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Schools in Gujranwala. Primary, Middle & High Schools in Gujranwala
Use list of schools in Gujranwala to understand what are the options and choose the one that is best for you. This place is useful for your seach for local options including private, public or boarding schools in Gujranwala. You can find or add information about high schools, primary shcools and middle schools in Gujranwala on this page.
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The one certainty to be in Friday’s plethora of USDA reports is a surprise or two.
One of the most-important USDA report days of the year will take place Friday. At 11 a.m. CDT, USDA will release its World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates, Crop Production, Annual Crop Production, Grain Stocks and Winter Wheat Seedings.
Rich Nelson, chief strategist at Allendale, a brokerage services firm in McHenry, Ill., says these will be "ugly" reports with a lot of surprises. These surprises will likely cause dramatic price swings for corn, soybeans and wheat.
He says in 2012, there was a 40-cent swing between the closing price of corn the day before the report and the close the day of the report. "I would not go heavy into this report, betting you’ll get these numbers right." He says there are a lot of things USDA can do which can throw a wrench into expectations.
So, where could prices fall after the market digests this huge amount of information? That will depend on the supply and demand picture USDA paints.
In am Allendale webinar earlier this week, Nelson reported that his firm expects corn production to drop from 10.725 billion bushels down to 10.618 billion bushels. Yet, he doesn’t expect this moderate drop to have a huge impact.
"What we are watching much more closely is demand," he says. "This demand issue is much worse than most people think right now."
Allendale expectations include a 50-million-bushel drop in ethanol production, another 50-million-bushel drop in feed usage and a 100-million-bushel drop in exports.
"USDA thinks ethanol production will be 10% lower than last year," Nelson says. But, he says, for eight of the past 11 weeks, ethanol production has been far below the expected 10% decrease. "We think USDA is going to step up and drop ethanol production."
Even though many recent livestock reports haven’t shown a remarkable reduction in herds, Nelson says the high price of feed is still causing a reduction in use. He says that high feed prices probably may not have dropped the overall numbers for livestock inventories, but the feed going into each head dropped.
Exports are the biggest problem area, Nelson says. "Year-to-date exports are running about 50% less than last year, and last year was a low number to start with. USDA will have to make changes to exports." He says USDA will likely take a baby step on Friday in reducing exports, then further reduce them in months to come.
Because U.S. corn export prices are so high, the world has started shopping around. It is no surprise, Nelson says, that other countries prefer to purchase corn from Argentina, where the corn export price is $6.78. That is significantly lower than the U.S. Gulf price of $7.59. | <urn:uuid:90a9330d-6dc4-42cf-803f-b1f5077b62aa> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.agweb.com/article/be_ready_for_price_swings_on_friday/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00021-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955722 | 613 | 2.09375 | 2 |
A fluorescent tube will glow when there is an electric field inside the glass. Normally this occurs when a current of electricity is passed through the tube when a wall switch is turn on. The electric field causes some electrons to separate from the nuclei of the gas. When the electrons fall back into their regular places, they cause the tube to glow. This is called a "ground state."
When you rub up and down with each of the pieces or cloth, fur or plastic, you create static electricity. This static electrical field excites the electrons.
Does the tube glow brighter when a different material? Why do you think this is?
Warning: the electricity being generated is not dangerous. But be VERY careful with the fluorescent tube. If dropped, you could get cut with broken glass.
Also, fluorescent lights contain small amounts of mercury, so if it does break, put on a pair of disposable gloves, clean up the pieces with a damp paper towel, and seal everything in a plastic bag or in a container, such as an old margarine tub. The bagged pieces should be brought to a hazardous waste site or bulb collection site. | <urn:uuid:955e8894-d647-46fe-bd76-64b0fae5da2c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://energyquest.ca.gov/projects/light-friction.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706890813/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122130-00075-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.908372 | 231 | 3.859375 | 4 |
The recent online video of the Taliban executing a 22-year-old woman in front of a crowd of cheering men shocked the world. As Taliban aggression intensifies, how much has actually changed in Afghanistan?
At the height of the Taliban's rule in Afghanistan in 1999, a burqa-clad woman was executed in Kabul's main football stadium. Footage of the killing shocked the world and galvanised international opposition to the Taliban's brutal rule. Yet just two months ago, 22-year-old Najiba was mercilessly killed by the Taliban, just one hour's drive from Kabul. The Taliban created a fake court and once they decided she was guilty, executed her within an hour. "It was tyrannical and barbaric - it is impossible that the law would allow what they did", says Mullah Badam, who witnessed the killing. Speaking to Afghan women it's evident that violent abuse is still commonplace. 18-year-old Mumtaz had acid thrown on her face by her would-be husband, who she had refused to marry. "They would not let me look in the mirror. I cried a lot", she says. But there are women who are fighting back, including MP Fawzia Koofi, who plans to take on Hamid Karzai for the presidency. An outspoken champion of women's rights, she has faced assassination attempts and numerous death threats. She argues that for her male political opposition, "women's rights are a matter of sacrifice". With the Allied forces set to withdraw by 2014, this disturbing report highlights just how precarious the situation remains for the future of Afghan society.
Published on Oct 1, 2012 by journeymanpictures
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Wisconsin Genealogy & History Resources
County Seat: Montello
Parent: Marquette District
* Records before the establishment of the county may be in the parent records.
From: Handbook of Wisconsin by S. Silas, 1855
Named after the first voyager of the Fox River, who gave the name to the place now occupied by the village of St. Marie. It has not been settled a great length of time, but is fast gathering together the signs of thrift and population. There is still much good land not occupied. It is of excellent quality, and has near communication to market. The Fox is navigated by steamboats to Berlin, to which place the Milwaukee and Horicon Rail Road is rapidly hastening. It is a County well watered, consisting mainly of openings, the soil rich, the inhabitants enterprising, and the County beautiful.
Marquette has increased very rapidly since 1850. It then had 8,642, and has had the whole of Waupacca County taken from it. The Horicon Rail Road, soon to be opened to Berlin, will give the whole County a new impetus, and must render Berlin a center for a large and productive region.
Montello, on the Fox, at the mouth of the Montello River, and Dartford, at the outlet of Green Lake, are both thriving places.
This section contains links to websites that have multiple databases or webpages with genealogical information.
Birth, Death, & Marriage Records:
Earliest Registration Dates*:
Marquette Register of Deeds:
77 W Park St.
P.O. Box 236
Montello, WI 53949-0236
Telephone: (600) 297-9132
Court Records - Naturalization and Probate
Censuses contain valuable information about families. This section contains links to transcribed censuses, census indexes or census images for the county.
This section contains links to family tree websites, biographies and information about individuals that lived in the county.
This section contains links of published histories and historical information about the county, its villages, cities or towns. Sometimes within these histories is information about founders, or other people that settled in the area. It may also include ethnic or religious histories of the communities. | <urn:uuid:7101f829-e12b-4379-929c-2a2cf074b302> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wiroots.org/index.php?page=marquette-county | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00070-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942278 | 471 | 2.25 | 2 |
Wildlife Conservation Society of Tanzania (WCST)
NGO founded: 1988
Partnership formed: 2009
Organisation’s aim: To work towards the conservation of wildlife and its habitats throughout Tanzania. The Wildlife Conservation Society of Tanzania (WCST) is the only conservation organisation in the country that works at a nation level.
Established in 1988, WCST has strong links with local and national authorities and boasts the Tanzanian President as one of its patrons.
Partnership with WLT
In 2008, WCST submitted a proposal to the WLT and following a site visit in 2009, WLT decided to support a three year Reforestation programme in the Uluguru Nature Reserve.
Projects with WLT
WLT provides funds to establish trees in a deforested area of the Uluguru Mountains called the Bunduki Gap.
Other projects and activities
- Environmental education and raising awareness,
- Tourism and recreational activities,
- Supporting the original international ban on the ivory trade,
- Conservation of wildlife habitats throughout Tanzania.
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Taking Back Fridays at a Primary School
From Peace Corps Wiki
Info about the Taking Back Fridays at a Primary School
If you were to visit the Primary School in a village in Uganda on a Friday afternoon, you might expect to see children finishing their weekly lessons, eager to get home and start the weekend ahead. Instead, you would find some children knee deep in cow manure, with shirts or dresses off, using their hands to mix manure and water. Others would be on their hands and knees, spreading this paste across their classroom floors with their bare hands. This process, known as “smearing” is done to prevent infestations of jiggers and other pests in the dirt floors (barefoot children sitting in class are easily susceptible to infection from these insects).
When the process is finished, children are covered in manure from head to toe and have no soap and little water to clean themselves with before heading home for dinner. The community, including the Parent Teacher Association and School Management Committee, are working together to alleviate this problem by cementing the floors and plastering the walls of seven classrooms and repairing the wooden shutters used in place of glass windows. This would not only give Fridays back to the children of this school, but also create an environment more conducive to positive learning.
The community has worked tirelessly to contribute what they can to the project, donating cement, transportation and money for the purchase of equipment that will be donated to the school upon completion of the project. With the implementation of this project, the community will gain valuable skills and the education of all area primary school students will improve vastly.
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February 28, 2010: Russia is buying the largest number of new tanks this year, 300 T-90s, than it has in nearly two decades. During the Cold War, the Russian Army often received over a thousand new tanks a year. But when the Cold War ended in 1991, so did the large procurement budgets for the Russian military.
Meanwhile, the biggest user of the T-90 is India, which has been buying them for $3.2 million each. This is about a third less that a new M-1, with similar capabilities, would cost. The most recent M-1 model costs twice that.
Four years ago, India adopted the Russian T-90 as its new main battle tank. There will be local production of about a thousand T-90s over the next twelve years. India already has imported over 500 T-90s so far. By the end of the decade, India will have 2,000 upgraded T-72s, over 1,500 T-90s, and few hundred other tanks. This will be the most powerful armored force in Eurasia, unless China moves ahead with upgrades to its tank force. The border between China and India is high in the Himalayan mountains, which is not good tank country. India's tank force is mainly for use against Pakistan.
The T-90 is a highly evolved T-72. Originally, the T-90 was done as a fall-back design. The T-80 was supposed to be the successor to the T-72. But like the T-62 and T-64 before it, the T-80 didn't quite work out as planned. So the T-72, with a much improved turret and all manner of gadgets, was trotted out as the T-90. Weighting 47 tons, it's 23 feet long, 11 feet wide and 7.5 feet high. Same package, better contents. And with well trained crews, it could be deadly.
Russia still has about 20,000 tanks in its inventory, most of them T-72s. But most of these are in "storage" and poorly maintained. Only 21 combat divisions are still active in the Russian Army, and these are equipped with about 5,000 tanks, in varying degrees of disrepair. Most of these tanks are more than twenty years old, and get used very little for training.
India, in contrast, trains its tank units constantly. The most effective, and most numerous, T-90 crews are Indian. Russia wants to change that, but it will have to buy several hundred T-90s a year for many years, and spend billions of dollars (to buy fuel, ammo and spare parts) on training. Traditionally, the Russians have not trained this way. Instead the crews spent most of their time with crude simulators and classroom instruction. But Russian commanders have observed the success of tank forces trained in the Western style, and how much more successful this approach is in combat. It remains to be seen if the Russian commanders will practice what they are now preaching. | <urn:uuid:04824796-99a7-4f27-b1a5-1d372ceb8511> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://strategypage.com/htmw/htarm/articles/20100228.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00060-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977281 | 624 | 2.421875 | 2 |
Godless overtake Anglicans, as Hinduism doubles
- Catholics 5,439,268
- No religion 4,796,787
- Anglican 3,679,907
- Uniting Church 1,065,795
- Presbyterian and Reformed 599,515
- Hindu 275,535
People professing to have no religion have moved past Anglicans to become the second-largest grouping after Catholics in the 2011 Census.
Almost 4.8 million people said they had no religion, up 29 per cent from 2006, but the number of people not answering the question dropped by 2 per cent. This suggested that more people were claiming a religious identity (including no religion), said Monash University sociology professor Gary Bouma.
The total Christian population is 13.2 million, or 61 per cent, down three percentage points. Catholics have dropped half a percentage point to 25.3 or 5.4 million, Anglicans are down 1.6 percentage points to 3.7 million, while the Uniting Church is down to 5 per cent, or 1.1 million people.
Minority religions all showed strong growth, particularly Hindus, whose numbers nearly doubled to 276,000, from 0.7% to 1.3%. Buddhists have risen from 2.1 per cent to 2.5 per cent, Muslims from 1.7 per cent to 2.2 per cent.Professor Bouma said Hindu growth was due to migration, and the recent Muslim growth was due to continued migration from south Asia and a high birth rate.
‘‘The rise in ‘no religion’ continues its historic trend, even in the face of an apparent small rise in claiming a religious identity. So polarisation is increasing,’’ Professor Bouma said.
In five of eight states and territories, no religion provides the largest group. In Victoria and Queensland it is second, behind Catholics, and in NSW it is third, also behind Anglicans.
An interesting development is in the groups coming next in each state and capital city. In Sydney, Muslims have passed Eastern Orthodox into fourth place with 4.7 per cent, but for the state of NSW Islam is fifth, following the Uniting Church.
In Melbourne the Eastern Orthodox are fourth (5.5 per cent) and Buddhists fifth (4 per cent), while statewide in Victoria the Uniting Church leapfrogs the Orthodox into fourth.
In all other states and capital cities the Uniting Church is fourth. In Queensland and Brisbane, Presbyterians take fifth spot. In Western Australia undefined Christians have replaced Presbyterians in fifth position but in both Perth and Canberra it is Buddhists who have displaced Presbyterians. Presbyterians keep fifth place in Tasmania, including Hobart.
In Adelaide Orthodox Christians take fifth spot, while for the whole state Lutherans are fifth, as they are in Darwin and the Northern Territory.
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A working woman in a society abiding by the morality of ignorance receives more respect in society than the housewife. Because according to the criteria set by ignorant societies, they are thought to have higher ideals, and more important responsibilities than housewives. Indeed, the main reason why a woman decides to have a career is to avoid being a housewife, and the negative perception some people attach to it, and, in her own way, to rise to a more respected position in society. For a person possessing such a mentality, being a working woman will, above all, grant her a different identity; it will allow her to stand on her own two feet, which will bring her a greater measure of equality with men.
Indeed, this is exactly what is expected of a working woman in a society of ignorance. For those who live their lives divorced from the morality of religion, the most important thing is the financial independence that wealth offers. For this reason, such people consider an independent woman superior to other women. Their level of morality is not an issue; what is important is their bankbooks, assets, company privileges and reputation.
Working women who are aware of these perceptions in their society abiding by the morality of ignorance ambitiously cling to their work. The more successful they are in their profession, the more, they believe, they achieve for themselves. For that end, they will do their utmost to prove themselves to others in their workplace.
Rising to the management level, alongside other men, they regard as a major success. They regard this as a very important opportunity. They can order others around; if some complete a job incorrectly, or are late finishing a project, these women do not hesitate to berate them publicly. On one hand, they do so to try to prove themselves to the men; on the other hand, they are competing with the other women in the company. They will seize any opportunity to advance themselves by pointing out the failings of the other women.
They think they are in gain because they do not have the image of a housewife in society. But their lives are not as different as they imagine. Fundamentally, their character possessing the morality of ignorance has not changed much. The only things different are the environment and the people around them. No longer the housewife concerned about her house and her family, and arguing with her husband or her mother; in her place is a working woman concerned about her work, competing with her fellow workers and proving herself. Otherwise, the gossiping, arguments, jealousies and emotional outbreaks persist. Because the way to escape a life-long anxiety and a somber spiritual state, is not to change one kind of ignorant identity for another; it is only possible by making a change in one’s spirit, according to the teachings of the Qur’an. The character of the working woman adhering to the morality of ignorance ignores this essential fact, and so continues to experience all the trouble and torment of the morality of ignorance.
However, a woman who is a believer is aware of this important truth. In order to reform herself, she does not just make superficial adjustments in her life, but devotes her attention to developing her spirit, and her moral character. For this reason, she is always progressing.
And, unlike the majority of women in a society of ignorance, they do not suffer from complexes. They do not stoop to getting into competition with other women around them, men in their workplaces or other people for material and mundane values. After all, such competition is meaningless. According to the morality of the religion, there is no such thing as superiority or inferiority of the male or female over one another, and therefore no competition between men and women. Both men and women behave in the way that suits to their creation. They do not try to imitate each other, but to conform to the model of a believer described in the Qur’an. It is only the measure of faith and morality that is of any value in the Sight of Allah. And men and women, all believers compete only for good.2012-01-21 02:42:28 | <urn:uuid:79e04b2b-f9ec-45c4-a0c8-b29425c4bd32> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.harunyahya.com/en/Character-Types-Of-The-Unbelievers/102046/The-Character-of-the-Working-Woman | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00055-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971558 | 840 | 2.421875 | 2 |
Today as Americans witness a full court press, as Glen Beck described what the Obama administration is trying to do regarding the destruction of America’s Second Amendment, any American who has studied America’s unique document, and has compared it to other forms of governing documents sees and understands the genius embodied within its seven articles and 27 amendments, all designed to protect the principles of freedom and liberty embodied in America’s even more unique Declaration of Independence.
Having witnessed the destruction of Germany, Japan, Russia and Italy during World War II, and then, in later years having studied how and why these nations suffered such horrific destruction — with 50 million casualties — including 6 million Jews at the hands of Hitler, I now better understand the writings of America’s Founding Fathers who, time after time, made reference to the divine help they had received from he who they referred to as their “Creator” and “Supreme Judge of the World.”
In these studies I could see how people craving self-glory and absolute power were able to sweet talk, with unattainable promises, the populace into voting them into office, and then, by intimidation and power politics take over the government and impose their will of what they thought was best for their people.
In 1986 Brigham Young University, at the urging of the chairman of its board of trustees, produced a film titled “A More Perfect Union — America Becomes a Nation” in Williamsburg, Va., to celebrate America’s bicentennial.
This film has now been made into a DVD and is available online at www.nccs.net.
Those millions who have since watched this DVD better understand how the hand of God rested on these men who struggled hard to find a workable document that would bring together very diverse people from 13 diverse colonies having vastly different economic interests.
This DVD reminded me again how difficult it was to get 55 independently minded individuals, representing vastly different colonies, to come together and agree on, then sign, after four months of heated argument a document that soon became a beacon of freedom to freedom-starved people worldwide.
In my library is a 4,000-page book that was assembled some years ago by university professors that documents the materials used by the founders in their deliberations. Thirty-four percent of these documents referenced some passage or principle laid out in God’s Holy Bible, his guidelines for “A More Perfect Union.”
These men, who had studied their Bibles, knew where to turn for guidance when there was nowhere else to turn. This was added proof for me that God was involved in the creation of America’s unique Constitution, a document that has become the model for written constitutions in nearly all nations worldwide.
When the Constitution was signed in 1787, nearly all people worldwide were subject to their kings who often believed they had divine powers to rule over their people.
The initial phrase in the Preamble tells us that “We the people” are the sovereign authority in governing ourselves. This concept was first given to the Israelites anciently, but they flubbed it when, because of corrupt leaders, asked for and received a king — Saul.
But if America, as did the Israelites, asks for a king, as nearly happened during the 2012 election, then America can expect to follow in the footsteps of the Israelites, footsteps leading to self-destruction and scattering. Not a nice thought.
Today, as Americans watch this administration press all out to destroy the Second Amendment, they are witnessing what could be, if this administration is successful, the final act of America as a free nation.
Destroy the right to defend self against a power-hungry administration, using tactics similar to those used by dictators throughout history, and freedom vanishes.
These same tactics, destroy anyone who stands in their way, were used to destroy Sen. Estes Kefauver when he tried to expose the infiltration of communism into the government in the 1950s.
After successfully destroying Kefauver, the progressive’s next step was to remove the Bible from the public square — which they have done quite successfully, leaving America both spiritually and morally vulnerable, and subject to the same wrath of God that destroyed the Canaanites anciently.
Progressives have immobilized Americans by secularizing America and with America immobilized progressives hope, in my opinion, to now destroy their last barrier — America’s Second Amendment.
Freedom-loving Americans need to remobilize and do as the founders did, seek ‘divine Providence’s’ help.
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Editor's Note: Monday’s American Morning story on the SATs garnered divided response, as some felt such standardized tests were nothing more than a barrier to higher education. Others believed the tests were important to help maintain a higher standards for educational institutions.
How do you feel about the SATs? Are they useful or outdated? What has your experience been with the SAT and other standardized tests?
Grow your own. It seems everyone's doing it now. The number of fruit and vegetable gardens in the U.S. has exploded as Americans look to save money during the recession. CNN's Christine Romans takes a look at how gardening has become such a hot hobby.
Romans' Numeral: $79,000,000,000
A profit for taxpayers from the bank bailout? Could it be? So far, yes.
The Treasury Department has netted $79 billion in repayments, interest and dividends from the controversial Troubled Asset Relief Program passed into law almost a year ago. TARP is the acronym for the unpopular bank bailout that many thought was a boondoggle for greedy banks and a travesty for taxpayers.
But the Treasury Department says taxpayers, so far, are earning a return on that controversial investment. How much? We asked Treasury to break down the numbers for us:
Bailout Repayment: Cash Received
Also, Chrysler Financial has repaid its loan of $1.5 billion. On paper, at least, taxpayers have earned a tidy profit from the rising stocks of AIG, Citigroup and Bank of America, but the future of taxpayers' investment in those firms is far from certain. Losses on debts backed by the government for those institutions could swamp any profits at all. And huge cash infusions for GM and Chrysler to sustain them through their bankruptcies will not be repaid.
The situation for the banks is complicated. On the same day the New York Times front-page carries a story titled, "As Banks Repay Bailout Money, U.S. Sees Profit," the Wall Street Journal carries its own front-page story: "Raft of Deals For Failed Banks Puts U.S. on Hook for Billions."
Both are true. Yes the taxpayer is earning interest on its bank investments through the bailout and yes healthy banks are repaying the government for their investment. But at the same time, the banks that are failing are being sold off in some cases with guarantees that the taxpayer will backstop future losses tied to bad debt. Some 84 banks have failed so far this year and the FDIC has 416 banks on its troubled bank list.
Many analysts expect more bank failures in the months ahead. Indeed, banks could struggle and fail for two or more quarters after a recovery takes hold. Stay tuned. Nothing is simple and the outlook is treacherous for the banking industry. For now we'll take those dividends and profits, but it does not mean the banking problems are over.
We're learning more today about what life was like for Jaycee Dugard during the 18 years that she spent with her alleged kidnappers. This past weekend she was reunited with her family, but there are still many unanswered questions about the case.
Ernie Allen is president and CEO of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. He spoke to Kiran Chetry on CNN’s “American Morning” Monday about what life is like after a kidnapping and what needs to be done to prevent these crimes.
Kiran Chetry: There's so much to talk about in this case. Certainly there’s cause for celebration on the part of the family that after thinking their daughter was probably dead they find out that she is alive and are reunited with her.
But at the same time there’s so much tragedy involved. She had two children while being held prisoner for 18 years. What are the most important things that need to be kept in mind now as she’s starting to reintegrate with her real family?
Ernie Allen: Well, I think the most important test here is the need for patience. So often parents had these children frozen in their minds as a 10- or 11-year-old and everybody wants to go back to where they were. This is going to be a journey, a long process. This is going to be a process of life-long recovery for Jaycee. But she’s alive. There's hope for the future. She's young. We're very encouraged about the steps that are happening already.
Chetry: What about her children? An 11-year-old daughter and a 15-year-old daughter, fathered from what she’s saying and what this man Garrido is saying – are his children, as well.
Allen: Well, that's another challenge. And it represents really a two-sided picture. One is to these children he's their father. You can't suddenly go from dad to Satan to this evil person. So that's going to be very sensitive. The other thing is, apparently the children have been very sheltered. They’ve never gone to school. They had never seen a doctor before. But our hope here is that Jaycee will be a mom and that it will help her in her care for them as she goes forward.
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RNC Chairman Michael Steele says VA has a manual that encourages vets to commit suicide
The Department of Veterans Affairs has "a manual out there telling our veterans stuff like, 'Are you really of value to your community?' You know, encouraging them to commit suicide."
-Michael Steele on Tuesday, August 25th, 2009 in a Fox News interview
The Truth-O-Meter says: PANTS ON FIRE
Health care bill does not 'force' employers to drop coverage
"Any government-run 'public' plan ... forces more employers to drop employee coverage due to rising costs and pay an additional 8% payroll tax for each worker."
-Ginny Brown-Waite on Monday, August 24th, 2009 in a mailing
The Truth-O-Meter says: BARELY TRUE
Boxer claims that it costs $1,100 per person to cover the uninsured
"It's costing every American who is insured $1,100 to pick up the cost of uncompensated care that goes on at the emergency room."
-Barbara Boxer on Monday, August 10th, 2009 in an interview with Rachel Maddow
The Truth-O-Meter says: BARELY TRUE
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Harsher Punishments for Animal Cruelty
In North and South Dakota, animal cruelty is only a misdemeanor. But on Tuesday, North Dakota voters had the opportunity to change the fact that animal cruelty is punished the same as littering on their ballots.
North Dakota voters weighed in on Measure 5, which would allow harsher punishments for animal abuse cases involving live cats, dogs or horses. The specific actions the measure cracks down upon are maliciously and intentionally burning, poisoning, crushing, suffocating, impaling, drowning, blinding, skinning, beating to death, dragging to death, exsanguinating, disemboweling or dismembering. | <urn:uuid:cb5799ac-eb96-49f4-93f3-f028152c6bb9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.kvue.com/news/slideshows/177708131.html?gallery=y&c=y&ref=%2F&img=4&c=y&c=y | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00006-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.924915 | 133 | 1.867188 | 2 |
PITTSFIELD, Mass. -- They are seven disparate organizations, but they share at least one goal: using solar power to reduce crippling, long-term energy costs.
The seven entities -- five of which are located in Berkshire County -- have teamed with Hancock-based EOS Ventures, Berkshire Bank, and Alteris Renewables in Connecticut to have solar panels installed in a $4.5 million, 20-year project being called "the Berkshire Bundle" by EOS, a 2-year-old renewable energy development company.
"The big idea was to bring solar to entities that otherwise couldn’t afford it," said Tyler Fairbank, the CEO of EOS Ventures. The organizations include two nonprofits -- the Berkshire South Regional Community Center in Great Barrington and Hancock Shaker Village -- along with Quality Printing, a private company in Pittsfield; Bedard Brothers, a large motor vehicle dealership in Cheshire; and the town of West Stockbridge.
The partnership, announced Wednesday, also includes Brandeis University in Waltham, one of the country’s leading private research institutions, and the Wheeler School, a co-ed independent day school in Providence, R.I. Wheeler’s solar power facility was installed at the fieldhouse at the school’s secondary campus in Seekonk, a Massachusetts town on the Rhode Island border.
The decision by EOS, Berkshire Bank and Alteris to combine the seven solar energy proposals into a single package made the project feasible. The financing formula, known as a Power Purchasing Agreement, eliminated the capital investment for an alternative energy source that remains expensive. "We wouldn’t have been able to do it without the partnership and the financing with that partnership," said Eliza Crescentini, Berkshire South’s executive director.
Besides saving on utility costs, Crescentini and Hancock Shaker Village President and CEO Ellen Spear said the installation of a green energy source reflects the goals of each nonprofit’s mission. Berkshire South, which opened in 2002, provides a variety of wellness, recreational and educational programs for South County residents.
Spear said solar power at Hancock Shaker follows in the tradition of the Shakers, who used sustainable energy practices for 200 years. The solar panels at the village were installed on the roof of the visitors center and already are operational. Spear said the panels will result in an annual savings of $4,500 on the nonprofit’s utility bill.
"We felt the [Power Purchasing Agreement] was a very cost-effective way for a nonprofit like us without a huge capital budget to have sustainable energy for use," Spear said.
Quality Printing, founded in 1963, has long been a practitioner of green initiatives, such as recycling, the reduction of chemical emissions, and the use of soy-based ink, according to June Roy-Martin, the company’s communications director.
Roy-Martin said Quality Printing looked into installing solar panels last year, but found the initiative to be too costly until the Berkshire Bundle came along. The company pays between $12,000 and $15,000 a month for electricity, but Roy-Martin said the solar energy facility could cut that cost between 8 and 15 percent, "depending on how much it can produce."
Bedard Brothers, which celebrated its 50th year in Cheshire in 2009, began to look into solar power two years ago, but Vice President Brian Bedard said the capital investment would have been too high. EOS’ ability to own and install the solar equipment, a condition of the Power Purchasing Agreement, made the move to solar power feasible. "It saves me a little bit of money, and it’s clean energy," Bedard said.
Bedard’s solar power facility was installed at the building that houses the Volvo dealership because it was best-suited for the system. It is expected to offset 84 percent of the energy load for just that structure.
In West Stockbridge, Town Administrator Mark Webber said solar panels have been installed on the Town Hall, which was the best facility available. "It’s a nice, strong building with a strong roof and great exposure," Webber said. "A lot of other buildings were precluded because of shading or other reasons."
Solar power is expected to save $7,000 to $8,000 in the Town Hall’s energy costs during the first year, Webber said. Founded in 1889, the Wheeler School began a series of sustainability initiatives three years ago. School Business Manager Gary Esposito said it was cheaper for the school to have the solar panels installed in Massachusetts because Rhode Island doesn’t have the same tax incentives for alternative energy programs.
Esposito said the school could save as much as $500,000 in utility costs over the life of the 20-year agreement it has with EOS. At Brandeis, the solar power facility was installed on the roof of the gymnasium. It is expected to cut the gym’s energy costs by 10 percent, according to Janna Cohen-Rosenthal, the university’s assistant sustainability coordinator. | <urn:uuid:66b3080b-6475-423b-89f5-ad46aaca17fc> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.benningtonbanner.com/business/ci_14243093 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00002-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960373 | 1,054 | 1.859375 | 2 |
Quest For Evolution
The Quest For Understanding Evolution
Evolution is a malleable term, fixated really only by the individual as they seek to find a certifiable meaning for something that cannot be truly pinned down. It is impossible to define something that we don’t even know everything about. There are consistent changes, and those changes manipulate how we see the term viewed as a whole. In defining this evolutionary tale in my own life, I sought to find out where I fell into this whole evolutionary mess in the human perception of the world. My evolution in literature, science, religion, and even the tricky evolutionary ultimate goal of seeking a mate for reproduction. In search of all these different facets of an evolutionary truth/Truth, I came to no one direct conclusion as I had originally hoped for, but to a realization that I couldn’t understand it and a satisfaction in the hope to keep on striving to find more ways to challenge and question the understanding of the Universe and evolution.
The first quandary I was fixated on attempting surfaced from several class discussions that premiered along with reading Darwin’s Origin of the Species. As I sat and listened to the class go back and forth, debating on what Darwin was trying to communicate with the world, I saw the class slowly manipulate their conversation to one that wonder how the evolutionary background that Darwin proposed related to the human race in the 21st century- a place taken over by the electronic era. Are humans still in fact a part of this complicated process known as evolution that he describes or have we created our own micro-world based upon the whims of morality rather that that of success?
Do we humans exist in a world that has manipulated the system of surviving so well that we can bypass evolution? This question highly interested me, for if we were able to stop the process of evolution, was it even such a thing that was so powerful to begin with. We have achieved such higher forms of medicine and created living spaces for ourselves that preserve those who might not have reproduced and kept them alive to continue spreading their gene pool. In some facets, self-preservation is a colossal factor in evolution, for those that survive, remain available to reproduce. So if we are able to stay alive and continue on the genes of perhaps someone with unfavorable genes for conditions other than the desirable ones that we have created for ourselves, have we cheated the system?
Time to try and answer this question with some sleuthing skills. My attempt to understand this concept surfaced with first trying to understand how evolution can still be prevalent in today’s culture, despite the fact that we have so many technological advances that our predecessors lacked. People still are the same beasts that we have been since history can remember. We still need food, water, shelter, and a mate to continue on our race. Most people can account for the first three fairly easily, with exceptions of course, but the fourth and last item counts not only on the consideration of the government, family, and friends, but upon the wily ways of the individual in convincing another person that they are good enough to have a child with.
As a college student in a metropolitan area, I am faced with the anthropological research of observing this stage of seduction of the opposite sex (and not opposite, but that is a case entirely upon itself.) Parties run rampant with dancing to entice, alcohol to shroud, and a general area to pair off. Can that certain male dance his way into the female’s heart that is standing across the room? He winks, she blinks, and the slow sauntering with hands full of a glass full of some unknown substance begins. She may accept his advances and allow for him to further the courting, while she attempts to add her own alluring qualities to qualify this male as hers in a territorial battle for genes.
Another place that has become popular in the technological era for dating is online. Commercials for them are placed in almost every single source of media, and millions of people join these dating sites to allow them the possibility of finding their true match through a system other than a face-to-face courtship. Human psychological testing of what “makes us work” fuels the intensity of these sites to allow for people to find connections on a level that is more mental and less physical. That’s what it seems like at first, at least.
I joined two free dating sites for a small experiment of my own to attempt to find out what the requirements and possibilities were for dating that proposed a completely way for two people to find each other than in any other time in history. The two internet resources I chose for this experiment were http://www.okcupid.com and http://www.eharmony.com.
Each asked me for the standards of my name, age, sex, preference in a mate, and what I was willing to put up with. Eharmony required a more strenuous testing before full access to the site was available, profiling me using their patented system that uniquely finds the facets of a person to connect them to find their perfect mate. It came up with five potential matches for me, with me then needing to look at their profiles and decide if I wanted to begin contact with them. The page was focused more solely on the light background and at least the three pages of text informing me about the person I had selected. There was nay a picture besides the thumb-sized profile picture of the barely distinguishable person I was reading about. I have been checking the site periodically for the past three weeks and trying to act like any other person would if they had joined the site to find a date, and I have to admit that I was unable to do so. I was only messaged a few times by mass spams in the site, and communication between the users seemed rather weary if you didn’t have a title in front of your name.
My intrigue for the site fell less and less as I realized the strenuous process it had put me through really was a way for the site to pick and choose a select type of person to put into their pool of possible mates. It served as an unknowingly place for people to create a bottlenecked place of finding a suitable companion for themselves without a larger result of undesirable matches that may pass the psychological harmony test, but may not have the proper career or funds to make them a top choice.
Okcupid on the other hand merely asked me to create a profile and seemed automatically more brightly colored and open to a younger culture. The site was more ‘user friendly’ and asked me to post pictures far more readily than its counterpart had. The questions are asked one-by-one, rather than in a test that took nearly an hour to complete and are even based in fun personality exams with titles like, “What Twilight Vampire Are U????”. It wasn’t long before I was bombarded with messages and informed of all the people who had already viewed my profile. A few messaged me, all seeming far more friendly that I could have imagined. The site even has an Instant Messaging service that allows for users to talk live to each other if they seem interested. Everything in the site is fast-paced and encouraging for the user to contact people that match them in the ninetieth percentile according to the area they live in.
As the website seemed more friendly and outgoing, what meeting people would more likely be similar to at a party, I realized that it really was just that- a party. Large profile pictures and talk amongst the patrons is no different than the ol’ eye stare seduction from across the room. If someone messages you, the two flirt and decided the other is acceptable, they might exchange phone numbers and possibly continue on the relationship from there. I got so far in the experiment that I responded to every single message given to me, whether I was actually interested or not, to see how far people were willing to go in finding a mate through the web and how much they acted like any other person in a real life situation. Within one night sex had been proposed, a coffee date, a dinner date, and general promiscuous talk was hinted at towards me. It was really astonishing to find that people really were absolutely no different online as they were in person. They were still the crude, lazy, and absolutely willing to do anything to find a mate as anywhere else.
Part one of my experiment into the facets of evolution had been closed by this strange encounter into the world of cyberspace, finding that indeed, evolution in the selection process was still the same hazardous place it had always been in the mainstream world. My next step in searching for this evolution was to go into the home of the written word: literature. We had discussed in class the many ways that literature has developed over time, being changed and evolving from author to author. My question was to try and see if my own writing had developed over a period of time, because if debates considering the proper way to write versus my own particular style. I first began by clearing my head and deciding to try and write a story. Something that didn’t necessarily reflect me, but was about things that plagued my mind through recent months.
Part two, the fiction bit.
I like the color green and letter “C” when it is pronounced like an “S”. I like looking at things for long periods of time and identifying their secrets. Sometimes people have secret little smiles that they hold in the corner of their mouth, trying to hide it from the rest of the population. Sometimes they hold a secret little frown on the other corner, too. I like thick sand between my toes and hiding out in places where no one, save the ideas that exist without a body, can see me. One of my mothers said I was a peculiar person, and I guess that you could say that. People are peculiar or odd when you can’t understand them. I can clearly understand everyone’s but the thoughts that are not fully understood themselves. There are a lot more than you would think and they confuse me and make me want to become particles again.
I don’t like to look into mirrors. That is a secret only I know and a few of my lovers who groomed themselves in front of their silver reflection. Today I am a person with a father, a mother, and a dead brother who was eager to meet his death. They call me names like Rainy (although I would have liked to have been called Cecil).
“So there we were, your mother and I, hiking up Mount Rainier. Your mother’s belly was almost as big as that volcano and you made her explode when we were on the side. ‘Fuck! Mount Rainier exploded!’ I said. Your mother was like Rapunzel’s mother, making her husband climb to the most ridiculous place to satisfy some crazy hormones. I said to her, ‘Susan, are you absolutely sure that you want to go up the mountain today?’ and she assured me, practically yelled at me, that she wanted to conquer the mountain before you were born. Life goals and all of that shit. So we found some of my old boots for her huge feet and one of my jackets that could zip up around her stomach. I was nearly going out of my fucking mind with worry for you inside of her. But I was more scared of your mother than anything else at that point. Ask anyone, she was a scary woman.”
“Oh, Alan,” my mother would say, “I wasn’t that bad.” And my father would nod to her with a smile then wait until she looked away to mock slice his throat with his finger.
“So I pack up our little beat up Volkswagen and we drove a couple of hours to get to the bottom of mountain. That place was full of fucking hippies, so your mother was happy. Happy Hippies. Heh. Anyways, it was raining that day of course. Raining at Rainier.”
My father likes alliteration and fancies himself a wordsmith because he makes up many poems and songs. I have nothing to say in contradiction to that.
“November 11th, 1978, hiking up that damn volcano. It was blasted cold and wet, yet your pregnant mother had the mind to crawl up to the top. I don’t know how she possibly thought she was going to get to the top, because she could barely run to the grocery store that was less than a mile away without complaining from here to the end of the century.” (I like the word ‘century’ and always perk up at this point of the story because he tells it in the same way every time.) “ She wanted to do it without the help of any of those paths so Susan began to trek across the mossy rocks with me worrying my fucking head off about everything. But would she listen to me? No! She had a defined destination and she was going to make it. Why I love this woman is beyond me.”
Here my mother would lean over and peck him on the cheek I knew that they both secretly loved each other because they could complain the same amount. My father would use both hands to emphatically emphasize all of his words and to occasionally point with his thumb to my mother who had wandered off somewhere by then.
“We must have had one of God’s angels there holding us up, because she didn’t slip once. We got there just as the sun was coming up, which must have been about 8 am or something like that. Damn early, that’s all I remember. Anyways, she dragged me up that giant hill and I could barely even move my legs. This is another reason why I’m sure that she was taken care of by some other worldly creature, for she never seemed to tire. Angel or demon, I’m not sure. We passed the trail a couple times as we criss-crossed our way up. We didn’t talk, just rammed our way up with me huffing like a fucking addict. Five miles later, five fucking miles!, something felt odd. The ground shuddered a little bit underneath our feet and my heart must of stopped. It was then that your mother turned to me and said, I quote, “Alan, let’s name him Rainier,” and she fell to the green ground clutching her belly. No cell phone, no one around. You were born pretty quickly and that Angel/Demon made your mother barely feel the pain. She didn’t make it up that volcano, but you sure made it out of her. Bat-shit crazy woman.”
My passage of literature had indeed changed. I used to be a fairly loose writer in attempting fiction, changing my direction constantly and rarely even following a single character for more than a page. In this effort to find the evolution of my own writing, I discovered that our experiences on a personal level shape where we lie in discussing our own ideas through words. Even if we don’t even realize what part we were searching for in the first place.
Part three of my quest dealt with the combination of evolution and literature. Were these two things that had to be necessarily exclusive, or were they really interconnected and woven together in a mess that was so convoluted that it takes more than a quick glance and discussion to discover its truth. As a Christian, I had trouble in class with understanding how people could place the two so far away from another, for I see evolution and God as one and the same beautiful and intricate thing. Placing them into two separate categories was my first step, but I simply couldn’t pry them apart in my mind. Instead of trying to dissect the pieces into unrecognizable organs of their true forms, I instead decided to try to look at how religion was a thought process and not a scientific theory. Both are surely beliefs, and can be viewed as beliefs that may go against the other. I again tried to write my expression in understanding these differences in an angry letter to religion, in both facets of science and Christianity:
“It disgusts me to think of this evolution of a message and the pride associated with it. This new Jesus is the epitome of hypocrisy (and doesn’t know it). They are bleeding hearts of hate, who would rather fight from fright. Please excuse my broad generalizations about an entire excerpt of society, but in their case I cannot help myself.
It is not convenient or good for your own status to help the poor besides the occasional donations of clothing and food to your local Goodwill. No one wants to see the reality of the nation, the people working past nine-to-five, barely making rent and watching television for their vacations. They don’t want to see the days where a two story house is a luxury and a restful Saturday is rare. The new Jesus-gang believe only sparsely helping out starving children in countries from Africa, which of course is good, but nevertheless, sparse. In this contemporary conception of puppy-dog love for the advertised pain, Jesus does only love the wealthy. For the wealthy are the only ones in the world who are able to take days off for pleasure and who don’t have to worry where their next meal will come from or how the hell they are going to pay their rent.”
Who is this new Jesus person that is conducting the society of today to deny the possibility of alternative routes than what a self-righteous figurehead says? Science is not isolated in the victimization of responding to only one of their own kind. I realized that it was incredibly frustrating to see both groups being so ridiculous in their assumptions of reality and avoiding the possibility that maybe the other side also had the truth as well. If these two groups could only decide to coexist together and meld, we might have the potential for equalized thought. But society is determined to keep those of each thought into themselves, and like another species, they want to continue on their own line of thinking and genes to continue it to their offspring. Evolution. Sound familiar?
The final part I looked for was a simple search of coming to a conclusion of everything that I had written in a scientific sounding paper. I planned on creating graphs and charts, and not using an adjective in the whole paper. But after completing my experiments towards the paper and the class, the whole thought of evolution made me realize that science, literature, religion, and the human momentum towards the future were no more different than my quest had been. They were, and are, simply connected. Why not be a scientist and an author? Hold religion in my heart and The Origin of Species desperately in my other hand? They are joined as one and help us, and the entire process of evolution continue until the Universe ends. | <urn:uuid:61d25fd0-78ee-4d93-9a3a-80510284f987> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/exchange/node/4393 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00070-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981302 | 3,902 | 1.828125 | 2 |
WASHINGTON, DC The Wireless Communications Association International (WCAI) has launched an industry-led effort to unlock the potential of the 3.65-GHz band by addressing its remaining regulatory and technical challenges. Specifically, the association formed the 3.65-GHz Working Group to develop a synchronization protocol in the band, which will promote coordination and mitigate harmful interference among operators. The working group also is tasked with promoting coordination between suppliers and operators and addressing regulatory issues within the band.
The 3.65-GHz band presents a unique opportunity for operators in the US to expand their coverage to new markets and improve the economics and performance of their networks. Over 1100 operators nationwide have applied for or received a license to operate in these lightly licensed frequencies since they were made available by the FCC in 2005. However, the band has still not reached a critical mass of deployment and harbors significant potential for growth.
"The establishment of a 3.65-GHz Working Group within WCAI represents a significant step forward for those using the band to deliver wireless-broadband services," says WCAI Counsel Paul Sinderbrand of Wilkinson Barker Knauer, LLP. "Whether working with industry to develop best practices that can be implemented without the need for new FCC rules, or working with the FCC to develop new rules where necessary, WCAI has a track record of unleashing the value in wireless broadband spectrum to the benefit of operators, equipment vendors, and the public. WCAI was actively involved when the current rules governing the band were adopted, and the 3.65-GHz working group will continue WCAI's role in the growth of the band as a vehicle for wirelessbroadband distribution." | <urn:uuid:73ea8a10-4056-4802-b954-16352044e5ce> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://mwrf.com/print/markets/wcai-launches-effort-unlock-365-ghz-bands-potential | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00046-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955626 | 340 | 1.898438 | 2 |
MONDAY, March 4 (HealthDay News) -- A new study may help confirm what some women have long suspected -- that pregnancy permanently changes the size and shape of their feet.
Among pregnant women, flat feet are a common problem. The arch of the foot flattens out, possibly because of the extra weight and increased looseness of the joints associated with pregnancy, the University of Iowa researchers explained.
This loss of arch height appears to be permanent, according to the study in the March issue of the American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation.
"I had heard women reporting changes in their shoe size with pregnancy, but found nothing about that in medical journals or textbooks," Neil Segal, an associate professor of orthopedics and rehabilitation, said in a university news release.
"In order to study this more scientifically, we measured women's feet at the beginning of their pregnancy and five months after delivery," Segal said. "We found that pregnancy does indeed lead to permanent changes in the feet."
Segal and colleagues followed 49 pregnant women, collected arch measurement during the first trimester of pregnancy and again about five months after childbirth. In 60 to 70 percent of the women, their feet became longer and wider -- as much as one-third inch longer in some cases.
First pregnancies may cause the greatest amount of foot change, while subsequent pregnancies may not further alter foot structure, according to the researchers.
"We know that women, and especially women who have had children, are disproportionately affected by musculoskeletal disorders," said Segal, who also is an associate professor of radiology and epidemiology and director of the university's Clinical Osteoarthritis Research Program.
"It is possible that these foot changes that occur during pregnancy may help explain why, in comparison with men, women are at higher risk for pain or arthritis in their feet, knees, hips, and spines," Segal added.
Segal plans further studies to examine whether pregnancy-related foot changes may lead to arthritis or other problems later in life. He's also conducting research into ways to protect women's musculoskeletal health during pregnancy.
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testsuite, failures galore
daniel.is.fischer at googlemail.com
Tue May 31 15:53:54 CEST 2011
On Tuesday 31 May 2011 14:44:58, Simon Marlow wrote:
> What you need is libbfd.so, which is a symbolic link to the versioned
> library (libbfd-188.8.131.5200122-6.so). This is normally installed by
> the development version of the library (e.g. libbfd-dev on
> Debian-derived distros).
Couldn't find anything like that for openSuSE (11.3), the versioned .so
comes with binutils, libbfd.a (and .la) come from binutils-devel.
I'll take a look at the AC stuff and if I don't see how it might work, I'll
try with a manually created symlink.
> The shared version has the dependency built-in, so the GHC build system
> wouldn't have to do anything (that's how it works here).
> > I'm far from an expert, but as far as I can see, there is already such
> > a test, in configure.ac:
> > AC_CHECK_LIB(bfd, bfd_init)
> I think that only tests for the presence of the symbol in the library,
> it doesn't test that compiling an executable against that library
> actually works.
Well, compiling and running a simple test programme that calls bfd_init()
works here without linking in libz, so I guess that test wouldn't detect
the dependency even if it actually runs the executable.
> > with a test using bfd_init in configure. Unfortunately, that doesn't
> > detect if libz is needed without using some functions depending on
> > it. If I had the slightest idea how to make it detect the dependency
> > on libz, I happily would, but I've not yet found any introduction to
> > shell scripting or using autotools accessible to a complete beginner.
> Yes, I'm afraid the learning curve is a bit steep. It's so hard to get
> right that I wouldn't even attempt to try to fix it without a machine to
> test on! A good place to start would be tests that do similar things -
> a quick look at the code suggests AC_COMPILE_IFFELSE and AC_LINK_IFFELSE
> might be useful, also FP_CHECK_FUNC looks like it might do what you
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The Government has scrapped the wording agreed by an All Party Oireachtas committee for a children's rights referendum. And Taoiseach Brian Cowen yesterday refused to commit to holding any referendum on the issue
It is believed that the Government feared that wording would have had knock-on effects on other areas of law and mean more funding would have to be allocated.
According to a report in The Irish Independent, the majority of concerns have been raised by the Department of Justice and the Department of Education. The Department of Justice fears that under the equality provisions outlined in the wording, it could see an avalanche of refugee and asylum cases.
Yesterday in during Leader's Questions, Mr Cowen declined to say if the Government would hold the proposed referendum on children’s rights.
Mr Cowen, in response to a question from Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny said: “We may have a referendum. It is a matter that is receiving attention and is being dealt with on an inter-departmental basis.’’
He also announced that the all-party committee's proposed wording of a referendum article to protect children would not be used.
The Joint Committee on the Constitutional Amendment on Children, chaired by Fianna Fail TD Mary O'Rourke, put forward the wording earlier this year.
It is believed there are at least two major roadblocks to the children's referendum.
The Department of Education is understood to have expressed concern about the development of socio-economic rights if the referendum is passed -- with huge consequences for budgetary resources.
The Department of Justice is also said to be concerned it could face an avalanche of refugee and asylum cases on behalf of children if all children are treated as equal under the Constitution.
Yesterday, Children's Minister Barry Andrews said the implications included concerns about children being left in inappropriate care. It was also feared it would have implications for immigration policy and the idea of providing a so-called 'voice of the child' would lead to inappropriate arrangements.
An example of this would be if the child was suspended from school it could result in legal representation being required on both sides.
"There will be some changes to the wording. It is more important to get this right than the timing of the referendum," Mr Andrews said.
He said there were "various" electoral landmarks next year that would give the Government an opportunity to put a proposal to the people.
Mr Cowen said an examination of the wording by ministers had uncovered far-reaching implications, which could give rise to substantial costs to the State.
"Consequently, the Minister for Health and Children was asked to develop further work on the referendum, in co-operation with the Attorney General, and that has to be brought back to Government in due course," Mr Cowen said.
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General Antonio Indjai, 57, is the chief of staff of Guinea-Bissau’s armed forces, and on April 12 he overthrew the elected government in a coup, citing as the reason the presence of the Angolan military. The 270 soldiers from Angola had originally arrived to help reform Guinea-Bissau’s armed forces, which stand accused of involvement in a cocaine transshipment trade that sees an estimated 30 tons of the illegal substance ending up in Europe every year. The U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime has noted an increase in drug trafficking since the coup, which was triggered by allegations that the Angolans were plotting to destroy Guinea-Bissau’s military. In response to the coup, all foreign aid to the government was cut. West Africa’s regional bloc, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), has since deployed a stabilizing force inside Guinea-Bissau. Indjai met TIME’s Jessica Hatcher at the military barracks in the capital, Bissau, on Oct. 2, 2012.
TIME: What is the relationship between the military and the transitional government?
Indjai: It is a positive relationship. That means, we are agreed on all facts, from A through to Z. It is positive in every way.
Some say it’s you with the power, not the government. What do you say to that?
I ask you, who has real power anyway? I ask you, who does decide on power in the world?
There has been talk of adding more forces to the current ECOWAS forces deployed in Guinea-Bissau. Would that work?
For the world to be preoccupied with a place like this, where there is no need for foreign forces and where there is peace, it makes no sense. Let them send their troops where there is a need, to Mali and to Syria, for example. If the U.N. is not concerned with these countries, why is it concerning itself with Guinea-Bissau? Do you see anyone being killed in the street here? No. What’s the problem? Let them go to Syria instead.
If Carlos Gomes Jr. were to come back, would the former Prime Minister be safe?
We would not be responsible for Carlos Gomes Jr.’s security on his return. If he were to come back, he’d be responsible for his own security. I repeat, if he were to come back, whatever happened to him would be his own or the U.N.’s responsibility.
When do you expect a new round of elections?
If the U.N. continues to instigate trouble in Guinea-Bissau, people will not have enough time to prepare for elections. With the transitional period standing at one year, if the troubles continue, then how can we prepare in time for elections? They must pipe down and allow us to organize the elections freely with the current government.
The first problem is why they are granting [the deposed interim President] Raimundo Pereira a voice at the U.N. [General Assembly] when he has been dismissed by a coup — how can he speak on behalf of the people? Who is he reporting to? He has been absent for 90 days. I call that trouble.
How do you consider U.S. politics with a view to Guinea-Bissau?
Very, very positive.
I have read a lot about the April 12 coup but would like to hear about it from you. Why did you organize a coup?
We didn’t organize a coup, we organized a countercoup. Do you know the origins of this coup? Angola and Carlos Gomes Jr. Would America allow a foreign army with heavier weapons than them inside the United States? We said [to Angola], Either you give these weapons to us, or, if not, leave the country and we will continue with cooperation between our two countries in the future. They said no, and only reinforced their own weaponry. I’m asking you, in light of this, what is the origin of the coup? Angola and Carlos Gomes Jr.
If we hadn’t organized a coup before them, they’d have reinforced their troops here and arrested us. The intention of Carlos Gomes Jr. was to have international forces to add to the Angolan troops, which meant they could have struck us down at any time. I drew [Carlos Gomes Jr.'s] attention to this more than 20 times — I said not to bring Angolan troops here. This is why we organized a coup. I didn’t ask that he remove the Angolan troops, just that he solve the problem of the weapons.
I’ve heard people in the street say that the coup represents a failure of democracy.
Of course I agree the coup is a failure of democracy. A coup has no place in a democracy. But if you have no other means of escape, you have to look for a solution. For example, if I took you and locked you in this room with my weapon and I were to shoot, how would you react? You’d want to escape, and you might break down the door — you’d take any means that you could in order to get out.
We removed just two people — the Prime Minister and the President. Where else does that exist, that a coup d’état happens and no one dies? Not one. Since they didn’t want to take our advice, we said leave or you will be dismissed.
(PHOTOS: Guinea-Bissau: World’s First Narco-State)
The head of the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime, Yuri Fedotov, said last week that drug trafficking in Guinea-Bissau has increased since the coup. What are your observations on that?
We are requesting that they send a special mission to investigate and evidence this, to see where and when the drugs have come through here since April, and whether it really has increased or not. The representative of the U.N. here is a crook — he’s the brother-in-law of Cadogo [a nickname for Carlos Gomez Jr.]. All this information has been prepared by [Joseph] Mutabobo [the U.N.’s special representative to Guinea-Bissau] — if I were the government, I’d consider him persona non grata.
Some say that the chief of the armed forces in Guinea-Bissau is involved in drug trafficking: How do you respond to that?
Show me the proof. I tell you, all the people who are providing this information are crooks. Because I didn’t obey Carlos Gomes Jr., they are chasing me out of the country. I want proof — let them provide that proof.
Was Carlos Gomes Jr. involved in the death of President João Bernardo “Nino” Vieira?
I don’t know. That is political.
Were you involved?
For what? Why should I be involved in that? This is no more than the gossip on the street. If I wasn’t in power at that time, how should I know? I wasn’t the chief of staff then. Let us ask Carlos Gomes Jr., the former Prime Minister.
There is a history of conflict between the military and civilian government in Guinea-Bissau. What is it that the military wants?
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(EMPORIA, Kan.)—Police officers in Emporia prepare for a school shooting. After mass casualties around the country, officers say it could happen anywhere.
Officers learn to go towards the threat, never knowing what is around each corner. "If we start hearing shots your mind kind of starts going in different places. You just prepare yourself really well and you learn to control your breathing. You just try to stay as calm as possible," said Emporia Police Officer Danny Delgadillo.
Emporia Police want to be ready if they ever have to face an active shooter. "We can't really prepare for the incident until we're actually there because things are just going to be really chaotic. But we've learned how to communicate better and just how to work as a team to make sure everybody stays as safe as possible," said Delgadillo.
Officers use blue simunition guns and just like real life, they actually shoot the pretend intruder. "Preparedness is everything. You always have to train like a real situation," said Lt. Jim Tilton.
The halls were empty during the drill because students are on spring break, but officers imagine where the kids might be. "Some of them will be hiding. Some of the classrooms will be locked. Some of them will be out running around," said Tilton.
Police want parents to know they're ready to protect kids in a real life shooting. "Hopefully, it will never happen. I just want them to feel safe in these schools," said Tilton. | <urn:uuid:b5b22c5e-d154-41df-8cbd-02a48fbcc774> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ctnow.com/news/news-les-kwch-emporia-police-train-for-school-shooting-20130318,0,6875364.story | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00005-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981917 | 317 | 1.679688 | 2 |
Whilst Greece stares into the abyss of endless recession and austerity, a study presented to Antonis Samaras in June shows the nation has potential natural gas reserves worth $600 billion.
Reuters reported they have seen a copy of the study conducted by Antonis Foscolos, Elias Konofagos and Nikos Lygeros, which estimates gas reserves offshore from Crete could generate almost $600 billion over 25 years.
In 2010 Greece's Energy Ministry commissioned a group of experts to research potential gas and oil reserves in Greek waters.
Antonis Foscolos of the Technical University of Crete and the Canadian Geological Survey said: "subsea methane emissions and the presence of gas hydrate mounds on the seabed indicate the presence of large reservoirs."
Greece has commissioned a seismic survey to measure the level of hydrocarbon deposits. In January 2012 Digital Journal reported Greece launched a licensing round for bids to explore development of an offshore oil and gas sector, with potential investors given until July to tender their bids.
According to Prison Planet earlier surveys estimated that the value of natural gas resources available for Greece to exploit could exceed $9 trillion. Those surveys did not take into account the Cretan Sea or the Southern Aegean.
John Ward, author of the Slog, has long maintained that the EU and U.S. have been aware of the potential of oil and gas reserves in Greek waters, noting that both sides are fully cognizant of the geopolitical importance of Greece.
In August Digital Journal reported "Analysts gauge that Greece is in fact the richest country in Europe due to its wealth of, yet unexploited, oil and gas deposits. Greece may be on the brink of bankruptcy but its assets have much appeal, especially as the rights to exploit them can be snapped up on the cheap due to the Greek crisis. Whichever country claims the rights has access to what is deemed the largest deposits of oil in Europe, cited in a strategic European position."
With the study presenting new evidence that Greece may indeed prove to be the richest country in Europe it offers new hope that Greece may be able to exploit her natural resources to fiscal advantage. | <urn:uuid:fa128884-704f-4b39-9517-e3703e212041> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/334152 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00068-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947997 | 440 | 2.296875 | 2 |
Socio-cultural dynamics of birth intervals in Nepal.(Statistical Data Included): An article from: Contributions to Nepalese Studies
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The Texas Ranger nominated Dallas Mavericks power forward Dirk Nowitzki to throw out the opening pitch at one of their World Series home games. And why not? Dirk is a Dallas sports icon, and a historic figure as the first European to win an NBA MVP. His team, the Mavericks, is also the reigning NBA champions and thus an excellent good luck charm for a fellow Metroplex squad.
But Major League Baseball vetoed the idea out of respect for the NBA owners’ lockout of its players.
Note that this kind of “secondary strike” is illegal when done on the labor side. In other words, if one union goes on strike at a firm somewhere, other unions aren’t allowed to engage in solidaristic boycotts of the firm if it decides to stay in business by hiring replacement workers. The teamsters can’t refuse to make deliveries. This ban on secondary strikes deprives unions of the potentially powerful tool of cross-sector solidarity. For political purposes, unions can team up and collaborate, but in the basic world of labor negotiations they can’t. But when the NBA owners decide they won’t stage any games until players agree to accept lower pay, other rich types across the country come to their assistance and it’s all perfectly legal. | <urn:uuid:602a663a-79b7-4a45-aac5-ab59856f30f5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://thinkprogress.org/yglesias/2011/10/19/348605/mysteries-of-capitalist-class-solidarity/?mobile=nc | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00012-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932604 | 263 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Our Model of Care
What Is WFBMC’s Model of Care?
Our Model is founded in the Theory of Human Caring. This Theory is grounded in 3 very specific Relationships. "This is a model to guide practitioners in transforming care delivery from the inside out." – Jean Watson, PhD, RN, FAAN
The Relationship-Based model is comprised of 3 crucial relationships:
- Care provider's relationships with patients and families.
- The care provider knows that each person's unique life story determines how he/she will experience illness.
- Care provider's relationships with self.
- The relationship is nurtured by self-knowing and self-care.
- Care provider's relationships with colleagues.
- Quality care occurs in environments where the standard among members of the health care team is to respect and affirm each other's unique scope of practice and contribution, to work interdependently to achieve a common purpose, and to accept responsibility for creating a culture of learning, mutual support, and creative problem-solving.
Relationships built on 10 Caritas Process?
Dr. Watson’s Theory is grounded by 10 Processes known as the “Caritas Processes” – these 10 statements help to provide and ethic or philosophy from which we practice.
Caritascomes from the Latin word meaning to cherish, to appreciate, to give special, if not loving, attention to. It represents charity and compassion, generosity of spirit. It connotes something very fine, indeed, something precious that needs to be cultivated and sustained. (Watson, 2008)
Caritas Process #1: Cultivating Practice of Loving-Kindness and Equanimity Toward Self and Other
Caritas Process #2: Being Authentically Present: Enabling, Sustaining and Honoring Faith and Hope
Caritas Process #3: Cultivation of One’s Own Spiritual Practices and Transpersonal Self, Going Beyond Ego-Self
Caritas Process #4: Developing and Sustaining a Helping-Trusting Caring Relationship
Caritas Process #5: Being Present to, and Supportive of, the Expression of Positive and Negative Feelings
Caritas Process #6: Creative Use of Self and All Ways of Knowing as Part of the Caring Process; Engage in the Artistry of Caritas
Caritas Process #7: Engage in Genuine Teaching-Learning Experience That Attends to Unity of Being and Subjective Meaning – Attempting to Stay Within Other’s Frame of Reference
Caritas Process #8: Creating a Healing Environment at All Levels
Caritas Process #9: Administering Sacred Acts of Caring-Healing by Tending to Basic Needs
Caritas Process #10: Opening and Attending to Spiritual/Mysterious and Existential Unknowns of Life-Death
Watson, J. (2008). “The Philosophy and Science of Caring” revised edition. University
Press of Colorado.
Why the Theory of Human Caring?
· The Theory of Human Caring is patient/family-centered.
· The Theory of Human Caring fits well with our organizational and nursing mission, vision, and values.
· The Core business of health care is caring and healing of patients.
How is Caritas Care Provided?
The essence of care is experienced in the moment when one person connects to another. Compassion and care can be conveyed through a touch, kind act, competent clinical interventions or listening and seeking to understand the other's experience. This is the heart of The Theory of Human Caring.
What the Model of Care Is Not
It is not a staffing model or a cookie-cutter concept. The Model has core processes or principles, but the guidelines of how they are implemented will be different, based on decisions made during implementation through a shared-decision making process.
The Model of Care has been developed throughout departments with support from Nursing Professional Practice, this is being supported by a Grant from the Duke Endowment and by the leadership of WFBMC.
Questions or Comments Contact our Professional Practice Team
Judy B. McDowell, RN, MSN, CCRN
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In a prospective, randomized, multicenter study, Veves and colleagues analyzed 208 patients with diabetes who had full-thickness neuropathic ulcers, and observed the healing rates of diabetic neuropathic ulcers that were treated with Apligraf (Organogenesis) versus diabetic neuropathic ulcers treated with saline-moistened gauze.10 At baseline, the two groups were similar in regard to demographics, the type and duration of diabetes, and ulcer size and duration. The Apligraf group was comprised of 112 patients and there were 96 patients in the control group, which utilized saline-moistened gauze as treatment. Both groups received periodic debridement and offloading in addition to the respective treatment for their group.
The researchers analyzed 162 patients at the end of the study. The rate of healing was higher among those who had Apligraf applied every week than those who received saline moistened gauze. At the 12-week follow-up visit, 63 (56 percent) Apligraf-treated patients were completely healed in comparison to 36 patients (38 percent) treated with saline-moistened gauze. The average time to complete closure was 65 days for Apligraf, significantly lower than the 90 days researchers observed in the saline-moistened gauze group.
The rate of adverse reactions was similar between the two groups with the exception of osteomyelitis (3 percent in the Apligraf group versus 10 percent in the control group) and lower-limb amputations (6 percent versus 16 percent), both of which were less frequent in the Apligraf group. The study also noted the improvement in maceration, exudates and eschar in the Apligraf group from week 0 to week 12. Physicians should consider Apligraf for the management of diabetic foot ulcers that are resistant to the currently available standard of care. | <urn:uuid:b61c9e25-336b-4301-8b71-63a2b0520775> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.podiatrytoday.com/transitioning-advanced-therapies-dfus-are-four-weeks-and-50-percent-magic-numbers | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00069-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960811 | 392 | 2.15625 | 2 |
The Western North Carolina Alliance turns 30 this year and is marking this milestone with a public celebration set for 6:30-9 p.m. March 1 at the First Presbyterian Church, 40 Church St., in Asheville.
The evening will be a joint celebration to kick-off our anniversary events, as well as the release of a book by Mars Hill history professor Kathy Newfont, entitled, “Blue Ridge Commons: Environmental Activism and Forest History in Western North Carolina.” The book features a few chapters on the Alliance’s history, as well as photos from our archives.
WNCA was founded by 64-year-old Macon County native Esther Cunningham in 1982. It is the only grassroots environmental advocacy group focused solely on conserving Western North Carolina’s natural heritage.
Mrs. Cunningham was motivated to create the Alliance by her love of the mountains and forests. She was outraged when the Forest Service considered allowing private companies to explore for oil and gas in the national forest.
She pulled together her friends and neighbors, environmentalists and hunters, natives and newcomers in a successful effort to stop that proposal – and eventually to change the way the Forest Service manages its lands.
The Alliance has grown from that small group of dedicated volunteers working out of the trunk of Esther’s car to an organization with offices in Asheville and Franklin, five full-time staff, two part-time staff, and two AmeriCorps volunteers.
In 30 years, WNCA has achieved many more environmental victories for this region, from stopping clearcutting in the national forests, to helping defeat a federal proposal to build eight miles of roads and sell hundreds of acres of timber on Bluff Mountain in Madison County, to leading efforts today to build a world-class paddle trail along 120 miles of the French Broad River, and educating the public on the dangers of toxic coal ash pollution.
Free on-street parking is available around the church and in the church’s lower parking lot off of Aston Street.
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First noticed in the late 19th century, the concept of the cargo cult came to prominence in the years immediately following WWII. As the Japanese and American armies began to island hop their way to victory and defeat across the Pacific, they literally took over these small territories from people who had little or no contact with the Western world.
In the midst of this war, there was a collision of cultures that was taking place. In areas such as Vanauatu, across Melanesia, from New Guinea to the Solomon Islands to Tanna's archipelago, the New Hebrides, dozens of unconnected communities, thousands of miles apart and speaking unrelated languages, seemed spontaneously to generate the same set of bizarre beliefs.
The classic account was by the Australian anthropologist Peter Lawrence, who went out to the Madang district of New Guinea in 1949 to conduct field research into the traditional social relations of people who, despite colonial rule, were still living much as they had in the recent Stone Age. Lawrence gradually discovered that his presence in Madang had become woven into an extraordinary complex of beliefs. Persistent rumours abounded that a cargo ship was about to arrive in the harbour with huge consignments of goods for him, and the local people asked him to help them supervise the clearing of an airstrip. When he asked what the airstrip was for, he was told that cargo planes were about to arrive bringing tinned meat, rice, tools, tobacco and a machine for making electric light. And when he asked who was sending this cargo, they replied 'God in Heaven.'
Cargo cult activity in the Pacific region increased significantly during and immediately after World War II, when large amounts of manpower and materials were brought in by the Japanese and American combatants, and this was observed by the residents of these regions. When the war ended, the military bases were closed and the flow of goods and materials ceased. In an attempt to attract further deliveries of goods, followers of the cults engaged in ritualistic practices such as building crude imitation landing strips, aircraft and radio equipment, and mimicking the behaviour that they had observed of the military personnel operating them.
Notable examples of cargo cult activity include the setting up of mock airstrips, airports, offices, and dining rooms, as well as the fetishization and attempted construction of Western goods, such as radios made of coconuts and straw. Believers may stage "drills" and "marches" with sticks for rifles and use military-style insignia and national insignia painted on their bodies to make them look like soldiers, thereby treating the activities of Western military personnel as rituals to be performed for the purpose of attracting the cargo. Cult behaviors usually involved mimicking the day to day activities and dress styles of U.S. soldiers, such as performing parade ground drills with wooden or salvaged rifles. They carved headphones from wood and wore them while sitting in fabricated control towers. They waved the landing signals while standing on the runways. They lit signal fires and torches to light up runways and lighthouses. In a form of sympathetic magic, many built life-size replicas of airplanes out of straw and created new military-style landing strips, hoping to attract more airplanes. The cult members thought that the foreigners had some special connection to the deities and ancestors of the natives, who were the only beings powerful enough to produce such riches. Interestingly, there are no reports of villagers mimicking the Japanese army. It was quickly understood by villagers that the white (U.S.) tribe had won the conflict.
Based on this definition, the term "cargo cult" also is used in business and science to refer to a particular type of fallacy whereby ill-considered effort and ceremony take place but go unrewarded due to flawed models of causation, as described above.
All over, islanders were downing tools, clearing airstrips in the jungle, building imitation radio masts out of bamboo, scouring their bibles for hidden messages, even sitting around politely drinking afternoon tea. If it worked for the white man, so the theory went, it would work for them. They're doing everything right. The form is perfect. It looks exactly the way it looked before. But it doesn't work. No airplanes land.
Anthropologists note that the common point among all of the cargo cults that existed throughout the years is a desire for "stuff." Their imitation of what they have observed is the means to get the stuff. Their failures are blamed on the stronger magic that others have, but they continue to see themselves as the rightful recipients of the cargo, as they are the only people who matter, and therefore the planes are coming from heaven, from their ancestors.
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The Mexico Market
May 29, 2012
The following is online bonus content for "Markets on the Move," from Dairy Today's June/July 2012 issue.
David Freedheim, sales consultant with the California Milk Advisory Board (CMAB), reports on the booming dairy market in Mexico:
- With a population of more than 113 million people, Mexico is one of California’s most important export markets, with strong growth for California cheese (even before tariffs were removed), butter and ice cream. California cheese volume at Wal-Mart Mexico rose 38% for the first quarter of 2012 over last year’s business alone.
- Mexico is also becoming a market for extended shelf life (ESL) California-standards milk with the mid-June rollout of ESL California-standards milk in 200-plus Wal-Mart locations (150 Superamas, 53 Sam’s Clubs), with demo support from the CMAB.
- Pizza is the most significant foodservice market across the globe, including Mexico, where Pizza Hut is now using California cheese in two of its three divisions in the country.
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Both spoken and unspoken.
There is infinite power in words.
They are used to hurt and hide:
"Your definition of intimacy is apparently different than mine."
They are used to denigrate value:
"The way you feel is wrong."
Words are also used to project the owners feelings onto one whom it does not apply:
"You lack the commitment to make this work because of time and distance."
They are used to justify physical abuse:
"If you would just shut up and do what I say, this wouldn't happen."
The absence of words is just as powerful, and send an unspoken message. A picture, an action, is worth a thousand words. To absolve oneself of responsibility:
Communication and honesty are only essential if you mattered to me.
You are okay enough when I'm between women I really want.
The spoken and unspoken.
Today, a word was used that made my day positively radiate, and created a smile that reached to the very core of my being . . . to my heart. My friend probably did not even possess a clue as to the value the word would have. In the signing-off of a message, a friend called me princess.
That one word had the ability to wipe away pain caused by so many others who do not know, in their hearts, this divine wisdom:
"Therefore encourage one anther and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing. 1 Thess. 5:11
How will you use your words today? Or how will you use your silence? Or that action that is worth 1000 of those words? It matters. If you don't believe it . . . | <urn:uuid:bc66c136-60e1-4214-a33f-22f6a5a37e25> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.onthewaytomyshoes.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-power-of-words.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00006-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977811 | 351 | 2 | 2 |
In the dream, General William Tecumseh Sherman had a nervous breakdown, just as he had in real life. What was more to the point, though, was that he recovered more quickly in real life, which was mostly achieved by his heavy alcohol use, which blunted his terrible anxiety, which had caused his insomnia, which had caused his nerves to be shot. In the dream, he was seen, through a series of accidents, by four different psychiatrists in nine months. Additionally, they continued to prescribe him the wrong medications, which prolonged his absence from war duties. Eventually, he was told to visit a mental hospital. He remained there six days and was finally released after witnessing a vision in a dream, where he was told that he would burn
to the ground, in a terrorizing march to the sea. Georgia
At some point, General William Tecumseh Sherman, forced out of the mansion by Annie Bidwell, happened upon a hotel where he could drink his alcohol and not worry about his anxiety. There was some overlaid compartmentalizations about St. Louis and melancholic insanity, while he waited in the green room, with the views of the trees on the lawn. One of the trees was from
Bali, which reminded him of his time in and the French singer who gave him a wooden boat with a man and a spear on board. The spear became lost in some move to the Syracuse Carolinas, so the man just stood there on the boat, looking out at no water, but on a window ledge all the same. There was never anything on the menus out West, nothing but tri-tip and roasted potatoes, oranges, oranges, and oranges, and yet there were little tender songs about dying in mines. | <urn:uuid:c6afe82a-f3d9-491f-a4c5-11448427a771> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://estherpress.blogspot.com/2012_02_01_archive.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00075-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.995073 | 355 | 2.609375 | 3 |
Wind Demonstration Project
CLICK HERE to view the real-time output of KEYS' Wind Turbine installed at 63-feet.
CLICK HERE to view the real-time output of KEYS' Wind Turbine installed at 35-feet.
Keys Energy Services (KEYS) installed two wind turbines at its Cudjoe Key Electrical Substation on U.S. Highway 1 (MM 23, Oceanside). The Wind Demonstration Project is funded in part by a Clean Energy Grant KEYS was awarded from the State of Florida totaling $770,000. The grant was made possible by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and the United States Department of Energy.
Construction of the Wind Demonstration Project cost $46,000 and KEYS worked with Florida Keys-based Sea, Air, Land Technologies (SALT) who furnished and installed the turbines per a competitive bid process. Originally one turbine was going to be installed at KEYS' Stock Island Generation Facility and the other at the Cudjoe Key Electrical Substation. However, in order to determine if varying heights affected output, both were installed at the Cudjoe site so that all other factors could be considered equal.
One turbine is installed at a height of 57-feet, with the total height of the installation being 63-feet from the ground to the tip of the highest blade. The second turbine is installed at a height of 30-feet, with the total height of the installation being 35-feet from the ground to the tip of the highest blade. The diameter of each turbine from blade tip to blade tip is 12-feet.
Installed @ 63-feet
Installed @ 35-feet
The maximum output for each turbine is 2,400 watts and can be achieved at a wind speed of 29 miles-per-hour (mph). The minimum wind speed required for the turbines to rotate is eight mph, below this the turbines will not rotate. Energy generated from the turbines will help offset the energy used within the substation for cooling and lighting equipment. The system was not designed with a battery back-up for energy storage. | <urn:uuid:9d0c3751-d52e-4292-b327-e4ac09ad928c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.keysenergy.com/wind/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00047-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939942 | 436 | 2.4375 | 2 |
T.D. Williamson (TDW) recently performed its first pipeline interventions in Belgium. The interventions made it possible for two nitrogen pipelines located in the Albert I Canal in Antwerp to be relocated without shutting them down. This meant that product was able to flow without disruption.
TDW carried out the operations for a company on behalf of the Flemish Government in conjunction with its Antwerp Masterplan, a major initiative designed to ease traffic congestion on the Antwerp Ring Road. To achieve this, part of its strategy is to divert container traffic from the roads to a central container terminal in Limburg on the Albert I Canal. There, container traffic will board transport ships and travel on the canal, alleviating road congestion. To address the traffic jams on the Ring Road and the bottlenecks on the canal, work has begun on the first of 57 new bridges that offer higher clearance for passing ships. By installing new bridges, ships will be allowed four stories of storage and, therefore, much greater capacity.
To prepare for installing the new bridges, all pipelines located in close proximity to the existing bridges must be relocated. TDW was retained to provide train intervention services to ensure that product flow would continue through two industrial gas pipelines near the Bridge Geel-Oevel and the Bridge Grobbendonk while they were relocated.
The plugging system relies upon plugging technology to temporarily block sections of active piping systems. It links two plugging heads to form a train that provides a double block and bleed function. Traditionally, other methods have been used to achieve double block and bleed, including the use of two separate valves with a bleed port between them. This system is a double-block and bleed design that makes it possible to insert two plugging heads through a single fitting. The method allows a technician to install two barrier surfaces (Fig. 1), including a bleed port for pressure and product evacuation, between work (such as welding or pipe cutting) being performed downstream of the lines pressurized contents.
Fig. 1. The technicians from
T.D. Williamson, hard at work
on a pipeline intervention in
With support from the companys facility in Herentals, Belgium, TDW technicians carried out the intervention operations on the two pipelines near the Bridge Geel-Oevel and the Bridge Grobbendonk. Technicians used a standard 660 tapping machine to hot tap the line, and one six-inch single position double-block and bleed plugging system to plug the lines. Each line was isolated, creating a secure environment for relocation of the pipeline, as required for installation of the new bridges. The operations were executed by two teams of two technicians, and were carried out simultaneously over the course of five working days. At no time was service interrupted.
Over time, this system has been used successfully for customers seeking to carry out routine maintenance and emergency repair work on pressurized piping systems located subsea, in remote onshore environments and in refineries and processing plants. HP | <urn:uuid:e606f5d3-2c23-40d8-a725-848b12cfcfcb> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.hydrocarbonprocessing.com/Article/3050308/Process-Engineering/Interventions-avert-pipeline-shutdowns-enhance-safety.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00020-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952456 | 611 | 1.992188 | 2 |
Commercial airline flights moved smoothly throughout most of the country on Sunday, but experts say the first real test is Monday when traffic increases amid furloughs of air traffic controllers resulting from government spending cuts.
Officials say passenger traffic at the Las Vegas airport fell nearly four-percent compared to a year earlier, in part because February 2012 was a leap year.
Slightly fewer passengers arrived and departed from McCarran International Airport this January compared with a year earlier.
Spirit Airlines is expanding its service between Las Vegas and the East Coast.
San Francisco Giants relief pitcher Sergio Romo has been cited for a loud argument at McCarran International Airport.
The number of passengers using McCarran International Airport fell slightly last month.
More than two-dozen soldiers who have been in Afghanistan for the past nine months will be home in time for the holidays.
A number of people flying to and from Las Vegas could find themselves stuck due to Hurricane Sandy.
Las Vegas’ airport is near the top of a dubious list.
If you’re planning to fly American Airlines, be sure to check the status of your flight.
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|22 December 2012
Crowds gather at Stonehenge and Newgrange to mark winter solstice
More than 5,000 people have gathered to mark the winter solstice at Stonehenge. The attendance was equivalent to five times the number that turned out at Salisbury Plain for last year's event. More people had been predicted to congregate, due to the infamous end of the 5,125-year 'long count' cycle of the Mayan calendar.
Wiltshire Police said 'well over' 5,000 people had gathered to watch the sunrise over the giant stones at 08:05 GMT. The force said one person was arrested for being drunk and disorderly, and given a fixed penalty notice.
BBC Wiltshire reporter Annie Weston, at the scene, said: "This is the only time when people are allowed into the circle of stones. It is absolutely packed. People are cheering and chanting and everybody was looking towards the sun for that special moment. There are flags flying, druids here too and people of various religions and faiths."
At the same time, crowds gathered also at Newgrange, located in the Boyne Valley (co Meath, Ireland) - a 5,000-year-old tomb famous for the winter solstice illumination which lights up the passage and chamber if weather allows and can be viewed by a select group of people inside
Access to the chamber is limited and is decided by lottery each year. Twelve lucky names were drawn from more than 30,000 people who applied for a ticket. The remainder were the six winners of a schools art competition for 10- to 13-year-olds, along with their guardians. Unfortunately, heavy cloud cover meant the sun failed to hit the spot this morning and provide those gathered with an unforgettable experience.
Despite this, spokeswoman for the Office of Public Works Clare Tuffy said it was a great event. "There was a lovely atmosphere and everyone was very excited to be there, but unfortunately there was no sun," she said.
Edited from BBC News, The Irish Times (21 December 2012)
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InteRDom Intern Fall 2011
InteRDom Experience Series Article #3
Christine Martinez studies Global Studies with minors in journalism and Spanish at San Jose State University in San Jose, California. She is participating in InteRDom's Fall 2011 Academic Semester, taking courses at a local university and carrying out a research project specially structured for her by InteRDom staff on the business of baseball in the Dominican Republic. The articles that she produces will be published on this blog under the tag "InteRDom Experience Series." To read more about Chris' experience with InteRDom in the Dominican Republic, read the InteRDom Experience Series on the InteRDom webpage.
As one of the four major sports leagues in the United States, Major League Baseball is a highly profitable enterprise. Unlike the other leagues in the US, MLB has significant investments in player development outside of the country. It invests more in the Dominican Republic than in any country outside the US, and it sees a great return on those investments.
In a symposium at Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo (FUNGLODE) in March, MLB released an economic impact report for the Dominican Republic that estimated an annual flow of US$125 million into the country from MLB and its 30 teams.
The sustainability of MLB's investment relies more and more on the development of Dominican players away from the diamond. ENTRENA specializes in training, consulting and education projects for clients in the Dominican Republic and the rest of the Caribbean and works closely with MLB in the country.
John Seibel, president of ENTRENA and consultant to MLB, works to bring the best of baseball out in the Dominican Republic through corporate social responsibility.
"The Dominican Republic is the only place in the world where a relatively small country has an incredible influence in development of a multinational sports industry," Seibel said. "MLB has an enormous influence through our players ,our image, and the values we represent."
Seibel believes that by investing in morals and values, MLB can sustain its investment. ENTRENA helps MLB foster long term financial sustainability by giving back to the community and to the fans and investing in education. Through these actions, Seibel says that people will respond even more favorably to the social impact of baseball and remark, "mira que buena es la pelota" or "look how good baseball is," and thus build a stronger foundation for baseball to grow as an enterprise.
"You do it because it's the right thing to do," he said. "Not to get some marketing out of it."
The Los Angeles Dodgers were the first MLB team to establish an academy in the Dominican Republic in 1984. Almost 30 years later, each MLB club has an academy in the country, a massive growth project that has led to constructing new state-of-the art academies like the San Diego Padres' facility.
This investment in Dominican baseball also helps the local economy by creating jobs. Groundskeepers are needed to tend to outfield grass and pitching mounds. Doctors, athletic trainers, and nutritionists are needed to keep the players healthy and focused on peak performance. Seibel said that these jobs spotlight the need for baseball development in this country to focus on training and managing these niches as the industry expands.
When it comes down to investing in development, the question is always about money and where the funds come from. Seibel said that much of the development funding for the DR comes from international sources, such as USAID, the Inter-American Development Bank, World Bank, and European Union.
He also said involvement from the Dominican private sector is key, but it presents challenges. "If you want to make development sustainable in the long run, Dominican society needs to be actively engaged,” Seibel said. “You can use international funding to jumpstart something but you [must] actively involve the Dominican private sector and government. That's a challenge."
MLB also directly invests in its own programs, many of which operate in the Dominican Republic. RBI--Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities--works in both the US and the Dominican Republic to increase interest in baseball and softball among at-risk children. The MLB Dominican Development Alliance is a unique program developed as a result of a public-private partnership between USAID and MLB. It was started with Dominican goals and realities in mind, rather than transplanted from the American setting and adjusted for the needs of the Dominican Republic.
"It is a model of the private-public partnership that the US government, through USAID, wants to develop more," Seibel said of MLB/DDA. "It's not just about giving money but rather creating a sustainable partnership which can harness the potential of baseball to improve poor communities in the DR.” | <urn:uuid:acb7139b-b772-4e57-8345-d7b929fd8ad2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://interdominternships.blogspot.com/2011/11/mlb-increases-profits-by-investing-in.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00072-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956737 | 978 | 1.5625 | 2 |
In today’s economy eradicating debt can be a tough job. However, if you can free up some extra cash, it would be better to do that, and pay down your debts. So, in such a situation, what can you do in order to pay down the debts, and maybe free up some cash?
If you have enough gold, you can use that to get some immediate cash in hand. The popularity of gold is never supposed to abate. So, it is always better for you to invest in the gold market. Even if you go to a nonprofit debt consolidation company for help, you will be able to use the money from your gold investment, to make the debt payments through the consolidation program.
Forms of gold investment
You can buy gold in the physical form, like that of gold jewelry, the gold bullions and also gold coins and the gold bars, etc. Gold price is expected to increase over the long run. Thus, if you can have enough money to invest in gold, it would be better to do that and then sell it off in a few years to pay off debt.
However, the greatest thing for you to do would be to buy gold bullions, and coins. The physical gold bullion has greater popularity in the gold market than that of the gold jewelry and gold funds.
Another way through which, you may be able to make money through gold investment is, by selling the scrap gold metals and also some of your gold jewelry. So, if you think that there are any scrap gold metals and jewelries which you won’t be using, it would be better for you to sell these off. This is going to provide you money, which you may then be able to use, in order to pay down the debts now or buy gold bullion which has a greater chance of yielding higher returns down the road.
Easing the pressure of managing the debts
Even if you can make money, under the current economic situation, you may not be able to afford to spend all of the investment money for debt pay off. So, how can you lower the pressure of debt from your shoulders? There are various debt relief options, which you can use in order to make the debt pay off process easier for yourself. The best way for you to make things easier is through debt consolidation. You can either consolidate the debts of your own, or else, you can also take the help of a nonprofit debt consolidation company. Through debt consolidation, the interest rate gets lowered, and the number of debts you have gets reduced to only one.
I hope this help you in some way as debt can be very stressful to deal with and organizing it at a minimum will not only make you feel better but likely reduce your monthly fees.
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By Lesley Parilla, Field Book Project
For Halloween, I thought about a couple directions for this article. I recently found out about the ghost crab. Loving the fact that this creature's common name includes “ghost," I searched the Encyclopedia of Life and found Yeti Crabs, Witch’s Hair, as well as a whole host of “ghost” animals. Then I remembered two of my favorite quotes I found last year and realized I found the perfect topic for the holiday.
The quotes come from the notes of Lieutenant H.R. Stevens who participated in the United States North Pacific Exploring Expedition, 1853-1856. We have several expeditions that were aboard US Navy vessels during the nineteenth century. When cataloging these materials, we don’t generally find documentation of the officers playing an active role in the collecting and describing, but it seems Stevens took to this type of work.
The expedition surveyed parts of the Bering Straits, the North Pacific Ocean and the China Seas along routes used by American trading vessels between the United States and China. Several naturalists came along to collect for the United States North Pacific Exploring Expedition. Military officers like Lieutenant Stevens helped collect marine specimens during the voyage. In his notes, Stevens wrote the following descriptions:
[August 11, 1853] Caught in hauling in the long line. A substance 5 ¾ inches long, 1 ½ inches broad…The whole outside covered with crystalline points from which appeared to be omitted, the brilliant phosphorescent light that it showed.
[August 28th, 1853] Caught in net. A great many globular substances. Somewhat resembling spawn. These on being put into a glass jar and stirred up at night showed like sparks of fire.
My assumption is that he was observing one of my favorite occurrences in nature, bioluminescence. This is the ability of an organism to create and emit light. If you haven’t seen it before, it is a fascinating adaptation to observe, and can be quite inspiring. In fact artist Shih Chieh Huang created an installation at the National Museum of Natural History inspired by bioluminescence.
I find Stevens’ choice of wording fascinating as he tried to describe the appearance with words like “phosphorescent light” and “sparks of fire.” Trying to put myself in his place, I can’t think there were many things one would see in the 1850’s that would be comparable to bioluminescence. His wording is surprising. If you take a look at the gallery of images compiled by NMNH, you’ll see some examples of what might have inspired Steven’s words.
So as you go out and enjoy the fantastical things people create for Halloween, keep in mind these snapshots from a nearly 3-year long voyage and just how unexpected the real world can be. | <urn:uuid:7e2ca9a0-05db-4a52-abc2-814368595f1c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://nmnh.typepad.com/fieldbooks/2012/10/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961438 | 603 | 2.828125 | 3 |
A new Economist/YouGov/Polimetrix poll (conducted June 5-8, 2010), finds that Republicans hold a substantial edge on a number of policy issues with two key voter groups – seniors (age 65+) and independents – five months before this year’s midterm elections.
These results represent a significant shift from polling on similar survey questions in the last congressional election cycle.
Republican performance with both pivotal blocs ranged from mediocre to awful four years ago. The party’s weakness with independents and seniors helped Democrats capture the majority in the House and the Senate in 2006.
For example, Republicans and Democrats tied among seniors (49-49 percent), according to exit polls in the last midterm election. The GOP prevailed with this group by 6 points in the presidential race (52-46 percent) two years earlier.
The GOP’s decline among independents was even more dramatic. After losing these unaffiliated voters in congressional contests by a slim three point margin in 2004, the gap ballooned to an 18 point loss in 2006.
The landscape improved somewhat in the 2008 presidential race. John McCain actually beat Barack Obama by 8 points among seniors (53-45 percent), and narrowed the margin among independents (compared to the GOP's performance in 2006), losing by 8 points (52-44 percent), according to exit polls.
Democratic appeal on many important policy issues – like the economy, spending, and even taxes -- contributed to the party’s strong performance in these two elections.
During both the 2006 and 2008 cycles, polls consistently showed Republicans trailing when it came to “which party voters trusted to handle issues” or “which party voters felt closer to.”
A Rasmussen survey, for example, conducted right before the 2008 election found voters trusted Democrats more on 9 out of 10 issues on which they were surveyed (the two parties were tied on the tenth issue, national security).
The new YouGov/Polimetrix survey offers some encouragement for Republicans when it comes to both seniors and independents.
Overall, Democrats hold significant leads on only a handful of issues among the 1,000 adults surveyed who were asked, “Which party do you feel closer to?” They have double digit leads on two: environment (+12 points) and gay marriage (+13 points). Democrats hold smaller leads on abortion (+4 points ) and energy (+7 points).
The parties are statistically tied on three others: the economy, regulating business and health care.
Fighting to a draw among adults on the issue of health care after the last year’s debate is a moral victory of sorts for Republicans because Democrats hold a historical advantage on the issue.
Republicans hold a statistically significant advantage on government spending (+6 points), immigration (+8 points), terrorism (+10 points), national defense (+11 points), and gun control (+11 points).
Among seniors, however, the GOP margins widen on all of these issues. Republicans enjoy 30 point advantages on four issues: taxes, terrorism, immigration and national defense, a more than 20 point advantage on five others: abortion, gun control, health care, the economy and spending, and double digit lead on: energy, regulating business, and the environment.
Independents also lean more in the Republican direction on these questions. Republicans hold an advantage on 9 out of the same 13 questions.
Political strategists focus on seniors in off years because they represent an even larger share of the electorate in midterm contests. This is because the rate seniors drop off in turnout in congressional elections is less than younger voters.
One final note further reinforces the good news in these numbers for Republicans. The entire YouGov/Polimetrix sample are adults. The numbers would most likely improve even further for the GOP if the population were screened for likely voters.
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Gerda Taro (real name Gerta Pohorylle; 1 August 1910 - 26 July 1937) was a war photographer, and the companion and professional partner of photographer Robert Capa. Taro is regarded as the first female photojournalist to cover the front lines of a war and to die while doing so.
In 1929 the family moved to Leipzig, just prior to the beginning of Nazi Germany. Taro opposed the Nazi Party, joining leftist groups. In 1933, she was arrested and detained for distributing anti-Nazi propaganda. Eventually, the entire Pohorylle household was forced to leave Nazi Germany toward different destinations. Taro would not see her family again.
Escaping the anti-Semitism of Hitler's Germany, Pohorylle moved to Paris in 1934. In 1935, she met the photojournalist Endre Friedmann, a Hungarian Jew, becoming his personal assistant and learning photography. They fell in love. Pohorylle began to work for Alliance Photo as a picture editor.
In 1936, Pohorylle received her first photojournalist credential. Then, she and Friedmann devised a plan. Both took news photographs, but these were sold as the work of the non-existent American photographer Robert Capa (after Frank Capra), which was a convenient name overcoming the increasing political intolerance prevailing in Europe and belonging in the lucrative American market. The secret did not last long, but Friedman kept the more commercial name "Capa" for his own name, while Pohorylle adopted the professional name of "Gerda Taro" after the Japanese artist Tarō Okamoto and Swedish actress Greta Garbo. The two worked together to cover the events surrounding the coming to power of the Popular Front in 1930s France.
Spanish Civil War
When the Spanish Civil War broke out (1936), Gerda Taro travelled to Barcelona, Spain, to cover the events with Capa and David "Chim" Seymour. Taro acquired the nickname of La pequeña rubia ("The little blonde"). They covered the war together at northeastern Aragon and at the southern Córdoba. Always together under the common, bogus signature of Robert Capa, they were successful through many important publications (the Swiss Züricher Illustrierte, the French Vu). Their early war photos are distinguishable since Taro used a Rollei camera which rendered squared photographs while Capa produced rectangular Leica pictures. However, for some time in 1937 they produced similar 135 film pictures together under the label of Capa&Taro.
Subsequently, Taro attained some independence. She refused Capa's marriage proposal. Also, she became publicly related to the circle of anti fascist European intellectuals (Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell) who crusaded particularly for the Spanish Republic. The Ce Soir, a leftist newspaper of France, signed her for publishing Taro's works only. Then, she began to commercialize her production under the Photo Taro label. Regards, Life, Illustrated London News and Volks-Illustrierte were amongst those publications.
Reporting the Valencia bombing alone, Gerda Taro attained the photographs which are her most celebrated. Also, in July 1937, Taro's photographs were in demand by the international press when, alone, she was covering the Brunete region near Madrid for Ce Soir. Although the Nationalist propaganda claimed that the region was under its control, the Republican forces had in fact forced that faction out. Taro's camera was the only testimony of the actual situation.
During her coverage of the Republican army retreat at the Battle of Brunete, Taro hopped onto the footboard of a car that was carrying wounded soldiers when a Republican tank collided into its side. Taro suffered critical wounds and died the next day, July 26, 1937.
The circumstances of Taro's death have been questioned by British journalist Robin Stummer, writing in the New Statesman magazine. Stummer cited Willy Brandt, later Chancellor of West Germany, and a friend of Taro's during the Spanish Civil War, that she had been the victim of the Stalinist purge of Communists and Socialists in Spain not aligned to Moscow. However, Stummer provided no other evidence for this claim.
In an interview with the Spanish daily El País, a nephew of a Republican soldier at the Battle of Brunete explained that she had died in an accident. According to the eye-witness account, she had been run over by a reversing tank and she died from her wounds in El Goloso English hospital a few hours later.
Due to her political commitment, Taro had become an anti-fascist figure. On August 1, on what would have been her 27th birthday, the French Communist Party gave her a grand funeral in Paris, buried her at Père Lachaise Cemetery, and commissioned Alberto Giacometti to create a monument for her grave.
On 26 September 2007, the International Center of Photography opened the first major U.S. exhibition of Taro's photographs.
In popular culture
- The novel Waiting for Robert Capa by Susana Fortes (2011 - English translation by Adriana V. Lopez) is a fictionalized account of the life of Gerda Taro and Robert Capa.
- The song Taro by the British band ∆ (Alt-J), appearing on their 2012 album An Awesome Wave, is about the death of Capa, and consequently his reunion with Gerda Taro.
- Source: The Digital Journalist Internet site.
- Source: Thelegraph.co.uk
- Source: International Center of Photography
- Source: Egodesign. Collection of photographs of Taro.
- Source: The Association of International Photography Art Dealers.
- "Robert Capa’s lost negatives make a dramatic reappearance", New York Times
- New Statesman, 9 October 2008
- El Pais (Spanish) Accessed 12-07-09
- Robert Whelan, Robert Capa, the definitive collection (Phaidon Press, 2001; ISBN 978-0-7148-4449-7), p.8.
- Irme Schaber, "Gerda Taro: una fotografa rivoluzionaria nella guerra civile spagnola" (Roma: DeriveApprodi, 2007), with a preface by Elisabetta Bini (Gerdaphoto)
- Maspero, François. L'ombre d'une photographe, Gerda Taro. Paris: Le Seuil, 2006. ISBN 2-02-085817-7
- Olmeda, Fernando: Gerda Taro, fotógrafa de guerra: el periodismo como testigo de la historia. Barcelona 2007. Editorial Debate. ISBN 978-84-8306-702-4.
- Schaber, Irme. Gerta Taro: Fotoreporterin im spanischen Bürgerkrieg. Marburg: Jonas, 1994. ISBN 3-89445-175-0
- Arroyo, Lorna. Documentalismo técnico en la Guerra Civil española. Inicios del fotoperiodismo moderno en relación a la obra de Gerda Taro.Castellón: Universidad Jaime I, 2011. ISBN 978-84-694-9871-2
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- "International Center of Photography Holds First Major Exhibition of Taro's Work", New York Times, 22 September 2007.
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Do you participate in Hogmanay? How about Kwanzaa or Ayyám-i-Há? If you don’t know what these celebrations are all about, come to the second floor of the library to check out our display showcasing these and many other Winter Holiday Traditions celebrated in Topeka. The display will be up until Sunday, January 6, 2013.
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Environmental Flows - Planning for Environmental Water Allocation - Water Policy Briefing - Issue 15 - October 2005
Water Policy Briefing Series - Issue 15 - October 2005
New research shows that, in many parts of the world, not enough water is being left in rivers to sustain the valuable environmental services that they provide to society. This is jeopardizing species that depend on fresh water—as well as the livelihoods of farmers, fishers, and downstream communities and water users.
Tools have now been developed to help planners establish the water needs of specific environments, even when little data is available. But policymakers need to recognize the urgent need to allocate water to satisfy environmental demands. | <urn:uuid:4727006d-283c-476e-b09f-40444ed9bb7f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.infoandina.org/node/7323 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950587 | 136 | 3.015625 | 3 |
We are pleased to announce that the commissioning framework for the Newborn Blood Spot Screening Programme and screening elements of child health records departments is now ready for use across England.
These frameworks have been updated to reflect the publication of the serious incidents guidance and should be used in preference (Dec 2010).
These documents follow extended consultation with relevant stakeholders and recommendation for use in the English NHS from the UK NSC. They are also available from the Quality Assurance section of the UK Screening Portal.
This document will be updated regularly. Please consult the website for the latest version.
Overview of the UKNSPC standards
Standards for the newborn blood spot programme are presented in a number of different documents; the aim of this table is to provide a contemporary list of all relevant standards and to signpost towards additional information. Stakeholders are advised to visit this page regularly to make sure they are viewing the most up-to-date version. | <urn:uuid:c69aed84-6526-480b-91ae-78ba30deebf6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://newbornbloodspot.screening.nhs.uk/commissioning | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.904896 | 192 | 1.671875 | 2 |
. "3 Research and Development in Support of Argonne National Laboratory's Demonstration Project." Electrometallurgical Techniques for DOE Spent Fuel Treatment: Status Report on Argonne National Laboratory's R & D Activity as of Fall 1998. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 1999.
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ELECTROMETALLURGICAL TECHNIQUES FOR DOE SPENT FUEL TREATMENT: STATUS REPORT ON ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY'S R&D ACTIVITY AS OF FALL 1998
Laboratory-scale work has been conducted to investigate the limits for reduction of PuO2, elucidate the kinetics of UO2 reduction, develop an electrowinning cathode for handling metallic lithium, and evaluate possible anode materials. Available thermodynamic information on both Pu2O3 and PuCl3 introduces uncertainties about the extent of reduction of Pu2O3 and the behavior of the resulting PuCl3 in the electrorefiner.
Several anode materials have been tested. Platinum performs well and has low overpotential but is expensive and reacts with both metallic lithium and gaseous chlorine. Iron oxide (Fe3O4) is cheap and leads to an already existing corrosion product but presents thermal shock and fabrication difficulties. Doped tin oxide (SnO2) is cheap and is commercially available, but results in a high cell overpotential. The desired anode reaction is production of gaseous oxygen from Li2O. Use of a high cell overpotential can result in production of gaseous chlorine, which would react with the anode material. Although several anode materials have been tested, including platinum, iron oxide, and doped tin oxide, the committee believes that further progress will be enhanced through analysis of published material in this area.
Work is in progress to study oxide fuel reduction kinetics, optimum fuel basket design for oxide fuel reduction and electrorefining, and development of methods for handling metallic lithium.
Based on the six engineering-scale tests conducted to date, the committee agrees that lithium electrowinning has been successfully demonstrated using a cathode consisting of stainless steel screen wrapped on a stainless steel rod, that progress has been made on understanding factors important in oxide fuel reduction kinetics, and that the reduction step can be interfaced successfully with the electrorefining step without carryover of metallic lithium or Li2O.
Aluminum Alloy Spent Fuels
The feasibility of electrometallurgical treatment of aluminum alloy spent fuels has been demonstrated in laboratory-scale experiments. 18 The key step is electrorefining of the aluminum, which represents about 90% of the spent fuel volume and which can potentially be discarded as low-level waste.
ANL has developed a flow sheet in which initial separation of the aluminum as a metal waste is followed by separation of metallic uranium from fission products and transuranic elements.
An engineering-scale aluminum electrorefiner has been installed for further testing. Although the laboratory-scale work is promising, significant development problems remain to be resolved before the process can be adapted to engineering practice. Many of the difficulties being encountered with performance of the anode-cathode module are apt to be encountered with aluminum alloy fuels.
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The Mafia may not be the first place you’d turn to for tips on getting ahead in business, but former wiseguy-turned-author Louis Ferrante has news for you: Mobsters—at least the ones who haven’t been riddled with bullets or thrown in prison—have a proven track record of success worthy of emulation.
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Ferrante grew up in and around the mob, and although he long ago denounced its criminality and violence, he still believes that La Cosa Nostra (this thing of ours) represents a model of ethical business practice that often outshines modern-day corporate America. In his second book, Mob Rules: What the Mafia Can Teach the Legitimate Businessman, Ferrante offers up a variety of provocative observations that, applied correctly, may not only help you survive big business, but thrive there as well.
Below, a sampling of few of the author’s more provocative tips:
“The criminal means by which mobsters acquire wealth is wrong, but their aggressive spirit is right.”
“Unlike a member of the Mafia, who must follow orders or be killed, as an employee of a company, you can say no to an unethical demand or assignment. You don’t have to deny treatment to an ill person who has no health insurance. You don’t have to pick up the phone and harass an old woman drowning in credit card debt. You can say no. ‘No’ is such a powerful world that Gandhi, a small man dressed in rags, brought the mighty British Empire to its knees by saying it.”
“For all its savage brutality, the Mob has a sense of values. In fact, looking back, I have to credit the mafia for some of my better attributes. The list of what I learned is long: be straightforward, don’t give your word unless you can keep it, paying debts is just as important as collecting them, respect people’s homes, don’t hold a grudge.”
“If dedication to a set of values, however twisted, produces success in a criminal society like the mafia, how much further will genuine values propel you and your company in the straight world?”
“Have compassion for the have-nots. Giving comes back around tenfold, and protects us from evil, like garlic.”
“As part of a major corporation or business, keep in mind you have the ability to do far more good in one day than the Mafia can ever do. And far more evil.”
“Mobsters love the ponies, but they know the odds of losing at the track are far greater than those of winning. Getting involved in office politics is like betting the ponies—odds are you’ll lose. The guy who stays ahead is the guy who watches the races but doesn’t bet.”
“It’s tough to admit you’ve made a mistake, but denial is for dummies. Don’t worry about your ego, you’ll get over it. If Capone did, you can. Admitting you’re wrong, even to yourself, is the single most important step toward personal growth.”
“I hired and fired seven lawyers, including the famed civil rights attorney William Kunstler, before I realized that a lawyer will never care as much about my life as I do. I decided to represent myself and soon discovered I could be just a sharp as any attorney; I reversed a federal case my attorney had claimed was impossible to reverse. Count on yourself and you’ll never be counted out.”
“Running an empire, a Mafia family, or a business is like driving a car. You’ve got to know when to hit the gas, and when to brake.”
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With massive unemployment touching off riots and international strikes in Europe, the failures of unregulated predatory capitalism have become obvious. Those who benefit from an economic system that is on the verge of collapse have no answers because they refuse to consider the possibility that the system that has worked so well for them can be fundamentally flawed. Even those leaders in government who are earnestly looking for ways to create wider prosperity do not question the basic assumptions of a system that will inevitably self-destruct. The time for reforming the system is over. Given the realities of demographics, it must be completely restructured.
A just economy that takes into account shifting demographics as nations become developed will have to find new ways to assure that everyone who is capable of working has an opportunity to do so. In a democracy, we can choose to do this. We can also choose to ensure that everyone's basic needs are met. Given the many essential functions of a society, those that are less desirable should pay more than a living wage, and jobs that produce nothing of use should pay less. If all the parasite class of financiers care about is accumulating wealth, let them spend their days playing computerized games in the stock market and running up their scores in electronic bank accounts, but isolate them from the real economy.
The solution to the austerity "crisis" in the US is not to tear at the social safety net, but to invest in it. Funding Social Security indefinitely is a simple matter of making the rich pay into the fund on every dollar they make, just as those who work for a living do. Then the retirement age can be lowered to 55, rather than raised. This will free up jobs that younger people can take, assured that they too will have a retirement fund when it is their time to enjoy the fruits of a life's labor while they still have time to.
If wealth were fairly distributed, no one need work more than 20 hours per week to meet all the needs of society. The rest of the time could be devoted to self-fulfillment for those who choose to use it that way. Volunteering to help those who need it, studying and teaching, creating art, nourishing the spirit, spending time with family and friends; all these enrich society as well as the individual. Love and work are the only two things that give life real meaning. Those who choose to waste their lives on hedonistic pursuits or meaningless work can do so, but they are to be pitied. | <urn:uuid:46c898f1-d9cc-4db1-8b6e-db5c7f0faf61> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.soldiersforpeaceinternational.org/2012/11/we-are-all-africans-now.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00053-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975725 | 499 | 1.664063 | 2 |
Ohio schools look at adding police officers
After Sandy Hook shootings, Ohio schools look for ways to bring more officers into schools for peace and safety
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Grove City Police Officer Kert Lanam heads down a hallway at Central Crossing High School after lunch. A federal proposal would help fund more officers in schools.
Most Ohio high schools and some middle schools have an armed, uniformed police officer or deputy sheriff to help keep the peace.
But educators wonder whether that’s enough after a gunman massacred 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut last month.
About 75 percent of the state’s more than 600 districts have at least one “resource officer,” as schools call the police officers, said Kari Parsons, the executive director of the Ohio School Resource Officer Association. Since Sandy Hook, the association has been flooded with calls from district officials asking how to bring in school resource officers or add more to their buildings.
“They’ve said, ‘We’ve got to do something. We’ve got to get police officers in schools,’ ” Parsons said.
President Barack Obama and the National Rifle Association have advocated an increased police presence in schools.
Obama recently laid out plans for putting more than 1,000 police officers in schools. The new Comprehensive School Safety program would offer $150 million to school districts and law-enforcement agencies to hire officers, psychologists, social workers and counselors.
Among 18 central Ohio school districts, six don’t have a school officer: Bexley, Canal Winchester, Grandview Heights, Hamilton, Upper Arlington and Worthington.
Canal Winchester Superintendent Jim Sotlar said federal money could help his district decide whether to bring in an officer. “This is something we will be discussing in the near future,” he said. “What is everything possible we can do to keep students and staff safe? Having (an officer) is an area we’re going to look into.”
Many officers, such as those in the Columbus, Hilliard, Olentangy and South-Western districts, are stationed in high schools and offer assistance in other buildings.
Dublin, meanwhile, has eight officers: one at each high school and middle school, and one who rotates among the elementary schools. New Albany and Whitehall both have one officer who splits time among all schools.
Educators say resource officers can help prevent violence through education rather than confrontation: The officers speak in health classes and serve as counselors. They are confidants to students who want to report trouble, offering a ready ear for those who have problems at home, with their peers and with the law.“There are patrol officers that work in the city,” said Kevin Quinn, president of the National Association of School Resource Officers. “With (school resource officers), that campus property is your beat. You’re responsible for anything that happens on the campus.”Quinn said schools have had police officers in their buildings since the 1950s. School districts, for the most part, contribute to their pay.
Although many districts say they have resource officers, some rural areas have only one covering all the districts in the county. “That’s almost like having none,” Parsons said.
Rich Playko, who oversees student services at Groveport Madison, said the district could benefit from having more officers than the one at the high school. But it’s a costly hire for the district, which covers nearly 70 percent of the salary of the Groveport police officer assigned to the district.
Playko said he’s interested in learning more about Obama’s plan. “If we could get two or three more (officers) for $40,000 each, then that would be a good bargain,” he said.
Fairbanks schools in Union County have been without a resource officer for two years. After the district trimmed its budget to make up for state funding cuts, Union County — which also was trying to absorb state cuts — asked the district to pay the full salary of the deputy sheriff assigned to the schools.
Superintendent Bob Humble said the expense would equal the cost of 11/2 full-time teachers. The district previously paid 20 percent of the deputy’s salary.
Humble said the deputy split his time among the district’s three buildings and was a confidant to students.
“At the elementary school, it was like having a full-time DARE officer all the time,” Humble said, referring to the anti-drug program. “He was going out in the hallways and making kids not afraid of the law.”
The deputy also was a crucial part of the district’s safety plan, Humble said. Officials recently revamped the plan and assigned his duties to five school administrators. “It was amazing how much the safety plan revolved around” the officer, Humble said. | <urn:uuid:5c92be6f-0c82-49e5-8beb-deb7f69b0f69> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2013/01/27/ohio-schools-look-at-adding-police-officers.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00032-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967436 | 1,138 | 2.0625 | 2 |
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1) Set up plates in a straight line with 1" between their rims. Place the fishbowl 10" away from the rim of the third plate.
2) When the clock starts, player may grab ping-pong balls and bounce them off the plates to land in the fishbowl.
3) The ball must hit all 3 plates, at least 1 time each, in order to count.
4) Any ball that touches the ground at any time is void.
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So, I'm going to drop the science hammer on it.
Before we get into the numbers, I'll outline the inspiration and purpose of these title quality checks.
In a nutshell, there are a few phrases ("problem" and "help" being the most obvious) that are really really strong indicators that a post could use some work; so we slap a "no you don't" hurdle in front of users forcing them to rework the titles at least. Titles are really important, both from a "quality of the site" perspective (who wants a homepage full of Help! posts) and from a "getting your question answered" one (if you're hunting for a question to answer, the more detail in a title the better the odds you'll click on it).
To be clear, the desired outcome of the title quality check is to encourage users to add more detail to (and remove useless, low quality indicative, phrases from) their question titles.
I'm looking at the 200 most recently rejected titles that were still eventually posted as questions. Each of these events will be sorted into one of three buckets based on the changes made to the rejected title: actively helpful, benign, and actively harmful.
actively helpful changes are those that result in more detail being added to a question title. This could just be additional technologies being mentioned, or a more thorough re-write (provided it's still the same question, naturally). Examples would be "heap size problem" -> "Android maximum heap size", or "Technology X Question" -> "Technology X Validation".
benign changes are simple deletions of the offending phrase (problem, help, and what have you) or simple substitutions. "Problem with X" -> "Issue with X" or "Heap allocation problem" -> "Can't allocate on heap" would be examples.
actively harmful changes are the "Pr0blems" (or random "s"s, or awkward non-sense that's clearly meant to dodge the filter) that some are insisting happen every time a user trips over this restriction. Also included are "blind idiot deletions", where a user just deletes words until they stumble around the filter, as that's clearly not "trying to make the question better" behavior.
actively helpful - 37% of all titles gained some detail
benign - 62% of all titles became no worse
actively harmful - 2% (3 total) posts obviously hacked around the filter
We can break down benign even further, into deleted and replaced. Deleted would be posts that removed the offending word (Problem, help, whatever), replaced meaning that something else we don't check for is slapped in there (Issue, confusion, so long winded way of saying Problem, etc.).
Deleting one of these phrases is a net win. They are the salutations of titles, adding nothing. It's not a strong enough win for me to lump them into actively helpful, but it's still a better outcome than posting the original title.
Replacing one of the phrases is a completely wash, GIGO-style. All the filter accomplished in this case is wasting a few moments of someones time (though they arguably deserved it).
deleting - 66% of benign modifications removed pointless verbiage
replacing - 33% of benign modifications were just substitutions (though not harmful ones)
Some other quick stats, these 200 posts occurred over a 24 hour and 30 minute period during which 5166 questions were asked (so approximately 4% of all questions tripped this check). Of these 200, there was a single "false positive" (the title really did need "question" in it, in this case); however that post was ultimately deemed off topic and the owner self-deleted it.
Factoring in reputation, I looked at users > 150 rep. The same ratio holds (76% improved in some way overall; 40% actively helpful, 0% harmful), though our sample size is getting awfully small (43 users). For >2k rep users only 4 posts triggered this, so it's hardly conclusive, but 75% of those were actively helped with the last post being a deletion (so 100% improved in some small way). The theory that reputation indicates title quality is lacking in support, although aforementioned sample size concerns (exacerbated by the rarity of high rep users asking questions) do exist.
tl;dr - the question title check is pretty effective, contrary to what has been asserted (rather blindly) elsewhere. ~78% of all post titles that trip it are improved in at least some small way, 37% in an unambiguous way. "Hacking around" the filter is in fact very very rare. | <urn:uuid:6ecffbe4-92ab-4dbd-9263-28ab2acda7a0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/113151/the-efficacy-of-stack-overflows-question-title-filter | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966729 | 967 | 1.507813 | 2 |
'Sheed to Miss 12th Straight Game
Knicks veteran forward Rasheed Wallace will miss his 12th straight game with a stress reaction in his left foot. Wallace's injury was originally described by the team as a sore left foot and he was listed as day to day. The team then clarified and called his injury a stress reaction after a report described it as a stress fracture.
What is the duplicate article?
Why is this article offensive?
Where is this article plagiarized from?
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Fluid lens technology may restore youthful vision
People with failing eyes could one day have their old lenses removed and new plastic ones injected to restore their original sight, researchers say.
Researchers at CSIRO Molecular and Health Technology have developed a new polymer that has the properties of a young person's lens and may one day be used to improve the sight of people with age-related short-sightedness.
"It has the refractive index properties that are required in the human eye," says Dr Keith McLean, who heads up CSIRO's biomedical device research.
The research was presented at a recent biomaterials conference at the University of New South Wales in Sydney.
As we age, the lens in each eye hardens and stiffens, making it more difficult to focus.
"Because it stiffens, the muscles in the eye are no longer able to squeeze the capsule or bag which contains the lens so you therefore lose the ability to close focus," Dr McLean says.
He says the research team has developed a polymer that can be injected into the lens capsule as a liquid and then firmed up once it is in place.
When visible light is shone on the polymer, molecules in it crosslink, creating a soft gel polymer.
"After it's crosslinked it has the consistency then of honey," Dr McLean says.
"The muscles in the eye are then able to again squeeze [the lens] and restore that ability to close focus."
The polymer is a non-biodegradable siloxane-based fluid and is the subject of intellectual property.
Dr McLean says researchers in China have tested the lens in monkeys.
They inserted the lens into the animals and then tested how well the monkeys' eye muscles were able to squeeze the lens and measurably change its refractive index.
"We are able to give the eye the properties we would want it to have," Dr McLean says.
He says the lens polymer has also been tested in human cadaver lens capsules in India and the US, using a machine that simulates the eye muscles.
Dr McLean says during the next one to two years, researchers hope move to human trials. Other tests on the safety and effectiveness of the lens will also be conducted during the next 10 years.
He acknowledges there are some unknowns about the technology.
Dr McLean says the new lens material is based on siloxane, which is very biocompatible and is already used in biomedical devices.
But he says while it has been found to be safe when implanted for a short time in live rabbits, longer-term tests are required.
He says researchers will also have to ensure the lens material does not leak from the eye capsule or go opaque over the long term.
Other partners involved in the research include the Vision CRC, Institute for Eye Research and research institutions in the US and India.
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Using Biolabs With Interchangable Chips
A biochip is a wafer shaped chip, which is partially a mass of computer circuitry, and partially a maze of tiny canals for fluid.
They are basically laboratories on silicon wafers. The maze of tiny canals are usually filled with blood from a patient. Alternatively, they may be filled up with a urine sample, stomach acids, bile, or any other fluidic substance being tested. The tiny canals are arranged in repeating patterns, with one way valves, allowing fluid in, but not back out agai. These patterns are basically miniaturised test sites arranged in a micro array such that several thousand experiments can be performed on the same sample in parallel.
In the same length of time as it takes to perform one test, as many as 2,000 are performed instead; each looking for the presence of a different element, immune response, or functional level.
Like a computer chip that can perform millions of mathematical operations in one second, a biochip can perform thousands of biological reactions in a few seconds.
Increasingly, biochips are being used in patient diagnosis, with a dedicated biochip performing more tests on a sample in an hour than a full blood workup does in days.
Currently, there are several biochip lab devices available. Each takes a small number of compatible, disposable biochips, which slot into the main unit, each taking a fluid sample from a different patient. The lab powers the biochips, maintains a sterile environment, and controls the fluid gates for each sample.
When a given biochip circuit is complete, the lab reads the full output from the chip's on-board circuitry, and processes it for output. The chip itself is removed from it's slot and thrown away.
Whilst such labs are a tremendous boon to diagnosis, and their small size does make them easy for a doctor's surgery to store - the one above is about the size of a shoebox - the issue of cost does come into it. Consider the following: you require one biochip lab to check for the cause of arthritis, one to check for the reason for lethargy, another to check the type of flu a patient has, another to check for pregnancy complications, a fifth to check for non-presecribed drugs You either end up with a surgery full of shoebox sized laboratories, or the practice has to think carefully about which conditions it can afford to check for precisely, and which it will have to do the old-fashioned way.
At the moment, biochip labs and biochips work in pairs. The lab is precisely built to the spec of the biochips that slot in it. Considering that all the control circuitry for the biochip is on the biochip itself, there is no reason it has to be this way.
If the biochips are increased in size, the cost of making them will increase. However, if this additional size is used for ROM chips which interface with thee lab's own circuitry in a standardised way, then the additional size is worthwhile. ROM chips tell the biochip lab the precise configuration of the biochip, with instructions how to activate it, then it becomes possible to place a mix of biochips in the same lab; the processing instructions are on the chip, rather than in the lab itself. This creates the possibility that the same lab could run a series of different chips for the same patient at one.
It's size might become larger than a shoebox, yet each practice would require fewer biochip laboratories.
As an added incentive, if a single lab plus a range of biochips is available, those practices that had not purchased biochip labs, unsure which to get, would purchase - overall sales likely increase tenfold.
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Carbon footprints are on the minds of everyone today and using carbon account software is one way that those who are interested in carbon management can account for their carbon emissions. Most of the larger companies are under legislation with regards to the amount of carbon emissions that they put out into the atmosphere. These can come from the type of product that they are producing, the way that they are producing the product as well as their type of labor and machinery. Employing carbon management can allow a business to keep track of their energy expenditures including carbon emissions that can even come from computer servers.
In order to be compliant with federal, state and local guidelines, a company can use carbon accounting software that will compile reports on how much carbon is being emitted as well as how they can reduce the amount of carbon through carbon management. Carbon management is not difficult when you are using carbon accounting software which will tell you what you need to do in order to reduce the amount of emissions from your company. The carbon accounting software will be able to point out the areas where you are using the most energy so that you can conserve.
It is important for all companies today to realize the impact that they have on the environment. Carbon footprints are found through all sorts of energy, even through computer servers. This is one of the reasons why using carbon accounting software is so important. Not only will this type of carbon management allow a company to see where they are over using energy, but it will help them to make reductions that are necessary to meet legislation. There is an increasing pressure in congress as well as at the consumer level for companies to practice carbon management as people are becoming more concerned with keeping the environment healthy. Using carbon accounting software is one way that the environment can be kept healthier and companies can stay within the realm of legislation.
As legislation is always changing when it comes to carbon management, it is also important that the carbon accounting software not only keep the company in compliance, but be allowed to change for stricter codes of legislation. Using carbon accounting software that can be adjusted to meet the new legislation that is often required for companies can save the company money and make sure that they retain compliance. A company that is not in compliance when it comes to carbon management may face fines as well as penalties if they fail an emissions test.
In order to avoid fines and penalties from legislation that is becoming more stringent when it comes to carbon management, a company today can be prepared with carbon accounting software. This will measure how much energy a company is putting out as well as the carbon footprints that they are leaving behind that are detrimental to the earth. This software is easy to run and can end up not only making the earth greener, but will also help a company avoid any loss through penalties and fines because their emissions are not in compliance with legislation.
As the world makes progress, our environment also regresses. Why is this so? It is because with industrialization booming, air pollution also progresses badly. It has been a problem that our world has ever since. Is there a solution to air pollution? Indeed there is.
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Air pollution can be lessened, it can be avoided and surely it can be solved. We do not have to wait for other people to take action; we need to start on our own. Making smart and environment friendly choices can help much in reducing air pollution. Industries contribute much to air pollution, they thrive because there is a demand to produce products, and mostly they are made of paper and plastics.
That is why in order to address the growing demand for industries to produce; we have to make people aware of the importance of the 3Rs. That is to reduce the use of electricity, gasoline and even energy. We also have to make sure to reuse items which we can still use. Take for example boxes, bottles, glass and many other things that we can make use of and produce into another useful item. We also need to recycle. Paper products as well as plastic ones are on top of the list.
Car as we all know is second to industries which contribute to air pollution. Try to use your cars only when it is really needed. You can save on gas as well as other bills if you try to walk a short distance or use a bike while enjoying the scenery.
We need to have strong laws for getting rid of air pollution. We should have stronger and firmer laws. See to it that you abide by the laws and in this way step by step you will do your part in giving a solution to air pollution.
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I found this on my homepage from one of our followers, a good friend of ours who rode the bus with us for 10+ school years and was in my little brothers grade. It is called "10 habits for a well-run home."
Hold the bus! There are actually well ran homes? Lets look at the 'helpful hints' they gave us and see how well we fare!
1. Wake up early
2.Go to bed earlier
3. Evening Preperations
4. Institute meal planning
5. Do 1 complete load of laundry a day
6. Finish dishes before bed
7. A place for everything, everything in place
8. 5 min. bathroom cleaning per day
9. Bedtime routine
10. Do not say yes to new requests
For day to day actions, I failed miserably. Being an overachiever naturally, I laughed hysterically when I read the article and told myself they were trying to make us strive to be the perfect housewife and mother. Who finds time to do all of this? Although they are great ideas and if used correctly would make life easier, they left out big aspects of every day life! What about play time with your children or animals? Teaching socialization skills and active play are a big part of molding a child. When I was in HS I remember my mom doing many of these, but life is chaos and will always remain so. Also, waking up early is for the birds :)
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Apr. 24, 2012
Southern European Mediterranean countries show great potential for biomass use for energy and as a source of rural development, new jobs and population stability. The partners that make up the BIOPATH sub-project (a component of the Bio-en-area initiative, INTERREG IVC): Cesefor Foundation (Spain), Bruno Kessler Foundation (Italy) and the Institute of Solid Fuel Technology and Applications (Greece), have not only been working on updating a guarantees system for forest-sourced bio-fuels, but are also supporting local bioenergy initiatives that generate multiple workplaces and make use of resources in the production area. To illustrate this strategy the institutions are sharing and developing three projects that are being worked on in the their respective regions.
The Cesefor Foundation is presenting the case of a municipality located deep in a forest area, where the aim is to use resources fully in a local logistics centre that receives logs exploited sustainably by local companies and sends them on to become technical products for wooden structures with high added value, and also sends the chippings to produce biofuels with certificates that guarantee Sustainable Forest Management. The chippings generated are distributed around the district in addition to supplying a small associated pellets plant (3,000 t/year) and an attached, small-scale cogeneration plant (130 kWe), which generates electricity for the plant to use and heat for drying the raw material. This initiative will create 7 permanent jobs directly and an industry that is closely tied to local resources.
The Bruno Kessler Foundation is implementing a mixed pellet manufacturing system in small municipalities, using the wood from local woodlands and residues generated by other activities as a basis, in such a way that materials are recycled and a certified product is produced on a local scale with minimum emissions and maximum calorific yield. The fuel is intended for local use in micro-cogeneration plants to supply heat and electricity to municipal facilities, thus closing the economic cycle for the activity without leaving the district while at the same time creating 3 stable jobs and taking the first steps towards energy independence.
The ISFTA is leading an initiative in one municipality to produce biogas in a 1MW plant using the waste from 4,300 animals at the numerous farms clustered nearby. Besides generating electrical power for its own use and for sale to national grids, it is envisaged there will be a granulating industry for 20,000 t/year of wood pellets associated with the biogas plant. The ISFTA estimates 24 jobs linked to the initiative will be created, and investment costs will be recouped in 4 years through the sale of power and pellets. | <urn:uuid:914d7cb3-51d6-4501-a6a4-ef45ce7223a1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.environmental-expert.com/news/biomass-counters-rural-population-shift-in-mediterranean-countries-291146 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00004-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927189 | 540 | 2.6875 | 3 |
A cake mix supplier has 12 hours to fill a 15,000-bag production order for a new customer. During the seventh hour, the filling machine shuts down with no warning. The machine operator attempts to troubleshoot and diagnose the problem but is unable to do so. After consulting with other employees and making a call to the equipment manufacturer’s service team, the supplier still does not have an accurate diagnosis. The filling machine service team is four states away and an in-person service call is the only option. Losing a new customer, before the first order is complete, is now a distinct possibility.
Rewind to the same scenario, but the supplier now has a small tablet device that connects him to live help almost instantaneously. Production is delayed only minutes. The job is done and the new customer is happy. This result is made possible through the technological innovation of the mobile service device, which takes troubleshooting, monitoring and maintaining to new heights.
A few years ago it would have sounded like a scene from a science fiction movie. Today, it’s becoming a best practice in the filling industry. New mobile technology allows the cake mix supplier to video conference with the equipment manufacturer while standing in front of the inoperable equipment. By using a small tablet device, equipped with a camera and linked directly to software in the filling machine, the plant operator can show the service team the exact problem while monitoring operational data. The technician can troubleshoot and then explain to the operator what needs to be done to get the machine back up and running. A process that went from a potential for days of downtime is transformed to minutes.
Equipment monitoring benefits managers by ensuring that production is running smoothly, but it also allows them to diagnose issues before they cause a major shutdown. Using mobile technology, bagging and filling system manufacturers have developed the capability to monitor a machine through a handheld tablet device. The device combines the monitoring capabilities of a machine’s PLC and weighing controls with the ability to order parts and live video conference with service technicians. Best of all, it does this through a mobile service device that allows operators to access machines from anywhere within their plant. No longer does a manager or operator have to be standing next to the machine, or even in the same building, to ensure maximum production efficiency.
Mobile service devices allow for preventative maintenance in a few different ways: production analytics, scheduled maintenance and alerts.
With analytics in the palm of the hand, managers and operators can look through readouts and see how production is running from day to day or even within the hour. When a production team isn’t maximizing its potential, an employee can dig further to diagnose the problem and make adjustments for more efficient filling.
Through the wireless connection, the mobile service device is linked to every component within the machine. The software knows exactly how each part should operate and when it isn’t working properly.
Alerting an operator when trouble arises is the first step in catching a problem. The problem, however, isn’t always something that the operator knows how to fix.
In the past, an operation would have to shut down to notify a service person from the equipment manufacturer. Once notified, the service technician would have to drive or fly to the cake mix supplier to take a look at the machine and diagnose the problem. With a mobile service device, this is no longer the case. In fact, with just the touch of a button, operators can video chat with a member of the filling system manufacturer’s service team. Service team members can look at the part that isn’t working properly through the video chat, or they can take over control of the device and look at the production analytics and 3D diagrams of the part that is malfunctioning.
Once they’ve diagnosed the problem directly through the mobile service device, the service team members can walk the operator through the steps to repair. It’s a quick process that greatly reduces machine downtime.
Time Is Money
In addition to monitoring of the machine, routine maintenance checkups are also important for keeping equipment running at peak efficiency. Routine checkups include everything from testing each component to lubricating moving parts. Taking a look at machine components on a regular basis isn’t just good for peace of mind during production runs, it’s also a way to ensure that unexpected costly shutdowns don’t cut into profits.
Seamless Product Sales
To further increase efficiency and cut out the frustrations of a middle-man, the new technology of the mobile service device simplifies part sales.
When it’s time to replace a part of the filling machine or restock spare parts, the machine operator is able to pull up the specific parts within the mobile service device. The operator simply identifies which part is needed and places an electronic order directly through the device.
A New Generation
It wasn’t long ago that the majority of machines were manually operated. They required multiple skilled hands to run and constant supervision. From there, bagging and filling equipment advanced to offer customers machines that were fully automated and operated through one control panel. This increased efficiency by connecting each component to the control panel and decreasing the number of operators from many to one.
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Problem One great feature of Reporting Services is the ability to drill through to secondary reports. This is pretty straightforward to do, but the built-in option in Reporting Services is an all or nothing approach. Sometimes there is a need to drill through to secondary reports based on certain data conditions, but you do not want a link for every row only certain ones. How can you provide a link for some data records but not others?
Solution The solution is to use if IIF() function within the report navigation expression window.
Let's say you have a report showing a summary of sales in several divisions, but you only want to drill through to details (a secondary report) with records having to do with the Eastern division. All other divisions will report at the summary level without a drill though report.
To create the drill through navigation, right-click on the Properties of the textbox and select the Navigation tab.
Instead of choosing a report from the dropdown, click on the fx button to open the navigation window and use the Reporting Services expression editor.
To conditionally present a link, use the IIF() function.
The IIF() statement has the following format:
=IIF(Expression to evaluate, what-to-do when the expression is true, what-to-do when the expression is false)
There are a few rules and notes to follow.
There are three sections within the parentheses, each delimited by a comma (no comma after the 3rd part, only after the 1st two parts).
(Unlike T-SQL statements), in the Reporting Services expression editor, text is delimited with double quotes (not single quotes).
Always begin expression statements with the equals (=) sign.
Keywords are not enclosed with quotes. You will know you are using a keyword because it automatically turns blue.
Until the syntax is correct, you will see a squiggly red underline under part or all of the expression phrase. Your expression will not work until this is gone. (That doesn't mean it WILL work, it only means it will never work while you have the wrong syntax.)
Put together, here's what to do:
Start with =IIF(
In the first part of the IIF(), create the expression you will be evaluting.
Next, type a comma and then the name of the report you will be drilling through to, delimited by double quotes (i.e. "NameOfReport"). NOTE: In some cases of SQL 2005, with SP2 in Sharepoint Integration mode (like mine), you will have to add ".rdl" at the end of the report name such as "NameOfReport.rdl". This has the alarming result of disabling the link in the designer, but when you publish to the Sharepoint server, it will work just fine. If you leave it without the .rdl, the designer link will work but it may not work when you publish. Experiment and see for yourself.
Next, type a comma and then the word Nothing (without quotes). This is a keyword.
Close the parentheses )
Use the parameters button as you normally would with drill through reports.
The keyword Nothing means just that. Do not display anything. In this case, it means, 'do need provide any link'. Had we used two double quotes (i.e. "") the link would not have gone to any report, but there would essentially be a link to nowhere. (The user would get an error when clicking on it.) Using the keyword Nothing prevents the error and creates the desired effect.
You could modify this procedure to send the user to "Report1" if the expression is true and "Report2" if the expression is false, by replacing the Nothing keyword with the name of "Report2". (Don't forget the double quotes for "Report2" in that scenario).
Alternatively, you could use the SWITCH() function in a similar way (but that's a topic for another tip).
Reporting Services is a great feature of SQL Server that is still underutilized. If you are not already using Reporting Services take the time to evaluate it and see how it can be used in your environment.
In this tip you can see that you have the ability to customize how your users interact with your reports based on data content. This allows you to domically generate your reports based on your data without having to hardcode features.
Hi I am facing a problem regarding use of expression for drill through reports. I have appended ".rdl" at the end of report name, so it is working on WSS site , but it is giving error in designer. Do you have any solution for the same?
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Experts from energy sector convene to address cyber security for critical infrastructure
The Latest Cyber Security Techniques to be Revealed at 8th MEESEC this December in Dubai.
Online PR News – 22-October-2012 –As online possibility continues to grow at a fast pace; so does the need for up-to-date security. The ability to access information has never been this interactive. With this constant free flow of information there have also been several high profile cyber-attacks on critical infrastructure.
The global security systems industry encompasses many domains and touches on an array of sectors such as energy, oil & gas, construction, petrochemicals, power and mining. It becomes imperative to safeguard these critical infrastructure assets, ensure continuity in operations while having the appropriate mechanisms in place to prevent any attempts of vandalism, terrorism, sabotage, criminality, piracy and theft.
Threats against the energy industry are progressively increasing during a constantly evolving threatening landscape. Security operations will be forced to continuously adapt to these variety of challenges including economic, criminal, political, as well as home-land security constraints.
Bringing together some of the brightest minds from leading global organizations, with opportunities to share knowledge on the cyber attacks and securities at the 8th Middle East Energy Security Forum, a must attend energy security event is scheduled on 4 – 6 December 2012 at Habtoor Grand Resort and Spa in Dubai – UAE. The forum is all set to reveal the latest cyber security techniques, risk management and assessment, maritime critical infrastructure and hostile reconnaissances.
In its eighth successful year, the forum will host companies like Baker Hughes, Petronas, Saudi Aramco, Petropars, Saudi Aramco, Bechtel, American University of Sharjah, BP Turkey, NATO HQ, Emirates National Oil Company Limited, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Masdar Institute and BP Turkey to mention a few.
The event will address increasing need for the effective and efficient integration of operations into an overall business security strategy as well as the implications behind such integration into the business.
The 8th MEESEC calls on the industry to rethink strategies and exercise security, business continuity and emergency response frameworks within a relatively short span of time.
The event promises to bring leading industry experts from across the globe to discuss pressing concerns to security professionals and mitigating measures through panel discussions, case studies, speaker presentations and focused workshops during the three day conference.
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So you want to convert that cool new MP3 song you just downloaded (one of mine, right?), into a WAV file so you can burn a CD, but how? Is there a simple solution
out there? And what about if you want to convert a WAV back into an MP3?
Behold ACM Convert, a simple to use standalone utility that allows you to convert between MP3 and WAV, using ACM (Microsofts Audio Compression Management API). Finally, not only is there an easy way to encode WAV's to MP3's, but to decode them back as well! Woohoo! As with all things Microsoft, there are a couple of caveats to get it working (you need both ACM and NetShow installed) - it's especially important to READ THE DOCS!!!
For the inside scoop on how this works, refer to the enclosed readme! You will need to have ACM installed on your machine (chances are it already is, I think it's a default part of IE4 or greater), as well as NetShow to be able to encode MP3's; you can get the latest version
of NetShow (3.01) from here . There are also commercially available MP3 encoders that use ACM, such as the Opticom MP3 Encoder
, but you have to pay for those. There are also other codecs available, you'll just have to look around for them, but under NO circumstances email me asking about them, I just don't keep track... Also, to help narrow things down, this converter
ONLY supports ACM MP3 codecs, nothing else. If you run into ANY problems, make sure to read the docs before emailing me; most of the time it has nothing to do with anything I can help you out with - it's either Microsoft's problem, or the ACM codec
problem; plus it's always easier to blame someone else, right?
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The Facundus Beatus was illuminated by Facundus for the monarchs of Castile and León, Ferdinand I and Doña Sancha, and remained in their library until their death. Its striking colours, peculiar drawings and unreal atmosphere subject the imagination to a veritable tyranny. Once seen, never forgotten.
Taken as a whole, this is one of the most beautiful examples of the Spanish miniature and, of course, of the beatus manuscripts in terms of the rigor of its drawings, its syncretism between respecting the past whilst welcoming the present, its virtually classic regard for order and compositional structure and finally, its use of colour to create chromatic effects conjuring up different, very elegant and yet highly solemn atmospheres totally unlike anything else in the High Middle Ages.
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Dr. H. Stephen Shoemaker
Myers Park Baptist Church
Charlotte, North Carolina
May 6, 2012
MOVING FROM A HOUSE OF FEAR TO A HOUSE OF LOVE
Text: John 13: 3-9, 34-35
It is all about love, this Christian life we seek to live. But what is the nature, the essence of this love? And how do we live it? I John says it as simply, elegantly as we could imagine:
God is love, and those who abide in love abide in God, and God abides in them (I John 4:16).
Love is the secret name of God revealed, embodied in Christ. “Do you remember, remember back to the beginning of all things?” Jesus whispers in our ear. “God is love. And you are God’s Beloved.”
I John also states the opposite: If we say “I love God” and hate our brother or sister we are “liars” (I John 4:20).
These is deep soul truth, psychological truth here. Our hatred and fear of another comes from a place within where we hate ourselves or are full of fear. This place itself is a place we are afraid to go. But as Rowan Williams says, “There is no place where the love of God cannot go.”
God is love. Unfettered, un-mixed, un-conditional love. And God loves us to the depths. God takes us by the hand and leads us through all the layers of false self until we reach our true self, our real self in its entirety, unique and utterly loved by God.
Richard Rohr said last week if we go to the very depth of anything, our fear, our suffering, our compulsion, our addiction, even our sin, we will be transformed by love. On the surface nothing happens.
Jesus the Word made flesh, fleshed out the love of God. He did so dramatically at the “last supper” in John’s gospel. He took off his outer garments, the ones that signaled rank, took a towel, tied it around his waist, poured water into a basin, and kneeling began to wash his disciples’ feet, their dusty, worn, tired, misshapen feet.
Jesus had just reversed all systems of rank. He, their Lord, Master, Teacher, had become the house-servant, “The Help.” Peter resisted: “Lord, you will never wash my feet.”
What was his resistance? Was it the reversal of rank? He, Peter should be the one washing his master’s feet. Was it embarrassment? Someone touching you, washing a part of your body you are ashamed of? Our feet show what life has done to us, all we’ve walked through, how long we’ve walked. They are no longer pretty. Whatever Peter’s resistance, it was visceral, instantaneous.
Then Jesus said, “Unless I wash your feet you will have no part in me.” Then Peter’s true self, deeper self, real self, hungry self, came rushing to the surface: “Lord, then not only my feet, but also my hands, my head.” Wash all of me! It was one of Peter’s many conversions.
There are parts and places in us all we do not want others to see, to touch, to know. Jesus loves us there, holds us there, bathes us there. It is hard to believe.
Today we install and nominate our new class of deacons. The word deacon comes from the New Testament Greek word diakonos, literally “to go through, dia, the dust, konos. As a waiter waiting tables, as an orderly emptying bed pans, as a nurse bathing a patient, as a servant washing feet. The word is also translated in its various forms ministry, minister and servant. As we lay hands on deacons we say, “Lead us as servants!”
But such a calling, is not just for them but for us all, this love that washes feet. Later at the meal Jesus said,
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; just as I have loved you, you should also love one another (John 13:34).
Then he added: “By this everyone will know you are my disciples.” By this. Maybe only by this.
But how can we love this way?
Such a love is not possible without the one who spoke these words. He lives such love in us. We live such love through him.
Our human love has strings, expectations, needs, fears. But God’s love poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit moves us to a deeper, purer love. Have you experienced such moments, when another’s welfare is more important than your own, when love is just love, unmixed, unfettered, unconditional, free?
Finally, I John speaks of love and fear. Here he touches a very deep place because fear goes very deep.
There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear.
Perhaps the most important spiritual journey we can make is from the house of fear to the house of love. We live with so many fears: fear of rejection and fear of abandonment, fear of failure and fear of judgment, fear of ridicule and fear of embarrassment, fear of the unknown and fear of exposure, fear of sickness and fear of death. Christ has come to lead us from our house of fear to the house of love.
Henri Nouwen writes of this in his book on praying with icons: Behold the Beauty of the Lord. (God’s beauty itself can calm our fears.)
In one chapter he leads us in our gazing upon, praying with Rublev’s famous icon, The Holy Trinity. It is reproduced on our cover of the order of worship. Gaze with me there. There are the three figures of the Holy Trinity: Creator, Christ, Spirit. Remarkably they are feminine figures. They are sitting around a table, they are forming a circle of love. There is an open place at the table. For you. See it? There is an unexpected rectangle in the side of the table facing you. It is a door, the door to the House of Love.
An ancient description of the Holy Trinity in Eastern Orthodox Christianity was the Trinity as a peri-choresis, to dance in a round, a circle dance of love. One of the three in the icon spots you and offers their hand. Come join. Most of us have joined the circle by way of one: God, Jesus, Holy Spirit. Then we came to know all three. Come, they say, into the house of love.
Nouwen writes about his encounter with this icon:
During a hard period of my life in which verbal prayer had become nearly impossible and during which mental and emotional fatigue had made me the easy victim of feelings of despair and fear, a long and quiet presence to this icon became the beginning of my healing. As I sat for long hours in front of Rublev’s Trinity, I noticed how gradually my gaze become a prayer. This silent prayer slowly made my inner restlessness melt away and lifted me up into the circle of love, a circle that could not be broken by the powers of this world. Even as I moved away from the icon and became involved in the many tasks of everyday life, I felt as if I did not have to leave the holy place I had found and could dwell there whatever I did or wherever I went. I knew that the house of love I had entered has no boundaries and embraces everyone who wants to dwell there.1
The 23rd Psalm is so beloved, I think, because it helps us move from a house of fear to a house of love. We are afraid we will not have enough; God leads us to green pastures and still waters. We are afraid of death and the powers of evil; God leads us through the valley of fear to a table rich in food and rich in love. And the closing?
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
From a house of fear to the house of love.
A CEO came to see me. “I am so tired of being a CEO,” he said. “It feels life H-E-L-L.” We talked. Did he need to let go of the position? Or, could he stay at his post but do his work from a house of love rather than a house of fear.
In the Agape Meal at my former church we served over 200 homeless people around our fellowship meal tables every Thursday, all eating together church members and guests. Then we had worship. About 100 would stay. After worship we invited people to the chapel in the next room for communion. About 15 or 20 would come. Some came with tears flowing down their cheeks. They never thought they’d take communion again. One Hispanic woman came for a whole year before she stayed for worship. She was different, “other” in about as many ways as one could imagine. It was another year before she came for communion. When she got to me and I served her the bread and cup she whispered: “All my life I was told church was the last place that would accept me, and here I’ve been accepted as nowhere else in my life.” She had gradually moved from a house of fear to a house of love. Isn’t that what we all want to do? Isn’t that what we want a church to be?
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A complaint filed Friday by the Michigan Department of Civil Rights is asking the federal government to step in and prohibit the use of American Indian mascots and imagery in K-12 schools across the state.
The department filed the complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights. The complaint cites 35 Michigan K-12 school districts — including Clinton and Tecumseh — responsible for “alleged discrimination.”
The schools are known as the Clinton Redskins and the Tecumseh Indians.
The complaint says research now shows the use of those mascots and imagery causes “actual harm” to American Indian students by lowering self-esteem and impacting student achievement.
According to an email sent by the state to Clinton and Tecumseh school officials, the districts are among those named because they are “currently using such imagery and, as such, would be impacted by any action OCR might take.”
Leslee Fritz, spokeswoman for the Michigan Department of Civil Rights, said Friday a study conducted by its legal team shows “there is now substantial amounts of evidence that American Indian imagery use and continued use is harming students and therefore in violation of federal law.”
Fritz said the complaint does not mean the school districts named are deliberately committing wrongdoing.
“We are not accusing any school district of inappropriate intent or behavior,” she said. “We are hopeful the more school districts study the evidence that is growing, that they will agree to change their imagery.”
The complaint only includes K-12 schools at this time, Fritz said, and not colleges and universities using similar imagery.
“K-12 is where the impact is more acute,” she said.
Clinton Community Schools Superintendent David Pray said Friday the district is conferring with its attorney on the complaint and declined comment.
Tecumseh Public Schools Superintendent Mike McAran said the school district has always worked to ensure its mascot is an appropriate tribute to the Native American culture.
“About 15 years ago, we worked to put the correct features on our mascot and adjusted the feathers, got rid of the hatchet, to come to an agreement at that time,” McAran said.
In November, a statue of Shawnee warrior and leader Tecumseh was dedicated in front of Tecumseh Middle School. Members of the Leh Nah Weh Native American Organization conducted the ceremony.
“Tecumseh is a tribute to the Native American culture,” McAran said. “Our town is named for Tecumseh, and we have Indian names on our street signs. The community has always been satisfied with our representation.”
A telephone message left for Leh Nah Weh President Abel Cooper Friday was not immediately returned.
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--- Making a Permanent Impression Since 1994 ---
February 13, 1995
Beyond rumor at Central High
By Rachel Jennings
The writer of this story is a student at the private, single-sex Miss Porter's School (and former Memorial Boulevard Middle School student), who recently spent a day at Bristol Central High School.
Upon entering the walls lined with maroon lockers, I found myself doing double take after double take with people I had not seen for two years.
Some of these encounters were hilarious.
As I passed one old acquaintance in the hall, he and I made eye contact -- then we spun around and continued on our way, remembering our mutual dislike for each other.
Spending the day at Central as an indifferent bystander pushed a lot of things done privately at Miss Porter's into the surface of my mind.
At Miss Porter's, it is estimated that over half of the students smoke cigarettes.
Because smoking is forbidden at Miss Porter's, it is hard for boarders to find places completely secluded from any passing faculty.
Not that this stops people from smoking their Marlboro Mediums, but is seldom talked about for fear of being restricted to campus or suspended.
At Central, students' guardians are not present at school and topics such as smoking or alcohol can be openly discussed.
Another thing I immediately noticed was the absence of political correctness.
"Gay" was constantly used as an insult. At Miss Porter's, there probably is not a single student who would not be quick to challenge the tormentor.
When people noticed or remembered my quickness at defending certain populations or opinions, I was introduced as a "liberal feminist."
I had forgotten how unusual an identity this had been at Memorial Boulevard, because my current school is populated almost entirely with open-minded feminists.
In a way, Central was much stricter, because it operated with bells, bathroom monitors and hall passes. But there was underlying chaos that might not be noticed.
Despite Central's efforts to achieve order, Miss Porter's has been more successful, in part because students seem to have more respect for their teachers.
The difference in apparel at the two schools was particularly striking.
At Miss Porter's, often students do not even look in the mirror before going to classes. Students there are quite content in flannels.
So it was a shock to suddenly be confronted with dresses, tucked-in shirts nd styled hair.
Teenagers, particularly girls, are considered to be under a great deal of stress.
The students at Central and Miss Porter's both suffer from approximately the same amounts of stress. However, the concentration of pressure come from different sources.
At Central, the stress seemed to mainly be caused by social pressure -- partly because of the presence of the opposite sex.
The stress at Miss Porter's focuses centrally around academics and the hardships caused from being away from home.
Before actually absorbing the atmosphere of a school by spending time there, the only basis we can have for our opinions of a school can be from public rumors.
The biggest surprise for a visitor from Miss Porter's might be the general openness and easy acceptance.
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How can the automatic proofreading help publishing professionals? (2nd part)
As we have shown in the first part, automatic text verification systems aim to become useful resources. However, these applications are by definition tools that help in writing, and they should never replace the human proofreader, especially if the goal is publishing. Until now, there were a lot of questions that technology could not face.
Where should we focus our attention?
We cannot trust technology when text revision involves a comprehensive and careful reading in order to find ambiguous sentences or inconsistencies from the author (e.g. changing in a story the name of the same character), or decide whether a footnote would be necessary, etc.
Apart from this, we must give attention to another type of revision. It is called conceptual or technical revision, and it consists in examining the text to see if it conforms to the terminological conventions which are typical of the related subject. In fact, this task should not be assigned to a specialist in spelling and style, but rather to a specialist in the given subject (a physician for a handbook of medicine, an engineer for a technical text, etc.).
Despite these facts, we must note that language technologies specialists have begun to handle information on a semantic basis. Examples of this are the recognition of anaphoras and coreferences. We believe that, in the near future, there will be major advances in the detection of certain lexical ambiguities or misuses.
Why should publishing professionals make use of automatic proofreading?
We assume that revising a text is a time-consuming task. Thus, we believe that publishing professionals can go a step further, and not just confine themselves to the process of looking for information in dictionaries, grammars, and other reference books. The new automatic proofreading systems are certainly helpful:
- You can save time on tedious tasks that the proofreader can perform easily.
- You can focus your efforts on activities that involve human processing.
- You can improve the quality of the final revision.
- You will have more time left to meet the tight deadlines imposed by the publisher.
In conclusion, you can be more productive, increase your profits and, at the same time, maintain the quality of your work.
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The United States debt and deficit situation is a train wreck that Americans don’t want to watch but can’t look away from. It’s common knowledge that if you spend more than you make, you’re barreling down the road to bankruptcy. Running a deficit is a symptom of fiscal irresponsibility, and the U.S. has a bad habit that’s proven tremendously hard to break.
But you can’t fix problems by ignoring them, and policymakers and market participants have been forced to address the debt and deficit situation. Years of deficit spending, punctuated by the enormous costs of the financial crisis, have pushed America’s economic position from stability to uncertainty. The national discussion is not “How do we remain strong?” but “How do we avoid disaster?” and the impact of this conversation alone — let alone the hard reality of the federal financial situation — is economically destructive.
The evidence of this is the far-reaching effects of economic policy debates in Washington. The markets are sensitive to high-stakes legislation and eleventh-hour deal making, highlighted by the fiasco that pushed the country right to the brink of the fiscal cliff. Prolonged indecision and uncertainty about the future tax environment and government spending plans is a weight on businesses, which need at least a modicum of stability in order to make decisions — like whether to spend money, grow, and move the economy forward.
Whether or not America is on a road to growth is a gambit, not a certainty, and the financial crisis has fueled attempts to cast light on the economic environment and the road ahead. The only way to curb uncertainty is to gain understanding. Unfortunately, a new line of economic research on sovereign debt tipping points, born out of the European crises and immediately relevant to the U.S., offers an unattractive interpretation of which road we’re on…
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Last week, Multi-American delved once more into that culinary landscape where some diners fear to tread, the territory of the unsung ethnic delicacy.
These are the dishes that don't necessarily sound good, look good or or even smell good, but are worth trying because they are unexpectedly delicious.
Our first series in March covered a range of foods, from drinks like the Vietnamese avocado milkshake to main dishes like arroz con calamares en su tinta, a particularly unattractive squid dish served in several Latin American countries.
The series last week focused on meat dishes, cooked, raw and canned. True to form, none sound like anything one would rush out to try, but don't be put off. For any carnivores who might have missed these treats, here they are in a convenient list. Dig in.
Photo by anitasarkeesian/Flickr (Creative Commons)
A parsley-laden dish of chee kufta
This week, Multi-American is again exploring the unsung ethnic delicacies that may not sound or look like much, but are worth a try. And for whatever reason, people are suggesting meat dishes this time around.
Today's suggestion comes from blog contributor Lory Tatoulian, and it's not for the faint-hearted. Chee kufta, a raw meat dish, is what she describes as something that "sounds risky but tastes delicious."
The dish is popular in Armenian and Turkish cuisines as an appetizer and consists of ground beef or lamb that is mixed with fine wheat bulghur and seasonings, which in the typical Armenian preparation consist of red and black pepper, water and salt. It is then garnished with scallions, parsley and a generous amount of olive oil.
Here's how Lory describes a good chee kufta:
The redder the meat, the more delectable. It is best to use zero percent fat meat, and there should absolutely be no fat or no tendons in the patty. Chee kufta can be eaten with Akh Makh cracker bread, but it is best eaten when your mom is preparing it in the kitchen and hands you a small sample to ask if more or less salt is needed. | <urn:uuid:81f7a2aa-4333-4507-b3d5-c3223f711cc6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.scpr.org/blogs/multiamerican/tagged/chee-kufta | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00069-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954448 | 486 | 1.796875 | 2 |
The rules for this travel game are simple. Start with "A" and seek out all the letters of the alphabet on in order from A to Z on road signs. One person looks on the left side of the road while another looks on the right. The person on the left will often have to look backwards to see signs going the other way. First one to "Z" wins. Its best to state your letters and words out loud such as "X in EXIT". | <urn:uuid:b086d677-351b-416e-81d9-4cc7b337fc7a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.partygamecentral.com/gametmpstd.php?gnm=152 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00059-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971725 | 96 | 1.898438 | 2 |
If you are planning to grow coneflower plants, you will be getting much more than just a beautiful flower. Coneflowers are long-lasting, hardy flowers that will likely be the first plants in your garden to blossom and the last to go dormant for the winter. In the past, American settlers used wild coneflowers on the prairies and fields of the Midwest and reaching all the way down to the South to make tea, syrups, and salves that served as natural remedies for infection and immunity boosters.
Growing coneflower plants is easy. If you have fertile, drier soil, your coneflowers will thrive. Of course, there are ways to get your flowers growing even if you don’t have this type of soil. Use some organic fertilizer and work in a little compost for fertility. You can also use a raised garden bed to make your soil drier. Plant your coneflower seeds in early spring when your soil can be worked and you expect the last frosts. Sow the seeds a quarter inch deep and about two inches apart. When the seedlings are an inch tall, thin the existing flowers until they are eighteen inches apart. During this time make sure that you are watering your coneflower seedlings until they are established. Once they are established they will subsist on rainwater. If you plant before the first fall frost of the year, your coneflowers will have a much better bloom period the next year.
Coneflowers do not require much maintenance besides weeding. However, if you want to keep your flowers healthy and plentiful-looking, cut off dead looking flowers to encourage new ones to grow. Also, when weeding, look out for small coneflower seedlings because you may want to move them. If you would like to save seeds for future seasons, find mature flowers and place them upside down in a paper bag. This way, your coneflowers will release their seeds into the bag. Once this happens, remove the plant debris and spread out the seeds on newspaper for 10-12 days so that they can finish drying. Once dry, store them in a jar with a tight fitting lid and keep it in your refrigerator for up to a year.
If you want to harvest your flowers, wait until they are three years old, which is when they will be at their best quality and highest potency. If you wish to harvest the roots, use a sharp knife to cut off a portion of the root while also leaving enough for the plant to continue growing. Cut large root pieces into smaller ones so that none are longer than an inch. Wash them and pat them dry. To continue letting them dry, hang them or lay them on a screen away from direct sunlight to help ventilate. This may take a few weeks but once dry, they can be stored in a glass jar for up to a year. To harvest the tops, cut off the plant underneath the point where the first healthy leaves are growing. Lay the tops in bundles or hang them until completely dry. You will know the plant is dry when the leaves crumble when touched. Like the roots, store the heads in a sealed jar in a cool, dry place. | <urn:uuid:b62102a9-5e6b-4ac5-bb6c-d7caefa7609e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ask.com/explore/how-grow-coneflower-plants | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00033-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955939 | 658 | 2.953125 | 3 |
Some new frameworks are appearing from time to time, that are a bit more modern than the widely used ones.
By modern I mean that they for example leverage features of the C++ language and the most important libraries, like Boost or even STL itself.
Note that Qt provides its own String, Network, Signals (observer pattern), Multithreading and many other classes and those are already in new versions of Boost (see
boost::threads) - you have to learn APIs with duplicate functionality.
Of course creating a library as powerful as Qt would be an overkill since this one handles much more tasks than just showing windows and widgets - there's the graphics subsystem, rich text processing, xml readers and writers, nice web browser view integration (thanks to WebKit), SQL connectors, SVG classes and so forth but many of those are not used in simple or even semi-advanced scenarios so maybe it's a good time to try to create your own or improve existing ones, like WINX.
The developer of WinxGui is currently working on making the library more generic by e.g. porting WTL to MinGW so he can relieve it from ATL dependency. Next step would be to extend the WTL port to other platforms. But that's just my wishful thinking.
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UPDATE 11/20/2012: Auernheimer/Weev has been found guilty on both counts, with sentencing scheduled for 90 days or more from today.
AT&T screwed up in 2010, serving up the e-mail addresses of over 110,000 of its iPad 3G customers online for anyone to find. But today Andrew Auernheimer, an online activist who pointed out AT&T’s blunder to Gawker Media, which went on to publicize the breach of private information, is the one in federal court this week.
His case highlights some potentially troubling disconnects between the practicalities of online life and the rule – and application – of the law.
Auernheimer, whose pugnacious online persona is Weev, is up on two counts, each with the potential to land him with five years in jail. One alleges that by being in possession of the e-mails from AT&T’s leaky system he handled “identification information” in breach of a law intended to protect against identity theft, USC 1028. It’s worth noting that so far there appears to be no indication that Weev had plans to use the e-mails collected for anything more than proof that AT&T was leaking its customers’ data.
The more concerning charge to online activists watching Weev’s case is based on the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which forbids “unauthorized access” to a computer. Weev and a fellow hacker who originally uncovered AT&T’s mistake and collected the e-mails didn’t ask the company for permission to access the Web addresses that shared iPad users’ private information. But those Web addresses weren’t hidden behind password prompts or any kind of protection – they were publicly accessible. Getting AT&T’s system to spit out a customer’s e-mail address simply required visiting an AT&T web address with a particular – and easy to guess – code tagged onto the end.
Groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) worry that should that charge succeed it will become easy to criminalize many online activities, including work by well-intentioned activists looking for leaks of private information or other online security holes. Weev’s case hasn’t received much attention so far, but should he be found guilty this week it will likely become well known, fast. | <urn:uuid:e19b0064-a151-43dd-87b3-1f80c9ca83cb> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.technologyreview.com/view/507661/jail-looms-for-man-who-revealed-att-leaked-ipad-user-e-mails/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950077 | 497 | 1.632813 | 2 |
From Austin, Texas, USA:
Yesterday at school, my 17 year old son, who has had diabetes since age eight, had a very serious low reaction, and apparently, he pushed two girls to get to their cookies and then hit a boy who tried to stick up for the girls, but my son does not remember any of this. He remembers sitting outside eating the cookies and then going to class. When he got to class the teacher told him he was to go to office, and apparently argued with the teacher prior to leaving the classroom. When he arrived in the office, the vice principal told him what he had done. After a few minutes of discussion, my son convinced the vice principal to go with him to the nurse's office to prove that his blood sugar was low, and it registered 47 mg/dl [2.6 mmol/L] after eating two cookies.
My dilemma now is the school wants to send him to an off-site campus classroom for the rest of the school year for his actions. They do not want to believe me when I tell them that a person can lose complete control when their blood sugar levels drop so low. Is there any printed information that I can access to prove my point? I have been to the American Diabetes Association site and have printed out some material, but I don't think it is strong enough to convince school administrators.
You are correct, and the school is incorrect. You can print out our material on hypoglycemia and give it to school officials. However, even though your son was hypoglycemic, he should still apologize to the girls and the guys who he battled and explain to them something about what happens when sugars are too low. If you need help with the school, a school advocate may be available in your area. The American Diabetes Association has an advocacy and legal consult office as well.
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By Paul Hurley, Associate Director, Product Development and Scale-Up, Alkermes Pharma Ireland Ltd.
Every technical (tech) transfer is different, with companies taking different paths toward reaching their goal. Each one presents a unique set of challenges, which are most often technical, but at times may also be business related. However, all donors (outsourcing partners) and recipients (contract manufacturers) have the same overall goal — to achieve a quick, efficient transfer of process and knowledge that meets all necessary quality and regulatory requirements.
Alkermes Contract Pharma Services engages with a diverse range of donor partners on contract manufacturing. From internal transfers within Alkermes’ own development pipeline, to specialty companies with one key product in their pipeline requiring transfer, to “Big Pharma” where any individual tech transfer is one of a large portfolio of diverse transfers taking place at one time. We have found that donor companies have differing approaches to tech transfer, ranging from those who wish to be involved in every step of the process, to those who take a much more hands-off approach. Our approach is to fulfil each of their specific needs and satisfy their requirements as effectively as possible.
To help drive the tech transfer of partner products, Alkermes sought to develop a risk assessment framework that involved both the donor company and our transfer team in jointly assessing the tech transfer risks, which would address not just the usual technical challenges but also, where appropriate, the business challenges.
User Requirements for a Joint Risk Assessment Framework
The user requirements in the development of this framework were defined as follows:
The aim of the joint risk assessment process was to provide a framework with the following outputs:
Meeting Regulatory Requirements
As covered in the ICH Q8 Pharmaceutical Development Guidelines, the core source document for the risk assessment process is the Quality Target Product Profile. In many tech transfers, this profile is communicated to the receiving site via the donor site product quality specifications. This document identifies the Critical Quality Attributes (CQA) of the process to be transferred.
All risks assessed as part of the risk assessment are examined for their impact against the product CQAs. As the success of a tech transfer is measured not only by the quality of the product produced, but also by the efficiency of the process, each risk is also assessed against Key Manufacturability Attributes (KMAs) such as process repeatability and robustness.
Making the Framework Effective
The approach taken by Alkermes is a Quality Risk Management approach based on proven standard risk assessment tools. First the risks are identified via brainstorming. The risks are then analyzed and evaluated via a risk ranking process and the use of Failure Mode, Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA). As part of this process, the joint team (of donor and recipient members) starts to consider the controls that should be put in place or the additional data and/or studies required to mitigate the risks identified.
Before starting to risk assess, two critical pieces of the puzzle must be in place:
Making the Framework Easy to Use
To enhance the ease of use of the joint risk assessment framework, some sub-processes were added on to classic Quality Risk Management tools.
Initially brainstorming and risk-ranking processes are performed with only the recipient team present. All risks that are suggested are included in the listing process and progressed for ranking. The risk-ranking process assesses whether the risk identified can directly impact a CQA or KMA.
By completing this portion with the recipient team first, the donor team is not required to sit through the initial debates on ranking. The provisionally ranked listing is then presented to the donor, and the donor’s input is managed by exception, i.e., the joint team only debates any rankings with which the donor does not agree. Using this approach, we typically find that the joint risk-ranking process can be completed within one working day, even for complex multi-unit operations. Our experience also indicates that this meeting should, where possible, be conducted face-to-face and attended by the full team on both sides. At this early stage, full participation is invaluable to building an understanding of each other’s systems and approaches.
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Braising: 10 Great Braising Recipes
Braising is a form of moist-heat cooking that breaks down connective tissues in tough cuts of meat, leaving them tender and succulent. Braising is also a great cooking technique for vegetables like cabbage, carrots, eggplant and others. Here are 10 great recipes for braising meat and vegetables.
Also check out this article on how to braise meat.
Beef pot roast might be the defining braised meat dish: tender, moist and flavorful, beef pot roast is the quintessential "slow food." Both hearty and succulent, it satisfies and comforts. What more can you ask?
This beef stew is made with beef chuck, potatoes, carrots and peas. Perfect for the colder months, this hearty beef stew is braised in the oven for slow, even cooking.
This succulent braised pork shoulder is like pot roast made with pork. In addition to the usual carrots, celery and onion (or in this case, leeks), I like to add some thinly sliced fresh fennel bulb, which is a wonderful aromatic vegetable.
Brussels sprouts are little cabbages, which means they can be a little bit tough. Braising softens them so that they're nice and tender. This recipe for Braised Brussels Sprouts with Bacon is the best way of preparing Brussels sprouts I've ever tasted.
This classic French dish features the bright flavors of Provence: garlic, shallots, fennel, tomatoes, olives, and fresh sage. Serve it, along with a healthy serving of the pan sauce, over couscous.
In this dish, the eggplant are dredged in flour and browned before adding to the pot, giving the dish a lovely mix of textures and tastes.
Slowly cooking Belgian endives in a bit of butter and lemon juice yields these tender, luscious, almost sweet bundles of otherwise bitter leaves. It's alchemy at its finest.
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Propper's 2-pocket BDU coat is designed to tuck in. It has two Bellows Pockets with drain holes with fused pocket flaps and collar. Sleeve buttons are adjustable on the 2 1/2" cuffs. In addition, this BDU shirt features a chest pencil pocket, 2-piece double-reinforced elbows, felled side seams and sleeves, and two shoulder epaulets with buttonsdesigned to tuck in
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How to Measure Yourself for a Set of BDU's
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The Yooks and Zooks are battling over butter in the latest quality adaptation from Oceanhouse Media, the Jungle Book gets the 3D pop-up book treatment and Nikki and Jazmin teach your child about a visit to the doctor. Plus, build math skills in a Scrabble-like game, play dress-up, clean your room, and learn all about Canada (home of your humble jellybeans!) with apps from our family-friendly app network.
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'Dragging and dropping' can sometimes be too complicated for children under the age of seven. MixUp DressUp gives even the most uncoordinated of hands the opportunity to create an elegant and fun dress-up creation with just a swipe of their fingers. The app also provides an easy way for kids to record their own fashion-forward comments about the outfits they create. MixUp DressUp is a collaborative project between the app developer and his two daughters, Anna (age 8) and Ava (age 6).
Clean Your Room Game
by Doodlebug Designs
Who likes to clean their room? The answer most likely is... no one! So why not make a fun game out of it? Motivate your child to clean their room. For the youngest of youngsters, teach them about colors and time management. Two fun interactive games. Spin the wheel to choose a color, set the timer, and clean your room color by color, or just race the clock! Kids will love the fun sounds and animations. Get started and make cleaning fun! Kid tested and approved!
Animal Train for Toddlers
Animal Train for Toddlers is an educational game for iPad and iPhone designed specially for children aged 1-3. It helps kids get to know animals and the sounds they make while having fun along the way. (Watch Video)
Animal Alphabet Book
by Anna and Ava, LLC
The Animal Alphabet Book app helps children ages 2-5 learn the alphabet by sight and sound recognition. Each letter is associated with a colorful retro-inspired animal illustration. The interface is child-friendly, allowing children to simply 'turn' the pages with just a swipe of their finger. The app features 3 learning styles and 3 narrative voices.
The Butter Battle Book - Dr. Seuss
by Oceanhouse Media
The Butter Battle Book tells the tale of the Yooks and the Zooks who are in a long-running feud. The Yooks eat their bread with the butter side up, while the Zooks eat their bread with the butter side down. The two groups do not see eye to eye, so they develop more and more elaborate weaponry to outdo each other. From a Triple-Sling Jigger to a Jigger-Rock Snatchem, who will win the battle in the end?
The Jungle Book ~ 3D Interactive Pop-up Book
by StoryToys Entertainment Limited
Join Mowgli on a tropical adventure through the jungles of India as he escapes the clutches of the dangerous Shere Khan. Experience the colourful wilderness and enjoy the exotic sights and sounds of the jungle in this, the latest classic tale to get a sprinkling of StoryToys magic. Rich animation, 3D pop-up scenes and wonderful sound effects transport you to the world of Mowgli and friends where the reader can take part in the story. (Watch Video)
Grover Bill and the Geckos
by Stories And Children
An interactive children's book app which uses rhyme, rhythm, repetition and humour. Something extraordinary is about to happen to a little old man named Grover Bill. He lives in a sad, grey house on top of the hill. However, his house is about to change dramatically when some uninvited guests creep in. This is one of several book apps released by StoriesAndChildren.com loved by children around the world. Includes GUIDE NOTES for parents/educators & interactive activities.
The Little Patient
by Erik Simko
The Little Patient is one of the stories of Niki and Jazmin. This story is about the Jazmin's ear infection. You can learn how she visited the doctor with Mommy and then the pharmacy. You can see how much Niki worried about Jazmin being sick. But in the end everything turn our to be good and the girls could happily play together after few days. There is also a sticker album included in the app. You can play with Niki and Jazmin in the doctor's waiting room.
Saari TV allows parents and animation enthusiasts around the world to watch the episodes of Saari animation series from their iOs devices, and brings them info about Saari storybooks and upcoming Saari apps. Every two weeks you can watch a new episode completely free. You can also purchase a pack of episodes to watch them any time. When you purchase a pack you have the option to download specific episodes to your device's memory. This way you can enjoy them even without an internet connection. (Watch Video)
Take a mobile safari with this educational, fun and addicting puzzle game for both iPad and iPhone devices. Rescue endangered Aniballs from habitats around the world so they can be relocated safely to Aniball nature reserves. Save tigers, gorillas, polar bears. and more as you travel the globe from rainforests, to the savannah, to the arctic and the wetlands rescuing aniballs. With its simple mechanic it's easy to pick up and play in minutes. New in this update: the Wetlands brings 20 new levels and new game mechanics to the original Aniballs game.(Watch Video)
Ace Geographer: Canada
by HB Studios Multimedia Ltd.
Ace Geographer Canada - learn about the Canadian Provinces and Territories by completing puzzles that teach you the flags, capital cities, official birds, flowers and more! Educational & fun for all ages. (Watch Video)
Numbler is similar to Scrabble-style games, but using numbers instead of words. Players build math equations in a familiar crossword style board. It has all the mental fun of popular games like Scrabble and Words with Friends, but using numbers and equations instead of letters and words. Numbler is a universal app available of the Apple App Store and is suitable for educational and recreational users of all ages. (Watch Video)
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This a great second book on analysis. It starts from first principles but is drier that Bryant. So first read Bryant to get some idea of what is going on, and then work through Rudin to get all the details and to learn enough to prepare you for measure theory.
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||About Climate Change
Over the past 100 years global mean temperature has increased by 0.7 °C and in Europe by about 1.0 °C. Temperatures are projected to increase further by 1.4 to 5.8°C by 2100, with larger increases in Eastern and Southern Europe. Recent declarations of scientists say the year 2009 will be one of the top-five warmest on record. There is numerous evidence that most of this warming can be attributed to the emission of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and aerosols by human activities. Human activities such as the burning of fossil fuels and the destruction of forests to make farmland are increasing the levels of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere. These gases trap heat that is radiated from the earth surface and prevent it escaping to space, causing "Global warming". Read the Key Messages by the European Environmental Agency.
Many experts believe that global warming must be limited to no more than 2 °C above the industrial temperature if we are to prevent climate change from having irreversible impacts. But the scientific consensus is that the world's average temperature could rise by as much as 6 °C above today's levels in the course of this century, if no further action is taken. Scientists warm that even if we stop emitting carbon dioxide now, the climate would not go back to normal in 100 or 200 years. Read article
Antarctica, in particular, has undergone a significant warming over the past 50 years. Read article
Global warming has become a political issue since the middle of the nineteenth century when Dr. James Hansen, director of the NASA Goddard Institute of Space Studies and a leading climate modeler, testified before the U.S. Congress that the greenhouse effect was changing the climate. Ever since, studies have shown the impact of human activity on the environment and underlined the specific substances that jeopardize the ecosystem. The climatologist now urges the U.S president-elect Barack Obama to act quickly on climate change. See the interview
Human activities that contribute to climate change include in particular deforestation and the burning of fossil fuels (such as coal, oil and natural gas) and other fuels which leads to the emission of carbon dioxide (CO2), one of the most important greenhouse gases. Other important contributors to the recent climate change are methane, nitrous oxide and fluorocarbons. Most of them, and especially increased concentrations of CO2 related to the burning of fossil fuels in automobiles or power plants for example, have great consequences on the Earth’s ecosystem. It is also in our daily behaviour that we impact the environment, by using more water than needed, throwing out our wastes without recycling, using our cars without real need. Everyone has his share in the environmental pressure, you can calculate your carbon footprint.
(Source: IPCC AR4)
From the origins of climate change, one can identify many observed changes on the environment. The international forum responsible for assessing the scientific evidence of climate change is the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), set up in 1988. The IPCC is a joint initiative of the United Nations Environment Porgramme and the World Meteorological Organization. It identifies warming-increased floods and drought, rising sea levels, spread of deadly diseases such as malaria and dengue fever, increasing numbers of violent storms threaten to be more severe and imminent than previously believed. The impact of global warming is felt, in particular in extreme temperature areas like the Arctic, where the average annual temperature has increased approximately four times as much as average annual temperatures around the rest of the globe.
Download the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report. Find report in other languages here
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Impacts and Vulnerabilities
Anthropogenic emission of greenhouse gases perturb the global climate system, resulting in an increase of global mean temperature, changes in weather and precipitation patterns and increased climate variability resulting in higher frequency of extreme weather. Increased CO2 concentration results in ocean acidification, which has significant negative consequences for marine biology. Particularly vulnerable ecosystems include coral reef, Artic ecosystems, Alpine ecosystems and tropical forests. A global mean temperature increase exceeding 2-3°C would increase the risk of extinction for about 20-30% of species and have widespread adverse effects on biodiversity and ecosystems.
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Scientific Facts in the EU
On Wednesday 21 May, the European Parliament's Temporary Committee on Climate Change (CLIM) presented the Interim Report reported by MEP Karl-Heinz Florenz (PPE-ED, DE) on the scientific facts of climate change. The plenary adopted the draft interim report 'The scientific facts of climate change: findings and recommendations for decision-making' with a broad majority: 566 votes in favour, 61 against and 24 abstentions. See the report in other European languages here.
Doing so, the European Parliament acknowledges the sentiment of a majority of Europeans who see climate change as the most pressing political issue of the moment. This has been made evident in a European Barometer entitled ' Attitudes of European citizens toward the environment' available here. See the EU Environmental Indicators 2008. The European Environment Agency assesses environmental progress in 53 countries on biodiversity, water, waste and climate change. See Europe's Environment - the Fourth Report (in all languages)
Cost of Inaction
Combating climate change is likely to mean significant adjustments to our lifestyles and consumption patterns. These changes, however, also need to be compatible with sustainable development and jobs. In any case, the cost of this change is limited compared to the cost of the damage climate change will cause if we take no action.
The Stern Review on the economics of climate change, commissioned by the UK government and published in October 2006, said that managing global warming and thus reducing GHG emissions would cost +/- 1% of global GDP every year, while inaction could reduce global GDP by at least 5% a year, and in the long term by possibly as much as 20% or more. Around 0.5% of total global GDP would be required to invest in a low-carbon economy for the period 2013-2030, leading to a 0.19% decrease in global GDP growth per year up to 2030 (only a fraction of the expected annual GDP growth rate of 2.8%).
Moreover, this does not take into account the value of other benefits such as reduced air pollution, associated health benefits, security of energy supply at predictable prices and improved competitiveness through innovation.
A Mc Kinsey report released on January 26, 2008 says it is possible to maintain global warming below 2°C at an overall cost of less than 1% of global GDP if swift action is taken across different sectors. The consulting firm estimates that €530 billion will need to be invested across the world by 2020 to reduce emissions to 70% below "business as usual" and avoid dangerous levels of global warming. Overall, €810 billion would need to be invested by 2030 to to avoid such a scenario, the report adds. Read the article
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More than three years after its inception, the tea party continues to attract support from more than four in 10 Americans. But a new Washington Post-ABC News poll finds waning interest in the political movement and a drop in the number of women giving positive reviews of its message.
In the new poll, 41 percent of Americans support the tea party, and 45 percent oppose it, similar numbers to those in polls throughout the past year. As in previous polling, strong opponents outnumber strong supporters by 2 to 1. But half express less intense feeling either way.
(The fact that a large swath of the public is “somewhat” supportive of or opposed to the movement helps explain why polls with different question wordings find wide-ranging levels of support for the movement.)
The new poll finds fewer Americans interested in learning more about the tea party than said so in 2010, and increasing numbers say that the more they hear about the movement, the less they like it. Six in 10 Americans now say they’re not interested in learning more about the tea party, and half say they like it less the more they hear about it, both up from two years ago.
Women in particular have lost curiosity and become more negative about the movement. In 2010, just under half of men and women alike said they were interested in learning about the tea party. Men are similarly inclined now, but the percentage of women who say they’d like to hear more has dropped significantly.
There’s also been a sharp increase among both independent and Republican women in the percentages saying that the more they hear about the tea party the less they like it. In 2010, a plurality of independent women said they liked the movement increasingly as they learned more; today, they say they like it less by 2 to 1. Republican women — who gave some of the most positive reviews of the tea party message two years ago — are far more tempered in their support this year.
Overall, partisanship and ideology continue to define tea party supporters. Vast majorities of Republicans and conservatives express support for the tea party movement, while liberals and Democrats overwhelmingly oppose it.
As before, racial and ethnic minorities hold overwhelmingly negative views of the tea party. A 56 percent majority of all non-whites oppose the movement, including 77 percent of African Americans. Whites are more divided — 45 percent support the tea party, and 41 percent oppose it. White women are less interested in and positive about the movement’s message than two years ago, while there has been somewhat less change among white men.
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In Search of the Lost Battalion of America's Unemployed
The article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. A longer version of this essay appears in “Lines of Work,” the Spring 2011 issue of Lapham’s Quarterly, and is reposted with the kind permission of that magazine.
Man must be doing something, or fancy that he is doing something, for in him throbs the creative impulse; the mere basker in the sunshine is not a natural, but an abnormal man. —Henry George
The news media these days look to outperform one another in their showings of concern for the lost battalion of America’s unemployed. Consult any newspaper, wander the Internet or the television talk-show circuit, and at the top of the column or the hour the headline is jobs. Jobs, the bedrock of America’s world-beating prosperity, the cornerstones of its future comfort and well-being—gone to Mexico or China, deleted from payrolls in Michigan and Ohio, mothballed in the Arizona desert.
The nation’s unemployment rate, officially pegged at 9.4 percent but probably nearer to 17 percent, in any event no fewer than 25 million Americans, a number more than equal to the entire population of North Korea, out of work or on the run. The metrics, so say President Obama, the Wall Street Journal and A Prairie Home Companion, are not good. The stock markets may have weathered the storm of the recession, as have the country’s corporate profit margins, but unless jobs can be found, we wave goodbye to America the Beautiful.
Not being an economist and never having been at ease in the company of flow charts, I don’t question the expert testimony, but I notice that it doesn’t have much to do with human beings, much less with the understanding of a man’s work as the meaning of his life or the freedom of his mind. Purse-lipped and solemn, the commentators for the Financial Times and MSNBC mention the harm done to the country’s credit rating, deplore the trade and budget deficits, discuss the cutting back of pensions and public services. From the tone of the conversation, I can imagine myself at a lawn party somewhere in Fairfield County, Connecticut, listening to the lady in the flowered hat talk about the difficulty of finding decent help.
Speaking Tools Versus Busy Bees
The framing of the country’s unemployment trouble as an unfortunate metastasis of the servant problem should come as no surprise. The country is in the hands of an affluent oligarchy content with Voltaire’s observation that “the comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.” During Ronald Reagan’s terms as president, the income that individual American families received from rents, dividends and interest surpassed the income earned in wages. Over the last thirty years, the wealth of the emergent rentier class has been sustained by an increasingly unequal sharing of the gross domestic product; the percentage of GDP accounted for by manufacturing fell from 21 percent to 14 percent, and the percentage accounted for by finance rose from 14 percent to 21 percent.
The imbalances become greater over time; as between compensations awarded to the high-end baskers in the sunshine and those provided to the low-end squatters in the shade, the differential at last count in 2009 stood at 263 to 1. With wealth comes power in Washington, so it’s also no surprise that the government, whether graspingly Republican or scavengingly Democratic, adopts the attitudes and prejudices of the monied sultanate. So do most of the nation’s news media, their showings of concern expressed in the lawn-party voices of the caterers distributing the strawberries.
The lines of work are as numberless as the hooks in the sea, but they divide broadly into employments bent to one’s own purpose and those bound to a purpose other than one’s own. It is the former that reflects the founding idea of America. The Puritan settlers of the seventeenth-century New England wilderness arrived from an old world in which the civilizations both east and west of Suez fetched their food and shelter from the work of variously denominated slaves.
The ruling classes of antiquity, like those in medieval and early Renaissance Europe, regarded the necessity of having to earn a living as a mortification of the body and a degradation of the mind. Aristotle had classified slaves as “speaking tools,” available for every purpose except their own, and for the next 2,000 years, in Asia as in Europe, it was generally understood that the terms of a man’s employment were settled at birth. The newfound land of North America afforded an escape from the burdens of the past imposed by the divine right of inherited privilege as well as those enforced by Barbary pirates and British naval officers, the architects of the New Jerusalem bringing with them the Protestant belief that it was by a man’s work that he was known, not only to himself, but also to God and to his fellow men.
On no less an authority than that of John Calvin, they had been given to understand that there was “no employment so mean and sordid (provided we follow our own vocation) as not to appear truly respectable and be deemed highly important in the sight of God.” The thought embraced St. Benedict’s Catholic certainty that “Idleness is the enemy of the soul,” as well as the meditation of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, who likens the work for which men are by their nature born to that of “craftsmen who love their trade,” equivalent in turn to that of the “sparrows, ants, spiders, bees, all busy at their own tasks, each doing his own part toward a coherent world order.”
Further searches for a coherent world order on the western shores of the Atlantic encouraged the authors of the Constitution to conceive the document as a tool turned to the making of things, of laws as well as of ships and cider mills and songs. As with the plow and the surveyor’s plumb line, the instruments of government were meant to support the liberties of the people, not the ambitions of the state. In answer to questions being asked in Europe about what sort of persons were likely to be well received in the new republic, Benjamin Franklin in 1782 published a pamphlet, Information to Those Who Would Remove to America, in which he observed that in America people “do not inquire concerning a stranger, What is he? but, What can he do? If he has a useful art, he is welcome.… But a mere man of quality, who on that account wants to live upon the public by some office or salary will be despised and disregarded.”
The love of country followed from the love of its freedoms of thought and action, not from a pride in its armies, its monuments, its manners or its debts. Thomas Jefferson, writing his Notes on the State of Virginia in 1781, envisioned a republic of free-standing husbandmen who till the earth, “the chosen people of God…whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.” The newfound land and its newfound independence both were to be cultivated by employments bent to purposes of the individual, their joint venture resting on a democratic holding of one’s fellow citizens in thoughtful regard not because they were rich or beautiful or famous but because they were fellow citizens.
The Elephant on the Table of American Politics
So at least was the spirit and intent if not always the practice or the case. In return for the Constitution’s ratification by the Southern slave-holding states, the politicians in Philadelphia in 1789 had compromised the principle that all men are created free and equal. They assumed that slavery was soon to become extinct, certain to be swept away on the rising tide of freedom, and so they allowed the Southern planters to temporarily retain their prize collections of speaking tools.
The invention of the cotton gin in 1793 remanded the case for liberty to the higher court of money. Between 1800 and 1860 the demand for cotton on the part of Britain’s satanic textile mills furnished the newly minted United States with its richest flow of capital, serving the purpose that the Saudi Arabians now extract from oil. The opulence of the trade (60 percent of America’s export in 1860), in large part conducted, to their immense profit, by New York banks and New England ship owners, financed the country’s westward expansion and the early development of its commerce. Without cotton, there would have been no industry, and without slavery, no cotton.
The “darkies” said by Stephen Foster to be singing sweetly in the fields subsidized the music that Walt Whitman heard elsewhere in the country in the singing of “the carpenter,” “the deckhand,” “the mason,” “the shoemaker,” “the hatter,” “the woodcutter” and “the plowboy”—the voices of America’s leaves of grass, the fellow citizens in the 1830s and 1840s plying trades in Massachusetts and Ohio, felling trees and building roads in Illinois, piloting Missouri and Mississippi River steamboats, tinkering with farm equipment and firing pins, going west to Texas and California.
Victory in the war with Mexico added another 529,017 square miles to the inventory of spacious skies and purple mountain majesties acquired in the Louisiana Purchase; the population went forth and multiplied (9,638,453 in 1820; 31,443,321 in 1860), its restless collective energies geared to vocations apt to prove to be their own reward. Frontier people holding fast to what Mark Twain later claimed as “a maxim of mine that whenever a man preferred being fed by any other man to starving in independence, he ought to be shot.”
During the second half of the nineteenth century, the shooting would have needed to become extensive. The Civil War had rousted slavery from the plantations of the South, but the industrial revolution in the North required an even greater supply of hired hands bound to purposes other than their own. The employments on offer in the Kentucky coal mines and the Pennsylvania steel mills matched Karl Marx’s job description of alienated labor—a “diabolical activity,” entailing the loss of self. “What is animal becomes human and what is human becomes animal.” | <urn:uuid:03ac4739-2e8d-4133-be86-cdfa762f8c7f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thenation.com/article/159666/search-lost-battalion-americas-unemployed?quicktabs_most_block=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00022-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964742 | 2,193 | 1.546875 | 2 |
A new book titled Africa’s Odious Debts: How Foreign Loans and Capital Flight Bled a Continent begins its conclusion with the following. During the past four decades, sub-Saharan Africa has experienced a financial hemorrhage. We estimate that from the thirty-three countries for which we have data, capital flight between 1970 and 2008 amounted to $735 billion in 2008 currency. Including imputed interest earnings, the drain of resources amounted to $944 billion. These sums far surpass the same countries’ combined external debts, which stood at $177 billion in 2008. This means that sub-Saharan Africa is a net creditor to the rest of the world. If this is true, why are so many of Africa’s people so poor? The answer, of course, is that the subcontinent’s external assets are private and in the hands of a narrow and wealthy stratum of its population, whereas its external debts are public and therefore borne by the people as a whole through their governments. Our statistical estimates indicate that half or more of the money flowing into Africa as foreign loans exited in the same year as capital flight. Now joining us are the authors of the book: Professor Leonce Ndikumana, who teaches economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and is a research associate at the PERI institute, and Professor James K. Boyce, director of the Program on Development, Peace Building and Environment at PERI institute. Thank you both for joining us.
from the transcript:
PAUL JAY: So this is the beginning of what’s going to be a three-part series. In part one, we’re going to talk about the roots of this debt crisis in Africa. In the second part, we’re going to talk about the human costs of the crisis. And in the third part, we’re going to talk about solutions and just what the word “odious debt” refers to. So, Leonce, can you give us some background on what you mean by this odious debt, some of the historical roots of this debt? …
In Part 2, Léonce Ndikumana and James K. Boyce explain how the cost of servicing external odious debt leads to tragic underspending on health care and education (11:50):
from the transcript:
PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: Welcome to The Real News Network. I’m Paul Jay in Washington. This is the second part of our series of interviews based on the book Africa’s Odious Debts: How Foreign Loans and Capital Flight Bled a Continent. One of the things the book points out is that Africa spends more on servicing its external debt than it does on health care. …
And in Part 3, Léonce Ndikumana and James K. Boyce detail how international law supports Africa rejecting debts that did not benefit the people (18:04):
from the transcript:
PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: Welcome to The Real News Network. I’m Paul Jay in Washington. This is the third and final part of our series of interviews based on the book Africa’s Odious Debts: How Foreign Loans and Capital Flight Bled a Continent. In the first two parts of our interviews, we talked about the extent to which Africa’s debt was accumulated because IMF and World Bank and private banks made loans to dictators, kleptocracies, in the name of the Cold War and for the sake of the scramble for the riches of Africa, gave these loans knowing they would be, essentially, misused, not used for the benefit of the people of the countries that did the borrowing. So the question in this segment we’re asking: then why the heck should the people of these countries keep servicing these debts? And it turns out there is some international law that says maybe they shouldn’t be. …
From Amy Gahran at Contentious, from a journalist’s point of view:
It sucks when you work really hard to do the fairest, most systematic investigation of a topic that deeply affects many people’s lives — but the very people who are suffering most from the topic of your research refuse to believe what you have to say, or accuse you of being part of some conspiracy to hoodwink them. And meanwhile, your less skilled or less ethical colleagues are producing their own research and reports designed to foster fear, uncertainty, and doubt.
That generates considerable friction, controversy, and conflict. And worse, it delays the discovery and implementation of real solutions.
Why does this happen — and what can journalists and scientists do about it?…
Panic Virus isn’t a great book (I found most of it tiresomely redundant, like a heavily padded feature article), but the 2nd half of ch. 16 on cognitive biases is relevant here.
There (starting at about location 3100 in the Kindle edition), Mnookin explains psychological phenomena such as pattern recognition, the clustering illusion, cognitive dissonance, and availability cascades. They’re just part of how our brains work, and the practices of science and journalism often act as counterbalances to these innate tendencies. That’s why science and journalism are fundamentally uncomfortable and controversial professions.
But these quirks of how brains work are why just presenting facts and information often has the opposite social effect that journalists hope for.
I think if our goal as journalists is to help people understand how things really are, how they got that way, what might happen next, and what people might do to steer the future or protect their interests, we need to think hard about how to accommodate — not deny — these psychological tendencies.
Aside from an excellent post, about an issue Paul Rosenberg explored for years at Open Left, the post has a great update. The question of how you deal with true believers, who believe despite their belief hurting their interests, how do you bring them to an awareness of reality, that’s a key question for progressives as well as journalists.
There is a core 15-25% in this country that consistently vote against their interests because they’re triggered by some larger group, usually by triggering racist fears (e.g. “Don’t give Medicare to people not like me”) but economic fears also can trigger a reaction (and a vote) against ones interests. This group, while small, is big enough to swing close elections and off elections. Which is one reason, of many, that we need to discuss and debate this issue of how people perceive reality and how to help people see reality more clearly.
After students representing each of Iowa’s state Universities testified before the Senate Education Appropriation Committee today to oppose severe budget cuts for higher education, Senator Shawn Hamerlinck of Dixon, ranking Republican on the committee, responded to the students’ testimony by telling them to “go home.”
Hamerlinck stated, “I do not like it when students actually come here and lobby me for funds. That’s just my opinion. I want to wish you guys the best. I want you to go home and graduate. But this political theater, leave the circus to us OK? Go home and enjoy yourselves. I want to thank you for joining us and though I have to concede, your time speaking before us is kind of a tad intense. It’s probably a pretty new experience. You probably prepared for it for days and you sat there in front of us trying to make sure your remarks were just right, and that’s a good thing. But actually spending your time worrying about what we’re doing up here, I don’t want you to do that. Go back home. Thanks guys.”
The students were invited to the Capitol as part of “Open Budget Hearings.” The goal of the hearings was to hear feedback from Iowans impacted by the proposed budget cuts, including the effects of what some have described as the Republican’s “two-year starvation diet for Iowa schools.”
From Jeff Bryant:
As educators close out this school year and go into planning mode for the next, what many of them truly dread is the fiscal nightmare being handed to them by miserly state governments who’ve decided to balance their budgets on the backs of helpless school children.
According to a new survey conducted by the American Association of School Administrators, three-quarters of school districts will be eliminating jobs in 2011-12, sending nearly a quarter of a million of the nation’s public school educators and their support staff into the ranks of the unemployed.
And a somewhat related link from one of my sisters, More Black Men Now in Prison System than Enslaved in 1850.
Of course, all this is 100% preventable if the wealthiest paid 60-90% on their incomes above some amount ($100 million? Certainly $1 billion.) and corporations paid taxes. Sadly you don’t hear those facts in the media even though most Americans, judging by polls, get this truth.
So a long term research study finds that students who can’t read well by third-grade are four times less likely to graduate from high school than their proficient peers. If you’re a Republican in New Jersey pushing budget cuts what should you do? Cut funding for day care for poor kids, silly. It seems for Republicans the best way to spend education dollars is to decry our failing public education system while undercutting the programs that research shows has the greatest impact on long term student achievement as too costly and unfair.
Follow me after the jump, and we’ll look at how Republicans in New Jersey are throwing their children’s future under bus because “the constitution doesn’t require it” despite some new research that underscores just how costly these cuts will be in the long term.
If you want to get a full scope of the education cutbacks slamming the nation’s schools, just go to this report from the Center on Budget Policy and Priorities and keep your pinky on scroll. What you’ll see are page after page of cuts to education being enacted in over 40 states and the District of Columbia. In Minnesota 9,400 students are having their college tuition grants cut . . . in Arizona, preschool is being eliminated for 4,328 children, and parents who want more than a half-day of kindergarten are going to have to pay for it . . . Hawaii is shortening the school year by 17 days. The carnage goes on and on.
Public schools everywhere are being hit by a perfect storm of drop-offs in state revenues and shortages of municipal funds stemming from declining home values and widespread joblessness. Although the federal government helped partially stave off this calamity by funding 266,000 education jobs in the State Fiscal Stabilization Fund from in the Recovery Act of 2009, most of those funds are gone and any remaining can’t be “banked” for programs and teaching positions in the 2011-12 school year.
Faced with a national disaster of such proportion, the customary response from the populace is to turn to our national leadership in Washington, DC. But if recent events are accurate indicators, the thought leadership on education inside the Beltway is preoccupied with nonsense.
Gee, you’d almost think Democrats and Republicans want public education to fail. Then again, perhaps it is truly incompetence.
I’ve linked Our Future and Jeff’s author page on the right column for your convenience.
Wisconsin’s Democracy Explosion Partially Due to Sharply Split Views of School Success–Local vs. National [New]
Cross-posted from Dirty Hippies
One reason that Wisconsin erupted the way that it did is a long-standing disconnect between the power of the national discourse about failing schools–which people tend to buy into in the abstract–and the reality of the fact that most people feel that the schools their children go to are doing a pretty good job. So long as the education discourse remains national, abstract, and removed from most people’s experience, it has proven relatively easy to keep moving that discourse into a gloomier and gloomie direction, a process that has grown more intense than ever the past half decade or so. But when the battleground suddenly shifted to putting local teachers under the gun, Republicans gravely miscalculated where the public’s sentiments would lie. Several decades of data tell us that we shouldn’t have been surprised.
In a diary at DKos Sunday, Teachers: the new enemy of the states?, Steve Singiser wrote:
The boldness with which the foes of teachers unions are surging forward seems to hint at the fact that they feel at, in this moment, they have the upper hand with the electorate. And they may well be right.
Consider an odd disconnect in a Gallup survey on education conducted late last summer:
Percent declaring they are satisfied with the quality of K-12 education in the United States (2004 results in parentheses)
Satisfied: 43 (53)
Dissatisfied: 54 (45)
Percent declaring they are satisfied with the quality of their own child’s education (2004 results in parentheses)
Satisfied: 80 (79)
Dissatisfied: 19 (19)
What these results would seem to imply is that there has been some negative movement on the perceptions of K-12 education (admittedly, 2004 was a high-water mark, but it’s worth noting that 2010 marked the lowest support on this question since 2001).
But the data also implies that parental observations of their own child’s education have not diminished at all. Indeed, the 80% satisfaction level recorded in the 2010 survey was the strongest level of satisfaction since 1999.
In fact, the disconnect between views of education at the national level and those parents have of their own children’s schools have always been substantial, ever since Gallup began asking the questions in their joint polling series in association with Phi Delta Kappa. (PDK’s poll results announcement here, PDF here) There has been a noticeable spike in the negative nationwide perceptions over the past half decade, but it’s building on a long-standing historical foundation that is grounded more in propaganda than in reality.
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The Obama administration has continued the fantasy of education as a solution to economic problems. Yet more evidence of this in a recent report refuting the idea that we need a whole slew of people trained in science and math and etc. Most of the actual jobs that are available are in the lowest paying and lowest skilled areas of the economy.
About 3.5 million of the jobs lost in the downturn were in high-wage industries, but fewer than 200,000 of the jobs created in the last year were in those same industries. Over half of the jobs created since the economy bottomed out were in the lowest-paying industries. . . .
“[T]he job opportunities currently available to workers have deteriorated compared to what was available before the recession.” The NELP data flatly contradict the idea that the economy is currently facing a structural “mismatch” where workers don’t have the skills that employers are demanding. The recession-related job losses were concentrated in high-wage industries and the new jobs have been in low-wage industries, leaving millions of workers from middle- and high-wage industries high and dry.
See also an earlier post of mine at Education Policy Blog about why education does not create jobs. | <urn:uuid:52a50328-ba0c-47e3-9565-fa63d2c5d3be> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.merge-left.org/tags/education/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00048-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95773 | 3,251 | 2.171875 | 2 |
S-T-R-E-T-C-H it Out!
For most of my young life, I felt I was too tall – too tall for boys, too tall for heels, too tall to ever be called cute. I was always in the back row of class photos and could never be inconspicuous. My posture suffered as I tried in vain to shrink down and blend in, which of course only made me more conspicuous. A pronounced slump is clearly not attractive!
When my self-image finally "grew" into my height, I straightened up to claim my full 5'10 ½ inches. Now at the age when loss of height can be an issue, I am conscious of maintaining my height and look forward to being measured at my annual physical. While there is nothing we can do to stop the aging process, there are a number of things we can do to stay tall, including working on posture and alignment, ensuring the health of our skeleton, and of course, stretching out our muscles.
Stretching is one third of a well-rounded workout (the other two being aerobic exercise and strength training). After you've been contracting the muscles repeatedly in your aerobic workout – walking, running, cycling, swimming, etc. – it's important to lengthen them out by stretching. The same principle applies to strength training: after the muscles have been contracting against resistance, they need to be stretched out to their full length. Short, bunchy muscles will never give you a long, lean line.
Your workout is not over until after you've finished stretching! I always allow five or ten minutes after my run to do a full-body stretch. Although running primarily involves the legs, the upper body and core are also integral to the movement. I perform the stretches as part of my cool-down in the park or outside my building, knowing that if I come back inside I may get distracted and skip them.
It's advisable to stretch every day, even on days you don't exercise. Take a lesson from your pet dog or cat and notice that they stretch periodically throughout the day. You can move your joints to help wake up in the morning and get your circulation going. Or take a few minutes in the evening in order to counteract the demands of your daily activities and discharge tension from the muscles.
And definitely make it a point to conclude every workout with appropriate stretches for the muscles you used. Lengthening the muscles will help keep you tall and straight. Being flexible makes you agile and keeps your movements fluid and youthful. | <urn:uuid:9e4a9d9b-9539-417d-9e8e-a352ed82092a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://joanpaganofitness.com/blog/?p=57 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00024-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966948 | 519 | 2.078125 | 2 |
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Over the centuries in word and deed, Franciscan scholars and practitioners have demonstrated a clear and faithful understanding of what it means to live as followers of Christ in a defined ecclesia. Francis of Assisi was eminently clear about his attitude toward the Church, understood both as community and institution.
A Critique and Revision of the Free Will Defense in Theodicy
God, Evil, and Human Learning explores the age-old question: How is it possible to believe in the God of the Christian faith when the world contains so many grievous evils? Author Fred Berthold Jr. examines the most influential argument used by Christian theologians to answer that question, the “free will defense,” which holds that God is not responsible for the evil in the world, but that evil arises from the human misuse of free will. He points out the weaknesses of this defense and provides a more adequate concept of free will. Berthold argues that free will is a complex of abilities which are acquired—if acquired—through human learning in the context of experiences of actual goods and evils and their consequences. He revises the “free will defense” and offers a new view of the relationship between God and his creatures.
Essays Honoring Ingrid J. Peterson, O.S.F.
Ingrid Peterson, O.S.F., is distinguished in the field of franciscan studies by her work on Clare of Assisi and the women of the early franciscan movement. This book, a collection of essays on those topics by several of the best scholars in the field, is offered in tribute to Peterson and her academic and scholarly contributions to the study of Clare and the women of the early movement. Divided into four parts, part one introduces Peterson, part two takes us into the heart of studies of franciscan women, part three focuses on how Peterson came to the study of medieval history and the volume concludes with Peterson’s own summation of what she leaves for us to do in this field. | <urn:uuid:27f04ddb-163f-48ff-8737-48a24257e71e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://muse.jhu.edu/browse/religion/christianity/christian_theology?items_per_page=10&browse_view_type=default&m=71 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00047-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937929 | 1,106 | 1.851563 | 2 |
There are two types of research:
- External research (research undertaken by universities and other external agencies which receives funding and/or support from the profession)
- Member-led research (volunteer research working parties established by members and overseen by the practice executive committees)
Information on External research (including the profession’s strategy for involvement, the process for calls for research, current research initiatives and funding) can be found on the Research pages.
Information on Member-led research (including how to establish a new working party and processes and options for carrying research forward) is available in the profession’s Guidance for new research working parties. This research is primarily overseen by the Life Research Committee on behalf of the practice executive committee.
Cross practice research is encouraged and the profession has a cross practice research committee which regularly reviews the research activities in all practice areas to link any which have a common discussion area.
Research in other key associations, Society of Actuaries (SOA), Casulaty Actuarial Society (CAS), Actuarial Society of South Africa (ASSA), Institute of Actuaries of Australia also provide opportunities to collaborate. | <urn:uuid:3e680e4b-ea45-4771-a925-8169aea40c8b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.actuaries.org.uk/practice-areas/pages/life-research | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00074-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.922385 | 238 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Principal David DeRosa Shares How Edmodo Has Made His School a Community
Posted by: Lucia Giacomantonio
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David DeRosa is the Principal of JL Crowe Secondary, a grade 8-12 school in Trail, BC, Canada.
A Framework for School Community
As Principal of a grade 8-12 school, I have the the unique opportunity to see an exceptionally broad perspective of how Edmodo has become our ‘go to’ tool.
Despite the ubiquitous nature of hand held digital devices (HHDDs) and the multitude of online social and professional communities, educators and educational leaders typically struggle to find relevant learning connections and uses for these powerful tools in schools.
Edmodo is a safe social network for students, and we use it as the bigger-picture framework for our school community to coordinate, integrate and effectively implement digital literacy innovations. Some of our innovations include:
- Support for school-level communication between educators (PVP, teaching, counseling and education assistants)
- Communication with parents
- Professional development (PLNs)
- Distribution of blended learning activities online
- Promotion and scheduling of co-teaching initiatives
Edmodo is also the platform we encourage students, who bring their own digital devices to class, to use.
I discovered Edmodo in 2011, and I find more effective uses for it weekly. Our next step is to use Edmodo to coordinate our school-wide course registration process and to provide both guidance and support for our new students transitioning into high school. In the future, we want to find ways to deliver information to students and parents via their mobile devices (HHDDs).
Our Favorite Edmodo Features
- Organizing lessons on Edmodo let’s parents, students and peer tutors access the lesson before, during or after it happens at their own pace depending on the needs of the learner.
- Embedding video and slides with apps like Scoop.it and Timeline TV.
- Assigning writing assignments with Edmodo makes it impossible for students to lose homework
Advice for Teachers Getting Started With Edmodo
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I believe Afghanistan will go down in history as a successful U.S. military campaign and Iraq will likely go down as a modern-day Vietnam. People think I'm crazy when I say this. After all, as one friend pointed out, "What's the difference between them? Aren't they both Islamic countries?"
To start with, yes, they are both Islamic countries. However, in Afghanistan -- a tribal society to be sure -- they more or less have one national identity. Iraq remains divided among three fault lines -- Sunni Arab, Shiite Arab, and Kurdi (who don't see themselves as Arabs at all). It is among these fault lines that we see the Iraqi civil war erupting today in the form of gangs of executioners roaming the streets looking for members of the other religious sects to kill en masse. And there has yet to be a national leader from Iraq with the strength, vision, and perhaps most importantly, charisma, to arise and unify his country.
It didn't have to be this way -- and as I recall witnessing and participating in the unfolding events, the U.S. missed several opportunities to get Iraq right. One was during questioning of Gen. Eric Shinseki in the pre-2003 invasion planning process. When asked [by Congress] about how many troops would be needed to invade Iraq, his best military-educated answer was "several hundred thousand," to which Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz replied "wildly off the mark." But history has since shown that Gen. Shinseki was not way off the mark; he was right on, much to the chagrin of those who wanted to fight this war on the cheap. With more troops on the ground, there would have been more troops for security of munitions depots during the invasion -- which has come home to roost in the form of looted depots that have led to large numbers of IEDs [Improvised Explosive Devices] today -- and to prevent the power vacuum which led to hardliners from all sides gaining power in just about all communities within Iraq.
Another misstep was L. Paul Bremer's decision as leader of the Coalition Provisional Authority to disband the Iraqi Army and Police forces and rebuild them from scratch. This led to putting a bunch of Iraqis trained (albeit poorly) in the use of weapons and explosives out of work. I'm not sure what Mr. Bremer hoped to accomplish by this, because in my experience working with the Iraqi Army [IA] and Police [IP] at their lowest level, I never met a single person with undying loyalty to Saddam Hussein. Besides, because they were the most qualified, they were the ones who got hired back in recruiting drives months later to take their old billets with the IA and IP. The problem with all this was not just the inconvenience, but the huge quantities of dollars spent in firing and then rehiring these people. And what many of these people did in the meantime was build and plant IEDs. Several of them found that they made more money in the IED business than they did in the IA/IP business, and never looked back.
& lt;span class= & quot;dropcap & quot; & A & lt;/span & s a soldier, what gives me the most cause for concern in Iraq was the fact that I never knew who my enemy was. Even the people sniping at us from a distance, launching mortars and rockets, or putting bombs on the side of the road didn't usually have an axe to grind with us, nor were they fighting as Jihadists for some perceived noble cause. In fact, most of the people doing these things were just ordinary citizens looking for a few extra dinar to pad their paychecks. As I found out the hard way after being struck by an IED shortly after my arrival in-country, Islamic hardliners from countries like Iran and Jordan would infiltrate Iraq and have the Imams announce after the Friday sermon that they were willing to pay $100-$300 for every IED accompanied by a photo or video of the explosion going off on a U.S. or Iraqi Security Forces convoy. Since the average Iraqi family took home about $150 a month, it didn't take very much to convince the average person to plant an IED or two each month for a little extra pocket money.
Adding to this concern is the relative frustration incurred by trying to stop the bombers. It wasn't like you had a window of opportunity to catch a guy in the middle of the night with a full bomb, initiation device, and shovel emplacing the thing on the side of the road. We would have caught them with our unmanned aerial vehicles had it been that easy. The civilian tactic was to get a group of three or four together to emplace the bomb, and then split the profits. The typical operation might look like this:
The first guy goes out with a shovel while tending his herd of sheep along the side of the road. He digs the hole for the IED at the appointed place. If he is ever stopped by a U.S. patrol, all we have on him is a shovel, which he carries ostensibly for the purpose of burying his waste (which is what the hole on the side of the road was for, he says, if he is ever asked about it). Since we can only detain a person for 24 to 72 hours without the civilian equivalent of probable cause -- and don't even think about prosecuting him, it just won't happen -- there is no point in detaining him.
The second guy goes out that night with the same flock of sheep, only he is carrying an old artillery shell (or perhaps three) in the back of a donkey cart. If he is stopped by a patrol, he immediately gets excited to tell the Americans about his wonderful find, and could they please take these shells from him? He found them by the side of the road, and wants to make his community safer by giving them to the Americans. Again, no probable cause for detention, as only the U.S. patrol on the ground knows the score. No one, U.S. or Iraqi, will prosecute this guy because there is an illusion that he is some kind of hero, just trying to clean up his community. And since that is what we want, this guy will go away free. If he makes it to the hole (which he will), he just tosses the shells into the hole and continues about his business.
The third guy will go out with initiators/blasting caps the way the second guy took out the shells. He keeps the same plausible deniability as the second guy, except for the hook-up time when he is on top of the IED. If you are going to catch someone, this is going to be your best opportunity, because he has to spend the most time on target (plus you get the IED for evidence). In practice, he won't get caught, because we just don't have enough troop density to watch the sheer amount of roadway that exists in Iraq.
The last guy will come by that night and hide in the bushes with the initiator (a cell phone, garage door opener, or anything else that transmits an electrical impulse) and a video camera. When the patrol passes that he wants to hit, he detonates the shells and has his video. Ironically enough, the bombers typically don't care if they hurt anyone in the convoy; they just want the video to look good for the Imam when they go to collect their money.
My other big cause for concern at my level was never, and I repeat never, receiving a coherent mission or intent statement for Operation Iraqi Freedom. According to all the doctrine that I had been taught beginning in ROTC and continuing throughout my military career, a soldier needs two things to be able to do his job effectively. The first is a mission statement. This should be a short statement consisting of who, what, when, where, and perhaps most importantly, why we are doing what we are doing. The second thing is the commander's intent. Essentially, this boils down to what the commander would like to see happen, and tells us his intended result. This helps clear the fog of war; lower-level commanders and soldiers can make decisions that will help further the commander's intent, even if the mission becomes unworkable.
Every mission and intent statement I ever saw on this deployment was a huge Power Point slide dissertation written by someone with too much time on his hands. Not one meant anything to me as a commander, and I always tried to create a clear, concise mission statement for my troops during the various operations I sent them on. I don't fault my commanders, nor the Division Commanders, or even the Theater Commanders. I believe that this problem went all the way to the top, with perhaps our Commander in Chief making it the clearest: "Stay the Course." In hindsight, perhaps that's what those Power Point slides were supposed to mean after all -- nothing.
& lt;span class= & quot;dropcap & quot; & D & lt;/span & uring my stay in Iraq, I began to hate the words "Stay the Course." After months (or perhaps a year) of searching for what we were really doing in Iraq, I finally heard what I was looking for from Brigadier Gen. Alan Gayhart, the 116th Brigade Combat Team Commander. It was late July 2005, as I recall, and he was addressing his Brigade Officer Corps as part of an officer development program: "So long as the Iraqi Civil War doesn't start here, on our watch, we will have been successful in our job." My months of searching were at an end. It was at that point that I began to question why we were even running missions at the pace we were running them to begin with. After all, the patrols had become nothing more than moving targets. They rarely captured any insurgents, and when they did, they were released back on the streets again within days, with $5 cash in their pockets for every day they spent detained -- provided by the U.S. for the inconvenience of being detained.
If the real reason we were there was to prevent civil war in Northern Iraq, as well as beef up the Iraqi Security Forces, we could have done that with patrols that provided security for our bases instead of patrolling the entire country. No one side in a potential civil war was going to be the one to start a rumble with a huge U.S. armored force stationed on the FOB [forward operating base].
Our patrols and cordons and searches rarely yielded anything substantial in the fight against the so-called insurgency, and served to create a great expense for the U.S. in the form of lost lives and equipment. Perhaps the biggest impact of all the additional patrols was to alienate the populace and provide a target for those who would plant IEDs for profit. And not too many routine patrols ever captured a bad guy. To that end, I'm not sure our efforts bore fruit.
& lt;span class= & quot;dropcap & quot; & B & lt;/span & ased on my experience in Iraq, the present strategy of withdrawing our troops as the Iraqi Army and Police are able to stand up is not going to be effective. This is because the Iraqi Ministry of Defense (MoD) and Ministry of Interior (MoI) are horribly corrupt and not adept at managing their resources. It is quite often that an employee or minister will embezzle funds (provided by the U.S.) that would otherwise be used for paying employees or buying equipment for the security forces. Another favorite trick is to divert money to the minister's own city, instead of spending it in other areas that might require the funds more, due to an insurgent buildup in that area. But the corruption doesn't stop there; it goes down to the provincial and local levels in much the same manner. Perhaps the worst is at the local level, where the local Sheik will attempt to (and be generally successful at) installing commanders into his local IA barracks or IP station who suit his political affiliation at that time. This leaves the Iraqi troops on the ground with no other resource than their U.S. advisors to keep them functional and apolitical.
This was a constant frustration with me, because I sent up countless requisitions for property, only to be told that the items "were in route," or "everyone is in the same boat you are." I had stations that were authorized by the CPA to have 16 police cars that only had three or four. When the Iraqi Police went on patrol, they looked like Keystone Cops, shoved sometimes five, six or seven into a vehicle. I don't even have to describe to you what happens when one of these packed vehicles gets hit with an IED. I was also required to stand up for IA commanders and IP chiefs who wouldn't join a political party when that political party attempted to replace him with a loyal party member by using their contacts at the MoD or MoI.
Operationally, the brave Iraqis I had the privilege of working with were very strong when we were with them as advisors. They were strong when we weren't with them as well, but they didn't perform as many missions when we weren't there. I think it just got easier for them to stay in their barracks or stations when we weren't there, rather than take a chance at getting hit by IEDs or gunfire. The monthly salary we paid them was competitive, but not always worth the risk.
The corruption at the highest levels, as well as a lack of determination at the lowest levels, combines, in my opinion, to create a not very positive outlook for the security situation in Iraq. I believe that as much as the State Department is trying to do to salvage the Iraqi government, perhaps they should have disbanded the MoD and MoI instead of firing the entire Iraqi Security Forces [ISF]. Perhaps they still should. I was in Iraq for a year, and I didn't see anything improve as far as resourcing the ISF. I did see on the news that the deputy Interior minister had fled to Jordan after misappropriating several million dollars of ministry funds. My gut tells me that when we finally decide to leave Iraq, that the ISF will deteriorate rapidly and will cease to be a functional entity.
& lt;span class= & quot;dropcap & quot; & M & lt;/span & y friends also ask me about what I think about bringing democracy to the Middle East. My reply before I left in the summer of 2004 was that this mission was going to bring about a permanent change in the Middle East, and that history would look back on it in a light similar to the fall of the Berlin Wall in '89. Today, I'm not so optimistic. I had occasion over the course of my deployment to witness the first round of free elections and the ratification of the Iraqi Constitution. Both of these should have been historic events.
In America, the fundamental concept of democracy is one vote for every citizen. In Iraq (and potentially in the greater Middle East), the concept is that one Imam, Sheik or Mukthar (village headsman) controls the vote of every person in his sphere of influence. This leads to some of the nastiest politics of all, because it doesn't just require greasing a few skids to get something done -- there has to be a slice of pie for every little leader who can influence a body of people to vote in a certain direction. And since the average Iraqi can't read, getting your message down to the people without going through this leadership is almost impossible (although it could be done via TV, since there was a satellite dish on top of every house and mud hut in our sector by the time I left). In short, getting anything done is an incredibly expensive proposition.
The best illustration of this is the village of Rashad during the Iraqi Constitution ratification. Of the 9,500 votes cast, 9,470 were against the new constitution. Turns out that just days before the vote, the local Sheik and Imam proclaimed that the Constitution didn't provide enough protection for the Sunni Arabs, and that it should be voted against. The numbers say it all regarding what kind of sway these local honchos have over the public. Of the 30 who voted for the Constitution in that community, my hunch is that a number of those were from people who didn't know how to read or otherwise misinterpreted the directions because they were in the back of the mosque on that Friday and couldn't understand the Imam.
& lt;span class= & quot;dropcap & quot; & M & lt;/span & y friends have been asking lately how I am, and what I'm going to do now. I can tell you that this war came at a large personal cost for many of us. Out of my company, we had one KIA, numerous WIA (with four serious enough to have to be evac'ed to the rear) -- and probably half of the married soldiers that went with us filed for divorce soon after their return. While I thank God for what safety we enjoyed while we were in the Gulf, my marriage was among those destroyed during my absence. I originally left the active component Army in 2002 to go to law school, and got called back up again in 2004 for this deployment. I'm presently two-thirds of the way through law school, and will graduate in May 2007. This wasn't the easiest track through law school, but it appears that I've persevered through the worst of it. I used to have a strong moral compass that pointed my way through life and highlighted the way I needed to go. These days, the morals are still there, but the direction doesn't seem to be as strong. In short, I don't know where I will be in two years, nor do I have a long-range plan. I have come to better understand the words "one day at a time." | <urn:uuid:9475eb72-eefc-406e-b689-a2c1ff0659ba> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.inlander.com/spokane/article-10359-soldiers-story.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00029-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985316 | 3,711 | 1.71875 | 2 |
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Interpretation of Epidemic Curves During an Active Outbreak
The epidemic curve (epi curve) shows progression of an outbreak over time. The horizontal axis represents the date when a person became ill, also called the date of onset . The vertical axis is the number of persons who became ill on each date. These are updated as new data come in, and thus are subject to change. The epi curve is complex and incomplete. Several issues are important in understanding it.
- There is an inherent delay between the date that an illness starts, and the date that the case is reported to public health authorities. It typically takes 2-3 weeks for Salmonella infections. That means that someone who got sick last week is very unlikely to have been reported yet, and someone who got sick three weeks ago may just be reported now. Please see the Salmonella Outbreak Investigations:Timeline for Reporting Cases.
- Some background cases of illness are likely to occur that would have occurred even without an outbreak. This makes it difficult to say exactly which case is the first in an outbreak. Epidemiologists typically focus on the first recognized cluster or group of cases rather than the very first case. Due to the inherent reporting delay, the cluster is sometimes not detected until several weeks after the persons became ill.
- For some cases, the date when they became ill is not known because it takes time before someone from the health department can do an interview to ask for this information. Sometimes the interview never occurs. If the date that the person brought the specimen to be tested to the laboratory is known, we may estimate the date of illness onset as three days before that.
- It can be difficult to determine when cases start to decline because of the reporting delay. This can become clearer as time passes.
- It can be difficult to say when the outbreak is over, because of the reporting delay. The delay means that the curve for the most recent three weeks always looks like the outbreak could be ending even during an active outbreak. The full shape of the curve is only clear after the outbreak is over. | <urn:uuid:5242ba78-3c33-4aa2-b593-8df11e60dd45> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.cdc.gov/salmonella/typhimurium/archive/epi/012909.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00070-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975743 | 456 | 3.546875 | 4 |
Prince William, Kate Middleton are married, Arab leaders celebrate
Prince William—second in line to the British throne after his father Prince Charles—and his college sweetheart Kate Middleton were married on Friday at a service replete with pomp and pageantry in London’s Westminster Abbey.
Prince William, 28, and Ms. Middleton, 29, exchanged vows before nearly 1,900 guests in the abbey and a television and Internet audience of billions around the world.
They were formally declared married by the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, the spiritual leader of the Church of England. Numerous members of Arab royalty, and many Arab leaders attended the formal ceremony.
Hundreds of thousands of people lined the streets and an estimated 2 billion people watched the event broadcast live on television around the world.
Ms. Middleton arrived at the abbey at 1000 GMT to cheers from the flag-waving crowd outside, many of whom had camped overnight to get a good view. Local officials estimated the crowd would swell to 600,000 people.
The royal bride picked British label Alexander McQueen for her wedding dress, revealing the design to the world as she arrived at Westminster Abbey.
Sarah Burton, assistant to Mr. McQueen for over a decade before he committed suicide in 2010, designed the floor-length white dress with lace detailing. Ms. Burton, a Briton, was appointed creative director of McQueen last year. Ms. Middleton wore a diamond tiara and full veil.
“We do these things incredibly well,” Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain—who, as a young boy, slept on the streets of London the night before the wedding of Prince William’s parents Prince Charles and Diana Spencer in 1981—said in a Sky News television interview.
“People around the world will be watching and seeing some of the best of Britain,” he said.
Ms. Middleton is the first woman from outside royalty or the aristocracy to marry so close to the throne for 350 years. When William becomes Britain’s monarch, she will be queen. Queen Elizabeth II, William's grandmother, announced earlier Friday that the couple would be known as the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. Ms. Middleton will also become Princess William of Wales.
Friday’s celebrations are the UK’s biggest royal event since the funeral in 1997 of Prince William's mother, Princess Diana, who died in a car crash in Paris after her marriage with Prince Charles ended in divorce.
By Abeer Tayel
- True romance: Wills and Kate join a tradition of love that includes Jordan's Rania and Abdullah
- Royal invite list includes Arab royals but no Obama
- British stereotypes uncovered: Will-Kate 'toasted married life with a cup of tea'; Tears at the wedding
- Middle Eastern paralympic athlete 'refuses' to shake hands with the Duchess
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If you have ever had an aching back, stiff neck, tennis elbow, 'gammy' knee or some such affliction of the body, then the chances are that you have sought the help of, or have been advised by someone to go to, an osteopath for relief. If, however, you have, or have had, a more serious health problem such as asthma, migraine headaches, angina pains, digestive disturbances (to name but a few examples), then it has probably not occurred to you that the condition might have some of its origins in a dysfunction of some mechanical component of the body, the musculo-skeletal system. You would, therefore, probably not have taken such a problem to an osteopath practitioner. Surprising as it may seem, many such 'illnesses' are often the end result of biomechanical changes in the structure of the body which are amenable to osteopathic treatment. This theme will be elaborated on in later chapters, and some of the fascinating research that has been done in a wide range of health problems will be detailed. At this stage, the idea of osteopathy offering help to conditions other than the more obvious aches and pains may seem a strange one. In order to understand the concept of osteopathy, and what its real potentials are, it is necessary to examine its roots and subsequent development.
Osteopathy is a system of health care which recognizes that the self-healing, self-regulating ability of the body is dependent upon a number of factors, including favourable environmental conditions (internal and external), adequate nutrition and normal structural integrity. It utilizes generally accepted methods of diagnosis, as well as certain specialised ones developed to facilitate accurate structural assessment. It places special emphasis upon the importance of body mechanics, and uses manipulative techniques to detect and correct, faulty structure and function.
In many people's minds, especially in the U.K., osteopathy is equated mainly with the treatment of spinal and other joint pains and problems. This limited care concept is largely an historical accident. As indicated above, the osteopathic profession sees itself as being relevant to a wide range of health problems, and not simply limited to the treatment of musculo-skeletal derangements.
Since the turn of the century, when the first American-trained osteopaths established themselves in practice in the U.K., they have filled a gap that existed (and to a large extent still exists) in medical practice. Doctors tended to regard musculo-skeletal problems as relatively unimportant, and manipulation as, at best, an unknown quantity and, at worst, valueless.
Side view of a normal spine showing the natural curves.|
In the U.S.A., the gradual evolution of osteopathy has been towards its original goal of providing a complete health-care system, dealing with all of man's ailments, and utilizing all those accepted therapeutic methods which coincide with its belief in the necessity for treating the patient as a whole, rather than simply treating symptoms. This concept of treating the 'whole' man deserves closer scrutiny. Disease may be stated to be the result of a disparity between the capacities, resources and responses of the individual, and the demands and circumstances made by his life. Disease can be seen to be a phase in the natural history of the individual, whose unique nature responds to his own particular environment. The individual's inheritance, capacities, resources and demands, and, therefore, his adaptations and responses, are unique to him. Illness, the level of health, predispositions, resistance, responses, adaptations etc. to all the elements of his environment, are a culmination of an individual's life, up to that point. The apparent similarities between diseases in different individuals, and the ability to classify diseases, are testimony to the fact that the body can respond in only a limited number of ways to an infinite variety of events and factors. The patient's illness should, therefore, not be seen to be a disease, or aberration, of an organ or process alone, but as part of an illness in his total being. The patient with angina is not ill because of his angina, but has angina because he is ill. It is consideration of the whole picture of the patient's uniqueness, and his relationship with all his complex environmental factors, that provide the background for the total health care that osteopathy seeks to offer. This, of course, includes consideration of the largest body system, the musculo-skeletal system. The methods of care also include its own distinctive approach to the normalizing of musculo-skeletal dysfunction, osteopathic manipulative therapy (O.M.T.). | <urn:uuid:155bcbab-0b69-4689-9d4a-e6ae0c68cb83> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.healthy.net/Health/Article/What_is_Osteopathy/1887/1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00042-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96101 | 957 | 2.75 | 3 |
NEW ORLEANS -- A Tangipahoa Parish man says since Hurricane Isaac, when it rains at his house, it literally pours, in the form of a full property flood.
“It used to be that the river would crest within 36 hours, almost every flood, and start to recede. Now in the January flood, it was 72 hours before it crested," said Bruce Treubel.
Treubel said that since the storm, and the scare over the possible dam breach at Lake Tangipahoa in Percy Quin State Park in McComb, the river is flooding more frequently, rising higher than usual and lasting longer than he’d like. He said the river is eating away at his Loranger property in some places and burying it in others.
Treubel suspects repairs to the dam and revisions to the lake’s flow into the river are to blame. But park officials say no way.
"The canal is doing exactly what it's supposed to do. It's carrying river water, rain water out of our lake, into the Tangipahoa River just to keep the lake level down," said Will Busby, park manager at Percy Quin State Park.
Parish officials say they’ve noticed a difference, but chalk it up to all the recent rain.
"The amount of rain we've received then and have continued to receive seems to have saturated the ground and I think we're experiencing a lot more in the way of runoff than what you would typically have," said Clyde Martin with the Tangipahoa Parish Consolidated Gravity Drainage District #1.
Treubel is in talks with the National Resources Conservation Service to possibly help rebuild his land, if nothing can be done about the river. Work on repairing the dam in Mississippi is still on-going. | <urn:uuid:3cbe0fbb-b130-4cb4-8943-96d94a21cb50> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wwltv.com/news/Residents-along-Tangipahoa-River-concerned-about-odd-flooding-post-Isaac-192387711.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00006-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978543 | 373 | 1.695313 | 2 |
Re: Survivor bees vs regular stock and mite counts
I believe Grozzies presenter was being a bit facetious with the "leave em alone for one year" comment. If you going to keep bees you do it for honey or pollination or breeding. I don't know anyone that just fills boxes with bees and leaves them alone.
I would guess his presenter was indicating that you don't treat with anything for a year, yet still perform what are customary manipulations that are known to help the bees like mouse guards, windbreaks and top insulation, you would be considered treatment free. If you do this without "treatments" and if they are still alive they are considered "survivors". You harvest your honey, make sure the bees have enough for themselves and let them bee. That is how I look at it too.
If you feel that things such as mouse guards, top insulation and windbreaks to be treatments then perhaps we disagree but amicably.
Raising Vermont Bees one mistake at a time.
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The Dwarf King (Le Roi des Nains) is a trick-taking game played with a deck of 53 cards: three suits (Dwarves, Goblins and Knights) of thirteen cards each and fourteen special cards. The game also includes twenty contract tiles.The game is played over seven rounds. At the start of a round, the dealer randomly draws one special card, reads it to all the players, shuffles it into the deck, then deals the deck out evenly to all players. (The dealer for the first round is the game's owner; for subsequent rounds, the dealer is the one who took the 5 of Dwarves in the previous round.) The player who receives the 5 of Knights draws a contract tile, reads it, then chooses one of the two scoring rules on it to apply for that round.The player holding the 5 of Goblins leads on the first trick. Players must follow suit if possible, and the game inclues no trump. The highest card played of the suit led wins the trick and leads to the next trick. Once all cards have been played, players tally their points (possibly negative), remove the special card and contract tile from the game, then shuffle for the next round.The player who scores the most points over seven rounds wins the game. | <urn:uuid:a91f49d6-8b93-4f30-a1e3-a048c24da0a6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.snakesandlattes.com/products/85250 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00054-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969181 | 261 | 1.742188 | 2 |
Satiety develops minimally invasive medical devices for the treatment of moderate & morbid obesity. The TOGa Procedure is a completely transoral procedure designed to achieve similar weight loss to restrictive surgeries. The procedure is designed to be less invasive, require significantly less recovery time and have dramatically reduced complications, compared to existing surgical options. In the TOGa Procedure, the physician introduces a stapling device transorally and creates a restrictive pouch at the entry of the stomach. The effect is anatomically similar to other restrictive procedures, which physically restrict the amount of food a patient can eat. The procedure is non-surgical, endoscopic, and may be performed by properly trained bariatric surgeons, general endoscopic surgeons, and gastroenterologists. The TOGa System is an investigational device, and is not approved by the FDA or any other regulatory agency. | <urn:uuid:bfcf36a2-cc19-4791-979d-ef9e5f1c3c91> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://venturebeatprofiles.com/company/profile/satiety/?article=144361 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00069-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.908776 | 171 | 1.632813 | 2 |
BATON ROUGE—Today, Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals Secretary Bruce D. Greenstein visited the state's first daytime health care facility, which offers a new health care option to Louisiana's medically fragile children and their families.
In 2009, DHH convened a workgroup of Pediatric Day Health Care Providers from other states, pediatric physicians, hospitals, home health agencies and staff from the Department of Children and Family Services and the Department of Education to begin forming the rules and licensing requirements for this type of provider. In December 2009, the final licensing rules were published. Pediatric Health Choice is the first provider to be licensed and begin providing these services.
"DHH led this innovative initiative to give families the peace of mind of knowing their children are in safe and caring environments while providing a more cost-effective option for these services," said DHH Secretary Bruce D. Greenstein. "I want to thank Pediatric Health Choice for stepping up to the plate and becoming the first center to be licensed in Louisiana."
Pediatric Day Health Care Facilities provide parents of medically-fragile children and young adults under the age of 21 with an integrated setting in which to treat, and even educate, their children. Due to a variety of factors, medically-fragile children are in stable condition but require assistance, such as help with medications, treatment, or medical equipment, for daily living. Having the authority to license these facilities enables the State to offer children the opportunity to receive their nursing care and therapy, socialize with other children and further their education all under one roof.
"Medically fragile children are challenges to manage from a provider perspective at all levels. They also are large consumers of emergent, unscheduled and long-term medical care," said David Thomas MD, PhD, Medical Director for Pediatric Health Choice. "Medically fragile children, those with chronic conditions or temporarily medically challenged, consume nearly 80% of all costs to provide medical care to children. Pediatric Day Health Centers like Pediatric Health Choice provide a multidisciplinary approach to care designed to achieve measurable quality outcomes while being excellent stewards of the dollars provided for their care. These centers, like PHC, are the latest addition to the initiatives to improve access and quality for children with medical challenges."
The Department-led initiative not only offers a much more cost-effective option to providing services, it affords families more flexibility. Before Pediatric Day Health Care Facilities, many families with special needs children had to maintain complicated, sometimes impossible, schedules to ensure their children receive the various types of therapy they need in their individual homes. This new facility provides an all-inclusive opportunity for day health services in a medically sound environment.
"Every child deserves the opportunity to maximize their health, knowledge, and sense of purpose," said Dr. Steve Spedale, head of Neonatology at Woman's Hospital. "For children with complex medical needs, their opportunity in obtaining these goals has grown immensely with the opening of Pediatric Health Center. It provides our most needy children with expert medical and developmental care. As important, it allows for socialization with other children and provides parents with an opportunity to return to work while their child is receiving needed services."
The facilities differ from standard day care in that they are staffed with be a registered nurse, a Director of Nursing and a Medical Director at all times, as well as direct care staff such as nursing assistants, certified nursing assistants, patient care technicians, medical assistants, Emergency Medical Technicians (EMT), on-site therapists, and individuals with training and experience in education, social services or child care related fields to assure individuals get the best available care. | <urn:uuid:123e0ec2-836c-434d-a934-db85b06c9bc6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://dhh.louisiana.gov/index.cfm/newsroom/detail/2476 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00026-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960318 | 747 | 1.851563 | 2 |
oil and pigment on canvas behind plexiglass cover
54 1/4 x 58 1/4 x 3 1/2 inches
German artist Thilo Heinzmann continues Modernism’s breaking-down and reevaluation of the act of painting. In his recent work, he uses pigment powder – color in its purest form. Heinzmann limits the paint and pigment application to one single movement per canvas; his techniques involve handwork or the use of special instruments, both combined with streams of air, resulting in a quiet, yet gestural work. Through these processes, his beautiful canvases seem to balance the properties of air (rather than liquid, as in traditional oil painting), a conceptual look at art history, and a dose of Dadaist chance. Heinzmann will be included in the upcoming group show Masterpieces of Painting in the IVAM Collection: Past, Present and Future at IVAM Institut Valencia d’Art Modern. He has shown extensively in Europe at Galerie Guido Baudach, Berlin; Galerie Christine Mayer, Munich; Carl Freedman Gallery, London; and Galeria Heinrich Erhardt, Madrid. His work has recently been acquired by the Tate Gallery Collection in the UK.
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Chen Guangcheng's sudden change of heart to leave China after insisting for days he wanted to stay has caught his American supporters off guard. But his reason was simple: His family's safety came first.
Reliant on relatives to be his eyes on the world, Chen and his family share a bond strengthened by years of enforced isolation and a shared fight against vengeful local officials. His son was taken from him two years ago. His daughter has been harassed, his wife beaten, his mother followed by guards as she tilled their fields.
Though the blind activist initially agreed to let China relocate him and his family to the northeastern coastal city of Tianjin, he now says that won't be far enough away from their persecutors in eastern Shandong province to guarantee their safety.
Chen is begging the U.S. to help him go abroad with his wife and two children. He would like his widowed mother to join them.
It's a stunning reversal from a hard-won compromise between China and the United States that saw Chen leave the U.S. Embassy in Beijing where he had taken shelter after a daring nighttime escape from 20 months of abusive house arrest in his rural town.
Just a day ago, Chen's mind seemed made up to remain in China after he was allowed a pair of phone calls with his wife, who had been brought with their children to Beijing via bullet train, U.S. Ambassador Gary Locke said Thursday.
"He spoke with his wife on the phone twice and then we asked him what did he want to do," Locke said. "He jumped up very excited and said, 'Let's go.'"
The alternative, Locke said, was a protracted negotiation, with Chen stuck in the embassy and his family at home and at risk.
"He knew that _ and was very aware that he might have to spend many, many years in the embassy," Locke said.
On the way to the hospital, Chen was "emotional, happy about the fact that he was going to be reunited with his family," a U.S. official said Wednesday, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.
Photos of the reunion released Thursday by the U.S. show Chen in a wheelchair in a bright hospital hallway smiling warmly as he greeted his wife and two children. His 6-year-old daughter, Kesi, wore pigtails and his son of about 10, Kerui, was dressed in a T-shirt and sweat pants. In a second shot, Kerui rested a tentative hand on his father's wheelchair.
The moment marked the first time in two years that the boy had seen his father, diplomats said.
The separation was never by choice.
"They broke up and hurt Chen Guangcheng's family," Chen's lawyer, Li Jinsong, said Thursday. "It was the local government officials who wouldn't let the son go home because he was getting older and was better able to understand things, and what the local officials most feared was that Chen Guangcheng and his family would be able to communicate with the outside world. So, he was left with his maternal grandmother."
A self-taught lawyer, the 40-year-old Chen is best known _ and earned the most enmity from local authorities _ for his activism exposing abuses in his community related to China's one-child policy, including forced abortions and sterilizations, in a scandal that prompted the central government to punish some local officials.
Chen and his wife, Yuan Weijing, were allowed two children under an exception for disabled people, his supporters say, although Shandong's published guidelines say only a disabled person whose first child is a girl is eligible for a second one. It's not clear if Chen was ever reprimanded or fined for his second child.
Wednesday's reunion was initially painted as a triumph for U.S. diplomacy, but Chen now says his exit from the embassy was a rushed and bittersweet compromise. He said the Chinese government was threatening to send his family back to their rural home, and that U.S. officials pressured him to leave.
"I decided to leave" the embassy, Chen told The Associated Press late Wednesday. "But I felt very frustrated, especially over the threats to my family. They said if I didn't leave, they would take my children and family back to Shandong."
Chen served four years in prison after a 2006 conviction on what his supporters say were charges fabricated by officials in Dongshigu, Chen's home village in Shandong.
Even after he finished serving his term, officials were ruthless in their treatment of the family, beating his wife and mother, and forcing Kerui to leave his parents. Even Kesi was targeted, with guards searching her book bag each day after school.
Chen worried that conditions would be even worse if his family was sent back.
Those concerns were heightened when his wife told him in the hospital that after he escaped last month, seven surveillance cameras were installed inside their home and guards armed with sticks began sleeping there and eating at their table.
"I feel that if my safety could have been ensured I would have wanted to stay," he said. "But now when I look at it, I don't have that kind of hope any more. I now think what I really need is to be with my family and rest."
He added that he was afraid Chinese authorities would think of some excuse to send him back to Shandong despite assurances from the central government that he would be allowed to resettle elsewhere and attend law school, with his tuition and living expenses paid.
Chen's wife has borne much of the retaliatory abuse. In family photos, she looks cheerful, a broad smile gleaming against her bronze farmer's tan, but her ordeal has been long and relentless.
In a video plea taped and posted online last week after his escape, Chen railed against the abuse of his wife.
"They broke into my house, and more than a dozen men pushed my wife to the ground and covered her in a blanket, then beat and kicked her for hours," he said, without specifying when the attack occurred.
In a letter smuggled out of their village last year, Yuan described a Feb. 18 beating that lasted two hours and left her with what she believed were a broken rib and broken brow bone, both still untreated.
She said guards put metal sheets over their windows, confiscated their belongings, denied them medical care and barred them from shopping for food.
She described how a district Communist Party official, Zhang Jian, punched her in the head after she complained about authorities taking the family's property.
In 2007, Yuan's passport and phone were confiscated at the Beijing airport when she tried to fly to the Philippines to accept a Magsaysay Award, Asia's version of the Nobel Prize, on Chen's behalf. She was forcibly returned to Shandong.
In 2009, Yuan's brother-in-law was killed in a car accident. She told a U.S. broadcaster that guards laughed when she pleaded with them to let her visit her grieving relatives.
"Physical pain, I think I can endure that, but the mental pain, I really cannot endure it," Yuan said in a taped telephone interview with New Tang Dynasty TV at the time. "They do not even let me see my sister to comfort her, and my mother. I really feel very sad."
Nor has Chen's extended family escaped the punishment.
His elder brother, Guangfu, was detained last week and is still in custody. Guangfu's adult son, Kegui, used a cleaver to attack local officials who raided his house in the middle of the night after realizing Chen had escaped. He is now a wanted man on the run.
Chen's mother, who lives with the couple, has also been under constant surveillance, with as many as three guards watching her when she works the fields. Chen said in last week's video that guards have beaten her. Around 80 years old, she is believed to still be under house arrest.
"But I don't know what her situation is," he added. "I don't know if she is safe."
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"U.S. Companies May Look Abroad To Fight Global Warming"
"U.S. companies could save tens of billions of dollars by investing in efforts to combat deforestation in developing nations instead of cleaning up their own domestic carbon dioxide emissions, according to a report released Wednesday.
The report, compiled by a high-powered bipartisan group, backs the use of 'forest offsets' in the global effort to curb pollution that is heating up the atmosphere. It was released in advance of the upcoming Senate debate on climate legislation and an international meeting on the issue set for December in Copenhagen.
The burning of tropical forests and their conversion to cattle farms and soybean fields is responsible for about 17% of the emissions that are causing global warming -- more than all the world's cars, trucks, trains and planes combined -- scientists say.
[The report was from] the Commission on Climate and Tropical Forests, co-chaired by former Sen. Lincoln Chafee (R-R.I.) and John Podesta, chief of staff under President Clinton and now head of the Center for American Progress, a Washington-based think tank."Source: LA Times, 10/08/2009 | <urn:uuid:5ae31c25-ef8a-4ef8-aba8-1077d33a4650> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.sej.org/headlines/us-companies-may-look-abroad-to-fight-global-warming | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00076-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963719 | 240 | 2.265625 | 2 |
8-K Training Guide - Advanced Program - Week 2
Monday: Last week you ran a total of 28 miles during the first week of your build-up to the Shamrock Shuffle or other 8-K. (Although this program was designed for The Lasalle Bank, sponsors of the Shuffle, we are happy to have you use it to prepare for the race of your choice.) Your long run yesterday was 6 miles. This week we will ratchet your training slightly upward to 32 total miles with a 7-miler on Sunday. Today is a day of comparative rest. Run 3 miles and do some strength training afterwards. Don't forget to stretch also.
Tuesday: Today's tempo run is 35 minutes. Start easy for the first 5-10 minutes until you are well warmed-up. Then begin a gradual acceleration until you achieve a comfortably hard pace, close to the pace you are going to run in the 8-K. (Notice I said "close to." Obviously it would be impossible--or at least foolish--to run a 35-minute workout at race pace.) This central portion of the tempo run should last maybe 15-20 minutes with about 5 minutes of that time at the fast pace. Then ease back into the same easy pace at which you began the workout. All the pace transitions should be smooth, not sudden. This workout works best on a soft, forest trail if one is available where you live.
Wednesday: Head to the track. Your workout for today is 7 x 400 at your 1500 or mile pace with a 400 jog/walk between. Remember: that's the pace at which you run a single mile, not your pace for 5 or 6 miles. If you can run a mile in 6:00 at maximum effort, you would run your 400s in about 90 seconds. (Notice that I said "about." External factors, such as weather, may affect your ability to hit each 400 exactly.) Jog a couple of miles before to warm up and about the same distance after to cool down. Don't forget to stretch. A few easy strides of about 100 meters at the pace you plan to run in the workout will also help you loosen up before starting 400 number one.
Thursday: Run 5 miles and add some stretching and strengthening after you finish the run. Give some thought to the "when" as well as the "how far" of this workout. Most runners run in the morning, because that's a convenient time, particularly for those who have a 9-to-5 job. And it insures that you get your run in, since things can interfere if you plan to run at lunch or in the evening. But if you're preparing for the Shamrock Shuffle at the end of March, that means running in the dark. You might want to consider whether or not you can find time mid-day to do this and other mid-week workouts. Even if you have only an hour for lunch, you may be able to run, shower and grab a quick snack at your desk (yogurt, a glass of juice) in the time available. Training for a road race takes discipline, but often the discipline involves activities around the run as well as the run itself.
Friday: Thank God It's Friday. (TGIF) There's even a restaurant chain that uses that name. For many of us who love to run, we don't always want a day off. For that reason, you may want to get in a 3-miler. Nevertheless, it's important to program rest days so that you don't overtrain and set yourself up for injuries. Selecting Fridays as rest days works well, because I always ask the runners who train using my programs to do a bit more on the weekends when they have more time.
Saturday: Today's pace run is 4 miles with half (2 miles) of that distance at race pace. What? You haven't run an 8-K recently and are uncertain about your current level of fitness? You can estimate your 8-K time by using one of several prediction charts that can make estimates based on how fast you may have run a 5-K, 10-K, half-marathon or various other distances. Go to the on-line version of Runner's World and check the training site on the left of the screen.
Sunday: Today is the day when you run long, and today's long run is 7 miles. That's only a mile further than last week, but subtle mileage changes work best. Run this at a comfortable pace 45 to 90 seconds slower than your race pace. If you're feeling frisky, pick up the pace a bit in the last 2 miles, but don't feel you have to finish in a sprint because I gave the green light. And be cautious about dueling with training partners, since excessive hard running is counterproductive. Consistency is what counts.
Run Fast: If you're a beginner, running fast means merely getting started. If you've never run before, except when you were a child (when running was perceived as fun and not as hard work), simply to jog for a few hundred meters is to move faster than if you were to walk that same distance. Improvement comes easily when you begin from a base of zero fitness. After that, you need to learn how to train properly.
How to Improve: Hal Higdon's best-selling Run Fast covers the type of training that will help you improve your performances at all distances, including the 8-K. To order an autographed copy of this and other books by Runner's World's best writer go to Books by Hal Higdon. | <urn:uuid:7ccfdd72-aedb-48f8-a945-91a0bd273983> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.halhigdon.com/training/51693/8-K-Training-Guide-Advanced-Program-Week-2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962506 | 1,150 | 1.765625 | 2 |
Kwanzan flowering cherry trees during late spring are covered with pink multi-petaled blooms that are featured in our nation's Capitol, Washington, D.C. Yoshino flowering cherry trees are also extensively planted more in the Deep South, where the temperatures and humidity are elevated.Japanese flowering cherry trees have been hybridized for centuries by Japanese gardeners and were introduced into the U.S. over a hundred years ago by President Taft and the first lady and widely distributed since.
The Yoshino Flowering Cherry tree flower buds are pink but open into a white bloom that is mildly fragrant. There are many Yoshino Flowering Cherry trees growing in Washington, D.C. along with symmetrical lines of Kwanzan Pink Flowering Cherry along the river banks.
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