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Last April, President Susan J. Hockfield called the construction of the nano-Materials, Structures, and Systems (nMaSS) laboratory the Institute’s “highest academic priority” in a video outlining the MIT 2030 plan for campus development.
The nMaSS lab will bring together research activities and equipment that are currently in different locations around campus. It will gather existing nanoscale research — specifically projects requiring sensitive equipment — and allow for future expansion.
Nanoscale research is diverse, and happens in several of MIT’s academic departments. Some groups are working on integrated circuits, for instance, while others develop nanomaterials for electrochemical energy storage and conversion.
Associate Provost Martin A. Schmidt PhD ’88 says that MIT has needed a new nano-research facility for a while. He attributes this need to the physical condition of many current lab spaces and changes in the type of equipment used in this research.
“Our facilities are limited,” said Schmidt. “We have known for a long time that we were facing a day when we needed to improve our infrastructure.”
According to Schmidt, the new nMaSS lab will have office space and lab spaces housing the “most technically sophisticated” research equipment used at MIT, including clean rooms and ultra-low vibration spaces for imaging.
Planning, design, and site selection for the new laboratory is ongoing.
Chiefly, MIT must figure out where to put the new laboratory. For the past six months, the Institute has been looking at various sites on campus for the location with the lowest possible levels of vibration and electromagnetic interference, which can interfere with the sensitive equipment used in this type of research.
The Osborn Triangle — the site bounded by Main, Albany, and Osborn Streets — was originally thought the most favorable. However, measurements showed high levels of electromagnetic interference because of its proximity to the Red Line.
The Institute is exploring other sites on and around campus but is withholding names until a specific site is selected. Some of these sites are already developed, so the nMaSS lab will likely require the demolition of existing buildings in addition to new construction.
Retrofitting older buildings — as was done to Building 39 in the 1980’s — is very difficult, said Schmidt.
There is no building design yet, but there is a rough estimate of the amount of space needed for the new facility. Faculty with nano-research equipment and major labs, like the Microsystems Technology Lab and the Center for Materials Science and Engineering, have given input regarding “how much space they need and what that space needs to look like,” said Schmidt.
Though MIT does not have an exact pricetag on the project, Schmidt says these types of buildings are the most costly to construct due to technical requirements.
“We want to maximize its use,” Schmidt said. “Planning is critical.”
Progress on the lab is constrained by site selection and building design, as well as the fundraising. No date is specified for nMaSS’s construction, but researchers are looking forward to using the new space. “Researchers will say that we need it very soon,” said Schmidt. | <urn:uuid:21d7a500-c520-4bd4-aa81-2d2b5a923925> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://tech.mit.edu/V131/N50/nano.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00019-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950954 | 669 | 2.671875 | 3 |
Participant: I’m hurt by K**** because he left me.
Katie: So “He left you”—is that true?
Participant: Not really; in my heart he is there all the time.
Katie: So how do you react when you think the thought “He left me”? What happens? You're living your life, you're very happy, and then the thought hits, “Crrrrgh!”—“He left me.”
Participant: I feel inferior, or worthless. I feel very much alone, helpless, and I just don't know what to do.
Katie: And I would put “I don't know what to do” on a separate piece of paper, and Work it later. So, “He left me”—who would you be without that thought? Who are you without that thought as you live your life?
Participant: I feel free, secure, content.
Katie: So close your eyes. Now watch you, going to the market, doing the dishes, without the thought “He left me.” What do you see? Watch your life.
Participant: I see many people, and I join with them in a very good time, and I have freedom inside.
Katie: Yes, you have your life back.
Katie: “He left me”—turn it around.
Participant: I left him.
Katie: So when you were with him, give me examples of how you would leave him when you were with him.
Participant: For a long period of time, I didn't think of him. I had intimate situations with others. I didn't feel well with him.
Katie: Yes…yes. So you're just like him! “He left me”—can you find another turnaround?
Participant: He didn't leave me?
Katie: Yes. You love him; he’s in your heart. Can you find another turnaround?
Participant: I left him in my thoughts.
Katie: Yes, and I found one, would you like to hear it?
Katie: “I left myself.”
Participant: Yes. This is true.
Katie: When you mentally go into his life and who he should be with, you leave you. You move into a dictatorship, and that's very painful, running people’s lives, and telling them who they should be with, and who they shouldn't be with. And then you feel that. It's the opposite of caring and love. Thank you, precious.
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DO eat red meat and worry they shouldn’t.
DON’T eat red meat but wish they could.
Beef Myth #1: Beef is bad for your health.
IT DEPENDS…Beef is often automatically thrown in the junk food category, and many health-conscious folks piously claim they don’t “eat red meat” to avoid heart disease and cancer. The fact is, when the pros and cons of beef are up for discussion, it is essential to differentiate between conventional factory-produced beef and beef which is traditionally pasture-raised.
Conventional beef is all wrong. I’m tempted not to go into details here hence you lose your appetite, but gosh darn it, you just need to know. CAFOs (Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations) or IFAP (Industrial Farm Animal Production) are the factories that grow 99% of meat in America. Ninety-nine percent!
Cows are herbivores, designed by nature to eat grass and clover; but CAFOs cattle are fed genetically modified corn.
Cows eating corn is a bit like humans eating Lucky Charms – for every meal. Not good. Improper diet tends to create health problems for the cows, so they are often given antibiotics as a routine measure. They are crowded into grass-less bits of land – so you have unhealthy, stressed-out cows, standing in their own poo.
Because of their crappy diet and poor conditions, when they are processed, the meat needs to be uniformly decontaminated, so it is sprayed with ammonia. No, this is not an exaggeration.
So besides the obvious pairing with potatoes fried in rancid vegetable oil, your Big Mac certainly has plenty of reasons to contribute to heart disease, cancer, and other ailments. With 99% of meat coming from this type of operation, it is no wonder beef has such a bad reputation!
On the other hand, good quality beef – from pastured-raised cows – is a nutrient-dense, health-promoting food containing no antibiotics or hormones. It’s a great source of saturated fat and cholesterol your body needs to function properly.
By the way, the modern epidemic of heart disease should not be blamed on grass-fed beef, bacon, butter, and cream, but on unhealthy vegetable fats such as margarine, canola, corn, and soy oils as well as the groceries’ aisles of other processed foods.
Grass-fed beef also contains more CLA (conjugated linoleic acid) which supports the immune system and may help fight cancer; omega fatty acids, and vitamin E. Both the Omega-3 fats and CLA in grass-fed beef actually reduce the risk of heart disease.
One concern that’s valid regardless of where your beef comes from is the temperature that you use to cook it. Broiling, grilling, or blackening at high temperatures can cause carcinogens to form on any foods (including veggies), so the best cooking methods are slow, low stewing or baking, or lightly grilling to medium rare.
Beef Myth #2: You can get sick from beef.
E. coli and other pathogen levels are high in CAFO cattle because improper diet makes their stomachs more hospitable to E. coli (Journal of Dairy Science). Many people cook their meat extra well-done as a measure to kill any harmful bacteria.
My vote: Don’t buy sick meat in the first place.
BOTTOM LINE: Healthy (grass-fed) cows make healthy meat.
Beef Myth #3: Cattle farming is bad for the environment.
CAFO are horrible for the environment. Factory farmed beef contributes to the earth’s ozone depletion largely because the feed factory cows eat requires such a large amount of energy to grow, harvest, and deliver. The soil it is grown on is depleted of nutrients and thus requires tons of chemical fertilizer, and the machines that harvest and deliver the feed require gasoline.
On top of that, the cows’ excrement has no fertile soil to enrich, so it is washed into our water systems and pollutes other crops. Remember the e coli on spinach and the recent cantaloupe recall for listeria? These are food borne pathogens that most likely came from the runoff of industrialized meat farms.
Conversely, grass-farming typically incorporates rotational grazing, an efficient use of natural resources. It eliminates the need for pesticides and chemical fertilizers required to grow unsustainable corn and soy, and eliminates the problem of pollution from animal waste, since manure cycles right back into pasture soils during grass-farming. This circle of efficiency reduces soil erosion and flooding, and contributes to diverse and healthier ecosystems.
BOTTOM LINE: Traditional pasture-raised cattle ranches are actually GOOD for the environment.
Beef Myth #4: The cattle industry is inhumane.
Again the difference is stark: Factory-farmed, grain-fed cattle are confined in feedlots, while grass-fed cattle range free on pasture. They graze on healthy grasses in fresh air, and they are not dosed with antibiotics and hormones on a regular basis.
Grass-fed cattle do not suffer with the same health problems and are not “sickened” by living conditions that include over-crowding, stress and discomfort.
BOTTOM LINE: Factory-raised meat practices are inhumane. Pasture-centered farm practices are not.
This reminds me a bit of my husband looking for a mysterious ingredient in the kitchen. If you continue shopping the same grocery store meat counter looking for high quality, local, pasture-raised beef, you will not find it. Remember that 99% of meat is factory-raised, so you need to get a bit creative here.
The best way to find good beef is to find a farm near you that raises healthy cows.
If you don’t have time or access to local farms, many ranches offer direct shipping to your home.
Second best, find a health food store or small butcher, that sources the beef for you. We love Lindy and Grundy in Los Angeles, and currently Whole Foods in my area sells organic grass-fed beef since consumers (like you!) have been demanding it.
Note: While the label “organic” conjures up ideas of health, know that organic corn and/or grain-fed beef is not the best choice. It is more important that the cows are raised on un-sprayed pasture and eat grass and hay, NOT corn or soy. “Grass-finished” means the cattle were raised entirely on pasture and not fattened up with grain before harvest. Talk to the butcher or farmer to find out how your meat was raised.
A word on dining out: Despite the price you pay, most restaurants save cost by using conventional, factory raised meats. Unless the menu clearly states so, assume your choices for healthy meats are limited in most eateries. Here’s how to eat out while being a conscious, healthy consumer.
Beef Myth #6: Grass-fed beef is too expensive.
You get what you pay for. Good quality beef and many other Real food costs more, but the health of you and your family is absolutely worth it. With a bit of practice (and cutting out the junk) your food budget will likely even out.
Ways to stretch your red meat dollar include eating less steaks and “cheaper” cuts like ground beef and stew meats. As much as possible (limited only by availability and your comfort level), aim to eat as much as the ‘whole animal’ as possible – bones make wonderful stocks for soup, and organ meats including liver and heart are super nutrient-dense.
The take home message:
- Pasture-raised beef is good for you and the environment.
- Factory meat will make you sick and wreaks havoc on our planet.
- Choose good quality, and listen to your body – Eat meat when you crave it!
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ARCHIVE: Generic response plan for working with other departments
Where another Government Department is in the lead for an emergency that affects Defra interests, we use a Generic Response Plan to co-ordinate our response. This plan also provides a model for other Defra emergency plans. The plan provides a framework and model response structure for all Defra responsibilities.
Areas where we may rely on the Generic Plan include, for example, pandemic influenza (Department for Health); disruption to power or fuel supplies (Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform), transport disruptions (Department for Transport).
This generic plan has been tested in major exercises and found to be fit for purpose by independent evaluators.
- Generic Response Plan (PDF 300 KB)
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The Deepwater Horizon is the gift that keeps on giving. Usually, that gift is more oil. Right now, though, perhaps because of the holidays, it’s leaking something unknown. It’s a special present that will reveal itself on Christmas, maybe! That’s fun. Thanks, BP.
From CBS News:
An “unidentified substance inconsistent with oil” is emitting from several areas of BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig wreckage, but no sources of leaking oil were identified. That’s according to the Coast Guard, which oversaw BP’s recent week-long mission to inspect the undersea wells and wreckage from the 2010 explosion.
The exact content of the leaking substance and how much is coming out is one mystery. But if it’s not oil, then it means the source of recurring oil sheens that have recently been spotted around the Deepwater Horizon site remains unknown.
The expression “unidentified substance inconsistent with oil” leaves a lot of leeway for what it might be. Pepsi, maybe? Hair gel? Possibly footballs? Is it stardust? Exposed Kodak film from the 1960s? Maybe it’s donuts? Is it blood? I bet it’s blood. Creeeepy.
But, seriously? What could it actually be? This is ominous:
The Coast Guard said BP’s main Macondo well was observed during the subsea operation and found to be secure. Two relief wells, the riser pipe and the previously leaking containment dome were also to be re-examined, but the press release made no mention of them and the Coast Guard declined to answer further questions.
This is how horror movies start. A hasty press conference, a quick statement that something unknown, unprecedented is happening, a refusal to be more specific. The uniformed government agents step away from the mic and out of the room leaving behind confused and quizzical reporters.
In other words: We were right and it was blood. And the holiday BP is recognizing isn’t Christmas, it’s Halloween. | <urn:uuid:9d1569bd-26c5-480d-b7ce-aeee13d4f2f0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://grist.org/news/something-is-leaking-from-the-deepwater-horizon-site-but-its-not-clear-what/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958776 | 439 | 1.726563 | 2 |
Medical, counseling and other resources for how to create and maintain a lifestyle of healthy eating. Founded by a registered dietitian and exercise physiologist by the name of Monika Woolsey.
After the Diet™ grew out of numerous conversations Monika had with colleagues who desired to raise the standard of nutrition counseling and to discourage nutrition quackery, which can often instigate an eating disorder. After the Diet™ Network wanted to provide an alternative for those who recognized that diets do not raise self-esteem--but who could not find any other options for getting help. After the Diet™ believes that while professionalism and accuracy are crucial when promoting health through nutrition, even more important is being human. An endless supply of facts with no practical application may make someone's website look impressive...but if all those facts do is overwhelm, they do not provide help to those who need it. Saying "all it takes is willpower", insults the intelligence of the person who knows better and who needs an answer. Testimonials are about the TALKER, not about the person needing help.
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By Kirk Spitzer
TOKYO – The territorial disputes in the South China
Sea are over, China has won, and the US couldn’t care less. But that’s not necessarily bad.
While arguments over who owns which reefs, rocks and lagoons in the South China Sea will likely drag on awhile, the US is saving its powder for a more important fight: Keeping vital shipping lanes free from potential interference.
A months-long standoff over a remote reef system claimed by both China and the Philippines all but ended this weekend when the Obama administration signaled it would not intervene. That means Chinese patrol boats, which in April chased a Philippines warship from the Scarborough Shoal, will remain there as long they want. So, too, will Chinese fishing and commercial exploration ships.
That’s bad news for the neighbors. China has claimed virtually all of the South China Sea as its own, along with potentially huge deposits of oil, gas and other natural resources. The region includes the Spratly Islands, Scarborough Shoal and other scattered islets and shallows variously claimed by Vietnam, Malaysia, Taiwan, Indonesia and Brunei. If the US won’t wade in on behalf of the Philippines, with which it shares a 60-year-old mutual defense treaty, then it sure won’t do so for anybody else. Without US or other outside help, those countries will have little choice but to accept the Chinese claims, and cut whatever joint-development deals they can.
“The US is not going to send the 7th Fleet to resolve problems with fish or coral in the South China Sea, because that is not the vital interest of the United States,” says Donald Weatherbee, fellow at the University of South Carolina’s Walker Institute of International Studies. “The vital American national interest is in freedom of navigation. (So far), China has done nothing to suggest that they are going to try to close off those waters to transit by vessels of the United States, Japan, Korea, or you name it. The minute the Chinese confronts us in that way, then it’s no longer a question of the Philippines or Indonesian national interest, it becomes a question of American national interests.”
But while Obama won’t referee competing territorial claims, the Scarborough Shoal drama shows that such disputes won’t be cost-free for China. After meeting with Philippines President Benigno Aquino III in Washington on Friday, Obama said the US will continue to build up its forces in the region, and will help allies like the Philippines do the same.
So far, the US and Philippines have agreed to open the former Clark Air Base and Subic Bay naval facilities for US troop rotations, port visits and training exercises; to donate two more retired US Coast Guard cutters to the Philippines navy; and send radar and ocean-surveillance equipment to keep an eye on you-know-who. Although Clark and Subic were closed in the early ‘90s, the US has kept about 600 Special Forces soldiers at a Philippines’ army base in the southern part of the country for nearly a decade.
All this is part of the “re-balancing” of US forces in the region. Marines are moving to Australia. The US and Japan are planning joint training bases in the Marianas. Spanking new littoral combat ships will operate out of Singapore. The US insists this is unrelated to China, but of course it’s completely related.
“China is going to view this as another example of containment, no matter what the U.S. calls it,” says Jeffrey Hornung, an associate professor at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, in Honolulu.
Meanwhile, China hasn’t made any friends with its handling of the Scarborough dispute. In addition to charging in with armed patrol boats and surveillance planes, it called off the visits of thousands of Chinese tourists to the Philippines, blocked imports of tens of millions of dollars of Philippines bananas, and even cancelled the highly-anticipated visit of China’s national basketball team. (In poor but basketball-mad Philippines, it’s hard to know which was the harsher response).
The dispute is sure to strengthen the hand of hawks in nearby Japan, which has a China problem in its own waters. China has made strident claims to ownership of the Senkaku Islands, which it calls the Daioyu islands, ever since a Chinese fishing was seized near the islands after colliding with a Japanese Coast Guard cutter in 2010. Japan released the ship and crew after China responded by embargoing shipments of rare earth materials, cancelling tourist trips to Japan and arresting a handful of Japanese businessmen on spying charges. (Japan later agreed to give 10 patrol ships to the Philippines, but says that’s unrelated.)
For its part, China has played down the dispute with Japan in recent months, and has promised that it won’t interfere with anyone’s navigation rights in the South China Seas. And it would seem foolish even to try. For all its double-digit defense spending, China is still many years away from being able to challenge US military power, and no doubt knows that. Nor would it seems to have much to gain; China’s economy is thoroughly dependent on sea-going trade and cutting off any shipping would mean cutting off its own, as well.
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Saccharin is accidentally discovered, the 22nd Amendment is ratified, Michael Jackson wins his first Grammy, and Mister Rogers dies, all on this day.
2011: The Wisconsin AFL-CIO assembles hundreds of union supporters claiming they will risk arrest to prevent police from clearing the Wisconsin State Capitol building. Protestors had occupied the building around the clock for two weeks in response to Gov. Scott Walker's proposed budget cuts ending most collective bargaining rights in the state. Despite the protests, the Wisconsin Assembly would eventually passed the collective bargaining bill with a vote of 53–42 on March 10. | <urn:uuid:feae3d89-a004-4660-be93-3dfec607ebc9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.kesq.com/news/-/233092/19003776/-/displayReplay/true/displaySharing/true/endCapDisplay/false/leadLimitToHeight/360/leadLimitToWidth/640/numVisibleSlides/4/offset/33/-/5yq30ez/-/index.html?nopageview=true | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00024-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951555 | 119 | 1.523438 | 2 |
Over a lunch of goat cheese ravioli, mackerel tartare and halibut with heirloom tomatoes, Guiliano, author of French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure, explained the seemingly impossible.
PW: What's one of the biggest differences between the way Americans and French people eat?
Mireille Guiliano: We eat a lot of fruits and vegetables, which Americans don't do. Even some young people in my office, they order pizza for lunch every day. That's not good. And isn't that boring after a while? They don't pay attention. It's a mindless action. The portions are very important, too. Scientifically, it has been proven that after three bites, your palate has been satisfied. It doesn't matter what you eat. So if you eat one boule of ice cream, that's all you need. You don't have to eat pint after pint after pint.
What about the other diets out there? Why is there always a "next big thing" when it comes to losing weight?
I don't know, but it's only getting worse, I think, these diets that don't work. People are unhappy when they are on diets, because it's don't do this, don't do that, do this, do that. Each of us is different. So we have to do the things that work for each of us. And then once you know it, it's really tricking your mind. It's like a game.
At the end of the day, it's your choice. We only have one body, and you have to show respect for it.
You advise readers not to "multitask" while they eat—no TV, newspaper, or eating at the wheel or on the subway.
That's why we sit down. Nobody among my friends in Paris would think about having a good bottle of wine and sitting and watching TV. With technology, there is so much isolation with people now, that there are very few places where you can connect. Food and eating is all about conviviality.
What do you say to people who say French women don't get fat because it's genetic?
It's not true. It's very simple: if you take in more than you burn out, you're going to gain weight, no matter what your metabolism is like.
What about French men? Do they get fat? And can men follow the same instructions as women?
Actually, the man who did the illustrations for my book, he read the book and then he called me three weeks later, and he said, "I have to tell you, this book changed my life." He is eating fresh food from the market, drinking more water... it works!
The recipes in your book more closely resemble the recipes found in classic French cookbooks than average diet books.
Oh, no, no! They are basically home cooking, they are from my aunts, my friends, in Paris and Provence.
Translation rights have been sold in Germany, England, Spain, Japan and elsewhere. Will you bring the book to France?
Yes, I think so. Things in France have changed. Now when you go to the supermarket in France, it's an hypermarche. For example, with packages of yogurt, they have copied American words. It's not as bad as here, but it's a big box, and it's loaded with sugar. The chicken, it's really bad. Obesity is rising there. I know what they should retitle my book, if it is published in France. It should be, it's hard to translate, but it would mean "These French Women Don't Get Fat." It's for the other ones who get fat. | <urn:uuid:709a6946-4140-4654-a80a-345163cf3a32> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/interviews/article/37269-c-est-si-bon.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00053-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982385 | 780 | 1.640625 | 2 |
Yesterday, as I was driving home from work, I heard that American Airlines is filing for bankruptcy. American Airlines. Depending upon how you measure, American Airlines is one of the biggest, if not the biggest, airline in the country. American Airlines, along with Southwest Airlines, weathered the 9/11 downturn fairly well. So what happened? In their court filings, American Airlines has $24.7 billion in assets and $29.6 billion in debt. So how did this happen? What is the problem?
It's the planes –
American’s mainline jet fleet of 619 planes includes 247 twin-engine MD-80s made by McDonnell Douglas Corp., according to the airline’s website. Boeing acquired McDonnell Douglas in 1997. Those planes, which are no longer in production, are being replaced by Boeing 737-800s, which are about one-third more fuel efficient.
Placing an order for aircraft “creates a contract,” and in bankruptcy accepting or rejecting the contract will be up to AMR, said Scott Peltz, the national leader of RSM McGladrey’s Financial Advisory Service in Chicago. Boeing and other suppliers will probably have representatives at AMR’s bankruptcy hearings who “will be looking at what their options are,” he said.
Boeing said it has “no reason to doubt” that the jet order remains pivotal to AMR. Boeing and Airbus will provide $13 billion of financing on the first 230 jets, American said in July.
Maybe it's more than just the planes. I read this in the Wall Street Journal:
The Fort Worth, Texas, company for years has resisted the type of court-protected restructuring that allowed other big carriers including United Continental Holdings Inc.'s United Airlines and Delta Air Lines Inc. to realign costs and find merger partners. AMR said its annual labor costs, including pensions, are about $800 million more than rivals, a figure unions dispute. Its financial woes have grown in recent months as contract talks with its pilots fizzled and fuel prices rose.
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Southern California is home to many outstanding museums, museums that possess some of the world’s best known art treasures in their permanent collections. But every so often, a single blockbuster work of art comes to town, one synonymous with creative genius and known by millions of people around the world.
That’s the case now at Pasadena’s Norton Simon Museum. For a few more weeks, it’s displaying an 1889 self-portrait by Vincent van Gogh on loan from the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. In his lifetime, the famously troubled Van Gogh was known by some around him as “The Red Headed Madman” because of his paranoia, fear of others, and massive mood swings. He had so many troubles, Van Gogh committed himself to a mental asylum. It’s there that he painted the work on display in Pasadena.
Listen to our full KCRW story about the painting and Vincent van Gogh here:
Van Gogh’s self-portrait will be in Pasadena through March 4th, where it’s on display with other Van Gogh works in the Norton Simon’s permanent collection. If you’re looking to drink in Van Gogh’s talent and genius while saving some money (Van Gogh was always on the edge of financial desperation, so he would understand), the Norton Simon is offering free admission on March 1st. | <urn:uuid:20886fa6-140f-4aaa-8e4d-6e0b2da3344a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blogs.kcrw.com/whichwayla/2013/02/van-gogh-in-pasadena | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00058-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966754 | 297 | 1.992188 | 2 |
Fifteenth Annual American Indian Heritage Celebration
Scores of American Indian dancers will fill the plaza outside the N.C. Museum of History in Raleigh on Saturday, Nov. 20, at noon. The brilliant colors of their traditional regalia will transform the space as they move to the rhythm of drum groups nearby. With beadwork glistening in the sunlight and ribbons flowing, their dance steps will represent centuries of American Indian heritage and culture.
This lively scene is part of the Fifteenth Annual American Indian Heritage Celebration at the Museum of History. From 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., the museum’s largest annual event showcases musicians, artists, storytellers, dancers and others from North Carolina’s eight state-recognized tribes.* The day’s activities include performances, craft demonstrations and workshops, hands-on activities, food and much more. Admission and parking are free.
The Nov. 20 festival offers a firsthand opportunity to learn about the contributions of the state’s American Indians, past and present. With something for all ages, it is the perfect way to celebrate American Indian Heritage Month. In fact, did you know that North Carolina has the largest American Indian population east of the Mississippi River?
A sampling of the event’s activities follows.
● Watch a dugout canoe being burned into shape.
● See a wigwam frame built especially for the event, and learn about early types of American Indian housing.
● Talk with artisans at work, such as nationally known potter Senora Lynch, a member of the Haliwa-Saponi tribe whose work has been featured at the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum of the American Indian. Meet award-winning artist Karen Lynch Harley, also a Haliwa-Saponi, who draws and paints on animal skins and paper.
● Artists from other tribes will carve wood and stone, make silver and bead jewelry, create feather art, and more.
● Sign up for flute and instrument workshops by Native American flute recording artists Jonathan C. Ward and Arnold Richardson. Hear the intertribal a capella choir Unheard Voices and the mesmerizing beats of the Southern Sun and Stoney Creek drum groups.
● At 2 p.m. the Warriors of Anikituhwah of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians will bring to life the Cherokee War dance and the Eagle Tail dance. Their informative demonstration includes social dances, such as the Bear dance and Beaver Hunting dance.
● Hands-on crafts, traditional games and other activities provide experiences galore. Play a game of corncob darts or shoot a blowgun. Make a dream catcher with members of the Sappony tribe, quilt with the Coharie Quilters, or make a cornhusk doll.
● Hear nationally recognized storyteller Lloyd Arneach of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians share tales of long ago, or join a presentation by Dr. Malinda Lowery, a Lumbee tribe member and an assistant professor of history at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Stay for lunch and warm up with traditional American Indian foods. Vendors will sell fry bread, sweet potato fries, beef stew, buffalo burgers, fried pies and more. Be sure to check out specific performance times on the day’s schedule. For a complete schedule with performances and presentation times and more information, go to ncmuseumofhistory.org or call 919-807-7900.
The American Indian Heritage Celebration is supported by the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians; Food Lion; Harrah’s Cherokee Casino and Hotel; IBM; Lumbee tribe; N.C. Commission of Indian Affairs; N.C. Museum of History Associates; and United Arts Council of Raleigh and Wake County, with funds from the United Arts campaign, the N.C. Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes a great nation deserves great art. Additional funding is provided by the Haliwa-Saponi tribe; Thomas, Judy & Tucker, P.A.; UNC American Indian Center; Native American Resource Center at UNC-Pembroke; Eastern Band of Cherokee Tribal Gaming Commission; Arrowhead Graphics; and Lumbee Guaranty Bank. | <urn:uuid:8fa3045d-ffd2-4121-94ae-7fc98f6a6202> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://pub12.bravenet.com/forum/static/show.php?usernum=997374419&frmid=396&msgid=856774&cmd=show | 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 | 0.91215 | 869 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Lee Shuer's hoarding began a decade ago as he began collecting Atari video games then progressed to vintage art work and musical instruments.
But soon, his apartment was overflowing with bobble heads, collectibles and anything he could get "free or a good deal."
"It got to the point where more is better," said Shuer, now 37, of Easthampton, Mass. "Eventually, they spilled off the shelves, onto the floor, down the hall, into the bedroom, off the bed -- you could see the tide flow."
Shuer's acquisitions became part of his identity and self-esteem.
"If I had more fun and more toys, people might actually like me," he said. "If I had enough things to play with, they might come hang out."
When he finally met his future wife and they had to clean out the clutter to move in to a new home, she was horrified by the volume of things and begged him to call for help.
Shuer did, and this week he is one of the key presenters at the 14th Annual Hoarding and Cluttering Conference, sponsored by the San Francisco Mental Health Association. There, both clinicians and hoarders will attend an array of workshops on best practices and new treatments.
"I give my wife a lot of credit," he told ABCNews.com. "If it wasn't for her, I wouldn't be talking to you now."
After participating in a study at Smith College in 2005 with pioneering hoarding expert Randy O. Frost, Shuer joined a hoarding task force and began to help others.
"Hoarding has been around a long time, all the way back to the 14th century," said Frost, psychology professor and co-author of the 2011 book, "Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things."
In one of the most famous cases in the 1940s, the Collyer brothers were found dead in their New York City apartment under 100 tons of trash, including human pickled organs, the chassis of an old Model T, 14 pianos, hundreds of yards of unused silks and fabric, the folding top of a horse-drawn carriage, and more than 25,000 books.
Frost identified the three features of hoarding: excessive acquisition, difficulty discarding and disorganization. He developed the "Buried in Treasures" self-help program that gave Shuer his life back.
Compulsive hoarding is strongly associated with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), a condition that affects about 4 million Americans, according to the OCD Foundation. About 25 to 40 percent of those with OCD have hoarding symptoms.
Psychiatrists are now hopeful that hoarding will get its own category in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders V this year, distinguishing it from obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Hoarding can lead to serious health or safety dangers and threaten relationships with family and friends.
The disorder is diagnosed when a person experiences significant distress and/or impairment as a result of their hoarding.
Homes on television shows like TLC's "Hoarding: Buried Alive" can have infestations of rodents or insects. Hoarders are unable to entertain guests, prepare food or find their possessions.
"It's difficult to actually get an estimate of how many people are hoarders," said Julie L. Pike, who has appeared on the show and is a psychologist at the Anxiety Disorder Treatment Center in North Carolina.
"There is so much shame and so much hiding around it," she said.
Often hoarders do not seek help until it is too late -- when they have lost their children, their home or a spouse.
In one of the most serious cases of hoarding on the reality show, Pike helped a woman whose home was infested with a nest of black widow spiders and cockroaches. Uncapped insulin needles and dirty incontinence pads were strewn everywhere.
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How to Market Your School
Publication date: August 2005
Digital Book format: PDF (DRM-Free)
Whether you are a middle school principal or the president of a large university, “How to Market Your School” by Johanna M. Lockhart can offer helpful, yet simple advice. “How To Market Your School“ breaks down the role of marketing in the education sector as well as providing useful tips for building effective community partnerships.
Is your school or district facing increased competition, diminishing resources, changing demographics, media scrutiny, and declining employee retention?
How to Market Your School is a comprehensive guide that provides school administrators with the essential tools to create a positive public image; attract students, qualified personnel, and volunteers; and build community support through a strategic marketing effort. Author Johanna Lockhart draws on her extensive marketing and public relations experience to cover topics such as:
- School marketing: What it is and why it matters
- Developing a marketing strategy
- Marketing research and database marketing
- Marketing and electronic communication
- Media relations
- Building community partnerships
- Public relations and much more
Although originally intended for public school administrators, How to Market Your School is equally valuable to private and charter schools. It will help principals, assistant principals, business managers, and district administrators apply the knowledge and tools used successfully in the private sector to organize, implement, and maintain an integrated marketing program to achieve their particular goals. Lockhart presents the fundamentals of integrated marketing in clear and concise terms and uses actual case studies to illustrate each aspect of successful school marketing. | <urn:uuid:a7bffb4b-77ee-4da9-8f95-8d67785db2d7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ebookmall.com/ebook/how-to-market-your-school/johanna-m-lockhart/9780595361335 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00011-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.917345 | 323 | 2.296875 | 2 |
Welcome to Simferopol
Simferopol is a city and administrative centre of Autonomous Republic of Crimea situated in Southern Ukraine. Simferopol lies along the Salgir River where it emerges from the Crimean Mountains and is an important highway junction of Crimean peninsula. There is an airport in the city.
The city played an active role in the events of the Civil war in Russia. First taken by the socialists who proclaimed the Tavric republic in 1919, the city was soon overtaken by the "Whites", the supporters of capitalist imperial Russia led by Vrangel, and was one of their last strongholds until their defeat in late 1920. The city was then turned into the capital of the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Republic. During the World War II, the city was occupied for 2,5 years, more than 22 thousand people were killed.
After the liberation in 1944, Soviet government deported the Tatar population of the region (for the collaboration with the Nazis, as they claimed), and initiated the new colonization of the peninsula by Slavic population. The autonomy of the republic was abolished, Crimea became on ordinary region of the Russian Federative Republic, and later was transferred to the Ukrainian SSR in commemoration of the 300th anniversary of Russian-Ukrainian unification.
As Crimea went on with its development as a nation-wide resort, Simferopol turned to the hub of the Crimean region. The tourists from all corners of the country arrived at the railway station or airport and followed further to Southern Coast using a specially built trolleybus route.
With the dissolution of the USSR, the predominantly Russian population of the peninsula requested the return of Crimea to Russia. The potential conflict was settled by granting the degree of autonomy to Crimea, but not completely. At the same time, the return of the Crimean Tatars in 90s resulted in growing national tensions. The economic situation harshened, as the industry stopped and the number of tourists decreased. Newer developments may potentially lead to re-emergence of Simferopol as the major business centre of the peninsula. Simferopol nowadays is a large city with a busy life, but with only a small "historical city" district, mostly of XIX and beginning of XX century. Modest, but beautiful old districts are full of trees and surrounded by the park along the river Salgir. The city hosts a number of theatres, many restaurants and clubs, and is a major transit point for all tourists arriving at Crimea. The city authorities look forward to establish new museums and to present the complex history of the city to the visitor.
Virtually all the tourist 'spots' are within a few hours travel for example Alushta and Yalta (1,5-2 hours by trolleybus or minibus) , Bakhchisarai with its Khan Palace, the old resort Yevpatoria and Sevastopol , the base of Russian Black Sea Navy and the historical city.
Places of Interest
The Paleolithic Site in the Cave Chokurcha (Lugovaia Street) is the most known among all of them. This is the extant site of primitive man who lived 40-50 thousand years ago. There is also the Scythian settlement Kermen-Kyr - on the territory of the farm of Dzerzhinsky. For lovers of ancient history is of particular interest the Scythian Naples City, the capital of ancient Scythian state (on the Petrovskie Rocks). This is one of the Scythian king's fortresses, the largest in the Crimea Scythian ancient settlement (20 ha). There were the remains of the strong (8.5 meters thick) defensive wall with two towers, one of which is the mausoleum (72 burials: the king and the nobility), which is of particular interest. The richness of the burial tombs recalls the great burial mounds. Mausoleum is the only monument of such kind in the Scythian settlements. There were also excavated the remains of dwellings and public buildings, including the frescoes.
The numerous monuments of landscape architecture also remained in the city: Vorontsov Palace Complex (1827) in the park "Salghirka", estate of P.S. Palas and others. In the Children's park in Simferopol there remained the 500 years old oak “Bogatyr of Taurida” (Hero of Taurida). The circumference of the trunk is about 6 meters, diameter of the crown - 30 meters. Near there are several 300-500-year-old oak trees of smaller sizes. Two bicentennial London plane trees are in the park "Salghirka", which were planted in late XVIII century. There is also the unique chestnut with 5 trunks - planted by Doctor F.K. Mil’gauzen in 1812.
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Negotiating severance pay.Few professionals today will spend their entire career at one company. Downsizings, reorganizations, mergers, and acquisitions will force many out of a job, maybe even two or three. And although many companies provide severance pay Severance Pay
Compensation that an employer gives to someone who is about to lose their job.
Severance pay is not always paid to employees. It depends on the situation in which the employee is losing their job and whether legislation requires severance to be paid. , a 2005 Lee Hecht Hecht , Ben 1894-1964.
American writer of short stories, novels, such as Erik Dorn (1921), dramas, including The Front Page (1928), written with Charles MacArthur (1895-1956), and screenplays, such as Gunga Din (1938). Harrison survey reported that minimum severance The act of dividing, or the state of being divided.
The term severance has unique meanings in different branches of the law. Courts use the term in both civil and criminal litigation in two ways: first, when dividing a lawsuit into two or more parts, and second, when amounts have remained about the same at all levels of employment, while averages have fluctuated only slightly. "With workforce conditions as they are, professionals would be wise to negotiate their severance pay [even before they start working]," says Joset Wright, vice president and managing director of The Hollins Group, an executive search firm with offices in Chicago, New York New York, state, United States
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Wright offers the following tips:
* Ask up front. The best time to negotiate severance is before accepting the job. Severance, like salary and benefits, should be decided at the time of hire and included in the job offer letter.
* Ask for more. Typical severance is one to two weeks' salary for every year of service. Review what the employer offers and consider asking for additional compensation that could include accrued ac·crue
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1. To come to one as a gain, addition, or increment: interest accruing in my savings account.
2. vacation pay, outplacement out·place·ment
The process of facilitating a terminated employee's search for a new job by provision of professional services, such as counseling, paid for by the former employer. counseling, extended health and life benefits, or the opportunity to buy employee-discounted stock options.
* Ask again before you accept. Even after receiving a pink slip and a severance offer, employees have one last chance to negotiate a package that will help compensate them for their income loss. Federal law gives affected employees 21 days to consider the offer before signing it, and after signing it, seven days to change their mind. Wright suggests, "[That] would be a good time to ask for all you can."--Marcia A. Reed-Woodard | <urn:uuid:2288f378-a918-405f-891d-7ac361b32109> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Negotiating+severance+pay.-a0160105474 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00005-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96172 | 663 | 1.507813 | 2 |
As university communicators, we're paid to love and promote our institutions. We not only read our own press; we write it. Even though we all know that our colleges and universities aren't perfect, we wouldn't thrive in our positions if we didn't believe in the mission and leadership of our organizations.
This professional bias leads us to tread a difficult line when it comes to social media. If we're doing a good job of monitoring our brand online, we will inevitably see something negative at some point. Jessica Krywosa at the .eduGuru blog authored a post on her recent experience with negative Facebook comments, which also includes helpful comments on handling such issues.
But beyond our official social media channels also lies a wide range of forums, blogs and other social resources in which our institutions have no voice. Yes, we could respond as individuals to negative attacks when we see them on discussion forums or blogs, but we need to resist the urge to do so lightheartedly or in the heat of the moment. Most readers will immediately discredit comments that smell like they've been authored by a company representative. Some social media sources specifically ban biased responses (i.e., Wikipedia). At bare minimum, PR-sounding responses will be unwelcome in most any online community.
Most professional communicators know to pause and think before responding publicly to negative press. But while marketing professionals may know these protocols, we must remember that everyone in our organizations has the same publishing access to social media that we do. Not only do we need to be disciplined and not act prematurely, we must educate our internal audiences about these issues as well. | <urn:uuid:51df8150-9fc3-4e17-8ad2-a49427dc3df6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://gradschoolmarketer.blogspot.com/2010/03/recognizing-your-bias-in-social-media.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00013-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954514 | 326 | 2.09375 | 2 |
When you're feeling an emotion and talking about it, make sure that your face, voice, and words mesh. Baby will be confused if you say that you're frustrated while using a fake smile. Babies look for consistencies in their world, even in regard to emotional expression. Make conversation about feelings part of your daily parenting routine. By doing so, you're validating your child's innate interest in emotions and furthering her intelligence about them.
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Related skills and topics this week
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I have had the following piece published for TNI on the approval of Bolivia's new constitution. The photo is by Ben Dangl of upsidedownworld which has some good coverage of the build-up to and the day of the referendum.
On 25 January, three days before the world’s business and political elites gathered for the World Economic Forum in Davos, a very different crowd was forming in the Andean capital of Bolivia. Whilst Davos’ leaders appeared bereft and lost at the failure of their prized economic model, Bolivians danced to mark its defeat. The occasion was the celebration of the country’s new constitution, which in its opening words “puts behind us the colonial, republican and neoliberal state” and which commits itself to building a state “based on principles of sovereignty, dignity, complementarity, solidarity, harmony and equal distribution and redistribution of social goods.”
Against a barrage of opposition media propaganda funded by Bolivia’s elites, the new constitution was approved with 61% of the popular vote. Given the extent of the financial crisis in the US and Europe, the clear lack of popular confidence in Bolivia in the free market model is unlikely to have ruffled many feathers, but it is none the less very significant. Bolivia was once the prized pupil for its wholesale application of policies encouraged by the IMF and the World Bank. Now it is one of the countries articulating an alternative. | <urn:uuid:c9de394a-e071-40e4-b9bb-b68298e4e301> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.nickbuxton.info/bolivia/2009/02/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00067-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96091 | 296 | 1.6875 | 2 |
The OECD now provides a host of broadband data in addition to penetration in its "Broadband Portal." I have criticized the OECD numbers in the past and am pleased to see them showing a more complete picture of the available data and better explaining the source of the numbers.
For example, the OECD now shows household penetration. These data are useful because the data on which the famous rankings are based combine business and residential and cannot accurately measure business connections. Household penetration, instead, is just the share of households with broadband connections and is generally determined through surveys. The OECD only shows data from the U.S. for 2003, which put the U.S. about seventh in terms of household penetration that year.
More recent data show that household penetration in the U.S. remains fairly comparable to other developed countries. Data from the European Commission's 2007 "E-Communications Household Survey" reports, based on a survey of 26,000 households, combined with information from the Pew Internet and American Life Project reveal the following figure (see figure below).
A few notes on these numbers: There are some discrepancies between the household data on the OECD site and the numbers reported in the 2007 EC report. In addition, the OECD reports 94 household penetration in Korea, but the footnote points out that this figure includes handheld devices, so it isn't directly comparable to other countries. Nevertheless, in 2003, before they started counting mobile devices, household penetration was almost 67 percent. The most recent data for Japan shows 65% penetration. Japan and Korea would thus almost certainly be the top two countries in this figure.
The new portal also clearly notes that the speeds it shows are average advertised speeds, not the speeds that consumers actually choose or ultimately get on their connections.
I'm sure that all sides of the debate about whether the U.S. is "ahead or behind" on broadband will find something to bolster their case. But the key point is that the OECD is moving to show more information than simple one-variable country rankings. More information is always better, and I am grateful that the OECD has taken this step. | <urn:uuid:a3d13688-60ea-4c84-8e15-91a18e44e0c3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.pff.org/archives/2007/11/print/004889.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00075-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954394 | 424 | 2.296875 | 2 |
If you are looking for an adventurous holiday Turkey is the place to go. Once home to the mighty Ottoman Empire, the intricacies of Turkey’s culture may be unknown to your many, but their effects are felt throughout Western society. Turkey holiday homes promise to plunge you into adventure. Turkish society is thoroughly traditional, though Turkey is a nation with an increasingly important role to play on the global stage. With its rich culture and many Turkish accommodation including Turkish holiday villas, it is a great holiday destination, also for families who prefer having holidays in a Turkish villages.
Turkish markets are set in busy thoroughfares. Vegetables, meats and fabrics are sold within walking distance. While all manner of fascinating Turkish goods are for sale in street markets, you’d better be prepared to bargain. Turkish merchants have a well-deserved reputation for being skilled in adding profits to their sales. But with some price comparison and a friendly approach to bargaining, Turkish markets offer excellent value. Once you've got what you came for, prepare a truly memorable meal in your Turkey holiday villa. Ankara is the capital city here and is well worth a visit whilst booking a holiday here, or perhaps to the popular city of Istanbul. If you are fancying a beach holiday, book a holiday apartment in Antalya. A holiday home in Turkey offers new dimensions to everyday experiences. Taking a meal at a Turkish restaurant introduces a cuisine that incorporates ingredients and dishes from three continents. Learning a little bit of Turkish will help you with more than the menu - the locals will appreciate it as well. Fine-tune your language skills with an extended stay in villas in Turkey. Turkish people are famous for their hospitality. Abroad they are outgoing ambassadors, and many tourists are startled to find themselves graciously invited into this. Turkish society has been home to many major religions and important monuments for various faiths are scattered throughout the country.
Scuba diving off the coast of Turkey supplies a different variety of exploration. Adventurous tourists can take the plunge and see how the underwater half of the world lives. In addition to the natural features found just off Turkey’s beaches, the regions long history has left behind numerous wrecks. Waterfront holiday villas are a great way to be near the fun and make the most of your Turkey holiday. Comfortable holiday rentals, from self catering cottages to stately holiday villas, holiday homes and holiday apartments can all be found easily using the buttons above. For beach holidays, visit the Aagean Coast, Turqoise Coast or the South Eastern Anatolia. | <urn:uuid:3160aed6-6e76-4b62-8ec8-90138f333beb> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.casamundo.co.uk/turkey/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00029-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948395 | 523 | 1.539063 | 2 |
Last week I attended the Game Developers Conference and kept my eyes open for topics related to media literacy. Thoughts on media consumption and creation show up in the multitude of lectures, panels, bootcamps and roundtables dedicated to the study and creation of games. Here are some things I gleaned:
Serious Games Summit
Several interesting things came up at the Serious Games Summit, which is the session track for examining games used for purposes other than entertainment (not that entertainment isn’t a worthy goal itself). Here are the highlights:
- Soren Johnson contrasted game theme with mechanic in a talk titled “Theme is not meaning.” This is an important breakdown when it comes to games literacy as game mechanics tend to deliver the real meaning in a game. Johnson’s thesis was that a game’s window dressing was just that unless the mechanic matched. The Redistricting Game was offered of a solid example of matching theme with mechanic as the player is tasked with literally drawing new voting district lines to win needed votes. The discussion goes much deeper and Chris Dahlen writes more about the talk here.
- Borut Pfeifer has been working on a game about crowds in the Iranian Election. Named The Unconcerned, the game pulls the player through the streets of the Iranian election by putting her in the shoes of parents looking for their daughter. Pfeifer’s talk covered prototyping and the many iterations along the way to figuring out what played well. The biggest takeaway here concerns creation. Traditionally, creating media involved getting one’s ducks in a neat row before creation began. However, games and other digital media find success in testing and getting feedback on many rough drafts along the way. I’m going to hunt down some links for the best practices for iterative design for the Mediactive Tools section.
- While the talk strayed more into digital entrepreneurship, Jelena Godjevac presented a case study of Blossom, a game that places the player in the role of a small business owner. Blossom came out of Micro Enterprise Acceleration Institute (MEA-I) as a game-based way of furthering local micro-business. They’re looking for new ideas for games that teach entrepreneurship and are teaming up with HP in a design contest. I’d love to see submissions related to digital media entrepreneurs, like starting a local news site or training citizen journalists.
Game Writers’ Roundtable
Several worthwhile tips came out of a roundtable of both professional and amateur game writers. Here are the ones that apply well to digital media creation.
- Show don’t tell – In an interactive environment, show a story before using words. Figure out what you can say with other forms of media. This applies to even something like blogs. Can you set your stage with a good photo or video? Does a link or a podcast say it better than you can?
- If you can’t tweet it, you shouldn’t write it – This came up in the context of dialogue and text in midst of play. The same could be applied to captions, explanations of mashups and even one’s YouTube video descriptions. There are excellent uses for long form, but if your creation is multimedia, don’t burden it with text. Err on the side of brevity.
Social games were a hot topic at the GDC this year, both for the massive jump in people playing these games and for their lucrative nature. I sat in on a session with Mark Skaggs of Farmville where he explained the game’s development process. Farmville itself has been a bit of a phenomenon and a rather controversial one.
Most interesting for Mediactive’s purposes are the rapid creation and development of Farmville. According to Skaggs, the initial team was composed of less than ten people and was developed in five weeks. From the point of release, the game acquired about 1,000,000 new users per week, an above-expectations rate. This critical mass gave the team lots of data, which informed the design going forward. Skaggs explained “fun” as something hard to measure, while behavior could be tracked by clicks. When strawberries received a large number of clicks, the team created “Super Berries” and the resulting popularity nearly crashed the server. This is just one example, but every game action and click was evaluated for new direction in content.
I see a couple lessons here that apply to digital media:
- Release quickly and design based on data and user feedback.
- Data-driven design requires greater discussion when it comes to news. Lots of clicks can tell you if a story is popular, but a click can’t tell you if the reader was informed. As well, a click may tell a creator if people enjoy content, but not the impact of that content. For example, a reader may spend more clicks in a day on what celebrities are wearing, but one click given to a long form political story may have the greatest impact on a future vote.
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By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
The study of economics might strike a dull chord for most, but Linfield College student Julia Huffman could likely change their hearts after a single conversation.
She might start by telling about Australia’s cane toad invasion. The poisonous amphibian was introduced to Australia to control insects in sugar fields.
“The problem arises because all these beautiful snakes and lizards see the toad as easy prey and bite into one, but the reptile will be dead within minutes because of a defensive poison that cane toads have in their backs,” Huffman said.
As part of a study abroad program at Linfield, the 2008 McNary High School graduate recently journeyed Down Under to gets hands-on lessons in material that might otherwise seem dry coming out of a textbook.
“I did a cost and benefit economic analysis of the cane toad problem. They need to find a solution to cane toads, but the methods necessary are very costly,” Huffman, a business administration and economics major, said. “It is not efficient to simply kill them by hand, but using other methods like poison create many negative externalities. One of the externalities is that the poison does not only kill off the cane toads but harms other species as well.”
On the trip, Huffman got to cuddle up with some of the snakes and reptiles that need protection as well as wallabies and other native species. It was part of an effort to take economics out of the classroom and put students’ boots on the ground where the impact of economic decisions affects people and even other species – Huffman had her boots on the ground often.
“I’ve never been on hikes that rugged in my life. I climbed mountains I never thought I would climb. I stood on mountain cliffs and looked across the Outback,” she said. “I fed stingrays and swam with sharks on the Great Barrier Reef – the reef was magical. I’ve never seen water so blue, coral so colorful, and so many unique fish. We raced back from the reef in the middle of a thunder and lightning storm, I will never forget the bolt of lightning coming down around us as we held on to the boat and was pelted with monsoon rain.”
The roughest it got was staying in Cape Tribulation in Queensland.
“The cabins we stayed in had holes in the walls and floor and holes in the window screens, so there wasn’t anyway to keep things out. We were in the middle of the tropical rainforest and I had spiders the size of my hand sleeping right outside my window,” she said.
For every thing that put her outside her comfort zone, another experience more than made up for it. Huffman had a class on the beach and drew supply and demand graphs in the sand. She also got to taste kangaroo and crocodile, but she said kangaroo would be her preference of the two.
Students kept journals throughout their trip and attempted to apply economic lessons to achieve a better understanding of the things they saw.
A major point of the work was looking at the struggles of Aboriginal people, the native inhabitants of Australia, through an economic lens.
“After hanging out and talking with some Aborigines I feel not only like I understand their struggles, but also I feel empathetic,” she said. “I respect them so much for holding on to their cultural traditions despite the changing times. I also am saddened by the fact that there are very few of them that live completely traditionally anymore; white man has been a strong influence.
“For Aborigines, the idea of a better life has a lot more to do with tradition compared to material possessions. Relationships are everything to them, and like Americans work for the individual, Aborigines do everything for their group or clan.”
The overall experience of the trip proved to be a life changer for Huffman.
“Ultimately, this trip helped me think about what I want to do in the future,” she said. “After learning of Aboriginal struggles and the huge environmental issues that Australia faces, I realized that I am meant to help people. This spring I am beginning my application for a Fulbright Scholarship so that hopefully after graduation I can travel to a country like Australia for a year and work and make a difference.”Print | <urn:uuid:bc6cd5c5-f05a-4b1f-97cc-6c3f5eaca569> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://keizertimes.com/2011/03/14/g%e2%80%99day-mate-got-a-sec-for-the-economics-of-the-cane-toads/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973871 | 928 | 2.75 | 3 |
Solar water heating
Heat water for your home using energy from the sun.
Solar water heating systems use free heat from the sun to warm domestic hot water. A conventional boiler or immersion heater can be used to make the water hotter, or to provide hot water when solar energy is unavailable.See a pop-up animation of how solar water heating can work in your home
Already know this is what you want? Download our buyer's guide to solar hot water.
- Hot water throughout the year: the system works all year round, though you'll need to heat the water further with a boiler or immersion heater during the winter months.
- Cut your bills: sunlight is free, so once you've paid for the initial installation your hot water costs will be reduced.
- Cut your carbon footprint: solar hot water is a green, renewable heating system and can reduce your carbon dioxide emissions.
Real-life users talk about generating their own energy:
Solar water heating systems use solar panels, called collectors, fitted to your roof. These collect heat from the sun and use it to heat up water which is stored in a hot water cylinder. A boiler or immersion heater can be used as a back up to heat the water further to reach the temperature you want.
There are two types of solar water heating panels:
- evacuated tubes (as in the picture above)
- flat plate collectors, which can be fixed on the roof tiles or integrated into the roof.
Larger solar panels can also be arranged to provide some contribution to heating your home as well. However, the amount of heat provided is generally very small and it is not normally considered worth while.
The cost of installing a typical solar water heating system is around £4,800 (including VAT at 5%). Savings are moderate - the system could provide most of your hot water in the summer, but much less during colder weather.
Maintenance costs for solar water heating systems are generally very low. Most solar water heating systems come with a five-year or ten-year warranty and require little maintenance. Once fitted your installer should leave written details of any maintenance checks that you can carry out from time to time, ensuring everything is working properly.
Perhaps the most important thing you can check for yourself from time to time is whether there are any leaks. If there are any leaks of anti-freeze (even if you can’t see any liquid) this will have a strong smell. If you notice this you should contact your installer. In general you should keep an eye on your system to check that it is doing what it has been designed to do. If you are not getting hot water or the solar pipework is cold (when the pump is running) on warm, sunny days then again you should contact your installer. For peace of mind some installation companies offer an annual service check.
You should have your system checked more thoroughly by an accredited installer every 3-7 years, or as specified by your installer. It is likely that after this period of time the anti-freeze that is used to protect your system in the winter months will need to topped up or be replaced as it breaks down over time reducing the performance of your system. Anti-freeze lasts better if the solar water system is used throughout the year and not left unused during the warmest weeks of the year. This cost of replacing the anti-freezer is usually around £100.
The other thing that your installer should check is the pump. In a well maintained system, pumps can last for ten years plus and usually cost around £90 to replace.
Solar water heating systems can achieve savings on your energy bills. Based on the results of our recent field trial, typical savings from a well-installed and properly used system are £60 per year when replacing gas heating and £85 per year when replacing electric immersion heating; however, savings will vary from user to user.
Typical carbon savings are around 230kgCO2/year when replacing gas and 500kgCO2/year when replacing electric immersion heating.
You may be able to receive payments for the heat you generate from a solar water heating system through the government’s Renewable Heat Incentive. This scheme should be launched in Summer 2013.
From August 2011, you may be able to get help with the installation costs of a new solar water heating system through the Renewable Heat Premium Payment scheme.
Green Deal finance and renewables
This technology is an eligible measure under the UK government’s Green Deal which is a financing mechanism that lets people pay for energy-efficiency improvements through savings on their energy bills.
Further information on Green Deal.
Do you have a sunny place to put solar panels?
You'll need around five square metres of roof space which faces east to west through south and receives direct sunlight for the main part of the day.
The panels don't have to be mounted on a roof: they can be fixed to a frame on a flat roof or hanging from a wall.
Do you have space for a larger, or an extra, hot water cylinder?
If a dedicated solar cylinder is not already installed then you will usually need to replace the existing cylinder, or add a dedicated cylinder with a solar heating coil.
Is your current boiler compatible with solar water heating?
Most conventional boiler and hot water cylinder systems are compatible with solar water heating. But if your boiler is a combination boiler (combi) and you don't currently have a hot water tank, a solar hot water system may not be compatible.
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Spider bites are uncommon. Often, people mistake a skin infection or a bite by another insect as a spider bite.
Only a few spiders have fangs strong enough to pierce your skin and enough venom to cause a reaction. In the U.S., these include the black widow spider and the brown recluse spider. Even these types of spiders tend to bite only when threatened.
Spider bites are rarely lethal. Treating the site of the spider bite is generally all that's necessary. In a few cases, symptoms may be severe and widespread enough to require antivenom treatment and hospitalization.
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The Global Land Tool Network gender evaluation criteria for assessing the gender-sensitivity of large-scale land tools was recently launched with over 65 participants at a side-event as part of the 22nd session of the UN-HABITAT Governing Council. The event was chaired by Ms. Tubwita Grace Bagaya, a Member of Parliament from Uganda. After opening remarks by Mr. Nick You of UN-HABITAT and an overview of the criteria by GLTN's Secretariat, reflections were presented by Mr. Birte Scholz, Huairou Commission, Stig Enemark, International Federation of Surveyors, and Ms.Siraj Sait of the University of East London as GLTN partners in developing the criteria. They underscored the necessity of a participatory process to make the evaluation criteria relevant for multiple stakeholders, and encouraged usage of the criteria by a wide range of individuals and organizations to enhance gender equality in access to land.
Key presentations on the next steps were delivered by Ms. Patricia Chaves, Espacio Feminista, Brazil and Ms. Sama Vraja on how civil society organizations intend to pilot the criteria in their respective countries as part of the land policy formulation in Nepal and in the application of an urban policy statute in Brazil. Led from a grassroots perspective, the piloting will start shortly, in collaboration with other stakeholder groups including land surveyors.
There was a lot of interest in the criteria as a practical tool to advance gender inequality in the land sector, with requests for the tool to be tested and adapted to the contexts of several other countries including Burundi, India and Kenya and in the Africa land policy guidelines process, and for immediate translation of the criteria into French. There was also a request for similar evaluation criteria to be established by UN-HABITAT for the housing sector. | <urn:uuid:e8a7fff9-bf1c-47ce-ae99-1132bbed5813> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.unhabitat.org/content.asp?cid=6750&catid=576&typeid=6 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940449 | 375 | 1.90625 | 2 |
The herb garden will be a new experience for me. In the past I have used pots for the herbs, this year I'll see what I can do with the in-ground Herb Garden I have planned (Herb Garden Layout). Most of the plants will be from seed but not all! Here is what we decided on for the herb garden:
This is one of our staple herbs that we use very often. We picked several kinds including Dark Opal Purple (the name says it all, it's purple!), Sweet Basil, and Bush Spicy Globe. I'm curious about the last one as it is supposed to grow into a nice little ball shape. It should make an interestingly shaped plant for the herb garden.
The package calls it common thyme, but common or not everyone always could use a little more thyme.
We love cilantro in guacamole and Mexican flavored dishes. It should go well with the peppers I have planned for the vegetable garden! One interesting note: the seeds are the spice called coriander.
I'll have to plant some potatoes in the garden to go with the chives. Chives go well with many things like chicken, burgers, and even eggs.
This one is called Mediterranean oregano. The oregano should see a good deal of use.
I haven't tried parsley but I thought we would give it a try.
We bought a packet of broad leaf sage seed to add to the mix.
We have two types to try. One is the traditional Lavender augustifolia and the other is called Lavender Lady. Lavender Lady is said to flower in the first year. The plants are smaller than typical lavender at about 8-10 inches.
The rosemary we have will come from cuttings off of a giant plant my mother has and one that I was given at Christmas time. It's amazing how easy rosemary is to root! You can layer it or just cut it off and let it root in water.
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West Virginia is the fattest state in America, according to new Gallup data on obesity rates.
Gallup, as part of its broader index of well-being, surveyed Americans about their height and weight. The polling organization then used this data to calculate what percentage of residents in each state had body-mass indexes of 30 or above, which would be high enough to qualify as obese.
Click on the interactive map below to see the adult obesity rates in each state over the last couple of years.
During the first six months of this year, 26.7 percent of Americans over all gave self-reported height and weight data that qualified them as obese. That is similar to the 26.5 percent national rate for all of 2009, but is significantly higher than the 25.5 percent in 2008.
By this measure more than a third of adult West Virginians — 34 percent — were obese in the first six months. Kentucky and Mississippi were close by, with adult obesity rates of 32.8 percent and 32.7 percent.
Colorado had the lowest obesity rate, and was the only state to have fewer than one in five of its adult residents qualify as obese (19.5 percent). The next least-obese states were Massachusetts (20.9 percent) and Utah (21.3 percent).
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Aide Calls for Clarity in Debate on Homosexuals
Again Affirms Vatican's Opposition to Discrimination
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VATICAN CITY, DEC. 11, 2008 (Zenit.org).- The position of the Holy See regarding a possible U.N. proposal on the decriminalization of homosexuality is being misrepresented by the press, affirmed a Vatican spokesman.
Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi again had to clarify the issue when he was asked about it today by a reporter during the presentation of the papal message for the World Day of Peace.
The misinformation was related to press reports on an interview with Archbishop Celestino Migliore, permanent observer of the Holy See to the United Nations. The archbishop told a news agency that the Holy See would not support an expected French proposal for a U.N. resolution to decriminalize homosexuality. The prelate explained that the Holy See would reject the initiative because it could include at the same time the imposition of homosexual marriage in national law.
Father Lombardi had earlier clarified that refusal to support the proposal does not imply support for discrimination against homosexuals.
"Obviously no one wants to defend the death penalty for homosexuals, as some would insinuate," he had said.
Today, the spokesman went on to express doubt about whether such a French proposal will even be brought to vote at the next U.N. assembly.
"Therefore, it seems that there is no reason to set off polemics about a text, the contents of which are still not officially known," he contended.
Archbishop Migliore's comments, Father Lombardi added, referred to the danger of imposing the recognition of "rights," such as homosexual marriage and the possibility of same-sex couples adopting children, something which is not even permitted in France.
Nevertheless, the spokesman clarified that regarding a "penal code that criminalizes homosexuals or even foresees the death penalty for them, there is nothing to discuss: The Holy See is totally opposed."
"It is a position that respects the rights of the human person, in his dignity," Father Lombardi affirmed. "Archbishop Migliore also spoke out against all discrimination that affects homosexuality."
The Holy See, therefore, is not in favor of "legislation that penalizes homosexuality," he said. "At the same time, nevertheless, it opposes the addition of other clauses that imply that all sexual orientations should be put at the same level in all situations and in regard to every norm."
As an example, the Vatican spokesman cited marriage: "The Church sustains that marriage is between one man and one woman and it does not accept that unions of persons of the same sex are placed at the same level." | <urn:uuid:85a07017-1b2d-405c-8753-b25b5224f45c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.zenit.org/en/articles/aide-calls-for-clarity-in-debate-on-homosexuals | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00032-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962302 | 555 | 1.734375 | 2 |
I wave, too, but I don't see other drivers do it very much these days when I'm in the city. I live in rural Queensland, Australia, and there's not much call for letting someone in - we only have one lane either way
We do use the index finger off the steering wheel to acknowledge someone we know in and around town.
Flashing headlights at oncoming traffic means one of 2 things (in Australia, at least)
1) To warn oncoming traffic that the police are up ahead (usually with a speed camera) - this is frowned upon by the police.,
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You’re never too young for tzedakah
In a world full of negative stories about today’s teens, it’s heart-warming to hear about one Toronto youngster intent on doing what he can to help those less fortunate.
That youngster is David Gasch who, in May of 2007, celebrated his Bar Mitzvah. With the help of his grandparents, Sam and Beverley Cohen, David made a decision that is helping disadvantaged youth in northern Israel lead a better life.
“My wife and I asked David what he was planning on doing with his Bar Mitzvah money,” recalls the proud zadie. “He told us that he wanted to share it in a special way and to do some good with it. He wanted that good to take place in Israel. So, that’s what he did.”
Sam took his grandson to the Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto where David was educated about a number of worthy initiatives including the Renanim School in Kiryat Shmona.
The Renanim School was established 45 years ago in northern Israel to serve that region’s special-needs students. On November 16, 2006, a missile hit the school causing much destruction.
Thanks to the selfless vision and compassion exhibited by David and others, the school is rebuilding, and will be stronger and better equipped than before.
“As soon as David heard that the Renanim School was in the north and that it would help disadvantaged kids, he was sold,” says Sam. “That is nachas from a grandchild that we all wish for.” | <urn:uuid:c0777792-4094-4b91-99a2-59a990a561a8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.bnaitzedek.ca/Stories/You-re-never-too-young-for-tzedakah | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981754 | 340 | 1.804688 | 2 |
Medical defense against radiological warfare is one of
the least emphasized segments of modern medical education. Forty years
of nuclear-doomsday predictions made any realistic preparation for
radiation casualty management an untenable political consideration.
The end of the Cold War has dramatically reduced the likelihood of
strategic nuclear weapons use and thermonuclear war.
Unfortunately, the proliferation of nuclear material
and technology has made the acquisition and adversarial use of
ionizing radiation weapons more probable than ever. In the modern era,
military personnel and their nationís population will expect that a
full range of medical modalities will be employed to decrease the
morbidity and mortality from the use of these weapons. Fortunately,
treatment of radiation casualties is both effective and practical.
Prior to 1945, ionizing radiation was deemed nearly
innocuous and often believed to be beneficial. Individual exposures to
low-level radiation commonly occurred from cosmetics, luminous paints,
medical-dental x-ray machines, and shoe-fitting apparatus in retail
stores. The physical destruction caused by the nuclear explosions
above Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the Civil Defense programs of the
1960ís changed that perception.
Since that time, popular conceptions and misconceptions have permeated both attitudes and political doctrine. The
significant radiological accidents at Chernobyl and Goi‚nia are models
for the use of radiological weapons. To date, radiological warfare has
been limited to demonstration events such as those by the Chechens in
Moscow and threats by certain deposed third-world leaders.
As U.S. forces deploy to
areas devastated by civil war and factional strife, unmarked
radioactive material will be encountered in waste dumps, factories,
abandoned medical clinics, and nuclear fuel facilities. Medical
providers must be prepared to adequately treat injuries complicated by
ionizing radiation exposure and radioactive contamination. To that
end, the theory and treatment of radiological casualties is taught in
the Medical Effects of Ionizing Radiation Course offered by the Armed
Forces Radiobiology Research Institute at Bethesda, Maryland.
Military Medical Operations
Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute
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Risks in International Trade are the major barriers for the growth to the same. International trade has been a much debated topic. Economists have differed on the real benefits of international trade. The increase in the export market is highly beneficial to an economy, but on the other hand the increase in imports can be a threat to the economy of that country. It has been the worry of the policy makers to strike the right balance between free trade and restrictions.
International trade can develop an economy, but at the same time certain domestic players can be outperformed by financially stronger multi nationals and forced to close down or get merged. Sometimes these multinational companies become so powerful, especially in smaller countries, that they can dictate political terms to the government for their benefit.
International trade is characteristically costlier in terms of domestic trade. There are a number of reasons such as, tariffs, cost of delay, cost related to differences in legal system, etc. The factors of production like labor and capital are more mobile within the territories of the country than across other countries. International trade is restricted to the exchange of goods and services. It does not encourage the exchange of production factors, which may be more beneficial in certain cases. The assessment of risks in the international trade plays an important role in deciding the modes of payment to be used for the settlement between buyer and seller.
Risks in international trade can be divided under several types, such as,
- Risk of concession in economic control
- Risk of insolvency of the buyer
- Risk of non-acceptance
- Risk of protracted default i.e. the failure of the buyer to pay off the due amount after six months of the due date
- Risk of Exchange rate
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A History of the World in Twelve Maps, by Jerry Brotton, Allen Lane, RRP£30, 544 pages
On the Map: Why the World Looks the Way it Does, by Simon Garfield, Profile, RRP£16.99, 468 pages
When Apple released its latest operating system in September, there was a great deal of consternation among users of iPhones and iPads. The company had replaced the much-loved Google Maps application with its own (inferior) version. Over the following days, there were reports of mistakes (the Sears Tower in Chicago was misplaced; a farm outside Dublin was designated as an airport) – but what really riled users was how this change subtly altered the way they engaged with the world around them.
Unwittingly, Apple had proved a point made by both Jerry Brotton’s A History of the World in Twelve Maps and Simon Garfield’s On The Map. As Brotton writes, “maps provide answers to many more questions than simply how to get from one place to another”. They have played an important role in our understanding of who we are – as individuals and as cultures – for more than two millennia.
Brotton, professor of Renaissance studies at Queen Mary, University of London, has selected 12 maps that stretch from Ptolemy in AD150 to Google in 2012, including along the way al-Idrisi’s The Book of Roger (1154), the 14th-century mappamundi, Martin Waldsee- müller’s beautiful world map of 1507 and Gerard Mercator’s projection of 1569. Each either “shaped people’s attitudes to the worlds in which they lived, or crystallised a particular world view at specific moments in global history – often both”.
It is perhaps unfortunate that Brotton’s book appears to owe a debt to A History of the World in 100 Objects (2010) by British Museum director Neil MacGregor – though Brotton points out in his acknowledgments that his own title was agreed back in 2006. In case you didn’t get the point that he’s Columbus to MacGregor’s Amerigo Vespucci, he adds that the idea is “the culmination of nearly 20 years of thinking about and publishing on maps”. So there.
Whoever got there first, the structure does make for engrossing reading. Each map is merely a starting point for an academic, often philosophical examination of the culture that produced it and the world view that it represents.
No map is objective, says Brotton. In the early 1140s, for example, King Roger II of Sicily commissioned his close confidant al-Idrisi to produce a map that promoted his own political position ruling over a crossroads of Mediterranean cultures.
The “Entertainment for He Who Longs to Travel the World”, or the The Book of Roger, as it became known, was finished in 1154 and consisted of 70 regional maps that drew on Christian, Greek and Islamic traditions. What it offers is a snapshot of a moment in history when there was an uneasy exchange of ideas and knowledge between broadly Christian and Muslim traditions; in the centuries that followed, cartographers would focus increasingly on religious and cultural divides at the expense of pure topography.
In his final chapter on Google, Brotton sails off the edge of the world like a 15th-century explorer, suggesting that the information age has blended the physical and the virtual to such an extent that Google Earth and similar applications are actually shaping our reality and the way we organise our society.
Simon Garfield, a journalist, is all about stories. In previous books such as Our Hidden Lives, his collection of diaries from the Mass Observation project, or Just My Type, in which he explored the stories behind fonts, Garfield has demonstrated a keen eye for a decent tale and the ability to tell it.
On The Map, like Brotton’s book, is lavishly illustrated and covers much of the same ground, though with a lighter, more populist touch and a more inclusive definition of a map. Garfield also dots his text with short stories and asides – what he calls his Pocket Maps – that make for amusing and illuminating reading.
Garfield tells the story of Dr John Snow, who located the cause of a cholera outbreak in London by mapping the disease; he explodes the myth of “Here be Dragons” (“The phrase ‘Here Be Dragons’ has never actually appeared on a historic map”); and explores why California was marked as an island on maps for decades despite the fact that those who tried to sail around it failed. This latter tale he describes as “the 17th-century’s forerunner to a mistake on Wikipedia – doomed to be repeated in a thousand school essays until a bright spark noticed it and dared to make amends.”
Through Garfield’s book, maps are revealed as hopeful documents that record what map-makers want to be there. Both Brotton and Garfield, by tackling the same material in their different ways, have charted a course through centuries of map-making that shows maps not as cold, rigorous fact-based plans of our environment, but as projections of how we see ourselves and how we want to be seen.
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Whilst we were visiting Sackville in New Brunswick, I took some photo’s of a plaque on a building and a broom and a shovel…
Later on I read though the information on the plaque and wanted to tell you about how the life of this man impressed me.
Harold Geddes was born in Halifax, probably in 1914. He passed away in Sackville, New Brunswick at 90 years of age.
Sackville is a not so small town but retains the feel and atmosphere of a small town. Maybe that had a lot to do with Harold’s life. He was orphaned when he was only three during a famous explosion in Halifax in 1917 and adopted by Charles and Alice Geddes of Sackville where he spent his formative years.
Later he worked at the Fawcett Foundry, and at an aircraft factory in Nova Scotia during World War Two. When the war ended he returned to Sackville, where he became a custodian at Mount Allison University, until his retirement.So… nothing unusual then? Well, not so far in Harold’s life.
But after he retired something special happened.
Apparently ” retirement” meant something different to Harold than it does for most other people… because every day this brisk and gruff gentleman took it upon himself to spend his time voluntarily cleaning the streets of downtown Sackville. He took pride in clearing the footpaths , all year long though the heat of summer and the cold of winter he shoveled the pavements free of snow, picked up litter, broken glass, cleaned gutters of dirt and leaves and even washed windows.
Harold was someone that we would label ” a character” someone who doesn’t quite fit neatly into society, and he was apparently rather rough around the edges, and it’s said that he would often refuse to acknowledge “outsiders”. (heck, I thought that that is rather usual practice in many small towns all around the world )
Sackville appreciated all his hard work, completely voluntary and in all weathers, so a memorial called ” “Remembering Harold” was created by local sculptor and Mount Allison sculpture technician Kip Jones.
In 1998, he was presented with the Good Neighbour Award and In 2000, Harold received the first-ever Mayor’s Award for his “pride, initiative, and interest in keeping Sackville neat and clean…on a totally volunteer basis.”
Clearly Harold was a quirky man, he had his ways and was what he was. Apparently, what you saw is what you got. He might have been a little rough around the edges, but he sounds like one of those people who was a diamond in the rough.
It’s not often that a town has cause to honour a man for accomplishments that feature, not on the big and showy world stage, but quite literally at ground level, famous for doing the messy work, the hard graft, getting his hands dirty, mucking in. Harold sounds like one of the world’s unsung hero’s… a volunteer, turning up day after day to get things done just because they need doing.
Bravo to Harold for being true to himself, for being his grouchy, brisk self and people just had to accept him for it. You know, if you are a square peg, Why not just accept that you are, and be happy in it, rather than trying desperately to contort yourself into a round hole your whole life.
Bravo to all volunteers everywhere… who do the jobs that need doing, no pay and not nearly enough Thanks. Volunteers teach us that money isn’t always everything, satisfaction of a job well done is important too, and that “giving back” can take many many forms.
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Then said the sharper, ’O folk, this is my friend and I deposited with him a deposit, but he denieth it; so in whom shall the folk put trust after this?’ And they said, ’This [FN#49] is a man of worth and we have found in him nought but trustiness and loyality and good breeding, and he is endowed with understanding and generosity. Indeed, he avoucheth no falsehood, for that we have consorted with him and mixed with him and he with us and we know the sincerity of his religion.’ Then quoth one of them to the merchant, ’Harkye, such an one! Bethink thee and consult thy memory. It may not be but that thou hast forgotten.’ But he said, ’O folk, I know nothing of that which he saith, for indeed he deposited nought with me.’ And the affair was prolonged between them. Then said the sharper to the merchant, ’I am about to make a journey and have, praised be God the Most High, wealth galore, and this money shall not escape me; but do thou swear to me.’ And the folk said, ’Indeed, this man doth justice upon himself.’[FN#50] Whereupon the merchant fell into that which he misliked[FN#51] and came near upon [suffering] loss and ill repute.
Now he had a friend, who pretended to quickwittedness and understanding; so he came up to him privily and said to him, ’Let me do, so I may put the change on this trickster, for I know him to be a liar and thou art near upon having to pay the money; but I will turn suspicion from thee and say to him, “The deposit is with me and thou erredst in imagining that it was with other than myself,” and so divert him from thee.’ ‘Do so,’ replied the merchant, ‘and rid the folk of their [false] debts.’
So the friend turned to the sharper and said to him, ’O my lord, O such an one, thou goest under a delusion. The purse is with me, for it was with me that thou depositedst it, and this elder is innocent of it.’ But the sharper answered him with impatience and impetuosity, saying, ’Extolled be the perfection of God! As for the purse that is with thee, O noble and trusty man, I know that it is in the warrant of God and my heart is at ease concerning it, for that it is with thee as it were with me; but I began by demanding that which I deposited with this man, of my knowledge that he coveteth the folk’s good.’ At this the friend was confounded and put to silence and returned not an answer; [and the] only [result of his interference was that] each of them [FN#52] paid a thousand dinars.
So the sharper took the two thousand dinars and made off; and when he was gone, the merchant said to his friend, the [self-styled] man of wit and intelligence, ’Harkye, such an one! Thou and I are like unto the hawk and the locust.’ ’What was their case?’ asked the other; and the merchant said, | <urn:uuid:fb4262ee-8805-40b4-aa14-f22a56587533> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.bookrags.com/ebooks/5243/19.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00008-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.983163 | 730 | 1.523438 | 2 |
PC World’s WorldBench 6: Behind the Scenes
PC World will soon be publishing WorldBench 6, the latest version of our PC benchmarking suite. What does that mean to you? WorldBench is the core set of applications that PC World uses to test all kinds of desktop PCs and laptop PCs. The results generated from this comprehensive suite of real-world test scenarios are a significant component of our reviews of the systems that pass through PC World's door. And because these tests all use actual programs and involve tasks that you might perform in real life, they're an excellent barometer for determining how PCs might perform outside of the lab and on your desk.
Modern-day computer benchmarks fall into two distinct camps: synthetic and nonsynthetic. Synthetic tests such as HDTach and 3DMark are programs that are specifically designed to run test patterns that don't necessarily reflect real-world use of a system. They often yield results that are abstract. Such scores are good for comparing results across a wide range of computers, but they tell you little about the individual performance of a PC doing the kinds of tasks you likely do every day.
Nonsynthetic, or real-world, benchmarks like WorldBench 6 measure a system's performance by using everyday programs to generate measurable results, be it the time it takes to compress files, to run a series of Photoshop commands, or to encode movies. The results help us rank systems based on performance--but they also give you an indication of what you might encounter when you use the PC yourself.
PC World has updated and condensed the 12 applications of the previous test platform, WorldBench 5, into a tighter subset of 8 applications. From Web browsing to file encoding to general use, the automated test scripts that run in these applications have been designed to deliver a tougher evaluation for some of the top computers of today. Even though multicore processors and larger amounts of RAM are appearing even in cheap PCs, it's important to have benchmarks that can accurately assess--and challenge--systems with a wide variety of configurations. To that end, PC World's testers run WorldBench 6 many times on each machine and then compare the results against a common reference system to derive a final score.
WorldBench 6 is designed to run on all editions of Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP. Since it's fully automated, the application suite can report errors in testing and automatically restart failed tests without user input. It then records the results, including the final WorldBench 6 score as well as the individual results of each application's workload, in both text and graphs. Since WorldBench 6 represents a whole new testing platform, scores from WorldBench 6 can't be compared to results from earlier versions of the benchmark. | <urn:uuid:b29b4b58-3a4c-435a-9cac-32046c454c23> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.pcworld.com/article/172974/worldbench_6.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00053-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940618 | 556 | 1.671875 | 2 |
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Insufficient work has been done to identify the active constituents in pleurisy root or its medicinal actions. No human studies have been conducted to determine whether it is effective for any indication. It is still used by herbalists and some physicians trained in herbal medicine as a diaphoretic (promotes sweating), and for lung infections and conditions of the pleura that lines the lungs.11
How to Use It
A pleurisy root tea can be made by lightly simmering one teaspoon of the dried, chopped root in one pint of water for 10 to 15 minutes. One cup of this tea can be drunk twice per day.12 Alternately, 1 to 2 ml of tincture of the fresh root can be used three times per day.13
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Today is Blog Action Day, an annual event that’s run since 2007 that aims to create a positive discussion online that enables social good about an important topic. The topic this year is The Power of We. This is my contribution to the conversation.
In the second Star Wars film of the original trilogy, released in 1980, the Jedi master Yoda admonishes Luke Skywalker for his lacklustre approach to a difficult task with the words “Try not. Do. Or do not. There is no try.”
It’s a phrase that has stuck with me over the years that helps me confront difficulties. Thinking of that phrase is a help – even if success isn’t always the outcome.
To me, it reflects the way you approach a problem where your mind is focused on a positive outcome instead of the attempt to achieve a positive outcome (which is where the words “Ok, I’ll give it a try” take you).
Thinking of Yoda’s words reminds me of an event I participated in earlier this year that was all about the “do” and not the “try.” The event was the Like Minds conference in Exeter, in which the theme of “why what you do matters” was central to the speeches, presentations and discussions that were all about empowering individuals to take responsibility for building better businesses.
That empowerment wasn’t some kind of physical thing that you could take away and show someone. It was about helping people really see what is possible when they look at something in a more effective way, that enables them to have the confidence to become empowered.
It’s a powerful thing, that feeling of confidence that you can take your ideas into your business to your colleagues and, with “do” instead of “try” firmly in your mind, kick-start discussion on things you believe in.
Such individual action is a cornerstone of collective action, very much “the power of we.” It all begins with a single thought or idea, and the courage in your own convictions.
What you do matters. There is no try.
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Though she knew from the start of her time at Tech that she wanted to major in management, Allen Wang (BSM 2010) wasn’t sure exactly what she wanted out of her education until her sophomore year.
That's when she saw a flyer that said, “Bridging the Gap between Business and Engineering," advertising the start of the Denning Technology and Management Program. “I really wanted to get more exposure to the technical side of Georgia Tech, and this program offered it.”
Started in fall 2008, the program is a collaborative effort of the Colleges of Engineering and Management designed to prepare a new generation of leaders who possess both managerial and technological know-how.
The Technology and Management Program is open to both engineering and management majors who learn one another’s language through coursework in their respective fields as well as teamwork to solve real-world problems. Students enter the program at the start of their junior year and pursue a prescribed course of study while satisfying requirements for a bachelor’s degree in their engineering or management major. They all earn a minor in engineering and management.
The program helped Wang be in the right place at the right time – with the right skills – to get her career started at Siemens. During a business etiquette dinner for program participants, she sat with a corporate recruiter for Siemens. Though she learned that the company didn't have any internship openings outside of engineering, she employed her growing networking skills to converse and learn as much as she could about the company.
"The next day I got a congratulatory e-mail saying I'd made it to the second-round interview," remembers Wang, who didn't even realize the dinnertime conversation had been an interview. She got a summer/fall 2009 internship working in IT, the focus of her management studies. "It's all attributable to the Technology and Management Program, which gave me the opportunity and the communication skills to impress the recruiter."
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Secretary of State Congressional Medal of Honor Project
The Secretary of State is charged with overseeing the Maine State Archives and encouraging civic participation. This program is designed to venerate Maine's Congressional Medal of Honor recipients with memorials in their home towns.
Why: Youth Awareness of CMOH significance
Congressional Medal of Honor recipients are singled out as 'the bravest of the brave." Many of their citations list incredible acts of valor that saved hundreds of lives, yet most people do not know the stories of these forefathers from their own town. There are many people of younger generations who are not aware of the medal or its significance at all. This is a wonderful way to combine historic, educational and civic lessons and honor our veterans as well.
Goal: Facilitate creation of memorial plaques
Our goal is to reach out to school kids; to get young people involved with local history, and interacting with veterans groups, libraries and museums. Kids would "own" the project while recognizing their decorated veteran(s).
Students would research their local CMOH recipient, design a memorial, arrange for a site, raise money for the project, construct the memorial, and plan for maintenance if necessary.
Target: While primarily intended as youth projects, we welcome participation by any interested civic organization. Project organizers may include:
- Middle or high school classes
- History classes
- Vocational classes
- School clubs
- Boy/Girl Scouts/Eagle Scout project
- Veterans Organization or other community groups
Time frame : School Year
Ideally, this would be a seasonal or school year project, with clear outcomes to be reported to the SOS office for an overview of project effectiveness.
There are 96 Congressional Medal of Honor recipients with a connection to Maine . Eighty-one Maine municipalities have a direct connection (i.e. place of birth, place entered service, or burial place) to one or more CHOH recipients.
Challenge: Thematic project/topic
There will be challenges to the valor involved in some citations. We live in a different world than when these honors were bestowed. We are not putting contemporary values into history; we are recognizing our veterans place in history. However, some groups may choose not to recognize their recipient.
Project variation: Research existing military memorial
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OT: Need help - Standard forklift dimensions
I am building a little pallet to put my 253lb Advance Products Rotary Slide Table on. I'd like to make the thing wide enough for a standard forklift to get under. I'm thinking the little hand-truck type forklifts (pallet jack). Don't currently have one. I see that many are offered in 21 or 27 inch widths. Will the pallet be usable in most shop environments, and possibly in shipping, if I use a 21" spacing?
My design is (roughly) to use 4"x4" material, (about 2 feet long), and use carriage bolts to connect two 2x6" pieces of wood, about 30 inches long, on top of the 4x4s. How much space should I leave between the 4x4s?
Thanks in advance.
Only had a quick furtle so I don't know if this is of any help
If you go here there are more dim's
Your sizes are about right for standard size pallet trucks.
Note that actual forklifts generally have adjustable spread for their forks, and so can get under and into slots that pallet jacks cannot.
These folks make a variety of special sizes, a couple of which I've found very handy:
These folks make standard size stuff:
And these folks sell pre made pallets:
I'd leave 28" between the 4X4s. My 2 pallet jacks are 27" outside 13" inside, and 95% of the pallet jacks I encounter and all the ones I see in freight trucks are the same. About half the pallets I get are smaller and don't fit my pallet jacks, which forces me to try to balance it on one fork as best I can. If you leave it open between the 4X4s either type pallet jack will work under it.
Originally Posted by Mud
The vast majority of pallet jacks are 27" wide. 28" will give plenty of clearance.
Also, for a 263 lb load, 3" gold deck screws are more than adequate to hold everything together.
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I've made a number of pallets from 4x4s with 2x6 tops for machine tools. It is quicker and cheaper than welding up a cradle with casters.
I make most of them 35" wide, which works well for the 27" wide pallets. I usually put a 3rd 4x4 down the middle.
I drill all of the deck boards and I made a simple drill template for the hole patterns:
I use 3" #6 square head drive deck screws and drill the deck boards 1/8" or 9/64" to make it easy to drive the deck screws.
I space the 2x6 top boards 1/4" apart.
I also bought a pair of Jet pallet jacks that are 20"-21" wide. I've made narrower pallets (~29") for them.
Either size works fine with a forklift since the forks or tines on them are normally adjustable.
Peter Miles, nice looking cradle there, although I must say it looks like those welded-on angle sections that the casters mount to are showing a lot of flex under the load of that piddling little c-clamp. I don't think I would ever put a body part under the edge of that load...
Thanks, all. The bolt holes on the hold-down flanges are on 19" centers, so leaving 21" would allow access to tie-down bolts, and would be one option. The 28" would take up more space, but would be more flexible in transport. If I use the 28" spacing, I'd have space to put handles on the top of the pallet on either side of the unit, and this would make it easier to move.
Man, Peter, if you put that level of quality into a pallet, I want to see your machine work!
My final plan will have two 4x4s (seen in the pic), plus three cross-members. The middle cross-member will not be permanently fixed in place. This will allow access under the center of the unit, to allow me to reinstall the main taper bearing with proper preload. Once everything is buttoned up and reinstalled, I can lift the unit up, put the center member in, and fasten all down.
This unit is really incredible. Massive castings and bosses, tapered roller bearings on the manual hand-cranks for the XY table, anti-friction inserts under the table. Wow.
The only problem is a little backlash in the worm gear, possibly in the bearings for the worm, too. I plan to remove the eccentric assembly and clean all the bearings, then reinstall everything with proper bearing preload.
BTW, how does one set the pre-load for Timken bearings in this service? A friend was telling me that a precision (e.g. near-micron-level) mill spindle bearing is set by spinning the cone and letting inertia set the preload. Not needed here, but I‘d like to set this thing to last another fifty years. Advice? | <urn:uuid:fab5f14c-8642-4ad6-ac85-b69660a511ed> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.practicalmachinist.com/vb/general/ot-standard-forklift-dimensions-193215/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00059-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938156 | 1,092 | 1.515625 | 2 |
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Five ways to bolster computer security when you are on the move
It is widely accepted to use laptop for getting the work done when you are off the office. Yet mobile computing attract laptop lifters and they are always on the look out for their prey (people with laptops)
While losing laptop means losing easy 1000 bucks it also jeopardizes your job and gives critical personal or financial information or company details to wrong people. It also means you have also lost system configuration you have set for smooth functioning. It kind of puts you at a bigger loss than the laptop per se. However, by following the 5 tips you can keep your laptop secured even when you are mobile computing on the road.
1) Stop carrying laptop bags when you have to travel in bus or train. It kind of sends obvious signals to the lifters that you are carrying one. Use an ordinary tote to carry it otherwise or even carry in a padded briefcase.
2) If you should be taking laptop for a flight journey carry it on your person. However, carrying a suitable computer lock with you should make it convenient as you can secure it. Investing in buying computer locks or say, a laptop security device will give you lot of peace of mind. If you have to leave the system in the airport lobby or even at work, attach the computer lock cable securely to a fixed heavy object such as a desk or chair is good idea.
3) You don’t want everyone to know what you’ve been doing in the system, do you? Computer locks with monitor cable lock should prevent shoulder surfers around to sneak peek into your laptop. The monitor cable lock just locks the screen of the laptop making it not only difficult to sneak peek but also lift it.
4) Carry laptop and passwords separately. In the sense do not have passwords and access information in the same briefcase that carries the laptop. It’s like making the job of laptop thief so much easier. Should you lose the laptop at least the thief can’t access personal information.
5) Encrypting the data is more of after laptop is stolen. It works as a repair and prevent the laptop lifter to gain access through your files and pick up information. Encrypting gives added protection so the information stored is not retrieved even after the laptop is stolen. With OS such as Windows XP, Vista, and the Windows 7 encrypting the files and folders is possible.
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The frontier state of Wisconsin was only nine years old when the company opened its doors. Fewer than three years later, its leader faced a crisis when Wisconsin?s first catastrophic train accident took the lives of two policyowners. Together their claims totaled $3,500, but the little company had only $2,000 on hand.
Without hesitation, President Samuel Daggett and his fellow trustees waived the usual 90-day settlement period, personally borrowed the needed funds, and paid the claims immediately.
Northwestern Mutual?s tradition of keeping its promises was born.
Even during the dark days of the Great Depression, ?there was never a time?that the Northwestern could not have met every demand that was made upon it with business promptness, in full, and without the sacrifice of a dollar of its securities,? said Michael Cleary, company president, 1932-1947.
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NO LESS than 35% of domestic violence victims are male victims. So why do virtually all government, corporate, nonprofit, and private donation money for domestic violence money go to women?
Male victims of domestic violence have been seriously neglected in public policy, outreach and services. But they are not rare at all. They’re just less likely to report it, which makes crime statistics unreliable especially for men.
Prevalence and Injuries of male victims of domestic violence
The Centers for Disease Control’s (CDC) very recent domestic violence study (released Nov. 2011) found: “More than 1 in 3 women (35.6%) and more than 1 in 4 men (28.5%) in the United States have experienced rape, physical violence, and/or stalking by an intimate partner in their lifetime” and “About 1 in 4 women (24.3%) and 1 in 7 men (13.8%) have experienced severe physical violence by an intimate partner (e.g., hit with a fist or something hard, beaten, slammed against something) at some point in their lifetime.” See executive summary at www.cdc.gov/
Not surprisingly, the Associated Press only mentioned the female victims, leaving male victims invisible as usual. www.startribune.com/
The CDC figures are more reliable than the oft-cited Department of Justice (DoJ) figures because the CDC does not use crime-based language in its surveys like the DoJ does. Numerous experts explain that crime language biases the results because both men and women are less likely to consider it a “crime” when its female-on-male than the reverse. Non-crime based, sociological surveys consistently confirm that “women are as physically aggressive, or more aggressive, as men in their relationships with their spouses or male partners (and that men account for 1/3 of physical DV injuries). Almost 300 of these studies, using various methodologies, are summarized www.csulb.edu/~mfiebert/assault.htm
For example, this 32-nation study by the University of New Hampshire found women are as violent and controlling as men in relationships worldwide. www.unh.edu/news/cj_nr/2006/may/em_060519male.cfm?type=n http://pubpages.unh.edu/~mas2/ID41E2.pdf
For another example, a major study funded by the Centers for Disease Control recently examined heterosexual relationships throughout the U.S. and found: “Almost 24% of all relationships had some violence,and half (49.7%) of those were reciprocally violent. In nonreciprocallyviolent relationships, women were the perpetrators in more than 70% of the cases.” www.ajph.org/cgi/content/abstract/97/5/941
This Canadian government report also recognizes the above data.
According to the Centers for Disease Control, every year there are 4.8 million incidents of intimate partner assaults and rapes against women and 2.9 against men, with 25% of the deaths being men. www.cdc.gov/ncipc/dvp/ipv_factsheet.pdf
The self defense myth
Feminists often claim the studies showing women initiate domestic violence as often as men are based on the Conflict Tactics Scale (CTS) which, they say, is not contextual enough and does not account for self-defense. At the outset, this is a hypocritical argument because these same critics have used CTS-based studies for decades to cite figures on female victims and they only criticize CTS when it applies to male victims. Even the DoJ, which most feminist groups cite, uses CTS. It is the most common methodology used in science to measure abuse.
The criticism is also wrong on its face. In 1985 researchers updated the CTS to ask who initiated the violence, and they found the same results. Feminists then claimed one can “initiate” violence in self-defense. But to the extent this is true, it
is true of both sexes. And, as Dr. Richard Gelles explains:
“Contrary to the claim that women only hit in self-defense, we found that women were as likely to initiate the violence as were men. In order to correct for a possible bias in reporting, we reexamined our data looking only at the self-reports of women. The women reported similar rates of female-to-male violence compared to male-to-female, and women also reported they were as likely to initiate the violence as were men.”
“The Hidden Side of Domestic Violence; Male Victims,” 1999, The Women’s Quarterly, re-printed with the author’s permission at the National Coalition For Men Los Angeles Chapter blog.
Professor John Archer further explains:
“It has often been claimed that the reason CTS studies have found as many women as men to be physically aggressive is because women are defending themselves against attack. A number of studies have addressed this issue and found that when asked, more women than men report initiating the attack. (Bland & Orn. 1986; DeMaris, 1992; Gryl & Bird. 1989. cited in Straus. 1997) or that the proportions are equivalent in the two sexes (Straus, 1997). Two large-scale studies found that a substantial proportion of both women and men report using physical aggression when the partner did not (Brush, 1990; Straus & Gelles, 1988). This evidence does not support the view that the CTS is only measuring women’s self-defense.”
“Sex Differences in Aggression Between Heterosexual Partners: A Meta-Analytic Review, Psychological Bulletin,” Sept. 2000. v. 126, n. 5, p. 651, 664.
Subsequent research asked about motives and self-defense and found self-defense is only a small percentage of the violence by either sex. For example, one of the largest studies ever done in England found not only equal perpetration by gender but that men and women assaulted their partners for the same reasons, most often “to get through to them,” while self-defense was one of the least common motives for both sexes and men were hitting in self-defense slightly more often than women were. Carrado, “Aggression in British Heterosexual Relationships: A Descriptive Analysis, Aggressive Behavior,” 1996, 22: 401-415.
California State University surveyed 1,000 college women: 30% admitted they assaulted a male partner. Their most common reasons: (1) my partner wasn’t listening to me; (2) my partner wasn’t being sensitive to my needs; and (3) I wished to gain my partner’s attention. Martin Fiebert, Ph.D., Denise Gonzalez, Ph.D., “Why Women Assault; College Women Who Initiate Assaults on their Male Partners and the Reasons Offered for Such Behavior,” 1997, Psychological Reports, 80, 583-590.
A 32-nation study of domestic violence by the University of New Hampshire in 2006 found women’s violence in dating relationships was just as controlling as men’s.
Professor Don Dutton further refutes the self-defense myth. See Dutton, D., & Corvo, K., “Transforming a flawed policy: A call to revive psychology and science in domestic violence research and practice,” (11) 2006, 457-483
Discrimination Against Men
Many government-funded domestic violence programs still explicitly discriminate against male victims. In Australia and the UK, the government had to revoke funding from domestic violence shelters for refusing to help male victims as shown in these articles:
Others, like in Holland, Serbia, and Switzerland, have set aside funds for battered men shelters, even though they are scare and underfunded compared to battered women shelters in those countries.
In October 2008, the National Coalition For Men won a landmark appellate case in California that held it is unconstitutional to exclude male victims of domestic violence from the statutory funding provisions or from state-funded services. Woods v Shewry published decision.
Most programs claiming to help men just refer them to a far-away program that actually does help men.
The federal Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) explicitly excludes American Indian men from its provisions on Native American. It is also implemented in a discriminatory manner nationwide and funds educational programs that spread one-sided misinformation about domestic violence. See Dr. Richard Gelles, “Male Victims: The Hidden Side of Domestic Violence.”
The very title of VAWA discriminates and stigmatizes male victims by leaving them invisible and downplaying the seriousness of male victimization, making them an afterthought at very best. We don’t have a Men’s Occupational Safety and Health Act” just because 92% of occupational deaths happen to men.(Interestingly after 2002 it appears the Bureau of Labor Statistics stopped reporting occupational deaths by gender.) | <urn:uuid:e448ea1f-4dc3-4648-9259-7de85506c5d3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://ncfm.org/2009/01/issues/domestic-violence/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00032-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956659 | 1,896 | 2.53125 | 3 |
by GaŽl ElegoŽt
I work as as a graphic artist for the French magazine "Le Fana de l'Aviation". I have been impressed with the "virtual models" of Jerry Boucher and thought HyperScale's visitors may be interested in seeing more.
The complete story of the NASM Bf109G-6 (W.Nr 160756) was published in the "Fana" magazine some months ago. That plane was flown to an American airfield in Italy in 1944 by is pilot, Renť Darbois, a French Alsacian who joined the Luftwaffe to learn flying with the objective of escaping occupied France. After instruction at JG 103 in France and EJG 1 in Germany, he joined the I./JG4 at Maniago, Italy, and deserted during a ferry mission on the 25th July 1944.
He landed at Santa Maria Capua Verde airfield, north of Napoli.
The author of the article, Jean-Michel Goya, found some pictures of the bird just after his landing and I was asked to reproduce it in 3d as accurately as possible to display the colors and markings. These are very different from the colors in which the plane was restored. Here is a brief description:
W.Nr 160756 certainly came out of the factory painted in the classic Luftwaffe camouflage for the European theatre of operation - RLM74 and RLM75 greys on the upper surfaces, and RLM76 light blue-grey on the under surfaces and fuselage sides, with grey and RLM70 Black-green and RLM02 Grey-green patches also on the sides.
In the field, the aircraft received a crudely painted green and tan camouflage. It is not clear in what order theses paints where applied, green atop the tan, leaving some tan patches, or green first then some tan patches. Much of the national markings on the upper wings surfaces, the fuselage and fin were partially oversprayed with these colours. The under surfaces markings remaining unchanged.
No service stencils have survived the application of the camouflage paint. Even the manufacture plate on the port fuselage side near the cockpit was painted over.
In contrast, the yellow number 4 is very clear and regular, so it was certainly painted after the camouflage paint. The spinner is described by the American services report like been black (but the RLM70 black-green was often taken for black) with a large white spiral.
Although this plane was based in Italy, it did not received the usual white theatre markings (wings tips and fuselage band) for the Mediterranean theatre of operation.
Note the repainted area on the port side near the tail wheel, on a well contour. There are other very dark paint patches on the port rudder axis and on the under surfaces of the port aileron. These patches are most likely a dark primer red, colour of the fabric covering varnish.
The exact shades of the green and tan paints are unknown. The American report describes them only as "green and tan" without any more precision and the pictures are in black and white, so there is no way to know more. Jean-Michel Goya (author of the article in the "Fana de l'Aviation" think it may be some Italian shades, dark green "Verde scuro" or "bottle" green "Verde bottiglia" and some brown "Ocra" or tan "Sabbia". It is very possible, as the aircraft was based in Italy in 1944.
There are some other German planes based in Italy at the same time known to have been camouflaged with green/tan paints applied on the field atop the usual factory grey or green camouflage, namely the Focke-Wulf Fw-190 F-8's of SG 4 and SKG 10 or even some other Bf-109G-6, like "red 16" of 8/JG 53 at Managio in June 1944 or "yellow 8" of 3/JG 4 also at Managio in July1944. This last one looks like a twin of our "Yellow 4". The only differences are a white fuselage band partly masked by the camouflage and the lack of spiral on the spinner.
Some references describe the green/tan paints as OlivgrŁn RLM80 (olive-green) and Sandgelb RLM79 (yellow-tan). Perhaps the Germans used Italian paints and labelled it with German designations. Judging the differences between those German green/tan paints and the Italian tones is very difficult. The shades vary with the kind of light (time of the day, the weather) or with the type of film in use.
As the aircraft was reproduced in 3D, we find the same variations of shades depending the type of lights and settings used for the renderings.
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Are you OK?
The stock market is in bear market territory -- or a downturn of almost 20 percent that can last weeks, months or years. In any bear market, you have no idea when it will end or how bad it will get. So investors naturally get scared.
On average investors have gained back what they lost within about 2.5 years, according to the Leuthold Group, which has studied bear markets throughout stock market history. After the 2000-2002 crash, investors did not recover what they lost for about five years.
So as you follow the news, you may wonder if you should flee. You might also simply freeze, unable to figure out what to do.
Try to avoid both, and force yourself to look at your investments.
As surprising as this might seem, you should not take your cues from the stock market. Rather, you should be guided by the types of investments you need, and how long you have before you will have to get your hands on the money.
Here are some tips that will help you think this through:
Do you have an emergency fund?
Money for an emergency -- like a job loss -- should not be invested in the stock market. That was as true last year when the stock market was climbing as it is today.
The rule of thumb is to invest no money in the stock market that you might need within about five years. Another rule of thumb: Always have three to six months of cash in a high yield savings account, money market fund or CDs, so you can get your hands on it quickly if you need it. If it's in stocks, and the stock market drops 25 percent, you could have a shrinking pot of money when you most need it.
Will your child be going to college soon?
If your child is in college or about to enter college, that money should not be in stocks or stock mutual funds. You don't want your savings to get chopped by a quarter, a half, or any large number when the Bursar's office is expecting a check.
It's still OK to invest heavily in stock mutual funds if your child is young, but by age 13 consider dividing your money up half and half in stock and bond funds. At age 16, you could follow the example used by T. Rowe Price in 529 college savings funds: Put only 34 percent into stocks, about 52 percent in bonds, and 14 percent in a money market fund.
As your child begins college, have no more than 20 percent in stocks.
Are you saving for a house?
Again, if you expect to need a down payment within about five years, insulate this money from the vagaries of the stock market. Down payments should be in money market funds, high yield savings accounts and CDs; not in stocks or stock funds.
To find the best rates for savings and CDs, go to www.bankrate.com.
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It’s difficult for me to assimilate back into American culture. My eyes well-up with tears and my throat tightens as I type these words remembering what I’ve seen, heard, touched, smelled, experienced. My senses were alive in a third world culture to children, dirty, needy, hungry, smelly, and many times, alone. My heart aches for them like I’ve never experienced an ache before–it’s deep and paralyzing. My tears flow freely now for the children. They need life, love, nurture, food, education… I want to give it to them but I can’t meet every need.
The girl in the light green dress asked me for an apple, not candy, but an apple
“I have come that they may have LIFE and that they may have it more abundantly.” John 10:10
I am so thankful for the opportunity to speak Jesus’ abundant life to these boys. Hudson and I played with them, prayed for them, hugged them, fed them, clothed them, and sang with them.
But they need more than a week of special time with us. They’ve gone back to their difficult lives and we’ve gone back to our American culture.
Speaking of American culture and abundance, God showed me a picture in my mind last year when we returned from Zambia and He showed me again this year. It’s a bit strange but it’s a scene from the movie Percy Jackson and the Lightening Thief.
The picture in my mind is the Lotus Flower scene. God impressed on me that this scene is how America is living–distracted by wealth, entertainment, sports, power, abundance. But there is a mission that needs to be accomplished. There are lost, hungry, hurting children that need care. We are distracted by a great American party. View the movie scene HERE and click the “back” arrow to come back here to see how we can wake up and help one of these precious boys.
How much do we (including me) spend eating out per month? How much do we (including me) spend just going to a movie? How many shoes do we (including me–my weakness) have in our closets. If once a month we just gave up buying one restaurant experience, one movie theater experience, one extra pair of shoes…(I know I’m there!), we could sponsor one needy child and impact him for life.
If you are interested in sponsoring one of these boys below, you can go HERE to my personal ambassador page on the Family Legacy Missions website. The cost is $40 a month with an initial $85 school enrollment fee.
Our friends who sponsored two of our boys from last year made the following comment, “What joy for us to get to share with them. Ellen, thanks for inviting us into these relationships and for being our hands and feet and heart in connecting with our boys.”
Please consider sharing your life of abundance with a boy in need.
Evans (with a long “e”) Kafula is a little fireball. He’s not the youngest of the group at 11 years old, but he’s the shortest. He doesn’t know his actual birthdate (very common) and he’s in 2nd grade. Evans goes to a Government school, which is not too bad. There are about 50 kids per class and they attend fours hours a day—a shift of kids in the morning and a shift in the afternoon. He likes all school subjects. Evans lives with his mother, stepfather and grandmother. His father vanished. His mother doesn’t work and his stepfather was fired as a driver for a construction company. He does feel loved by the stepfather. Evans is the first born with three younger sisters. His family is healthy and they eat one meal a day (supper). What scares Evans most is death. He wants to be a soldier when he grows up but I beg to defer, as Evans (with a long e) is a little dynamo. He has a keen understanding of God and when fervently prayed for Hudson and me, he sounded like a little preacher man.
Humphry Yakata is quiet, with a sweet little boy’s voice. He’s the youngest, at 8 years old. He doesn’t know his birthdate and he’s in 2nd grade at a Community school (a Community school is typically run by an untrained teacher with kids of all ages rotating through every two hours). His favorite subject is Language. Humphry lives with both of his parents and three younger sisters. His family is healthy and he sleeps on the floor (which is typically a dirt floor with a dirty rug or a cement floor with a rug). They eat 3X a day, which is rare. What makes him sad is when he gets sick, which happens often. When I asked him if he believes on Jesus, he said, “Yes, I love Jesus.” He feels loved by his family and God. His prayer need is that he would be a generous giver, he would not fight, and he would go to church.
Robert Phiri is the boy I am most concerned about. He’s the one who seemed least joyful and with good reason. He’s 11 years old, but doesn’t know his birthdate and he’s in 3rd grade at a Community school. He enjoys art and math. He lives with his grandparents with an older irresponsible brother. They live with the grandparents to help in their aging years. His grandfather is a security guard and his mother lives on the other side of the compound selling groundnuts. He sleeps on the floor and sometimes they eat. He doesn’t feel loved by the grandmother who often beats him, especially if he plays with his friends and doesn’t stay home to help. His mother doesn’t know that the grandmother beats him, although he feels loved by his mother. In the large group, during Camp LIFE, there was a skit about an orphan boy who was rejected by his extended family. Robert said he felt the same as the boy in the skit. He prayed with me to receive Christ into his heart, and his prayer need is for a better living situation. This young boy cannot be a playful boy because he has so much obligated responsibility on his shoulders.
John Mumba is a double orphan (meaning he’s lost both his parents). He’s 11 years old and in 3rd grade. He lives with his aunt of whom he feels loved by, along with an uncle, and sisters. They treat him well and they are healthy but his three-year-old sister gets sick often. John sleeps on the floor and they eat 1X a day but he often sleeps without food. He goes to a Government school and he loves all subjects and his teacher. He wants to manage a company when he grows up. John prayed to receive Christ in his heart with joy and gladness! His face was aglow. His prayer needs are that he doesn’t have bad dreams. He often dreams he’s being snatched away.
Earnest Siyame was the biggest boy of the bunch (we had to keep going up in shoe sizes to find him the right shoes on the last day). He is 12 years old and in the 4th grade. He doesn’t know his birthdate. His mother died and he lives with his grandma, whom he feels loved by, and his father who is older but looking for a job. Both his grandma and father get sick often. Their food situation is difficult and he often feels dizzy with stomach upset. He sleeps on socks on the floor. Evans goes to a Community school and he enjoys all subjects and his teacher. When he grows up he wants to be a Busa (Pastor) but they do not go to church often. What pains him the most this their food situation and losing his mother. His prayer need is that he wants a bicycle to go back and forth to school and to become a Busa (Pastor).
Edward Mubanga is the smooth talker who often finagled me out of my camera so he could take snaps (photos)—much editing required. He doesn’t know his birthday but he is 12 years old and not in school, although he had the best English of the 10 boys. His mother died and his father works, but he withdrew Edward from school, probably so he could help make money and help with six younger siblings. He feels most loved by his siblings. Edward suffers from headaches and he sleeps on reeds. He wants to be a lawyer. I can see that with his smooth talking ways. What makes Edward feel sad is when he gets sick, and when his friends offend him. Edward prayed to receive Christ. His prayer need is that he could go to school and even be clever at school.
Davison Daka was a quiet boy at 11 years old and in 3rd grade. He lives with both parents and younger siblings. His father works in town but his mother does not. He is in a Community School and he likes all subjects. He feels loved by his parents. They eat 3X a day and he and his older cousin sleep at the grandmother’s house on a mattress. Davison often gets headaches. He wants to be a Pilot when he grows up. He feels loved by God and his prayer need is for the salvation of his family.
Kunda Sakala just turned 11 on July 4. He actually knew his birthdate as 7/4/01. He lives with his mother, two aunts and he has two siblings. His father died. His mother is a maid, as well as his aunts, so they are gone a lot. He’s in the 2nd grade at a Government school and his favorite subject is English. They eat 1X a day and his mother gets sick (even then she was sick). They go to church often. When he grows up he wants to be the boss of security guards. What scares him most is when people in his compound beat him. He feels loved by his mother. His prayer need is that he would stop insulting and fighting with people.
Elias Kakoma is a bright, sunshiny boy. He’s 12 years old and he knows his birthdate on 2/22/00. He’s in 4th grade and he goes to a Government school where he enjoys Math, English and Social Studies. Elias lives with both parents who are very industrious. His mother runs a small business of selling baby panty liners. She finds material and has a Taylor sew them. His father buys used clothes from town and trades them in the villages for items to sell. As a result they eat 3X a day. He has two brothers and a sister who is married. Elias often doesn’t feel well and he sleeps on a sofa. When he grows up Elias wants to be a pastor but he doesn’t go to church often. He feels loved most by his mommy, father, and uncle. Elias prayed to receive Christ in his heart. His prayer needs are that he won’t have nightmares, especially when he hears people talk about Satan and witchcraft in the compound.
Moffat Banda was quiet and pleasant. He’s 9 years old but doesn’t know his birthdate and he’s in the 3rd grade. He lives with both parents and an older sister. He doesn’t know what his father does for work but his mother is a maid. Moffat goes to a Government school and he likes all the subjects. They eat 2 to 3X a day. He feels very loved by his entire family and by God. He goes to church but only when he has clothes to wear. Moffat wants to be a teacher when he grows up and his prayer need is to live life well with peace. | <urn:uuid:c13daf00-b8b1-4e7a-99d4-5250b03e6195> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://yourockmom.net/category/a-heart-for-home | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00071-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.990229 | 2,497 | 1.507813 | 2 |
A Look at Key Moments in the GOP DebatePosted by erik devaney
ROCHESTER, Mich. (AP) — Key moments in Wednesday night’s GOP presidential debate:
Texas Gov. Rick Perry struggled to remember the names of the three federal agencies that he would eliminate if elected president.
“Commerce, Education and the — what’s the third one there? Let’s see,” Perry said.
Texas Rep. Ron Paul chimed in, “EPA?” referring to the Environmental Protection Agency. Perry said, “EPA, there you go.”
Debate moderator John Harwood asked Perry if EPA was the third agency he was talking about, prompting the Texas governor to stumble some more. “The third agency of government I would — I would do away with, Education, the … Commerce and let’s see. I can’t. The third one, I can’t. Sorry. Oops.”
Perry later said the third agency he would eliminate was the Energy Department.
The debate audience at Oakland University groaned when businessman Herman Cain was asked about sexual harassment allegations while he led the National Restaurant Association during the 1990s.
Cain said Americans “deserve better than someone being tried in the court of public opinion based on unfounded accusations.” Asked about the allegations, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney said people could “make their own assessment” about his Republican rival.
When Harwood turned to former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman and said, “let me switch back to the economy,” the crowd cheered.
Europe Economic Jitters:
The Republican field said the United States could face the same debt and economic woes as Europe if it doesn’t cut debt and reduce spending. And they were in unison that Europe was on its own if they won the White House.
Cain said there was not much the U.S. could do to help Italy, Europe’s third-largest economy teetering on economic ruin. “They’re really way beyond the point of return,” Cain said.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney said Europe was “able to take care of their own problems. We don’t want to step in and try and bail out their banks and bail out their governments. They have the capacity to deal with that themselves.”
By the end of the night, “Princess Nancy” was a trending topic on Twitter.
Businessman Herman Cain gave House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., the “princess” moniker, saying she blocked Republican efforts to repeal the Democrats’ health care overhaul. Cain later apologized, telling CNBC he “probably should not have made” that comment.
A nickname for Obama’s campaign strategist, David Axelrod, also resurfaced at the Republican debate. Rep. Michele Bachmann, D-Minn., criticized Obama’s ability to create jobs, saying the president “continues to go to a General Axelrod in Chicago to look for his orders to figure out how to deal with the economy.”
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Outdoor Camps and Skills Clinics
From our largest urban cities to our smallest traditional village, Alaska has unparalleled opportunities to use and enjoy abundant fish and wildlife resources. Outdoor activities such as hunting, fishing and viewing are all vital parts of our heritage and provide people with many outdoor recreation experiences each year and generate billions of dollars for Alaska’s economy. We know that getting outdoors helps people lead happier and healthier lives, both through increased physical activity and the consumption of healthy wild foods.
Being a confident, competent, and ethical outdoors person requires knowledge and skills. Not everyone learned these skills as a youth, and even seasoned outdoors people have plenty to learn. Nature and outdoor skills offer a lifetime of study that can be enjoyed individually or as a family. Whether you want to learn about fishing, hunting, the habitats and landscapes of Alaska, archery, or outdoor survival skills, we offer something for everyone.
Our camps and skills clinics teach people how to safely and responsibly fish, hunt, trap and participate in other outdoor-related activities. They are also designed to promote an understanding of Alaska’s fish and wildlife conservation and management principles. There are opportunities available for people of all ages and abilities. We encourage you to join us in discovering more about Alaska’s outdoor heritage and activities.
Take a look through our pages and see if there is anything that interests you. We offer camps and clinics for youth, women, and for the general public. Get outdoors and keep learning!
- For Kids & Youth: ADF&G helps sponsor several summer learning opportunities around the state for youth. In Fairbanks: Alaska Conservation Camp (ages 11-16) and Camp Habitat (ages 4-11). In Anchorage: Youth Days (ages 10-14).
- For Women: Learn about Becoming an Outdoors Women (BOW), Women in the Outdoors (WITO) and Women on Target (WOT).
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"In Phoenix, we had a situation where some of the emergency vehicles were changing out batteries every 8-10 months, and when they switched to Odysseys, they have pretty much more than doubled their life," Jana says. "In the City of Seattle, they actually did, completely without our knowledge, they ran the Odyssey battery for about 18 months and called us and said, ‘We as a city are going to be switching 100 percent to Odyssey batteries.'"
Another advantage of duals for vehicles that must be kept on the road for long durations is preventing catastrophic failure—something Jana says is fairly common with traditional batteries.
"You could have a perfectly good start this morning, but this evening the battery could be dead," he says. "You would have to periodically go in and (check) the battery, and if you're not on the ball you could literally dry out the battery and cause major problems."
Jana says if drivers or technicians are paying attention, as the battery ages they will be able to tell if the quality of start is slowly degrading.
"Is it grinding the motor a little bit longer?" he says. "Is it becoming a little more difficult to start the engine in cold weather? The battery will give you enough advanced warning to say, ‘It's time to change the battery.'"
When there are starting issues, Purkey says many technicians simply install a battery with higher cranking capacity to try to alleviate the problem.
"They think that it is a capacity issue, which it is, but they fix the wrong capacity issue," he says. "They go to a high CCA battery that has more and thinner plates per element. They get more energy out, but this battery will not cycle nearly as well because of the thinner plates."
Installing a more powerful alternator to solve the problem is another common mistake, Purkey says, and avoids fixing the root cause.
"People don't understand the damage," he says. "They know they cycle and they know it's bad, so they buy a bigger amp alternator, but that doesn't fix the depth of (battery) discharge, it just helps recover faster. The damage is already done. But that discharge level is the critical factor, and they never change that. That's what's draining the battery."
Purkey says in the end, it's all about knowing the basics.
"With all the electronic stuff, it's still going to be fundamentals—if your electric system cannot perform and keep the voltage up, these systems will not run," he says. "It's a like a computer; it crashes."
CHECK THOSE CABLES
Perhaps the biggest basic mistake technicians make when attempting to diagnose electrical system problems is forgetting about the battery cables. When fleet managers thank Travis Hopkey and his colleagues at the Santa Fe Springs, CA-based truck parts supplier Phillips Industries for the company's new CLEAR-VU™ battery cables, he can in turn thank them. A few years ago, the idea came up in discussions with managers and was met with great response. Now, they are playing a key role in helping technicians check electrical systems more efficiently.
The problem with battery cables, Hopkey says, is what the technician doesn't see.
"Over time, in a corrosive environment with the magnesium chloride and calcium chloride they're putting on the roads in the wintertime, that stuff gets everywhere and finds its way into the tiniest of cracks to connectors that aren't properly sealed and it never really dries," Hopkey says. "If you've got an old cable, a bad cable, an improperly sealed cable; the stuff will find its way in there and will start wicking through the wire, so the battery cable starts to corrode and you just don't notice it."
Corroded wires strip needed electricity, and from there it does not take long to start affecting the entire electrical system.
"We've done some testing (in salt spray) where after 350 hours of voltage capacity the entire system drops down 12 percent, and after 750 hours it's more than 25 percent, which really puts some serious strain on alternators," Hopkey says. "If the system's not getting the proper charge at the proper voltage, bad things happen."
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Parkour was born in the banlieues (suburbs) of Paris in the 1980s and has become one of the world’s fastest growing sports. While often recognized from the fantastic images seen on YouTube or television, the sport is actually a form of movement that has roots in a wide variety of physical disciplines including gymnastics, martial arts, climbing, and athletics. Practitioners, known as traceurs, train to develop strength, speed, endurance, precision, spatial awareness, dynamism, and creativity, in order to be as fluid, functional and liberated as possible in physical movement and to overcome physical obstacles. Traceurs also develop a way of thinking based on rigorous self-discipline, autonomous action and self-will that allows them to overcome mental obstacles related to their movements. Classes will include instruction in the basic movements of parkour, as well as strengthening and conditioning exercises to ensure the long-term practice of the sport. Classes are open to students of ALL abilities and fitness levels but special focus will be given to beginners wishing to learn the fundamentals of parkour, get a great workout, and have fun! All classes will be taught by ADAPT-certified instructors. | <urn:uuid:70ac4bf9-9087-4b0f-bd69-17905faa92f8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.somervillerec.com/info/activities/program_details.aspx?ProgramID=29646 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00014-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966745 | 242 | 2.484375 | 2 |
The companies making new homeland security devices, such as bomb detectors and biological weapon alarms, want the government to pick up the tab if their products fail and they are sued.
And in the midst of an aggressive lobbying blitz, they have found a key ally in Congress.
Rep. Tom Davis, the fourth ranking Republican in the House and head of a key subcommittee on technology and federal contracting, plans to have the provision attached to the Homeland Security authorization bill making its way through Congress.
His amendment would indemnify defense and technology contractors who make the devices so that the government would pick up the tab for any liability judgments that exceed the contractor's insurance coverage.
The industry helped draft a version of the plan and has sent executives to Capitol Hill to make its case. The technology industry also has been generous to Davis, with more than $120,000 in donations going to him since January of last year. Davis represents a district in northern Virginia, a region that boasts numerous defense and technology companies.
The pitch from the contractors is straightforward -- companies that develop new antiterrorism technologies with life-and-death consequences could be driven out of business if they are sued due to a product failure.
"There needs to be a backup mechanism from the government, otherwise the company is betting the company every time it bids on one of these contracts,'' said Harris Miller, president of the Information Technology Association of America.
The trade group represents many of the government's largest contractors, including EDS Corp. and IBM.
Defense contractor Northrop Grumman, another backer of the legislation, said that it may not be able to bid on a Postal Service contract for a biohazard detection device unless the company is indemnified.
"The unintended consequence of even a single failure in a well-intended system or device we might provide could result in significant legal exposure that could financially ruin a company," Northrop Grumman president Ronald D. Sugar said in congressional testimony delivered last month.
Davis' office said his amendment is needed to ensure companies are willing to take the risk in developing and deploying new technologies critical to Americans' safety.
"Davis' legislation will be based on the premise that Congress should ensure the availability of technologies that could make people and facilities across the nation less vulnerable to terrorist threats," spokesman David Marin said.
There is no limit on what the government may have to pay out, but there would be no federal payment if there were "willful misconduct" by the contractor.
Consumer groups are wary about the message the plan could send to corporate America.
"I assume Americans want the very best out there," said Bob Hunter, an insurance expert at the Consumer Federation of America. "One of the ways we get the very best is that people are liable if they don't produce the best. To have the taxpayer on the hook instead of the company will lead to less quality."
Still, there is some precedent for the Davis legislation.
The government can already indemnify contractors against claims when it buys technology for its own use, such as in national defense. But there is no such protection if the products are sold to commercial purchasers, like an airport or office building, or to state and local governments.
Miller, of the technology trade association, said the legislation is no different than the payments made to the families of those killed in last year's terrorist attacks.
"The people would demand that the government pay for it anyhow," Miller said. "We might as well formalize the process up front."
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Funded by the Welsh Assembly Government’s Wales for Africa Framework and managed by Wales Council for Voluntary Action (WCVA) the Gold Star project is expected to reflect considerable benefits to Welsh communities as well as to Africa.
Hosted by First Minister Rhodri Morgan, the event will highlight the contribution being made by the five towns successfully selected to pilot the linking scheme with their African partners, who will be joined at the Senedd by representatives from across Wales looking to join the new Gold Star network to develop links with Africa.
First Minister, Rhodri Morgan said the people of Wales were renowned for their internationalist outlook and their desire to help those elsewhere in the world less fortunate than us living in Wales.
Devolution has strengthened that interest in the great big world outside Wales. I am pleased to say that this groundbreaking project is testament to that interest in the rest of the world.
All over Wales, thousands of people are active in their own way to support international development. Through the Wales for Africa Framework, the Welsh Assembly Government is giving those people in Wales with an interest in poor continents a real chance to get involved and to have the right professional back-up.
More than a billion people in the world live in on less than $1 a day, and in a world of growing wealth, such levels of human suffering and wasted potential are unacceptable. In linking Welsh and African communities in this way and helping to develop education and poverty reduction schemes we are bringing the global community closer and closer together. It also helps us realise that getting rid of poverty will make for a better world for everybody.
This wonderful programme will help to make sure there’s a welcome in the hillside in both the Welsh valleys and Africa’s Great Rift Valley.
Together they will contribute to the creation of a ‘Gold Star’ framework of standards and good practise in linking, aligned to the UN’s Millennium Development Goals on poverty reduction. The Wales pilot is being developed with the support of the UN, to produce a model for recognising and spreading quality community partnerships that address issues such as fair and just trade, climate change and the environment, children’s rights and social inclusion.
Gold Star Project Manager Craig Owen said:
This is about making real the seemingly distant challenge of global development by enabling communities in Wales and sub-Saharan Africa to connect, to share ideas and beliefs, tackle stereotypes and solve mutual challenges.
Dr. Geoff Lloyd, Chair of PONT, the Pontypridd – Mbale (Uganda) Link, said:
The Link has been a life-changing experience for over 120 people from different walks of life – doctors, teachers, engineers, churches, business people - who have been involved in exchanges with Uganda, providing opportunities for professional development, skills exchanges and education here in Rhondda Cynon Taff.
It has also allowed us to see a direct impact on poverty through training health workers, providing malaria nets and setting up a Coalition Against Poverty in both communities - making a real difference to the the lives of people and friends who we see as equals. We have as much to learn from them, as they do from us.
The launch will also feature music from Cardiff based group ‘Love Africa’ and speeches from WCVA Chief Executive Graham Benfield, OBE, Gold Star Project Manager Craig Owen and Director ABESU, the Wales – Zambia Link, Mutale Nyoni.
The Gold Star project has been endorsed by South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
The work you’re doing in communities in Wales and Africa on the Millennium Development Goals is marvellous,’ he said. ‘Keep your passion going, and you will change the world!
Notes to editors:
• The Gold Star Project is a pilot between the Wales Civil Society MDGs (Millennium Development Goals) Task Force (membership below) and BUILD UK (Building Understanding through International Links in Development), funded by the Assembly Government’s Wales for Africa framework, managed by and delivered through WCVA (Wales Council for Voluntary Action). Active participants include the British Council, ContinYou, Dolen Cymru Wales – Lesotho Link, Network of Development Researchers, Oxfam Cymru, Save The Children Wales, TUC Wales, Wales Somaliland Link, Wales Association of County Voluntary Councils, the Welsh Centre for International Affairs and Welsh Refugee Council.
• Pilot communities for the Gold Star Project are: Brecon – Molo (Kenya), Brynycwm (Abergavenny area) – Yirgacheffe (Ethiopia), Crymych (Pembrokeshire) – Hlotse (Lesotho), Hay on Wye – Timbuktu (Mali), Pontypridd – Mbale (Uganda)
• Associate Projects include: Blaenau Gwent – Endonisidai (Kenya), Cardiff and Vale Health Link – N’djamena (Chad), Conwy – Mafia Island (Tanzania), Powys - MDGs Network, Somaliland – Wales Link, St David’s – Mafeteng (Lesotho), Swansea - Paynesville (Liberia), Swansea – Swaziland, Torfaen / Newport – Masvingo (Zimbabwe), Ynys Mon – Matsieng (Lesotho)
• The Gold Star Project will be launching online from Tuesday, 16 October at www.goldstarcommunities.org.uk. For further information contact Project Manager Craig Owen at WCVA on 029 2043 1700.
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• • In your opinion, which of the following will be the biggest threat to the country in the future... big business, big labor, or big government?
One chart says it all.
64 percent believe big government, which has gotten far bigger over the last three years, especially with Obamacare being passed by Obama and Democrats when they controlled the House of Representatives, Senate and the White House, is a bigger threat to the country in the future.
Only 26 percent feel big business in the bigger threat and just 8 percent said big labor.
More concerning to Democratic leaders and Obama should be the Gallup finding a little farther down in the report.
While top Democratic leaders and Obama continue to try to grow big government bigger, Democratic voters are starting to fear big government more and more.
Since 2009, there has been a 16 percentage point increase in Democrats believing "big government is the biggest threat to the nation." In 2009 that number was only 32 percent, now it is 48 percent.
Gallup's bottom line:
Americans' concerns about the threat of big government are near record-high levels. The Occupy Wall Street movement, focused on "fighting back against the corrosive power of major banks and multinational corporations," has drawn much attention and a large following. Still, the majority of Americans do not view big business as the greatest threat to the country when asked to choose among big business, big government, and big labor. In fact, Americans' concerns about big business have declined significantly since 2009.
Over the last few decades Democratic and Republican lawmakers have been guilty of expanding government but in the 2010 midterm elections, GOP politicians were handed control of the House of Representatives and given a net gain in Senate seats, because they campaigned and promised to spend less, fight tax increases, and limit big government expansions.
They have fought to keep those promises in the last year and Conservative voters have held their feet to the fire to make sure they continue to do so.
Democratic leaders, led by Obama, continue to try to raise taxes and push for more stimulus aka government spending or "investment", showing they did not learn the lesson of the 2010 midterms or simply chose to ignore it.
The White House has raised the stakes in the negotiations over the renewal of $200bn in stimulus measures for the US economy, seeking to link their fate to separate legislation to fund the government.
The move by Barack Obama, the president, marks a high-risk attempt to corral Republicans into a compromise in Washington’s end-of-year fiscal warfare, since it increases the odds that some federal agencies could shut down as early as Saturday.
The White House has been pressing Congress for months to pass an extension of payroll tax cuts and emergency jobless benefits that are due to expire at the end of the month, on the grounds that if they lapsed it would do serious damage to the US economy.
Republicans have accepted the need to preserve these forms of stimulus in 2012. But the bill they proposed – and will be voting on Tuesday in the House of Representatives – does so in a way that the White House and many congressional Democrats reject. It pays for the measures by curbing the pay of federal workers, rather than imposing higher taxes on wealthy Americans as Democrats want. It also includes several other provisions – primarily an expedited approval process for the controversial Keystone XL pipeline project – that Democrats are opposed to.
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Fading light dims the sight,
And a star gems the sky,
From afar drawing nigh,
Falls the night.
Day is done, gone the sun,
From the lake, From the hills,
From the sky.
All is well, safely rest,
God is nigh.
Then good night, Peaceful night,
Till the light of the dawn
God is near, do not fear,
Friend, good night.
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Signed by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera Hanna-Barbera is an American animation studio that dominated North American television animation during the second half of the 20th century. The company was originally formed in 1944 by MGM animation directors William Hanna and Joseph Barbera and live-action director George Sidney as H-B Enterprises in order to produce sponsored films and later television commercials.
After MGM shut down its animation studio in 1957, H-B Enterprises became Hanna and Barbera's full-time job, and the company was re-named Hanna-Barbera Productions in 1960. Over the next three decades, Hanna-Barbera Productions produced many successful cartoon shows, including The Huckleberry Hound Show, The Flintstones, Top Cat, The Yogi Bear Show, The Jetsons, Jonny Quest, Scooby-Doo, and The Smurfs, many of which would go on to become icons of Western pop culture. In the mid-1980s, the company's fortunes declined somewhat after the profitability of Saturday morning cartoons were eclipsed by weekday afternoon syndication.
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For years, dreams baffled the human minds. From being believed that they are predictions for the future, to knowing that they are important physiological and psychological functions that reflect the content both of our conscious and subconscious mind, dreams have been understood and interpreted differently.
Different cultures and civilizations have gathered myths and facts about dreams. Today, we’re going to concentrate on some of the amazing facts (and more), and we’ve listed some of them here:
1. It’s Raining Men
Contrary to what you probably expect, men actually dream with 70 % of the characters in it as other men, this goes to both straight and gay. Women on the other hand have equal % of gender in their dreams.
2. Sleeping Beauty
On the average, 6 years of your total life time is spent on dreaming. Day dreaming isn’t accounted for in that number, only regular sleep and occasional naps.
3. Rome vs Greece
The in ancient Rome, people submit some of their dreams in their Senate so that the council can interpret it. Nowadays, people consult dream interpreters and you’ve guessed it, the Internet. Ancient Greeks regarded dreams as important messages from gods, and they would at times sleep on divine locations and sacred places like altars or shrines to summon dreams.
4. Book of Dreams
The oldest book about dreams is called the Beatty Papyrus. It is actually a dream dictionary which dates back to 1350 B.C. Today there are about more almost 600 thousand books about dreams in Amazon alone, that’s a lot of books to put you into sleep.
5. First Born Dreams
According to researches, birth order plays an influence in your dreams. First born individuals tend to be more aggressive in their dreams. Analysts say this is probably due to imposed roles to first-borns by families to be more dominant. This means that first-borns would usually have action-packed dreams where they play as the hero while non first-borns would have something a little less eccentric and a little bit subtle.
6. Color of Dreams
Before the invention of color television, people dreams are in black and white. So people who lived during the age of black and white TVs, that’ll be your grandmothers and grandfathers always dreamed in black and white. Think of how modern day 3D TVs will affect dreams of our kids.
7. Dreaming in the Dark
Not all dreams involve images; some dreams are experience through other senses: smell, touch and sound. Such is the case of visually impaired individuals. People who lost their sight after being able to recognize images can dream with images, that is visual dreams. Those who are born without the ability of sight on the other hand have their dreams via other senses.
8. Face Recall
You can only see faces of people in your dreams that you’ve already seen in real life. There is no chance for your brain to reconstruct a never before seen face in your dreams. You might just not remember all of these faces because they could be stored in your subconscious mind, plus we see hundreds of faces everyday – TV, paper, streets, internet etc.
Psychologists think that there is a clear link between dreaming in your sleep and daydreaming. Dreaming in your sleep may involve a link to both your natural and real and unnatural and unreal experiences, daydreaming on the other hand may only focus on your natural experiences, those with reference to actual situations. Of course there are some people that can differentiate the two.
10. Dream Memory
People forget half of their dreams within 5 minutes from waking up. Only 10% will still be in your conscious memory after 10 minutes. However there are simple tricks and techniques to help you recall your dream such as waking up during your REM state, or having a notebook beside your bed that allows your take notes of your dream seconds after waking up.
There is also one research suggesting that sleeping on comfortable location on tempurpedic beds can help you remember your dream.
11. Dream of Free Falling
The dream involving you on a free fall is actually pretty common. And according to researchers, it affects many mammals. The free falling feeling is actually muscle spasm called myoclonic jerk, but if this free falling feeling happens when you’re wide awake, then it could mean trouble as in a serious sleep related neurological syndromes or other disorders like Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease.
12. Baby Dreams
Babies and even fetuses have dreams. Scientists say that although they lack visual images in their dreams much like how a person with visual impairment dreams, theirs comprised of delicate sound and touch sensations.
13. Sleep Paralysis
The phenomenon of sleep paralysis may be scary, but it is not uncommon. It is associated with sudden paralysis of a part of your body, usually arms and/or legs. Nearly 40% of the world’s population experiences the phenomenon. It usually happens when a person wakes up in the middle of deep sleep or REM sleep. While advanced manifestation of sleep paralysis may be linked to narcolepsy and sleep apnea, it is no way linked to demonic visitations, as once thought during the ancient times.
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Camlet, also commonly known as
camelot or camblet, is a woven fabric that might have
originally been made of camel or goat's hair, now chiefly of goat's hair and silk, or of wool and cotton. The
original form of this cloth was very valuable; the term later came
to be applied to imitations of the original eastern fabric.
In the 18th century, England, France, Holland, and Flanders were the chief places of its
exceeded them all in the beauty and quality of its camlets,
followed by England.
A variety of terms have been used for camlet in different
- Figured camlets are those of one color, on which are
stamped various figures, flowers, foliages, etc. The figures were
applied with hot irons, passed together with the fabric, under a
press. In the 18th century, these were chiefly brought from Amiens and Flanders. In antiquity, figured camlets were
much more sought after than in modern times.
- Water camlets are those which, after weaving, received
a certain preparation with water; and were afterwards passed under
a hot press, giving them a smoothness and lustre.
- Waved camlets are those on which waves have been
impressed, as on tabbies.
Manufacturers of camlets had to take care not to introduce any
unnecessary pleats in the fabric, as they were almost impossible to
undo. This difficulty was so notorious, that a proverb existed,
stating that someone "is like a camlet—he has taken his pleat."
The origin of the term is uncertain. While certain authors
reference camlets as originally being made of camel hair, others
believe it is from the Arabic seil el kemel, the Angora goat.
derived the word from zambelot, a Levantine term for stuffs
made with the fine hair of a Turkish goat, probably the Angora
goat, from which comes the term Turkish camelot. Bochart claimed
zambelot was a corruption from Arabic. Others called it
capellote, from capelle, she-goat. Still others
have sourced camelot from the bare Latin camelus,
so that camelot should properly signify a fabric made of
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. 1913.
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"Camlet". Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford University
Press. 2nd edition. 1989.
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Financial Giants Turning Into 'Zombie Banks': Whitney
CNBC.com Senior Writer
The top U.S. financial institutions have become zombie banks that will need a decade to adjust their businesses to the new realities in the industry, analyst Meredith Whitney told CNBC.
In banking parlance, zombies have little net worth but are backed by the government and continue to meet their obligations.
Amid an environment in which new regulations demand that banks hold more capital and lending demand is uneven and likely to be taken over by smaller institutions, Whitney said the big companies face major challenges.
"The large banks which dominate most of the lending in the United States are effectively zombie banks," she said. "You've got an expense structure that just doesn't match the revenue structure. So it's a classic issue of negative operating leverage. You don't buy institutions that have negative operating leverage. This is a multi-year cycle that these guys will have to go through."
She said the term applies as well to stressed European banks such as Societe Generale that were sustaining heavy losses Wednesday amid credit concerns.
Getting back to normal probably will take large institutions, such as Bank of America , 10 years as they cope with a new regulatory environment that will demand banks change focus and cut size, Whitney added.
Following the financial crisis in 2008 and 2009, Congress took a scalpel to banking regulations, passing the Dodd-Frank reform law that requires the winddown of too-big-to-fail institutions, raises capital requirements and implements broad changes to fee structures.
In the case of BofA, Whitney praised CEO Brian Moynihan, who has come under fire as the company's shares have tumbled nearly 40 percent in the past month and more than 53 percent in the past year. Moynihan defended his performance in a CNBC interviewTuesday.
She called him "the right guy for the job" but said he faces challenges that will become familiar to the rest of the industry.
Bank of America is hardly alone with its problems. Citigroup shares hit a 12-month low Wednesday while Morgan Stanley hit its lowest price in nearly two and a half years.
And BNY Mellon announced it is cutting 1,500 jobs, or 3 percent of its workforce.
Yet Whitney said the situation now is different than 2008, the year after she rose to notoriety for warning that Citi would have to write down billions in toxic assets on its balance sheet.
"It actually reminds me more of the '70s than 2008. I think the market's actually harder now than it was in 2008 because it's a constant beatdown," she said. "There are structural economic problems that we face...huge swings in the face of uncertainty.
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Atmospheric particles change in a wide area around clouds
April 1, 2011 — Click on image to enlarge.
How do aerosol particles change in the vicinity of clouds? Figure 1 shows that areas near clouds occupy a large segment of all clear-sky regions, which implies that understanding aerosols near clouds is essential for understanding the role of aerosols in our climate. Comparison of the two panels in Figure 2 reveals that NASA’s CALIPSO lidar observes both stronger light scattering and increased particle size near clouds. (Particle size is closely related to color ratio.) The increases arise from processes such as aerosol particles swelling up in the humid air that surrounds clouds. Figure 3 shows that the increase in particle scattering is substantial and typically exceeds 40% within 5 km of clouds. The finding that particle changes in the transition zone are sufficiently prevalent to impact even global statistics highlight the importance of better understanding of these changes, and considering them both in the interpretation of satellite data and in climate simulations. The ultimate goal is to help reduce some of the largest sources of uncertainties in understanding human impacts on climate: aerosol-cloud inter-actions and aerosols reflecting or absorbing sunlight. | <urn:uuid:cb5cf063-7a00-475b-bbfe-a9eb12ffdf06> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://atmospheres.gsfc.nasa.gov/climate/index.php?section=148 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00069-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.919001 | 237 | 3.53125 | 4 |
Andrew Handler. A Man for All Connections: Raoul Wallenberg and the Hungarian State Apparatus, 1944-1945. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1996. xiv + 123 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-275-95214-3.
Reviewed by Thomas Sakmyster (University of Cincinnati)
Published on HABSBURG (June, 1996)
Wallenberg in Hungary
The purpose of this short study (only 116 pages of text and footnotes) is to provide the Hungarian political context for the humanitarian mission of Raoul Wallenberg in Budapest in the last months of World War II. Andrew Handler contends that the previous studies of Wallenberg have created "misleading images and perceptions" and have led to "inaccurate interpretations and conclusions" (p. x). He emphasizes the key role of various representatives of the Hungarian state apparatus as collaborators, to a greater or lesser degree, with Wallenberg, and asserts that without the covert aid of such individuals Wallenberg's efforts would have had little or no success.
The first four of the five chapters of the book are devoted to a sketch of the Hungarian regime between the wars and political developments during World War II. The author, himself a Hungarian survivor of the Holocaust, emphasizes the relatively favorable treatment of Jews in Hungary compared to wartime conditions elsewhere in Nazi-dominated Europe. His treatment of the material in this section of the book is workmanlike, but he has little new to say and in effect he merely summarizes the findings of such scholars as Randolph Braham and Gyorgy Ranki. However, there are some major omissions in the secondary sources Handler has consulted. He makes very little use of the pioneering work of C.A. Macartney, and seems unaware of the important books of Mario Fenyo on Hungary in World War II and Margit Szollosi-Janze on the Arrow Cross Movement. My own study of Admiral Horthy and his regime apparently appeared too late for Handler to use. Because the author has not made a systematic study of the secondary literature, his narrative lacks comprehensiveness and his interpretations are at times problematical.
The fifth chapter, in which Handler focuses more directly on the activities of Wallenberg, contains more useful and interesting material. Here he examines the complex story of how Wallenberg bargained and negotiated with representatives of the Arrow Cross regime of Ferenc Szalasi. Making good use of recently published memoirs and the records of the trials of Szalasi and his colleagues in 1946, Handler throws new light particularly on the role played by the Foreign Minister, Gabor Kemeny; and by a journalist, Pal Szalai. Yet here too the author's account is far from comprehensive, and neither here, nor in a one-page conclusion, does he convincingly argue the point that Wallenberg could not have succeeded without the assistance of these individuals. Given the title of the book, surprisingly little attention is paid to the actual activities of Wallenberg in Budapest. Moreover, the sources Handler employs to construct his narrative in this chapter are quite narrow in scope. He relies almost exclusively on Jeno Levai's study of Wallenberg, which was published in 1948. There is considerable merit to Handler's argument that Levai's book is an important source that has been overlooked by those who have written about Wallenberg, most of whom could not read Hungarian. Yet many of the dozens of books on Wallenberg in the last two decades contain much useful information, some from Swedish archives. Handler simply ignores these works, as well as an important article by Eva Szabo, a Hungarian historian, that deals specifically with the Hungarian context of Wallenberg's mission.
Andrew Handler is the author of a number of valuable books on aspects of the history of the Jews in modern Hungary, including an important study of Gyozo Istoczy, the founder of modern Hungarian anti-Semitism. The book under review, however, is a disappointment. It is poorly edited (for example, in chapter four the footnotes are not synchronized with the text) and ultimately adds little to our understanding of the topic. The important material could have been condensed into a journal article. Those interested in the mysteries surrounding Wallenberg's mission in Budapest would do better to turn to a book recently published in Hungary , where it is suggested that Wallenberg was working closely with certain Hungarian military officers active in the anti-Nazi resistance. These officers apparently persuaded Wallenberg to accept for safekeeping a group of resistance records, including material on the Katyn Forest massacre provided by Polish officers hiding in Hungary. The Swedish Embassy safe in which Wallenberg deposited these documents was later opened by the Russians, and it is possible that the discovery of such sensitive material led to Wallenberg's arrest and abduction to the Soviet Union.
Mario Fenyo, Hitler, Horthy, and Hungary. German-Hungarian Relations, 1941-1944 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1972); Margit Szollosi-Janze, Die Pfeilkreuzlerbewegung in Ungarn (Munich: Oldenbourg, 1989).
Thomas Sakmyster, Hungary's Admiral on Horseback. Miklos Horthy, 1919-1944 (Boulder: East European Monographs, 1994).
Jeno Levai, Raoul Wallenberg regenyes elete, hos kuzdelmei, rejtelyes eltunesenek titka (Budapest: Magyar Teka, 1948).
Gilbert Joseph, Mission sans retour. L'affaire Wallenberg (Paris: Albin Michel, 1982); Per Anger, With Raoul Wallenberg in Budapest (New York: Holocaust Library, 1981); Eva Szabo, "A magyarorszagi sved mento-akcio tortenetehez (1944," Tortenelmi Szemle, 30 (1987-88), 379-94.
Andrew Handler, An Early Blueprint for Zionism: Gyozo Istoczy's Political Anti-semitism (Boulder: New York: East European Monographs; Distributed by Columbia University Press, 1989). East European Monographs, No. 261.
Vilmos Bondor, A Miko-rejtely. Miko Zoltan es Raoul Wallenberg kapcsolata a magyar ellenallasban, 1944-45 (Budapest: Puski, 1996).
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As social creatures, humans must constantly monitor each other's intentions, beliefs, desires, and other mental states. A particularly important social skill is the ability to take another person's perspective and understand what the person knows, even when that knowledge may ultimately be false. Past research has shown that before the age of 4, children fail to pass standard tasks designed to measure false belief; however, new research has shown that very young children can pass nonverbal versions of false-belief tasks.
Paula Rubio-Fernández of University College London and Bart Geurts of the University of Nijmegen tested 3-year-old children using a standard false-belief task called the Smarties task and using an altered, more streamlined version of the false-belief task called the Duplo task. The Duplo task was designed to minimize disruptions in children's perspective-taking.
The researchers found that while only 22.7% of children passed the Smarties task, 80% of children passed the Duplo task. This suggests that 3-year-old children are able to pass a verbal false-belief task if they are able to keep track of the protagonist's perspective.
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As shopping online becomes more popular, it’s essential to take extra steps to protect your privacy online. Most companies track your movement on the web from your browsing history to your personal information you input. That’s why you need to erase your digital footprint and maintain some privacy online.
Security experts say the technology that makes our browsing experience exciting, also makes it risky. Websites form a profile of you based on the sites you visit. They track this information with “cookies.” The problem is, these cookies leave behind crumbs and it’s these crumbs that can cause damage if they end up in the wrong hands.
For a NewsChannel 5 story, I had security company, SecureState, analyze an average computer user’s system. Based on her browsing history, they found enough information to steal the woman’s identity. Click the video player below to see what we found.
Click below for simple things you can do to start browsing privately. It’ll take just a few seconds to start erasing your digital footprint.
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Thailand • Cambodia • Myanmar
Even after many years of performing cultural shows for tourists, the Rose Garden is still a popular destination and worth visiting
What is Thailand Rose Garden?
Good question! This is a cultural center, where every day, around 2.45 p.m., many people dress up in Thai costumes and perform for hundreds of tourists.
What is this show?
The show features separate local dances from different regions . Some of the dances are perform ed with Klong Yaw (long drum). In some shows, dancers wear nail extension and dance gently and slowly. Some shows feature dancers decorated with peacock feathers. It is all very colorful, and there is a meaning for everything. These dances have been used for celebrat ion in many regions of Thailand.
There are also demonstrations of Thai ceremonies such as Thai wedding and ordination. If you are thinking about marriage here or ordination, you may want to visit this place for an idea!
The most entertaining show, or my favorite show, is the demonstration of Thai Boxing . Another exciting show is the sword-fight from during the war. Did you know that the ancient Thais fought with two swords in their hands ? Is it similar to your country?
Apart from good shows, the Rose Garden consists of a beautiful resort and a great buffet lunch, and it also organizes special service such as wedding planning and catering.
Tour Name: Floating Market, Rose Garden and Cultural Show
Tour Code: BKK0115
6:30 - 6:45
Leave for Damnoensaduak Floating Market, situated 70 km west of Bangkok. On the way, stop by the sea salt farms to see how sea water becomes salt. Sea salt and dried salt fish are sold along the highway.
8:00 - 8.30
Visit the local market (train market), enjoy traditional Thai market, see how people make a living, see train get through the market
8:30 - 11:30
Take a small long boat to navigate your way through the Floating Market. The canal twists and turns around a plantation surrounded by green farms. Observe the interaction between people buying and selling commodities like meals, snacks, drinks and goods on boats
Have lunch at the Rose Garden
14:30 - 15:30
Visit the Rose Garden, which is a scenic country resort, situated 32 km outside of Bangkok. It consists of over 50 acres of tropical paradise flower gardens, orchards and a typical Thai Village Witness Ordination into the fingernail dance, Thai Boxing, hill tribe dancing, sword fighting, elephants at work and local fold dancing.
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- The package prices quoted per person are in Thai Baht based on twin share, including a private round trip airport transfer by air-conditioned car or minibus
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- Admission fee of the tour guide for the guide if applicant
- Accidental insurance
- Meal or drink
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- Credit card Charge
- Express way & parking Fee
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- Gratuities to the guide, driver and hotel's porter
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Posted by David John on April 14, 2004, at 11:24:07
In reply to Re: One Way to Rephrase, posted by Toph on April 13, 2004, at 10:40:13
> ...it dosent take much faith to believe the promises outlined in the gospels...
> David John, I puzzles me how you claim that Christian faith is so easy when Jesus' disciples lived with him, touched him, heard him speak, witnesses his miracles and ultimately betrayed him.>
Sorry I took so long to reply; Im unable to explain how they missed it, some thought Jesus would establish himself as a King and overthrough the Romans ...they asked dumb questions.
Peter denied knowing Jesus.The deciples couldnt stay awake prior to Jesus been betrayed by Judas...(only one deciple betrayed him)...the others seemed to be in a fog of sorts...I suppose Jesus was having some difficulity teaching the concept of faith to men and woman of the day...could be the religion of the day was and still is legalistic its very hard to "let go" and believe...what was normal during Jesus 3 years of ministery anyway. The Jewish people still deny that jesus was the messiah although today there is evidence close to %50 of rabbi's know that Jesus was the messiah...but have to remain quite about it for fear of severe repucussions.. So I suppose they are not much different to us in many ways....Nothings new
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Gift cards not best choice for teens’ gifts
Gift cards once again were among the most popular gifts this past holiday season for teens and other young consumers. And that means, once again, that millions of dollars worth of gift cards will go unspent, like so many lumps of coal.
According to the National Retail Federation, more than 80 percent of consumers purchased at least one gift card in 2012. But it’s a gift that’s often forgotten.
From 2005 to 2011, according to published reports, $41 billion on gift cards went unspent. It’s safe to say that many of those unused cards are buried in your teen’s dresser under a pile of socks.
That’s one reason why I’m not a big fan of this plastic. Many are never used, or are used once and forgotten even though there’s still a balance. Take my word for it: I have several gift cards that still have a few dollars and change on them.
My advice: If you’re going to give a card to your teen, college student or even a five-year-old, make sure it’s one that you’re dead certain will be used. I like to give gasoline gift cards to my college-age kids because I know it’s something they’ll need and every penny will be spent down to the last digit.
Federal rules established through the Credit Card Act of 2009 have ended some — but not all — of the confusion and bad business practices surrounding gift card expiration dates and nasty inactivity fees.
The law, which took effect in 2010, prohibits cards from expiring before five years and the levying of fees for one year. This information must also be clearly disclosed on the card or its packaging. So read the fine print. (Note: Rebate cards, which I wrote about last week, are exempt from these rules.)
Gift cards come primarily in two categories — store-branded cards and bank cards.
Store-branded cards can be used only at a specific retailer or groups of retailers generally owned by the same company. Bank gift cards, which carry the logo of MasterCard or Visa, for example, can be used wherever the brand is accepted.
Here are other key points about gift cards:
Cards will likely be worthless if the company goes out of business. That was a big issue when Borders closed its bookstores. So use the plastic before you lose it or forget about it.
If your card expires and there’s still money left on it, call the card company and ask for a new one. They must do this for free or return the remaining balance, according to financial website Bankrate.com.
Write down the card number, security code and customer service phone number and keep the information in a safe place. Or ask the person who gave you the card for a copy of the gift receipt so you can verify the card’s purchase in case it is lost or stolen.
Recycle the plastic. You can turn the cards you don’t want into cash. Among the many sites that act as clearinghouses to buy, sell or trade cards: PlasticJungle.com, CouponTrade.com and CardCash.com. The payout on your plastic depends largely on the popularity of the retailer. You might also be able to trade in your card for a gift card from a favorite retailer.
In addition, some charities will take your gift card and distribute it to those who can put it to use.
Which brings me to my final point about gift cards: Sometimes it’s best to give cash or a check, so that you can almost guarantee the gift will be used.
CARPET CLEANING TECHNICIANS & HELPERS
Seeking Chem-Dry carpet cleaning technicians & helpers for established high end carpet cleaning operation in Moreno Valley, Serving The Inland Empire. No experience necessary, but experience is a plus. Must have clean cut professional appearance, clean driving record, customer service skills, and available to work full-time, long hours, Mon-Sat. Must have customer oriented service capability and high quality sales skills for all technician positions. Pay for Technicians is commission on sales $300-$2,000 week, backed up by $9 an hour if commission is not their. Pay for helpers is $9 an hour + over-time. Also, hiring for part-time positions. Serious applicants only. Call 951-750-2580
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Has immediate opening for an experienced Brake & Front End Technician. Apply online at: www.tombellchevy.com or contact Junior Beaurone at (909) 557-2021
Aerospace Job Fair CIRCOR Aerospace, Inc. 1241 Old Temescal Rd., Suite 101 Corona, CA 92881 Apply in person 7 a.m. – 6 p.m. Monday, June 17th – Wednesday, June 19th, 2013 Same day interviews for qualified applicants. Temporary and Regular Full-Time jobs available Opportunities available for the following positions: TEMP 2nd Shift – Machinist A: Manual Lathe Operator TEMP 2nd Shift – Machinist A: CNC Hone TEMP 2nd Shift – Machinist A: Deburr Operator (4 positions available) TEMP 3rd Shift – Machinist A: Mill Operator TEMP 3rd Shift – Machinist A: OD Grinder TEMP 3rd Shift – Machinist A: Jig Grinder TEMP 3rd Shift – Machinist A: CNC Lathe Operator Please visit our website for additional job openings such as, Master Scheduler, Sr. Buyer/Planner, Quality Team Leader, Sr. Quality Engineer, etc.” US Persons Only (US citizens, lawful permanent residents, refugee or asylee – all require proper identification and documentation). Pre-Employment Verifications: Must pass background and reference checks, drug screen, and physical examination prior to employment. CIRCOR Aerospace, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. M/F/D/V www.circoraerospace.com
HOTEL HOUSEKEEPERS AND LAUNDRY PERSONNEL
For the Ontario, CA area. Must have some experience in making up rooms in a hotel environment. Please email resume to: email@example.com or apply in person at: 1386 E. Foothill Blvd., Upland, CA 91786
PUBLIC TRANSIT OPERATIONS SUPERVISOR
Is recruiting for Operations Supervisor. Under the supervision of Ops Mgr, coordinates & supervises the Agency's fixed route svcs & coach operators. Req an AA (BA desirable), must have 5 yrs Supvsr/Mgmt exp (Transit preferred) or an equiv combo of educ & exp. Must possess a safe driving record & able to obtain a valid CA Class A/B Commercial License w/ Passenger & Air Brakes endorsements. Must be able to work all days incl weekends & holidays. Salary: $4,463 - $7,096. For consideration & complete job description apply on-line or visit us at: 1825 3rd St., Riverside. An RTA application & current H6 DMV printout are required & will be accepted until 06/28/13 at 5pm. RTA IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER 951-565-5000 www.RiversideTransit.com RTA JOB HOTLINE: 951-565-5010 | <urn:uuid:2e33ae9e-7722-4e61-9b91-6d88eea67389> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.pe.com/business/business-columns/steve-rosen-headlines/20130116-gift-cards-not-best-choice-for-teens-gifts.ece | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00004-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.900077 | 1,579 | 1.585938 | 2 |
The naming and branding of Audi AG is one of the more interesting stories in automobile history. Audi began not as one company, but as four, the first of which was A. Horch & Cle. August Horch, a former production manager for Karl Benz, established the company in 1899. Just ten years later he would be forced out of his own company and attempt to start the Horch Automobil-Werke GmbH. Unfortunately, he lost the lawsuit to use his own name in the new company. Talk about being kicked while you’re down.
After losing his legal battle, Horch took the Latin translation of his name to form Audiwerke GmbH, the beginning of the company we know today. The iconic ‘four-ring’ emblem signifies Audiwerke and the three other companies that joined to form Audi: Auto Union, NSU, and DKW. Audi became the first European manufacturer to offer left-hand drive vehicles. Volkswagen has owned Audi since 1964.
September 19, 2012
Boasting great style, lots of space and top performance, the 2012 Audi Q7 TDI is the total package for luxury SUV lovers.
May 24, 2011
The good life gets even better for those who can afford the lavishly supercharged Audi S5 Cabriolet.
May 19, 2011
In the crowded crossover segment, the Audi Q5 stands out from the pack. Audi utilized every spare inch of this car and still maintained the comfort and luxury we expect from the brand.
Sites worth visiting
Audi’s official site has one of the coolest car galleries we’ve yet seen. As usual, you can also find general and company information for the Audi brand. Take a look at Audi TV, a proprietary site with some cool videos all about the Audi experience.
Audi on Wikipedia
The Audi page on Wikipedia is full of information about Audi’s rich history and development. The page has some excellent subsections devoted to the Audi Racing team and Audi’s technological innovations.
Introduce yourself to the incredible cars and drivers of the world-class Audi Racing team. The site features news updates, pictures, and a brief look at the technical specs of their track racers. This is Audi at top speed.
Around the Blogosphere
Audi at Autoblog
From the new R8 to the A1 concept, the guys at Autoblog will do your research for you. These guys are the experts at being on top of anything worth mentioning, and Audi is no exception.
German Car Blog
As you may have guessed, this site covers everything that comes from German automakers. The pay a lot of attention to both VW and Audi, so check back often for videos, news, and reviews.
Author Maria Palma delivers Audi news with a personal style. Her site is full of the latest information, YouTube vids, and conversational punditry. What more could you ask for?
Your classic enthusiast forums, these are highly active boards with a huge variety of threads. At almost 50,000 members they keep the ads to a minimum and information at max capacity.
This is the granddaddy of Audi fan sites. They host exclusive features, report on the latest news and have incredible forums. Check out the resources section for some tech-oriented info. This is a site you cannot miss.
This is another great Audi community site with a focus on connecting members. They feature a member bio section to promote communication between forum posters. This is sure to be one of the friendlier forums you’ll visit.
2007 TT to Appear in Gran Turismo
The 2007 Audi TT recently won Sony’s Gran Turismo Awards, giving the car a place in an upcoming series installment. Be sure to look for Marcel Horn’s orange beauty on a Playstation near you.
Audi Enters the Metro Market
The new Audi Metro concept is turning heads with some green ideology. The car can run on pure battery for up to 62 miles before converting to a start/stop hybrid, reducing emissions and fuel consumption by 15%.
2008 S4 in the Wild
A couple of car geeks in the Netherlands caught some shots of the 2008 S4 on the road without any camo. Read on for specs and some very nice pics. Ain’t she purty? | <urn:uuid:fdead6b9-f316-491c-9479-4cd9a5c13d15> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.bullz-eye.com/cars/audi.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00051-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935831 | 896 | 1.664063 | 2 |
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FILE – In this Friday, Jan. 15, 2010 file photo, director Louie… ((AP Photo/Chris Pizzello))
TOKYO—A scientist says his reputation has been tarnished by the U.S. documentary “The Cove,” a graphic account of Japanese dolphin-hunting, and is demanding that footage of his interview be removed from the movie.Film director Louie Psihoyos said Wednesday he stood behind his movie, that University of Hokkaido toxicologist Tetsuya Endo had agreed to be interviewed and that the footage of him was not taken out of order or otherwise doctored.
“He talked on the record at length to us, several times,” he told The Associated Press. “He did say the things that he said, in the order that he said them. What we published was the truth, and now he wants to take back the truth.”
The Oscar-winning documentary shows dolphins herded into a cove in the Japanese fishing village of Taiji, and stabbed by fishermen on small boats, turning the water red with blood.
The movie, starring Ric O’Barry, the former dolphin trainer for the “Flipper” 1960s TV show, has intensified international opposition to the slaughter.
In one section, Endo speaks in an interview with the filmmakers about his research on the high levels of mercury in dolphin meat.
Endo said he never signed release forms, and thinks “The Cove” is “disrespectful toward Japanese.”
“I have no interest in being in this movie,” he said in a telephone interview.
The lawsuit, which targets the Japanese distributor, Unplugged Inc., demands the footage be deleted and 11 million yen
($131,000) in damages for tarnishing Endo’s reputation.It was filed in Osaka District Court in July, but was recently moved to Tokyo District Court, where Unplugged is based. Unplugged declined comment, saying the lawsuit was ongoing.
Psihoyos believes Endo’s comments are key in winning Japanese to his message, and he wants Japanese to see his movie, uncensored. He acknowledged he cannot find Endo’s release forms.
“You can argue that dolphins shouldn’t be killed because they are more humanlike, but I think the most powerful point in the our movie from a Japanese perspective is that these animals are toxic,” he said in a telephone interview from Boulder, Colorado.
Taiji, a village with 3,500 residents, has landed in the global spotlight with “The Cove,” which opened in June in some theaters in Japan, mostly to positive reception.
Some Japanese don’t want to eat dolphin meat, and are stunned to see the cruelty of the hunt.
Taiji stopped the killing last year, but resumed it in September. A handful of dolphins has been saved to sell to aquariums, but the rest have been slaughtered.
The Japanese government allows about 20,000 dolphins to be caught each year, and defends the hunts as traditional.
It argues that killing dolphins is no different from raising cows or pigs for slaughter. But the government warns pregnant women against eating whale and dolphin meat because of the toxins. | <urn:uuid:e2ec7f64-8c3d-4ff3-bd53-e4fce546b266> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://cyberwhalewarrior.com/2010/12/08/the-cove-gets-more-press/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00018-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976732 | 688 | 1.578125 | 2 |
|Report: 3 American hikers arrested in Iran|
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SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq – The U.S. State Department said Friday it was investigating reports that three American tourists have been detained by Iranians while hiking near Iran's border with the self-ruled Kurdish region in northern Iraq.
Two Kurdish officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to release the information, said the Americans apparently were arrested after entering Iranian territory without permission.
U.S. helicopters were buzzing overhead and many U.S. Humvees had moved into the Kurdish city ofto search for the Americans, said a Kurdish border force official.
According to a security official, a fourth American who stayed behind at a hotel because he was sick said the missing Americans were tourists hiking near Halabja and the border town of Ahmed Awaa.
According to this account, the four had traveled to Turkey, then entered the Kurdish region Tuesday through the Ibrahim Al-Khalil border point in Zakho, the official said. They visited the Kurdish cities of Irbil and Sulaimaniyah on Wednesday. The next day, three of them took a taxi to Ahmed Awaa where they told their companion that they planned to stay at a nearby resort, the official said.
The three contacted their companion on Friday and told him "they had mistakenly entered Iranian territory and that troops surrounded them," the official said, adding "that was the last contact with them."
The mountainous border area is a popular hiking destination and well-known for its thick growth of pistachio trees.
The border force official said Iranian authorities apparently arrested the three Americans because they had entered the neighboring country without permission.
State Department spokesman Robert Wood said the U.S. Embassy "is aware of the report and is investigating. We are using all available means to determine the facts in this case."
Iranian officials made no immediate comment.
The self-ruled Kurdish region has been relatively free of the violence that plagues the rest of Iraq. Foreigners often feel freer to move around without security guards in the area.
Halabja, 150 miles (240 kilometers) northeast of Baghdad, was the site of a chemical weapons attack ordered by Saddam Hussein in 1988 as part of a scorched-earth campaign to crush a Kurdish rebellion. An estimated 5,600 were killed in the nerve and mustard gas attacks — the vast majority Kurds — and many still suffer the aftereffects. | <urn:uuid:8ac71090-3f6a-4693-9538-91bc427968bf> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://harisglobal.com/in/transportasi-darat/78-report-3-american-hikers-arrested-in-iran.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00006-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974772 | 509 | 1.625 | 2 |
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Homeopathic treatment for Lyme disease
Lyme disease is an inflammatory disease that is often misdiagnosed and mistreated. Lyme disease was first discovered in Old Lyme CT from the bite of a deer tick. Most people that are diagnosed are in the Northeast, Midwest and Pacific coast, but people are diagnosed in all 50 states. Deer ticks are often so small, that the tick bite is not seen, thus the patient never knows that they were bitten. The tick carries bacteria (Borrelia burgdorferi) that infest the body’s system when a person is bit. The CDC reports that 20,000 cases are reported each year, but they also admit that more than 10 times that may exist that are not reported or misdiagnosed.
Lyme disease is expressed in stages. Stage 1, called primary Lyme disease. Some people will see a “bull’s eye” mark from the tick bite, but many people will not see anything or remember getting bitten by a tick. In the first stages, people may feel like they have a cold or the flu. Their symptoms may include chills, fever, headache, muscle aches and pains, and weakness. Stages 2 (secondary Lyme disease) and 3 (tertiary Lyme disease) follow. Those infected may or may not have gone through primary Lyme disease first. Symptoms of secondary and tertiary Lyme disease are an effect of the bacteria infecting the central nervous system, cardiac system, skin, muscles and bones. These symptoms may include blurry vision, sensitivity to light, brain fog, headache, sleep problems, mood swings, fainting, fatigue, dropping eyelids, heart palpitations, malaise, muscle twitching, chronic joint pain and stiffness and muscle pain. Severe cases can even include facial paralysis, hallucinations, loss of muscle function, numbness, nausea and vomiting and speech impairment.
The earlier that Lyme is diagnosed and treated, the less likely it is to go into the secondary and then tertiary stages. The later the stage, the harder it is to treat, turning into a persistent and chronic illness. Lyme disease is often misdiagnosed as fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, multiples sclerosis, chronic fatigue syndrome, Parkinson’s disease, syphilis and ALS. Sufferers often go from doctor to doctor, without diagnosis, some being told that there is nothing wrong with them, it is psychosomatic or “all in their head.” Patients are given medication after medication and can spend tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical care, some for the wrong disease.
A blood test is used to test for the bacteria that cause this disease. Unfortunately up to 50% of people tested may initially test negative. Once diagnosed, antibiotics can be used for treatment. The type of antibiotic used, depends on stage of the disease and the symptoms. Antibiotics may need to be given through a vein for chronic infections. Other supplements, herbs, and alternative treatments maybe helpful for the treatment of these symptoms.
One form of alternative medicine, homeopathy can be of additional help. Homeopathy works by stimulating the body’s self healing mechanism. In the practice of homeopathy, we find the most specific medicine, or remedy, for each person. This is done by using both the common symptoms of Lyme, but most importantly the individualizing symptoms. The symptoms that make one persons disease different from everyone else’s is the most important focus. Once the correct remedy is found and given, the body’s ability to heal is triggered. Although homeopathy can work very quickly in many diseases, this unfortunately is not the case in Lyme disease. For the body to clear the infection and reverse symptoms, takes time and persistence. However, it is possible. With time, and continued homeopathic care, patients are able to take their lives back.
If you or someone you know has Lyme disease, Homeopathy may help. For more information on homeopathy and Naturopathic medicine, contact Dr. Natalie Ham: www.drnatalieham.com or call for a free 15 min consult at 480-456-0402. | <urn:uuid:0d024a6e-0e30-4c5b-a286-7fb983a4777a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.altmd.com/Specialists/Natalie-Ham-ND/Blog/Homeopathic-treatment-for-Lyme-disease | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00010-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95189 | 861 | 3.109375 | 3 |
High school coaches stunned by Olympics dropping wrestling as a sport
By: Warren Mayes
Local high school coaches agree that youngsters who dream about being an Olympian like Francis Howell graduate Sammie Henson or CBC graduate Spencer Mango are losers in the stunning move by the International Olympic Committee executive board to remove wrestling from the list of 25 “core sports” in the 2020 Summer Games program.
“This is not good for such a participant-heavy sport, like wrestling,” said Westminster Christian Academy coach Tim Muehleisen. “Kids need heroes to dream about like Olympian Sam Henson who have come from St. Louis. Not having these people would be horrible for the sport.”
Henson, now an assistant coach at Missouri, was a silver medalist at the 2000 Summer Olympics.
Mango competed in the 2008 and 2012 games. Mango finished eighth in Beijing and lost in the second round in London. He plans to try to earn a spot in the 2016 games.
Wrestling is known as the world’s oldest competitive sport. It dates to cave drawings of wrestling found as far back as 3000 BC and was part of the ancient Olympics in 708 BC. When the modern Games resumed in 1896, wrestling was one of nine sports on the program.
Last May, the same IOC group will decide which of eight candidate sports, including wrestling, to recommend for inclusion on the 2020 program, which can have 28 sports. The full IOC membership then will decide which sports to approve at its annual meeting in September.
The unexpected decision was made via secret ballot during a meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland where officials were discussing ways to “streamline” the Olympics.
Though many assumed modern pentathlon would get the boot, the committee instead decided to eliminate wrestling, which has roots in the ancient Greece games and has been a part of every modern Olympics since they began in 1896. The vote was completed over several rounds and the final totals were not released to the public.
Much of what happens next procedurally is unclear. The executive board could recommend one, three or no sports. The voting rules for final approval of new sports have yet to be determined.
It is improbable the IOC will reverse itself on wrestling so soon.
Baseball and softball, ousted after 2008, are making a joint bid to return. Other hopefuls are two martial arts — wushu and karate — sport climbing, squash, wakeboarding and inline skating.
The IOC’s professed reason for reviewing the core sports on a regular basis is to keep the Olympics relevant.
More countries (29) won wrestling medals last summer in London than had participants in modern pentathlon (26), despite the modern pentathlon federation amping up its nation numbers by allowing mediocre athletes from several countries. Wrestling had athletes from 71 countries, in several of which — Iran, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Uzbekistan — it is the unofficial national sport.
The United States is the most successful active nation, with 50 all-time gold medals and 125 overall in wrestling. The U.S. team won two gold medals in the 2012 Olympics. Russia currently dominates the sport, but wrestlers from Japan, Turkey, Finland, South Korea, Iran and Cuba have all won their country dozens of medals.
Sports that will continue to be a core sport for the Olympics include the aforementioned modern pentathlon — a goofy mix of shooting, horseback riding, fencing, running and swimming. Also still included are tae kwon do, which rarely has winners who are not from South Korea, China or the US, and cycling, which has been plagued with doping scandals.
Muehleisen is doing what he can do.
“I have already signed the petition to have the White House pressure the IOC to have it added,” Muehleisen said. “I am clueless to their rationale on choosing wrestling, I hope they understand they removed one of the oldest sports that is still competed in worldwide.
“This is tragic. I have no idea how this body works, but certainly this is the only thing that Russia, Iran, and the United States can agree on -— wrestling is the Olympics.”
Whitfield coach Charlie Sherertz said he was caught off guard by the news.
“I’ve got a sick feeling in my stomach,”Sherertz said. “I haven’t had time to wrap my head around it because of getting ready for the state tournament. You know, with wrestling, there’s no money involved. There’s no million dollar contracts. It’s a true sport. It’s really sad. I think the optimist in me thinks there might be a rallying for it and get it back.”
Lafayette coach Jonathan Sumner also said the news upset him.
“It is so disappointing to hear that they made this decision,” Sumner said. “Wrestling is one of the oldest sports in the Olympics and a sport that is popular worldwide.”
CBC coach Rocky Streb said it’s to imagine an Olympic games without wrestling.
“Wrestling was in every Olympics ever held since the very first one in ancient Greece,” Streb said. “With track and field, wrestling has been the foundation for Olympic games.”
Sumner watches the competitions.
“I really do enjoy it, it is amazing to see that level of our sport, especially as a coach understanding how much time and hard work went into not only having the opportunity, but the preparation for the Olympics,” Sumner said.
Sumner is hopeful the move will be overturned.
“I am uncertain at this point,” Sumner said. “Let’s hope the Olympic committee re-thinks its decision. Wrestling is a tough sport that in my opinion has gained a little more popularity at the collegiate level than in previous eras, so I am hopeful it will continue to grow. Wrestling teaches amazing life skills that can have a positive impact in people’s lives.”
Streb said it likely will have any effect for high school grapplers.
“I don’t think it will have a negative affect at the high school level,” Streb said. “I doubt to many high school kids have that even in their mind when they decide to start wrestling.”
Perhaps the move says something about our culture today.
“It probably speaks to choices I think,” Streb said. “When you look at the sports that might make it instead of wrestling, like rock climbing, you have to think at some level, that it’s just easier. Wrestling in about sacrifice and the pain associated with that, it’s a combat sport that hurts.
“I look at what my guys go through and I honestly have to wonder why they do it. They could be home playing video games but they’re in here knocking heads with each other.” | <urn:uuid:3e33c8fe-e8f9-42ca-ab35-64e5bc4302b4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.newsmagazinenetwork.com/2013021330976/area-high-school-coaches-stunned-by-news-of-olympics-dropping-wrestling-as-a-sport/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00075-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970729 | 1,467 | 1.773438 | 2 |
RIO DE JANIERO, Brazil - The "Pink October" campaign have included monuments such as the Sydney Opera House and New York's Empire State building in the past.
Officials say including the Christ statue in the campaign creates a sense of community in the fight against breast cancer.
They hope campaigns like this and others taking place throughout the month will help create awareness and encourage women over the age of 45 to have an annual mammogram.
According to Brazil's National Cancer Institute, over forty-nine thousand new cases were diagnosed in 2010.
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The Wicomico County Sheriff's Office has arrested a man deputies say went into a supermarket, poked holes in packages of meat and moved chicken from refrigerated cases so they would spoil. | <urn:uuid:e719a7de-1486-41d3-9898-094db935fd83> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.abc2news.com/dpp/news/health/christ-the-redeemer-statue-lit-pink-to-mark-breast-cancer-awareness-month | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00046-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940025 | 184 | 1.679688 | 2 |
Company fined for asbestos exposure
The Asbestos Regulations cover the identification of asbestos, assessment of the risk to workers from any work with asbestos and control measures to minimise the dangers. Part 11 of the Regulations states that, “Every employer shall prevent the exposure of his employees to asbestos so far as is reasonably practicable.” Where this is not possible, the employer must “take the measures necessary to reduce the exposure of his employees to asbestos to the lowest level reasonably practicable by measures other than the use of respiratory protective equipment” and must also “ensure that the number of his employees who are exposed to asbestos at any one time is as low as is reasonably practicable.”This means that employers cannot rely solely on respiratory protective equipment but must put procedures in place to protect workers.
In this case, the court heard that the negligence of the company meant that 31 workers were exposed to asbestos between May 2005 and September 2006.
The effects of asbestos exposure can be devastating. The small fibres in asbestos can cause cancer if inhaled. One of types of cancer caused by asbestos exposure is Mesothelioma. This cancer affects the lining of the lungs and sometimes the lining around the lower digestive tract. Mesothelioma is fatal and difficult to detect. Asbestos exposure can also cause lung cancer, Asbestosis, which is a scarring of the lungs, and Pleural thickening, which is thickening of the lining of the lungs.
The 31 workers may face these conditions later in life because of the failure of their employer to protect them from exposure.
Another recent case is that of a local Council which has issued warnings to its tenants stating that asbestos may be present in their homes. A local councillor has stated that “The presence of asbestos in housing is nothing unusual, in fact it is to be expected.” Tenants have been informed that asbestos provides a low risk to health unless the material is damaged.
The councillor further stated that “By notifying tenants of the potential presence of asbestos in their homes, we hope to reiterate the need to exercise caution.” It has been recommended that residents contact the Council before undertaking any minor building works or improvements, in case they disturb the asbestos.
Asbestos was a popular building material up until the health risks that it poses were discovered. This means that many properties across the country, including Council houses, may contain asbestos materials. The risks to inhabitants from asbestos exposure can be minimised by proper surveying and monitoring. Councils should provide advice to any tenants who are concerned about asbestos exposure.
The London company fined for exposing its workers to asbestos is just one of many throughout the country. Not including domestic properties, the HSE estimates that around 500,000 buildings in the UK still contain asbestos. If workers in these buildings are not protected by their employer, incidents such as these could be all too common. | <urn:uuid:38c9c014-7ae2-4f07-9c27-af2bc42d990d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.asbestosclaims.co.uk/asbestos-advice/company-fined-for-asbestos-exposure | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00019-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972042 | 589 | 2.359375 | 2 |
Subjectivity Information Exploration Domain Experts Personalization Semantic Attributes
Cormac Hampson, Owen Conlan, Supporting Personalised Information Exploration through Subjective Expert-created Semantic Attributes, Third IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, Berkeley, CA, USA, September 14-16, 2009, 384 - 389
Ordinary users are finding it increasingly difficult to explore the large volumes of diverse data they encounter in their everyday lives. Techniques based on data mining algorithms are useful but they tend to be too complex for casual users to work with effectively. Furthermore, these techniques don’t allow the user to engage with the information using semantics meaningful to them. Semantically enriched and personalized data exploration is seen as an essential step to support such users. Moreover, by allowing these users to leverage and personalize the subjective insights and knowledge of experts, more relevant and useful information can be discovered and interesting correlations drawn. In order to support these domain specific explorations, a prototype architecture named SARA (Semantic Attribute Reconciliation Architecture) has been built,
and its underlying methodology, implementation and initial evaluation are described within this paper.
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Copepods make up a group of really small crustaceans
normally found in the sea and in almost all kinds of freshwater environments. They are more or less in the bottom of the food chain, so small fish and even corals eat them for survival.
If you want to add in copepods to your aquarium so your fish and corals can benefit from them, you can get the Algagen Reefpods Tisbe Live Aquacultured Copepods from Pet Store
. This product contains live copepods suspended in a solution. When added to the water, they land on surfaces such as rocks or swim in water columns. These tiny creatures to your aquarium will not only feed your fish and corals, but they also make the water environment more natural. They reproduce, too, so you won`t have to replenish the copepod supplies of your tank very often. Aside from that, the copepods consume wastes and other detritus, making the aquarium cleaner and fresher. Copepods are more than food for your pets -- they`re also tank cleaners as well.
Try looking for other bottles of copepod cultures and you will be disappointed. The Algagen Reefpods Tisbe Live Aquacultured Copepods is the only real source of live tropical copepod cultures currently in the market.
ReefPodsTM are the only truly tropical live copepod culture available on the market today.
ReefPods™ Tisbe the most popular aquarium Pod -they consumes your aquarium’s wastes and detritus, reproduce well, and are food for a multitude of reef inhabitants!
Small harpacticoid copepod
Adult Length 0.7 – 1.0 mm
ReefPods™ Tisbe is a live culture of the harpacticoid copepod Tisbe biminiensis. Tisbe adult copepods live on bottom substrate such as live rock or sand and will eat detritus and microalage in the aquarium. They produce a small nauplii which is an excellent food for aquarium filter feeders and fish larvae. The adults are eaten by small bottom feeding fish such as gobies, dragonettes and blennies.
ReefPods™ Tisbe may be used as a starter culture to add to marine aquarium refugiums or the main tank. Once established they will reproduce quickly, growing from nauplii to adults in about nine days. They will thrive in a wide range of aquarium temperatures and a wide range of salinities. It is suggested they be added to the aquarium at night or to the refugium to avoid immediate fish predation.
ReefPods™ Tisbe may be cultured separately in a small tank by feeding PhycoPure™ CopePod Blend™. The nauplii are 55-140 micrometers wide, making them suitable for many fish larvae. Adults may be harvested for feeding juvenile seahorses and other small fish.
Reef Pods™ are the only truly tropical live copepod cultures available on the market today. It opens an exciting new area of feeding possibilities for the experimental marine aquarist. Look for many new species of copepod cultures to be available from the culture professionals at AlgaGen.
Biology of Tisbe biminiensis
- Small harpacticoid copepod
- Lives on surfaces and swims in water column
- Life stages: Egg (1), Nauplii (6), Copepodid (5), Adult (1)
- Reproduction: sexual
- Eggs are deposited in an egg sac attached to female genital segment
- 10-70 eggs per egg sac
- Nauplii width: 55-140 m wide
- Adult length:0.70 -1.0 mm
- Nauplii to egg producing age: 9-12 days
- Life span: 15-20 days
- Stocking densities: 0.25-1.5/mL
- Stock into refugium for tank hygiene control and for background live feeds
- Culture preferences
- Lite to medium aeration
- Temp 22-30C
- Salinity 20-35ppt
- Feed PhycoPure™ CopePod Blend™
Tisbe is an excellent all purpose aquarium copepod owing to its role in the natural environment as a detritivore. An opportunist feeder, Tisbe can be used as a tank cleaner consuming uneaten food and wastes as well as phytoplankton in the tank and refugium. Tisbe is capable of producing many eggs during its adult life span that hatch into nauplii which will enter the water column as food for your filter feeding reef inhabitants and replenish the adult population vital to tank hygiene. Tisbe adults and juveniles may also enter the water column and be tasty and nutritious treats for your reef fish! Culturing tips
Tisbe can be cultured in containers as small as one gallon. Tisbe are tolerant to a wide range of water quality, which requires culture containers to be cleaned no more than once per week when the copepods are not overfed. Tisbe can be cultured continuously for months in an ecologically established low-density culture similar to an aquarium refugium when small amounts of live microalgae are added periodically. When high densities and maximum egg production are desired, live microalgae should be fed at a rate sufficient to be “cleared” within 18-24 hours.Acclimation upon receipt
Upon receipt of your Tisbe starter culture, open the bottle and smell the culture water. It will be normal to smell a sweet salt smell or even a slightly earthy smell. It will not be normal to smell rotten eggs. Do not use your copepods if a rotten odor is detected. Tisbe tolerates a wide range of temperatures and salinities and doesn’t usually require water-parameter acclimation. Healthy Tisbe can be added directly to the main aquarium, sump, refugium or culture containers. | <urn:uuid:3018e8b3-5cd5-42f2-99c6-cd04ac4bbabe> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.petstore.com/algagen-reefpods-tisbe-live-aquacultured-copepods-8oz | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00006-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.908105 | 1,279 | 2.84375 | 3 |
No need to worry, though: Shell swears it's dealing with the possibility of such a disaster, even to the point of bringing in dogs "to detect oil spills beneath snow and ice." No joke. "When it comes to drilling for oil in the harsh and unpredictable Arctic," the Guardian reported in March, "Shell has gone to the dogs, it seems. A dachshund and two border collies to be specific."
The Obama administration has been no less reassuring. There will be a genuine federal inspector on board those drill ships 24/7. And whether you're listening to the oil company or our government, you should just know that it's all a beautiful dream, nothing more. When a spill happens, and it's minus 35 degrees Fahrenheit, and the wind's howling at 65 miles per hour, and sea ice is all around you and moving, the idea that a highly trained dachshund or federal inspector will be able to do a thing is pure fantasy. Believe me, I've been there under those conditions and if the worst occurs, this won't be a repeat of BP in the Gulf of Mexico (bad as that was). Help will not be available.
Hand Shell this for honesty: the company has admitted that, if a spill were to happen late in the summer drilling season (of course it won't!), they will simply have to leave the spilled oil "in place" for nine months to do its damnedest. The following summer they will theoretically deal with what's left of the spill, and -- though they don't say this -- the possibility of a dead or dying sea.
The U.S. National Environmental Policy Act requires that the government must do an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) if there is reason to believe that a proposed activity will significantly affect the quality of the human environment. The Department of Interior's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation, and Enforcement avoided the time consuming EIS process, however, issuing instead what is called a "Finding of No Significant Impact."
In late June, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said, "I believe there will not be an oil spill" from Shell's Arctic drilling, and proceeded full speed ahead. Know this: in 2011 alone in the Niger Delta of Nigeria, Shell reported 63 "operational spills" due to equipment failure. That happened in a tropical environment.
Oil companies must have an approved spill-response plan before drilling can proceed. But Shell's government-rubber-stamped plan turns out to be full of holes, including the claim that, should a spill occur, they will be able to recover 90% of all spilled oil. (In the cases of both the Exxon Valdez and the Deepwater Horizon disasters less than 10% was recovered.) In fact, it's a claim from which the company is already backtracking. On July 10th, 10 environmental organizations, including the Alaska Wilderness League, the Center for Biological Diversity, and Resisting Environmental Destruction on Indigenous Lands (REDOIL), filed a lawsuit challenging Shell's spill-response plans in an attempt to stop this summer's drilling.
In addition, Shell's 37-year-old 294-foot barge, the Arctic Challenger, a necessity for its clean-up plan, is still awaiting final certification from the U.S. Coast Guard. Reporting on the failure to receive it so far, the Los Angeles Times pointed out that "[e]ngineers from the oil company say it's no longer appropriate to require them to meet the rigorous weather standards originally proposed." Unfortunately, there couldn't be anything more basic to drilling in the Arctic than its fearsome weather. If you can't hack that -- and no oil company can -- you shouldn't be sending your drill ships northward.
And a massive spill or a series of smaller ones is hardly the only danger to one of the more fragile environments left on the planet. The seismic testing that precedes any drilling and the actual drilling operations bring "lots of noise" to the region. This could be very harmful to the bowhead whales, which use sound to navigate through sea ice in darkness. Seismic testing represents, as Peter Matthiessen wrote in 2007, following a trip we took together along the Arctic coast of Alaska, "the most severe acoustic insult to the marine environment I can imagine short of naval warfare."
In addition, Shell's drill ships will put significant amounts of toxic substances into the Arctic air each year, including an estimated 336 tons of nitrogen oxides and up to 28 tons of PM2.5 -- fine particles that include dust, dirt, soot, smoke, and liquid droplets. These are harmful to human health and will degrade the Arctic's clean atmosphere.
Despite opposition from indigenous Iñupiat communities, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) nonetheless approved air quality permits for the ships in January. On June 28th, however, Shell admitted that the Noble Discoverer "cannot meet the [EPA's] requirements for emissions of nitrogen oxide and ammonia" and asked the agency to loosen air quality rules for Arctic drilling.
Add to this one more thing: even before Shell's drilling begins, or there can be any assessment of it, the Obama administration is already planning to open up more Arctic waters to offshore drilling in the years to come. Think of this -- and of the possible large-scale, irremediable pollution of the Arctic's watery landscape -- as the canary in the coalmine when it comes to the oceans of the world. Especially now, when global warming is melting northern ice and opening the way for energy corporations backed by governments to train their sights on those waters and their energy riches.
Not Just the Arctic
Here's the simplest fact: we are killing our oceans. Rapidly. Already, the massive atmospheric accumulation of greenhouse gases from the burning of non-Arctic fossil fuels has, scientists believe, caused a rise in sea surface temperature of 1 degree Centigrade over the past 140 years. This may not seem impressive, but much of this increase has occurred during the past few decades. As a result, scientists again believe, there has been a potentially catastrophic 40% decline, largely since 1950, in the phytoplankton that support the whole marine food chain. Headlines from media reports on this decline catch the grim possibilities in the situation: "The Dead Sea," "Are Our Oceans Dying?"
In addition, the oceans absorb about 25% of the carbon dioxide (CO2) we put in the atmosphere and this has made their waters abnormally acidic, transforming coral reefs into graveyards. Earlier this year, we learned that "the current acidification is potentially unparalleled in at least the last 300 million years of Earth history, and raises the possibility that we are entering an unknown territory of marine ecosystem change." This July, Jane Lubchenco, chief of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, referred to such ocean acidification as climate change's "equally evil twin."
Similarly, the rapid melting of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is already proving catastrophic for a host of species, including narwhals, polar bears, walruses, seals, and sea birds. And you have undoubtedly heard about the massive expanses of garbage, especially plastic, now clotting our oceans. Chris Jordan's powerful photographs of dead albatrosses at Midway Atoll, their bellies full of plastic, catch what this can mean for marine life. And then there's the increasing industrial overfishing of all waters, which is threatening to decimate fish populations globally.
And keep in mind, that's only so far. Drilling for what Michael Klare calls "tough oil" or "extreme energy" in a range of perilous locations only ensures the further degradation of the oceans. In addition to the possible opening up of the Arctic Ocean, there has been an expansion of deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, offshore drilling in "Iceberg Alley" near Newfoundland, deep-offshore drilling in the Brazillian "pre-salt" fields of the Atlantic Ocean, and an increase in offshore drilling in West Africa and Asia. | <urn:uuid:d422b875-3147-4145-aa78-c306f0d5e619> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.opednews.com/articles/2/Subhankar-Banerjee-Shell-by-Tom-Engelhardt-120802-587.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00059-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945884 | 1,658 | 1.757813 | 2 |
Secret Service Ordered Local Police to Restrict Anti-Bush Protesters at Rallies, ACLU Charges in Unprecedented Nationwide Lawsuit
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
WASHINGTON - At events attended by President Bush and other senior federal officials around the country, the Secret Service has been discriminating against protesters in violation of their free speech rights, the American Civil Liberties Union charged today in the first nationwide lawsuit of its kind.
""There is nothing more American than raising your voice in protest, and there is nothing more un-American than a government that attempts to hit the mute button when it doesn't like what it hears,"" said Witold Walczak, Legal Director of the ACLU of Greater Pittsburgh and a member of the national ACLU legal team that filed today's lawsuit.
When President Bush came to Neville Island, PA last year, protesters were herded behind a chain-link fence in a remote area while supporters were allowed to line the motorcade route. One man who refused to be corralled was arrested.
|During President Bush's visit to Neville Island, PA last year, supporters were allowed to line the motorcade route, while protesters were herded to a remote area out of sight of the press corps and the President.|
The ACLU said it had seen a significant spike in such incidents under the Bush Administration, prompting it to charge officials with a ""pattern and practice"" of discrimination against those who disagree with government policies.
According to ACLU legal papers, local police, acting at the direction of the Secret Service, violated the rights of protesters in two ways: people expressing views critical of the government were moved further away from public officials while those with pro-government views were allowed to remain closer; or everyone expressing a view was herded into what is commonly known as a ""protest zone,"" leaving those who merely observe, but express no view, to remain closer.
Security is not at issue, the ACLU noted, because anyone intent on harming officials would simply carry a sign with a supportive message or no sign at all. ""The individuals we are talking about didn't pose a security threat; they posed a political threat,"" Walczak said.
The case was filed on behalf of four national advocacy groups that engage in frequent demonstrations around the country. The groups are: Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), United for Peace and Justice (UPFJ), USAction, and National Organization for Women (NOW).
The national lawsuit, which was filed in Philadelphia, originated earlier this year when the ACLU of Pennsylvania sought enforcement of a 1988 decree requiring city officials to treat protesters fairly. Today's action amends that lawsuit to include similar incidents around the country. The Secret Service is named as the federal defendant in the lawsuit, along with the Philadelphia Police Department for its role in the recent demonstrations in that city.
ACLU of Pennsylvania Legal Director Stefan Presser, who obtained the 1988 decree and is part of the national legal team in today's lawsuit, noted that he has had to return to court several times following incidents in which local protesters were kept further away from the site of presidential visits than Administration supporters. A high-ranking official of the Philadelphia police told Presser that he was only following Secret Service orders.
""The Secret Service's directives, which have the effect of deciding which messages are to be afforded favorable treatment, are completely at odds with our Constitution's guarantees of free speech and rights of protest,"" Presser said.
The ACLU's legal papers listed more than a dozen examples of police censorship at events around the country, saying that all had been initiated at the behest of the Secret Service and that such incidents are on the rise. The incidents described took place in Arizona, California, Connecticut, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, South Carolina, Texas and Washington, among other places.
In one example, retired steelworker Bill Neel, 66, was handcuffed and detained by local officials at a rally in western Pennsylvania last year after he refused to be herded into a remote ""designated free speech zone"" located behind a six-foot chain-link fence.
""As far as I'm concerned, the whole country is a free speech zone,"" Neel said. ""If the Bush Administration has its way, anyone who criticizes them will be out of sight and out of mind. Anyone who calls himself a patriot ought to be as concerned about this as I am.""
Neel's story and similar incidents are also described in a May 2003 ACLU report, Freedom Under Fire: Dissent in Post-9/11 America. The report looks at government crackdowns on dissent in a variety of contexts, including at presidential and vice-presidential appearances, in public schools and at anti-war rallies.
Today's case is ACORN et al. v. City of Philadelphia et al., Civil Action No. 03-4312, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania before Judge John Fullam.
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So it is very wise to plan for adequate resources in advance. Remember, most of the new ventures that die, die due to mismanaged finances. And, because growth places a severe strain on finances, some ventures die of their own accomplishments. It is in the evaluation of "resource sufficiency" that the business plan, staple of the financing community, is invaluable. A business plan is invaluable for two reasons (1) it helps you to clearly think through the resources question, and (2) it helps you to clearly communicate to potential sources of those resources (mainly financing sources) who you are, what you are trying to do, and the likelihood that you can actually do it.
If you don't know how to write a business plan, find someone who does. Many Small Business Development Centers specialize in helping here. Also universities and community colleges have specialists and courses that can teach you the skills needed to produce a plan that will tell both you, and your potential backers, what you need to know about the resources required, and the rewards that are available for those who provide them.
Although somewhat standard within the venturing community, the business plan format is different from the six-question template being used here. Figure C below is a type of "path diagram" that maps the applicable sub-questions of the NEW VENTURE TEMPLATE™ to the standard sections of the business plan:
It should be clear from Figure C, that the key section of the business plan is the marketing section. Notice how many of the key sub-questions in the first three template questions depend upon the marketing plan for answers.
Thus, if the resources that are necessary to ensure that venture growth yields life v. death are available, then the answer to the sub-question: Are there sufficient resources?, can be yes. If not, then the answer to Question C: Is it persistent over time? is NO--which means DON'T GO ON unless this can be fixed, if you are trying to start a new venture, and means DANGER if you are evaluating an ongoing business operation.
The first step away from danger is taken by writing a business plan. With the right business plan one can find the necessary backers and then "go on" with the venture. Without sufficient resources, we transmit to our new venture's birth defects that are often almost impossible to overcome. Like it or not, most new ventures carry with them almost permanently, the structure, attitudes, and culture that arise consequent to resource availability at time of founding.
So don't proceed with a congenital flaw in a venture, when it can be avoided by a little work up front. The obtaining of sufficient resources to sustain the venture is a form of "venture genetic engineering." Given all the evidence that points to the importance of sufficient resources, venturers who "plug in" their ventures before the "resource ducks" are "in a row," are imprudent, to say the least. | <urn:uuid:1eeb5462-dd7a-4c38-8de4-7635c1e40806> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.venturecapital.org/view/privacy_policy/12672214/article-Are-Capital-Resources-Sufficient-to-Sustain-the-Venture-?instance=privacy_policy | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00008-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943441 | 606 | 2.046875 | 2 |
Introduction to the Arts Program
In Tacoma, the arts are considered a vital part of our city. They are a dynamic part of our downtown as well as our neighborhoods. We hope both Tacoma residents and visitors to our city engage in our arts scene and become active participants.
The Arts Program is multifaceted, offering technical assistance to artists and funding support for individual artists as well as organizations. Arts program staff manages the City's Public Art Program. We also provide assistance to those interested in creating artist spaces or artist businesses.
The Tacoma Arts Commission and its staff play a vital role in supporting the arts and cultural programs. We encourage the development of a local arts community by being a place that encourages the success of working individual artists. Tacoma has arts and cultural offerings for the seasoned artist and audience member to the novice. We invite you to explore our theaters, museums, and to take our public art tour.
The Tacoma Arts Program is located in the landmark Tacoma Municipal Building at:
Community and Economic Development Department
747 Market Street, Room 900
Tacoma, WA 98402-3793
or email amcbride@CityofTacoma.org
The Tacoma Arts Commission is supported by:
The Donald R. and Mary E. Williams Arts Fund
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Reinforcing steel, or rebar, is one of the most integral parts of a bridge even though you never see it.
Ironworkers from Manske Construction form and tie together miles of rebar cages, creating the strong skeleton for the piers that will support the new northbound I-5 bridge. Then, they install the steel framework into the drilled shafts before the concrete is poured to form piers, creating the part of the bridge that you do see.
The span of the rebar ranges from as small as 1/2 inch in diameter up to 2.25 inches. For this project, we use the largest diameter rebar available, which weighs 14 pounds a linear foot. The new southbound bridge contains 2.7 million pounds of rebar, the weight of more than 3 fully loaded jumbo jets at takeoff. The northbound bridge will contain a similar amount of reinforcing steel.
|Ironworkers and welders build the steel structures by typing together miles of rebar.|
|A large crane lowers the tied rebar down into a shaft to form an abutment wall.|
|Here is how the rebar looks inside of the pier shaft, before the concrete is poured. The bridge pier shafts average about 35 feet deep below the riverbed.| | <urn:uuid:97210fb5-2330-452d-a7b8-687b4522d1c2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://willametteriverbridge.blogspot.jp/2012/04/miles-of-steel-create-strong-skeleton.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00060-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.912534 | 264 | 2.84375 | 3 |
The world lost a great military hero and staunch cancer research advocate with the passing on Thursday, December 27, 2012 of retired General H. Norman Schwarzkopf. He was 78.
Perhaps best known for his leadership of U.S. military forces during the first Persian Gulf War, The Wistar Institute considers him as fierce an advocate for prostate cancer awareness as he was a military general. In 2005, the Institute honored Gen. Schwarzkopf with The Wistar Institute President’s Award in recognition of his cancer advocacy efforts. Diagnosed with prostate cancer in March 1994, Gen. Schwarzkopf became a national spokesperson for prostate cancer awareness, urging millions of Americans to overcome the attitudes of avoidance and denial that many men have about prostate health. | <urn:uuid:60433586-7f62-4157-ad59-d01204f853a3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wistar.org/wistar-today/wistar-wire/2012-12-30/memoriam-general-h-norman-schwarzkopf | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00057-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973956 | 153 | 2.078125 | 2 |
Over the years I’ve gardened just about everywhere I’ve lived: community garden plots, in pots on balconies and rooftops, and even in places where there was no tillable earth available. When I worked for the National Park Service in the Southwest, my yard was filled mostly with rocks. But I made a dandy garden by arranging the rocks into a rough-walled rectangle and filling the space with pickup truckloads of decades-old composted mule poop taken from the Park Service stables. Watered with the rinse water from my washing machine, that bed produced vegetables like a tiny farm—you could almost see them grow!
If you want to grow some food, but don't think you can because your yard is shaded, the soil is of questionable quality or is paved over, or you don’t even have a yard, chances are there’s still a way to do it. You don't even need to shell out extra dough for pots or special containers. Believe it or not, the bag that your soil or potting mix comes in can become a vegetable garden! That’s right: All you have to do is leave the potting mix in the bag, cut a few holes, and plant. In a number of other countries, gardeners routinely plant many veggies in “grow bags”—plastic bags filled with potting soil—to avoid soilborne pests.
Intrigued? Here are three ways to have a go at growing vegetables in bags:
1. Buy a bag of organic potting soil, cut a few drainage holes in the bottom of it, and then stand the bag where you want to grow your crop. (Put it in a watertight tray if you don’t want to stain the surface beneath.) Potatoes are very hardy, so it’s safe to keep the bag outside as long as the nighttime temperature doesn’t drop much below freezing.
2. Cut open the top of the bag. Tuck two small potatoes about 4 inches deep into the potting mix. If you live near a garden center, you may be able to buy "seed" potatoes; if not, or if you are looking for variety, try using a couple of small organic potatoes from your supermarket (potatoes that are already sprouting are ideal). Water to keep the soil moist but not soggy. Feed with a liquid organic fertilizer every few weeks.
3. When flowers start to pop up on your potato plants, you can pull out a few "new" potatoes by rooting gently around in the soil with your fingers. Or harvest the whole lot anytime, before the plants start to turn yellow. Harvesting is easy: Just tip over the bag onto a sheet of plastic and pick out the fruits of your labor (no digging required). If you have space, you may want to start a new bag every few weeks from very early spring through early summer, to extend your harvest. If thinking "potato" doesn't make your mouth water, chances are you've never tasted the difference between store-bought and fresh-from-the-garden potatoes.
The Best Veggie Garden for Tiny Spaces
1. Prepare your grow bag as for potatoes, then insert two or three tall, sturdy sticks into the potting mix along one edge of the bag (there should be room for your plant to grow in front of them). Push them down to the bottom (be careful not to tear the bag). They should stick out of the top of the bag by 3 or 4 feet.
2. Plant a single tomato seedling near the center of the bag, leaving just the plant’s top four leaves and growing tip peeking out of the soil. The buried stem will send out masses of roots and your little plant will really take off.
3. Tomatoes do not like cold weather, so wait until the nighttime temps consistently stay above 40°F or so to move your bag outdoors. Should a late frost threaten, toss an old sheet over the stakes to protect your tender little sprout for the night. Water and feed as for potatoes. Use twine or strips of cloth to tie the vines to the sticks so the plant will grow upward.
Grow Fruit in Bags Too!
1. Lay the bag flat and poke drainage holes all over one side. Flip it over, smooth the bag into an even layer, and use a sharp knife or scissors to cut out a rectangle about two thirds the size of the top of the bag.
2. Plant lettuce, spinach, radish, or other seeds in the exposed soil mix, following their packets’ instructions. Water and feed as for potatoes.
3. Harvest just the outside leaves of the plants to extend your yield; as the plants keep growing, you can keep harvesting. Or tuck in a seed or two when you do remove a whole plant so you’ll reap another round of greens. You can start growing greens (and radishes, too) in very early spring, as soon as the nights don’t drop much below freezing. Greens appreciate some shade in the heat of summer, so during the hottest months you may want to move your salad bag to a spot that becomes shady in the afternoon.
Whatever you choose to grow, at the end of the season, dump the bag of used soil into a raised bed or more permanent container or spread it in a corner of your yard that needs it.
A Super-Easy Spring Salad Garden
Farm gal, library worker, and all-around money-pincher Jean Nick shares advice for green thrifty living every Thursday on Rodale.com. | <urn:uuid:b43874ef-330d-47ed-8bc3-1526fc651c16> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.rodale.com/growing-vegetables-bags?cm_mmc=Care2-_-Kids%20Garden-_-Article-_-Grow%20Vegetables%20Anywhere | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00070-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944334 | 1,165 | 2.71875 | 3 |
(By Iarlaith ni Fiomallain as appeared in the May 1990 Bolt)
"Rubication" means painting red. Actually, rubicated initials were blue as often as as they were red. Therefore if you want your manuscript to have an authentic appearance, you will be using red and blue colors, almost exclusively, for rubication.
Unlike calligraphy, there is no strict rule relating pen nib size to letter size. However, since you will want to be able to fit your rubication initials within the line spacing of the text, your maximum pen size should be no larger than the pen nib you are using for your written text.
Rubicated initials in period texts are usually accompanied by doodled filigree background. If the letter is red, the filigree is blue and vise-verse. Occasionally, the letter is drawn with gold ink and surrounded by black filigree.
The filigree may be severely geometric, consisting of parallel lines and dots and tiny circles,or luxuriantly foliage-like, or any combination or intermediate. Just be consistent within a given manuscript.
Rubicated initials are chiefly used within the text of a manuscript. They are used as the initial letters of very important words, such as the name of God, or the name of the King, the award recipient, the award, the Kingdom, etc. Gold rubicated initials should be saved for words of cosmic importance.
When you are calliging a text and come to a word whose initial letter will be rubicated, lightly pencil in a little box of appropriate size (usually 3 - 4 line-widths square) and keep on writing. Come back later to do the rubication and the filigree.
Some reference books are:
The Book of Hours, John Harthan (1977), Thomas Y. Crowell Company. Excerpts from book of hours of various nationalities and styles from 1325 to 1546.
Decorative Alphabets and Initials, Alexander Nesbitt (1959), Dover. Shows evolution of decorative initials from the 8th century to the present.
Writing, Illuminating and Lettering, Edward Johnston (1903), Dover. An excellent work on all principles of calligraphy.
None of these are in the Rimsholt library but I have a copy of Johnston's work in my own personal library that folks are welcome to look at.
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The growing importance of the bathroom is not being lost on the real estate sector, as designers and developers are beginning to spend a large amount of time and money on transforming this area of a home.According to a special to The Philadelphia Inquirer, the number of people who are investing in new fixtures, products and appliances for their bathrooms has risen, as a number of new industries have been created by this increased demand for a more comfortable setting for people to relax and unwind.People are installing a number of new technologies into their bathrooms, such as radiant heating systems into the floor or LCD televisions into the mirrors or walls. Although some may think that these installations are a luxury that few can afford, the importance of the room has increased for families of all income levels."The bathroom was one of the most important things," one homeowner told the Inquirer. "We wanted a double vanity, a large closet, large shower, and a flat-screen TV."According to the news outlet, the use of heated floors has been somewhat of a new trend, but people are increasingly choosing to install this product as a way to counter the cold feeling of tiles when they wake up in the morning.A radiant heating system not only allows for a much higher level of comfort in terms of feet touching the floor, but it can leave the whole bathroom feeling warmer and enhances the experience of anyone who enters.Though some may call a heated floor in the bathroom a luxury, it is important to remember that sometimes people need to treat themselves to nice things. And what better way to do so than by ensuring comfort for the first thing that one does during the day. | <urn:uuid:ded2871a-c459-47ba-8247-3773d828db5a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.warmboard.com/radiant-heat-news/radiant-residential/housing-trend-people-spending-more-money-bathrooms | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00040-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973393 | 331 | 1.671875 | 2 |
Expanding gaps in income and wealth around the world are not an unavoidable by-product of globalization and technological change, a new UNCTAD report maintains. The study contends that the increasing concentration of income in fewer hands limits nations’ economic potential by dampening demand for goods and services and by reducing the educational prospects and social mobility of their broader populations – thus underexploiting their talent and possible economic achievements. Such trends can and should be reversed by government intervention through fiscal and labour-market policies, the report says.
The Trade and Development Report 20121 , subtitled “Policies for inclusive and balanced growth”, was released today.
Trends over the last 30 years show income inequality increasing both within countries and between them. The share of wages in total income has fallen in most developed and in many developing countries. For example, it fell by 5 percentage points or more in Australia, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the United States of America, and by 10 percentage points or more in France, Germany and Ireland. In several countries, the richest 1 per cent of the population now accounts for 10 to 20 per cent of national wealth.
There has been a similar broad shift between countries. While in 1980, the per capita income of the 15 richest nations was 44 times that of the 15 poorest, by 2000, that multiple had increased to 62. The report notes, however, that in 2009, reflecting better economic performance in several developing and transition countries; the ratio had fallen to 56.
Because globalization has advanced greatly over the same 30-year period, the report says, a number of economists have argued that rising disparities in income are the necessary result of rapidly growing international trade and financial flows, and of quick advances in technology.
But the study says this outcome is not inevitable – that governments can use fiscal and labour market policies to reduce income inequality.
It says this goal is worthwhile not only for reasons of fairness and social welfare, but because it would improve economic performance. Low- and middle-income families spend much higher proportions of their incomes on consumption, the report notes – and that consumption creates the demand that drives modern economies. It says the ongoing feeble recovery from the 2009 recession in developed economies is rooted directly in the lack of demand.
It is even likely that the increasing proportion of income going to the rich contributed to the global financial crisis. In some developed countries, extremely high compensation paid to corporate executives, managers and financial agents was frequently linked to excessive risk-taking in search of short-term profits and shareholder dividends, while wage earners were forced to go into debt to maintain their living standards. “Excessive concentration of income was one of the factors leading to the global crisis as it was linked to perverse incentives for the top income earners and to high indebtedness in other income groups,” the report says. It predicts that there will be no significant recovery from the recession until low- and middle-income groups achieve sufficient earnings to spend on consumption.
More even income distribution also pays off over the long term, the Trade and Development Report contends. That is because high inequality deprives many people of access to education and credit, and prevents the expansion of domestic markets. Over years and decades, that amounts to an enormous waste of a country’s economic potential. Thus, a better income distribution pattern would help stimulate and sustain economic growth in the short run and would provide stronger incentives for investment, innovation and job creation in the long run, the study says.
In developed countries, rising inequalities have resulted partly from behavioural changes in the corporate sector, the report claims: Rather than reacting to greater international competition through productivity-enhancing investment, companies have tended to create profits by offshoring their production to low-wage countries and/or by keeping wages down through the mere threat of going offshore. Much of the resulting profits were used for dividend payments and share buybacks to maximize shareholder value. As a result, domestic wage restraint has been accompanied by rising income shares among the top income groups, including rentiers and the “working rich” in top management positions.
In developing and transition economies, the distributional outcomes of globalization and technological change have depended on changes in production structures, the report says. Labour moving from agriculture towards higher productivity activities, such as manufacturing, may initially have adverse distributional effects, as in China – that is, factory workers earn much more than farmers, and while all workers are better off, they are better off by different degrees.
However, when finance-led globalization leads to premature de-industrialization and/or financial instability and crises, as in Latin America and transition economies, labour moving from manufacturing to less-productive activities – such as informal services and precarious occupations – or workers simply being lost to unemployment tend to reduce wage levels and to worsen income gaps. Financial crises and extended privatizations of formerly State-owned businesses also have altered the ownership structure of enterprises, leading to increased wealth and income concentration, the report says. | <urn:uuid:a29a16bd-644e-40b5-a1d4-4d9838962e12> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://unctad.org/en/Pages/PressRelease.aspx?Me=,,ows_Title,ascending&OriginalVersionID=96&Sitemap_x0020_Taxonomy=UNCTAD%20Home&Product_x0020_Taxonomy=Press%20Release | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00026-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960072 | 1,017 | 2.96875 | 3 |
|Rat Terrier Types|
|There are two different Rat Terrier body types. Different organizations refer to them in different ways.
The first and most common is the type "A", which has a square shaped body when viewed from the side.
The distance from the top of the shoulders to the ground, and from the tail to the shoulders should be about the same.
This body type is considered by UKCI a classic "type A" Rat Terrier, and a "Rat Terrier" by UKC.
The second type is the type "B", and is not as common as the type "A". This type appears longer in body than tall when viewed from the side, with the perfect height to legth ratio being 7to10.
This body type is considered a type "B" Rat Terrier by UKCI, and a "Teddy Roosevelt Rat Terrier" by UKC.
|The classic type "B" or "Teddy Roosevelt"|
|The classic type "A"|
|Rat Terrier Sizes|
|Rat Terriers come in three basic sizes with few exceptions.
"Standard" between 18 and 25lbs.
"Miniture" between 10 and 18lbs.
"Toy" 10lbs. and under.
Some Rat Terrier associations have
"Giant" which is 25lbs and up, and
"Tiny Toys" or "Tiny Tots" which are 6lbs. and under.
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Airports in Washington, DC
Breaching the perimeter
Relief for Western pols
BUSINESS travellers and members of Congress who like flying out of Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) will soon have quicker ways to get home. National, as Democrats call it, was renamed after America's 40th president in 1998. Whatever the name, it is the most convenient big-city airport in America, a 15-minute subway ride from K Street, the epicentre of DC lobbying. Convenient if you are making a short hop, that is.
Since 1966 the “perimeter rule” has limited DCA's usefulness. Non-stop flights are forbidden from DCA to destinations more than a set distance—currently 1,250 miles (2,012km)—from the airport. Six exceptions were introduced between 2000 and 2011: one flight a day to Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Salt Lake City, with two flights to Seattle, four to Denver and three to Phoenix. Hawaiians, Oregonians and House minority leaders from San Francisco have been out of luck, forced to head to Baltimore in Maryland or slog out to Dulles in Virginia, which is 30 miles from the city centre and may be reached only by car or bus along a congested highway. This is what the planners intended: after the perimeter was introduced in 1969, it reduced noise and congestion at National, but it also pushed a lot of business out to newly built Dulles.
Happily for busy Washingtonians, the Federal Aviation Administration's recent reauthorisation includes a loosening of DCA's perimeter rule. The number of services to destinations outside the perimeter will increase by two-thirds. The airport's four big incumbents, Delta Air Lines, US Airways, American Airlines and United Airlines, will each exchange an inside-perimeter flight for a longer one. San Francisco (United) and San Diego (US Airways) will be added to the destination board, and Los Angeles (American) and Salt Lake City (Delta) will each get a new round trip. Four new round trips will go to airlines with limited or no presence at DCA. Seven carriers have submitted proposals; federal regulators will pick the winners this month.
Some politicians wonder whether Congress should be in the business of telling airlines how far to fly their planes, especially since modern aircraft are much quieter than they were back in 1966. Senator John McCain of Arizona introduced an unsuccessful bill to repeal the perimeter rule in 2009. East-coast politicians and airlines like United, which have invested a lot of money in Dulles, are happy with things as they are. But for travellers who dread the prospect of a long taxi ride on top of a cross-country flight, the perimeter rule is an unnecessary hassle. And what is the point of being in Congress, if you can't pass a law that shortens your commute? | <urn:uuid:e08b8534-0a9a-4f7d-a6fe-aae5a7b83df3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.economist.com/node/21554235 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00059-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948768 | 583 | 1.992188 | 2 |
The Bicycle Program is a group of dedicated bicycle advocates working in partnership with public and private agencies and bicycle organizations around the country. Short and long-term goals of the program are to develop and maintain the safest and most convenient bike way system possible in the City of San Diego.
There are three types of bicycle facilities: bike paths, bike lanes, and bike routes. Bike paths are separate "roads" for bicycles, and are reserved exclusively for non-motorized traffic. Bike lanes are marked along existing roadways with special regulatory signs and painted bicycle lanes and pavement. Bike routes are suggested bicycle routes through the City. They are marked by green "bike route" signs, but have no other signs, stripes or markings separating bicycle traffic from vehicular traffic.
Bike lanes and routes are relatively easy to install and modify, simply by adding the necessary signs and pavement markings. Creating new bike paths is a much more costly and complex process. To build a new bike path, the City must go through a planning and environmental review process, and acquire the necessary permits from State, local, and Federal agencies. It can cost up to $1 million per mile to build a new bike path. Every year, the City Bicycle Program obtains Local, State and Federal grants to construct new bike paths. Input from the public helps us to determine which projects are most urgently needed. We also install support facilities such as bicycle racks and lockers.
Every year, the City hosts programs promoting safe and effective bicycling at elementary schools and education centers throughout the city. Working with local bicycle organizations and other cities in San Diego County, we help produce Public Service Announcements, as well as the free San Diego County Bike Map, which shows all bicycle routes, path, and lanes throughout the county. We also provide free literature promoting bike safety, helmet safety, and safe riding skills.
Bicycle Related Contact Information
Request a San Diego County Bike Map or information on bicycle lockers: Visit icommutesd or call 1-800-COMMUTE / 1-800-266-6883
Report a lost or stolen bike: San Diego Police (619) 531-2000.
Report vehicles illegally parked in bike lanes or bike paths: (619) 684-1400.
Animal or Litter Control: (858) 492-5060
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THE CONSTITUTION (EIGHTIETH AMENDMENT) ACT, 1999
Statement of Objects and Reasons appended to the Constitution (Eighty-Ninth
Amendment) Bill, 2000 which was enacted as the Constitution (Eightieth
Amendment) Act, 2000.
OF OBJECTS AND REASONS
The Tenth Finance Commission had submitted its report on the 26th November,
1994 for the period of five years, i.e.,from 1995-96 to 1999-2000. The said
report was laid on the table of both the Houses of Parliament on the 14th
March,1995. One of the recommendations of the Commission that has been under
consideration of the Government is an alternative scheme of sharing of the
proceeds of certain Union taxes and duties between the Union and the States.
2. The alternative scheme envisages that twenty-six per cent out of the gross
proceeds of Union taxes and duties (excluding stamp duty, excise duty on
medicinal toilet preparations, Central Sales Tax,Consignment tax, cesses
levied for specific purposes under any law made by Parliament and Surcharge)
is to be assigned to the States in lieu of their existing share in
income-tax, basic excise duties, special excise duties and grants in lieu of
tax on railway passenger fares.
3. In addition, three per cent share in the gross proceeds of all Central
taxes and duties (excluding stamp duty, excise duty on medicinal/toilet
preparations, Central Sales Tax, Consignment tax, cesses levied for specific
purpose under any law made by Parliament and Surcharge) is to be assigned to
the States in lieu of their existing share in Additional Excise Duties in
lieu of Sales Tax on tobacco, cotton and sugar. The commission had proposed
that tobacco, cotton and sugar may continue to be exempt from Sales Tax and
the Additional Excise Duties in lieu of Sales Tax on these items may be
merged with the Basic Excise Duties.
4. Whether the alternative scheme would be more gainful to the Centre or to
the States vis-à-vis existing arrangements would entirely depend on the
relative growth in the Collection of various Central taxes and duties to be
5. The benefits of the scheme have been listed by the Commission in para
13.2. and 13.3 and 13.18 of their reports. These areas follows:-
(i) with a given share being
allotted to the States in the
revenues from Central taxes, the States will be
share the aggregate buoyancy of Central taxes;
(ii) the Central Government
can pursue tax reforms
the need to consider whether a tax is sharable in
(iii) the impact of fluctuations in Central tax revenues would
alike by the Central and the State Governments;
(iv) Should the taxes
mentioned in articles 268 and/or 269 from
this arrangement, there will be greater likelihood of
(v) the progress of
reforms will be greatly facilitated if the
tax sharing arrangement is enlarged so as to give
certainty of resource flows to, and increased
in tax reform.
6. The above scheme recommended by the Commission is in national interest as
it helps to remove a perceived inter-tax in the tax mobilisation effort of
the Government of India while leaving sufficient flexibility for meeting
Centre’s exclusive needs by keeping Cesses and Surcharges outside the pooling
7. A Discussion Paper bringing out various aspects of the scheme was laid on
the table of both the Houses of Parliament on the 20th December, 1996 with a
view to generate an informed debate.
8. On the basis of a consensus reached in the Third Meeting of the
inter-State Council held on the 17th July, 1997, the then Government had
agreed in principle to accept the scheme recommended by the Tenth Finance
Commission subject to certain modifications.
9. The Government had decided to ratify the decision taken by the previous
Government according in principle approval for the scheme recommended by the
Tenth Finance Commission with some modifications.
10. Firstly, the percentage share of State is to be reviewed by the
successive Finance Commissions instead of freezing it for fifteen years as
suggested by the Tenth Finance Commission.
11. Secondly, Government had decided to change the sharing of “gross
proceeds” as recommended by the Tenth Finance Commission to the sharing of
“net proceeds” in order to maintain consistency between articles 270, 279 and
280 of the Constitution. However, this will not result in any consequent loss
to the States because the Government has also simultaneously decided to
compensate the States by suitably enhancing the percentage share beyond 29%.
12. Thirdly, as intended by the Commission, no amendment is sought to be done
in article 271, which authorize the Central Government to levy surcharge on
Central taxes and duties for the purpose of the Union.
13. The scheme will be effective from 1st April, 1996. The percentage share
of net proceeds during 1996-97 to 1999-2000 will be such that the States’
share is 29% of the gross proceeds. The recommendations of the 11th
Finance Commission, which has been mandated to give its final report by 30th
June, 2000, will cover the 5 years period w.e.f. 1st April, 2000.
14. In order to implement this decision, this Bill seeks to amend article
269, 270 and 272 of the Constitution so as to bring several Central taxes and
duties like Corporation tax and Customs duties at par with personal
income-tax as far as their constitutionally mandated sharing with the States
The 25th February, 2000.
THE CONSTITUTION (EIGHTIETH AMENDMENT) ACT, 2000
[9th June, 2000]
An Act further to amend the Constitution of India.
BE it enacted by Parliament in the Fifty-First Year of the Republic of India
1. Short title: This Act may be called the Constitution (Eightieth Amendment)
2. Amendment of article 269: In article 269 of the Constitution, for clauses
(1) and (2), the following clauses shall be substituted, namely:-
`'(1) Taxes on the sale or purchase of goods and taxes on the consignment of goods
shall be levied and collected by the Government of India but shall be
assigned and shall be deemed to have been assigned to the States on or after
the 1st day of April, 1996 in the manner provided in clause (2).
Explanation.-For the purposes of this clause; -
(a) the expression “taxes on the sale or purchase of
goods” shall mean taxes on sale or purchase of goods
other than newspapers, where such sale or purchase
takes place in the course of inter-State trade or
(b) the expression “taxes on the
consignment of goods”
shall mean taxes on the consignment of goods (whether
the consignment is to the person making it or to any
other person), where such consignment takes place
place in the course of inter-State trade or
(2) The net proceeds in any financial year of any such tax, except in so far
as those proceeds represent proceeds attributable to Union territories, shall
not form part of the Consolidated Fund of India, but shall be assigned to the
State within which that tax is leviable in that year, and shall be
distributed among those States in ccordance with such principles of
distribution as may be formulated by Parliament by law’.
3. Substitution of new article for article 270:
For article 270 of the Constitution, the following article
shall be substituted and shall be deemed to have been substituted with effect
from the 1st day of April, 1996, namely:-
Taxes levied and distributed between the Union and the States:
`270. (1) All taxes and duties referred to in the Union
List, except the duties and taxes referred to in articles 268 and 269,
respectively, surcharge on taxes and duties referred to in article 271 and
any cess levied for specific purposes under any law made by Parliament shall
be levied and collected by the Government of India and shall be distributed
between the Union and the States in the manner provided in clause (2).
(2) Such percentage, as may be prescribed, of the net proceeds of any such
tax or duty in any financial year shall not form part of the Consolidated
Fund of India, but shall be assigned to the States within which that tax or
duty is leviable in that year, and shall be distributed among those States in
such manner and from such time as may be prescribed in the manner provided in
(3) In this article, “Prescribed” means -
(i) until a Finance Commission has been constituted,
prescribed by the President by order, and
(ii) after a Finance Commission has been constituted,
prescribed by the President by order after considering
the recommendations of the Finance Commission.’
4. (1) Omission of article 272 : Article 272 of the Constitution shall be
(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), where any sum
equivalent to the whole or any part of the net proceeds of the Union duties
of excise including additional duties of excise which are levied and
collected by the Government of India and which has been distributed as
grants-in-aid to the States after the 1st day of April, 1996, but before the
commencement of this Act, such sum shall be deemed to have been distributed
in accordance with the provisions of article 270, as if article 272 had been
omitted with effect from the 1st day of April, 1996.
(3) Any sum equivalent to the whole or any part of the net proceeds of any
other tax or duty that has been distributed as grants-in-aid to the States
after the 1st day of April, 1996 but before the commencement of this Act
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The Rena disaster clean-up is estimated to have cost about $130 million, Environment Minister Nick Smith told Parliament today.
The container ship ran aground on the Astrolabe Reef off the Bay of Plenty coast last October, and eventually broke up last month.
Tonnes of oil leaked into the sea and washed up on local beaches, as did some of the hundreds of containers onboard and their contents.
Dr Smith, who today faced a grilling in Parliament over the cost and possible prosecutions in relation to the disaster, said there was still significant uncertainty about the total cost of the salvage and clean-up, and it would not be clear until the operation was completed.
"A crude estimate of the total costs has been provided to me by officials, of $130m, of which the bulk is for the salvage of fuel cargo and the ship itself," Dr Smith said.
The majority of the costs were being met by the ship's owner, Greek shipping company Costamare Inc, but Dr Smith said government agencies had spent about $28m.
"It is our intention to fully recover those costs from the ship's owner and its insurers."
Labour deputy leader Grant Robertson questioned Dr Smith about charging Costamare under the Resource Management Act, asking whether he believed the Bay of Plenty Council should take such a prosecution.
"It is a decision for Environment Bay of Plenty whether they wish to prosecute under that Act," Dr Smith said.
"The Government has made plain that we hold the owners of the Rena responsible for the environmental damage that has occurred with the worst environmental disaster in New Zealand's history.
"That is why the Government, both through the negotiations over the issue of pollution costs, the Resource Management Act, and the maritime transport laws does intend to use the full force of the law to hold those responsible for that disaster." | <urn:uuid:295fbacd-2c46-4173-bc8d-aa88e4011046> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.nzherald.co.nz/news/print.cfm?objectid=10783985 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00015-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974194 | 374 | 1.773438 | 2 |
In an October 10, 2011 interview on “The Marc Bernier Show” on WNDB-AM in Daytona Beach, Florida’s Governor Rick Scott favors spending money on science and math degrees; however, was quoted saying that Florida “doesn’t need a lot more anthropologists in this state.” Read Michael C. Bender’s entire post on The Buzz – a political blog of the St. Petersburg Times
As a political leader with significant national and international influence, we at the American Anthropological Association think it is unfortunate that Governor Scott would characterize anthropology in such a short-sighted way. As a discipline that has a rich and robust history, anthropology has made numerous contributions to the study of cultures both foreign and domestic, and has helped us understand humankind. Anthropologists are leaders in our nation’s top science fields, from groundbreaking discoveries in public health to homeland security, and anthropologists work in various arenas, due to the diversity of the field in science and the humanities.
Download (.pdf) the official response to Governor Scott from the American Anthropological Association:
View the comments made to the October 11 blog post.
Read member commentary:
- One recent grad speaks out on their blog – benthropology
- A perspective from a biological anthropologist – Powered by Osteons
- Neuroanthropology nicely rounds-up the coverage
- Written Dispatch – Anthropologists Shouldn’t Hate Governor Scott…
- Anthropology 4F03: Archaeological Theory Hub – We don’t need no stinkin’ anthropologists
- Savage Minds – Ryan asks readers “Should anthropologists be completely focused on producing jobs, or are there other elements that matter in a valuable and worthwhile education?”
- Living Anthropologically – Anthropologist Unite – Florida Edition
- John Hawk Weblog - Florida: Anthropologists not wanted
- Response to Governor Scott by the American Association of Physical Anthropologists (via Neuroanthropology)
- Students of USF respond with a presentation called This Is Anthropology
- Neuroanthropology – Oh Wait, Rick Scott Loves Anthropolgy
- Savage Minds – Anthropology, Dialog and “Intellectual Reconstuction”
- Neuroanthropology – Why We Protest
The press picked up the conversation with gusto and even revealed that Scott’s daughter earned her degree in Anthropology at the College of William and Mary. Daniel Lende has done an excellent summary of the press coverage on his blog Neuroanthropology.
Did we miss your blog post? Or do you have another article to add? Let us know! | <urn:uuid:e61aad32-ce64-4a6d-95b7-ed668123a7da> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.aaanet.org/free-speech-anthropology-forum/commentary-on-governor-rick-scott/?like=1&source=post_flair&_wpnonce=e5382928c8 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00064-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.921651 | 537 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Incompleteness and Complexity
Most people assume that mathematics lead to absolute certainty, but Kurt Gödel’s incompleteness theorems deny that result. Gregory Chaitin explains his own attempts to make sense of Godel’s incompleteness theorems. By looking for mathematical scenarios where the truth must look accidental, Chaitin hopes to gain insight to “what’s going on” in mathematical logic.
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15 years ago I thought being a successful businessman meant being the CEO of a Fortune 500 company. 10 years ago I thought it meant being the CEO of a large advertising agency, providing services to Fortune 500 companies. Either way, I dreamed of big buildings, big revenues, lavish and stylishly modern offices, nice clothes, nice cars, nice lunches, and lots and lots of employees. Over the past 10 years as a business owner I’ve had plenty of lessons pounded into me, and while each person must come up with their own definition of success, since we all like and enjoy different things, my definition of success has come to be something quite different than it once was.
Before going any further, I should note that when I talk about “business success” I’m talking about something different than “personal success” or “personal financial success”. Personal success for me has little to do with business success these days and more to do with how I am as a husband and father. Personal financial success for me has more to do with living debt free and having the means to do the things I want, which you would probably not find terribly extravagant.
Business success has come to meant the following for me at this point in time:
1. No debt.
2. No more than one full-time employee.
3. Maximum productivity.
Why no debt? I’ve had enough over the past 10 years of business loans, lines of credit, and credit cards to get a good taste of debt, and I don’t like it. It ties hands, stifles creativity, cripples growth, and limits options.
Why no full time employees, other than myself? It’s easier. By only dealing with 1099 employees, I don’t have to worry about health care, payroll taxes, and a host of other human resources matters. Most importantly, with a 1099 employee it’s easier to align their interests with mine by paying them a portion of what I get paid. If they don’t do the work, the client isn’t happy, the client doesn’t pay me, and I don’t pay my contractor. If the contractor does a good job then the client is happy, and so is everyone else. There is more of a connection between the contractor and the end user. If I have employees on salary who get paid regardless of how clients feel, then they don’t have as much incentive to care about how clients feel.
Our politicians and many of business types are obsessed with maximum employment. Politicians want low unemployment since employed voters are happy voters, and many business people think lots of employees is what makes a business successful. But low unemployment is easy, and not necessarily a good thing. It used to be that you couldn’t support a family on a single income. For most of history other than a portion of the past 100 years, fathers, mothers, and children often all worked in order to merely survive. Life was hard. But technological progress, specialization, and trade allowed many to improve their standard of living such that a family could live better on just one income than they had previously with several (credit cards do this too, but it is, of course, unsustainable). With only the need for one person in a family to work, this allowed for more intellectual pursuits, which in turn spurred more progress in those areas that improve standards of living, and so on. Plus 12-year old kids weren’t having their arms ripped off in hog fat rendering plants. In other words, unemployment is often a good thing.
Likewise with businesses, maximum employment is not always desirable. Many companies could do more with less. Companies can become bloated with all that is required to support a large workforce to the point where maintaining the workforce seems like the purpose of the business more so than producing anything of value to external consumers.
For both business and government, as well as society at large, the goal should not be full employment, but maximum productivity. Full employment does not promote a higher standard of living, in fact, as pointed out, high unemployment can be a sign of high standards of living if people are not working because they do not need to. Maximum productivity, on the other hand, is what raises those standards of living that matter most to us such as education, health, life expectancy, concern for the environment, human rights, care for the poor and needy, etc.
Too often, we see an entrepreneur who starts a company that grows to have thousands of employees and we say “Wow, isn’t that guy a great entrepreneur? Look how big his company is!” We don’t know how much money he makes. We don’t know the profit per employee. For all we know, the company may be losing money, but we assume a company is successful and more valuable to society if it has a lot of employees. On the other hand, a company with a handful of employees may generate a million dollars per employee with large profit margins, and yet not attract much attention because it only has three employees and $3M in revenue, vs. 500 employees and $50M in revenue. Yet all other things being equal, which company is truly better for society?
We give awards to businesses for growth in terms of revenue and jobs created, and occasionally profitability, but too much attention is focused on the former rather than the latter. I’d like to see an award for the most productive companies. Those that do the most with the least. These are the companies that drive innovation, leading to higher standards of living, and at the moment, that’s the definition of business success I’m shooting for. | <urn:uuid:bdbabc34-bb1f-4531-8d20-5b3e16cfe2d2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.donloper.com/entrepreneurship/redefining-business-success.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00010-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97025 | 1,184 | 1.570313 | 2 |
Blood test for Liver Function
The City Walk-in Clinic offers liver function screening as part of our full blood profile test.
Liver function testing looks at a number of clinical biochemistry parameters including liver enzymes.
Liver function testing helps to catch liver diseases early, particularly as in their early stages, the symptoms are often mild and not detected.
Liver disease can be caused by a number of different factors including excessive alcohol consumption and hepatitis.
These tests can also be the first step in diagnosis of other conditions such as fatty liver.
In the case of abnormal results, an experienced doctor will help you understand the next appropriate step in terms of either further testing or repeat testing in the first instance.
These tests help to distinguish between different types of liver disorder, check for the extent of any liver damage and also monitor the response to treatment.
Liver function tests are also used to monitor the health of your liver while taking certain medication.
The cost of the full blood profile is £95.00 and also includes kidney function, liver function, haematology , cholesterol profile and many other elements.
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Olympia- December 19, 1997 - The State of Washington today joined three other states and the Federal Trade Commission in signing consent decrees aimed at keeping gasoline prices competitive.
The agreement, with Shell Oil Company and Texaco, Inc., is in response to a proposal by the two companies to form a joint venture for their refining and marketing operations in the western United States.
State and federal antitrust laws, which are designed to protect competition, require a review when two competitors, with significant market shares, propose to consolidate assets. Officials were concerned in this case that the joint venture would violate antitrust laws and could result in an increase in gas prices by eliminating competition in the Pacific Northwest refining industry.
About 85 percent of the gasoline in Washington is supplied by one of four major refiners in the state. The four are Shell, Texaco, Arco, and Tosco (BP Oil). A combined Texaco and Shell operation would produce 43 percent of the gasoline manufactured in the Pacific Northwest.
To address antitrust concerns and maintain a competitive atmosphere, the Consent Decree requires Shell to sell its refinery in Anacortes. After the sale, the new owner of the refinery will have an 18.2 percent share of the refining market. Arco's market share will be approximately 34 percent and Tosco, will have just over 17 percent.
"Gasoline prices have a significant influence on Washington's economic vitality," Washington Attorney General Christine Gregoire said in explaining the antitrust concerns about the joint venture. "This action is meant to protect Washington consumers and businesses who need competitively-priced gasoline."
It is estimated that about two million Washington residents buy about 2.5 billion gallons of gasoline a year. Washington consumers already pay the fifth highest wholesale gas prices in the country. "Many people claim we pay more for gas today because of the limited number of refineries in the region," Gregoire said. "We don't want to compound that problem now by reducing competition."
According to Gregoire, the Consent Decree includes a variety of provisions which are aimed at ensuring the buyer of the Shell refinery can be a viable competitor.
While the refinery is up for sale, Shell must keep the refinery as a separate legal entity, provide an experienced management team to make sure the operation remains competitive during the transition period, and retain all current employees and their benefits.
Shell employees have been concerned about the impact of the sale of the refinery on jobs. Once the company is sold, Shell has agreed to cooperate with the new owner to employ current personnel and to transfer bonuses, pensions and other benefits. In response to a request from Gregoire, Shell has stated in a letter that all collective bargaining agreements will remain in place with the new purchaser through at least the year 2002.
Shell has confirmed that it has already received more than twenty expressions of interest from potential purchasers of the refinery.
The Federal Trade Commission also announced its preliminary approval of the deal today based on a consent order containing substantially the same conditions agreed to by Washington, Oregon and other states. Attorneys General in California and Hawaii also announced they have reached agreements concerning retail and wholesale operations in their states.
The Attorney General reached the agreement after an extensive investigation and a review of documents provided by the companies. The action was filed today in federal district court in Seattle.
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(KSA 3) Water Use and Waste
The Water Use and Waste Management KSA focuses mainly on the domestic, industrial and mining water sectors. It aims to proac-tively and effectively lead and support the advancement of technology, science, management and policies relevant to water supply, waste and effluent management, for these sectors. This KSA also supports studies on institutional and management issues, with special emphasis on the efficient functioning of water service institutions and their viability. Research on infrastructure for both water supply and sanitation is included. A further focus is on water supply and treatment technology serving the domestic (urban, rural, large and small systems) as well as the industrial/commercial and mining sectors of our economy. This KSA also focuses on waste and effluent as well as reuse technologies that can support the municipal, mining and industrial sectors and improve management in these sectors with the aim of improving productivity and supporting economic growth while minimising the negative effect on human and environmental health.
The provision and supply of water of adequate quality and quantity for economic and public health purposes remain continuous challenges. Water is a finite resource and, specifically in the context of South Africa, is becoming incrementally scarce. Managing water use and the waste released to the water environment is thus of paramount importance to ensure the sustainability of the resource and the activities relying on it. Water use and waste management in South Africa is consequently a key factor for social and economic growth, as well as for our environment. The entire way we think about and use water is thus an important factor in determining our future. In recent years the focus of the KSA has been on supporting the implementation of various pieces of legislation that impact on the provision of sustainable water services. The support was in the form of unpacking and understanding key elements within legislation and the impact on the water services sector. The result has been a bias towards developing guidelines and tools to assist new and emerging municipalities and politicians to understand their responsibilities, which also included repackaging information of a technical nature. In the process we have maintained a balance with dealing with cutting-edge technological advances and have been concentrating on their application and commercialisation. Developing innovative processes and technologies for water purification, reuse and treatment of wastewater from domestic to industrial and mining activities has been and is of even greater importance to our country, especially in the light of problems related to the deteriorating quality of our water resources and the rising costs and reliability of energy. Considering the emerging challenges, research in the KSA will continue to focus on greater innovation and development of cutting-edge technologies to respond to the issues of poor O&M, competency and capacity constraints, reuse, energy efficiency, climate change constraints, emerging contaminants and the aspect of drinking water quality.
The primary objective of this KSA is to provide knowledge that ensures reliable, affordable and efficient water use and waste manage¬ment services to enhance the quality of life, and contribute to economic growth and improved public health.
The secondary objectives are to:
Improve the management of water services in both rural and urban areas
Develop appropriate technologies for improving the quality and quantity of our water supplies for both domestic use and industrial applications
Develop new approaches to manage and enhance hygiene and sanitation practices
Provide appropriate, innovative and integrated solutions to water and waste management in the industrial and mining sectors
Develop applications for improved treatment of wastewater and effluent and improve processes for enabling increased reuse thereof
Improve health, economic and environmental conditions, while supporting the development of appropriate technologies and socially-focused management practices related to water and effluent management
The objectives of the KSA are orientated towards making a difference and impact in the areas of health, economy, environment and society. These are achieved through a portfolio of focused thrusts:
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Following last week's disclosure that smoking on the University of Calgary campus may be banned by May 2006, the Students' Academic Assembly voted overwhelmingly not to endorse the Smoke Free U of C subcommittee's current policy proposal.
The SAA resolution called the proposed smoking ban an infringement upon "the freedom of students, the Students' Union, the wfaculty, and university staff."
As the SAA is charged with creating academic policy, the resolution on smoking comes as a largely symbolic gesture. SU Vice-President Academic Laura Schultz is worried a complete ban ignores the rights of students who smoke.
"The SAA will not endorse the current smoke-free policy of the SFUC," she said. "A total ban would really affect smoking students who'd have to walk quite a distance in the cold to get off campus."
SFUC, a sub-committee of the University Health, Safety and Security Committee, was formed last fall to develop a campus smoking policy, with the eventual objective of banning the use and sale of tobacco products on campus. The current proposal calls for tobacco sales to be banned by Jan. 2005, smoking in the Den and Graduate Student Lounge prohibited by May 2005, and a campus wide ban by May 2006.
Members of SAA are not the only people questioning the policy.
Albi Sole, Alberta Union of Provincial Employees Local 52 Chair, acknowledged the issue as an important one with AUPE members.
"We certainly support a reduction in smoking, but we want smokers to feel they're people too," said Sole. "My sense is we're not really ready for a complete ban. On the other hand [the ban] is a couple of years from now, so people may be more accepting, but right now this might be a bit draconian."
Sole stressed that AUPE members feel their interests are being represented fairly on the SFUC sub- committee.
Alex Vyskocil, SU VP Events, is concerned students may not have the same representation.
"The thing is the sub-committee is made up of almost all community members," said Vyskocil. "This first draft of the policy was done without serious consultations with the students. For this policy to work, they have to have student 'buy-in.'"
He said figures provided by the sub-committee estimate that 36-40 per cent of U of C students are smokers. Vyskocil and SU VP Operations and Finance Greg Clayton are representing the SU on the SFUC.
"That's a large percentage of students," said Vyskocil. "Telling them to 'get off campus' is no solution. None of [the SFUC subcommittee] smoke, and they're all activists, so it's hard to find common ground."
Vyskocil and Clayton believe the final SFUC policy will address these concerns before ultimately being approved by U of C VP Finance and Services Mike McAdam.
"SFUC have come up with, in their minds, a perfect timetable," said Clayton. "I wouldn't see this as something set in stone."
Clayton said the Students' Legislative Council would likely begin discussing the issue at the next council meeting, but would not make any resolutions until classes resume in the fall.
"Our next step will be to come up with what works for our organization in a business sense," said Clayton, adding that tobacco sales alone account for roughly $80,000 annually in SU revenue. Clayton was unable to speculate on the revenue loss that would result from a ban on smoking in the SU run Den and Black Lounge.
"The way we see it is we can only go down," he said. "We probably wouldn't go bankrupt but we would have to really, really, restructure."
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In a moment of calm, you sense a space that lies between your thoughts, perceptions, and intimations of the external world. It is within you and has been for your entire life. Inhabiting this unchanging place, your very deepest awareness is the observing witness to all that has occurred.
Over the years you have learned to identify this place within yourself and you have practiced various means of accessing it. Perhaps as a result of these practices, you have become much more able to bring your attention to a point of focus and to transport yourself there. In fact, because it is ultimately just a step away from your ordinary waking consciousness, being aware of it it is similar to simply looking past a lens to see the unfiltered reality that lies behind the glass.
When you observe from this vantage, you sense layers of consciousness, which are involved in processes that can be described as loops of thought, feeling, reflection. These seem to be most concerned with identifying and naming the various states of being and imagining, which constitute your daily reality.
So again, there is a calm center within your field of awareness. And there are also many layers of thinking, feeling, identifying, and naming occurring at the same time. You can shift between them at will.
But sometimes we get lost. We forget that we are simply observing a mental process and instead, we identify with whatever content is being experienced and named at that level of awareness.
We get lost because in order to fully experience an event, we automatically identify with it. We identify with each layer of awareness as it happens. This is the nature of subjective experience. It is why illusions have such great power over us – illusions of every kind have great power because we cannot clearly distinguish between what is happening in an objective way and our subjective experience. The lines are blurred. And they are blurred because we cannot clearly distinguish between subjective awareness and the external aspects of experience.
We are easily fooled by appearances. And appearances are easily manipulated.
The knowledge of the calm and focused place of being where you can observe all the other layers of your awareness coming and going, streaming forward in future focus, or backwards in memory…where you can detach yourself – your clinging fearful sense of identity – from the inescapably frightening feelings of being caught up in the whirlwinds of living in the world…this knowledge serves you well.
Knowing you can move from a hurricane of mental confusion to the calm and secure place of pure awareness, relaxes you, and gives you strength. It is a quietly gathering sensation of powerful, yet peaceful, contemplation. This is the place to be…
Image: “Intelligent World” by Tullio DeSantis, ink drawing, 2011
You Tube Video: Deepest Mandelbrot Set Zoom Animation ever – a New Record! 10^275 (2.1E275 or 2^915)
Snow holds the moon
My thoughts are moving waves of wind
Stars arc, connecting me to blue hills I cannot see
I am warmed by the glow of their gravity
Walking through chaos
A mind forms in the darkening sky
Deciding to be born
Image: “One Mind One Moment” by Tullio DeSantis, altered ink drawing, EEG map, brain, and astronomical images, 2011.
“I strongly believe that the less a thought is mutilating, the less it will mutilate human beings. We must remember the ravages that simplifying visions have caused, not only in the intellectual world, but in life. Much of the suffering of millions of beings results from the effects of fragmented and one-dimensional thought.” – Edgar Morin, “On Complexity”
The urgency with which we pursue simplicity and certainty is reminiscent of the most persistently predatory and compulsive behavior in the animal kingdom. If there is one thing that has characterized our thinking during the millennia of recorded history it is the evident need to reduce the world’s chaos and complexity to a system of simple explanations. And when we believe we have found such a system of thought, it has been used as a justification for our most heinous collective crimes.
We have arrived at a point in our evolution where a deeper and more thoroughgoing self-knowledge is our only means to continued survival. And to come to know ourselves in deeper ways will require a kind of knowledge in which the complexities, uncertainties, and interconnectedness of things, once considered to be simple, absolute, and separate, are seen as open-ended systems, in ways we are just now beginning to comprehend.
By definition, it is not possible to describe a new paradigm in terms of the old ones preceding it. What emerges as a new global understanding of humanity and our place in the world is a sense of new connections between areas of knowledge and of ourselves once thought to be separate and unrelated, such as physics and biology and matters of the mind and heart.
These new views descend almost imperceptibly, for they constitute a truly collaborative vision. Each of us embodies and communicates some significant information about the world seen in new ways. The patterns of our interactions create the contemporary culture, which we also internalize as aspects of our own perception and ways of thinking and behaving. This is the recursive feedback process of an open, living ecosystem.
We begin to see that there is a new matrix of possibility forming – with new more interconnected and compassionate ways to be human and new, more comprehensive ways of thinking about ourselves and our place in the universe.
Image: “GYRE 001″ by Tullio DeSantis, ink drawing, 2011.
YouTube Video: Sound of the Earth in Space Recorded by NASA(Our planet is a natural source of radio waves at audible frequencies. An online receiver at the Marshall Space Flight Center is playing these songs of Earth so anyone can listen.)
“A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest… a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.” – Albert Einstein
How can we rescue ourselves and each other from the dangerous world we have created?
We seem to know so much. Our science has produced technologies which evidence tremendous power. We are able to move great objects at high velocities. Our machines perform trillions and trillions of calculations in fractions of a second. Everywhere around us our knowledge of material processes has refashioned the world of our experience. We have changed the planet and ourselves in ways unimagined by previous generations.
But all this scientific and technical achievement has also produced situations that threaten to bring us great harm – harm to ourselves and to our world. Our knowledge turns out to be severely limited. By focusing our minds on abstract, reductionist, and materialist conceptions of existence, we produced a century of physical and psychological horror on a scale unprecedented in all of history.
As we look back upon the twentieth century, we must ask ourselves, what is it about the way we have conceived of the world and our place in it which has resulted in such monstrosities in the name of reason and rationality?
Our search for order amidst the apparent chaos of life has created, on the one hand, systems of order so rigid that they have banished all forms of novelty and dissent, and on the other hand, the chaos of unending war and political strife. Even our entertainment media, which we have ostensibly created as havens from the roughness of the real world, are replete with violence and images of inhumanity.
Prodded by our fears, we have been impelled to create shells of safety and security and yet, each time, we fail to notice until it is nearly too late, we have the most dangerous thing still within the fortress. The most dangerous thing is us, of course. We have the power to multiply the natural dangers of the world a thousandfold. When we desensitize the connections of empathy and feelings of compassion for others, we lose empathy and compassion for ourselves as well.
We are learning that we must reformulate our very ideas of the world and our place within it. The end of our old science of separation, reductionism, inflexible logic, and certainty leads us ineluctably toward the new science of connectedness, relativity, complexity, and possibility.
As we learn to listen more attentively to the beating of our hearts and more deeply feel the breath in our lungs, we come closer to our common humanity. As we begin to ask the right questions, we observe the answers are already here within us. Our minds begin to move inevitably toward the evolutionary notion that empathy and compassion are the purpose and meaning of our lives…
Image: “Heart and Mind” by Tullio DeSantis, altered ink drawing, 2011.
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The Department of Conservation and Recreation's Division of Water Supply Protection is the steward of the 4,135 acre Wachusett reservoir. Because this reservoir is the primary water supply for Boston, approximately 80% of the 37 mile shoreline is usually open to angling in early through November 30. (Dependent on ice conditions.) To assure pure water, there are a number of regulations such as prohibiting boats, ice fishing, wading, swimming, overnight camping, alcoholic beverages, littering, animals, bikes and motor vehicles from the reservoir and abutting property. Check the DCR website for up-to-date access, dates and other information.
Opening Day for Fishing
on Wachusett (and Sudbury) Reservoir is the first Saturday in April,
ice conditions permitting.
Wachusett/Sudbury Reservoir Fishing Webpage
Wachusett Reservoir, the second largest waterbody in the state, has a maximum depth of 120 ft and a mean of 48 ft. As of 1999, the reservoir contained 12 native and 12 introduced species of fish. The limited access, combined with abundant, high quality habitat, produced state records for brown trout, landlocked salmon, smallmouth bass and white perch, even though more than 1.5 million people live within a 25 mile radius.
A 1998 angler creel survey conducted by MassWildlife, estimated about 27,000 anglers from 86 eastern and central Massachusetts towns fished this reservoir. The survey results indicated fishing pressure was heaviest in April, declining slowly through June as the lake trout and smallmouth bass peaked, and then declined dramatically. Summer time produced low fishing effort, directed at warmwater species by families recreating in the early evening. In the fall, the rainbow trout, landlocked salmon and lake trout reentered shallow water, doubling angler effort over the summer angling.
The top five species people were trying to catch, ranked in declining order, were:
- Lake trout
- Rainbow trout
- Landlocked salmon
- Smallmouth bass
- Largemouth bass
The five species caught most often were:
- Lake trout (6,200)
- Sunfish (5,400)
- Yellow perch (4,400)
- Smallmouth bass (3,600)
- Largemouth bass (2,200)
Wachusett Reservoir is located west of Interstate 495, halfway between Interstate 290 and 190 in West Boylston, Sterling and Clinton, and is virtually surrounded by Rt.. 110 on the East and North, Rt. 70 on the South, Rt. 140 running diagonally from northeast to southwest and Rt. 12 bisecting the northern third.
The DCR labeled gates on the lower 2/3 of the reservoir in a clockwise direction, facilitating access to the desireable sections of the reservoir. The most popular spring fishing gates are; 6, 7 ,8, 11, 14, 20, 21, 22, 25, Rt. 12 causeway, gates 28, 31, 35, 36, and the Quinapoxet River outlet, where a deep water aqueduct from Quabbin reservoir discharges to Wachusett.
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