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You know that warm and fuzzy feeling you get when you realize that large corporations have heart? I’m experiencing that sentiment right now for Marvel.
They received an email from a mother with a 4-year-old boy named Anthony, who no longer wanted to wear his Blue Ear model hearing aid. Part of the reason he wanted to put it aside is because none of his favorite superheroes wore hearing aids. Christina D’Allesandro didn’t expect to get a response from Marvel regarding her comments so imagine her surprise when editor Bill Rosemann replied and pointed out that Hawkeye had to use a hearing aid in 1984′s West Coast Avengers # 1 after taking a shot to the ear.
It didn’t end there. Soon Marvel sent another email featuring the superhero Blue Ear. The image shows a hero using a hearing aid to listen to cries from those needing assistance. It worked like a charm. Though there are still times when Anthony doesn’t want to wear his hearing aid, he usually gets it.
“I tell him he has to hear people calling for help,” Christina said. “He gets the whole connection. He’s loving it.”
Classy, Marvel. Classy.
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If Mike's chart were more fine grained, would it be able to indicate the 'rate of emission growth' by the steepness of curve? Or is another value on the chart needed?
Growth rate can be roughly inferred by looking at the chart. It's not the slope of the curve alone, though, that indicates growth rate; you need to look at the slope of the curve at a given point relative to the height at that point.
Or in other words, you would want to look at year-over-year growth, expressed as a percentage of the previous year.
Looking at the chart, for example:
Total emissions in 1975: 4.5 billion tons
Total emissions in 1980: 5.3 billion tons
Percent growth from 1975 to 1980: (5.3 - 4.5) / 4.5 * 100 = 17.7%Average yearly growth rate from 1975 to 1980
: 17.7% / 5 years = 3.6% per year
Total emissions in 2005: 8 billion tons
Total emissions (predicted) in 2010: 9 billion tons
Percent growth from 2005 to 2010: (9 - 8 ) / 8 * 100 = 12.5%Average yearly growth rate from 2005 to 2010
: 12.5% / 5 years = 2.5% per year
So to HFat's point, even though CO2 emissions are growing faster than ever before in absolute
terms, the growth rate
is considerably less now than it was 30 years ago.
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One hundred students are competing for college scholarships. They come from 10 schools (10 students per school). From each school, one student has declared physics as a major; one has declared chemistry; one, biology; one, psychology; one, mathematics; one, economics; one, anthropology; one, linguistics; one, English; and one, history. So, the group has 10 students for each of these majors.
Each of three judges is going to rank the students in 10 ranks from best (rank 1) to worst (rank 10). That is, each judge is to assign ten 1s, ten 2s, and so on up to ten 10s. So, each judge will assign one rank per student.
In previous years, some of the losing students have alleged that the judges were biased, so we want to ensure two "fairness" constraints that will require some planning on the part of the judge. In the rankings done by each judge:
- Each school will receive 10 different ranking scores.
- Each major will receive 10 different ranking scores.
So, among the economics majors, for example, each judge should assign one 1, one 2, one 3, and so on up to one 10. Similarly, among the students from Pleasanttown High School, each judge should assign one 1, one 2, and so on up to one 10.
Each student's three scores (one from each judge) will be averaged.
Our problem is to ensure that each judge obeys the constraints but without our knowing how that judge voted. That is, out of respect for the privacy of the judging, we want to know for certain that the judges obeyed the constraints but nothing more.
To show you that this is at least conceivable, suppose we imagine a variant of Monty Hall's game show, Let's Make a Deal, using cards in which all of them are worth zero except one that is worth $10,000. The Master of Ceremonies begins the game by arranging the cards face down. The contestant could choose one, which the MC would turn over and then give the corresponding reward. If the contestant loses, he or she might then challenge the MC to see whether there is in fact one card that is worth $10,000. To prove this, the MC could take the cards, shuffle them in front of the contestant, and then reveal them. The net effect is that the MC has proved that he has not cheated. At the same time, he has not revealed the original position of the prize card.
Imagine that each judge is given 100 opaque cards that hold the name, school and major of the student on one side and are blank on the other. Each judge also has 100 adhesives, ten identical 1s, ten identical 2s, and so on up to ten 10s. Can you design a protocol to ensure that each judge meets the constraints, but without allowing anyone to infer a judge's votes?
Thanks to Michael Rabin for this approach to demonstrating knowledge without revealing secrets. He used it to form a "zero-knowledge" proof for Sudoku.
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A New Edition, with Commentary, of the Fourth Book of the Epistulae ex Ponto by Mark Bear Akrigg, Ph.D.
oem that comprises the second book of the _Tristia_. The poem is written with Ovid's usual clarity and elegance, but its failure to secure his recall is not surprising. The poem deals only with the publication of the _Ars Amatoria_, which was not the true cause of the exile; and rather than admitting his guilt and appealing to Augustus' clemency, Ovid tactlessly argues that Augustus had been wrong to exile him.
The years 10, 11, and 12 saw the publication of the final three books of the _Tristia_. The charge of monotony that is generally brought against Ovid's poetry from exile (and was brought by his friends at the time; Ovid makes his defence in _EP_ III ix) is most nearly true of these three books of verse. He was unable to name his correspondents and vary his poetry with personal references as he was to do in the _Ex Ponto_; and the pain of exile was so fresh as to exclude other topics.
Not all of Ovid's literary efforts in exile were devoted to his letters. It appears from _Fast_ IV 81-82 a
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There's no time like the present for those who have designs on the future. That's certainly the case at the International Paris Air Show, where aircraft makers have gathered to make deals and show off what they've got on the drawing board.
One company with a particularly lofty goal is Aerion, which wants to get the first supersonic business jet off the ground. The aeronautical engineering venture, based in Reno, Nev., says its plane will be able to fly from Paris to New York in just a little more than four hours--or about three hours ahead of a standard subsonic plane.
What kind of plane can you score for 80 million? Want to know the latest craft in space tourism and zero-g flying? What kind of plane doesn't need a pilot? And what's John Travolta doing in an Airbus? Who is that mustachioed gentleman? You might just be surprised.
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The present global monetary situation, plainly, is not at equilibrium. Everybody else’s currencies depend upon the dollar, the dollar depends upon petroleum, and petroleum depends upon … whatever. Changes will continue (through a succession of crises if no other way can be developed) until a new equilibrium can be attained.
Last summer the CME Group's European clearing house for derivative products announced that unallocated gold would serve as collateral for margin cover. Was that the sort of illusory good news that marks the top of a trend or was that a symptom of a secular trend toward the de facto monetization of gold that will re-assert itself once the present cyclical down move is done?
Either Portugal or Italy could kick off a move toward the use of gold as collateral for sovereign debts. Each country has significant supplies of the stuff. Portugal, for example, has 383 metric tons, equaling 90 percent of its foreign reserves.
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Today we took up the task of building a cold frame to extend the growing season. So we took off to the barn to look for materials that were laying around. Our efforts provided us with wood and several old wooden windows that we have been saving. I didn’t do specific measuring, so I will give you the generic version
First we set both windows on the ground to provide us with dimensions that we would need. We selected four pieces of wood for the sides of the cold frame. We chose a wider piece for the back and a piece not as wide to form the front. This gave us a sloping frame that we could face toward the south to maximize the sunlight exposure.
We laid the two windows side by side and the four pieces of wood on their corresponding sides. We then marked all dour sides in prefer to make the proper cuts.
The front and back were about 52 inches long and the sides were about 40 inches in length. The back ended up being 14 inches tall. The front is 12 inches tall. We would have liked to have more of a slope, but we wanted to create the cold frame for very little cost.
After cutting the four pieces for the frame, we found a 2 x 2 to make four corner stakes. These were cut to make four 2 foot long stakes that were pointed on one end.
We then drilled small holes in order to help get the nails started. The wood that we used was extremely hard, so much so that we bent several nails. Once we got the four sides nailed to one another, we set about attaching the comer stakes. These will serve to drive the cold frame into the ground and keep it in place. In order the keep the frame together and hold the stakes in place, we attached two c-clamps to the stakes and sides. These clamps kept the stakes in place as we drove the nails through the side panels and into the stakes.
Above you can see our stopping point for the day. The stakes are sturdy and the windows are resting on the top. We will need to add hinges and then located a prop stick, but the project is nearly completed. Now to finish up so we can set the plants in place.
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As insulated concrete forms (ICFs) have gained popularity
as an alternative to standard foundation
forms, many builders are also looking for ways
to use ICFs above ground as well. Whether an
ICF wall is used only for the basement or for additional
stories, however, framing of the floor system is still one
of the most difficult parts of the process (see "Step by
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Canadian builders, who have a head start using foam
forms, have pioneered the use of structural slabs with ICFs.
Approaches range from precast systems, such as that from
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Laborer Nhoung Snieng said Tuesday that they started finding the remains, some shackled, when they began digging last week at Kes Sararam temple in the northwestern province of Siem Reap.
The temple's chief monk, Sambath Ly Yeath, said the site had been a Khmer Rouge prison when the ultra-communist group ruled Cambodia between 1975 and 1979. An estimated 1.7 million people died under the regime.
Siem Reap is famous for its centuries-old Angkor temple complex. The most notorious Khmer Rouge prison was the Tuol Sleng torture center in Phnom Penh, but the group maintained around 200 prisons nationwide.
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Post-anesthesia care unit
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- "PACU" redirects here. For the fish, see Pacu.
A post-anesthesia care unit, often abbreviated PACU and sometimes referred to as post-anesthesia recovery or PAR, is a vital part of hospitals, ambulatory care centers, and other medical facilities. It is an area, normally attached to operating theater suites, designed to provide care for patients recovering from anesthesia, whether it be general anesthesia, regional anesthesia, or local anesthesia.
The PACU staff, generally composed of highly trained nurses are charged with many vital tasks for the care of post-anesthesia and post-operative patients. These essential activities include:-
- monitoring vital signs (heart rate, blood pressure, temperature and respiratory rate)
- managing post-operative pain.
- treating symptoms of postoperative nausea and vomiting (or PONV)
- treating postanesthetic shivering
- monitoring surgical site(s) for excessive bleeding, discharge, swelling, hematoma, redness, etc.
These common activities may often need supplementing with more intensive care or treatment. This may require :
- Preparation and education for the use of Patient Controlled Analgesia (PCA) units
- Preparation and establishment of IV, epidural or perineural infusions
- Preparation and establishment of invasive monitoring such as arterial lines, central venous lines, ventriculostomies, etc.
Occasionally, serious life threatening complications, such as laryngospasm, respiratory arrest, or malignant hyperthermia can arise post-anesthesia. Patients are cared for with interdisciplinary measures from Anesthesiologists, Certified Nurse Anesthetists or CRNA's, PACU nurses and Surgeons. Patients may remain or have to be re-intubated due to anaphylaxis, pulmonary edema, pneumothorax, or complications from surgery such as extended operative time and long-term exposure to anesthesia and narcotics. Unless complications occur, most patients will only stay in the PACU for a few hours, before returning home or to another department of the hospital.
- Intensive Care Unit
- Nurse anesthetist
- Operating department practitioner
- Anesthetic technician
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Portal 2 optimised for new CPU/GPU hybrid
Gabe Newell, the co-founder renowned US studio Valve, took to the stage at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas yesterday to praise Intel’s latest microprocessor as a “game changer”.
Intel’s Sandy Bridge family of processors show a much higher emphasis on visual performance than ever before, carrying an integrated 32 nanometer graphics-processing unit. The chip is expected to open up higher-end graphics performance on laptop devices – something which Valve’s scalable Source Engine would, in theory, greatly benefit from.
“Sandy Bridge is awesome,” said Newell, whose team at Valve have worked with the tech to optimise performance in its upcoming game Portal 2.
“We’ve been using it for a couple of months,” he added. “Sandy Bridge really does give us the great features and performance that we need to develop great customer experiences for gamers. Sandy Bridge cannot only run today’s games, but even the next generation of games.”
In a more ambiguous claim, Newell said on stage yesterday that Sandy Bridge “allows for a console-like experience on the PC.” It is likely he is referring to a more universal baseline standard for triple-A game development on PC; a technical consistency which helps developers optimise their games.
Intel said Sandy Bridge, which has been in development since 2006, “represents the biggest advance in computing performance and capabilities over any other previous generation.”
Mooly Eden, vice president of the PC Client Group at Intel, claimed that the graphics capability on Sandy Bridge processor is better than 40-50 per cent of discrete graphics chips on the market. The methodology for this claim has not been revealed.
Intel CEO Paul Otellini hopes the chip will count for one third of its 2011 revenues and generate $125 billion for the industry altogether.
Retailers have been selling-in the chips for weeks.
Intel rival AMD will release its own CPU/GPU hybrid, called Fusion, later in the year.
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This is an image of an unidentified environmental microbial community collected from a shallow subsurface sediment sample. The sample was taken from the Gulf of Mexico at a depth of 575 meters and photographed using a DNA DAPI fluorescent stain. The stain fluoresces blue to count the cells found in the sediment sample. Image Credit: Heath Mills/TAMU
Foraminifera, like the one seen here, are tiny creatures in the ocean about the size of the head of a pen that are surrounded by calcium carbonate shells, similar to the shells around other sea creatures. Matthew Schmidt, a Texas A&M oceanographer, uses the foraminifera shells taken from ocean core samples to gather clues about the creature's surroundings, which helps scientists understand the conditions present at the start of the Younger Dryas period. Photo by Howard Spero at University of California Davis.
The mutton snapper inhabits much of the Atlantic Ocean, from Massachusetts to Brazil. Texas A&M Geography doctoral candidate Pablo Granados-Dieseldorff studies the mutton snapper in its spawning ground, the Mesoamerican Reef, which runs from Mexico to Honduras, in hopes of generating science-based conservation methods to protect both fish and habitat.
Peer into the interior of a thermal ionization mass spectrometer, located in the R. Ken Williams '45 Radiogenic Isotope Geosciences Laboratory. The instrument detects minute differences in the sub-atomic makeup of elements. Researchers use these differences found in rocks, minerals, sediments and fossils to trace ancient ocean and atmospheric circulation patterns during periods of past climate change. They can also use isotopic compositions of uranium and lead to date rocks that are millions to billions of years old.
A drill bit from the Joides Resolution, a drilling vessel used by researchers in Texas A&M’s Integrated Ocean Drilling Program. This photo was taken during Program Expedition 321 in the equatorial Pacific Ocean, during which researchers obtained sediments from the sea floor in order to reconstruct a detailed record of climate change over the last 55 million years. Researchers looked at minerals as well as microscopic fossils to construct the history.Photo by Bridget Wade
This is the image you would see were you to stand just south of the Endurance Crater on the surface of Mars and gaze northward. Endurance was visited by NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity from May to December, 2004. Images and measurements taken by Opportunity led scientists to conclude that liquid water flowed episodically through the area in ancient times. Texas A&M Geosciences professor Mark Lemmon played integral roles as atmospheric sciences lead in the successful missions of both Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity. More recently, he has also contributed to efforts in the Phoenix Lander, which first encountered Mars in May, 2008, and the Mars Science Laboratory (nicknamed Curiosity), which is scheduled for launch in November, 2011. Image Credit: NASA/JPL/Cornell
Pictured on Abraham Lincoln’s nose, the tiny mineral zircon is used by geochronologists such as TAMU Geology and Geophysics professor Brent Miller to date rocks that are millions to billions of years old.The mineral is found in volcanic rocks that are inter-bedded with fossil-bearing sedimentary rocks. This provides one of the best ways to determine the ages of long-extinct species. Once-molten rocks that crystallized deep underground during plate tectonic collisions also contain zircon. The age of these zircons can be linked to the crystallization of the molten rock and thus give scientists a way to clock ancient mountain building processes.
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Background Resource Pack
Posted on 7/22/2012 by MRSGILCHRIST
About this author:
Mrs. K. Gilchrist is a National Board Certified Teacher (NBCT) who has dedicated her life
to the education of children. She is constantly creating top-notch flipchart
lessons and resource packs for elementary school teachers to use on their interactive whiteboards. She
frequently trains school districts and presents at conferences around the country
on proper usage of the Promethean ActivBoards™ in the classroom. Most
of her content is exclusive to Amazing Classroom.
Sweet Tooth Backgrounds
These adorable backgrounds will add fun to any interactive whiteboard lesson. This pack includes 20 bright, colorful, and sweet backgrounds that your students will love. From lollipops, hard candy, and cupcakes, these backgrounds will be sure to please. This resource will install in shared resources/backgrounds/sweet tooth. Some of the images used in the backgrounds are purchased from Creative Clips by Krista Wallden. Enjoy!
Preview only, all resource pages may not be shown.
Our members may download and use this file for personal or classroom use only.
Files may not be sold, re-distributed, or uploaded to any other website without
prior permission from amazingclassroom.com
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U.S. wheat futures slid to an eight-month low and corn closed at a six-week low on Thursday as a winter snowstorm dumped moisture on key growing areas that have struggled with dryness for months.
Nearly a foot or more of snow fell across Oklahoma and Kansas in the last 24 hours, and more was expected. The states are top producers of hard red winter wheat, which is used to make bread.
"It's the mighty snowstorm," said Jerry Gidel, chief feed grains analyst for Rice Dairy.
At the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), March wheat lost 2.3 per cent to $7.21-1/4 per bushel. March corn dropped 1.4 per cent to $6.90-3/4 a bushel (all figures US$).
The United States is coming out of its worst drought in more than half a century, and farmers in key states have worried that their crops will not produce large yields because of dryness.
However, conditions are on the upswing for corn and soybean production, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's chief economist said at an annual outlook conference in Washington D.C.
The USDA forecast the nation's corn crop at 14.35 billion bushels, up 35 per cent on the year, and soybean output at 3.405 billion bushels, up 13 per cent.
Season-average prices for 2013/14 are expected to tumble 33 per cent to $4.80 per bushel for U.S. corn and 27 per cent to $10.50 for soybeans, according to the department.
"We have the drought continuing to shrink, with the evidence of some big storms coming through," said Don Roose, president of U.S. Commodities.
Still, the drought has not ended.
The country needs "several more storms like this to really start turning the tide," said Brian Fuchs, a climatologist with the University of Nebraska Drought Mitigation Center.
Commodities succumbed to broad pressure from worries the U.S. central bank will scale back its stimulus program sooner than expected, which could dry up liquidity in a range of markets, traders said.
Minutes from the U.S. Federal Reserve's most recent policy meeting, released on Wednesday, suggested the bank might have to slow or stop buying bonds before seeing the pickup in employment the program is designed to deliver.
"The government's sending a signal that their stimulus program is ending," Roose said. "We've got a hangover from that."
Commodity funds sold an estimated 10,000 corn contracts and 6,000 wheat contracts and bought 4,000 soybean contracts, according to trade sources.
Export demand helped soybean futures advance. March soybeans added 0.3 per cent to close at a two-week high of $14.87-3/4 a bushel.
Private exporters struck deals to sell 130,450 tonnes of U.S. soybeans and 110,000 tonnes of U.S. soft red winter wheat to unknown destinations, with delivery of both sales split between this marketing year and next year, according to USDA.
More demand is expected to flow to the United States because of shipping problems in Brazil, which is projected to be the world's top soy exporter.
Two to three times more ships are lined up to load crops at Brazil's two main ports than a year ago, and a six-hour dock workers' strike is set for Friday.
USDA will issue its weekly export sales report on Friday, one day later than usual due to the Presidents Day holiday on Monday.
Traders expect sales to be 300,000 to 600,000 tonnes for soybeans; 400,000 to 600,000 tonnes for wheat; and 150,000 to 350,000 tonnes for corn.
-- Tom Polansek covers the futures markets for Reuters in Chicago. Additional reporting for Reuters by Carey Gillam in Kansas City.
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The Army Corps of Engineers — which works with the Afghan government on building military and police facilities, medical clinics, schools, dams and other reconstruction projects — examines building sites before the work begins for unexploded ordnance.
"It's all over the country," said Jerry Cummings, the Corps' safety manager for the northern half of Afghanistan. "We're concerned any time we go to break ground."
Whittington worked in explosives and ordnance disposal with the Army in the 1990s and as a private contractor in Iraq in the 2000s. He joined the Corps of Engineers in 2010, learned of its work in Afghanistan and volunteered for the yearlong deployment in Kabul.
He has overseen the contractors who do much of the actual examination and disposal work on Corps sites. But when the request came to examine the old Soviet vehicles so they could be removed safely, "it was much more economically feasible for me just to go out there, spend a few days and do it myself," he said.
As a contractor, Whittington has helped to search the Chesapeake Bay for unexploded ordnance. With the Corps of Engineers, he has performed similar work at Fort Belvoir in Northern Virginia.
At Pul-e-Charki, under the watchful eyes of private security guards, he spent a week in May climbing through the Cold War-era equipment, which included T-72 tanks, personnel carriers, cargo trucks, anti-aircraft guns and Scud missile launchers.
Through the years, the makeshift motor pool had been overgrown by thorny bushes. The collection also includes a few damaged U.S. and coalition vehicles.
Some burned-out Soviet vehicles, which still dot the Afghan countryside, have been rigged by insurgents to explode when explored. Whittington said booby traps were only "a small concern" at Pul-e-Charki, because the vehicles had been on the military base for years.
With no plans or manuals from which to work, he had to familiarize himself with the compartments and containers of each model.
"It's a huge responsibility to make sure that nobody was going to get hurt," he said. Working in triple-digit temperatures, he crawled through each tank "to make sure there wasn't anything that would harm anybody."
The equipment had been scavenged for "anything that they might have thought valuable," Whittington said. "Explosives not being one of them."
Inside the tanks, he found several unexploded fuses for projectiles. Each contained a booster charge that, if mishandled, would be capable of maiming.
Whittington gave the fuses to nearby U.S. forces who blew them up. The vehicles have been removed without incident.
Whittington returned to the United States this month after completing his deployment. Before leaving Afghanistan, he said he thought the country was doing "better than when I got here."
"The Afghans are slowly learning how to be somewhat self-sufficient as far as providing their own security, their own protection from outside forces, and that's what we have helped provide to them," he said.
"I do feel I have helped make Afghanistan a safer place for the people as far as removing ordnance, mines, explosives," he said. "Getting rid of that will eventually lower those casualties."
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BELTSVILLE, Md. - In 2001, 486 people were killed on Maryland roads. Law enforcement officials want that number down to zero, and they hope a new strategy will help them hit the target.
The state this month joined others around the nation in launching their own Toward Zero Deaths initiative.
The goal is to reduce the number of traffic deaths by half throughout the next 20 years, says John Kuo, administrator of the Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration.
"Traffic safety is obviously of paramount concern in Maryland, because more people die in traffic crashes than they do in violent crimes," Kuo says.
Kuo spoke Thursday during a news conference at the Beltsville Commerce Center, where Prince George's County police announced the department would join the effort.
"I look forward to the future in Maryland where zero deaths on our roadways becomes a reality," Prince George's County Police Chief Mark Magaw says.
Howard County Police Chief William McMahon says he's seen too much carnage on the roads in his 28 years as an officer, and it's time to act.
"Four-hundred-eighty-six deaths in a different type of setting might shock people," McMahon says. "For some reason it's acceptable when it's in motor vehicles."
Maryland joins states including Minnesota, Utah and Oregon that have adopted the Toward Zero Deaths initiative.
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Lil Wayne: I wasn't intentionally stepping on the U.S. flag. (Video)
Meet the newest liligers - mom's a liger and dad's a lion. (Photos)
What can happen to you when you don't get enough sleep.
Don't look for the movie about Jodi Arias to be about her trial. (Video)
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Russians Claim To Have Punched Through To Antarctic 'Subglacial Lake'
One week after pausing with about 40 feet to go, Russian scientists today announced that they have successfully drilled through two miles of ice to reach Lake Vostok — a body of water the size of New Jersey that hasn't been touched for millions of years.
The Google translation from Russian on this webpage is a little rough, but you can see that the team says the breakthrough came over the weekend.
Now, as The New York Times reports, the Russians say that an initial spurt of water that rose up from the lake has frozen in the drill hole — as expected. It's likely that water has been contaminated with some of the chemicals used during the drilling. The plan is to return next December and only then draw clean water from the lake.
As NPR's Richard Harris and others have reported, the drilling has been going on for about many years. Scientists are eager to see if anything might be living in the lake and might add to evolutionary science.
Lake Vostok is warmed by geothermal energy. According to The Associated Press, "scientists from other nations hope to follow up this discovery with similar projects. American and British teams are drilling to reach their own subglacial Antarctic lakes."
Update at 3:30 p.m. ET. The Russians Essentially Stuck A Straw Down There; If Anything's Living, It's Likely A Microbe:
"The real goal of the Russians was to pop a hole in that was kind of like a straw," says Robin Bell, a research scientist with the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University. She spoke this afternoon to NPR's Audie Cornish.
The idea is that it will "be like they're sucking on the straw and lake water would come rushing up and none of the contaminants would go in," she said.
Next, when Spring arrives in Antarctica, the Russians have "set it up so they can get a fresh sample of lake water ... when they drill into that frozen straw." They will also "drop in strings of instruments."
As for what, if anything, is living down there: "What we're most likely to find is little microbes who've figured out how to exist in a really isolated, low energy environment," Bell said. And if microbes are down there, studying them might tell us something about the likelihood of life on the moons of other planets.
More from Audie's conversation with Bell is due on today's All Things Considered. Click here to find an NPR station that broadcasts or streams the show.
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What’s in a name, you ask? Well, quite a bit with Sri Lanka.
In the Sanskrit language, Sri Lanka translates roughly to “prosperous island.” This island nation, the size of West Virginia, offers over a thousand miles of coastline. Spanning inland from brilliant beaches (e.g., Unawatuna) are gorgeous tea plantations, lush rainforests (Sinharaja) full of fauna and wildlife, and a multitude of protected national parks (Yala) housing leopards, water buffalo and elephants, among others.
Things to Do. Spend a few days in the capital city, Colombo, soaking in the mix of Tamil and Sinhalese cultures. Experience the Perahera festival in Kandy, usually celebrated in August. Spend a couple of hours at Pinnawela’s Elephant Orphanage as the beasts bath themselves in the river. Go trekking with local Udaya Puswella and his company to gain an understanding of the land.
Places to Stay. Comfortable accommodations can be found easily throughout the island. But one place should not be missed: The Tea Factory in Nuwara Eliya.
Eats. Open a King’s coconut and drink its juice. Ask for a ripe and an unripe wood apple. Try some “egg hoppers” full of curry.
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Test trains for Metro's Silver Line hit objects along the new track beds that weren't supposed to be there, though rail officials say the construction is going smoothly and the first phase of the line is still set to open at the end of the year.
A test train outfitted with fingerlike extensions along its surface twice traveled the length of the first Silver Line phase -- from East Falls Church to Reston and back -- and in both of those tests the train's extensions hit objects installed too close to the tracks.
In one instance, the train hit a handrail along a walkway in a Tysons Corner tunnel. In another, it hit a switchbox near a fence on the track bed, Dulles Rail project manager Pat Nowakowski said.
The train hit other objects as well, though Nowakowski said he couldn't remember what they were. But the train wasn't damaged or derailed, because only the extensions hit the objects.
"We need to make sure everything we build would accommodate that worst-case situation in terms of a rail car leaning to the left or the right," Nowakowski said. "They told me that all but one item from the trip in February was fixed the next day. These aren't big deals or catastrophic."
The top official at the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, which is in charge of constructing the Silver Line, said he's not worried the test results will hurt plans to open the Silver Line by year's end.
"Occasionally someone will hang a railing in the wrong place or put an electrical box in the wrong place," said airports CEO Jack Potter, who informed the airports authority of the test problems at a meeting Wednesday. "It's kind of common that things are slightly out of kilter that can be adjusted."
The test train will run along the Silver Line once more before crews try out a regular train on the tracks, Nowakowski said.
Silver Line test trains have been involved in two other recent incidents on the Orange Line, but both airport and Metro officials say they were Metro's responsibility. In one case, a test train cut cables near East Falls Church, causing emergency repair work and delays into the morning rush hour. In another, two Metro track workers were nearly hit by a test train that did not give proper warning that it was approaching.
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Nearly three years after police began a probe into 2004 voting flaws in Milwaukee, investigators issued a report Tuesday that says eliminating same-day registration and requiring voters to show photo IDs would minimize the problems found.
Those recommendations immediately became fodder for advocates of both changes - and swiftly condemned by critics.
That included Gov. Jim Doyle, who told reporters in Madison: "I'm not sure why the Milwaukee Police Department should be the one deciding what the voting policy is of the State of Wisconsin."
The report blames shoddy recordkeeping by city election officials and error-prone poll workers for flaws that allowed illegal and improper voting in 2004.
The 67-page report comes long after state and federal authorities ended their investigation of the system, prompted by a series of Journal Sentinel reports in 2005 that detailed problems in Milwaukee and elsewhere.
The report underlines cases where investigators pushed for more aggressive prosecution of election fraud, particularly in cases involving out-of-state campaign workers who voted in Wisconsin while here.
But it mostly reads as a detailed analysis of a deeply flawed election in the city.
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett said the city has already implemented many changes to address the problems cited in the report.
"We will continue to make the necessary improvements so that citizens of Milwaukee can be confident in their elections," Barrett said.
He noted that last week's presidential primary, with about a 50% turnout in the city, was executed with no major problems, and the "reconciliation between voters and ballots is complete and without error."
The Election Commission office is now headed by Sue Edman, a retired Milwaukee police captain. She replaced Barrett's initial appointee, Lisa Artison, who stepped down as evidence of the problems mounted.
In a statement, Police Chief Edward Flynn said the report's findings are the views of the investigators, and the department would not take a stand on the policy issues.
The report cites a litany of specific problems, from absentee ballots never counted to poll workers allowing people clearly from outside the city to vote in Milwaukee. But much reaction focused on the photo ID and same-day registration recommendations.
Both have been advocated in the Legislature, with most of the support coming from Republicans, citing the integrity of the system, and strong opposition from Democrats, expressing concerns about disenfranchising voters.
A measure to allow a constitutional amendment on a photo ID requirement stalled in the Democrat-controlled Senate. A bill from Rep. Sue Jeskewitz (R-Menomonee Falls) to end same-day registration has not received an Assembly vote, with Jeskewitz saying Tuesday she knows it won't go anywhere in the Senate.
"But I want the public to know: We're not giving up," she said.
GOP leaders said, however, that same-day registration is not a priority, instead stressing the photo ID requirement, something Doyle has repeatedly vetoed.
"In my mind you wouldn't have to necessarily change the openness of our elections," said Sen. Joe Leibham (R-Sheboygan). "We'd simply be asking people to prove who they are."
State Democratic Party chairman Joe Wineke said the report's recommendations "would do nothing but disenfranchise thousands of voters across the state."
One irony: While the state Republican Party touted the report, investigators found almost no evidence supporting the GOP's claims of double voting and invalid addresses in the election.
Mark Jefferson, executive director of the party, said the GOP complaints were still important because they "opened the door to the more wide-ranging investigation."
He raised concerns that many of the problems identified in the report, including with absentee voters and votes from out-of-state campaign workers, will be repeated.
"I'm not sure they can guarantee we'll have a clean election in 2008," Jefferson said.
The joint federal-state investigation in 2005 began after a series of reports in the Journal Sentinel detailed a host of problems with the election in the city and state.
The 2004 election in Wisconsin was decided by about 11,400 votes. Had a larger state, such as Ohio, gone to Democrats, Wisconsin could have faced the sort of scrutiny aimed at Florida in 2000.
In the end, U.S. Attorney Steve Biskupic said there had been no findings of widespread fraud. About a dozen cases were pursued, to mixed results.
One problem Biskupic cited was the flawed Election Commission records.
That was echoed in Tuesday's report, which at one point states: "The Milwaukee Election Commission, through their ineptitude, raised enough reasonable doubt to prevent any further criminal prosecution."
The report suggests the biggest difference between prosecutors and investigators centered on cases where out-of-state campaign workers voted here without any intent of becoming residents.
It cited at least 16 cases in which workers from outside the state voted while employed here by an outside group attempting to influence the election.
The report does not indicate the name of the group, or the campaign (or campaigns) the out-of-state workers were part of. But those voters, the report says, had to "commit multiple criminal acts" in the process of voting.
The report suggest prosecutors decided not to pursue such cases, because state laws allow those who have been state residents for "10 days or more" to vote.
The report raises concerns about creation of a new "10-day resident" class of voters and cites a different line in statutes that says the voter should be "without any present intent to move."
Among other areas covered in the report:
Vote gap: The Journal Sentinel first estimated the discrepancy between the ballot count and the number of people listed as having voted at about 7,000, though prosecutors said previous efforts to resolve the gap narrowed that number to about 4,600. The gap remains, though no final number was given.
One footnote: The report indicates the Election Commission did three separate counts of votes. Each resulted in a different total, none of which matched the official totals reported to the state.
On-site registrations: As the newspaper reported, some 1,300 on-site registrations could not be processed for a variety of reasons, including missing addresses and missing names. Indeed, 141 were from addresses outside the city.
In an example of the cases detailed by investigators, a voter from Greenfield registered in the city, listing his Greenfield address on the card. He was allowed to vote, but when questioned by authorities said he was simply confused about where he was supposed to vote.
The report notes such votes would unlikely change the outcome of a statewide election but could sway local elections.
Felons: The newspaper identified at least 278 cases statewide where felons may have improperly voted, with many of those in the city. The actual number is likely higher because the newspaper's review included a partial database of voters.
Prosecutions were minimal, with the report noting that investigators wanted more charged, but the "poor quality of the records" made the cases difficult to pursue.
Election inspectors: The investigators found that five of the city's election inspectors were convicted felons, and thus ineligible to fulfill the role, plus two who had pleaded guilty to 2003 charges of misdemeanor election fraud.
Student voting: After noting many discrepancies in wards near Marquette University and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, investigators looked deeper at student voting.
The report cites a detailed review of Ward 39, which consists almost entirely of UWM's Sandberg Hall.
It found 2,101 ballots cast at the ward but only 1,887 people recorded as voting, part of the unexplained voting gap.
A further review found 31 people voting there who were not residents of the ward, including some UWM students who lived elsewhere.
Homeless voters: The report notes homeless residents are eligible to vote, but found cases where some are registered in multiple locations.
Patrick Marley, Stacy Forster and Steven Walters of the Journal Sentinel staff contributed to this report.
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Intinction at communion is "the practice of dipping the bread in the cup and partaking the elements simultaneously". The Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) at their 2012 General Assembly narrowly ...
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I picked the Sugar High Fridays theme “Test of Time – Desserts over a century old” because I thought it would be cool and something we hadn’t done before. I didn’t have any particular dessert in mind to make myself, but then in a flash I realized what it would have to be.
Laurie Stern, the perfumer for the marvelous Velvet and Sweet Pea’s Purrfumery, is a client of mine and a very dear friend, and back in February I put together a Valentine’s Day newsletter for the Purrfumery featuring her famous Linzer Tortes. Every year Laurie and a friend make huge batches of Linzer Torte dough which they shape into hearts, fill with raspberry jam, decorate with fanciful flowers and leaves made from dough, and give out to all their friends. Now that I can’t eat wheat I have to pass, sadly, on my annual torte treat, and I’ve been wondering if there isn’t a way to turn this nut-and-wheat flour dough into something deliciously gluten-free.
The research I did while working on the newsletter turned up a surprising fact: Linzer Torte is the oldest known cake or torte in the world. This made it a perfect sweet for my Sugar High Friday – not just old, but the oldest cake in the world! A recipe dating back to 1653 was found in a monastery archive in a collection called “Book of All Kinds of Home-Made Things, Such as Sweet Dishes, Spices, Cakes and also Every Kind of Fruit and Other Good and Useful Things, etc.”
It’s funny though – I know 1653 means Linzer Torte has been around for a long time (over 350 years!) but when I see 1653 as the date of the oldest known cake, what I think about is how long humanity didn’t have cake (over 10,000 years!). What a shame!
So back to our culinary history lesson. Linzer Torte is very old, and appears to have been named for Linz, Austria, although there were some spurious rumours floating about in the early 20th century that it was a Viennese baker named Linzer who actually created the cake. Those Viennese – as if it weren’t enough to have invented psychoanalysis, modern philosophy, quantum mechanics, and Sachertorte, now they have to try to take Linzer Torte away from poor Linz.
The original Linzer Torte recipes, the ones from 1653, were based on almonds, with the popular hazelnut variation coming later. Spices were not specified, clarified butter was kneaded into the dough, and the torte was baked like a pie in a “silver dish.” The latticed top and the jam or jelly filling (originally red currant jelly) have been around since the beginning. Eventually the dish evolved to become the beloved treat it is today, featuring a free-standing crust made from ground almonds, hazelnuts, or both, combined with wheat flour, eggs, butter, sugar, and a mixture of lemon, cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, and vanilla.
In deciding what to make, I combed the web and my cookbooks for Linzer Torte inspiration. I knew I wanted to follow one of these very old recipes, since that’s part of the fun for me of this month’s theme. But I also wanted to see if I could find a successful gluten-free version to add to my own baking repertoire. And I had the notion that Linzer Torte could be a delicious breakfast treat if it weren’t so full of sugar and butter, so when I found a recipe using agave nectar and grapeseed oil, I decided to try that as well.
The great Linzer Torte Experiment (or Linzer Tortztravaganza! as I like to call it) was about to begin.
In the first corner: the “Original Linzer Torte,” straight from the Linz tourism website and the nearest bet I could find for a translation of the 17th century recipes. Made with wheat, this torte is not about to become a regular addition to my life, but I wanted to start with the original.
In the next corner: the Boston Globe Gluten-Free Linzer Torte. This torte uses garbanzo bean flour and cornstarch in place of the wheat flour. I decided to use the spices called for in this recipe, with the addition of freshly grated nutmeg, in all the tortes. I wanted to compare the substrate, not the flavoring, of each one.
Holding down the healthy corner: Linzer Hearts from the blog Elana’s Pantry. These are made using only almond flour, with grapeseed oil in place of butter and agave nectar instead of sugar. This recipe is vegan as well, no eggs. The original recipe was for cookies, but I decided to see how it worked as a torte.
Rounding out the quartet: I looked through my Bette Hagman dessert book (Bette was the grand doyenne of gluten-free baking) to see if she had a recipe for Linzer Torte and found one for Nut Crust Supreme that seemed along similar lines. I decided to follow my friend Laurie’s Valentine’s torte recipe, the one that originally sparked my Linzer lust, but with Bette’s GF Flour Mix (1 part rice flour, 2/3 part tapioca flour, 1/3 part potato starch) in place of the wheat flour.
To see the four recipes I used with my own tweaks, notes, and ultimate reviews, please check out my detailed Linzer Torte page. (Coming soon!)
Things I learned while researching and making quarter-scaled versions of FOUR different Linzer Torte recipes:
~ Linzer Torte lattice should form a diamond pattern, not a perpendicular, or square, pattern as you often see on American pies.
~ There is a reason the high art of pastry is founded on wheat flour. Dough containing wheat gluten looks better, cooks better, and weaves better than other doughs.
~ I really am allergic to wheat. So please someone remind me to stop eating it, even in the interest of science and sexy lattices.
~ My oven thermostat seems to be around 75 degrees off.
~ There is an awesome website called Gourmet Sleuth that converts weights of specific foods into volume measurements. This was invaluable since between my four recipes I was dealing with amounts given in both grams and ounces, and I don’t have a kitchen scale.
~ Trader Joe’s has discontinued their Ground Hazelnut Meal and now carries only Ground Almond Meal. I had been counting on finding both there, and had to make a decision between using only almonds for the experiment or driving across town to get whole hazelnuts to grind in the food processor. I thought about what SHF blogger Janne wrote about old recipes being ones that, of course, will tend to use natural and locally available ingredients. I decided that since I am in California and not in Austria, almonds would do just fine.
~ Three words: Meyer. Lemon. Zest. (They may be out of season but I had some in my freezer – there’s no excuse not to use it where it will really shine!)
~ In my research I came across one Linzer Torte recipe from 1822. I did not recreate this one (it calls for 12 eggs!), but I used it as a reference as I made my other recipes. I now wholeheartedly agree with the direction to include “the fine cutted peel of one lemon and a little of its juice.” The Linzer doughs I made with juice and zest were head and shoulders in terms of aroma and subtle flavor over those made with zest alone.
~ There is also another nugget of essential Linzer wisdom in the 1822 recipe. Linzer Torte is not actually that good right after you bake it. On the other hand, “Please let it rest one or two days, the taste will win enormously!”
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Pizza theft no 'prank'
I found two assertions [December 22: "Purloined Pies: Prank or Delivery Threat"] concerning.
Eugene Williams states that Domino's and Papa John's decision not to deliver to unsafe areas was motivated by "obvious racism."
I worked for Ray Sellers and Tom Hutton, the owners of Domino's Pizza in Charlottesville and the Shenandoah Valley for six years. I never knew either to make a decision based on the racial make up of their customers.
Like most business owners, they would not alienate their potential customers in this way. They never exhibited any views or engaged in any action that could be considered racist. In fact, I have known them to terminate business relationships with people who did exhibit racist tendencies.
The second point is even more serious. Mr. Williams calls the robbery "a bad prank." According to the quoted police report, "Seven or eight young black males appeared from behind the bushes. One pushed the driver. Then they grabbed the pizzas and ran into Blue Ridge Commons."
These young men conspired and assaulted a delivery driver. One young man battered a driver, and at least one young man stole $40 worth of merchandise.
This was no "prank"; this was a series of premeditated crimes. Most disturbing is Mr. Williams' assertion that being a victim of violent crime is part of the driver's job. No segment of our society, including law enforcement, has an expectation of being a victim of violent crime every day on the job.
According to your article, Williams is a "long-time civil rights activist." As such, he must have some reputation and influence in your community. Yet, instead of using his position to decry this violent crime, he is actually enabling future criminals.
I applaud both companies for making a business decision based on the safety of their employees.
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By Graham Grossman, Manager of Social Media Services
For whatever reason, when hearing the words “social media,” few of us think about the need to listen. I took a very informal survey of colleagues and friends recently and found that when asked about what the term “social media” means to them, most people began by using action verbs to describe their perceptions, for example “SENDING,” “POSTING” “TARGETING” and “BLOGGING.”
Some thought of individual social media platforms and some thought of the general features of these platforms. Yet for others the big picture came to mind, including the where, when, how and why of sending a message out using various social media channels. Very few made any mention of what I consider the more passive uses of social media. I didn’t hear anyone mention listening or monitoring.
Granted, this poll was quick and far from formal. Regardless, the results were surprising. Listening really only came up in my test as an afterthought, when it should have been far more prominent a consideration when examining social media use for business purposes. Only by listening at the outset to identify the content, location and participants in digital conversations, can we have any hope of making an impact on the outcomes.
One reason to explain why nobody mentioned listening might be that listening is second nature for many of us in this line of work. As policy wonks and/or political professionals we instinctively know that things move fast and we’ve acclimated to taking it all in without stopping to think twice. Whether monitoring legislation, forecasting regulatory activity or managing policy issues, we naturally understand that our strategy is predicated on the conditions on the ground, and that those can change in an instant. We’ve adapted to this world where the “fish or cut bait” approach gets results. Listening for, and anticipating, movement is the only way to stay ahead of the curve—the very same applies when we consider social media.
We need to know where we stand before we can figure out where we want to go. In these growing digital collaborative workspaces, we have to identify the conversations that are happening so that we can dive in with the right message, in the right format and at the right time and place.
“To listen well, is as powerful a means of influence as to talk well, and is as essential to all true conversation.” – Chinese Proverb
Ok, enough WHY, here’s some HOW
There are plenty of advanced strategies that come into play when considering using social media to listen, but there are also some very simple steps you can take to gather some of the low-hanging fruit. Take fifteen minutes today and start to listen online or increase the effectiveness of your current online listening.
1. Signup and Login – it’s incredibly difficult to take part in the conversation without access. The good news is that admission is free on almost all social media platforms; all you’ll need in most cases is a working email address (some choose to use a secondary email address so as to distinguish social media interactions from routine business communications).
For those new to social media, this step means signing up for a few social media services. Start with a few of the most commonly used platforms, like LinkedIn and Facebook. These sites will have the most users that you want to target with your message, and will therefore be the best use of your time.
Track down a handful of users that you are already familiar with. Make the connection on these sites and build from there. Even if you’ve been using these social media platforms already, chances are there are new individuals that have signed up since your last visit that you should be connecting with.
2. Join Groups – to get the real return on the time you’re investing when you join a social media community, join groups related to your primary business interests. These groups act as forums where issues are discussed and ideas are shared between industry leaders. See what your colleagues, competitors, clients or the general public are saying about a handful of issues that you care about.
Keep your search for groups to join broad at first. When you’ve have a chance to review the results, narrow the terms to get a more targeted set of results. Once you’ve started listening to the groups on your social media account(s), branch out into more traditional web groups. Some of the most common include Yahoo and Google groups.
Whichever groups you join, you should set up email alerts so that you’ll get a notice only when new topics of discussion are introduced. That way you don’t have to remember to check back until there is new content worth reading. If it’s an especially active group consider setting up a daily or weekly digest of all of the group’s activity to keep your inbox from getting cluttered.
3. Alerts – setting up alerts from many of the major web search engines and news sites takes only a few seconds. These alerts can be set up very easily to monitor anything that includes a few words or phrases you want to monitor. There are as many specific uses for alerts as you can imagine. Some of the most common uses are: monitoring the news each morning, keeping tabs on what a competitor is saying or doing online, ensuring nothing negative about you or a staffer appears online or seeing what people are saying about a specific product.
Alerts can be tricky to fine-tune depending on the search terms used. If the terms are too broad, you’ll get thousands of results; if too narrow, you won’t get any results at all. After a week or two of seeing results, reevaluate the search terms you choose and adjust appropriately. After some adjusting you’ll begin to receive exactly what you’re looking for. As with social media group notifications, you can choose the frequency and time of the communication you receive so your inbox isn’t flooded.
Listening is especially important for any organization or individual new to the social media world. Ear-to-the-ground is one of the best positions to acclimate yourself to these communication tools and the best way to prepare to eventually participate in the discussions.
One of the most common fears that I hear frequently is that through social media people will make disparaging comments online about a company’s product, issues, brand or employees. The fact is that it is occurring constantly and unless you are listening you will not be in any position to respond. By allowing us to listen to what detractors are saying social media gives its practitioners the ability to account for that additional feedback and correct or change course before it is too late.
If you begin to use any of these tactics and you see positive results, we’d love to hear about it. You can add me as your first connection on these social networking sites, send me an email at email@example.com, or leave a comment below this article on our blog page.
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Sturgeon spearers reported clearer water on Lake Winnebago Wednesday, the fifth day of the annual sturgeon spearing season.
Fifteen fish were speared on the lake, with the largest an 84.4-pound, 66.8-inch fish registered by Brian Burnett at the Quinney station.
Spearers reported that water clarity is improving, said Ryan Koenigs, fisheries biologist with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. Some said they could see two to four-feet deeper than they could over the weekend.
The sturgeon spearing season on Upriver Lakes is closed. The season on Lake Winnebago will end when harvest caps are reached or on Sunday, Feb. 24, whichever comes first.
More on sturgeon season: More headlines and video | Tweets collected during the season | Browse photos from the 2013 season | Browse photos from the 2012 season | Share your sturgeon photos | Watch cameras on the Wolf River | Watch cameras positioned in Stockbridge
Lake Winnebago: Wednesday’s total — 15 (1 juvenile female, 6 adult females, 8 males). Season total — 91 (26 juvenile females, 85 adult females, 150 males). No. of fish short of hitting 90 percent harvest caps — 275 juvenile females, 635 adult females, 822 males.
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Cross-platform development is a big deal, and will continue to be so until a day comes when everyone uses the same platform. Android? HTML? WebKit? iOS? Windows? Maybe one day, but for now the world is multi-platform, and unless you can afford to ignore all platforms but one, or to develop independent projects for each platform, some kind of cross-platform approach makes sense, especially in mobile.
Sometimes I hear it said that there are essentially two approaches to cross-platform mobile apps. You can either use an embedded browser control and write a web app wrapped as a native app, as in Adobe PhoneGap/Cordova or the similar approach taken by Sencha, or you can use a cross-platform tool that creates native apps, such as Xamarin Studio, Appcelerator Titanium, or Embarcardero FireMonkey.
Within the second category though, there is diversity. In particular, they vary concerning the extent to which they abstract the user interface.
Here is the trade-off. If you design your cross-platform framework to include user interface widgets, like labels, buttons, grids and menus, then you can have your application work almost the same way on every platform. You can also have tools that build the user interface once for all the platforms. This is a big win in terms of coding effort. If the framework is well implemented, it will still adopt some of the characteristics native to each platform so that it looks more or less native.
Some tools do this by drawing their own controls. Embarcadero FireMonkey is in this category. Another approach is to use native controls where possible (in other words, to call the API that shows a button, rather than drawing the button with the graphics API), but to use custom drawing where necessary, even sometimes implementing a control from one platform on another. The downside is that because those controls are not in fact native, there will be some differences, perhaps obvious, perhaps subtle. Martin Fowler at ThoughtWorks refers to this as the uncanny valley and argues against emulated controls.
Further, if you are sharing the UI design across all platforms, it is hard to make your design feel equally right in all cases. It might be better to take the approach adopted by most games, using a design that is distinctive to your app and make a virtue of its consistency across platforms, even though it does not have the native look and feel on any platform.
Xamarin Studio on the other hand makes no attempt to provide a shared GUI framework:
We don’t try to provide a user interface abstraction layer that works across all the platforms. We think that’s a bad approach that leads to lowest common denominator user interfaces.*
CEO Nat Friedman told me. He is right; but the downside is the effort involved in maintaining two or more user interface designs for your app.
This is an old debate. One of the reasons IBM created Eclipse was a disagreement with Sun over the best way to design a cross-platform user interface framework. Sun’s Swing framework, derived from Netscape’s Internet Foundation Classes first released in 1996, takes the custom-drawn approach, which is why Swing apps always look like Swing apps (even if you apply the “Windows” look and feel). A team from IBM, some originally from Object Technology International which was a company acquired by IBM, believed it was better to wrap native controls with a Java abstraction layer, created SWT (Standard Widget Toolkit) to do that, and used it to build Eclipse.
Personally I am wary of toolkits which rely heavily on custom-drawn controls rather than native controls, though I see their value. On the other hand, Xamarin Studio is so far in the other direction that it removes some of the benefit of a cross-platform framework.
My prediction is that Xamarin will come up with its own GUI abstraction framework in future, along the lines of SWT. It is a compromise; but one which delivers a lot of value to developers who want to create cross-platform apps with the maximum amount of shared code.
*I have never understood this use of the term “lowest common demominator”. The LCD in maths is the lowest number into which a specific group of numbers divide exactly, so it is an elegant thing. In cross-platform what you should strive for is the highest common intersection: to make available all the features common to each platform.
- Appcelerator has released Titanium Studio, IDE for cross-platform mobile development
- Intel fights back against iOS with free tools for HTML5 cross-platform mobile development
- Xamarin 2.0 and Xamarin Studio announced, build for OSX, iOS and Android with C#
- Adobe AIR 2.6, MonoMac 1.0, cross-platform is not dead yet
- Mono project: no plans for cross-platform WPF
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SMRs will be small enough to be pre-assembled in a factory and shipped to location. These easy-to-install reactors could potentially shave years and millions of dollars off the construction of nuclear power plants, and could make it economical to bring nuclear power to rural areas or developing countries that lack infrastructure. Thats why SMRs are being hailed as the next generation in nuclear technology.
How It Works
First, dont let the name fool you. "These are not going to fit in your backyard," says Paul Genoa, a policy director with the Nuclear Energy Institute. "Theyll still be industrial facilities, but the footprint will probably be like that of a small shopping mall, but with more land around it." SMR plants could fit inside the footprint of the old coal-fired plants theyre expected to replace, Genoa says.
An SMR would generate one-tenth to one-third the energy of a conventional reactor. Rather than producing 1000 megawatts of electricity, for example, an SMR might produce 300Mw or less. For example, the company NuScale Power is developing a 45Mw SMR that would be able to supply electricity to 45,000 American homes for a year, making it well suited for smaller towns and cities where a conventional reactor would be overkill. And because SMRs are modular, theyre scalable. The power plant can install additional SMRs as electricity demand grows.
There are three main varieties of SMR in development.
These are basically a scaled-down version of the light-water reactors already working in the United States. Inside a light-water reactor, heat from the uranium core turns water into steam, which spins turbines that generate electricity. The same thing happens in a light-water SMR, with a few modifications.
Unlike traditional reactors, which position the generators outside the reactor, some SMRs, such as the Babcock & Wilcox 125Mw "mPower" reactor, locate the generators inside the reactor. John Kelly, the energy departments deputy assistant secretary for nuclear reactor technologies, says this makes manufacturing easier and eliminates the piping between reactors and generator, which is a safety liability. (If a pipe breaks, it becomes difficult to deliver coolant back to the hot core.)
Some light-water SMRs also incorporate what engineers call passive safety featuresin an emergency, they could cool a reactor core even if the power goes out. At Fukushima Daiichi in Japan, the site of last years post-tsunami nuclear disaster, the plant relied on electrically driven pumps to deliver water to the hot core and cool it down. When the power went out and diesel backups failed, operators had to resort to desperate measures to prevent total catastrophe.
By contrast, small reactors such as the Westinghouse SMR would rely on gravity and thermodynamics to circulate coolants. As the radioactive core heats the water surrounding it, that hot water becomes less dense and flows upward toward the heat exchangers that turn the heat into electricity. As the water loses heat to the exchangers, it cools, becomes more dense, and falls back toward the coreno electricity required.
"The new plans are elegant in their simplicity," Genoa says. "Passive features allow reactors to go without operator interaction, and without pumps to move water around." To further improve on safety, several SMRs are meant to be installed and operated underground.
The light-water SMRs in development have been slightly less efficient than normal reactors, meaning less of the uraniums potential energy is turned into electricity. But small light-water reactors may eventually deliver electricity that is less expensive than what larger reactors can produce simply because construction and installation costs would be lower. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission expects to approve the first light-water SMR power plants in the early 2020s.
The idea behind gas-cooled reactors, Genoa says, is to rule out even the possibility of a meltdown. "It is physically impossible for the reactor to get hot enough to damage the fuel," he says. Thats because rather than using water as a coolant, gas-cooled SMRs would use helium.
As water boils it can build up pressure inside a reactor. Under extreme heat it can also react with zirconium alloys in the core. At Fukushima Daiichi, water-zirconium reactions caused a hydrogen explosion that blew the roofs off several reactors.
But unlike water, helium doesnt boil or react. This allows the gas-cooled reactor to operate safely at temperatures up to 1000 degrees C, which increases the reactors efficiency. While a light-water reactor typically extracts roughly 34 percent of its cores potential energy, a gas-cooled reactor would operate at more than 40 percent efficiency. A gas-cooled reactor developed by the Japanese Atomic Energy Research Institute has achieved 45 percent efficiency, and General Atomics Modular Helium Reactor achieves up to 47 percent.
To accommodate the high heat needed to achieve such high efficiencies, engineers must modify other elements of the gas-cooled reactor. The fuel requires a heat-tolerant carbon coating, for example, and metal parts of the reactor are replaced with ceramics, Genoa says. Because gas-cooled reactors require these new technologies, the Nuclear Regulatory Council estimates they wont come on line until the mid-2020s.
Typical nuclear reactors use what are called moderators to slow down neutrons and control the chain reactions that happen during fission. Thats because the "fast neutrons" created when uranium splits are less likely to cause fission in the neighborhoodand keep the chain reaction goingthan slightly slower neutrons are.
Fast reactors, though, are optimized for fast neutrons, which allows them to extract 60 times more energy from uranium than a typical light-water reactor can. That also means that fast reactors can digest the nuclear waste of other reactors, reducing the wastes radiotoxicity while extracting energy in the process.
Fast reactors already in development include Argonne National Labs 175Mw reactor, Advanced Reactor Concepts sodium-cooled ARC-100, and the 25Mw Hyperion Power Module. But because uranium is still in abundant supply, and because some fast reactors can be used to breed weapons-grade plutonium, using these SMRs to recycle uranium is not economical at this point.
Before any SMR can be used in a power plant, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission must create regulations for it. Any new reactor design raises a slew of new questions. Since SMRs are smaller and have lots of passive safety features, are fewer operators needed per reactor? Should the 10-mile evacuation radius mandated for traditional reactors be smaller for a smaller reactor? What are the proper safety protocols for an SMR? Once the NRC figures out how to adapt current regulations, it could go certify SMR designs and issue licenses to operate new power plants.
SMRs may be the reactors of the future, but Genoa says traditional reactors arent going away anytime soon. "Small reactors are not a substitute for big reactors, but we cant build a big reactor everywhere," he says. "Just like when you go to the auto store and you can choose a sedan, a minivan or a truck, the nuclear market needs more options."
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The Quackery of Chemotherapy, Gunpoint Medicine &the Disturbing Fate of 13Yr-Old Daniel Hauser,
Soy Protein Used in "Natural" Foods Bathed in Toxic Solvent HexaneWednesday, May 20, 2009 by: Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor(NaturalNews) Virtually all "protein bars" on the market today are made with soy protein. Many infant formula products are also made with soy protein, and thousands of vegetarian products (veggie burgers, veggie cheese, "natural" food bars, etc.) are made with soy protein. That soy protein is almost always described as safe and "natural" by the companies using it. But there's a dirty little secret the soy product industry doesn't want you to know: Much of the "natural" soy protein used in foods today is bathed in a toxic, explosive chemical solvent known as hexane.
To determine the true extent of this hexane contamination, NaturalNews joined forces with the Cornucopia Institute (www.Cornucopia.org) to conduct testing of hexane residues in soy meal and soy grits using FDA-approved and USDA-approved laboratories. The Cornucopia Institute performed the bulk of this effort, and NaturalNews provided funding to help cover laboratory costs.
The results proved to be worrisome: Hexane residues of 21ppm were discovered in soy meal commonly used to produce soy protein for infant formula, protein bars and vegetarian food products.
These laboratory results appear to indicate that consumers who purchase common soy products might be exposing themselves (and their children) to residues of the toxic chemical HEXANE -- a neurotoxic substance produced as a byproduct of gasoline refining.
But how dangerous is hexane, exactly? Is it something that could be dangerous at a few parts per million? And which soy-based products on the market right now might be contaminated with hexane?
To answer these questions, NaturalNews looked into public documents surrounding Martek Biosciences Corporation, a company that manufactures DHA for infant formula, using hexane for extraction.
We found disturbing details about Martek, including a documented explosion in the wastewater treatment system downstream from the manufacturing plant. This explosion was caused by hexane pollution.
We also found documents revealing Martek's application for permission to pollute hexane into the environment, as well as a planned emission cap that would put the company just under the limit for being considered a "major polluter" of Hazardous Air Pollutants.
Additional documents reveal concerning information about the safety of Martek's oils used in infant formula. All this information is being released in tomorrow's feature story on NaturalNews, so be sure to check back to read that. The remainder of this story focuses on the use of hexane in soy products.
What you probably never knew about Hexane extractionTo learn more about the use of hexane in the health industry -- and in soy products in particular -- we turn to the Cornucopia Institute's recently-published report called Behind the Bean (http://www.cornucopia.org/2009/05/s...)
This report contains some of the most shocking information you've probably ever read about the possible dangers of this chemical solvent used in the processing of soy. Here are some highlights of what it explains about hexane: (Quotation marks indicate exact verbiage from the Behind the Bean report.)
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The Quackery of Chemotherapy, Gunpoint Medicine and the Disturbing Fate of 13-Year-Old Daniel HauserWednesday, May 20, 2009 by: Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Read what the mainstream media hopes you never learn about chemotherapy and health freedom. Must-read article here...(NaturalNews) You see it in newspapers and websites across the 'net: People insisting that 13-year-old Daniel Hauser must be injected with chemotherapy in order to "save his life," and that anyone refusing to go along with that is a criminal deserving of arrest and imprisonment.
What's most astonishing about the mainstream reaction to the forced chemotherapy of Daniel Hauser is not merely that they believe states now own the children, but that they believe in the entire world there exists but one single treatment for cancer, and it happens to be the one that makes pharmaceutical companies the most money. The arrogance (and ignorance) of that position is mind boggling.
There was once a time when western medical doctors believed that the heavy metal mercury was a medicine, too. They methodically used mercury to treat hundreds of different diseases and conditions, oblivious to the fact that they were actually poisoning people with this toxic heavy metal.
And yet, imagine if authorities had arrested parents for not treating their children with mercury. Imagine if they threw parents in prison for refusing their "mercury medicine." That would be equivalent to today's arrogant, misguided and extremely dangerous campaign to outlaw saying "no" to chemotherapy.
A brief history of medical quackeryIt was mercury, in fact, that led to the term "quack." Mercury is called "quicksilver," and those doctors who prescribed it were eventually discovered to be pushing toxic chemicals rather than any real medicine. They were initially called "quicks" and then later "quacks."
The quackery of those doctors prescribing mercury wasn't hard to miss: People taking the mercury would get extremely ill. Their hair would fall out. They would lose their appetite and experience extreme loss of body weight. Many would simply die from the toxicity.
Remarkably, these are the same side effects produced by chemotherapy. And today, chemotherapy doctors describe these side effects in precisely the same terms as the mercury quacks of a century ago, claiming the effects are "part of the healing process" and encouraging patients to find the courage to "just go through with it."
But let's pull our heads out of the muck here and acknowledge the obvious: Poisoning patients -- whether with mercury or chemotherapy -- will never produce healing. And the prescribing of such toxic chemicals to patients is little more than sophisticated quackery, backed by seemingly convincing data (which is actually based on scientific fraud) along with the urgings of cancer doctors who rely on highly manipulative fear tactics to corral patients into treatments that will only harm them.
Do parents have the right to protect their children from poison?Today, the mother of 13-year-old Daniel Hauser is on the run, having skipped out on the Minnesota court that ordered her to poison her own child. She is now considered criminally negligent by the state -- a parent who belongs behind bars and will likely be imprisoned when she is arrested at gunpoint.
And yet, I ask you this: What else could she have done? To appear in court and submit her child to chemical injections of a toxic substance would amount to child abuse. She is doing what any sensible parent would do: She's protecting her child from the poisons of the world, and standing up against the tyrants of modern medicine who so desperately seek to exploit her child for profit that they have actually turned to enforcing their business at gunpoint in order to do so.
It is interesting that pharmaceutical medicine is the only industry in America that's forced to recruit its patients at gunpoint.
I call it Gunpoint Medicine, and it is exactly as it sounds: The enforcing of medical quackery at gunpoint.
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Films have come to not only entertain modern minds but also inform and shape them. Many of the best cinematic works have profound religious elements -- some obvious, some more subtle. In Catching Light
Roy Anker examines nineteen popular films, showing how they convey a range of striking perspectives on the human encounter with God.
These selected films portray God showing up in different, surprising ways amid the messy circumstances of life. Anker looks closely at the plot of each film, especially at how characters, through their experiences, ultimately move "toward Light," toward recognition of a loving, redemptive deity.
The first section of Catching Light
looks at classic 1970s films that inspect personal, social, and cultural evil: The Godfather
and The Deer Hunter.
The second group of films depicts the ways and depths of specifically Christian notions of redemption: Tender Mercies, The Mission, Places in the Heart,
and Babette's Feast.
Some of the most successful films of our time have come as fairy-tale fantasies: the Star Wars
and three of Steven Spielberg's "lost boy" stories (Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial,
and A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
), each of which Anker interprets as a fable of search and redemption. The films in the last section of the book feature characters who, to their great surprise, are ambushed by a wholly unexpected God: Grand Canyon, American Beauty,
and Three Colors: Blue.
In addition to focusing on the theological dimension of each film, Anker comments on its merits both as story and as cinema. Also included are sidebars that discuss each film's history and significance as well as the quality and special features of DVD editions. For anyone interested in the intersection of religion, art, and culture, Catching Light
offers a unique view of contemporary faith.
AWARDS and RECOGNITIONS
ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Awards, Finalist, Popular Culture (2004)
"It is high time that somebody drew attention to the religious dimension of some of our best films. Roy Anker has taken a close and discerning look at nineteen of them, and we all owe him a debt of gratitude."
"Through his close and sensitive readings of popular movies, Roy Anker shows us how the medium of film, using physical light to display images, can be a powerful vehicle for spiritual or divine light as well. His essays on nineteen well-known films remind us that when we sit in the darkened theater, we are not only watching movie characters in their encounters with forces beyond themselves, but we are also ourselves affected and potentially transformed. This fascinating, beautifully written, and moving book is a must-read for anyone interested in film and the light it sheds on the profound joys and strains of human existence."
Robert K. Johnston
"Catching Light sets a new critical benchmark for the unpacking of cinematic stories that invite further theological dialogue. This sensitive analysis of selected Academy Award?winning films should send readers running to their nearest DVD store to review these classics."
John R. May
"In an ever-expanding universe of fine works in the area of religion and film, Roy Anker's Catching Light is not only one of the most perceptive in its film critiques but also undoubtedly the best organized and most richly designed text for courses on spirituality and religious experience in film of any that I have read. Anker's central metaphor brilliantly links the source of film's art with the core of religious experience — divine Light itself. Reading Catching Light has permanently altered my plans for my own course syllabus, and I can't wait to use it as a text."
"On long summer evenings when time seems to stretch out invitingly, I like to imagine conversations that should have taken place (even if they never did in mundane reality), such as Andr? Bazin, Pauline Kael, and Roy Anker arguing over Superman. Ah, to have been there that night. . . The next best thing is to settle down with this book, in which Anker reminds us (if we ever knew) that movies are fundamentally metaphysical: their job is to show the Invisible. Let there be Light!"
"Anyone who loves movies and loves discussing them has got to pick up this book. . . Anker . . . puts together a fascinating read that takes a look at various films and the theology that surrounds the stories. "
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By Rachel Clugston
The bilingual reading event Transatlantisches Wetterleuchten hosted by The English Room featured the American poets Mary Jo Bang and Kevin Prufer, as part of the Leipzig Book Fair.
To a packed and attentive audience, both poets read from their latest anthologies: Prufer “Wir wollten America finden” and Bang, “Eskapaden”. Both anthologies are published by luxbooks, featuring each poem in both the original English and German translation. Prufer, currently Professorof English in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston, is an acclaimed author and academic, being recognised with three Pushcart Prizes and Best American Poetry 2010. Bang, herself a Pushcart Prize recipient, is also deeply engaged in teaching as Professor of English at Washington University (St. Louis), having 6 books published with individual poems appearing in journals such as The Paris Review, The New Yorker,The New Republic, Yale Review, Denver Quarterly, Best American Poetry.
Prufer selected the poems “National Anthem”, “Love Poem”, and “Inner beautiful country”, before reading from extended apocalyptic narrative poems “The moon is burning” and “The enormous parachute.” Bang took some poems from her “Bride of E” collection, featuring “a is for all of a sudden”, “C is for Cher”, and “E is for everywhere”, before delving into reflections of german painter Sigmar Polke’s “Catastrophe theory, 4,3,2″. She finished with the intriguing “Beneath the din” from her much acclaimed ‘Elegy’ collection of poems.
As a bilingual event, the audience had the rare and valuable experience of hearing these poets in both languages. Prufer also read the German version with as much passion as in his mother tongue. Later he admitted that his connection to Germany was strong, with his father being German. He also lived for a year in Berlin, during high school. Apart from that exposure, his interest in the language has been deepened through the reading of his work in translation. The nature of Prufer’s apocalyptic and tense imagery in evaluating the place of America within the world, and the variant ‘Americas’ within itself was uncompromising. At times shocking and tender, the crispness of Prufer’s poetry reveals a search for an America beyond bland consumerism and militant righteousness. Bang’s works had an appealing intellectual intensity as she played with low and high culture, the boundaries of perception, and the constraints of time becoming elastic in her profoundly philosophical reflections.
The evening finished with ongoing and informal discussions of the poems featured, in the comfortable ambience of The English Room, a venue that is committed to supporting English speaking cultural events.
Yet another Buchmesse event for you!
The exhibition will run from 18.03 – 20.03, opening times 14:00 – 20:00 daily.
Hello – more news from the world of books and art!
The Leipzig International Artists Programme will be hosting a range of fabulous events this coming Friday, including readings from Slovenian authors, at the Spinnerei!
There will also be a guest performance by Dalibor Cikojević; (Virtuoses, Muses and Striptease) and Slovenian wine and Potica cake will be served.
And – if all that isn’t enough, there will also be a chance to check out the art currently being created at LIA. Open studios will take place after the readings.
Here is a note from Anna-Louise Kratzsch, the director of LIA
“During the Leipzig Book Fair there will be Slovenian readings, presented
by the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Berlin. Open Studios will take
place after the readings. Slovenia is considered to be the country of
poets. In Slovenia the most famous historic figures are not kings or
statesmen but Primož Trubar, founder of Slovenian literature, the poet
France Prešeren and the writer Ivan Cankar. In LIA you are invited to
experience the next generation of Slovenian authors: Miha Mazzini, Stanka
Hrastelj und Tadej Golob, three young writers who could hardly be more
This event is organized by the Slowenian Book Agency and the Embassy of
the Republic of Slovenia Berlin. Many thanks to the BMW Plant Leipzig for
their kind support of our cultural programme.”
When: Friday, March 18th, 8 pm
Where: LIA: Spinnereistraße 7, Hall 18, 1st floor
Authors: Miha Mazzini, Tadej Golob, Stanka Hrastelj
Moderation: Dr. Boštjan Dvořák
Aika Furukawa, Tokyo Japan
Marjolijn de Wit, Fonds BKVB Amsterdam
Lorenza Diaz, Christoph Merian Stiftung Basel
Aurélie Pétrel & Laurent Proux, École nationale des beaux-arts de Lyon/
Stadt Leipzig Referat Internationale Zusammenarbeit
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DOVER — The Dover community raised $8,900 this year in this autumn's annual CROP walk, a walk that raises money for the hungry around the world, including right here at home.
This year, 25 percent of the funds go to two local groups, the Dover Children's Home and the Friendly Kitchen, Dover's soup kitchen run by Cooperative Ministries. The remaining funds go to Church World Service (CWS), a disaster relief and long-term development organization.
Right now, Church World Service blankets – along with school, baby, hygiene and cleanup kits – are comforting Hurricane Sandy survivors, distributed through a network of shelters, soup kitchens and food pantries in 18 of New Jersey's 21 counties.
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June 22, 2011 Cranberries are an important commercial crop in states such as Massachusetts, Wisconsin, New Jersey, Washington, and Oregon. Insects and disease can pose serious problems for growers trying to realize profits in heavy cranberry production regions. Since cranberries are a perennial crop, pest damage can have a particularly significant negative impact in the next growing season.
By studying feeding preferences of insects, entomologists have reported that several insects prefer some cranberry cultivars over others. For instance, several insect herbivores have been anecdotally reported to prefer 'Howes' cranberry leaves over those of 'Early Black'. In a recent study published in the Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science, scientists reported on a series of studies they designed to determine whether these anecdotal reports were accurate and to compare phenolic profiles in the foliage of 'Early Black' and 'Howes' for compounds that differ in concentration and could be possible feeding deterrents.
The scientists conducted bioassays to determine the feeding preferences of three cranberry pests. Gypsy moth larvae, cranberry weevil adults, and red-headed fleabeetle were studied in late June, early July, and early August, respectively, when they were at their most active on the bog. According to the research, gypsy moth larvae demonstrated a significant feeding preference for 'Howes' over 'Early Black'. Red-headed flea beetle adults demonstrated a similar, but not statistically significant, trend, whereas cranberry weevil preferred neither cultivar.
"Compounds giving rise to six peaks in the phenolic profile were significantly greater in concentration in 'Early Black' than 'Howes' on at least one of three sampling dates during the growing season," noted the study's corresponding author Justine Vanden Heuvel. "Five of these compounds were isolated from leaves harvested at the June time point coinciding with gypsy moth infestation and identified as: 5-O-caffeoylquinic acid, 3-O-p-coumaroylquinic acid, 5-O-p-coumaroylquinic acid, quercetin-3-O-galactoside, and quercetin-3-O-rhamnoside."
Vanden Heuvel said that the data suggests that these compounds warrant further investigation as possible insect-feeding deterrents. "The compounds identified in this study should be investigated further to determine their ability to reduce feeding and/or growth of foliage feeders in cranberry. If a feeding deterrent is identified, this deterrent could have potential as a screening method for new cranberry cultivars. Breeding schemes and cultural practices could also be investigated to increase the presence and concentration of the deterrent in cranberry leaves."
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- Neto, Catherine C., Dao, Christine A., Salvas, Michelle R., Autio, Wesley R., Vanden Heuvel, Justine E. Variation in Concentration of Phenolic Acid Derivatives and Quercetin Glycosides in Foliage of Cranberry that May Play a Role in Pest Deterrence. J. Amer. Soc. Hort. Sci., 2010 135: 494-500 [link]
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(OCEAN CONSERVATION) After a frighteningly close call, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has won back their flagship, the Steve Irwin. The vessel was detained during a civil lawsuit brought against the group by Fish & Fish Limited (F & F), who claimed damages after the Steve Irwin crew rescued about 800 illegally caught bluefin tuna from F & F nets in June 2010. Despite legal troubles, with your support the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society will continue to defend life in our oceans by protecting endangered marine life. — Global Animal
Guardian UK, Severin Carrell
The flagship for the environmental group Sea Shepherd was expected to set sail from Shetland on Wednesday morning after it paid £520,000 into court to secure its release.
The Steve Irwin had been detained in Shetland more than two weeks ago after a Maltese company, Fish and Fish, raised an action for damages against the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society in a dispute over its direct action against the firm’s bluefin tuna fishery last year.
The SSCS was ordered to deposit a bond of £520,000 by the court of session in Edinburgh on Tuesday, less than the sum originally sought by the firm: it is suing Sea Shepherd for $1.2m (£736,000) in damages and had sought £660,000 in security for the vessel.
There were significant fears that the ship, originally a Scottish government fishery protection vessel, may have had to be sold because the group would be unable to raise the money required.
The Steve Irwin, named after the Australian conservationist killed by a stingray in 2006, had been in Lerwick, the Shetland capital, before taking part in demonstrations against the Faroe Islands’ annual pilot whale cull. The 40 campaigners on board the vessel hope to resume that action by joining its sister ship, the Brigitte Bardot, in Faroese waters this week.
Speaking from Sydney, Australia, Paul Watson, the group’s founder, said he was confident the group would get their bond returned. He hopes to fly to Shetland on Friday to board the ship by helicopter.
“The bond has been paid, so the ship will seek port clearance in the morning and sail for the Faroe Islands,” he said.
He added that he was encouraged by the response the protesters had received from Faroese islanders.
“The Faroese have not been killing any whales while the Brigitte Bardot has been there. We are making quite a bit of progress by talking to people. I find there is quite a lot of support for our position in the Faroes,” he said.
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Fish and Fish lodged its court action after Sea Shepherd released about 800 bluefin tuna from nets off Libya in 2010 because, the conservation group said, the Maltese firm was illegally fishing. The firm accused Sea Shepherd activists of injuring two crew after violent confrontations.
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Felix Baumgartner reacts after his mission was aborted in Roswell, N.M., on Tuesday. / Joerg Mitter, Red Bull Stratos
UPDATE: Felix Baumgartner successfully completed his space jump, a 24-mile skydive.
USA TODAY's Marco R. della Cava has the details:
Sky adventurer Felix Baumgartner completed a 24-mile skydive Sunday, wrapping up a five-year effort to shatter a world record set 52 years ago.
A 30 million-cubic-foot helium balloon hoisted a 3,000-pound capsule carrying Baumgartner toward an adventure that was postponed Monday and Tuesday -- and for a few hours today -- due to high winds.
Today's date is significant: On Oct. 14, 1947, pilot Chuck Yaeger broke the sound barrier for the first time in an aircraft. As Baumgartner heads up, the only voice in his ear is that of retired Air Force Col. Joe Kittinger, 84, his mentor on this Red Bull Stratos project and the holder of the record the Austrian is trying to beat.
Felix Baumgartner will once again attempt to break the world record for the highest, and fastest free fall in history on Sunday, Oct. 14.
During his fall from 23 miles up in space he would break the speed of sound. He will do this with the help of a 3,000-pound capsule and a high-tech suit.
The best part: You can watch the space jump from this live stream.
For background on the project, read this feature on Felix Baumgartner from USA TODAY's Marco R. della Cava. Here's a snippet:
The jump was postponed on Monday and Tuesday because of unexpected winds. Baumgartner has been working his way up to this world record jump from the edge of space for the past few years, twice running into speed bumps.
Austrian promoter Daniel Hogan derailed the first mission when he sued Red Bull Stratos -- the Austrian energy drink that is sponsoring Baumgartner's attempt â?? claiming he'd thought of the idea first. That suit was settled out of court last summer.
The other hiccup was more serious. Unaccustomed to freefalling while confined by a helmet and cumbersome suit, Baumgartner started suffering panic attacks and pulled himself off the project. He overcame his fears with the help of a sports psychologist.
"It was simple stuff," Baumgartner told USA TODAY in August after making his final test jump -- from nearly 100,000 feet -- outside the desert town of Roswell, N.M. "I'd put on a helmet and tell him, from one to 10, how panicked I felt. And in the end, no matter what the number was, he told me my pulse rate never changed. So it was all in my head."
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A selection of articles related to kinsmen.
Original articles from our library related to the Kinsmen. See Table of Contents for further available material (downloadable resources) on Kinsmen.
- King James Bible: Romans, Chapter 16
- Chapter 16 16:1 I commend unto you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea: 16:2 That ye receive her in the Lord, as becometh saints, and that ye assist her in whatsoever business she hath need of you: for she hath been a...
New Testament >> Epistle to the Romans
- King James Bible: Luke, Chapter 14
- Chapter 14 14:1 And it came to pass, as he went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees to eat bread on the sabbath day, that they watched him. 14:2 And, behold, there was a certain man before him which had the dropsy. 14:3 And Jesus answering spake unto...
New Testament >> Luke
- King James Bible: Acts, Chapter 10
- Chapter 10 10:1 There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian band, 10:2 A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway. 10:3 He saw in a...
New Testament >> The Acts
- King James Bible: Romans, Chapter 9
- Chapter 9 9:1 I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, 9:2 That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. 9:3 For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my...
New Testament >> Epistle to the Romans
- Fehu is the first rune of the 24-rune Elder Futhark, and the first rune of the first aett. Fehu is the reconstructed Old Germanic name of this rune, which as its initial sound suggests, has the phonetic value of "F." It is known as Fe in Old Norse,...
Divination >> Rune Stones
Kinsmen is described in multiple online sources, as addition to our editors' articles, see section below for printable documents, Kinsmen books and related discussion.
Suggested Pdf Resources
- Shield My Kinsmen
- Shield My Kinsmen by Wyndreth Berginsdottir, arr. John Chandler. Copyright 漏 2000 by Aaron Pavao.
- The Two Noble Kinsmen
- The Two Noble Kinsmen is essentially an adaptation of Chaucer's. Knight's Tale. In this story, the two kinsmen are Palamon and.
- ROBERT WILLAN AND HIS KINSMEN
- Medical History, 1981, 25: 181-196. ROBERT WILLAN AND HIS KINSMEN by. CHRISTOPHER C.
- Two Noble Kinsmen
- Two Noble Kinsmen. Jailer's Daughter. Let all the Dukes, and all the devils roar,.
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- Shakespeare's 'Two Noble Kinsmen' a pleasant surprise to find — and watch
- Lee A. Butz - Spencer Plachy (left) and Thomas Matthew Kelley portray cousins who are best friends — and in jail together — in 'The Two Noble Kinsmen' at the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival.
- Children have fun at Camp Maple Leaf
- This summer, 35 Kingston children have been funded to attend it by the local Kinsmen Club. Hanes, a local realtor, is a member of the Kinsmen. "All kids should be able to go to camp," he said.
- How Sam Loco's kinsmen saw his death
- By Gabriel Enogholase It was the great English playwright, William Sheaspare in his famous work, “Julius Caesar” who declared that”when beggars die, there are no Comet seen, but the heavens blaze themselves upon the death of Princes.
- Honouring Fallen Soldiers
- The portrait, that was painted by Dave Sopha from an Ontario Kinsmen Club, features all of the 156 solider's who have died in the conflict.
- Syrian protesters win support of Iraqi kinsmen
- QAIM, Iraq — Along Iraq's western frontier, Syria's unrest is stoking local sympathies and security fears in a Sunni Muslim heartland where Iraqis share strong tribal loyalties with their Syrian kin.
Suggested Web Resources
- Kinsman | Define Kinsman at Dictionary.com
- /ˈkɪnz mən/ Show Spelled[kinz-muh n] Show IPA. noun, plural -men. 1.
- Kinsman - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster
- <to protect the family honor, he sought to revenge the murder of his kinsman>. First Known Use of KINSMAN. 12th century.
- Home | Kinsmen Lutheran Church
- Before & After School Kinsmen · Preschool/Mother's Day Out · Staff · Leadership · Capital Campaign. News & Media.
- Kinsman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- A kinsman is a male relative (see kinship). The term Kinsman (or plural Kinsmen) may also refer to: Look up kinsman in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
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- Poster: Varsity Debate, Manchester vs. Depauw. Affirmative, Ralph Lawson, Keith Jones, Paul Kinsel. Judge - Professor J. H. McBurney, University of Michigan.
- Topic of debate - "Why should we build the St. Lawrence Seaway Canal? 28 February (year not included).
- Poster: "The Senior Class of Manchester College Presents "Death Takes a Holiday," A Comedy in Three Acts by Alberto Casella, Direted by Sadie Wampler, 6 May (year not included).
- A program from "Death Takes A Holiday," gives the date as 6 May 1932. Paul Kinsel is listed on the Properties crew.
- The program for MC Spring Recital 26 May 1931. Listed are Leonard Blickenstaff, Ruth Bechtelheimer, Cathryn Weddle, Doris Kester, Edna Eberhart, Max Allen, Lester Hostetler and Walter Weck, Mildred Jollief, Cleo Moudy and Lois Ulmer.
File Folder #1:
- Manchester Bulletin, Commencement Number, May 1942, Vol. 34, No. 205.
- L. D. Ikenberry Award.
- President Schwalm and Dr. Cordier attended a conference under the auspices of the Federal Council of Churches.
- "From the M.C. Boys in Service," (this includes Contientious Objectors as well as those serving in the military. They are from various MC Classes) Basil Thompson, Bill Byerly, Glen Quivey, Tom Jones, Howard Hillis, Bob Browning, Ed Forney, Bob Gingher, Ralph Townsend (hookworm project), Robert Krippner, Edwin Keller, Winfield Berry, Ralph Kinsley, Paul Weaver, Forrest Bevington, Wilbur Long, Jerald Noffsinger.
File Folder #2:
Colored postcard of Men's Home (Ikenberry Hall).
Panoramic postcard (folded in order to mail) of the MC campus.
Men's Student Government Offense card. "Report to president of Student Government within 24 hours after receiving this card."
Manchester College Debate Schedule, 1930. Professor George Beauchamp in charge of debate.
Questions: That the United States should without awaitng international action adopt a policy of complete disarmament.
That a Great Lakes to the Ocean Waterway for ocean-going vessels should be constructed through the St. Lawrence by way of Montreal.
International Festivities Thirteenth Annual May Day, 6 May 1932 program booklet with pictures of May Queen, Mildred Meyer, and Maid of Honor, Susan Haynes. Other participants are Marjorie Wasmuth, Laura McIntire, Mildred Bailey, mary Ellen Jackson, Joy Reiff, Mayno Zumbrun, Ruth Wenger and Naomi Wenger. Child attendants are Mary Emma Miller, John Howard Keim and Dorotha Winger.
Booklet, "Constitution and By-Laws of Philophronian Literary Society,"
Class Excuse Blank excusing Glady Kinsley from history 1 on 4 May for reason of a "sick headache."
Class Excuse Blank excusing Martha Kurtz from History because of sickness on Apil 28, One blank excuse form.
"Study Home Economics at Manchester College," an illustrated brochure.
File Folder #3:
Manchester Collge handbook, 1931 - 1932. Paul W. Kinsel title page written by hand.
Handbook, 1930 - 1931.
Manchester College Football Schedule, 1931.
File Folder #4:
Educational Materials from American Education Press, Inc. addressed to Paul W. Kinsel at Manchsetr College. One 8cent stamp and one 2 cent stamp on envelope. Watch for hidden pocket.
File Folder #5:
Publication Segments: Printed but partially cut segments from publications, probalby the Aurora. Included is a segment from "the Aurora for 193." Printed inserts of artwork.
File Folder #6:
J. Raymond Schutz promotional. Raymond Schutz was seeking the nomination to Congress from the New Fifth District of Indiana, 1932. See quotes on the interior such as this one;
"The greatest single problem in America today i unemployment. We must get thee eight million unemployed persons back to work!"
File Folder #7:
Small poster for "Men's Glee Club of Manchester College." The men featured are Fornan, Kinsel, Stine, Pattengale, Halladay Snook, Weck, Nehr, Gerdes, Collins, Green, Faudree, Emerick, Mangus, Kelley, Noffsinger Throne, Kinzie and Nicholson.
"Oak Leaves," 14 January 1932. Headlines include:
"Debate Tourney to Start Soon."
"Maude Willis, Dramatic Artist, Miss Willis Here Saturday Night."
"Shively Visits President Hoover." Student Ernest Shively visited President Hoover and Senator Borah as part of a group of 30 students from national universities and collges regresenting the Buffalo Convention and the Intercollegiate council for Disarmament.
Biological Sepcimens Moved and Treated. This article is about the mastodon bones that are being more greatly preserved.
File Folder #8:
Newspaper article, "College Boys to Talk Peace Here Sunday." The article says that "The sponsor of the club and coach of tean which will come here is Dr. A. W. Cordier, who is a recognized authority on international relations and who has himself spoken in Van Buren on previous occasions." Paul Kinsel is higlighted as "some of the best talent of the Internaional Club," along with Keith Jones.
Newspaper article,"Wheaton Lashes Around End for a Touchdown."
Alumni Directory, October 1940.
Manchester College Bulletin, Summer Number, Review of 1930-1931, Information for 1931-1932. Some features include -
- J. Raymond Schutz elected president of the Indiana Sunday School Association for the year 1930-1931. The year before he was governor of the Indiana Kiwanis District.
- ...November 4. Rev. and Mrs. A. D. Helzer were returning for another term of service in India. They were leaving their little duaghter, Esther Mae, with Prof. and Mrs. Paul Halladay. Mrs. Helser could not speak but all knew the sacrifice she was making. Mr. Helser, with his ususal zeal and earnestness, made his appeal that few of us will ever forget. The presence of Esther Mae with us will do much to quicken our zeal in missions.
- Dr. and Mrs. Andrew Cordier and son returned, April 13, from a ten months stay and travel in Europe...
- Miss Kathryn Wright, the Junior poet of Manchetser College, has recently won the distinction of having one of her poems included in the new volume "The Best College Verse" published by Harper Brothers....The title of her poem is "Not only in the Wood Domremy."...
- Many vignettes into the lives of faculty and staff and students.
Schedule of Manchester College, Spring Term 1931-1932.
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Celebration Learning Process for All
by Howard W. Hewitt
January 30, 2009
The ninth Celebration of Student Research, Scholarship, and Creative Work often has students looking at their own research and projects differently than before. With classes canceled for the afternoon, trustees, students, faculty, and staff enjoyed more than 75 projects and presentations in Detchon Hall.
See photo albums here, here, and here.
Art Major Nick Roudebush ‘09 is accustomed to talking about his art. But during the Celebration, he was focused on explaining two kilns he had built to be more eco-friendly than the traditional kilns which cause environmental concerns.
"Whenever people come over here I want to talk about my project and talk about my concept and my philosophy," he said. "But I have narrowed it down to talk about process and the implications of the process. It’s been difficult not to talk about my art."
But it’s also a learning process, Roudebush added. One of the two kilns was built from reclaimed firebricks he collected from Crawfordsville’s old brick factory, Standard Brick. That project drew the eye of Wabash Trustee Peter Kennedy III '68 who visited with the Cicero, Indiana, senior.
"He made a connection to the glass business," Roudebush said. "And he built his house out of reclaimed bricks like I collected; his entire house is made out of them. I learned more than he did."
The Celebration seems to be as much about learning as it is process.
"I come away with new ideas and new thoughts from our students," said Daryl Johnson ’82 and a member of the Board of Trustees. "And I learn about what’s happening here at Wabash College. It takes me to a different level. Instead of just working every day and learning about things at my home and about my own profession, I learn how these students are growing and taking their education to another level."
He added the projects are "amazing, and as a matter of fact scary" at the brilliance of some of the work.
The exciting work also builds enthusiasm in the students for things that matter. As they labor through the research they develop a passion for their topics.
Michal Opieczonek presented "El Coraz€n Del Estudiante (The Heart of the Student): My Great Experiences in San Cristobal, Chiapas, Mexico" He shared his experiences working with a non-profit organization helping educate 10-18 year olds.
"We often get caught up in the race for achievement and material things," the senior said. "We need to stop and appreciate the things we have." He encouraged the audience to "try to benefit the world using your advantages and talents."
That enthusiasm and excitement for the scholarship make the faculty proud, even those in their first year at Wabash.
First year Professor of Psychology Eric Olofson was surprised and pleased how well the event was attended. "It's nice to see the students are invested in each other's work," he said. "I thought there would only be student presenters here but I talked to a few students here just to see what others are doing. I'm impressed with the level of engagement of our students."
In photos: Upper right, Kennedy and Roudebush discuss reclaimed bricks. Center left, Johnson chats with Dr. Don Shelbourne '72 and his son Brian '12. Lower right, Michael Opieczonek
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A bail bond service provides a confidential source of funds for your bail. The services of a bail bond agent can prevent you from going to friends, family, banks, and other financial sources to obtain the bail amount. Using a bail bondsman allows you to complete the paperwork in one sitting. This prevents headaches and allows you to focus on your defense. You can easily determine and sign over collateral items at one time. It prevents the need to transfer funds at a numerous financial institutions. The bonding services allow you to maintain some control over your circumstances and the information regarding the charges pending against you. Bond agents work in your corner to gain you release as soon as possible. Although confidentiality is not guaranteed by the code of ethics, most bond agents use discretion. The bondsman should provide complete disclosure of the bond process and release advice while an attorney is present if possible. For additional information on bail bond agent confidentiality, contact a bail bondsman.
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When I joined Peace Corps, I thought I had it all figured out. I did my due research, spoke to current and returned volunteers, and attended Peace Corps information sessions… I thought I knew all the answers. But nothing can prepare you for that moment you walk off the plane and all of a sudden you are thrust into a new world, different culture and language, and a whole new way of life. Looking back on it now, I realize that nothing can fully or truly prepare you for the “realities” of your service. I was ready to hit the ground running, I had so many project ideas and things to offer but quickly I realized the virtue and value of patience.
There is no possible way in Peace Corps service to rush into projects. It takes the building of trust and relationships, understanding the needs of your host organization before you can truly begin your work. Many volunteers before me said, it will take 5-8 months before you really get started. I thought it could have been quicker for me, but then, as I got to site, understood the virtues of that patience and why it can take so long. Peace Corps is build on the foundation of sustainability, that projects must last beyond the lifecycle of the volunteer. That means waiting, taking the time to figure out the true needs of an organization and how they want to approach a project. It is an exercise of patience and trust, but one
of the most important you will ever have.
Looking back on an email I sent when I first got to site, I had these grand dreams and elaborate visions for what I could and wanted to achieve. Sure, they definitely still hold true, there is a lot I want to accomplish, but after 5 months I have realized it is not my directive but my organizations that will drive what I will accomplish. Let me be clear though, Peace Corps is built very much on a self-starter foundation, meaning you may or may not have direct contact with your supervisor on a regular basis. Peace Corps check-ins are monthly via phone and usually annually in person. So, you are your own advocate, job-maker. Both Peace Corps and your organization expect you to take the initiative to find your work and how to fulfill your work plan, so you must be a self-starter.
Small becomes big. By this I mean, in my first 5 months at site, I have done a lot of projects of various different sizes. However, to date, I wouldn’t yet call any of my projects “major” as it takes that Peace Corps patience and determination to keep them driving and moving forward to sustain. They are often not big, because these smaller scale projects give me the opportunity and chance to understand my host organization, how they operate, and how I can fit into the picture. And most importantly, they are small because they are needed. Many of the projects I have accomplished so far have been critical in the daily or overall operations of the organization, they are very necessary and a great way of building a foundation for bigger projects. More than projects, Peace Corps is about building relationships and the initial process is just that. These projects have allowed me to get to know not only my organization better but also the people in it.
That patience can be a challenge as much as a virtue. You are a Peace Corps volunteer 24/7 for 27 full months and that patience extends to all aspects of Peace Corps life. This includes the social life. When you are placed in an unfamiliar land and different culture, it takes a large effort to understand how the culture operates and that can be a challenging experience. It can be difficult to meet people, build a level of trust and subsequently friendship. There is a chart of emotions during service, and I remember looking at it and within the first year, there is a feeling of loneliness and isolation component that fits perfectly in the “emotional rollercoaster” that is Peace Corps. It happens to the best of volunteers, and when you experience it you aren’t alone. Whether you are in a rural town or big city, the initial transition can be a challenge. Beyond the isolation, that patience can lead to boredom. What do you do with the extra free time? It takes a creative mind to find that outlet, whatever it may be. But in the end, it only makes you stronger. You realize what you can do, that you can talk to almost anybody, and gives you a newfound self-confidence.
I saw that the first of next year’s batch has begun to receive their invitations to serve in Peace Corps Philippines next year. So I naturally was drawn back to my pre-service days and where I am now…and what the difference is between then and now. So I think I have found the difference is not much, I knew going in patience would be the biggest virtue and it is keeping that mentality and knowledge that the best things are yet to come that drives the work I keep doing. There is also a weird feeling that I soon will no longer be the newbie, transcending into the veteran, a role that is both scary yet embraced. Do I know enough now that I can instill into my future co-volunteers? I like to think so, but every service is so different and every day so different you continue to learn things about volunteering and yourself that you are different from the beginning than you will be at the completion of service. So as a volunteer that answer will continue to change as you learn more, but in the meantime: yes, I know enough that supporting and encouraging your fellow volunteers, being the Peace Corps Philippines volunteer family is what drives and sustains us through the two years, because no matter how different our services may be, we are all in it together.
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California's vote on a controversial cigarette tax remained too close to call Wednesday morning, although votes counted so far suggest it was narrowly rejected.
California voters Tuesday will decide on Proposition 29, a proposed tax on cigarettes that spiraled into a $60 million battle
Federal health officials on Thursday are unveiling a $54 million national media campaign to get smokers to quit and prevent anyone else, especially children, from starting.
El doctor Baffi nos habla de lo factores que pueden aumentar el riesgo de padecer cáncer de cuello uterino.
Q: The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force is releasing new guidelines on cervical cancer screenings. What's changed?
In my 20s, after my doctor performed a laparoscopy to examine my uterus and ovaries, he gave me a videotape of the procedure. I dubbed it "Madame Ovary," threw a party and screened it for my friends.
President Obama talks about his struggle to quit smoking in an ad campaign by the American Cancer Society.
The recent news that a group of highly respected medical experts, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, is considering advising against routine prostate cancer screening shouldn't have come as too much of a surprise to anybody.
As fall descends and there's an autumn chill in the air, the behemoth of all sports months takes flight. Which only brings to mind one thing ... pink?
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recently announced that it is no longer recommending prostate cancer screening for men.
Dr. Otis Brawley of the American Cancer Society sits down with CNN's Randi Kaye to discuss new and surprising data.
Stepped-up colon-cancer screening has helped slash death rates from the disease across the U.S. in recent years, but not all regions of the country have benefited equally.
2010: Dr. Mehmet Oz talks to CNN's Larry King about his colon cancer scare and the need to screen for the disease.
Sitting too much will probably shorten your life.
February: A new study suggest that an annual PSA test may not be necessary for men.
Men with prostate cancer who are cigarette smokers at the time of their diagnosis are much more likely to die of the disease or experience a recurrence than nonsmokers, including former smokers who kicked the habit at least 10 years before diagnosis.
I have inflammatory breast cancer and I have been through chemo and a double mastectomy. They found active cancer cells so the cancer has spread. The oncologist said she didn't think there was anything more they could do for me. I start radiation soon but she didn't think that that would be very helpful either. Is there anything out there that may help me?
Johnson and Johnson will partner with Massachusetts General Hospital to develop and market a blood test that could find a single cancer cell circulating in a person's blood, the company said Monday.
Every year, according to the World Health Organization, noncommunicable diseases such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes and chronic obstructive lung disease claim 35 million lives worldwide.
If you're a woman in your 40s, you probably remember how checking the health of your breasts became a point of national contention last year.
Is there anything currently in trials for the treatment of acute myelogenous leukemia that can help my father, who has had triple-bypass surgery and is 81 years old?
Hopefully viewers of Mad Men have calmed down from the rollercoaster of Sunday's season finale by now. While the big questions will keep us in suspense for season five, Fortune has your answers on the brands of the last episodes. (Catch up with our highlights of the first three seasons' brands in Mad Men is back, and so is product placement, and the earlier episodes from this season in Mountain Dew and Mad Men: The stories behind the pitches.)
Is it really worth it to get a mammogram? Should I be getting mammograms?
Cancer researchers announced Tuesday that cancer costs the global economy nearly $900 billion a year -- more than any other cause of death.
I had a hysterectomy for multiple non-cancerous tumors and kept my ovaries. I am 47. Do I still need Pap smears? I do not take hormones.
A vaccine that could help people stop smoking is showing promise in early clinical trials, researchers announced this week at a national meeting of addiction specialists.
The benefits of fruits and vegetables in staving off cancer exist, but they're not as strong as previously believed, a new study reports.
Most men 50 and older should seriously consider the potential risks of treatment before deciding whether to be screened for prostate cancer, the American Cancer Society said Wednesday in revised guidelines.
This week, the American Cancer Society releases updated prostate cancer screening guidelines. The guidelines say "men should discuss the uncertainties, risks and possible benefits of screening for prostate cancer before deciding whether to be tested."
New cancer cases and mortality rates linked to the disease have fallen significantly in recent years for almost all gender and ethnic groups in the United States, researchers said Monday.
I am at risk of rectal cancer because of my orientation and not able to find reliable info. Where can I go to actually get the true information about this? And where can I go to get free publications? Any info would be great, as I am hearing that this is on the rise.
Changes to two important screening guidelines for women this week. CNN's Elizabeth Cohen sorts it out.
It's been a confusing week for women.
CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta takes a look at new guidelines for cervical cancer screenings.
The new mammogram recommendations out earlier this week caused quite an uproar. Now comes another change in screening tests for women -- this one for cervical cancer.
The fallout continues after a federal task force changed guidelines on mammograms. CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta weighs in.
Breast cancer surgeons, cancer organizations and even the White House are expressing concern about new screening recommendations issued by the United States Preventive Services Task Force.
Advocacy groups disagree with new guidelines about mammograms for women in their 40s. CNN's Elizabeth Cohen reports.
A vacation to Washington nearly a decade ago led to a life-changing revelation for Kathi Cordsen. Passing by a breast cancer awareness event, her mother blurted it out: Her doctor had just confirmed that she had breast cancer.
Women in their 40s should not get routine mammograms for early detection of breast cancer, according to updated guidelines set forth by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.
We know that obesity causes heart problems but it also is linked to higher cancer rates. Elizabeth Cohen reports.
More than 100,000 cases of cancer each year are caused by excess body fat, according to a report released Thursday in Washington.
At my teenage son's recent visit to the pediatrician, he was advised to check his testicles regularly. Is this necessary? I don't remember being told this when I was growing up.
Women at high risk of breast cancer can often lower that risk by taking medication, including drugs like tamoxifen or the osteoporosis drug raloxifene (Evista).
Women who use hormone therapy after menopause may be at a higher risk of ovarian cancer, and the risk remains elevated for up to two years after women stop taking estrogen, a new study says.
The news that one of America's TV icons is suffering from cancer brought sadness. Learning the type of cancer she had made some squeamish.
A cancerous tumor in 13-year-old Danny Hauser's chest has shrunk significantly since he was ordered by a court last month to resume chemotherapy treatment, a family spokesman said.
The death rate due to cancer has declined in the United States in recent years, largely due to better prevention and treatment. In fact, 650,000 lives were spared from cancer between 1990 to 2005, according to new statistics from the American Cancer Society.
Cancer patients may be able to fight chemotherapy-induced nausea using a common pantry spice -- ginger.
Is it necessary to have a colonoscopy when you're over age 50?
Smoking is a lot like Russian roulette: You never know who will end up developing lung cancer and who won't. But Dr. Jian-Min Yuan, as well as other researchers from the University of Minnesota, say they are one step closer to determining a smoker's risk for developing the disease. In a study, they tracked the carcinogen and nicotine levels in nearly 500 smokers through a simple urine test and discovered a link between the level of a specific carcinogen and lung cancer. Their findings were presented at the American Association for Cancer Research conference.
Scientists are one step closer to developing a test that could reveal a smoker's risk of developing lung cancer.
I quit smoking two months ago with the help of Chantix. However, I seem to cough more now than than when I was smoking. Is this normal for people who have smoked for 20 years? I feel much better overall, but I am a little concerned that maybe emphysema might be setting in.
A decade-long study following more than 75,000 men found that prostate cancer screenings led to more diagnoses but did not reduce the number of deaths from the illness.
Attention, libation lovers: Middle-aged women who indulge in just a few alcohol-containing drinks each day may have a higher risk of cancer than those who drink less often, according to a report released Tuesday in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
Cancer was once assumed to be a death sentence because the disease was often incurable, but a new survey suggests the crisis for many today is paying for available treatments.
Previous studies suggested that taking certain vitamins might lower the risk of getting prostate cancer. However, two new studies published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that men taking these supplements were just as likely to develop prostate cancer as those who weren't taking them.
Age-related macular degeneration is a baby-boomer disease that, according to the American Medical Association, affects more than 10 million Americans. It is one of the leading causes of blindness for people over age 65. A study published in the July 2007 issue of Archives of Ophthalmology found that current smokers are four times more likely to develop this eye problem than nonsmokers.
Vitamins are important for good health. Now, doctors are touting the benefits of vitamin D. Is this the new fabulous vitamin of the 21st century or just another supplement?
My name is Otis W. Brawley, M.D. I am an oncologist or cancer doctor.
CNN's Judy Fortin explains a new report showing that cancer may soon be the leading cause of death worldwide.
Twenty-seven million new cancer cases are expected by 2030, according to a report released Tuesday by the World Health Organization's cancer research agency.
Men who want to reduce their prostate cancer risk shouldn't bother popping antioxidant vitamins and supplements, according to two of the largest trials ever conducted on vitamins and cancer prevention.
Rates of new cancer diagnoses and deaths for U.S. men and women have fallen for the first time, according to a new report from leading cancer and medical research organizations.
Many colon cancer patients aren't getting the screenings recommended after surgery to make sure the disease hasn't returned, new research shows
Remember peeking through a View-Master? Scientists are using the same concept behind the classic kids' toy to try to see mammograms in 3-D
Let's face it: There's no body part women obsess about more than breasts -- their size, shape, sag factor, and whether those strange pains stem from monthly PMS hormones or something more ominous, like breast cancer.
U.S. cancer deaths rose by more than 5,000 in 2005, a somewhat disappointing reversal of a two-year downward trend, the American Cancer Society reported
CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports on a new study that shows the uninsured are more likely to die of cancer within 5 years.
New efforts are made to curb smoking on college campuses. CNN's Judy Fortin reports.
When 19-year-old Reid Overton wants to smoke a cigarette on his college campus, he has to walk to a distant parking lot and get into his car, but he doesn't seem to mind. "Even as a smoker, I don't like to walk past a cloud of smoke," he says.
Progress against colorectal cancer has helped lower cancer death rates in Americans. CNN's Elizabeth Cohen reports.
The American Cancer Society is devoting its entire $15 million advertising budget for 2007 to highlight the problems faced by Americans who don't have any or enough health insurance.
Thousands more lung cancer patients each year could be offered surgery or other aggressive therapy under a new system that classifies many tumors as more treatable than in the past.
Myth No. 1: A suntan's fine, as long as you don't burn.
Healthy women should begin getting mammograms every year or two once they reach age 40, experts say. Here are tips from the American Cancer Society and other experts:
The American Cancer Society is recommending MRIs in addition to mammograms for certain women considered to be at unusually high risk for breast cancer. Here are more details:
As Congress gets set to readdress a small-business health care bill, proponents and critics begin to sharpen their swords.
There's plenty of fear about cancer, but a new American Cancer Society poll found more than a third of Americans surveyed -- 36 percent -- believe they have little or no control over reducing their risk for getting the disease.
The American Cancer Society estimates that more than 560,000 Americans died from cancer-related causes in 2006. Some cancers are preventable, and people can cut their risk by maintaining some positive health steps.
Anyone who's had a loved one die of lung cancer has probably asked, why isn't there a way to screen for that disease? Especially as National Breast Cancer Awareness Month winds down, millions of Americans have been reminded that mammograms save lives. If it works for breast cancer, why can't something like that be done for the No. 1 cancer killer?
The American Cancer Society said Thursday that keeping weight under control is the most important thing non-smokers can do to prevent the disease.
This week brought more evidence that obesity increases the risk of breast cancer.
You just turned 40, or maybe 45. And while you don't exactly feel different, you've begun to sense that on matters of health, it's time to keep your eye on the ball in a whole new way.
When cancer first touched my life in 1984, there were no pink ribbons, no 5K races for "the cure" and few support groups to rely upon. Cancer was the kind of word you whispered and prayed didn't strike your family.
Melissa Etheridge's powerful performance at the 2005 Grammy Awards rocked and resonated with the thousands in attendance and millions more watching on television. Her distinctive voice and hard-strummed guitar echoed throughout the hall, as did her energy.
Cholesterol lowering drugs called 'statins' may play a role in colorectal cancer prevention, according to a new study presented at a major cancer conference Sunday.
As amazing as the quality of medical care is in this country, our health system is still far from perfect. Way too many people throw money at unproven treatments; others lack access to essential me...
Coronary heart disease kills almost six times more women than breast cancer does. Even so, if you ask a woman what disease she's most afraid of, her answer will likely be breast cancer.
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Stress is a popular topic. So's prostate cancer. But the thing most of my patients want to talk about is diet. They've all got friends who've lost 20 pounds in two weeks on a steak and bacon-and-eg...
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ROSS PEROT is giving away his $2.5-billion fortune. He says it is all going to charity, ''the best and highest use.'' Over the past two decades he has parted with more than $100 million, and in the...
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Information and discussion on all aspects of British photographic history
Paper negative, 10-1/8 x 13-1/2 in. (257 x 343 mm), 1851c/1851c, unmounted. #6525.
An other-worldly image. Is it Fontainebleau or the moon? A magical image of moss and grass covered rocks. This image came from an important group of paper negatives. The rest of this group is now in the Herzog collection. The process appears to be Le Gray process waxed paper negative. It is probably not by Le Gray himself, but perhaps by one of his students, such as J.B. Greene.
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Scientists have raised an aviation alert level around a remote Alaskan volcano after a small eruption produced an ash cloud several miles high.
Cleveland Volcano, on the Aleutian Islands southwest of mainland Alaska, erupted briefly Tuesday afternoon, creating an ash cloud at an estimated height of 23,000 feet above sea level, said Steve McNutt, a volcano seismologist at the Alaska Volcano Observatory and the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
The observatory raised its color-coded alert for aviators to orange, the second-most serious of four levels, and warned on its website that "additional sudden explosions of blocks and ash are possible with little or no warning."
No activity was detected Wednesday, but the alert remained at orange, the observatory said.
A more serious eruption, especially one that spews ash above 30,000 feet, could affect air travel. McNutt said 95% of air freight between Asia and North America and between Asia and Europe flies over Alaskan airspace. Also, passenger flights take about 20,000 passengers over Alaskan airspace daily, he said.
Tuesday's cloud appeared to dissipate after about two hours, McNutt said, citing satellite images.
The volcano makes up the western half of uninhabited Chuginadak Island, part of the Aleutian Island chain in the Bering Sea. It is about 45 miles west of Nikolski and 940 miles southwest of Anchorage.
The alert level has bounced between orange and the lower step, yellow, several times in the past year. The observatory last issued an orange alert in late March, when satellite images showed a lava dome had formed in the summit crater.
The volcano's most recent significant eruption happened in February 2001, with three explosions that led to ash clouds as high as 7.5 miles above sea level, according to the observatory. The volcano's elevation is 5,676 feet.
Last year, volcanic ash from Iceland's Grimsvotn Volcano forced the cancellation of hundreds of flights across Europe.
The Grimsvotn eruption came about 13 months after Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull Volcano put ash and smoke into the sky, forcing the cancellation of thousands of flights per day during the peak of the problem.
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TIS enjoys first Science Olympiad team competition | News
The Science Olympiad team at Thompson Intermediate School recently competed in two Science Olympiad competitions. This is the first year TIS has participated in the Science Olympiad program. The 25 students on the team were required to take a test to try out, and the top scoring students were awarded a spot on the team.
The group is lead by fifth grade teacher, Holly Richardson. They meet every Wednesday after school, where the students prepare to participate in both academic and hands-on events by practicing with their partners.
The team has participated in two competitions this year. Each time, TIS was the only team to be participating in the competition for the first time. On February 9, the students traveled to Auburn University for their first competition where they placed fourth among 30 other participating teams.
Daniel Diaz and Abby Malkove received a fourth place medal for “Leaf and Tree Finder”; Jada Cooper and Patrick Fitch received a fifth place ribbon for “Don’t Bug Me”; and Caleah Williams and Ivy Peoples received a sixth place ribbon for “Large Number Estimation.”
Students competed for the second time on February 23 at Jacksonville High School. There were 33 teams and over 700 students Asher Smith and James DeBlock won 1st place in Weather or Not. AJ Oliff and Hope Smith won 5th place in Deep Blue Sea. Caleah Williams and Abby Malkove won 6th place in Triple Play.
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It’s been six months since we planted the first of our urban garden. Since then, we’ve expanded a little; the backyard is now home to all the original herbs–rosemary, parsley, thyme, cilantro, and oregano–in addition to the original broccoli heads. In February, we purchased lemon and lime trees, roma tomato plants, Italian basil, and Thai basil. We had to show up bright and early at the nursery and elbow all the old people out of the way to get to the tomatoes and basil–those things sell like hotcakes. We were happy to get our hands on some but ended up destroying so many of them anyway. So here are the lessons learned during the first six months of our brown-thumb urban gardening.
TOP 5 BROWN-THUMB LESSONS LEARNED IN THE FIRST SIX MONTHS
- Lesson #5: Don’t plant your lemon and lime trees in terracotta pots. Terracotta clay is too hot for the heat of Houston summers and will likely burn the roots of your trees. We learned this only after we already bought the terracotta pots and planted our dwarf lemon and lime trees in them. All other pots were either ugly or too expensive so we left our trees in them with the hopes that excessive watering will keep the roots cool. (Who said trees can’t be fashionable?) Too bad we are probably not watering them as often as we should. The curse of a lazy gardener.
- Lesson #4: Give your tomatoes plenty of room because those suckers are wild. The roma tomatoes were rampant which you think would be a good thing, but we used weak bamboo sticks to hold up the vines a la zip ties, and the result is a crazy looking mess. Better to buy tomato cages and give the tomatoes plenty of space. We planted our Thai and Italian basil too close to the tomatoes, and now the crazy tomato vines have overshadowed the basil and stunted their growth.
- Lesson #3: Make sure you use the right ratio of soil-to-fertilizer for each plant. In other words, check the chemical levels of the soil and fertilizer used because different plants require different ratios. The Black Kow fertilizer was fine for the herbs but virtually burnt our tomatoes. The tomato plant bore scores of little tomatoes but they all had burnt black bottoms, a result of too much nitrogen in their diet, I believe. (Please correct me if I’m wrong.)
- Lesson #2: Watch your dogs very carefully. My delinquent dogs have been eating all my Thai basil. I didn’t even know until I smelled it all over their breath. Why couldn’t you dogs at least eat the parsley which is better for your breath and more plentiful anyway? I haven’t even had a taste of my Thai basil because they’ve all gone in my dogs’s tummies! And to think I blamed it all on the crazy tomatoes.
- Lesson #1: Don’t be lazy about watering. The problem with the Houston heat is it truly makes one lazy. It’s so hot and humid outside–we’ve already hit a record-breaking 100 degrees the first week of June!–that nobody ever wants to venture outside. The downside is our plants are also dying of thirst. The broccoli is probably having a heat stroke right now as I type this. To combat our weariness, my husband rigged a homemade irrigation system: he made a rain water collector out of a garbage can and some piping which he attached to a porous hose that seeps water out through its gauze-like exterior. He also bought a water timer so now promptly at 7:30 CDT every other day, the garden gets a drink.
John is already talking about building another garden bed–the Beta Bed, it would be called. This garden bed would be built from scratch (rather than from the Costco kit) so that exact dimensions are achieved at a fraction of the cost. In this Beta Bed, we will employ all of our lessons learned in the first six months of urban gardening and try our hand at bettering our brown thumbs–maybe they can become beige. We’ll use the correct dirt, give plants enough space, use an efficient crop rotation. Check back later for more updates.
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Page added in October 2003.
"We went through the town and found it a city of huge commercial buildings and broad, handsome
streets brilliant with gaslight. By night it was a sort of reminiscence of Paris. Alexandria was too much like a
European city to be novel, and we soon tired of it."
The Alexandrians are extremely proud of la Corniche the long sea promenade, reminiscent of Nice Promenade des Anglais, which borders the bay of the large eastern harbour. The large square dedicated to Sa'ad Zaghloul, a politician advocating Egyptian full independency in the 1920s, is one of the city centres where the main hotels are located.
European architects played a great role in the urban development of Alexandria. They had their own idea of "Oriental" architecture and they designed several large buildings in the so-called Moresque style, which contained elements of the Moorish architecture of Granada and Cordoba in Spain mixed with Venetian elements.
Quite obviously Neoclassic models played a great role in the design of official buildings.
In the ancient times Alexandria was known for its many religious communities (and for the rows among them which often had outbreaks of violence). Cosmopolitan Alexandria, by this meaning Alexandria between 1850 and 1956, housed a similar number of religious communities. E. M. Forster lived in Alexandria between 1915 and 1918 and in 1922 he published Alexandria. A History and a Guide. In a short chapter he listed the existing Christian communities:
Each community built its own churches, schools, hospitals in a sort of peaceful competition.
In addition to the religious communities the citizens of Alexandria were grouped according to their national origin and again they competed in building schools, theatres, consulates and in general in embellishing Alexandria. The Italians erected a monument to Khedive Ismail, who ruled Egypt at the time of the opening of the Suez Canal, and who promoted the modernization of the country. The monument brings to mind the Monument to Victor Emmanuel II in Rome.
The Non Muslims had their cemeteries one next to the other in a long alley outside the city centre. The Catholic cemetery makes reference to the Latins, the name given to the Italians and in general the people from western Europe who lived in the Levant. Neo-classic, neo-Gothic, neo-Venetian architectures mark the entrance and the chapels of this cemetery.
European in appearance, but without the frenzy of European business, Alexandria had a relaxed approach to life, which was especially appreciated by the many poets and novelists who lived in or visited Alexandria (in addition to E. M. Forster and C. P. Cavafy, Lawrence Durrel (Alexandria Quartet), the Italian poets F.T. Marinetti and G. Ungaretti, the Italian novelist F. Cialente). There were very many cafès and restaurants, often owned by Greeks, (the little icon at the top of the page shows a bill of Athineos Restaurant), but with names evocative of Paris (Trianon, Délices).
The Mamelukes were Circassian slaves brought by the Caliphs to Egypt to serve as soldiers. They took power in 1254 and ruled over Egypt and Syria. Towards the end of the XVth century they clashed with the Ottoman Empire. In 1480 the Sultan Qait Bey built a fortress to protect Alexandria from Ottoman attacks. The fortress was built on the site and with some of the stones of Pharos, the lighthouse celebrated as a wonder of the ancient world. Notwithstanding the fortress, Alexandria was conquered by the Ottoman Sultan Selim I in 1517. The fortress was greatly damaged in 1882 when the British Fleet bombarded it (and Alexandria) in a typical gunboat diplomacy episode. The Egyptian government has recently completed the restoration of the fortress. Unfortunately an excessive restoration which gave to the fortress a Disneyland appearance.
Usually the destruction of the Library of Alexandria is attributed to Amr, who conquered Alexandria in 641, but the Library, built by the Ptolomies, set on fire in 48 BC during the fight for Alexandria between Julius Caesar and the supporters of a rival of Cleopatra, rebuilt by Anthony with 200,000 volumes brought from Pergamum, was pillaged in 389 by the Christians under the reign of the Emperor Theodosius.
Alexandria has now (2003) a brand new Library called Bibliotheca Alexandrina.
The two obelisks you can see in the image used as a background for this page (a lithograph by David Roberts drawn in 1838) were donated to Great Britain and the United States of America in the XIXth century. The obelisks were erected by Pharaoh Tuthmosis III in Heliopolis and were transferred to Alexandria by order of Augustus, to decorate a temple in honour of Julius Caesar, but they ended by being known as Cleopatra's Needles, maybe because the barge used to carry one of the obelisk to London was called Cleopatra. According to the inscription the obelisk was donated by Mohammed Alì in 1819, but it was moved to London only in 1878 where it was erected on the Embankment near the Houses of Parliament (to see the Obelisks of Rome click here).
The author of this page was born in Alexandria and left it in 1953. The images shown above were taken during two visits in 1980 and 2003. There are many web sites devoted to Alexandria, in particular Amicale Alexandrie Hier et Aujourd'hui, a web site developed by an association of former residents in Alexandria.
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The Dawn of a New Age
by Eugene Rabinowitch
To be published by the University of Chicago Press, in December, $6.95
The author of this collection of essays is known to his colleagues as an eminent biophysicist who has been concerned for at least the last twenty years with fundamental problems of photosynthesis. To a somewhat larger circle, he is known as the editor of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, “the magazine of science and public affairs.” Rabinowitch has been the editor since the first issue, December of 1945. The Bulletin was born of the sense, developed during the wartime atomic energy project, of the importance of this development for the political organization of the world, the urgent sense of a turn for peace, of concern for the fostering and for the wise application of the growing and the great discoveries of science. These concerns, very wide-spread at the time, early expressed themselves in the Franck Report—to which Rabinowitch contributed—prepared under the leadership of James Franck at the Metallurgical Laboratory in Chicago and submitted to the Secretary of War before the use of the bomb, and eloquent in arguing against its use; again in the McMahon Act which governed and still largely governs our dealings with industrial and military aspects of atomic energy, and in the Acheson-Lilienthal proposals, which Baruch introduced as part of the United States position on the international control of atomic energy in the United Nations. Most, but not all, of the essays in this book have appeared in the Bulletin. This reviewer finds the few exceptions also of very great interest.
The essays are divided into three groups, which must obviously overlap: prediction, comment on recent events or accumulated developments, and exhortation. Among the predictions, the first and last are of special interest, and neither has, I believe, been published before, The first is dated from the early days of the Second World War, and predicts on a grand scale, but with remarkable faithfulness to what was to happen, the course and outcome of that war. There is only one exception, noted by the author, and that is the development of the atomic bomb, to which, ironically, he himself was to contribute. The basis for the predictions which were to prove so accurate is described by the author in strangely Newtonian terms: knowing the masses and the velocities, one could predict the outcome.
After the war, and increasingly over the years, Rabinowitch has adopted more varied and more subtle grounds for assessment and prediction, but still, in talking of the future now before us, the arguments seem rather mechanical. For the United States, for Western Europe, and for the U.S.S.R., he sees the future as one of adaptation rather than initiative, of accepting the uneasy peace, of doing little to exorcise the weapons, or the causes and political machinery which in the past have led to war. Of the underdeveloped world, and of China, he writes with far more caution. He does not rate high the role of the Yevtushenkos and the James Baldwins in societies of mature economy. At the …
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Spectrum Academy Peer Community Village is currently just a dream...
Zen Benefiel, ma, mba
An overview of our concept and methodology...
Restoring cultural pride, personal hope and inspiration for living.
Vision: Spectrum Academy leads learning and living communities in assisting ‘at-risk’ youths to heal their emotional, intellectual, physical, and spiritual wounds which create profound and positive changes in our youth population.
Spectrum Academy is a model peer-community that helps youth find restored hope and success in their lives through holistic education reform. A peer-community is a community based on shared support, giving and receiving help founded on key principles of respect, shared responsibility, and mutual agreement of what is helpful.
It is imperative that we begin in Arizona, where per capita student dollars are the lowest in the nation despite it being one of the highest growth rates in the nation.
Spectrum Academy uses a holistic approach to education, through providing a fun-to-learn-in space where youth can heal their emotional wounds and learn positive habits. Even science has proven how all things are connected, which has been known by Indigenous peoples for centuries. So why aren't we using more of this knowledge now?
Mission: Provide an alternative state-of-the-art holistic educational and living environment for youth 14 - 21 using proven programs that result in healthy and productive young adults who contribute to society.
At-risk youth find it hard to make sense of their world. Some feel they are being drugged (by their parents and schools) so adults can deal with them. Others lives are impoverished from a lack of parental presence yet they are supposed to know how to live appropriately.
The latter often end up on the streets, in group homes, incarcerated, or worse. What kind of a message are we giving them? We feel we have an answer to help change the pattern of abuse. We've done extensive research and have relative experience from the campus and classrooms of several districts and charter schools already.
Spectrum Academy combines a charter school, residential treatment component, and a community technology/data center within a living environment to empower youth to change their direction toward success. A peer community council engages the drive to discovery of how to live and work together in harmony.
Depression is the number one factor that keeps youth from learning, so they need help with managing emotions and understanding human behavior. Once they are available to learn, the school lessons and staff assist their growth and understanding of being part of a healthy community.
Holistic education is concerned with the connectedness of all things and nurtures this understanding in youth, providing a path to a healthy and productive lifestyle. Traditional educational frameworks are like slow-moving dinosaurs in the need for changing our educational delivery systems. Spectrum Academy provides a solid yet flexible framework to manage the challenging and changing needs with style and grace.
Sustainability is achieved through the synergistic union of a community technology center, subscription-based Web services, cottage industry development, and community shops. The energy required will be provided by leading green technology incorporated in the curriculum and construction build out.
As the public awareness of Spectrum Academy grows, the subscription and e-commerce features of the data center provide the financial resources for Spectrum Academy. Cottage industry development and strategically placed storefronts on the perimeter of the site creates the personal and professional bridge for youth and their community. Community connections create sustainable successes. This ‘sustainability’ piece is an addition to previous educational models.
Alliances and partnerships with industry leaders bridge 21st Century learners with 21st Century technology, assisting youth to evolve and facilitate a healthier global culture. This proactive approach to addressing the growing concern of a healthy society creates utility in applying best practices across multiple disciplines, maximizing funds and building a learning organization that can meet shifting demands in service delivery and community support. We talk about building a better world. This is a step. Will you help?
A recent needs assessment performed by a collaborative of Scottsdale, Tempe, Mesa, Chandler, and Gilbert, Arizona city governments found that the public holds youth and family programs as a top priority in service delivery. Strategic civil planning community development initiatives need to be in place to make this happen.
This can only happen with your help in spreading the word and garnering support. It is worth going viral with today's web technology and social media. You can help make it happen, right here, right now. We've got groups forming and Facebook and LinkedIn. Blog about us, here and everywhere. You can help us through the process, too.
Be The Dream… Think about that phrase for a moment. Let it sink in. No doubt it brings up all kinds of good feelings and images. Possibly you allowed yourself to escape into a nice fantasy for a moment, maybe including your own children, grandchildren, and extended family.
Some children do not even know they can dream….yet. Spectrum Academy can assist many challenged youth to new heights in self-esteem, academic and post-secondary or professional success, and even achieving new dreams.
Beyond our own skills and talent, this solution comes from a much deeper place within us all. You may find congruence in your own considerations of this dilemma and its resolution using state-of-the-art technology across the spectrum of needs.
Our administrative, construction, educational, fiscal and management contacts grow daily. We need your help to put them in play. Our activities are completely congruent with best practices, completely transparent and transcendent of current models.
ęSpectrum Academy, Inc. 2013
Contact: Zen Benefiel - 480-633-7179
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In the autumn of 1871 Morse returned with his family to New York, and it is recorded that, with an apparent premonition that he should never see his beloved Locust Grove again, he ordered the carriage to stop as he drove out of the gate, and, standing up, looked long and lovingly at the familiar scene before telling the coachman to drive on. And as he passed the rural cemetery on the way to the station he exclaimed: “Beautiful! beautiful! but I shall not lie there. I have prepared a place elsewhere.”
Not long after his return to the city death once more laid its heavy hand upon him in the loss of his sole surviving brother, Sidney. While this was a crushing blow, for these two brothers had been peculiarly attached to each other, he bore it with Christian resignation, confident that the separation would be for a short time only—“We must soon follow, I also am over eighty years, and am waiting till my change comes.”
But his mind was active to the very end, and he never ceased to do all in his power for the welfare of mankind. One of the last letters written by him on a subject of public importance was sent on December 4, 1871, to Cyrus Field, who was then attending an important telegraphic convention in Rome:—
“Excuse my delay in writing you. The excitement occasioned by the visit of the Grand Duke Alexis has but just ceased, and I have been wholly engrossed by the various duties connected with his presence. I have wished for a few calm moments to put on paper some thoughts respecting the doings of the great Telegraphic Convention to which you are a delegate.
“The Telegraph has now assumed such a marvellous position in human affairs throughout the world, its influences are so great and important in all the varied concerns of nations, that its efficient protection from injury has become a necessity. It is a powerful advocate for universal peace. Not that of itself it can command a ‘Peace, be still!’ to the angry waves of human passions, but that, by its rapid interchange of thought and opinion, it gives the opportunity of explanations to acts and to laws which, in their ordinary wording, often create doubt and suspicion. Were there no means of quick explanation it is readily seen that doubt and suspicion, working on the susceptibilities of the public mind, would engender misconception, hatred and strife. How important then that, in the intercourse of nations, there should be the ready means at hand for prompt correction and explanation.
“Could there not be passed in the great International Convention some resolution to the effect that, in whatever condition, whether of Peace or War between the nations, the Telegraph should be deemed a sacred thing, to be by common consent effectually protected both on the land and beneath the waters?
“In the interest of human happiness, of that ‘Peace on Earth’ which, in announcing the advent of the Saviour, the angels proclaimed with ’good will to men,’ I hope that the convention will not adjourn without adopting a resolution asking of the nations their united, effective protection to this great agent of civilization.”
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Shopper Marketing [shop-er mahr-ki-ting] – noun. 1. In-store advertising, promotion and design initiatives that align with and extend supplier equity-building objectives while simultaneously creating a source of differentiation for participating retailers through tailored executions that address specific shopper need-states and activate purchase at the point-of-sale. Source: Marketing Leadership Council
The concept of Shopper Marketing is a relatively new tactic in the marketing toolkit. It is only since the mid 1990′s that agencies such as Saatchi & Saatchi X, Arc Worldwide, DraftFCB, and Integer have emerged under the premise of turning shoppers into buyers by tapping into the so-called First Moment of Truth. And it’s no wonder this discipline has emerged when you consider these facts about the store:
- Each week, over 127 million customers walk through a Walmart in the US, versus 68 million people who watch ABC, CBS or NBC Evening News on average.
- Studies estimate that 70 percent of purchase decisions are made in-store and 68 percent of in-store purchase are “impulse buys.”
- Shoppers make up their mind about a product in between 3 to 7 seconds.
It is easy to see why investment in Shopper Marketing is estimated to be growing 21 percent annually when brands need to account for these factors.
But for all the positives of Shopper Marketing, a Brand Manager also has these factors to consider:
- 41 percent of online shoppers say they always or often consult consumer reviews before making a purchase decision and 70 percent cite them as extremely or very important factors in their decision-making process.
- More than 25 percent of the search results on Google for the world’s 20 largest brands are consumer generated content (Nielsen Buzz Metrics).
- The number of retail channels has more than doubled in just 50 years and online retail sales are growing 5x faster than offline.
- The web is projected to influence 50 percent of offline sales by 2012, up from 38 percent in 2007.
This means that if a Brand Manager only thinks about the in-store environment for Shopper Marketing, they are missing a tremendous opportunity to turn shoppers into buyers.
Brand Managers Need Everywhere Shopper Marketing
“The web is not an advertising medium…it is a buying medium…the user controls, the user experiences.” – Jakob Nielsen
In the years to come, Brand Managers need to evolve from focusing on Shopper Marketing In-Store and instead focus on “Everywhere Shopper Marketing.” Today, the shopper marketing cycle is offline and online, all at the same time. Brand Managers need to “close the sale” at every marketing touchpoint, giving consumers the chance to be shoppers AND buyers.
“Everywhere Shopper Marketing” means you will start focusing beyond just the store aisle. Instead, a Brand Manager will think about how a Banner Ad can be a sales channel… something HP has done well in the past. They will think about how to drive sales through the “Database of Intentions” that exists in Search. They will think about how the role of mobile in the Shopper Journey, much like Amazon has done with Amazon Remembers. And they will think about how to create a Social Shopping experience, much like the latest experiment from Zappos.
Everywhere Shopper Marketing is a mindshift for marketers and agencies alike. But the fact remains it is a necessary change if we hope to keep up with the changing shopping habits of consumers.
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The Health Center at Standifer Place takes the safety of our residents very seriously and the prevention of falls is a primary focus. Under the direction of our Falls Prevention Coordinator, our program endeavors to identify residents who are at risk for falls. All residents are evaluated upon admission and on an ongoing basis for their risk factors. Based on identified risk factors certain interventions are put into place to help prevent a fall.
Those residents who are at the greatest risk for a fall can reside on a wing equipped with a pager system that is designed to alert staff when a resident is attempting an activity that is unsafe. Staff members on this wing carry special pagers that can inform them of a specific resident who may be in a compromised position and at risk of falling. Staff can then intervene to assist with fall prevention. This unit is also equipped with a closed circuit monitor system at the nurses station where a nurse has the capability to view several common areas throughout the unit on one screen.
Since adding this technology and implementing a comprehensive falls prevention program, we have successfully reduced falls by approximately 20%. As we continue to refine this program we anticipate even greater results. It should be noted though that falls can still occur even with the best systems and technology, but it is our goal to reduce this likelyhood to as low as possible while still allowing residents their right to independence.
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I saw these pine cone topiaries on Ballard Designs and thought they were so pretty, but knew I could recreate one for a lot less!
I called up my sweet Mother, who graciously gathered pine cones from her backyard in Washington and brought them with her to Texas where we were all having Thanksgiving at my brother's house! I had to let them dry out a bit before I could use them, so they would open up, but here's how my topiary turned out:
Even thought it was really easy to do, it was definitely time consuming, it took two nights to finish, but I just worked on it while I watched TV with the hubs. It also took way more pine cones than I thought, so I ended up only making one.
Here's what I used:
• 6" styrofoam ball
• black garbage bag
• white spray paint
1. Wrap a black garbage sack around your styrofoam ball, twist the bag tight and tie it off with a twisty tie. Cut off the extra plastic from bag. This will keep the white from peeking through and help the pine cones adhere better.
2. Drench the tied end in hot glue to keep it from coming undone.
3. Grab the middle of the pine cone, and twist the bottom to create a "smaller" pine cone. Get rid of the bottom, you'll only use the top. Make sure all your tops are about the same size to get a symmetrical ball.
4. Hot glue your pine cones onto the covered ball, starting at the top and working your way down until the whole ball is covered.
5. Lightly spray paint with white or silver spray paint, I used white.
I got the planter at Hobby Lobby, it was $7.99, but it was half off, sweet deal!
If you're not as lucky as me to have a Mom do the dirty work for you, or if you don't live in the Northwest, Michael's has some pre-painted smaller pine cones in bags in the floral section. I love this project because I can keep it up all winter!
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The artist's conception shows a hypothetical planet with two moons orbiting in the habitable zone of a red dwarf star. Using publicly available data from NASA's Kepler space telescope, astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) estimate that six percent of red dwarf stars have an Earth-sized planet in the "habitable zone," the range of distances from a star where the surface temperature of an orbiting planet might be suitable for liquid water. The majority of the sun's closest stellar neighbors are red dwarfs. Researchers now believe that an Earth-size planet with a moderate temperature may be just 13 light-years away. Astronomers don't know if life could exist on a planet orbiting a red dwarf. However, this finding suggests that the most common type of the star in the galaxy may provide many more cosmic neighborhoods to search for planets that may be like our own. / D. Aguilar/Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Space looks a little more crowded, astronomers report. About 6% of nearby dwarf stars likely host Earth-like planets, a science team announced on Wednesday.
The astronomy team at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., says that these "red dwarf" stars, too dim to be seen by the naked eye but by far the most common kind in space, may host many habitable worlds. The finding, based on observations made by NASA's Kepler space telescope, suggests that an Earth-sized world orbiting in its star's "habitable zone" -- not to hot or too cold for oceans -- probably resides within 13 light years of Earth, or about 77 trillion miles. That's neighbors by astronomical standards.
"They're all over the place, there are a lot of red dwarf type stars with planets out there," says astronomer Courtney Dressing, who led the team. Some astronomers call red dwarfs "the vermin of the skies", she notes, because they get in the way when they are trying to study more distant galaxies. "We now have a number and we can say that Earth-sized planets occur fairly frequently around these stars at habitable distances."
The Kepler mission in the last three years has detected some 2,700 potential planets seen in a sample of roughly 145,000 nearby stars out to about 3,000 light years away from Earth.â?? Kepler detects planets by finding the rare ones whose orbital tilt allows them to be seen from Earth as they eclipse, or "transit" in front of their star. In the study, accepted for publication by the Astrophysical Journal, the researchers looked at 3,897 red dwarfs culled from this larger Kepler star sample.
The search turned up three planets that look Earth-sized and orbit their red dwarf stars at a distance warm enough to support oceans, which is seen as a necessity for supporting life as we know it.
Because red dwarfs are dimmer than our sun, their habitable zones are closer to the stars than in our solar system, meaning the newly-discovered planets enjoy "years" lasting from 19 to 56 days. Statistically speaking, their existence means similar Earth-sized worlds likely orbit red dwarf stars even closer to us, says the astronomy team.
"That sounds like a leap but statistically it is a very fair thing to say," says Kepler astronomer Natalie Batalha of NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., who was not part of the study. "This really gives us a way forward to look for Earth-sized planets and ultimately to look elsewhere for life."
Over the last decade, astronomers have pointed to a number of these red dwarf stars, less than half the size of the sun, as potential hosts for planets in 'habitable zone' orbits. But the new finds point to statistical support for their relative frequency around red dwarfs. "We thought we would have to search vast distances to find an Earth-like planet," Dressing said. "But they are probably right in our own back yard."
Copyright 2013 USATODAY.com
Read the original story: Dwarf stars likely home to nearby habitable planets
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Do Super Fruits Really Have Super Powers?
Eating plenty of fruit has always been an easy and delicious way to remain in good health but with an increase in the number of exotic super fruits becoming commercially available, it seems that the traditional apple and banana no longer excites the vast majority of Western consumers.
The term ‘super fruit’ was first used in 2005 and refers to any fruit with a significantly high nutritional value, rich anti-oxidant and vitamin content, stimulating health benefits and mouth-watering flavour.
As well as offering a wide range of diverse and exciting taste experiences, many super fruits are also used in food supplements for their potential health benefits, such as the promotion of fast and effective weight loss.
Below is a list of the most popular fruits that have attained this ‘super’ status:
Acai deserves all of the hype that it gets. Indigenous to the Amazon rainforest, the deep purple fruit is often referred to as the ‘super berry’ since it has one of the highest nutritional values in the world. In Brazil, it has always been used as part of everyday life but it has recently rose to international fame as a result of its incredibly high vitamin and anti-oxidant content. The berry has also become world famous for its thermogenic weight loss properties and is now one of the most common extracts used in diet pills and fat-burners.
Acai berry is a rich source of amino acids, iron, fibre, potassium, calcium and Vitamins A, B1 (Thiamine), B2 (Riboflavin), B3 (Niacin), C and E. It also contains anthocyanins, which are responsible for its rich purple colour, and flavonoids, which help to protect vital cells from free radicals and flush potentially harmful toxins from the body. Regular consumption of these valuable nutrients is a great way to improve your diet and maintain a healthy mind, body and soul.
African Mango (Irvingia Gabonensis)
African mango is a supplement native to West Africa that is high in protein, fibre and healthy fats. According to a recent study in Cameroon, African mango has the ability to reduce body fat, lower cholesterol levels and increase metabolic rate. By increasing the production of the hormone Adiponectin, it helps the body burn unwanted fat by optimising glucose levels and improving circulation. The fruit has also been found to act as a powerful appetite suppressant by influencing the way in which your brain responds to hunger signals.
While not as exotic as some of the other names on the list, the blueberry was one of the very first recipients of the ‘super fruits’ title and its vast health benefits have been backed up by a huge amount of scientific research. Research has shown that the regular consumption of blueberries can help to reduce various diseases, alleviate cognitive decline, lower the risk of heart disease and reduce some of the physical effects of aging.
Blueberries are most notable for their tremendous anti-oxidant properties, but they are also rich in the essential minerals Manganese and Selenium as well as Vitamins B6 (Pyridoxine), C and K. In addition, they have a very low Glycemic Index, which makes them an excellent snack for people who need to keep an eye on their blood sugar levels
The bright red goji berry is part of the nightshade family of plants and is native to Mongolia, Tibet and the Himalayan region of China. The berries have been used by Asian herbalists for thousands of years for their nutritional and healing value, helping to improve strength, immunity, fertility, eyesight, circulation and liver function as well as to promote longevity of life. As well as providing a rich source of anti-oxidants, in particular Beta-Carotene and Zeaxanthin, the goji berry contains a wide variety of vitamins, minerals, amino acids and essential fatty acids that all contribute to overall good health.
Often referred to as ‘Nature’s elixir of youth’, the pomegranate hails from the Middle East and has been cultivated since time immemorial, being referenced in many ancient texts, such as the Book of Exodus, the Homeric Hymns and the Quran. The delicious fruit has become very popular in recent years due to its high anti-oxidant content and is now available in the West in numerous forms.
As well as anti-oxidants, which help to neutralise the damaging effects of free radicals, pomegranate has been found to contain vast amounts of Vitamins A, C, E and K, Potassium, Selenium, Iron and polyphenols. All of these valuable minerals may help to improve heart health, brain function and blood sugar levels as well as slowing down the aging process by increasing the elasticity and health of the skin.
Widely grown in all temperate regions of the world, raspberries are a rich source of anti-oxidants and have been linked to possible health benefits in reducing heart disease, preventing cancer, aiding brain function and providing anti-biotic properties. In addition to the important phenol anti-oxidant Ellagic Acid, raspberries also contain ketones, which have become a world famous dieting sensation and utilised in countless food supplements as a result of their amazing natural weight loss properties.
Raspberry leaves also have a high nutritional content and contain Vitamins A, B, C, and E, Calcium, Phosphorus and Manganese. They are commonly used to aid in morning sickness, pregnancy and childbirth, with some evidence suggesting that regular consumption can also reduce the risk of miscarriage.
There are many different species of the sea buckthorn plant, extending from the Atlantic coasts of Europe right across to North-Western China. In Western Europe, the plant is mainly confined to the sea coasts but in Central Asia it is more widespread in dry desert-like regions where many plants cannot survive.
Though quite unpleasant and bitter to eat raw, the orange berries of the sea buckthorn are incredibly nutritious and have a unique combination of vitamins and minerals that are usually only found separately. The fruit is a rich source of Vitamins B1, B2, E and K, Beta-Carotene and essential fatty acids and its Vitamin C content is among the highest for any plant (about 15 times higher than that found in oranges).
In traditional Chinese medicine, sea buckthorn has been used for thousands of years to help relieve coughs, aid digestion, invigorate circulation, ease pain or inflammation, soothe skin irritations and treat metabolic disorders.
FORZA Super Fruits
When FORZA released T5 Super Fruits in 2012, it brought together more nutrient-rich fruit extracts than any other diet pill in existence. This remarkable combination of natural flavours helps to flush your body of potentially harmful toxins while supporting rapid weight loss at the same time, allowing you to stay tropical all year round.
The exciting burst of natural flavours includes raspberry ketones, bitter orange, acai berry, African mango, bitter melon and green tea as well as sea kelp, a ‘weight loss wonder’ that provides the body with a wealth of immune-boosting vitamins and minerals all in 100% natural form and its high level of alkalinity helps the body maintain a healthy pH balance.
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Earth scientists from UALR will celebrate National Fossil Day with an open house from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 15, on the first floor of the Science Lab Building, where the public can view actual fossils as well as casts of fossils from the university’s collection and from other institutional collections.
Joe Daniel, a paleontologist and an alumnus of the UALR geology program, said National Fossil Day momentos – pins, postcards, posters, magnets, and other items – will be given away. UALR Faculty and students will be present to answer questions.
“In addition to the fossils already on display, we will open the classrooms and have on display several other fossils, both from our collections and from other participating institutions, such as the Arkansas Geological Survey,” Daniel said. “The event is open to the public and all ages are welcome. People are welcome to bring any fossils they would like identified that they can compare to those on display. Over 500 million years of Arkansas’s history will be on display.”
The National Park Service and the American Geological Institute are partnering to host the first National Fossil Day during Earth Science Week. National Fossil Day is a celebration organized to promote public awareness and stewardship of fossils, as well as to foster a greater appreciation of their scientific and educational value.
Fossils discovered on the nation’s public lands preserve ancient life from all major eras of Earth’s history, and from every major group of animal or plant. In the national parks, for example, fossils range from primitive algae found high in the mountains of Glacier National Park, Montana, to the remains of ice-age animals found in caves at Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona. Public lands provide visitors with opportunities to interpret a fossil’s ecological context by observing fossils in the same place those animals and plants lived millions of years ago.
For more information, contact Dr. Jeff Connelly, Chair of UALR’s Department of Earth Science, at 501-569-3546 or firstname.lastname@example.org.
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|From: "Lee, Rockie"
To: "'firstname.lastname@example.org'" email@example.com
Date: Mon, Mar 6, 2000 2:40 PM
Subject: TELEMARKETING REVIEW COMMENT FTC FILE NO. 0994414
I propose one (1) additional rule to the telemarketing act:
Telemarketers must be identified by caller ID, and not as a mere "unidentified".
Current telephone options allow customers to purchase Caller ID. These options also allow persons to intentionally not be Identified, by showing their Identification as "private". Most Telemarketers consistently are displayed by "unidentified". Telemarketers' Identification should be mandated within this legislation. The identification of a visitor can be ascertained by a "peephole" in a door. The choice of answering by the host is thereby enhanced. Telemarketing may introduce new products and services, which can be good. A consumer chooses where they shop on the internet, and at brick & mortar. Telemarketing can result in a loss of free choice. I chose to send this message, because public comment was asked for. The Federal Trade Commission gave "permission" for me to write, before I answered. Caller ID on a telephone service is PAID for by the consumer, with a reasonable expectation to enhance decisions, granting permission to the person on the other end access to communicate. A persons right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness should not be encroached upon by unidentified Telemarketers.
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If a child never…..experiences the richness of nature, what happens to that child? ~ Richard Louv (author of No Child Left Inside and The Nature Principle).
Highland Plaza United Methodist Preschool (HPUMP) is located in the Hixson area of Chattanooga, Tennessee. The preschool employs constructivist teaching methods, allowing children to learn as they construct a personal understanding based on intentionally prepared experiences in the classroom and in their environment, and also by reflecting on those experiences. Vicky Flessner, Preschool Director, and her staff are guided by the Reggio Emilia approach to education where the classroom becomes a learning environment that enhances and facilitates children’s construction of their own knowledge. The role of the teacher is that of a learner and researcher alongside the children. Within such a role, teachers listen, observe, and document children’s work, while they provoke and stimulate thinking about children’s collaboration with peers. The teachers reflect together to determine the “one next step” that will scaffold a child’s integration of new concepts.
HPUMP is a community, where children, teachers, and parents learn together. In the classrooms, teachers facilitate an “emergent curriculum”, one that builds upon both the children’s and teacher’s ideas. They work together, formulating hypotheses about possible directions of a project and also what materials might be needed. Parents and other members of the community often become engaged in the project as well. Emphasis is placed on collaboration among home, school, and community to support the learning of the child. Visibility of children’s work in progress is also considered an important tool in the learning process of children, teachers, and parents. This documentation of the children’s experiences allow the “walls to talk” and provide glimpses into the work happening in the classrooms. Revisiting ideas, deciding if questions have been answered, and asking new questions, support the ongoing cycle of inquiry.
The children spend time outdoors everyday. Frederich Froebel said “Play is the highest expression of human development, for it alone is the free expression of what is in a child’s soul.” The land surrounding the preschool has been converted into a natural playscape, a wooded wonderland dotted with play components such as climbable sculptures, environmental art, vegetation (trees, shrubs, flowers, and mosses), rock structures, dirt and sand, textured pathways, water features and artistic play areas, all encouraging children to explore the outdoors. The design was inspired by the latest field-tested, age-appropriate methods for reconnecting children with nature.
Ms. Flessner, her staff, parent volunteers, and church and community supporters raised funds and helped to construct the Playscape which features play areas that include natural as well as historic and cultural landmarks in Chattanooga. In each of the areas, there are books and materials for children to use while exploring the site. The “Tennessee River”, with water splashing down the hill and over rocks, makes the area a wonderful and peaceful place for everyone (teachers included!) to enjoy. The climbing wall, made from reclaimed tires, represents “Lookout Mountain” where children can climb up and down the side of a hill. An outdoor art studio (the Art District) and a musical instrument area (the Chattanooga Symphony) foster the children’s expression of creativity. Container gardens will be blooming this spring, with vegetables and herbs that children will use to make pizza and vegetable soup.
Natural playscapes like the one at HPUMP blend natural materials, features, and vegetation with landforms to create spaces that challenge and captivate children, teaching them about the wonders of the natural world as they play within it. Studies show how beneficial and important it is for children to be in regular contact with nature. Outdoor learning promotes independent play and fosters children’s abilities to solve disputes themselves. Teachers from HPUMP have reported that since the children have been using the outdoor setting, their new understanding of negotiating and problem-solving has transferred into the classroom setting and there are fewer behavior problems.
As constructivist educators, responsible for guiding students and asking them questions that lead to drawing their own conclusions about topics such as the environment; we are left with these questions: What are some opportunities that you can provide to your students to expose them to the natural world, encouraging their inquisitiveness and curiosity? How can you integrate your curriculum into the study of nature and the environment?
Contributed by : Cathy Landy, East Tennessee State University Doctoral Fellow & Vicky Flessner, Director, Highland Plaza United Methodist Preschool, Hixson TN
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Full Employment and Decent Work
The Baha'i International Community is pleased with the Commission’s focus this year on “Full Employment and Decent Work for All”, and we noted with appreciation the interventions of the various Member-States, the Under-Secretary General, the International Labor Organization, and Non-governmental Organizations.
Although, the Baha'i International Community will not speak to specific policy recommendations to add to the already rich pool of suggestions, we would like to make a comment on the framework in which work is addressed.
In all policies aimed at tackling unemployment and providing decent and secure work for all, the conception of work needs to transcend just the economic dimension and encompass also the human and social purpose that employment fulfills.
Work needs to be seen not only as a means to securing an individual and family’s basic needs, but also as a channel to developing one’s craft, refining one’s character, and contributing to the welfare and progress of society. Work, no matter how humble and simple, when performed with an attitude of service, is a means to contribute to the advancement of our communities, countries and global society.
Within this context, we can start to see the masses of unemployed not only as a ‘problem’ but as a ‘resource’ to be tapped into in order to achieve national priorities and fulfil the Millennium Development Goals.
We hope that this work paradigm can expand the vision of workers, the private sector, governments, and other agencies; and that this broad vision of work can encompass all policies which are adopted at national and international level to address the issue of full employment and decent work for all.
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Photo credit: Alex Stamoutsos
The Jackson Chamber of Commerce began serving Jackson and the surrounding areas when it was officially incorporated on September 12th 1967. It was created on the heels of Jackson’s first major growth spurt when the Brookwood homes sprouted and many businesses began to develop to service the thousands of new residents.
In November 7th, 1966, Mayor Frank Holman Jr. proclaimed the creation of the Jackson Chamber of Commerce and an article in the Jackson news stated “Our community has excellent potential for growth and expansion and we will depend on our businessman to counsel the governing body on important matters that will benefit the town”.
On April 8th 1967, just prior to official incorporation, the Jackson Chamber held their first annual dinner/installation dance. The initial Board of directors were: Lawrence Goehrig, Carl Gerfen, Glenn DeBow, Kenneth Wickham, Peter Boyarin, James Bealin, Otis Cottrell, Dr. Vincent DeMuro, Louis Mahieu, Frank Rillo, Samuel Sanders and Herbert Wishnick.
Over the past 45 years, the Jackson Chamber of Commerce has grown from 30 members to its current membership list of 220. One of the most important roles of the Chamber of Commerce is to promote Jackson Township and to be an advocate for all businesses.
Since 1973 the Chamber has sponsored a map of Jackson Township, currently listing over 1100 streets and offering vital Township information including Recycling schedules, telephone numbers, websites and Township directories. The Chamber offers limited space for advertising on the maps and they are available to over 58,000 residents, neighbors and tourists for free.
In August of 1974, Chamber President John Cheesman reported that a large percentage of our Chamber mail was received from out of State residents. In 1986 the Chamber participated in an Ocean County Tourism promotional film and in 1997 a tourism guide was developed and has been published by the Jackson Chamber every year since. The guide responds to the inquiries of visitors to our community as well as our own residents and can be found at local businesses, the Jackson Chamber of Commerce office and rest stops along the Garden State Parkway and New Jersey Turnpike.
Our Citizen of the Year (COTY) fundraiser is held annually to honor notable citizens, a non-profit organization and Business of the year. All proceeds are used to fund 4-5 scholarships awarded to students from Jackson Memorial High School and Jackson Liberty High school.
One of our favorite activities has been our annual Halloween meeting hosted by Six Flags Great Adventure. Everything from murder mysteries to Comedians have provided our members with a fun evening for all in attendance.
The Jackson Chamber of Commerce holds General Membership meetings and features speakers from the community including business owners, professionals and Local and State leaders. We have distinguished ourselves as an organization that encourages networking to assist our membership in promoting and developing their businesses. As we are always braced for new and innovative changes, the Jackson Chamber of Commerce is prepared to continue to serve Jackson and our region. Our Chamber is also represented on the Jackson Economic Development Council by several of our Board members.
Over the course of the past 45 years, the Jackson Chamber has been led by scores of Business people who have served and dedicated their time and talents as Members of the Board of Directors. Beginning with our first President Lawrence Goehrig to our current President John McGeehan, The Jackson Chamber has and will continue to;
“Think Jackson First”
JACKSON – Hurricane Sandy, the largest hurricane ever to form in the Atlantic Basin, left quite an impact on Jackson Township’s 102 square miles. The business community has many concerns and the Jackson Chamber of Commerce is working to help address these issues.
Hundreds of trees and wooded areas have been damaged, storm drains are over capacity, and wind damage to homes and businesses was severe. There were power outages that lasted up to two weeks and over two million households in the state lost power in the storm. Businesses suffered due to closing during the state of emergency and also suffered loss of supplies, in particular food, due to the power loss.
The effects of Hurricane Sandy in New Jersey were harsh, with losses to businesses of up to $30 billion. In the aftermath of Sandy, many gas stations were closed, and people lined up for hours to get gasoline. According to AAA, on November 2, about 60% of the gas stations in New Jersey were closed.
Immediately after Sandy made landfall, a nor’easter came our way and complicated matters by dropping 10 inches of snow in Jackson. Much of the township experienced wet snow which weighed down power lines and caused tree limbs to snap, significantly adding on to the existing power outages throughout Jackson.
Although we stress all year round that you support local businesses, as you prepare to do your holiday shopping this year, the Jackson Chamber of Commerce encourages you to do all of your shopping locally, especially in the Ocean and Monmouth and County area. Help support those businesses that were affected by the force of Sandy.
Please browse our website, especially our member area pages, for a full listing of businesses and their locations. Thank you for your support.
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In The Highest Bid four players bid on the right to answer a question. The first player who answers four questions correctly will play the final. The players are introduced with what they say is their strongest category and they receive a credit of one hundred thousand Euros to play with.
The bid pot starts empty. Goal is to get as much money as possible into the bid pot, because this amount will be the new personal credit in the final. This the maximum prize that can be taken home by the winner, so higher bids can lead to a higher prize… After the computer randomly picks a category the players place their bids without knowing what the others do.
If the given answer is incorrect the bid amount is lost, the amount in the bid pot stays the same. A next question round starts…
The game continues until one of the players is the first to score four points. This player will play the final. In the final the score is reset to nil and the total amount of the bid pot is the new personal credit. The finalist gets three minutes net play time to answer four questions correctly.
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Holocaust 'Denial' Trial Gets Underway
Courts: British historian, who says there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz, claims Jews are out to malign him.
By MARJORIE MILLER, Times Staff Writer LONDON--In what promises to be a landmark libel case over Holocaust denial, Hitler biographer David Irving portrayed himself before Britain's High Court on Tuesday as a victim of an international Jewish conspiracy to blacken his reputation.
The British historian, much criticized for his widely dismissed views that there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz and that Hitler did not authorize the extermination of Jews, rejected a U.S. professor's claim that he is a Holocaust denier.
He said there has been an "organized international endeavor" to ruin him and that he has been branded with the epithet like someone publicly accused of wife-beating or sexually abusing children.
Irving is suing Deborah Lipstadt, a professor at Atlanta's Emory University and author of "Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory," and her British publisher, Penguin UK, for libel. He is seeking damages and a halt to the book's further publication.
In her book, Lipstadt calls Irving "one of the most dangerous" Holocaust deniers, a man who deliberately bends historical evidence to fit his extreme political views.
In its opening remarks, the defense branded Irving a liar.
"Mr. Irving calls himself an historian. The truth is, however, that he is not an historian at all, but a falsifier of history," said defense lawyer Richard Rampton. "To put it bluntly, he is a liar."
Yehuda Bauer, director of research at Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust museum, said the libel lawsuit is an important case.
"Irving made a fatal mistake. He thought he would use the trial to publicize his views. But they are going to turn the tables on him and expose Holocaust denial as the stupid sham it is," Bauer said in a telephone interview from Jerusalem.
Irving said he chose to sue Lipstadt because her publishers were "foolish enough" to print her book in Britain, where libel laws are much tougher. The burden of proof is on the defendant, and, unlike in the United States, public figures are treated the same as private citizens.
The case is being heard by a judge rather than a jury because it is considered highly technical.
Both Irving and defense attorney Rampton insisted in their opening statements that this is not a trial about whether the Holocaust occurred or how many people died in it. Rather, it is about whether Irving deliberately manipulated and falsified history.
But the trial, which is scheduled to last three months and include the testimony of some of the foremost experts on World War II, is regarded by both mainstream historians and Holocaust deniers as a chance to prove their cases.
"At the end of the trial, on the question of gas chambers, either the world will accept that, yes, they existed, or they will raise an eyebrow in astonishment and say, 'What the hell?' " Irving said in an interview.
He has been fined for Holocaust denial in France and Germany, where it is against the law to propagate Nazi literature and ideology. He has been called a court historian for Hitler and even a fascist. But he is also regarded by some mainstream historians as a skilled researcher.
Irving began his case Tuesday by reading a 55-page opening statement in which he insisted that he had made important contributions to the world's understanding of the Holocaust.
"Far from being a 'Holocaust denier,' I have repeatedly drawn attention to major aspects of the Holocaust," he said. "I have provided historical documents both to the community of scholars and to the general public, of which they were completely unaware before I discovered these documents and published and translated them," he said.
He blamed a British Jewish group, which he identified out of court as the Board of Deputies of British Jews, as leading the campaign against him to "vandalize" his reputation.
The defense responded with quotes from books and speeches in which Irving denied the Holocaust took place, exonerated Hitler and called Auschwitz "baloney."
Wednesday, January 12, 2000
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3rd January 2013
David Friedman takes a look at the Crustian Narrative.
A recent article in the Journal of the American Medical Association reports that being overweight, as defined by body mass index, may be good for you—that people in the recommended BMI range are more likely to die (“all cause mortality”) than people whose weight classifies them as overweight but not obese. What I found most interesting about the news coverage of the article was the reaction reported—people quoted as criticizing the article without offering any good reason to think it was wrong.
My, what a surprise! Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.
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School Board candidates answer questions posed by Arlington Times
October 6, 2009 · 4:57 PM
The Arlington Times and The Marysville Globe newspapers sent candidates five questions to each of candidates running for the Arlington School Board.
Candidates were asked to respond to the questions in 100 words or less.
Ursula Ghirardo and Bob McClure are running unopposed as Directors of District No. 3 and No. 5, respectively.
*What makes you the best candidate for the Arlington School Board?
Ghirardo: In addition to a passion for education and a commitment to the community of Arlington, I will bring a broad base of knowledge and experience to the Arlington School Board. From my own education and corporate work experience as an engineer, I have acquired skills in the areas of problem solving, data analysis, strategic planning, project management, continuous process improvement, meeting facilitation and team building. Having lived and worked on the east, west and gulf coasts of the United States, as well as in both Europe and Asia, I will offer new ideas and approaches to many topics. As a parent of school aged children for whom our family has sought the best possible education, I will bring a personal appreciation of elementary, middle and high school education from the varied perspectives of public, private and home schooling.
Bob McClure did not respond to candidate questions and will be running unopposed.
*How would the district's financial concerns, such as a shrinking budget, affect your decisions on the board should you be elected?
Ghirardo: All board decisions should be made in the best interest of Arlington's schoolchildren, given the current financial resources of the school district.
*How much importance do you place on state-mandated testing? How is it helpful or a hinderance within the Arlington School District?
Ghirardo: The mandate for testing goes beyond the state, to the federal level, through the No Child Left Behind Act. Since testing is not a choice, I prefer to focus on what benefits can be reaped from it. Standardized testing can supply data which helps identify areas of strength and weakness in our efforts to educate students. When used for the purpose of improving our system, it can be a powerful tool. The challenge is to focus on what truly improves student learning and then trust that the testing will reflect the knowledge they gain.
*How willing are you to explore alternative funding sources should opportunities present themselves?
Ghirardo: Legitimate alternative funding sources, such as educational grants, should be explored as a means of funding needs in the district.
*If you are elected, what is your No. 1 priority on the school board?
Ghirardo: My first priority would be to diligently support the Arlington School District through hard work and careful decision making. My goal would be an outstanding education for our students, and effective and efficient use of the public education funds provided by taxpayers.
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Local volunteers leave to help deal with Hurricane Sandy aftermathFargo, ND (WDAY TV) -- 5 highly trained - Red Cross volunteers from our area took off for the east coast today.
By: WDAY Staff Reports, WDAY
Fargo, ND (WDAY TV) -- 5 highly trained - Red Cross volunteers from our area took off for the east coast today.
This as Hurricane Sandy is about to wreak havoc on the coast. The volunteers are on a 2 week deployment. They'll be in New Jersey to help with shelter operations.
Forecasters are unsure where Sandy will make landfall, but say it could rival the worst East Coast storm on record.
Wind and torrential rains could extend for hundreds of miles, causing widespread flooding and power outages.
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The Rada Cutlery Test Kitchen decorated eggs to look like they were tie dyed. This was a simple Easter egg decorating idea that was fun to do. In less than 10 steps you can have creative and fun decorated Easter eggs. The method is perfect for people who like to avoid messes. It involves little contact with the eggs, takes place over the kitchen sink and leaves you with unique tie-dyed looking eggs.
Supplies: Hard boiled eggs, colander or strainer, food coloring, vinegar, water
1. Over a sink or bowl place hard boiled eggs in a colander be sure the eggs are not overlapping
2. Pour white vinegar over the eggs
3. Take food coloring and drip a few drops over the eggs
4. Gently rock the colander to spread the food coloring over the eggs
5. Allow coloring to dry for about 30 seconds to one minute. The longer you let the color set the darker it will be.
6. Pick a second color and repeat steps 3 and 4
7. Continue with the number of desired colors. Beware the more colors you add the darker the eggs will be.
8. After the last color has set lightly rinse them with water. Some of the coloring will wash off so be careful not to pour too much.
9. Let the eggs air dry
For more traditional methods of dying eggs the Rada Cutlery Handi-Stir is perfect for lowering eggs into bowls of coloring.
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Marina del Rey, California
|Marina del Rey|
|— census-designated place —|
|Los Angeles International Airport and Palos Verdes Peninsula in the background.|
|Los Angeles County, California and of Los Angeles County, California within California.|
|• Total||1.455 sq mi (3.768 km2)|
|• Land||0.860 sq mi (2.226 km2)|
|• Water||0.595 sq mi (1.541 km2) 40.91%|
|Elevation||16 ft (5 m)|
|• Density||6,100/sq mi ( 2,400/km2)|
|Time zone||Pacific (PST) (UTC-8)|
|• Summer (DST)||PDT (UTC-7)|
|ZIP codes||90291–90292, 90295|
|Area code(s)||310, 424|
|GNIS feature ID||1852255|
Marina del Rey is an affluent unincorporated seaside community and census-designated place (CDP) in Los Angeles County, California. A Westside locale, the population was 8,866 at the 2010 census. Fisherman's Village offers a view of Marina del Rey's dominant feature, the Marina, the world's largest man-made small craft harbor with 19 marinas with capacity for 5,300 boats and is home port to approximately 6,500 boats. The harbor, the Los Angeles Times said in 1997, is "perhaps the county's most valuable resource".
Prior to its development as a small craft harbor, the land occupied by Marina del Rey was a salt-marsh fed by freshwater from the Ballona Creek, frequented by duck hunters and few others. Burton W. Chace, a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, referred to the area as mud flats, though today the area would more properly be referred to as wetlands.
In the mid-19th century, M.C. Wicks thought of turning this Playa del Rey estuary into a commercial port. He formed the Ballona Development Company in 1888 to develop the area, but three years later the company went bankrupt.
In 1916, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers revisited the idea of a commercial harbor, but declared it economically impractical. In 1936 the U.S. Congress ordered a re-evaluation of that determination, and the Army Corps of Engineers returned with a more favorable determination; however, the Marina del Rey harbor concept lost out to San Pedro as a commercial harbor and development funding went to the Port of Los Angeles instead.
In 1953, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors authorized a $2 million loan to fund construction of the marina. Since the loan only covered about half the cost, the U.S. Congress passed and President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed Public Law 780 making construction possible. Ground breaking began shortly after.
With construction almost complete, the marina was put in danger in 1962–1963 due to a winter storm. The storm caused millions of dollars in damage to both the marina and the few small boats anchored there. A plan was put into effect to build a breakwater at the mouth of the marina, and the L.A. County Board of Supervisors appropriated $2.1 million to build it. On April 10, 1965 Marina del Rey was formally dedicated. The total cost of the marina was $36.25 million for land, construction, and initial operation.
Marina del Rey falls within unincorporated Los Angeles County and is southeast of the L.A. City community of Venice and north of the L.A. City community of Playa del Rey, near the mouth of the Ballona Creek. It is located four miles (6 km) north of Los Angeles International Airport.
It is bounded on all sides by the City of Los Angeles. The beach-style homes, the strip of land against the beach, and the beach itself (see photo), west of the harbor, are within the City of Los Angeles limits, but share the same zip code as Marina del Rey. The name of this strip is the Marina Peninsula. Via Dolce and the southern portion of Via Marina are the boundaries between L.A. City and the unincorporated area.
According to the United States Census Bureau, Marina del Rey has an area of 1.5 square miles (3.9 km2). Nine-tenths of a square mile (2.2 km²) is land and 0.6 square miles (1.6 km2) is water (40.91%).
The marina itself, a specially designed harbor with moorings for pleasure craft and small boats, is surrounded by high-rise condos, hotels, apartments, shops, and restaurants. The area also includes the University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute, the UCLA Marina Aquatic Center, and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which regulates the Internet's address and domain name systems.
|Climate data for Marina del Rey, California|
|Average high °F (°C)||67
|Average low °F (°C)||46
|Precipitation inches (mm)||3.19
The 2010 United States Census reported that Marina del Rey had a population of 8,866. The population density was 6,094.6 people per square mile (2,353.1/km²). The racial makeup of Marina del Rey was 7,071 (79.8%) White, 465 (5.2%) African American, 31 (0.3%) Native American, 749 (8.4%) Asian, 10 (0.1%) Pacific Islander, 154 (1.7%) from other races, and 386 (4.4%) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 686 persons (7.7%).
The Census reported that 8,860 people (99.9% of the population) lived in households, 6 (0.1%) lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 0 (0%) were institutionalized.
There were 5,600 households, out of which 429 (7.7%) had children under the age of 18 living in them, 1,317 (23.5%) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 215 (3.8%) had a female householder with no husband present, 126 (2.3%) had a male householder with no wife present. There were 541 (9.7%) unmarried opposite-sex partnerships, and 45 (0.8%) same-sex married couples or partnerships. Of the households, 3,037 (54.2%) were made up of individuals and 601 (10.7%) had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 1.58. There were 1,658 families (29.6% of all households); the average family size was 2.32.
The population was spread out with 565 people (6.4%) under the age of 18, 487 people (5.5%) aged 18 to 24, 4,150 people (46.8%) aged 25 to 44, 2,473 people (27.9%) aged 45 to 64, and 1,191 people (13.4%) who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 40.0 years. For every 100 females there were 103.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 103.9 males.
There were 6,742 housing units at an average density of 4,634.5 per square mile (1,789.4/km²), of which 644 (11.5%) were owner-occupied, and 4,956 (88.5%) were occupied by renters. The homeowner vacancy rate was 0.5%; the rental vacancy rate was 11.4%. 936 people (10.6% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 7,924 people (89.4%) lived in rental housing units.
As of the census of 2000, there were 8,176 people, 5,315 households, and 1,520 families residing in the Census Designated Place (CDP). The population density was 9,289.5 inhabitants per square mile (3,587.2/km²). There were 6,321 housing units at an average density of 7,181.8 per square mile (2,773.4/km²). The racial makeup of the CDP was 82.46% White, 4.68% African American, 0.16% Native American, 8.21% Asian, 0.16% Pacific Islander, 1.30% from other races, and 3.03% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 5.34% of the population.
There were 5,315 households out of which 6.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 22.7% were married couples living together, 3.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 71.4% were non-families. Of all households, 57.3% were made up of individuals and 6.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 1.54 and the average family size was 2.31.
In the CDP the population was spread out with 6.4% under the age of 18, 5.1% from 18 to 24, 50.4% from 25 to 44, 28.2% from 45 to 64, and 10.0% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 39 years. For every 100 females there were 108.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 108.6 males.
The median income for a household in the CDP was $68,447, and the median income for a family was $84,390. Males had a median income of $66,928 versus $51,854 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $58,530. About 6.5% of families and 8.8% of the population were below the poverty line, including 9.6% of those under age 18 and 6.2% of those age 65 or over.
Points of interest
- Fisherman's Village
- Chace Park—the Marina del Rey Summer Concert Series is held here on Thursdays and Saturdays from June to August.
- California Yacht Club
- UCLA Marina Aquatic Center
- Ballona Wetlands
- Lloyd Taber Marina del Rey Library
Parks and recreation
The following organizations are headquartered in Marina del Rey:
The Marina Expressway, California State Route 90, terminates at Lincoln Blvd (California State Route 1) in northeastern Marina del Rey and links the area with Culver City. A water shuttle service, the WaterBus, serves the harbor between July 4 to Labor Day.
Street layout
The harbor has eight basins separated by six strips of land, each of which has at least one street on it. From the northeastern end of the Marina, going clockwise, these streets are: Bali Way, Mindanao Way (with west terminus at Burton Chace Park), Fiji Way (bordering the southeastern edge of the Marina), Bora Bora Way, Tahiti Way, Marquesas Way, Panay Way, and Palawan Way. Panay Way, Marquesas Way, Tahiti Way, and Bora Bora Way are all on the western side of the Marina and all terminate at Via Marina. Palawan Way is also on the west side, but it terminates at Washington Bl.
Washington Boulevard bounds the Marina to the northwest. Palawan Way and Via Marina end to the north at Washington Blvd.
Government and infrastructure
Marina del Rey is managed by the Los Angeles County Department of Beaches and Harbors. All of the area's land is owned by the County of Los Angeles, which issues long-term leases to private citizens.
Marina del Rey is in the Fourth District of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, represented by Don Knabe. It is in the 28th Senate District of the State legislature, represented by Democrat Ted Lieu, and in the 53rd Assembly District, represented by Democrat Betsy Butler. Marina del Rey is located in California's 36th congressional district, which has a Cook PVI of D +12 and is represented by Democrat Janice Hahn.
The Los Angeles County Fire Department (LACFD) serves Marina del Rey and is based at Station #110, a part of Battalion 1, at 4433 Admiralty Way. The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services has an office in Marina del Rey as well.
Marina del Rey is in the Los Angeles Unified School District, although there are no schools in the area proper. As of 2009 Steve Zimmer represents the district. Students from Marina del Rey attend Coeur d'Alene Avenue Elementary School, Marina del Rey Middle School, and Venice High School.
Public libraries
See also
- U.S. Census
- "Welcome Wave at the Marina". Editorial. Los Angeles Times. April 17, 1997.
- "Marina del Rey, CA Normal Temperatures and Precipitation". Retrieved Jan 15 2011.
- "CENSUS OF POPULATION AND HOUSING (1790-2000)". U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved 2010-07-17.
- http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=DEC_10_PL_GCTPL1.ST13&prodType=table US Census Bureau
- All data are derived from the United States Census Bureau reports from the 2010 United States Census, and are accessible on-line here. The data on unmarried partnerships and same-sex married couples are from the Census report DEC_10_SF1_PCT15. All other housing and population data are from Census report DEC_10_DP_DPDP1. Both reports are viewable online or downloadable in a zip file containing a comma-delimited data file. The area data, from which densities are calculated, are available on-line here. Percentage totals may not add to 100% due to rounding. The Census Bureau defines families as a household containing one or more people related to the householder by birth, opposite-sex marriage, or adoption. People living in group quarters are tabulated by the Census Bureau as neither owners nor renters. For further details, see the text files accompanying the data files containing the Census reports mentioned above.
- "American FactFinder". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved 2008-01-31.
- "Burton W. Chase Park". County of Los Angeles. Retrieved on March 22, 2010.
- "Yvonne B. Burke Park". County of Los Angeles. Retrieved on March 22, 2010.
- Los Angeles County Department of Beaches and Harbors.
- "Will Gerrymandered Districts Stem the Wave of Voter Unrest?". Campaign Legal Center Blog. Retrieved 2008-02-10.
- "Marina del Rey Station". Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. Retrieved on January 21, 2010.
- "Hometown Fire Stations". Los Angeles County Fire Department. Retrieved on December 6, 2008.
- "About Us". Los Angeles County Department of Health Services. Retrieved on March 18, 2010.
- Board District 4 Map. Los Angeles Unified School District. Retrieved on November 24, 2008.
- "Board Members". Los Angeles Unified School District. Retrieved on September 16, 2009.
- "Lloyd Taber-Marina del Rey Library". County of Los Angeles Public Library. Retrieved on December 6, 2008.
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Reconstituting ribosomes: Shown here is a parts list for creating a synthetic, self-replicating ribosome. Proteins are shown in purple, RNA in red, and DNA in blue. The list includes 54 ribosomal proteins, as well as RNA-based enzymes involved in protein production, and other molecules that interact with ribosomes.
Credit: George Church and Mike Jewett
Church and his team also want to use make modified ribosomes to make a new class of proteins--those that are the mirror image of the proteins found in nature. Proteins and many other molecules have a "handedness," or chirality, to their structure. Amino acids made in nature are almost exclusively left-handed. And just as a glove fits on only one hand, left-handed enzymes can only catalyze reactions of substrates with the correct handedness. This means that mirror-image molecules would be resistant to breakdown by regular enzymes, says Church. That could have important industrial applications, generating long-lasting enzymes for biofermentation, used to create biofuels and other products.
Eventually, says Church, he wants to create tiny protein factories out of tailor-made ribosomes. "We want to make large amounts of special proteins that are hard to make in vivo, and are useful for vaccine production [and other purposes]."
Next, the researchers want to create a ribosome that can re-create itself. They have compiled a list of 151 genes that they think are needed for a self-reproducing ribosome, including genes for ribosomal proteins, different types of RNAs, enzymes that catalyze different reactions in protein synthesis, and additional genes not directly related to the ribosome. "We think this is enough genes to replicate DNA, produce RNA and ribosomes, and have a primitive membrane," says Church."Once you get it going, it should be able to keep going if you supply it with amino acids and nucleotides [the building blocks of DNA and RNA]."
Once they get the system up and running, the researchers hope to genetically optimize it into an efficient protein factory. Protein products, such as biologic drugs, are now mostly made in vats of bacteria. "When you make proteins in live bacteria, you throw away 90 percent of the bacterial biomass just to get a few grams of protein," says David Deamer, a chemist at the University of California, Santa Cruz. "If you could do it without live organisms, it could be much more efficient."
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How to Listen
- Shortwave Radio
- Satellite Radio
The shortwave has a characteristic that makes it capable of traveling long distances by bouncing back and forth between the ionosphere, an upper layer of the earth's atmosphere, and the earth's surface. Because shortwave signal transmission is more complex than medium wave and FM, please be aware of the following important points:
What kind of radio do I need?
Please have ready an international broadcast radio capable of receiving in the frequency range of 49mb (6MHz Band) and 13mb (21MHz Band). A radio equipped to receive domestic shortwave radio service does not have a wide enough shortwave band (usually between 3.9 MHz to 12 MHz) and is not adequate to receive RADIO JAPAN.
We recommend a digital-type radio with a built-in microcomputer that shows frequencies digitally. A lot of these radios have memories that are capable of storing multiple frequencies of your choice, and they are accurate and easy to use. If you have a radio with a tuning dial that shows the frequencies on a dial display, the key to good reception is to turn the dial slowly to tune into the frequency. A slight turn of the dial can quickly change the frequency. Good shortwave reception is all about patience.
Use an antenna
We recommend the use of an antenna (which is comparable to an entryway for the signal) to ensure good reception. Please extend the telescoping antenna built-in to your radio to its fullest. If you are listening indoors, reception improves if you place the radio by a window.
If reception is poor even by the window, we recommend the use of an external antenna. Various antennas, such as an active antenna that is good for indoor reception, are available through your electric equipment retailer. It is also possible to set up a simple antenna on your own. All you need is an electric wire about four to five meters long. Wrap one end around the base of the radio antenna and let the other end hang out the window, making sure that it does not touch the building. This method is simple but can be very effective.
Other factors to be aware of
Because of the nature of the shortwave, reception quality can change depending on the season, the time and place. In general, reception during the day can be affected by interference from other sources, and improves at night. Since the shortwave is used for long-distance broadcast, sometimes it becomes difficult to hear the broadcast. If this happens, please switch to another frequency, or wait for a while. Sometimes, the steel in steel reinforced structures deadens sound waves and makes it difficult to get good reception. If this is the case, please try to move the radio around a little, or change the direction of the antenna.
Television sets, fluorescent lighting, refrigerators, computers, air conditioners and other appliances that use an electric outlet generate static and can cause sound interference. Please try to listen to your radio away from these electric appliances.
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Don’t Post Images of Your Credit Card Online
Yes, people actually do that and an account I’ve been following @NeedADebitCard aggregates credit card photos on Twitter. Not all images are relevant but many are. Credit card fraud is a serious issue as is, with all our connectivity to the World Wide Web and technology that allows us to be “social” that makes many people act irresponsibly, aggravates this.
And some people actually think there’s nothing bad in posting parts of the card. Yet, the same people have no understanding of which parts are safe to display and which are not. General rule – don’t show your credit card at all, especially online for the general public to view. I have wiped out the critical information in my version of the image as to stop the propagation of this nonsense. The cardholder pasted the image in the clear. Size is taken from the original.
This was a recent image shared via Instagram and Twitter. The person’s peers left 20+ “aww”-type comments, and nobody pointed out that it might have been a bad idea. A sane person on Twitter did so, and the cardholder responded with confidence that it was not a problem since not all the information is available. Now, see, what you get when you don’t understand the technology you use every day?
The cardholder’s screenname contained her name, so the missing name on the left side is not missing any more. The first four digits are a BIN, a Bank Identification Number (or IIN, Issuer Identification Number). We know the issuer – Capital One, it’s a MasterCard Platinum. Quick search through the many BIN lists available online yielded the first 6 digits of the card – 517805, with the last two digits to confirm a match, plus upon closer inspection you can see digits two and three of the BIN in black under the silver numbers, a 7 and an 8 (look under the finger on the left).
After pointing out the bits of “concealed” information that I’ve managed to find out in under 5 minutes, the cardholder took down the image.
Quite excellent. Even if say the last 4 digits were somehow concealed, Luhn’s Algorithm would decrease the search space quite a bit, leaving a handful of valid numbers (probably, whoever does the math gets some kudos). We’re missing the CVV, but we have the rest – issue and expiry date, photo of the card, photo of the person, and a whole bunch of other photos of the person online (identity fraud anyone?). And the CVV part is not an issue in many CNP (card-not-present) points of sale.
Is posting images of your credit card online bad? Without doubt. And teach your children to be highly responsible when using modern technology, and think twice, no matter how confident they are.
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The full experience of the Scrutinies, including the preparation and liturgical celebration is the catechesis for the newcomers’ future observance of the sacrament of Penance.
142. Because they are asking for the three sacraments of initiation, the elect must have the intention of achieving an intimate knowledge of Christ and his Church, and they are expected particularly to progress in genuine self-knowledge through serious examination of their lives and true repentance.
143. In order to inspire in the elect a desire for purification and redemption by Christ, three scrutinies are celebrated. By this means, first of all, the elect are instructed gradually about the mystery of sin, from which the whole world and every person longs to be delivered and thus saved from its present and future consequences. Second, their spirit is filled with Christ the Redeemer, who is the living water (gospel of the Samaritan woman in the first scrutiny), the light of the world (gospel of the man born blind in the second scrutiny), the resurrection and the life (gospel of Lazarus in the third scrutiny). From the first to the final scrutiny the elect should progress in their perception of sin and their desire for salvation.
The Church recognizes the importance of the stories in the fourth, ninth, and eleventh chapters of John’s gospel. These Scriptures can assist in the cultivation of an awareness of sin, as well as introduce the elect to these dimensions of Jesus Christ. Are three scrutinies enough to cultivate a lifetime practice?
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Introduced in 1983, the Today Sponge was once the most popular over-the-counter female contraceptive choice. It was taken off the market in 1995 because of problems that were found at the factory where it was made, but the rights to the sponge were bought by another company, and the sponge was re-released in 2005. The Today Sponge, which is about 89% to 91% effective, consists of polyurethane foam with spermicidal nonoxynol-9. Once moistened and inserted into the vagina, where it works as a physical barrier to the cervix and as a sperm killer, the sponge protects against pregnancy for 24 hours even with repeated intercourse. It is currently available at some retail and online pharmacies and at www.thetodaystore.us for around $30 for a 12-pack. Women who are allergic to nonoxynol-9 should not use the Today Sponge. In addition, women who use barrier methods such as the sponge, a diaphragm, or a cervical cap are at an increased risk of urinary tract infections.
It should be noted that use of nonoxynol-9 has not been shown to reduce the risk of transmission of HIV. In fact, in some studies, it has been associated with a higher HIV infection rate.
Permanent birth control
Until fairly recently, permanent birth control for women — tubal ligation — required surgery and general anesthesia. The Essure system, however, requires no incision and can be put into place in as little as 35 minutes, and it requires only local anesthesia, intravenous sedation, or, in some cases, no anesthesia at all. The system consists of small metal and polyester-fiber coils that are threaded into a woman’s Fallopian tubes through the vaginal opening via catheter. Scar tissue eventually forms over the coils, blocking the Fallopian tubes so that fertilization cannot take place. The scarring process takes about three months, during which a backup birth control method must be used. Clinical studies have shown the Essure System to be 99.8% effective after two years (data for more than two years is not yet available). The method should be used only by women who are certain that they do not wish to have children (or more children). Although information is not available on the safety or effectiveness of reversal, it is clear that an attempt would require major abdominal surgery and would likely be ineffective. The Essure system itself costs $980, but there may be other, associated costs.
Natural family planning aid
The necklace-like CycleBeads were developed by the Institute for Reproductive Health at Georgetown University to be used in conjunction with the Standard Days Method, a natural family planning method that grants a fairly wide window for conception possibility. CycleBeads consist of a string of 32 color-coded beads that correspond with levels of fertility throughout a woman’s cycle, and a ring to keep track of the passing days. Since this method is more calendar than contraception, there are no side effects. It should be used only by women whose regular cycles are 26 to 32 days long, and who are willing to abstain from intercourse or use a reliable contraceptive during their fertile days. CycleBeads cost about $13 and are available at retailers and pharmacies, as well as online at www.cyclebeads.com.
Women are not the only ones for whom new methods of birth control are being developed. A small polymer mechanism known as Vasclip now offers men who desire permanent birth control an alternative to a vasectomy. This device, which is about the size of a grain of rice, locks around each vas deferens, the vessel that transports sperm from the testes to the urethra, thereby preventing the passage of sperm to the urethra and out of the body. The procedure to insert the Vasclip devices involves making a small incision in the scrotum to access the vas deferens and then positioning the clips. The entire process takes only about 15 minutes from start to finish, and because there is no cutting or cauterizing of the vas deferens, complications such as swelling and infection are generally reduced. After the procedure, a couple still must use a backup form of birth control until it is confirmed by a doctor that the man no longer has any sperm in his semen; as with a vasectomy, it is expected that the majority of men who undergo the procedure will achieve infertility within three months. Because the operation is considered permanent, only men who are sure they do not want any (or more) children should consider having it. (In the future, the company that makes Vasclip intends to conduct studies to explore the possibility of reversing the procedure.) The device generally costs $400 to $500, plus the cost for insertion, which varies.
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FORT MILL, SC, January 03, 2013 /24-7PressRelease/
-- The green building and remodeling movement puts great emphasis on natural lighting, indoor air quality, and energy efficiency.
Moving air through our homes and distributing light can be, and usually is, accomplished by a combination of mechanical and passive means, with a fan and an open window being simple examples. But, in today's technical world, what's simple?
According to Joe Patrick, who heads national product management for VELUX America, the chimney effect achieved by creating an opening in a roof is simple. "Warm air rises. If there's an opening in the roof it will escape," Patrick says. That can be a good thing if that air is carrying volatile organic compounds (VOCs), stale air, odors, and other air-borne pollutants out.
By installing a venting skylight," Patrick says, "you create a plus where there was a negative. You've provided a source of free, healthful natural light and ventilation. And you've made your home a more attractive, brighter place with an open feeling. In other words, you've put an emphasis on natural lighting, indoor air quality, and energy efficiency."
Skylights, both the traditional type as well as tubular skylights that are growing in popularity, fit nicely with today's emphasis on green construction, in both new building and remodeling. But you've got to plan and shop carefully, position the units properly, and have a proper installation to assure the most productive and pleasant experience with skylights.
Among The Benefits
Some of the major pros of skylights are that units from leading manufacturers are as well or better made than brand name windows. They are ENERGY STAR qualified with dual pane, argon gas-injected, low-e glass that is an excellent insulator and they also block UV rays from the sun that can fade furniture.
Traditional skylights are available in fixed or venting models. "There is also the option of a complete selection of traditional accessories, including blinds and shades to control heat loss and gain while adjusting the light as desired," Patrick says.
Tubular models, such as VELUX Sun Tunnel skylights, offer passive light collected by a roof-top dome and transmitted into the home through a highly reflective rigid or flexible tube to a ceiling diffuser that looks very much like a light fixture. These units are usually less expensive and easier to install, with an experienced DIYer able to handle the job in a morning if a professional installation isn't available or desired. Optional light kits make these units functional at any time during the day or night and some "super efficient" models meet the federal government's energy efficiency criteria, qualifying them for federal tax credits of up to 30 percent of the purchase and installation cost.
Leaks should no longer be feared
Among installation factors to be aware of, Patrick says, is location and orientation of the units. This should be determined by how the suns rises and sets relative to your roof. He suggests consideration of a shading accessory to address heat gain and possible glare from the afternoon sun if your skylights face south or southwest.
"After picking the location, proper installation is the most important factor in having the best experience with skylights," Patrick says.
He adds that modern skylights make fear of leaks a thing of the past. "Quality units offer matched, pre-engineered flashing kits for shingles, tile or metal roofing materials," he says. "They are designed and engineered to prevent leaks over the full life of a roof and, properly installed, simply don't leak." In fact, Patrick's company has introduced a new ENERGY STAR@ qualified product line, marketing it as the No Leak Skylight.
"These units offer many new energy saving features plus three layers of water protection and are fully warranted," he says. "They also carry an industry-first ten-year installation warranty in addition to product coverage."
Patrick says that the growing availability of trained and certified skylight installation specialists also adds to the dependability of modern skylights.
And he points out that today's skylights contribute to energy efficiency with light and heat control as much as with ventilation by offering easily installed accessories to adjust and control light, as do vertical windows. "Venetian blinds are available to adjust light, as are roller blinds to diffuse light and blackout blinds to block light," he says. Solar blinds are also available that qualify for a 30 percent federal tax credit.
For skylight selection or installation information visit www.veluxusa.com
. For government information on window and skylight energy efficiency visit www.energystar.gov
, and for independent agency information visit www.nfrc.org
VELUX America Informational Series No. 7/10/F - Modern Skylight Benefits Outweigh Old Fears - Apx. 775 Words
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Media Information: For natural lighting/daylighting and solar water heating feature material, case histories and background information, news releases, press kits and images visit the press room/media area at veluxusa.com. Social media links for VELUX are facebook.com/veluxamerica and twitter.com/veluxamerica.---
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Edwards died Friday at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Mission Hills, a hospital spokeswoman confirmed.
"Willis was really a creative genius. He could gain access to the White House or to any chamber he wanted to. He could get doors open that others couldn't," said former U.S. Rep. Diane Watson, for whom Edwards worked as a volunteer and paid consultant in elections dating back to her races for a seat on the Los Angeles school board and state Senate in the '70s. "He was a connector, he was a doer. There was nothing impossible for Willis."
Except for an unsuccessful run in 1978 for a state Assembly seat, Edwards mainly stayed behind the scenes, but his motivation always was about civil rights, Watson said Saturday. "He saw how it would feel to be left at the back of the line, and he just wasn't going to have that," she said.
L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa also praised Edwards. "The legacy of Willis Edwards is that he made the impossible possible; he fought the unjust for justice; he spoke boldly in the places of silence; and he stood tall and fearless as a leader when others cowered," Villaraigosa said in a statement.
Beyond racial discrimination, Edwards fought another battle later in life. He nearly died of AIDS 15 years ago, at a time when even some people in the civil rights movement considered HIV a taboo subject. Edwards, who was single and never publicly discussed his sexuality or how he contracted HIV, recovered thanks to new drugs and in 2001 spoke at a national convention of the National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People about the hardships of living with HIV.
The organization's national chairwoman, Roslyn M. Brock, on Saturday said that Edwards, who served on the NAACP's national board for more than a decade, "promoted and protected the image of African Americans in the arts ... and he tore down barriers to honest conversation about HIV/AIDS in communities of color."
Edwards was elected president of the NAACP's Beverly Hills/Hollywood branch in 1982. He persuaded then-NBC President Brandon Tartikoff to nationally televise the group's Image Awards, a movie star-studded event that focused on raising the profile of blacks in front of and behind the cameras in Hollywood. But later, Edwards tangled with a black TV star.
In 1988, comedian Arsenio Hall called Edwards an "extortionist" and "tennis-shoe pimp" and alleged Edwards threatened to publicly complain that Hall had not hired enough blacks to work on his talk show unless Hall gave $40,000 to the NAACP. Edwards filed a defamation lawsuit against Hall that, Edwards said, was eventually settled for a substantial sum.
Edwards was reelected branch president in 1989 but resigned later that year amid criticism that the group's finances were not properly managed and that he took a $25,000 payment to help produce the Image Awards.
Friends described Edwards as living modestly in a Hollywood apartment, uninterested in luxury but thriving on access to celebrity and power. In a 2002 profile of Edwards in the Los Angeles Times Magazine, reporter John L. Mitchell described how Edwards elicited both admiration and contempt "for being a man who, without wealth or political office or a car or a 9-to-5 job, through raw gifts and sheer guff, insinuated himself into the highest levels of influence."
Born in Texas in 1946, Edwards was raised in Palm Springs and enrolled at Cal State L.A., where he was the first African American to be elected student body president. Drafted by the military, he was slightly wounded in a land mine explosion in the Vietnam War and was awarded a Bronze Star. He later worked as director of black student services at USC.
Edwards became active in Sen. Robert F. Kennedy's 1968 presidential campaign and was in the Ambassador Hotel celebrating his victory in the California Democratic primary when Kennedy was assassinated. He was a political ally of Tom Bradley, Los Angeles' first black mayor, who appointed Edwards to the city's Social Service Commission in 1973.
As he struggled to recover from AIDS-related weight loss and other problems in the late '90s, Edwards was visited by Parks. Revered for refusing in 1955 to give up her seat on an Alabama bus to a white passenger, Parks sought Edwards' help for her civil rights institute. He generated publicity for her and escorted her down the red carpet at the Academy Awards in 1998. Besides playing a role in allying her with the Clintons, Edwards helped lobby for Parks to receive the Congressional Gold Medal and for her casket to lie in honor in the Rotunda of the Capitol in Washington after her 2005 death. "Rosa Parks stands for something," he told The Times in 2002.
Edwards is survived by a sister, Brenda, and a brother, Frank, along with nieces and nephews. Funeral arrangements are pending.
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By Noel Sheppard
Created 04/12/2010 - 10:29
On Sunday's 65th anniversary of the liberation of Nazi concentration camps, a new report was released showing that anti-Semitic violence around the world more than doubled in 2009.
Despite this disturbing confluence of events, with very few exceptions, American media couldn't have cared less.
Such seems almost impossible given all the press focus on supposed racism and the as yet unrealized increase in violence caused by average Americans attending Tea Parties.
With that in mind, given Sunday's anniversary, try to explain why so-called journalists in the states missed this stunning report first revealed by JTA:
Anti-Semitic incidents around the world more than doubled in 2009 over the previous year, posting their worst year since monitoring began two decades ago, according to a new survey.
The total number of anti-Semitic incidents was 1,129 in 2009, compared to 559 in 2008, according to a report released Sunday by the Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Anti-Semitism and Racism at Tel Aviv University. The record number of incidents -- cases that show clear anti-Semitic content and intention -- included 566 incidents of vandalism of Jewish property, which constituted 49 percent of all incidents. Hundreds of incidents against Jewish people and property did not meet the criteria, according to the institute. Incidents also go unreported.
In Europe, Britain and France led with the number of incidents, according to the report. There were 374 violent incidents against Jews recorded in Britain in 2009, compared to 112 in 2008, according to the institute. France saw 195 attacks in 2009 compared to 50 the previous year. Britain and France have the highest Jewish populations in Europe, as well as the largest Muslim populations.
The Jerusalem Post later elaborated :
"The year in the wake of Operation Cast Lead was the worst since monitoring of anti-Semitic manifestations began, in terms of both major anti-Semitic violence and the hostile atmosphere generated worldwide by the mass demonstrations and verbal and visual expressions against Israel and the Jews," the report said.
The report, considered an important bellwether of anti-Jewish sentiment worldwide, was released ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day in cooperation with the European Jewish Congress (EJC).
Among its most dramatic findings was a 102 percent increase in anti-Jewish violence worldwide, from 559 incidents in 2008 to 1,129 in 2009.
In addition, there were "many more hundreds of threats, insults, graffiti signs and slogans and demonstrations featuring virulently anti-Semitic content... sometimes resulting in violence," according to the report.
A significant part of this increase took place in the UK, where violence jumped from 112 incidents in 2008 to 374 last year; in France, where the jump was from 50 to 195, and in Canada, where incidents soared from 13 to 138.
The US, which ordinarily enjoys a very low rate of anti-Jewish violence compared to the size of its Jewish community, nonetheless saw a modest rise, from 98 to 116 incidents.
In some countries, these figures are only the latest spike in a continuing trend. The British Jewish community's monitoring system counted a three-fold increase in anti-Semitic occurrences since 1999, while Canada counted a five-fold increase since 2000.
Most violent attacks in Western Europe came from people of Arab or Muslim heritage, the report found
Might that be the reason American media largely boycotted this story? After all, it's not very politically correct these days to report anything negative about Muslims.
Whatever the reason, Google News and LexisNexis searches identified only the Associated Press, UPI, and the Boston Globe reported these findings.
Amazingly, according to LexisNexis, not one television news outlet thought this study was at all newsworthy despite Sunday's liberation anniversary.
Of course, recent history has shown American media only concerned with acts of violence when they fit into an agenda being advanced.
Sickening isn't it?
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Yesterday, Adidas gave into to public pressure and shelved its proposed JS Roundhouse Mid, a new sneaker with an accompanying plastic shackle. Adidas is a flagship sponsor for the 2012 Olympics in London—they're even making Team Great Britain's uniforms—and they didn't want to spark an uproar.
While the German company – which unveiled its Stella McCartney-designed kit for British athletes last month – hopes to make £100m from its Olympic lines, the mainly young, female factory employees work up to 65 hours (25 hours more than the standard working week), for desperately low pay. They also endure verbal and physical abuse, they allege, are forced to work overtime, and are punished for not reaching production targets. None of the nine factories pays its employees a living wage – about 20 per cent higher than the official minimum wage – one of the cornerstones of the Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) base code, an internationally recognised labour code adopted by the Olympics organising committee, Locog. Workers struggle to survive on pay as low as 5,000 rupiah (34p) an hour, skipping meals to save money, and sending their children away to be looked after by grandparents[...]"It's hard to get permission even to go to the bathroom; we're tied to our seats," said Yuliani, a 23-year-old seamstress, speaking metaphorically.
Those wages (34 pence is about 54 cents) are lower than those that called Oxfam Australia to action in 2005. So, despite a decade of occasional media attention, things haven't improved.
There are protests planned in London, and for their part, Olympic organizers say they're taking the claims "extremely seriously" and are "deeply concerned." (Their concern shouldn't make anyone feel much better.) Adidas, however, says that The Independent's investigation was poorly sourced and inaccurate.
Every Olympics, there's something murky to thwart the host city's sunshiney glee. A sweatshop-dependent sponsor assuredly makes things gloomy. Why'd London even bother with the fake clouds for the opening ceremony?
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Welcome to Efficiency Smart™
Working together to save money for individuals and businesses through energy efficiency.
Efficiency Smart is an energy efficiency program that assists individuals and businesses in lowering their power bills by providing technical assistance and financial incentives for equipment and systems that improve electrical efficiency. Visit the For Your Home section to learn about incentives and discounts available to eligible residential customers or the For Your Business section for information about services available to eligible commercial and industrial customers.
Nearly 50 communities subscribe to Efficiency Smart’s services. Find out if your municipal utility is one of them.
What does Efficiency Smart offer?
Efficiency Smart provides technical assistance and financial incentives (including rebates) directly to customers of participating utilities to help them reduce the cost of making energy-efficient improvements.
Efficiency Smart has a staff of energy specialists, engineers, market specialists and customer service representatives ready to provide assistance in identifying energy efficiency opportunities. Efficiency Smart also works with vendors, suppliers and contractors to make it easier for you to find and install products that will reduce your energy usage and lower your power bills.
Watch what others are saying about Efficiency Smart.
How does Efficiency Smart work?
Communities that subscribe to Efficiency Smart’s services help to fund the program in return for a specific energy savings target based on the characteristics of their community. The savings achieved through energy efficiency are more cost-effective than purchasing additional power supply. Efficiency Smart tracks and reports these savings in every participating community, which are later verified by a third-party evaluator.
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Even for the lucky few creatures that are preserved in the fossil record, soft tissues such as skin and feathers typically disappear over time. But a newly developed technique has found a way to bring them back to life in some cases. Researchers have now used the approach to resurrect the teeth and recognize the carcass of a 50-million-year-old fossil of a lizard, long thought to be merely preserved remnants of skin shed from the reptile.
"This is incredibly uncharted territory," says Gregory Erickson, a vertebrate paleontologist at Florida State University in Tallahassee. "This technique reveals that there's literally more to fossils than meets the eye."
Discovered in the 1980s, the lizard fossil is one of only two known examples of reptile skin unearthed from the Green River Formation of the western United States, a finely layered mudstone best known for its exquisite fish fossils. Even though soft tissues are incredibly rare in the fossil record, being preserved only in unusual environmental circumstances, this lizard fossil survived the ages, says Phillip Manning, a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. It's easy to see the remnants of individual scales in the skin, but the rock doesn't include any visible remains of bones or other hard tissue—a combination that led researchers to believe that the skin had been shed by a living creature and then preserved.
But recently, to learn more about the fossil, Manning and his colleagues turned to a relatively new x-ray analysis technique—dubbed synchrotron rapid scanning x-ray fluorescence—with surprising results. Instead of enabling scientists to see inside or through rock, he notes, the intense x-rays produced by this technique cause particular elements or compounds to fluoresce, revealing previously unrecognized chemical remnants that are invisible to the naked eye but persist in the rocks at very low concentrations.
When the researchers illuminated the fossil with x-rays that cause sulfur and copper to fluoresce, the skin remnants showed up in remarkable detail. But when they lit the fossil with x-rays that cause phosphorus to glow, the technique revealed many small spots in the lizard's head where that element was concentrated—regularly spaced spots that appear where the creature's jaws would have been. The arrangement prompted the researchers to interpret the traces of phosphorus as the chemical remnants of teeth. Because lizards don't shed their teeth when they molt their skin, the technique reveals the unusual fossil to be the partially preserved remnants of a full carcass, the researchers report online this month in Applied Physics A: Materials Science & Processing.
The fossil's state of preservation reveals a lot about the environmental conditions where the carcass ended up, presumably after being washed into the lake soon after it died. Lake-bottom waters at this particular spot likely had little or no oxygen, enabling preservation of the skin. But the waters apparently were also acidic, which totally dissolved the creature's bones and left only scant traces of its teeth. The chemical vestiges of the teeth were most likely preserved because tooth enamel typically has a low concentration of organic matter and large crystals of phosphate minerals, both of which render the teeth more resistant to decay.
The x-ray technique the team used "will open the curtain to a whole new way of studying extinct animals and the conditions in which they lived and died," Manning says. Another benefit of the approach, he notes, is that it's nondestructive.
Previous studies using the technique have revealed the chemical residues of pigments in feathers, providing insight into the color patterns that ancient birds might have sported. The technique also offers the opportunity to discern remnants of soft tissues that are only rarely preserved, such as the pigment-filled retinas of eyes, the ink sacs of ancient squid, and possibly other tissues such as muscles—at least as far as the naked eye is concerned.
Results of the new study "are fantastically interesting," says Mark Norell, a vertebrate paleontologist at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. "There's a whole lot more preserved with fossils than we ever thought there was."
Erickson agrees. "This technique will prompt paleontologists to revisit a lot of classic fossils," he says. "Who knows what got missed during the first 150 years of paleontology?"
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Inventories and appraisals of Johnson's estate taken between 1917 and 1918 make up most of the documentation in this series. The inventory and appraisal are one document, with valuations listed alongside the itemized property. The full title of the first inventory taken in 1917 is "Inventory and appraisal of the paintings and other artistic property, books and other literary property, household goods and personal effects left by the late John G. Johnson, Esquire, Philadelphia, PA." Inventoried on a room by room basis, the document records not only Johnson's belongings but also the types of rooms and other areas that made up his four-story, plus basement, home. The addenda and supplementary addenda to the 1917 document are similarly formatted. At the time these documents were executed, duplicates were made of those pertaining to his "paintings and other artistic property." As noted on the document covers, these were prepared for: the City of Philadelphia, recipient of Johnson's art bequest; the Pennsylvania Company, Trustee of Johnson's residuary estate; and Frank P. Prichard, Esq. (1953-1918). Prichard may have been legal counsel to the Trustee. For thirty years, he practiced law with Johnson. After Johnson's death, he and several other associates took over Johnson's practice and established the firm, Prichard, Saul, Bayard & Evans. The firm was a precursor to Saul Ewing, which continues to represent the Trustee.
Some of the duplicates were later annotated by curatorial staff, Trustee representatives and an appraiser who served as the official court examiner. Their charge was to inventory the Johnson Collection in 1955, which they checked against the original estate documents. In addition to their annotations, which are primarily check (or tick) marks, red ink stamps indicate objects for family retention. Curator Barbara Sweeny made additional notations in 1970 and 1971 of the prices realized at auction of certain objects that had always been kept in storage.
The series also includes bound copies of Johnson's will, with photocopies of same, and inventories and appraisals of Johnson's residuary property (items unrelated to art) and investments.
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Ichabod or Ebenezer, two very different names we find in scripture. Two names that can either accuse us or affirm us. the question is, which one best describes our walk with our God?
We find Ichabod in 1Samuel 4:22. Israel had acted presumptuously by taking the Ark of God into battle. Now this was a common thing to do in ancient times. The warring factions would each carry a representation of their god into battle believing the stronger of the gods would prevail thereby giving that particular gods people the victory.
In Israel’s case, they had been recently defeated in battle. They presumed wrongly that it may have been since they didn’t have the Ark of the LORD with them. They may have been remembering the battle of Jericho. In that particular case, God himself gave the order to carry the Ark as the Israelites circled Jericho. Joshua and Israel were acting in obedience to the command of the LORD.
At this time in Israel’s history they were not being obedient to the LORD and the disobedience started with God’s priest Eli. Eli’s sons were living a life of sin while also serving as priests of God. People of that day were the same as we are today. They responded to fraud in the ministry and followed the leadership into sin. They had forgotten or ignored the promises of God given previously. Instead of coming to God in repentance and prayer, they tried to figure out their problem on their own. When we do things our way we risk the name Ichabod that is; “The Glory has departed from Israel”, or in our case we have broken fellowship with God.
We as humans are prone to do this. We look to ourselves for solutions to our needs rather than going to God and then waiting on God. Two of the greatest examples of this are Abraham and Joshua. Abraham listened to his wife and didn’t wait on God’s promise. (Genesis 16) The result was Ishmael and the still on going misery we see today from the result of that sin. Then we see Joshua making a covenant with the Gibeonites in Joshua 9. Joshua’s problem was simple, he never asked God about these apparent travellers from “a distant country”. Why is this an issue? Exodus 34:12 -16 “Watch yourself that you make no covenant with the inhabitants of the land into which you are going, or it will become a snare in your midst. “But rather, you are to tear down their altars and smash their sacred pillars and cut down their Asherim—for you shall not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God— otherwise you might make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land and they would play the harlot with their gods and sacrifice to their gods, and someone might invite you to eat of his sacrifice, and you might take some of his daughters for your sons, and his daughters might play the harlot with their gods and cause your sons also to play the harlot with their gods”.
Now we understand that both Abraham and Joshua were men after God’s heart, but they were still men. They fell into Adam’s sin, that is, running their own lives and not allowing God to lead. They, like the Israelites of Samuel’s time were guilty of the sin of presumption.
Now move forward to Samuel 7. Here we see how to live before God and seek His will. Samuel led the revival and repentance of Israel. As much as Eli misled the people, Samuel led them correctly. They put away their idols, fasted, prayed and repented. They were still scared of the Phillistines, but they went on into the battle asking Samuel to be in constant prayer. The result was; “Now Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, and the Philistines drew near to battle against Israel. But the LORD thundered with a great thunder on that day against the Philistines and confused them, so that they were routed before Israel”. 1Samuel 7:10 What a difference a prayer makes. By the way, the Ark of the LORD was nowhere in sight.
As a result of the battle a lesson was learned. Samuel set up a memorial stone to remind the Israelite nation of God’s help. He raised his Ebenezer, that is “the LORD has helped us”. This stone may be considered what Hebrews refers to as “types and shadows of things to come” or a Christophany ( an image that represents Christ).
In the New Testament Christ is referred to as a cornerstone, Matt 21:42; a stone of stumbling and offense, Matt 21:44. We the church are the stones built upon Him.
Now as to our daily walk with Christ, which name most describes your walk with Christ?
Is your current condition like Ichabod? You feel so alone that you think God has deserted you? If that is the case, turn around and repent. Let your walk with God be revived and renewed. Turn around He’s waiting on you.
Is Christ your Ebenezer? Praise God, do not take it for granted. You were created with a purpose. God has a plan for you. Keep seeking and serving.
If you are lost and separated from God, then I leave you with this. Your life will never have any meaning apart from Christ. Turn to Him in faith, trusting Him only to save you. Let him become your Ebenezer.
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CHROMIUM IN TANNERY EFFLUENT AND ITS RECOVERY
Akash Deep, S.N. Tandon*, A.R. Khwaja
(Department of Chemistry, University of Roorkee, Roorkee, UP,247667, INDIA)
*Corresponding author, Email : email@example.com
The paper embodies studies on the recovery of pure chromium from spent chrome liquor(SCL) of tanneries employing solvent extraction - electrowinning (SX-EW). A toluene solution of bis(2,4,4-trimethylpentyl) dithiophosphinic acid (Cyanex 301) has been used to separate Cr(III) from Fe(III), Co(II), Ni(II) and Cu(II) which are present as impurities in SCL. All these impurities were extracted in the organic phase leaving pure Cr(III) in the aqueous layer. The extractant has been regenerated by washing it with 6M H2SO4 followed by water. Before subjecting SCL to solvent extraction MgO precipitation step has been introduced to concentrate Cr(III) to around 7g/l. The chromium deposit from the trivalent bath is around 99% pure. The cathode efficiency is around 44%. Effects of various parameters on the extraction and deposition have been investigated.
The leather industry has shown a phenomenal growth during the past few decades, particularly in developing countries like India. The tanning activity is vital for this industry. and is one of the largest polluters among the various activities. The chrome tanning is more popular than the vegetable tanning and thus the effluents emerging out of the factory are invariably loaded with trivalent chromium. Sludges formed as a result of chrome recovery process or basic tanning activities have been found to contain an elevated concentration of chromium1. The release of chromium is not only damaging the environment but also causing a substantial financial loss. It is estimated that in India alone almost ten million US dollars worth of chromium is wasted every year. A number of technologies to recover chromium from such effluents have been proposed but none seems to be attractive to put it to actual practice2-4. The present project is an effort in this direction whereby pure chromium is recovered from chrome tanning effluent. It is estimated that the cost involved in the recovery of chromium will be met by the higher cost of pure metal. Needless to say, the acceptability of the proposed procedure will also minimize the ongoing damage to the environment.
Solvent extraction is a well known technique for the separation of the dissolved metals and has been employed for the purification of Cr(III) of spent chrome liquor which contains Fe(III) as the major impurity with traces of Mn(II), Co(II), Ni(II) and Cu(II). Electrowinning of chromium from Cr(VI) baths has been practised since long. The tanning industry uses basic Cr(III) salt and thus the electrodeposition of chromium from such an effluent will need an additional oxidation step thereby adding to the cost of the process. Also the toxicity, low cathodic efficiency and high concentration requirements of Cr(VI) discourage the use of hexavalent chromium baths. In the recent years, there has been a growing interest in developing electrodeposition procedure employing Cr(III) solution5-10 but the development of an efficient and convenient electrodeposition procedure for commercial use still remains the need of the hour.
In the present paper experiments have been performed at the laboratory scale to recover Cr(III) from SCL using solvent extraction-electrowinning. Bis(2,4,4-trimethylpentyl)dithiophosphinic acid [Cyanex 301], a known commercial extractant11-18, has been employed for the decontamination of Cr(III) solution from Fe(III), Co(II), Ni(II) and Cu(II). The presence of Mn(II) does not affect the cathodic deposition of pure chromium from a Cr(III) bath19. Since the concentration of Cr(III) in SCL is much lower than that required for electrodeposition the metal is concentrated at the initial stage by MgO precipitation. After concentration and subsequent purification by solvent extraction the solution is subjected to electrodeposition. It is known that the alkali and alkaline earths metals do no codeposit with chromium in Cr(III) baths20. Semibright nodular deposits of around 99% purity have been obtained with a cathode efficiency » 44%.
1. Methodology :
To study the extraction behaviour of the relevant metal ions in Cyanex 301 sulphates of Cr(III), Mn(II), Fe(III), Co(II), Ni(II) and Cu(II) used were analytical grade material from E.Merck/BDH, India. MgO used for the concentration was laboratory grade material of S.D. Fine Chemicals, India. All other chemicals and solvents were Analytical/Synthetic Grade materials from E.Merck/Qualigens, India.
Spent Chrome Liquor was obtained from a large size tannery at Kanpur, (UP), INDIA.
A well type NaI(Tl) scintillation counter (ECIL, INDIA) was used for the measurement of 51Cr activity for the distribution studies. The studies on the distribution of other metal ions and analysis of metals containing waste were carried out using a ICP-AES (Plasma Labtum, Australia) or AAS (Perkin Elmer, USA).
The electrolytic cell used for the deposition studies was a rectangular pyrex glass trough (250 ml.) in which a G-4 (porous disk 1.2 mm thick) pyrex glass sintered crucible (25 ml.) was fixed to one of its sides. This sintered glass crucible formed the anodic compartment and was filled with 0.10 M H2SO4. The anode was a silver cylinder (surface area = 20 cm2). The remaining part of the trough containing purified SCL forms the cathodic compartment; the cathode being a rotating (50 - 100 rotations per minutes) circular copper disc of surface area 3.14 cm2. A 20 volt DC supply provided with a digital voltmeter and an ammeter was used as the source of power.
2. Procedure :
(a) Sample Pre-treatment
A 250 ml. aliquot of SCL was treated with 1% (w/w) slurry of MgO until a pH 7-8 was attained. The chromium containing precipitate was recovered by decanting the supernatant. The precipitation cycle was repeated 5 times to concentrate Cr(III) to the required level of concentration. The precipitate was finally dissolved in 10 ml. 6M H2SO4 and made up to a known volume.
(b) Distribution Studies
To study the distribution behaviour of the metal ions equal volumes of aqueous and organic phases (Cyanex 301 in an appropriate diluent) were shaken at room temperature (25 ± 30 C) for five minutes. The two phases were separated and suitable aliquot of each phase was analyzed by ICP-AES/AAS or assayed for radioactivity.
(c) Deposition Studies
The electrodeposition parameters were optimized by using a chromium sulphate solution maintained at a pH of the sulphuric acid filled in the anodic compartment. Appropriate DC potential was applied through the electrodes to attain the required current density. After deposition the material of the cathode was carefully scrapped, washed with water and methanol and dried.
The different results reported are a minimum of three runs. Blank determinations were carried out wherever necessary.
RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS
1. Extraction Studies :
(a) Extraction Behaviour
The extraction behaviour of Cr(III) alongwith Mn(II), Fe(III), Co(II), Ni(II) and Cu(II) from 1.0 x 10-3 to 6.0 M H2SO4 in 0.10 M toluene solution of Cyanex 301 is given in the fig.1. The extraction of the Cr(III) and Mn(II) is negligible (<3%) over the entire investigated range and not depicted in the plot. Cu(II) is almost quantitatively extracted (>95%) over the entire range of acid molarity while Fe(III), Co(II) and Ni(II) show a decreasing extraction with the increasing acid molarity. The above behaviour has been utilized for the separation of Cr(III). By carrying out a double extraction at 5.0 x 10-3 H2SO4 Fe(III), Co(II), Ni(II) and Cu(II) were extracted in the organic phase leaving Cr(III) in the aqueous layer .
(b) Diluent Effect
The diluent effect was investigated by studying the extraction of Fe(III) in 0.10M Cyanex 301 solution at 0.01M H2SO4. It was observed that toluene shows lower extraction (»80%) than n-hexane (»88%), petroleum fraction of hexane (»87%) and kerosene 160 - 2000C (»91%). But all further studies were carried out with toluene as a diluent because of faster phase separations in this diluent. It is two to three minutes with toluene compared to approximately one and a half hour with other diluents.
The loaded extractant after the separation of Cr(III) contains Fe(III)/ Co(II)/ Ni(II) and Cu(II) as impurities. The metal ions from organic phase were removed by using following stripping agents
(i) Fe(III) and Co(II) stripped by 2(volumes) x 6.0 M H2SO4
(ii) Ni(II) stripped by 2(volumes) x 5.0% NH4Cl in NH3
(iii) Cu(II) stripped by 2(volumes) x concentrated HNO3
Fe(III) is a major impurity in SCL therefore in the actual Cr(III) recovery process the organic phase was washed only with 6.0 M H2SO4 to remove it.
(d) Recycling Capacity and Hydrolytic Stability of the Extractant
Experiments were conducted on successive extraction-stripping cycles for 1.0 x 10-3 M Fe(III) from 5.0 x 10-2 M H2SO4 employing two volumes of 0.10 M toluene solution of Cyanex 301. The organic phase after stripping Fe(III) with 6.0M H2SO4 was regenerated by washing it with water until the washings were neutral. The recovery of each step was calculated from the amount of Fe(III) that is extracted in the organic phase in that particular cycle. The results show practically insignificant change in the efficiency of the regenerated extractant thus establishing its utility for commercial use. Hydrolytic stability of Cyanex 301 against the prolonged contacts with H2SO4 is well documented21.
2. Deposition Studies :
(a) Effect of Cr(III) Concentration on the Deposition Rate
Experiments were conducted to observe the effect of Cr(III) concentration on the deposition rate. Results of a total run of one hour revealed that a minimum of 5g/L of Cr(III) is required to achieve a cathode efficiency of around 43%. Beyond this level of Cr(III) concentration the deposition rate becomes constant and does not alter with the increasing Cr(III) concentration.
(b) Effect of Current Density on the Deposition Rate
The results of the effect of current density on the deposition rate revealed that an increase in the current density results in higher deposition rates. However, an average current density of 125-175 mA cm-2 was maintained for deposition. A higher current density than this leads to blackish deposits with the evolution of gas at the anode.
(c) Effect of Additive on Deposition Rate
It was observed that the addition of sodium sulphate to the catholyte improves the current density. The results indicate that a minimum ratio of 7 : 1 (w/w) of chromium to the additive should be maintained.
3. Recovery of Chromium from Purified SCL :
After precipitation the concentrated Cr(III) solution was subjected to solvent extraction employing 0.10M toluene solution of Cyanex 301. This procedure gives Cr(III) solutions of around 99% purity with respect to the transition metal ion impurities. The pH of this solution containing appropriate amount of Na2SO4 was adjusted to 1.4 and it was fed to the electrolytic cell as catholyte while the anolyte was H2SO4 solution (pH 1.4). During the electrolysis the concentration of Cr(III) and H+ ions in the bath was maintained. The deposited chromium metal shows a purity of around 99%.
The present study conducted at the bench scale offers a method for obtaining pure chromium from chromium laden waste of tanneries. The procedure employs precipitation, solvent extraction and electrowinning steps. It may not be difficult to scale up all the three steps. It is expected that by following the cited procedure the loss of a large amount of chromium can be avoided. Moreover, the environment pollution due to chromium can be minimized. However, the efficacy of the method at a large scale is still to be tested.
Thanks are due to Cytec Industries, Canada for providing Cyanex 301 as a gift. Financial support of All India Council of Technical Education, New Delhi, India is gratefully acknowledged.
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Just the Right Amount of God
From the January 31, 2005 issue: George Bush delivers the most philosophical inaugural address ever.
Jan 31, 2005, Vol. 10, No. 19 • By JOSEPH BOTTUM
"WHO IS YOUR FAVORITE political philosopher?" a group of Republican candidates were asked early in the 2000 race for president. And the frontrunner at the time, a Texas governor named George W. Bush, calmly answered, "Christ, because he changed my life."
Well. You could barely hear the other candidates' answers in the crash and clatter of overturned chairs as reporters scrambled to reach the phones and call in the story. Some commentators decided Bush was nakedly pandering to Evangelical voters in a Machiavellian ploy so bold that he should have said his favorite political philosopher was, um, Machiavelli.
Most of the nation's chatterers, however, decided that this wasn't the devious Bush but the stupid Bush. Couldn't he come up with the name of an actual philosopher? Plato had a scribble called the Republic, Aristotle managed to jot down a few notes on politics, and in the long years since the ancient Greeks there have been a few other philosophical types who've set out a thought or two on the political order. A little more study time--a little less fraternizing with his drinking buddies--and Bush might have heard their names while he was an undergraduate, even at Yale.
And then there was the mockery the candidate faced for his confusion of piety with philosophy. The holy name of Jesus doesn't have much purchase on people for whom "Christian" is mostly shorthand for "life-denying bigots who want to burn all the books they're too ignorant to read." Besides, from Genesis to Revelation, the Bible that Bush claims to follow manifests deep suspicion of the philosophical. The Lord will do "a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder," as the prophet Isaiah put it, "for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid." If Bush understood the Book of Acts, he'd remember the Apostle Paul didn't have much success preaching the Resurrection to philosophers in Athens.
Bad theology, bad philosophy, and bad politics--this was the high-minded consensus at the time. The identification of Jesus as a life-changing political philosopher was either a stroke of electoral genius, or a mark of jaw-dropping feeblemindedness, or--well, that's always been the problem for Bush's opponents, hasn't it? "I can't believe I'm losing to this idiot," John Kerry whined to his aides during the 2004 campaign, and George W. Bush still remains impenetrable to those who persist in seeing him as some impossible combination of Dr. Evil and Forrest Gump. Anyway, the consensus was that he didn't mean--couldn't mean--anything philosophical by his answer to a reporter's question.
Funny thing. On a cold, bright day in January 2005, with the sun off the snow crinkling his eyes, President Bush gave his second inaugural address. And it seems he did actually mean what he had said before. The speech was as clear an assertion of a particular Christian political philosophy as we're likely to hear in these latter days. "We go forward with complete confidence in the eventual triumph of freedom," the president declared. "Not because history runs on the wheels of inevitability; it is human choices that move events. Not because we consider ourselves a chosen nation; God moves and chooses as He wills. We have confidence because freedom is the permanent hope of mankind, the hunger in dark places, the longing of the soul."
There's even a name for this kind of theistical philosophy. It's called natural law. An inaugural address, by its very national purpose, walks the tightrope between powerful abstractions and empty platitudes, and sometimes it's hard to tell the difference. "In America's ideal of freedom, the exercise of rights is ennobled by service, and mercy, and a heart for the weak," Bush said, and is that a truth or a truism? A wrenching call to greatness or a self-congratulatory pat on the back?
A little of both, no doubt. But the most interesting things in Bush's inaugural rhetoric are the moments where justifications are offered for the various truths and truisms. The chain of explanation in his speech is always the logical progression of the natural-law argument. "Americans, of all people, should never be surprised by the power of our ideals," Bush insisted. And why? Because there is, in fact, a universal human nature: "Eventually, the call of freedom comes to every mind and every soul." If "across the generations we have proclaimed the imperative of self-government," the reason must reside in the enduring essence of human beings as simultaneously corruptible and morally valuable: "Because no one is fit to be a master, and no one deserves to be a slave."
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Salmon, Trout & Charr
Author: Rupert Watson
Reviewed by Martin Joergensen Two things attracted me by this book: the pictures and the price. I could have ordered it online in Paul Morgan's excellent Welsh book store Coch-y-Bonddu Books, but I actually found it in Paul's booth at The Danish Fly Festival for UKŁ12.95. That seemed like a bargain, and I still feel that I got a lot for my money. You can now find it online or in his catalog for even less: UKŁ 9.95 (about 18 US$ or 15€).
The pictures in the book was the first thing that attracted me. Good color photos and black and white photos and illustrations are spread out generously through its more than 300 pages and I'm particularly mesmerized by the under water shots, which are excellent all the way through.
The book covers close to all aspects of salmonids, which can be of any interest to anglers - and then some. But it is of course only natural history - nothing on fishing or flies, but a lot about food items and feeding strategies.
After having savored the pictures I started reading. Going for my favorite species - the sea trout - I searched the index and found the reference: pages 101-103. I skipped to that section only to realise that I had stumbled right into one of the section of the book with no pictures or other illustrations.
That put me on the track of one of the problems which I have with the book: long, unbroken pieces of text. I miss some structure in the text where it's not broken up by pictures. A few more small headings and subheadings would have been nice.
But the book does obviously draw on a scientific writing tradition. Not that it is difficult to read, but the way it attacks a subject brings back memories from my time at the biology section of the University of Copenhagen. Not that that is a bad thing, but just to ephasize that reading it from cover to cover will be demanding.
The book is well structured on the large scale, with chapters on each of the major species: Atlantic salmon, brown trout, Arctic charr, lake charr, brook char, cutthroat and the Pacific salmon species covered in a couple of chapters. I have used the book many times to check facts on different occasions. In the beginning I'd just run through it to stumble over something interesting - of which there is a lot in the book.
Altogether it's more than worth its price.
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October 12, 2010
Bethlehem medical-device maker B. Braun Medical Inc. Tuesday announced that the antibiotic Cefepime is available in the company's Duplex Drug Delivery System. B. Braun's Duplex Drug Delivery System are ready-to-use IV containers that store pre-measured pharmaceuticals and diluent that can be stored at room temperature and fit in automated medication dispensing systems. The system helps reduce errors and make treatment more efficient, the company said. B. Braun received regulatory approval to sell Cefepime earlier this year, and it became available for sale Tuesday.
August 3, 2010
Regarding the July 25 article concerning eating animals that are antibiotic-free: Animal-food industries use antibiotics not to promote growth but to prevent diseases in factory-farmed animals raised by the tens of thousands in a single confinement area. These diseases are very likely to crop up in the extreme confinement conditions under which cows, calves, pigs, chickens, ducks, turkeys and geese are raised. Any disease in one animal is extremely likely to spread through all of the overcrowded animals, resulting in losses to the farmer and the deaths of tens or hundreds of thousands of animals.
June 7, 2010
Q. I'd like to know what's good to eat to help lower triglycerides, cholesterol and LDL. My husband has four coronary arteries blocked and will have surgery next week. I need to know what I can cook to help him recover his health. A. For decades, red meat was considered a prime culprit in the development of heart disease. A new analysis from Harvard University of 20 studies involving more than 1 million individuals suggests that unprocessed meat is not linked to clogged arteries (Circulation online, May 17, 2010)
January 24, 2009
I am a big fan of Wegmans. However, while I'm sure its intentions are good, the free antibiotics offer is possibly doing more harm than it realizes. Antibiotitics are often prescribed when they are not really necessary and there can be allergic reactions and side effects. Taking antibiotics when unnecessary can deplete one's immune system. I hope this doesn't encourage people to pressure doctors for prescriptions they do not really need so they have some on hand. I take antibiotics only when absolutely necessary.
July 31, 2007
SUN, YES. ANTIBIOTICS, NO If you catch a summer cold or have any other reason to be taking antibiotics this season, be aware that they can make your skin even more sensitive to the sun. Experts say the combination of meds and sun can cause unusual darkening of the skin called hyperpigmentation. To avoid it, always use at least an SPF15 sunscreen with either zinc or titanium oxide, even if you're just walking around outside. If you see any hyperpigmentation, treat it with glycolic acid or calendula cream, but the fading process is slow.
September 8, 2005
Three inmates at Northampton County Prison have been diagnosed with an infection that has caused problems at other prisons across the state, and four other prisoners have suspected cases. The prisoners are suffering from a staph infection that cannot be treated with some antibiotics. It is called methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, commonly referred to as MRSA. The infection killed two ill prisoners earlier this year at Allegheny County Jail in Pittsburgh. In Bucks County, 13 lawsuits were filed by inmates and prison employees after infections there.
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(Sidewheel Steamer: tonnage 974; length 205'; beam 35'; depth of hold 12'; draft 8'10"; speed 13 knots; complement 160; armament 2 100-pounder Parrott rifles, 4 9-inch Dahlgren smoothbores, 2 20-pounder Parrott rifles, 2 24-pounder howitzers, 1 heavy 12-pounder smoothbore)
Shamrock – a double-ended side wheel gunboat built at the New York Navy Yard – was launched on St. Patrick's Day, 17 March 1863; sponsored by. Miss Sallie Bryant, daughter of William Cullen Bryant, editor-in-chief of the New York Evening Post; and commissioned on 13 June 1864, Comdr. William H. Macomb in command.
The next day, Shamrock was ordered to proceed directly to the sounds of North Carolina for duty in that area as part of the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron. At that time, Union naval forces in the sounds were threatened by the Confederate ironclad ram Albemarle, which in April had sunk Union side wheel steamer, Southfield, and had enabled Southern forces to recapture Plymouth, N.C.
On 20 June 1864, Shamrock reached Hatteras Inlet where orders awaited her to enter Albemarle Sound and take station off the mouth of the Roanoke River to guard against the reappearance of the formidable Rebel ram. For the next four months, Shamrock's operations concentrated on protecting Union shipping from Albemarle, that lay undergoing repairs up the Roanoke.
Late in October, she served as the mother ship for the steam launch that Lt. William B. Cushing had brought to the sounds from New York City to attack Albemarle. On the night of 27 and 28 October, the launch - partly manned by volunteers from Shamrock and towing Shamrock's cutter - ascended the Roanoke and exploded a spar torpedo against the ram's port quarter. Just before the explosion, Cushing ordered the cutter to cast off. Albermarle and the launch sank quickly and, for the first time since spring, Union naval forces enjoyed undisputed control of the North Carolina sounds.
When the fortunate Cushing made his way back and reported his success, Comdr. Macomb - the senior naval officer in the area - promptly took advantage of his new ascendency and attacked Plymouth. Shamrock, lashed to tug Bazely, led a fleet through the winding channels of Middle River on 30 October and the next day engaged the town's batteries and rifle pits from close range. Commodore Hull suffered heavy damage in the violent battle that ensued. After the Union bombardment detonated a large magazine, the Confederate defenders evacuated the fortress. Soon a landing party raised the Stars and Stripes over Plymouth.
Through the ensuing winter, Comdr. Macomb, in Shamrock, directed operations in the sounds, assuring the Union control of these strategic waters as General Ulysses S. Grant relentlessly tightened his grip on Richmond, and General William T. Sherman pushed his army northward from Georgia through the Carolinas. On 20 March 1865, Macomb reported the raising of Albemarle.
Shamrock remained in the sounds directing affairs afloat in the area for several months after the Confederate collapse. In mid-summer, she returned north and was decommissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 15 August 1865.
Recommissioned on 17 October 1865, Shamrock next served in the Caribbean and was one of the nine ships comprising the West Indies Squadron that was reestablished on 2 December. The following year, the double ender crossed the Atlantic for service in European waters. She returned to the United States in July 1868 and was decommissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 10 August. Shamrock was sold on 1 September 1868 to Mr. E. Stannard of Westbrook, Conn.
Shamrock - a side wheel steamer purchased by the Navy on 16 July 1864 -- was renamed Isonomia (q.v.) shortly thereafter.
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The Pope of Whitelock Street is practicing Duke Ellington tunes on a baby grand piano in the front window of his Reservoir Hill rowhouse. Atop the piano is a statue of St. Francis of Assisi. Beyond the statue lies a desolate stretch of Baltimore known as the 900 block of Whitelock St., the desert in which Catholic priest Thomas F. Composto has tried to do good since 1968.
A former Jesuit, expelled by his order for reasons neither he nor the Jesuits will explain, Mr. Composto keeps his chops sharp to pick up extra cash at senior citizen sing-alongs. Other money comes from counseling work and teaching courses on ethics and death. A few years ago, he was a maitre d' in Glen Burnie.
All to sustain himself for his life's work as staff and soul of St. Francis Neighborhood Center, a Catholic mission born amid the despair of Whitelock Street during the social activism of the 1960s.
Trying to do good on Whitelock Street for nearly half his life -- almost 27 years of patience and labor that earned him the title of pope -- has not been especially kind to Tommy Composto.
The city had so little faith in Whitelock Street that all that was left to do after two decades of indecision and decay was to knock it down and start over.
"Whatever we tried to do, it just didn't seem to ever work on Whitelock Street," said City Council President Mary Pat Clarke.
The city housing department is accepting bids from developers for a combination of private housing and businesses. What the agency won't take is carryout restaurants, drug testing or rehabilitation centers, any place selling liquor, or halfway houses.
"I just hope they don't take as long to build the block up as they did to tear it down," said Ronald Thompson, who has lived in the neighborhood since 1958.
Residents such as Mr. Thompson, who remember the glory days of Zurosky's meat market, G-Cleft Records, Montgomery's Barber Shop and Jerry Cohen's variety store, are eager to see business return, but finding merchants willing to take a chance on Whitelock Street may prove difficult.
Built in the first years of the 20th century, the 900 block of Whitelock St. percolated for decades as the Main Street of Reservoir Hill, a sprawling community of stately townhouses and about 8,500 residents between the Jones Falls Expressway and Druid Hill Park.
Where the Herling Brothers once delivered kosher meat to your door by bicycle, drug touts now direct a steady stream of customers from all over the city to supplies of cocaine and heroin.
"There aren't a lot of developers beating down the door to put up commercial buildings on Whitelock Street," said David Elam, a recently departed housing official.
The south side of the block came down in August, leaving rubble and bulldozers beyond the end of Tommy Composto's piano.
The north side is expected to tumble next month. When it does, St. Francis Center at 936 Whitelock St. will go down with it, along with the next-door dental office it spawned to serve the working class and poor.
Goodbye to a home
When St. Francis and its rough basement chapel go, Tom Composto will say goodbye to the only real home he has known since leaving his mother and father to enter the seminary.
"St. Francis has paid attention to the ordinary, everyday people," he said. "All the people who've helped over the years have added to it, but it's hard to find people who don't quit after awhile."
You could call him stubborn.
Hard-headed would not be too harsh.
"Or you could call me dedicated," he said. "I'm combative because I've been hurt personally by higher-ups in public service or church service who wouldn't do what they dedicated themselves to doing. Most of them just want to climb. So many people have used this neighborhood as their social laboratory, and then they leave."
Although Mr. Composto is losing his home, a deal with the city gave him another one around the corner, at 2405 Linden Ave., for $500. It is something of a wreck, but he intends to fix it up and install a new chapel with $71,500 a judge awarded as compensation from the city for the taking of 934 and 936 Whitelock St.
His decision to stay is a renewal of his original commitment to Whitelock Street, even if some days that commitment doesn't go much beyond smiling and saying hello to a child who must navigate around gangs of drug dealers on the way to school.
"We've tried to be a voice for the marginal people of this neighborhood, to let them know that somebody gave a damn about them and cared enough to stay," he said.
The day Tom Composto first pulled up to Whitelock Street -- back in the days when Reservoir Hill was the darling of young Catholics enamored of social justice -- a large, skeptical resident stuck his face into the seminarian's car window.
He demanded: "Are you a priest?"
Pointing to the St. Francis Center, the man asked: "You going in there?"
And then: "You going to go away as soon as we get to know you?"
Mr. Composto remembers answering: "It's not my style to hit and run."
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Re: what causes blood-like blotches on the skin?
The tiny red dots are called Petechiae. It is bleeding into the skin. I have had them for months and my mom has had them for years. I would definitely have them checked out especially if you have other symptoms. Hope this helps!
Here are a few causes:
Injury or trauma
Viral infection or illness affecting blood coagulation
Medical treatment, including radiation and chemotherapy
Antiplatelet medications such as clopidogrel (Plavix)
Birth (petechiae in the newborn)
Aging skin (ecchymosis)
Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (petechiae and purpura)
Henoch-Schonlein purpura (purpura)
Leukemia (purpura and ecchymosis)
Anticoagulants such as warfarin or heparin (ecchymosis)
Septicemia (petechiae, purpura, ecchymosis)
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On the exposed Atlantic coast of the Isle of Lewis the blackhouse village of Gearrannan lies steeped in history and sited in an environment of outstanding natural beauty. Since 1989 the local community trust Urras nan Gearrannan (the Garenin Trust) has been restoring the once derelict properties and croft land to recreate an authentic settlement. Traditional methods have been used to recreate the drystone masonry and thatched roofing of the original croft houses.
The Gearrannan village is close to other areas of interest, such as the world famous Calanais Standing Stones and the Iron Age D¨n Carloway Broch.
The typical Gearrannan blackhouse was a long, rectangular building forty to fifty feet in length, with an interior width of ten to twelve feet. All the corners in the outside walls were rounded, and great care was taken to ensure that the outer walls, which were of undressed stone, had a slight slant to allow the rain to drip off and not seep into the interior.
The thatched roof was a fundamental characteristic of the blackhouse. Thatching in Gearrannan was a family or community activity, with the skills being passed from generation to generation.
I really loved the light on the horizon. This was late in the afternoon/evening in August in Scotland so the light was quite interesting.
The village is a wonderful place to stay and I spent a number of days exploring the island. Will certainly be going back again.
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Courses within this program are taught via Interactive Television (ITV) by an instructor at one of our three sites. Students at the other locations are able to hear the lectures and interact with the instructor using video equipment established for these classes. Each location has its own laboratory facilities and lab courses are taught by the on site instructor.
All three instructors are Certified Dental Assistants with a combined experience of over 20 years in the field of dentistry and education.
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Duty-bound to a fault. Literally. They are the "divinely appointed sworn protectors" of the human race - a moral so ingrained in their make-up, it can scarcely be called optional, by any means. Since the beginning of their existence, it has always been. An unexplainable urge to protect humans and kill zombies whenever possible resides within them, coupled with a certain kind of inner turmoil with every failure or attempt to resist. Most describe the urge as a powerful addiction, some as a divine prompting, and others as a mental shackle, while most everyone can agree that witnessing the death of a human or trying to resist sinking their teeth into a zombie feels quite like someone has placed a brick in the stomach whilst also pressing a hot iron to the back of the skull. Not pleasant, to put it simply. Religions and cultures may vary from vampire to vampire concerning their origins and eternal salvation or goal (or lack thereof), but few rightly can deny their obvious "purpose" in life.
Vampires cannot reproduce except to bite a human, an act which is condemnable of death by the mainstream of Europe, but rarely is carried out. This is because of how the process of making a vampire works. When a bite is initiated, a great deal of power is drained from the biter, to the extent that they instantly loose consciousness. The newborn vampire, with red eyes that will not recede back to natural eye color for at least a century, completely loses control and is over come with an urge to kill their defenseless maker on the spot. As soon as the bite begins, the biter begins to be marked with blood red snake markings up and down their arms, legs, and spine, ending just between the shoulder blades. At this point they are given the name "Peccatrix". The bitten victim receives a crescent shaped marking at the site of the bite that will not fade for at least a month, although all other human ailments and scars will be cured. Mainstream executions are also rare because, in the rare case that the Peccatrix survives the bite, they will typically go into hiding. A newborn's first day is when they are the most powerful, but also the most the volatile, as most sane people would be after under going such a change and suddenly being bombarded with mental exhortations.
The vampire society is more or less militaristic, in a loose sort of way. All vampires are registered as part of a Division, depending on where they live. There, they are pretty much left alone- expected to deal with whatever zombie out breaks or overall dangers may occur in whatever town or city they live as a part of a smaller group, usually headed by a Lieutenant of some sort. In times of dire need, such as the current situation, they are "called to arms" and gathered and deployed in an army-like fashion. Organization within the Divisions varies, for the most part.
Vampires possess the magical ability to completely drain a body of blood via bite in a major artery, but do not
live off of or gain any sort of nutritional value from it. They are just as apt to dying of starvation as humans, although they may last twice as long. They have enhanced speed, strength, durability, and senses as well as a sixth sense allowing them to detect evil spirits among the living. Enhanced sight allows them to see well in the dark. Long exposure to sun light is detrimental, greatly dulling their enhanced abilities and eventually burning and disintegrating the skin after about twenty minutes. Clothing can slow and diminish the effects to some degree, but burns from prolonged exposure (in direct sunlight) will still result in burns. Thus, most reasonable vampires choose to sleep during the day and work at night. They have retractable fangs, are impervious to fire
(despite the affect of the sun), typically have paler skin, don't show up in mirrors, and are Immune to human sicknesses and most curses and spells.
(Subgroup) Vampire Insurgents:
Based on controversy over the vampire's "divinely appointed duty", a few vampires have broken from the Division as a whole, refusing to facilitate with them, although they remain registered members (something they can't control) and many struggle with their physical instinct to protect mankind. Reasons for breaking from the Division are not limited only to such controversy, however, as some simply disagree with the way in which the Elders run things. Much of this controversy stems from the fact that vampires are forbidden to bite humans but may only thrive as a race by doing so. That being said, not all vampire insurgents are blood-thirsty Peccatrix, since doing so leads to the distinct markings which make it a bit difficult to go undetected and biting usually results in death at the hands of the powerful newborn. The insurgents are currently very disorganized and don't exactly form a strict, unified group, as far as anyone knows. Doubts aroused by the Black Plague have increased their numbers, but they still continue to function in smaller groups with differing motives, functioning much like gangs, minus the turf-wars. For the most part, they keep to themselves, set on not becoming involved with the mainstream vampires, who are often very hostile towards the "deserters".
Considering themselves the most superior race, but vastly outnumbered by humans, most of the wizarding community harbors feelings of haughty contempt towards the other races. This is still the time of witch burnings, after all. The Plague itself has presented a moderately unsettling problem for the Magical Kingdoms, especially because witches and wizards are just as susceptible to it as humans. They have, however, been able to cast protective charms and brew defensive potions to prevent it's spread amongst their own race. They are a small, but powerful community, using wands, incantations, and potions.
Like the vampires, they are also divided regionally- into Kingdoms. A monarch rules over each kingdom, calling the shots and deriving absolute loyalty from their subjects. Treason is basically the only law that really matters in Primatum. But more on that later. Sorcerers live relatively scattered, but are concentrated in several stronghold cities which are magically masked from human and vampire senses, often nestled far from major human civilizations. Witches and Wizards are physically just as strong/weak as humans, but age half as quickly and are impervious to vampire bites.
For the past few centuries, sorcerers and vampires have been at each others throats in Europe, though not necessarily on a violently hostile level... until recently. The Plague has given rise to a number of suspicions from both parties. Most popularly rumored, many believe someone in the Magical Kingdom is to blame for the sickness, or even, possibly, the Kingdom as a whole. These and like rumors have caused an uproar. Although, curiously, the EVD has not retaliated, the Queen has recently started to enlist sorcerers to impede the vampires in their efforts, only giving way to more rumors and skepticism- on both sides. Few, however, dare to question Queen Loveday's demands. Those that do usually end up deciding to move out of the country... overnight... without telling anyone.
Experts of science, chemistry and transmutations. They are well educated (typically wealthy), but often outcast from human society, being branded as con artists and thieves. Their practice has also been strongly rebuked by the Church, viewing alchemy as a perversion of God's creations in the West. This has received little rebuttal, as the practice of alchemy has
indeed been proven to greatly diminish a person's spiritual aptitude to the point of not being able to perform summons. The Church has reprimanded the efforts of a number of famous alchemists in their efforts to create gold and obtain immortality. Some argue amongst themselves what is the more important goal of alchemy. As of late, many have been gaining a distinct amount of power and wealth with folks desperately seeking remedies for the plague. Because the materials and process of making such a successful remedy are very costly, however, only the richest patrons truly benefit. Many other alchemists continue to tarnish the reputation of this race through making fake remedies for poor patrons and conning people out of their money by impressing them with parlor tricks before making them pay for anything, sometimes desperate for money and materials to make their own remedy potions to fend off (but not CURE) the plague.
Humans are the largest population, even in spite of the plague. They are physically the weakest of all races, but, spiritually, the most capable. Humans can summon powerful beings which typically reflect that person's morality and faith in their appearances and abilities. They must depend on a sorcerer (unlikely) or alchemist in order to ensure they don't catch the plague, however. Largely, they harbor hatred and fear towards witches, wizards, vampires, and monsters alike. The zombies live largely undetected by the masses- those unlucky enough to learn of their undead nature don't often live long enough to tell the tale- or, if otherwise, are taken to be delusional and sick. Humans are susceptible to zombies bites, magical curses, and vampire bites. Life for the humans has become a living hell with the Plague rampaging through towns and cities. Those who can afford it have moved to the country side to escape the disease, but, with it now being "on legs", so to speak, disease harboring zombies traveling the roads in the dead of night propel the spread and leave little room for escape. The demand for labor and wages is higher than ever, causing the standard of living for peasants to rise, at the very least- but the overhanging threat of disease is heavy on everyone's conscious. Many human citizens have come to different resolves on how to deal with it, but, in vulnerability, they are united.
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Mobile and NFC payment technologies have been on the rise in recent years. But with many merchants and retail outlets still reluctant to invest in the new technologies, and with the rise of fraud in existing solutions, industry participants are divided over how and whether the technology will ever gain widespread acceptance in developed markets.
US IT security software specialist Kaspersky Lab has announced the discovery of what it says is the first Trojan virus designed to run on the Google-backed Android operating system. Once active, the virus begins to send SMS messages to premium rate numbers, with the charges passed back to the user.
The Symbian Foundation has been left with egg on its face after accidentally sanctioning what experts are calling the first text message worm in history.
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Summary — Chapter XXIV: Why the Princes of Italy Have Lost Their States
Machiavelli suggests that any new prince who successfully follows the advice found in The Prince will enjoy the stability of a hereditary prince, since men are more aware of the present than of the past.
A number of Italian princes have lost states through their own military faults. They fled when they should have fought, expecting their subjects to call them back. These princes failed because of their own incompetence and not as a result of a string of bad luck. They took too much comfort in prosperous times, never anticipating danger. When they were conquered, they hoped that the people would revolt and recall them; but it is always folly to depend upon others for security. A prince’s best defense is his own valor.
Summary — Chapter XXV: Concerning the Influence of Fortune in Human Affairs, and the Manner in Which It Is to Be Resisted
Although it is often thought that fortune controls human affairs, fortune controls only half of one’s actions, while free will determines the other half. Fortune is like a flooding river: it is only dangerous when men have not built dykes against it beforehand. Italy has not built dykes, and as a result it has experienced tumultuous upheaval. Germany, Spain, and France have taken better care and have reaped the benefits of stability.
As fortune varies, one man may succeed and another fail, even if they both follow the same path. Times and circumstances change, so a prince must adjust to them in order to remain successful; however, men tend to stay on the course that has brought them success in the past. Circumstances allowed Julius II to act impetuously, but if he had lived longer, he would have been ruined when circumstances changed. On the whole, however, impetuosity surpasses caution. Fortune favors energetic youth over cautious age.
Summary — Chapter XXVI: An Exhortation to Free Italy from the Hands of the Barbarians
Italy’s current disarray favors the emergence of a new prince who will bring happiness to the Italian people. Until recently, there had been a prince who seemed ordained by heaven to redeem Italy. But a string of bad luck has prevented such an outcome.
Lorenzo de’ Medici is Italy’s best hope. If he has learned from the great men named in The Prince, the salvation of Italy will not be difficult. For though those men were great, they were still only men, with no greater opportunities or grace than Lorenzo’s own. Past wars and princes have failed to strengthen Italy because its military system was old and defective.
To succeed, Lorenzo must create a national army. The Italian people are good fighters; only their leaders have failed. Lorenzo’s army needs both good cavalry and infantry to defeat the Spaniards and the Swiss.
Should a prince ever succeed in redeeming Italy, he would receive unending glory and be embraced in all the provinces with love.
Analysis — Chapters XXIV–XXVI
Chapter XXV discusses the role of fortune in the determination of human affairs. Many thinkers have considered the question of whether a man’s actions are a manifestation of his own free will, or if they are simply determined by fate or his environment. Machiavelli attempts to compromise between free will and determinism by arguing that fortune controls half of human actions and leaves the other half to free will. But Machiavelli also argues that, through foresight—a quality whose importance Machiavelli stresses throughout The Prince—people can shield themselves against fortune’s slings and arrows. Thus, Machiavelli can be described as confident in the capabilities of human beings to shape their destinies, but skeptical that such control is absolute.
Machiavelli ends The Prince with an impassioned plea to redeem Italy. Stylistically, he abandons his detached tone and utilizes exhortation and poetry to communicate nationalistic fervor. He implores Lorenzo, to whom the book is dedicated, to deliver Italy. Despite Machiavelli’s efforts, the country would not be truly unified for another three and a half centuries. Some have argued that The Prince is really the manifestation of Machievelli’s desire to see a strengthened Italy, not a detached work of political science. Historical references to Italy dominate the book, and Machiavelli clearly conceives the book as a means to expedite the successful unification of Italy. But The Prince’s clear application to Machiavelli’s home country does not distract from the book’s relevance to philosophical questions. At the very least, it must be said that the book’s influence spread further than the specific audience to which it was addressed.
A desire to strengthen Italy might also serve as Machiavelli’s ethical justification for the advice he has given. Machiavelli has previously argued that a prince cannot achieve success without sometimes resorting to ruthlessness. But Machiavelli never justifies the obtainment of political success as a worthwhile goal in itself. His concern with Italy would justify his logic: if the ultimate end is the glory of Italy, the end would justify the means.
The Prince is full of historical references, but the final chapters place the book in a historical context. Moreover, these chapters give us some insight into the mind of the author and his motives for writing the book. They suggest that Machiavelli is not as diabolical as he is often portrayed.
Readers' Notes allow users to add their own analysis and insights to our SparkNotes—and to discuss those ideas with one another. Have a novel take or think we left something out? Add a Readers' Note!
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FREWSBURG - When the weather gets rotten, the game changes.
Footing is perilous, the game slows down, passing requires more precision and maneuvering and dribbling are increasingly difficult. Soccer becomes a game where, more than ever, possession and, by extension, limiting an opponent's offensive opportunities, is paramount.
Even the ball feels different.
Above, Maple Grove’s Jesse Pardue (14) dribbles between Frewsburg’s Jesse Ernewein (11) and Tyrel Adelgren (19) during Tuesday’s Division 3 soccer game. Below, the Red Dragons’ David Meekins heads a ball. See additional photos at cu.post-journal.com.
P-J photos by Rob Tucker
"The ball weighs about 600 pounds when it's wet," Maple Grove co-coach Jerry Pardue said with a laugh, "so when it rains it's like kicking a bowling ball down the field."
It's for those aforementioned reasons that the Red Dragons, even on sunny days, train for the worst.
"We have a lot of small-side games that we play where we practice by taking the air out of the ball," Pardue said. "and that way the team, especially the midfielders, get better with their one-touch passing and they know what's going to happen when the (poor weather) game starts."
That hard work in between games showed on a wet and windy Tuesday afternoon against Frewsburg (3-2, 2-2), as the Red Dragons took an early one-goal lead in the first half and then, with a solid possession game, limited the Bears' opportunities in the second - when the weather really got bad - to capture a 2-0 Division 3 victory.
"If they don't have the ball," Pardue said, "they can't score. Whenever we play an away game like this against a division opponent you know it's going to be a tough, low-scoring game. So we try to possess the ball."
And with their talented defense, it's a strategy that's been working thus far this season.
"We like to build from the back. We put our best athletes and our fastest kids on defense," Pardue said, "and (goalie) Kyle Richardson has been phenomenal. We've given up one goal this year, so something must be working."
That lone goal was scored by Ellicottville over 485 minutes ago - that's a span of five games - and has been the reason Maple Grove, the fifth-ranked small school in Section 6, currently sports a 6-0-1 overall record and a 4-0 league record.
Erik Olson tallied his team-leading ninth goal of the season with 27 minutes remaining in the opening half off a pass from freshman teammate Patrick Crossley to give Maple Grove a 1-0 advantage and from there the visiting squad settled into its defensive game.
That's exactly the type of game Pardue wants to play in rough weather.
"We always want that first goal and always strive for it because then we can play defense (and protect the lead)," Pardue said.
Struggling to put together much of an offensive attack, the Bears' scoring chances were few and far between. They managed just three shots on goal in the opening 40 minutes and only a pair of shots, neither of which were on net, in the second.
"We just couldn't get any opportunities," Frewsburg coach Mark Jackson said. "Maple Grove is a good team."
The score remained 1-0 until the game's waning moments when, at the 77-minute mark, Nick Swanson broke free of his defender out in front of the net, started right, turned left and fired a shot at Frewsburg goaltender Justin Randall. Randall appeared to make the diving stop, but he was unable to hold on to the slick ball and it careened off the post and into the net.
Maple Grove is back in action against West Valley on Thursday while Frewsburg will travel to Ellicottville. Both games scheduled at 4:30 p.m.
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Working in Wavelengths
Pick up an optical dictionary and you'll find that 'wavelength' is the first word.
Any portion of the electromagnetic spectrum is qualitatively defined by the wavelength of light that comprises it. In other words, the wavelength of a light wave tells us almost everything we would want to know about it. In fluorescence microscopy the nanometer (nm) is the most commonly used unit, and the portion of the spectrum that is typically reported as perceptible by humans ranges from about 380nm to 710nm. Although individual subjectivity makes it difficult to quantify, only about 15% of humans can see anything above 680nm, and it is not recommended to view light below 420nm due to the risk of eye damage. The visible spectrum can be broken up into particular ranges of wavelengths; each corresponding to what we call colors:
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The wavelengths that direcly flank the visible spectrum are also useful to the world of fluorescence. They are comprised of the short-wavelength band from 320 to 400 nm (near-UV) and the long-wavelength band from 750 to approximately 2500 nm (near-IR).
In optics, wavelength is often chosen over frequency to quantify light, but they are both proportional and either is accurate. Wavelength (and therefore frequency) is also directly proportional to a wave’s energy, as originally described by Max Planck with the following equation:
E = hc/λ
Where E is energy, h is Planck’s constant, c is the speed of light, and λ is the wavelength of light. This relationship expresses the idea that light of a shorter wavelength (i.e. violet) has more energy than light of a longer wavelength (i.e. red).
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Both men and women need to look after their sexual health and take time to understand the issues that surround contraception and sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
For instance there are some STIs, like chlamydia, that you could be carrying without having any symptoms. This infection can affect fertility, so it's important to make use of the sexual health services available for free on the NHS.
Sex & Young People
A comprehensive guide to the questions you may have about sex from the NHS
Sexually Transmitted Infections
Issues, symptoms and treatments
Sexual Health FAQs
Expert answers from a qualified Doctor
Here you'll find tips for a fulfilling sex life plus advice on STDs, contraception and common sex problems.
FPA - The Sexual Health Charity
Sexual health advice and information on contraception, sexually transmitted infections, pregnancy choices, abortion and planning a pregnancy.
There are so many different types of contraception available that you should be able to find the right method. You may have to try several different things before you choose the one you like most.
A Family Planning specialist writes about the different types of contraception, the benefits and pitfalls and how effective they are
Contraception - NHS Choices
Information on Contraception from NHS Choices including why, when and how it should be used and with links to other useful resources.
This factsheet is for women who are taking hormonal contraceptives, or who would like information about them.
Chlamydia is the most commonly diagnosed sexually transmitted infection among under-25s. Often there are no symptoms, but testing and treatment are simple.
Causes and risk factors Chlamydia is usually passed from one person to another during vaginal, oral or anal sex, or by sharing sex toys. It can live inside cells of the cervix, urethra, rectum and sometimes in the throat and eyes.
NHS Choices - focus on Chlamydia
Information, videos and advice from the NHS website
This factsheet is for people who have chlamydia, or who would like information about it.
These links all come from trusted resources but if you are unsure about these or any other medical matters please contact your doctor or pharmacist for advice
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E-blocks solutions are designed for teachers who want a complete off-the-shelf course covering a topic in modern digital communications. Solutions are made up from our E-blocks hardware modules bolted onto strong metal backplanes. Each module has a clear plastic cover to prevent students changing link settings and removing chips. All cables and accessories are supplied, and hardware is supplied in rugged plastic trays for storage and transport.
A full copy of Flowcode is included with each solution. Flowcode allows students to concentrate on learning about protocols and data structures, without getting bogged down in the coding. In some solutions additional software for analysis is provided. Each solution has a full teacher’s manual including exercises, and a CD ROM with worked examples. In addition a copy of 'An introduction to microcontroller programming' CD ROM is provided as a refresher to those not familiar with Flowcode or for remediation.
Main photo: E-blocks solutions are used by military training institutions to help prepare soldiers for the digital battlefield.
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22 March 2013. More friendly border than iron curtain, the blood-brain barrier lets all sorts of legitimate travelers pass. Could it also be letting some unsavory characters slip by? The subject of crosstalk between the peripheral circulation and the central nervous system permeated conversation at the 3rd Venusberg Meeting on Neuroinflammation, held 28 February-2 March 2013 at the Biomedical Center, University of Bonn, Germany. Researchers agreed that, in certain settings, circulating immune cells can enter the brain and create havoc (see ARF related news story). But they also emphasized that crosstalk occurs in the absence of infiltrating cells. Scientists argued that elevated plasma cytokines and other signaling molecules may profoundly affect the central nervous system, though not always negatively. While some proinflammatory cytokines might block neurogenesis in the brain, limit synaptic plasticity, or even cause cell death, others seem to encourage resident brain cells to take on protective roles, such as clearing amyloid-β plaques.
Scientists have studied links between plasma cytokines and the brain for decades. Charles Dinarello, University of Colorado, Denver, noted data from the Framingham Study that suggests people with the highest levels of circulating interleukin 1β (IL-1β) are almost three times more likely to develop Alzheimer's disease (see Tan et al., 2007). In contrast, people with more interleukin 1 receptor antagonist in their blood are less likely to have dementia, said Dinarello. He argued that peripheral cytokines, including IL-1β and other highly inflammatory ones such as IL-18, may predispose people to dementia and other degenerative conditions. IL-18, activated by IL-1β, drives apoptosis, and Dinarello showed that in a heart failure model, the IL-18 antagonist IL-18 binding protein (IL-18BP) rescues damage caused by IL-1β. Blocking IL-1β and IL-18 activation also limits damage in human myocardial tissue following ischemia (see Pomerantz et al., 2001). While these experiments implicate these cytokines in the heart, researchers have yet to dig into IL-18’s actions in the brain, said Dinarello.
Epidemiological evidence suggests a link. Dinarello noted an Italian study that found higher circulating IL-18BP in centenarians than in the general population, hinting that less free IL-18 promotes health (see Gangemi et al., 2003). People with AD have lower blood IL-18BP levels than age-matched controls, hence, higher free IL-18, as do people with certain systemic disorders. What these correlations mean was debated at the Venusberg meeting. Researchers noted it's difficult to separate cause and effect here, but Dinarello countered that emerging evidence points to peripheral cytokines profoundly influencing the central nervous system. "If they can get into the brain, they can cause damage," he said.
Many researchers at the meeting were intrigued by the link between systemic illnesses and dementia. Clive Holmes, University of Southampton, U.K., discussed an idea he has pursued for some time, namely that systemic inflammation can lead to central nervous system disease, including "sickness behavior," which resembles some of the neuropsychiatric symptoms of delirium, though it is a separate entity. Sickness behavior correlates with increased risk for AD (see ARF related news story). Holmes has reported that AD patients decline faster if they had a recent systemic infection, traumatic event (see Holmes et al., 2003), or elevated proinflammatory cytokines in their blood (see Holmes et al., 2009).
Animal models may help test correlations between circulating molecules and disease. Tony Wyss-Coray, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, gave an update on his parabiosis model for studying blood factors that contribute to aging. In this model, two congenital mice share their blood systems, allowing Wyss-Coray to measure the effect of young blood on older animals, and old blood on younger. This led him to identify blood factors that appear to mediate aging, including the chemokine CCL11. Simply delivering CCL11 to young animals yields phenotypes associated with older mice, including less neurogenesis in the brain (see ARF related news story).
How else might blood factors influence tissue inside the CNS? In Bonn, Wyss-Coray said his group addressed this question by looking for differences in gene expression in hippocampal tissue from old/old and old/young parabiosis pairs. Researchers in his lab identified several gene networks that are altered in old animals exposed to young blood. The most highly upregulated turned out to be involved in synaptic plasticity. The group confirmed this at the protein level, looking at factors such as pCREB, Egr1, and cFOS. "The data indicate that factors in young blood reactivate the brain," said Wyss-Coray. In keeping with this, he reported greater synaptic spine density in older mice exposed to young blood.
How to achieve this effect without parabiosis? Wyss-Coray claimed that injections of young-mouse plasma improved cognition in older animals. "All this points to the possibility of some degree of rejuvenation, with neurogenesis, spine density, synaptic plasticity, memory, and inflammation all improving," he said.
But are any of these age-associated differences related to neurodegenerative disease? To test this, Wyss-Coray and colleagues compared gene expression and blood phenotypes among healthy controls and people with a semantic variant of frontotemporal dementia. Using pathway analysis software from Ingenuity Systems, they found elevated expression of networks involving interleukin 12 (IL-12) and IL-23 in the dementia patients. Independent research suggests that IL-12/23 signaling may drive autoimmunity, and exacerbate pathology and cognitive decline in mouse models of AD (see ARF related news story).
Wyss-Coray's group used a similar network-based approach to analyze blood phenotypes, measuring a panel of 50 proteins expressed by immune cells. The scientists found three subsets of markers more highly represented in plasma from FTD patients than controls. Some, including CD27, are known to contribute to hyperactivation of T cells. "Again, we seemed to have convergence around factors that contribute to autoimmunity," said Wyss-Coray.
What does this mean for FTD and other neurodegenerative diseases? For example, could ustekinumab, an IL-12/23 antibody currently used to treat the autoimmune skin disorder psoriasis, benefit dementia? Researchers at the Venusberg meeting were reluctant to speculate, but Wyss-Coray noted that autoimmune diseases were more common in FTD patients than would be expected by chance. Many of the affected patients have autoimmune skin diseases, but systemic lupus erythematosus and other disorders were represented as well.
For all the talk about cytokines and inflammation being bad for the brain, Terrence Town, University of Southern California, elaborated on a different idea, namely that of "good" neuroinflammation. Unlike mouse models in AD, Town’s transgenic rat model of AD recapitulates most cardinal pathologies of the disease, including Aβ accumulation, Aβ oligomers, gliosis, tau accumulation, synaptic loss, neuronal loss, and cognitive decline (see ARF related news story). In this model, microglial activation preceded obvious plaque formation, which hints that these cells may be attempting to prevent Aβ accumulation, said Town.
Town previously reported that blocking anti-inflammatory signals in peripheral macrophages promoted clearance of Aβ plaques in transgenic mice rather than exacerbating pathology, as might be expected if tipping the balance toward inflammation was bad (see ARF related news story). That result came from blocking TGF-β signaling. In Bonn, Town reinforced this finding by reporting that blocking other anti-inflammatory pathways had a similar effect. Town crossed PSAPP AD model mice with IL-10 and IRAKM knockouts. Both IL-10 and IRAKM quell inflammation, the latter being the only member of the interleukin 1 receptor-associated kinase family that suppresses innate immunity.
Both crosses accumulated fewer Aβ plaques than the PSAPP strain. They seemed to activate microglia, showing elevation of microglial markers Iba1+ and CD45 in the brain. In the IRAKM-negative animals, plaque burden fell while free Aβ rose in the brain, prompting Town to suggest that some dynamic process was going on to reduce plaques. He showed 3-D confocal microscopy reconstructions of brain tissue that demonstrated colocalization of Aβ with the phagolysosomal vesicle marker, LAMP1, demonstrating plaque phagocytosis by activated innate immune cells in vivo (see image below).
Glia Gobble Aβ
3-D confocal reconstructions of glial cells (purple) phagocytosing and digesting Aβ (red) via lysosomes (green). Images courtesy of Terrence Town and David Gate
“If it’s targeted, inflammation can be beneficial," said Town. "So we shouldn’t find it surprising that promoting specific types of microglial activation can lead to plaque clearance."—Tom Fagan.
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