha. I shall therefore eat the best prasādam and wear the best cloth. I should certainly be instated in a leading position and I should be respected highly. Indeed, I am entitled to a prominent share of the ownership and management of the maṭha.”
These attitudes, which are against bhakti, should be nipped at the bud. Such disturbing thoughts arise when one remains engaged in doubting, criticizing and talking about others.
“I am expert at so many things,” “I am very intelligent,” “I am such a good speaker,” “I am a very good singer” – we should never allow ourselves to be overwhelmed by these thoughts, for they are opposed to bhakti. We should be humbler than a blade of grass. Someone may attack us or criticize us, but even then it is better to tolerate it and engage in chanting the holy names. At those times, we should think, “today, the Supreme Lord has mercifully provided me an opportunity to become humbler than a blade of grass.” When someone engages in directly reviling us, we should see that the Supreme Lord has arranged for us to attain our true welfare.
Question 2: Who does the maṭha have nothing to do with?
Answer: The maṭha can never have any connection with those who have taken shelter of it, outwardly agreeing to follow its principles, but who, shackled by their own duplicity, intend to misuse the transcendental knowledge they shall acquire there.
“I need a boat and a boatman to cross a river. So, too, do I presently need the assistance of a guru.” So many people have accepted me as their guru with no more than this consideration. They had not even seen me for a single day, nor had I associated with them even once, nor will I ever associate with them for the rest of my life. Such hypocrites had not previously displayed any duplicity, but because of making offences to the lotus feet of their guru and to the Vaiṣṇavas, they became deviated from the path of hari-bhakti and were again entrapped by worldly desires.
Question 3: Who does Śrī Bhagavān attract?
Answer: Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the son of Śrī Nanda, is Bhagavān Himself. That Śrī Kṛṣṇa attracts the entirety of creation. Śrī gurudeva is kṛṣṇa-preṣṭha, Śrī Kṛṣṇa’s most beloved, and He is the personification of Śrī Kṛṣṇa’s attracting potency. The only truly attractive entity is the truly and permanently existing one (vastava-vastu). Who does He attract? The magnet attracts iron but not wood. In the same way, our master, Śrī Bhagavān, only attracts His servant as well as one who even has the inclination to serve Him. The servant and those who are inclined to serve (sevonmukha) are attracted by the love, mercy and sweetness of the Master. That all-attractive being, through His inconceivable potency, tugs all the attracted beings along. If the attracted beings become distracted by some other object midway, or somewhere along the path, then they have deviated from the fundamental source of all attraction.
On one side we find attraction to the material world, which is the cause of bondage and simply leaves us in a state of deprivation, and on the other side we find attraction to Śrī Kṛṣṇa. The attractive things of this world – the sights, tastes, sounds, and sensations exist in very close proximity to us. Since we are weak, we become attracted by them. Therefore, we should hear hari-kathā from a living source – that is, a powerful saintly person. We shall only be protected from that foe of ours, which lives so close to us, if we continually hear hari-kathā from saints and śrī guru. If we do not fall under the sway of attraction to Śrī Kṛṣṇa, we are bound to be attracted by māyā, His potency of illusion.
Question 4: Who are the tarka-panthī (adherents to the path of speculative reason and argument)?
Answer: As long as one follows the path of argumentative speculation and reason, or tarka-panthā, one remains unable to receive the audience of śrī guru. A truth separate from the words of Śrīla Gurudeva can never exist. The path of tarka is that path in which one pursues the doubts and conflicting thoughts that arise in order to test the authenticity of that single truth. It is nothing more. The adherent of this path disobeys śrī gurudeva. Only śrī gurudeva is capable of clearing all of our doubts and refuting all opposing opinions. An argument based in reason alone cannot be permanently established. The truths that manifest when knowledge is transferred via hearing scriptural revelation – which is the purest path – are unalterable. One who bestows such unchangeable truth is known as śrī gurudeva. The reasoning present in the argumentative consciousness of one who is rebellious toward śrī guru represents disobedience to śrī guru and scripture.
When we invoke the methodology of argumentative reason in our interactions with śrī guru, when we try to measure śrī guru through the filters of knowledge we have acquired with our material senses, when we do not follow in his footsteps but imitate him instead, then we inevitably meet with inauspiciousness or even spiritual annihilation. Only when we completely discard such depravity upon surrendering to the lotus feet of śrī gurudeva, shall we achieve spiritual welfare.
Wealth, knowledge, skill, intelligence and bravado are not the goal of life for a devotee of the Lord, for, by these, we end up committing the offence of disobeying śrī guru and the Vaiṣṇavas, and then, as a result, we are deprived of service to śrī guru and Śrī Kṛṣṇa.
Question 5: Should one make a special effort to associate with Vaiṣṇavas [dedicated servants of śrī guru]?
Answer: Definitely. Association of śrī guru and those Vaiṣṇavas who are resolutely dedicated to śrī guru (who have guru-niṣṭha) is specifically beneficial. If I, who am so unqualified, do not associate with the Vaiṣṇavas, how will I learn Vaiṣṇava etiquette, how to serve Śrīla Gurudeva, and so on? We always require an ideal role-model in front of us. Without the association of a Vaiṣṇava who has resolute dedication to guru (guru-niṣṭhā), resolute dedication to nāma (nāma-niṣṭhā) and resolute dedication to sevā (sevā-niṣṭhā), we can never attain resolute dedication to guru ourselves, nor a feeling of divine possessiveness toward śrī guru, nor the feeling of awe and reverence for śrī guru like that which we feel for the Supreme Lord, nor the inclination to serve śrī guru. If the selfless guru-niṣṭhā-vaiṣṇava who already has resolute dedication for śrī guru does not teach me how to render service to śrī guru and how to behave with śrī guru, then even upon attaining the shelter of sad-guru, a true spiritual master, I shall be bereft of service to him, as if losing a precious jewel I have only just found.
Translated by the Rays of The Harmonist teamfrom Śrīla Prabhupādera UpadeśāmṛtaQuestions re-numbered for this on-line presentation
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Originally Posted by Efrain Barragan on Sunday, November 6, 2011
In September, Clif Family Farm became Food Alliance Certified. We are very excited about this certification as it brings us another step along the way to fulfilling our sustainability mission - to craft unique, regional wine and foods using practices that care for the earth; to support growers who use sustainable, organic farming methods; and to contribute to a more vibrant, healthy food community.
Food Alliance is a comprehensive third-party certification that focuses on the following critical elements of sustainability in the agriculture and food industry:
· Providing safe and fair working conditions
· Provide healthy, humane care for livestock
· Reduce pesticide use and toxicity
· Conserve soil and water resources
· Protect and enhance wildlife habitat
· Continually improve management practices
Food Alliance certifies more than 320 operations and six million acres throughout Northern California. At Clif Family Farm, the certification includes our vegetable gardens and fruit orchard, allowing us to offer the local community the first CCOF organic certified and Food Alliance certified CSA box in Northern California.
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January 23, 2008
In one episode of Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s groundbreaking PBS series African American Lives 2, Chris learned about his roots. On the show, Dr. Gates revealed that Chris' great-great-grandfather, Julius Caesar Tinghman, had served as a corporal in the U.S. Colored Troops during the Civil War. By the time he died in 1917, Julius had gone from being a slave with no possessions to owning 65.5 acres of land.
Chris told Oprah his experience with Dr. Gates was unbelievable. "Even while it was going on, he was telling me, 'Your great-great-grandfather owned property,' and 'Your great-great-grandfather did all this stuff.' I thought I was being punk'd. I really did," Chris joked. "I thought Ashton Kutcher was going to come from behind something and go, 'You know your grandfather was nothing but a slave. You know he just mopped up for white people. Come on, we got you.'" | <urn:uuid:314d0834-b59f-41e7-877a-e43c60f7a3c4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.oprah.com/oprahshow/Chris-Rocks-Oprah-Show-Appearances/12 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00057-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.992789 | 215 | 2.171875 | 2 |
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LONDON – People who post offensive messages on social networks such as Facebook and Twitter should face criminal charges only if their comments are harassing or threatening and not simply in bad taste, according to new legal guidelines in Britain that follow a spate of controversial prosecutions.
Free-speech advocates here have been alarmed in recent months by a number of incidents in which users of social media have been arrested and jailed for posting messages that others deemed repugnant. A 2003 law authorizes such harsh punishment for “indecent, obscene or menacing” communications sent through a public electronic network.
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Thursday, November 11, 2010
County Grounds: invasive teasel infests the Monarch Trail
Followers of Urban Wilderness will be familiar with the Milwaukee County Grounds from my many previous posts. Among many other virtues, it hosts the Monarch Trail, which is a uniquely valuable stop over point for the migrating butterflies. The habitat that supports this migration has been curtailed severely by the developments that have been taking place and has been reduced to a vestige. Still, this year’s migration was one of the more spectacular ones in recent years and many people visited the trail and the grounds and enjoyed the marvelous sight of massed butterflies.
Development isn’t the only threat to the habitat. Invasive species posed another serious threat. Teasel, pictured here, is especially rampant on and around the Monarch Trail. A small, dedicated group of Friends of the Monarch Trail have been pulling teasel in an effort to keep ahead of the onslaught but it is an uphill battle.
Next Wednesday horticulturist Carrie Hennessy and a crew from Johnson’s Nursery have graciously offered to remove teasel pro bono from portions of the site. They can use your help.
When: Wednesday, November 17th
Rain Date: Thursday, November 18th
Time: 9:00 am until ?
Where: Milwaukee County Parks Department
9480 Watertown Plank Road, Wauwatosa, WI 53226
Please get out and help if you can. Make sure to dress for the weather – in layers in case you get overheated. Bring sturdy gloves and a good set of loppers. Come for an hour or stay the whole day!
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William Henry HarrisonU.S. President
Born: 9 February 1773
Died: 4 April 1841 (pneumonia)
Birthplace: Charles City County, Virginia
Best known as:
President of the United States, March-April, 1841
William Henry Harrison had the shortest term in office of any American president: 32 days. Harrison was the son of Benjamin Harrison, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. William made a name for himself in the early Indian Wars and was rewarded with the governorship of the Indiana Territories, where he served from 1800-1812. He is most famous for his victory over the Shawnee chief Tecumseh at the battle at Tippecanoe Creek (November 7, 1811). The incident earned Harrison the nickname "Old Tippecanoe." After serving in the House and the Senate, Harrison retired and settled with his wife Anna at their farm in North Bend, Ohio. The Whigs drafted him for the presidency and he won the election of 1840. Harrison, 68 years old and not in the best health, gave a 100-minute inaugural speech in the snow without hat or overcoat, caught pneumonia, and died a month later. He was succeeded by his vice president, John Tyler.
Harrison's nickname led to a memorable campaign slogan, "Tippecanoe and Tyler too!"... Harrison's grandson Benjamin Harrison became the 23rd president of the United States in 1889, 48 years after Harrison took office.
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OI, Fukui Pref. — Hundreds of out-of-town protesters gathered Sunday evening at the Oi nuclear power plant in Fukui Prefecture in a last-ditch attempt to stop the reactivation of its No. 3 reactor.
The Oi plant is the first in the country to be reactivated after inspection since last year’s Fukushima nuclear crisis. All the nation’s commercial reactors have been offline since early May.
Kansai Electric Power Co. said it was planning to start removing the No. 3 reactor’s control rods at 9 p.m. The utility aims to achieve a sustained nuclear fission chain reaction, known as criticality, early Monday, and begin transmitting power Wednesday from the plant, which sits on the Sea of Japan coast. Full operation will likely be possible by July 8.
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“We want to replace decimal numeration by dozenal,” is the aim of the Dozenal Society of Great Britain. That will give you the necessary clue to its meaning — it’s from the word dozen and it refers to a system of counting by twelves. You’re much more likely to be familiar with the well-established duodecimal. If you did New Maths as a child you might also remember base 12.
In a dozenal system, with counting based on twelve, not ten, the number “100” would mean 144 in our base-ten counting system, and twelve “dozades” (each twelve years long) would make up a grossury, with 144 decimal years.
Coast Lines, by Mark S Monmonier, 2008.
Dozenal is a rare adjective (sometimes a noun for an advocate of the numbering system) that’s absent from every dictionary on my shelves, though it does appear occasionally in technical literature as well as in reports about the system:
Dozenals contend much of life already is divided into twelves: People buy dozens of eggs and dozens of doughnuts. There are 12 months in the year and 12 inches to a foot.
Los Angeles Times, 17 May 1982.
Any popularity it has would seem to be the result of its adoption in its title about a couple of decades ago by the Dozenal Society of America (the successor to the old Duodecimal Society of America) and by its British cousin.
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Orange-based St. Joseph Health System plans to use RF Surgical Systems' radio-frequency detection device in its operating rooms in an effort to bolster patient safety throughout its network.
RF Assure Detection Technology finds and prevents retained surgical items (RSIs), such as sponges, gauze or towels, from being left inside a patient after a surgery has been completed. SJHS plans to utilize this new method in conjunction with other measures already in place throughout its system, including manually counting surgical materials.
“We are always looking for opportunities to implement evidenced-based technology as part of our commitment to continuously raise the bar on patient safety,” said Dr. Clyde Wesp, chief medical officer at SJHS. “The partnership with RF Surgical Detection will help provide additional patient safety measures in our hospitals utilizing a sustainable approach, which aligns with our desire to achieve perfect care.”
SJHS is a $4.6 billion health-care system that operates facilities throughout California, Texas and New Mexico; the company employs 24,000 staffers.
Washington-based RF Surgical Systems' solutions prevent and detect retained surgical sponges. The company's RF Surgical Detection Technology is used in more than 1,000 operating rooms, and trauma and labor suites nationwide.
“RF Surgical is pleased to partner with St. Joseph Health System to bring radio-frequency detection technology into all of the operation rooms in the St. Joseph Health System," said Dr. Jeffrey Port, founder and chairman of RF Surgical Systems. "We are excited to support St. Joseph Health System’s leadership in patient safety and committed efforts for achieving optimal care.”
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|Point Atkinson, BC|
Description: Perched atop a rocky bluff, Point Atkinson Lighthouse winks its watchful eye letting cruise ships and mariners know they have left ‘the city’ and are finally now ‘at sea.’
Point Atkinson was named by Captain Vancouver, for a “particular friend” on July 4, 1792, when Vancouver sailed past the rocky peninsula aboard the Discovery’s yawl. Today, Lighthouse Park encompasses the point at the entrance of Burrard Inlet and sixty-five hectare (185 acres) of virgin forest, which were set aside in 1881 to serve as a dark backdrop to the lighthouse.
The isolation was too much for Ann Woodward, and five years later, after having given birth to her third child and West Vancouver’s first white child, the family moved to a farm in Ontario. The second keeper, R.G. Wellwood stayed less than a year.
The third keeper, Walter Erwin came to the station in 1880 and stayed a bit longer, three decades. Erwin, one of the original homesteaders of West Vancouver, owned a large tract of land near the lighthouse, now an affluent neighbourhood known as Cypress Park.
When fog shrouded Point Atkinson, ship captains would sound three rapid blasts of their ship’s horn, prompting the lightkeeper to pump away at a hand horn until the ship signaled it was okay to stop. This changed in 1889, when Canadian Pacific Steamships requested that a fog alarm be added to the station at Point Atkinson. This greatly increased the keeper’s workload, as the foghorn, located in a structure west of the lighthouse, now had to operate any time there was fog or smoke within four miles of the station. In 1896, Erwin logged 1450 hours manning the signal. The first horn, a “Scotch Horn,” was a steam pressure affair which spun a rotating drum, similar in design to a kazoo. In 1902, this horn was replaced by a diaphone fog alarm.
Erwin was given a raise of $300 to hire an assistant to help run the fog signal, but the cheapest help he could find cost $600 a year, so Erwin’s salary of just $700 was nearly cut in half.
In 1905, Erwin, who suffered from arthritis, a common malady of lighthouse keepers, fell down the tower ladder, injuring his leg. His doctor recommended a soak in Harrison Hot Springs, but when this didn’t provide relief, specialists removed a portion of “diseased bone” from his leg. Forced to hire a second assistant to run the station during his fourteen-month recovery, Erwin found himself greatly in debt. He appealed to his superiors for financial assistance, feeling it was merited due to his twenty-six years of service and the fact that the injury occurred on the job. His plea was rejected as the Department of Marine and Fisheries feared setting precedence, and Erwin finally resigned in 1909, after hobbling about his duties for a few more years. In 1911, the mayor of Vancouver awarded Erwin the Imperial Service Medal on behalf of King George V in a ceremony help on the steps of City Hall.
Thomas Grafton, who had served for twenty-one years as Erwin’s assistant, succeeded him as keeper on April 1, 1910. During his tenure, the entire station was transformed. A new hexagonal tower, ringed with six rib-like buttresses and designed by Colonel William Anderson, was erected in 1912, along with a new keeper’s duplex and a fog alarm building, which housed internal combustion engines, air compressors, and diaphones. The tower, still in operation today, is 18 m (60 ft) tall with a focal plane of 33 m (108 ft), and has a signature of two white flashes every five seconds. The 1912 lighthouse was originally equipped with a third-order Fresnel lens.
started calm with light haze in bay. Pt Grey showing all morning dimly. Lightkeeper was killed instantly sometime before 6:00 a.m. from a dynamite blast which exploded accidently in his hand. The body was recovered at 7:15 a.m. by his younger son, drifting in the submerged boat about 200 yards off the point. Light W. wind during the day. Then calm with light fog drifting out of bay from 9:30 p.m. till midnight. S. shore lights in sight till midnight. Partly cloudy.
Lawrence applied to replace his father, having assisted at the station for many years, but instead the position was awarded to Ernie Dawe, a keeper at Ballenas Island.
1935 brought new technology to the station, when on September 28th a radio beacon was installed. Vessels with receivers could now pick up the signal from Point Atkinson beyond the range of its lights and horns.
Change also came to Lighthouse Park during World War II, when searchlights and gun emplacements were installed at Point Atkinson, Stanley Park, Narrows North and Point Grey. A road was cleared to the point, greatly improving access to the outside world for the keepers, and eighty conscripts (drafted soldiers), known as McKenzie’s Commandos, were housed in a cedar bunkhouse in the forest behind Point Atkinson. Today, the bunkhouse is known as the Sk’iwitsu House, which is available for community use, and a former dining hall serves as the Phyl Munday Nature House.
The only time during the war that Point Atkinson came under fire was when an instructor at Narrows North accidentally fired a twelve pound shell past the lighthouse.
Keeper Dawe left the station in 1961 and was succeeded by Gordon Odlum (1961-1974), James Barr (1975), and Oscar Edwards (1977 - 1980). The keepers duplex was replaced in the 1970s by two separate dwellings.
In 1980, Gerald Watson was made principal keeper and Donald Graham assistant keeper. Graham, a graduate of the University of Saskatchewan with a master’s degree in history, had moved his family to Victoria, British Columbia on the first leg of a journey to join an agricultural co-operative in Belize. While in Victoria, he answered an ad for a lightkeeper job and remained in British Columbia. His assignments included assisting at Point Atkinson, then Lucy Island and Bonilla Island. He was transferred back to Point Atkinson in 1980 and remained as keeper until 1996, when the station was automated. He and his wife stayed on at Lighthouse Park as groundskeepers.
During his time at Point Atkinson, he wrote two books, Keepers of the Light (1985) and Lights of the Inside Passage (1986) chronicling the British Columbia lighthouses and the lives of their keepers. The lighthouse community is deeply indebted to him for his substantial work. Mr. Graham passed away on October 8, 2003 of pancreatic cancer. His wife, Elaine, is currently head of the West Vancouver Historical Society’s Point Atkinson Light Station subcommittee and is working diligently to restore the structures at the station.
Point Atkinson was designated a National Historic Site in 1994. This virtual museum contains a lot of interesting Point Atkinson photographs and stories.
Keepers: Edward Woodward (1874 – 18769), R. G. Wellwood (1879 – 1880), Walter Erwin (1880 – 1910), Thomas David Grafton (1910 – 1933), Lawrence Walter Grafton (1933 – 1935), Ernest Charles Dawe (1935 – 1961), Gordon Odlum (1961 – 1974), Oscar Edwards (1977 – 1980), Gerald D. Watson (1980 – 1996), Donald Graham (1980 – 1996).
Located in Lighthouse Park in West Vancouver, where it marks the north side of the entrance to Vancouver Harbour. The third-order Fresnel lens used in the lighthouse is still located at the station, but tours of the facilities have not been offered for many years.
The lighthouse is owned by the Canadian Coast Guard. Grounds open, tower closed.
The third-order Fresnel lens used in the lighthouse is still located at the station, but tours of the facilities have not been offered for many years.
The lighthouse is owned by the Canadian Coast Guard. Grounds open, tower closed.
Notes from a friend:Kraig writes:
When you arrive at Lighthouse Park, be sure and pick up an informational brochure at the kiosk or trailhead as it provides you a good map for the many trails in the park. To reach the lighthouse, walk down the paved road (Beacon Lane Trail) until it ends. When we were there in 2009, there was a sign near the gate across the driveway to the keeper's dwelling that said visitors were welcome to walk down the driveway when the gate is open. If you do so, you can get this view of the lighthouse. If you go back up the hill a shore distance, and then go west, you will reach Lighthouse Viewpoint, where there is a stone monument that lists the keepers of the Point Atkinson Lighthouse and from where you can get this view of the lighthouse. Continuing west from Lighthouse Viewpoint for 400 feet, you can take West Beach Trail, which leads down to the shore and gives you what I believe are the best views of the lighthouse. It is best to be at West Beach in the late afternoon and evening.
See our List of Lighthouses in British Columbia Canada
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Friday, December 9th, 2011
Reading Peggy Bendroth’s discussion of the Christian Right’s involvement in U.S. politics has prompted me to think about evangelicals’ involvement in contemporary South Korean politics. Evangelicals have always been involved in the politics of South Korea—i.e., the Republic of Korea—ever since the state was founded in August 1948.
Three of the nine South Korean presidents have been evangelicals—Syngman Rhee (1948–1960), Kim Young Sam (1993-1998), and Lee Myung Bak (2008-2012), the current president. And in the past couple of decades Protestants, mostly evangelicals, have usually constituted about forty percent of the members of the National Assembly, the highest legislative body in the country—this in a country where Christians constitute 29.1 percent of the population, 10.9 percent of whom are Catholics and 18.2 of whom are Protestants, again mostly evangelical.
Given such a record, it is no surprise that politically-minded evangelicals are abuzz with activity this year, for looming large in their mind is the 2012 election year, in which the country will choose a new president and vote on most of the seats in the National Assembly. Among these evangelicals, a minority has caused a stir by forming political parties that are specifically identified as Christian.
The stir arose because most Korean evangelicals think it is bad taste to have the word “Christian” in the name of a political party: they prefer Christians to engage in politics by working in established parties. A minority of evangelicals, however, have seen otherwise. They avow that South Korean politics and society have become so corrupt and leftist that nothing less than an explicitly Christian political party will make any difference—and they believe there are a great many people in the pews who share their views.
Their contention was put to test in the 2004 National Assembly election, for which the first explicitly Christian (i.e., evangelical) party was formed. The Korean Christian Party (han’guk kidoktang) was formed with the blessing of prominent church leaders such as Cho Yonggi and Kim Chun-gon. But despite high hopes, the party flopped, winning only 1.1 percent of the vote: not enough to elect even a single candidate to the National Assembly.
The Korean Christian Party failed to overcome the evangelicals’ aversion to explicitly mixing religion and politics. This precedent, however, has not deterred the diehard advocates. Thus far this year, two Christian (evangelical) political parties are gearing up for next year’s election: another party named Korean Christian Party (han’guk kidoktang), different from the one that suffered defeat in 2004, and a party that was born of the joining two separate parties—The Party for Practicing Christian Love (Kidok sarang silch’ŏn’dang) and The Christian Democratic Freedom Party (Kidok minju jayudang)—the joining having taken place December 6, the party has not yet settled on a name.
These advocates have been making rounds in churches, espousing their cause, not shying away from engaging in debate with critics such as Son Bong-ho and Yi Mahn-yol, both highly respected evangelicals who have fiercely argued for the mainstream view, that evangelicals should first try to get their own houses in order before trying to fix society, that explicitly Christian political parties will only besmirch the good name of the faith, which is already under attack for insalubrious goings-on in many of the churches, and that forming such parties will invite religious discord, as it will likely galvanize, for example, Buddhists to form their own explicitly political party. The year 2012 will be an interesting year for those observing how evangelicals and politics intermesh—on both side of the big pond.
The figures are from the 2005 national census conducted by the South Korean government. The census indicated that 22.8 percent of South Koreans identified themselves as Buddhists. | <urn:uuid:30774acf-7270-42a5-9a7a-b592881d7f13> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.churchhistory.org/blogs/blog/tag/eastern-asia/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00044-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963433 | 825 | 1.679688 | 2 |
The WPCA has produced and commissioned a variety of resources on hospice and palliative care worldwide. These are available to download free from this site.
This position statements clarifies the WHO definition of palliative care as it applies in different geopolitical and economic settings.
This statement clarifies the WPCA position on euthanasia and assisted dying.
This position statement clarifies WPCA's position on palliative care as a human right.
This position statement clarifies the WPCA's position on palliative care and health system strengthening.
This new study by the Worldwide Palliative Care Alliance finds that, out of the world’s 234 countries, only 136 (58%) have one or more hospice or palliative care services available to seriously ill people and their families and carers. The mapping study, done in association with the International Observatory on End of Life Care at Lancaster University in the UK, was last carried out in 2006.
This research undertaken by the International Observatory on End of Life care studies palliative care development around the world.
The 'Palliative Care Toolkit: Improving care in resource-limited settings' was written to empower health workers in resource-poor settings to integrate palliative care into the work they are doing.
The Training Manual was produced to accompany the Toolkit. It contains strucutures teaching modules and resources which can help others use the Toolkit.
This Toolkit highlights the key advocacy tools that are specifically of relevance to hospice and palliative care organisations who wish to develop their advocacy work. It also provides examples of how these tools have been used and have worked in practice.
This document provides information about effective fundraising. It was produced by the Resource Alliance for the Worldwide Palliative Care Alliance membership.
The toolkit is to support the development of national hospice and palliative care associations. It is presented in three parts, each of which has its own web page portal. Each section begins with an actual association-building vignette from palliative care leaders around the world. These real-life examples are followed by a variety of tools, definitions, references and other resources to round out the challenge of association building.
This paper, written by Liz Gwyther from the Hospice Palliative Care Association of South Africa, provides a description of palliative care terms.
This charter is designed to clarify the relationship between donor and recipient. By ensuring both parties are aware of the other’s priorities and objectives, we hope to increase the sustainability of funding and improve donor’s successful meeting of objectives.
This document looks at the way palliative care supports people living with HIV and AIDS to improve their quality of life. The document particularly focusses on ageing, mental health, adherence to anti-retroviral therapy and pain.
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Poor bladder and bowel control is very common in children, causing worry for both parents and children. Being overweight and constipation are major health issues for Australian children, particularly at primary school age, where healthy habits are being formed for life.
Good toilet habits are important for everyone no matter what age, and it is vital to teach our children good habits for eating, drinking and toileting. Bladder & bowel issues for children can include:
- Wetting the bed - which is very common. More than 100,000 children in Australia are unable to control their bladder every night
- Toilet training - which can be a stressful time in the lives of both the parents and the child
- Going to school - can lead to bladder control problems where children are scared to use the toilets.
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Recent work by Ekant Veer and reported in the New Zealand Herald shows that uninformed voters are indeed far more responsive to celebrity endorsements than are informed voters.
Bath University's Dr Ekant Veer said while endorsement in the United States had long been part of the landscape and peaked last year with huge numbers of celebrities who openly backed Barack Obama's presidential campaign, Westminster democracies used celebrities rarely because of doubts about their credibility.
However, in research to be published in the European Journal of Marketing, the former Waikato University student has found good reason to turn that assumption on its head. Using advertisements which featured celebrities and non-celebrities, he asked 316 participants whether they would vote for the British Conservative Party.
He found that while endorsements did not work on those who rated themselves as having a high level of political understanding, for those who knew or cared little about politics the effects of having a celebrity on board made them more likely to vote for the party.
Academics who admit to half-hating their research results are rare, but that is where Dr Veer finds himself because political party strategists are likely to more effectively target celebrity endorsements to particular groups, he says.
"I hate the idea that a politician can pick this up and go 'sweet, we don't need people to think, we just need to find the biggest celebrity'. That's not good enough in my mind."
It's not surprising that those without much political knowledge will use celebrity or other endorsements as a way of making decisions. Indeed, much of the work on political ignorance suggests that this kind of cue-taking behaviour can enable the politically uninformed to vote as though they were informed. Unfortunately, much of that work is question-begging: if you can't decide for whom to vote, how can you decide to whom to listen for political cues? It really just pushes the problem back a step. Who's more likely to draw more votes for a candidate: an economist saying that candidate X's policy would improve economic growth by a percentage point more than candidate Y's policy, or some rugby or cricket star saying that candidate Y is a good fellow?
Veer goes on to argue for non-partisan celebrity "get out the vote" campaigns. Unfortunately, that seems likely to draw the least informed voters to the polls. Since we know that the politically uninformed are systematically biased compared to the politically informed, it's rather unclear to me why this is desirable.
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Today would have been Julia Child’s 100th birthday if she was still alive. Here is a short summary of here life.
The Life and Death of Julia Child
One hundred years ago today Julia Child was born. For those of you who (for some reason) can’t do basic math she was born on August 15, 1912. She was born in Pasadena, California and was the daughter of John and Julia Child. She attended Westridge School, Polytechnic School from fourth grade all the way up to ninth grade. After ninth grade she attended The Katherine Branson school which at the time was a boarding school. It is located in Ross, California. For her college years she went to Smith college and graduated with a major in English. After graduating college Child moved to New York City and got a job working as a copywriter in the advertising department of a furnishing firm called W. & J. Sloane. After working as a copywrite she returned to California in 1937 and spent four years writing for local publications and working in advertising.
Childs Part In WW2
During WW2 she joined the Office of Strategic Services or OSS because she was to tall to enlist in the Women’s Army Corps (WACs) or in the Navy’s WAVES. She worked as a typist at the OSS’s hedquarters in Washington. Due to her education she was given more responsibilities and worked as a top secret researcher reporting directly to the head of OSS. She worked for a year at the OSS Emergency Rescue Equipment Section (ERES) in Washington D.C. as a file clerk. For some of here more odd jobs she worked on producing a shark repellent to prevent sharks from blowing up ordinance targeting German U-boats. In 1944 she was moved to Kandy, Ceylon (which is now Sri Lanka) to catalog a great number of highly classified communications for the OSS stations in Asia. She was later moved to China where she received the Emblem of Meritorious Civilian award for her service. Her file was declassified in 2008 unlike other files.
Julia Childs First Experience with France
While in Ceylon she met Paul Cushing Child and the two were married on September 1, 1946 in Lumberville, Pennsylvania. They later moved to Washington D.C. Paul Child was a New Jersey native and had lived in Paris as an artist and poet. He introduced his wife to cuisine and was known for his sophisticated plate. He joined the United States Foreign Service and in 1948 the couple moved to Paris. The US State Department assigned Paul as an exhibits officer with the United States Information Agency. Julia and Paul Child never had any children. While in Paris she attended the famous Le Cordon Bleu cooking school. She then later studied with Max Bugnard and other master chefs privately. She joined a women’s cooking club called Cercle des Gourmetted. While in the club she met Simone Beck who was writing a French cookbook for Americans with her friend Louisette Bertholle. Beck asked Child to work with them to make the cookbook more appealing to Americans. In 1951 Child, Beck, and Bertholle began a cooking school for Americans women from Child’s kitchen and called it Le’ecole des trois gourmandes (The School for the Three Food Lovers). For the next 10 years the three moved around Europe and Finally moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts. They researched and tested recipes and Child translated the French into English. This made the recipes detailed, interesting, and Practical.
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Conflict has been waged with Spanish colonialists, the US who followed and finally the Philippines Government, but the Moro Islamic Liberation Front may have finally reached peace and a degree of autonomy sought in Mindanao and the adjoining islands of the southern chain. President Benigno Aquino III has made resolution of the current phase of the conflict a priority of his administration, but will it hold? If it does, it may also represent significant positive momentum for the Philippines as a whole to catch up with most of its neighbors to drive real economic growth. As in the case of Indonesia where resolution of the East Timor and Ache conflicts, the Philippines may become a driver of economic growth in Asia.
However, this is not the first such deal: a 1976 draft agreement fell through as did a 1196 agreement for semi-autonomy. A 2008 agreement was torpedoed by settler groups, who are largely Christian and oppose autonomy for the largely indigenous Muslim population.
The Moro are ethnically, culturally, linguistically and by religion distinct from the rest of the Philippines. They fougth Spanish colonialists and the US who gained control of the island chain in the late 19th Century after the Spanish-American War. The US tried to impose greater control over a series of small sultanates or datus. Conflict became brutal. History agrees that many of then America’s military veterans of the “Indian Plains wars” viewed the Moro in a similar light as the Native Americans: “the only good Indian is a dead one.” Several atrocities are documented as well as brutal battles. See Wikipedia Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moro_Rebellion (Above map courtesy of Wikipedia)
Benigno Aquino III, (Above with UNSG Ban Ki-moon) the son of the Philippines first freely elected President Corazon Aquino, (she was also widow of assassinated Benigno Aquino II chief opponent to dictator Ferdinand Marcos), has the standing to make the deal work. He has challenged establishment authority on several fronts, from the Catholic Church on birth control to corrupt politics dominated by family clans. Nonetheless, the deal could be exploited by his political enemies playing the always venomous nationalist card.
As a member of ASEAN, the Philippines still lags behind its neighbors economically despite size, resources and educated population. The Philippines also faces a challenge from China’s claims to some of its coastal islands and waters, as do many of its ASEAN neighbors. More than ever, the Philippines and the Moro need to give peace a chance. Read: “China Sea Islands Stepping Stones to Conflict”.
Also Read: Blog: “Divide & Conquer in South China Sea”.
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EVs Get One Plug to Rule Them All
- 2:25 PM
After years of struggle and strife, the geeks and gearheads at the Society for Automotive Engineers, along with U.S. and German automakers, have adopted a single charging standard for plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles. Finally, we have one plug to rule them all. Well, all except the Japanese. And Tesla.
The new plug and charging standard — known as J1772 Revision B or the slightly more memorable “Combo” — will be adopted by automakers throughout the States and Europe. It will allow EV owners to enjoy “quick charging” as public charging stations come online. SAE International worked with more than 190 automakers, suppliers and utilities to create the standard, which can handle up to 500 volts.
But first, a quick primer for the uninitiated. There are three ways to charge an EV. Level 1 uses a 120-volt line like your TV uses. Level 2 uses a 224-volt line like your dryer uses. A third method, the direct current “quick charge,” uses high voltage to do the job in as little as 30 minutes. You won’t find those monsters in your garage, though; they’ll be limited to fleets and public charging stations.
It took years for the SAE to adopt a standard for Level 1 and 2, a plug known as J1772, and it’s the one everyone uses. The Combo will handle Level 2 and quick charging, but not everyone will use it. Not yet, anyway.
General Motors and Ford (and presumably the Germans, though they haven’t confirmed it yet) will adopt the new standard, but the Japanese – particularly Nissan and Mitsubishi – are out in the cold because they’ve already backed Japan’s CHAdeMO standard. Because there are different connectors and software protocols involved, people driving the Nissan Leaf and Mitsubishi i won’t be able to use the new standard.
“We are disappointed that SAE has approved a fast-charging standard that will not accommodate more than 70 percent of the electric vehicles on U.S. roadways today,” Nissan America said in a statement. “At the time of launch, the Nissan Leaf was designed to comply with the CHAdeMO standard of quick charging, which was the only existing quick-charge standard certified at the time. All fast-charge-equipped electric cars on the road today support the CHAdeMO standard and Nissan felt this was the most logical path to global compatibility and consumer adoption.
Nissan will continue to work on all fronts to ensure that customers are provided with optimal charging technology and infrastructure.”
And then there’s Tesla, standing out in left field with a proprietary plug for the Roadster and another for the Model S.
That means any public charging stations will have to provide an array of plugs to suit everyone, which only compounds the question of when and where we’ll finally see the public charging infrastructure so many people have said we’ll need. Of course, the point is in many ways already moot, because you already have the charging infrastructure you’ll use most often: the plug in your garage.
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Curse of Scotland
The nine of diamonds. The two most plausible suggestions are these: (1) The nine of diamonds in the game of Pope Joan is called the Pope, the Antichrist of the Scotch reformers. (2) In the game of comette, introduced by Queen Mary, it is the great winning card, and the game was the curse of Scotland because it was the ruin of so many families.
Other suggestions are these. (3) The word “curse” is a corruption of cross, and the nine of diamonds is so arranged as to form a St. Andrew's Cross; but as the nine of hearts would do as well, this explanation must be abandoned. (4) Some say it was the card on which the “Butcher Duke” wrote his cruel order after the Battle of Culloden; but the term must have been in vogue at the period, as the ladies nicknamed Justice-Clerk Ormistone “The Nine of Diamonds” (1715). (5). Similarly, we must reject the suggestion that it refers to the arms of Dalrymple, Earl of Stair—viz. or, on a saltire azure, nine lozenges of the first. The earl was justly held in abhorrence for the massacre of Glencoe; so also was Colonel Packer, who attended Charles I. on the scaffold, and had for his arms “gules a cross lozengy or.”
Grose says of the nine of diamonds: “Diamonds ... imply royalty ... and every ninth King of Scotland has been observed for many ages to be a tyrant and a curse to the country.” —Tour Thro' Scotland, 1789.
It is a pity that Grose does not give the names of these kings. Malcolm III. was assassinated in 1046 by Macbeth, William was taken prisoner by Henry II. (died 1214), James I. was assassinated in 1437.
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The news is full of the tragic story of Baby P who was killed after sustained abuse. Once again Haringay Council is under investigation after the child was seen over 60 times by social workers, health visitors and a paediatrician who failed to diagnose a broken back and ribs just two days before he died.
The story is absolutely tragic, but sadly not unique. In fact one of the most significant child deaths, that of Victoria Climbie, was also in Haringay. The investigation into the death and Lord Laming’s recommendations led to the Every Child Matters report which has been one of the most significant initiatives around child protection and child welfare.
I have listened to a few different radio shows today, and one earlier in the day was asking the question “What is it like to be a child protection social worker?” The discussion was interesting with many people providing horror stories of massive caseloads, lack of resources, support etc. It was a well balanced discussion. However, this afternoon on the same radio station I have just listened to the presenter slating social workers and holding them fully responsible for the death of this child. Not mention of the vile people who actually battered this small child… oh no! It is the social workers’ fault that they did not prevent it.
I have no doubts that there were massive failings, both on the part of the local authority, but also on the part of all other professionals involved. What some of these people don’t seem to realise though is that being a child protection social worker is a scary profession. In fact, being a social worker in general is a scary job, but CP social workers have it especially bad in my opinion.
CP social workers have to death with aggressive people who don’t want social services input into their lives. They have to deal with traumatised, neglected children who have poor attachments and are needy and difficult. They have to deal with vast quantities of paperwork and bureaucracy. Even when they identify risks to children the process of being able to remove them is complicated and contentious and very often they do not have the resources to do it. Money is a big issue and it seems to me that most departments are more concerned about saving cash than saving lives.
Social workers have to cope with a severe lack of staff, and those who are recruited are often newly qualified and inexperienced in dealing with front-line CP work. Stress-levels are high and people are regularly off sick. On top of all this they have to live with the knowledge that a failure or bad decision on their part could mean that a child could die. And the icing on the cake is the possibility that that information could end up in the public domain and their name could be spread across the paper, along with questions asked about their competency to do their job.
Don’t’ get me wrong. I am not justifying what happened. I am just saying that being a social worker is a difficult job at the best of times. Being vilified in the press does not help and it certainly doesn’t promote social work as a positive profession. Child protection social workers deserve better. | <urn:uuid:ed9e0a2f-14a6-4ddd-963d-a387e832b489> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://auntiedoris.wibsite.com/2008/11/12/baby-p/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00047-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982679 | 642 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Climate targets will not be met without research strategy
The UK lacks a research strategy for meeting the targets set out in the 2008 Climate Change Act, according to a new report from Research Fortnight.
The Act requires an 80 per cent cut in CO2 emissions from 1990 levels to be made before 2050. But the report, which looked at research programmes across government, found there is no coordinated strategy on how to gain the knowledge needed to meet the requirements.
The lack of a strategy leaves the government open to duplication of research and missing out on the studies needed to meet targets, the report suggests.
Financing Climate Research: A guide for UK researchers and policymakers, published on 15 September, was compiled by a team of writers and researchers led by the publication’s comment and analysis editor John Dwyer.
The report finds there is no agreed figure for how much the UK's is spending on climate change research or where. Priorities of the government’s 10-year, £1 billion flagship climate research programme, Living With Environmental Change, do not align with the Climate Act, it adds.
The report also highlights particular fields, such as questions around climate ‘tipping points’ and forecasting, where further study should be commissioned. Capacity for social and behavioural research, as well as a general capacity to commission and process research, is lacking from the Department for Energy and Climate Change, it adds.
The report is designed for UK-based individuals and organisations applying for climate change research funds, and also for those who provide funding and includes information on UK funding sources compared to the EU.
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TDK Corporation presents the two new EPCOS C920 and C923 MEMS microphones.
With footprints of only 2.75 x 1.85 mm² each and an insertion height of 0.9 mm, they are among the smallest top-port microphones worldwide. Thanks to their low insertion height and their design, the air volume in the microphones is small, so that no resonances occur in the 10 kHz range. This results in outstanding audio quality with a flat frequency response.
In addition to this, the new MEMS microphones have a very good signal-to-noise ratio of 56 dB (C920) and 57 dB (C923) respectively. The C923 type offers a very flat frequency response even in the lowest frequency range of the audio spectrum. A high-pass filter that suppresses frequencies below 100 Hz is integrated into the C920 microphone. This means that no wind noise is transmitted, for instance.
At supply voltages of between 1.64 and 3.6 V DC, the current consumption is only 125 µA. These RoHS-compatible components have an output impedance of 260 Ω.
- Top-port microphone: In this design, the acoustic opening is located on the upper side of the component
- Smartphones and conventional mobile phones
Main features and benefits
- No resonance thanks to low air volume
- Outstanding audio quality with a flat frequency response
About TDK Corporation
TDK Corporation is a leading electronics company based in Tokyo, Japan. It was established in 1935 to commercialize ferrite, a key material in electronic and magnetic products. TDK's portfolio includes electronic components, modules and systems marketed under the product brands TDK and EPCOS, power supplies, magnetic application products as well as energy devices, flash memory application devices, and others. TDK focuses on demanding markets in the areas of information and communication technology and consumer, automotive and industrial electronics. The company has a network of design and manufacturing locations and sales offices in Asia, Europe, and in North and South America. In fiscal 2012, TDK posted total sales of USD 9.9 billion and employed about 79,000 people worldwide.
About TDK-EPC Corporation
TDK-EPC Corporation, a TDK group company, is the manufacturer of TDK’s electronic components, modules and systems and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. TDK-EPC was founded on October 1, 2009, from the combination of the electronic components business of TDK and the EPCOS Group. The product portfolio includes ceramic, aluminum electrolytic and film capacitors, ferrites, inductors, high-frequency components such as surface acoustic wave (SAW) filter products and modules, piezo and protection components, and sensors. | <urn:uuid:4c9e09ee-6a06-403c-9d0b-92015f32668f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.i-micronews.com/lectureArticle.asp?id=9785 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00003-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923866 | 566 | 1.601563 | 2 |
Ontario to Offer up to $10,000 in Incentives for Plug-In Hybrids and Battery Electric Cars
Photo: Flickr, CCAlso Green License Plates that Allow Access to HOV LanesThe government of Ontario is announcing some pretty substantial incentives for EVs today. Premier Dalton McGuinty said that people who purchase a plug-in hybrid or battery electric car after July 1st of next year will receive rebates of between $4,000 and $10,000. Photo: Flickr, CCCTV:
"They tell me when they roll the first of these off the assembly line, they're going to be expensive relative to the conventional care powered by an internal combustion engine," McGuinty told reporters from a General Motors dealership in Toronto.
"Well, we want to help people buy those first cars; we want to help the early movers."
"Our overall target is a pretty ambitious one," he said. "By 2020, we want one out of every 20 cars on the road in Ontario to be an electric vehicle."
But the incentive won't be monetary only. People who purchase a plug-in hybrid or battery electric car in Ontario after July 1st, 2010, will also get a special green license plate that will allow them to drive in the carpool lane even if there's only one person in the car. This privilege will be valid at least until 2015.
They're having an online poll to pick the design of the green license plate (though it is a non-binding poll). You can vote here.
The province will also buy 500 electric vehicles for its Ontario Public Service fleet, and will install charging stations at government building parking lots.
Via CTV, Globe and MailMore Plug-in Hybrid and Electric CarsRenew America Roadtrip: Crossing the U.S. in a Tesla Roadster for CharityAbu Dhabi Buys 40% of Daimler's Tesla Motors StakeToyota to Mass-Produce Plug-In Hybrid in 2012... For $48,000! | <urn:uuid:9a079628-241b-4fe7-a6d1-c654a416e596> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.treehugger.com/cars/ontario-to-offer-up-to-10000-in-incentives-for-plug-in-hybrids-and-battery-electric-cars.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00066-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953786 | 415 | 1.796875 | 2 |
|Olymphilex 1996, Atlanta USA|
|Olymphilex 1996, Atlanta USA|
Since this year we celebrate the centenary of the revival of the Olympic Games and the release of the first Olympic stamps in 1896, it is natural to remember and to consider what effect this issue had on international philately.
It is true that there is nothing essential to be added to what I have already published in the 1988 Seoul catalogue. I shall therefore refer to other matters than those that I have already examined. Besides, other distinguished collectors and friends, such as Manfred Bergman and Maurizio Tecardi, have on several occasions referred to the first Olympic issue and have examined it thoroughly, particularly from the philatelic point of view.
I shall therefore refer briefly to the historical aspect of the Olympic issue and try to make a comparison between this and previous stamps that were issued prior to 1896. In making this comparison, I am quite sure that the contribution of this issue to the philatelic world will clearly emerge. First of all thanks are due to the artists and scientists who contributed to the realization of the Olympic issue. The story is as follows:
The Greek government of the time contacted the internationally renowned professor of numismatology, J Svoronos and asked him to put forward some suggestions for a stamp design.
Fig. 3 Registered letter (label nn. 822) posted from Athens at 23 May 1896, to Hannover, with two pieces of 40L. Olympics,
That was the beginning which, as they say, is always the foundation stone of all manner of ventures. What followed is, more or less, common knowledge.
Professor of graphic arts, Guilleron and the engraver Ε Mouchon, both well respected artists of their time, contributed to the first Olympic issue in 1895. The choice of design and the superb execution of it guaranteed its success. It was expected that the whole issue would be extremely successful. Indeed it was! The 1896 issue won universal acclaim, even in comparison to other philatelic issues due to Svoronos’ ingenious designs. If we examine all previous issues prior to 1896, with the exception of the United States Columbian issue of 1893, some 80% of the rest of the world issued stamps showing their leaders, sailing ships, coats of arms or flora and fauna indigenous to the country of issue. The Olympic issue was the first in the world to introduce elements from antiquity and of ancient Greek splendor, thus putting an end to mundane philatelic monotony! That issue worked in the same way as the arts did in the 5th Century BC, which introduced an element of beauty into otherwise plain and pedestrian forms which had previously dominated various works of art. Additionally, the Olympic issue was the first stamp issue to commemorate an athletic event. It was also the first to honor the Olympic spirit; “the ancient and immortal Olympic spirit”, recollecting the verses of the Olympic anthem, writen by the Greek poet Kostis Palamas and composed by Samaras. It was also the first stamp issue in the world which illustrated architectural designs as, in all twelve values, the main decorative element derives from clasical architecture and its various styles. Finally, it is the first stamp issue that illustrates the beauty of ancient masterpieces in marble, by the sculptors Myron, Paeonius and Praxiteles.
Although the 1896 Olympic issue is not exactly the first issue that helped to develop thematic philately, it is, however, definitely the first issue that strengthened the development of this branch of philately. The result is that, apart from the obvious creation of a collection of Olympic stamps, these stamps can also be used in the collection of themes such as the Olympian gods, mythology, athletics, coins, paintings ceramics, sculpture, wrestling, architecture etc; as well as themes of minor importance such as Athens, stadia etc.
It would be fair to say that the numerous advantages named above make the 1896 issue amongst the forerunners of early philately. Its designs, originating and inspired by the artistic and cultural legacy of the ancient period of classic Greece, created new forms of expression in philately. There is no doubt that the principle characteristics of this issue are its beauty, its charm and the originality of its concept.
This issue came into being on the one hand to commemorate the revival of the Olympic Games and on the other to contribute financially towards the costs of the first Olympiad of modern times. The entire world appreciated the enormous efforts of Demetrios Vikelas, Baron Pierre de Coubertin, Zappas, and Averoff, as all as the Greek government of the time and the organizing committee. The world of philately especially appreciates the efforts of Sakorafos and enjoys the highly aesthetic concept of that Olympic issue.
This issue is the outcome of a distinguished team of collaborators; Svoronos for his inspired choice of subjects, Guilleron for his marvelous designs and Mouchon for their successful printing!
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ASHLAND, OR (BRAIN) Tuesday April 17 2012 12:01 PM MT—Fox is serious about tempting suspension mechanics to take its new Fox/UBI Master Tech Class. The class's $600 cost includes one of Fox’s high-end 2012 forks that students tear down and rebuild during class, and then take home with them.
“This is a serious course. Shop mechanics will get hands-on experience disassembling our forks, trouble shooting and training to fully service the forks like we do at the factory,” said Nick Delauder, Fox’s outside tech services supervisor.
The courses are only open to shop mechanics. Fox will pre-qualify students by talking to shops where they are employed. Fox classes scheduled for UBI’s Portland campus this year are being held on May 19, and June 23, and at the Ashland UBI campus, September 8 and November 10.
“Our Sprinter van outside tech program visiting dealers is not impacted by this program; we will keep on visiting about 200 dealers a year. But those programs are mostly about tuning and set-up, stuff dealers can quickly do in the shop,” Delauder added.
“The master tech classes qualify mechanics to do factory authorized service in-shop. With a certified Fox mechanic in your service area, other than warrantee issues, you will not need to send anything in to Fox for service,” he said. | <urn:uuid:2e729ee5-b6fa-40fa-ad10-dfcb22e29fb8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.bicycleretailer.com/product-tech/2012/04/17/fox-teams-ubi-master-tech-class | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00030-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959202 | 302 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Originally Posted by Minnewaska
Could be, but the choice of saving the boat, without proper regard for the crew (complacency) is clearly possible in my opinion. The hurricane could have very easily ended up coming straight over any New England port. Most of us took preventative measures with that in mind. The boat could potentially have taken a hit right in New London. It may have been damaged or sunk if taken up the Hudson or Narragansett too.
Given the documented navigation of hurricanes in his past, it remains plausible that he was simply trying to save his ship. In fact, if the ship were destroyed, he would have been out of work.
Not saying I know this fact pattern to be correct, I'm only saying there doesn't have to be more to it.
That is the way it looks to me. That ship was for sale at $4.5 million at the time. They (Capt and Bounty organization) were just trying to keep it a float so it could be sold. Does anyone know what the ship was insured for?
I don't know about the rest of you, but I see no beauty in this "movie" Bounty ship. It was not kept in good condition, it could not sail well, it was not a replica in any way to the original Bounty. Like Hollywood, the ship was a fake.
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Its Arab castle, once destroyed and then rebuilt by Christians as the Castillo de Santa Bárbara, impressively dominates the city from the Benacantil hill.
Barcelona is well known as a centre of Catalan design and architecture. As one of the most important Mediterranean ports, the city is also an economic powerhouse.
Today, most people think Guggenheim and Frank Ghery when they hear the name of the city of Bilbao.
Cordoba, in Andalusia, was the birthplace of the Roman philosopher Seneca and later became the capital of a powerful emirate and one of the largest cities in the world back in the 10th century.
Granada is certainly one of the most beautiful cities in the world.
Madrid, the Spanish capital, enjoys its urban splendour as much as the dry, sunny weather of the region.
Seville, the capital of Andalusia, looks back on 2000 years of history. Its cathedral, built on the former site of the city’s mosque, holds the remains of Christopher Columbus.
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India has more than one reason to worry at the Line of Control (LoC). Military Intelligence sources have confirmed to DNA that Pakistani troops stationed at the LoC are receiving logistical and technical support from China’s PLA regulars who are stationed in PoK in the garb of engineers and workers. Sources said that they have information indicating that the Pakistani army is receiving “guidance” from PLA engineers. “They are involved in every activity at the LoC and are helping create fresh bunkers across the LoC,” an Intelligence source told DNA.
With “heavy build up” of Pakistani troops across the LoC and reports of continued firing, the Indian armed forces are in a heightened state of alert. Both the army and the air force have deployed their Unmanned Aerial Vehicles to gather information and keep a close watch on movements in the LoC region.
Some 11,000 PLA regulars are stationed in PoK since 2010 when Pakistan had sought China’s help following massive landslides in Attabad area, which submerged the strategic Karakoram Highway connecting Pakistan with China’s Xinjiang region. Intelligence sources said China has for the past few years been supporting the Pakistani army with arms, infrastructure and money.
In 2011, former army chief General VK Singh had noted with “great concern” the presence of China’s PLA regulars in PoK. The Indian defence establishment has had to factor-in this fact in its calculations, and it has been one of the main reasons behind the proposed defence modernisation programme.
There is a feeling among top officials that Pakistan’s “provocative” behaviour and browbeating is linked to the forthcoming general elections in Pakistan, and serves the purpose of diverting attention from other domestic issues.
There is a feeling, thus, that Pakistan is going to persist with deliberate and unprovoked ceasefire violations.
US State Department Spokesperson, Victoria Nuland, however, disagreed with the suggestion that India and Pakistan are exploiting the situation. “I think we are all for peace, and what’s important is that the governments are talking,” Nuland was reported as saying.
“We have made representations to both governments urging them to work together to determine the best course of action,” Nuland said, “We strongly support the high-level dialogue that they are engaged in. That is the best way to work through these issues, end the violence and move back to where we had been,” she said.
Many feel Pakistan's behaviour should be seen in the light of other developments in the region. There is a feeling that the Pakistani army is emboldened by the increasingly conciliatory approach that the US has been adopting towards Pakistan. On Friday, after his meeting with President Hamid Karzai on the draw down of US troops from Afghanistan, US President Barack Obama said it is “hard to imagine peace and stability in the region” without Pakistani support. | <urn:uuid:dd639559-0adf-44e4-9dab-4ba391c98503> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.dnaindia.com/india/1788414/report-pakistans-new-loc-bunkers-have-made-by-china-stamp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00009-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972548 | 617 | 1.539063 | 2 |
Brady has released DVD –based training programs for the Globally Harmonized System (GHS) and OSHA’s Hazard Communication regulations that train and inform employees on the updated regulations and standards. The new training programs include videos and literature that will help employees understand the changes to OSHA’s Hazard Communication regulation and its updates to align with GHS.
Two Hazard Communication training programs available
The GHS Hazard Communication training program primarily focuses on the new GHS elements and assists in fulfilling an initial training requirement. This program offers videos about GHS labeling, safety data sheets, hazard pictograms and other elements.
The Hazard Communication comprehensive training program is intended to provide a complete overview that can be used to fulfill a typical annual review requirement. This training program is designed to ensure employees understand and know how to handle hazardous materials, in addition to learning how to read and understand safety data sheets.
Both programs include an instructor’s guide, employee quizzes, five employee handbooks and accompanying PowerPoints.
Change in regulations results in new training requirements
OSHA updated its Hazard Communication regulation (29 CFR 1910.1200) in May 2012 to align its regulations with GHS. OSHA is mandating that all employees covered under the 29 CFR 1910.1200 regulation be trained on the changes by December 1, 2013.
“Since the current regulation has been in place for nearly 30 years, a change of this magnitude requires a significant amount of time and detail to planning on training,” says Danielle Gallo, Brady product specialist for safety and facility identification products. “Expanding our training options ensures that companies complete the training requirements and get their employees educated on the changes.”
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Brady Corporation (NYSE: BRC) is an international manufacturer and marketer of complete solutions that identify and protect premises, products and people. Its products include high-performance labels and signs, safety devices, printing systems and software, and precision die-cut materials. Founded in 1914, the company has millions of customers in electronics, telecommunications, manufacturing, electrical, construction, education, medical and a variety of other industries. Brady is headquartered in Milwaukee and employs 6,600 people at operations in the Americas, Europe and Asia/Pacific. Brady’s fiscal 2011 sales were approximately $1.3 billion. More information about Brady Corporation is available at www.bradycorp.com. | <urn:uuid:87a6764b-deb5-4f24-bf7b-356a4b2941a1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ishn.com/articles/print/94923-brady-launches-ghs-and-hazard-communication-training-programs | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00012-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.930573 | 491 | 1.742188 | 2 |
Actor Ralph Fiennes On Taking Risks With "Coriolanus"
For his directorial debut, actor Ralph Fiennes brings William Shakespeare's work to the big screen with a modern adaptation of Coriolanus. Fiennes also stars as the eponymous Roman general, a role he played on the stage 11 years ago.
The original play, Fiennes tells weekends on All Things Considered host Guy Raz, is complex.
"I had this feeling that if you were to clear away a lot of the denser passages, and shorten it and edit it, you are left actually with a very visceral, sinewy political thriller," Fiennes says.
Fiennes worked closely with screenwriter John Logan, best known for co-writing the Academy Award-winning Gladiator and writing Hugo, on interpreting the play and turning it into a modern-day tragedy for the big screen. Remaining loyal to Shakespeare's original language and verse was seen as a risk by many in Hollywood.
"Some producers and people did ask me would I rewrite the project," Fiennes says. "I carry a flag for Shakespeare's verse. It was the reason I became an actor, because I was moved and excited by Shakespeare's language and Shakespeare's stories."
Fiennes' career as an actor is impressive and extensive, but he'd never directed himself in a film. Coriolanus forced Fiennes to watch himself closely, analyzing his acting in a way that he never had before.
"You are confronted with all kinds of facial takes, vocal mannerism, things that make you embarrassed, recoil," Fiennes says. "That was painful and I still feel slightly awkward when I see myself up there, but I felt I learned a lot about acting."
In both the movie and the play, the character of Coriolanus is filled with an enduring rage. Fiennes says this rage, both thrilling and terrifying, makes the role difficult.
Fiennes has played some of the most critically acclaimed villains on screen. In Schindler's List, he earned an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of Amon Goth; in recent years, he made his mark as Lord Voldemort, the dark wizard in the Harry Potter movies. But when NPR's Raz asked Fiennes about his dream role, his answer veered from the roles for which he's known.
"What I really would love is the unknown part, the part that's going to be written," Fiennes says. "I guess I'd love to be surprised by something I had never thought of." | <urn:uuid:dde0000b-0a6b-4e29-b696-21b5184362b6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wyso.org/post/actor-ralph-fiennes-taking-risks-coriolanus | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.986943 | 513 | 1.601563 | 2 |
Corn Fritters with Summer Salsa
Corn is known as one of the many vegetables likely to be mixed with batter and deep-fried into fritters (served with salsa).
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Makes about 24 fritters
Many Southern corn-fritter recipes use a little corn and a lot of batter, yielding a hush puppy-like bread suitable for fish fries. Athens, Ga., cookbook author Rebecca Lang’s fritters are flat little cakes that are dense with corn kernels. Corn is the star. Serve them with tomato salsa or a drizzle of honey. This recipe is adapted from Around the Southern Table by Rebecca Lang (Oxmoor House).
4 ears fresh corn, husks removed
3/4 cup white or yellow cornmeal
1/2 cup milk
1/4 cup self-rising flour (such as White Lily)
1 large egg
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
1/4 cup vegetable oil
Fresh tomato salsa
Cut kernels from cobs; discard cobs. (You should have about 2 cups kernels; if you have more, save it for another use.) '
In a medium bowl, whisk together cornmeal, milk, flour, egg, salt and pepper. Stir in corn.
Heat vegetable oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Working in batches, spoon batter by tablespoonfuls into hot oil and flatten gently. Fry 2 to 3 minutes on each side or until browned. (If the skillet becomes dry, you may want to drizzle in a little more oil.) Drain on a wire rack. Top each with salsa.
PER FRITTER (without salsa): 68 calories; 2 g protein; 10 g carbohydrates; 1 g
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The history department is located in Los Angeles, a multicultural city and one of the world’s most diverse metropolitan centers. The faculty members reflect the international diversity of Southern California, with cultural roots in East Asia, North America, the Middle East, Western Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa. They are widely traveled and productive scholars and rank among the most accomplished teachers at the university.
Classes are small and include seminars each semester. Faculty members develop close relations with the history majors through research projects, study abroad programs in Bonn, Paris, Rome, London and Oxford, and through participation in history conferences. The department recognizes academic excellence by organizing History Honor Society banquets and History Awards Convocations that recognize outstanding history students.
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Nuclear Fuel Recycling Could Offer Plentiful Energy
From Phys Org
That is what happens with uranium for nuclear fuel today. Currently, only about five percent of the uranium in a fuel rod gets fissioned for energy; after that, the rods are taken out of the reactor and put into permanent storage.
There is a way, however, to use almost all of the uranium in a fuel rod. Recycling used nuclear fuel could produce hundreds of years of energy from just the uranium we’ve already mined, all of it carbon-free. Problems with older technology put a halt to recycling used nuclear fuel in the United States, but new techniques developed by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory address many of those issues. | <urn:uuid:22dbe24d-f2e7-48b0-977e-2ee6f67016f8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.energytribune.com/11281/nuclear-fuel-recycling-could-offer-plentiful-energy | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00041-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940376 | 166 | 3.546875 | 4 |
Prime Minister David Cameron recently made an announcement outlining the UK government’s plan to allocate £200M for the development of a series of technology innovation centres. They will be designed around the Fraunhofer model implemented in Germany with the vision of creating a multitude of specialized incubators each with a unique technological interest. The announcement comes after an address made by former UK business secretary Peter Mandelson to the Work Foundation earlier this year. In this address Mandelson made it clear that deficit reduction would not only require spending cuts, but would necessitate new modes of spurring economic growth. A top priority was a comprehensive evaluation of technology innovation in the UK. Mandelson pointed out that a “basic skeleton of an industrial innovation system” had been established in the UK, but it would need to be bulked up to increase competitiveness on the international stage and further encourage external collaboration with UK health research centres. Mandelson stated:
“Our challenge now is to build and consolidate that innovation landscape into something like the Fraunhofer network in Germany which actively connects industry and the German research base. With this objective in mind I have asked technology entrepreneur Hermann Hauser to undertake an urgent but systematic evaluation of the UK’s existing innovation network to see how Britain can best emulate the outcomes of the Fraunhofer model.”
Hermann Hauser founded the tech company Acorn Computers (broken into several operations in 1998) and is a partner with the venture capital firm Amadeus Capital Partners. It was Hauser’s recommendation to Mandelson to establish intermediate technology innovation centers in the UK similar to those in Germany. The Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft was founded after the Second World War to bring industry and research in Germany closer together to drive economic growth. Institutions within the Fraunhofer network have traditionally focused on the applied sciences but have also incorporated basic sciences into their agenda, including many areas of biology. There are well over 60 centres in Germany and seven in the United States (Fraunhofer USA) with a diversity of specializations spanning everything from manufacturing technology and advanced materials to marine biotechnology and experimental medicine.
The proposed institutions, tentatively being branded as Clerk Maxwell Centres, will encourage intensive collaboration between academia, industry, and the National Health Service (NHS), and act as translational channels to bring university-level innovations through to market. They will also act as staging grounds for start-ups providing access to equipment, lab space, and supportive expertise that would otherwise be prohibitively expensive to obtain. Another key responsibility will be disseminating information related to funding sources to ensure that industry is aware of all its options in trying to secure funding for early development.
In many ways the centres will be to the UK what MaRS Innovation is to Toronto – with a fundamental mandate of nurturing early stage innovations and guiding them forward to commercial exploitation. The primary differences, of course, being the subdivision of technological interests and national scope in the case of the Fraunhofer model. Hauser foresees a small handful of centres being developed at first, each costing in the vicinity of £50M – £100M over 10 years, and proposes that the UK leverages strengths it already has. Given the depth of stem cell research underway in Britain, an obvious choice for the first Clerk Maxwell Centre is regenerative medicine. As Hauser put it:
“It’s obvious that something exciting is happening in regenerative medicine; we produce more quality stem-cell papers than anywhere else in the world and it has the potential to completely restructure the pharma industry.”
One-third of funding for Clerk Maxwell Centres will come from industry, so the focus of these institutions will have to align with industry interests. Additional funding will come from government and be dispersed over the coming four years. A Technology Strategy Board will then decide how to stream the funds into businesses and research projects at each centre. With each Clerk Maxwell Centre focusing exclusively on one (bio)technological area, companies in industry will have the opportunity to associate with institutions that are more closely tailored to their requirements than would be a general technology hub. By the nature of the model, research and industry will be united, accelerating the commercialization process in select technological areas.
In a similar initiative designed to foster public-private relationships, the UK government plans to support a “UK Life Sciences Super Cluster” with the introduction of a Therapeutic Capability Clusters program. In July of 2009 the UK government published the Life Sciences Blueprint, an expansive document outlining a novel approach to collaboration in the life sciences industry. The integrated approach outlined in the blueprint is expected to generate the critical mass required to develop new therapeutics and “support economic growth and strong healthcare delivery”. It was from this overarching plan that the therapeutic clusters program was born.
Like the new technology centres, each therapeutic cluster in the program will have a discrete specialization. They will be composed of centres of excellence with complementary capabilities, enabling technologies, and commercial goals. Importantly, the formation of clusters will provide a single point of contact for industry through collective organization of cluster activities at one interface. The first two pilot projects, announced by UK Science Minister David Willetts on October 25th (follow link to his speech), will be a cluster for inflammatory respiratory diseases, and another for joint and related inflammatory diseases. Initially, the focus will be on translational medicine, particularly early stage clinical trials where industry has historically had strong interest in collaborating with academia. The fate of the program will be dependent on the success of these initial projects, but if they are successful, and the UK government decides to give the greenlight, it could be the world’s first large scale effort to set up clusters of this nature.
The UK’s drive for self-improvement is impressive. At the end of the day the described technology innovation centres and therapeutic capability clusters come down to public-private relationship building and a trend towards full integration to support commercialization and economic growth. With the proper execution and allocation of funds, these initiatives have the potential to profoundly impact innovation in the UK and reaffirm Britain’s role as a fierce competitor in life sciences innovation. | <urn:uuid:d4a4ec67-a97c-42b8-bf74-5ae8f200a4d9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://crossborderbiotech.ca/tag/hermann-hauser/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00068-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943994 | 1,270 | 2.359375 | 2 |
Ten Tips to Help You Cut the Cost of Motoring
From escalating fuel prices to congestion charging, toll roads to tax band changes and the ever increasing cost of parking, it seems that owning and running our vehicles now costs us more than ever.
In fact, figures recently compiled by the AA show that the average British motorist now pays more than £1,800 annually in car tax, fuel duty, VAT on petrol and other levies — an increase of more than 50 per cent in just over one decade.
Fortunately, from reducing our fuel consumption to cutting the cost of our car insurance, there are a variety of ways for the savvy motorists amongst us to cut our motoring costs.
- Cut the cost of your car insurance
Always shop around for a better deal rather than simply accepting the renewal quote provided by your current insurer. Even if your insurer offered the best deal last time around, it's unlikely they will be the cheapest this time. Research by the AA has shown that shopping around can save consumers over £200 on the average motor insurance premium.
The good news is that comparing multiple quotes won't take as long as you may imagine. In fact, with the emergence of insurance comparison sites it will actually take just a few minutes.
Of all the insurance comparison sites, only gocompare.com is accredited by the British Insurance Brokers Association (BIBA). What's particularly useful about this site is that not only is it possible to compare quotes from over 70 insurance companies, but there is a five star rating system to highlight those policies that include your 'must have' policy features, such as a courtesy car. What this essentially means is that you are able to buy the cover that best meets your needs, whilst still being able to compare quotes on price. So, to cut your car insurance costs, try gocompare.com.
It's well worth looking at other ways to cut the cost of your car insurance too. Drive safely to build up your no claims bonus and stick within the speed limit to avoid convictions, improve vehicle security, pay your premium yearly rather than monthly and don't modify your car — this will only increase your level of risk whilst adding pounds to your premium.
- Find the cheapest fuel in your area
Whilst you can't control rising petrol and diesel prices, nor the duty or VAT applied to fuel by the Government, what you can do is locate the cheapest fuel in your area by using the handy petrol price comparison tool at petrolprices.com, which currently has fuel pricing data for 9,687 filling stations. The difference in diesel and petrol prices between filling stations within the same postcode can be surprising. For example, in Warrington postcode WA4 the cheapest price for petrol is 113.9p whilst the highest is 121.9p — a difference of 8p per litre.
- Only pay for a car when you need one
If you only need to use a car occasionally, then rather than running and maintaining a vehicle of your own it may be worth considering a 'pay-as-you-go' car scheme such as that operated by streetcar or whizzgo. It's an unconventional form of car rental, and as whizzgo claims, "Now you can drive when and where you want, without the hassle of owning a car".
- Cut your fuel consumption
Fortunately, there's a variety of simple but effective ways to cut your fuel consumption.
As a starting point, empty your boot of any items that you have no real need to be carrying around day after day. Also, remove roof boxes — weight and wind resistance both increase fuel consumption.
Avoid heavy braking and accelerating by anticipating road conditions ahead to maintain a steady speed. This will also tend to keep the traffic moving and benefit everyone through reduced congestion. When you do have to stop, the best policy is to accelerate briskly when moving off from traffic lights and junctions to avoid holding up other traffic and to maximize the number of cars getting through on green. It has been shown that it is more economical to get into top gear as quickly as possible than to accelerate slowly through the gears.
Dirty air filters can drastically reduce your fuel economy. They are inexpensive to change if you buy and fit them yourself — following the guidelines in your handbook of course.
Check your tyres to ensure they are set to the optimum pressure. Soft tyres can add up to 2% to your fuel bills.
Only use your air conditioning when it's a necessity as it does in fact have a direct impact on fuel consumption. On short journeys it's more cost-effective to open your windows and air vents instead, but remember that as soon as you get above 35mph open windows and sunroofs will create drag and increase consumption — not to mention making a dreadful noise in many modern cars!
Use speed intelligently. It is quite true that cruising at higher speeds will use more fuel — What Car? recently suggested that a driver travelling at 90mph on a level road will spend an extra £1.20 on fuel every 8 minutes over one doing 70mph. However, motorways usually undulate so speed can be gained on downhill stretches and lost on inclines — the key is to avoid accelerating uphill unless doing so will obstruct traffic behind. Trying to drive at less than 70 on a busy motorway can be a false economy, as trucks are limited to 56mph and it is easy to get baulked behind them, especially on hills, and end up having to accelerate hard to overtake. Also, it is important to accelerate up to motorway speeds on slip roads as joining the motorway at lower speeds is dangerous because it causes traffic to brake and/or change lane.
Use the flexibility of the car to banish the phrase "I'll just pop
home first". Plan to do more than one thing every time you take your car out — go shopping on the way home from work, or visit friends on the way to pick the kids up. Not only will you save more mileage than you think, but you will start the car from cold less often, and a cold start uses more fuel and causes more wear to the engine.
Make your journeys shorter by taking a more direct route. Road signs can often direct you via main roads which can be a surprising amount further than a cross country route. Check out your regular trips on a map or set your trip meter before trying
Shop online for big purchases like domestic appliances — don't
trail round all the big electrical retailers that are scattered all over town. You can have the item delivered, or make one trip to collect it, once you have decided what and where to buy.
Don't be tempted to turn your engine off and coast downhill. This may lay you open to a charge of not being in proper control of the vehicle, and is fraught with safety hazards — if you turn the key all the way off, the steering will lock. Even if you run with the ignition on, the power assistance to brakes and steering will work initially but will then fail without warning, leading to a massive increase in steering and braking effort which may mean you cannot control the vehicle. If you have a petrol car with a catalyst, restarting the car by letting the clutch up will cause unburnt fuel to damage the catalyst possibly leading to MoT failure and considerable expense.
- Car share on your daily commute
Perhaps you have a work colleague driving the same route to work, or a friend who passes your workplace as they drive to their own? If not, don't despair — there are others out there in a similar position, so if you're happy to share with a stranger look for fellow car sharers at liftshare.org. Londoners can also use Londonliftshare.com.
If you work longer, more flexible hours and it's hard to share, ask your boss if you can work from home one day a week.
- Choose your vehicle carefully
If you're in the market for a new car, whether it's brand new or used, there's far more to consider than just the retail price.
Firstly, the tax you pay on your car is now based on the model's carbon dioxide emissions. The higher these are, the more tax you'll pay. Owners of cars that emit less than 100g per km of CO2 and fit into vehicle excise duty (VED) band A are not charged any road tax. By contrast, if you drive a vehicle that emits more than 255g per km you will be charged £400.
Unsurprisingly, cars with low insurance groups are generally cheaper to insure than those with higher insurance groups as typically they cost less to repair and replace.
There's the issue of fuel consumption too. Petrol and diesel engines both have advantages and disadvantages and whilst diesel engines inherently use less fuel than petrol cars, diesel is currently significantly more expensive at the pump than petrol.
Remember that cars with smaller engines typically use less fuel than those with larger engines and, in general, driving an automatic car burns more fuel than driving a manual car. However, new technology has meant that the gap is now narrowing.
Fuel consumption will also be around 4% higher for a four wheel drive car than for a two-wheel drive vehicle with the same body style. If you compare a four-wheel drive with the most economical vehicle that can carry the same load, the fuel consumption could be up to 14% higher for the former than for the latter.
Also, always research parts and servicing costs for any manufacturer or model you're interested in, and if buying a brand new car be very aware of the rate of depreciation over one to three years of ownership.
- Pay less for parking
According to a survey by Direct Line last year, parking costs in Britain have risen by 40 per cent since 2000. The average cost of leaving a car for two hours has risen from 86p to £1.21 nationally and with new parking enforcement laws in place, using on-street parking is now laden with added risks.
Avoid paying through the nose in town centre car parks by parking in a side street on your route into town and walk the last half mile. Complain to the council if there are unnecessary restrictions on parking. You'll be surprised how little extra time this takes when you take account of driving round the car park, paying and struggling with lifts and stairs. And you won't just save money on parking, you will save fuel too.
If no such parking is available, using a park and ride scheme can be more cost effective than paying to park in a city centre car park and there are often dedicated bus lanes meaning that you get to avoid the queues and congestion.
If park and ride isn't your style, then why not compare the cost of various parking spots around the country on websites such as www.youcanpark.com.
- Save on parts and servicing
Around £10 billion was spent on servicing and repairing cars in the UK last year, according to Warranty Direct — but remember that prices vary greatly from garage to garage, so it is well worth shopping around for different quotes before the work is carried out. Use labourrates.co.uk to research the labour charges in your area.
- Shop around for motoring consumables
Every motorist buys screen wash and we've probably all bought other motoring consumables such as car shampoo, air fresheners, replacement windscreen wipers and even headlight or brake light bulbs.
Rather than stocking up at your local petrol station, shop around. Halfords is an obvious choice, but your local motor factors may be cheaper and supermarkets tend to stock a decent range of motoring goods at very competitive prices.
For larger or more expensive items — such as floor mats, seat covers, dog grates and even sound systems — always compare prices and shop around online.
- Use your Tesco Clubcard vouchers
Use your Tesco Clubcard vouchers to cut the cost of servicing, MOT testing, repairs and maintenance at Nationwide Autocentres, the award-winning 'Repairer of the Year 2003, 2004 and 2006'.
Disclaimer: Please note that any prices, rates or deals mentioned in this article were available at the time of writing.
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iTunes U: Buiding a Course
Tuesday, March 26, 2013 from 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM (EDT)
Unleash the full potential of iPad in your classroom by creating your own courses with iTunes U. With these courses, students can play video or audio lectures, take notes that are synchronized with the lecture, read books and view presentations, and see a list of all the assignments for the course and check them off as they’re completed. And when you send a message or create a new assignment, students receive a push notification with the new information (like the announcements in Blackboard). In this session, you will learn how to use the Course Builder to set up the shell for your new course and start uploading materials for your students.
When & Where
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BELTANE: Its History and Modern Celebration in Wicca in America
The celebration of May 1st, or Beltane as it is known in Wicca Circles, is one of the most important festivals of our religious year. I will attempt here to answer some of the most often asked questions about this holiday. An extensive bibliography follows the article so that the interested reader can do further research.
1. Where does the festival of Beltane originate?
Beltane, as practiced by modern day Witches and Pagans, has its origins among the Celtic peoples of Western Europe and the British Isles, particularly Ireland, Scotland, and Wales.
2. What does the word Beltane mean?
Dr. Proinsias MacCana defines the word as follows: "... the Irish name for May Day is Beltane, of which the second element, `tene', is the word for fire, and the first, `bel', probably means `shining or brilliant'."(1) The festival was known by other names in other Celtic countries. Beltaine in Ireland, Bealtunn in Scotland, Shenn do Boaldyn on the Isle of Mann, and Galan Mae in Wales.(2)
3. What was the significance of this holiday to the ancients?
To the ancient Celts, it symbolized the coming of spring. It was the time of year when the crops began to sprout, the animals bore their young, and the people could begin to get out of the houses where they had been cooped up during the long dark cold winter months. Keep in mind that the people in those days had no electric lights or heat, and that the Celtic counties are at a much more northerly latitude than many of us are used to. At that latitude, spring comes much later, and winter lasts much longer than in most of the US. The coming of fair weather and longer daylight hours would be most welcome after a long cold and dark winter.
4. How did the ancient Celts celebrate this festival?
The most ancient way of observing this day is with fire. Beltane, along with Samhain (Nov. 1), Imbolc (Feb. 1), and Lughnassadh (Aug. 1), was one of the four great "fire festivals" which marked the turning points of the Celtic year. The most ancient records tell us that the people would extinguish all the hearth fires in the country and then relight them from the "need fires" lit by the druids (who used friction as a means of ignition). In many areas, the cattle were driven between two great bonfires to protect them from disease during the coming year. It is my personal belief, although I have no documentation to back up the assumption, that certain herbs would have been burnt in the fires, thus producing smoke which would help destroy parasites which might make cattle and other livestock ill.
5. In what other ways was this festival celebrated?
One of the most beautiful customs associated with this festival was "bringing in the May." The young people of the villages and towns would go out into the fields and forests at Midnight on April 30th and gather flowers with which to bedeck themselves, their families, and their homes. They would process back into the villages, stopping at each home to leave flowers, and to receive the best of food and drink that the home had to offer. This custom is somewhat similar to "trick or treat" at Samhain and was very significant to the ancients. John Williamson, in his study, The Oak King, the Holly King, and the Unicorn, writes, "These revelers were messengers of the renewal of vegetation, and they assumed the right to punish the niggardly, because avarice (as opposed to generosity) was dangerous to the community's hope for the abundance of nature. At an important time like the coming of summer, food, the substance of life must be ritually circulated generously within the community in order that the cosmic circuit of life's substance may be kept in motion (trees, flocks, harvests, etc.)."(3) These revelers would bless the fields and flocks of those who were generous and wish ill harvests on those who withheld their bounty.
6. What about maypoles?
The maypole was an adjunct to the festival of bringing in the May. It is a phallic symbol, and as such represented fertility to the participants in the festival. In olden days, the revelers who went into the woods would cut a tree and bring it into town, decking it with flowers and greenery and dance around it, clockwise (also called deosil, meaning "sun-wise", the direction of the sun's apparent travel across the face of the Earth) to bring fertility and good luck. The ribbons which we associate with the maypole today were a later addition.
7. Why was fertility important?
The people who originated this custom lived in close connection with the land. If the flocks and fields were fertile, they were ableto eat; if there was famine or drought, they went hungry. It is hard for us today to relate to this concept, but to the ancients, it was literally a life and death matter. The Celts were a very close tribal people, and fertility of their women literally meant continuity of the tribe.
8. How is the maypole connected with fertility?
Many scholars see the maypole as a phallic symbol. In this aspect, it is a very powerful symbol of the fertility of nature and spring.
9. How did these ancient customs come down to us?
When Christianity came to the British Isles, many of the ancient holy sites were taken over by the new religion and converted to Christian sites. Many of the old Gods and Goddesses became Christian saints, and many of the customs were appropriated. Charles Squire says," An ingenious theory was invented after the introduction of Christianity, with the purpose of allowing such ancient rites to continue with a changed meaning. The passing of persons and cattle through flame or smoke was explained as a practice which interposed a magic protection between them and the powers of evil." (4) This is precisely what the original festival was intended to do; only the definition of "evil" had changed. These old customs continued to be practiced in many areas for centuries. "In Scotland in 1282, John, the priest in Iverkething, led the young girls of his parish in a phallic dance of decidedly obscene character during Easter week. For this, penance was laid upon him, but his punishment was not severe, and he was allowed to retain his benefice."(5)
10. Were sacrifices practiced during this festival?
Scholars are divided in their opinions of this. There is no surviving account of sacrifices in the legends and mythology which have come down to us. As these were originally set down on paper by Christian monks, one would think that if such a thing had been regularly practiced, the good brothers would most certainly have recorded it, if for no other reason than to make the pagans look more depraved. There are, however, some surviving folk customs which point to a person representing the gloom and ill fortune of winter being ostracized and forced to jump through the fires. Some scholars see this as a survival of ancient human sacrificial practices. The notion that animals were sacrificed during this time doesn't make sense from a practical standpoint. The animals which had been retained a breeding stock through the winter would either be lean and hungry from winter feed, or would be mothers nursing young, which could not be spared.
11. How do modern day pagans observe this day?
Modern day pagan observances of Beltane include the maypole dances, bringing in the May, and jumping the cauldron for fertility. Many couples wishing to conceive children will jump the cauldron together at this time. Fertility of imagination and other varieties of fertility are invoked along with sexual fertility. In Wiccan and other Pagan circles, this is a joyous day, full of laughter and good times.
12. What about Walpurgisnacht? Is this the same thing as Beltane?
Walpurgisnacht comes from an Eastern European background, and has little in common with the Celtic practices. I have not studied the folklore from that region and do not consider myself qualified to write about it. As the vast majority of Wiccan traditions today stem from Celtic roots, I have confined myself to research in those areas. | <urn:uuid:6d47d23b-6109-415a-ac17-d12114e9695e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.tryskelion.com/tryskelion/beltfaq.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00003-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980249 | 1,758 | 3.046875 | 3 |
- Chuck Leavell: Growing A Better America: Smart, Strong and Sustainable
"We're experiencing phenomenal growth in America, but as we go forward is that growth going to be rapid, rampant, and reckless or can it be smart, strong, and sustainable?"
- Michigan man translates environmental research for public via YouTube
Dozens of leading scientists advise Sinclair, he says, and have began inviting him to join their international research and data-gathering explorations. "They know that they're challenged by communication," he says, "and they know that's a skillset that just a lot of them don't have."
- Pure Michigan Focuses on Conservation, not Preservation
Celebrating its 75th anniversary, she says, the MUCC unites citizens to conserve, protect and enhance our natural resources through communication, education and advocacy. "We really want to protect peoples' rights to hunt and trap, we want to engage people," McDonough says, "and we want to help people foster a stewardship ethic."
- WMEAC and Grand Valley to Recognize Outstanding Women Environmentalists
The West Michigan Environmental Action Council (WMEAC) and Grand Valley State University are presenting the second annual Women & Environment Symposium on Friday, Feb. 15 at the L.V. Eberhard Center in downtown Grand Rapids.
- Impressive Local Conservancy Helps Ensure Chippewa Riverís Future Well-Being
The CWC has developed an excellent interactive, web-based map of the Chippewa River, from Barryton to Midland. Also available in hard copy, the digital map provides, at the click of your mouse, clear and succinct information on a number of recreational venues along the river.
Faith Fowler is putting the underserved to work through green initiatives
- Faith Fowler talks with Kirk Heinze on WJR
Reverend Faith Fowler, the executive director of Cass Community Social Services, is helping the underserved in Detroit by getting them involved in Green Industries.
Fowler was recognized as a Michigan green leader by the Detroit Free Press this year for her organization’s Green Industries program which started in late 2007.
Green Industries works with the homeless, the mentally and medically ill and at risk youth. Green Industries employs them with jobs like making mats out of illegally dumped tires in vacant lots and having the illiterate recycle sensitive documents from lawyers and doctors.
Fowler says 8,000 tires have been turned into mats and 100 tons of paper has been recycled.
“In a short amount of time we’ve hired 50 people for whom work was a problem before,” Fowler says “and at the same time, put them into things that are good for the environment and sustainability.”
Cass Community Social Services employs homeless veterans in their One Cup Car Wash. The Car Wash converts water into steam so vehicles can be washed with one cup of water versus the 100 gallons of water used when washing a car at home.
Fowler also recognizes the health issues that face the underserved in Detroit. Cass Community Social Services now has 10 stationary bikes for the public to use in their electricity-generating gym. The bikes generate electricity for Green Industries.
“Isn’t that a marvelous combination of a workout and something that’s good for the health of the planet?” Fowler says.
While some may argue that sustainability and the environment is the last thing on the minds of the homeless and the disabled, Fowler says Green Industries changes that mindset.
“When you combine physical health [with the environment], or you combine jobs, which is on the top of their radar, then all of a sudden you have their attention and you can have some really good discussion and action to be better stewards of the earth.”
Click on the arrow above to hear Fowler’s July 23 Greening of the Great Lakes conversation with Kirk Heinze. Greening of the Great Lakes airs Friday evenings at 7 on News/Talk 760 WJR.
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|Chap. 44||Oklahoma. Time extended for payments of homestead settlers on Chevenne and Arapahoe Agency lands.
36 Stat., 533.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to extend for a period of one year the time for the payment of the several annual installments due on the purchase price for lands sold under the Act of Congress approved June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and ten, entitled An Act to open to settlement and entry under the general provisions of the homestead laws of the United States certain lands in the State of Oklahoma, and for other purposes: Provided, That purchasers shall pay interest at the rate of five per centum per annum on the deferred payments for the time of the extension herein granted.
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On September 24, 1995, at 1913 mountain daylight time (MDT), a Piper PA-24B-260, N9121P, was destroyed when it collided with terrain near Westcliffe, Colorado. The commercial pilot and four passengers were fatally injured. The personal flight, being conducted under 14 CFR Part 91, originated at Las Vegas, Nevada, on September 24, 1995, at 1515 Pacific daylight time (PDT). Instrument meteorological conditions prevailed at the time, and a VFR (visual flight rules) flight plan was filed.
The occupants flew to Las Vegas on September 22, and were returning to Colorado Springs, Colorado, when the accident occurred. The following is based on Federal Aviation Administration documents. On the morning of September 22, at 0913 PDT, a person who identified himself as the pilot of N9121P contacted the Reno Flight Service Station (FSS). He declined a standard briefing but requested a route forecast between Las Vegas and Colorado Springs for the time period of 1400. According to the taped recorded conversation, he was advised of an AIRMET (airman meteorology) for occasional moderate rime icing in clouds and precipitation between 8,000 and 17,000 feet; occasional mountain obscurement in clouds and precipitation, and IFR conditions from Pueblo north to Denver. The briefer told the pilot that VFR flight was not recommended in these areas. The forecast for Colorado Springs throughout the afternoon up until 2100 MDT was for scattered clouds at 1,000 feet and a 2,000-foot overcast, with winds from 090 degrees at 8 knots and gusts to 15 knots, and occasional 1,000 foot overcast conditions and 5 miles visibility in light rain.
Later that afternoon, at 1430 PDT, a person who identified himself as the pilot of N9121P contacted the Reno FSS and filed a VFR flight plan. He indicated he would depart Las Vegas at 1600 PDT and fly direct to Colorado Springs at 11,500 feet (MSL). He indicated the flight would take 4 hours to complete, and that he had 6 hours of fuel on board. When asked by the briefer, the pilot said he was aware of the AIRMET in effect for southern Nevada, Arizona, and Colorado.
At 1520 PDT, the pilot contacted Reno FSS and advised he had departed Las Vegas at 1515 PDT and asked that his flight plan be activated. The briefer reminded the pilot of the current AIRMET, adding that there was "some weather in the Rockies" and suggested he get an update. The pilot acknowledged the advisory.
The pilot contacted the Denver Automated Flight Service Station (AFSS) at 1814 MDT and reported he was over the Dove Creek, Utah, VORTAC at 11,500 and that it had been "smooth all the way." He requested and was given the current Colorado Springs and Pueblo weather observations, and was advised of the AIRMET that was still in effect. The pilot replied, "...it looks broken up in front of us. We'll let you know later on."
Several residents near the accident site heard a low-flying airplane and the sounds of impact. One witness (who is a private pilot) said the weather "was very bad (100 to 200 feet) visibility, (the temperature was)close to freezing with heavy moisture and intermittent light snow." Another witness said it was "very foggy." The wreckage was located on September 25 at 0100 MDT.
The second of two logbooks was located and examined. The first entry was April 22, 1982, and the last entry was September 12, 1995. During this period, there was a gap from August 20, 1984, to September 3, 1992, when no flights were recorded. The pilot was checked out in the Piper PA-24-250 and PA-24-260 on January 23 and 16, 1993. Although the pilot was instrument rated, there were no entries in the logbook to indicate he had logged instrument flying time, either simulated or actual, since 1982.
The Piper PA-24-260 is certificated for six seats. The fifth and sixth seats are installed or removed via snaps on the backs of the cushions with a minimal aft change in the center of gravity. According to the operator, he asked the pilot before he departed Colorado Springs if he wanted the fifth and sixth seats installed. The pilot declined the offer.
WRECKAGE AND IMPACT INFORMATION
Wreckage was distributed for 300 feet on a magnetic heading of 110 degrees. The left outboard wing panel, its leading edge dented and containing pieces of bark, was found against a tree at the beginning of the wreckage path. Next to the tree was a crater with a disturbed area at its edge. Small pieces of debris continued up and over a small hill. All aircraft seats were ejected. The inverted empennage was wrapped around the fuselage
The engine remained attached to the firewall. The propeller separated from the engine but both blades remained attached to the hub, as did the crankshaft flange. Both blades bore leading edge gouges and 90 degree chordwise scratching on the cambered surfaces. One blade was bent forward in an "S" fashion. The other blade was bent aft at midspan.
MEDICAL AND PATHOLOGICAL INFORMATION
An autopsy was performed on the pilot by Dr. Robert S. Stewart at the St. Mary-Corwin Regional Medical Center in Pueblo, Colorado. According to the report, there was "patchy fibrosis compatible with previous cardiac ischemia, such as a healed myocardial infarction. A short segment of coronary artery was located and showed significant arteriosclerosis, but no areas of total occlusion. There was no evidence of acute myocardial damage." Toxicological protocol, conducted by FAA's Civil Aeromedical Institute (CAMI) in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, detected thiazides, a diuretic used in heart medication.
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Learn to conserve water through empathy...
Poor Little Fish basin offers an emotional way to persuade hand washers to think about saving water, by making consumption tangible. Although the water will never fully drain out of the fish bowl, PETA is not going to run out and buy one and is trying to convince the designer to install fake fish instead of live goldfish...
The above diagram shows that the fish bowl water is separate from the hand washing water. The fishes' water simply flows down into a tank and then fills back up when the user is done. Therefore water temp remains somewhat constant for the fish. But PETA is right, it could be stressful for the fish, until they learn that the water only goes down to a certain level.
September 21, 2010
E-mail from PETA
Dear Mr. Lu,
On behalf of PETA and our more than 2 million members and
supporters, we appreciate your desire to raise awareness about water
conservation, but subjecting a fish to a barren life alone in a tiny
bowl that has constantly fluctuating water levels is the wrong way to
go. You could make the same point without causing the suffering of an
intelligent, sensitive animal by replacing the fish in your "Poor Little
Fishbowl Sink" prototypes with a fake one and ensuring that future
commercial sales of your product include a fake fish so that buyers
won't be tempted to purchase a real one. With all due respect, to ignore
the suffering of an individual who is part of our ecosystem seems to
echo the same arrogance that has led us to have a problem in the first
Although it may be easy to ignore the fact, fish are smart and
curious animals who form complex social relationships, but they are
doomed to dull, unfulfilled, and lonely lives when confined to tiny
glass bowls. An issue of Fish and Fisheries cited more than 500
research papers proving that fish are intelligent, have impressive
long-term memories and sophisticated social structures, and can use
tools. Fish learn by watching what other fish do, and "they are capable
of learning quickly," according to Dr. Chris Glass, director of marine
conservation at the Manomet Centre of Conservation Sciences in Massachusetts.
People the world over have begun to see fish for the intelligent,
social creatures they are and are refusing to condemn them to life in a
tiny bowl. In fact, the city of Monza, Italy, recently banned keeping
goldfish in bowls because these containers do not even come close to
meeting the needs of fish. Subjecting a fish to constantly changing
water levels adds to the cruelty, even if the water never entirely runs
out—imagine being trapped in a room with constantly shifting oxygen
Environmental education does not require cruelty to animals. Please
let us know that you'll replace the real fish in your sink with a fake
one. We would be most appreciative, and so would the fish. Thank you.
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We need to go back to nature in order to move forward. The Microbial Home is a proposal for an integrated cyclical ecosystem where each function’s output is another’s input. In this project the home has been viewed as a biological machine to filter, process and recycle what we conventionally think of as waste – sewage, effluent, garbage, waste water.
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Updated at 4:25 p. m. with advisory from the US Conference of Catholic Bishops: the need for the introduction of widespread liturgical adaptations for the prevention of the transmission of influenza in the dioceses of the United States of America is not evident at this time.
Many are concerned about the current outbreak of Swine Flu and asking what should churches do.
In addition to the information sent out by Episcopal Relief and Development, as seen in The Lead here, other churches and the CDC have issued guidelines:
A printable pdf to use as a bulletin insert prepared by the Diocese of Texas is here.
The Anglican Church of Canada released guidelines a few years ago, during the SARS outbreak, on Eucharistic Practice and the risk of infection which include:
... for the average communicant it would seem that the risk of drinking from the common cup is probably less than the risk of air-borne infection in using a common building.
Will intinction reduce the risk of transmitting infection?
Intinction (dipping the bread in the wine) is in use in many Episcopal Church (U.S.A) parishes and is increasingly being suggested in Canadian Anglican churches as well. There is, however, real concern that many of the modes of intinction used in parishes do not diminish the threat of infection, and some may actually increase it. Hands, children's and adult's, are at least as likely to be a source of infection (often more so) as lips. Receiving the wafer in the hands and then intincting it means that the wafer, now contaminated by the hand of the recipient, is placed in the wine―thus spreading the infection to it. Dipping the wafer into the wine also means that the wafer picks up any bacteria that might be in the wine. So this offers no protection to the communicant.
Read more here.
The North American Old Catholic Church has put out a press release:
Until the Centers for Disease Control ends the health emergency declaration with regards to the Swine Flu, the following changes to the worship experience have been instituted:
Physically exchanging the sign of peace by shaking hands, hugging, or other bodily contact is prohibited;
Passing the communion chalice when non-alcoholic wine is utilized is prohibited;
The practice of 'intinction'- dipping the communion bread into the communion wine before consumption is prohibited;
Passing the chalice when 12% by volume alcohol wine will continue to be permitted, however the communicant will not be allowed to hold the chalice as is sometimes the practice. The chalice will need to be held by the minister;
Read more here.
Several Roman Catholic dioceses have also decided not to use the common cup and to have a "no contact" exchange of the peace.
The Department of Health and Human Services in conjunction with the Faith Based and Community Organizations Office has issued a checklist for churches and others here as a pdf. More information is here.
Basic guidelines for health and wellness at all times apply:
Avoid close contact.
Avoid close contact with people who are sick. When you are sick, keep your distance from others to protect them from getting sick too.
Stay home when you are sick.
If possible, stay home from work, school, and errands when you are sick. You will help prevent others from catching your illness.
Cover your mouth and nose.
Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue when coughing or sneezing. It may prevent those around you from getting sick.
Clean your hands.
Washing your hands often will help protect you from germs.
Avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth.
Germs are often spread when a person touches something that is contaminated with germs and then touches his or her eyes, nose, or mouth.
Practice other good health habits.
Get plenty of sleep, be physically active, manage your stress, drink plenty of fluids, and eat nutritious food.
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As a former aide-de-camp to the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomenei and one of the founders of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, Mohsen Sazegara was once at the radical, sharply anti-American vanguard of that country’s Islamic revolution. Operating from Khomenei’s exile headquarters in Paris during the 1970s, the U.S.–educated student revolutionary was so close to the theocrats plotting to overthrow the American-backed shah that he flew into Tehran with Khomenei to launch the 1979 revolution -- and later served in several high-level political posts in the Islamic revolutionary government.
More than two decades later, Sazegara -- now 50 years old and wizened from two harsh terms in Iranian prisons -- has returned to the United States with a very different agenda.
Sazegara has taken up residence at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, where he hopes to mobilize his fellow exiles and U.S. policy-makers in support of a new initiative to peacefully topple the regime in Tehran.
In recent months, he and his supporters have been calling for a nationwide referendum on Iran’s constitution, timed to coincide with Iran’s presidential elections in mid-June. Referendum organizers have gathered 36,000 signatures on their Web site, www.60000000.com (a reference to the more than 60 million Iranians living under the mullahs’ oppressive rule).
Among the referendum campaign’s most prominent backers, ironically enough, is Reza Pahlavi, son of the late shah whom Sazegara helped topple. He is now a resident of the Washington, D.C., suburbs, where he maintains his “secretariat.” Pahlavi, 44, has his own group of followers who are seeking to restore the dynasty founded by his grandfather (a goal neither endorsed nor renounced by the putative heir).
A nexus of monarchist Iranian exiles and American neoconservatives, the Pahlavi network was cultivated in the early ’80s by U.S. officials who wanted to explore options for overturning the Tehran regime. The aftermath of the Iran-Contra scandal froze the network for almost two decades. But the network surfaced again with the arrival of George W. Bush, as neocons called for regime change. In 2002, Pahlavi himself authored Winds of Change: The Future of Democracy in Iran, which advocated peaceful, Serbian-style revolution in his homeland. (His publisher, interestingly enough, was Regnery, now famed for its connection with the Swift Boat Vets and POWs for Truth.)
The network briefly gathered force following the fall of Baghdad. With protests sweeping Tehran in the summer of 2003, neocons urged action. But their momentum slowed with the regime’s crackdown on protesters and then faltered after revelations of Pentagon contacts with Manucher Ghorbanifar, the notorious Iran-Contra arms dealer.
Yet recent moves in Congress to promote the “liberation” of Iran prove the continued vitality of the idea and its persistent sponsors. Over the course of nearly three decades, the same players continue to form the same coalition, pushing the same idea: a U.S.–sponsored campaign to destabilize the mullahs.
Having suddenly dropped into Washington’s continuing debate over policy toward Iran, Sazegara faces decisions that could make or break his opposition movement. His mere presence at the Washington Institute, a think tank known for advocating pro-Israeli policy and the targeting of Iran, adds a new layer of potential controversy. But the embrace of his well-connected new friends has also proved very helpful.
Owing to his past ties to the Revolutionary Guard, which runs Iranian military and intelligence operations, he was initially refused permission to visit the United States. The Washington Institute’s top Iran specialist, Patrick Clawson, lobbied hard for months to secure Sazegara’s extended visa.
How did the former Revolutionary Guard connect with Washington’s wealthy, Republican-oriented, and largely monarchist Iranian exile community? He says that when he was released from an Iranian prison last year to obtain medical treatment, an Iranian scholar who runs a Persian-language library in London introduced him to Shary Ahy, one of Pahlavi’s chief political advisers.
It isn’t clear whether Sazegara was fully aware of all the potential complications when he accepted the Washington Institute’s generous fellowship offer. During a recent interview with the Prospect, for example, Sazegara criticized the Mujahedin e-Khalq (MEK), an Iranian terrorist organization that allied itself with Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq war and was responsible for killing a close Sazegara associate. He was genuinely surprised to learn that figures associated with the Washington Institute -- including Clawson -- have long been pushing the Bush administration to rescind the State Department’s long-standing “terrorist” designation of the MEK, to facilitate working with the group against the Tehran regime.
Sazegara is entering the debate about America’s Iran policy at a critical juncture. The main issue, of course, is Iran’s nuclear program. Iran recently declared at the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty review conference that it is determined to pursue a “peaceful” nuclear program -- which may signal the breakdown of the European-led negotiations.
While the White House reviews options, hawkish members of Congress have taken advantage of the policy vacuum. Hardly noticed in last December’s appropriations bill was a measure introduced by Senator Sam Brownback to provide $3 million to promote democracy in Iran -- the first such U.S. funding targeted at Iranian internal affairs since the Reagan administration backed CIA programs to try to dislodge the mullahs.
Like so many aspects of U.S. policy toward Iran, the new funding has encountered both raised expectations and skepticism. “This is a good excuse for not having a policy, for not being serious,” says Manouchehr Ganji, a Washington-based Iranian human-rights and democracy activist who once served as minister of education in the shah’s government.
Twenty years ago, Ganji ran a pro-democracy, anti-mullah, Farsi-language radio station from Paris that was funded by the Reagan and Bush Senior administrations. “What do they expect these people will do for $3 million?” he asks. “This is not being serious with a regime like that, which is armed to the teeth, which arrests people, tortures people … . To ask people to come and get a little money and get themselves killed, with no organization, no backing -- it’s a criminal act.”
Still, Sazegara believes that his referendum bid can unite Iranians behind a platform that supports universal human rights, while leaving vague the details of post-mullah governance. Behind him are sympathizers who include everyone from monarchists to secular leftists. Although Sazegara is the movement’s public face, the man actually coordinating that effort is the suave, MIT–educated Ahy.
* * *
The Pahlavi adviser speaks eloquently of the recent democratic upheavals in Ukraine, Georgia, and Kyrgyzstan, saying that the referendum effort should be understood in the context of those events.
“Twenty-seven years ago, it was a revolutionary paradigm sweeping Europe, and in Iran, it was [militant] revolutionaries that planned political change,” says Ahy. “Now, with events in Ukraine, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, it is liberal democrats who plan political change, and execute it, and the process is going to be a liberal democratic process.”
With their patient discourse on liberal democracy, nonviolent change, and international human rights, neither Ahy nor Sazegara sounds like Washington’s more belligerent advocates of regime change in Iran. Yet the fact that Pahlavi’s operatives are quietly coordinating the referendum effort troubles some observers.
“They are very cute in their talk of the strategic uses of nonviolence,” says an American of Iranian descent who has been in contact with the extended Pahlavi network and asked not to be identified. “For instance, Pahlavi, in his recent book made a point of saying if Iran is struck militarily, it will set back the cause of regime change 30 years.”
At the same time, says this Iranian-American activist, the Pahlavi network and its American sponsors have been trying for a quarter-century to demonize the undoubtedly wretched Iranian regime in the American public mind to an almost cartoonish degree -- as if Iran’s leaders “were Hitler,” he says.
Working mostly behind the scenes, the network brings to mind the covert intrigues of the Reagan era, which involved a constellation of monarchists, arms dealers, neoconservative ideologues, and Israeli intelligence agents. Back then, as Ganji recalls, Pahlavi and Ahy recruited him in a Rosslyn, Virginia, hotel room to run the Paris-based radio station with funds provided by Congress.
Today Ahy insists that the referendum effort is accepting no money -- or strategic direction -- from any foreign government. “In conversations that I have had with people in Washington, I have told them there are two red lines,” he says. “We cannot accept public funding from this or any other government. And we do not want legislation from Congress that discusses regime change.”
During a May interview shortly after his arrival in Washington, with limited signs that the referendum movement had achieved political traction, Sazegara sounded philosophical. The election’s most likely outcome appeared to be the return of Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the 70-year-old conservative hard-liner, former Iranian president, and a figure all too familiar from the Iran-Contra era.
“Our difficulty now is to give the people hope, to give the people something to believe in,” Sazegara mused. “To melt the ice. This is the reason that we need international support of the Iranian people -- not just lip service.”
Laura Rozen reports on foreign affairs and national-security issues from Washington, D.C. Jeet Heer, who is based in Toronto, frequently writes for The Boston Globe and the National Post.
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German beer drinking hits post-reunification low
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) -- Germans are emptying fewer beer steins these days.
Consumption of the national beverage fell by 1.8 percent last year to the lowest level since West and East Germany reunified in 1990.
The German government statistics agency reported Wednesday that Germans drank 96.5 million hectoliters of beer last year. That's 2.55 billion gallons.
The German brewers' association DBB says an unusually cool summer made fewer people quench their thirst with a cold one.
German beer consumption has been slowly falling for three decades. Reasons include health concerns and growing preference for other beverages such as wine, especially among younger people.
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Mutable Boundaries in the Medieval Literatures of the British Isles
Date of Completion
This dissertation seeks to understand the multifaceted nature of the ways in which Welsh identity was represented and understood within Old and Middle English literary works. In so doing, it makes the argument that the construction of Welsh identity in medieval English literary works is uniquely tied to ambiguous spaces in the landscape, such as wastelands, borders, and marches. Thus the borders and boundaries described in the literature of medieval England from the Anglo-Saxon period to the late Middle Ages become spaces in which the construction of identity within these texts and within society as a whole takes place. Yet moreover, the mutability, flexibility, and ambiguity inherent within these spaces in Anglo-Saxon and later Middle English works shapes identities into equally mutable forms when Anglo-Saxon and Welsh figures come into contact with one another and with these spaces. In other words, it is paradoxically within the space that ostensibly separates the two that Anglo-Saxon and Welsh identities break down and become most blurred and ambiguous. ^ This project challenges current work on identity formation in medieval literature that has grown out of two main critical schools, postcolonial studies and spatial theory, by examining the key role of boundary spaces in the construction of Anglo and British identities in insular works of the Middle Ages. Focusing on literature troubled by the figure of the Briton, this project makes the case for the construction of a wider range of identities, arguing that boundaries depicted in insular medieval literature did not function as strict lines but rather became fluid spaces that held within themselves the potential for constantly shifting conceptions of groups and individuals. Individual chapters focus on the Old English poems Andreas (Chapter One), Guthlac A (Chapter Two), and Exeter Book Riddles 52 and 72 (Chapter Three), the works of Walter Map and William of Newburgh (Chapter Four), and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Chapter Five). The present form of this dissertation is conditioned by other considerations. Please contact the author for further information. ^
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Irish Stem Cell Expert to Address World Summit
Tuesday, 4 December 2012
Professor Tim O’Brien
One of Ireland’s leading experts on stem cells will address the 8th World Stem Cell Summit, which takes place in Florida this week. Professor Tim O’Brien, Director of the Regenerative Medicine Institute (REMEDI) at NUI Galway, will present a session on ‘Leading Institutions and Their Strategies for Advancing Regenerative Medicine’. Speaking alongside colleagues from research institutes around the world, Professor O’Brien will present on Wednesday, 5 December, discussing the latest research from REMEDI in the field of adult stem cell research here in Ireland.
The World Stem Cell Summit is the largest interdisciplinary, networking meeting of stem cell stakeholders, uniting the diverse regenerative medicine community. With the overarching purpose of fostering biomedical research funding and investments targeting cures, the summit is seen as main conference charting the future of this burgeoning field.
The programme provides the research, industry, economic and societal context for understanding how all of the pieces of the stem cell puzzle fit together. The agenda features more than 150 speakers and 50 hours of in-depth presentations. Supported by 200 sponsors, exhibitors, endorsing organisations and media partners, the summit is a three-day showcase of innovation, insight and inspiration.
Speaking ahead of the event, Professor Tim O’Brien said: “Ireland has invested substantially in adult stem cell research in both infrastructure and human capital. The country is now poised to move from pre-clinical research to clinical trials subject to regulatory approval.”
NUI Galway has become a leading centre of translational research in adult stem cells involving its National Centre for Biomedical Engineering Science (NCBES) and REMEDI, which is funded by Science Foundation Ireland. The REMEDI team, which includes Professor Timothy O’Brien and Professor Frank Barry, are partnering with academics and clinicians from all over Ireland and beyond to study the clinical potential of adult stem cells in the treatment of many different diseases.
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You hear it all the time: the tale of two Georgias. The first, a huge, diverse, international city. The second, a state deeply entrenched in the politics and culture of the rural South. And the distinctions and divisions are growing.
While social conservatism expands statewide, Atlanta becomes gayer and wears its LGBT-friendly reputation with more pride. As the city's immigrant population grows and the influence of those immigrants becomes more apparent, anti-immigrant sentiment and legislation looms.
From here in our blue oasis, it would be easy to look out at the red sea around us and react with contempt. But let's pause a minute, and try to grasp where the South's rural and suburban conservatives are coming from, where their own fears and confusions lie, and what we can do to bridge the gap.
The changes of the past 50 years in America have been mammoth. To many, particularly to our white, Christian, Southern brethren, these changes have been frightening. There might be some folks out there who hate gays and immigrants and African-Americans because they are genuinely small-hearted people, but for many others it comes down to fear. This is not the America it once was. Change is scary.
What options do these folks have, the ones who are tussling with the very human reaction of fear in the face of change? They have the Left, telling them that their fear is bad and makes them bad people by extension. And they have the Right, soothing them into believing their fear is justified.
But no one is saying, "Yes, of course change is scary." Just as, 100 years ago, Americans were frightened of Italian and Irish immigrants, now Latinos bear the brunt of that fear.
No one is saying, "We get it, gay culture isn't something you thought you'd ever see as part of the mainstream." But it is the mainstream now, whether you like it or not. And it's OK if you're scared. That doesn't make you bad. It makes you human. Rather than vilify each other, us red-state and blue-city dwellers, we should instead try to have some compassion. Perhaps if we get to know each other a little, some of the fear will dissipate.
Naive? Possibly. But it's worth a try. After all, progressivism and Christianity have a lot in common, beginning with empathy. Both the Left and the Right seem to have forgotten that basic premise. And as the politics and culture of our state become more stratified, looking for middle ground may be the only real way to move forward, together.
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Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
--Proverbs 16: 18 (KJV)
Barry Lamar Bonds makes the national headlines--again. One of the world's greatest athletes, Bonds looms larger than the sport that brought him fame and money. And thus we see his sin, the ancient one of Pride, one of the Seven Deadlys of Yore. Babe Ruth was bigger than baseball, and so was Joe DiMaggio. Bonds' fatal mistake was pulling himself up to the pantheon, shoving a few old codgers aside in the process, and attempting to stand next to George Herman and Joseph Paul. Tsk, tsk, Barry Lamar. You were too good, too cocky, too aloof, too self-absorbed. Mostly you were just too good. Hang your head, boy, and say "aw, shucks," and we'll cut you some slack. But stand pround, be defiant, and we'll cut you down. Welcome to the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave, Barry, where you can "be all you can be." | <urn:uuid:299c5a22-285e-424b-ac3e-0106c96c94ec> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://raisingmattcain.blogspot.com/2007/11/proverbial-barry-lamar.html?showComment=1195229280000 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00071-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966234 | 235 | 1.703125 | 2 |
HOT in Indonesia
Soon after HOT got started there was discussion around the idea of pre-mapping before a disaster. Previously there have been meetings and discussions, but never really a project to attempt this. An opportunity arose to actually test this idea out. Here in Indonesia though we've begun work to answer the question "Can OpenStreetMap be used to collect exposure data?" A simple way to outline the program is by mapping buildings in OpenStreetMap. Can that data then be utilized in risk models?
Beginning in April myself and Jeff Haack began travelling to Indonesia to outline what a project to gather this sort of information would look like. We've been working with the Australia-Indonesia Facility for Disaster Reduction (AIFDR), the World Bank's Global Facility for Disaster Reducation and Recovery (GFDRR), Badan Nasional untuk Penanggulangan Bencana (BNPB which is the Indonesia national government disaster response organization). When we were here the first time we meet with many perspective partners as well as gave a day and a half long workshop with some community facilitators from Australian Community Development and Civil Society Strengthening Scheme (ACCESS). ACCESS is a program which provides community facilitators that work in communities to assist in strengthen of governance. They assist in facilitation of community decision making and planning. These facilitators were already doing mapping within communities but it was more of a traditional participatory poverty mapping exercise. In our workshop we showed them how they could use OpenStreetMap to map their communities and then everyone would be able to use the data. After that first trip discussion about how we would further scale the mapping began and a three month pilot program was developed, which is what we've just begun recently.
So over the next three months we are working in a five cities and eight rural areas. In the urban areas we are partnering with Universities and in the rural areas we are continuing to work with ACCESS. We are taking a completely different approach in the two types of environments. Within the universities we are having a contest and in rural areas we are going to continue to teach OpenStreetMap for data collection, but also provide tools making it easy to utilize the data. This is happening through assistance of two interns from University of Indonesia, Vasanthi and Emir Hartato. Also Chris Blow and Rob Baker and coming to assist with design and software development of the tools.
The contest is taking place over six weeks and involves Universitas Indonesia, Institut Teknologi Sepuluh November, Insitut Teknologi Bandung, Universitas Gadjah Mada and Universitas Andalas. Each University is having a 1 day workshop where students learn to contribute to OpenStreetMap and also learn the rules to the contest. The rules are fairly simple: 5 points for every building mapped and 1 point for every other feature added. We are also using a modified version of OSMQA2 where a mapper can declare a grid "complete," for buildings. If a grid is complete students receive an extra point per building in that area. After the contest ends Jeff and I will be double checking work before the winners are announced. The prize for one student from each university is a scholarship to attend State of the Map. Interested in what is going on in the contest? You can "like" us on Facebook or Follow on Twitter to find out what is going on throughout the contest.
In the eight rural areas we are doing two day workshops. These will be followed up by one day workshops in the beginning of August. During the initial workshops we'll be teaching data collection as well as collecting requirements for data usage. From those requirements we are putting together an OpenStreetMap Indonesia portal. This will make it easy to make maps with cartography that is specific to Indonesia. When we return for the second workshop it will be to show off the modified tools and help with follow-up questions. Below is a map by Kristy Van Putten showing all the locations geographically, as you can see we are hopping around quite a bit.
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- Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects. Giorgio Vasari .
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- 2011 NFL Preseason Schedule: Packers vs. Colts Is Curtis Painter's Last Stand
- Until Manning was ready to play, Curtis Painter was going to have to do. This is where the Colts were wrong. Painter has started two preseason games in place of Manning, and has been wildly mediocre in both.
- Face painters wish Hazare's campaign continues
- According to the painters, the trend of painting faces has slowly caught on, especially with youngsters, and the customers have been increasing by the day.
- Original Cast of THE PITMEN PAINTERS Head Back to West End
- Casting has been announced for the forthcoming West End production of Lee Hall's The Pitmen Painters, presented by Bill Kenwright.
- Painter's expression of care
- TRIBUTES: Ohai artist Darryl Smith with the paintings he sends to people who have suffered disasters. His art in the foreground will be sent to the families of the miners who died in the Pike River coal mine disaster.
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A Penny For The Guy?Posted: November 9, 2008 | |
I cannot for the life of me figure out how Guy Fawkes became a symbol of revolution. I see all these anarchist types wandering around with their V masks, and I wonder if they even know who Guy Fawkes really is? It baffles me why a reactionary like Fawkes has been so heartily adopted by the American left. Why did the main character of V for Vendetta wear a V mask rather than a Che mask, or a Lenin mask, or even an Abbie Hoffman mask? Why Guy Fawkes, for the love of heaven?
The Gun Powder Plot was not, in any reasonable sense of the word, revolutionary. It was counter revolutionary in the strictest interpretation. The English Reformation was a social revolution that freed Britain from Papal tyranny. Under Queen Elizabeth I, the old Norman aristocracy lost their influence in favor of the new merchant class. Guy Fawkes himself was the son of an upwardly mobile middle class Protestant family. His father was a minor official in the Church of England, and his mother was the daughter of a dry goods merchant. Fawkes’s conversion to Catholicism may have stemmed from teen rebellion.
Guy Fawkes and his fellow Gunpowder Plotters wanted to destroy the new Church of England and return England to Papal control. How can this possibly be seen as revolutionary? Despite popular belief, Guy Fawkes was not the ringleader. That dubious honor went to a hereditary Catholic by the name of Robert Catesby. The Gunpowder Plot could have been thought up by Sir Edmund Blackadder. The conspirators rented a house next to the Winchester Complex, planning to mine beneath the House of Lords, pack it with gunpowder and blow it up during Parliament’s opening session. That way they could get King James, most of his court and family, and all the influential Protestant nobles. The opening of Parliament was delayed three times on account of the Black Plague, yet the tunnel was still not completed. So they rented the cellar beneath the House of Lords and stocked that with gunpowder instead.
If Robert Catesby was Blackadder, then Guy Fawkes was Baldric. Even though Fawkes knew that the plot had been revealed by a Catholic nobleman who was appalled at the plot, he tried to go through with it anyway. The guards were looking for him. They caught him in the cellar with 32 kegs of gunpowder and with fuses and matches in his pocket. He still tried to lie his way out of it. He was taken to the Tower of London and tortured while his buddies epically failed at getting away.
That was the historic Guy Fawkes. He was not the great defender of freedom as portrayed in V for Vendetta. He was an expendable flunky in a hare-brained plot to stop the wheels of progress and to return England to the “good old days” of Papal domination. The only advantage to that would have been to the Catholic nobles such as Robert Catesby, who wanted their old power and influence back. Fawkes himself became a figure of ridicule amongst the British, as shown by this rhyme.
- Remember, remember the fifth of November
- It’s Gunpowder Plot, we never forgot
- Put your hand in your pocket and pull out your purse
- A ha’penny or a penny will do you no harm
- Who’s that knocking at the window?
- Who’s that knocking at the door?
- It’s little Mary Ann with a candle in her hand
- And she’s going down the cellar for some coal
Guy Fawkes became identified with the Anarchist movement in the early 20th Century. British Anarchists put up posters with the modern stylized sketch of Fawkes, declaring that Guy Fawkes was the only man to enter Parliament with honest intent. This was, of course, using Guy Fawkes as a figure of ridicule. It was meant as a sort of black joke. Somebody lacking a sense of humor started taking the joke seriously, and the next thing we knew, we had V for Vendetta, and kids wearing Guy Fawkes masks in honor of a man who was trying to put Britain back under Papal control.
- The irony is that these kids in their Guy Fawkes masks are pretty well accomplishing what Fawkes set out to do. They want to destroy government control without replacing the structures that have been destroyed. In this they actually share the same goals as their neocon opponents. The result is that money rushes in to fill the vacuum left by the lost structures. The more government is torn down, the more control falls into the hands of those who have the most money. This has been going on for twenty eight years and nobody has yet figured out that our loss of civil liberties is equal to the amount of government regulations that have been eliminated. The American left has not figured out that tearing down the government is a bad idea which will accomplish the opposite of what we want. The bad guy in V for Vendetta said at the people need to realize that the people need the government. This is very true. A dear friend of mine, who is a big V for Vendetta fan, adds that the government needs the people’s consent in order to govern. This is equally true. Government and the people exist in a symbiotic relationship. When that symbiosis fall out of balance, disasters like the present economic melt down occurs.
- This leads us to the present cult of the Constitution. America has become as conservative as the conspirators of the Gunpowder Plot. The American left has not yet realized that by trying to return us to the original Constitution, they want to return us to the times when only property owners were citizens and could vote. Women were chattel, and African Americans were bought and sold like cattle. America has grown beyond those times, and trying to return us to them is only going to place Wall St. in charge of our lives. Looking backwards, even to the days of the American Revolution, is as reactionary as the Gunpowder Plot. There is also the truth that it is easier to destroy what we have in a vain attempt to make the clock move backwards, than it is to build. The more we destroy the government, the more of our civil liberties fall into the hands of Wall St. The only logical step is to rebuild the Government into what we want it to be.
- This is perfectly Constitutional. The Constitution was never meant to be Holy writ, nor is it a mortal sin to change and revise it. The writers of the Constitution knew fully well that the world changes. They wrote the Constitution in order to deal with the changing conditions of their own time. They knew the world would continue to change, and built structures of change right into the Constitution. Hence the constitution was changed to allow all economic classes to vote. In 1971, Richard M. Nixon signed an amendment that changed the voting age from 21 to 18. Women won the vote in the early 20th Century. African Americans were freed by a Constitutional amendment. We have all the tools we need to change the government back into what we want it to be. All we need now is a plan.
- Planning is the difference between revolutionaries like Jefferson and Burr and morons like Catesby and Fawkes. Rather than have some vague idea about returning the country to what Tom Jefferson wanted, we need a clear idea of what we want and need as a nation. There were many movements which had clear and precise goals as to what they wanted the government to be. The Labor movement, the Suffragist movement, and the Civil Rights movement are three clear examples of revolutionary movements that have changed the nation. Despite the best efforts of the neocons and their religious lapdogs, we still enjoy many of the benefits we gained from those movements.
- Remember that the Constitution was written to be an instrument of the will of the people and not chains to bind us to a past age. Trying to return the Constitution to the days of the founders is like Guy Fawkes trying to return England to the tyranny of the Pope. It simply cannot be done. Maybe Guy Fawkes is really the appropriate symbol for the 21st Century American left, as they lead us to the future with their asses firmly in front of them.
- A penny loaf to feed the Pope
Hip hip hoorah hoorah!
A farthing o’ cheese to choke him.
Hip hip hoorah!
Then we’ll say ol’ Pope is dead.
A pint of beer to rinse it down.
A fagot of sticks to burn him.
Burn him in a tub of tar.
Burn him like a blazing star.
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BRONXVILLE, N.Y. — The following was written by Bronxville Public Library Director Gabriella Radujko. To submit your own letter to the editor, email email@example.com.
Last year I wrote about the importance of the Bronxville Public Library in the context of public libraries everywhere. In this new year, I would like to share my observations about our library in the context of its community, the Village of Bronxville, especially as it relates to the concept of "local" as described by Kentucky-born poet and philosopher Wendell Berry, author of "The Art of the Common Place — The Agrarian Essays."
In the last six months, I have learned that an appreciation for "local" is part of what makes Bronxville a successful community to live or work in. Many of us support local farmers at the village farmers market to gain access to fruits and vegetables grown in Dutchess and Columbia counties or to cheese made there. As a result, food becomes less abstract as we begin interacting with the farmer directly, learning about the farmer's land, and, subsequently, about the cycle of planting and harvesting. Our choice to buy local also influences the process of getting food to the table by eliminating transporters, packagers and advertisers.
Just as important is the choice Bronxville citizens make when they invest in the local community by volunteering their time and sharing their financial resources. The work of the Friends of the Bronxville Library is an excellent example. By strengthening the library, they strengthen the community. With each passing month, I see this generous pattern repeated. Bronxville residents who contribute to the community often volunteer with multiple organizations!
Local questions such as "Who can drive a neighbor to an appointment or run an errand?" or "How can we help someone affected by a regional disaster?" are best answered by local residents who know the area's history and the personal histories of their neighbors.
Other local questions such as, "Where can I learn more about a question I have about my tax return?" or "What are some of the best hiking trails in Westchester County?" are best answered by the local library. Together, the library and its residents are actively helping contribute to the success of the community with local assets, the most important of which is our people.
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Peter J. Leithart
May 27, 2010
Lisa Heldke writes, “For theories like Descartes’ [which] conceive of my body as an external appendage to my mind, and see its role in inquiry as merely to provide a set of (fairly reliable) sensory data on which my reasoning faculty then operates to produce objects of knowledge. But growing and cooking food are important counterexamples to this view; they are activities in which bodily perceptions are more than meter reading which must be scrutinized by reason. The knowing involved in making a cake is ‘contained’ not simply ‘in my head’ but in my hands, my wrists, my eyes and nose as well. The phrase ‘bodily knowledge’ is not a metaphor. It is an acknowledgement of the fact that I know things literally with my body, that I, ‘as’ my hands, know when the bread dough is sufficiently kneaded, and I ‘as’ my nose know when the pie is done.”
Two things: Similar things might be said about sports, playing a musical instrument, woodworking, and any number of human activities. When do we get a sufficient number of counterexamples of anomalies to decide that the Cartesian model is no longer useful?
Second: What would modern philosophy had been like if Descartes had prepared his own meals?
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Genesis 37:25 - And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
Isaiah 21:13 - The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim.
Luke 2:44 - But they, supposing him to have been in the company, went a day`s journey; and they sought him among their kinsfolk and acquaintance.
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The Digital Economy Bill : what's yours is ours
The end game is now in sight. The Digital Economy Bill is now expected to become law within the next 6 weeks. It introduces orphan works usage rights, which - unless amended, which HMG says it will not - will allow the commercial use of any photograph whose author cannot be identified through a suitably negligent search. That is potentially about 90% of the photos on the internet.
Copyright in photos is essentially going to cease to exist, since there is no ineradicable way of associating ownership details short of plastering your name right across the image. Photographer's organisations have pressed hard for mandatory attribution to deter orphans being manufactured. Early in the consultation process the IPO accepted the irresistible logic that it was completely unreasonable to permit orphan use without a balancing requirement to not orphan photos in the first place. However, the IPO recognised with dismay that this would mean "taking on Rupert" (Murdoch).
Publishers have a long history of opposing our moral rights. They were responsible for the feeble and unenforceable moral rights clauses in the 1988 Act. They want their branding, not ours, and they want maximum freedom to exploit our IP at minimum cost and inconvenience.
The IPO avoided confrontation with Murdoch, who does have something of a rep for being a vital friend in an election year. The Bill contains no deterrent to the creation of orphans, no penalties for anonymising your work, no requirement for bylines. It is a luncheon voucher for industry hungry for free and cheap content.
So Flickr, Google Images, personal websites, all of it will become commercial publishers' photolibrary. A fee will have to be deposited with a collecting society in case the owner spots the usage. The author who discovers his work has been used as an orphan can then make a claim and receive a percentage of the peanuts, after the collecting society has had its share, and the government its share.
This is perhaps a slight improvement over earlier proposals, whereby HMG egregiously planned to keep all the fees itself.
Essentially, if photos were cars, so long as the numberplate is missing (or you can get rid of it and claim it was), you'll be able to legally TWOC and use it on payment of a fee to the Government.
The quaint notion that the author alone has prime and inalienable rights over his/her own work, must be able to restrict usage, negotiate a fee, prevent usage they consider immoral or distasteful, or assert their moral right to attribution, is about to pass into history.
This is the biggest change in UK copyright law in 150 years. It also punches holes through the Berne agreement, international copyright law and TRIPS.
It most certainly is not an issue that affects only pro's, who for the most part are doomed anyway. Simple economics of media evolution are driving commercial users toward free or very cheap content, sourced from readers and users, microstock, hobbyists, and we suspect that Government is using orphan works legislation as a means to oil the wheels of Britain's publishing industry. Cultural freedom, the worthy concerns of museums and galleries, are just a Trojan horse. If they were not, none of this chicanery would be necessary, a simple extension to fair dealing would have solved the orphans problem.
So it is amateurs who should worry most. Pro's tend to be careful about asserting copyright and being easy to find, because it's their livelihood. Amateurs just don't want to know about this dull legal stuff or spend hours embedding IPTC, even if they know what it is. They want to concentrate on the enjoyable bits of shooting and sharing their work, often via free services and untraceable nicknames. If work gets published without payment, they tend to feel flattered rather than robbed anyway. If they can claim a few quid from a collecting society they'll be chuffed. It is their photographs that will become easy targets for orphan claims, relieving commercial publishers of the tedious necessity of needing to ask permission when they can't easily find the owner. But the fact remains that photographers will have been serially robbed with government connivance.
Back door man
Most of this state-sponsored thieves' charter isn't even going through Parliament as primary legislation. The Digital Economy bill Section 42 sections 16a, 16b, 16c enable ad hoc regulation by Mandelson's office without further legislation. None of that will ever be voted on.
In fact what an "orphan work" is remains undefined in the Bill. Simlarly, what precisely will comprise an "adequate search", what level of fee will be required, how the fee will be divided between the revenant author and the collecting society, who will benefit from unclaimed fees, who the extended licensing societies will be and what rules they will have to follow, are all unspecified and unknown to supporters and opponents alike. As far as orphans and photographers are concerned, this is a deliberate shell of a bill whose real payload will not be made apparent until it is too late to do anything about it.
Remarkably, even though it simply isn't possible for them to know what they were voting for, only a handful of Lib-Dem and Tory Lords expressed concern during Monday's Lords debate.
This covert approach to major legislation did not escape the attention of the Lords Select Committee on the Constution, who wrote to Mandelson in December :
"The Committee's view is that this is inappropriate, and that "orphan work" should be defined in the Bill. Likewise the following matters are left for you as Secretary of State and are not settled in the Bill: the treatment of royalties, the deduction of administrative costs, the period for which sums must be held for the copyright owner, and the subsequent treatment of those sums. The Committee notes that regulations made under this section are subject only to negative resolution procedure; and that the provisions contain no express duty on you as Secretary of State to consult appropriate stakeholders....it would greatly assist the Committee if you could explain why you consider it to be constitutionally appropriate for what appear to be such wide-ranging and open-ended rule-making powers to be conferred on you as Secretary of State."
Mandelson replied that the need for flexibility in specifying what comprises an adequate search makes this difficult. That what is an orphan work will change according to evolving methods of determining its status. (An astonishing concept borrowed perhaps from quantum mechanics). He gives no clues what an adequate search may comprise because that too is subject to change. Therefore we have no clue what an orphan work may be, but rest assured the law needs to change to address the dire handicap that orphans present to creativity. Who can argue with that? But he does at least promise yet more IPO public consultation. In over 3 years of consultation with photographers' representative bodies, Gowers, Lammy, the IPO have proved deaf as a post, so this is not reassuring.
Nor have the answers been any clearer regarding the EC Human Rights implications of disposing of some unknown person's copyright. "No Articles are engaged by the provision itself as the provision only contains a power and has no immediate substantive effect" is a truly audacious Houdini-ism. But anyhow, according to Mandelson ECHR allows him to do anything he likes with other peoples' copyright so long as it is in the public interest, and so long as people can opt out of the licensing arrangements he undertakes - which appears to mean they forfeit collecting society fees. Can they sue for infringement? Sorry, don't know, nobody knows
Even if he can't tell the public or Parliament what he's going to do or how any of it will impact on us, or how the sums work, or even how much money government will rake off the deal with collecting societies, or even exactly what "opt out" means, he is at least sure all of it will be in the public interest. Mandelson has a long, long list of informal soothing assurances to live up to, but once the law is passed they may well be worthless. There is little point is reserving to oneself unaccountable Godlike powers of unlimited "flexibility" if one does not intend to use them. In the public interest, of course. That's not defined either.
Now that their Lordships have nodded through this masterpiece of double-blind opacity, it will return to the House of Lords for the report stage on 1st March, with none of our elected representatives being any the wiser when they vote, but reliably following party lines. The Government is determined to see the Digital Economy Bill passed without further amendment before the May 6th election date. A cynic might think that, having watched the fate of successive US orphan rights Bills and the international uproar among visual creators, the UK Government has been very clever indeed at closing down debate and circumventing democracy. Nobody can argue with what is still secret. Genius.
The ICO code : put that camera away, my face is private
Not content with abrogating photographers' copyright, another part of Government is now going some way to ban photography altogether in public places, for data protection reasons. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) proposed new code for personal information online has "commonsense" new rules that in effect will prohibit photography in public places where anyone who's in the photograph might be unhappy about being photographed. A photo, taken in public, is now deemed private data, y'see.
CCTV, full body scans at airports, no problem, but if an ordinary person takes a photo, this Kafkasesque notion of privacy in public will apply. Unless it's on film. You'd probably be OK taking photos of someone committing a criminal offence too, as ICO thinks this shouldn't be private information.
Mindful of the damage this would do to tourism and how much it would piss off Joe Public to be told he can't use his cameraphone in the street to make humiliating snaps of his drunk mates for Facebook (and quite possibly subsequent orphan use by Rupert Murdoch), ICO have decided that this lunacy shall only apply to pro photographers, a small enough constituency to castrate with impunity.
Of course ICO thinks all pro photography is deeply unpopular paparazzi harassment of our beloved celebrities so it is acting in a most principled manner for, you guessed, the public interest. Minor considerations like journalism, history, social documentary, freedom of expression - and even the simple logic that if you can eyeball it in public, it can't possibly be private - all are just collateral damage. At a stroke, ICO is redefining allowable photography to exclude all that contentious street stuff that has made the record of the last 150 years so insightful. Consensual falsehoods, celebrity promotion, ridiculous propaganda, marketing nonsense will all be fine, however.
"Consultation" has, in the now time-honoured manner, met with stonewall indifference. As far as ICO are concerned, there is not a problem. It simply means pro photographers must not take any photo that anyone in the picture may object to. They don't have to actually object, the photographer has to guess whether they might and do the responsible thing.
Almost always that will mean putting the camera away and going home. In the most CCTV-monitored and nannied country in the world, once the bossed-about public gets the idea that they have a right to not be photographed in public places they wil point blank refuse, just to assert the one tiny freedom left to them. At last they will no longer have to imagine privacy rights they don't have. The prejudice and suspicion against anyone with a big camera will be officially sanctioned. Photographers will not only be potential paedophiles and terrorists, but identity-thieving personal data pirates too.
Of course, we already have police and PCSO's deploying S44 TA2000 for the purpose of interdicting photography in public places. That has admittedly been ruled illegal under ECHR by the European Court in Strasbourg, but HMG assure that is in the public interest too and police say it is a vital part of the fight against terrorism, so the law lives on.
All told, at this rate it will soon be easier to photograph in North Korea than UK.
Just to be entirely clear, the above article deals with two separate issues emanating from two different government departments.
1. Digital Economy Bill
We urge you to write to your MP about the orphan licensing provisions of the Digital Economy Bill. Pressure on our elected representatives is now the only way to stop the Bill, and time is short.
It is better to write your own unique letter because MP's take less notice of organised campaigns than individual constituents, but if it helps a template letter is available here. Word (.doc), RTF (.rtf) and plain text (.txt) versions may be downloaded from the bottom of that page. Adapt it, change it, write something entirely different, but write!
If you can, don't just email. A proper letter on paper sent through the post, or even a fax will command a great deal more attention. Recorded delivery is best of all - they might think it's from the Fees Office ;-)
How to find your MP's name and contact details is described here.
2. ICO Personal Information Online consultation
In response to inquiries correctly noting that the ICO code does not explicitly mention photography please read the comment below : "ICO and Photography in Public places : a clarification"
The ICO consultation is ongoing and concludes on 5 March. Please email firstname.lastname@example.org seeking urgent clarification regarding their interpretation of data protection law regarding photography in public places.
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Willamette University was one of six colleges honored by the Corporation for National and Community Service for exemplary community service on the 2009 President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll. Willamette University was chosen as a 'Service to Youth from Disadvantaged Circumstances' awardee due to its commitment to serving youth through Willamette Academy and the Chemawa Indian School. The award recognizes more than 700 colleges and universities nationwide and is the highest federal recognition a school can achieve for its commitment to volunteering, service‐learning, and civic engagement.
The CollegeBoard recognized Willamette Academy as extremely effective in serving Latino populations in its recent “Resources for Increasing Latino Participation and Success in Higher Education” guide. Willamette Academy was the only college access program recognized in Oregon along with other national organizations such as Educational Talent Search and the Hispanic Scholarship Fund. This is an outstanding validation of the success of Willamette Academy as a standard‐setting leader for college access programs nationwide with proven results.
The Oregonian recently nominated Willamette Academy as one of the state’s 'Beacons of Achievement' and one of the great successes of the last 20 years. Willamette Academy was nominated alongside three other education organizations – the Chalkboard Project, Self‐Enhancement Inc., and the Smart program. The Academy was nominated because of its successful partnerships with the Salem‐Keizer School District and other community organizations to reach out to historically underrepresented communities and empower students to be the first in their families to attend college. | <urn:uuid:3af522f5-23a7-4468-8170-0faf2900cff8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.willamette.edu/academy/program/recognition.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954587 | 311 | 1.78125 | 2 |
The Food and Drug Administration is proposing costly new regulations for growers of apples, pears, and other tree fruits — even though they have a virtually flawless safety record.
“For decades, America’s farmers, ranchers, and fruit growers have become grudgingly accustomed to dealing with onerous regulatory schemes emanating from the Environmental Protection Agency,” according to the CFACT (Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow) website.
“But now the people who grow apples, pears, and other tree fruits have a new tormentor: the Food and Drug Administration,” which is backing standards “that many growers are convinced will put them out of business.”
The new regulations emerge from the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2010, passed by Congress and the Obama administration, which directed the FDA to prevent foodborne illnesses rather than simply react to outbreaks.
This year the FDA designated which items of produce would be included in the new regulations. Those usually consumed raw (including apples, blueberries, bananas, pears, and peaches) would have to abide by the new regulations, and those that are usually cooked or processed (sweet potatoes, black-eyed peas, pumpkins, artichokes, winter squash, etc.) would be exempt, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Growers subject to the new regulations would face an array of new responsibilities, including regular testing of irrigation water, sanitizing canvas fruit-picking bags, and keeping animals away from crops, The Journal explained.
Tree fruit farmers argue that the FDA should focus more on items that have caused deadly outbreaks in the past, such as spinach, instead of items that have never posed a health threat.
An apple farmer in Virginia told The Journal that the compliance costs “would end up getting passed on to the consumer, if we didn’t go out of business first.”
The FDA has said the new requirements would cost American farms about $460 million a year.
Also, some farmers fear that foreign products will not be subject to the same regulations, and foreign competition will drive American farmers out of business.
Farms with average yearly sales of $25,000 or less, and certain other farms that average less than $500,000 in annual sales and sell mostly to consumers within a 275-mile radius, would be exempt from the new requirements, the FDA says.
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At 1:11 AM CT on Monday morning, an earthquake with a magnitude of 4.1 struck in northern Illinois, epicentered near the town of Ottawa. Quakes in this area are quite rare, but have been previously recorded in 1881, 1912, and 1972. The three-second temblor was felt over a wide swath of the Midwest, including areas in Iowa, Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan, and Missouri.
Coast listener Shawn N. of Racine, WI wrote in to describe his experience: "The house gently shook for at least 5 seconds. I thought I was hallucinating or something until I came across a link online that verified it as an earthquake...Never thought I'd see the day when an earthquake would hit in the Midwest! After months of monsoon-like rain, and tornadoes, and now an earthquake?!...something strange is going on here..." | <urn:uuid:d54d0e50-1f3c-4afe-a5bd-9e10bbef601c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.coasttocoastam.com/article/rare-midwest-quake | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00058-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980509 | 181 | 1.71875 | 2 |
Nathan Weidenbaum Park
Nathan Weidenbaum (Little Bush) Park
In 1987, Commissioner Stern had renamed the area Little Six Park after the enormous neighboring apartment complex, Big Six Towers. After World War II, older housing in Woodside, which was laid out in 1869, was replaced by apartment buildings. Most notably, the Big Six Towers were constructed on Queens Boulevard and 60th Street, as a cooperative housing development sponsored by the New York Typographical Union, Local Six.
The park also had a local name, Little Bush Park, because it is located across the Brooklyn Queens Expressway from the larger Big Bush Park. The name Bush comes from a discontinued street, which once ran through these two parks.
In 1936, Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia (1882-1947) designated the site as parkland, however, construction on the future Brooklyn-Queens Expressway interrupted La Guardia's plans. That December the Regional Plan Association recommended the construction of a link between the Gowanus Parkway and the Triborough Bridge, then known as "Brooklyn-Queens Connecting Highway," the new project would be financed equally by Federal, State, and City funds.
The construction of the Kosciuszko Bridge over Newtown Creek in 1939 was the first piece of what would later become the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, colloquially referred to as the BQE. The route of today's BQE was decided by Commissioner Robert Moses (1888-1981) in late 1945. In October, 1958, the BQE was designated Interstate 278, making it eligible for 90 percent Federal funding for its completion and the rehabilitation of already finished sections. The final bit of the Queens section of the expressway, including the segment that runs through Woodside, was completed in 1964.
In 1971, after years of delay, Parks Commissioner August Heckscher and Queens Borough President Sidney Leviss agreed to co-sponsor the construction of what are known today as Big Bush Park, located across the way and Little Bush Parks, bounded here by 63rd and 64th Streets, and the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. Before 1971, this site served as a dumping ground for Laurel Hill.
In June 2001, an extensive $1,300,000 renovation of Little Bush Park was completed.
Funded by Council Member McCaffrey, the project refurbished the basketball courts,
sitting areas, and swings. Steel fencing was erected to replace an older chain-link
fence. New play equipment with safety surfacing and a lighting system were installed,
as well as World's Fair benches, decorative pavements and greenery, camel spray
showers, donkey animal art, game tables, and water fountains. A new steel flagpole
with a yardarm stands within the park, flying the flags of the United States,
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the nation's capital and largest city. It lies high in the foothills of Mount Entoto in central Ethiopia, about 8,000 feet (2,440 m) above sea level. Warm days and cool nights prevail all year. The name Addis Ababa means New Flower.
Addis Ababa is the economic center of the nation. Factories are numerous; the main products are foods and other consumer goods. All-weather roads radiate from the city, a railway links it to the port of Djibouti, and it has an international airport. Ethiopia's national stadium is also here.
Addis Ababa University is the chief institution of higher learning in Ethiopia. Cultural attractions include the National Museum, the Zoological Natural History Museum, and the National Library and Archives. Several international organizations, including the African Union and the Economic Commission of Africa, have headquarters in the city. Addis Ababa was founded in 1887 by Menelik II and became the national capital in 1889. | <urn:uuid:3e7af665-398e-4e60-a2bf-24fe46f79c6a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://geography.howstuffworks.com/africa/geography-of-addis-ababa.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00047-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942352 | 210 | 2.625 | 3 |
EYEWITNESS LOCAL NEWSPROPOSED DRUG REHAB CONTROVERSY
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Proposed Drug Rehab Center Stirs Up Controversy In Putnam Community
Reported by: Kristin Keeling
Web Producer: Kristin Keeling
Reported: Jan. 28, 2012 6:04 PM EST
Updated: Jan. 28, 2012 6:17 PM EST
Buffalo , Putnam County , West Virginia
A controversial proposal has hit community members in the small town of Buffalo in Putnam County to their core.
The proposal is to bring in an inpatient rehabilitation center named, "The Rock House" to Eighteen Mile Creek in Buffalo.
It comes from a group made up of a physician and the founder of Parents Against Addictions. They're looking at different places throughout Putnam County to locate the center. They met with people of Buffalo Saturday morning to present their ideas.
"We've felt this resistance before, and we're ready for it. And I think part of it is because people feel uncomfortable having addicts in their community which I completely understand. It's just unfortunately, the addicts are already here that's who we're trying to help," said Michael Robie, D.O., Chairman of The Rock.
Heated opinions came from both sides during the meeting. Some love the idea of bringing in the facility because to them they see it was a way to help addicts and help curb the drug problem. But others, don't want it in their backyard.
"Right now, Buffalo and its surrounding area...I'm sorry...its Wild West," shouted a resident.
"You're wanting to bring all of this down to our community where all these people live and dump it in our lap while you go home to Nitro every night," said Buffalo resident, Tony Johnson.
Nothing has been sketched in stone on where or even if the center will come to any area of Putnam County. Until then, a community stands divided, hopeful for some type of resolution.
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He was much more interested in thermodynamics, so when he decided to go for his Ph.D., he directed his studies towards that or process systems engineering.
"I had no plans of getting into control engineering," Skogestad recalls, "but then Professor Manfred Morari of CalTech came to visit our company [Hydro, www.hydro.com] and gave some lectures on the pinch method for heat exchanger network design. I was very impressed with him, and I joined his group at CalTech. The main focus of his work was control, and I became fascinated with the power of feedback control."
Skogestad relies on his four years of experience at Hydro's research center in Porsgrunn, Norway, to shape his work. "I have always had a strong interest in doing work that engineers may find useful in their daily work," he says, "and my first control paper was a paper on PID tuning that was written during my first year as a Ph.D. student." In fact, this paper has been so useful that it is still Skogestad's paper with the most citations in other works. "Presently at 365 citations," Skogestad says.
Skogestad was born in the small town of Flekkefjord, Norway, but moved to South Africa with his family for the next five years. Moving back to Norway, he finished high school in Porsgrunn, certain that he wanted to study engineering. "I ended up in chemical engineering because my father was a chemical engineer and working in large chemical plants seemed interesting and challenging," he says.
Sigurd married Anne-Lise when he was still a student, and they have two boys and two girls. Since he returned to Norway in 1987, he has been a professor of chemical engineering at NTNU and has been head of the chemical engineering department for some time. He is an avid cross-country skier and hunter, mostly of grouse. He is also a fan of orienteering, or "running with compasses." Skogestad is also active in local politics, as well as being a coach and umpire for girls' baseball.
"I think my main contribution," he says, "and one I am still working on, is to take control theory and make it workable in practice. As you can see if you look at my home page (www.nt.ntnu.no/users/skoge/bio.html), ‘the object of our research is to develop simple, yet rigorous methods to solve problems of engineering significance. We would like to provide the engineer with tools to assist in problem solving.' "
Skogestad has been working on plant-wide control for 25 years. "I am trying to find a systematic approach for finding the right control strategy, especially for finding the best controlled variables (CVs). I expect to keep working at least for another 15 years."
You can find his paper, "A Systematic Approach to Plant-Wide Control" at www.controlglobal.com/plantwidecontrol.html. "The paper summarizes my efforts so far…" he notes.
It was a Honeywell TDC2000 with eight loops and a single data entry panel.
Wilkins continues his story: "At the time I knew nothing about process control—we had done some on the chemical engineering course I had taken—but not much, and my Ph.D. studies had been on the control of water pollution using activated charcoal cloth. He said that Esso was looking for one more control engineer and 17 process engineers, so I decided to apply, and got the job. I was on a Honeywell training course while still writing my Ph.D. thesis. I remember my first day at Esso Chemical—my boss pointed to a line of columns and told me that I would be responsible for putting all of them onto TDC2000 and adding advanced controls—and so began my first project."
"Esso was very good at giving basic control training to its engineers," Wilkins says, "and then throwing them in at the deep end—and boy, did I learn a lot quickly." Like Berra, Wilkins spent lots of time working on every type of process unit. Then he was sent to Esso's additives plant called Paramins, and this changed his life. He was sent there to learn the ins and outs of batch control.
"It was seen as 'relegation' by the continuous control ‘elite,' " Wilkins remembers, "but boy, did I have some fun there."
Wilkins took his new found batch expertise on the road, teaching process automation for KBC Process Automation's (now Honeywell Process Solutions) batch group for the next three years. He spent 18 months working on a huge batch project for Shell with Foxboro NL, the Dutch subsidiary of Foxboro (www.foxboro.com), and while there he learned about Easybatch, a Foxboro product far ahead of its time that used subroutines to control operations in the way ISA-88 later used phases. Moving to Honeywell (http://hpsweb.honeywell.com), he became involved in creating Modular Batch Automation, which was a forerunner to ISA-88. | <urn:uuid:3e17ef29-d99b-484d-98a9-956f8aa1bf10> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.controlglobal.com/articles/2011/HallOfFame2011.html?page=2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.987082 | 1,153 | 1.671875 | 2 |
More American adults say they have problems with sleepwalking.
That's the headline of a new study by Stanford University.
Researchers say they found more than eight million U-S adults experience sleepwalking -- that's about three-point-six percent of the population, and an increase over prior studies.
And nearly one out of three Americans say they've been caught sleepwalking at least once -- usually as children.
One possible factor -- the study found use of over-the-counter sleep aids increased the likelihood of sleepwalking in some adults.
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First Nations Court opens in North Vancouver
The judge is out of her usual judging clothes and the court sheriff wears no gun.
It’s not immediately apparent — not at first — if these are just oversights, but when Judge Joanne Challenger turns from the convicted man to the packed public gallery and asks for any suggestions on sentencing and the hands go up, it becomes clear: First Nations Court is different.
It began in North Vancouver in February, modeled on a similar program in New Westminster that allows anyone who identifies as aboriginal and has been convicted of a crime in provincial court to have their sentence decided in a court that gives special heed to First Nations history.
Today is only the second ever sitting of the special sentencing court inside North Vancouver’s provincial courtroom No. 2.
And with the judge beckoning for sentencing input from any and all in attendance, a bidding war has begun for Anthony (not his real name), an 18-year-old just convicted of assaulting a police officer.
For the Saskatchewan-born teenager, this is not his first offence. In fact, he was already being arrested on an outstanding warrant at Lonsdale Quay when the North Van Mountie who spotted him was attacked.
But now in courtroom No. 2, a chorus of social workers, First Nations reps, aboriginal friendship groups and counsellors are all telling the judge the same thing: We want him.
“We’d be willing to take him in,” Sundance chief Rueben George of the Tsleil-Waututh First Nation pipes up to the judge, who’s seated not on her bench as usual, but down beside the convicted teen and his lawyer with piles of files spread between them.
“As well as our mentoring program,” George ups the ante, “we also have a healing program that’s a 12-week program we’d like to offer up as well.”
Turning to Anthony, Judge Challenger asks, “Are you willing to do that?”
And with a firm yes, he accepts his sentence — not just the Tsleil-Waututh programs, but a year’s probation, alcohol and mental health counselling, a best attempt to get his Grade 12 equivalent, an apology to the officer he kicked and a solemn promise to learn about his First Nations heritage.
Favouring terms like “healing plan” instead of the typical judge’s sentence, First Nations Court skirts the punitive stick of the traditional justice system for the it-takes-a-village approach to righting historical wrongs on both sides of the judge’s bench.
Breaking the chain
“Do you know why it is so many First Nations, particularly young men, go to jail and so many First Nations people have issues with substance abuse and alcohol?” the judge asks Anthony.
Approximately 35 to 45 per cent of all youth criminal cases heard in North Vancouver court in the last three years have been against aboriginal youth, while aboriginals only account for about two per cent of the population served in North Van, West Van, Squamish and Whistler.
Anthony’s answer to the judge is that on the Saskatchewan reserve he hails from, people choose welfare over work because they’re already provided a roof over their head by the band. That, at least, is what his grandmother — a heroin addict — told him growing up. He now lives in a West Vancouver foster home.
“Do you know why your people are on reserves?” Judge Challenger asks. “It has nothing to do with who you are as a human being and everything to do with the circumstances you saw growing up and what your parents saw growing up and everything their ancestors went through since contact with Europeans,” she continued. “Trauma can transfer from generation to generation and it’s important that you learn that alcoholism isn’t something that’s part of being First Nations. Your people didn’t even use alcohol before contact. But everything was taken away. Most of your people were killed from disease, much of it intentionally spread. Canada was not good to its First Nations people.”
While for some that may sound like a classic case of a judge legislating — or at least editorializing — from the bench, or very near her bench, it’s actually a requirement of the Criminal Code of Canada that “sentencing judges consider all available sanctions other than imprisonment and to pay particular attention to the circumstances of aboriginal offenders” [S. 718.2e].
Solidified in the Supreme Court of Canada’s landmark 1999 decision in the R. v. Gladue manslaughter case involving the stabbing of a young Nanaimo man by an intoxicated teenage aboriginal woman, the Gladue decision is the forebearer of North Vancouver’s First Nations Court.
Justice system, not legal system
Aboriginal youth are the fastest growing demographic in Canada and, as was shown locally, are already exponentially over-represented in the Canadian justice system. That’s kept people like Andrew Van Eden, the Tsleil-Waututh’s Justice and Special Projects Officer, very busy.
“For myself, sitting there in court while this young man who isn’t even from here is talking, I’m thinking, ‘Man, we’ve got these resources this person could take advantage of and I hope the judge is aware of it,’” Van Eden tells The Outlook in his office on the Tsleil-Waututh reserve.
He says it’s too early yet to tell if First Nations court is working on the North Shore, adding that the biggest struggle so far has been getting all the arms of the justice system — cops, courts, parole and prisons — to work in concert.
“That’s the failure of the traditional justice system, that too often it deals with a crime as if that’s all that it is because there’s too much legal jargon of one person’s rights over another’s,” he says. “When really it’s about this one criminal moment in a person’s life as a result of a whole lot of other things that have happened. And if you don’t look at all the other mitigating circumstances and the history, you’re never going to address criminality.”
But luckily here on the North Shore, he says, joint efforts between the Tsleil-Waututh and Squamish bands to address issues of crime and restorative justice alongside other service providers like the Integrated First Nations Unit of the North Van and West Van police, are starting to show gains in raising awareness of the court in the community.
And it’s something that ought to spread to all parts of the country, Van Eden says, as our best effort yet to forge a justice system from a merely “legal” system for all Canadians.
“It makes sense that North Vancouver has a First Nations Court” he says. “But my only other response to that is that it also makes sense for every other community to now have them too.” | <urn:uuid:e856671a-8095-482d-b37d-d95f0b4dc16c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.northshoreoutlook.com/news/148901275.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00067-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962829 | 1,513 | 1.5 | 2 |
Backers of San Diego's Midway Museum have launched a bold concept for a bayfront veterans park that would be the largest of its kind on the West Coast.
But the architecture raises troublesome issues for the San Diego Unified Port Commission and, ultimately, the California Coastal Commission.
Philanthropist T. Denny Sanford, a namesake of Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, already has pledged $35 million.
The institute's other namesake, Malin Burnham, also is backing the project and rounding up more private capital.
Selling the 'aesthetics' to public agencies may be the hardest part.
"We would like to build a veterans park that comes to represent all the great veterans and wonderful, patriotic zeal here of San Diego," says retired Navy admiral Mac McLaughlin, president and CEO of the Midway Museum. "We are really making a huge effort to increase the views out on Navy Pier."
The pier's tenant, a long-retired aircraft carrier that opened as a floating museum and public events venue in 2004, is a big-time view-blocker on the bay.
Its lease calls for its nonprofit operators not only to build a nearly 6-acre veterans park, but provide parking for visitors.
Efforts to arrange off-site parking have stalled, so the design concept accomplishes the mission by stacking the park on a level above the pier deck, which would accommodate 500 cars down below.
The project reaches for an iconic look with titanium sails and scultped 'wings' that would jut 400 and 500 feet skyward -- reflecting San Diego's maritime character and its history as the birthplace of Naval aviation.
"This is probably the most dramatic thing that I have seen in San Diego," Port Commissioner Bob Nelson said following a public presentation Tuesday. "To me, it is personally breathtaking."
But the designs face the prospect of choppy waters through the approval process.
Critics who have won or sustained long battles against other major bayfront projects object to an upper-level park location and the towering 'wings'.
"We're willing to chat," said Cory Briggs, attorney for the Navy Broadway Complex Coalition, "but the icon that they talk about should not be another permanent structure that blocks the views of the bay, period ...
"Otherwise, this thing is DOA. And we will fight it tooth and nail."
The Midway's park designs include a permanent home for the San Diego Symphony's Summer Pops series.
There'll be three public presentations later this month, and in early December to gather further input.
Port consultants previously have offered eight other concepts. | <urn:uuid:68b8e594-0748-487f-a336-07bdfed5af02> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.nbclosangeles.com/blogs/prop-zero/U-S-S-Midway-Park-San-Diego-California-Coastal-Commission-133551743.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00060-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943382 | 537 | 1.59375 | 2 |
The NASCAR Car of Tomorrow (COT) program is predicated on standardization of the chassis and body elements of the vehicles (see AD&P, May ’07; Inside NASCAR’s Car of Tomorrow). Which begs the question: How does NASCAR know that the cars that are being built meet the specs? They do so through the use of a coordinate measuring machine (CMM) system. The system at the NASCAR Research and Development Center in Concord, NC, uses two GridLOK systems from ROMER Inc. (www.romer.com; Wixom, MI); a ROMER seven-axis INFINITE articulating measuring arm and probes; and PowerINSPECT software from Delcam plc (www.delcam.com; Salt Lake City).
The GridLOK is a locating system for measurement. It includes 5/8-in. diameter conical seats that are flush mounted at 3-ft. intervals in a steel plate that’s placed on the floor of the inspection facility. The measuring area is 13 x 20 ft. The measuring arm is mounted on a mobile base and has a measuring volume of 12 ft. To determine spatial coordinates, three of the conical seats touched by the probe are fitted to the measuring arm. When the portable CMM is moved to another location, this is repeated, and the measuring accuracies are maintained because the data required is relative to the part origin. The measurement sequences that is used was developed by Dan Kurtz, design engineer at NASCAR, with the PowerINSPECT software. A chassis is placed on the GridLOK measuring area, the coordinate system for the chassis is determined, and then measurement commences, starting at the front firewall, and including the intrusion plate, floorboard, fuel cell walls, oil casement, frame rails, transmission tunnel, and driveshaft tunnel. Chassis measuring for certification takes 90 minutes or more. Those that pass have 10 RFID chips attached that record the serial number and other data relating to the chassis; these tags must be in place for scanning at the race.
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Matthew 18:5-6 (ESV) 5 "Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.
It should come as no surprise, to any of my readers, that I care a lot about children. Children come to us, like a lump of clay. It is the job of adults, to mold that clay and to teach that clay, and to educate them, so that they may listen and follow God. In Proverbs 22, verse 6, God gives us a promise.
"Train up a child in the way he should go;
even when he is old he will not depart from it"
We have one job, to train up a child, in the way of God. But something has gone terribly wrong.
When I was in Texas, I was in charge of a once a week, after school program for kids. One of the kids, would not be able to recognize the truth, if it came up and bit her. I can understand, when a child lies, to get out of trouble. But this girl would lie, just to lie. I told her on several occasions, that if she kept it up, she would not be able to come anymore. She said okay, and would be good for a little while, and then go back to lying. I asked her, if her mother spoke English, or only Spanish. She lied to me and said Spanish, she knew that I did not speak Spanish, and therefore could not get her into trouble. So, I went to a volunteer that spoke Spanish, and a phone call was made to her mother. The volunteer came back, and said the mother would not help us. The mother told the volunteer and I quote "I taught my kids how to lie, because that is the only way, they will be able to succeed."
How twisted is that? How much trouble, are these kids going to have, when they grow up, and are confronted by a boss, for lying? They will not only not succeed, but not have the tools to change. They don't view lying as wrong. They only view it as a means to get what they want.
I ran that after school program, but I also had another one, that I volunteered at. It was at another location, and had someone else in charge. While I was there, we had a situation, with one of our children. It was found out, that the child was sneaking out of his house, in order to come to the program. He liked to hear the Bible Stories, and had accepted Christ as his savior, and was anxious to learn more about God. His problem was his mother, she absolutely could not stand him going to learn about God. She did not believe that God existed, and refused to let her child learn anything about God. So, the child and his mother, basically had reached a non verbal deal. he escaped from his room and came to the program, and when he got home. She would spank him for going. They did not reach this deal, but it was sort of understood. he would not stop going, and so she would spank him for it.
When we found out that all of this was going on, I talked to the supervisor of the program, and it was decided that he would be asked to stay home. Not because we did not want him learning about God, but he needed to set a good example for his mother, in obedience and understanding. As long as she was his mother, and he was a minor, he needed to obey her. So, as much as he wanted to come, he agreed to stay home, until she gave him permission. Things were fine for about two months, and then the court in regards to another issue, revoked the mother's custody and the child was sent to his maternal grandmother. She was excited about him learning about God, and not only would drive him over, but paid for him to go to summer camp. His obedience was rewarded.
While am I sharing these stories? because these are not isolated stories. I have dozens more, about children who have been abused by family members. I met a girl who was removed from her "christian" parents, when her "pastor" father beat her with a belt for ten minutes, because he found her kissing a boy. When she accepted Christ, while living at where I was working. She was too scared to tell her father, because she knew he would react violently to the news. How bad is it, when a Christian child, cannot tell her pastor father, because if she ever went home, he would beat her for accepting Christ into her life?
How can we have stooped so low, that we would abuse the most precious gift that anyone could be given by God? The Bible refers to children, as a blessing, and a treasure. We seem to be turning that blessing into a curse. Those of you who have read my site for awhile, know that in years past, for certain events, such as the Iraq War, I have posted "thank you" once for every soldier who died in the Iraq war. One year, I wanted to posted "I'm Sorry" for every child who was abused in the last year. I could not do it. Xanga refused to post the entry. It was too large and violated a word limit. How sad is that? How sad is it, that so many children were abused, that I could not make the post? I do not remember the exact word count, but it was over 1 million children.
Lately, the internet and the U.S.A. has been concerned with bullying in schools. Some children made the news, when they could no longer deal with the abuse and bullying and decided to end their life. I am not saying it is a bad thing, to be concerned with bullying, I think it is an issue in some if not most or even all schools. But I cannot reconcile the concern with school bullies, and this story right here
. How can we be concerned and view school bullies as the reason that the children committed suicide, and then turn around and blame an 11 year old girl for not stopping at least 18 people from gang raping her. Who in their right mind, could possible blame an 11 year old, after she was gang raped? Anyone who blames this girl, for not stopping her own rape, is lower than the scum of the earth. I don't know all of the above story, but I am going to say this once, and I want it to be loud enough, to get through to people. if you are abused in any manner, by anyone, IT IS NOT YOUR FAULT!!!!!! there is nothing, that you can say or do, that would be cause for someone to abuse you. If you are being abused, I encourage you to seek help. It may be the most difficult thing you have ever done, but no one, and I mean no one, should ever be abused. I don't care what you did, and I don't care how old you are. Abuse is never the answer.
If you are reading this, and abusing someone, I urge you to seek help. There are places and groups, that will help you get a hold of your anger, or whatever it is that is causing you to abuse someone.
I don't know, where we went wrong, but something has to change. Our most innocent and precious resource, is being abused and mistreated, and it has to stop. I don't know what the answer is, I don't know how to prevent abuse. But I do know, that we cannot blame the victim. We cannot tell a child, it is their fault, that they were gang raped, or molested, or beaten, or ridiculed and verbally put down. Maybe, it is the parents who need to take more time outs, instead of reacting. I don't know, but I am begging for some answers. We cannot continue to abuse and mistreat our future.What do you think? How can we slow down or stop the abuse and mistreatment of children? What are the causes of child abuse and how can we address them? | <urn:uuid:465a2a3b-0274-495d-a0ad-4018ab23ca1f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.revelife.com/747712491/child-abuse-what-can-we-do-to-stop-it/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00041-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.993553 | 1,716 | 1.53125 | 2 |
“One man can make a difference.”
No one is so strong – for good or evil as a man with a goal and a conviction.
This is written in the aftermath of the monstrous terrorist murder in Norway. These murders, committed through evil conviction, ended or changed the lives of hundreds of people.
“One man can make a difference.” That is the sentence written over the front door of the Raoul Wallenberg School in Brooklyn, New York – one of many schools honouring Raoul Wallenberg, a man who showed that good conviction could save thousands of lives.
Raoul Wallenberg was the young Swede sent to Budapest in the end of WW2 in order to use passports from neutral Sweden to protect Jews threatened with immediate deportation to the death camps.
He was a young man from a wealthy family, ready to risk his life for human beings he had never met and had no relation to. He and his collaborators saved tens of thousands of Jews. That has made Raoul Wallenberg – who on the 4th of August 2012 would have been one hundred years old – a symbol of unselfishness and courage.
Gideon Hausner was the Israeli Attorney General between 1960 and 1963. He headed the prosecution at the war crimes trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem fifty years ago and later served as the president of Yad Vashem, the foremost museum and monument of the Holocaust. He wrote of Raoul Wallenberg:
“Here is a man who had the choice of remaining in secure, neutral Sweden when Nazism was ruling Europe. Instead, he left this haven and went to what was then one of the most perilous places in Europe – Hungary. And for what? To save Jews. He won his battle and I feel that in this age when there is so little to believe in – so very little on which our young people can pin their hopes and ideals – he is a person to show to the world, which knows so little about him. That is why I believe the story of Raoul Wallenberg should be told and his figure, in all its true proportions, projected into human minds.”
Raoul Wallenberg risked his life in the struggle against on of the horrifying ideologies of the dark twentieth century, Nazism. He was killed by the other, Communism.
In January 1945 Raoul Wallenberg sought out the Soviet Commander in order to create a safe situation for the Jews of Budapest in the mayhem of the Russian occupation. He was captured by the Soviets and taken to Lubjanka Prison in Moscow. He never returned to his home country. When and how he died is still not fully proved. Swedish official negligence contributed to ensuring that his case was not raised immediately.
At the centennial of Raoul Wallenberg’s birth next year he will be remembered all over the world: through exhibitions, lectures, books and other manifestations. Numerous places, streets and schools have been named after him. There are 32 monuments in different countries remembering him.
To honour Raoul Wallenberg is not only to honour a great man but also to remember that the responsibility and power in everyone of us could be used for good or evil, that one man can make a difference.
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NOAA aquatic bots break the ice on climate research
The Apollo 17 crew reported that from space, Earth looks like a big blue marble. But ironically, we know very little about the vast and diverse oceans that make our planet blue.
“The ocean is a tremendous resource, yet we don’t understand it enough, how to get more food from it, the effects of it absorbing more carbon, or what will happen as it becomes more acidic,” said Christian Meinig, the director of NOAA’s Pacific Marie Environmental Laboratory. “In some ways we know more about deep space than our own oceans.”
Nowhere is that more true than in the Arctic Ocean. It’s a harsh place by any standard, and any explorer faces many obstacles. Much of the year it’s snowed over. The seas are unusually calm, but clouds block out the sky more than half the time. Its sea floor is ringed by pingos, mountains of sunken rock and ice that form and move over time. Like hidden underwater teeth, they can rip out the bottom of unprepared and unfortified vessels. Temperatures are also below freezing most of the time.
Over the years, NOAA has sent various data-taking probes into this netherworld because the Arctic Ocean has become invaluable when looking for answers about climate change. Recording temperatures, especially in columns of water going down six meters below the surface, could help scientists predict future key climate changes. Data could be shared with NOAA’s Fisheries Service, for example, to create smarter seafood management plans.
NOAA’s Meinig thought robots might handle these data collection tasks capably -- and relatively inexpensively, so he enlisted Liquid Robotics Inc., of Sunnyvale Calif., to help. A set of the company’s Wave Glider robots are currently swimming off the coasts of California and Hawaii.
According to Liquid Robotics senior vice president for product management Graham Hine, Wave Gliders are perfect for unmanned exploration because they are propelled by wave power. As a consequence, “they can operate for months at a time, never need to stop for refueling and are robust enough to survive in tough conditions,” he said.
Wave Gliders have proven to be surprisingly robust in the field for day-to-day operations, but for the Arctic mission, extreme cold was the enemy. Batteries don’t perform as well in cold environments, and the 90 percent cloud cover could limit charging the solar panels that power the instruments. “We added a supplemental lithium-ion battery pack with a 1,200-watt-hour capacity into one of the bays,” Meinig explained. “If the Wave Glider couldn’t charge, the extra batteries had enough power to run the instruments for 15 days.”
For scientific readings, six Therm¬Array thermistors from RTS Instruments of Maple Ridge, Canada, were molded into the tether that connects the float with the submarine, to record temperature at various depths.
Meinig explained that this first mission with the robots was half science and half proof of concept. “Our focus is how we best provide high-quality, low-cost ocean observing systems for research and operations,” Meinig said. “We’re constantly working towards that goal.”
On the low-cost side of the equation, NOAA rented a small boat and sent only two employees to launch the Wave Gliders at Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. The same team was tasked to retrieve the boats at the end of their two-month journey.
For the scientific part of the mission, the robots followed each other at 12-hour intervals. So if one robot took readings at noon, the second would take the same sample at midnight. This allowed study of diurnal heating effects. “We held one on station to see if it could stay in place, while the second swam away,” Meinig said. “They both performed well overall.” They stayed in the Arctic for two months. Between them, they took over 900,000 temperature readings, the most ever in a survey of that part of the world.
Even though this mission only recorded temperature and telemetry, Meinig said there were many other factors that could be recorded by different instruments using the Wave Gliders. “We certainly plan on doing more with them now that we know we have an unmanned vehicle that can be launched and later recovered inexpensively by two people in a small boat,” he said.
That’s a big achievement for a robot that began as a tiny model floating in a fish tank at Liquid Robotics headquarters in California. Today it is swimming the world’s oceans from the Pacific to the Arctic, operating at lower costs to the public and taking hard-to-get readings that one day might help preserve the planet. | <urn:uuid:1b3d442c-7a71-4a38-94f4-92c05d5336fa> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://gcn.com/articles/2012/11/06/noaa-aquatic-bots-climate-research.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00060-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95681 | 1,016 | 3.328125 | 3 |
Birds on farmland? By all accounts that is the last place to look for them. And yet Crawley, Hampshire was the location for my Winter Farmland Survey. Oh well, it would keep me fit.
A cheeky chaffinch got the ball rolling before I even got out of the car at New Barn Farm. Across a field I could see some pheasants and red-legged partridges. No surprise there though: the second farm I would visit bred them, so it was only a short flit to my starting point.
I had to walk round and through fields within a one-kilometre square — a tall order given the layout in my particular square. It’s fine if field entrances are where you want them to be and barbed wire doesn’t enter the equation. Otherwise…
At least, my scanning for suitable routes across the fields revealed a few fieldfares. No, about a dozen. No, there’s another dozen. Remarkably well camouflaged against bare soil, these birds. I grouped up enough dozens to make a round hundred — not bad. Add a couple of starlings and a skylark and the day was beginning to look up.
It got even better a moment later when a linnet started singing from a nearby tree. Singing? In December?
My second field, with a very short crop of barley, only produced a mistle thrush somewhere up a tree and a few blackbirds in the bordering copse. So, then it was over the road to Warren Farm and a very interesting looking field of stubble.
Again red-legged partridges and pheasants were the order of the day but a couple of the game birds revealed themselves as grey partridges — although curiously lacking the black horseshoe on their underparts. Not only was that my first sighting of them for the year but it was my first for Hampshire — probably more indicative of my birding habitats than anything else.
The stubble in fact produced nothing else despite a crop of something (my brilliant farming knowledge to the fore here!) in one corner of it. I returned to the car for a cup of tea and my friendly chaffinch popped up again. I got the bins on to it out of habit and was puzzled by the colour of its breast. It turned round to show the same colour in its wings and dark patterns down its back — all this in a split second before it flew off. Well, that had to be a brambling, didn’t it? It was one of those fleeting glimpses that can be so tantalising.
I finished off the stubble field and then opted for a tiny patch of scrub with a dilapidated barn , despite being hardly a blip on the map. It seemed like the sort of place that could produce something special. How about more red-legged partridges? As I appeared, they started going crazy. I didn’t want to freak them out, so I abandoned them and headed off down a large field.
This was where the action really started.
First, a buzzard floated over and circled for a while. A few meadow pipits and skylarks called and flew briefly in the interior. A yellowhammer buzzed over. I approached an area of much higher vegetation and could see small birds commuting between it and the bordering hedge. From the calls I could tell that most of these were chaffinches and the binoculars confirmed this. However, a few were certainly yellowhammers and one or two were… reed buntings. I didn’t expect them. I kept wanting one to be a corn bunting and one individual certainly looked different but turned out to be a solitary greenfinch. And there were definitely bramblings.
With all the comings and goings it was impossible to judge the size of the flock, let alone the proportions of its components. In the end I had to guess at about a hundred — principally chaffinches with a few handfuls of the other species. All this took me the best part of quarter of an hour, which of course ate considerably into the morning. I knew for certain then that I would not cover the entire square.
It took a while to circle and cross this big field. One surprise on the way round was a wintering chiffchaff on its own in the hedgerow. Eventually hunger drove me back to the car but not before I stopped to admire three kestrels loafing around by a barn.
On my route back I walked one side of another ploughed field, which also contained about a hundred fieldfares. The same flock? Who could tell? A final treat was a pair of bullfinches calling and located in the top of a tree. As if not to be outdone New Barn Farm also produced a bullfinch when I got back to the car.
Doesn’t that sound like a familiar pattern? Some of the best birds appear in the car park! | <urn:uuid:a5b50945-f5dd-4df2-a1b6-bab3a568e163> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://thepokerbird.com/2010/1999-winter-farmland-survey | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00051-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976584 | 1,039 | 2.125 | 2 |
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Conservative: (noun) one who adheres to traditional methods or views.
(verb) marked by or relating to traditional norms.
I am something of a unicorn. I was raised as a Democrat, and taught in school that I was a liberal, but as an adult my position changed.
As I began to examine the parties, their history and their intrinsic approach to improving society, I began to look at each one differently. Both parties have shortcomings, and what I see with each is people taking sides based largely on emotion or elusive rhetoric.
As far as taking a label on the political spectrum, I see myself as a true conservative with a sprinkling of liberalism who is disgusted with the Republican Party and most Black Republicans.
I think it's shameful when many Blacks call themselves Republican because of the party's so-called "conservative" policies, as though it is either new or different, when the reality is that Black people are perhaps the most conservative people in this nation. That's why we were traditionally Republicans in the first place. Typically, Black people embrace traditional methods and views, which is why we shifted parties when the Republican Party rhetoric and pursuits shifted.
Today's so-called conservatives are fake because the traditional methods and views they want to embrace are the methods and views that the nation was founded on, which ignored everyone but affluent white males. That conservatism is radical and has not been traditional in a very long time. Today's Republican conservatism is not very conservative.
The tendency to prefer an existing or traditional situation to change.
The problem is that conservatism has been redefined and its definition has been polluted much in the same manner as pro-life or feminism for Black women. Pro-life is a silly label, because most of those in that group are not about life, they are about their idea of life and most are willing to take a life to preserve their ideals, which is anti-life. Feminist is a silly label for black women, because they assume that they can pursue their rights as women, while separating racism and classism from sexism.
Many people who label themselves as conservatives actually are radicals because they want to effect change in our current system. I'm not even saying that's a bad thing, because generally, change is good. What I am saying is that many so-called conservatives only want to deal with issues that are of a selfish nature, or will slight Blacks (erosion of Affirmative Action). I am also saying that when you begin to define yourself purely in terms of a political party, you are already making a huge mistake. Some Republicans do that in defending their beloved Party.
What I would like to see is more Blacks examining both parties closely, because the reality is that they both suck and are both filled with whites who are pursuing their own interests, while providing lip service to the interests of others.
Obviously, the Democratic Party has paid the most lip service and pursued the most benefits for minorities over the last 50-70 years, which is why Blacks have aligned themselves with that party en masse.
The Republic Party of later years has ignored Blacks, save for the boot-licking lackeys who line up to sell their people out, proving to Massah that they are good Niggers. Since, in recent times, there is very little talk of House Niggers, Coons, etc., many self-hating Blacks believe that they are actually about service to their people by attacking beneficial programs without proposing options.
To be honest, there are things I used to like about the Republican Party. Less government for example, makes a lot of sense to me. It makes sense because I know that the government can not legislate everything into existence. If we focus on enforcing the laws on the books that we already fought for and won, then we can make some headway, as opposed to seeking more legislation. We can also enjoy more if we do for ourselves and band together to amass financial power. At that point, we can buy politicians and laws, as other peoples have done.
The problem with the so-called "conservatives" who are polluting the Republican Party is that they want less government, but only when it comes to issues involving the potential benefit of minorities and poor people. More government is okay when it comes to benefiting big business and the wealthy. That's inherently racist and undermines what used to be a decent party.
The more insidious difficulty I have with most Black Republicans, is that they disconnect their logic and reason in favor of dogma, while pretending to care about what others think.
Similar to religious zealots, many Black Republicans believe that there are clear lines dividing the parties and that they are "down" for their people in a "different" manner while becoming "conservative" Republicans. Sadly, many Black Democrats believe this, too. The reality is that there are people and elements in both parties which at once both repel and attract Black people.
I'll speak from the heart and say some things that may shock a few who vote with their emotions or their abject selfish greed: One of my favorite presidents was Richard M. Nixon. Yes, I said it. Right up there with Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter is Richard Nixon on my favorites list. I never gave a damn about his party affiliation, I only cared about his approach to the problem of mass poverty, which was his W.I.N. Program, or Whip Inflation Now. The Welfare to Work programs that he supported were good programs designed to give poor people a helping hand in the transition into mainstream society, as opposed to crippling them with a Welfare system designed to cut them off for any attempt at progress. You see, as a true conservative, I am concerned about the lies that this nation told when it claimed to be founded for the people, by the people and of the people, for freedom of religion, speech, blah, blah, blah. I want those lies to be true.
I am a true conservative because I really do want less government, which means I want the government to stop being used to repeal every right and benefit earned by Blacks, to be replaced by nothing. I want the government to stay away from Affirmative Action. I'm a true conservative because the traditional methods of this nation are to repay and rebuild the peoples and nations it has diminished and I want us to keep following that model. True conservatives know that this nation should repay the sons and daughters of slaves in the traditional manner of repayment employed with the Japanese and currently with Iraq.
Yes, I said it, I am a true conservative. Am I joining the Republican Party? Not with the current venomous racists, self-hating House Niggers and low morons who are filling the party.
You see, for me, it has never been about party affiliation or any other label. It has been about balancing my own interests (which are already protected by my ability to wield assets and relationships), with my interest in seeing more of my people having money and access to progress. That's why my biggest issue with Black Republicans is the number one reason why they join. These are largely upwardly mobile professionals who have wealth (or at least the perception of wealth), who say that the Republican Party seeks to protect them from taxes and pursues other benefits for the wealthy.
That's a very selfish stance, which is frequently disguised with rhetoric, and a stance which fails because at the end of the day that party is too full of racists who still see you as a Nigger. A Nigger with money, but a Nigger nonetheless. You are in the house, but you can not live in the house. It is not your house.
So, you nutty Republicans can beat your chest all you want with how bad the Democratic Party is, but unless you are grouping up to effect change within that racist party of The Sons of Dixie, then you are full of it, and sadly, you aren't open minded enough to realize it.
The sickest thing about the current assheads in the Rethuglican Party is that they want to pretend that they are the true Americans and that they alone have some rights associated with the land that others are not entitled to. For them, I will use the words of Brother Paul Robeson: "My father was a slave and my people died to build this country, and I'm going to stay right here and have part of it, just like you. And no fascist-minded people like you will drive me from it. Is that clear?"
It was once the Party of Lincoln. Now, it's a party of fools.
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Science Fair Project Encyclopedia
Cider (also spelled: cyder) refers to a beverage containing the juice of apples. In most of the world, including the Commonwealth and Europe, the term refers to fermented apple juice, but in the United States cider is normally unfermented.
In most of the world cider is an alcoholic drink made from fermented apple juice. In the United Kingdom it is predominantly (but by no means exclusively) made in the southwest and west of England. Known as scrumpy in the West Country, cider is often stronger than beer, and is frequently over 6% alcohol by volume. The common eating apples are unsuitable for cidermaking, being low in tannins; specific apple cultivars bred especially for cidermaking are preferred. Cider from Gloucestershire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire in England made from traditional recipes forms a European Union Protected Geographical Indication.
Cider comes in a variety of tastes, from sweet to dry. Sweet cider tends to be popular with young people, and is often the drink of choice for teenagers in the UK (along with alcopops; see also Snakebite). This is aided by preferentially low duty rates for cider compared to beer, which reduces its cost.
Modern, mass-produced ciders are generally heavily processed and resemble sparkling wine in appearance. More-traditional brands, often known as scrumpy, tend to be darker and more cloudy, as less of the apple is filtered out. They are often stronger than processed varieties. Abdominal pains known as "Devon colic" have been attributed to mild lead poisoning; the acidic juice dissolves lead from the traditional cider presses used in that region.
In North America, cider was traditionally fermented, but that alcoholic apple drink (see below) is now referred to as hard cider. Today in North America, cider is a nonalcoholic beverage; a subcategory of apple juice, traditionally made from early-harvest apples, which have a lower sugar content and are more acidic, thus cider has a more tart, tangy taste than apple juice. It is generally (though not always) unfiltered (giving it an opaque appearance from suspended solids), and is traditionally unpasteurized. (It is occasionally still sold unpasteurized, which is considered to have a better flavor, but the possibility of salmonella and E. coli infection means that most apple cider is pasteurized.)
Apple ciders are often made from blends of several different apples to give a balanced taste. Some businesses may try to pass off standard apple juice as cider. There is some local competitiveness among cider mills in apple country for the highest quality blends, and makers keep their formulas secret. One trick used to add interest to a cider blend is the addition of a percentage of crabapples. Cider doughnuts are often sold at cider mills and contain cider in the batter.
Hot cider or mulled cider is a popular fall (autumn) and winter beverage, consisting of (nonalcoholic) cider, heated to a temperature just below boiling, with cinnamon, orange peel, nutmeg, cloves, and other spices added.
Another cider available in the US is sparkling cider, a carbonated nonalcoholic beverage made from filtered apple cider or apple juice.
Famous brands of cider
- Frosty Jack Cider
- Olde English
- Scrumpy Jack
Cider in other countries
In Australia, 'cider' can be either an alcoholic drink as described above, or a sparkling nonalcoholic beverage made from apples. Alcoholic cider is sold in bottleshops , while the nonalcoholic version is stocked in the soft-drink lanes of the supermarket.
French cidre is an alcoholic drink produced predominantly in Normandy and Brittany. It varies in strength from below 4% alcohol to considerably more. Cidre Doux is usually any cider up to 3% in strength. 'Demi-Sec' is from 3 to 5% and Cidre Brut is a strong cider of 5% alcohol and above. Most are usually sparkling. Higher quality cider is sold in Champagne-style bottles (cidre bouché), but screw-tops are used for the cheaper supermarket-quality product. Until the mid-20th century, cidre was the second most-consumed drink in France (after wine) but an increase in the popularity of beer displaced cider's market share outside traditional cider-producing regions. In restaurants in Brittany, cider is sometimes served in traditional ceramic bowls (or wide cups) rather than glasses. A kir normand is a cocktail aperitif made with cider and cassis, rather than white wine and cassis for the traditional kir. Cider is still made in the Channel Islands, but there is a great deal less now than there was in the past. In Jersey, the only locally produced cider currently sold in shops is a strong (above 7%) variety.
German cidre, usually called Apfelwein (apple wine), and regionally known as Apfelmost (apple must), Viez (from Latin vice, the second or substitute wine), or Saurer Most (sour must), has an alcohol content of 5,5% - 7 % and a tart, sour taste.
German cidre is mainly produced and consumed in Hessen, particularly in the Frankfurt, Wetterau and Odenwald areas, in Moselfranken , Merzig (Saarland) and the Trier area, as well as the lower Saar area and the region bordering on Luxembourg. In these regions, there are several large producers, as well as numerous small, private producers often using traditional recipes.
In some of these regions, there are regular cidre competitions and fairs, in which the small, private producers participate. Cidre songs are composed and sung at these events. The Merzig region crowns a Viez Queen, and the lower Saar area a Viez King.
An official Viez route, (Rue de Cidre) connects Saarburg with the border to Luxembourg.
In Luxembourg, viez (pronounced feetz) is rather like English scrumpy. It is cloudy and varies from nonalcoholic to very alcoholic. It is made only in autumn. It is sold by the side of the road in reused plastic bottles and should be drunk within a few days of purchase. The quality can be extremely good.
The Spanish regions of Asturias and the Basque Country are well known for traditional sidra, an alcoholic cider of 4 to 8% strength. Sidra or Sagardoa (euskadi) is traditionally poured in very small quantities from a height into a wide glass, with the arm holding the bottle extended upwards and the one holding the glass extended downwards. This is called to escanciar and is done to get air bubbles into the drink, thus giving it a sparkling taste like Champagne that lasts a very short time. Spanish sidra is closely associated with sidrerías or sagardotegiak (euskadi) ("cider houses"). In the Basque region of Guipúzcoa, it is a tradition to visit sagardotegiak between February and May to drink new sidra from the barrel accompanied by a meal (like the well known "txuleton"). Txotx!
Applejack is a strong alcoholic beverage made by concentrating cider, either by the traditional method of "freeze distillation", or by true evaporative distillation. In traditional freeze distillation, a barrel of cider is left outside during the winter. When the temperature is low enough, the water in the cider starts to freeze. If the ice is removed, the (now more concentrated) alcoholic solution is left behind in the barrel. If the process is repeated often enough, and the temperature is low enough, the alcohol concentration is raised to 30-40% alcohol. In freeze distillation, hazardous concentrations of methanol and fusel oil may develop. These toxins can be separated when regular, heat distillation is performed. Home production of applejack is illegal in most countries.
Other alcoholic beverages are also made from apples, such as apple wine and the distilled spirits apple brandy and calvados. A popular aperitif in Normandy is pommeau—a drink produced by blending unfermented cider and apple brandy in the barrel (the high alcoholic content of the spirit stops the fermentation process of the cider and the blend takes on the character of the aged barrel).
Other fruits can be used to make cider-like drinks. The most popular is perry, known in France as poiré and produced mostly in Normandy, which is made from fermented pear-juice. A branded sweet perry known as Babycham, marketed principally as a women's drink and sold in miniature Champagne-style bottles, was once popular but has now become unfashionable. Fermented peach juice can be made into "peachy".
How to make cider
Scratting and pressing
After the apples are gathered from the trees, they are "scratted" (ground) into what is called pomace or pommage, either by means of a common pressing stone with a circular trough, or by a cider mill, traditionally driven by the hand, water-mill, or horse-power, but these days likely to be electric. When the pulp is thus reduced to a great degree of fineness, it is conveyed to the cider press, where it is formed by pressure into a kind of cake, which is called the cheese.
This is effected by placing clear, sweet straw or hair cloths between the layers of pomace, usually alternating with slatted ash-wood racks, until there is a pile of 10 or 12 layers. It is important to minimise the time that the pomace is exposed to air, to reduce oxidation — and, at the same time, the cheese must be constructed evenly, or the whole pile slithers onto the floor.
This pile is then subjected to different degrees of pressure in succession, until all the must or juice is squeezed from the pomace. This juice, after being strained in a coarse hair-sieve, is then put into either open vats or closed casks, and the pressed pulp is either given to farm animals as winter feed (or thrown away) or used to make liqueurs.
Fermentation is best effected at a temperature of 4-16 °C (40-60°F). This is low for most kinds of fermentation, but works for cider as it leads to slower fermentation with less loss of delicate aromas.
Shortly before the fermentation consumes all the sugar, the liquor is "racked" into new vats. This leaves dead yeast cells and other undesirable material at the bottom of the old vat. At this point it becomes important to exclude airborne acetic bacteria, so care is taken to fill the vat completely, and the fermenting of the remaining available sugar generates a small amount of carbon dioxide that helps to prevent air seeping in. This also creates a certain amount of sparkle, and sometimes extra sugar is added at this stage for this purpose and also to raise the alcohol level. Racking is sometimes repeated if the liquor remains cloudy.
The cider is ready to drink at this point, though more often it is matured in the vats for up to two or three years.
Blending and bottling
For larger-scale cider production, ciders from vats produced from different varieties of apple may be blended to accord with market taste. If the cider is to be bottled, usually some extra sugar is added for sparkle. Higher quality ciders can be made using the champagne method, but this is expensive in time and money and requires special corks, bottles, and other equipment.
- The Hereford Cider Museum
- The National Collection of Cider and Perry, East Sussex, England
- The Straight Dope: What's the difference between apple juice and apple cider?
- Review ciders at RateBeer,com
- CAMRA Cider & Perry Division
- UKCider Wiki
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20 January 2011
Britain must move to the equivalent of a "war-footing" if we are to overcome the threat of climate change, according to the New Home Front initiative, launched at the Imperial War Museum on Thursday 20th January 2010.
The New Home Front is launched by Green MP Caroline Lucas, with a report written by Andrew Simms, Fellow of nef (new economics foundation) and author of The New Economics. Along with experts on climate change, food and community organisation, the new initiative looks at how Britain finally mobilised in the approach to World War Two, in order to see what can be learned to help with the urgent threat posed by climate change and the end of cheap, abundant oil.
Caroline Lucas, Green Party leader and MP for Brighton Pavilion said: "While the nature of the threat we face from climate change is clearly very different from that which we faced in 1939, the level of the threat means we will need to mobilise on a scale not seen since the war. If we're to overcome the climate crisis, we must move onto the equivalent of a ‘war-footing', where the efforts of individuals, organisations, and government are harnessed together - and directed to a common goal.
"In doing so, we can learn much from the creativity and boldness shown by the public in those years which we can re-interpret for today.
"That's why we're also launching today the 'Home Front Wisdom' initiative, to spend time talking to people whose imagination and resilience helped Britain to survive and thrive all those years ago. We want to learn from their experience, and not let it go to waste. All the best ideas will be collected, published and presented in Parliament, and to the government."
Andrew Simms, fellow, new economics foundation, added:
"More recently, it took a war-like effort internationally to stage a short-term rescue of the economy. Almost overnight, the billions required to bail out the banks were found - something that, in a properly regulated system, should never have been necessary.
"Yet it sets a real precedent for what governments can do when the political will is there. The New Home Front, responding to climate change, energy security, peak oil, and threats to the food chain, presents the next battle line and call to action. No longer should anyone be able to say, this cannot be done."
The report reveals that:
• In just six years from 1938 British homes cut their coal use by 11 million tonnes, a reduction of 25%.
• By April 1943, 31,000 tonnes of kitchen waste were being saved every week, enough to feed 210,000 pigs.
• Between 1938 and 1944, there was a 95% drop in the use of personal motor vehicles, while public transport use increased 13%.
• The nation's health improved as diets changed and people become more active, while infant mortality fell.
• A determination to enjoy life grew. Spending on "amusements" went up 10%, while suicide rates fell.
Over the next six months, the New Home Front is calling on people to speak to friends and relatives who lived through those times to see what can be learned from how they survived and thrived. We want people to tape, film and write down their ideas and experiences which might help us deal with the new realities of changing climate and needing to make a rapid transition to a low carbon economy.
Prof. Kevin Anderson, Tyndall Centre, said:
"Matching step for step the relentless rise in emissions has been the escalating rhetoric on the importance of climate change. The Rio Earth Summit was in 1992, yet the subsequent nineteen years have seen little more than appeasement - with national initiatives on mitigation, international agreements on climate change and many conferences - but no sign of emissions abating.
"Whilst elaborate mechanisms and markets to make carbon count have failed to bring emissions down, this report goes back to basics and demonstrates how lessons from history may offer practical guidance to meaningful mitigation. At a time of abject failure to curtail emissions, the New Home Front offers a refreshing and essential read for all those with the courage to think differently about climate change."
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NEVADA COUNTY—In the last month, chicken pox has tripled in Nevada County schools.
The Nevada County Health Department reports that there are 64 cases of the highly-contagious disease.
Other cases have shown up in charter schools around Nevada County.
The Health Department is urging parents to get their kids vaccinated as soon as possible.
They are recommending that kids are given two doses for full protection.
They say that they want parents to take this outbreak seriously.
Health Department officials say, the vaccine is safe for children 12 months and older.
Doctors recommend if a student has chicken pox that they stay at home for at least five days or until the lesions crust over.
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The Benefit of the Doubt
Wiebe told me about another scholar, who has written an article which calls into question the resurrection of Jesus, claiming that those who encountered the risen Christ were in altered states of consciousness, and so were, in effect, only seeing things. Wiebe has begun an exchange with this scholar. The battle is joined.
I asked Wiebe: "Do you envision this man ever being so convinced by the evidence that he believes—and, more, that he worships, that he cries out in wonder, shame, joy, 'My Lord and my God'?"
Wiebe laughed a sad, wry laugh. "No," he said. "No, I don't."
That's not honest doubt. That's something very different—intellectual dogma, doctrinaire agnosticism, hidebound ideology, scholarly Trivial Pursuit. That's the refusal to be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.
Over that, I'll take Thomas and his doubt any day.
Mark Buchanan is pastor of New Life Community Baptist Church in Duncan, British Columbia. Illustration by Sterling Hundley
For more meditations on these verses and Thomas's doubt, see classic writings and sermons from:
- John Chrysostom (c.347-407)
- Augustine of Hippo (354-430)
- Origen (c.185-254)
- Matthew Henry (1662-1714)
- Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-92)
- Alexander Balmain Bruce (1831-1899)
More links to meditations are available at Textweek.org
Past articles by Mark Buchanan include:
Running with Jonah | Do we really want to be closer to God? (Nov. 3, 1999)
Trapped in the Cult of the Next Thing | If ever there was a cult that gave us stones when we asked for bread, this is it. (Sept. 6, 1999)
Stuck on the Road to Emmaus | The secret to why we are not fulfilled. (July 12, 1999)
We're All Syncretists Now | Not religious, just spiritual. (Books & Culture, Jan./Feb. 2000)
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Einhorn wants Apple to issue a new class of preferred stock that will pay a 4% dividend in perpetuity.
Einhorn argues that Apple's issuing this stock will immediately create hundreds of billions of dollars of new wealth for Apple shareholders, by "unlocking" the value of the cash on Apple's balance sheet.
Although anything is possible--the stock market sometimes behaves in strange ways--it is important to note that Einhorn's plan does not actually create any new value for Apple or Apple shareholders.
It's just financial engineering.
And assuming investors aren't currently being completely stupid in evaluating Apple's assets and business, this financial engineering should not deliver a huge boost in wealth for those who own Apple stock.
As BI editor Joe Weisenthal explains here, Einhorn's premise is that investors are not assigning the proper value to the $137 billion of cash on Apple's balance sheet.
Einhorn is certainly entitled to his opinion, and there's no way to prove what value the market is actually attributing to this cash versus the value the market is placing on Apple's business. All we know is that, together, the market values the cash and the business at about $430 billion.
As I explained in detail in this article, that value looks low relative to the combination of Apple's business and Apple's cash. But since the value of a stock is based in part on what happens in the future--and because no one knows what will happen in the future--no one knows for sure what Apple is worth.
This "no one," it must be said, includes David Einhorn. All we know is that, relative to current earnings, Apple's stock looks cheap.
(Importantly, if Apple's business and profit margins decline over the next few years, Apple's stock is not currently cheap. BlackBerry and Nokia looked cheap in the years before their businesses collapsed. So did Palm. None of those stocks were actually cheap. I don't think Apple's business will collapse, but I do think their profit margin will decline. The question is how much. The bottom line is that, no matter how confidently people tell you that they know what will happen with Apple over the next few years, they don't know. They also don't know whether the stock is cheap or whether the market is correctly valuing Apple's cash. All they know is that the stock looks cheap.)
So, anyway, David Einhorn wants Apple to give shares of a new class of preferred stock to current shareholders.
These preferred shares will pay a 4% dividend.
Einhorn suggests that Apple issue $50 billion of this preferred stock, which will mean paying out $2 billion a year in new dividends.
Einhorn suggests that this will "unlock" the value of all the cash on Apple's balance sheet and finally clue the market into the fact that it is not valuing that cash properly.
I think the market probably is valuing the cash on Apple's balance sheet properly.
I think that if Apple published a press release tomorrow morning saying that an employee had embezzled the entire $137 billion of cash and then vaporized, Apple's stock value would drop by about $137 billion. Apple is the single-most-scrutinized public company in the world, and I think the market is, in aggregate, very much aware of how much cash Apple has. And I think the market is probably assigning a perfectly reasonable value to it.
If Apple issued $50 billion of new preferred stock, this preferred stock would be "senior" to Apple's common stock--the stock that trades for about $450 a share these days. What that means is that, if Apple got liquidated tomorrow, the folks who owned the preferred stock would get $50 billion off the top before Apple's common shareholders got anything.
If the market is behaving even remotely rationally, the market should therefore respond by knocking the value of Apple's common stock down by about $50 billion.
In other words, if Apple issued $50 billion of this new class of preferred stock tonight, the price of Apple's common stock should open tomorrow at about $400 a share.
Because no matter how good a financial engineer you are, you can't just wave your magic wand and make something out of nothing.
If Apple issues this stock tonight, the value of Apple's enterprise and assets will not change. All that will change is the form of ownership of, and claim on, these assets. And the folks who own the $50 billion of preferred stock will have a more senior claim on those assets than the folks who own the common stock.
Einhorn may believe--and he may be right--that Apple's issuing preferred stock will befuddle mom and pop investors who won't take the time to understand that they now have a claim to less of Apple's assets than they did before.
And Einhorn may hope that, as a result of this befuddlement, the market will misprice the preferred stock and common stock, thus allowing him to do what every financial engineer wants to do--appear to create something out of nothing.
And, again, Einhorn may be right. He's brilliant. And anything is possible.
But Einhorn shouldn't be right. If the market is behaving rationally, Apple's overall value should not change. The issuance of new preferred stock should reduce the value of the outstanding common stock, such that the transaction is effectively neutral.
Furthermore, if the goal is to "unlock value," issuing preferred stock is needlessly complicated.
Instead of issuing new preferred stock, Apple should just significantly increase its regular dividend.
This will not require Apple to "repatriate" the cash that it holds overseas (to avoid taxes)--the logic that Einhorn uses to explain why Apple shouldn't just do a huge share buyback.
Apple's U.S. business generates enough cash that Apple can pay these future dividends out of its U.S. operations.
This will have pretty much the same effect as issuing preferred stock that pays a dividend--except without needlessly complicating Apple's capital structure.
Again, David Einhorn is brilliant. And, unlike mom and pop Apple shareholders, David Einhorn will certainly be able to exploit any inefficiencies in how the market is valuing two classes of Apple stock. And David Einhorn may believe--and, importantly, may be right--that he can persuade the market that Apple should be worth more if it issues this preferred stock.
But, over the long haul, the market generally gets it right.
And "right" in this case is the observation that you can't create something from nothing. (At least not with financial engineering.)
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Klara Gottfried Reif
December 19, 1896 | Poland
Klara Gottfried Reif's parents, Herschel and Ethel Gottfried, owned a flour mill and a general store in a small Polish town. Klara could speak five languages. As a young woman, she took an interest in fashion, and enjoyed travelling. On a trip to Vienna, she met Dr. Gerson Reif, a young dentist. After marrying in 1925, the couple settled in Vienna and the first of their two children was born in 1927.
1933-39: After the Germans annexed Austria in 1938, they effectively prevented Jewish dentists from practicing. Forced to abandon his successful practice, my husband grew increasingly depressed. In September 1938, he was found dead, probably a suicide. In May 1939, my two children and I sailed for Cuba on the St. Louis. Turned back by Cuba and the Americans, the ship returned to Europe. We found haven in France.
1940-44: After the Germans invaded France in 1940, the children and I fled south to Limoges, which was not occupied by the Germans. I was traumatized by the shock of losing my husband and becoming a refugee. I was in France, but couldn't speak French. I had two children to care for, and food was very scarce. Once I heard that eggs might be available on a nearby farm so I set out from Limoges, children in tow. We walked for several hours to get there and back, only to discover when we got home that the eggs were rotten.
In 1941 American relatives, the Klinghoffer family, helped arrange passage for Klara and her children to the United States via Portugal. The Reifs settled in New York. | <urn:uuid:424e2e9b-fc5e-4b22-a02c-789df2d474a7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.fold3.com/page/94112652_klara_gottfried_reif/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00051-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968751 | 437 | 1.53125 | 2 |
You can learn how to swim. I learned how to swim when I was a teenager, so I know what it is like to be bigger and older than anyone else in the class. I was the only “big kid” in a class of 5 and 6 years old “puddlers”. Fortunately, the instructor was very sweet and didn’t make me feel foolish, but I worked hard so that I could graduate and become a “minnow” and then later a “shark.” I hope that you aren’t refusing to learn how to swim because you think you are too old or too timid. The YMCA’s and Community centers have lessons for grown-ups now, so you will never be made to feel like you are the odd man out. I can’t promise that you won’t be the oldest one in the class, but I won’t tell if you don’t.
If you are looking for an enjoyable, healthy way to improve your fitness level, perhaps you should consider swimming. Just because most people learn when they are children does not mean that you missed your chance. Swimming and other aquatic exercises are the perfect fitness workouts for people who suffer from arthritis and other chronic pain conditions. The Wall Street Journal featured an article by Jeremy Singer-Vine this morning (February 14, 2012) about swimming and good health. Recent studies by the American Journal of Cardiology indicate that older, more sedentary adults can benefit from this form of exercise. Swimming, it seems, can be instrumental in reducing blood pressure and improving artery health.
If you don’t know how to swim at all it will be more challenging than going for a walk, but when have you ever backed away from a challenge? Swimming exercises most of the muscles in the body without the pounding on the knees and joints that can occur with walking, jogging or running, because the water supports your joints. Swimming is a non weight-bearing sport. For this reason, physicians often recommend swimming and water exercise for older adults, disabled people and for those recovering from broken bones and back injuries.
If you still can’t stand to get your face wet (come on, give it a try, you can learn how to swim even if it is just the dog paddle or side stroke), you will be pleased to learn that water exercises have been designed for non-swimmers as well.
Water exercises are fun and they are therapeutic. Water exercises can help people regain fitness levels, mobility, strength, endurance, and flexibility to all body parts. Aqua aerobics, aqua exercise, water walking and aquatic dance exercises are all fancy names used to entice you into the water. How can you resist? Free from the effects of gravity, senior adults can move easily in the water. This form of exercise meets the needs of persons of all ages and conditions. | <urn:uuid:9a00fd26-bfdf-45a3-9139-1d9301c3b904> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://lmb.typepad.com/smart_senior/2012/02/swimming-the-perfect-exercise-for-aging-bodies.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00018-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969327 | 603 | 2.28125 | 2 |
Israel: Our Loyalty and Love Undiminished
by Chancellor Arnold M. Eisen
Israel is again in the headlines.
I have begun many articles about
Judaism and the Jewish world with
those words over the past four decades.
If only Israel could vanish from the
front pages for a while. If only it could enjoy
some peace, routine, calm, cooperation –
all realities that are not newsworthy. Instead,
Jews throughout the world had to face the
Days of Awe again this year with fear and
trembling caused not only by the privilege
and task of standing before God, asking forgiveness
and looking honestly at ourselves.
Other fears, too, cause sleepless nights: Will
peace ever come to Israel’s borders? Will the
Iranian nuclear program be halted? Can hope
survive blow after blow of disappointment?
By the time this issue of CJ: Voices of
Conservative/Masorti Judaism is published,
the crisis of the moment may have sorted
itself out (or, more likely, not), but if so,
it will probably have been replaced by other
crises. To be a Jew who cares about Israel
in 5772 is to worry a lot about its future. To
be a Conservative Jew, for whom intimate
relationship to the state and the people of
Israel stands at the very core of your being,
is to reckon with the grim possibility that
peace may elude us for many years to come.
That prospect is awful to contemplate. It
does not help that fewer and fewer nations
are prepared to stand by Israel, or that a
diminishing number of Israelis seem to share
the dreams of what an Israel-at-peace should
look like – dreams on which I, like most
North American Jews, was raised. Even as
Israel advances on many fronts and provides
Jews everywhere with numerous reasons for
pride, leading Israeli rabbis declare with disturbing
regularity that Conservative and
Reform Judaism both are heresy, and some
of Israel’s politicians express disdain for
democracy. Jews outside of Israel seem
increasingly incapable of disagreeing about
Israel with civility and respect. Some (especially
younger) Jews do not talk or think
about Israel at all.
That is why I’ve been urging Jews who do
care to savor the blessing of being alive at
this unique moment in Jewish history and
experience. Jewish life and the practice of
Judaism have become infinitely richer in
our generation, thanks to Israel’s existence
and achievements. I’d like us all to affirm
clearly and without equivocation – no matter
what our opinions about Israeli policy –
that our connection to the State of Israel
and its citizens is fundamental, nonnegotiable,
Israel is the single greatest project the Jewish
people has going right now, and the most
important arena that has been available to
Jews in two millennia in which to put our
values to the test and our teachings into practice.
We need it. And it needs us.
That is the heart of the matter for me.
I am a religiousZionist, convinced that Jews
are heirs to a unique story that we are responsible
for carrying forward, and because of
history, tradition, and faith we are partners
in a covenant aimed at bringing more
justice and compassion to the world. The
sovereign, democratic State of Israel affords
unprecedented scope and responsibility for
the fulfillment of the covenant. It presents
us with the chance to do what Conservative
Judaism has always urged: adapt the teachings
of Jewish tradition to unprecedented
circumstances and join Torah with the very
best of modern thought and expertise. In
Israel, Jews can and must bring the Torah
to bear on every aspect of society: health
care and education, foreign policy and the
welfare system, treatment of non-Jewish
minorities and diverse streams of Judaism,
relations of war and peace, and proper stewardship
of the planet’s resources.
Just before Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish
Theological Seminary released a report by
sociologist Steven M. Cohen showing that
Conservative rabbis and rabbinical students
have a continuing, strong, and passionate
engagement with Israel. Some younger
North American Jews have distanced themselves from the state in recent years, but not
JTS’s rabbis-in-training. Their politics may
have moved left as the Israeli government
and rabbinate have moved right, but their
loyalty and their love are undiminished.
Given those findings, and the diversity of
opinion about Israel that exists within the
consensus of our movement’s strong connection
to Israel, I think that Conservative/
Masorti Jews are well-positioned to take
the lead in undertaking three steps that will
strengthen Israel and the relationship of
Diaspora Jews to it.
First, Conservative Jews in North America
can do a better job of learning about Israel
and talking with Israelis. Both sides have a
share of responsibility in the inadequacy
of communication. Diverging histories (and
ignorance of history) is one problem. The
gap is exacerbated by differences of language,
ethos, political systems, and religious patterns.
Conservative Jews are well-positioned
to overcome these divides. We are disproportionately
represented in the lay and professional
leadership of Jewish communal
organizations in North America. We routinely
reach across boundaries to our left and
to our right. Masorti Jews in Israel are natural
allies and conversation partners for those
of us who live outside the land. Together
we can make Israel a state that palpably
belongs to all Jews everywhere.
Second, let’s do a better job of talking with
one another about Israel. Civil discourse
about Israel has broken down in many synagogues,
including many Conservative synagogues.
I suspect the reason for our growing
intolerance of each other’s dissent is a combination
of hopelessness about the prospects
for peace and fear that any criticism of
government policy gives aid and comfort to
Israel’s enemies. I do not minimize that danger,
but we have to engage in honest discussion
about the single greatest Jewish
concern of our times. No Jews – particularly
no younger Jews – should be banished
from Jewish tables, or made to feel
they have no place in our community,
because their views on Israel seem heretical
or their criticism untempered. We need
to cut ourselves a little slack where Israel
is concerned. Let’s trust Jewish leaders to
use community agencies and forums responsibly
and help individual Jews – including
college students – to develop their own
reasons for standing with Israel.
Third, let’s make sure that the future lay
and professional leaders of our movement
have every chance to know the wonderful,
bewildering, changing-by-the-day reality
of Israel, and so come to love it, each
in his or her own way. JTS now sends its
rabbinical students not so much to study in
Israel for the year as to study Israel in Israel,
and to learn how to transmit the knowledge
and love they have acquired or deepened
to others. We have launched a new program
aimed at doing the same for educators.
On the home campus, we have placed Israel
front and center.
This year, as every year, Israel provides
opportunities for Jewish fulfillment, individual
and collective, that are as yet unexplored.
The state’s existence and
achievements carry hope to Jews and to
humanity that we dare not consign to cynicism
Let’s embrace that with hope – and get to work.
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Tips for Getting Settled
We want you to feel at home in your room at Palmetto House, Magnolia House, or The Villas, and we know that decorating is an important part of settling in. When putting up pictures and posters on the walls, please use staples or straight pins. Tape has a tendency to tear the paint when it's removed, nails and screws make large holes, and colored putty stains the walls. If you have any questions about what can and can't be used on the walls, check with your RA before you hang anything.
Some, or all of the furniture in your room/apartment may be moveable. In most areas, you and your roommate are free to rearrange; however, you may not remove/dismantle any of the furniture. You may add additional pieces of your own as space allows. Use care when moving furniture so as not to mar the walls or scratch the floors.
Many students find that throw rugs or area carpeting help with comfort, noise control, and temperature, especially on tile floors. If you put carpet on the floor and want to hold it in place, be sure to use material that can be easily removed and will not damage the floor tiles. Non-skid mats or backing may be more appropriate. In those areas where carpet is provided, please notify a staff member immediately of spills or other problems. Quick action in cleaning these may prevent long-term staining.
Participating in Activities
Each year several educational and social programs and activities are offered in the residential areas. These are planned and implemented by members of the Residence Hall Association (RHA) and are designed to offer you, the resident, the chance to get to know other residents, to learn something that will benefit you personally, to get involved in your living area, and to relax or take a study break. Look for advertisements in your residence are about events that are happening throughout the semester. If you have an idea for an activity, bring it to the attention of the RHA or your Resident Assistant.
And, don't forget about all of the other organizations and recreational activities around campus!
Living with a Roommate
When you move into Palmetto House, Magnolia House, or The Villas, this may be the first time you've ever had a roommate. Even if you have a private room, you are still sharing common living space with one, two or three other people. No matter which living option you chose, you may find yourself "looking forward" to this experience with mixed emotions. Expectations that you're going to make a life-long friend are just as common as fears that you may not get along.
If you've picked a roommate that you already know, it's likely that living together will bring a whole new dimension to your friendship. You may not have known that your friend snores loudly or is a compulsive cleaner or has habits like sleeping with the TV on. Rest assured, though, that roommates who aren't used to sharing living space or whose lifestyles seem completely different can live together happily as long as both parties are willing to communicate and compromise.
Remember that small roommate conflicts are inevitable; they're a part of living together. Details such as study time, borrowing each other's belongings, and having guests over, need to be worked out at the beginning of the semester so that problems don't arise later. Good communication right from the start is the key. If you find that you have reached an impasse, however, talk to your RA about how to resolve the problem.
Enjoying Your Stay
Moving away from home, getting a roommate, and beginning classes might be overwhelming at first, but relax. Besides the convenience of living close to classes and campus resources, campus housing offers a sense of community and connection with the University that you can't find off campus. So think of our student housing not as where you sleep, eat, and study, but where you live—it's home. We take seriously the importance of community, of building friendships and of creating a supportive environment not just for studying, but for living. Just let us know if you have any questions or concerns; we're here to help! | <urn:uuid:ee5291f3-a42f-47db-bff6-b6d7fb9ebdb9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://uscupstate.edu/studentaffairs/housing/default.aspx?id=9222 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965768 | 860 | 1.507813 | 2 |
It seems that everyone is trying to stretch a penny these days, and for small businesses that can lead to cutbacks or layoffs. Losing a job in a recession is a devastating thing, especially when jobs are scarce. Unemployment will only last for so long and the bills keep coming in. Statistics show that there are 6 unemployed people to every available job. In small towns it can be as many as 20 unemployed to each available position. So what is a person to do?
If you are one of those many Americans who are having trouble finding a job, how about creating your own? This isn’t a strange idea in the face of a recession. Micro-businesses are businesses that have 10 people or less and over half of small businesses in the United States are home based. According to Startupnation, you can not only survive, but thrive in this economy.
Inc Magazine printed a story about CEO Paul Mann who was looking for a responsible dog sitter in a bind. After taking some observations of the people who responded to his ad, he felt a little discouraged in finding someone he could trust. That is when a light went on in Paul Mann’s head. He ended up leaving his corporate position for the comforts of working from home and started Fetch! Pet Care, a local network of pet sitters and dog walkers. If you asked him today if he would go back out into the world of glass doors and windows, his answer would be a very enthusiastic “no!”
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Obama was inaugurated as the fiscal year 2009 deficit eventually totaled $1.41 trillion. Had he halved this shortfall, FY 2012’s deficit should have remained below $705 billion. Instead, it was $1.1 trillion — $395 billion above Obama’s pledge.
Under Obama, America has made history: four consecutive annual deficits surpassing $1 trillion. After FY 2009’s $1.41 trillion hole (which he and an all-Democratic Congress could have filled), the next three deficits were, respectively, $1.29 trillion, $1.3 trillion, and $1.1 trillion. Thus, Obama has swelled the national debt by $5.1 trillion, all in one term. Another record.
As The Weekly Standard’s Jeffrey H. Anderson recalls, Obama predicted in May 2009 that FY 2012’s deficit would be just $557 billion. Obama underestimated the depth of last year’s red ink by almost exactly half. Never take a diving lesson from this man.
Obama’s massive misjudgment confirms his profligacy and incompetence. The least a president should do is accurately forecast the pace at which he spends the nation into oblivion. Obama cannot manage even that.
Obama’s stunning lack of leadership fuels this catastrophe. Budgets are key to controlling spending. Nonetheless, while the Republican House of Representatives has passed two budgets, Obama has permitted the Democratic Senate to violate the 1974 Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act by refusing to endorse any budget whatsoever. Like an equatorial backwater patrolled by feral chickens, the United States of America has not adopted a budget since April 29, 2009.
Even worse, Obama has not exercised enough muscle to earn even one congressional vote for his latest budget. It failed unanimously, with every voting House and Senate member giving his blueprint bipartisan thumbs down. The House killed Obama’s proposal 0-414. The Senate followed suit, 0-99. That Obama could not convince even one of Congress’ 535 members to support such pivotal legislation represents a canyonesque low in presidential ineptitude. How appropriate for a man who has driven America off a cliff, and still floors the accelerator, as the nation speeds toward the jagged rocks below.
Obama also inculcates a culture of spending. If he tightened his belt, and demanded accountability among federal employees, Washington might emulate his model. Instead, the bacchanal roars on. Among infinite examples of this obscenity:
— The Agriculture Department spent $2 million to launch an internship program. And then it hired precisely one intern. This breathtaking sum included $192,500 to house that intern.
— Obama has expanded the Lifeline program, which now gives poor people free cellphones. While started under President Ronald Reagan, Obama has exploded Lifeline’s budget 107 percent — from $772 million in 2008 to $1.6 billion today.
— The Obama administration gave A123 Systems a stimulus grant to manufacture electric-car batteries. Obama predicted at a 2010 Rose Garden ceremony that A123 would hire “more than 3,000 by the end of 2012.” He added: “This is what’s possible in a clean-energy economy.”
A123 filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Tuesday. It already burned through $132 million of its $249 million allocation. It also had received money in 2003 and 2007 from the profligate Bush-Rove administration. Sadly, Obama turned his predecessor’s spending fever into fiscal pneumonia.
A123 is now at least the 14th Obama-funded green bankruptcy. As GOP nominee Mitt Romney told Obama in their first debate: “I had a friend who said you don’t just pick the winners and losers. You pick the losers.”
Some of these eco-fiascos are tragicomic. According to one Abound Solar employee, “Our solar modules worked, as long as you didn’t put them in the sun.” The Daily Caller also reported that Abound’s solar panels had a bad habit of bursting into flames.
Awash in red ink, President Obama seems to be sinking in the Red Sea.
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Lapham’s Quarterly has put together a graphic showing how many calories a dollar will buy in various forms, including lettuce, canned tuna, a bottle of Coca-Cola and a McDouble sandwich at McDonald’s. It’s a good illustration of one of the problems with the American diet: unhealthy food is often a lot cheaper than healthy food.
One dollar’s worth of Coke has 447 calories, while $1 of iceberg lettuce has just 16.5. To look at it another way, you would have to spend about $5 to buy 2,000 calories at McDonald’s, $19 to buy 2,000 calories worth of canned tuna and $60 to buy 2,000 calories worth of lettuce.
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The Empire Theatre, 73-75 Katoomba Street, Katoomba was designed by prominent cinema architects Guy Crick and Bruce Furse for A.H. Small and A. Seller. The doors opened 16th January 1915. In 1920 the property was sold to Katoomba Theatres, a Joynton Smith Management Trust enterprise who later acquired the King and Savoy Theatres in Katoomba. Described as prettily designed, the theatre drew large crowds most nights to view the latest picture. It would seem that Peter Dawson was manager of the Empire Theatre according to a testimonial given to Athol, dated 24.3.1937.
The theatre was refurbished in 1936, and as the photograph below illustrates, renamed the Embassy Theatre. Its seating capacity of 843 was somewhat large by modern day standards. The property was sold to G.J. Coles & Co. in 1954 for the sum of fifty thousand pounds and remodelled by McDonald Downie and associates. Since then it has been occupied by a number of discount stores and the milk bar by various food sellers.
Photographs 2 & 3 by Shirley Evans.
Photographs 1 & 4 Blue Mountains City Council Image Collection
Letter in the possession of Shirley Evans.
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ended the academic year on a green note.
Legislation passed at Monday night’s meeting entails that the senate supports Jason Sanders’ efforts with Bobcat Blend, a program designed to filter the trash output across campus.
“Really, all ASG is doing is just supporting what he is doing,” said Sen. Brandon Guerra, author of the legislation.
The program designates three main sources for the distribution of trash: recycling, compost and landfill. The compost will be used across campus, Guerra said.
“Currently, 100 percent goes to a landfill,” Guerra said. “That is pretty harmful. One day of waste at the LBJ Student Center adds to 153 trash bags. That goes to a landfill. What Bobcat Blend could do is make 34 percent of it compost, 8 percent recycled, and only 54 would continue on to the landfill.”
Guerra said the goal of this program is to reach 82 percent compost. Sanders obtained the necessary funding and the program is set to launch soon, he said.
According to the legislation, entitled, “Bobcat Blend,” the program will bring Texas State closer to being a zero waste campus.
“We will be the first school in the state to have this initiative to source separate trash,” Guerra said. “It is going to generate attention. People are going to say, ‘Hey, look at Texas State’s system of waste management.’ I think this is going to be a good image.”
Guerra said he wrote the legislation after Sanders came to speak at an ASG meeting.
“We have had many guest speakers,” Guerra said. “But when I heard Jason Sanders talk about the project, it seemed like such a big deal that I wanted to write the legislation supporting it.”
Jason Moore, ASG vice president, said Bobcat Blend is a great way for the university to start an important trend.
“Jason Sanders is going to be working it and he is hiring on more staff,” Moore said.
Moore said the actual compost bin is going to be located behind LBJSC by Arnold Hall. He said he agrees with the senate decision to support this legislation.
“It is very much a time when people are going green,” Moore said. “This is a great way to do it. Not only for environmental purposes, but it should also save the university money. With everything going the way it is, I think they did a great job in researching and a good job in asking questions. I do not have the chance to voice anything in the meetings, but I definitely agreed with it.”
The senate also passed new legislation regarding the computer logos on campus.
The legislation, entitled, “Money and Screen-Saving Marketing,” will mandate all computers on campus to have Texas State logos on the screen.
According to the legislation, the default 2009 to 2010 wallpaper would represent the university’s “Drive to Division One Football Bowl Series”, encouraging students to attend athletic events.
The installation of these new logos, implemented over the summer, will be during the next “ghosting” or refresh for the computer system.
Sen. Brice Loving, author of the legislation, said he was sitting in the McCoy Building computer lab when he noticed the multiple computers displaying the Windows logo.
“I thought we should change that,” Loving said. “Instead of generic backgrounds, I thought, why not be creative and display Texas State?”
Loving said this idea goes back to pride for the university and brand identity. He said the new logo will strengthen the image for the school.
“I am really excited,” Loving said. “This is my first piece of legislation. I definitely had a lot of support.”
Loving said the athletic logo will give new students the impression that athletics are a big deal for the university.
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“What I propose to do in this book is to take you on a guided exploration of the Catholic world, but not in the manner of a docent, for I am not interested in showing you the artifacts of Catholicism as though they were dusty objets d’art in a museum of culture. I want to function rather as a mystagogue, conducting you ever deeper into the mystery of the incarnation in the hopes that you might be transformed by its power.” –Father Robert Barron
What is Catholicism? A 2,000 living tradition? A worldview? A way of life? A relationship? A mystery? In Catholicism Father Robert Barron examines all these questions and more, seeking to capture the body, heart and mind of the Catholic faith.
Starting from the essential foundation of Jesus Christ’s incarnation, life, and teaching, Father Barron moves through the defining elements of Catholicism – from sacraments, worship, and prayer, to Mary, the Apostles, and Saints, to grace, salvation, heaven, and hell – using his distinct and dynamic grasp of art, literature, architecture, personal stories, Scripture, theology, philosophy, and history to present the Church to the world.
Paired with his documentary film series of the same title, Catholicism is an intimate journey, capturing “The Catholic Thing” in all its depth and beauty. Eclectic, unique, and inspiring, Father Barron brings the faith to life for a new generation, in a style that is both faithful to timeless truths, while simultaneously speaking in the language of contemporary life.
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Governments should stop poachers stealing gains made in tiger conservation
“There is little hope of doubling the number of wild tigers if every conservation gain made by each of the countries is undermined by poachers every day,” said Mike Baltzer, Leader of WWF’s Tigers Alive Initiative. “Serious actions, not only simple commitments, to end poaching are the first vital step towards wild tiger population recovery and meeting the goal of doubling wild tiger numbers by 2022.”
From 15-17 May 2012, senior government officials will meet for the first time to take stock of actions taken since the Tiger Summit in St. Petersburg in 2010, when all 13 tiger range countries committed to doubling the number of wild tigers by 2022. The meeting will review progress of the Global Tiger Recovery Programme (GTRP) implementation and discuss directions for priority actions in the next two years. It will also review mechanisms for effective collaboration and targets for further resource mobilization at international and country levels.
WWF will also be addressing the illicit trade in tiger parts, with WWF's wildlife trade programme TRAFFIC presenting the most recent analysis of tiger parts seizures in Asia, as well as a strategic framework for reducing consumer demand for tigers and other endangered species.
New Delhi meeting opportunity for action
The stocktaking meeting in New Delhi provides a perfect opportunity to launch a joint elevated action against poaching and send a clear message to the world that this is one target the tiger range countries intend not to miss.
Poaching is still the main cause of the tiger’s decline and the greatest barrier to achieving the goal of doubling wild tiger numbers. Reports of illegal tiger trade and smuggling in the past months have shown that poaching is still a crime without serious deterrents. In the first three months of this year alone, official records from India reported two tigers poached while an additional three seizures of tiger body parts were made. These tiger parts were almost certainly derived from poaching. The number of tigers killed due to poaching may be higher as it is often very hard to detect actual poaching events. India is the only tiger range country to systematically monitor tiger deaths and make this publicly available online at www.tigernet.nic.in.
During the same period, there were also reports of arrests of persons caught in possession of tiger parts in India and the other tiger range countries, namely China, Malaysia, Nepal, Thailand and Vietnam. In Indonesia, a Sumatran tiger died a few days after it was rescued from the forest, with wounds obtained from a hunter’s trap.
“Poachers are profiting at the expense of the tiger range governments,” said Mr. Baltzer. “Putting an end to poaching would ensure that the investments of the governments and donors do not simply become financial gains for the poachers and tiger traders.”
FIve step plan to fight poaching
WWF has come up with five steps tiger range countries can take immediately to launch a joint operation towards Zero Poaching. These include identifying and delineating the most important sites requiring good protection from poaching, ensuring these sites have sufficient, effective and dedicated enforcement teams, working with police and judiciary to ensure strict punishment on poaching, and actively engaging local communities living adjacent to the important areas in tiger conservation.
“Every single poaching incidence must be taken seriously and understood as a major setback on the road to wild tiger recovery,” said Mr. Craig Bruce, WWF’s expert on enforcement and protection of wild tigers. “The governments should launch an immediate and direct response to poaching. This will send a strong message to the poachers and the wider public that the governments are very serious in their efforts to protect tigers.”
WWF will be sending each government a short document ahead of the meeting describing some of the actions that can be launched immediately to make a serious challenge against poaching and which could form the basis of a joint operation by the tiger range countries.
For further information:
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Obesity affects about one-third of Americans. The epidemic includes the wealthy, middle class and the poor; city dwellers, suburbanites and those in rural areas; and people of all races and ethnicities. The causes include a diet of calorie-dense but nutrient-deficient food found in grocery and convenience stores, public planning strategies that favor motorists over walkers and cyclists, and simply bad habits.
The costs associated with obesity are enormous. Obesity adds an estimated $120 billion to the nation's medical bill annually. Each year 112,000 people die from obesity-related causes, and the condition is responsible for an increased risk of chronic diseases like Type 2 diabetes, cancer and heart disease.
Obesity - An Epidemic
It is difficult to grasp just how quickly this disease has turned into an epidemic. This trend will continue until together we make a commitment to change our behavioral patterns toward health and wellness.
What is Obesity?
Obesity is a condition characterized by the excessive accumulation and storage of fat in the body that is increased to a point where it is associated with certain health conditions or increased mortality. Therefore, our focus on fat in the body should be directed at "fat in the body" and not a person's overall weight. Weight is only a measurement of an objects overall "weight". For the human body, we are comprised of physical elements that make up our weight. Understanding these is crucial to long-term health. Obesity is a condition characterized by the excessive accumulation and storage of fat in the body that is increased to a point where it is associated with certain health conditions or increased mortality. Therefore, our focus on fat in the body should be directed at "fat in the body" and not a person's overall weight. Weight is only a measurement of an objects overall "weight". For the human body, we are comprised of physical elements that make up our weight. Understanding these is crucial to long-term health.
Body Mass Index or BMI has been a generally accepted ratio using a person’s height and weight to determine body weight status to a reasonable degree. BMI is an excellent indicator of obesity for the majority of the population. However, It does not take into account a person’s lean muscle mass, frame size and free fat and/or water weight.
Body Fat Percentage and Overall Body Composition is a much better measure and change indicator for a person. Recognized by professionals as a much more important indicator of overall health, it is important that we understand the components of measuring Body Composition: Body Fat and Lean Mass
Body composition is used to describe the percentages of fat, bone and muscle in human bodies. Because muscular tissue takes up less space in our body than fat tissue, our body composition, as well as our weight, determines leanness. Two people at the same height and same body weight may look completely different from each other because they have a different body composition. A person's total body fat percentage is the total weight of the person's fat divided by the person's weight. The resulting number reflects both essential fat and storage fat. Essential fat is the amount of fat you need to be healthy and for your body to function properly. Having less than this amount of fat can be dangerous to your health. Generally speaking, a female's essential fat is 10-12% and a male's is 2-4%
How can you decrease your Body Fat Percentage? You can decrease body fat by burning more calories than you consume, and by exercising regularly with a combination of aerobic exercise and resistance training.
Lean body mass is everything in your body except body fat - muscles, bones, organs, blood, etc. Your lean body mass is just the inverse of your body fat percentage, or in other words, everything but fat is lean body mass. By decreasing body fat and increasing lean body mass simultaneously, you improve the ratio, which is what you want to do, as long as you don't go below your essential body fat percentage. You can use the above Body Fat Percentage Comparison chart as a general guideline. How can you increase your Lean Body Mass? You can increase your lean body mass through resistance training, which increases strength and muscle mass. Additionally, cardiovascular exercise can improve your lean body mass in your lower extremities.
Obesity and Other Diseases
Overweight and obese people have increased incidence of multiple disease including the following. The costs to the health care system and the health of the individual are on a scale never seen before in the United States.
2. Heart Disease
4. Metabolic Syndrome
5. Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
6. Reproduction/Sexual Problems
7. Thyroid Conditions
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Candidate Michele Bachmann says, Yes
Ga-Ga-sized heels are all the rage, but at what cost to your physical and neurological well-being?
Migraine headaches are a leading cause for disability
Migraine headache illness debilitates millions of sufferers, most of whom are woman, every year. For many, migraine attacks keep them at home and out of work, school, and social engagements. Migraine symptoms such as throbbing head pain, nausea, vomiting, visual impairments, and speech difficulties make it difficult, if not impossible, for migraine patients to hold down a job.
Nevertheless, Republican candidate Michele Bachmann assures her supporters for the upcoming Presidential Election of 2012 that she has her chronic migraines under control. Although she has required emergency treatment on several occasions for chronic migraine attacks, Ms. Bachmann has declared that migraine medications keep her condition stabilized, and that her “uncomfortable high-heeled shoes” were to blame for most of her head pain.
“Can wearing high-heeled pumps trigger migraine headaches?” ask experts.
Well, it’s no secret that wearing spikey heels promotes bad posture. According to Spine-Health, poor posture distorts the natural curve of the spine, contributing to “back and neck pain, as well as headaches, fatigue, and possibly even concerns with major organs and breathing.”
Sacrificing comfort for fashion is one thing, but sacrificing your mental and physical health for a really cute pair of Jimmy Choo’s is beyond normal comprehension.
Which came first- the power heels or the migraines?
Still, not all health experts agree. Dr. Joel Saper, founder and director of the Michigan Headache and Neurological Institute in Ann Arbor, thinks it’s more likely that the correlation exists between migraine headaches and stress; for a career woman struggling to earn the respect of her peers, leather high-heeled shoes are just par for the course.
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Is it art, or is it a gimmick?
That's the question I pose to the artist and viewer after taking in the current exhibition at the Red House Art Gallery. The show, titled "Learning to Write American," is comprised of text-based mixed media works by Iowa-based artist Jennifer Drinkwater.
Some of the works are "Untitled" oil-on-wood paintings, which explore the duplicitous nature of language. Others are mixed-media works that invite the viewer to interact with them by opening doors, writing on them or by rearranging magnets on the main image to create a unique composition. It's the interactive approach that makes me question the implications of the work.
The paintings (24 inches by 18 inches), which are rendered in carefully painted block letters, provide dictionary definitions to unspecified nouns, such as patriot, tyrant and insurgent. Drinkwater claims this visual and conceptual ambiguity -- the unnamed noun -- "directly involve(s) the viewer to create meaning, through imagining the missing term." The interaction, she asserts, comes in trying to figure out what the noun is.
That same type of interaction happens when you view the "Mona Lisa" and try to decipher that enigmatic smile. DaVinci was trying to tell us something in that smile, but it's up to us to determine what that might be. That's what a viewer does with any work of art, if they are actively attending to the work of art. If Drinkwater is suggesting she is doing something new or different here, she is misleading the viewer into how they should perceive these paintings.
The larger mixed media pieces are truly interactive, inviting the viewer to actively and physically engage with the works of art. In "Winslow Homer's The Gulf Stream" (28 inches by 56 inches), Drinkwater renders a reasonable likeness of Homer's 1884 painting "The Gulf Stream," but she makes it her own by deconstructing some of Homer's imagery; literally re-creating individual parts of the painting as detached, painted magnets. She also adds a few elements of her own.
She attaches these painted magnets -- borrowed from Homer and of her own making -- to a magnet board, which hangs next to the main painting. These individual magnets include images of a pelican covered in oil, an oil rig, the wooden boat from Homer's painting without the sailor (he's a separate piece) and the word "Halliburton." There are also additional letters, individual paintings of windmills and a magnet representing The Superdome.
This is where it gets a little gimmicky. By selecting these individual pieces and affixing them to the main painting, you can make your own statement about Hurricane Katrina, Halliburton, the Gulf oil spill or even Winslow Homer. The work is uniquely yours until someone else comes along and removes a magnet, adds a magnet or rearranges what's there. It's an interesting idea for a school project where an element of contrivance might be more at home, but it just seemed strained in this setting.
There's also a similar piece that employs Norman Rockwell's painting, "The Problem We All Live With" as the point of departure. While Rockwell was addressing issues of public school desegregation, Drinkwater muddies it up with magnets depicting Paris Hilton and figures from the Abu Ghraib scandal. I'm still trying to figure out those connections.
Drinkwater states in her artist's statement that she "appropriate(s) visual and textual elements from all areas of visual culture in order to establish cross-cultural connections and renegotiate meanings." The juxtapositions she attempts of both imagery and text are at times valid; but too often the execution is overdone, leaving the viewer to wonder what exactly the point of the interaction was.
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Vale council support Noise Action Week
Reducing neighbour noise will be the focus for the Vale of
Glamorgan Council during Noise Action Week (19-23 May).
Dealing with more than 850 noise complaints annually, the
council is using the event to raise awareness of the services
provided to tackle noise and the simple measures individuals can
take to solve problems. Housing associations and landlords will be
sent guidance and advice to issue to tenants.
The majority of noise complaints to the council arise from
domestic sources, and there are various contributory factors,
including different lifestyles of people living in close proximity,
amplified music and barking dogs.
Noise Action Week aims to:
• promote practical solutions to everyday noise problems;
• promote communication and consideration between
• support local authorities, housing organisations, mediation
services and others in informing the public of services available
to tackle noise problems, and
• educate and inform noise makers and noise sufferers about
Anyone suffering from noise or who would like to learn more
about relevant issues and how to address them can either visit the
noise pollution control web pages or
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To deny, to believe, and to doubt absolutely -- this is for man what running is for a horse.
Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
Jealousy lives upon doubts, it becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
Galileo called doubt the father of invention; it is certainly the pioneer.
Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.
The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
Doubt is the father of invention.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.
The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt.
Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
If doubt is challenging you and you do not act, doubts will grow. Challenge the doubts with action and you will grow. Doubt and action are incompatible.
Believe while others are doubting.
Know without a doubt that you were made for amazing things.
Nobody becomes great without self-doubt. But you can't let it consume you.
Don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don't doubt yourself.
For, were it not good that evil things should also exist, the omnipotent God would almost certainly not allow evil to be, since beyond doubt it is just as easy for Him not to allow what He does not will, as for Him to do what He will.
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This page describes school-related projects; my my other home page has more about my personal life and my non-school-related activities (such as writing computer games).
The inspiration for my research was working with complex programs. I wanted to find ways to better deal with complexity, both state (data) and modularity (code). I studied combining functional and object-oriented programming styles. Managing state in a program is tricky and the source of complexity and bugs. How do we deal with state? Object-oriented programming gives us one way to deal with state. Functional programming goes one step further and gives us ways to avoid having state in the first place.
In the programs I write, I’d like to avoid state as much as possible, but when I do have state, I want a nice way to manage it. During my time at Stanford I looked at ways to use functional programming and object oriented programming together, with the hope that two simple systems working together can be more expressive than a complex functional system or a complex object system. For example, inheritance is a transformation from one class to another; what if you can use recursion, composition, and other operations on inheritance to build new classes?
I found that in my programming projects I made a big distinction between objects and values (now called “value objects” by those who want everything to be an “object”). Objects have identity and polymorphism and state; values are serializable and copyable. When you try mixing these, you get weird behavior, such as C++ copy constructors “slicing” objects. For my research I kept the two separate, using functional programming for values and object oriented programming for objects.
Many years after I left Stanford, I became interested in a different way to manage state: combining functional programming, used for computation, with relational programming, used in databases to manage state. Note that SQL was developed in the 1970s and is not a great example of a relational system, but it’s the only experience most people have with relational systems.
There is a mismatch between objects and databases. None of the object relational mapping systems are great. Some people are trying to solve this by making the database object-oriented. What if we instead solve it by making the programming language relational? The game industry is exploring entity systems, which are somewhat along these lines. Also potentially interesting: functions are a type of relation, implicitly defined; databases are a type of relation, explicitly defined. Joins on tables seem to be related to applications of functions. Is there a unified theory that would allow us to mix functions and tables?
Looking back on my life, there were several things that led me to study certain aspects of object-oriented programming in graduate school.
Learning Scheme affected me a great deal, and learning ML too. Both made me appreciate clean semantics of languages, and made me question many things. For example, in ML (and to some extent in Scheme) a variable is actually the composition of two things: a name and a “cell” that can be modified to store a value. By separating the two notions, you can start using them in new and interesting ways. For example, you might have two names for the same cell, or you can have names without cells, or you might have cells with no names. Scheme and ML are full of things like this that make you think about the fundamental building blocks for languages.
In the late 80s I learned object-oriented programming. As I used it, I started to question some of the standard approaches. In particular, I didn’t see “everything is an object” to be a virtue, especially when everything used inheritance. I started to explore a mixture of objects (focusing on composition and polymorphism instead of inheritance) and “plain old data” types. When I discovered C++’s STL, I learned that a method in a class is less reusable than a regular function outside a class. As I used C++ more, I started to want a “move” constructor. I found that certain operations just didn’t make sense all the time. For some objects, I want inheritance, polymorphism, subtyping, “move” constructors, identity, mutability, and shallow equality; for others, I want copy constructors, operator overloading, immutability, typecase, and deep equality.
I also saw a connection between these two different styles of programming and the styles of programs on different operating systems. Windows and Mac applications are “object oriented” in the sense that the application controls access to your data. Typically only one application can access that data, and you can only manipulate the data by using the app. In the Unix world, data is typically visible (plain text with minimal structure) so that you can work with it in many different apps — text editors, grep, less, awk, perl, etc. This is like the data value approach. The web also follows the data value approach.
When I started playing with multithreading, regular objects needed locking and data did not. When I played with persistence and networking, some objects were serializable and some were not. When I started playing with distributed systems, some objects can be copied between threads, processes, and machines; others should not (they may migrate, however). When I learned linear logic, the distinction continued, as some objects were linear in nature and others were not.
In each endeavor, the distinction was clear: there are two different kinds of objects, and the two kinds were in sync: the same objects that were not copyable in distributed systems were the ones that were not serializable, needed locking, linear in nature, had intensional identity, used polymorphism, and so on. There were only two kinds of objects that I could see, and those two kinds would work across many different problem domains. A language that pretended that everything was the same (“everything’s an object!”) doesn’t match the kinds of things I was seeing. So I started thinking about a language that treated “objects” and “data” differently. When I went to graduate school, I had my chance to work on such a language. I started with a non-object-oriented language and added a minimal object system that only handled the “object” features and none of the “data” features. The result kept both objects and data simple, but let them be combined in useful ways.
The biggest project I was working on at Stanford was Obstacl, an attempt to add object-oriented features to ML, while keeping in mind the needs of programmers, and at the same time keeping in mind the flavor of ML.
By studying design patterns and general program design issues, we found that we could express many common patterns with just two (fairly simple) language features. These language features turned out to be interesting on their own, and you can read about one of them (mixins) in a paper I’ve made available on the web (see below).
It turns out that ML (and other high level languages) have features that can be used as building blocks for objects. Encapsulation and dynamic lookup (polymorphism) are already present in ML, and inheritance and subtyping are not too difficult to add. We were able to add to the language object-related constructs that did not intrude on the functionality provided by existing features. As a result the added features (classes and objects) are simpler than those in many other languages. For example, our classes do not provide functionality associated with modules, because ML already has modules. Our objects do not have to provide new semantics for dynamic lookup because ML already supports it.
Digging deep into issues of equality, identity, copying, and assignment, I found that all the languages I had used treated these incorrectly! Could I be wrong about everyone else being wrong? I worried about that quite a bit but every time I tried to formalize the issues, I came to the same conclusion: that objects (bank accounts, sockets, television sets, etc.) and traditional values (numbers, sets, lists, maps) should be treated rather differently in programming languages. There is at least one consistent model that can incorporate both objects and values; I’ve constructed such a model for Obstacl. Not only does it touch objects/values, equality (deep/shallow, reflexive/symmetric/transitive), identity, assignment, this model also touches mutability, subtyping, efficiency of implementation, serialization, and distributed programming. The margin of this page is too small for me to explain it; if you’re interested, please email me. Or read Henry Baker’s paper to learn about another consistent model addressing similar issues.
In addition to the practical aspects of using a language for programming, I worked with Viviana Bono and Vitaly Shmatikov on an extension of lambda calculus that could express the basic constructs in Obstacl.
I’ve also investigated the implementation issues involved, and designed run-time data structures for classes and objects that balance small size overheads, small time overheads, and modularity. Unlike C++, our classes can be linked together using inheritance at link time, so they can be put into dynamically linked modules and updated in ways that would break C++ class updates. (For example, we can add new private fields to a base class, and derived classes do not have to be recompiled.)
Many times when proposing a language feature, it is worth analyzing it formally. The formal analysis often brings up dark corners that may lead to problems. Alternatively, it may be clean and beautiful—-evidence that the feature is nice in theory. For our ML objects, we have written some calculi to analyze the features we want to add to ML. During the analysis, we discovered that these features could be added to other languages as well—-by boiling down the extensions to the absolute core, we saw that they were not dependent on ML, even though ML made them easier to implement. In particular, mixins may be a welcome alternative to multiple inheritance in many new object-oriented languages, not only in Obstacl.
The main result of our calculi papers is that when we consider classes to be basic features, rather than simulated using objects, and when we consider imperative object languages, rather than functional object languages, we get a much simpler system. The object calculus community probably is not interested in this work but we considered it important to preserve and analyze the style of programming used in real programs, instead of a different style of programming valued in the programming language community.
We also included forms of modularity that programmers generally want in larger systems. For example, a subclass does not have to be recompiled if only private fields in the superclass are changed. Clients do not have to be recompiled if only protected methods are changed or if new methods are added. Also, we include modular object creation (using constructors) instead of requiring the user to initialize all the fields after an object is created. Many of these goals are taken for granted in the programming community, but not always in the language community, so we included them in our calculus to ensure that the simplicity of our system was not the result of leaving our important modularity issues.
Mixins are a powerful program-structuring tool. Imagine a scenario in which you have a Stream interface, a File class implementing that interface, and an EncryptedFile subclassing from File. Now suppose you want to encrypt a network stream instead. What would you do? You could restructure your program so that File and Encryption are unrelated classes, but there’s an alternative: mixins. You can change the class from EncryptedFile extends File to [For Any stream class S]: Encrypted extends S. Now EncryptedFile is simply Encrypted @ File. (I would use something other than @ but for web pages, @ seemed simplest.) You can also make an encrypted network stream with Encrypted @ Socket. You can simulate many useful forms of multiple inheritance by simply applying more than one mixin: Encrypt @ Compress @ UUEncode @ PGPSign @ File is a class that encrypts, compresses, uuencodes, and then signs data that is being written into a file. (If you are a Unix hacker, you may find this similar to combining filters at the command line through pipes.) In addition, you can do some things that are hard to do with multiple inheritance, like apply a mixin more than once: Encrypt @ Encrypt @ File is a class of doubly-encrypted files! (Note however that doubly encrypted files typically aren’t any more secure; it’s just a nice example of what you can do with mixins.) With mixins it’s easy to control the order and number of times mixins are applied. The paper listed above explains the semantics of mixins and the issues with type checking them. We also have a nice way to compile them (just once, unlike C++ templates).
For some time I worked on a web proxy that modified Java bytecode as it was sent from the web server to the web browser. The modified applet was restricted from certain activities, such as opening too many windows on the screen at once. These hostile applets are not doing anything that violates the type system or security checks made by the virtual machine, but instead they are using annoying or misleading behavior to potentially learn secure information or cause damage to the user’s machine.
Insik Shin added a user interface applet to control the behavior of the proxy. In addition, he used the proxy to modify Java bytecode so that it would bring up a window that let the user control (i.e., abort) annoying behavior. For example, the proxy modifies any applet that plays sounds so that along with each sound, there is a small pop-up window that lets the user stop or restart the sound.
The web proxy is part of the Pleiades Project.
As of January 1999, my Python proxy is no longer being used for research purposes. My proxy was being used as the prototype for a new proxy (written in Java), which will be used for research on mobile code. Jun Zhai wrote a proxy core, with support for multiple users and more advanced Java monitoring. Vijay Ganesh worked on a framework for Java filtering. I am still working on the Python version to improve it for personal use. Version 3 is far more modular, and somewhat more reliable. Version 3.5 supports more general web page transformation (for example, turning Slashdot from green on white to blue on gray, or rearranging table elements on Excite’s page), more interfaces (curses and Gtk), and DNS pre-fetching (scanning a page for hostnames and performing DNS lookup on them before the browser needs it). In February 2000, I started working on version 4, which supports HTTP/1.1 (persistent connections, chunking, compressed HTML). I hoped to add caching, pre-fetching, history (including searching pages you’ve visited recently), and more HTML modifications, such as highlighting words, rearranging tables, and installing style sheets to improve readability, but in today’s browsers these are better done through something like Greasemonkey.
I was also involved in a project to “compile” type rules for Java bytecode into a Java bytecode verifier. See Stephen Freund’s home page for some details about the type rules. I am not actively working on the project at this time.
- Parameterized Inheritance vs. Multiple Inheritance
- A Calculus of Classes and Objects (MFPS ‘99)
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Apple defends itself after pollution allegations
Apple has defended its environmental record after allegations that some of its suppliers are polluting in China.
The technology giant said that it was committed to the highest standard of social responsibility.
The comments come after a report by Chinese environmental groups claimed a number of Apple manufacturers were discharging harmful pollutants.
Chinese companies have often been criticised for focusing on output rather than environmental issues.
The report by the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs (IPE) and other non-governmental environment groups also said that one factory in the city of Taiyuan emitted irritating gases and residents had reported difficulty opening their windows.
In response, Apple told the BBC's Michael Bristow that the company had a tough code of conduct for all its supply firms and it audited many of them.
But a company report released earlier this year found dozens of suppliers across the world were mishandling dangerous chemicals.
More than 100 workers were contaminated at one Chinese plant.
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Initial work by the California Center for Rural Policy (CCRP) identified the need for a common set of community health indicators to help guide and assess outcomes resulting from improvement efforts in the region. Community health indicators are measures that act as barometers for underlying community health. In the fall of 2009, CCRP initiated a year-long process of facilitating a Working Group to develop a set of community health indicators known as the Rural Community Vital Signs.
The outcomes of this project are a set of 48 community health indicators with existing data and a “wish list” of 44 indicators that would be useful for measuring community health, but currently lack a good or readily available data source for all four counties (Del Norte, Humboldt, Trinity, and Mendocino). The Vital Signs developed in this project link to numerous issues in various arenas (social, health, environment, and economy) and are intended to track trends and inspire action initiatives aimed at improving health in the region.
by Jessica Van Arsdale, MD, MPH, Terry Uyeki, MSEd, Connie Stewart, Jenna Barry, Alissa Leigh, Gwyn Mahony, Liz Hannig, Jennifer Oliveros, Launa Peeters-Graehl, and Kali Patterson
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AS the world mourns the loss of Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, next week Ballarat has its own opportunity to take its own small step to a brighter future.
Armstrong was the face and voice of one of mankind’s great achievements – exploring frontiers no-one ever thought was possible.
Yet it was a man who developed rocket technology in Nazi Germany who, depending on your own take on space travel history, drove the exploration which most said couldn’t be achieved.
German-born Wernher von Braun was a one of the leading figures in the development of rocket technology in Germany during World War II. He later moved to the United States where he became the first director of the Marshall Centre, specialising in rocket development.
It was von Braun’s articles, in Collier’s Weekly magazine which, while derided by many, opened the eyes of others to the possibility that one day man would walk on the moon. von Braun did not let his detractors – his involvement with the Nazis made many Americans very wary – sway his determination that man could land on the moon.
It was a Marshall-developed Saturn V rocket that launched the crew of Apollo 11 on its historic eight-day mission.
von Braun died in 1977, his role in envisioning the astonishing achievements of the NASA space exploration program which continued long after he had passed often forgotten, as Armstrong and fellow Apollo crew member Buzz Aldrin attracted most attention.
Yet, through explaining his vision, he helped change the world.
Today, The Courier touches on the views of just a few about where they see Ballarat’s future.
We’ve chosen today because this week the eyes and ears of the state’s decision makers will be on the city through a sitting of parliament at the University of Ballarat on Thursday. The parliamentary session will be controversial. On Wednesday, one of the biggest teacher strikes in the state’s history will disrupt the lives of tens of thousands. Thursday’s sitting will attract protesters against the government’s changes to TAFE funding.
Politics aside, on Thursday night, the Committee for Ballarat will host a forum, led by television moderator Jenny Brockie, which will ask serious questions of those in the audience about just what they want Ballarat to be, and look like, by 2030.
It’s not always easy to look past the here and now. That the debate about issues such as the Civic Hall, CBD revitalisation, job losses in manufacturing, the city entrances and community safety have been on the agenda for the past decade, or longer, and residents continue to be frustrated by the lack, perceived or otherwise, of action. Public leadership which can force a change in the conversation hasn’t eventuated for various reasons, not least the increasing politicisation of local government and the reactivity of public relations officers employed by governments and private firms which has become a blight on information flow. Upheaval in the media landscape, driven by changes in consumer habits which demands immediate news and information, has only exacerbated the problem.
Ballarat might never have a greater opportunity than this week to challenge governments to take a new view of our city and where it is headed.
What is the end goal for creating a vibrant sports and entertainment space in the Eureka Stadium precinct, which has significant community support? Can we redevelop the Civic Hall space into a vibrant multicultural hub? What is the industry, or industries, which will provide the jobs growth needed to support bubbling population increases.
Importantly, how will Ballarat build on its reputation as an innovative regional city? How can we use strengths in health and education to better the city’s reputation? How do we balance population growth with infrastructure investment? How do we encourage investment which better connects Ballarat to metropolitan areas, and to western Victoria?
From this newspaper’s perspective, addressing these issues will help create a vision for 10, 20 and even 50 years yet, remarkably, they only skim the surface of the challenges, and opportunities, the city faces.
We expect next week there will be people passionate about Ballarat’s future who will take the opportunity to have their own Wernher von Braun moment and suggest the impossible. Imagine how just one idea, or series of ideas could change the path of our city, just like von Braun helped to change the world.
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THE difference between how the store sheep industry reacts to weather and events compared to cattle has always been intriguing.
Recent rain in parts of NSW and Queensland has been enough to spark a significant price rise for cattle.
Consider the prices achieved for pregnancy-tested-in-calf beef heifers at Ballarat last week. They topped at $1480 for 2 1/2-year-old Angus with most quoted as selling around $1100.
Yet just a few weeks ago, PTIC heifers were struggling to sell for more than $750 at Wodonga and Yea in the northeast.
On paper, the lamb and mutton markets have improved since Christmas, with figures from the National Livestock Reporting Service showing trade lambs lifted from a low of 327c/kg carcass weight to an average of 356c/kg this month.
Export lambs improved by a similar margin.
However, the joined ewe market was tough at the annual store sheep sale at Urana in southern NSW last week, with bidding reaching just $114 and a number of pens passed in.
Traditionally, the sheep market is always a lot slower to react to market and seasonal movements compared to cattle.
There is little argument that the dry, hot weather is the main reason why store sheep values have fallen.
A number of agents however, also mentioned the psychological impact the price falls for mutton and lamb - which have been more severe in recent months than anticipated - have had on farmers, particularly the younger generation.
Albury agent David Hill said the performance of lamb markets this past season had spooked some of the younger producers who hadn't experienced the extreme highs and lows of livestock trading during the 1970s and 1980s.
"Prices were bought back so significantly (in the past year) that it has had an impact on confidence, and some of the younger cropping blokes have been put off sheep," he said.
Another agent told Weekly Times Now there was "a different generation in the sheep industry" today who were "looking for bigger profit margins", which had taken some of the stability of the market.
"The old-timers would stick with sheep and were happy with a $10 margin, now we've got generation X and Y coming through and they are not interested in the workload involved with sheep unless they can see a pretty big profit in it," he said.
In its sheep industry forecast released last month, Meat and Livestock Australia said there had been a noticeable change in sentiment, with nearly as many producers indicating they planned to decrease ewe numbers over the next year as intended to increase breeding flocks.
Before this, the trend had been to increase ewe flocks due to the record lamb and sheepmeat prices.
The other trend identified in the MLA forecast was a shift back to Merino sheep and wool production as the promise of high returns from meat fades.
There was some evidence of this at Urana last week, with Merino wether lambs selling better than expected at $38 to $68.50.
Among the buyers was Noel Stein from Henty in NSW who paid $40 for 300 wether lambs and said they were looking to take the farming operation back to more wool.
He said store sheep price was also a factor, as he was confident they could cut out of the $40 wether lambs in one year.
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