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- Get Involved
“Thank you for a life-changing experience! Not only was I able to work promoting health in the rural villages, and working with kids in preschools, but I also traveled around Fiji, visiting beaches and watching rugby in the villages …The people were endearing. I think the experience had a greater impact on me than I expected.”
Fiji is a South Pacific nation comprised of 332 islands. About 100 of them are un-inhabited, nature preserves. Fiji is very mountainous and the climate is very moderate. Fiji is known for their hospitality, vibrant coral reefs, and gorgeous beaches. About 25% of the people live below the poverty level. The culture of Fiji is a rich combination of indigenous, Indian, Chinese, and European. English, Fijian, and Hindustani are the official and most commonly spoken languages. Read some of the projects and information below for more information about our Fiji program.
With HELP International, you can volunteer or intern abroad during the summer or during the winter/spring in Mbale, Uganda. We have a year-round program available at Hogar del Niño Orphanage in El Salvador. Individuals join our program from a wide spectrum of academic background, interests, and career goals.
Follow the Fiji team blog!
Check out the HELP YouTube channel!
As a volunteer, you will work on a variety of different projects, varying day-by-day. HELP focuses on projects in education, public health, and business. Potential projects you may work on include:
- Building a well in Sigatoka
- Implementing and evaluating Envirofit stoves in rural villages
- Building homes with Koroipita Village through Habitat for Humanity
- Music classes in the community
- Promoting Women’s Health in local villages with PRISMM
World Health Organization (WHO) – Program Promoter: Interns will live in remote villages for three to four weeks working closely with community leaders to develop the Health Promoting Schools (HPS) program and conduct evaluations.
Save the Children – Pre-school developer: Interns will work with one to four different pre-schools in the villages to strengthen programs, increase attendance and assist local teachers.
South Pacific Business Development (SPBD) – Microfinance Intern: Interns will work with microfinance clients in western Fiji.
GOLD Foundation – Human Rights Events Coordinator: Interns will work to establish awareness programs in northern Fiji and engage women’s groups to help alleviate poverty.
May 15 - August 15, 2013
Volunteers can spend anywhere from one month to three months in-country, between May 15 to August 15. Dates are flexible. The program cost ranges from $2,950 to $3,750. Program costs include housing, food, program director, training, and other associated costs. Does not include airfare, passport, visa, and additional food and travel expenses. It is totally possible to fundraise your entire program cost. HELP International provides various training, workshops, and resources for fundraising.
To read more details about our Summer Program, visit our volunteer abroad page.
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Until last night, I didn’t have a clue. But thanks to The Copyeditor’s Handbook, by Amy Einsohn, I now know that copulative verbs are “verbs that express a state of being, rather than an action.” A few examples are be, become, feel, seem, smell, sound, taste.
Like good meditators, copulative verbs don’t just do something; they sit there and be. And because they express being rather than doing, they are unique among verbs in that they are modified by adjectives, not adverbs.
Here are some examples of modified copulative verbs, taken from The Copyeditor’s Handbook:
I am fine; he became sad; she feels bad; they felt ill; you seem happy.
This fish smells bad; the band’s new song sounds good; the souffle tastes delicious.
This next example, also from the Handbook, shows the dissonance that can result when an action verb winds up in the same sentence with copulative verbs:
Identical twins may look different, sound different, and walk differently.
See? Look and sound are copulative verbs, so they are modified by the adjective different. Then along comes walk, an action verb that requires the adverb differently. Jarring, isn’t it?
For euphony [harmony] change the final item to “have different ways of walking.”
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To get information that's usually considered cutting edge, it's often good to discuss topics more candidly with experts forging new thoughts on well established theories.
Books of course mostly deal with this problem but the time gap between solidifying new theories and publishing that material can sometimes make the work seem more like conventional knowledge as the pace of discovery becomes quicker & quicker, making todays edge seem like tomorrows leak. It seems as though people are too reliant on the commonly known easily accessed sources and aren't challenging themselves enough with more complex study and self discovery.
It's only by combining new ideas with the old do we create notable advances in our abilities. To that end I'd like to know what resources you've found that standout above the rest that you consider to provide valuable topical material for poker players?
- What I'm hoping to discover are insightful bloggers, tweeters, peer-reviewed journals, eminent writers, amongst whatever else you often refer to when learning. Direct affiliation to poker topics is good but isn't necessary.
- I'm not expecting to see a plain list of favourites only due to their writing style, humour, wit, popularity, etc. although useful sources with these additional benefits would clearly be brilliant.
As long as you feel that what you suggest is current, relevant, and can offer substantive information that can help poker players in any/all areas of focus, whether that's Maths, Psychology, Strategy. Anything. Then it would be of great value to share them here.
Personally, an obvious choice would be Poker.StackExchange.com. Not so much for what it is right now but absolutely for what I imagine it could become! It has huge potential. I've also found the Social Science Research Network has given me many cognitive science scholarly articles that have helped me think creatively.
For each link/example it would be helpful to give a little information on the area of expertise you think it addresses, and perhaps how it helped you.
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Metalized Window Curtain Aids in A-Bomb Protection (Jul, 1951)
Metalized Window Curtain Aids in A-Bomb Protection
Heavy canvas window curtains, specially treated, are designed to give partial protection from the effects of an A-bomb blast. The curtains are metalized with aluminum and lead. They will help protect persons inside a building from flying glass, radioactive dust and flash burns, according to the manufacturer. They are said to be effective at distances beyond 2600 feet of the explosion. When not in use, the curtain rolls against the upper part of the casement like a window shade.
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HOW TO RUNE WITH MEAT
by Felix Katz
1. Draw out runes on paper
2. transfer ideas to autoCAD
3. Use waterjet on steel material
4. Weld uniform joints on
5. Intumescent paint/flame retardant coating
6. Create ‘strips’ of runes by linking together
7. Burn into skin with steel runes as stencils
Issues with using wood instead: longevity, rot, harder to clean in long-run, harder to transport, easier to tamper with, steel better for adapting to new techniques. Cannot be used for burning as effectively— must have multiple coats of flame retardants and will still have very limited numbers of uses. Have to make many wood ones but only a small set of steel.
Issues with steel: weight but that can be fixed.
Methods of use overall:
1. Spray paint
2. Burned in
3. Slice in
4. Pound in
5. Use as outline for soldering on other metals (for different channelling methods/magics). Pour something like liquid copper into stencils (will need to be thicker than usual for pooling).
7. ‘Stamp’ method (dip and drop)
Can pre-fab entire ‘strings’ of runes in varying sizes. Joints enable runes to follow contours of flesh and be rearranged into different ‘strings’. ‘Clipping style’ joints. Can have portable strings— bracelets, necklaces, earrings, etc.
Other methods: Milling (machine carves required piece w/detailing), burin (hand engraving), laser engraving
To Whom This May Concern,
I do not mean to be presumptuous by sending a report, but I feel that I should pass along this information. Personal details regarding Ryan North and the laboratory work are within.
My specific concerns regard a scientist being employed named ‘Aaron’. Two things are potentially a problem for our operations. Firstly, Aaron’s objectivity is compromised. He has a personal history with Ryan North that leaves his judgment questionable. Details are explained further in the report. There is also evidence that he has plans that are contrary to our goals.
I apologize again if I overstep but I feel I must state my misgivings.
[[The report is long and slightly meandering, full of careful language that sidesteps placing any blame on management for Aaron’s position. Personal observation is absent— all that’s there is what Berith told him, along with a description of the marks.]]
I’m a mite reluctant to hand Gidget over without assurances of his safety. Considering how you folks have treated him, I think it’s understandable. I’d be willing to meet face to face but Gidget isn’t coming for the first one.
If you can give concrete assurances he’ll be okay and treated fairly, I’ll hand him over. Otherwise, no deal. I think you can sympathize with why I’m doing this— he’s kind of been burned all around so far, and I don’t want to put him through more shit.
Any time this weekend works for a meeting. Location is up to you, though I’ll be informing people where I’m going and why if it’s in London.
Hi, I’m an Illuminati agent, and I’ve run into some trouble with your Templar agents. Not in the normal ‘kicked me in the shins and stole my lunch money’ but more in the vein of ‘kicked me in the shins and killed a bunch of agents on order of higher ups’. Gonna have to go with the guess I have your attention now.
I have Agent Gidget, otherwise known as John. I don’t know how much you guys have spied in twitter and shit, but one of your higher-ups told him to kill people. Mostly in the vein of ‘oops it’s dark mistakes happen have at’. He’s managed to murder a few Illuminati agents, which is a bit of a problem. Especially, you know, to the Council and to us.
Now, I’m a nice Eye. I could go to my people and they’d fix this up lickety-split. But I like Gidget and sometimes our fixing means hurting people and, well, that’s counter-productive to friendliness. So I’m offering a deal.
You fork over the agent who caused this and look after Gidget, and I’ll erase the slate. Problem gone. No more shitfest. This won’t come up again unless you make it come up again.
Think about it.
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From Li-cheng Hsu in the comp.os.linux.development.apps newsgroup on 29 Jul 1998
I used to be a sysop of FidoNet using Maximus as my BBS system in DESQview environment. Now I have switched from DOS/Windows to Linux as my major working platform.
The question is, is there any BBS system that is recommended to run in Unix ? It should be able to handle both dial-up & TCP/IP, of course.
There's a tree of directories at the master Linux archive:
There are several packages there --- including a number of utilities for ifmail (the Internet to FIDO gateway).
Most of these are free or shareware.
There are also Linux ports of MajorBBS and MMB Teammate (a couple of major commercial BBS packages --- which are pretty expensive).
I haven't used any of them so I can't offer specific suggestions. However, I've crossposted the two newsgroups that are most likely to have interested and informed participants (alt.bbs.unixbbs and comp.bbs.misc).
There are about 50 newsgroups devoted to BBS' (including various specific BBS packages like TBBS, MajorBBS, Citadel, etc).
(I've been a sysop on two large corporate systems, for Symantec and for McAfee --- so, I used to subscribe to some of these. However I've never run a small hobbyist system so I just haven't kept up in the field).
Thanks in advance.
Linux can handle dial-up as well as console login and give a remote user normal shell. But you probably want to restrict access for BBS users.
You can set them up with simple shell script (or perl, or tcl) which would emulate maximus as close as you wish, but I think that better approach is to use text-based web-browser lynx for their shell.
These are likely to be severe security problems unless you are a phenomenally good (and careful) programmer.
I'd did play with a configuration that ran lynx in a chroot jail. That was to prototype a "dial in kiosk"
One sticking point for my application was that I wanted a replacement 'getty' that could auto-detect ANSI PC emulation (which many BBS' can do with some sort of magic escape code) and bypass the Unix login command --- I think I replaced /bin/login in the jail with an SUID "nobody" copy of lynx, and put a <chroot>/etc/issue that just said: "Hit any key to ...."
Thus you set up normal Web site instead of BBS, solving problem with TCP/IP instantly, and let dial-in users to view it in lynx. Lynx includes provisions to download/upload files using Z-Modem and Xmodem (by calling external programs sz and rz) and allows to restrict users almost as much as you wish.
However, those various restrictions may not be foolproof. There have been exploits that bypassed lynx restrictions before.
So, if security is an issue, you definetely want to lock this in a jail with no shell and take some other precautions.
You are right that this is an interesting way to provide "kiosk" style dial-up using stock HTML/web pages and off the 'net freeware. That was the whole point of my prototype (which took all of about three hours one afternoon).
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WASHINGTON—According to a report released Monday by the U.S. Department of Education, an increasing number of American parents are choosing to have their children raised at school rather than at home.
Deputy Education Secretary Anthony W. Miller said that many parents who school-home find U.S. households to be frightening, overwhelming environments for their children, and feel that they are just not conducive to producing well-rounded members of society.
Thousands of mothers and fathers polled in the study also believe that those running American homes cannot be trusted to keep their kids safe.
"Every year more parents are finding that their homes are not equipped to instill the right values in their children," Miller said. "When it comes to important life skills such as proper nutrition, safe sex, and even basic socialization, a growing number of mothers and fathers think it's better to rely on educators to guide and nurture their kids."
"And really, who can blame them?" Miller continued. "American homes have let down our nation's youth time and again in almost every imaginable respect."
According to the report, children raised at home were less likely to receive individual adult attention, and were often subjected to ineffective and wildly inconsistent disciplinary measures. The study also found that many parents expressed concerns that, when at home, their children were being teased and bullied by those older than themselves.
In addition to providing better supervision and overall direction, school-homing has become popular among mothers and fathers who just want to be less involved in the day-to-day lives of their children.
"Parents are finding creative ways to make this increasingly common child-rearing track work," Miller said. "Whether it's over-relying on after-school programs and extracurricular activities, or simply gross neglect,† school-homing is becoming a widely accepted method of bringing children up."
Despite the trend's growing popularity, Miller said that school programs are often jeopardized or terminated because shortsighted individuals vote against tax increases intended to boost educational spending.
"The terrifying reality we're facing is that the worst-equipped people you could possibly imagine may actually be forced to take care of their children," Miller said.
Parents who have decided to school-home their children have echoed many of Miller's concerns. Most said that an alarming number of legal guardians such as themselves lack the most basic common sense required to give children the type of instruction they need during crucial developmental years.
"It's really a matter of who has more experience in dealing with my child," Cincinnati- resident Kevin Dufrense said of his decision to have his 10-year-old son Jake, who suffers from ADHD and dyslexia, school-homed. "These teachers are dealing with upwards of 40 students in their classrooms at a time, so obviously they know a lot more about children than someone like me, who only has one son and doesn't know where he is half the time anyway."
"Simply put, it's not the job of parents to raise these kids," Dufrense added.
Though school-homing has proven to be an ideal solution for millions of uninvolved parents, increasingly overburdened public schools have recently led to a steady upswing in the number of students being prison-homed.
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College is one of many routes to a higher education
In America’s Navy, a great deal of emphasis is placed upon education. The high-tech work environment and the complex nature of Navy missions demand it. So when it comes to earning a degree or advancing the level of education you already possess, there are many programs that can help you on your way to an associate’s, bachelor’s, master’s or beyond.
Opportunities for Those With Diplomas or Degrees
From a qualifications standpoint, the Navy insists that all recruits have at least a high school diploma or equivalent and all Officers have a college degree. With that in mind, initial and continuing education opportunities are available whether you’re just out of high school, in the workforce, in college, a recent college graduate or a degreed professional. And whatever your background, you’ll be encouraged to pursue your educational goals – and provided with many ways to do so.
Programs for Traditional and Distance Learning
The Navy offers everything from degree earning coursework to degree-accredited on-the-job training – in settings that range from typical classrooms to ships or bases. There are college scholarships and post graduate scholarships that help cover things such as tuition, books and other expenses. Plus, there are educational savings programs and loan repayment programs available to subsidize your schooling costs. Some of the programs are offered as part of your service. Others require that you meet additional requirements.
Consider All Your Options
Whether it's scholarships or financial reimbursement, salary advances or sign-on bonuses, educational assistance can take many forms in the Navy. It all depends on where you are now and which of the career areas you’re interested in pursuing.
Look into the NROTC, undergraduate and graduate and professional programs outlined in this section to identify the program or programs that best fit your needs. And be sure to talk with a recruiter for further details or clarification or just to make sure you have the latest information to consider.
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Monday, November 6, 2006 05:41 PM
I am currently using SWT to develop a GUI, and I want to use my own customized images as buttons. However, the closest I have come to this is placing an image to the background of a rectangular button. I know in other languages I have heard that developers make the button transparent and then place the image on top. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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Jairam Ramesh launches cash transfer scheme, says it's no magic wand
"It (Direct Benefits Transfer Scheme) is not a single 'jaadu ki chhadi' (magic wand). It is an experiment. The world's largest experiment in administrative reform.
"It has problems on the ground. It will have problems with banks, post offices and online connectivity. We have embarked on this. We will resolve these issues as we go along," the Union Minister for Rural Development told reporters after launching DBTS for MGNREGS at Gollaprolu in East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh this afternoon.
The minister asserted, "If we are successful (in implementing DBTS), we would have completely reformed the welfare delivery system".
The minister said that by the end of August 2013, every gram panchayat, mandal and district will be on the micro ATM network. "You need not run to banks or post-offices to get money. Money will come to you at your doorstep," Ramesh said.
"No solution is without ten problems in India. You can always find ten problems for one solution. The key to avoiding corruption at the beneficiary end is to give the beneficiary the choice of business correspondents," the minister replied, when asked if the business correspondents (BCs) could be a source of corruption.
"Today, it is one bank, one business correspondent, one beneficiary. The new model is - one bank, multiple BCs and one
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Separating the sheep from the wolves
One fundamental problem of the idea of a game with impact PvP, in which the strong could dominate the weak, is that nobody wants to play the weak. If we really could manage to separate the sheep from the wolves, who would pay $15 a month to play a sheep?
Unless of course if you made playing a sheep vastly more comfortable than playing a wolf. So how about this set of PvP rules: At character creation, players permanently flag themselves as being either PvP (wolf) or not PvP (sheep). Sheep can't attack or hurt other sheep in any way, but they can attack wolves. Wolves can attack whoever they want. Sheep that win a PvP fight get nothing for it. Wolves that win a PvP fight get points and some loot from the loser. Sheep that get killed lose that loot, but respawn at a safe point. Wolves that get killed in PvP are permadead.
Note that the result would probably be very close to the outcome of what happens in the real world: People don't commit murder, because it is actually rather dangerous. The sheep would band together to keep themselves safe from the wolves. So as getting killed is rare for a sheep, and apart from losing some loot not so punishing, a lot of players would probably prefer that safer mode of gameplay. As long as the PvE was good, they would be willing to pay to play the sheep. You just better not call it that way.
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I stole this posting from another poster from another forum. But i thought i would regurgitate it here, because it is well put together and I didnt have to do any work.
1. One of the advantages of Liberalism is that its very nature lends itself to the lazy and uninformed, the inexperienced and the sycophant. The rules fit the make-up of said individuals: feeling passes for knowing, and intention more vital than results.
2. What could be a better example than the “War on Spoons!’ Peaked with victory in both houses of Congress, 2007, the Democrats set out to boldly hoist the banner of ‘Conservation,” and fulfill the promise of making America more ‘sustainable’! They called their agenda: “Green the Capitol”!
3. What that meant was replacing the utensils in the US Capitol building. Cost, no object! Remember….these were the ‘best and the brightest’ of Liberals! The ones other Liberals chose to lead them!
4. They took the spoon….er, ….bit between their teeth, and battled to end the waste of plastic utensils. Allying with 'science', in the manner that only Liberals can ally with science, they searched for utensils that they could compost! No matter that the Capitol grounds really isn’t appropriate…nor does it have the space for mounds of composting garbage….onward and upward!
5. Reinforced by majorities in the House and Senate, the valiant Liberal environmentalists decreed: hence forth, the Capitol cafeteria would offer takeout utensils made from corn, and containers made from sugarcane.
a. The goals of the "Green the Capitol" program, implemented by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, were threefold: to change to more environmentally friendly food service products; to shift to renewable energy sources; and to switch from using coal to natural gas.Today, the House cafeteria is on its way to becoming a zero-waste facility. It sent 880 tons of food service waste in 2008 to commercial composting facilities that turn trash into soil, according to the program's year-end report.” 'Green the Capitol' initiatives save energy, set a good example - USATODAY.com
6. It was a miracle of sustainability, according to the Democrat-controlled House internal report: it reduced landfills by 650 tons of waste! (Fanfare, please.)
a. “In the effort to make the Capitol a beacon of environmentalism, Pelosi's program also converted the Capitol Power Plant from coal to natural gas and installed more than 13,000 compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) across the House of Representatives campus…. But the changes weren't cheap, and now Republicans say enough is enough: They've had it with the flimsy utensils, the rows of recycling bins, and the $475,000 per year it costs to truck the compostable waste off to a facility in Virginia.” GOP Defunds Nancy Pelosi's 'Green the Capitol' Environment Initiative: Plastic and Styrofoam Return to Cafeteria - ABC News
b. "It's one of those things that didn't work," Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., told ABC News. "Let's not perpetuate this. It takes more energy, it costs taxpayers money and it doesn't work." Ibid.
7. But….there is an ‘uh oh,’….as so often follows Liberal endeavors. The new green replacements were actually worse for the environment…and costlier as well. The spoons melted in soup…so many more had to be used. The knives had a hard time cutting butter. And, they didn’t actually biodegrade afterwards: they had to be processed ina aspecial pulper and then driven to Maryland in giant emission-belching trucks.
Berezow and Campbell, “Science Left Behind,” p.2.
8. “WASHINGTON - Today, Committee on House Administration Chairman Dan Lungren, R-Calif., announced that he has directed the House Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) to suspend the House composting program after a recent review of the program, which costs an estimated $475,000 annually, revealed that it has actually increased the House's overall energy consumption and has produced nominal reductions in carbon emissions.” Composting Program Suspended | Committee on House Administration
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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.... Video
Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.
So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.
So different are the colours of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.
Most of our future lies ahead.
No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness -- or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.
Henry Ward Beecher
Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
Each today, well-lived, makes yesterday a dream of happiness and each tomorrow a vision of hope. Look, therefore, to this one day, for it and it alone is life.
Live in the present. The past is gone; the future is unknown -- but the present is real, and your opportunities are now. You must see these opportunities; they must be real for you. The catch is that they can't seem real if your mind is buried in past failures, if you keep reliving old mistakes, old guilts, old tragedies. Fight your way above the many inevitable Traumatizations of your ego, escape damnation by the past, and look to the opportunities of the present. I don't mean some vague moment in the present -- next week or next month, perhaps. I mean today, this minute.
The future looks extremely bright indeed, with lots of possibilities ahead -- big possibilities. Like the song says, We've just begun.
Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. Never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.
Walter Savage Landor
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TAS 2010 Golder Ear AwardIntroducing the Rega Isis Flagship CD Player
We are very proud to introduce the 7th generation of Rega CD player . A product manufactured to the highest achievable quality inside and out, Rega's own unique CD technology, genuine black chrome lid and front facia, a custom solid anodised aluminium case weighing in at a notable 19kg ! We hope you enjoy this very special CD player; we have spent a very long time creating it, drawing on our many years of experience in specialist Hi-Fi manufacturing.Technology Behind the Design
One important design goal was to take the current output, with no internal amplification within the D to A converter, and convert this to an analogue voltage, using discrete class A operational amplifiers and filters. This circuit can then be optimised for sonic performance. (With most CD players the use of standard operational integrated circuits locks you into the sound of those particular integrated circuits, thus narrowing the scope for improvement). The class A current to voltage conversion amplifier evolved out of the development of the first stage of the Rega IOS MC amplifier. It shares identical demands of low noise, high drive capability and gain bandwidth required of the voltage to current amplifier.
Careful choice has been made for every component in the digital and the analogue signal path to ensure the integrity of the signal. The analogue and digital sections are bonded together using a substantial ground plane. It was found during the development of the player that adoption of RF ground plane techniques aided the sonic quality and therefore were included in the final design. Careful design of the PCB's ensures isolation of not just the digital and analogue sections, but also the motor, display and user interface processor.
All sonically critical electrolytic capacitors have been by-passed with polypropylene or polyester film capacitors. In addition to this, large value electrolytic capacitors have also been by-passed with audio grade electrolytic capacitors. Power supply impedances in the digital to analogue converter are kept very low by the use of solid polymer capacitors. All power supplies utilise custom Rega K-Power smoothing capacitors, along with fast diodes which have been used throughout in power supply rectification. The Isis uses enhanced and optimised control code for the control of the CD processor and user display.This speeds up the initialisation process by means of a tighter control interface between the user micro and CD processor.Analogue Section
The analogue section employs two Burr Brown PCM1794 digital to analogue converters, running in a parallel dual mono mode, driving a high performance discrete class A current to voltage amplifier.This combination generates an exceptionally wide dynamic range, low distortion, and linear signal. This drives an enhanced discrete class A output amplifier. The circuit is fully balanced from the digital to analogue converters to the balanced analogue XLR outputs. The analogue stage has its own dedicated 50VA mains transformer which ensures galvanic isolation between the digital and analogue sections of the player. You will find 10 separate power supply regulators are used in the analogue circuit and each individual amplifier stage has its own dedicated low noise voltage reference.Digital Section
The digital section is blue printed and selected, with major improvements to the mechanism, optical amplifier, DSP core, PLL, master clock & motor power supplies. Another 10 separate power supply regulators are used in the digital circuit. The motor, user interface processor & display also have their own power supply. The digital stage also has its own 50VA transformer again ensuring galvanic isolation. The mechanism is graded and matched to the servo circuits, to ensure the servo and optical amplifiers are working at their optimum point, improving error correction and playability. The headroom of the optical amplifier has been improved by 10% by increasing the voltage in the power supply.Digital
This revolutionary player has been five years in design. Rega, together with its design partners have pioneered a highly advanced servo controller that uses the latest signal processing techniques to ensure that the raw data that is recovered from the disc is of the very highest quality. Because our fully digital servo can use highly advanced algorithms the laser spot is kept in the optimum position for data recovery in terms of focus, size and tracking.Extra Error Correction
Previous chip-sets always made compromises on error correction. Formerly it was possible to have good jog resistance or better musical performance. The Rega chip-set allows optimum musical performance and optimised jog /vibration resistance.Super Stable Phase Lock Loop
The entire IC is clocked via a very special PLL of our own design. This allows better CD data recovery as well as a big improvement in the quality of the data delivered to the DAC.Low Noise Digital Design
In the design of our CPU IC we went to great lengths to ensure that the data and address bus noise was kept to an absolute minimum. This ensures the ground and signal connections to the DAC are as 'clean' as is possible.USB Input
Allowing direct connection to a laptop or PC via a USB A-B lead to stream internet radio Mp3 or WMA files directly from your computer via the high quality ISIS internal DAC. The USB input uses an isolated double-clocked USB interface, which permits the digital to analogue stage to be used with a computer USB interface and it's own regulated power supply. The USB benefits once again from galvanic isolation from the main circuitry of the ISIS player which eliminates the flow of earth currents between the CD and host computer, and eliminate computer power supply noise.Disc Analysis
The ISIS will analyse each disc on an individual basis. During the initialising period (rather like the engine management system on a modern car which optimises the engine settings to temperature, fuel quality etc.) the ISIS will adjust itself to each disc in order to give optimal trouble free reading. For this reason the ISIS will often play discs with marks or scratches that other players cannot read.Tone Audio Review
...the Rega ISIS has stayed true to their core values by offering a product that offers the best performance in its price class. This is why we chose this player as our Digital Product of the Year for 2009. It makes a stellar match to their new OSIRIS amplifier, that will be reviewed in the December issue of TONEAudio. And, yeah it’s that good too.TAS Review
As I mentioned earlier, I approached this review with skepticism and doubt, I suppose because—down deep—I feared Rega might build merely “good” components for a market segment where sonic greatness is required. But now that I’ve lived with the Isis and Osiris for months and experienced their capabilities firsthand, I see them in a completely different light. Where once I wondered whether the Rega pieces could keep up with established, pedigreed leaders in their class, I now find myself asking whether competitors can in fact keep up with the Isis and Osiris. They really are that good.Rega Isis User Manual
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There was a “cartoon kerfuffle” this week as The New York Times announced that they would begin running traditional editorial cartoons again, in an e-mail invitation to selected, top political cartoonists. It was good news that America’s biggest newspaper would again embrace our art form, but their offer was so lousy it only made the cartoonists angry.
What the Times proposed was having all the best cartoonists submit finished cartoons to them on Fridays, for publication in their Sunday edition. The Times wanted the cartoons to be exclusive to them; the cartoons could not be reprinted elsewhere. TheTimes would pick one of the cartoons and pay the winning cartoonist a paltry $250.00, sending him an exclusive contract only after he wins the selection contest; the dozens of losing cartoonists would get nothing. Of-course, the cartoonists reacted to this offer with disgust, and the internet has been buzzing with cartoon disdain for the arrogant New York Times the past few days.
The Times is arguably the most prestigious newspaper, and they have been without a staff editorial cartoonist for many decades – a sore spot for our beleaguered editorial cartooning profession which has been losing jobs at about the same rate as newsroom journalists, as newspapers’ fortunes have declined. Before dropping editorial cartoons entirely, the Times ran a weekly “round-up” of syndicated cartoons under the title, “Laugh Lines,” in which they selected funny cartoons that were like Jay Leno jokes, expressing no strong opinion, but good for a smile. Cartoonists suspected that the new cartoon in the Times would be the same, encouraging cartoonists to compete for the Times’ favor by submitting opinionless, funny cartoons that would further “dumb-down” the profession. The Times would also remove the artist’s signature from their editorial cartoons, an annoyance to the cartoonists.
Newspapers have gotten used to the idea that editorial cartoons are cheap, because of “syndication” where cartoonists distribute their cartoons to hundreds of newspapers through “syndicates” (businesses that charge very little for the cartoons). But syndication is no extra work for the cartoonist, distributing only cartoons that the cartoonist has already drawn for his own newspaper, and the syndicated cartoons are “non-exclusive,” that is, they can be reprinted anywhere, unlike the New York Times proposal for exclusive cartoons for only $250.00, with a contest between cartoonists who would spend time submitting and making changes for the Times’ editors, with only one cartoonist having his work printed and getting paid.
It is a sign of our times, of how far our cartooning profession has fallen, and of how callously editors have devalued our work that the Times would solicit cartoons under these conditions – and also a sign of how arrogant the New York Times has become, to assume that top cartoonists would participate. There has been some blowback, with prominent cartoonists writing letters to the Times dissing the offer and refusing to participate; one of my favorites came from award winning, Canadian cartoonist Cam Cardow who wrote:
“I suggest you take this idea back to the boardroom from which it was birthed and have it reconsidered. I would also humbly suggest that your editors take an afternoon off and head to the local library to study the contributions editorial cartooning has made to journalism and society. For one, you’ll be surprised to find out professional cartoonists don’t live in trailer parks, or panhandle at malls. Some of us even have all our teeth. Well, us Canadian ones do.”
In response to the cartoonist kerfuffle, I’m told that the Times is now “revisiting the policy.” I have a few suggestions for the Times:
1. Try reprinting the best syndicated cartoons again, with signatures of the artists in place, and without the title, “Laugh Lines,” so that cartoons which make a reader cry or think, might get equal play in the Times as the little jokes.
2. Or, if you want an exclusive cartoon, trust one cartoonist and pay him or her fairly. Find someone who’s point of view is in line with the Times’ editorial stance; commit to that cartoonist and give him the same freedom that you do with your columnists. After all, editorial cartoonists are graphic columnists, except that our work is more powerful than the words of columnists. Nobody tears a column out and sticks it to their refrigerator.
Added February 9, 2012:
I was pleased to read this letter from National Cartoonists Society President, Tom Richmond, to the New York Times today, opposing their editorial cartoon scheme. Visit Tom’s blog to read more of his comments surrounding the NCS position on the issue.
Ms. Aviva Michaelov
Art Director, New York Times
Opinion Pages | Sunday Review
Dear Ms. Michaelov,
I read with mixed emotions your letter of February 6th to a selection of professional editorial cartoonists calling for submissions for a new editorial cartoon feature in the Sunday Review section of the New York Times.
On one hand, I was pleased to see that the Times was bringing back an editorial cartoon to the Sunday Review. In this day of dwindling editorial cartoon voices in the press, such an addition, particularly in a publication as respected and read as the New York Times, is very welcome.
I was dismayed, however, in the way in which the cartoons were to be submitted, chosen and paid for. The editorial cartoonists are expected to submit finished cartoons completely on spec, and your editorial staff will chose one for publication each week. The submitting cartoonists are to agree that, if chosen, their cartoon becomes an exclusive to the Times, not to be reprinted anywhere. The cartoonist who’s work is chosen gets paid $250, and those who do not get chosen get nothing.
The work of creative professionals today is under siege, being constantly devalued through a multitude of fronts, not the least the internet. Writers, artists, cartoonists, designers and other creatives who are attempting to make a living with with their talents and hard work face increasing assaults by “clients” who seem to expect them to do work for either very little pay, or only the hope of being paid. Being asked to do spec work is nothing new in the cartooning world, but when it comes from a publication like the New York Times and it is specifically aimed at some of the industry’s top professionals, it is alarming.
The Times is arguably the most well-known and prestigious newspaper in the United States. It should be championing and supporting the work of the industry’s top professionals in all facets of journalism—reporters, columnists, feature writers, editorialists, and—yes . . . cartoonists. An initiative like this does the opposite. It contributes to the devaluation of the work of editorial cartoonists not just in the offer of extremely low pay and the submission of finished work without the expectation of ANY pay, but in the very nature of editorial cartoons as an individual voice of real opinion. Editorial cartoonists are visual columnists who have specific voices, and “competitions” like this discourage that individuality while encouraging the pursuit and of whatever joke might give the jury the biggest chuckle of the week. To stage such a competition among an amateur public would be one thing, to ask a specific group of well-established and professional editorial cartoonists to do it is quite another. That is a slap in the face to their work and profession.
While I applaud your desire to once again feature individual editorial cartoons in the Times, I sincerely hope you will rethink this approach. It would behoove the Times to conduct a search among the countries best editorial cartoonists for one that has a voice that is in keeping with the editorial position of your newspaper, and then commission them to produce a weekly cartoon for which they are paid a living wage for exclusive rights. Such a change would support the professional of cartooning and journalism, and be in keeping with the reputation of theNew York Times as one of the world’s leading newspapers.
Thank you for your time and attention,
Tom Richmond, President
National Cartoonists Society
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It is a story about a water buffalo learning about the value of
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Massage is rubbing the soft tissues of the body, including the skin and muscles. Massage therapists usually apply pressure with their hands, but they can also use their forearms, elbows, or feet. Some people believe that massage works because the touch is healing. Touch also communicates a sense of caring.
When you are pregnant, you can use massage therapy for relaxation and to help relieve muscle tension and pain. But for massage to be safe during pregnancy, make sure that you:
Be sure that your massage therapist is specially trained in pregnancy massage and is certified by your state or a national body, such as the American Massage Therapy Association. This ensures that your massage therapist has a certain level of training and uses certain practice guidelines.
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On Saturday night, Pat Buchanan appeared on the white nationalist radio program The Political Cesspool to promote his new book. During the nearly twenty-five minute interview, Buchanan attacked the country’s increasing diversity and warned that America would face numerous problems when whites become a minority.
Buchanan has a long history marred by bigotry and hostility toward minorities. He recently released a new book, Suicide of a Superpower, which claims that America is disintegrating as whites lose their majority status. Buchanan also serves as a political analyst for MSNBC — an affiliation that was mentioned by host James Edwards after the interview and on the program’s website.
The Political Cesspool describes itself as representing “a philosophy that is pro-White … We wish to revive the White birthrate above replacement level fertility and beyond to grow the percentage of Whites in the world relative to other races.”
The Anti-Defamation League has criticized Edwards for having “white supremacist views” and interviewing “a variety of anti-Semites, white supremacists, Holocaust deniers, conspiracy theorists and anti-immigrant leaders.” The Southern Poverty Law Center wrote in 2007 that The Political Cesspool host “has probably done more than any of his contemporaries on the American radical right to publicly promote neo-Nazis, Holocaust deniers, raging anti-Semites and other extremists” and that his program “has become the primary radio nexus of hate in America.”
The SPLC notes that The Political Cesspool’s guest roster reads like a “Who’s Who” of radical racists, with guests like “white supremacist” Sam Dickson; “white supremacist” Paul Fromm; anti-Semitic professor Kevin MacDonald; and “neo-Nazi activist April Gaede.” Edwards has also hosted former KKK leader David Duke, of whom Edwards writes: “Contrary to the false image of a drooling ‘racist’ that the MSM would like to paint, David is a very thoughtful, intelligent, and gracious individual.”
Edwards posts his thoughts on The Political Cesspool’s website about topics like:
- Slavery. “For blacks in the Americas, slavery is the greatest thing that ever happened to them. Unfortunately, it’s the worst thing that ever happened to white Americans.” August 11, 2008.
- LGBTs. “Fags”; “perverts”; “sodomites”; “Until 1973, the American Psychiatric Association rightly listed homosexuality as a mental illness. It still is, of course, just no longer an officially listed one. Political correctness took care of that.” April 21, 2009; July 11, 2011; July 6, 2011.
- Jews. “I have no idea why so many people dislike Jews … This appeared on Daily Kos yesterday. The author is Tim Wise, a well known Jewish anti-white activist. I’m reprinting it here, bad language and all, so people can get a glimpse into how the people who really run this country think. To put it bluntly, people like Tim Wise are filled with a venomous hatred of white people like you and me. And they run Washington, Wall Street, and the news and entertainment media.” November 4, 2010.
- Martin Luther King Jr.: “MLK’s dream is our nightmare.” February 9, 2011.
- Whether “interracial marriage should be illegal”: “Despite constant brainwashing and relentless media propaganda, there still remains a great number of people in Mississippi who adhere to the values of their parents. … The media will predictably dismiss the voters of Mississippi as ‘hicks’ and ‘rednecks,’ but their opinion on this matter is perfectly legitimate.” April 8, 2011.
- “Interracial sex.” “One of the most popular movies right now is Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants: 2, which is being marketed directly to teenage girls. It’s been out about a week and has already grossed almost $25 million dollars. What’s it about? White girls having sex with non-whites. Which is white genocide. … Interracial sex is white genocide. Period.” August 14, 2008.
- Women in the military. “Women have many natural gifts that men don’t have. A man, for instance, could never properly fill the vitally important maternal role that women (used to) play, but dressing up and pretending to be a soldier isn’t what God had in mind for the fairer sex. How intimidating do you think it would be to see a platoon of homosexuals and women (and homosexual women) charging a bunker? Do you think we could have taken the beach at Normandy with an army like that? That’s a serious question. The answer, of course, is no.” September 21, 2011.
During the interview, Buchanan warned about the consequences of whites becoming a minority in America:
EDWARDS: Moving on to another aspect of your excellent new book, which I have a review copy right here on my desk in the studio, you write that white America is an endangered species. Pat, what’s America going to look like if indeed whites do become extinct?
BUCHANAN: Well, I don’t think whites are going to become extinct. But certainly not in the near future. But what is happening, as you see in California, where Americans of European descent are already a minority and that is true in Texas and it is true, I believe, there is one other, New Mexico and Hawaii. And in this decade, I think, six more states will pass the tipping point where whites become a minority.
I think the best way to understand what America will look like is to look at California today. I think that is pretty much what America will look like. The Hispanic population will be immense. A 150 — excuse me, 135 million, according to the Census Bureau statistics, and if you look at California, the golden land, which used to have — I mean everybody went there, it was paradise. The soldiers who went out to the Pacific came home, went through there, and then went out and made their homes. And what is happening out there, James, is that — I mean, look at the bond ratings, it’s at the lowest in the country. The taxes are enormously heavy, they’re on the well-to-do and the successful. It is what they’re doing in the country now and these folks are leaving the state and many of the poor, illegal immigrants, one-third of them head for California, you’ve got a black-brown war of the underclass going on in Los Angeles, according to Sheriff Lee Baca, in the gangs and in the prison, and of course the welfare state is bankrupting California. And they’ve got some of the highest taxes in the nation. So I think—this is what the country is going to look like.
Buchanan was asked later in the program by Edwards about his chapter on the “cult” of diversity:
EDWARDS: You know, when you talk about the cult of diversity in the book, and this is a follow-up to the topic that we’re on, it seems as though the white politicos who are explicitly involved, they seem to work against their own group interests, rather than for them, as the minorities do. Again, this chapter that you write on the cult of diversity, I have to ask this question, why do white liberals remain entranced by diversity when the social and cultural effects of diversity are almost entirely negative for themselves and their children and grandchildren.
Buchanan replied: “Well, I think there’s many people candidly who — I’ve been asked on radio, that ‘what is wrong if a — I mean, why isn’t it a really good thing when whites become a minority nationwide and we’re all part of minorities?’ And I say, you know, this thing, I mean, real problems are attendant to this” and cited “racial preferences and affirmative action.” Buchanan added that white males are “really the ones who are the victims of affirmative action, not the beneficiaries, and yet they’re thirty percent of the country but they’re seventy-five percent of the dead and wounded coming back from Afghanistan. That’s not a formula for social peace.”
Buchanan also told Edwards that he thinks America will “be a Balkanized country, sort of a Tower of Babel” when whites are no longer in the racial majority.
Buchanan’s interview gained notice over the weekend among a certain segment of Buchanan’s fan base. The white supremacist group Council of Conservative Citizens promoted the interview on its website. And the National Policy Institute, which the SPLC describes as a “white supremacist think tank,” posted the interview on its NPI TV page.
It’s extremely unlikely that Buchanan was unaware of the program’s views when he appeared on the program. Media Matters, The Southern Poverty Law Center and The Anti-Defamation League criticized Buchanan for previously appearing on the program. Buchanan guested in 2006 and 2008. In a 2008 press release, ADL National Director Abraham Foxman said of Buchanan, “It’s not as if he did this by accident.” Foxman added, “Anyone who would have made inquiries into the nature of this program would have realized that it is an outlet for racism, anti-Semitism and hate.”
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Bottle gourd curry also known as Sorakaya kura or Anapakaya kura is a very simple and traditional dish from the Andhra cuisine. Bottle gourd is a very versatile vegetable and is used in preparing various savory and sweet dishes.
Bottle gourd or the lauki known in Hindi is an easily digestible vegetable with many nutrients and medicinal properties in it. Though the appearance of the vegetable is not appealing to the kids, but we should not forget that this vegetable is highly rich in iron, protein and fibre.
The lauki or bottle gourd is a very common vegetable in India yellowish green in color, shape of a bottle, spongy flesh with white pulp and white seeds. Bottle gourd is not only rich in essential minerals, iron, protein and trace elements; it is also rich in fibre. The cooked vegetable is cooling, diuretic, sedative and antibilious. It gives a refreshing feeling after eating it. During ancient times in India, bottle gourd’s woody shells (dried ones) were used as utensils and as sounding boxes for the sitar and ektara used by the bauls of Bengal. Bottle Gourd prevents excessive loss of sodium, quenches thirst and helps in preventing fatigue.
This simple and delicious bottle gourd curry with peanut curry is one of the authentic village side dish as it is commonly grown in most of the backyard of many Indian houses and is an economically priced vegetable. This traditional vegetable is cooked at least two in week with fresh bottle gourd and roasted and coarsely ground peanuts or groundnuts. It’s delicious, subtle with mild spices giving earthy and nutty flavors.
Bottle gourd is one of the most favorite vegetable in the Indian cuisine. Bottle gourd when added to any lentils tastes extremely delicious like the pappu charu or sambar and lauki or Kaddu kheer or Halwa are few of the sweet desserts that are made of bottle gourd and is relished by many. It is a best dish to be made during any feast, wedding party etc. The bottle gourd curry is a excellent dish, low cal diet, less fat and cholesterol and good for digestive problems, diabetics and convalescents. Its high water content makes it very cooling, diuretic and easy to digest.
To prepare the Bottle gourd curry, firstly peel the outer skin of the bottle gourd and cut into two vertical halves. Scoop out the inner flesh and the seeds. Make 1” dice of the remaining part. Wash the vegetable well, drain and keep aside. Soak peanuts or groundnuts for 10 minutes in little water. Chop the green chillies and fresh coriander leaves.
In a pan or kadai heat little oil and must seeds when the oil get heated. When the mustard seeds crackle, add cumin seeds and asafetida. Now add chillies, peanuts, ginger, coconut and few fresh coriander leaves. Fry for the ingredients for sometime over medium heat or till the peanuts turn golden brown color and crisp. Add the bottle gourd pieces mix thoroughly and cover the pan with a lid and let it cook for 15 minutes. Remove the lid and check if the pieces have turned tender. Add salt to taste, little sugar and mix well. Turn off the heat and top with remaining coriander leaves and serve hot with chapatti, roti or parathas.
A very easy recipe and most of the ingredients are available in ones kitchen. Less spicy, less fat and cholesterol free, what else would a diet freak want! Do try this amazing and delicious recipe and click over the link and get the detailed recipe:
This veggie is not only highly rich in iron and protein but also in fibre. The more fibre you intake the more good for your system as it has abundance curative properties! Bottle gourd is considered to be very valuable in treating urinary disorders. Apart from this peanut is rich in calcium and helps promotes healthy bones. Peanuts are a good source of vitamin E, niacin, folate, protein and manganese. In addition, peanuts provide resveratrol, the phenolic antoxidant also found in red grapes and red wine. Resveratrol is thought to be responsible for lowering the risk of heart strokes.
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“Now, they are just managing the water that’s on the site,” Vicki Hadwin of the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality said Wednesday. The companies are trying to clear a work area by hauling off the standing water in trucks, Hadwin said. Workers found a small amount of asbestos that they were working to remove, she said.
Brandenburg Industrial Service Company is the demolition contractor; Clean Harbors Company is doing the waste transportation and disposal; and Environmental Resources Management Group is the environmental consultant for the cleanup.
The cleanup of the site is scheduled to be finished at the beginning of June. “This will be pretty significant as far as cleanup goes,” Hadwin said.
The DEQ announced at the end of January that cleanup work would resume in February after the initial cleanup phase was completed in 2008.
State Rep. Sam Jones, D-Franklin, who is a member of the Natural Resources Committee in the Legislature, said, “it’s been a long wait” due to court and legal issues. “What will be good is for the cleanup to be done, for it to be certified complete, and for the property to be able to be put back into commerce, which will be good for all of St. Mary Parish and the region,” Jones said.
The site’s hazardous wastes were a major issue for the area in the late 1980s and early ’90s, Jones said.
There have been a couple other hazardous waste sites in the parish that have been cleaned up recently as well, he added.
In 1985, Marine Shale Processors began incinerating hazardous wastes, reducing them to ash, according to the cooperative agreement between the DEQ and Marine Shale Processors.
Marine Shale Processors ceased operating the site in 1996 but left behind storage tanks and bins containing incinerated waste residues and untreated wastes, onsite stockpiles of incinerated wastes and untreated waste, and fill material composed of incinerated waste material, according to the agreement.
The State of Louisiana and U.S. Department of Justice took civil action against Marine Shale Processors to recover response costs following the finding of incinerated waste materials and untreated wastes at the abandoned site near Amelia.
“Hopefully, by the end of the week, they’ll start unloading tanks,” Hadwin said, of the tank farm area where they will pump out the liquids and remove the solids from the tanks, and take down the piping, she said. Then they will start demolishing the tanks and piping.
They will also be demolishing an office building on the site through next week, she said.
After that they will go to the dock area of the site to remove waste material from tanks and clean the material out on some abandoned barges. Then they will dismantle the kiln, which was used to incinerate hazardous wastes, and take down the oxidizers, the “big red U-shaped structures” that are visible from the road, Hadwin said.
By the end of the cleanup, in June, all of the wastes from the tanks should be gone, she said. “All the structures will be gone except for a warehouse that doesn’t have any waste in it,” Hadwin said. Lastly, a company will come in to do soil and groundwater testing. “Then we’ll see if there are any other actions that need to be done out there.”
Jones said the Natural Resources Committee will have a meeting Tuesday to discuss environmental issues including the Bayou Corne sinkhole in Assumption Parish.
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Do you play in Facebook? Over 200 million people do
Zynga and other guests while they fight over issues of copyright , on Facebook have no problem with people who spend many hours in front of the little games. According to new statistics, during the last 30 days there were over 230 million people playing in the social network, either from the ancient Tower Blox to any of the Zynga Ville.
Nor is the only interesting thing that gave Doug Purdy, director of product development for the social network. At the same time period, more than 150 million people went directly from Facebook to Apple’s App Store or Google Play, and 8 of the 10 highest-grossing iOS applications have direct integration with Facebook.
The number of Purdy were part of a talk about Facebook as an “engine of growth”, and how application developers such third party are taking advantage of the social network, and how they can go further to maximize the reach to users and consequently, profits. Doug Purdy says that since the beginning of the network realized that there were many things that would be meaningful to its users, but they would not be able to build all those experiences and that is why they focused on their platform development easy for you to rest.
Thus explains the explosion of existing applications in the social network. The complete presentation can be viewed straight after, but the absence of subtitles, a good understanding of English is almost mandatory.
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We both work in visual media, and sometimes combine that with writing …
wool, linen, and cotton yarns, stones,
on a welded frame, 30"h x 90"w x 6"d
Pat creates and exhibits artwork in a variety of media. She has shown her work and won awards in Southeastern U.S. museums and competitions; her drawing, "Crow," won $5000 from MacWorld in 1986. Visit her exhibit below.
CLICK HERE to PLAY Art Show
• RESET to beginning
Pat's Fiber Exhibit video click here.
Over the years, Wim has been a playwright, director, scene shop foreman, set designer, and actor. This little clip will give you a hint of his current writing/performance effort.
written and performed by Wim Coleman
More Videos —
Wim Coleman and Kathy Snodgrass read "God's Substitute" a play by
Wim and Monse read Wim's play
"Sequoyah and His Talking Leaves"
Monse's Aerial Dance
"Bonnie and Her Family," a spider documentary by Monse and Wim
We're also making short videos about history, literature, and mythology. See
"How the West Was Made (Up)"
CONTACT and favorite links
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Thursday, August 09, 2012 at 8:55 AMWebmaster level: Advanced
We’ve gotten several questions recently about whether website testing—such as A/B or multivariate testing—affects a site’s performance in search results. We’re glad you’re asking, because we’re glad you’re testing! A/B and multivariate testing are great ways of making sure that what you’re offering really appeals to your users.
Before we dig into the implications for search, a brief primer:
Website testing is when you try out different versions of your website (or a part of your website), and collect data about how users react to each version. You use software to track which version causes users to do-what-you-want-them-to-do most often: which one results in the most purchases, or the most email signups, or whatever you’re testing for. After the test is finished you can update your website to use the “winner” of the test—the most effective content.
A/B testing is when you run a test by creating multiple versions of a page, each with its own URL. When users try to access the original URL, you redirect some of them to each of the variation URLs and then compare users’ behaviour to see which page is most effective.
Multivariate testing is when you use software to change differents parts of your website on the fly. You can test changes to multiple parts of a page—say, the heading, a photo, and the ‘Add to Cart’ button—and the software will show variations of each of these sections to users in different combinations and then statistically analyze which variations are the most effective. Only one URL is involved; the variations are inserted dynamically on the page.
So how does this affect what Googlebot sees on your site? Will serving different content variants change how your site ranks? Below are some guidelines for running an effective test with minimal impact on your site’s search performance.
- No cloaking.
Cloaking—showing one set of content to humans, and a different set to Googlebot—is against our Webmaster Guidelines, whether you’re running a test or not. Make sure that you’re not deciding whether to serve the test, or which content variant to serve, based on user-agent. An example of this would be always serving the original content when you see the user-agent “Googlebot.” Remember that infringing our Guidelines can get your site demoted or removed from Google search results—probably not the desired outcome of your test.
- Use rel=“canonical”.
If you’re running an A/B test with multiple URLs, you can use the rel=“canonical” link attribute on all of your alternate URLs to indicate that the original URL is the preferred version. We recommend using rel=“canonical” rather than a noindex meta tag because it more closely matches your intent in this situation. Let’s say you were testing variations of your homepage; you don’t want search engines to not index your homepage, you just want them to understand that all the test URLs are close duplicates or variations on the original URL and should be grouped as such, with the original URL as the canonical. Using noindex rather than rel=“canonical” in such a situation can sometimes have unexpected effects (e.g., if for some reason we choose one of the variant URLs as the canonical, the “original” URL might also get dropped from the index since it would get treated as a duplicate).
- Use 302s, not 301s.
- Only run the experiment as long as necessary.
The amount of time required for a reliable test will vary depending on factors like your conversion rates, and how much traffic your website gets; a good testing tool should tell you when you’ve gathered enough data to draw a reliable conclusion. Once you’ve concluded the test, you should update your site with the desired content variation(s) and remove all elements of the test as soon as possible, such as alternate URLs or testing scripts and markup. If we discover a site running an experiment for an unnecessarily long time, we may interpret this as an attempt to deceive search engines and take action accordingly. This is especially true if you’re serving one content variant to a large percentage of your users.
To learn more about website testing, check out these articles on Content Experiments, our free testing tool in Google Analytics. You can also ask questions about website testing in the Analytics Help Forum, or about search impact in the Webmaster Help Forum.
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We all have it - me too. So what's the best way to stop it impacting on a judgement? To be aware it exists and account for it. Science is an inherently sceptical approach to a subject that demands findings be transparent and checked over by others (peer review). Science also spends time researching that bias to better understand it and then re-designing it's methods to account better for it. I've gone into more detail of the scientific process here.
Put simply, the key to accounting for cognitive bias is to have a rigorous and accountable system. Science has it; it's not perfect, but no human-run system will be. But it is there and is accountable. Global warming denial does not. It has zero accountability, is tainted thought and though with corporate cash and riddled with chancers, lies and errors. But it also panders to the worst of cogitative bias. Here's a example how. This is a quote from an article by rabid denier Andrew Bolt - who writes prolifically on the subject of global warming and the science behind it. In this instance he is commenting on the debate between Monkton and Lambert and confesses that on the technical details of who is right or wrong;
Don’t ask me to adjudicate on the Lambert-Monckton stoush. Many of these issues are over my head...
A tacit admission that he does not understand the workings of the science means that it is impossible for him to make his mind up on the basis of logic and facts; because he is ill equipped to understand them. No shame there, I'm not much better. That means he is making his mind up only on the basis of 'truthiness' - what he'd like to be true rather than what is true. However I don't then call out people as frauds who's work I don't understand simply because it does not accord with my bias. I do critique the work of denailists because it is written by fellow amateurs using simple tricks that even a basic bullshit detector will spot.
Again to put this simply; people like Andrew Bolt are simply blowing the trumpets of people who confirm their existing prejudice - that that in no guarantee of truth - indeed it is a logical gap that means you wont see the wood for the trees.
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The time is 8:15 am. You have a meeting at 8:45am. This leaves you with 15 minutes to get to work and make sure your hair doesn’t look like a character from Avatar. What do you do?
Two new studies out this month make the case that at rush hour, bikes can leave cars and public transportation in the dust, while other studies show the number of daily bikers is taking off.
First, compare cars to bikes. A recent article in the MIT Technology Review draws on data from 11.6 million bicycle trips in the French city of Lyon between May 2005 and December 2007. The data shows that, on average, bicyclists travel nearly as fast as cars and that, at rush hour, the average speed of cyclists actually outstrips that of the average car -- and this doesn’t include time for parking.
Some claim that this data doesn’t apply to American cities, many of which, unlike Lyon, are built on a grid. I’m in the camp that uses this science to make an unscientific claim: bikes can, in the right conditions, travel faster than cars when commuting. For the 9 out of 10 Americans who drive to work in a private car, this may well come as a surprise.
Another tool makes the comparison of public transportation to biking quite vividly. Mapnificient.net will show you how long it will take you to get to any part of a city of your choice at any time of day and within any time limits. It also lets you specify whether you have a bike with you. Say you select New York City, 8 a.m., starting point of the Washington Square area and a travel time of at most 15 minutes. The highlighted area (where you can travel) bubbles out to encompass southern Manhattan. Indicate that you’ll be carrying a bike, however, and your reach extends out impressively. This isn’t specific to New York City, either; I replicated this comparison in cities such as Chicago, Minneapolis, Denver, Dallas, and even London. All returned the same result.
I grant that this model doesn’t work in all locations for all people. Cities like San Francisco, that boast hilly terrain, are likely not suitable for this model. Nor are bikes a suitable replacement for all other forms of transportation; in a modern city, each has its place. However, these studies do suggest a general rule of commuting: bikes are faster than cars, in the right situation. That by itself is significant.
The good news for cycling supporters is that more Americans are realizing this. According to the American Community Survey, in cities like Boston and Washington, D.C., ridership is up 165 percent and 108 percent respectively over 2005 levels. In New York, where Mayor Bloomberg has constructed over 200 miles of new bike lanes in the last four years, ridership has doubled since 2005, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The rest of the country may be less enthusiastic about cycling, but they’re more enthusiastic than they were. According to the American Community Survey, between 2005 and 2009, bike commuting grew by 0.3 percent. Nothing, you say? It’s something, surely.
(Photo provided courtesy of megawheel360 @ flickr. Used under the Creative Commons license.)
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Published in AIDS Weekly, June 2nd, 2003
"The immunology of vertical HIV transmission differs from that of adult infection in that the immune system of the infant is not fully matured, and the factors that influence the functionality of CD8+ T-cell responses against HIV in children remain largely undefined," researchers in Sweden noted.
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When my children were babies, I fed them liver because “it was good for them.” And, of course, my husband and I choked it down with them. As they grew, I served liver less and less until it was no longer a part of our diet. But now that we’re eating grass-fed and pastured meat and thinking more about nutrient-dense food, I’ve had to reconsider organ meats and other parts of the animal that I previously considered waste. Reading Long Way on a Little by Shannon Hayes convinced me that it was time to reintroduce offal into our diet. This would be good for our health and good for our pocket-book. As Shannon Hayes reminds us, “Sustainable livestock farming cannot happen without sustainable livestock consumption. We must make use of all the gifts an animal provides when we take its life.”
Traditional cultures prized organ meats. It’s unfortunate that our culture has rejected it’s use since organ meats and fat are high in vitamins A, D, E and K, essential fatty acids, and macro and trace minerals. At this point, I’m regularly preparing bone broth, rendering fat, and preparing liver. As I have access to other organs, I’ll make use of them. I’ve also begun to collect recipes, and I’ll share some of those here.
I think this is probably one of the parts of the animal that is often wasted that is easiest to incorporate into our diet. There is nothing distasteful to our senses about a pot of broth simmering on the stove. It’s just that we’ve become too busy, too lazy, or perhaps too uninformed to make our own broth. Now that I’ve formed this habit, I wonder why I ever thought it was hard. And I could never go back to using canned or boxed broth; there is just no comparison in taste. In addition, store-bought broth (even organic) is missing the proteinaceous gelatin and electrolytes found in bone broth. Using bones is a great way to save money. Quoting Shannon Hayes again, “Bones are one of the cheapest ways to incorporate the health benefits of grass-fed meats into your family’s diet.”
Since I wrote this post on making chicken broth, I’ve begun adding chicken feet. This insures the most gelatinous and easy to digest broth ever. Holistic Squid shares a few ways to make chicken bone broth from basic to adventurous. With beef, the bones should be roasted first. Real Food Forager explains how to make broth with beef bones. And here’s where you may buy bone broth, if you prefer.
Speaking of beef bones, have you ever eaten the marrow from them? It’s really delicious! Here is Cheeseslave’s recipe for Roasted Bone Marrow and another for making Beef Pho using beef bones and marrow.
What a shame that our culture has demonized fat. Assuming that it is from an animal that was raised in a healthy manner, fat helps us to absorb minerals from our food, is essential to healthy hormone production and satiates in a way that no other food can. Animal fat makes food taste good. Who doesn’t love butter slathered on a freshly baked slice of bread? It is preferable to vegetable oil for browning meat since it can withstand higher cooking temperatures. And it makes the best pie crust. The next time you are getting meat from your local farmer, ask him for the fat. Pork fat can be rendered into lard. Beef fat is rendered into tallow (Recipe from Too Many Jars in My Kitchen). When making chicken broth, skim the fat off of the top and use it to grease pans or to brown meat. Do the same with beef fat. Save bacon fat; a tablespoon on cooked vegetables is heavenly. Not only is it delicious, it saves money. And if you’re a soap or candle maker, tallow can be used here as well. Tallow can also be used in homemade cosmetics. Remember, 20% – 30% of the animal is fat and bones, so using these parts does the most to reduce waste.
One of my hesitations in reintroducing liver into our diet was the fact that the liver’s function is to remove toxins from the blood. It is true that the liver does not store toxins, but the toxins do pass through the liver and are likely present at the time of death. For this reason, Sally Fallon, in Nourishing Traditions, recommends that we only purchase organic liver. I feel that we should go “beyond organic” and know your farmer and how he is raising his animals to ensure the least amount of toxins as possible. High nutritive value will outweigh small amounts of toxins.
As far as cooking liver, the number one secret that I have discovered is to soak the liver in milk or lemon juice for several hours before proceeding with your recipe. I now love liver, and I love the boost in energy I get from it. I could eat it every day.
A lot of bloggers that I follow have great recipes for cooking liver. Gutsy’s recipe for chicken liver pate turned me into a liver lover. It’s a good recipe to start with because it also contains lots of butter. Nourishing Joy has a few different pates. And I like Holistic Squid’s ideas for using liver. It’s common to make pate with liver, but Nourished Kitchen shares a recipe that simply fries them.
Liver and onions is a classic way to serve beef liver. I really liked what Thank My Body has to say about liver. She reminds us that liver does not store toxins but instead it stores a lot of powerful nutrients that the body uses against the toxins. She also shares how to make beef liver cubes to add to recipes that use ground meat. The Coconut Mama also has great ideas for sneaking into other recipes. Homemade Mommy uses it in her chili. I like that idea. She also shares a traditional Yiddish recipe from her grandmother for chopped liver with hard boiled eggs.
Yes, I’ve tasted kidneys, but have not yet cooked with them. They have a stronger flavor, so I’ll be using recipes with sauces, and lots of onions. I understand that soaking them in lemon juice helps, just as it does with liver.
Well, not anytime soon: How to Cook a Pig’s Head
Our ancestors used all of the animal from nose to tail and I really am of the opinion that we are doing ourselves a disservice by not at least attempting to do the same. What great ways are you using offal?
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A goiter is a swelling in the neck due to an enlarged thyroid gland from various causes, such as hyperthyroidism or hypothyroidism. The size may range from a single small nodule to a large neck lump. The swollen thyroid can put pressure on the windpipe and esophagus which can cause a cough, wheezing, breathing difficulties or swallowing difficulties. Treatment of a goiter depends on the underlying cause and the presence or absence of symptoms.
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Do you know what the best practices of SEO are? If you don’t, you aren’t alone. SEO can be confusing for people that do not deal with it in an up close and personal manner. It’s fairly common to know that you need keywords and links and that somehow those along with quality content translates into good rankings in the SERPs. What many people do not realize, however, is that there are many ways to achieve that goal of being at the top of Google. Because some of the tactics used to gain better rankings are frowned upon (Black hat SEO), here is a small guide to refer to so that you know that you are following the best SEO practices and will not suffer every time an algorithm changes or be sandboxed for not playing by the rules.
1. Content has to be reader friendly. You cannot use content that is designed solely to try to provide the bots with what you think they want with the hopes of good rankings. Google bot, in particular, is getting wise to this and it doesn’t work. You need to produce content that is reader friendly and actually provides them with something of value. You cannot keyword stuff your content, you should not be trying to use article spinners, and you need to avoid duplicate content as much as possible.
2. Links need to be natural and relevant. Link building programs that promise hundreds or even thousands of links overnight are not going to work. Google will not only penalize you to the bowels of the search returns, they may decide to sandbox you. Using a link building program is okay, but it has to build relevant links in a manner that appears to be organic. Google is okay with this!
3. Don’t try to game the system with black hat SEO tricks like white text on a white background. This worked several years ago, but once the SERPs caught on to this trick, it became an offense that generated an automatic sandbox. Before you engage in any get results fast scheme, ask yourself this – is it too good to be true? If it is, then avoid it!
4. Keep a clean site. What this basically refers to is making your site easy to navigate by indexing it correctly, avoiding Flash as much as possible and doing regular housekeeping. Make sure your links work every month or two. Visit pages and make sure they load quickly and correctly. Try to avoid jamming too much onto your pages thinking more is always better. This provides a better user experience and a fast loading site is a Google friendly site!
The best practices of SEO are very simple. Give your visitors what they want and make it easy for them to access. Try to operate under the mantra Google once did which is “Do no evil.” If you play by the rules, SEO is magnificent and can get and keep your site ranked well. If you try to break the rules and take the easy route you will pay the price. When you deal with an SEO company, make sure they follow these best practices and have a proved track record of success.
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Previously I posted a note that suggested that the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) will be the linchpin in health care reform. That Office will be required to calculate the budget implications of any reform package. And if that calculation reveals that the reform is underfunded by about a trillion dollars (as it is right now) this will create insurmountable problems to its passage.
Nervous congressional Democrats are trying to figure out how to circumvent the CBO. One strategy is to bypass the CBO and rely on the administrations calculations from their Office of Management and Budget, a sort of parallel organization to the CBO, the difference being that the CBO can be relied up to come up with whatever number is needed to pass the legislation. One of the areas of contention between the CBO and the OMB is how much to credit preventive care as a money saving element of reform. The CBO credits it with zero dollars and the OMB with hundreds of billions of dollars. Here’s a news item from yesterday that highlights this:
Sen. Barbara Boxer said she would not feel obliged to abide by CBO’s work if it does not take into account savings from preventive healthcare and other reforms.Who’s right, the CBO (zero savings from prevention) or the OMB (hundreds of billions saved from prevention)? The CBO is correct (zero savings). Here’s why—"I haven’t seen [the CBO score] but if they don’t take into account prevention, I certainly won’t. I will not follow it — we just heard from the CEO of Safeway, who said his insurance costs went steadily down since they instigated incentives for prevention.
Any scoring that doesn’t understand that, is not relevant to the way we work.”
It is endlessly repeated by politicians, public health advocates, physicians, TV talking heads that we spend a huge percentage (the figure 30%) is often used to treat “preventable” illness. What is usually meant by this are those chronic diseases that are driven by lifestyle—diabetes, heart disease, COPD, smoking-related cancers etc. This is undeniable. This set of conditions easily accounts for at least 30% of our health care budget. There is in fact an exploding industry devoted to both the primary and secondary prevention of these problems, the so-called Disease Management and Wellness industry. These programs target the high risk population and attempt (with varying degrees of success) to change behavior and thereby reduce health care costs. It can be shown that well engineered and properly implemented programs of this type can indeed pay for themselves and even return savings in the form of reduced health care costs. So what’s the problem? If a company of, say, 500 employees can do this, why can’t be implement this on a scale of the entire US population?
Here’s the problem. If I’m an employer considering such a program one of the questions I have to ask is, “Will I, as the employer, realize the savings from such a program? So what if I spend money to get an employee to quit smoking and then he leaves this job to work somewhere else…I’ve just financed the savings for some other company.”
And indeed if a particular company has a high employee turnover rate these programs will not save money. The reduced health care expenditures have to occur under the watch of the employer who paid for the program for this to make sense. There are algorithms that will tell you if a particular employee turn-over rate will or will not allow for such savings. From the employers perspective the healthy employee has to remain in his employ to realize the savings. The key word here is “perspective.” We must always ask from whose perspective are we calculating health care costs or savings.
When doing the calculations that the OMB and CBO are doing the correct perspective from which to view this is the societal perspective. We are interested in the total net costs or savings in our entire health care system for all persons at all stages of their life. An individual might leave and employer but he never leaves the umbrella of the societal perspective.
Ah, but this is good news, you might think. Any ex-smoker, reformed couch potato or otherwise newly healthy person is always under the societal umbrella and thus all savings will eventually accrue at a societal level. Ergo, we save billions.
But this societal perspective is precisely the problem. Let’s consider several scenarios from both the employer’s perspective and from the societal perspective:
Scenario 1. Joe Blow is a 32-year old smoker who works for the Megatron Corp. Joe says the hell with it. I like cigarettes. I’m not quitting. Joe stays with Megatron his whole career. He experiences a variety of smoking-related illnesses (chronic bronchitis) and eventually dies of lung cancer at age 59. The Megatron Corp. spends a good deal on money on Joe’s health care over the years and eventually pays for the the futile treatment of his lung cancer.
Scenario 2. The Megatron Corp. implements a worksite wellness program that includes a tobacco cessation program. After couple of failed attempts Joe eventually quits smoking at age 36 and continues to work productively for Megatron Corp until he retires at age 62. During his employment Joe enjoyed generally good health and had only routine medical care with the exception of knee surgery to repair the ligaments he tore skiing. (Joe really did reform himself…he became an avid outdoorsman, hiker, skier.) The couple of hundred dollars Megatron spent to get Joe to quit smoking saved many tens of thousand of dollars in related health care costs.
Success!! Prevention works. It saves money. At least from the employer’s perspective. But from a societal perspective Joe’s story continues:
Joe enters retirement (and Medicare) in good health. He remains active, but eventually that repaired knee gets worn out and he gets a total knee replacement. By his mid-70s one of his hips is gone and that gets replaced too. But Joe is still going strong. Soon he needs cataract surgery and some lens implants as well. Joe is becoming all spare parts!! In his late 70’s he suffers a mild stroke…his skiing days are over. Two years later he’s diagnosed with colon cancer. Surgery and radiation go pretty well, but one never knows.
What finally gets him, though, is dementia. After a few years his children realize that Joe can no longer care for himself and his children put him in a long-term care facility. He doesn’t last long there, only 3 years, an Joe dies at age 83. Not that anyone is keeping track, but Medicare ended up spending $400k on Joe during his retirement.
Alright, this is all make-believe, but what this illustrates is this: From a societal perspective, prevention of chronic illness is impossible. All that is possible is to postpone chronic illness. Every case of lung cancer that is prevented exposes society to future cases of colon cancer, stroke, Parkinsonism, dementia, and well, everything else. Every premature diabetes-related death that is prevented exposes society to future cases of breast cancer, skin cancer, kidney failure, liver disease, and well, everything else.
Now of course, if we can prevent lung cancer and diabetes and emphysema and other chronic disease, we should. This is the point, after all. But we cannot do so with the illusion that somehow we will never end up spending boat-loads of money as we age and become infirm. In nearly all cases, preventing early chronic illness will end up costing us far more money to treat later-life chronic illness. But that’s the price of success.
Anyway, watch for the battle between CBO (who are professionals) and the OMB (who are political hacks) on this.
As one who teaches a class in wellness, I certainly thought that prevention saved money. As you can see from what my colleague has written, it all depends upon the perspective of who pays for the prevention on who saves money. Obviously, preventive measures that are effective: proper diet, regular exercise, no smoking, use of seat belts, safe sex, should be implemented.
I often hear people say we all have to die sometime. In fact, someone trying to get me to buy tobacco in Mexico a couple of weeks ago said that to me. But the reduced disability, prolonged and productive life is good for each of us, no?
Frankly, my mother’s death at age 66 from cigarette smoking deprived my children of a grandmother. I was very fortunate that my own grandmother and great grandmother died when they were in their late 90s and early 100s, respectively. I miss them both but have vivid memories as they both died when I was an adult. My children don’t have that. Likewise, my mother’s early death meant she didn’t see my daughters grow to become a bat mitzvah, let alone married and have children.
Thus, I think the benefits outweigh the economic cost and we do need to implement more and better prevention programs. If it takes the deep pocket of the government to do it so be it but let's be honest about the costs unless do we really need a white lie is needed to get the reform package passed.
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Thanks for reading.
Here was what I was thinking: Arthur, Guenevere and Lancelot are the three major characters, so they ought to get the primary colors. Gender distribution is two and one; "warm" and "cool" color distribution is two and one respectively - Guenevere gets the cool primary color, blue. Yellow is more, pardon the rhyme, mellow than red - Arthur gets yellow and Lancelot gets red.
Secondary colors go to Merlin, Morgan and Nimue. Gender distribution happens to be opposite to the primary color characters, so each secondary character was assigned the complement - the color opposite it on the color wheel - to the color of the primary character who, of the three opposite-gender characters among the six, has the least to do with the particular secondary character. Morgan is Arthur's sister and Merlin's apprentice - she gets green, the complement of Lancelot's color, red.* Merlin is master to both Morgan and Nimue - he gets orange, the complement of Guenevere's color, blue. Nimue is Merlin's apprentice and lover, and (in some versions) Lancelot's mother or foster mother (which is how she's Lady of the Lake and he's "du Lac") - she gets violet or purple, the complement of Arthur's color, yellow. So primary characters got primary colors and secondary characters got secondary colors, and males all got warm colors and females all got cool colors.
Supporting characters get variations on these colors depending on their relationship to the leads. Gawaine and his siblings are in a yellow-green because they're Morgan's and Arthur's nephews; their father Lot's in yellow-green, but Morgause is in a dark green because she's more Arthur's enemy than Morgan is. Ban and Leodogrance and their men and their halls wear their offsprings' colors. Arthur's foster family wear yellow or the olive-drab that yellow becomes when you mix black with it. Pellinore's in a sort of light indigo, because indigo will be Sir Pelleas' color when he takes up with Nimue after Merlin's death, and from their names they must be related.** But that's getting ahead of myself - there are plently of color assignments besides Pelleas' for characters yet to debut (actually Pelleas has had a quick cameo), and you'll learn their colors then.
* Now I think twice, I think I assigned Morgan green first and Lancelot and Arthur their respective primary colors in relation to that, because green is the color of Faerie.
** I balked at giving Pelleas orange after Merlin's death, even though after a fashion he'll be taking Merlin's niche. Or rather, he'll move into Nimue's niche when she moves into Merlin's, but I wasn't willing to give Nimue orange and Pelleas purple either, because that muddled up the primary-secondary character-color relationships. But, I thought, while there are only six colors in the color wheel, those six colors are also in the rainbow, along with a seventh, indigo. Thus, Pelleas' color.
Arthuriana sources I use or recommend:
Arthuriana - the Journal of Arthurian Studies; the website of the quarterly journal of the North American Branch of the International Arthurian Society.
The Camelot Project at the University of Rochester.
Camelot In Four Colors: A Survey of the Arthurian Legend in Comics
Mystical-WWW - The Arthurian A2Z knowledge Bank which has encyclopedically-arranged entries on the characters of the Arthurian legends.
Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table, Volume 1 and Volume 2.
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"I have now come to the conclusion that suicide is an absolutely selfish act. I am personally fed up with soldiers who are choosing to take their own lives so that others can clean up their mess. Be an adult, act like an adult and deal with your real-life problems like the rest of us."
According to the National Journal, "Pittard's blunt comments about suicide have raised eyebrows throughout the military. . . . Suicide-prevention experts believe that Pittard's blog posting has already conveyed precisely the wrong message to emotionally-fragile troops.
"In the words of Barbara Van Dahlen, the founder of Give an Hour, an organization that matches troops with civilian mental-health providers: 'Soldiers who are thinking about suicide can't do what the general says: They can't suck it up, they can't let it go, they can't just move on. They're not acting out of selfishness; they're acting because they believe they've become a burden to their loved ones and can only relieve that burden by taking their own lives. . . . His statement -- whatever motivated it -- can do little good for those who are already on the edge.'"
As a result of the furor, on May 23, the Wednesday before Memorial Day, the general wrote the following:
"Thanks to many of you and your feedback, I have learned that this was a hurtful statement. I also realize that my statement was not in line with the Army's guidance regarding sensitivity to suicide. With my deepest sincerity and respect towards those whom I have offended, I retract that statement."
There are three questions that need to be answered here:
1) Was the general's original blog right? 2) Even if it was right, should the general have made it public? 3) Should he have been pressured to retract his original comments?
Regarding the first question, unless suicide is committed as a result of terrible and unrelenting physical pain -- especially if one is suffering from a terminal illness -- or a person knows that he is about to be tortured, most suicides are selfish acts. This is said with no lack of compassion for the terrible psychological suffering that people who commit suicide experience.
Carney: Okay Fine, Senior Officials Knew the IRS Report was Coming, but Nobody Told Obama | Guy Benson
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Basically, the difference between the two is this: JPGs are a processed photo, using the built-in processing software from the camera, to produce a final photo ready to print or display. You CAN still alter them and process them further if so desired, and using the camera's controls you can manipulate how those JPGs are processed by the camera (picture controls offer color profiles, adjustable contrast, saturation, and sharpness)...but what you get is a fully processed photo. RAW files are just what they sound like - they are unprocessed - they come from the camera chock full of excess information with no processing applied at all - it's up to you to choose how much to process them...you can choose the 'defaults' of the RAW program you're using, which may be the defaults recommended by the camera, or you can use your skills to create the final result you desire. But you do all of it at the computer, rather than in the camera. You have much more leeway to alter or process than with the JPG file, but won't get much more out of it without the basic skills and understanding to do it.
Don't get too caught up in feeling like you need to shoot RAW to be a professional...you don't. Many pros and very skilled photographers choose to shoot JPG, and for some people it's the preferred or better choice. The more you get right in the camera, the less 'need' you have for RAW to alter or correct things. If you're an avid computerhead who loves time spent in front of the computer, then RAW can be an absolute pleasure and the preferred shooting method even if you do get everything right in the camera. If you enjoy the photography more than the computer, then bump up your skills with the camera and learn to manipulate your camera's JPG output and nail your exposures and shoot in JPG, that way you can spend minimal time in front of the glowing screen of your computer.
As for the Sony A300 - it isn't a super-strong low light performer, but you should be able to pretty comfortably shoot up to ISO1600 with very decent results. The Sony sensors starting with the A500 and up are excellent with high ISO and low light shooting, with much better noise control and detail retention, but remember too that noise is amplified by many things - are you using DRO settings in low light that can boost shadow brightness resulting in more noise? Are you underexposing shots in low light which will cause much stronger noise? Have you set the in-camera noise reduction settings properly so when you shoot in JPG you get better noise results, or are you using good noise reduction software on your RAW shots to pull out the noise?
There's no question you'll get a better low light camera if you move to a newer Sony model - you don't have to go for the new A65 - the A500, A550, A450, A33, A55, A560, and A580, all will do much better than your current camera - some of those can be found on closeout or used and give you an excellent camera with all the same features you like on your A300 (in body stabilization, tilt LCD, fast live view). But you can also get better with your A300, and should be more than capable of shooting clean ISO1600s and usable ISO3200s.
Sony DSLR-A580 / Sony 18-250mm / Minolta 50mm F1.7 / Sigma 30mm F1.4 / Tamron 10-24mm / Tamron 200-500mm / Tamron 90mm F2.8 macro / Minolta 300mm F4 APO
Sony NEX5N / 18-55mm F3.5-5.6 / 55-210mm F4-6.3 / Pentax K adapter / Konica K/AR adapter / bunches o' Konica & Pentax lenses!
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User-Centric Private Matching for eHealth Networks - A Social Perspective
The widely deployed electronic Health (eHealth) systems changed people's daily life due to the extraordinary benefits, such as more efficiency, higher accuracy and broader availability. Patients in the eHealth network use their Personal Health Records (PHRs) to communicate with their physicians and obtain medical services. As a matter of fact, patients who share the same diseases or symptoms want to communicate with each other not only for treatment, but also for psychological therapy. However, without sufficient knowledge of the authenticity of other patients' PHRs, patients are reluctant to share their medical information. On the other hand, patients would accept the patient-to-patient interaction only if their privacy issues of PHR are also well preserved.
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Honduras: Solution or Stall?
The Honduran crisis may soon be over. Maybe. The leader of the coup government, Roberto Micheletti, agreed to a nine-point plan to end the country's political impasse, brokered by Thomas Shannon, the former US Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs and Barack Obama's yet-to-be-confirmed ambassador to Brazil. The deal would return Manuel Zelaya, the democratically elected president deposed in a military coup four months ago, to office; in exchange, the international community will end Honduras' diplomatic isolation and recognize upcoming presidential elections, scheduled for November 29.
Hardliners in the coup government, however, see a loophole in the accords, which gives the Honduran National Congress the power to approve or reject Zelaya's return. And no sooner was the ink dry on the accord when a top Micheletti advisor, Marcia Facusse de Villeda, told Bloomberg News that "Zelaya won't be restored." In a barefaced admission that the coup government was trying to buy time, Facusse said that "just by signing this agreement we already have the recognition of the international community for the elections." Another Micheletti aide, Arturo Corrales, said that since the congress is not in session, no vote on the agreement could be scheduled until "after the elections."
But such a calculated reading of the agreement will not play well with most countries, including the United Nations, the Organization of American States, and the European Union, which have repeatedly called for restoration of Zelaya. Brazil--whose Tegucigalpa embassy has given Zelaya shelter since his dramatic surprise return to Honduras over a month ago--applauded Shannon's deal, yet made it clear Zelaya had to be reinstated. And in Honduras, the National Party, whose candidate is expected to win next month's vote, wants this crisis to be over. Its members in Congress may join with Liberal Party deputies loyal to Zelaya to approve the deal.
The accord leaves unresolved the issue of whether the widespread human rights violations that have taken place since the coup will be investigated and prosecuted, only vaguely rejecting an amnesty for "political crimes" and calling for the establishment of a truth commission. More than a dozen Zelaya supporters have been executed over the last four months. Security forces have illegally detained nearly 10,000 people; police and soldiers have beaten protesters and gang-raped women. And the very idea of a negotiated solution to the crisis grants legitimacy to those provoked it.
Still, if Zelaya were to be restored to the presidency, even just symbolically, to preside over the November elections and supervise a transfer of power to its winner, it would represent a significant victory for progressive forces in the hemisphere. Here's why:
1. The attempt by Micheletti and his backers--both in and out of Honduras--to justify the overthrow of Zelaya by claiming it was a constitutional transfer of power will have definitively failed. If this justification was allowed to go unchallenged, it would have set a dangerous precedent for the rest of Latin America.
2. Efforts to rally support for the coup under the banner of anti-leftism, or anti-Chavismo--much the way anti-communism served to unite conservatives during the Cold War--will likewise have failed.
3. It will confirm the political influence--and unity--of Latin America's progressive governments, particularly Brazil and Venezuela, which have taken the lead in demanding that the coup not stand--a position that aligned them with much of the rest of the world.
4. It will be an important push back for Republicans like South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint and Otto Reich, who tried to use the crisis to push for a more hardline US policy against the left in Latin America. It is DeMint who has put the hold on Shannon's confirmation, as well as on the confirmation of Arturo Valenzuela, Obama's pick for Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs.
5. It will hopefully help the Obama administration realize that in many Latin American countries, there is no alternative to working with the left. In Honduras, the violence of the coup government, as well as the fact that the extended crisis smoked out its less than savory supporters, like Reich, awoke not too pleasant memories of the Cold War. Reich recently penned an essay urging Obama to replicate Ronald Reagan's successful Latin American policy, which the Iran-Contra alum believed paved the way for the fall of the Berlin Wall. Many, however, remember too well Reagan's patronage of death squads and torturers. And reports that Honduran planters were importing Colombian paramilitaries to protect their interests were not helping defenders of the coup make their case. As protests continued, it became clear to all who paid attention that it was the good guys - trade unionists, peasants, Native Americans, environmentalists, feminists, gay and lesbian activists, and progressive priests - who were demanding the return of Zelaya.
6. Zelaya's return would be a huge boost for those good guys, who are largely responsible for the inability of the coup government to consolidate its rule. Against all expectations, they have defied tear gas, batons, bullets, and curfews, and engaged in creative and heroic acts of resistance, growing stronger and more unified than they were before the coup four months ago. They will engage with the new government from a position of strength, while the elites who have long ruled Honduras will be fractured and chastised.
The accords brokered by Shannon force Zelaya to renounce any attempt to convene a constitutional convention, yet the National Front against the Coup - the umbrella group that has coordinated opposition to Micheletti - has made it clear that that demand is "non-negotiable" and that it would continue to push for it, no matter who is president.
It was of course fear of a constituent assembly that provoked the coup in the first place, and it is an irony probably not lost on those who executed it that a large majority of Hondurans, according to a recent poll, now think that such an assembly would be the best way to solve the country's political crisis.
The last thing Micheletti and his supporters want to see is Mel Zelaya, with his white cowboy hat and wide smile, addressing a large crowd filling the streets of Tegucigalpa celebrating his reinstallation, building momentum for fights to come. And this is why Shannon's deal is anything but done.
Greg Grandin, a professor of history at New York University, is the author, most recently, of Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City (Metropolitan). He serves on the editorial committee of the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA).
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While many area residents stayed home to watch Barack Obama and Mitt Romney engage in their final Presidential debate Monday night, a crowd filled the East Granby community and senior center to hear 61st district Democratic incumbent Elaine O’Brien and Republican challenger Tami Zawistowski debate a variety of local and statewide issues.
The debate, held at the East Granby Senior and Community Center, was marked by relatively civil discourse, even when one candidate disagreed with interpretations of facts presented by another. Focuses of the debate included the economy as well as town and state budget management, bipartisan cooperation for the good of the community, the death penalty and more.
The format featured questions written by one of the two candidates that was then offered to the other candidate by Moderator Mark Hann. The asking candidate then followed up with a response.
Zawistowski, an East Granby business owner, farmers market organizer and member of the East Granby board of finance, kept things light the beginning of the debate, opening with a line that drew laughs from the crowd.
“I feel like the opening act for the presidential debate,” she said.
One of her major motivations for running was simple: Zawistowski is dissatisfied with how politics are playing out in Hartford and want a bipartisan legislature in place.
“It's time for a change,” she said. “Gov. Malloy doesn’t need any more friends in Hartford.”
The first question posed, from Zawistowski to O’Brien, asked for the best way to get out of a budget deficit, whether that action is to raise taxes or decrease spending.
O’Brien replied that a balance between the two concepts, as well as generating state employee concesions, would produce the best savings.
“It takes a combination to take things where they need to be,” O’Brien said.
Zawistowski replied that two of the three items mentioned by O’Brien — decreasing spending and employee union negotiations — had not caused much of an impact on the budget.
The death penalty was another contentious issue. Zawistowski called it a necessary legal and judicial tool than needs to be applied judiciously. Whereas O’Brien said she was definitely anti-death penalty, noting that she believed the state should not be in the business of executions.
Hann, president of debate sponsors the East Granby Chamber of Commerce, held a steady hand as facilitator of the discussion. He provided equal time for both candidates and enforced the debate rules, allowed extended time on particular hot button issues and additional responses and rebuttals.
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A surgeon looks at the pros and cons of forceps, Cesarean sections, epidural anesthesia, fetal heart monitors and other fixtures of modern delivery rooms
Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance. By Atul Gawande. Holt/Metropolitan, 273 pp., $24.95.
By Janice Harayda
Last year the New York Times published an article on a remarkable medical study that found that – contrary to a near-universal belief – pushing during labor helps neither the mother nor the baby. The study also found that women who were told to push may have more urinary problems after the delivery. One of the doctors who did the survey, published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, said that the research did not mean that women should never push. Instead, he said, they should do “what feels natural to do – and for some women that would be no pushing.”
I had two reactions to this news. First, if I were pregnant, I would ask my obstetrician if he or she planned to tell me to push and, if so, why, given there seems to be no benefit to doing this during every birth. Second, why didn’t we know this news sooner? Why have doctors for so long inflicted the needless agony of pushing on women? I had no idea what the answer to the second question might be until I came across a striking fact in the chapter on childbirth in Atul Gawande’s Better: Most doctors pay lip service to the idea that nothing should be used in medicine unless it has been properly tested and shown to be effective by a respected research center, preferably through a double-blind, randomized trial.
“But in a 1978 ranking of medical specialties according to their use of hard evidence from clinical trials, obstetrics came in last,” Gawande writes. “Obstetricians did few randomized trials, and when they did they largely ignored the results.”
That observation helps to explain why Gawande, a surgeon and writer for The New Yorker, may be our most important medical writer. Unlike many others working in the field, he doesn’t write mainly about the latest developments in medicine. He digs deeper, looking for the “why” behind the “what,” while taking on extraordinarily complex topics. But his writing is rarely harder to understand than in his lines about the 1978 survey of medical specialties. He seems to make a grail not just of accuracy but of clarity.
The chapter on childbirth in Better shows his work at its finest. It deals largely with why so many women have Cesarean deliveries, which account for about 30 percent of American births. Many people explain the statistic by saying that Cesareans are more convenient and lucrative for doctors than vaginal births. Gawande argues persuasively that there is a larger reason for the pattern. And part of it has to do with the virtual disappearance of forceps from delivery rooms.
In the 1960s fewer than 5 percent of deliveries were Cesareans and more than 40 percent involved forceps. And those numbers are related. Gawande makes a strong case that in the hands of experts, forceps are safe (according to some research, safer for mothers than Cesareans). But forceps are hard to learn to use properly – a process that can take two years. And if forceps are used by inexpert doctors, the results can be disastrous. Cesareans are easier to master. And this has led hospitals to phase out forceps and, in many cases, do C-sections instead. To discourage the inexpert from using forceps, Gawande says, “obstetrics had to discourage everyone from using them.” This change has come at a cost. Gawande notes that, as straightforward as Cesarean deliveries can be, they can go wrong. The baby can be lacerated. If the head doesn’t come free quickly, the child can asphyxiate. The mother also faces risks:
“As a surgeon, I have been called in to help repair bowel that was torn and wounds that split open. Bleeding can be severe. Wound infections are common. There are increased risks of blood clots and pneumonia. Even without any complication, the recovery is weeks longer and more painful than with vaginal delivery.”
With all of this, Gawande isn’t trying to frighten women away from having Cesareans or bring forceps back to every community hospital. He is instead trying to show the trade-offs that medicine involves. And this is only a small part of what he says in his chapter on childbirth, “The Score,” which also covers such delivery-room fixtures as fetal heart monitors, epidural anesthesia and the labor-inducing drug Pitocin. It is an even smaller part of what he has to say in the 11 chapters of Better that deal with subjects other than childbirth, including advances in military medicine and the need for doctors to wash their hands more often.
Women who are pregnant may reach for books like What to Expect When You’re Expecting and The Girlfriends’ Guide to Pregnancy. And patients who are facing surgery may turn to guides to their illnesses. But both groups could benefit from also reading this fine collection of essays. For some of them, Better may just be better.
Best line: Gawande writes about the Apgar score, which rates a newborn’s health: “In a sense, there is a tyranny to the score. While we rate the newborn child’s health, the mother’s pain and blood loss and length of recovery seem to count for little. We have no score for how the mother does, beyond asking whether she lived or not – no measure to prod us to improve results for her, too. Yet this imbalance, at least, can surely be righted. If the child’s well-being can be measured, why not the mother’s, too?”
Worst line: None.
Editor: Sara Bershtel
Published: April 2007
Furthermore: The New York Times article on pushing during labor, “Rethinking the Big Push During Contractions, appeared on Jan. 3, 2006, page F8. I can’t link directly to it, but here’s a link to a similar reprint in its sister publication, The International Herald Tribune. When you click on the following link, you will reach a page that says “Multiple Choices” and see another link that looks just like it (below the phrase “Available Documents”). You have to click on that one, too, to read the story (which appears below an article on “lazy eye”): www.iht.com/articles/2006/01/04/healthscience/snvital/php/php.
Links: Gawande has posted many of his articles on medicine at www.gawande.com.
© 2007 Janice Harayda. All rights reserved.
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Joining together to avert catastrophe.
Cleveland’s Worker-Owned Boom
by Gar Alperovitz, Ted Howard, Steve Dubbposted Jun 05, 2009
- Rust-belt to recovery through worker-owned business and city, hospital, and university cooperation.
The Climate Crisis
by Madeline Ostranderposted Jun 02, 2009
- What Would it Look Like to Do Everything We Can Imagine?
At EPA Hearings and in Congress, Public and Politicians Ready for Climate Action
by Madeline Ostranderposted May 22, 2009
- At EPA hearings and in Congress, signs that the public, environmental leaders, political leaders, and businesses could unite on steps to confront climate change.
To Obama and the EPA: The Threat is Real, It's Time to Act
by Madeline Ostranderposted May 19, 2009
- EPA holds two public hearings on greenhouse gas regulation
Signs of Life :: Landmark Climate Change Bill
by Madeline Ostranderposted May 07, 2009
- Congress has begun debate on what could become the first-ever federal legislation to regulate greenhouse gases. The bill promises to cut emissions 80 percent by 2050.
Working Together at the Summit of the Americas
by Laura Kaliebeposted Apr 16, 2009
- Three days isn’t enough time to solve all of the problems in the hemisphere—but it’s a start.On April 17-19, 2009, the democratically-elected leaders of 34 countries will meet in Trinidad and Tobago for the Summit of the Americas.
Sustainable Seattle: City's Progress Towards Zero Waste
by Amy Goodman, Richard Conlinposted Mar 31, 2009
- Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! speaks with Richard Conlin on the day Seattle launched a new composting program to further improve its waste management.
Signs of Life :: Climate Spurs Direct Action
by Noah Grant, Madeline Ostranderposted Oct 31, 2008
- Climate direct action, such as this year's climate camps, wins support.
The Good Life Doesn’t Have to Cost the Planet
by Andrew Simms, Joe Smithposted Oct 31, 2008
- What if you woke up one day to find that humans eventually did make the right decisions, and those decisions had all the right effects and, well, the world turned out to be a pretty cool place.
Social Change not Climate Change
by Juliette Beckposted Aug 14, 2008
- Activists and communities in the United Kingdom—where over two hundred years ago, the first lumps of coal were burnt to power the industrial revolution—are igniting a historic revolution of their own. Last week, over 1500 people from all walks of life converged in the Kent countryside, just one-hour southeast of London by train, to rally against climate change in a demonstration of collective, sustainable living and creative direct action.
Teaching Climate: Digital Story Telling
posted Apr 04, 2008
- BRIDGES to Understanding has developed teaching tools around the issue of Climate Change that focus on journaling and digital story telling for your students. As your students develop their stories you can follow the work of other schools on-line.
What’s possible in a post-carbon world
by Guy Daunceyposted Mar 24, 2008
- Can we get to a post-carbon world? Guy Dauncey shows how to make buildings, electricity, transportation, food, and forests climate friendly. Yes, we can.
Xavier Cortada: Artist’s Statement
by Xavier Cortadaposted Mar 12, 2008
- To address global climate change, Cortada has created two related works. One focuses on global awareness, the other on local action. The artist says: "My work aims to challenge us to find deeper meaning in our present lives by exploring the paths of those who came before us and our relationship to the natural world."
Jon Warnow :: Brower Youth Awards
posted Mar 10, 2008
- Listen to Jon's energetic acceptance speech as he invites all of us to “step outside our comfort zones” and remake our world.
Climate Art: The Longitudinal Installation
by Xavier Cortadaposted Mar 10, 2008
- Artist Xavier Cortada created an installation in Antarctica featuring quotes of people affected by climate change around the world. Creating this installation in a continent with no borders, the artist aims to diminish the man-made barriers in the world above it.
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In our classrooms, we view reading aloud with disdain. Asking students to take turns reading a text aloud offends our sensibilities as literature professors. It’s remedial. Childish. Appropriate for an elementary school classroom, perhaps, but it has no place in our hallowed halls of higher learning.
How odd it is, then, that so many academic conferences in the humanities consist of nothing but rooms full of professors looking down at papers, reading them aloud. I can only imagine that this form of reading aloud is valid in our eyes while students reading aloud in our classes is not, because it is pedagogically and historically aligned with that realm of culture in which it is legitimate to read texts aloud—the realm of the sacred, the rite of the scripture, the ritual of someone we presume to be intellectually and spiritually superior exulting and professing before the masses. Which explains why we deem it acceptable for ourselves to read passages aloud in class, so long as it is done in a tremulous, dramatic voice.
Reading aloud is a right reserved for the professor.
And how wrong this is. How drearily, dreadfully, dismally wrong this is.
Sheridan Blau argues in The Literature Workshop that one of the most powerful tools at the disposal of readers is rereading. And reading aloud—reading out loud—is in turn one of the most powerful ways of rereading. It’s active, performative, and engaging, an incredibly rewarding strategy for understanding difficult texts. And it’s a technique too easily tossed aside in the undergraduate classroom—and in the graduate student classroom for that matter.
Not every professor has abandoned this seemingly elementary technique, of course; for example, my ProfHacker colleague Jason Jones has long defended the value of reading aloud. And last week in my Science Fiction course I was reminded of exactly how indispensable—and fun—reading aloud can be for students.
This course is an upper level class full of English majors. And I mean full. There are 53 students enrolled, just about double my usual size of 27 students. And yet I try to lead this class with as much discussion and participation as a graduate seminar. We’re only three weeks in, but I’m delighted so far that I’ve been able to involve so many students, and hear so many voices over the course of our 75-minute sessions.
Because my class last Thursday went particularly well, and because it highlights the value of students reading aloud, I want to walk through two activities we did. Both led to vigorous discussions that helped to illuminate some questions troubling my students about Volume I of Frankenstein, our first novel of the semester.
Reading Frankenstein Aloud
I picked the following passage to read aloud in class, because it contains some of the most telling imagery concerning Frankenstein’s loss of humanity as he attempts to create life. It’s a rich paragraph, complicating the reductive and moralistic dictum that Frankenstein was “playing God.”
From Frankenstein (1818), Chapter 3, paragraph 9:
- We began by reading the passage aloud using what Blau calls the “jump-in” method. I’ve heard other people call it popcorn-style. We simply bounce around the room, with students voluntarily jumping in to read a few sentences to the class, after which somebody else jumps in, as if taking the baton from the previous reader. The professor doesn’t interrupt or call on anybody to read; the reading is totally student generated.
- After we finished reading the passage, we took nominations for the most important sentence or phrase from the paragraph—the sentence or phrase most pivotal or rich with interpretive potential. Peter Elbow would call it “the center of gravity” of the paragraph. The students shouted out these lines, and I typed them into this Google Doc, displayed live on the projection screen in the front of the lecture hall.
- With no debate of the nominees, we voted (by hand count) for the most significant of these ten lines.
- Finally, we had a class discussion, in which supporters of each line defended their vote. We didn’t discuss every line, especially since there was one clear “winner” and two runner-ups. But even limiting our debate to three lines of the paragraph gave us three entryways into the passage, three facets which, when angled just right, revealed something new about Frankenstein—or rather, Shelley’s indictment of Frankenstein.
I’m convinced that such a productive discussion wouldn’t have occurred if the students hadn’t first reread the passage aloud. I’m likewise convinced that merely asking students to reread the passage silently before the exercise wouldn’t have yielded such rich interpretive fruits. It’s the reading aloud that does it. The vocalization for the students who did the reading, the texture of the voices for the students who listened, the attentive anticipation of everyone as they awaited the next reader to jump in from the seat next to them or from across the room.
Reading Aloud and Touching Frankenstein
We read yet another passage aloud, again jump-in fashion, afterwards. My goal this time was to pinpoint the precise moment when Victor Frankenstein goes from praising his act of creation to being repulsed by it. I was motivated by a student’s blog post, in which she had wondered why Frankenstein suddenly became horrified by his creature, when he had worked so hard to create it. To answer this question of why, we need to know when he became afraid.
So our class read aloud, popcorn style, from the first three paragraphs of Chapter 4:
How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care I had endeavoured to form? His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful!—Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion, and straight black lips.
The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature. I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body. For this I had deprived myself of rest and health. I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation; but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart.
After we finished reading this passage aloud—again, a fundamental kind of rereading—I asked students to point to the exact word when Frankenstein’s attitude toward his creation changes from delight to revulsion. Literally—I asked students to point with their finger to the spot on the page where this transformation occurs. They had to physically touch the page with their index finger, and leave it there, while we consider the class’s various answers.
I’ve borrowed this pointing method from Peter Elbow, who uses it in the context of teaching composition. In Elbow’s method, peer readers help their fellow writers by pointing to words that resonate with them. But pointing works just as well when reading literary works. There’s something about that tactile connection with the page that for a moment is far more meaningful to the student than anything he or she might have underlined or highlighted. And here, in this exercise, pointing forces students to make a choice, to take a stance with the text. There’s no hemming and hawing, no vague determination that the transformation in question happens somewhere on page 85 or wherever.
Of course, with Frankenstein there is no single correct answer of when his disgust takes shape. It is a contested question, minor perhaps, but yet our tentative answers, backed with literally physical evidence in the form of the finger on the page, opens up the text. Questions of tone and narrative perspective arise. Irony enters in. Even punctuation, as when a student convincingly argued that the reversal occurs in the em dash between “Beautiful!” and “Great God!”
None of these considerations would have been as easily accessible to us without, first, reading the passage, and then, rereading it. And more precisely, rereading it aloud. When students read aloud they become voices in the classroom, authorities in the classroom, empowered to speak both during the reading and even more critically, after the reading.
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The “Dollars & Sense” column in the Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel has an interesting list of ideas for how to instill some financial competence in your child. It starts with the basic skill of learning how to delay gratification, then moves on to increasing levels of personal responsibility, so that by the time you’re dealing with a teenager who craves independence, you’re handing out a full year’s allowance in January and tasking him with managing it properly.
One thing the paper suggests is playing with pretend stocks. If you’re curious about trying this out but don’t know how much work might be involved, check out WeSeed.com, a 100% fake stock market simulation that uses data from the real world market, including real companies, so that you can safely learn how the market works in real time.
“How to teach children to be smart with their money” [JSOnline]
(Photo: Jeff Kubina)
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"Statistics bear out that any time a country, a state, makes more restrictive abortion laws ... fatalities go up and abortions actually increase."
-- State Rep. Nickie Antonio
While GOP lawmakers focused their energy last year on abortion legislation, some have fought those laws with similar conviction.
Rep. Nickie Antonio, a freshman lawmaker from Lakewood, has been among the steady voices in opposition to Republicans’ anti-abortion efforts.
Antonio recently attempted to contrast the GOP’s agenda with a resolution to designate a week in January as "Reproductive Rights Awareness Week." The aim of the resolution is to promote public awareness and support "reproductive rights and justice." During a Jan. 24 news conference to announce the resolution, Antonio talked about the dangers associated with restrictive abortion laws.
"Statistics bear out that any time a country, a state, makes more restrictive abortion laws — restricts women’s access to comprehensive reproductive health care — fatalities go up and abortions actually increase," Antonio said.
Abortion is an emotional issue that has been a persistent topic of discussion as Ohio lawmakers have considered several abortion-related bills for the last year-plus.
Antonio’s statement raised PolitiFact Ohio’s curiosity because she was suggesting that the anti-abortion bills Ohio Republicans have supported would actually cause an increase in abortions.
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"As long as in this territory west of the Jordan river there is only one political entity called Israel it is going to be either non-Jewish, or non-democratic," Barak said. "If this bloc of millions of Palestinians cannot vote, that will be an apartheid state."Don't tell Iggy:
'Let us be clear: criticism of Israeli government policy is legitimate. Wholesale condemnation of the State of Israel and the Jewish people is not legitimate. Not now, not ever.' - Michael IgnatieffOf course this isn't the only time Ignatieff has addressed the Apartheid comparison:
Will Ignatieff accuse former Israeli Prime Minister and current Defense Minister Ehud Barak of antisemitism? Will Stephen Harper demand Israel lose any government funding from Canada as a result of Barak's statements?
"When I looked down at the West Bank, at the settlements like Crusader forts occupying the high ground, at the Israeli security cordon along the Jordan river closing off the Palestinian lands from Jordan, I knew I was not looking down at a state or the beginnings of one, but at a Bantustan, one of those pseudo-states created in the dying years of apartheid to keep the African population under control."
- Michael Ignatieff, The Guardian, April 19, 2002.
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Each year, the Oak Institute for International Human Rights brings an Oak Human Rights Fellow to teach and conduct research while residing at the College. The Institute organizes lectures and other events centered around the fellow’s area of expertise. The purpose of the fellowship is to offer an opportunity for prominent practitioners in international human rights to take a sabbatical leave from their work and spend as long as a semester as a scholar-in-residence at Colby College. This provides the Fellow time for reflection, research, and writing.
While all human rights practitioners are eligible, we especially encourage applications from those who are currently or were recently involved in “on-the-ground” work at some level of personal risk. The Oak Fellow’s responsibilities include regular meetings with students either through formal classes or informal discussion groups and assistance in shaping a lecture series or symposium associated with the particular aspect of human rights of interest to the fellow. The fellow also is expected to participate in the intellectual life of the campus and enable our students to work or study with a professional in the human rights field.
The Fellow will receive a stipend and College fringe benefits, plus round-trip transportation from the fellow’s home site, private housing near campus, use of a car, and meals on campus. The Fellow will also receive research support, including office space, secretarial support, computer and library facilities, and a student assistant. The Fellowship is awarded for the fall semester (September through December) each year. Following the period of the award, the fellow is expected to return to her or his human rights work.
For more information on the 2013 Oak Fellowship please view our Brochure (pdf).
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California school districts have been forced over recent years to pick up a greater portion of the price tag for providing special education services to our state's disabled children. Between 2005 and 2011, the cost to California school district to fund special education rose 9%, or approximately 2% a year, adjusted for inflation, according to a new report released yesterday by California's Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO) in a new report entitled Overview of Special Education in California. In the 2004-2005 school year, school districts paid for 32% of the costs of educating students with disabilities (SWDs), and in 2010-2011, districts paid 39% of the associated costs of special education services.
The reasons for this increase are that funding from the state and federal government has remained relatively flat and also special education costs have been increasing.
Understanding school district's special education finance obligations requires a bit of background into how special education is funded across the United States. Special education is a child of the Individuals with Disabilities Educational Act (IDEA). First passed by Congress in 1973, this landmark civil rights ensured that all children would be educated, regardless of any physical, mental, or emotional disability.
Under IDEA, it was understood that the additional associated costs would be born by the states and local educational agencies (LEAs), or school districts. So, after spending the money allocated by Congress and any additional monies allocated by the state, here California, school districts must use general fund money to pay for the difference between the costs of the services delivered and the monies sent to them from above.
School districts generally refer to this money as "encroachment." In a special section of the report, the LAO attempts to set the record straight regarding encroachment, which has largely been portrayed as an unintended and unfair requirement that jeopardizes the ability of districts to educate general education children. The LAO states that districts sometimes imply that having to spend any local money on special education services "imposes unfair expenditure requirements on their (school district's) general purpose budgets." The LAO bluntly states
This argument, however, is a mischaracterization of both federal and state laws. Federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and state special education categorical funds never were intended to cover the full costs of educating a SWD—instead the bulk of the “regular” education costs are intended to be covered using local revenue limit and categorical funding, just as for nondisabled students.
Despite this though, it is clear that district's are being required to shoulder an increasing share of the costs, which are considerable. As an illustration of the discrepancy, the average cost per year to educate a typical California K-12 student is $9,600 while the average cost of educating a special education student is $22,300.
When passed, Congress set a goal of funding 40% of the costs that educating disabled children would require: it has of course never come close to meeting that goal. In the best of years, Congress has paid for only 19% of the costs. The LAO estimates that if Congress met its targeted funding percentage, California would receive an additional $2 billion more annually.
In addition, California has also reduced the percentage that it is contributing. In 2004-2005, CA funded 51% of special education costs but by 2010-2011, that percentage had been reduced to 43%. Ultimately, school districts are left holding the bag by law for whatever costs remain unfunded between California and federal government.
The report does not offer any policy recommendations; it only seeks to cast light on how special education operates in the state. The report covered other important areas besides how special education is funded in our state.
Other interesting findings...
- While academic performance for SWDs has increased, a majority of these students still fail to meet state and federal achievement expectations;
- SWDs in other states spend a greater amount of time in regular education (a goal of special education);
- On a positive note, more than half of SWDs successfully transition to college after high school, with another 15% finding competitive employment.
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Speed is of the essence in dealing with the fiscal cliff, some economists warn. Delaying until late this year – or worse, 2013 – would mean a bigger hit to the US economy, and even a recession.
Members of Congress have wasted no time laying down markers on how to deal with the so-called “fiscal cliff.” About midday Friday, President Obama will take his turn. Why the urgency?
In part, it’s obvious: The fiscal cliff is a large collection of tax cuts that expire on Dec. 31, coupled with automatic reductions in federal spending that are scheduled to take effect. If taxes go up and government suddenly curtails its spending by $109 billion, all set to happen just seven weeks from now, the US economy is expected to take a fall, whacked by a big hit to consumer spending activity.
Politics is another factor. Now that the election is over, lawmakers and the president are jockeying to set the agenda for the hard bargaining to come.
Those are the basic reasons. But here’s an important piece of the economics behind the cliff: When a deal gets done may be just as important as what deal gets done.
If the dealmaking process takes too long, the impact of the fiscal cliff on the nation's economic growth will be much larger, economists at Bank of America Merrill Lynch wrote in an October analysis. "The decision process will matter as well as the outcome," they conclude.
The economists looked at various scenarios for how to deal with the cliff. Going across their grid were three options for what lawmakers might do – resulting in either a small, medium, or large cliff that the economy falls over. Reaching a deal that leaves only a "small" cliff could allow the economy to post decent growth. Doing less to address the cliff – allowing some tax hikes and spending cuts to occur – would weaken the pace of growth. (In all three scenarios, Congress would do something, not nothing, about the cliff.)
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Reaching for the stars
Fifty years have elapsed since a Soviet cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, lit the blue touchpaper on the era of manned spaceflight. Progress was rapid—only eight years separated Gagarin's flight from the infinitely more complicated mission that put Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the surface of the moon. Although the moon landings handed a temporary victory to America, the Soviet Union dominated manned spaceflight for the next decade, including some pioneering missions to the Salyut space stations to test the effects of long periods aloft and several extended missions to Salyut's successor Mir, in the late 1980s. Only with the rise of the Space Shuttle programme, beginning in 1981, and the dissolution of the Soviet Union a decade later, did America retake the crown.
Manned spaceflight is no longer a two-horse race. China entered it in 2003. A year later three privately financed suborbital missions were made in Mojave Aerospace's craft, SpaceShipOne. Rocketeering, though, has always been dangerous. Four missions have killed 18 astronauts between them. Two were Soviet (Soyuz 1 and Soyuz 11) and two American (the shuttles Challenger and Columbia). Other astronauts have died in accidents on Earth. After the losses of Challenger and Columbia, America's shuttle fleet was grounded, which explains the big drop in missions following both accidents.
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The Altar in the Loft Find!
All the local history collections in Kent Libraries & Archives include fictional works. This could be fiction written by authors with local connections, or fiction that evokes local places. Often, the fiction sections of the local history collections are overlooked. So, for me, Reading Detectives has been a good opportunity to draw attention to a different facet of the collections.
There's a strongly autobiographical strain to the fiction in the Tonbridge Library local history collection, be it the nostalgia of "George Sherston" (an alter-ego of Siegfried Sassoon,) or the alienation of Denton Welch, (surely the laureate of Tonbridge & district?)
Despite writing over 100 books, Rupert Croft-Cooke is, perhaps, one of the more obscure writers represented in the collection. He was best known as the thriller writer Leo Bruce, but also wrote novels, poems, short stories, biographies, and non-fiction, (with a subject range from circus life to pub darts!) Oh, and he wrote over 20 volumes of his own autobiography!! The Altar in the Loft is one of these autobiographical volumes.
During the first world war, Croft-Cooke's family moved to Cage Farm on the outskirts of Tonbridge: "Cage Farm lay in the fork two roads out of Tonbridge, one of which climbed Shipbourne Hill and reached the upland wooded villages of Plaxtol and Shipbourne." One of the main reasons for this was to allow Rupert to attend Tonbridge School as a day boy. While he satirises aspects of the regime, his is a largely affectionate portrait of the public school. The book deals with his craze for the ritual of the Anglican High Church. The apex of this obsession comes when he & a small company of acolytes construct an altar in the attic of Cage Farm.
Croft-Cooke's school career is undistinguished but, inspired by two eccentric journalists Douglas Blackburn & Bart Kennedy, he takes on writing as his vocation. Rupert Croft-Cooke was born in Edenbridge, was an antiquarian bookseller in Rochester and a one-time resident of Smarden, but that doesn't begin to tell his intriguing life story. However, i'll spare you the other 20 volumes of his autobiography and recommend that you check out this webpage: http://www.circa-club.com/gallery/gay_history_icons_rupert_croft_cooke_leo_bruce.php
2 September 2009 from Rob Illingworth
- Pangbourne - a love affair with a gorilla
- Out of the Blue by Val Rutt
- The Kent Factor
- Grubby Tales from Beardy Ardagh
- The Men of Kent March On
- The Curse of Aphis Minimus
- One True Crime
- Why Pick Lydden?
- From Maidstone Prison to the Wide Sargasso Sea!
- Dover- Life's a Beach
- The ideal home
- The Tramping Methodist - more tramping in Kent!
- The Small Years by Frank Kendon
- Everyone Loves Rupert Bear!
- On the write tracks in literary Kent - Day 4
- On the write tracks in literary Kent - Day 3
- On the write tracks in literary Kent - Day 2
- On the write tracks in literary Kent Day 1
- On the write tracks in literary Kent
- Penshurst is the Place
- From Country Pursuits to the Western Front
- Edmund Blunden - echoes from Yalding church bells
- Jane Austen walk
- John Knatchbull from Quarterdeck to Gallows
- Catherine Aird
- More from the tramps .....
- Van Gogh in Ramsgate?
- Tissot A Passing Storm c1876
- The Downfall of a Reading Detective
- Male Georgian/Regency authors
- Bluestocking writers
- Sketches By Boz - We must leave town!
- If You're Going to Snodland...
- The Kent Tramp Trail
- The Altar in the Loft
- Regency and Georgian Literature with a Kent Connection
- Jane Austen and Godmersham by The Rev. S. Graham Brade-Birks
- Kent Clues!
- Poetry dropping in Sandwich
- Reading Detectives film
- Out of the Blue - continued
- Denton Welch
- 45 London Road Sevenoaks
- To Penshurst
- Kent Finale!
- Mon 21 Sep 10.30 am DETECTIVE EVENT AT CENTRE FOR KENTISH STUDIES, MAIDSTONE
- Cat Lovers
- W H Davies
- Silence on the home front as my hard drive has died
- Jeffery Farnol
- Denton Welch, a look back to simpler times
- What Jane Austen really looked like !
- Life in the Country: With Quotations by Jane Austen and Silhouettes by Her Nephew James Edward Austen-Leigh
- First Meeting for Kent
- Jane Austen - Monster Mash Up
- Launch of Kent's Reading Detectives Team on 12 August
- Jane Austen Heritage Link
- Reading Detectives are starting soon in Kent
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Physicist explains what he means by a “boring” universe.
March 2, 2013By Faye Flam
It wasn't quite clear what physicist Joe Lykken meant earlier this week when he suggested that our universe could be overtaken by expanding bubbles of a more boring kind of universe.
I wrote to ask him and he jusr got back to me. It turns out that according to current measurements of the Higgs boson and other fundamental particles, there could be a more stable state of things called the "true vacuum".
Why is the true vacuum boring? Because the Higgs field behaves differently.
The Higgs field is thought to pervade space, like a magnetic or electric field, and its presence determines the masses of some of the particles that make up matter. So if you change the Higgs field, you can get a problem:
Here's how Lykken explains it:
If the Higgs vacuum instability is what you get from a straightforward Standard Model
calculation, then the true vacuum has the Higgs field turned on at a value very roughly
equal to the Planck energy scale, i.e. a trillion times larger than what it is today. This
leads to a boring universe with superheavy matter that probably just collapses into
black holes without making stars (or planets or life).
Boring is kind of a subjective term, but if this new universe couldn't support life that would probably fit many people's definition. Lykken was careful to not that such an event is highly unlikely to occur in the near future. For the most part, he succeeded in not scaring people too much.
I did get one email from someone who said she was actually worried about the universe
ending, but in general the feedback is very positive.
Higgs the cat says he feels vindicated:
Higgs: I always knew a vacuum would be the agent of our destruction. True, false, Hoover, Dustbuster - The noise is unbearable. I abhor them all.
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Science Fair Project Encyclopedia
Carlo Maria Cardinal Martini
Often considered to be one of the more "progressive" members of the College of Cardinals, he has achieved widespread notice for his wide-ranging and open-minded writings — popularity in some circles, notoriety in others.
Born in Turin, Italy in 1927, Martini entered the Society of Jesus in 1944 and was ordained a priest in 1952. He earned his Theological laurea in 1958 from the Pontifical Gregorian University. In 1962 he was installed in the chair of Textual Criticism at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome, of which he became rector in 1969. In 1978 Paul VI sent him back to the Pontifical Gregorian University as "rector magnificus." Throughout these years he edited a number of scholarly works.
In December 1979, Pope John Paul II nominated him as Archbishop of Milan, a post he undertook after receiving episcopal ordination the following January. Thus his first diocesan appointment was to one of the largest and most prominent sees, with a history of many distinguished archbishops. When made a cardinal in 1983 he was made titular priest of Santa Cecilia in Rome. From 1987–1993 he was president of the European Bishops' Conference .
In 2002 he reached the Church's mandatory retirement age of 75 and was succeeded as Archbishop by Dionigi Tettamanzi. At the time of the Papal conclave, 2005 he was 78 years old and hence eligible to vote for the new pope (being under 80). For years many progressive Catholics harboured hopes that he might himself be elected Pope someday; however thanks to the longevity of John Paul II most commentators believed that he would be considered too old. His election was probably never very likely thanks to his liberal reputation, and as he is older than Pope Benedict XVI and it has been centuries since a Pope was succeeded by an older man, his chance can now be said to have passed.
Among the most well-known of his works is (2001), co-authored with famous Italian author Umberto Eco.
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|May 30, 2012
USRider encourages use of pre-trip checklist
Research shows that checklist helps improve safety
LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 30, 2012) - After several years of analyzing accidents involving horse trailers, USRider - national provider of roadside emergency assistance for horse owners - has developed a checklist to help equestrians avoid accidents on the road.
"We believe you can never over-prepare for a trailering trip with your horse," said Bill Riss, General Manager for USRider. "Even if you are only going to travel a short distance to a local event, an accident - or some other emergency - could occur, leaving you stuck on the highway unexpectedly for an extended period."
Working with Dr. Tomas Gimenez, retired professor of animal and veterinary sciences at Clemson University, and Dr. Rebecca Gimenez, an animal physiologist and primary instructor in technical large-animal emergency rescue, USRider has been gathering and analyzing data about horse trailer accidents for the last eight years. From this data, Drs. Gimenez and USRider have gleaned some pertinent recommendations for preventing accidents and enhancing the safety of horses while traveling.
This information has been compiled in a handy Pre-Trip Checklist for Horse Trailers. The checklist is conveniently available to smartphone users on USRider's mobile website. Simply access www.usrider.org from any smartphone and the list is handily at your fingertips to check prior to each trip.
Items to check before starting a trip:
- Wheel bearings - Have bearings serviced annually, or 12,000 miles, regardless of mileage due to possible moisture buildup. Carry a spare wheel bearing set in case of premature failure.
- Tires - Look for dry rot, uneven tire wear, overall tire wear and damage. Be sure to replace tires every 3-5 years regardless of mileage.
- Tire pressure - Don't forget to check spares and inside tire on dual wheels as well.
- Hitch - Ensure that it is locked on the ball and that correct size ball is being used.
- Safety cables/chains - Check to see that these are securely connected.
- Electrical connection - Make sure it's plugged in and secured.
- Breakaway system - Ensure that this is connected and secured as well.
- Emergency battery - Check to see that it's charged.
- Trailer lighting - Check lights for the brakes and turn signals, as well as running and perimeter lights.
- Brake controller - Test to ensure that it's working properly.
- Carry a completed In Case of Emergency (ICE) form - This form can be downloaded at www.usrider.org.
- Trailer - Before loading horses, check the trailer for any hazards.
- Horses - Don't forget to put shipping boots and head bumpers on horses.
- Doors - Secure and latch all trailer doors. Place a snap hook or carabiner to prevent accidental opening.
- Headlights - For greater safety, drive with headlights on.
- Drive safely - Allow greater braking distance and travel at generally slower speeds.
- First aid kits - Be sure to check the contents of equine and human first aid kits. Any depleted and out-of-date items should be replaced. A list of recommended items for first aid kits is posted on www.usrider.org.
Be sure NEVER to depend on others to hitch your trailer. "The driver is ultimately responsible. Even if someone else actually does the hitching, the driver should always go behind them to double-check that the trailer is properly hitched," said Riss. "Trailers that are properly hitched do not come unhitched. Trailer accidents where the trailer comes loose from the trailer have a high incidence of human and equine fatalities. Worst of all, these kinds of incidents are highly avoidable," he added.
To gather additional accident information, USRider is continuing the trailer accident study. All horse owners, trainers, emergency responders, veterinarians and others who have somehow been involved in horse trailer incidents are urged to participate in the survey. Visit www.usrider.org to download the survey form. The information being collected includes type of transport, type of towing vehicle, number and type of horses in transport, cause of accident, results of accident, extent of human and equine injuries, and type of personnel involved in rescue.
USRider provides roadside assistance and towing services along with other travel-related benefits to its Members through the Equestrian Motor Plan. With an annual fee comparable to that of other roadside assistance programs, the Equestrian Motor Plan includes standard features such as flat-tire repair, battery assistance and lockout services, towing up to 100 miles plus roadside repairs for tow vehicles and trailers with horses, emergency stabling, veterinary referrals and more. For more information about the USRider Equestrian Motor Plan, visit http://www.usrider.org online or call (800) 844-1409.
For additional trailer safety information, visit http://www.usrider.org/safety.html, and go to the Equine Travel Safety Area.
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This picture of the original Darrow rooming house in Rapid River was later known as the J.R. Boyer rooming house. According to the photo's original owner, the late Morley Rushford Sr., the lumber men pictured rode the logs down the river to the mill at Rapid River. At the time of the peak of the logging boom, there were 23 saloons and rooming house in Rapid River. Some of the rooming houses had saloons in them, but not this one.
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We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who we were born to be. The only problem is that there is also so much other stuff, typically fixations with how people perceive us, how to get more of the things that we think will make us happy, and with keeping our weight down. So the real issue is how do we gently stop being who we aren't? How do we relieve ourselves of the false fronts of people-pleasing and affectation, the obsessive need for power and security, the backpack of old pain, and the psychic Spanx that keeps us smaller and contained?
Here's how I became myself: mess, failure, mistakes, disappointments, and extensive reading; limbo, indecision, setbacks, addiction, public embarrassment, and endless conversations with my best women friends; the loss of people without whom I could not live, the loss of pets that left me reeling, dizzying betrayals but much greater loyalty, and overall, choosing as my motto William Blake's line that we are here to learn to endure the beams of love.
Oh, yeah, and whenever I could, for as long as I could, I threw away the scales and the sugar.
When I was a young writer, I was talking to an old painter one day about how he came to paint his canvases. He said that he never knew what the completed picture would look like, but he could usually see one quadrant. So he'd make a stab at capturing what he saw on the canvas of his mind, and when it turned out not to be even remotely what he'd imagined, he'd paint it over with white. And each time he figured out what the painting wasn't, he was one step closer to finding out what it was.
You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren't. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don't think your way into becoming yourself.
I can't tell you what your next action will be, but mine involved a full stop. I had to stop living unconsciously, as if I had all the time in the world. The love and good and the wild and the peace and creation that are you will reveal themselves, but it is harder when they have to catch up to you in roadrunner mode. So one day I did stop. I began consciously to break the rules I learned in childhood: I wasted more time, as a radical act. I stared off into space more, into the middle distance, like a cat. This is when I have my best ideas, my deepest insights. I wasted more paper, printing out instead of reading things on the computer screen. (Then I sent off more small checks to the Sierra Club.)
Every single day I try to figure out something I no longer agree to do. You get to change your mind—your parents may have accidentally forgotten to mention this to you. I cross one thing off the list of projects I mean to get done that day. I don't know all that many things that are positively true, but I do know two things for sure: first of all, that no woman over the age of 40 should ever help anyone move, ever again, under any circumstances. You have helped enough. You can say no. No is a complete sentence. Or you might say, "I can't help you move because of certain promises I have made to myself, but I would be glad to bring sandwiches and soda to everyone on your crew at noon." Obviously, it is in many people's best interest for you not to find yourself, but it only matters that it is in yours—and your back's—and the whole world's, to proceed.
We Hear You!
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A colorless gaseous substance (O/) obtained (as by the silent discharge of electricity in oxygen) as an allotropic form of oxygen, containing three atoms in the molecule. It is a streng oxidizer, and probably exists in the air, though by he ordinary tests it is liable to be confused with certain other substances, as hydrogen dioxide, or certain oxides of nitrogen. It derives its name from its peculiar odor, which resembles that of weak chlorine.
It's absolutely stupid that we live without an ozone layer. We have men, we've got rockets, we've got saran wrap - fix it! Lewis Black
We're looking at Earth science, observing our planet. Also space science, looking at the ozone in the atmosphere around our Earth. Also looking at life science. And on a human level, using ourselves as test subjects. Laurel Clark
From a scientific perspective there is some indication that a nuclear war could deplete the earth's ozone layer or, less likely, could bring on a new Ice Age - but there is no suggestion that either the created order or mankind would be destroyed in the process. Herman Kahn
Despite Arizona's remarkable growth in recent years, we have met the current federal health standards for ozone pollution and the Environmental Protection Agency recently approved our dust control plan. Jane D. Hull
When I was a kid, we never heard of smog, ozone depletion, acid rain, green house gasses. Dennis Weaver
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The latest research to discredit a landmark study linking childhood vaccine to autism should have some ripples here in Washington, even if it’s more stirring of the pot.
That’s because the state is home to some heavy-duty, anti-vaccine hotbeds such as Vashon Island, where more than 10 percent of students are legally excused from immunizations.
On Wednesday, the British medical journal BMJ published a study and editorial dissing the original autism-vaccine as an “elaborate fraud” propped up by doctored research. The original study, published in the Lancet in 1998 and retracted last year, had suggested a link between autism and the childhood shot for measles, mumps and rubella (MMR).
To the dismay of established health professionals, the study spawned a worldwide vaccine scare among parents, spurred by skyrocketing diagnoses of childhood autism. The study’s author, Dr. Andrew Wakefield, currently enjoys a global following that includes celebrities like Jenny McCarthy.
But last year, the Lancet concluded that Wakefield had committed serious ethical violations, which included invasive, unnecessary tests such as lumbar injections on his childhood subjects without proper permssion. There were also allegations that lawyers for parents wanting to sue vaccine makers had paid for some of the research, The New York Times reported.
The latest kerfuffle alleges that Wakefield was not just unethical, but fraudulent. BMJ’s study, done by a British journalist, found that some of Wakefield’s subjects had had documented developmental problems before they got an MMR shot, despite his claim that they had all been previously normal. The study said Wakefield had altered facts about the patients.
How will the latest news play in Washington? Depends on where you stand. Health officials have long been trying to increase the state’s early childhood vaccination rate, which has lagged behind the nation’s rate for some time.
A national survey from 2009 showed that less than 65 percent of Washington kids ages 19 to 35 months had completed recommended vaccinations. That’s low compared to the national average of 70 percent, and well below a government goal of 80 percent.
In Vashon, where a whooping cough epidemic in the ’90s did little to budge the vaccination rate, the news may have little effect.
Last school year, the district’s 1,500 schoolkids had the highest opt-out rate of all districts in King County. The island has three times more non-fully vaccinated kids than the rest of the state, Maury-Vashon Island Beachcomber reported last year.
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About the Division
The faculty of the UC Division of Infectious Diseases is among the national leaders in basic science research in infectious diseases, the care of patients with HIV infections, tuberculosis and global health clinical care, education and research.
The division consists of 18 full-time physicians and basic scientists engaged in research, patient care and teaching. These activities are conducted at UC Health University Hospital, Cincinnati Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center and the Infectious Diseases Center.
The faculty is committed to:
- Superb clinical care delivered with respect and compassion
- Education of our trainees with the tools necessary for lifelong learning
- Research in infectious diseases to benefit mankind in the understanding, prevention and treatment of infectious diseases
The division strives to achieve these goals by capitalizing on each faculty member's strengths to ensure meaningful progress in each discipline.
The division's basic and clinical research endeavors promote the acquisition of knowledge concerning infectious diseases and lead to innovative strategies to combat pathogens. Likewise, our research achievements translate into improved patient care and medical education.
The infectious diseases division is committed to providing the tools for physicians to become leaders in infectious diseases in the 21st century. We offer an active fellowship training program and closely interacts with colleagues in the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and the Cincinnati community.
The fellowship's mission is to train physicians to become outstanding clinicians and investigators of infectious diseases. The fellowship includes training in all clinical aspects of infectious diseases, diagnostic microbiology (bacteriology, virology, mycology and parasitology) and clinical and basic laboratory research.
Fellows have graduated our program to assume leadership positions in academics, public health and industry.
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Food RisC – Perceptions and communication of food risks and benefits across Europe
- European Commission
- Start date:
- July 2010
- Due for completion:
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The purpose of this project is to identify and characterise food risk/benefit issues and the consequent implications for risk communicators across Europe. It will provide a systematic understanding of how consumers deal with information about risks and benefits relating to food, identifying key social-psychological and socio-demographic characteristics that affect perceptions, as well as preferred communication channels. The project will also identify the barriers to communicating with consumers across Europe and will make recommendations about the unique potential of new social media to communicate food risk/benefit information. These objectives will be achieved through a range of methods and novel approaches to extend the theoretical basis of how people will acquire and use information in food domains. This will include the development and use of an online deliberative tool, referred to as EnGauge, to evaluate expert generated communications about food risk and benefit. This phase of the work will build on a previous project entitled ‘Online deliberative engagement: a pilot study’, which tested the use of such a tool in allowing people to consider and respond to scientific information online.
The impact of the project will be at a European level, facilitated through the development of a ‘FoodRisC’ toolkit and practical guidance to enable the effective delivery of coherent messages about food risk/benefit across the Member states. Use of the toolkit and guides will assist policy makers, food authorities and other end users in the food supply chain, in developing common approaches to communicating messages on food risk/benefit to consumers. The effective communication of such information will assist initiatives aimed at reducing the burden of food related ill-health and the economic impact of food crises, and will help to ensure that consumer confidence in safe and nutritional food is fostered and maintained across Europe
Brook Lyndhurst was involved in the first year of the project, which will run for a further two years, until June 2013. For further information visit the FoodRisC website.
What has 23 screws, 15 separate rubber parts, 13 wires, 4 plastic boards, 3 metal plates, 3 unidentifiable objects, 2 microphones and 1 circuit board? These are the ingredients of an old landline phone, obviously! In a Green Alliance conference last week, I took part in a tear down session run by the RSA as [...]
I’ve just moved into a new apartment in London, which has one of these (see picture): In case you’re not sure, it’s an electricity meter, complete with ‘key’. Using PayPoints in local shops, you pay in advance for electricity you are going to use in cash (cards not accepted). This balance gets digitally recorded on [...]
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Encores & Curtain Calls: Melody — the key that unlocks the human heart.
“Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!”
— Charles Dickens
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas again — the Pioneer Valley Symphony’s annual Family Holiday Concert returns Saturday, Dec. 15, at 7 p.m., at the Greenfield High School Auditorium, with the Pioneer Valley Symphony Chorus and Greenfield High School chorus in tow.
The PVS Christmas stocking is richly stuffed with a cornucopia of melodious goodies, including perennial chestnuts from the recent and distant past, medleys from classic Christmas films, hors d’oeuvres from a beloved Christmas opera and others works of deeper hue, likely to be new to many ears.
But no matter what the choice of music, lighthearted or soulful, one thing is certain — the deep, almost aromatic beauty of Christmas music from all cultures and traditions throughout the ages proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that what drives its respective creators is neither aesthetic invention or bravura music-making as such, but rather the profound longings of the human heart.
Even as a boy I always felt that the music of Christmas — quite apart from its popular or religious iconography — contained a quality which all the music of the other seasons, however beautiful and brilliant, did not possess: a special glow, poignancy and heartrending tenderness that disarmed all pretense and which returned us to the simple landscape of our souls and the nearly forgotten innocence of childhood.
The music of Christmas, has, even from the most ancient times, been born out of humanity’s profound reaching out for the light and the spiritual nourishment that light provides.
What the many varied cultures of the world presume to call that light — love, God, Christ — is, in a sense, unimportant, and varies greatly from culture to culture, continent to continent, even person-to-person. But, few there are who — in the midst of the descent into the deepening darkness of the winter equinox — don’t feel that impulse, even if reluctant to admit it.
It announces itself as an almost terminal aloneness, a growing sense of isolation from the outer world and the simultaneous kindling of an inner fire that becomes more brilliant even as the outer darkness approaches its peak.
What the music of the season emphatically seems to be saying, on an aesthetic level, is that the ultimate musical language of the human heart is melody; clear, pure, passionate melody, illuminated, ideally, with radiant, evocative hues of harmony. There will, to be sure, always be compelling rhythms and intriguing textures and coloristic nuances of all kinds, but all, ultimately, must bow to the soul’s hunger for melody — the key that unlocks the human heart.
Eavesdropping, then, beside the bulging, yet to be unwrapped PVS musical stocking, we fancy we can hear ethereal strains of heartfelt tunes from celluloid tales such as “The Grinch Who Stole Christmas,” “The Polar Express,” “Home Alone” and “’Miracle on 34th Street.”
Beyond the fading wisps of these we imagine we can hear the lyrical and exotic colors of Gian-Carlo Menotti’s “Amahl and the Night Visitors,” a gem of a television opera that made its premiere on Christmas Eve, 1951, and which was annually telecast through 1962, just at the right time to capture the hearts of millions of young baby boomers everywhere
And, deeper down, we can hear echoes of contemporary American composer Morten Lauridsen’s 1980 work for chorus and piano, “Midwinter Songs,” based upon poems by Robert Graves. These, while often darkly lyrical, are underlit with percussive fire and sometimes pained declamation, a common tack with composers who seek to frame, through music, the edgier sides of human existence, particularly, as in this case, when overtones of Greek mythology are present, such as here.
Further back in time, we can hear echoes of “The Feast of Lights,” by German composer Samuel Adler, commemorating the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, which celebrates the re-consecration of the holy temple in Jerusalem in 154 B.C.
Then sounds “Christmas in the Air,” a wreath of Christmas songs including “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” made famous by Judy Garland in 1944’s “Meet Me in St. Louis,” as well as a tribute to famed film composer Henry Mancini, creator of such unforgettable melodies as “The Days of Wine and Roses,” “Moon River,” and the theme to “The Pink Panther.”
Then, before the PVS’s last opportunity to honor French genius Claude Debussy in 2012 — the 150th anniversary of his birth year — vanishes, it will give us a rare orchestral rendering of his absolutely exquisite piano work, “Claire de Lune,” (“Light of the Moon”).
But wait, don’t leave yet — our Christmas stocking is far from empty — listen further, for the poetic voice of Robert Frost, due to make an appearance through a setting of his poems titled “Frostiana,” by American composer Randall Thompson; my colleagues Zeke Hecker’s program notes inform us that Frost, who was present for the premiere, stood up after its performance and shouted enthusiastically, “Play it again!”
Underneath that is stuffed a perennial favorite by American genius of light musical classics, Leroy Anderson, “A Christmas Festival,” in which we are challenged to spot lots of disguised Christmas tunes.
And, if you manage to get an ear deeply enough into the stocking, you may be able to detect a final mysterious bulge, described by the elves at PVS as “A Surprise” — to be unwrapped and delighted in — during the performance.
Surprise indeed! What would Christmas be without one?
Tickets are available at
www.pvso.org/tickets. Adults, $20, students and seniors, $17, children $6. 413-773-3664
Greenfield High School is located at 1 Lenox St., Greenfield. 413-772-1350.
An author and composer, columnist Joseph Marcello of Northfield focuses on music and theater. He can be reached at
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Images and text copyright WILDSEED FARMS.
Cosmos sulphureus (Asteraceae)
A hardy, erect annual requiring very little moisture once established. A native of Mexico, it can easily adapt to all regions of the United States. The glowing, orange-yellow flowers are extremely attractive, constantly blooming for weeks. Leaves are deeply dissected, almost thread-like in appearance. Rich, fertile soils tend to produce unusually tall, lanky plants. Requires full sun. Sow in early spring, seedlings are not winter hardy. Highly recommended.
Average planting success with this species: 80%
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Northeast to benefit from new high-speed rail link
Updated: 2012-12-01 08:19
By Wu Yong and Liu Ce in Shenyang (China Daily)
A new high-speed railway linking China's major northeastern cities of Harbin and Dalian will begin operation on Saturday, with experts predicting the 98 billion yuan ($15.7 billion) infrastructure investment could accelerate social and economic cooperation right across northeast Asia.
The 921 km route, with 24 stops, is the world's first high-speed, high-altitude rail line, and has been designed to withstand extreme temperatures, according to the Shenyang Railway Bureau.
The high-speed link is expected to reduce the travel time between Harbin and Dalian to four hours, from the current 10 hours.
The CRH380B bullet trains serving the line can operate in temperatures as low as -40 C, and as high as 40 C.
Local officials and experts said they expect the railway to not only make travel easier, but also provide a huge economic boost to the region.
The northeastern provinces (Heilongjiang, Jilin and Liaoning) are considered some of China's key industrial bases, and the high-speed rail line is expected to ease transportation bottlenecks, said Zhu Shu, a senior official with the United Nations Development Program's Tumen project.
In the late 19th century, northeastern China's prosperity was highly reliant on railway construction.
Today the region plays an important role in providing food and energy resources to the rest of the country, and is an important trade link between China, Russia and the Korean Peninsula.
The border between Heilongjiang province and Russia is more than 2,000 km long.
According to local government figures, the volume of trade between the province and Russia reached $18.99 billion in 2011, representing nearly a quarter of the country's total trade volume with its northern neighbor.
Liaoning and Jilin also play an important role in economic cooperation with the Korean Peninsula.
There are over 4,500 South Korean enterprises in Northeast China with investments by companies, including STX, LG, SK, POSCO and Hana Bank worth $4.58 billion.
Dandong, in Liaoning province, meanwhile, sits on the main route for trade between China and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
In 2011, the city's import and export trade with the DPRK was worth $1.86 billion, accounting for 40 percent of Sino-DPRK trade volume.
In the past three years, China has launched many policies to promote the opening-up of Northeast China, most recently in early August when the State Council approved a plan to push cooperation between the region and Russia.
The three provinces have also worked hard to enhance cooperation with countries in northeast Asia.
"It's very important and viable for China to strengthen its cooperation with Russia," said Qi Wenhai, researcher of Northeast Asian Studies Center at Heilongjiang University.
However, he added one of the main stumbling blocks has been transportation infrastructure.
Da Zhigang, director of Northeast Asia Institute at Heilongjiang Provincial Academy of Social Sciences, said that the new high-speed railway will help accelerate passenger, logistics and information flow, which will directly or indirectly promote contact between northeast regions and neighboring countries.
He explained that the four core cities along the railway - Harbin, Changchun, Shenyang and Dalian - are linked closely with future economic exchange.
Besides the new high-speed railway, the three provinces are also planning to build a local high-speed railway network, including lines from Shenyang to Dandong, Changchun to Hunchun, and Harbin to Fuyuan, all of which will have terminals very close to Russia and the DPRK.
Experts agreed that the new railway lines represented an important import and export channel for China, which will ease current freight transportation pressures, and mean that bulk goods, such as coal, oil, wood and grain, will be transported to southern regions far quicker.
Lin Zhonghong, deputy director of the Economic and Planning Research Institute of the Ministry of Railways, was quoted by Xinhua News Agency as saying the high-speed railway will increase the transport capacity between Harbin and Dalian from 50 million to 60 million metric tons a year.
Contact the writers at firstname.lastname@example.org and email@example.com
Han Junhong in Changchun and Zhou Huiying in Harbin contributed to this story.
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According to the 2004 NAACP Economic Reciprocity Initiative, Marriott ranked first among the 13 main chains in its activity in employment, equity ownership and franchise opportunities, advertising and , philanthropy, and vendor relationships with minority populations.
The rest of the list were, from best to worst grade: Wyndham, Intercontinental, Hyatt, Adam's Mark, Choice, Starwood, Hilton, Loews, Omni, Cendant, Carlson, and Best Western.
Why are hotels going after minority markets now? Because they’re smart. Along with the gay and Hispanic communities, the African American travel market is zooming, and lucrative. According to the article, It rose "16% over a recent two-year period, compared to only 1% growth in the general market. Travel industry research shows that African Americans spend more than $35 billion out of a total of $544 billion that is spent each year on leisure and business travel."
To receive a weekly blog update, e-mail Sue.
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He (John Walters) married Albany-area native Sara Winne in October 1721. By 1735, four of their children had been baptized in the Albany Dutch church where he was an occasional baptism sponsor. However, John Waters was a member of St. Peter's Anglican church.
He was known as a schoolteacher and was sometimes identified as a vintner.
In 1742, he was listed as a freeholder in the third ward. Two years later, he was ordered by the city council to surrender a portion of his land for use for fortificatons. His account also was paid from the city treasury.
John Waters died in August 1752 and was buried from the Albany Dutch church. At the least, his son and two daughters became Albany residents. Perhaps (but not with certainty), it was his descendants who carried on in Albany through the end of the eighteenth century!
Sources: The life of John Waters is CAP biography number 6823. This sketch is derived chiefly from family and community-based resources. We seek defining information on his background. Provincial probate records point to a Waters family of Queens. However, the spelling of the name as "John Walters" dictates even more caution.
Copy of a printed image of a portrait in the collection of the Munson Williams Proctor Institute, Utica, New York. The existence of the portrait perhaps signifies that we are missing an important part of his story.
first posted: 9/30/03; recast and revised 7/3/10
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Chronic kidney disease (CKD) increases cardiovascular risk and mortality. However, traditional cardiovascular risk factors do not adequately account for the substantial increase in mortality observed in CKD. The aim of this study was to examine the relative contributions of novel cardiovascular risk factors to the risk between CKD and mortality. The study population included 4,680 consecutive new patients from a tertiary care preventive cardiology program from 1996 to 2005. Estimated glomerular filtration rate was calculated using the Modification of Diet in Renal Disease (MDRD) method. Baseline levels of traditional (low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, hypertension, triglycerides, total cholesterol, and fasting glucose) and emerging (apolipoproteins A-I and B, lipoprotein[a], fibrinogen, homocysteine, and high-sensitivity C-reactive protein) risk factors were examined. All-cause mortality was obtained from the Social Security Death Index. There were 278 deaths over a median follow-up period of 22 months. CKD (estimated glomerular filtration rate ≤60 ml/min/1.73 m2) was strongly associated with mortality after adjusting for traditional cardiovascular risk factors (hazard ratio 2.31, 95% confidence interval 1.77 to 3.11, p <0.001) and with the addition of propensity score (hazard ratio 2.33, 95% confidence interval 1.75 to 3.10, p <0.001). Of all the traditional and emerging risk factors monitored, only the addition of homocysteine and fibrinogen significantly attenuated the association between CKD and mortality (adjusted hazard ratio 1.73, 95% confidence interval 1.23 to 2.34, p <0.001), explaining 38% of the attributable mortality risk from CKD. A significant interaction (p = 0.004) between homocysteine and estimated glomerular filtration rate was observed whereby the annual mortality rate in subjects with CKD with homocysteine <10 μmol/L (the bottom tertile) was similar to those with normal renal function (1% per year), whereas homocysteine levels ≥12.5 μmol/L (the top tertile) were associated with a sevenfold greater mortality risk. In conclusion, homocysteine and fibrinogen levels explain nearly 40% of the attributable mortality risk from CKD.
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Real-time Stock quotes, portfolio, LIVE TV and more.
Jul 12, 2012, 08.23 AM IST
Certified Financial Planner Gaurav Mashruwala is of the opinion that it is best to stop investing and pay off debt as soon as possible.
Below is the edited transcript of his interview on CNBC-TV18. Also watch the accompanying video.
Q: An investor can invest around Rs 40,000 per month (not a fixed amount). He has got stock holdings, investments in mutual funds in SIP. He wants to invest for children’s education. He is a long term investor.
A: If your financial goal is more than 7-9 years, which is slightly long term, equity is the best asset class. You can either get into direct equity provided you have skills and time. So you should be looking at the quarter reports that come out and going through the balance sheet etc. If that’s not what you are doing then I would suggest take a mutual fund route and keep investing on a regular basis. Since it’s a very long term goal, you can probably split your amount that you put aside every month. You can take an index fund, a large cap fund and also put slightly in gold because that will balance out your portfolio. Since you don’t have a definite amount, I am not able to comment as to how much you should set aside but regularly even if you are able to save out of your total income, 20-30% or your income, it should be fine.
Q: An investor is well invested in the stock market; he has Rs 20000 as investment in mutual fund SIP and pension plans as well. He has a housing loan where he pays Rs 35000 per month as EMI. So is it okay for him to go to mutual fund SIPs to beat the interest he is paying in housing loan or should he stop the investment in SIPs and contribute Rs 20000 extra on EMI? The house is his second property. How should he allocate his money?
A: The EMI that you are going to be paying is certain, the interest rate, the EMI amount remains constant. The returns from equity market - be it direct equity, mutual funds or ULIP are volatile. So don’t get into a situation you have a house under debt where you have an uncertain returns against a a fixed debt. So stop investing, pay off debt and ensure that your house is debt free, no mortgage at all as soon as possible.
Tags: Gaurav Mashruwala, Certified Financial Planner, home loan, car loan, equity, Gaurav Mashruwala
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The Fund plans to build a new primary school with sufficient space and necessary supplies to educate 400 underserved children in Buhumba village on Idjwi Island in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Years of violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo and in Rwanda has resulted in a substantial influx of refugees, including many orphans, to Idjwi Island in Lake Kivu between the two countries. The existing primary school in Buhumba has just four small rooms for 400 children, few supplies, and a roof and walls that leak when it rains, forcing the school to close. Although many international organizations are active in Eastern Congo, there is virtually no support for the Idjwi community.
We are constructing a new school on donated land to provide adequate facilities for these children to learn. The new school will reduce overcrowding and provide additional resources, such as desks and teaching materials, to facilitate improved education for the students. In addition, construction will provide much-needed jobs for suppliers and laborers on the island.
An improved primary school environment will equip children with the knowledge and tools that they need to improve their own lives and that of their community. Building a new primary school in Buhumba village is an investment that will provide returns both for the hundreds of children who will attend this school and for the larger community on Idjwi.
The school no longer responds to the needs of the students, the proof being that when it rains, the students are forced to return home. The roof and the walls are in a bad state and allow water leaks. - Mr. Klishe Jauda, Director, Buhumba School
Total Funding Received to Date: $11,737
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $18,262
Total Funding Goal: $30,000
Project Id: #8577
© 2012-2013 GlobalGiving Foundation
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On Intertemporal Selfishness: How the Perceived Instability of Identity Underlies Impatient Consumption
Coauthor(s): Oleg Urminsky.
Adobe Acrobat PDF
We explore how the anticipated connectedness between one's current and future identity can help explain impatience in intertemporal preferences. The less closely connected psychologically a person is to his or her future self, the less willing he or she will be to forgo immediate benefits in order to ensure larger deferred benefits to be received by that future self. We show that when people's measured or manipulated sense of continuity with their future self is lower, they accept smaller-sooner rewards, wait less in order to save money on a purchase, require a larger premium to delay receiving a gift card, and have lower long-term discount rates.
Bartels, Daniel, and Oleg Urminsky. "On Intertemporal Selfishness: How the Perceived Instability of Identity Underlies Impatient Consumption." Journal of Consumer Research
38 (June 2011): 182-198.
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Carbothermal reduction and nitridation of ilmenite concentrates of different grades and synthetic rutile were studied in isothermal experiments in hydrogen – nitrogen gas atmosphere and pure nitrogen in a tube reactor. Concentrations of CO and CO2 in the off gas were measured online using infrared gas analyser. The reaction products were analysed by X-ray diffraction. Iron oxides in ilmenite concentrates were reduced to metallic iron, and titanium oxides were converted to titanium oxycarbonitride. Reduction of ilmenite concentrates and synthetic rutile in hydrogen containing gas was significantly faster than in pure nitrogen. The rate of conversion of titania to titanium oxycarbonitride in the 50 vol% H2-50 vol% N2 gas mixture decreased with increasing grade of ilmenite concentrate. In nitrogen, reduction of synthetic rutile was faster than reduction of ilmenite concentrates.
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Props to Smiley Culture who sang Cockney Translation many moons ago.
Evil Penis has a post at http://evilpenis.blogspot.com/2011/04/debating-feminism.html
That refers to an article at http://www.thisisgloucestershire.co.uk/news/feminism-group-set-start-Gloucester/article-3454661-detail/article.html
Only two words needed translating, word replacement, to bring the truth of the article / writer out for all to see.
Femininst = cunt
Women = wimminz
Once this simple search and replace is complete, it suddenly transforms not only the readability of the article, but also whips away the veils of wimminz wibbling, which I have discussed elsewhere on this blog in the Mind Your Language article.
A Cuntism group is set to start in Gloucester
ARE you a Cunt? I guess most readers seeing that question would answer “no”. Cuntism has had very bad press over the years, but life would be very different for wimminz if Cunts hadn’t ignored the insults and kept on making a fuss.
The wimminz who fought for the right to vote were given the intentionally-patronising name “suffragettes” by one London newspaper, and frequently ridiculed. However, their brave perseverance won the vote for certain groups of wimminz in 1918, although it was not until as late as 1928 that wimminz were allowed to vote on the same terms as men.
The backlash against the so-called second wave Cuntism of the 60s and 70s suggested, wrongly, that Cunts were all lesbians, or all hated men. It was this generation of Cunts, however, who won wimminz free, unrestricted access to the contraceptive pill and legalised abortions, allowing wimminz to be in control of their own fertility.
They also helped wimminz become conscious of the inequalities they faced not just politically but also personally, within their own homes. Their actions lead to important laws being passed such as the Equal Pay Act 1975.
If Cunts have achieved so much for wimminz, why are so many people still so against them? Cunts of the 80s and 90s are blamed for many problems wimminz face in their lives nowadays, for example the guilt mothers feel if they either work full time or stay at home full time. Cunts appear to have created an equal world for men and wimminz, but at a cost.
However, gender equality is an illusion. wimminz may be equal in law in the UK, but in reality they still have to overcome massive disadvantages compared to men, simply because of being born with a uterus.
wimminz still earn on average 13 per cent less than men for the same job; do the majority of work in the home even if they work full time; struggle to gain posts in higher management; and are still seriously under-represented in science and maths-based careers.
Cunts are simply people who think that these disadvantages, and others, are unacceptable and that action needs to be taken to bring wimminz’s lives up to the level of men’s. There is no continuum of Cuntism, either you think that the status quo is wrong, or you think it’s right. You don’t have to be a militant activist to be a Cunt (although obviously militant activists are necessary to effect change). Cunts disagree about a lot of things, but all of them agree that wimminz and men are still unequal and all of them want to see the situation for wimminz improve. So, are you a Cunt?
This simple technique works for all wimminz witterings, if you MUST read this shit, at least read it correctly translated from Cunt into English.
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TYNGSBORO -- Greater Lowell Technical High School recently hosted its first Community Open House of the 2012-2013 school year.
"More than 800 people walked through the doors on Thursday night," Superintendent/Director Mary Jo Santoro said. "The night is a real opportunity for us to show the public the incredible education students can receive at Greater Lowell."
The fall event gives parents of our current students a chance to meet instructors. The night also allows eighth-graders and their parents a chance to visit the school and learn more about Greater Lowell Tech.
Many shops featured interactive demonstrations for visitors to enjoy and to give parents a true understanding of the type of learning and work that happens at Greater Lowell Tech.
Students and their parents were encouraged to learn more about the technical and academic programs by speaking with teachers in the shops and classrooms. For example, Masonry constructed a tree out of concrete block and utilized a technique to shape and sculpt the exterior to look exactly like bark. Students Yadyna Pos, James Anderson, Tray Mahoney, built the tree with direction from instructors Bill Piper, Mike Dumont and Dan Hagan.
Also, mall shops were open all evening for the shopping pleasure of the visitors.
Also featured on Parents' Night/Open House were the Adult Postsecondary Certificate programs. The programs offered at the school provide adults with training in allied health or technology.
For more information regarding enrollment, call 978-441-4951.
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Introduction to the Strawberry Seeds Page
The purpose of this site (Strawberry Plants .org) is to inspire gardeners of every type to gain an appreciation for the strawberry plant and its fruit. As a fondness for the sweet strawberry grows, we hope that many gardeners will decide to grow strawberry plants from strawberry seeds. This Strawberry Seeds page is here to help those people who want to take a strawberry seed and nurture it until it is a mature strawberry plant producing strawberries!
How the Strawberry Seeds Page Works
This main Strawberry Seeds page serves as a hub for anyone looking to learn about or purchase strawberry seeds. This page will help you understand everything you need to about growing strawberry plants from seed. If you don’t know where to buy strawberry seeds, you can visit our list of suppliers and seed companies who offer strawberry seeds for sale. Following that, we cover how to plant strawberry seeds and grow strawberry plants from seeds. And, of course, you can also read up on the fascinating details and information regarding strawberry seeds and what makes them unique.
As new information is added, links will be posted at the bottom of this page to the new strawberry seed information. Be sure to check back!
Strawberry Seeds for Sale Online
When looking to buy strawberry seeds for sale online, be sure that you choose a reputable supplier. To shop and buy strawberry seeds, use the link below to access our directory of online suppliers. If you know of an additional online supplier of strawberry seeds, please contact us, and we will gladly try to include them in our directory:
(for strawberry plants, go here: Buy Strawberry Plants)
Growing Strawberry Plants from Strawberry Seeds
Growing strawberry plants from seed is more difficult than simply buying strawberry plants. But, it can be much more rewarding as well. Once you have strawberry plant growing, refer to our Growing Strawberries page for guidance on how to successfully produce a strawberry crop.
Growing strawberries from seed, of course, begins with selection of your preferred Strawberry Varieties. Once you have selected the strawberry cultivar that is right for your garden and purchase the strawberry seeds, you are ready to plant. Be aware, however, that strawberry seeds from most hybrid cultivars will not reproduce true to form. Alpine varieties and heirloom seeds usually will (along with a few of the new F1 cultivars), so factor that in when planting strawberry seeds.
Many strawberry seeds need to be cold treated to encourage germination. If your selected strawberry seeds require this, fear not. It is easy. Simply wrap your strawberry seeds, put them in an airtight container, and place them in a freezer. This simulates winter conditions, and the warming period lets the seed know it is time to come to life. After keeping the strawberry seeds below freezing for two to four weeks, remove the seeds from the freezer. Leave them in the jar or container as they gradually warm up to room temperature.
Once your strawberry seeds are at room temperature and are ready plant, you need to create a hospitable place for your strawberry seeds to begin their journey to planthood. A seed tray works well. Obtain a seed tray and prepare it. A good mix for starting strawberry seeds is 3 parts peat to 1 part organic-rich soil. Spread this out in your seed tray to a depth of about one half of an inch.
Moisten the mixture with water until it is uniformly damp. Sprinkle your strawberry seeds over the damp mixture and then cover the seeds with a very thin dusting of peat moss. Ensure that the strawberry seeds are not covered more than 1/4 of an inch deep. Keep them indoors in a well-lighted room and in direct sunlight, if possible. In two to three weeks, the strawberry seeds should germinate.
Keep the soil moist well-lighted. Warmth can help the seeds germinate, so the top of a refrigerator or on a bottom heat pad can be suitable places for germination. If the strawberry plant seedlings aren’t in direct sunlight with supplemental light, consider providing additional artificial light. A fluorescent shop light or grow light will do the trick. Position the light source 3 to 4 inches from the seedlings, and raise the light as the strawberry plants grow. If the strawberry seeds sprout too close to each other, thin them when they are between 1 and 2 inches tall, keeping the biggest and most vigorous seedlings. Gently transfer the strawberry seedlings to larger containers or pots after they gain their 3rd leaves.
If weather allows, the strawberry seedlings can be planted directly outside, or the plants in the containers can be replanted outside. If the strawberry seeds were started indoors, the young strawberry plants need to be hardened off prior to planting outside. When the temperature rises into the 50s, begin taking the plants outside in the shade for several hours each day. Gradually increase the time the plants are outdoors, eventually leaving them outside overnight as the temperature allows. Begin moving them into the sun for increasing periods of time to finish the hardening off process prior to planting. This ensures your plants won’t be damaged or killed by their environmental changes.
It is fun to grow strawberries from seed! When you are ready to plant outside, be sure to reference the Growing Strawberries page.
Saving Strawberry Seeds
If you want to grow strawberry plants from seed, you may want to consider saving heirloom strawberry seeds from year to year (heirloom strawberry seeds are the same as non-hybrid strawberry seeds). Fortunately, it is relatively easy to learn how to save strawberry seeds so that you can begin growing strawberries from seeds that you saved. Here is the easy way to save your seeds:
Put your ripe strawberries into a household blender. Add one cup of water to the strawberries in the blender and blend on high for 3 to 5 seconds. Try not to exceed 5 seconds of blending time, or the strawberry seeds may be damaged. Allow the components to sit for a minute or two. The viable seeds will sink and the unviable seeds will float along with the strawberry pulp. After the good strawberry seeds settle to the bottom, pour off the bad seeds and fruit pulp with the water. Rinse the seeds and then transfer them to a paper towel (or low-heat dehydrator) to dry. When dry, store the strawberry seeds in a cool, dry place.
If you prefer to use a non-blender method, you can try an alternative strawberry seed saving method. If you dehydrate a strawberry (or let it dry completely), you can use your thumb and forefinger to rub the strawberry so that the seeds fall off. Separate the seeds from the chaff and store in a cool, dry place.
Or, if you prefer still another method, you can also use a sieve. Take a strawberry, press the pulpy part through the sieve, and the seeds should be left in the sieve. Rinse the seeds, dry, and store the strawberry seeds for future planting.
Strawberry Seeds Information
The relationship of birds and strawberries is likely due to the prevalence of strawberry plants across the temperate world. The birds, obviously, love to eat strawberries, and the strawberry seeds generally pass through their digestive tracts intact and in good shape. As the birds defecate, they spread viable strawberry seeds far and wide.
Interestingly enough, there are approximately 200 strawberry seeds adorning the outside of a strawberry. And, while often referred to as a “berry,” strawberries are not true berries like blueberries and blackberries are, and their seeds are not true “seeds.” The tasty strawberry flesh is considered accessory tissue, and those tiny flecks we all call “strawberry seeds” are actually fruits in and of themselves. The tiny fruits actually contain the seeds. These seed-containing fruits are called “achenes.” An achene is occasionally also referred to as an “akene,” “achenocarp,” or “achenium.”
The tasty strawberries are also unique in another way. Scour the earth all you want to, but you’ll not find another fruit with its seeds on its exterior surface!
Strawberry Seeds: Conclusion
Strawberry seeds give rise to the strawberry plants that produce the strawberries we all love. We think everyone should have a fond affection for strawberry seeds (unless, of course, you get a strawberry seed stuck in a tooth or between your gums). If you have any questions about strawberry seeds, feel free to leave a comment. And, be sure to check back as additional information is added and linked below.
Looking for pineberry seeds for sale? If you want to grow pineberries or grow pineberries from seed, you should read this first before buying pineberry seeds online. Also has links to pineberry varieties & growing pineberries information.
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Lessons on Dress
In reference to Gary Stager's blog on The Pulse: Education's Place for Debate, www.DistrictAdministration.com/pulse, ("One Lesson Teach for America Missed," April 21, 2008), I can't tell you how strongly I agree with you! Teachers often cry about not being treated or paid as professionals, yet they continually dress otherwise. This phenomenon is not isolated to our new or young teachers either. I see veteran teachers every day wearing jeans in schools.
As administrators, we cannot insist on any dress code for our teachers. Once again, our teachers union does more to hurt the profession than help it. We shouldn't have to. Professionalism should be instilled in us during our training to become professionals.
Sandy Wagner, technology coordinator, Auburn (N.Y.) Enlarged City School District
I think you should be careful of judging an organization based on one member. I'm sure Teach for America was involved in the taping of the show. On a corps member's first day of training in TFA, professional dress is required. Visit any of Teach for America's summer training institutes (Philadelphia, New York, Houston, Phoenix) and you will see that professional dress (not merely "smart casual") is required, not recommended. At a corps member's placement site, it is often left to the school's policies. However, in this case, if facts were checked, I'm sure TFA had recommended repeatedly to this corps member to change her attire before someone's rather creative idea of putting her on a television show came into place.
Native Indian Culture
Thank you for the gracious words in the article on rural school challenges at the Kayenta (Ariz.) Unified School District ("Achieving against the Odds," May 2008). It's refreshing and informative.
We would like you to come out and visit our community to experience the beauty of the Native American culture and geography.
Alex Martinez, superintendent, Kayenta (Ariz.) Unified School District
I think the school Gary Stager mentions in his article ("Learning Shall Not Interfere with School!" April 23, 2008) on The Pulse: Education's Place for Debate, www.DistrictAdministration.com/pulse, reacted too harshly!
Our district is facing $4.5 million in cuts next year. Our high school students organized a walkout to protest California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's cuts in education. The students who are usually complacent felt empowered having their voices heard. I'm proud that our district's leadership spoke with the 500-plus students and supported the walkout, calling it an extracurricular activity. My daughter was among the students who walked four miles across town to participate in the rally directed at Sacramento's politicians. I've never been more proud of her. Because of this event, she and her peers are now taking a more active role in following the politics of our state!
Diana Kenney, acting curriculum technology integration coach, Alameda (Calif.) Unified School District
Letters to the Editor may be sent to email@example.com, or mailed to Judy F. Hartnett, District Administration, 488 Main Avenue, Norwalk, CT 06851. Selections that are published may be edited for length and clarity, and become the property of District Administration.
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Interest rates increase the total repayment amount of a loan at a fixed or variable rate. Interest rates are often expressed as an annual percentage, even though interest is often accrued monthly, weekly or daily. Knowing how to convert annual interest rates to daily interest rates can shed light on exactly how much interest is accrued each day.
Determine your annual interest rate. Look for the interest rate in your original loan documentation if you're on a fixed rate. Alternatively, check your most recent interest-rate change notification letter from your lender if you have a variable rate.
Divide your annual interest rate by 12 to find your monthly interest rate. For example, if your annual interest rate is 10 percent, your monthly interest rate is about 0.8 percent, or 0.008.
Divide your monthly interest rate by 4 to find your weekly interest rate. To continue the example, if your monthly interest rate is 0.8 percent, your weekly rate will come in around 0.2 percent, or 0.002.
Divide your weekly interest rate by 7 to find your daily interest rate. Continuing the example, if your annual rate of 10 percent translates into a weekly rate of 0.2 percent, your daily interest rate will be around 0.02 percent, or 0.0002.
Multiply the total loan amount outstanding for the period by that period's interest rate to determine the amount of interest accrued on a given day, week or month.
- If you don't want to examine your monthly and weekly interest rates, simply divide your annual interest rate by 365 to arrive at your daily rate.
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XML flaws threaten 'enormous' array of apps
Java, Python, and Apache - for starters
Updated Security researchers have uncovered critical flaws in open-source software that implements the Extensible Markup Language in a staggering array of applications used by banks, e-commerce websites, and consumers.
The bugs uncovered by researchers at Finland-based Codenomicon were contained in virtually every open-source XML library available, Ari Takanen, CTO of Finland-based security testing firm Codenomicon, told The Register. Many of them could allow attackers to crash machines running applications that use the libraries or even remotely execute malicious code. The Python and Java programming languages and Apache Xerces are already known to be affected, and Takanen said many more could be as well.
"The number of applications can be enormous," Takanen said. "Basically, any application or piece of software that's using XML libraries is vulnerable."
The discovery is significant because it highlights holes in the foundation upon which many of the world's applications are built. The programs drive cloud computing services, 3-dimensional programs, and a wide range of business software.
The discovery is the result of a program dubbed CROSS, or Codenomicon Robust Open Source Software, which uses software fuzzers to test the security of open-source programs by throwing manipulated data at them and seeing how they react. Codenomicon researchers tested every open-source library and all were found to contain vulnerabilities, though their severity varied from library to library.
The bugs "are related to the parsing of XML elements with unexpected byte values and recursive parentheses, which cause the program to access memory out of bounds, or to loop indefinitely," according to this advisory from the Computer Emergency Response Team in Finland, which has been working with Codenomicon to coordinate fixes among different software providers.
Codenomicon went on to say here that libraries built on the C language are at highest risk because exploits can include the execution attacks.
"Unfortunately, most libraries out there are written in C, and thus errors such as stack overflows are not that uncommon," the document stated. "When this is the case, exploitability depends on the anti-exploitation features of the platform (ASLR, DEP, NX bits, canaries etc.)."
C-based libraries used in communications software represent the highest risk because attacks could include remote execution. Libraries that merely process files are most likely vulnerable to only local attacks. The bugs could be exploited by tricking a user into opening a booby-trapped XML file or by sending malicious requests to XML-powered Web services.
CERT Finland continues to reach out to software makers who may have embedded the libraries in their offerings or used the libraries to help develop their programs. The Python Software Foundation is working on a fix, CERT said.
Sun issued at least two XML-related updates, one for OpenSSO Enterprise 8.0 Sun Java System Access Manager and the other in its Java Runtime Environment. The status of Apache Xerces remained unclear, although the foundation issued this patch in June that references Codenomicon.
The discovery is reminiscent of a vulnerability many of the Codenomicon principals found in 2001 and 2002 in a networking standard known as ASN.1. The ramifications of the bug were serious enough to lead of months of wrangling by hundreds of companies that relied on the technology and to warrant a briefing of then President George W. Bush.
It's impossible to know now if the flaws uncovered in XML will be as far reaching as all that. But if you value your organization's security, it might be a good idea to monitor the providers of your libraries to see what they have to say. ®
Story updated to add details about bug and fixes from Sun and Apache.
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One of the questions people ask me most often is why you need to discard a portion of your starter every time you feed it. The answer is — you don’t; you can bake with it instead, if you’re in a baking frame of mind. However, as far as perpetuation of the starter is concerned, you’d better be taking some of it out regularly, or you’re going to be in trouble fast.
Think about what happens when you deliver a meal to those microorganisms — yeast and bacteria — that live in your starter. They gorge themselves on flour and then go about the business of procreation. Now they’re out of food, but there are even more mouths to feed. Unless you expeditiously dispose of some of those little mouths — into a bread dough, the compost pile, the trash can, whatever — you will need to bring in exponentially larger and larger meals for them, and your little dinner party party will become seriously out of control within a matter of days.
To illustrate: say you have a rather small amount of starter, 60 grams. At each feeding, you need to feed in proportion to the amount of starter you start with, around three times the flour and with an equal amount of water. If you kept feeding without taking any out, after one feeding you would have 60 g starter + 180 g flour + 180 g water = 420 g of fed starter. After the second feeding you would have 420 g starter + 1260 g flour + 1260 g water = 2940 g of fed starter. After three feedings, 20,580 g.
After just three days (six feedings), you would have 7,058,940 g of starter. You’re going to need a pretty big jar, not to mention a pretty big budget to afford all that flour.
This is not to say you must always take some out. If I have 60 grams of starter at night and plan to bake bread the next morning, I would keep and feed the entire 60 grams, giving me 420 grams. This is enough to bake a few loaves (in a few hours, once it has a chance to become hungry again) and still have 10 grams left over to keep the starter going.
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Transport and Communications Legislation Amendment Bill 1990
House: House of Representatives
Portfolio: Transport and Communications
This is an omnibus Bill that will make a number of largely non-contentious amendments to legislation administered by the Transport and Communications portfolio. The major amendments relate to the advertisement of medicines; the protection of the environment by the Civil Aviation Authority and the Federal Airports Corporation; motor vehicle standards compliance plates and procedures for testing vehicles; the abuse of alcohol and other drugs by certain seafarers; power of the Minister to give directions to the Australian Telecommunications Authority (AUSTEL); the waiver by AUSTEL of application fees; and the exemption of AUSTEL from Commonwealth, State and Territory taxes.
As there is no central theme to the Bill the background to each amendment will be explained below.
Amendments to the Broadcasting Act 1942
Sub-section 100(6) of the Act provides that a licensee is not to broadcast an advertisement relating to a medicine unless its text has been approved by the Secretary to the Department of Community Services and Health (the Secretary), or by the Minister where there has been an appeal from a decision of the Secretary. Sub-section 100(7) of the Act provides that the Secretary may delegate the power to approve advertisements relating to medicines to a medical officer of a State.
On 9 March 1987, the then Public Service Board established a Review of Drug Evaluation Procedures. The Review arose from concerns about the reliability of certain data used to help gain market approval for a number of different brands of prescription drugs. The terms of reference of the Review included that the Review examine and report on the management of drug evaluation and related functions of the then Department of Health. In relation to the advertising and promotion of medicines, the Review stated that it doubted whether the cost to the government, or the protection afforded indirectly to patients by Departmental scrutiny of advertising material warranted the continuation of that process. The Review recommended that if the industry, through the Australian Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association and the Pharmaceutical Association of Australia were able to produce a draft advertising code which was acceptable to the government and monitor adherence to it through a council that included representatives of the medical profession and consumers, that a two year-year trial period of self-regulation should take place 1.
Clause 9 will allow the Secretary to the Department of Community Services and Health to delegate the power to approve the text of advertisements relating to medicine to: a medical officer of a State; the Proprietary Medicines Association of Australia; or any other body carrying out or associated with research into medicines, or formed to represent the interests of manufacturers or distributors of medicines.
Amendments to the Civil Aviation Act 1988
In September 1985, the House of Representatives Select Committee on Aircraft Noise, tabled a report titled Aircraft Operations and the Australian Community. The terms of reference of the Committee to report on: the impact of aircraft noise on the health and welfare of persons, institutions and communities; the effectiveness of administrative procedures and regulations designed to lessen noise; the effects of aircraft operations, other than noise, on property; and the effect of aircraft emissions on people and property.
The recommendations of the Committee included that:
*the Commonwealth Department of Health in consultation with State and local governments undertake a study to determine the effects of aircraft noise on mortality and physical and mental health;
*the Department of Communications undertake a survey into the extent of interference to television reception caused by aircraft flyover and investigate measures to alleviate the problem;
*compensation be paid to property owners who, because of the acquisition of property for a new airport, or the redevelopment of an existing airport, suffer a reduction in value of their land not acquired for those purposes, provided that valuations are based on existing land uses;
*the Commonwealth Government in consultation with State and local governments introduce a scheme for the acquisition of residences within high noise zones surrounding military and civil airports; and
*legislation establishing the Federal Airports Corporation specify consideration of environmental matters in the functioning of the Corporation 2.
In September 1990, the Government tabled its response to the report of the Committee. In relation to the recommendations of the Committee listed above, the Governments responses were:
*that the Department of Community Services and Health points out that overseas studies have to date not produced any conclusive findings on the health effects of noise. The costs of such a study would be substantial and that on available evidence the issue of aircraft noise and health could not be considered a high public health priority;
*that the Department of Transport and Communications has advised that there is no practical remedy for the problem of picture flutter caused by aircraft to VHF channels. This appears to be accepted by the public and no further action is proposed;
*that the Government has decided not to take up the Committees recommendation in relation to compensation for reduction in land value because of the acquisition of land for a new airport, because of the complexities of calculating the extent of compensation, the uncertain but possibly extensive cost across the whole range of infrastructure provision, and the possibility of windfall gains to those being compensated;
*that the Government proposes developing legislation to give the Federal Airports Corporation the flexibility to acquire properties for noise abatement reasons and that such legislation, which would not entitle house holders to demand purchase within a specific time frame, would be based on acquisition at current market values, and would be limited by the funds available to the Federal Airports Corporation and the Department of Defence; and
*that the Government will amend legislation of the Federal Airports Corporation and the Civil Aviation Authority to require them to take account of the environmental effects of aircraft operations 3.
It will be a function of the Civil Aviation Authority to protect the environment from the effects of the operation and use of aircraft, other than State aircraft (clause 13).
Clause 14 provides that the Civil Aviation Authority is to perform its functions, other than its regulatory functions, in a way that ensures, as far as is practicable, that the environment is protected from the effects of the operation and use of aircraft, other than State aircraft.
Clause 17 provides that the Civil Aviation Authority will not be entitled to be reimbursed by the Commonwealth where it has suffered a financial detriment because of complying with a Ministerial directive to protect the environment (note: in the Explanatory Memorandum to the Bill it is stated that the cost of the Civil Aviation Authority's environmental protection activities will be borne by the aviation industry).
Amendments to the Federal Airports Corporation Act 1986
Clause 21 provides that the Federal Airports Corporation is to perform its functions in a way that ensures, as far as is practicable, that the environment is protected from the effects of the operation and use of aircraft, other than state aircraft, operating to or from Federal airports.
It will be a function of the Federal Airports Corporation to protect the environment from the effects of the operation and use of aircraft, other than state aircraft, operating to or from Federal airports (clause 22).
The Federal Airports Corporation will not be entitled to be reimbursed by the Commonwealth where it has suffered a financial detriment because of complying with a Government policy directive, or a Ministerial directive to protect the environment (note:in the Explanatory Memorandum to the Bill
it is stated that the cost of the Federal Airports Corporations environment protection activities will be borne by the aviation industry) (clause 24).
Amendments to the Motor Vehicle Standards Act 1989
The object of the Act is to provide uniform vehicle standards for vehicles when they are first used. The Act gives the Minister, subject to disallowance by Parliament, power to set vehicle standards for vehicles or vehicle components. In addition, the Minister has the power, in accordance with the regulations, to make arrangements for the testing of vehicles and components; the inspection of manufacturing and testing facilities; and the examination of documents relating to the manufacture or testing of vehicles or vehicle components. The regulations provide for arrangements under which plates are placed on vehicles to indicate that they comply with national standards. A person may import a non-standard vehicle, vehicle component, or vehicle that does not have a compliance plate with Ministerial approval and on conditions that ensure that the vehicle will not breach the standards before use. The Act also established a number of offences, including that it is an offence for a person to knowingly or recklessly supply to the market a new vehicle that is non-standard or does not have a compliance plate. The maximum penalty for such a breach is a fine of $12 000. However, no offence will have been committed where the Minister's permission has been obtained or the vehicle has been supplied in accordance with prescribed circumstances. In addition, it is an offence for a person to knowingly or recklessly import a vehicle that is non-standard or does not have a compliance plate. The maximum penalty for such a breach is a fine of $12 000.
The effect of clause 27 will be to allow the Minister, in accordance with the regulations, to make arrangements for the testing and inspection of material, machinery, appliances, articles or facilities used in the manufacture of road vehicles or vehicle components.
A new section 10 will be substituted in the Act by clause 28. Proposed section 10 provides that the regulations will provide for arrangements under which plates will be placed on vehicles to indicate that they comply with national standards, or that approval has been given for plates to be placed on the vehicles. In addition, proposed section 10 will allow the Minister to authorise plates to be placed on a vehicle which does not comply with the national standards where satisfied that the non-compliance is minor or inconsequential.
Clause 30 provides for review by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal of decisions made by the Minister under clause 28 (see above).
Amendments to the Navigation Act 1912
Clause 33 will make it an offence for a master or seaman, while on board a ship, to be under the influence of alcohol or any other drug to such an extent that their ability to perform their duties is impaired. The maximum penalty which may be imposed for a breach of this provision will be a term of imprisonment of 12 months. An offence will also have been committed where impairment from alcohol or drugs results in loss or damage to the ship or another ship, or death or injury to another person. The maximum penalty for a breach of this provision will be a term of imprisonment of 2 years.
In the Explanatory Memorandum to the Bill, the stated reason given for the proposed amendment is to discourage the abuse of alcohol and other drugs by seafarers.
Amendments to the Telecommunications Act 1989
Section 111 of the Act gives the Minister power to give AUSTEL directions about the way it performs its functions, or exercises its powers, in relation to the issuing of permits for customer equipment (i.e equipment that is, or is intended to be, connected to a telecommunications network by a carrier) or of licences for the performance of cabling work. Clause 39 will increase the power of the Minister to give directions under section 111 of the Act by allowing the Minister to direct AUSTEL to vary or cancel permits for customer equipment and licences for the performance of cabling work.
Clause 40 will make it an offence for a person to not comply with a notice from AUSTEL requiring them to disconnect, within 7 days of receipt of the notice or such other period as is specified in the notice, customer equipment connected to a telecommunications network which that person has under their control and for which they do not have a permit. The maximum penalty which may be imposed for a breach of this provision will be a fine of $12 000.
The Telecommunications (Application Fees) Act 1989 provides that a prescribed fee is payable by a person who makes an application to AUSTEL for: variation of a licence to provide a value added service or a private network service; for registration of a value added service or private network service; for registration of a value added service or private network service; a permit for the connection or variation of customer equipment; accreditation as a testing house; and a cabling licence or variation of a cabling licence. Clause 43 provides that AUSTEL may waive, wholly or partly, fees payable in respect of the applications listed above.
Clause 44 provides that AUSTEL is to be exempt from Commonwealth, State and Territory taxes, other than prescribed taxation laws.
1. Public Service Board, Review of Drug Evaluation Procedures, June 1987, p. 113.
2. House of Representatives Select Committee on Aircraft Noise, Aircraft Operations and the Australian Community, September 1985, pp. ix-xii.
3. Department of Transport and Communications, Government Response to the Report of the House of Representatives Select Committee on Aircraft Noise, September 1990, pp. 2-15.
Bills Digest Service 10 November 1990
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Commonwealth of Australia 1990
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1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Slidell, John
|←Sleigh||1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 25
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SLIDELL, JOHN (1793-1871), American political leader and diplomatist, was born in New York City in 1793. He graduated from Columbia College in 1810, engaged in business for a short time, then studied law, and became one of the leaders of the bar at New Orleans, Louisiana, where he settled permanently in 1825. He was a member of the national House of Representatives as a state's rights Democrat from 1843 to 1845, when he resigned and was sent by President Polk on a secret mission to Mexico, with power to adjust the difficulties growing out of the annexation of Texas to the United States, and to acquire by purchase both New Mexico (including the present Arizona,) and Upper California. He was not, however, received by the Mexican government. From 1853 to 1861 he was a representative of Louisiana in the United States Senate, and was an influential working member of important committees, though he seldom took part in debate. During this period he was intimately associated with James Buchanan, and is supposed to have had an important part in bringing about Buchanan's nomination for the presidency in 1856. When Louisiana seceded in 1861, Slidell withdrew from the Senate, and late in 1861 was sent by the Confederate Government as commissioner to France. With James M. Mason (q.v.), the Confederate commissioner to England, he was taken from the British steamer “Trent” by Captain Charles Wilkes of the United States navy, and was imprisoned at Fort Warren in Boston harbour. In January 1862, at the demand of England, the Confederate commissioners were released, and Slidell proceeded to France. His mission there was to secure the recognition of the Confederate States; in this he was unsuccessful, but he was able to keep France sympathetic, and to help to secure supplies for the Confederate army and navy. After the war he remained abroad, settling in England, and his daughter married a French nobleman. He died in London on the 29th of July 1871.
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[Editor's Note Chris:]
The following is a dialogue between Sarah Olson and I, the resident doctor (Sarah) and priest (Chris) at Beams & Struts. The genesis of this article was a set of discussions we've had over the last year about our respective vocations and their interesting intersections. One of those interesting intersections was the name of our roles themselves. One title for a priest is curate, which comes from the Latin meaning "caretaker" or "doctor" of souls. That's where we got the idea for the title. We are looking for this to be the first in a series of such conversations between the two of us.
In his foreword to the anthology Consciousness and Healing, Ken Wilber describes the difference between conventional, integrative and integral medicine like this: conventional medicine treats the illness, integrative medicine treats the whole person, and integral medicine incorporates all of this and also treats the physician. Physicians need to develop the capacity to be in touch with their own interiority and remain compassionately available to their patients, especially in their most challenging moments.
I think this last sentence in particular is a brilliant and succinct description of the yoga of the doctor: to be in touch with their own interiority and remain compassionately available to their patients. Can you think of examples in your own practice where this happened or perhaps not? Have you found certain practices help you to be in touch with your own interiority while also remaining compassionately available to the patients?
Thanks for highlighting this piece. I've a lot of examples of relative success and failure in this practice, and of course everything in between. I met a patient recently, though, that will probably serve our dialogue well.
Emergency rooms are part of primary care, an entry point into the medical system. Emergency room patients, therefore, represent a remarkably mixed bag of needs and expectations. The gentleman I saw recently was an extremely difficult patient. He's very medically complex, with an extensive cardiac history, several heart attacks, past stroke, obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes, you name it. He is well known to the emergency room staff as a "frequent flyer." He is known to have a very difficult personality and struggles with anxiety and neuroses.. especially about his health. I heard a bit of his story and was prepared for a challenging encounter.
Approaching the stretcher, I was aware of the delicate balance between setting boundaries and being 'tough' with a known difficult patient, and my own natural instinct to be warm, open and to build connection. I will spare the details of our conversation, but needless to say it was indeed, very challenging. In essence, he wanted reassurance that he didn't have cancer, and had very little insight into his own fears and anxieties. He was also ignorant of how the system works... and took some convincing that we weren't going to admit him to hospital and do a full body MRI to allay his fears with no objective clinical indication. Eventually I ordered an X-ray of the body part in question (normal), gave him some reassurance and sent him home.
It was a very interesting experience for me though, because in the same moment that I was feeling frustrated angry even and was aware that I was taking too long with one patient and that my evaluation was on the line, I was able to hold a certain amount of distance. A part of me remained aware that this man was very sick, lonely, disconnected from source and in complete fear. I think that little bit of space and awareness, that little bit of me that was still in my heart (or space of compassion), allowed me to perhaps react a little bit less--although I did react a bit, to be sure. I was able to keep one foot in my interiority and therefore allow space for understanding and compassion to arise.
Ultimately I have no idea if that changed anything for this individual. Perhaps he is too far gone down the road of fear and unravelling to be touched at this point. But at least by engaging in the practice, I have strengthened that muscle for myself and will have more to offer in the next difficult situation.
I suppose in essence the shift that has happened for me is one I have already alluded to, which has been to begin to think of my work as my practice. To know what exactly that means we'll need to flesh out what it means to "practice", a thread I know you are well-equipped to pick up.
As I see it, if we physicians are just going about the routines of the day, seeing patients with only a small part of our presence and potential, giving the same advice, prescribing the same medications, playing out the same patterns of expectations and reaction, there is no way we are going to be capable of enacting the vision I describe in my original article. It's only when I bring a real conscious intention to a patient encounter, as a unique and important event, that it becomes even remotely possible. And that takes work, and that's the practice.
What is it that is giving me this very nascent capacity to find this space? A lot of things I guess. It is certainly not coming from my medical school or residency training. From personal meditative practices for one, and I think more importantly, from experiences happening in several intentional groups I am part of. One is a women's group, where we engage in deep listening and authentic speech, and where group and interpersonal dynamics have been an important focus... moving outside myself and becoming sensitive to the subtle shifts in the group space has been very helpful in navigating encounters with patients and other health care professionals.
How does this concept of work as practice land for you? What have you noticed in your very intimate and challenging moments with individuals and families that has allowed you to continue to serve?
It's funny that you mention the intimate and challenging moments. In many ways, a priest is really trained for those and those moments only: the hospital bedside, the confession, the pastoral counseling or crisis session, the funeral, and so on. I don't want to say those are "easier" (because they are not easy), but there's a certain way in which I'm there to simply hold space. Hold the loving space of listening, caring, and confidence.
Because on one level, their issues are clearly not my issues. Like a therapist who is able to skillfully help another but can't deal with his/her own stuff or doctors not diagnosing their own family, their presenting problems are not mine. There's a very real felt sense in those moments that each of us is really on an individual journey (to use cliched language). This is especially true when it comes to the dying process.
On the other hand, there is a cost. In the language of the gospels, there is the story of the woman who touched Jesus' cloak while in a crowd of people. Jesus notices that "power has gone out from him." I'm not equating myself here with Jesus, but in some of my more formal priestly roles, particularly in leading worship, power goes out from me. There is a kind of exhaustion I feel after preaching or presiding at the Eucharist or anointing the sick that is completely unique to that role. It's unlike anything I ever feel or have felt otherwise. Speaking to my colleagues they all know from experience as well. It's a common thing.
There is a kind of transference that does occur in this work. Regularly, usually a few times every month, I'll wake up in the middle of the night in a half-awake half-asleep, semi-lucid state in which images of all kinds of people will start flashing through my awareness. It's like light bulbs going on and off. Or maybe firecrackers, as there is typically a quite energetic even frenetic quality to it. My responsibility for the church community as a whole is, in some way I can't really comprehend, affecting me.
The best I can fathom what is happening in those moments is that when those images of people roll through my consciousness, something of them that had been left within me is somehow being exorcised--being worked out.
And when I say exorcism, I don't mean there are literally demons or whatever residing within me. But in another sense, I don't "not" mean that either (if that makes sense).
I work at a downtown church so basically anyone can (and does) walk through the doors. There are people for whom a priest is a trusted person and therefore they share with me--a total stranger--things that I know they haven't told another human being. And this on our first meeting. This isn't a daily occurrence to be sure, but it does regularly take place.
A priest friend of mine says that God has given him the grace to forget what people tell him. That would be a great grace. It's unfortunately not one that I possess. I unfortunately remember and am therefore more burdened with the memory of it all.
To loop back to the notion of work as practice, I've taken up a practice to care for myself wherein I forgive others for laying their weight upon me. Now in Christianity, it's not that I'm eating their karma as say a guru would. I can't even imagine the horror that would be and frankly don't want to. My belief and practice is one which God ('the space') eats or puts away the sin and I stand as a witness to that reality. Afterwards, I go about forgiving that person for my having to hear their confession. Of course they want to be unburdened, so I have no hard feelings towards them. But somehow I found (given that I do remember) that it takes the sting out of it for me. After the confession, I hold the image of the person in my consciousness and then feel myself releasing the chords. I might repeat a phrase like "I forgive". Or just repeat the word 'forgiveness', until at some point there is a kind of detaching feeling, like something unhooking from my being and then releasing out into the atmosphere. Then there is a sense of warmth and love and a well wish for that person (whom I may never see again incidentally).
Now this is all just one small piece of my work. It's the stuff people immediately think of when they think of a priest's job. But the dirty little secret in church world is that pastoral care of this kind (confessions, sick visits, crises, etc.) does not induce spiritual growth. In those contexts people are rightly much more concerned about getting through the crisis. We are creatures who seek homeostasis. People want to get back to "normal" in other words. There's a common assumption that once I get back to normal--if that does happen to take place--then I'll be able work on my growth. Sadly, this doesn't often take place in my experience. I don't think that nullifies the value of that work, but it does contextualize it. It knocks it down a peg or two.
In The Middle Ages there was a common image for the church as the wayside inn for the weary traveler along life's dusty, long road. Or the church as hospital. It speaks to a church as a place of sanctuary and rest but on the other hand, they pass right through. People are treated in a fairly individualistic and transient manner ("tourists"). The thing is, the more a church opens itself up to be a place of healing (unsurprisingly) the more broken people show up. People who are there to be cared for rather than to give or grow together.
The challenge is that I am called to be part of a community that has to be one of healing and welcome for those whom society has classified and treated as its dregs. The lonely, the unloved, the forgotten, the grieving, the imperfect, the slightly mad (or in some cases fully mad), the socially awkward, and so on. It's a reminder that in many ways, we are all always partly all that--though there are definitely degrees here!!! But at the same time all of the energy can be sucked into the never-ending void of caring for others.
There is the whole realm of actually being called to lead a community of spiritual transformation. To be all of the things that the scriptures say a church is supposed to be: "Light", "a holy people", "the community of the beloved", "a communion of saints."
In terms of my own work as practice, the main focus for me now is prioritizing. Remembering and acting in ways that speak to my commitments. For me the piece around transformation is the most important and all the rest (pastoral, administrative, etc.) exists within that broader framework. I work in a culture however in which the priorities are largely reversed--where making friends, doing good work, caring for folks pastorally, feeling some spiritual consolation for time to time, doing everything necessary to keep the institution going, are often the most important and then if there is any room leftover then we would talk about real spiritual transformation.
I often joke that I'd love to put the following on a sign outside a church I'd work at some future point in my life:
"When Jesus calls a person, he bids them come and die."
That is from the great Lutheran theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer who was murdered in a concentration camp for his resistance to the Nazis. If I were particularly bold, I might add to that quotation: "in love." Jesus bids them to come and die in love. To come and die in ecstatic love.
The joke of course is, "Who the hell would go to a church that wrote on it's front door come and die?" But to me that's what it's all about. Come and die so that there hopefully would be some resurrection.
My own work as practice involves a great deal of daily confession for the realization of how rarely my own practice (moved by grace) ever reaches that point.
The great theologian (and pastor) St. Augustine built his monumental theology on the point that the spiritual path is one of correctly putting everything (and he meant literally everything) in its proper order. Context and motivation are all important--they are not everything but they are always part of everything. Caring for people who need help, making friends, doing good works, keeping a system functioning, experiencing God in prayer & worship, all these are very good things. But they can obscure the greater thing: becoming a loving sacrifice to The Divine.
Great stuff, there's certainly a lot in what you shared.
I want to flesh out the difference, the distinction between what the role of the doctor and the priest is in those difficult moments - you articulated very well how your job (and practice) is to "hold space" and to bear witness - and how this often weighs heavily on your soul as you end up bearing the burden of the releasing that can happen for people. In a medical encounter, there is for sure this sense of holding space - which actually is the piece I think we need to develop as physicians. This piece requires the awareness of interiority I called for in my article - but there's also a profound engagement with the person/patient at hand. There's a mutual problem-solving, and one of the roles of the doctor in this moment is to provide reassurance and educate. So there's a real messiness that can happen in this engagement, often handled less than skillfully. I think the risk with this kind of interaction is projection and enmeshment, particularly when physicians don't have the spiritual training and practice to hold space for people in a difficult moment, the way a priest certainly would.
But as you describe it, there is an important lack of engagement when you sit with a member of your congregation in a difficult moment. There is simply a holding of loving, space and presence that allows for a release (even if it is just to get through the crisis, and back to normal). The burden you feel after these moments sounds terrible, to be honest, and I feel fortunate not to experience much of that.
It seems to me that our intuition about the similarities of our professions was on in many ways. We both work on a very personal level with individuals and families in painful and difficult moments. We both deal with illness, death, dying and transformation. We are both aware of the importance of our own inner space in contributing to, or taking away from the encounter. We both acknowledge the opportunity to make our work into practice (although our practices are subtly different).
The last thing I want to mention is something I think we can pick up next time. I was very interested in your saying that when you are doing a (conventionally understood) "good job" in your role as a priest you are helping people through moments of crises without actually seeing them move towards spiritual growth and transformation. I think this is a very insightful and interesting point, and saw immediate parallels with the way we practice medicine which, as you know, is massively weighted towards acute illness (or crises) rather than promoting health and "wellness", or "wholeness", which in its most complete definition most certainly includes spiritual transformation - I am sure you can appreciate the parallels. With this in mind, and given that we have both described our current way of "practicing" as our work - how would our practices (or ways of approaching these encounters, these difficult moments) need to change in order to not just help people through moments of crises, but allure them to more spirit, wholeness and fullness?
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In a deeply affecting piece in the Huffington Post, Doug Cooper explains the tragedy of PETA's large-scale killing of animals many thought it stood to protect:
The very last person on earth who ought to be responsible for the butchery of 27,561 innocent pets is [PETA's founder] Ingrid Newkirk. And yet she is.
Even less probable is PETA's habit of concealing its intentions from rescuers: willfully recreating the monstrous circumstance that radicalized Newkirk.
The logic that leads an animal rights leader to becoming the head of a death cult is deeply troubling, and essential reading for anyone who cares deeply about animals:
The psychology here is thoroughly pathological. No question. It is a sickness of the soul. Particularly disturbing, however, is that the reasoning behind this cult of euthanasia is thoroughly sound.
If your goal in this world is to prevent suffering, then one perfectly rational solution—perhaps the only rational solution—is to end life. Death makes sense. It is the termination of pain.
This is very much the PETA argument: life is suffering; hence death is good.
Ingrid Newkirk demonstrates a chilling consistency here. Yes, she feels the same way about humans—their eradication would be an improvement to the universe: "Humans have grown like a cancer. We're the biggest blight on the face of the earth."
Click here to read the full story.
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You love to tell stories, to connect to audiences, to collaborate with others to create something that impacts the heart and the mind. You’ll do that and more as a student in the theatre program at Palm Beach Atlantic University. You can participate from production to performance, as the lights, sound and set are designed by students. At PBA, you'll enhance your acting skills for both stage and screen, preparing you for a successful career.
As a student in PBA’s theatre program, you may choose from the following programs:
From major theatre, TV and film production in South Florida to Walt Disney World, Universal Studios and TV production in Orlando, Florida has enormous hiring opportunities for actors. Click to read about a PBA alum currently an actor in South Florida.
The Fern Street Theatre, a nearly 12,000-square-foot, two-story building on Fern Street, includes a “black box” theatre and houses offices, classrooms and performance space. It helps elevate students like you to the next level of skill and performance.
You’ll learn from professors who have earned degrees from some of the top fine arts programs in the world.
Accomplishments of our professors include:
Each year you may participate in about a half-dozen productions — ranging from Shakespeare to children’s theatre. Because we’re an undergraduate-only school, you won’t be competing with graduate students for a shot at performance opportunities. You’ll be considered for performances from your very first year.
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President Obama promised to be the most transparent administration ever, but that was before he terminated the position of transparency czar, and gave all transparency matters to a partisan Democratic lawyer who is publicly antagonistic to the notion of transparency. Since then, we've had a series of decisions favoring opacity over transparency, with my favorite being his refusal to disclose the nature of the adminsitration's dealings with the drug industry as the two crafted the pharma-friendly health-care bill.
The latest bout in the Opacity of Hope: Obama's War on Whistleblowers. David Carr at the New York Times has the story:
The Espionage Act, enacted back in 1917 to punish those who gave aid to our enemies, was used three times in all the prior administrations to bring cases against government officials accused of providing classified information to the media. It has been used six times since the current president took office....
In case after case, the Espionage Act has been deployed as a kind of ad hoc Official Secrets Act, which is not a law that has ever found traction in America, a place where the people’s right to know is viewed as superseding the government’s right to hide its business.
In the most recent case, John Kiriakou, a former C.I.A. officer who became a Democratic staff member on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was charged under the Espionage Act with leaking information to journalists about other C.I.A. officers, some of whom were involved in the agency’s interrogation program, which included waterboarding.
For those of you keeping score, none of the individuals who engaged in or authorized the waterboarding of terror suspects have been prosecuted, but Mr. Kiriakou is in federal cross hairs, accused of talking to journalists and news organizations, including The New York Times.
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Venezuela's Chavez predicts 'year of tests'
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Friday that he expects a "year of tests" as he runs for re-election, and he pledged to hand over the presidency if he loses.
Chavez has been in office for 13 years and is seeking another six-year term in the October vote.
In his annual message to the National Assembly, Chavez told opposition lawmakers that if he loses, he "would be the first in recognizing it."
Recent polls show that Chavez's popularity has been above 50 percent.
Opponents criticize Chavez's handling of problems such as rampant violent crime and 27.6 percent inflation. The country's opposition coalition said in a statement that Chavez has been "neglecting people's problems due to being busy trying to remain in power."
Chavez defended government policies, including his recent decision to withdraw billions of dollars in its gold reserves from U.S. and European banks and bring it back to the Central Bank in Caracas. Holding up a bar of gold, he criticized prior governments, saying: "They had taken our gold away."
The leftist president repeated his criticisms of the United States, calling its government "a threat for the world."
He also defended Iran and its nuclear program, reiterating his view that U.S. concerns about Iran trying to build atomic weapons are baseless.
Before his speech, hundreds of supporters wearing red shirts gathered outside the National Assembly and cheered, some of them chanting Chavez's name.
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August 28, 2011
Newark Mayor Cory Booker said Sunday that the nation's rapidly aging infrastructure is not prepared to handle large-scale natural disasters like Hurricane Irene.
"I'm very concerned in our country that we have not been investing in infrastructure like we need to. We're seeing in the City of Newark lots of flooding and problems because our infrastructure is getting very aged," Booker said on NBC's "Meet the Press." "We need to understand that investments in infrastructure [are] going to save us money in the long run. It's going to keep people safe, and it's actually going to help our economy."
"We haven't had a lot of investment or the resources to put the investment into it to keep our infrastructure strong and safe," Booker said. "I know that this is a problem across the country."
Booker, a Democrat, was bipartisan in his praise for the federal and state response to the hurricane, saying that Republican Gov. Chris Christie and President Barack Obama acted appropriately and swiftly.
"I'm proud of my president, and I'm proud of my governor for both jumping in and being very very precautious by calling a state of emergency," Booker said.post a comment Back to top
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Canada Line Operations and Maintenance Center
- Constructed the track in around the maintenance facility featuring ballasted and direct-fixation track
- Constructed, ballasted and surfaced 22 turnouts
The 19.2-km Canada Line, the third light-rail line in Vancouver’s transit system, opened in August of 2009 and connects Vancouver International Airport with downtown Vancouver and Richmond. PNR RailWorks constructed the track infrastructure in and around the maintenance facility, featuring ballasted and embedded direct-fixation track.
PNR RailWorks constructed and surfaced 3,000 meters of track consisting of 115 lb. rail and concrete ties and 190 meters of direct-fixation track on this job for engineering and construction firm SNC Lavalin. It also constructed, ballasted and surfaced 22 turnouts.
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Photographer Robert Morrison’s Montana
The artist’s eye for the off-kilter and unusual offers a distinctive portrait of the West at the turn of the 20th century
- By Donna M. Lucey
- Smithsonian.com, October 05, 2009
(Montana Historical Society Research Center Photograph Archives, Helena, MT)
In 1878, 28-year-old Robert C. Morrison drifted from the East to Miles City, Montana, an oasis of barrooms, brothels and gambling dens in the hauntingly beautiful and remote plains and badlands of southeastern Montana. The place had begun as a watering hole for wandering buffalo hunters and the soldiers at nearby Fort Keogh; eventually cowboys, sheepherders, railroad workers and a cast of eccentric Britons would join in the fun.
He had an eye for the off-kilter, the anomalous and the marginalized. At his death, at age 87 in 1938, he left behind more than 3,600 glass-plate negatives, but a disagreement among his heirs left them gathering dust—until now. At the Montana Historical Society, which is printing the negatives, photo archivist Lory Morrow, says she and her staff “talk among ourselves” about Morrison’s unusual vision, which, while “off the mainstream” is also “more realistic” than the work of other photographers from that place and time.
“Jones shack along the Yellowstone” is the only identification of this photo, written by an unknown hand. Why did Morrison frame the boat as if it were marooned on the dry-as-toast plains? (He composed all his pictures carefully: the glass-plate negatives he used were fragile and expensive, and they required long exposure times.) The image captures the loneliness of homesteads once inhabited by hopeful pioneers. You can still see them along the Yellowstone River—abandoned and empty, relics of someone’s busted dream of turning the semi-arid land into a profitable farm or ranch.
Miles City lies on the south bank of the Yellowstone River, as does the Northern Pacific Railroad, which arrived in 1881. For those who settled north of the river, isolation was a given. For an instance, an Englishwoman named Evelyn Cameron—another glass-plate photographer of extraordinary talent—moved in 1902 with her husband to a log cabin some 40 miles northeast of Miles City, near Terry, Montana. Their ranch was, “shut in on two sides by the river & badlands,” she wrote her sister. To get their mail and supplies, “we have to ride or drive 28 miles & cross the Yellowstone by a ferry boat in summer & on ice in winter.... [E]verything down to the smallest tin tack has had to be hauled from Terry (14 miles), taken across a rapid river (1050 feet wide), the latter part of the way without any road.”
Thus a dingy could be considered an essential piece of ranch equipment—even if there’s not a drop of water in sight.
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If your organization thinks workplace wellness is just a passing trend, think again. Investments in workplace wellness programs are paying huge dividends for employers. Plus, many organizations are finding that workplace wellness programs are a strategic priority when it comes to saving money, engaging employees, and creating a more productive workforce. Here are a few reasons why your organization can't afford to ignore workplace wellness.
Wellness programs reduce costs.
It's the most obvious benefit: wellness programs save your organization money on health insurance and reduce a number of other associated costs including use of sick time, workers' compensation, disability management, and absenteeism. Health benefits are arguably the second largest employee expense for organizations and one of the most volatile costs from year to year. Wellness programs are one of the best tools available to reduce health care costs over the long-term.
Smaller businesses are more affected by poor health.
Smaller organizations are more affected by poor employee health than larger organizations. They are less able to absorb additional health care costs, and extended absence or frequent use of sick days can significantly affect their business operations. Additionally, decreases in productivity or engagement (even by just one or a few employees) because of poor well-being can also affect smaller businesses more than larger organizations.
The demands of the workplace are increasing.
More and more is being demanded of employees. Longer hours, expanded work weeks, and higher standards mean that employees face increased stress and worse well-being at work. These risks can lead to poor physical and mental health, which in turn affect costs. Wellness programs can enhance employees' ability to function and perform well in spite of these demands and also help employees cope with the stresses of work.
Healthy employees are more engaged.
Beyond reduced costs, healthy employees tend to be more engaged. Studies find that employees who are engaged and interested in their work are more likely to report better overall well-being and healthier outcomes, such as improvements in cholesterol and blood pressure and lower stress, than their less engaged counterparts. They are also less likely to be absent from work, and more likely to be productive, energetic, and have higher performance.
Employees want to work for organizations that care about their well-being.
It's not uncommon for employees to cite that their organization's investment in their health and care for their well-being are key reasons that they stay at their employers. Employees want to work for organizations, leaders, and managers that care about their well-being and who provide appropriate levels of support and flexibility to lead healthy, balanced lives. ERC's employee engagement research has found significant relationships between whether employees believe that their organization cares about their well-being and their perceptions of leaders, supervisors, and the overall workplace.
Wellness programs are becoming a standard benefit.
With their increasingly popularity, wellness programs are becoming a standard part of an employer's benefits package. According to our surveys, the majority of local employers offer some wellness benefit to their employees, such as health screenings, wellness coaching, access to trainers and/or dieticians, on-site clinics, healthy food options, fitness/weight management programs, or health education seminars. Also, wellness perks can be an attractive benefit to prospective employees, and especially for candidates that care about being healthy. Several leading employers, such as our NorthCoast 99 winners (www.northcoast99.org), promote their wellness initiatives to attract talent.
Wellness programs change lives.
Beyond the cost and productivity benefits of wellness programs, one of the greatest gifts you can offer your employees is a better quality of life. There are countless success stories resulting from corporate wellness programs inclusive of employees that have overcome a chronic condition, lost significant amounts of weight, and reduced serious health risk factors. These programs aren't just saving money for businesses - they're improving lives. Wellness initiatives inspire and motivate employees to change their behavior and provide them the tools to better themselves.
The business case for wellness should be clear: lower costs, higher engagement, productive employees, and a healthier business. With these diverse positive benefits and the current volatile climate of health care, your organization truly can't afford to not invest in employees' wellness.
Katie Talarico, PHR is survey manager at ERC and a member of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, World-at-Work, and the Cleveland Society for Human Resource Management.
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Here's a DOS trick for Windows 9x, that will reset (delete) your motherboard's
BIOS password (aka CMOS password) without any need to open up your computer
to remove the battery or mess with jumpers.
This method can come in very handy in the event you ever lose and forget your
BIOS password or if you acquire used computers where the unknown previous owners
had BIOS passwords set (in fact, this happened to me long agoI was given
a used computer, but there was no way I could enter the CMOS to make changes).
It's important to note here that the password we are talking about is only the
one that prevents a user from entering the BIOS setup at bootup, not the one
that stops you from getting past the boot.
Normally, at bootup you can press a key (usually the DEL key) to access your
BIOS allowing you to view it or make changes. With a password set, there is
no way to enter setup. Though a password can provide a basic and very effective
level of PC security, losing it can be a real headache if you don't know how
to fix the problem.
The MS-DOS command that will makes this trick possible is the DEBUG command
(debug itself is a utilitydebug.exewhich is located in your Windows
Command folder). This is not a command to be taken lightlyin other
words, it's not a command to play with! You can cause serious corruption with
this command and can end up not being able to even boot your computer! Debug
is used to work with binary and executable files and allows you to alter (hex
edit) the contents of a file or CPU register right down to the binary and byte
To begin debug mode, type debug at a MS-DOS prompt or you can specify
a file, i.e., DEBUG FILE.EXE. There is a difference in screen output
between the two methods. When you type DEBUG alone, debug responds with
a hyphen (-) prompt waiting for you to enter commands. The second method, with
a file specified, loads the file into memory and you type all the commands on
the line used to start debug. In this tip, we will be writing to the BIOS, so
the first method is the one that would be used. All debug commands can be aborted
at any time by pressing CTRL/C.
Accessing BIOS with DEBUG
The basic trick will be to fool the BIOS into thinking there is a checksum
error, in which case it resets itself, including the password. This is done
by invalidating the CMOS and to do that we must know how to access the BIOS
and where the checksum value of the CMOS is located so that we can change it.
Access to the the BIOS content is via what are known as CMOS Ports and
it's Port 70 and 71 that will give us the needed access. On almost
all AT motherboards, the checksum is located at hexadecimal address 2e and
2f and filling the address 2e with ff is all you should
have to do to invalidate the checksum.
Here's what to do if you ever need to reset the password and have no other
method, and you don't want to open up your computer to remove the battery or
Note! Do this at your own risk. I can only tell you that it has worked for
me more than once and has worked for others as well. But I cannot make any guarantees.
When I did this, I took a willing risk. The BIOS was Award Modular BIOS
- Restart your computer in MS-DOS mode.
- When you get to the C:\> or C:\WINDOWS> prompt, type
DEBUG and press Enter.
- A hyphen (-) prompt will appear waiting for you to enter commands.
- Enter the following commands, pressing Enter after each one.
Note: the o is the letter o and stands for OUTPUT.
- After the q command (which stands for QUIT), enter Exit.
- Then try to enter your BIOS at bootup. The password prompt should now be
gone and you should now have full access to it again. However, you will now
be at the default BIOS setttings and may want to change them to your preference.
You may also want to have your drives autodetected again.
In closing, I should state that in the case of a lost BIOS password, your first
step should always be to contact your manufacturer to see if a backdoor password
is available that will allow you to bypass the forgotten password.
There are many sites on the net that list backdoor passwords you can try, but
beware that some BIOS that are set up to lock up if you enter the wrong password
more than a certain number of times, usually only 3 times!
For more Windows tips and tricks, join Vic's popular user group at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WinTips-Tricks/
For another debug use and example, see my article on creating your own color
And speaking of color, if you happen to be gettting into the world of DVDs
and are confused by it all, check out my new Experts Guides on video, audio,
Playstation, and computers: http://www.angelfire.com/va3/expert_guides
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Nearly everyone worried about gasoline -- people who buy it, people who sell it and people who count on it to get customers -- is coming up with strategies to blunt the impact of the highest fuel prices of any Memorial Day weekend.
Like a general mapping out a plan of attack, Andy Barlow of Germantown, Md., checks out an online service to scrutinize where the cheap gasoline can be found before getting behind the wheel.
Aman Amin, a gas station owner in Fairfax City, Va., makes a daily assessment of his competition to ensure his gas prices are among the lowest in the area. And in the mountains of Western Maryland, the Stonebow Inn has launched a campaign to lure guests with the promise of free gas.
Drivers are trading tips in chat rooms and signing up for gas rebate cards. Amusement parks and museums are offering discounted admission to customers showing gas receipts. An oil company is rolling out "bulk-buy" programs that will let consumers hedge against future price spikes. Even an online poker site is joining in the movement.
"When prices go up, you're going to see some interesting things," said Tom Kloza, chief analyst for the Oil Price Information Service in New Jersey. "Saving money on gas is something that's just magical in this country. Rational thought just doesn't apply to gas."
The plotting and maneuvering comes on the heels of a run-up in prices that has some consumers gasping at $60 charges at the pump. Nationwide, the average price of regular gasoline Friday was $2.86, according to AAA.
In the short term, analysts predict no significant relief from such prices, which are up about 90 cents from the same time last year. But the prices have yet to significantly alter driving habits, some surveys show. About 31 million people in the country were expected to drive 50 miles or more this weekend, according to AAA, up slightly from last year.
That, however, should not be taken to mean that drivers are less judicious about paying for gas.
When Barlow, 45, drove his Toyota Camry from his house to a friend's place near Frederick, Md., recently, he did what he normally does these days before going on a trip. He logged onto MarylandGasPrices.com, a site that relies on "spotters" to post and update prices at gas stations across the country, and found that his friend's neighborhood had some of the lowest prices around.
"I made sure I topped off on the way home," he said.
Barlow, who works for a publishing company in Rockville, Md., also takes advantage of a credit card that gives him 5 percent cash back on purchases of gas and groceries. These days, that works out to a 15-cent return per gallon, and "every little bit helps," he said.
Amin, the gas station owner, understands that sentiment more than most. Every day and often more than once, he surveys the competition, both on the road and online.
He adjusts his price accordingly, confident that, in the long run, volume and customer loyalty will make up for his razor-thin margins now.
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Whether in business, in front of an audience or behind a camera, Communication Studies and Theatre students gain extensive practical experience in their fields before they graduate as all majors complete an applied learning experience.
Speech Communication majors have completed internships at non-profit organizations, arts organizations, city departments, and in business and private industry. Some examples of businesses and organizations where students have worked include the St. Joseph Museum, Inc., City of St. Joseph, Allied Arts Association and Second Harvest Food Bank.
Internship opportunities for Theatre/Video students have included positions at cable companies, television stations, and local and national theaters. Some examples of businesses and organizations where students have worked include KQTV-2, KSHB-TV, Cablevision Advertising, and Utah Shakespeare Company.
Internships provide students with a valuable hands-on experience that is difficult to duplicate in the classroom.
According to the 2004-2005 Occupational Outlook Handbook, students with internship experience greatly increase their chances of finding a job in the fields of communication, theatre or video.
Four mainstage productions each year, in addition to student-directed productions and short films, offer Theatre/Video students opportunities for hands-on theatre experience. Additionally, extensive time spent in the media production lab and the computer lab with the latest editing and sound production software gives students an edge in the job market. A student who joins Griffon Eye Productions will have the opportunity to film events on campus throughout the year.
Several courses specifically incorporate research as part of the curriculum. Through these courses, students work on both independent and team research projects. These courses include:
- Research Methods in Communication (COM 320)
- Survey of Rhetorical Theory (COM 338)
- Oral Communication (COM 104)
- Public Relations Communication Analysis (COM 415)
- Independent Research/Project (COM 450 and THR 450)
Students generally work in small groups on their research projects; however, many students collaborate with faculty in one-on-one sessions.
Several students have had the opportunity to present the results of their original research at professional conferences, such as the Central States Communication Association, National Communication Association, Region 5 Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival Conference, Stage Combat Workshop in Louisiana and Kansas City Film Festival.
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Scientific name: Scotopteryx mucronata
May - June. Britain and Ireland. Medium-sized, grey moth, found on heathland, moorland and scrub. Caterpillars feed on gorse, broom, petty whin and dyer's greenweed. Similar to the July Belle.
Very similar to the July Belle and can be difficult to distinguish from it. The July Belle usually flies later, although there is some overlap in flight periods. In the Lead Belle the small black central spot is usually teardrop-shaped and roughly midway between the two central cross-lines. The outer zig-zag line also tends to be less faint than that of the July Belle.
Readily disturbed from vegetation by day and also flies after dark.
Size and Family
- Family – Carpets and Allies (Larentiines)
- Medium Sized
- UK BAP: Not listed
- Local (only found in some areas)
Particular Caterpillar Food Plants
Gorse, Broom, Petty Whin and Dyer’s Greenweed.
- Countries – England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland
- Well distributed in south-west England and parts of Wales, northern England, Scotland and Ireland. Also found on the Isle of Man. Two subspecies are known in the British Isles, one being northern in distribution, the other being southern.
Heathland and moorland, and occasionally other scrubby places and rough pasture.
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You are here: REHACARE Portal. Up-to-date. Archive. Research.
Alternative to Cure Diabetes
The new study showed that a different approach could also be effective for treating diabetes — namely, blocking the breakdown of insulin, after it is secreted from the pancreas.
"Insulin levels in the blood reflect the balance between how much is secreted and how fast it is broken down," says the study's lead researcher, Professor Malcolm A. Leissring, from Mayo Clinic's Department of Neuroscience. "Blocking the breakdown of insulin is simply an alternative method for achieving the same goal as many existing diabetes therapies."
The researchers tested this idea by studying mice in which insulin-degrading enzyme (IDE) was "knocked out," or deleted genetically. IDE is a molecular "machine" that normally chews up the insulin hormone, breaking it down into smaller pieces. Levels of insulin in the blood are controlled, in part, by this process.
Compared to normal mice, IDE knockout mice had more insulin overall, weighed less, and were more efficient at controlling their blood sugar. They were, in effect, "super mice" with respect to their ability to lower their blood sugar after a meal, the process that is disrupted in diabetes, explains Leissring.
"The reason we studied IDE knockout mice was to help us understand whether IDE inhibitors would be useful for treating diabetes," says Professor Samer Abdul-Hay, first author on the study. But the IDE knockout mice are not a perfect model of how a drug will perform, he notes. "They are actually a better model of overdosing on an IDE inhibitor. We would never want a drug that inhibits IDE 100 percent in all tissues throughout life."
The effect of deleting all IDE in the mice was so strong, in fact, that the effect eventually backfired, the researchers say. Despite being "super mice" when young, as the IDE knockout mice aged, they slowly became resistant to the elevated insulin, gained weight, and lost control of their blood sugar. As a result, the older mice developed classic type 2 diabetes.
"The finding that older IDE knockout mice develop diabetes has confused a lot of people," says Leissring. "It's an example of too much of a good thing becoming bad for you." Drugs that inhibit IDE only partially or only transiently would not be expected to cause diabetes, he says. "Deleting all IDE is overkill."
REHACARE.de; Source: Mayo Clinic
- More about the Mayo Clinic at: www.mayoclinic.org
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Sultana, Saabera (2001) MANAGEMENT OF DEPENDENCY AND GENDER DIFFERENCE IN PSYCHOTHERAPY IN PAKISTAN. PhD thesis, Bahria University, Islamabad.
The present study was conducted to investigate the "Management of Dependency and Gender Difference in Psychotherapy in Pakistan". Twelve Male and Twelve Female clients in the two categories of Remainers and Terminators, in equal numbers, were included in the study. Content analysis of the first two recorded therapeutic sessions of each client was conducted. Highly significant level of inter-rater reliability was obtained. Sign test was used to find out the difference between the ratio of approach and avoidance interventions of the therapist. Mannwhitney U test was applied to determine the statistical significance of the difference between the Remainers and the Terminators in dependency and the Gender difference in the two categories with respect to approach and avoidance of the therapist. The results revealed that approach interventions used in the first two therapeutic sessions led to an increase in the frequency of the dependency bids of the client, and the clients tended to be a Remainer, while with avoidance interventions the frequency of dependency bids decreased and the client tended to be a Terminator. It was also found that the Female clients expressed more dependency than the Male Remainers but the dependency expressions of the Male Terminators exceeded the dependency expressions of the Male Remainers and the Female Terminators. The reasons are located in the interventions of the therapist. Male Remainers were more approached and less avoided than the Male Terminators and the Female Remainers and Terminators. Female Remainers were more approached and less avoided than the Male and the Female Terminators. The Female Terminators were the least approached and the most avoided clients in the study. It appears that the interventions used by the psychotherapists play very significant role in the management of dependency and gender difference psychotherapy' in Pakistan. Male clients require more approach and approval than Female clients. Avoidance of dependency bids leads to termination of psychotherapy irrespective of sex of the client.
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|Uncontrolled Keywords:||Dependency, Gender Difference, Psychotherapy, Reminders, Terminators, Sessions, Approach intervention, Avoidance interventions, Psychotherapists,|
|Subjects:||Social Sciences(g) > Psychology (g16)|
|Deposited By:||Mr. Abdul Qayoom Sohoo|
|Deposited On:||16 Jun 2006|
|Last Modified:||04 Oct 2007 20:59|
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Ministry of Culture, Monuments Protection and Sport of Georgia
Property names are listed in the language in which they have been submitted by the State Party.
Vani (7th -1st centuries BC) is an ancient temple city in the Colchis Lowlands located on the western bank of the Sulori River at its confluence with the Rioni River. It is located on a hill bordered by two ravines and overlooks the plains through which the Rioni River flows. There are beguiling views of the Sulori River Valley with its surrounding hills and the Meskhetian Mountain Range in the background. Ancient Colchians chose this strategic location as the political, economic and spiritual centre of their community. The name of this ancient city is still unknown but four distinct stages of uninterrupted occupation have been identified.
The site seems to have been dominated by a local aristocracy with a socially stratified, urbanized society. The Early Hellenistic Period of the mid 4th to the mid 3rd Century BC gave rise to a more marked Greek influence. Stone structures are utilized for the first time and many elements of Greek architecture are used. There is evidence of Greek customs being imitated in their burials and Greek innovations in gold fabrication techniques are observed. However, roof tiles, pottery and coins from Sinop as well as Cappadocian influences on signet rings and other glyptic items indicate an expansion of commercial activity with other areas and coincide with the decline of Attic imports in the Black Sea trade.
The antique city of Vani is again coming to light thanks to the work of archaeologists. Temples and sacrificial altars from the period before the Birth of Christ have yielded up beautiful examples of gold and silver jewellery and coins, all of which are now on display at the Georgian National Museum in Tbilisi.
Vani is best known for the extensive archaeological excavations that have taken place there during the past 100 years. Although only a third of the site has been studied, it has produced an astonishing number of artefacts: Colchis pottery, exquisite golden jewellery unique to Colchis, imported Greek luxury items, graceful bronze sculptures and a vast array of funerary pieces. Artefacts (mainly Colchis pottery) of the first stage, 8th to early 6th Century BC, are relatively few and badly damaged. A sacrificial area was found with clay animal offerings suggesting some importance of Vani over the adjoining areas, which yielded no similar findings. The second stage, early 6th to mid 4th Century BC, reveals many changes. An abundance of artefacts are found including imported Greek painted pottery and new types of pottery for the storage or transportation of cereals, oil and honey as well as the fermentation and storage of wine. Rich burial sites with large quantities of golden jewellery, silver and bronze adornments, pottery and luxury items befitting the status of the deceased indicate that the ruling elite were buried here while poorer graves were found only in the surrounding areas.
Satements of authenticity and/or integrityThe authenticity of property is preserved in architectural forms, materials, location and other necessary attributes.
Comparison with other similar properties
In the view of State Party, it is unreasonable to apply comparative regional analysis to this property.
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Some “American Idol” watchers were shocked in May when Kris Allen was crowned the winner of “American Idol’s” eighth season, beating out the flamboyant, creative Adam Lambert, who'd long been considered a favorite to win.
Yet in a way, the decision was unsurprising. Allen is from Arkansas; Lambert is from California. When it comes to “American Idol,” hailing from the South is as important as talent — something to consider when placing bets on who will win the ninth season of “Idol,” which kicks off on Fox on Jan. 12.
Six of the eight “Idol” winners have been from the South, including Kelly Clarkson (Texas, first season) and Carrie Underwood (Oklahoma, fourth season). A slew of finalists also have been from the South, including North Carolinians Clay Aiken (season two) and Chris Daughtry (season five).
Just why “Idol” has a strong Southern accent has been the subject of debate since the show’s early days.
But the most likely reason for this doesn’t often come up in cocktail-party chatter. “Idol” contestants with broad appeal — those who span musical genres such as country, rock, pop and R&B — are vastly more successful than “Idol” contestants who closely stick to a single genre. And when it comes to spanning genres, “Idol’s” Southern contestants stand out.
“Each one of these artists appeals to the larger music consumer,” said Chris Muratore, vice president of Nielsen Entertainment, which tracks music sales with its SoundScan service. “Carrie Underwood is not a traditional country artist; she crosses over. Kelly Clarkson is the same.”
Incredibly, Southern contestants account for 85 percent of the 47 million CDs that “Idol” winners and runners-up have sold. Underwood has sold 10.8 million CDs, according to SoundScan. Clarkson is next with 10.5 million. Daughtry and Aiken have sold 5.4 million and 4.9 million, respectively. Season two winner Ruben Studdard, from Alabama, is next (2.5 million), followed by season three winner and North Carolinian Fantasia (2.3 million).
Many theories about Southern edge
One theory about the Southern success claims that residents of the South don’t have as many opportunities to break into the music business as singers on the coasts, so they’re more inclined to go for their big break on a reality show. Another theory is that Southerners may just be good singers.
“I wonder if this has to do with there being a stronger, more vibrant vocal tradition in the Southern regions than the North,” said Maureen Ryan, TV critic at the Chicago Tribune. “It might be a case where the Southern contestants are a bit stronger, so they build up a more passionate fan base.”
Singing is a big part of Southern culture, with church choirs, jazz clubs and musical hotbeds such as New Orleans scattered throughout the region.
“A lot of Southern folks have music ingrained in us from a young age,” said Bo Bice, who is from Alabama and who came in second place to Underwood in 2005. “A lot of folks are affiliated with a church, which is why they call it the Bible Belt. I think that’s a big reason people do well on the show.”
Supporting their own
Another thought is that Southerners are more inclined than “Idol” viewers in other regions to vote for contestants. There may be something to this.
“People in the South have a lot of pride,” said Taylor Hicks, an Alabama native who won season five in 2006. “So, they’re adamant about supporting the contestants who do well from their state or region.”
Southerners, specifically people in the Southeast and East Central states such as Kentucky, are also more likely to watch “Idol” than the average American.
People in the Southeast were 10 percent more likely than average to watch “Idol’s” eighth season, according to an analysis of Nielsen ratings by media agency Magna. People in the East Central region were 16 percent more likely to watch. People in the Northeast and West Central were average viewers — 1 percent and 3 percent above average. West Coasters were 8 percent less likely to watch. People in the Southwest were the least likely to watch — 24 percent below average.
“People in the Southeast just seem to be big fans of the show,” said Brian Hughes, vice president and manager of audience analysis at Magna. “But I also think there’s a home-team element to this. If you look at season two, season three and season five, you have all Southeastern winners. There’s an element of ‘They’re from our region, so let’s vote for them.’ ”
A few former “Idol” contestants note that the show’s producers acknowledged its Southern bent. But they also say they didn’t hear anything about voter campaigns — where groups rally around a specific contestant — or Southerners voting more than anyone else.
Fox doesn’t receive voting results by region, according to a network spokesperson.
Southerners may be more inclined to vote for “Idol” contestants but, in general, they’re no more inclined to vote in elections or participate in polls than anyone else. In fact, Southerners are 6 percent less likely than the average adult to vote in political elections, according to a 2009 survey by Mediamark Research & Intelligence.
Meanwhile, Eric Nielsen, senior director of media strategies at polling firm Gallup, said that Southerners do not participate in polls more than people from other regions. But he also noted that “Idol” doesn’t conduct scientific polls. It may be serious stuff to contestants but ultimately, “Idol” is just about having fun.
“When we do our polling, every adult has an equal chance of being contacted because we randomly select thousands of people,” he said. “What ‘American Idol’ does is not a random poll. Their voters are made up of people who are watching ‘American Idol’ and who take the time to call in to vote.”
Still, when it comes to guessing why “Idol” has a Southern bent, conspiracy theorists have a field day.
One theory is that organizations such as the Nashville-based Gospel Music Association encourage their members to vote for specific contestants. These voter campaigns aren’t likely to have much impact on who wins, however, not when nearly 100 million votes come in, as they did for last season’s finale.
And last season, AT&T, an “Idol” sponsor, reportedly showed people at Allen fan parties how to “power text” — essentially, voting super fast with text messages. Controversy erupted since fans at parties for Adam Lambert apparently weren’t given the same lesson. But any votes Allen gained from power texting almost definitely represented were too tiny a number to make any difference.
This coming season, “Idol” will see some big changes, most notably Ellen DeGeneres replacing Paula Abdul at the judges’ table. But one thing that isn’t likely to change is “Idol’s” Southern leanings.
“The producers said that ‘Idol’ was really big in the South,” Hicks said. “That hit me when I went home to do my (‘Idol’ biography video) and there were 15,000 people in the mall I went to. There are a lot of people there who love that show.”
Kevin Downey is a writer in Phoenix.
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It's MILK DAY!!!
On January 11, 1878, milk was first delivered in bottles. Prior to being delivered in bottles, milkmen filled customers' jugs.
The New York Dairy Company is credited with having the first factory that produced milk bottles.
As to the beer:
Duck-Rabbit Craft Brewery is located in Farmville, North Carolina. They specialize in full flavored dark brews.
A traditional full-bodied stout brewed with lactose (milk sugar). The subtle sweetness imparted by the lactose balances the sharpness of the highly roasted grains which give this delicious beer its black color.
So, for the delivery of a milk bottle, have a bottle of Duck-Rabbit Milk Stout. Sadly, Duck-Rabbit isn't available very far outside of North Carolina, so you'll probably have trouble getting it delivered.
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Blue Mountains Wilderness
The Blue Mountains are close to Sydney and seem tame in comparison to other wilderness areas. But bushwalkers still manage to get lost, suffer from heat exhaustion or even hypothermia in this rugged
environment. As most people manage to enjoy themselves on many of the well tramped on tracks the Mountains are popular with all types of walkers.
Today there is still as much wilderness experience to be enjoyed as there was in the early days of Sydney's settlement. Then, crossing the Blue Mountains was a challenge to explorers. Indeed part of the romance of the Blue Mountains is its place in Australia's colonial history. They were the barriers that had to be conquered before "civilization" could expand West. Once crossed, Sydney became wealthy from the West's sheep and gold. The first European to cross was probably John Wilson, the escaped convict, who accompanied Aboriginals through the Mountains in 1797. However the first "official" crossing in 1813 was carried out by the influential Misters Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth. These three explorers had only seen Aboriginals in the distance and would have made better progress using their local knowledge.
The Blue Mountains were difficult to cross because those following the rivers West would be stopped by ramparts formed by sheer sandstone cliffs that drop from the high plateau. Driving across the Blue Mountains today, on evenly graded roads, it is difficult to imagine the steep paths of earlier travellers. But as soon as you get off the highway the true nature of the Mountains is revealed.
In September I fulfilled a 30 year dream. Lindy and I experienced the downs and ups of the Katoomba to Kanangra Walls walk. This involved long days of walking along Narrow Neck out from Katoomba, through the
Wild Dog Mountains, down to cross the Coxs River, up Mount Strongleg and then more ups and some downs to Mount Cloudmaker, Mount Stormbreaker, Mount High and Mighty, Mount Berry to finally reach the high plateau of Kanangra Walls. The distance we covered in a day was governed by the availability of water. This is a ridge walk and while it rains throughout the year in the Mountains there are only a few places where reliable water can be found. The ridges are mostly extremely exposed and dry but there are hanging swamps at the headwaters of creeks. Here groundwater seeps out to collect in pools that often balance on the impermeable rock of cliff edges.
Sandstone Cliffs were a barrier to European exploration for many years following the first settlement in 1788. Select the thumbnail image or highlighted name for a higher resolution image (26k).
Narrow Neck Plateau juts out from the main Blue Mountains ridge, separating the Jamison and Megalong Valleys. Select the thumbnail image or highlighted name for a higher resolution image (32k). Photo: Sydney Water
We were lucky with the weather. It had rained solidly for five days in the previous week. The water at Mobbs Soak and Dex Creek, hanging swamps high on the ridges, was plentiful. A cool Westerly wind ensured clear skies and lower temperatures. The air was so clear that we saw Sydney's central business district towers, 90 kilometres to the east, while walking along Narrow Neck. Our only concern was the level of the Coxs River. Rain had swollen the river and on our first day we met a group of teenagers who had failed to cross. One fellow had been washed over rocks but had no injuries. As the Coxs River has only a small catchment, not extending beyond Wallerawang to the north, we hoped that the river level would fall as rapidly as it had risen.
The colours of Spring were a bonus of this walk. On Narrow Neck two metre high solid masses of pink bloom were borne on Boronia ledifolia. Groups of red waratah (Telopea speciosissima) glowed like red traffic lights in the Narrow Neck forest of eucalypts, banksias (B.marginata, B.spinulosa, B.serrata) and broad-leaf geebung (Persoonia levis). On more exposed positions, near the 100 metre high sheer cliffs that drop off both sides of Narrow Neck, mauve star shaped flowers appeared on the ends of low Philotheca salsolifolia branches. Tiny white bell shaped flowers bloomed, like sticks of white coral, along the stems of different species of heath (Epacris microphylla, E.obtusifolia) in wetter places. Climbing off the end of Narrow Neck at Taros Ladder we found a rare plant. As we climbed down the cliff face I saw the small deep pink bell shaped heath flowers of Epacris reclinata growing out of a rock crevice.
Narrow Neck Plateau to Kanangra Walls
- Taros Ladder
- Narrow Neck
- Yellow Pup Ridge
- Mt Strongleg
- Kullieatha Peak
- Mt Amarina
- Gangerang Plateau
- Mt Cloudmaker
- Mt Stormbreaker
- Mt High and Mighty
- Mt Berry
- Kanangra Gorge and Creek
- Mt Solitary
The walk took us from poorly drained exposed positions to closed forests, to open forests on exposed ridge-lines and to the poorly drained but protected hanging swamps. Each of these ecosystems had its own unique variety of plants. Each presented its own individual colours and plantscape. Geebung (Persoonia), a small tree easily identified by its dark thin flaky bark and moderate (3 metre) height, grows in both closed forests and open forests. However while broad-leaf geebung (P.levis) with its large (4 cm wide) bright green leaves is found in closed forests narrow-leaf geebung (P.linearis) grows in open forests. In areas where there is a transition from closed to open forest both geebung species are found.
Epacris reclinata is usually found clinging to exposed cliffs. It is found in the western parts of the Blue Mountains. Select the thumbnail image or plant name for a higher resolution image (29k).
The ridges are at the mercy of both wind and fire. Narrow-leaf geebung grew on the very dry and exposed Yellow Pup and Mount Strongleg Ridges which lead down to the Coxs River. It also grew on the stony line of ridges formed by Mount Cloudmaker, Mount Stormbreaker, Mount High and Mighty and Mount Berry. Here a combination of thin (skeletal) sandy porous soils, exposed bedrock and steep valley sides has resulted in little water being retained for plant use. Black ash (Eucalyptus sieberi) with its rough very dark furrowed bark, glistening with resin, are small and bent in this open forest. Trees that grew too high have been blown over and lie broken on the ground.
Fire frequently races across the ridges leaving black trunks in contrast to the bright yellows, pinks and purples of Spring flowers. Fire has repeatedly denuded hillsides of protective vegetation so that follow up rains have washed away nearly all nutrients from the soils. But nitrogen fixing pea plants are in abundance on these poor soils. Bitter pea (Daviesia squarrosa) appeared as metre high belts of yellow flowers that ran between the widely spaced charcoal covered tree trunks. Its small yellow flowers with red centres hide hard sharp leaves that pricked when touched. There were pink areas caused by smooth Darling pea (Swainsona galegifolia) which grew up to a metre. The purple flowers of the pea plant false sarsaparilla (Hardenbergia violacea) trailed around the forest floor.
On windy ridges white cotton threads of lichen hung off small shrubs while green scales of lichen covered stems. Grey weathered boulders were brightened by droll splashes of orange lichen. On the long stony ridges from Kullieatha Peak to Mount Amarina, long brown grass skirts modestly hid three metre tail thick black trunks of grass trees (Xanthorrhoea sp.). Gnarled grass trees stood like silent sentinels on the almost bare stony knolls Rip, Rack, Roar and Rumble. In between the rocks, conesticks (Petrophile pulchella) with upright spiky leaves and one metre high white-beard (Leucopogon sp.) decorated with masses of small white bells, survived.
The New South Wales waratah, Telopea speciosissima shines like a beacon in the Blue Mountains forests. Select the thumbnail image or plant name for a higher resolution image (32k).
The fringe myrtle, Calytrix tetragona is a small shrub which is found in many parts of southern Australia. Select the thumbnail image or plant name for a higher resolution image (30k).
At the end of each dry day we sought water. Our thirst was relieved at Mobbs Swamp by water standing in shallow rock pools. The swamp's water-logged peat at the head of Warrigal Creek featured a knee-high sea of starry white flowers on fringe-myrtle (Calytrix tetragona) mixed with the sharp yellow seed spikes of kangaroo grass (Lomandra longifolia). Tight impenetrable low thickets of paperbark (Melaleuca linariifolia) grew in standing water. We camped in a clearing of the surrounding forest of broad-leaf and narrow-leaf geebung and tall eucalypts.
At Dex Creek we camped in a high open valley next to a small stream congested with thickets of woolly tea-tree (Leptospermum lanigerum). Water from surrounding high swamps dripped down valley sides covered with fern (Gleichenia dicarpa) and corel heath (Epacris microphylla). On the dry North facing side of the valley banksia (B.marginata, B.serrata) and broad-leafed hakea (H.dactyloides) grew in low clumps amongst large boulders. This gave us an open sky to watch the stars that night.
Hakea dactyloides is a common large shrub of the Blue Mountains. This pink form, however, is unusual. Select the thumbnail image or plant name for a higher resolution image (32k).
Off the ridges, along the slopes of the Wild Dog Mountains and on the Gangerang Plateau, the forest was taller and darker. Protected from winds, with deep clay soils, plants grew taller, had broader leaves and there was less evidence of fire. The ubiquitous broad-leaf geebung (Persoonia levis) with its wide bright green leaves favoured this closed forest with a large population. The forest floor was both darkened and littered by tall eucalypts and she oaks (Allocasuarina littoralis). Tall and elegant manna gums (Eucalyptus viminalis) filled the forest floor with streamers of bark that had peeled off trunks as long thin ribbons. She Oak towered above large boulders to cover the forest floor with brown needles. Complementing these brown tones were the subtle shades of lilac flowers on mint bush (Prostanthera prunelloides) that grew two metres tall in shady glens. Rays of yellow were cast through the bush by large yellow golden glory pea flowers (Gompholobium latifolium) and ground hugging buttercups on guinea flower (Hibbertia diffusa) which scrambled about the forest floor. On a brighter but sheltered slope under Crafts Wall pinks were exhibited by two metre high long-leaf waxflowers (Eriostemon myoporiodes).
With an opening the forest canopy ferns and grasses coloured the forest floor. Fields of nodding blue lilies (Stypandra glauca) with blue petals and woolly yellow filaments were on metre long grassy stalks. The spreading short stemmed twisted mat-rush (Lomandra oblique) were numerous. Among the rocks above Dex Creek flowers with three large fragile purple petals heralded small grassy clumps of wild iris (Patersonia sericea). Black-eyed Susan (Tetratheca thymifolia) cast its eyes downwards but flashed its dark pink petals as it spread over the forest floor.
The challenge of this walk was not limited to long days of walking. Crossing the river proved to be an exciting experience. The Coxs River is deep and wide at its junction with Kanangra Creek and after the rain it was running high. A tall stand of river oak (Casuarina cunninghamiana) growing in sands formed a large island round which the river cascaded as white water over rounded river stones. After some confused walking about and wading into very deep water we decided that the calm immediately before the rapids at the head of the island was to be our crossing point. Although the depth was only 70 centimetres the force of the stream was very strong. Each step was carefully calculated to maintain our balance so as not to be swept downstream. At a metre the river would have been too dangerous to cross.
That night we camped on the grassy flats of Kanangra Creek relieved that we had crossed the river and were now able to dry our boots near the fire. In the early evening a cool breeze blew down the valley from the mountains above but by midnight the air was still and we awoke next morning to birdcalls and a heavy dew. Later we saw Kanangra Creek from above as we looked down into its Gorge from the mountain tops. We saw waterfalls plunge off 100 metre sheer cliffs as we stood on massive walls of sandstone 500 metres above the creek. This was a walk on which we enjoyed the wilderness with its spectacular scenery, beautiful flora and challenging physical experiences.
From the April 1997 issue of the newsletter of the Harbourside Group of SGAP
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Australian Plants online - June 1998
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Oceana Magazine Fall 2008: Plight of the Bluefin
When Oceana photographer and MarViva Med diver Keith Ellenbogen first dove with bluefin tuna in the Mediterranean, he felt reverberations in his chest when the powerful fish darted by. Despite their strength, however, the fish were juvenile-sized, smaller than Ellenbogen himself.
Ellenbogen was documenting bluefin tuna in vast fattening cages, the last stop before heading to market. These fish would never get the chance to reach maturity, roaming the Atlantic and eventually returning to the Mediterranean to spawn. Instead, like three-quarters of all bluefin caught in the Mediterranean, the fish were most likely headed for Japan. Once there, they can sell for $80 a pound or more.
The Atlantic bluefin tuna is one of the world's most coveted and threatened seafood species. Since the mid-1990s, tuna populations have spiraled downward, and scientists warn that an immediate moratorium on fishing is the only way to avoid an irreversible collapse. In June, the European Union closed the bluefin tuna season for most ships two weeks early, but that's only a stopgap measure in the race to save these unusual creatures.
Conservationists often refer to the bluefin tuna as the tiger of the sea, but in truth a mature bluefin outweighs, outgrows and outpaces even the heftiest wild cat. Bluefin can weigh up to 1,400 pounds and measure 15 feet long, and can sustain bursts of speed up to 60 miles per hour in pursuit of prey. Warmblooded, they migrate across oceans, and females produce up to 30 million eggs each spawning season.
Bluefin tuna have fascinated and fed humans for millennia. The first evidence of bluefin fishing in the Mediterranean dates to the 7th millennium B.C.E. when the Phoenicians established fisheries using hand lines and primitive seine nets. Aristotle studied tuna in his "History of Animals," written in 350 B.C.E., and contended that the enormous fish gorged for two years before bursting from overeating. Four hundred years later, Pliny the Elder recommended eating tuna to treat ulcers, suggesting the neck, belly and throat as the finest pieces that must be eaten fresh even though "they cause severe fits of flatulence."
But it wasn't until the late 20th century that that tuna became a global business. Sushi and sashimi exploded in popularity in Japan and around the world, and consumers touted the fatty flesh of the bluefin as the most prized meat.
Purse seiners, which close drawstring nets around schooling fish, became larger and more sophisticated, and fattening cages dotted the seas starting in 1996. These cages, which can measure 50 meters across, may represent the biggest threat to bluefin survival.
Tuna, often juvenile, are captured and dumped in the cages - or "ranches" - for months to fatten up, with all the associated problems of aquaculture: disease, waste and overfishing of the smaller fish used to feed the bluefin.
Fishing for giant bluefin has become hugely profitable: In the 1960s, bluefin sold in the United States for seven cents a pound. This season, the first bluefin sold in Chinese Taipei netted $105 a pound.
Despite this booming business, there is little understanding of how tuna populations work. Several bluefin fisheries have cropped up in the Atlantic, only to collapse within a few years. The North Sea fishery collapsed in 1963, and a Brazilian fishery appeared in the early '60s only to vanish by 1967. No one knows why.
Current catch quotas set by the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) are nearly impossible to enforce, as fewer than 5 percent of catches have been sampled independently in the last decade. Some conservationists estimate that the fishing industry took 50,000 metric tons of bluefin from the Mediterranean by mid-June of this year - and the quota was set at 28,500 metric tons.
In two and a half months aboard MarViva Med this summer, Ellenbogen photographed undersized bluefin tuna circling in cages as well as dangling on the ends of fishing lines. He saw so many purse seiners clustering around schools of tuna that the horizon appeared nearly urban. What Ellenbogen didn't see was evidence of abundant marine wildlife of any kind. "When we went diving, we saw nothing constantly," he said.
The ICCAT has set a declining quota for Atlantic bluefin over the next few years as part of a 15-year recovery plan, reducing the total allowable catch to 25,500 metric tons in 2010. Scientists argue that it's not enough - that bluefin need a generational breather to prevent total collapse. In the meantime, the data gathered by Ellenbogen and the rest of Oceana's crew aboard the MarViva Med indicates that the quotas that are in place are not effectively enforced and are ignored by the tuna fleet.
"The laws continue to be disregarded and mocked. Hundreds of vessels continue fishing, the fattening farms continue receiving catches and the companies that supposedly should have concluded their activities continue obtaining profits while pushing the fishery to the limits of collapse," said Xavier Pastor, Vice President of Oceana Europe. "The bluefin tuna fishery around critical spawning areas must be urgently and completely closed until the stocks can recover, and the implementation of this decision must be effectively monitored."
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Hamid Dabashi is Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies, the chair of the Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures Department, and the director of Graduate Studies at the Center for Comparative Literature and Society, all at Columbia University.
Professor Dabashi's research interests include the comparative study of cultures, Islamic intellectual history, and the social and intellectual history of Iran, both modern and medieval.
Professor Dabashi's publications include Authority in Islam: From the Rise of Muhammad to the Establishment of the Umayyads (1989), Theology of Discontent: The Ideological Foundation of the Islamic Revolution in Iran (1993), Truth and Narrative: The Untimely Thoughts of Ayn Al-Qudat Al-Hamadhani (1999), Staging a Revolution: The Art of Persuasion in the Islamic Republic of Iran (with Peter Chelkowski, 1999), and Close Up: Iranian Cinema, Past, Present, Future (2001).
In this interview with The Asia Society, Professor Dabashi discusses, among other things, colonialism and religious violence, Iranian cinema, activism in the academy, American foreign policy towards Iran, and the long-term consequences of the military invasion of Iraq.
You have said that trying to understand religion (notably Islam) in the context of terrorism is a red herring, since those perpetrating acts of terror are waging a political struggle against the perceived effects of colonialism simply veiled in the language of God. Could you elaborate on this claim?
My position is this: it is impossible to understand not only modern Islam but any other religion in modernity outside the context of colonialism. This is simply because colonialism has been the single greatest source of power in modern history and has had a catalytic effect on every culture and every religion.
Historically, Islam has always been in conversation with a major interlocutor; that interlocutor could be Greek philosophy, or Buddhist asceticism, or Christian monasticism, or Jewish theology. In conversation with these moral forces, or with political forces such as the Sassanid and Byzantine empires, Islam has articulated itself.
However, over the last 200 years, what we call 'Islam' has articulated itself in conversation with colonialism. It is because of this fact that it is impossible to understand Islam outside colonialism.
What I argue has happened over the last 200 years is a systematic corrosion of the multiplicity of sites and visions of Islam as a religion and as a culture, narrowing it exclusively to a site of ideological resistance to colonialism. Let me elaborate: If you go back to pre-modernity, before the rise of colonialism, Islam is: (i) poly-vocal (it speaks with many languages); (ii) poly-local (it is located in South Asia, Western Asia, North Africa), and (iii) poly-focal (it has any number of focal points: juridical, philosophical, literary). All these narratives have existed simultaneously, although of course sometimes one discourse was more powerful than the other.
I also name these narratives "logo-centric" when the basis of Islamic self-definition is Reason, or nomo-centric when it is Law, or homo-centric, as in mysticism, which is human-based. All of these multiplicities start a process of corrosion when Islam begins a conversation with colonialism. Islam then mutates into a site of ideological resistance to colonialism.
The paramount figures and the most vocal, articulate Muslim public intellectuals from Sayyid Ahmed Khan in South Asia to Mohammed Abdou in North Africa begin to converse with colonialism. As a result, they translate and mutate a multifaceted Islamic intellectual history into a single site of ideological resistance to colonialism.
In your book, Theology of Discontent you argued that what animated the revolutionary movement in Iran was a theological language of discontent, involving the construction of a homogenized, hostile "Other" poised against an injured "Self". Is this ideological formation unique to the Iranian revolution? Do you think this prognosis could equally be applied to the present global configuration?
First of all, this ideological formation is not exclusive to Iran, it is endemic to Islamic societies. However, in Iran, it has an added momentum by virtue of the Shi'i component of the Islamic Revolution. I understand Shi'ism not exclusively as a sectarian, sub-division of Islam (constituting 15 per cent of the world's Muslim population), I understand it, as I argued in Authority and Islam, as the unfulfilled dream of Islam. Shi'ism remained a paradox: the institutionalization of an uninstitutionalizable charisma (that is, Mohammad's charismatic authority is transmuted into Ali, and from Ali, descends into twelve saintly, infallible figures).
With the disappearance of the twelfth Imam, going into occultation, as the Shi'is believe, history is at a standstill, in a state of expectation (for whenever the twelfth Imam will reappear). This gives Shi'ism the character of a religion of protest. As a religion of protest, it is predicated on a paradox: it will always have to remain in a combative position (speaking truth to power); however, as soon as it comes to power, it negates itself. This happened to the Safavids in Iran, to the Fatamids in Egypt, to the Hamdanids in Syria, and now to the Islamic republic in Iran: Shi'ism comes to power, it negates itself immediately, it is no longer Shi'ism.
This fact is best represented in Tazi'eh, which is a theatre of protest; this characterization of Shi'ism I propose is actually a kernel of Islam itself, in its entirety. As a result, if you look at the Iranian scene, immediately after the coming to power of Khomeini, Shi'ism loses its combative energy. While Saddam Hussein is in power or with the American and British colonial occupation in Iraq, Shi'ism is in its combative posture, as it was in southern Lebanon during the Israeli occupation between 1982-2000. In fact the Hezbollah in southern Lebanon were the only force that defeated the expansionist policies of Israel.
So this ideological formation is exclusive to Iran. However, by virtue of this description of Shi'ism as integral to the rest of Islamic doctrinal history, I propose it is endemic to Islam.
What precisely is the shape of this ideological formation?
It is this self/Other that I spoke of and the paradoxical generation of revolutionary energy. It has something in common with liberation theologies in Latin America, obviously.
The notion of "the West" as an iconic reference to colonial power has now, in my judgment, dissipated and disappeared. The recent bifurcation between the US and Europe is only one indication of this. Because Islam has lost its colonial interlocutor called "the West", it has now entered a different phase. But in what particular revolutionary posture Islam will re-articulate itself remains to be seen because globalized capital at this stage has an amorphous hegemony (it has not yet articulated its hegemony). The West was the hegemonic constellation of colonialism in its classical form in the 19th century. This has been dissolved.
Right now what we have in the shape of the emerging American empire does not have an identifiable hegemony because the capital that it tries to control is amorphous. The center-periphery bifurcation that we had in classical colonialism - capital based in the so-called West, colonies dispersed around the world - has disappeared. The process of globalization has shown that the centre-periphery divide was a smokescreen. The very assumption of colonialism concealed the fact that colonialism was nothing other than abused labor. Abused labor domestically generates a proletarian class vertically and colonial side effects generate the same horizontally. It is this vertical abuse of labor and colonial abuse of labor - one called colonization and one called working class - that have dissolved into one single abuse of labor by capital; the generation and accumulation of capital by abuse of labor. Whether this is done horizontally across the globe or vertically is incidental to the project. It doesn't matter if you have a sweatshop here in Manhattan or in Guatemala, it is the same abuse of labor.
As a result of the process of globalization, massive labor migrations have dismantled that center and periphery and created, what in the 1980s was horrifying people as multiculturalism: South Asians in England, North Africans in France, Turks in Germany, and all of them in the United States. They did not come here for good weather, they came here looking for work. That has now accelerated the labor migration and made capital amorphous; electronic capitalism means there is no center.
As a result, the World Trade Center was an entirely symbolic signifier without the signified. "World trade" does not take place in the World Trade Center; world trade does not have a center.
In your book on Iranian cinema, Close Up, you say that "Iranian cinema took the world by surprise simply because the world got a glimpse of our cinema only after it had decided the character of our culture through the prism of the Islamic revolution." Does this account for the continuing appeal of this genre to audiences in the West?
No, it has now assumed an entirely different momentum. Embeddedalready in Iranian cinema was a worldly conversation - to use Edward Said's language. Cinema has its own republic and Iran has been in conversation with this republic: from Satyajit Ray in Bengal to Akira Kurasawa in Japan to Souleymane Cissé in Mali, with Italian neo-realism, French new wave, Japanese masters, Russian formalism.
The emerging masters of Iranian cinema were already aware of these global masters of their craft and in conversation with them. At the popular level, people talk about the humanism of Iranian cinema. But the reason that Iranian cinema so quickly found its niche was that already embedded in its visual vocabulary was a worldly conversation with the best of world cinema. If you speak to Amir Naderi, and ask him where he learnt to direct, or where he learnt to film an exterior, or how to close a door, he will point to Ozu and Kurosawa, or he will say how he is influenced by John Ford. So when people in Cannes or Berlin see Iranian cinema, it is not a terra incognita, the sights and visions are new but the visual vocabulary is not entirely new at all.
There are other factors when considering the global reception of Iranian cinema, especially for instance in the United States, where there has been an aggressive and universal demonization of Iran since the hostage crisis. When audiences are suddenly confronted with sweet kids running around, and how cute they look and so forth, they like it; it is almost a guilty conscience over-compensating for all the harsh things that were said before.
That aspect of welcoming Iranian cinema had its phase and generated some ghastly films, in my view, because directors began to cater to it (in films like "Color of God"). But now the more genuine parts of Iranian cinema - things that were in conversation with the world - are what have proven to be more enduring and versatile.
There are other developments that have made the genre so dynamic. More recently, the emergence of women filmmakers, like Manizheh Hekmat's "Women's Prisons," or the addition of minority directors like Bahman Ghobadi, who has two incredible films on Kurdish issues. There are political questions that are also being raised, for instance in the films about Afghanistan or Iraq, or about the Kurdish predicament. These have added political momentum to the genre and injected new life into Iranian cinema. So it is a constantly changing mechanism, there is not just one factor.
Global attention also has a downside. The downside is that inexperienced people who come into the market start to cater to the worst stereotypes of Arabs, Iranians, and Muslims in the emerging American empire. These films will get immediately accepted to film festivals and propagated and bought by TV, etc. This is something we all have to be wary about.
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The time for the Hybrid Electric Fleet Truck is now
Wrightspeed is a provider of hybrid powertrains that can be retrofitted to existing delivery trucks to create a Hybrid Electric Fleet Truck (HEFT) with an electric motor drive and a diesel generator to create much greater fuel savings than passenger cars ever could, regardless of fuel efficiency.
The company is the brainchild of Ian Wright, a former employee of electric vehicle pioneer Tesla. The system he has devised removes heavy engine, transmission and drive elements, replacing them with a lighter weight electric drive and generator system that can achieve up to four times the mileage of the current fleet truck. Not only that, it can be charged up overnight to further extend its savings.
“For electric drive to make economic sense, you have to displace enough fuel to pay for the technology,” Wright said, according to a post by Joe Duarte on AutoNet.ca. “That pretty much rules out passenger cars, because they don’t burn enough fuel. Medium-duty trucks on commercial routes burn thousands of gallons of fuel annually.”
According to the system’s description the new system weighs less than the components it replaces since the system generates its own electricity with a diesel generator, the battery doesn’t have to be as big.
Called The Route, the retrofit promises savings on fuel of up to 50 percent, while meeting the performance expectations of route drivers, without reducing the payload capacity of the vehicle.
"Urban cars average 12 miles per hour and drive an average of 12 hours per week. That's 7,500 miles per year. If that car got 100 mpg, it would burn 75 gallons annually. If that car were to replace a 40 mpg hybrid, which would burn, under the same conditions, 188 gallons, the fuel savings would be 113 gallons per year," states a company report. "However, the Route can get trucks 44 MPG (cost equivalent) at an average of 30,000 miles per year at, that's 700 gallons. When the Route replaces an 8 MPG conventional powertrain that burns 3,750 gallons annually, the fuel savings is 3,050 gallons. That's 27 times more fuel saved."
It would seem the HEFT has the potential for hefty fuel savings in the segment of vehicles burning the most fuel in the land.
It is the same approach used in the Chevy Volt and the Fisker Karma, simply because combustion engines create electricity much more efficiently than they do drive, getting more out of the energy dense fuel.
Since replacing powertrains in fleet trucks is just part of doing business and the system requires no alteration of the body or chassis, it can be absorbed as part of the normal process of maintaining a fleet.
“It’s the best of both worlds,” marketing manager, Maya Giannini told Auto.Net. “The Route combines the efficiency of an EV with the unlimited range of a mild parallel hybrid. And our generator fuel system can be fitted to run diesel, compressed natural gas, or landfill gases; so, the Route is really the best of all three worlds.”
As with any vehicle, the manner in which they are driven affects the resulting mileage, but The Route has an electric range of 40 miles on a charge, augmented by the onboard power supply.
With over two million fleet trucks in the nation and savings of to 3,000 gallons each, that would add up to 6 billion gallons annually. That will make more difference than all 15 million passenger cars sold this year being hybrid or electric could.
If the economics really make sense to the fleet managers, we think the time of the HEFT is now. We welcome its contribution to the greening of America.
Incidently Wrightspeed also produces a package for builders of supercars that features a 250 hp electric motor individually controlling each wheel, thus creating 1,000 hp, with an Integrated motor, including 2-speed gear-reduction and a Power Electronics Module. It features Vehicle Dynamics Control, including stability, regenerative braking and traction control with a Native All Wheel Drive System, that has no differential or right-angle drive mechanisms. Sounds like a lot of fun!
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