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Days before the election in an important swing state, the Ohio Secretary of State laid out a directive that all provisional ballots incorrectly filled out should be trashed. This could alter the election results and is in violation of Ohio state law.
Provisional ballots are used to record votes when a voter’s eligibility has not yet been approved – for example, when the voter’s registration information is outdated or contains inaccuracies. These ballots are counted once the voter’s eligibility is verified – often 7-10 days after Election Day, and used only if the race is so tight that the additional votes could be the deciding factors of the election. Such ballots are most important in swing states where the presidential contenders receive nearly an equal number of votes.
In the 2008 presidential election, Ohio had more than 204,000 provisional ballots, of which about 40,000 were not counted.
President Obama beat Republican nominee John McCain by about 206,000 votes in Ohio during the last election. Scrapping thousands, tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of provisional ballots in a swing state as significant as Ohio could therefore have a deciding impact on the election.
Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted’s directive called for all election officials to reject ballots if authorized identification wasn't provided voter slips haven't been filled out correctly.The move has been criticized for putting the onus of responsibility on voters and allegedly violating voting law in Ohio. In the case that Obama and Mitt Romney are close to a tie in Ohio, these ballots would be crucial.
Husted is now required to show up in court on Monday to defend his actions, before provisional ballots are counted on Nov. 17. Ohio law “protects voters against poll workers’ abdication of their responsibility to complete or properly complete the provisional-ballot form,” the lawsuit states.
Provisional ballots and the recording of identification information lies in the hands of those who are trained by the Voter Integrity Project, which is affiliated with the tea party True The Vote project.
Husted has also been previously forced to appear in court for trying to cancel early voting in the 2012 election. Democrats have insisted that Husted’s action was an attempt to disenfranchise black voters, which are more likely to vote for Obama. | <urn:uuid:10f3dccc-48f2-4975-8987-6aac73d769aa> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://rt.com/usa/ohio-election-provisional-ballots-982/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00022-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964523 | 467 | 2.109375 | 2 |
My research interests centre around the application of methods of physics to the solution of problems of interest to geophysics. These interests have brought me into contact with research in geochronology, mass spectrometry, geomagnetism, seismology, gravimetry and seismoelectric phenomena.
My colleagues, at the University of Toronto and at UBC, and I were the first to demonstrate the existence of very ancient rocks in Australia, and to show that some rocks in Great Britain were much older than previously supposed. We directed much of our attention to the measurement and interpretation of the isotopic ratios of lead in lead ores. We were the first to demonstrate clearly the linear arrays of isotopic data that are now known as secondary isochrons. With Steve Pearce, I demonstrated the inversion of cosmic-ray produced nuclei in iron meteorites to obtain exposure ages that allow for the possibility that the incident flux has not been constant in time.
The physics of geophysical instruments, a matter that has always interested me, has now become my principal research interest. Since our first serious work on fluxgate magnetometers in 1982, we have achieved a new understanding of the fluxgate theory. With colleagues Barry Narod, Zu-Cheng Gao and Frank Kollar, I have published papers using the method of Floquet to solve the appropriate differential equations, and matrix techniques to develop phase-plane solutions. Narod has incorporated a geophysical company, which is building magnetometers under license from The University of British Columbia. His instruments have found wide application in terrestrial geophysics and have been flown in space vehicles.
Our current research is based on reports, principally in the Soviet literature, that the conversion of acoustic to electromagnetic signals in quartz, sulphides, kimberlites and possibly other minerals, produces signals useful for geophysical exploration. Seismoelectric conversions are produced by any of several mechanisms. My colleagues, Michael Maxwell, Karl Butler and Anton Kepic, and I have observed linear responses due to electrokinetic conversions at Haney, British Columbia, at Humboldt, Victoria, and at South Porcupine, Ontario, and possible piezoelectric conversions from quartz deposits at Humboldt, Victoria, and at South Porcupine, Ontario. We have observed pulsed radio-frequency responses from sulphides at Noranda, Quebec, at Kimberley, British Columbia, and at Myra Falls, British Columbia. It was generally possible to locate the targets using the arrival times of the responses.
There are two reasons why seismoelectric techniques are desirable. Firstly, the utilization of new physical properties opens up the possibility of detecting and locating targets, such as quartz and sphalerite, that can be difficult to observe with current geophysical techniques. Secondly, the seismic input has a substantially smaller wavelength than the effective diffusion wavelength of electromagnetic techniques, resulting in potential for higher resolution. Although our primary interest is application to exploration, the phenomena also have significance for earthquake prediction and rock physics. | <urn:uuid:9834e634-03de-40ae-aad9-126223498bbe> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.eos.ubc.ca/about/faculty/D.Russell.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00058-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944853 | 620 | 1.601563 | 2 |
A 19th century rectifier might have filtered whiskey that had some age on it if it hadn't aged very well, to render it more neutral and more suitable for blending. But, yes, it's unlikely that a well-aged whiskey would have been filtered in those days. Just trying to make the point that filtering through charcoal or bone dust has a long history in the industry. It wasn't invented in Lincoln County, Tennessee.
In this case, Diageo felt they had to Dickelize it, so what else could they do? Doing it to new make and then letting it age for five or more years wasn't an option. This way they were able to make something that tastes different from the many other LDI ryes, and a bit milder and smoother, which is also consistent with the Dickel brand. It's a different taste and fair to say it's a funky taste, so it will be interesting to see how people respond to it on taste alone. Whether of not it suits the Dickel brand with be another question. | <urn:uuid:0d821f2f-9635-4c09-8c8b-4db1e578e41a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.straightbourbon.com/forums/showthread.php?18400-Possible-George-Dickel-Rye&p=305476&viewfull=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00015-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980995 | 217 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Natural History Facts About the Ivory-billed Woodpecker
Campephilus principalis — the ivory-billed woodpecker — is among the world’s largest woodpeckers. Only the imperial woodpecker of Mexico, now thought by many to be extinct, was larger than the ivory-bill.
The ivory-billed woodpecker once ranged through swampy forests in the southeastern and lower Mississippi valley states: from North Carolina to Florida and west to eastern Texas and Arkansas, with some 1800s reports in Kentucky, Missouri and Oklahoma. John James Audubon reported ivory-bills as far north as the junction of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers around 1825.
- Description of the ivory-billed woodpecker:
Averaging about 20 inches in length, C. principalis is frequently mistaken for the smaller but similarly marked pileated woodpecker. Ornithologists distinguish the two by the location of the white wing feathers: the full-width white patch in the ivory-bill’s trailing wing feathers (when seen from above) folds to form a white “saddle” on its back when the bird is perched. Males have a prominent scarlet crest; the female’s crest is black.
- The ivory-bill’s communication and flight:
Ivory-bills communicate with a vocalization that ornithologists transcribe as “kent, kent, kent” and with the “BAM-bam” double-rap of their bills pounding on wood. Their swift, arrow-like flight through trees resembles that of the pintail duck, unlike the slower, swooping flight of the pileated woodpecker. Stiff wing feathers make the ivory-bill an especially loud flyer. People who saw the impressive ivory-bill in flight could be forgiven for shouting, “Lord God, what a bird!” — explaining why the ivory-bill is also known as the Lord God Bird.
- The “Ivory” Bill The “ivory” of the ivory-billed woodpecker is a keratin sheath over the bill of bone. The broad bill continues to grow from the ivory-bill’s thick-boned skull throughout its life (potentially, up to 30 years) and is worn down by rigorous pounding on trees.
- Habits and habitat of the ivory-billed woodpecker:
Ivory-bills are believed to mate for life. They share the duties of incubating their china-white eggs and raising their young, which usually leave the parents’ territory at the end of the season. A pair of ivory-bills is estimated to need six square miles of uncut forest, roughly 36 times as much territory as pileated woodpeckers require. Ivory-bills excavate trees to make nest holes (usually oval-shaped openings between four and six inches in size, extending 20 inches or more down into the tree, and 40 feet or higher above ground level).
- Food source of the ivory-billed woodpecker:
Beetle larvae are the primary food source for ivory-bills, which are often the first woodpeckers on dying trees searching for these larvae. When beetle larvae bore through the bark to feed on the sap wood beneath, ivory-bills use their elongated beaks to pry bark from the trees and expose the larvae.
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AfriForum requested the Green Scorpions today to investigate the Thaba Chweu Municipality’s water management system. This follows complaints about raw sewage running through the old cemetery and into the Dorps River.
AfriForum has in the past written several letters to the Municipality on various sewage spills. In each case, the Municipality only responded after continued pressure from AfriForum. “This is not how a municipality should be managed. This type of pollution, where the health of a community is threatened, is a criminal offence. The community has had enough," said Leon de Jager, Chairperson of the AfriForum Lydenburg branch.
The Thaba Chweu Municipality has a record of sewage pollution, which also occurred in their drinking water. “This continued negligence and consequent pollution of our natural resources is totally unacceptable and criminal. We trust that the Green Scorpions will enforce legislation to ensure a healthy and sustainable environment," said De Jager.
The current spillage causes environmental and water pollution in a heritage area. “Several laws are being contravened and action must be taken against the responsible authority immediately. The extent of the pollution is such that is has become a great threat to human health as well as the river ecosystem and other natural resources," added De Jager.
The Green Scorpions were established as the environmental inspectorate for the Department of Environmental Affairs. They are the guardians of our natural resources in South Africa. | <urn:uuid:d87e1b0d-ffc7-4ff5-9964-6aaa386f6119> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://polity.org.za/article/afriforum-statement-by-leon-de-jager-afriforum-lydenburg-branch-chairperson-calls-on-green-scorpions-to-intervene-in-thaba-chweu-municipalitys-water-management-system-06022013-2013-02-06 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00010-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969701 | 305 | 1.882813 | 2 |
- Historic Sites
News Of History
December 1954 | Volume 6, Issue 1
The gray, water-soaked, mud-stained skeleton of one of America’s first warships has been raised from the bottom of Lake Champlain and is now on the beach below Fort Ticonderoga. After thorough drying and protection, the hulk will form the nucleus of a naval museum to be erected on the shore below the towering battlements of the fort. Other naval relics will be on display with it.
The hulk is that of the Trumbull , one of the fleet of sixteen ships built by order of General Benedict Arnold in 1776 to contest the British invasion which, one year later, culminated in Burgoyne’s defeat at Saratoga.
On October 11, 1776, Arnold’s makeshift fleet, manned by land-lubber soldiers, met a British flotilla of five major warships and a number of gunboats. The action succeeded in imposing an expensive delay on the British invaders, but all save three of the American ships were either sunk in action, captured by the enemy or scuttled by their crews. The three which remained escaped to Fort Ticonderoga and were sunk in a rough semi-circle near the base of the fort in an attempt to keep enemy ships out of firing range and thus to compel the British to make their attack by land. In the end, winter came on and there was no attack. Late in the following spring, the Americans evacuated the fort.
The Trumbull is one of the three sunk near the fort. One of the other two was raised in 1909 but has since been badly damaged by weather on its exposed exhibition site. The third is still under water.
Five big inflated pontoons were used to lift the Trumbull from the bottom, and at first sight the hulk bore little resemblance to a warship. The long oak side planks of the old vessel were rotted through at the seams, and the thick iron spikes that held her together protruded, bent, from the hull. Only one of the two huge foot-square timbers that formed her bow remained, and broken ends of oak ribs rose like enormous fingers above the muddy deck.
The new naval museum project in which the hulk of the Trumbull will take its place is being financed by the Fort Ticonderoga Foundation, a non-profit organization which maintains the historic fort. John H. G. Pell, a Wall Street investment broker, whose family has supported historical restoration in the area since 1816, is director of the Foundation.
Back in 1710 an English bureaucrat cleaned out his desk drawers and files preparing for his retirement from public office, and thereby—quite unintentionally—did a great favor for present-day American historians.
William Blathwayt, the bureaucrat in question, was colonial administrator, having served for forty years under three kings. When he collected personal letters and papers to take home with him, he helped himself to a generous portion of official government papers as well: more than 2,000 documents dealing with the early history of the American colonies.
Included in these are letters from colonial governors—Sir William Phips, of Massachusetts, blamed the witchcraft trials on the devil and his deputy governor, and William Penn wrote fondly: “I like the land, aire and food very well. I never eat better in England.” There is material on Indian raids, on the capture of Captain Kidd, and on the strained conditions in early New York during the transfer from Dutch to English rule. There are rough drafts of letters arid official papers in Blathwayt’s own hard-to-read scrawl. One of the drafts is the Pennsylvania charter from King Charles II, signed in March, 1681, with numerous additions and corrections in the margin.
All in all, Blathwayt’s papers include material on most of the continental American colonies as well as the West Indies, Jamaica and the Bahamas.
The American Blathwayt papers are owned by Colonial Williamsburg, the non-profit organization restoring WiIliamsburg, Va., to its pre-Revolutionary setting. They are carefully preserved in a vault there for research work.
The Philadelphia Antiques Fair this fall marked the 75th anniversary of a widely popular American fad which had its origin in Philadelphia.
One of the attractions at the great Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876 was a free exhibit called the New England cottage. During the six months exhibition, some 10,000 visitors a day visited the New England cottage, which was completely furnished with antiques. Most of the visitors—judging by the tremendous growth in the popularity of antique furniture thereafter—went home to raid their own attics and put the plunder in their best rooms. Those who had no attics haunted country auctions and second-hand furniture stores.
As a result, apparently, within three years the game of antique-hunting was in full swing and the first dealers were setting up shop. Now, 75 years later, there are some 8,000 antique shops in the United States, more than 150 of them to be found in Philadelphia itself.
We may eventually get a microfilm edition of the Papers of the Continental Congress. The project is being considered by the National Historical Publications Commission, whose purpose it is to promote the publication of historical source materials. This Commission has been working to considerable effect since 1950, when Congress granted it life-giving-funds; but because its income is still limited it tries primarily to encourage and aid in the initiation of historical publishing projects under non-governmental sponsorship. | <urn:uuid:03d8406a-9eae-4146-b289-4507a5b9d85c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.americanheritage.com/content/news-history?nid=50692 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00042-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967011 | 1,161 | 3.46875 | 3 |
The time allowed the church and its theology is a time in which the believer must find it intolerable that some men and women have no idea of the reasons for hope. It is not first and foremost a time for the blessedness of believing or for silent adoration. It is a time for speaking, with no right of holding back. Yet it is also a time in which the believer is authorized to search for the right words to say what must be said, a time in which the impatience of proclamation does not militate against patient application to the labours of thought and expression. This is of first importance [...]
Theological thought is born of wonder and occupies itself in thanksgiving. Yet these self-evident facts should not conceal the very specific interest in knowledge that drives theology forward in the time allowed it. Before it gives delight, it confronts us as a labor thrust upon us, a discourse that we take up not because we choose but because we are constrained. That it is a task, and a difficult one, is not surprising in itself; that is true of philosophy and mathematics, too. In this case, however, there is more: theological speech, before it ever came to be a specialist province, sprang from the elementary logic of theological life itself. The task of theology cannot really be understood apart from its roots in the prophetic dimension of universal Christian experience (p. 268).
Jean-Yves Lacoste, “More Haste, Less Speed in Theology”, Translated by Oliver O’Donovan. International Journal of Systematic Theology Vol. 9/No.3 (July 2007). Emphasis mine. | <urn:uuid:27e8e101-2ae6-4611-969b-a4c45e9e2cb3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://theologyforum.wordpress.com/2009/07/27/more-haste-less-speed-in-theology/?like=1&source=post_flair&_wpnonce=a21ac6eb7c | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00026-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953888 | 334 | 2.375 | 2 |
A bad girl can be defined as a female member of the human species that acts as they want to act, fearing no consequences or repercussions. A bad girl is a girl that may or may not be sexually promiscuous, and doesn’t mind or care about if people think that she is. A bad girl simply doesn’t care about a person’s feelings or what anyone else thinks, but is instead only concerned with receiving the things that her heart may desire. The term bad girl does not always refer to a woman who breaks hearts, but also may refer to a woman that breaks the law with no concern or fear of being in trouble for doing so. At the essence of every bad girl may be a girl who means well, or knows no better, but is a girl with disregard or naivety to a belief or set of morals. Bad girls are synonymous with any famous celebrity women who go against the norm and do things that many people haven’t seen women do. | <urn:uuid:d52559af-1198-4376-9ac5-55b228902aef> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.searchquotes.com/quotes/about/Bad_Girl/5/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00070-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968208 | 202 | 1.820313 | 2 |
The Golden Triangle
By this name are known Gullfoss, Geysir and Þingvellir, “the three great destinations” for the Icelandair travelers that visit this country. The most famous attraction is Gullfoss, where the river Hvitá ends in two 32 m. cascades. In sunny days you will see a rainbow crossing the falling water.
At 10 Km. is Geysir, which name has been given to all the emanating thermal waters in the world. Unfortunately, the Great Geyser disappeared in the middles of the 20th century due to the wastes left by tourists. Nevertheless, it has nowadays irregular eruptions of up to 15 m. as a result of terrain movement as a consequence of the strong earthquakes that took place in 2000. There is also the Strokkur (churn) that erupts water up to 35 m. height every 8 minutes. There is a good collection of volcanoes, geysers, earthquakes, folklore, and natural history in the Geysisstofa Geocentre.
Þingvellir is the most important historical site in Iceland since the Alþingi (Parliament) was founded in the year 930. It was chosen thanks to its topography, acoustics, and proximity to the population. In 1928 its history and natural interest make it become the first National Park in the country.
The tours to Reykjavik and the Golden Circle circuits to Gullfoss, Geysir and Þingvellir, by Destination Iceland are 5,900 Ikr, without meals. The bus departures from the BSÍ in Reykjavik at 8:40 every day.
The Destination Iceland buses circulate among Reykjavik, Gullfoss and Geysir; departure at 8:30 and 12:30 everyday (June and August) from BSÍ (3,740 Ikr the trip) Public buses that cover the route between Reykjavik and Þingvellir departure from the BSÍ station everyday at 13:30; and cost 1,700 the roundtrip.
Þórsmörk is located at 130 Km. at the southeast of Reykjavik, constituting one of the most beautiful locations in the whole country. It’s a glacier valley filled with birches, flowers, winding rivers and clear waters surrounded by snow peaks and glaciers.
It’s an excellent destination for hiking, but in summertime it becomes crowded, noisy and full of problems brought by drunk people. There are three refugees in this area: Þórsmörk, Básar, and Húsadalur, which will be for sure full in summertime. Camping is 500 Ikr per person. There is also a HI hostel, very cozy and with a peat roof, near Fljótsdalur.
Between June and September there is a bus route between Reykjavik and Húsadalur (on the Þórsmörk hill) once or twice a day (3,200 Ikr one-way). In order to get to Fljótsdalur you have to leave the Ring Road bus in Hvolsvöllur, and either walk or hitchhiking the next 261 Km. From middle July to middle August the bus Syöri Fjallabaksled (250 Ikr) does the route once a day from Reykjavik to Fljótsdalur passing through Hvolsvöllur. | <urn:uuid:8d9c7cfa-c01c-4960-94b8-ae511c117bb0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.reikiavik.com/the-golden-triangle.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00041-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941098 | 741 | 2.375 | 2 |
LONDON (AP) — The BBC says that a British guide working on a children's television show in Tanzania was killed after being charged by an elephant.
The British broadcaster says that 38-year-old Anton Turner had been working as an expedition guide for the show "Serious Explorers," which follows David Livingstone's famous 19th-century trek across the African continent.
Three children were with the filming party at the time of the attack but the BBC said Friday that they were safe and had been airlifted from the area.
Four other children who were in Tanzania in connection with the show are also due to return home.
The BBC says production of the program has ceased. It did not say where exactly the incident occurred. | <urn:uuid:b9261ee8-f352-4bf3-959a-f940ba4e8e89> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.whas11.com/news/world/67770592.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00002-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.993617 | 151 | 1.84375 | 2 |
Happy Monday! Last week, we picked on the poor Star Wars prequels. What went wrong? Better yet, what lessons can we, as writers, take away from some serious storytelling blunders? If you missed this discussion, go here, and check out the comments. Some people way smarter than me stopped by, that’s for certain. So, this week, I decided that this piece I wrote about STAR TREK last year might be a nice follow-up to the Star Wars piece from last week.
I love the new J.J. Abrams rendition of Star Trek. As a writer, stories are my business, so I study them in all forms. Film is a favorite in that it takes far less time and allows me to study the written form in a visual way (tactic I learned from great writing teacher and NY Times BSA Bob Mayer).
Anyway, I don’t watch movies like most people, much to my husband’s chagrin (he would put tape over my mouth if he could get away with it). This most recent version of Star Trek did very well at the box office and resonated with audiences in a way that other high-budget fast-paced sci-fi movies had failed. Why? I believe Star Trek was a wild success because Abrams adhered to some very fundamental storytelling basics too often forgotten in Hollywood and even in writing.
Yes, movies and novels have more in common than you might think. Today’s blog especially applies to sci-fi and fantasy, but I believe all genres can benefit from these lessons I’ve plucked from the silver screen. Today I will address some of my favorite points, because this movie is such a fantastic tool for understanding great storytelling that I couldn’t possibly address all the lessons in one sitting.
Star Trek proved that imperfect characters resonate with audiences.
Audiences LOVE flawed characters. James T. Kirk was deliciously flawed at the beginning. He was on a road to self-destruction believing he could never stand in the shadow of his father’s greatness. He demonstrated how character strengths of a great leader, when not harnessed properly, are tools of great mischief and mayhem. Did the plot really serve to change Kirk? Not really. His attributes were very similar, just refocused in a productive way. The inciting incident really just put Kirk on a path that would make better use of his buccaneer ways.
Time and time again I see new writers become far too fascinated with the too-perfect protagonist (been there and got the T-shirt, myself). The problem with the too-perfect protagonist is that audiences find it difficult to relate. While it might seem counterintuitive, flawed is often better. Want an illustration from the fiction world? I believe that Twilight is a great example. Bella was deeply flawed and thus readers could easily slip into her shoes. They, too, could look at Edward and long to know what it would be like to be one of the beautiful people.
I think that is why a lot of movies flop. Who can relate to Angelina Jolie? In Tomb Raider she was fun to watch, but we have absolutely no way of connecting with Lara Croft. She is beautiful, insanely rich and lives a life of adventure. The movies would have done better had the writers/directors done something to make Lara Croft real. The first movie did well simply because fans of the video game. Yet, audiences couldn’t connect to this super perfect (and not really likable) character, so the second movie bombed big time. And I am not alone in this assessment. Read Save the Cat by the late screenwriting genius Blake Snyder, which is a great book for all writers to read anyway.
Writers. Can we cast über perfect characters? Sure. But we do so at a risk. Perfect characters easily become one-dimensional and boring. As in movies, we need to connect with a reader, and most of us didn’t sit at that table in high school.
Star Trek perfected showing, not telling. Star Trek did an unsurpassed job of showing, not telling. Yes, they can info-dump in movies. I gutted through Deadline with the late Brittany Murphy and there were convenient camcorder tapes along the way to info dump back story. There were all kinds of scenes dedicated for the sole purpose of characters discussing a third-party. No, no, no, no, no! Bad writer! Had the screenwriter been in my workshop, he would have gotten zinged.
Virtually everything in Star Trek happened real time. The director didn’t dedicate entire scenes to Spock and Uhura explaining how Kirk was a reckless pain in the tush. Abrams employed scenes that showed Kirk crashing through their lives like a bull in a china shop. There was ONE flashback and it was information critical to understanding the plot.
Star Trek employed parsimony. One element of showing and not telling is to make the most of your story. Employ setting, symbol and action economy. If a scene can do more than one thing…let it. In the beginning (prologue) Kirk’s mother is pregnant (with him). Bad guys appear, and Dad is left on board as acting captain of the ship. He must sacrifice to save them all.
It is no accident that the director did two things. First, all the battle noises fade away and symphony music rises. Then, the scenes cut from Mom giving birth to Dad giving his life. Birth and death, hope and sacrifice are suddenly in perfect harmony. That was done for a reason. In your novel, do all things on purpose.
Look at your scenes. Can they do more than one task? For some ideas, read my blog Setting—More than Just a Backdrop. Setting can be used for more reasons than to give readers a weather report. Lehane proves my point in Shutter Island (discussed in blog), which is a tremendous example of narrative parsimony.
Star Trek showed character via relativity. In the beginning we see Kirk as this crazy guy power drinking and zooming around on a crotch rocket. Yet, the director knew he could have a problem. He needed Kirk to be a maverick risk-taker…but he also needed to prove to the audience that his protagonist wasn’t a foolhardy idiot. No one wants to follow a raging moron with a death wish into battle. The director needed to show us someone who cared deeply about others and who was willing to risk everything for his men.
How did he do this?
There is an early scene where they have to do a space jump (think HALO jump). Kirk and Sulu go with a Red Shirt—which means Red Shirt dude is going to die for those who are not Trekkies. Red Shirt guys always bite it. The interesting thing is that the Red Shirt guy is hooping and hollering all the way down like some idiot out of a Mountain Dew commercial. Kirk pulls his chute and begs the guy to open his. Red Shirt is too busy being a thrill-seeking idiot and ends up vaporized. Now we the audience can see Kirk takes huge risks, but we also understand that he cares about others and is not stupid.
Star Trek relied on character and story. This is the single most important lesson for those writing sci-fi, fantasy, paranormal or horror. Tell us a story about people first. Relying on gadgets and gimmicks is not storytelling (if you ever need a reminder, just go check out last week’s post about the Star Wars prequels). There are all kinds of space movies that had far better special effects than the original Star Wars (the GOOD ones), yet Star Wars endures and will endure to future generations. Why? Because it told a story about people first. I believe this Star Trek did the same and that is why it is a movie that will endure for generations.
I never could get through the newest Star Wars prequels. Why? Because there was so much CGI (computer generated imagery) that I felt like I was trapped at Chuck E. Cheeses and having a bad LSD trip. I felt the computer images were far too distracting. From the comments on last week’s post, I finally realize I am not alone.
Star Trek, on the other hand, used CGI, but not at the expense of the real focus . . . the stories about the people.
I edit a lot of writers who want to write YA, fantasy, paranormal, etc. and too often they allow world-building to take over. The reader is so bogged down in gimmick that she cannot see the characters or the story. Frequently there isn’t a story.
World-building is something a writer must employ to assist or accentuate the core conflict. Our goal as writers must be to get a reader to relate and connect. People connect with people, not worlds. Conflict drives stories, not gizmos. Thus, all the magic and myth must be ancillary to the root story. If you have done a good job of plotting, that root story will be very simple and timeless and could take place in Kansas or on Planet Doom.
For those of you who haven’t watched the new Star Trek, I highly recommend it (duh ) even if you aren’t a fan of sci-fi.
What are some of your favorite movies and why? How did the story capture you? Why does it resonate? What are your thoughts on the new Star Trek? What did you like? What fell short?
I love hearing from you! And to prove it and show my love, for the month of June, everyone who leaves a comment I will put your name in a hat. If you comment and link back to my blog on your blog, you get your name in the hat twice. If you leave a comment, and link back to my blog, and mention my book We Are Not Alone in your blog…you get your name in the hat THREE times. What do you win? The unvarnished truth from yours truly.
I will pick a winner every week for a critique of your first five pages. At the end of June I will pick a winner for the grand prize. A free critique from me on the first 15 pages of your novel. Good luck!
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Jack Sheldon: Class Act
Trumpeter Jack Sheldon, who turns 67 this month, started out with Wardell Gray, Dexter Gordon, Curtis Counce, Bill Holman, and Stan Kenton. He moved on quickly to an eclectic career that has included hard bop ensembles, his own big band, studio work, singing & acting, but never strayed far from the sweet tone and fluid articulation that pours forth from his trumpet.
Back in the '60s Sheldon starred in the television spy-spoof sitcom "Run, Buddy, Run," and he was Merv Griffin's music director during The Merv Griffin Show's" run in the '70s and '80s. Nick Ceroli, Ray Brown, and Plas Johnson worked with him on that one. A witty comic, the trumpeter fills a part of his live performances with funny asides that leave you rolling in the aisles. Sheldon's vocals on "Conjunction Junction" and "I'm Just a Bill" from ABC's "Schoolhouse Rock" series (one vocal reprised on Fox's The Simpsons) have caused his voice to become quite familiar to a larger audience.
Class Act is a romantic album on which Sheldon alternates his clear ballad trumpet tone and his fuzzier "cool school" timbre for effect. Similarly, he sings in a raspy tenor voice at times and opts for the deeper baritone swells for romance. Sheldon announces a dedication at the start of "Till the Clouds Roll By" to Helen "Gorgeous" Borgers, KLON-FM radio announcer; they're located at http://klon.org/ and can be heard via the 'net playing Sheldon's music day and night. More information on the trumpeter's recent recorded works may be found at http://www.butterflyrecords.com/ .
Sentimental ballads such as "It's the Talk of the Town" show the listener just how much the emotional meaning of a lyric applies to Sheldon's performance. His fluid bop trumpet lines and 1/2-valve expressions clearly convey the unique message the artist feels. Whether singing in a half-speaking manner or "going off" in a rapid-fire flurry of 16th-notes, Sheldon performs the songs with his own personal zeal and mannerisms. "Indiana" finds the singer stretching his voice as he's done on the Schoolhouse Rock episodes. It's always enjoyable to catch a familiar phrase like that, and here it's amplified by the trumpet and piano interludes. "My Romance" is a lush ballad that the duo presents with respect and utmost dignity. George Gershwin's "Soon" is performed as a standard tribute to its composer and offers a fine example of the similarity of energy displayed by both trumpeter and pianist through the dexterity of their fingertips.
Jack Sheldon composed "Swimming in the Riviera" and starts the piece with a lyrical trumpet presentation that floats along on gentle waves. His tone changes to a raspier Schoolhouse Rock kind of timbre as he introduces the lyrics and the unexpected meaning of the song. Just like many a blues lyric, this one is based on heartbreak and how we learn to cope. Sheldon sings, "I'll find some understandingyou're gonna be sorry for all the mistakes you made." But the Riviera he's swimming in is not what you'd expect. The singer is cruising down Avalon Boulevard with his "rear end raised way up high" and his taillights on. Highly recommended.
Track Listing: The Song Is You; Till the Clouds Roll By; It's the Talk of the Town; I'll Walk Alone; (Back Home Again In) Indiana; When Your Lover Has Gone; I Cover the Waterfront; Is You Is, or Is You Ain't (Ma' Baby); Swimming in the Riviera; Soon; A Time for Love; Moonsong (That Wasn't Meant for Me); My Romance; Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye.
Personnel: Jack Sheldon: trumpet, vocal; Ross Tompkins: piano.
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How to cut the cost of your energy bills
GAS and electricity prices have rocketed over the past few years.
Households are paying an average of 11 per cent more for their energy now than they were 12 months ago. Over the last five years, bills have soared by a whopping 36 per cent.
Cashflow has teamed up with finance comparison site moneysupermarket.com to help readers compare the best deals on credit cards, loans, mortgages and insurance.
Here, its head of content, CLARE FRANCIS, shows you how to save an average of £200 a year by moving to a more competitive price plan.
There is no reward for loyalty
If you have never switched energy firm you will probably be paying your provider’s standard prices for gas and electricity – these won’t be the lowest prices it offers.
Those forking out the most are the people who pay their energy bills quarterly by cash or cheque.
This is the traditional payment method but energy firms apply discounts if you pay by monthly direct debit.
Don’t be fooled though. Even if you are paying by direct debit, it doesn’t mean that you are on the best deal. There are still further savings to be had.
The cheapest energy deals are online tariffs. You won’t receive paper bills. Instead you have an online account which you can access at any time.
You will be required to submit regular meter readings (this ensures you are billed correctly) and pay by monthly direct debit.
There are variable or fixed rate tariffs available. With a variable rate product, the amount you pay for your gas or electricity could rise or fall in the event of price changes.
A fixed tariff protects against price hikes as the amount you are charged per unit of energy used is set for a certain period of time.
How to switch
The easiest way to identify the best deals is to compare energy prices using a comparison site. It will help if you have a recent bill to hand but it’s not essential.
You will be asked for your postcode, which firm currently provides your gas and electricity and how much energy you use (this is where the bill comes in handy).
If you don’t have the consumption information, you can give the amount you currently pay each month or quarter.
Once you have given those details you will be shown the savings you can make by switching – the cheapest tariff will be at the top.
You then decide which deal to go for and you can click through and apply there and then. The process literally only takes about five minutes.
Your new provider will organise the transfer. You will be asked to give details so a direct debit can be set up and to give a meter reading.
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PITTSBURGH - Competing companies are raiding each other for experienced help, renting ad space, billboards, even banner-towing planes at beach resorts with generous offers of pay and benefits in what is turning out to be one very hot sector of the job market.
America needs coal miners.
Coal prices are hitting record highs and some of the biggest energy companies say they desperately need help to meet demand.
But the real crunch, according to coal producers and the U.S. Department of Labor, is going to occur in five to seven years when the industry faces a massive wave of retirements.
There is no next generation of miners to replace them, according to Tom Hoffman, vice president of investor and public relations at Consol Energy, the nation's largest underground coal producer.
"For the last 15 years or so, we've been able to reach back into a pool of experienced miners that had been laid off or who had lost jobs through consolidation," Hoffman said. "Those guys are now largely gone, either retired or they got out of the business. We're facing a very big demographic bubble."
Officials with the National Mining Association testified before Congress this summer that more than half of all coal miners are older than 50 and that replacements for those workers would have to be found before the end of the decade.
That would equal tens of thousands of jobs.
But dozens of mining communities saw much of the next generation of miners leave years ago, with few prospects for jobs in the rural areas where coal is mined.
The labor shortage is already being felt by Consol and other major producers.
Consol, which is based in Pittsburgh, told investors production was down in some Kentucky mines because operators could not find enough help.
Massey Energy Corp., the fourth-largest U.S. coal company, reported last month that third-quarter profits would take a hit due to a labor shortage.
"It is a major issue for us now and the most significant restriction we have to growth," said Katharine Kenny, spokeswoman for the Richmond, Va.-based company. "All things being equal, not having enough people will prevent us from hitting production goals."
In July, when many coal miners traditionally take vacation, Massey sent airplanes over the resort community of Myrtle Beach, S.C., pulling banners that promised big money and better benefits.
Myrtle Beach is a popular vacation spot for miners from West Virginia, said Jeff Gillenwater, who heads Massey's recruitment efforts.
Gillenwater acknowledges the company is trying to lure new miners, as well as miners from competitors in an extremely tight labor market.
The problem is so pervasive, it has reached into the ranks of state and federal agencies, including the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration.
"MSHA, like others, including the private sector, is facing a significant challenge of how to replace its current work force as they age and retire," said Dave D. Lauriski, assistant secretary of labor.
MSHA held recruiting drives in New York and Pennsylvania last week and is holding another Monday near Pittsburgh.
The Department of Labor met with industry executives earlier this month in Las Vegas to form a collaborative for a national recruiting drive.
The number of coal miners nationwide dropped from 159,777 in 1990 to 99,358 the end of 2003, according to the Mine Safety and Health Administration.
Those who dispersed years ago to places hundreds of miles from the coal fields of Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Kentucky are the target of recruitment efforts from Gillette, Wyo., to Charlotte, N.C., Massey's Gillenwater said.
Mining interests and the Labor Department say they believe most miners who left did so out of necessity, and would return home if they knew coal mining jobs were there.
"They didn't leave their families ... they didn't leave their homes because they wanted to," said Bruce Watzman, vice president for safety and health at the National Mining Association. "Many of these guys want to get back to where the family is but unfortunately, a lot of the mining support system has disappeared since the early 1980s."
A number of college programs that trained foreman, engineers, and inspectors have been cut, or are greatly reduced, said Joe Sbaffoni, the director of Pennsylvania's Bureau of Deep Mine Safety.
Sbaffoni is meeting with officials at Penn State University to reopen a mining program at its Fayette County campus in the heart of the state's coal country.
The shortage of qualified miners is affecting other industries as well, including the metals industry, said Richard Perry, vice president of Denver's Newmont Corp., the largest gold producer in the world.
In the United States, only 100 people graduated last year with mine engineering degrees, though there was a market demand for 500, Perry said.
"It is an issue that is affecting mining across the board," he said.
The United Mine Workers Career Centers Inc., which retrains displaced coal miners in several states for other jobs, has just applied for federal funding to begin training new coal miners.
The money to be made mining in rural coal areas far outpaces almost all other jobs in those communities and is already drawing young men back to the hunt for coal.
Many are carrying on a family tradition that they had believed was lost with their fathers.
"I'm proud to say I'm a fifth-generation miner ... that's on both sides of my family," said Jeff Samek, 21, of Rices Landing, in the southwest corner of Pennsylvania.
Samek had trained as a welder, but the pay and benefits were nowhere near what can be made in the mines, he said.
"We're pretty much writing our own check," he said.
Miners can start at $40,000 to $50,000, but can make as much as $100,000 if they work all the overtime that is to be had.
Earl Lewis, 34, of Crucible, quit his job as an EMT and, like his father and grandfather, is now a coal miner. He is putting away money for the first time in 15 years.
Both Lewis and Samek work for Maple Creek Mining, in Bentleyville, south of Pittsburgh.
"There are a lot of red caps floating around at Maple Creek," Lewis said, referring to the colored helmets inexperienced miners must wear.
Meanwhile, companies like Consol are stepping up recruiting at colleges for mining engineers and at high schools and at what trade schools remain for foreman or miners.
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Date: February 2009
Creator: Ignatow, Gabe
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Hackers Infiltrate MySQL.com for Pushing Malware
According to a security company, the MySQL website, which caters to some highly trafficked websites with its open source cache, was under hackers' control who were delivering malicious programs onto visiting computers running the Windows operating system prior to their cleansing. Cnet News published this in news on September 26, 2011.
The security company Sucuri Security said that a Web-based malicious program named mwjs159 contaminated MySQL.com. This malware frequently disseminated whilst attackers used hijacked computers for gaining admission into confidential FTP clients. The hack resulted in the website's visitors getting diverted onto another website, which planted malware onto their PCs utilizing a BlackHole attack toolkit created code, separate investigators belonging to Armorize stated.
These investigators warned that the code exploited the web-browser, Adobe's PDF, the Adobe Flash browser plug-ins, Java etc., and once properly exploited, it silently loaded malware for good onto the visitor's computer. The infection required nothing more than the visitor to access mysql.com inside the flawed component of any browsing platform, they added. The Register published this in news on September 26, 2011.
Encouragingly, MySQL.com took prompt action towards eliminating the malware for preventing further infections; however, according to Wayne Huang, Chief Executive Officer of Armorize, he wasn't aware of the time period during when website visitors were exposed to attack alternatively the number of them that might've been contaminated. In the meantime, according to a computation by Armorize, there are over 100,000 page views daily for MySQL.com as also over 34,000 exclusive visitors everyday.
Huang further said that the above kinds of assaults tended to have a massive infection rate. Although they were tackled fast, it didn't imply that the criminals' backdoor programs that were intentionally or unintentionally left behind across the website were removed, he added. Cnet News published this in news on September 26, 2011.
Notably, MySQL.com types of popular open-source sites, during recent months, have been repeatedly attacked. During the third week of September 2011, several websites of the Linux Foundation had to be taken offline, including Linux.com and Kernel.org following a hack. Besides, the MySQL.com Internet site itself was struck formerly in 2011.
Related article: Hackers Redirect Windows Live Search to Malicious Sites
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News & Events
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
U.S. Grown Jalapeño and Serrano Peppers Not Connected to Salmonella Saintpaul Outbreak
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is advising consumers that jalapeño and Serrano peppers grown in the United States are not connected with the current Salmonella Saintpaul outbreak.
However, the FDA continues to advise consumers to avoid raw jalapeño peppers — and the food that contains them — if they have been grown, harvested or packed in Mexico.
In addition to domestically grown raw jalapeño peppers, commercially canned, pickled and cooked jalapeño peppers from any and all geographic locations also are not connected with the current Salmonella Saintpaul outbreak.
The FDA is working with state regulatory agencies and food industry groups that represent restaurants, grocery stores and wholesalers to ensure everyone clearly understands this new, more narrow, advisory. The FDA will continue to refine its consumer guidance as the agency’s investigation continues.
The more narrow advisory the FDA is issuing today is based on evidence gathered during a multi-week, intensive investigation conducted in partnership with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and public health authorities in several U.S. states to find the source of the contamination that led to the outbreak. The collective review of the current traceback investigation and harvesting dates, matched with the dates that people became ill, have combined to indicate that the contaminated jalapeño pepper originated in Mexico.
Additional traceback and traceforward information obtained this week has led to the determination that the Agricola Zaragoza produce-distribution center in McAllen, Texas — from where FDA took the positive jalapeño pepper sample — was not the original source of the contamination.
The FDA is continuing to advise that people in high-risk populations, such as elderly persons, infants and people with impaired immune systems, avoid eating raw Serrano peppers from Mexico or food made from raw Serrano peppers from Mexico until further notice.
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Yeshivat Har Etzion
by Rav Mosheh Lichtenstein
The central theme of Parashat Emor is the motif of kedusha and its various manifestations. The idea of kedusha, as exhibited in the kohanim and korbanot, on the one hand, and the sanctity of time itself (kedushat hazman) as expressed in the holidays on the other hand, is the basic concept which the parasha develops throughout. Though each individual element represents a different aspect of divine sanctity, the overarching concept which informs them all and serves as the unifying principle which forges our parasha into a single entity is the manifestation of holiness within the human world. As the Torah itself proclaims: "ve-nikdashti be-tokh Benei Yisrael Ani Hashem mekadishkhem." Even without attempting in our limited space to enter into the details of the parasha's internal organization or to offer an explanation for its sequence, it may be claimed that there is a distinct topic which organizes the parasha into a single unit and integrates it into the broader scheme of Sefer Vayikra. Clearly the issues of kedusha and mikdash are the connection between Emor and the preceding sections of Vayikra from the opening parashot of korbanot in parashat Vayikra and through the halakhot of the kohanim and holidays in Emor.
However, there is one part of the parasha - the concluding section - which doesn't seem to fit at all into this pattern. The topic which it deals with are the halakhot of a person who assaults a fellow Jew, resulting either in murder or bodily injury, or inflicts damage upon his friend's livestock. These halakhot, which detail the punishment of the murderer and establish the requirement of monetary compensation in cases of violent assault, belong to the category of "dinim she-bein adam li-chaveiro" and seem to be totally unrelated to the context of parashat Emor and its topic of kedusha. The logical place for these halakhot should be parashat Mishpatim, the parasha which incorporates within it (almost) the entire corpus of Choshen Mishpat, which deals with the relationships, monetary and otherwise, within human society. Torts, banking, civil law, commercial law, etc. are all dealt with at length in Mishpatim; the inclusion of these issues within parashat Emor is puzzling.
Actually, since all of these halakhot do indeed appear in Mishpatim, the question is not only whether they can be integrated into Emor or not, but also the issue of redundancy. All that is stated here has already been written there. Why then repeat the exact same verses? Even were we to grant that the issues of ne'zikin may have a place in Sefer Vayikra, there should still be no need, since they have already been covered in another parasha.
Moreover, we must ask ourselves why the Chumash combines the segment of bodily damages with the story of the megadef. The megadef, the blasphemous son of the Egyptian woman, unlike the violent attacker, clearly belongs to parashat Emor. For though, unlike the rest of Sefer Vayikra (with the exception of the Nadav vaAvihu case), his story is a historical episode and not a halakhic dictate, its purpose is to illuminate the concept of kedushat hashem, its importance and gravity, and to highlight the dangers and difficulties involved in observing and respecting it. As such, it is an appropriate, if tragic, sequel to the parasha's directive to lead lives of holiness and a vivid reminder of the need for constant vigilance in this endeavor. However, the transition, or rather the continuity, in the Chumash from God's verdict regarding the megadef to the systematic exposition of the laws of physical assault is extremely difficult, since blasphemy and bodily harm would seem to be unrelated issues.
In order to resolve these questions, which mutually reinforce each other, we must adopt an entirely different perspective regarding the issue of violent assault. Though it is true that physical injury is an issue concerning the relationships between human beings and a crime committed against the injured party for which compensation is due, this is not the only element involved in murder or assault, nor is this the aspect which the Torah is relating to in Sefer Vayikra. The point which the Torah is making in Emor is that assaulting a human being is an assault upon God himself. Man was created in God's image and his likeness (demut deyukano) is an expression and representation of the Divine. The Divine Wisdom which willed the entire created world, endowed Man with a unique charisma and entered into a special relationship with him. Not only was Man created in God's image, he also received the essence of his soul directly from God and his existence is by virtue of this contact with his Creator. (See Bereishit 2:7 and Ramban's commentary there.)
Moreover, the unique and intimate relationship between God and Knesset Yisrael as His people, expressed and amplified in Tanakh by means of the marital and conjugal metaphor, adds an additional dimension to the Jew as His representative and charge within the created world.
Thus, Man, created by God in His image, endowed with the faculties of reason and spirit, is the supreme expression of the Divine presence in the material world, so that he who strikes a blow against fellow man is also striking a blow against his creator. Therefore, the Torah deals with this issue in Sefer Vayikra, in addition to its previous treatment in parashat Mishpatim. There the emphasis was upon the civil element and the injury inflicted upon the assaulted person is treated from the perspective of an injured party seeking compensation and remuneration; here, though, the focus is upon the sinner who has mutilated the divine image and sinned against God. The attack upon a human being is considered an act of chilul hakodesh, which is a prime topic which concerns parashat Emor.
This highlights the transition which the Torah makes from the megadef to the person who assaults a fellow human. Rather than being an abrupt and incomprehensible switch from an issue involving the human-divine relationship to a human-human relationship, they are both an expression of a blasphemous act which the Torah prohibits. The transition between the two is smooth and readily achieved, since they both address the same issue.
Though we are dealing with this issue at the biblical-parashat hashavua level, it should be added that there are halakhic ramifications as well. The permissibility of suicide or self inflicted wounds, the nature of the payment which one is obligated to give to the injured party, and various other details regarding these halakhot are all a function of this duality.
Actually, this concept which is explicitly formulated by the Gemara in Sanhedrin (58b), which states that "ha-soter lo'o shel yisrael ke'ilu soter lo'o shel Shechina" expresses itself in many other halakhic instances, aside from the above-mentioned halakhot of chovel. Thus, the Mishna in Sanhedrin (46a) interprets the prohibition of halanat ha-met (delaying burial) along these lines, explaining that any loss of human life is a loss of the Shechina itself and that any abuse of the human image is a defilement of the Image of God which is reflected within Man. This same explanation is also true of bal tashchit, the biblical injunction prohibiting wanton destruction. It is not only the ingratitude and thanklessness exhibited by unappreciative man towards the bounty awarded him by the compassionate Master of the world, but also the attitude displayed towards the Creator and His handiwork by the vandal which the Torah outlaws. The world is the concrete material expression which embodies the divine ideals as represented to us, and as such is deserving of our respect.
In conclusion, we must draw attention to the fact that if our analysis has so far been correct, then we must follow the Torah and ascribe certain value, above and beyond the monetary worth, to animal life. For the Torah did not concthe parasha with the issue of assault committed against a human being, but included in the same group cases of a human striking an animal, and drew a clear parallel between the two. In the same manner that it distinguishes between assault (23,19) and murder (23,21), it distinguishes between "makeh nefesh beheima" (23,18) and "makeh beheima" (23,21). Though the practical bottom line - compensation - is the same in both instances, they are considered separate cases due to the fact that the issue is not an exclusively monetary issue, since there is the fact that he has killed the NEFESH beheima. Any evil committed against God's handiwork reveals Man overstepping his boundary and challenging his God, be it a major or minor infraction.
It is this same arrogance and egocentrism of Man that the parasha of "chovel u-mazik" shares in common with megadef and it this which places this parasha squarely within the framework of Sefer Vayikra, since the issue that the Torah is dealing with in this context, as in all of Sefer Vayikra, is the manifestations of kedusha within the human world and our reactions to them. The megadef and the chovel, the ba'al hakorban and the kohen, are all a response to the divine challenge to invest our world with kedusha and are, therefore, coupled together in the same parasha.
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During the Roman Era it was the major mouth of the Scheldt River. Before the St. Felix's Flood of 1530, it flowed north as a river from the east end of the Westerschelde, turned west a little west of Bergen op Zoom, and then west along the north edge of what is now the Verdronken Land van Reimerswaal, and after that widened into an estuary. Later parts of that lost land were reclaimed, restricting part of the connection to the Scheldt River to a narrow channel called the Kreekrak, which silted up and became unnavigable. In 1903 the Kreekak was closed off with a railway embankment, connecting in the process the island of Zuid-Beveland to the mainland of North Brabant. From that moment on, the Oosterschelde lost its connection with the Scheldt, and is no longer functioning as an estuary.
Between Schouwen-Duiveland and Noord-Beveland there are two road connections, the Oosterscheldedam on the west and the Zeeland Bridge on the east.
After the North Sea flood of 1953, it was decided to close off the Oosterschelde by means of a dam and barrier. The Oosterscheldekering (Eastern Scheldt Storm Surge Barrier), between Schouwen-Duiveland and Noord-Beveland, is the largest of 13 ambitious Delta Works, designed to protect a large part of the Netherlands from flooding. A four kilometre long section has huge sluice-gate-type doors that are normally open, but can be closed under adverse weather conditions.
Upon completion of this barrier in 1986, the flow of water has decreased and the tidal height differential reduced from to . As a result, no new sand is deposited on the sand bars which slowly erode, changing the coastal characteristics.
Since May 8, 2002, the entire Oosterschelde was designated a national park. Its boundaries are the dikes of Schouwen-Duiveland, Tholen and Sint-Philipsland, Noord-Beveland and Zuid-Beveland, and the dams of the Delta Works. Having an area of , it is the largest national park in the Netherlands. Total shore length is .
The park consist primarily of the salt waters of the Oosterschelde, but also includes some mud flats, meadows, and shoals. Because of the large variety of sea life, including unique regional species, the park is popular with Scuba divers. Other activities include sailing, fishing, cycling, and bird watching. | <urn:uuid:8ba13df9-c49b-4287-a40e-8cfa08be252f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.reference.com/browse/Oosterschelde+National+Park | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00054-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944129 | 547 | 3.34375 | 3 |
US presses UN action against Iran
ChinaView | August 9, 2005
The United States says it considers reports that Iran has restarted nuclear activities "unfortunate" and would expect Tehran to be taken before the United Nations.
A US State Department official, who asked not to be named, made his comments after the vice president of Iran's Atomic Energy Agency announced the resumption of uranium conversion at its Isfahan plant despite warnings by the international community.
The US official added that he expected a board meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Tuesday to take "appropriate action."
The move by Iran, which Washington accuses of seeking nuclear arms, came despite an effort by Britain, France and Germany to wean Tehran off its ambitions with economic and security incentives.
The Islamic Republic rejected as "unacceptable" the latest offer that would have allowed it to retain a civilian nuclear capacity but barred it from enriching uranium that could be used in a bomb.
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Chinese President Hu Jintao's active engagement at the APEC meetings in Hawaii was conducive to strengthening China's relations with other APEC members, increasing their understanding and support of China and setting the direction of future regional cooperation, Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi said.
Chinese President Hu Jintao left Honolulu, Hawaii, on Monday after attending the Economic Leaders' Meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC).
The Hawaii bid, submitted in January 2008, was a collaborative effort between the East-West Center, Hawaii Tourism Authority, the Hawaii Congressional Delegation, the military and a host of Hawaii business leaders. [More]
Hawaii has nearly 800 flights arriving into the state during Leaders Week, so there will be adequate air seats available. As with any travel period, we recommend that visitors book early to secure their preferred accommodations and flights. [More] | <urn:uuid:47a22c26-f89e-41aa-8062-0f7e3f3400c2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://english.sina.com/z/20111110APEC/index.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00062-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949019 | 177 | 1.507813 | 2 |
Grammar School Walk
joint site with Cromwell Association
01480 375 830
Located in a fragment of a medieval monastic building and the former town Grammar School attended by Oliver Cromwell. The Museum marks the life and legacy of Oliver Cromwell 1599-1658, who rose to prominence during the English Civil Wars of the mid 17th Century, and became the head of state, the Lord Protector, during England's only experiment with Republicanism.
1 April- 31 October
Tues-Sun 10.30-12.30 13.30-16.00
1 November - 31 March
Tues - Fri& Sun 13.30-16.00
Sat 10.30-12.30 13.30-16.00
Closed: All day Monday
Portraits, personalia and documents associated with Cromwell, his family and the Parliamentary side of the Civil War. A significant loan collection from Cromwell's descendants is also on display.
Coins and Medals, Fine Art, Personalities, Weapons and War
Key artists and exhibits
- Two portraits by Robert Walker, who was effectively the 'court' painter for the Parliamentary side of the Civil War, along with two cabinets provenanced to Cromwell.
Drop in and do something
Lots of opportunities for making and doing for younger visitors at the Museum over the Autumn half-term
- Especially for children
- Family friendly
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The articles in the April 2008 issue of International Viewpoint can be downloaded in PDF format.
This is the written version of the report that he presented at the meeting of the International Committee of the Fourth International, as introduction to the debate on the international situation, on March 1, 2008.
We have lost an irreplaceable comrade. He was a bolshie trade unionist, a tirelesss activist, Trotskyist train driver, a committed internationalist. Greg joined the Fourth International in 1979 and died a member of its International Executive Committee as well as of the Central Committee of the International Socialist Group, British section of the Fourth International.
The main body of the Fourth International between world congresses, the International Committee (IC) held a regular session in Amsterdam (Netherlands) at the beginning of March 2008.
Washington’s man in Bogotá, President Álvaro Uribe Vélez, made international headlines in early March when the Colombian military murdered members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the country’s largest guerrilla organization, in Ecuadorian territory.
The seminar which was held in Amsterdam from 23-27 February, 2008 at the invitation of the International Institute for Research and Education (IIRE) was extremely fruitful and stimulating.
We have decided to present our lists at the elections, not to build a small self-proclaimed party but to continue to defend the need for an anti-capitalist constituent through our program and in the manner of forming our lists.
In Italy “another Left beyond the Rainbow is needed”. It is with this slogan that the Critical Left, the first formation to present a symbol with the hammer and sickle, is contesting the coming elections. | <urn:uuid:f8b09b12-6c73-4eae-8aec-8d31fe071d2b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?rubrique123 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00014-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948424 | 354 | 1.695313 | 2 |
BACKING THE BOOK
size is determined by the thickness of the cover board. The trimming mark
is penciled on the end sheet where the shoulder is to begin and will be
the guide for the backing boards. To compensate for the fold-over of the
1/16” is added to the guide mark. The backing boards are positioned on
the guide lines on both sides of the book. The book and boards are lowered
into the press projecting the boards about ½” above the top of the press.
Before tightening the press it must be certain that the book is in a level
horizontal position and the round of the book is a good shape, not twisted.
The press is tightened to the most pressure possible, using an iron bar
for leverage, if available.
Should the book shape change under
pressure, because of the swelling, raise the book and board unit about ½”
to relieve the pressure. In this position a preliminary shaping with the
claw of the hammer will relieve the pressure and the book can be lowered
to the original position. The claw of the hammer is used for the initial
backing between the bands to prevent damage to the threads. Downward
glancing blows are applied down the entire center of the backbone, first
to the right of center then to the left of center. The claw is then
applied below center in like manner. Finally the claw is applied down to
the backing board area. Gradually the sections will turn forming the
shoulder at right angles to the book. The end view of the book will
gradually show a bending of the sections from the top center to the right
angles at the shoulder.
After the claw hammering has influenced
the sections to a proper shape a wooden backing block is used between the
bands to smooth the back and sharpen the joints to a right angle. A
backing block is made of end-grain hardwood, ¾’’ square and 2”
long, with the wood grain running in the 2” direction. One end of the
block is made flat, the opposite end is made concave to conform to the
shape of the backbone. The concave end is placed on the backbone, and the
flat end is then hammered with considerable force between the bands. The
wooden block can be moved to any position between the bands.
When the shoulders have been formed and
the backbone made smooth, the cords are straightened with band-nippers and
repositioned. The book is removed from the press. One of the lined cover
boards is squared at one end and the long end is placed against the
shoulder to test for size and squareness at the head and tail edges.
Shoulders made too small are re-backed and made larger. Shoulders too
large may be rubbed down slightly with the edge of a bone folder. An
alternative is to use a thicker board and bevel the edges. After backing,
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Staying behind on the newly rewired space station were Expedition 14 Flight Engineer Sunita Williams, and departing with Discovery’s crew was Thomas Reiter, a European Space Agency astronaut on his way home after a six-month space voyage.
Expedition 14 Commander Mike Lopez-Alegria and Flight Engineer Mikhail Tyurin rang the ship’s bell in Navy fashion and saluted the shuttle and crew as they departed. "From the crew of Discovery – we wish you smooth sailing – thank you for the hard work, and we hope you enjoy the new electrical system on the station," STS-116 Commander Mark Polansky radioed back from a distance of 650 feet during a half-lap fly-around.
Pilot Bill Oefelein was at the controls for the fly-around, which gave Discovery’s crew a look at its handiwork, a new P5 spacer truss segment and a fully retracted P6 solar array wing. During 7 days, 23 hours and 58 minutes of docked operations, the combined crew installed the newest piece of the station’s backbone and completely rewired the station’s power grid over the course of four spacewalks.
Before the hatches closed at 1:42 p.m., Mission Specialist Joan Higginbotham and her cargo team had transferred more than two tons of food, water and equipment for use by the Expedition 14 crew and its newest member. They also filled Discovery’s pressurized cargo carrier with equipment and experiment samples returning to Earth.
Discovery fired its orbital maneuvering system engines to finish separation from the station at 6:12 p.m., bound for a landing at Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 2:56 p.m. Friday, weather permitting.
On Wednesday, Polansky, Oefelein and Mission Specialist Nicholas Patrick will use the shuttle’s robotic arm and the Orbiter Boom Sensor System to inspect Discovery’s heat shield for damage from orbiting debris or micrometeoroids. Spacewalkers Robert Curbeam and Christer Fuglesang will work with Higginbotham and Reiter to stow equipment and supplies used during the mission in preparation for landing. | <urn:uuid:4aa7d05b-750b-4864-b918-24aa09a66f88> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.astronautix.com/details/sts82992.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00006-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938043 | 454 | 2.328125 | 2 |
TV shows often draw their inspiration from real life and just as Chummy, the much loved character in Call the Midwife, heads to Sierra Leone as a missionary with Church Mission Society, her story draws parallels with real life midwife Eve Vause, who "got the call" back in the fifties.
In the first episode of the current series, Chummy, played by Miranda Hart, is seen sticking a stamp on an envelope addressed to the Church Missionary Society in Salisbury Square, London – the organisation's name and address at the time the series is set.
The experiences of the midwives in the BBC1 drama are familiar to Eve, who was pedalling around the streets of post-War Southampton as a midwife.
However, she felt called to meet the needs further from home and in 1958, headed to Sierra Leone by cargo ship.
In the fifties, the difficult conditions meant that only short-term placements were permitted. However, unlike Chummy, who returns to Britain in the show, the year in Sierra Leone marked the beginning of nearly a quarter of a century in mission service on the African continent.
The call upon Eve's life would take her to Nigeria, Congo and Uganda, where she lived through the Obote and Amin years.
Recalling her experience in Uganda, she says: "One time I was certainly relying very consciously on God was when the army had been attacking our child health and maternity centres, and they had attacked and raped the midwives in one place."
When one health centre was evacuated, the midwives refused to leave.
"They had the ward full of mothers. They didn't want to go," she says.
"We knew the effect on the village would be devastating if we suddenly took their midwives away. So we left them... but that was a time I was leaning dramatically on God."
Today, CMS is still recruiting healthcare professionals, including midwives, particularly for the training of nationals.
Penny Stradling, CMS vocational recruitment officer, said there was still an "urgent need" for healthcare professionals to share their skills.
"The chance of a mother dying in childbirth is up to 100 times greater in some parts of Africa than in the UK," she said.
Eve has encouraging words for a new generation to rise up to the challenge of serving.
"The gospel is a gospel of wholeness – of body and mind as well as spirit," she says.
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Amazon’s new Artificial Artificial Intelligence 03 Nov 2005
12 comments Latest by Bill Seitz
Amazon’s new “Mechanical Turk” lets people answer questions that are better suited for humans than computers. These questions are called HITs.
HIT stands for Human Intelligence Task. These are tasks that people are willing to pay you to complete. For example a HIT might ask: “Is there a pizza parlour in this photograph?” Typically these tasks are extraordinarily difficult for computers, but simple for humans to answer.
Here’s a sample HIT: You are presented with the name and address of a business as well as a set of photos taken along the street where the business is supposed to be located. Your task is to identify the best photo of the business that is listed.
Pretty interesting stuff — especially from a “less software” perspective (screw the software, just let the humans do it).. Read more about it. | <urn:uuid:66c1a584-08ce-453e-bb4e-fcd24ad9e538> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://37signals.com/svn/archives2/amazons_new_artificial_artificial_intelligence.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00004-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953015 | 201 | 1.671875 | 2 |
New Jersey Voters: Are We Spoiled? [AUDIO]
More than 30 states currently have laws in place that require voters to present identification at the polls before they cast their ballots this November. In some states, a voter ID law has been on the books for decades. New Jersey does not carry such a law.
Meanwhile, New Jersey is on the list of states that allow “no-excuse absentee voting.” Any voter can make their choice by mail, no questions asked. In other states, absentee ballots are only available to service members, the disabled or other voters dealing with unique circumstances.
There appear to be some perks associated with being a voter in the Garden State, but many other states have made the registration and voting process even more convenient for residents.
“There are actually a number of states that are allowing voter registration on the Internet, without ever having paper involved in the process at all,” explained Jennie Bowser, senior fellow at the National Conference of State Legislatures.
In New Jersey, like most other states, registration can not be complete without an actual signature. The form can be mailed in, or someone can register to vote while applying for assistance or service at a number of state agencies.
In two states, Oregon and Washington, all elections are conducted by mail. According to the NCSL, a ballot is automatically delivered to every resident of those states before Election Day.
“They don’t really have polling places,” Bowser said. “They open a few for emergency cases.”
Also, early voting is not offered in New Jersey, as it is in 32 other states and the District of Columbia. With no excuse or justification, voters can cast a ballot in person during a specified period prior to Election Day.
- ABSENTEE AND EARLY VOTING – State-by-state
The deadline to register in New Jersey for next month’s election is Tuesday, October 16. Those registering by mail are asked to provide either a driver’s license number, a non-driver ID number from the MVC, or the last four digits of their social security number. If a voter offers none of the required information, the application process can still continue, but the voter must present valid identification on Election Day. | <urn:uuid:82398ea3-a4bb-4384-aa94-a18357eac1a9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://nj1015.com/new-jersey-voters-are-we-spoiled-audio/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00022-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943695 | 473 | 2.125 | 2 |
Project Management in the Real World
Focusing on all types of projects, Project Management in the Real World uses a case-study approach to combine the experiences of project managers from across the globe (the equivalent to 250+ working years), into one resource for project and programme managers. Project Management in the Real World contains over 50 cross-industry case studies – some of projects that went well, some of projects that went badly – plus a discussion of what readers can take from that experience, all backed up by theory and references.
Each chapter contains a wealth of knowledge and innovative ideas, as well as the tricks other professionals use that can be applied to help deliver projects more successfully. Unlike other books available on the subject, Project Management in the Real World is not focused on the traditional ‘start to finish’ process of managing a project. Instead, it explores:
- managing project budgets
- managing project scope
- managing project teams
- managing project plans
- managing yourself.
The book is aimed at both professional public and private sector project managers with some experience of managing projects.
Author: Elizabeth Harrin
Publisher: British Computer Society
Publication Date: November 06
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Pierogi is pleased to present a new series of etchings by Tony Fitzpatrick, Nickel History: The Nation of Heat. The second half of this title is from a song by Joe Pug—the last lines of this song go through Fitzpatrick “like an icicle”:
There’s a straw-hatted man
rowing away from the shore. . .
He says; “It’s a shame they don’t
let you have Slaves anymore. . .
I’m the ugliest man that you’ll ever meet. . .
I come from the Nation of Heat
Fitzpatrick’s earlier series of unique drawing collages include “The Wonder: Portraits of a Remembered City“ (a three-part series dedicated to the city of Chicago); “Chapel of Moths” (narratives influenced by the music and musicians, the food, and the many colorful characters of New Orleans), the “Hobo Drawings” (which convey narratives about the hobo alphabet and hobos) and, most recently, “Drawings for Crazy Horse” (inspired by stories about the life of Crazy Horse). Before he began these drawing collages in the late ’90s, Fitzpatrick was known as a master printer. He continued to make prints occasionally throughout this period but in the past several years began to immerse himself once again in printmaking.
The works in the Nickel History series cover a multitude of Fitzpatrick’s interests, rather than focus on a single subject: from his early childhood escapades, when school nuns quickly labeled him a misfit, to his love of grasshoppers, moths and butterflies, to comic book heroes and mythical Chicago figures. It is a kind of survey of the artist’s life and lifelong interests. For Fitzpatrick each cultural icon becomes a touchstone for personal and national revelations. Several etchings reference comic book icons (“Bazooka Hulk,” “Tracy, of Chicago”) but, in Fitzpatrick’s hands, they take on new meaning.
Comic books were vital for him as a kid, “I spent every dime I had as a kid on Comic books…. This was the world your parents were not privy to, did not understand…. In the Marvel Comics good didn’t always trump evil, it was a more complicated and believable world. Life wasn’t fair, and the guys who were….different…were Heroes. Special powers were imbued in the suffering child–and via this–the mutants, geeks and outcasts became powerful. It was a compelling message for me as a child.” In his version of The Hulk, rather than embodying uncontrollable rage, when he gets pissed “Bazooka Hulk” smells like bubblegum.
Of “The Pink Witch,” Fitzpatrick writes, “[o]ne of the most magical things I remember from a road trip was seeing a tough bush in the high desert covered in pinkish leaves. They seemed out of place on this scraggily tough plant. A moment later, I knew why…when the pink moths all took flight.”
This will be Fitzpatrick’s fourth solo exhibition at Pierogi and the first of his etchings there. His work has been published in numerous volumes and is in the permanent collections of the MoMA (NYC), the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), The National Museum of American Art (Wash., DC), among others, and was included in the MoMA exhibition, “Compass In Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection.” | <urn:uuid:b953e432-7e93-4ea0-ad66-9cae25b2a811> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.artslant.com/ny/events/show/177237-nickel-history-the-nation-of-heat-new-etchings | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00024-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967898 | 778 | 1.726563 | 2 |
The Nelson Company launches packaging design center
October 22, 2012 - MMH Editorial
Companies looking for sustainable packaging solutions to cut packaging costs, reduce waste and decrease product damage have a new resource in The Nelson Technical Center. Recently launched by The Nelson Company, an international pallet and transport packaging solutions provider, the new Technical Center offers expertise in the field of pallet design, testing and custom packaging.
One example of The Nelson Technical Center at work is with a large electronics client. This client shipped tall top-heavy metal units on solid wood pallets with protective packaging made from corrugated and wood pulp. The pallet base was not compatible with some international material handling equipment, the packaging design limited carrier options, and longer distribution lanes were leading to increased damage rates. Shipping damages to these units could result in significant delays at time-critical facility startups. The Nelson Technical Center worked with a cross functional team of engineering, logistics, operations, and purchasing to design, lab test, field trial, and implement an overall pallet, packaging, and logistics solution. The new unit load design is rarely damaged, it is compatible with all material handling equipment, and there are significant packaging and freight cost savings.
The capabilities of The Nelson Technical Center has been built over the last few years as The Nelson Company provided more and more of its clients with this type technical assistance. The Nelson Technical Center will continue these efforts with a focus on packaging design assistance, pallet design, laboratory testing, custom packaging development, opportunity analyses and packaging project implementations.
The Nelson Company, established in 1921, has a long history of innovation with wood packaging, packaging return programs, plastic pallets and unit load design. John Clarke, who will serve as Director of the Center, has been the Technical Sales Director for The Nelson Company for the last eight years. Clarke said, “Our customers are running with leaner packaging and sourcing personnel today. We are being asked to take a more integrated role with our partners to assist with many of these activities. The Center expands our capabilities to assist customers – allowing them to focus on their core activities while we manage packaging projects for them.”
John Clarke has his master’s degree from Virginia Tech, and worked in the Virginia Tech Pallet Research Lab for 10 years under the direction of Dr. Marshall White. His last six years at Virginia Tech, Clarke was Director of the Virginia Tech Center for Unit Load Design. In that role, Clarke gained significant experience in solving a wide variety of pallet and packaging challenges. “It was nothing to have 10 to 15 inquiries per day about a variety of packaging related issues such as insects on pallets, mold, international regulations, and how to lower packaging costs,” said Clarke.
Also working in The Nelson Technical Center is Kent Longardner who has a package engineering degree from Michigan State University. Longardner has many years of experience as a packaging engineer with Fortune 500 companies, and he also managed a package testing lab for the past five years.
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Regression occurs when a student enrolls in a course which has content fundamental to another course the student has previously completed successfully. When such regression occurs, the regressive course will be available on an ungraded (credit/no credit) basis only. Credit may be earned but the hours earned will increase the student's minimum degree hour requirement by an equal amount.
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What is the European Travel Commission?
The European Travel Commission (ETC) is a non-profit making organisation with its headquarters in Brussels. Its members are the 35 National Tourism Organisations (NTOs) of Europe, whose role is to market and promote tourism to Europe in general, and to their individual countries in particular.
The European Travel Commission (ETC) has been responsible for
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This tip comes from Alissa Dicker Schrieber, The Kitchenista:
We love shopping in farmers markets. The pleasant environment, the food and the ability to buy directly from the grower can’t be beat.
Everything is super fresh, often picked (or caught) just the day before. The food is locally produced: It doesn’t travel across the country (or across continents) to get to you. And since the variety of fruits, veggies, meat, poultry, fish, cheeses, breads, etc. is always changing, shopping at farmers markets can add instant variety to your diet.
Best of all, when you bring home great-tasting, high-quality fresh ingredients, your job becomes much easier. With some simple, unfussy cooking (often, merely some chopping), you can look like a culinary genius. The food already tastes great!
For the best selection, arrive at the market early. Certain items sell out very quickly.
That being said, farmers will often offer specials and discounts toward the end of the day, when they’re getting ready to leave.
Look for dandelion greens in spring farmers
markets. An excellent source of calcium
and vitamins A and C, they contain more iron
than spinach. Enjoy them in a salad.
A good plan is to start by walking through the market in one direction, to see what all the vendors are offering. (Who has the best strawberries? Who has better prices?) Then, reverse your direction and purchase what looks best.
Find a farmers market at LocalHarvest.org.
While you’re there, click on the CSA tab to learn about Community Supported Agriculture. It has become a popular way for consumers to buy local, seasonal food directly from a farmer. Participants get a weekly box of seasonal food, ensuring that they get the freshest fruit and produce and guaranteeing an income for the farmer. | <urn:uuid:c352103f-7ee7-42d1-b464-7c65ca29b7e6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.thenibble.com/2011/03/page/3/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00007-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938715 | 396 | 1.828125 | 2 |
The European Union approved Wednesday a bill that will tighten limits on carbon dioxide emissions from new cars from the current level of 162 g/km to 130g/km by the year 2012. The controversial regulation will apply to all cars manufactured in EU countries as well as cars imported into the EU from Korea, Japan, and elsewhere.
The bill in its original state set the emission level at a stricter 120 g/km, but it was eased to 130 g/km after opposition from European car manufacturers and Angela Merkel, the Chancellor of Germany. Germany is home to several leading car makers.
Despite the loosened criteria, European automakers are unhappy with the bill. In 1998, European car makers agreed to reduce carbon dioxide emissions to 140 g/km by 2008 or 2009. Most of them failed to do so.
The EU plans to encourage carmakers to develop new ways to reduce emissions, like refining engine technology, using more biofuels, improving tires and enhancing air-conditioning efficiency.
Experts point out that Korean car makers have a lot of work ahead of them if they are to meet the new regulations.
"The current environment-friendly diesel technology is not enough to lower carbon dioxide emissions below 120 g/km," said Kim Tae-nyeon, a trade analyst at the Korea Automobile Manufacturers Association. Developing hybrid electric-gasoline cars would be essential, he predicted. While carbon dioxide emissions from environment-friendly diesel engines are 20 to 30 percent less than gasoline cars, hybrids emit 40 to 50 percent less.
"The emission of carbon dioxide is directly connected to fuel efficiency, so without the development of superior fuel-saving automobiles, exports to EU countries and other advanced countries might face difficulties," Kim added.
Cho Chul, a researcher at the Korea Institute for Industrial Economics and Trade, said that Korean automakers should work toward the new emission standards as sales of mid- and large-sized Korean cars grow in Europe. "More active investment in the research and development of environment-friendly cars is needed as well," Cho added. | <urn:uuid:712ea82a-7104-41a0-bff1-75fddf187160> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2007/02/08/2007020861012.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944021 | 415 | 2.71875 | 3 |
As the Olympics draw to a close and the end of the summer looms on the horizon, you can be sure that the upcoming Republican and Democrat national conventions will provide end-of-summer entertainment.
For those setting their DVRs: The Republican National Convention is in Tampa on Aug. 27-30 and the upcoming Democrat National Convention will take place in Charlotte, N.C., Sept. 3-6.
Today's presidential nomination process is very different from the early days of the Republic, when the two major parties — the Federalists and the Democrat-Republicans (the forerunner of the today's Democrat Party) — determined their respective presidential nominees by a caucus made-up of members of Congress or state legislatures. This process prevailed through 1828.
The first national political convention of what we now know as the two major political parties was held by the Democrat Party just down the road in Baltimore, May 21 and 23, 1832.
According to a brief history of the Maryland Democratic Party written by Carroll County historian and former Maryland Secretary of State John T. Willis, that convention "was held at the Atheneum (and Warfield's Church) … located on the southwest corner of St. Paul and Lexington Streets. Twelve delegates from each county and six delegates from Baltimore City were invited to attend."
From 1832 to 1872, eight of the 12 Democrat Party national conventions were held in Baltimore. Considering that two of the main routes to Baltimore from all points west travel through Carroll County, an historian's imagination can run wild as to what national political figures may have passed through our fair county in those days.
What we now know as the Republican Party essentially began in 1854 and replaced the Whig Party, which had replaced the much earlier Federalist Party.
The first Republican National Convention, June 17-19, 1856, was attended by 600 delegates and 100 news reporters, who had ample room to move in the 1,200-seat Musical Fund Hall, in Philadelphia.
The Republican Party was in its infancy, having been organized only two years earlier in at a meeting in Ripon, Wisc., from a mishmash of anti-slavery Democrats, the remnants of the Whig Party, abolitionists and "Free-Soilers."
Originally, the party was a single-issue consortium of citizens who were adamantly opposed to slavery, although many of the tenets of the party that remain in place today — economic development, education, limited government with an emphasis on individual freedoms and a personal responsibility for one's future fate — were ancillary issues gluing together a mix of groups and individuals dedicated to abolishing slavery at any cost.
In fact, according to the "Independence Hall Association" in Philadelphia; the key plank of that first GOP convention was firm opposition to the extension of slavery. The association records that the parties founding documents said, "It is the duty of Congress to prohibit in the territories those twin relics of barbarism, polygamy and slavery."
When he is not watching reruns of previous political conventions on TV — in slow motion — Kevin Dayhoff may be reached at firstname.lastname@example.org | <urn:uuid:023fd5c5-1e44-4cff-8226-af3391d124bd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.baltimoresun.com/explore/carroll/news/community/ph-ce-eagle-archive-0812-20120808,0,1262168.story | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00013-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967819 | 641 | 2.484375 | 2 |
Where to go for help on money issues
Money is a sensitive subject for most people, sometimes bringing out strong emotions: despair, anger, jealousy, greed, and even depression. So, when is it safe to discuss the topic? Who do you talk to when you need sound advice? What is an appropriate question?
Start by listing all of the important people in your life and define your relationships with them. Decide who you feel most comfortable talking to about money matters. If you have no one whose judgment you trust, UMD has resources that can help you.
One Stop counselors are available to guide you through the process if you are trying to decide how much money you may need to borrow. Contact us for more information.
The One Stop Money Management website provides information on core financial concepts like budgeting, credit, credit cards, and financial goals.
LSS Financial Counseling Service offers free, expert budget and debt counseling. LSS Counselors provide help on any of these topics:
- Getting credit card debt paid off faster
- Student loan repayment options
- How to handle debt collector calls
- How to avoid debt settlement scams
- Building or rebuilding good credit
- Taking control of your money
Appointments can be in person, by phone or internet. Schedule yours by calling 1-888-577-2227, or visit www.lssmn.org/debt. All services are confidential.
UMD Health Services is a resource for you, as well as University faculty and staff, to learn more about mental health and related resources. Counselors do not give financial advice, but can help with emotions caused by money issues, such as anxiety, sadness, or depression. | <urn:uuid:dbd051d6-6293-4334-b70e-deae27597a18> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://d.umn.edu/onestop/student-finances/manage-money/help/money-issues.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00014-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945177 | 348 | 2.140625 | 2 |
The counts and characteristics of same-sex couples are among the most written-about data from the 2010 Census and American Community Survey. Yet, two decades after the Census Bureau began offering people the option to describe themselves as a same-sex “unmarried partner,” producing accurate numbers remains a challenge.
The quality of information about same-sex couples depends both on the questionnaire responses the Census Bureau receives, and the procedures the agency implements to collect and edit those responses. There have been changes to both during the years the bureau has been releasing same-sex couple data, and the agency has cautioned against comparing numbers from different years to produce trends.
The Census Bureau has just completed the release of state-by-state total counts of same-sex couples from the 2010 Census, which adds up to a national total of about 902,000. Later this year, the bureau will release a highly anticipated count of same-sex married couples from the 2010 Census, the first time it has done so from a decennial census. In conjunction with that release, the bureau will publish its own evaluation of data quality about same-sex couples. This posting describes what is known so far about data quality for both married and unmarried same-sex couples from past censuses, the American Community Survey and Census Bureau research.
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Minimizing Bullying for Children Who Stutter
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Presented by J. Scott Yaruss, PhD, CCC-SLP, BRS-FD
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J. Scott Yaruss, PhD, CCC-SLP, BRS-FD, ASHA Fellow, is an associate professor and director of the Master’s Degree programs in Speech-Language Pathology at the University of Pittsburgh. His research examines methods for assessing and evaluating treatment outcomes in people who stutter. He has published more than 50 papers in peer-reviewed journals and more than 100 other articles, papers, and chapters on stuttering. He is author, co-author, or editor of several booklets, books, and brochures on stuttering, including the "Overall Assessment of the Speaker’s Experience of Stuttering" (OASES; Pearson Assessments), as well as "School-age Stuttering Therapy: A Practical Guide" and "Minimizing Bullying for Children Who Stutter" (both from Stuttering Therapy Resources, Inc.).
Dr. Yaruss has received an honorarium for this presentation. His is co-author, Minimizing Bullying in Children Who Stutter, published by Stuttering Therapy Resources, Inc., which he is a co-owner of. Dr. Yaruss has no non-financial relationships to disclose.
Studies have shown that children who stutter are more likely to experience bullying than children who do not stutter. Unfortunately, it is particularly hard for children who stutter to respond to such experiences, given their unique combination of communication difficulties and the emotional/cognitive consequences of both stuttering and bullying. This presentation will describe real-world, practical strategies that speech-language pathologists can use to help children who stutter minimize bullying and respond appropriately to bullying situations. Example of strategies include methods for educating other children about stuttering so they will be less likely to react negatively when a child stutters, as well as methods for helping children who stutter reduce their own negative reactions when other children comment about their speech. Strategies for involving parents and teachers in a comprehensive bullying management program will also be described. Participants will find that they can make a real difference in children's lives by helping them manage bullying effectively.
After completing this course, participants will be able to describe the key players in a bullying situation, highlight ways that each participant in a bullying situation can reduce their negative emotional reactions and behaviors, describe three strategies that parents and teachers can use to minimize bullying for all of the children in their care.
Webinar fee is:
$50 - Members
$75 - Non-Members
More information and login procedures will be provided to participants after registration.
program is offered for .2 CEUs (intermediate level, professional area)
Act 48 Clock Hours
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STATEHOUSE - Speaker of the Indiana House of Representatives, Brian C. Bosma (R-Indianapolis), joined by a dozen of his House Republican colleagues, announced the House Republican Agenda today which focuses on making Indiana a stronger state for future generations.
“It is every parent’s hope that their children will be better off than their own generation. But for the first time in history the majority of Americans believe that the next generation will not enjoy a quality of life better than their parents,” said Speaker Bosma.
“The two most important ways to improve life for the next generation are through the creation of high wage jobs and an education that prepares our young people for the realities of the workforce. The work of the next General Assembly must focus on these critical issues.
“House Republicans have also spearheaded the concept that our state must live within its means. That simple fiscal principal has made our state the envy of the nation. In addition to that cornerstone, we will continue to focus on a bright future focused on job creation and education improvement,” said Speaker Bosma.
The House Republicans’ “Own Your American Dream” plan focuses on three key concepts.
Financial Security for Future Generations
“Addressing jobs or education matters little if we fail to continue our strong record of demanding balanced budgets that forces our state government to live within its means. Our fiscal integrity provides an economic climate that spurs job creation. Hoosier taxpayers deserve nothing less, and our job creation environment will continue to benefit,” said Bosma.
Indiana is one of only nine states that has a triple-A credit rating from all three credit agencies. Indiana holds a higher credit rating than the federal government, whose debt has now passed the $16 trillion mark for the first time in our nation’s history. That equates to more than $50,000 of debt for every man, woman and child in the U.S.
Bridging the Skills Gap
According to the Indiana Vision 2025 report published by the Indiana Chamber of Commerce, more than 930,000 Hoosiers lack even the most basic skills to thrive in today’s economy.
“We have focused over the past decade on creating the best environment in the Midwest through policies that encourage and incentivize companies from all over the world to relocate and grow in Indiana,” said Speaker Bosma. “Now it’s time to focus on ensuring we have a workforce that will meet the needs of a globally dynamic marketplace,” said Bosma.
By 2018, it is estimated that 55 percent of Indiana’s jobs will require some postsecondary education, but only 33 percent of our current working age Hoosiers have an associate’s degree or higher.
“We plan to turn our attention to improving career and technical education in High School, increasing and supporting dual credit programs, targeting investment on training programs with high potential and strengthening partnerships between industry and higher education,” said Speaker Bosma.
Leaders in Classrooms; Leaders in Life
“Excellent teachers are one central key to success for young Hoosiers. We need to continue to look for ways to provide additional support to classroom teachers and ensure we have a strong pipeline to get teachers in hard to fill areas, such as science, technology, engineering and mathematics [STEM],” said Speaker Bosma.
Currently there are nearly two and a half STEM jobs for every one unemployed person in Indiana. Despite the economic downturn, these jobs have remained in demand, and will only increase as technology marches on.
At the opposite end of the education spectrum, House Republicans also intend to promote early learning opportunities for young Hoosiers.
“The positive effects of early childhood education are becoming more and more evident. Most experts would agree that a strong educational foundation at an early age is a key factor in determining whether or not an individual will be successful later in life. Now that we have completed our goal of making kindergarten available to every Hoosier family, it’s time to look at additional opportunities, especially for low income families,” said Bosma.
In Indiana, 61 percent of children (ages 3-4) are not enrolled in a preschool program. Only six states have a higher percentage of children not attending a preschool.
“We have come a long way, but we still have a long way to go to reach these critical goals. We won’t be a state that passes problems on to future generations to handle. Through continued fiscal integrity, quality jobs, and strong education opportunities the American Dream can be a reality for future generations of Hoosiers,” said Speaker Bosma. | <urn:uuid:a603fdff-f1d4-4a24-9499-4d834c5146fd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.in.gov/activecalendar/EventList.aspx?fromdate=10/1/2012&todate=10/31/2012&display=Month&type=public&eventidn=59382&view=EventDetails&information_id=119835 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00042-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946543 | 965 | 1.539063 | 2 |
Chinese petitioners hold up papers to attract attentions for their cases outside the hospital where blind activist Chen Guangcheng is staying for treatment in Beijing, May 7, 2012.
"A Tragedy or Merely Tragic?"
Op-Ed, Boston Globe
May 7, 2012
Author: Juliette Kayyem, Lecturer in Public Policy
Belfer Center Programs or Projects: International Security
In lukewarm US support of Chinese dissident, a lesson in strategic interests
IN THE 1983 movie "Educating Rita," aging British Professor Frank Bryant teaches his young, commoner student how to read Macbeth. Comparing Shakespeare's character with someone who is killed by a falling tree, he notes coolly "we must not confuse tragedy . . . with the merely tragic." Rita doesn’t buy the distinction. It's a tragedy "for the poor sod under the tree," she replies.
By the end of the scene, it is not entirely clear if an amused Bryant or an impassioned Rita is correct.
I’m finding myself in the same linguistic dilemma over the plight of China's blind lawyer and dissident Chen Guangcheng. The messy and complicated negotiations that occurred between the United States and China to get him out of the American embassy and possibly to the United States suggest we need a new vernacular. Even regarding human rights, there may be a difference between a tragedy and the merely tragic.
To be clear: Chen is a victim of systemic governmental abuse by a nation that is so weak and insecure it manages to turn its dissidents into global martyrs. He deserves, as do the Chinese people, better.
Even if Chen ultimately comes to America on a fellowship, the colleagues and family he leaves behind will likely suffer persecution. So when the United States made the calculation that the strategic and financial interests between the two nations cannot be guided solely by the Chen saga, the familiar condemnation started immediately. While the events still unfolded, the international human rights community complained that Chen was too readily thrown under the bus.
The human rights monologue went something like this: How could we not hold true to universal principles of human rights? How could we not have the moral strength to stand up for one brave man? How could we betray Chen while the whole world is watching? This is a tragedy.
The somber chorus went something like this: the world is a complicated place and nations choose priorities based on their strategic interests. China and the United States are both bigger than one man. The US embassy cannot be a safe-haven for every dissident in the world. This is merely tragic.
Repeat scene, over and over. One explanation is judgmental; the other is patronizing. But the compromise likely settled on for Chen to attend an American university, and then return to China, suggests there is a space in between.
The damning moralistic judgments about America's actions in the Chen case also seem inconsistent with the maturation of human rights doctrine in the last two decades. For years, a basic premise animating the human rights community has always been that the horrors of abuse, once exposed, will either shame the offending country to stop or galvanize the international community to protect. It is often an aspiration, but it is one that has surely made this world a less unbearable place.
But it may also be based on two questionable foundations that have put the community under strain. First, that if only we "named" more often, then offenders would stand down. Silence, the argument goes, allows bad governments to do very bad things. But that simply isn't the case: Syria is the most obvious example. Second, while the push for the international community "to protect" may have been evidenced in the military actions to dismantle the leadership in Libya, it is not yet clear whether that was an aberration or a new norm.
It is a testament to the human rights community that its relevance in global affairs may demand a new vernacular. Major atrocities, and ethnic genocide, are different in scope and magnitude from the plight of a single man. Those familiar slogans — the whole world is watching — are at risk of overuse, and therefore irrelevance, when applied to all things constituting a tragedy and the merely tragic. The Chen case is complicated, but it isn't Bosnia.
Many policy commentators and activists are quite certain in their analysis of Chen's case and the merits, or lack thereof, of America's actions. For the rest of us, this last week was probably somewhere in that space between Macbeth and the poor sod under the tree. It's just hard to find the words to explain it.
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Sunny mild days are a signal that spring will be here soon. My daffodils are about to bloom. I have seen some blooming around town. They are always such a welcome, bright yellow sight after the grayness of winter.
Days like this have me anxiously awaiting time to get our garden started. My boyfriend and I make a good gardening couple, he likes the preparations and plantings where I enjoy the harvesting and the work that comes with that. I enjoy the early spring preparations but I am just tickled pink to see all the ripe fruits of our labor lined up on the kitchen counters. I think there is such beauty in sparkling, filled Mason jars lined up when I am finished with the canning process. And, oh the pop of the lid sealing makes a garden girl giddy!
We are enlarging our garden this year. We have plans to grow some different things that we haven't grown before. Beets are on the top of our list. Some friends shared a jar of their pickled beets and we are both hooked! We also used their dill pickle recipe late in the season and wow, are they good. I'll be putting up many more this year. It is such a joy on a cold winter night to bite into a homemade pickle and remember the hot summer days spent working in the garden.
We'll have field peas (my favorite), tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, corn, jalapenos (his favorite), bell peppers, beets and whatever else strikes our fancy. I'm excited to get out there, dig in the dirt and watch our garden grow.
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Company Culture is a very serious matter, put together after much employee feedback and deliberation, and carefully designed to capture the key things that make your company great. It’s also a load of well-mixed fertilizer.
The Rule of Company Culture: It’s what makes your company different, not what makes it great.
Hire the best, teamwork, ethics… all meaningless platitudes. Real company cultures are made of four things:
- Polarizing decisions
Polarizing decisions are what happens when a company decides not to compromise between two equally compelling but opposing imperatives. Every company strikes a balance between work and play; that’s not company culture. Company culture is investment banking’s mandatory 95 hour work weeks or Jackson Fish Market’s 12 weeks of vacation. Every company has a balance of teamwork and individual contributorship – culture is ruthlessly pitting your people and teams against each other, or firing your best people because they’re not effective team members. Other balances include great benefits versus lean operations, customers versus stockholders versus employees, and cheap products versus innovative quality products. If you find yourself saying “we can do it all”, that’s great! And you’re right, sort of. Your attempts at balance are admirable and may be successful, but do not constitute a corporate culture. That only comes from taking a stand on one end of the see-saw.
Excesses are aspects of culture that happen when companies take an indubitably good thing to its extreme. For example, every company tries to hire great people. But some will leave a position open for nine months, miss deadlines, and work its existing employees in to borderline revolt before hiring someone who’s even the tiniest compromise. Every company should give back to the community, but there’s a line between a matching gifts program and Ben & Jerry’s that’s not easy to miss. “Openness” is great – do the employees see the detailed company financials, and get notified when cash reserves are running low? Corporate culture is what occurs in the margins when someone asks – “Well, I know that’s good, but isn’t it a bit much?”
Quirks are the safe, friendly, harmless, and most companies screw them up too. A quirk is some point of weird distinction, neither wonderful nor terrible, that is distinct to the company and integral to the employee experience. Casual fridays are policy; Dress Like Raymond Day is a quirk. When the company picks up your nighttime MBA, that’s a great benefit – but when Teachstreet (a company that helps people find local and online classes) gets its employees together to learn how to build kites, now that’s a quirk. It’s not to say that corporate mandates can’t make great quirks, although the best ones often arise spontaneously from the teams themselves. But great quirks take their power from the team, their distinctiveness, and the culture itself.
There’s one more aspect of corporate culture that’s important if you’re measuring rather than designing: the Dysfunction. A dysfunction is the mirror image of an excess – not enough of something that’s important. Every company has problems, and most of the problems are present to some degree everywhere. Those aren’t dysfunctions. A dysfunction creeps in to the corporate culture when it’s distinctive and impactful – much like a positive culture trait. Typical dysfunctions include management and employee antipathy, severe lack of ethics, and disregard for customers. You know them when you see them. One thing that may not be obvious – sometimes a dysfunction is a direct causal result of the company culture. Backstabbing and rumor-mongering may be the price you pay for rewarding individual initiative and achievement. A general lack of spending discipline may be the unwanted side effect of generous benefits and an employee-first culture.
The great corporate cultures are a simple mix: a few polarizing decisions or excesses, with a handful of quirks mixed in. Preferably quirks that reinforce the rest of the culture.
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History of Ruth Scarborough Library
The history of Scarborough Library begins with the history of Shepherd University when it opened in 1871. The first Shepherd Library shared a classroom in McMurran Hall. The library remained in this room until it was moved into the newly completed Knutti Hall in 1904 where it occupied the back part of the building on the second floor. Faculty members originally operated the library and cataloged the books. Shepherd's first librarian, Miss Stewart E. Arnold, was hired in 1924 and held the position for 26 years. As the library continued to grow, so did the need for a building of its own.
A new library building was completed in 1965. When the library was moved from Knutti Hall, there were approximately 39,000 volumes, 370 phonograph records, 300 filmstrips, 135 microfilm reels, and 276 periodical subscriptions. The library was named Ruth Scarborough Library in 1977 after Dr. Scarborough, Shepherd history professor from 1936-1966.
A much needed library addition was realized in August 2002 with the completion of an 80,000 square foot building. The library now shares the addition with the Robert C. Byrd Center for Legislative Studies, a private, nonpartisan, nonprofit educational organization whose mission is to promote a better understanding of the U.S Congress. The addition was followed by a renovation of the original 1965 building. October 2003 saw the rededication of the renovated library.
The new facility offers technological resources including data ports and wireless capability throughout the building. The main floor of the library has a large computer lab allowing spaces for collaboration and group work. The library provides over 30 student access computers and provides 4 public access computers. Below is a statistical snapshot of the Scarborough Library as of June 2012.
- Audio CDs
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- Electronic Journals & Databases
- Government Documents
- DVDs, Videos
Access to our collections and library:
- Circulation (includes course reserves)
- Interlibrary Loan (borrow + lend)
- Library Instruction Participants
- Physical Library Visits
- Research & Information Interactions
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Pen and Ink drawings of Martha’s Vineyard. Originals and giclees are available. Giclees are matted to 11×14, originals are matted to 9×12. Please call for availability and pricing 508-693-3948 or leave a comment in the comment box under the art – first click on image.
Caroline studied visual art and music at the State University of New York, at Purchase, from where she graduated in 1981 with a degree in literature. She was fortunate enough to study visual arts with some very gifted teachers there, and one in particular, Antonio Frasconi, a printmaker, became a mentor to me. Caroline currently studies at Rockland Center for the Arts with several teachers, but Paula Madawick, a well-known colored pencil artist, has been especially important to me. She has had a great influence on my work.
Caroline has been drawing all her life, and she likes to think that in drawing, by focusing so intently on one image, she is pulled into the world of that image, and thereby also pulled under and into the current of creativity and imagination. Through communicating the essence of whatever she is drawing, through her hand and eye, she feels that she enlarges her understanding of the visible world around her and of herself. Caroline likes to feel “pulled under” to where she can commune directly with what she is drawing. When someone views Caroline’s work, she hopes to elicit a feeling, a response, to the image.
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DIY Mid-Century Modern Coffee Table
Hairpin legs are really cool to use in DIY projects. They make any table or desk you make looks like it was made in mid-20th century. For example, here is a DIY coffee table made of a sheet of polar wood, a can of stain and a set of hairpin legs. The project is really simple, because all you need to do is to screw the legs to the tabletop and stain this tabletop. Although the result looks great, right? | <urn:uuid:e56f84ac-0ecc-4242-8d9f-9bb9307c157f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.shelterness.com/diy-mid-century-modern-coffee-table/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00071-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974273 | 105 | 1.515625 | 2 |
By Francisco X. Alarcón
Illustrated by Maya Christina Gonzalez
In their final collection of seasonal poetry, poet Francisco X. Alarcón and artist Maya Christina Gonzalez invite us to celebrate winter—by the seashore, in the magic city of San Francisco, and in the ancient redwood forests of the Sierras.
We see a city where people are bridges to each other and children sing poetry in two languages. A family frolic in the snow reminds the poet of the iguanas playing by his grandmother's house in Mexico. We are dazzled by the promise of seedling redwoods—like all children—destined to be the ancestors of tomorrow.
Artist Maya Christina Gonzalez has once again created a spirited family of children and adults who swing their way through colorful pages. Collages of old maps of Mexico and California provide intriguing backgrounds, and fun-loving iguanas peek out at us from the most surprising places.
Audio Podcast with Francisco Alarcon and Maya Christina Gonzalez
Pura Belpre Honor Award
American Library Association
- Interest Level
- Grades 2 - 6
- Reading Level
- Grades 3 - 4
- Animals, Bilingual, Cultural diversity, Friendship, Latino/Hispanic/Mexican Interest, Poetry
Francisco X. Alarcón is a renowned poet and educator and a three-time winner of the Pura Belpré Author Award Honor for his bilingual Magical Cycle of the Seasons series of poetry for children. His many other honors include the American Book Award, the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award, the Chicano Literary Prize, and finalist for state poet laureate of California. Alarcón is also the author of several poetry collections for adults and textbooks for teaching Spanish. He lives in Davis, California, where he teaches and directs the Spanish for Native Speakers Program at the University of California.
Maya Christina Gonzalez is a widely exhibited artist renowned for her vivid imagery of strong women and girls. She has illustrated nearly twenty children’s books, and her artwork has appeared on the cover of Contemporary Chicano/a Art. My Colors, My World was the first book Maya both wrote and illustrated. Books that Maya illustrated include Laughing Tomatoes, From the Bellybutton of the Moon, and Angels Ride Bikes. She lives and plays in San Francisco, California. | <urn:uuid:bba13e45-fb4d-4016-83be-e39fa8d49213> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.leeandlow.com/books/465/pb/iguanas_in_the_snow_and_other_winter_poems_iguanas_en_la_nieve_y_otros_poemas_de_invierno | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00033-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940643 | 481 | 1.609375 | 2 |
“Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms (of government) those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny”
Luke 24: 46-53. Jesus said to his disciples, "Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead, and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be preached in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things. And behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you, but stay in the city, until you are clothed with power from on high."
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
“Life is "trying things to see if they work."
“The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.”
“Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.”
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UN Chief: Africa must Change, Take Responsibility for its Problems
Africa's leaders must take their share of responsibility for the unending series of crises and conflicts shaking the conflict, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Monday.
Speaking to the opening session of the summit of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), Annan criticized the "double standards" of the international community, which provided enormous resources to end ethnic cleansing in the Balkans but has done far less in Africa.
"I feel the injustice of these double standards as an African must," said Annan, who is from Ghana.
However too many of Africa's problems are caused by Africans themselves, he said.
Africa is the only region of the world where the number of armed conflicts are increasing, and 33 of the world's 48 least developed countries are on the continent, Annan noted.
"This is not something others have done to us. It is something we have done to ourselves," he said. "We have mismanaged our affairs for decades and we are suffering the accumulated effects," he added.
Annan said talk last decade of an African rebirth was sadly unfounded.
"The rhetoric of African renaissance is greeted with skepticism or even derision today," he said.
The continent's many problems include the sweeping HIV/AIDS pandemic, he said, noting: "Last year alone, this disease killed more Africans than all the conflicts on the continent."
However, evidence shows that problems can be overcome.
Annan pointed to Senegal, which "has shown that an African country can protect itself against HIV/AIDS," while South Africa "continues to transform itself more smoothly than anyone dared hope into a non-racial democracy."
Democracy is taking root in many countries across the continent "and is now being consolidated in Nigeria," he said.
African leaders should now look to ways of resolving the conflicts raging in the continent, even considering economic and political union, he said, holding out the example provided by the 15-member body in Europe - LOME (AFP)
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Magic CitySize: 14" x 21"
Medium: Oil on panel
Blasier Collection, El Dorado Hills, CA.
Before 1936, the spot of land in San Francisco Bay known as Treasure Island did not exist. It is a man-made island, 400 acres of landfill dredged out of the bay, and the Army Corp of Engineers began work on it in March 1936 – before the Golden Gate and Bay Bridges were completed. It was to be the site of the Golden Gate International Exposition, a phantasmagoria of architectural beauty that would open in 1939. The fair’s purpose was to promote peace and international cooperation; it was also a celebration of San Francisco: the building of two new bridges launched the city’s role as the "gateway to the Pacific.” The breathtaking buildings, dramatically and inventively lit at night in glowing colors – embraced a variety of architectural styles: Art deco, Bauhaus, Romanesque. The theme of the fair was Pacific unity, sharing styles from all four continents with the Pacific coasts. As the war in Europe heated up, various participating countries had to close their exhibits. It became evident that Magic City could not be sustained. The fair closed on September 29th, 1940. The U.S. Navy set up a base on Treasure Island. All of the buildings were destroyed except for the Administration Building, which housed Treasure Island Museum until the mid 1990’s. It is now residential housing.
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By Terril Yue Jones
BEIJING, Jan 14 (Reuters) - Chinese media said on Monday the government had to take urgent action to tackle air pollution, which has blanketed parts of the country at dangerous levels in recent days, and one newspaper called for a re-think of a "fixation" on economic growth.
China's media are under tight Communist Party control and usually steer clear of controversy, but news organisations are more free to report on pollution, partly because it can't be hidden from the public.
Air quality in Beijing was far above hazardous levels over the weekend, reaching 755 on an index that measures particulate matter in the air with a diameter of 2.5 micrometers. A level of 300 is considered dangerous while the World Health Organisation recommends a daily level of no more than 20.
"How can we get out of this suffocating siege of pollution?" the People's Daily, the official newspaper of the Communist Party, said in a front-page editorial.
"Let us clearly view managing environmental pollution with a sense of urgency."
A thick smog shrouded the capital on the weekend, cutting visibility and sending many people out to buy face masks in a bid to protect themselves.
It was the worst recorded air pollution in the capital, according to Zhou Rong, climate and energy campaigner at Green peace. [ID: nL4N0AI013]
Monday was again gloomy but the pollution index stood at 321 in the afternoon, according to widely followed data collected by the U.S. Embassy from its own measuring device.
The Global Times newspaper said the foul air "shocked locals ... triggering calls from the public to shift the country's development model away from the previous fixation on economic growth".
It said heavy smog was hanging over most of the north China plain.
Cars pump out much of the pollution which fills the air on cold, windless days. Many people burn coal for heat in the winter, and this winter is the coldest in years.
The China Daily blamed Beijing's tall buildings for trapping the pollution.
"The high-rises are too densely built and block the dirty air from dispersing," it said.
Many other cities showed alarmingly high pollution over the weekend. About half of 74 cities monitored for air quality showed severe pollution, the People's Daily said.
Particulate matter with a diameter of 2.5 micrometers, known as PM2.5, can cause cardiopulmonary disease, lung cancer and acute respiratory infection, according to the Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health.
Authorities advised citizens to stay indoors and ordered government car fleets to cut back driving.
Beijing resident Xu Tingting, 27, said it was up to the government to do something: "The air quality would be better if the government could take measures."
Ma Jun, founder of the Institute for Public and Environmental Affairs, said a first step would be good monitoring and accurate data.
"There is no overnight solution to this," Ma told Reuters. "We need transparency in information."
Users of China's Twitter-like microblogs complained extensively.
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Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a new approach to software development that will allow common computer programs to run up to 20 percent faster and possibly incorporate new security measures.
The researchers have found a way to run different parts of some hard-to-parallelize programs — such as word processors and web browsers — at the same time, which makes the programs operate more efficiently.
Every computer program consists of multiple steps. The program will perform a computation, then perform a memory-management function — which prepares memory storage to contain data or frees up memory storage which is currently in use. It repeats these steps over and over again, in a cycle. And, for difficult-to-parallelize programs, both of these steps have traditionally been performed in a single core.
"We've removed the memory-management step from the process, running it as a separate thread," said Yan Solihin, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at NC State, director of this research project, and co-author of a paper describing the research. Under this approach, the computation thread and memory-management thread are executing simultaneously, allowing the computer program to operate more efficiently.
"By running the memory-management functions on a separate thread, these hard-to-parallelize programs can operate approximately 20 percent faster," Solihin says. "This also opens the door to development of new memory-management functions that could identify anomalies in program behavior, or perform additional security checks. Previously, these functions would have been unduly time consuming, slowing down the speed of the overall program."
Using the new technique, when a memory-management function needs to be performed, "the computational thread notifies the memory-management thread — effectively telling it to allocate data storage and to notify the computational thread of where the storage space is located," said Devesh Tiwari, a Ph.D. student at NC State and lead author of the paper. "By the same token, when the computational thread no longer needs certain data, it informs the memory-management thread that the relevant storage space can be freed."
The paper, "MMT: Exploiting Fine-Grained Parallelism in Dynamic Memory Management," was presented this week at the IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium in Atlanta. The research was funded by the National Science Foundation. The paper is co-authored by Tiwari, Solihin, NC State Ph.D. student Sanghoon Lee, and James Tuck, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at NC State. | <urn:uuid:6f5bc2b6-7e00-417f-b9ee-aa30341115e7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.drdobbs.com/parallel/memory-management-as-a-separate-thread/224500138 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00031-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9475 | 523 | 2.734375 | 3 |
LJWorld.com weblogs Congressional Briefing
"I was born in a small town"
Kansas. Small towns. Agriculture. For those of us living in the urban and suburban Kansas City-to-Topeka corridor, it's sometimes easy to forget that the vast majority of this state is covered by crops, prairie and livestock; punctuated every few miles or so by towns of just a couple thousand -- or couple hundred -- people.But our representatives in Washington remember.U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback, for example, testified Wednesday before the Senate Finance Committee in favor of the [New Homestead Act,] which he co-sponsored in Congress. The hearing was held in Iowa, home of Sen. Charles Grassley, [and was reported in the Sioux City (Iowa) Journal.].The bill would encourage the repopulation of deteriorating rural areas -- which include most Kansas counties -- through a series of tax incentives aimed at residents and business owners in those areas. "All too often, small communities are overlooked for the hard work, strong values and great people they produce," Brownback said, according to the paper. "It is time to show our appreciation for rural America and refocus on their restoration and development."Kansas' junior senator, Pat Roberts, has been making most of his news lately as the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee. But he's also a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, and one of his top aides sounded off about Brazilian challenges to U.S. cotton subsidies to the joint meeting of the [Cotton Foundation and the American Cotton Producers Association at Albuquerque, N.M.]"The senator feels this case has the potential for impact not only to cotton, but wheat, corn, sugar, peanuts, sorghum, soybeans " everything," said Mike Syfert, Roberts' agriculture and homeland security aide, according to the Delta Farm Press, a Nebraska publication."A lot of folks, I think, don't understand this. Once the translation of the decision comes out, I think a lot of farm organizations are going to be very surprised at the breadth of this case and what it can mean to everyone in agriculture. "Mr. Roberts has said very unequivocally, if press reports are accurate that the decision is against the United States, that he intends to stand and fight against it. The Bush administration and Secretary (of Agriculture) Ann Veneman have said that, too. We're all going to do everything we can to try and beat it."Intelligence watch Roberts' recent proposal to dismatle the CIA and revamp America's intelligence agencies isn't getting a lot of support.[Slate's Fred Kaplan] writes: "You'd think there must be something good about a CIA-reform proposal that's denounced by George Tenet and unnamed White House officials. But no, Sen. Pat Roberts' plan to overhaul the U.S. intelligence bureaucracy is a true stinker, every bit as bad as his establishment critics contend. "Roberts, a Kansas Republican, is chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, so his pronouncements on such matters can't be casually dismissed. What, then, was he up to when he unveiled his scheme on last Sunday's Face the Nation?"Anyone with the slightest insight into the workings of Washington would know that his proposal has no chance of passage. Anyone who studies the 'intelligence community' as much as Roberts does would also know -- or should -- that the proposal, if it were put into effect, would do more harm than good. So again, what's going on here?"Kaplan concludes: "In short, Roberts gets a twofer: He draws attention away from Bush's refusal to enact serious reforms -- and he creates a situation in which the Democrats appear to be the foot-draggers. Crafty."Here's some other notable links on the topic:[Assess Roberts' intelligence plan on merits] [Left hand, right hand] [Senators' odd move] [Editorial: Pat Roberts' bold idea]A quick explanation We're still getting our feet under us at Congressional Briefing, but this is what we're trying to do: Give Kansans a one-stop shop for nationwide coverage of the Kansas congressional delegation " and of Kansas itself; occasionally, that coverage will include when opinion-makers write about our representatives in Washington, but linking to their opinions does not amount to endorsement of their views by Congressional Briefing. In any case, not many other links today:Dennis Moore links [Cheney's comments could aid Democrats, som say]How to contact As always, you can find information to contact members of the Kansas congressional delegation [here.] : http://www.ljworld.com/section/citynews/story/164462 : http://www.siouxcityjournal.com/articles/2004/08/26/news/local/6d96ef5cad2e543b86256efc0015d93c.txt : http://deltafarmpress.com/news/082504-commodities-wto-decision : http://slate.msn.com/id/2105633/ : http://www.kansas.com/mld/eagle/news/editorial/9484867.htm : http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/bal-ed.cia25aug25,1,3122752.story?coll=bal-opinion-headlines : http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssentinel/news/editorial/9490908.htm : http://www.sacbee.com/content/opinion/story/10513272p-11432395c.html : http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/politics/9496547.htm : http://ljworld.com/extra/where_to_write.html#fed | <urn:uuid:862e7558-8144-49d4-96fa-a3149bebf729> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www2.ljworld.com/weblogs/kansas_congress/2004/aug/26/small_town/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00032-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946838 | 1,233 | 1.59375 | 2 |
sites are just not leveraging that and marketing to the [black] middle class.”
Ellington agrees. From the beginning, NetNoir has focused on attracting affluent African Americans in the 25- to 54-year-old segment. “[NetNoir] targets black people who are educated, have money, and own homes,” says Ellington. “We were not trying to be a hip, cool urban crossover site. If you can build an Internet business model for the 14- to 25-year-old group, I applaud you, but that is not our focus.” Currently, AOL holds a 15% share and Radio One owns “slightly less,” says Ellington.
Counters Forrester’s Walsh, the focus on a target demographics is one reason many of these sites will not survive. “Income, education, age, similar interests and background play a greater role in determining a site’s success than race or ethnicity,” she says. “The assumption is that people who share the same ethnic background and race share the same interests, but you can’t do that. It’s arrogant and ignorant.”
Meanwhile, Wasow believes conversation is king. More than 95% of BlackPlanet’s traffic is generated by members who interact with one another, says Wasow. The site’s revenues come from “banner ads, sponsorships, and a variety of campaigns.” Unlike other sites in cyberspace, he maintains, BlackPlanet.com has lower operating costs because it’s not focused on building expensive content. Because the high-bandwidth content of entertainment-oriented sites is costly to produce, they have been forced to find a corporate partner with deep pockets or shut down. “It takes a lot of technology to run these sites, so it’s very expensive to build all the technology for just one site. They’re also finding that a lot of the high-end stuff just doesn’t work for many people who have slow dial-up connections.”
But Cooper says relative to television or motion pictures, UBO.net’s content is “a fraction of the cost. Animated content is about one-tenth the cost of an offline piece,” he says. But the reality is that compared with, say, BlackPlanet.com, which is community-based, entertainment sites like UBO.net and Hookt.com are producing expensive content.
THE POWER OF BRANDING
The consensus seems to be that lack of business savvy and insight into the online audience have prevented these companies from making money. But Cooper disagrees: “The major challenge right now is to preserve cash and grow at the same time. Until April, most of these companies were focused on building traffic without generating revenue.” Additionally, he counters, UBO.net has “multiple sources” of revenue. “We develop content for distribution television, satellite, and wireless” he adds. “We have an extensive strategic research department devoted to understanding the urban market.”
But will that translate into profits? And how will these sites fare against branded sites operated by such mainstay media companies as BET, Johnson Publishing Co. (which owns Ebony and Jet), Essence Communications Inc., and Earl G. Graves Ltd., which publishes black enterprise. These companies own household franchises that have already established niches and customer bases.
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Those who have a broken heart and a contrite spirit are willing to do anything and everything that God asks of them.
How I love Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin! The poet Rudyard Kipling wrote the following words in 1897, an admonition to the British Empire against pride:
When Kipling spoke of a contrite heart as an “ancient sacrifice,” perhaps he had in mind the words of King David in the 51st Psalm: “The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit:,a broken and a contrite heart” (v. 17). David’s words show that even in Old Testament times, the Lord’s people understood that their hearts must be given to God, that burnt offerings alone were not enough.
The sacrifices mandated during the Mosaic dispensation pointed symbolically to the atoning sacrifice of the Messiah, who alone could reconcile sinful man with God. As Amulek taught, “Behold, this is the whole meaning of the law, every whit pointing to that great and last sacrifice; … the Son of God” (Alma 34:14).
“Your sacrifices and your burnt offerings shall be done away, for I will accept none of [them]. …
“And ye shall offer for a sacrifice unto me a broken heart and a contrite spirit. And whoso cometh unto me with a broken heart … , him will I baptize with fire and with the Holy Ghost” (3 Nephi 9:19–20).
What are a broken heart and a contrite spirit? And why are they considered a sacrifice?
As in all things, the Savior’s life offers us the perfect example: though Jesus of Nazareth was utterly without sin, He walked through life with a broken heart and a contrite spirit, as manifested by His submission to the will of the Father. “For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me” (John 6:38). To His disciples He said, “Learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart” (Matthew 11:29). And when the time came to pay the ultimate sacrifice entailed in the Atonement, Christ shrank not to partake of the bitter cup but submitted completely to His Father’s will.
The Savior’s perfect submission to the Eternal Father is the very essence of a broken heart and a contrite spirit. Christ’s example teaches us that a broken heart is an eternal attribute of godliness. When our hearts are broken, we are completely open to the Spirit of God and recognize our dependence on Him for all that we have and all that we are. The sacrifice so entailed is a sacrifice of pride in all its forms. Like malleable clay in the hands of a skilled potter, the brokenhearted can be molded and shaped in the hands of the Master.
A broken heart and a contrite spirit are also preconditions to repentance. Lehi taught:
“Wherefore, redemption cometh in and through the Holy Messiah. …
“Behold, he offereth himself a sacrifice for sin, to answer the ends of the law, unto all those who have a broken heart and a contrite spirit; and unto none else can the ends of the law be answered” (2 Nephi 2:6–7).
When we sin and desire forgiveness, a broken heart and a contrite spirit mean to experience “godly sorrow [that] worketh repentance” (2 Corinthians 7:10). This comes when our desire to be cleansed from sin is so consuming that our hearts ache with sorrow and we yearn to feel at peace with our Father in Heaven. Those who have a broken heart and a contrite spirit are willing to do anything and everything that God asks of them, without resistance or resentment. We cease doing things our way and learn to do them God’s way instead. In such a condition of submissiveness, the Atonement can take effect and true repentance can occur. The penitent will then experience the sanctifying power of the Holy Ghost, which will fill them with peace of conscience and the joy of reconciliation with God. In a wondrous union of divine attributes, the same God who teaches us to walk with a broken heart invites us to rejoice and to be of good cheer.
When we have received a forgiveness of sins, a broken heart serves as a divine shield against temptation. Nephi prayed, “May the gates of hell be shut continually before me, because that my heart is broken and my spirit is contrite!” (2 Nephi 4:32). King Benjamin taught his people that if they would walk in the depths of humility, they might ever rejoice, “be filled with the love of God, and always retain a remission of … sins” (Mosiah 4:12). When we yield our hearts to the Lord, the attractions of the world simply lose their luster.
There is yet another dimension of a broken heart—namely, our deep gratitude for Christ’s suffering on our behalf. In Gethsemane, the Savior “descended below all things” (D&C 88:6) as He bore the burden of sin for every human being. At Golgotha, He “poured out his soul unto death” (Isaiah 53:12), and His great heart literally broke with an all-encompassing love for the children of God. When we remember the Savior and His suffering, our hearts too will break in gratitude for the Anointed One.
As we make the sacrifice to Him of all that we have and all that we are, the Lord will fill our hearts with peace. He will “bind up the brokenhearted” (Isaiah 61:1) and grace our lives with the love of God, “sweet above all that is sweet, … and pure above all that is pure” (Alma 32:42). Of this I testify in the name of Jesus Christ, amen. | <urn:uuid:4e477dd5-8863-4cda-82cb-f7f7cce316b4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2007/10/a-broken-heart-and-a-contrite-spirit?lang=eng&country=ca&media=video | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00014-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923399 | 1,272 | 1.867188 | 2 |
There are true stories that chill your blood, that make you wonder how such things are possible and in your home city, a place not known for this sort of evil. David Bagshaw, sentenced to life in prison for killing Stefanie Rengel on the orders of his jealous girlfriend, redefines the sickest form of obedience. He was so young he could only be identified as D.B. until his sentencing.
He was sentenced for killing his girlfriend’s imagined teen rival – a girl he had never even met, the daughter of two policemen, whom he stabbed to death on a residential Toronto sidewalk on New Year’s Day. The case has horrified Toronto and me, who grew up and went to high school there. I once covered a trial there whose details remain with me still, more than 20 years later — of a teen boy who sat eating his dinner off a TV tray in the basement of his home while his friend beat a young man to death in front of him. Then they cut off his arms and legs and stuck him in a freezer, which, bloodstained, was wheeled into the courtroom. You can’t forget things like that, no matter how much you want to.
In both cases, all of these kids are white, from middle-class families. They did not grow up marinated in violence. bullets whizzing past their ears in a terrifying ghetto.
What made this young girl so sick? Why did this young man become so depraved? What’s going on here? | <urn:uuid:187e6c26-3820-48e6-9070-b01dff8aaef4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://broadsideblog.wordpress.com/tag/teen-murder/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00061-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985982 | 314 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Physical activity and mobility may be impaired by a number of conditions, some of which are permanent, others of a temporary or intermittent nature. These conditions include cerebral palsy, arthritis, muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis (MS), Parkinson’s disease and repetitive strain injury (RSI). Back or neck injuries may also affect general mobility. A stroke may result in temporary or permanent loss of feeling or movement of part of the body – frequently on one side. Speech and vision may also be affected in students with cerebral palsy and multiple sclerosis for example, and in those who have suffered a stroke.
Coordination and balance may be mildly or severely affected by any of these conditions. Movement may be impaired by muscle spasms, numbness or pain. As a consequence both manipulation of equipment and writing may be difficult. Some students use wheelchairs to enhance their mobility whilst others will walk with the aid of callipers, crutches or walking stick. Some students may suffer chronic fatigue and for others there will be extreme fluctuations of energy from day to day.
Physical disability may also result from head injury (ABI – acquired brain injury). Increasing numbers of students are returning to university following vehicle or sporting accidents in which they have sustained some degree of brain injury. Resulting impairment may affect speech, vision, coordination, and the injury may also be responsible for personality disorders or depression.
The resource Teaching Students who have a mobility disability contains informtion on:
- The impact of mobility impairment on learning at university
- Communicating with students with mobility impairment
- Teaching students with a mobility impairment
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Jefferson Davis, Jr.
Courtesy of Beauvoir, Biloxi, Miss.
The namesake of his father, Jefferson Davis, Jr., was actually the second Davis son (Samuel died three years before Jeff was born). A rambunctious child, Jeff enjoyed life in the Confederate White House,
where staff and aides indulged him, often calling him "General." He
attended schools in Canada, England, and Maryland as the family moved
about after the war. Jeff Jr. enrolled at Virginia Military Institute,
but his father withdrew him in 1875, apparently fearing that his son was
about to be expelled.
Although by all accounts a charming young man, Jeff Jr. never showed
much motivation. His parents were continually trying to help him, but
his father conceded to his mother that "we do not understand the boy,
and I fear never shall." He became his father's secretary at Beauvoir in 1877, supposedly studying French and medicine in his free time. In 1878 he moved to Memphis, where brother-in-law Addison Hayes
found him a job as a bank clerk. Only a few months after his arrival,
however, Jeff Jr. fell victim to a yellow fever epidemic that swept the
city, dying on October 16. First buried in Memphis, he was reinterred
near his father at Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond in 1895.
For more information, see the published volumes of The Papers of Jefferson Davis, particularly the brief sketch of his life in 5:110-11. | <urn:uuid:1c01a466-c16b-4359-9b0d-ae33ba6ed3f9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://jeffersondavis.rice.edu/Content.aspx?id=142&ekfxmen_noscript=1&ekfxmensel=e459af5e0_6_11 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00011-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984755 | 320 | 2.703125 | 3 |
2010 Clarice Smith Distinguished Lectures in American Art. Erica Hirshler is Croll Senior Curator of American Paintings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She has written and lectured widely on American paintings of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, particularly on American impressionism and the Boston School. Her most recent book, already in its second printing, Sargent's Daughters: The Biography of a Painting, examines the history of Sargent's masterpiece, The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit. Hirshler also organized and wrote the accompanying books for the exhibitions A Studio of Her Own: Women Artists in Boston 1870--1940 (2001) and Dennis Miller Bunker: American Impressionist (1995). She has contributed to exhibitions at the Museum of Fine Arts and other institutions, among them Americans in Paris, 1860--1900 (2006) and Sargent and the Sea (2009). | <urn:uuid:7541e40e-80fd-49e2-9f55-1178f1c5b6cd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.artbabble.org/video/saam/erica-hirshler-looking-john-singer-sargent?start=1088.26 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00044-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.925036 | 188 | 1.796875 | 2 |
The rocky outcrop known as Isla de Tierra—part of the Alhucemas Islands archipelago—measures 1.7 hectares (4.2 acre) and is just 30 meters (100 feet) off the Mediterranean coast of Morocco at low tide.
The migrants swam or waded across to the island early Sunday, according to the regional office of the Interior Ministry located in the Spanish enclave of Melilla, which lies on the north African coast.
Three minors and 17 women were part of the group. Another 19 migrants reached the archipelago Wednesday.
Around the same time Sunday morning, a group of some 60 migrants tried to rush a fence separating Melilla from Morocco. They were repelled by the fence and Spanish border guards "acting in collaboration with Moroccan security forces," the regional office statement said.
Every year migrants from Africa try dangerous crossings to reach Spanish territory illegally in hope of gaining work and a better life. Authorities suspect people smugglers were involved with the latest groups, regional government leader Abdelmalik El Barkani said. | <urn:uuid:46b14830-4618-4c68-9374-355847c2a268> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.contracostatimes.com/nation-world/ci_21455956/70-illegal-immigrants-land-spanish-island | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00070-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958031 | 214 | 1.96875 | 2 |
Sorry you have hd such a hassle - we have a wireless as well and have a couple neighbours who have very lax security and I made it a point to let them know (fotunately, they are also friends and were thankfuk for the advice - one did not even have a password!!!).
You've already rec'd some good advice so I will just add mine anbd you can opt
what to choose to do: (and I would also ask for help from Linksys -they do have good tech support and also talk to your isp);
1. Turn off SSID Broadcast. As someone already suggested tjo using other language, most of the factory or company defaults are alrready knoqwn and crackers ore phishers can get them if they do not. (ie the bad guys). Leaving SSID on is like leaving your garage door open with all your valuable in it, cars, snow blower, etc, etc.... and use a really difficult password, nothing simple!!! DSomething that takes time to crack! And I am assuming you have encrypted WEP.
2. Implement MAC security but you have done thatr, right?
3. There are some technqiues we do just to keep the would be intruders confused (and we live near so many universities that I woud not at all surprised there are many would be "attackers" on our wireless's doorstep so to speak. (Tho students are hardly the ones one needs to worry about, it is the crooks that are the problem. These include mocing around the router - so it is not always in the same place.
4. Don't restrict the 192.168.1.x as a Class C subnet for IP nos. You could split up the local network into network segments using subnet classes tho some say this can be accesses by ppl who are determined to get in as well, sigh.
Not sure of this will help but there is an article here:
Finally, what does your ISP say about this? Do you check each night so that you know who has accessed your computer and then go after them or at least give their IP numbers to someone. I had someone with some page I just accessed with Internet Explorer and its isecurity allowed this program -and every program, file that is on a site ends up on your hard drive and some of them are malware and can take over your computer,. This one did that in spite of all my precautions. I figured out his IP number and went after him - virtually,, not personally, lol (he was a "businessman" - using the term loosely - in Montreal - wioth contracts to create ads for some pretty credible compaies like Sears so I wrote to them and others and to him. (I was more than a Reverse DNS lookup to say the leasyt but I think it is always good to know who is accessing your computer, whether you have wireless or not).
I would gather all that material - with the relevant programs and go to the police with them. It is still break and enter, however you cut it even tho new law is being made even as I type.
Finally, by far - given how fast the crooks catch up - the best protection now is WPA2 encryption so check to see if your router and all of your wireless computers and devices support it.
You can always turn it back on them - if they access your wireless, you ha ve access to their passwords and so forth!! Go after them, again not by yourself but with legal help.
I hope this helps - it is all so basic I know, I wish I could give you more but there is more info out there that can hekp. Talk to the ppl at Linksys and other security companies. | <urn:uuid:484a397d-2192-43d4-b200-0fa3d5620c62> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.pets.ca/forum/showpost.php?p=382560&postcount=86 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00008-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976415 | 782 | 1.640625 | 2 |
ORLANDO, Fla. — Lil Joe the manatee needs an agent for the unfolding story of his life, which continues to amaze and now includes an unexpected reunion with an old pal.
Lil Joe was plucked recently from a shallow river in east Orange County, Fla., where he had been marooned and starving for weeks. He was so dehydrated and underweight that the knobs and recesses of his skull were strikingly visible, his ribs were bulging and the loose skin of his concave belly was bunched up.
He was taken back to SeaWorld Orlando, where he had lived as an orphaned newborn, and was reunited with Slip, his longtime aquarium mate. The two manatees, who first met nearly 20 years ago, were kindred spirits during a years-long tour of the nation before they were set free together a little more than two years ago in the same Central Florida spring.
Now, when they aren’t performing balletic corkscrews in their SeaWorld tank, the reconnected manatees are between them devouring 200 heads of restaurant-grade romaine lettuce each day. And if they aren’t thinking about it as humans might, they might at least be feeling a primal tug that amounts to: “What’s next?”
Lil Joe was first rescued from the Halifax River near Daytona Beach, Fla., on July 30, 1989, weeks old and weighing 42 pounds. With his mother presumed dead, Lil Joe would gain fans at SeaWorld as a pudgy, bottle-raised orphan even fed once by then-President George H.W. Bush.
Slip, named after the marina space where boats dock, was born at SeaWorld on Nov. 22, 1991. His mother, Marina, had been rescued in 1979 and was SeaWorld’s first bottled-raised calf. She died three weeks later of birth-related complications, so Slip, like Lil Joe, hardly knew his mom.
The two orphans grew close, perhaps not by choice but as a result of the protocols for rearing captive members of the endangered species.
Biologists thought then that orphaned calves reared in captivity would never acquire the skills needed to survive in the wild. So they sent them off together for years of adventure. First stop: SeaWorld in San Diego. Next, the pair moved to the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden, where they wowed visitors for four years. It was there that Lil Joe bulked up to a weight of 1,950 pounds, or nearly a ton.
In 2009, the two were shipped to Lowry Park Zoo in Tampa, Fla., and introduced to the kinds of river plants that manatees ordinarily eat. The science of manatee care had evolved as Slip and Lil Joe grew, and biologists at that point were confident the two could be released.
So on Feb. 15, 2010, they were set free at Blue Spring, just off the St. Johns River near Orange City, Fla., where the relatively warm spring water attracts hundreds of manatees each winter. The two apparently had had enough of each other and went their separate ways.
Lil Joe turned up a few months later farther north in the St. Johns, stunned by cold weather. He was rescued, rehabbed and put back into the river several months after that. Then, as winter approached last year, he slipped out of his radio-tracking belt and disappeared. Lil Joe was feared dead.
Meanwhile, on Jan. 4 of this year, Slip was hauled from Crescent Lake, which connects to the St. Johns River near Palatka, Fla. Stressed by cold, he was taken back to SeaWorld Orlando.
And in August, an unknown manatee appeared in the Little Econlockhatchee River in east Orange County, a highly unusual place for a sea cow to go.
A few weeks later, a wildlife volunteer spotted an “R 5” brand on the animal’s back, confirming it was Lil Joe. (Slip is “R 1.”) State biologists suspected that the Little Econ, no longer swollen from early summer rains, had trapped Lil Joe.
Steve Lehr, assistant curator of mammals at SeaWorld, said the manatee was ailing when he was rescued Sept. 27. He weighed just 1,010 pounds, little more than half his Ohio weight.
He was tube-fed water for a few days, then a watery gruel of mashed romaine lettuce and high-protein monkey chow. Veterinarians did a scan of his abdomen, worried he might have swallowed fishing hooks or tackle, but nothing like that was detected. Lil Joe did pass quite a bit of cushion foam for several days, however, along with some cloth and rope. | <urn:uuid:3dc15a0e-ad69-43a3-b6f6-700a17582359> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.eagletribune.com/worldnational/x1684130745/In-SeaWorld-rehab-manatee-Lil-Joe-reunites-with-old-pal | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00004-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.988076 | 993 | 1.859375 | 2 |
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09-20-2005, 04:07 PM #1
Just wanted to see how many people really think that we landed on the moon so many years ago.
09-20-2005, 04:22 PM #2Regular Guest
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If you are old enough to remember 1969 then you have no doubt that we did
society has become so scandalous and such liars that now it would be hard to believe
If you dont believe we went to the moon , do you believe the apollo 13 story. That was another mission that was so intensive that people everywhere were concerned about those people
Not only that but the media didnt have the tweeknowlegy or the animation to pull off the scam that people think took place.
Does anyone remember who the astronaut was that socked some guy for saying the moon landing was a hoax
09-20-2005, 04:22 PM #3"Social networking" is an oxymoron.
09-20-2005, 04:24 PM #4
That would be Buzz Aldrin ct2."Social networking" is an oxymoron.
09-20-2005, 04:38 PM #5
Go to Kennedy Space Center and look at that Saturn rocket hanging off the ceiling. Holy Crap!!! Put Disney and Spielberg together and they couldn't make something up like that thing.
Of by the way. Martin Luther King was shot by Aliens.ESSAYONS
09-20-2005, 04:45 PM #6Professional Member*
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I believe it 100%
My father helped train the astronauts on the Gemini and Apollo missions (even some of the earlier shuttle missions). He was there at mission control during the events. I know how much he worked and how to this day he is proud for being part of it. He has all his awards and mission badges on display all throughout his house.
He could (and still can) smell if something was fishy and knows it was legit.
[Edited by JasonHoustonTX on 09-20-2005 at 04:50 PM]
09-20-2005, 05:10 PM #7
It was all done with giant mirrors."If anybody can draw on the power, where do we put the meter?" - JP Morgan before pulling Tesla funding
09-20-2005, 05:51 PM #8
Who in here thinks that we really DID NOT GO to the moon?
(other than Richard?)
Although I was short (a kid), I remember the moon landing like it happened yesterday. Parents woke my brother and I up early in the morning so we could watch it happen. We huddled in our living room, riveted to our black and white TV set.
And it happened.
Kinda sad how pessimistic many aspects of society have become in our day. It was forward thinking folk that got men to the moon."In this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics!"
- Homer Simpson
09-20-2005, 05:57 PM #9
Of course we went. I gassed up the damn rocket for christs sake! "It was fuel I had siphoned from the local rocket repair shop"What will your legacy be ??
09-20-2005, 05:58 PM #10
I was 21 when it took place and I don't believe they went to the moon. I think the took a left when they should have taken a right and actually landed on Alderan. Where do you think the idea for JetSkis came from...an earthling? Get real.No reserve. No retreat. No regrets.
For those who have fought for it, freedom has a sweetness the protected will never know.
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09-20-2005, 07:05 PM #11
I think we went to the moon millions of years ago...on our way to earth.Government is a disease......masquerading as its own cureEcclesiastes 10:2 NIV
09-20-2005, 07:22 PM #12
I think the ship landed on Uranus.
09-20-2005, 08:05 PM #13Professional Member
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What differance does it make? We went or not. Let's just say it was a hoax, so what does that get you now. Big deal Mr. Conspiracy theorist shut you pie hole and get back to being joe citizen, pay your taxes, support your country,pet the dog, bang the wife and love the kids. Wha wha my gov lied to me wha wha, get over it. This is the greatest country in the world, learn that and live it, you big baby.Saddle Up! | <urn:uuid:f60b619c-08c0-4140-a6d6-86d8eb22f043> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://hvac-talk.com/vbb/showthread.php?84885-Who-in-here-thinks-that-we-really-wnt-to-the-moon | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00073-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959364 | 1,003 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Believe it or not, it’s been a major news week about the soft stuff in medicine, bedside manner. First, a Time magazine story about a new study showing that patients cared for by physicians with greater empathy had better diabetes control. That study comes on the heels of an editorial in the New York Times written by a patient (who also happens to be a science journalist and an outstanding writer) with mitral valve prolapse who graciously volunteered herself to be examined by preclinical medical students learning to do the physical exam and lived to vividly document the experience for all of us. As she eloquently describes, some students seemed like naturals, whereas others were awkward and clunky.
These articles add more fuel to the fire for the most hotly contested question in medical education – Can you teach these behaviors? One on side, you have the nature supporters, saying that the role of admissions committees is to screen these behaviors out. The nurture supporters say that these behaviors can be taught and its medical schools responsibility to do so. While it is true that some pathologic behaviors need to be screened in admissions, the question for most students is more refined—is it true that some students come in ‘empathetic’ and others are just hopeless oafs that can’t empathize with patients? Well, it was refreshing to read Number Needed to Treat blog written by a medical student who says the NYT article was eating away at her soul…She nails it by saying the following:
“Almost every single med student I know is, in fact, an affable person. Yet it doesn’t always come through in the exam room.”
Why is this so hard? Well, it is not easy to learn how to do a physical exam while also forming your bedside manner. Our students have to pass a national standardized exam that requires doing the over 100 step “head to toe” physical exam. As a ‘dinosaur’, I never had to take such a test. I’m not even sure what all the steps are but have asked my colleague, Dr. Farnan, who runs our Clinical Skills program for medical students who informed me of all the points and that they are to be memorized. Let’s be honest- most of our faculty could not do this without referring to a cheat sheet. If they had to memorize it for a test, they may even come across robotic and unempathetic at first.
So, what does this mean for students’ bedside manners while they are learning? Well, mental capacity is finite. Workload has been well described as a construct that includes the mental and physical challenge of the work. For complex tasks, it is important to consider how much ‘spare capacity’ one has after the ‘primary task’ is dealt with. Elegant studies have shown that experienced physicians are BETTER at performing a secondary task than novice physicians when both are doing the same primary task. Why? The experienced physicians have more ‘spare capacity’ to deal with the second task.
So what is the primary and secondary task in interviewing a patient? Well, the primary task is learning the physical exam and how to take a history. As we celebrate this week’s residency match, the job of medical school is to produce physicians that can perform these basic functions during residency training. While our medical students acquire these skills, of course some will be naturals, and therefore have more spare capacity to key in on their bedside manner. In contrast, others may struggle with basic skills and have difficulty with both. The majority, however, will first initially put all their mental effort into learning how to do a history and physical, leaving little ‘spare capacity’ for bedside manner. Is there hope? Yes, as these students get better at taking a history and physical, they will be more at ease. This will then free up the necessary spare capacity to be continuously cognizant of their bedside behaviors. Consistent with this philosophy, one school has had success actively reinforcing bedside manner skills while prerounding during the third year clerkship.
This progression is important, and highlights the learned art of medicine. This was articulated beautifully by our recent keynote speaker, Dr. Joel Schwab, for the Gold Humanism Society senior student honorees. On the subject of being humanistic, he said that he THINKS about the landmark article on etiquette-based medicine every time he sees the patient and he follows the 6 steps –
- Knock on the Door (wait permission to enter)
- Introduce yourself (with name badge on display)
- Shake hands (wear glove if needed)
- Sit down (smile if appropriate)
- Briefly explain your role on the team
- Ask the patient how he or she is feeling
While working at a free clinic last Saturday, I too thought about this article for every patient I saw. The first year students I was working with came from a variety of medical schools in Chicago and were volunteering their Saturday to do this. I had no doubt that they all cared about the patients. But, I did notice that they were taking time to think very hard about the chief complaint, figure out the right questions to ask, and how to present it coherently. So, the role of medical education is to make sure that doing a history and physical becomes second nature for our students, and that thinking about bedside manner becomes the primary task.
–Vineet Arora, MD | <urn:uuid:c184639a-3f1f-4b44-a504-dd4c6ed6044f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://futuredocsblog.com/2011/03/13/nature-vs-nurture-in-medical-education-the-case-of-student-bedside-manner/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00008-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972013 | 1,141 | 2.25 | 2 |
It is recommended that we get busy for about 30 minutes each day to maintain or improve overall health. Even more is required if weight loss is desired! With today’s go-go-go mentality it can be overwhelming to get in just the minimum. Lucky for those of us with a busy schedule, it has been shown that even 10 minute bouts of physical activity can be beneficial in helping us live a healthier lifestyle. Do what you can, and you will be more likely to stick to it! Looking for clever ways to sneak physical activity in your day, even between an intense round of bingo on Cheekybingo.com? Check out the following tips.
When you wake up: Try 5 to 10 minutes of jumping jacks. A 150-pound woman can burn 90 calories in one 10-minute session.
When you grab the morning paper: Take a brisk, 5 minute power walk up the street in one direction and back in the other.
When you need to “go”: If your home has more than one level, use the bathroom on the floor above or below you to incorporate stair-climbing into your day.
When you are at the office: Take a few flights of stairs, walk to get lunch, or stroll around the building or parking lot.
When you are cooking dinner: Do standing push-ups while you wait for a pot to boil. Stand about an arm’s length from the kitchen counter, and push your arms against the counter.
After dinner: Take this time to catch up with your children or significant other while taking a brisk evening walk.
While you are watching TV: Keep light weight dumbbells handy for a few reps or get in some lunges/squats.
When you go to bed: Spend 5-10 minutes in bed doing a few stretches that will help you sleep and unwind from the day. The basics (legs, arms, chest and back) will stretch most of your body and will improve your flexibility within the first week.
Other Tips to Get You Moving
Enjoy a new book on audio and listen while you walk. You’ll walk farther to hear more of the story, and you’ll look forward to tomorrow’s walk.
Explore trails or streets in a new neighborhood. A change in scenery helps keep your routine fresh.
Rather than meeting a friend for dinner or coffee, ask them to join you for a game of tennis, in-door rock-climbing or bowling.
Keep a pair of sneakers nearby at all times so you’re always ready for activity. Stow a pair in your car or your desk at work as well as at home. | <urn:uuid:27143ad0-b261-4136-bf80-c6edf4bb3073> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.rdmealplan.com/tag/healthy-living/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00074-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93324 | 555 | 1.625 | 2 |
Weekend intensive courses - Academic Writing
Short, intensive courses for academic writing
Improve your writing skills and expand your English grammar and vocabulary for writing
Who is it for?
- The course is aimed at university students who need to produce writing in English for their academic course.
What level is the course?
- The course is academic writing at advanced/native speaker level and assumes that participants have had experience of writing at university level.
What will it cover?
- The course covers general writing skills such as interpreting questions, planning and organising information, paragraphing and proof reading skills.
- Useful grammar and vocabulary. Useful phrases for expressing ideas, opinions and facts. Getting the tone and register right.
- Students are encouraged to bring any pieces of writing they are currently working on with them.
- At the end of the course you should have tools to use in your writing and tips to follow to improve your next piece.
Course Dates 2009/10
|Nov 7th to Nov 8th||£353|
|Jan 22nd - Jan 23rd||£353|
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... I ... is meaner reach of the National land for public charter schools ... to talk about tool ballot initiatives one in Georgia and one in Washington state ... that would help expand school choice while Umina ... any day so ... so can you start by briefly describing what each of these ... initiatives with two apps ... sure I'm in Washington state initiative aam is an intense as putting in place Ummah in the state of Washington that would allow for the creation of up to forty charter schools in the state over the next three years ... I it's a it's an intense ... IFT giving parents more options you have a lot of corporations ... like Bahrain on people like Bill Gates ... and supporting this effort ... and it was actually show in Washington state that's charter schools have great support among the public on for Chile the legislature in that state has an update ... on this measure over the past however many years since the end considering the next chair ... at issue in Georgia is ... a definite signs that they have a charter school law on that on the school districts can I just I ... if they wanna open a charter school and it's you know most logistics ... market competition that charter schools brace on average people read approving about three charter schools the year ... I which is very smart considering the broad support for charter schools in that state ... on the Washington State Georgia legislature to actually in the day ... both houses of the legislature ... passed charter school month ... by the ... state Supreme courts ... the two with the intent of creating an alternative ... NTT to circumvent the school districts to a charter school so in Georgia is the question of bomb ... getting voters to go on record as supporting charter schools to allow ... for it in in local communities to create alternative scores ... in essence you Jason since you started your segments and talking about national politics is that this is one of the few issues ... that have strong bipartisan support at the national level ... both President Obama and ... Governor Romney are big supporters of charter schools and ... all the pieces of legislation actually pass bought a house in the Senate in the last Congress ... charter schools are one of the few things that ... bipartisan support overwhelming that partisan support so we're not talking about some fringe issue ... but something that has ... been getting a lot of attention nationally and ... on a few options to be available to mull income families to access their education options the tickets and what our opponents of the initiative saying about ... on so it's the it's the usual arguments made against charter schools I see first and foremost they claim that charter schools ... take money away from traditional public schools which is simply not true charter schools are public schools ... I'm ... only asking for ... those public funds to follow status ... to another school that oftentimes created by the same teachers in the sense that you are interested in creating a school that's ... on offer is seeing this greater education opportunities at school in exchange for being held accountable for results ... so there are on ... on accountability is much higher than the charter schools sector ... on and it is in the public school system which is one of the reasons why parents ... like the concept of Neena arguments in Georgia in particular is that this is again something that has happened ... the district level that school districts and the only entity that should be allowed to watch for sports in this case ... and as I noted earlier ... this is ... at its handset and hiring people outside the school district parents and teachers these mediators toss up at the option to create ... on better alternatives for the students in the community and circumstance that the central bureaucracy scored a straight face ... ok but we live a couple seconds left but do we know how that mission to doing polis to they have a shot at passing ... go slow so far and as of late have been trending on in our day for ... us so that the general public seems to agree that these are on the season but efforts at improving public education ... aam but the stakes are high and so it remains to be seen if that ... is the versus four will also translate into support for charter school is ... on | <urn:uuid:94e690c0-2e6e-4cc6-99d7-d9325a3ba672> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://live.wsj.com/video/opinion-school-choice-on-the-ballot/53D9CFF3-9854-4598-810B-21F53F56AA35.html?mod=WSJ_Article_Videocarousel_12 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00004-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972877 | 829 | 1.75 | 2 |
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to give points
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Give \Give\ (g[i^]v), v. t. [imp. Gave (g[=a]v); p. p. Given (g[i^]v"'n); p. pr. & vb. n. Giving.] [OE. given, yiven, yeven, AS. gifan, giefan; akin to D. geven, OS. ge[eth]an, OHG. geban, G. geben, Icel. gefa, Sw. gifva, Dan. give, Goth. giban. Cf. Gift, n.] 1. To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as authority or permission; to yield up or allow. [1913 Webster] For generous lords had rather give than pay. --Young. [1913 Webster] 2. To yield possesion of; to deliver over, as property, in exchange for something; to pay; as, we give the value of what we buy. [1913 Webster] What shall a man give in exchange for his soul ? --Matt. xvi. 26. [1913 Webster] 3. To yield; to furnish; to produce; to emit; as, flint and steel give sparks. [1913 Webster] 4. To communicate or announce, as advice, tidings, etc.; to pronounce; to render or utter, as an opinion, a judgment, a sentence, a shout, etc. [1913 Webster] 5. To grant power or license to; to permit; to allow; to license; to commission. [1913 Webster] It is given me once again to behold my friend. --Rowe. [1913 Webster] Then give thy friend to shed the sacred wine. --Pope. [1913 Webster] 6. To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to show; as, the number of men, divided by the number of ships, gives four hundred to each ship. [1913 Webster] 7. To devote; to apply; used reflexively, to devote or apply one's self; as, the soldiers give themselves to plunder; also in this sense used very frequently in the past participle; as, the people are given to luxury and pleasure; the youth is given to study. [1913 Webster] 8. (Logic & Math.) To set forth as a known quantity or a known relation, or as a premise from which to reason; -- used principally in the passive form given. [1913 Webster] 9. To allow or admit by way of supposition. [1913 Webster] I give not heaven for lost. --Mlton. [1913 Webster] 10. To attribute; to assign; to adjudge. [1913 Webster] I don't wonder at people's giving him to me as a lover. --Sheridan. [1913 Webster] 11. To excite or cause to exist, as a sensation; as, to give offense; to give pleasure or pain. [1913 Webster] 12. To pledge; as, to give one's word. [1913 Webster] 13. To cause; to make; -- with the infinitive; as, to give one to understand, to know, etc. [1913 Webster] But there the duke was given to understand That in a gondola were seen together Lorenzo and his amorous Jessica. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 14. To afford a view of; as, his window gave the park. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] To give away, to make over to another; to transfer. [1913 Webster] Whatsoever we employ in charitable uses during our lives, is given away from ourselves. --Atterbury. To give back, to return; to restore. --Atterbury. To give the bag, to cheat. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] I fear our ears have given us the bag. --J. Webster. To give birth to. (a) To bear or bring forth, as a child. (b) To originate; to give existence to, as an enterprise, idea. To give chase, to pursue. To give ear to. See under Ear. To give forth, to give out; to publish; to tell. --Hayward. To give ground. See under Ground, n. To give the hand, to pledge friendship or faith. To give the hand of, to espouse; to bestow in marriage. To give the head. See under Head, n. To give in. (a) To abate; to deduct. (b) To declare; to make known; to announce; to tender; as, to give in one's adhesion to a party. To give the lie to (a person), to tell (him) that he lies. To give line. See under Line. To give off, to emit, as steam, vapor, odor, etc. To give one's self away, to make an inconsiderate surrender of one's cause, an unintentional disclosure of one's purposes, or the like. [Colloq.] To give out. (a) To utter publicly; to report; to announce or declare. [1913 Webster] One that gives out himself Prince Florizel. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Give out you are of Epidamnum. --Shak. (b) To send out; to emit; to distribute; as, a substance gives out steam or odors. To give over. (a) To yield completely; to quit; to abandon. (b) To despair of. (c) To addict, resign, or apply (one's self). [1913 Webster] The Babylonians had given themselves over to all manner of vice. --Grew. To give place, to withdraw; to yield one's claim. To give points. (a) In games of skill, to equalize chances by conceding a certain advantage; to allow a handicap. (b) To give useful suggestions. [Colloq.] To give rein. See under Rein, n. To give the sack. Same as To give the bag. To give and take. (a) To average gains and losses. (b) To exchange freely, as blows, sarcasms, etc. To give time (Law), to accord extension or forbearance to a debtor. --Abbott. To give the time of day, to salute one with the compliment appropriate to the hour, as "good morning." "good evening", etc. To give tongue, in hunter's phrase, to bark; -- said of dogs. To give up. (a) To abandon; to surrender. "Don't give up the ship." [1913 Webster] He has . . . given up For certain drops of salt, your city Rome. --Shak. (b) To make public; to reveal. [1913 Webster] I'll not state them By giving up their characters. --Beau. & Fl. (c) (Used also reflexively.) To give up the ghost. See under Ghost. To give one's self up, to abandon hope; to despair; to surrender one's self. To give way. (a) To withdraw; to give place. (b) To yield to force or pressure; as, the scaffolding gave way. (c) (Naut.) To begin to row; or to row with increased energy. (d) (Stock Exchange). To depreciate or decline in value; as, railroad securities gave way two per cent. To give way together, to row in time; to keep stroke. Syn: To Give, Confer, Grant. Usage: To give is the generic word, embracing all the rest. To confer was originally used of persons in power, who gave permanent grants or privileges; as, to confer the order of knighthood; and hence it still denotes the giving of something which might have been withheld; as, to confer a favor. To grant is to give in answer to a petition or request, or to one who is in some way dependent or inferior. [1913 Webster] | <urn:uuid:a3614563-eebc-427c-b1ac-8e4af0f5ec72> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.crosswordpuzzlehelp.net/old/dictionary.php?q=To%20give%20points | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00013-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.908432 | 1,733 | 2.78125 | 3 |
By Fiona Lambe, Stokes Consulting Group/Gaia Association
Woman with her CleanCook stove in a low income neighbourhood, Addis Ababa.
(Photo: Firehiwot Mengesha, Deputy Managing Director, Gaia Association, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
Worldwide, more than three billion people depend on solid fuels – including biomass – in order to meet their everyday cooking needs. Burning these fuels produces extremely high levels of indoor air pollution, exposure to which can lead to chronic respiratory illnesses: it’s estimated that such illnesses lead to about 1.6 million deaths around the world each year. The widespread dependence on such solid fuels in many poorer countries means that women and young girls who are usually responsible for cooking and fuel collection have little time for other activities, including education or finding sources of income generation.
In addition, the harvesting of fuel wood for cooking destroys fragile ecosystems, while the burning of traditional fuels releases greenhouse gases which contribute to climate change. Gaia Association, an Ethiopian NGO, is promoting locally produced ethanol as a clean alternative to traditional cooking fuels.
Ethiopia currently produces 8 million litres of ethanol annually from sugar cane molasses; a waste by-product of the state owned and managed sugar industry. Previously such residues were dumped in rivers due to the lack of any viable domestic market for the product. In the near future the Ethiopian government will begin fuel blending for the transport sector and plans are in place to expand national production capacity to nearly 130 million litres of ethanol by 2012. If this target is met, ethanol output will surpass local demand from the transport sector: it’s estimated that 128 million litres of ethanol will be produced in 2012 while the demand from the transport sector will only be 30 million litres. Given this supply scenario, the domestic and commercial cooking market will be the only local outlet for surplus ethanol.
A successful pilot test of the ethanol-burning CleanCook (CC) stove was recently carried out in 850 Ethiopian households. The CC stove, manufactured by Domestic AB of Sweden, is a non-pressurised, clean-burning alcohol stove, adapted for use in the developing world. The pilot study demonstrated that the CC stove is an appropriate technology for Ethiopian households in terms not only of health and safety but is also efficient, easy to use and cheap to run.
Those who used the CC stove reported that instead of spending time, as previously, on gathering wood for fuel and coping with inefficient cooking devices, many women were now able to investigate income generating activities. Local production of the stoves will soon begin, thereby reducing their cost to the average Ethiopian household. Since the stoves are clean burning, their large scale use will mean reduced indoor air pollution and emissions of carbon and greenhouse gases.
The Gaia Association and its partners have shown that in developing countries, such as Ethiopia, sustainably produced ethanol targeted at the household market has the potential to address many of the Millennium Development Goals. | <urn:uuid:008dd9f3-3cfe-4836-a8a4-7336e45db385> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.grida.no/publications/et/ep5/page/2356.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00042-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947678 | 594 | 3.21875 | 3 |
In this edition of the show Faiza Ahmed reviews the film; Salute, directed by Matt Norman.
The film provides an insight into an incident at the 1968 Summer Olympics which saw two United States athletes, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, give the black power salute from the victory dais after the 200 metres final.
The film focuses on the third man on the dais, silver medal winner Peter Norman, who showed his support for Smith and Carlos by donning an “Olympic Project for Human Rights” (OPHR) badge on his way to the podium.
It was also Norman who suggested to Smith and Carlos that they share the black gloves used in their salute, after Carlos had left his gloves in the Olympic Village.This is the reason for Smith raising his right fist, while Carlos raised his left. Asked later about his support of Smith and Carlos’ cause by the world’s press, Norman said he opposed his country’s government’s White Australia policy.
The film documents the subsequent reprimand of Norman by the Australian Olympic authorities, and his ostracism by the Australian media. Also it looks at the affects this action had on Tommie and Jon Carlos’s lives.
Despite Norman running qualifying times for both the 100m and 200m during 1971/72, the Australian Olympic track team did not send him to the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. It also documents Norman’s reunion with Smith and Carlos, shortly before his death in 2006.
Presstv.com reviews Salute with Faiza Ahmed, | <urn:uuid:d2b64df4-56cc-4d45-a905-d182193b1349> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://salutethemovie.com/presstv-com-reviews-salute-with-faiza-ahmed/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00010-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976344 | 324 | 2.171875 | 2 |
>You may just want to call the file in the url and it will open in its default program.
really?? can't get working it.. (i'm on windows)
i need to start quicktime player with movie from flash projector. the problems with fscommand are:
1. only executable files can be launched but i'd like to run document with default associated program.
2. starting executable with arguments isn't working (running 'quicktimeplayer.exe video.mov' starts only blank .exe).
i tryed get url action too. it starts webbrowser and opens the document in it..
please - if it's really possible somehow call the file from flash to open in its default program - i badly need it. | <urn:uuid:790e04d0-70e6-4a97-9753-cbab94a0e8cc> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://board.flashkit.com/board/showthread.php?4758.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00039-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.924257 | 153 | 1.726563 | 2 |
Source Newsroom: Dian Griesel Inc.
How Can Americans Reduce Their Stress Levels During Stressful Times?
Americans are incredibly stressed out these days. In the eastern US, thousands are dealing with the devastation left behind by Hurricane Sandy; many have lost their homes entirely, and others have been living without power for days. For others, the imminent approach of the holiday season is bringing stresses related to family and travel. Millions of others are stressed by the weak economy and scarce jobs. Finally, every American of voting age has been on edge in advance of the presidential election. While many will turn to comfort foods and sedentary entertainment as diversions, these can trigger serious health issues over the long run—which can serve as yet further sources of stress.
Dian Griesel, Ph.D., 51 chronologically, 18 metabolically, is a serial entrepreneur and long-recognized health spokesperson. She is a lifetime member of the International Association of Counselors and Therapists as well as the National Guild of Hypnotists. She has served on the Board of the New York Chapter of the American Heart Association. Prior to starting her own investor relations and public relations firm in 1996, she worked in private practice and taught continuing education classes in health, weight and stress management for the City University of New York and the NY Open Center. Dian was invited countless times to appear as a regular health expert on Sally Jessy Raphael, Gordon Elliot, Jenny Jones, Montel Williams, The Rolanda (Watts) Show, Good Day New York and 1010 WINS news. Her many books include The TurboCharged Mind, which explains how self-hypnosis can relax us and help focus our inner selves.
Dian is available to discuss:
• What are some of the core psychological triggers of stress?
• In what ways can nonstop stress be debilitating both physically and psychologically?
• How is stress linked to overeating?
• Can regularly scheduled breaks in our daily routines—even as brief as one minute each, a few times a day—really help us to relax?
• How important is eating more protein-rich foods when we are feeling stressed?
• Can drinking more water serve to relax us?
• Why is it a good idea to increase our intake of fruits and vegetables during times of high stress?
• How can self-hypnosis serve as a useful tool to reduce stress?
To arrange an interview, please contact: | <urn:uuid:d13e44bb-bbda-46f2-a7cc-6bb32dccdfb0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/595780 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00039-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959093 | 501 | 1.851563 | 2 |
I have a piece over on the homepage today looking at the fight over California's landmark climate law, which could be delayed if an insidious ballot measure passes next month. With climate legislation delayed indefinitely in Washington, California has become the battleground between environmental groups and fossil fuel interests.
California's climate law is the most comprehensive piece of legislation to cut greenhouse-gas emissions in the US. It's also the most important, as the state is often the leader on environmental initiatives. This is, of course, why Proposition 23, which would stop implementation of the law next year, has become a hot spot of action this November. As Wade Crowfoot, the West Coast political director of the Environmental Defense Fund, told me, "If you can drive a stake in the heart of climate policy making in California, it will have a massive political chilling effect elsewhere in the country."
With that in mind, the folks over at Dirty Energy Money this week launched a site to track the money oil and gas interests are spending to kill the law. At the new site you can see exactly where the $8.3 million from oil and gas interests is coming from. | <urn:uuid:a059f207-24d9-4a06-a524-e0694d8fa176> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2010/10/california-dreamin | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00020-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958576 | 230 | 1.773438 | 2 |
n. A corner convenience store, usually operated by people from Pakistan, India, and more recently, Turkey. The name derives from 'Paki Shop', as these stores were exclusively run by people Pakistan. They standardly stock beer, cigarettes, drinks and snacks.
v. To go to a paki shop to purchase supplies.
Joe: I need a beer, mate.
Ralph: There's a pakpak down the road.
John: What are you doing?
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Vintage Video - Joseph Joffre, 1914
Joseph Joffre served as France's wartime Army Commander-in-Chief from the outbreak of war in August 1914 until December 1916.
Variously applauded and excoriated for his performance in military command, Joffre's period as Commander-in-Chief saw him achieve success at the First Battle of the Marne - when the German Army's march on Paris was decisively thrown back - and perceived failure in failing to anticipate the German offensive at Verdun.
Replaced as Commander-in-Chief by Robert Nivelle in December 1916 - as it transpired a disastrous appointment - Joffre was nonetheless awarded the consolation prize of an appointment a Marshal of France. He played no further key role in the remainder of the war.
Use the player above to view footage of Joseph Joffre before war began in 1914.
The USA suffered 57,476 fatal army casualties during the war.
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This video is a quick walk-thru of the basic design and operation of the access control system I’ve been working on for Milwaukee Makerspace and Bucketworks. The code on the server side is still in a bit of flux. As soon as I have it polished off I’ll post all the code and schematics.
UPDATE: Oy! There was no noise. Or at least……
practically no noise. I put TomG’s awesome logic analyser on the case to make sure that some how my protocol rules messed up and allowed the two RS-485 transcievers to talk over one another. What I found instead was the server interface dropping the transmit enable line prematurely on a fairly random basis. I think its USB Serial port latency. Its looks like it can be +/- 30ms or so. Kinda bad.
You can see the problem in the picture above. The yellow line is the TX line coming out of the server as it appears on the server-to-RS485 interface circuit. The orange line is the RTS line, which is wired to the TX enable on the RS-485 transceiver chip. As you can see the orange line drops BEFORE the packet has fully shifted out the door. The green line at the bottom of the picture shows the RX line of the RS-485 transceiver chip on the interior unit. As you can see, once that orange line drops, the interior unit doesn’t get any more bits and winds up with a corrupt packet that it discards. However the server thinks it has transmitted OK and waits the full timeout period of 300ms before it retries.
It only did this about 10% of the time, but it did slow the bus down a little. I’ve since tuned the code with well placed delays and sleeps so that it’s down to something more like 2% of the time, but I worried that the latency is going to vary with the operating system and the system load.
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Rule Violations and the Rule of Law: A Factorial Survey of Public Attitudes
N. J. Schweitzer
Arizona State University
Douglas J. Sylvester
Arizona State University - College of Law
Michael J. Saks
Arizona State University (ASU) - Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law
DePaul Law Review, 2007
The rule of law is no simple subject; indeed, it is not even an easy task to define what "rule of law" means. Yet people go to great lengths to demonstrate their adherence to the principles of the rule of law. An underlying assumption of those who advocate a formal view of the rule of law is that there is inherent value in adhering to rules. But is that assumption valid? Of what importance are rules, and what consequences do those who violate rules suffer in the eyes of others?
In this Article, we present the findings of a factorial survey exploring questions about the rule of law. Although respondents expressed nearly unanimous support for the general importance of the rule of law, their judgments in response to the case scenarios showed strong sensitivity to the particulars of the situation - especially the purposes that motivated the violations. These findings lend support to the view that whatever the cultural or psychological preference for rules over outcomes, or strict equality over fairness, there may be circumstances in which most people are willing to make situation-specific reassessments of what is just.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 38
Keywords: Rule of law, survey, legitimacy, justice, procedural justice, psychologyAccepted Paper Series
Date posted: December 14, 2006
© 2013 Social Science Electronic Publishing, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Needless to say I’ve been watching on with a sense of awe and an extreme case of jealousy, but just when I was at the height of my envy, Sydney sneaks up on me and unveils its own little tricky surprise. Along one of the busiest and most famous roads in Sydney (and perhaps even Australia), the recently opened Paddington Reservoir is as unexpected as it is delightful.
Designed by landscape architects James Mather Delaney Design and architects Tonkin Zulaikha Greer, this amazing new space will host markets, art and film festivals, and hopefully a few live music gigs as well.
By day the most outstanding features of the Gardens are the bright sub-tropical landscaping and the simple pallette of materials that is ruthlessly modern in areas and seamlessly sympathetic in others. A large portion of the Gardens can be viewed from street level, however the real pleasure of this space is in its exploration. Though not a particularly large area by any means, the multiple levels weave poetically through the layers of history and provide a rich experience even for the casual observer.
Once the sun sets however, the Gardens take on a whole new personality…
I’ve only had the pleasure to visit in the daytime, but a night visit is definitely on the cards, complete with camera and tripod (what better excuse to finally find film for the former and simply buy the latter!) If you happen to be cruising along Oxford Street, take a break from retail therapy/partying/people watching and have a little look around. You’ll love it, I promise!
And just for a little background, an excerpt from the design statement:
When TZG and JMD were commissioned to convert the Paddington Reservoir into an urban park, the general expectation was that the site would be capped off and a brand new arrangement built on top. However, we were captivated by the possibilities of revealing the 19th century structures as a ruin through which members of the public could wander, taking in the dramatic spaces and play of light across the remnants of historic walls and vaults.
Listed as a site of state heritage significance, the Paddington Reservoir was originally constructed in two stages, completed in 1866 and 1878. The water chambers were built below street level with a grassed park above, opened to the public in the 1930’s. The operational life of the reservoir ceased in 1899 and the site was used as a workshop and garage until 1990 when roof collapses forced its closure.
We believed the concept for the project was embodied in the existing artifact. An accessible sunken garden and pond, surrounded by a raised pre-cast concrete boardwalk, has been inserted within the conserved ruin of the western chamber of the former reservoir. The edges of the ruin are contained by concrete up-stands in such a way as to amplify the distinctive curved characteristics of the original brick vaults. The Victorian tree-fern garden hints at the era in which the Reservoir was originally built.
Further reading on The High Line:
The New York Times – Feature Article
The New York Times – Architecture Review
Friends of the High Line
The High Line Blog
Color Me Katie – High Line Night Photography
Further reading on the Paddington Reservoir Gardens:
Tonkin Zulaikha Greer Architects
Australian Design Review
City of Sydney – Gardens Launch Article
City of Sydney – Gardens Launch Images
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Hotel owners and operators have always been excellent environmental stewards. Most managers in the hospitality industry understand that strong recycling and sustainability efforts lead to a better guest experience and improved profitability. As a result, most hotels do an extraordinary job recycling. In fact, on average, each hotel recycles over one million pounds of standard recyclables such as corrugated cardboard, glass, metal and plastics every year. Let Nationwide Mattress Recycling recycle your mattresses and box springs and you'll push your hotel's recycling rate even higher!
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Washington, D.C., officially called the District of Columbia, is the capital of the United States (map). It was founded on July 16, 1790 and today has a city population of 599,657 (2009 estimate) and an area of 68 square miles (177 sq km). It should be noted however, that during the week, Washington, D.C.'s population rises to well over one million people due to suburban commuters. The population of the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area was 5.4 million people as of 2009.
Washington, D.C. is home to all three branches of the U.S. government as well as many international organizations and the embassies of 174 foreign nations. In addition to being the center of U.S. government, Washington, D.C. is known for its history, many historic national monuments and famous museums like the Smithsonian Institution.
The following is a list of ten important things to know about Washington, D.C.:
1) When Europeans first arrived in what is present-day Washington, D.C. in the 17th century the area was inhabited by the Nacotchtank tribe of Native Americans. By the 18th century though, Europeans had relocated the tribe and the region was becoming developed. In 1749, Alexandria, Virginia was founded and in 1751, the Province of Maryland chartered Georgetown along the Potomac River. Eventually both were included in the original Washington, D.C. District.
2) In 1788, James Madison stated that the new U.S. nation would need a capital that was distinct from the states. Shortly thereafter, Article I of the U.S Constitution stated that a district, separate from the states, would become the seat of government. On July 16, 1790, the Residence Act established that this capital district would be located along the Potomac River and President George Washington would decide exactly where.
3) Initially, Washington, D.C. was a square and measured ten miles (16 km) on each side. First a federal city was constructed near Georgetown and on September 9, 1791, the city was named Washington and the newly established federal district was named Columbia. In 1801, the Organic Act officially organized the District of Columbia and it was expanded to include Washington, Georgetown and Alexandria.
4) In August 1814, Washington, D.C. was attacked by British forces during the War of 1812 and the Capitol, Treasury and White House were all burned. They were quickly repaired however and governmental operations resumed. In 1846, Washington, D.C. lost some of its area when Congress returned all District territory south of the Potomac back to the Commonwealth of Virginia. The Organic Act of 1871 then combined the City of Washington, Georgetown and Washington County into a single entity known as the District of Columbia. This is the region that became known as today's Washington, D.C.
5) Today, Washington, D.C. is still considered separate from its neighboring states (Virginia and Maryland) and it is governed by a mayor and a city council. The U.S. Congress however has the highest authority over the area and it can overturn local laws if necessary. In addition, residents of Washington, D.C. were not allowed to vote in presidential elections until 1961. Washington, D.C. also has a non-voting Congressional delegate but it does not have any senators.
6) Washington, D.C. currently has a large growing economy that is mainly focused on the service-sector and government jobs. According to Wikipedia, in 2008, federal government jobs made up 27% of the jobs in Washington, D.C. In addition to government jobs, Washington, D.C. also has industries related to education, finance and research.
7) The total area of Washington, D.C. today is 68 square miles (177 sq km) - all of which formerly belonged to Maryland. The area is surrounded by Maryland on three sides and Virginia to the south. The highest point in Washington, D.C. is Point Reno at 409 feet (125 m) and it is located in the Tenleytown neighborhood. Much of Washington, D.C. is parkland and the district was highly planned during its initial construction. Washington, D.C. is divided into four quadrants: the Northwest, Northeast, Southeast and Southwest (map). Each quadrant radiates out from the Capitol building.
8) The climate of Washington, D.C. is considered humid subtropical. It has cold winters with average snowfall at about 14.7 inches (37 cm) and hot, humid summers. The average January low temperature is 27.3˚F (-3˚C) while the average July high is 88˚F (31˚C).
9) As of 2007, Washington, D.C. had a population distribution of 56% African American, 36% White, 3% Asian and 5% other. The district has had a significant population of African Americans since its founding largely because of the freeing of slaves in the southern states following the American Revolution. Recently however, the percentage of African Americans has been declining in Washington, D.C. as more of the population moves to the suburbs.
10) Washington, D.C. is considered a cultural center of the U.S. because of its many National Historic Landmarks, museums and historic places such as the Capitol and White House. Washington, D.C. is home to the National Mall which is a large park within the city and it contains museums like the Smithsonian and the National Museum of Natural History. The Washington Monument is located on the west end of the National Mall.
To learn more about Washington, D.C., visit DC.gov, the official website of the Government of Washington, D.C and About.com's Washington, D.C. site.
Wikipedia.org. (5 October 2010). Washington Monument - Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Monument
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The world of online advertising, one of the most important terms is (SEO) Search Engine/Marketing and the other is PPC (Pay per Click). PPC marketing is also known as CPC (cost per click). PPC is an advertising model used on search engines, advertising networks, and content on websites/blogs, where advertisers only pay when a user actually clicks on an ad to visit advertiser’s website.
In recent times there has been an increase in investment in SEO. Do you have anything to do with the CPC? Yes! Click costs are rising and companies that had previously been investing in PPC campaigns are now focusing their marketing efforts to search engines. This is mainly due to the tendency of increase in the cost of the CPC and the growing demand for increased advertising budget. Another major problem facing these companies has increased and click fraud so completely had abandoned investment in the CPC and replaced by an active SEO campaign.
What is the main difference between these two types of campaigns in terms of efficiency and economy of advertising? The difference is that while pay per click marketing is an investment in advertising, search engine optimization is an investment in the website? A pay per click marketing campaign usually has a beginning and end, and this makes it easier to determine return on investment. (ROI) Remember that if not successful then the investment should not be undertaken.
SEO is comparatively much slower process and results come only much later with the other effects over a longer time. While investment in CPC campaigns, advertising and the company, the exposure ends the moment as the campaign ends. But if a good position is consistent, the SEO effort made by the company to continue to receive good traffic more and better exposure in the SERP (search engine results page) every time someone searches the keywords long after the campaign SEO is more. | <urn:uuid:b577fd77-62b1-4cf4-9516-9050ce753681> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://linkbackseo.com/choose-between-seo-and-cpc.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972093 | 370 | 2.15625 | 2 |
Reduce/Reduction: to make something smaller or use less, resulting in a smaller amount of waste.
"Source reduction" is reducing waste before you purchase it, or by purchasing products that are not wasteful in their packaging or use.
A key part of waste "reduction" is "conservation"—using natural resources wisely, and using less than usual in order avoid waste.
You can practice reduction by selecting products that do not have to be added to landfills or the waste stream in general. This is really easy to do...
- First and foremost, buy and use less! If all the other people on the Earth used as much "stuff" as we do in the United States, there would need to be three to five times more space just to hold and sustain everybody.... WOW! So buy only what you need and use all of what you buy. Or make sure that when you are through with something, you pass it along to other people who can continue to put it to good use. This is especially important when it comes things that can be dangerous to our environment, such as paint and chemicals.
- Start making wise "package" selections. Why is it important to consider how something is packaged when you consider what to buy? You can reduce waste by selecting products that are not wasteful in their packaging. Flashy and fun packaging costs more, usually adds little or no value to the product, and (worst of all!) can do considerable harm to our environment by creating more waste or waste disposal difficulties. Keep the following package-related tips in mind no matter what you are buying:
- Precycle by purchasing products in materials/packaging that can be readily recycled. So whenever you have a choice, put plain and recyclable packages high on your list to reduce packaging waste in our environment.
- Avoid single-serve containers. You can buy juice or water in large recyclable bottles or cans and then divide it up in reusable, washable containers as you need it at home or to take with you. And if you want to take juice or water with you on your bike rides or to the gym, just take it along in your own reusable sports bottle.
- Before you buy bottled water, first find out if you really even need bottled water. City water (and clean well water) is usually just as healthy, much cheaper, and may even be safer than bottled water products.
- Refuse store bags! When you buy one or two items at a store, carry them out in your hands; or take a reusable bag with you to carry the items you buy. And don't forget to take your old plastic and paper bags back to the grocery store for reuse or recycling. Most grocery stores have convenient paper and plastic recycling bins located near the entrance.
Hints for parents
Think BIG! Buying in "bulk" (a large amount that is not divided into separate containers) gives you the best "product to package" ratio. Many stores allow shoppers to scoop out the amount they need of bulk goods like nuts or coffee. This considerably reduces waste and packaging materials. Or you can buy in bulk by selecting bigger quantities in a single box or package—for example, buy the largest box of toothpaste, dishwasher detergent, or cereal, rather than a series of small boxes. This not only reduces the waste (from having to throw out the old containers) but it will also save you money. Packaging is expensive, so buying in larger volumes reduces the unit cost.
Buy concentrates rather than diluted products—the result is less waste for disposal when it is empty.
Use durable goods longer. Durable goods are sturdy things like furniture or household appliances that can (and should) be used for many years. You can save money and reduce waste by keeping these items longer and repairing them when they break, rather than buying new ones.
Use durable items rather than disposable items whenever possible. For example, select reusable razors rather than the disposable one that you can only use a few times and then have to throw away.
Say NO to junk mail! Call toll-free numbers in unwanted catalogs and ask to be removed from mailing lists. Whenever possible, use the Internet to obtain (and pay) bills, news, catalogs, stock reports and other information that usually comes to your house in a paper format. Reducing paper reduces waste.
Start a garden. Food that you grow yourself does not have to be "processed" or "packaged", and no fossil fuels are needed to get it to the store and then to your house.
Start a compost or vermiculture bin to transform your household garbage (food wastes, coffee grounds, etc.), into a rich earth-like material that can be added to a garden to help plants grow. Grass, leaves, paper, and some other types of food can naturally decay and turn into compost, and that compost can then be put to good use in your garden. Replace lawns with mulched gardens that are just as pretty, but are better for our environment.
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October 1942: "Share The Meat recipes. To supplement the voluntary weekly meat allotment of two and a half pounds per person, housewives are turning to the unlimited supply of 'variety' meats on the market. Beef or calf hearts are among these meats which are rich in iron and vitamin B. Wash and slit the hearts, remove gristle and blood vessels. For the stuffing, chop an onion and a stalk of celery into two tablespoons of fat and cook for a few minutes. Add two to three cups of soft bread crumbs and season to taste with salt and pepper. Thyme goes well with heart - add a pinch to the stuffing. Fill hearts with stuffing and sew up the slit with coarse thread. Brown the hearts on all sides in fat, then place in a covered baking dish or casserole. Add a half of cup of water, cover closely and cook until tender in a very moderate oven (about 300 degrees Fahrenheit). Calf hearts require about one and a half hours, beef hearts will require much longer - four to five hours. Make gravy of the pan drippings and serve the hearts piping hot, garnished with crisp greens." Photograph by Ann Rosener for the Office of Emergency Management. | Click image for Comments. | <urn:uuid:97d7d2c5-1667-46b4-a5b6-886fcfe9521e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.shorpy.com/node/700?size=_original&ref=44070 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00075-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933277 | 252 | 2.578125 | 3 |
This wood-centric home is the work of an Australian architectural group that has been in the vanguard of sustainable development in Sydney for over a decade. As both architect and builder, CplusC focused on timber to heighten the design of the Queens Park Residence.
This is a guest post by author Tom Becker Sustainable housing is no longer solely the preserve of the rich and idealistic. Housing that is made cheaply from renewable sources are popping up with increasingly frequency all around the world. From New Orleans homes to huge apartment blocks, sustainable housing is good for the planet, [...] | <urn:uuid:91ad05fa-5d83-4e77-8f8e-d14c4187b0c1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.homedesignfind.com/tag/sustainable-living/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00071-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96865 | 116 | 1.851563 | 2 |
Will Chapter 11 allow me to stay in business?
There are two types of Chapter 11: reorganization and liquidation. In theory, a reorganization Chapter 11 will protect you from your creditors long enough to allow you to stay in business and create a plan of repayment. In practice, a successful Chapter 11 is a tightrope walk over a hoard of ravenous creditors, all of whom are waiting for you to fall.
Why Would I File a Liquidation Chapter 11? First of all, while Chapter 11s are usually filed by businesses, they can be filed by individuals. Certainly any liquidation, either under Chapter 11 or Chapter 7, should be done to protect the interests of individuals. If there are no people on the hook for debts, who cares if the business fails?
As a practical matter, small businesses almost always have personal guarantees from principals of the corporation. Sometimes there are assets of the business that can be sold to reduce or eliminate those claims against the principals. Withholding taxes are the ever popular example of this type of debt.
The difference between Chapter 7 and Chapter 11 liquidations is who will be responsible for liquidation. In a Chapter 7, the bankruptcy trustee will sell assets. In a Chapter 11, the authorized representative of the business as Debtor-in-Possession will sell the assets (barring sustained objections from those ravening creditors). Simply put, if you think you need to sell assets of your business in an orderly fashion and believe you can get a better price for them selling them yourself than a Chapter 7 trustee could AND doing so will eliminate debt you would otherwise owe, a liquidation Chapter 11 may work for you.
How Does Chapter 11 Work? First of all, Chapter 11s are extremely complex and you should discuss your situation with an attorney experienced in Chapter 11s. In Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky where I practice, there are relatively few Chapter 11s filed and most bankruptcy practitioners have no experience with them. The procedures and path to success are very different from Chapter 7 and 13.
First of all, the bulk of the petition is the same for all chapters of bankruptcy. Assets and debts must be listed accurately. The Statement of Financial Affairs must be completed. A budget will only be filed if the Debtor is an individual. There are some forms, like the listing of the top twenty unsecured creditors that are unique to Chapter 11. The U.S. Trustee will use that list to try to get a Creditor’s Committee formed. If one is formed, it will be a significant player in the process for approving your plan.
Assuming the Chapter 11 will be filed by a business, forms also will need to be filed designating the official representative of the business to head the administration of the case. Beyond the petition itself, Chapter 11 practice wouldn’t be complete without “first day motions”, filed with the case or as soon thereafter as possible to appoint a representative, hire an attorney and any other professionals and, most importantly, to free up cash collateral to allow the business to continue to run and make payroll.
While the goal is to file a plan, either of liquidation or reorganization, that does not need to be filed with the petition. Frequently, a bankruptcy is filed for immediate protection before anyone knows precisely how the business will pull itself out of its present crisis. That said, times are limited and you can expect your creditors to want to limit that time still more.
Upon filing, the organization becomes a Debtor-in-Possession and is tasked by bankruptcy law with conducting its business for the benefit of its unsecured creditors, a weird sort of conflict that inevitably creates tension. The Debtor also gets an Automatic Stay, which stops (almost) all collection against the Debtor, at least for a time. It is this stay of collection that allows the Debtor to breathe long enough (hopefully) to create a plan of reorganization.
How Does the Reorganization Happen? I tend to think of the components of a successful Chapter 11 as being about the past, present and future. The present is represented by the bankruptcy petition itself. There, for all the world to see, is the business’s prayer for relief with all the relevant information about the finances of the business. The future is the Plan of Reorganization, which is a detailed statement about how creditors will be paid back, why it will probably be both slower and less than they were hoping for and (most importantly) why it really is the best solution for everyone. The plan must be supported by reference to the past, represented by the Disclosure Statement, which explains clearly and in detail, why the Debtor couldn’t pay its obligations as they came due and (ideally) why it wasn’t their fault. Disclosure Statements are typically very detailed documents and usually longer than the plan itself.
The actual approval process is beyond the scope of this posting, but suffice it to say the procedure involves a lot of negotiation, argument and frequently multiple ballots and hearings before approval. A large majority of Chapter 11s fail without ever getting a confirmed plan. It isn’t easy.
What Can Go Wrong? Short of saying everything, the chief dangers to a Chapter 11 debtor are failing to free up cash collateral, which will shut down the business and having the automatic stay lifted, so that collection action begins again, usually involving foreclosing on the premises or equipment of the business. The next potential problems involve having a trustee appointed, who will wrest control away from the Debtor-in-Possession and usually liquidate the business. Alternatively, if it appears no plan can be confirmed or the Debtor-in-Possession is failing to perform its duties, creditors or the United States Trustee’s office can move to have the case dismissed or converted to a Chapter 7.
Should My Business File Chapter 11? Chapter 11 bankruptcies are extremely complex and I have only scratched the surface and explained some of the terminology. If you think it may be an option you wish to pursue, contact an experienced bankruptcy attorney to discuss your particular situation as soon as possible. Delay works to the advantage of your creditors. If you wait too long to make a decision, you will find your choices become more limited. Good luck. | <urn:uuid:c78619cc-3e8b-4487-b4fb-443eb9e400f5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.pattonsouthgatelaw.com/category/faqs/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00063-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957936 | 1,286 | 1.640625 | 2 |
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The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are
for what we could become. | Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
At present there is no “quick fix” for impulse disorders and addictions. However, if an individual commits to treatment they can recover their psychological and emotional health, experience freedom from their compulsive behaviors, and learn to get needs met in more healthy ways. They can create a meaningful life, and deeper, richer intimacy with themselves and others, while also making positive contributions from their experiences and hard-earned wisdom to our collective community.
Below are the stages of the recovery process that we provide:
Stage One: ASSESSMENT
These sessions are attended by the person seeking help and perhaps significant others. Immediate concerns are addressed, personal and social history is taken, and psychological testing is administered. The assessment is performed in order to diagnose and create a comprehensive and individualized treatment plan for each person. Additionally, forensic contacts with attorneys or probation officers may be needed. Orientation to the program is provided.
The intake assessment is necessary in order for us to get as complete a picture as possible regarding both the immediate issues as well as the contributing factors. This assessment is not simply an intake, rather it is a comprehensive picture of the complex and multilayered issues with which you struggle, and helps us to form a treatment plan that will best meet your needs.
The assessment may take several meetings, and includes a 30 minute feedback session where we discuss the outcome of the assessment and our treatment plan recommendations.
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Initially, group sessions along with individual therapy sessions provide helpful information about the impulse disorder(s), gently help to break down denial, teach how to manage impulses, identify cognitive distortions, identify feelings before they lead to impulsive behaviors, and help participants develop alternative behaviors. In addition to accumulating valuable knowledge and skills, this stage provides a safe place to explore and learn about issues related to the behaviors and how to replace these behaviors with healthier, more deeply fulfilling ones. Each group member uses a workbook as part of their initial recovery process; the workbooks for compulsive stealing can be purchased by clicking this link.
As the behaviors and urges are more under control and participants begin to build a more healthy lifestyle, the group sessions and individual sessions become more process oriented. Participants continue to engage in:
Ongoing Individual Therapy: To increase self-awareness, deal with related issues (co-morbid conditions) and continue to build on the progress made, moving towards a more satisfying life overall.
Ongoing Group Therapy: To continue to receive support and feedback from other recovering individuals in a therapeutic environment and to learn to maintain gains in the face of new stressors/avoid relapse.
Complimentary Therapies: Psychotherapy is the foundation of our treatment program. However, in addition to psychotherapy there is a growing body of evidence that other forms of treatment can also be helpful in treating the issues we address:
- Psychotropic Medication
- Yoga Asanas and other forms of exercise
- Dietary Considerations
- Occupational Therapy:To create a structure and daily plan to improve work life and everyday functioning.
- Self-help Groups (such as 12-step programs) for additional support
- Educational Specialists
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In this stage, a gradual reduction of therapy is warranted. Participants have not only gained control of their behaviors but have also worked-through the underlying issues and relapse is rare or nonexistent. Here participants may attend individual therapy sessions less frequently and/or attend weekly group only. Additionally, participants have the opportunity to provide mentoring to newer members and share their experiences and knowledge they have gained. | <urn:uuid:30d24abd-8e6e-40fc-b3f5-6b5b1945d164> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.pathwaysinstitute.net/?page_id=195 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00068-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.92918 | 843 | 1.617188 | 2 |
Monocyte rig in Cinema 4D: Deformers
Cinema 4D has loads of useful deformers which are a big help in both modeliing and animation. In this test below, which is still a work in progress, I have used several Mograph DISPLACEMENT DEFORMERS to create the undulating irregular surface on the rolling cell.
The displacement deformer is a tool I use in practically every project I work on, and because one can quickly achieve some very cool organic surfaces and motion with it, it’s a very useful tool for medical animation.
Another favorite of mine seen here is the SQUASH AND STRETCH deformer. This creates the effect that the cell is compressed against the surface of the blood vessel wall as it lands and moves along.
For the tendril-like protrusions coming off the surface of the monocyte (pseudopods), I’ve used the Mograph EXTRUDE DEFRORMER. I pre-selected polygons on the cells surface for this deformer to effect, then keyframed the effect to trigger as the cell lands. There were issues with the pseudopods going out of whack as they came into contact with the SQUASH and STRETCH deformer, but that was easily fixed using a SHADER EFFECTOR with the color white loaded in and set to a spherical falloff at the base of the cell where the SS deformer is, which counteracts the extrude effect in that area.
I’ve also used the MORPH TAG to quickly animate the endothelial cells spreading apart as the monocyte moves through. Finally the good old BULGE DEFORMER, one thats been around as long as I’ve been using C4D, creates the squeeze effect as the cell infiltrates between the endothelial cells of the vessel wall. | <urn:uuid:a1cd30e6-e5dd-4705-bafd-26b30415a630> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://joelotron.com/2009/11/08/monocyte-rig-in-cinema-4d-deformers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00006-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954637 | 386 | 1.773438 | 2 |
Resurrecting the Granary of Rome
Environmental History and French Colonial Expansion in North Africa
Publication Year: 2007
Diana K. Davis’s pioneering analysis reveals the critical influence of French scientists and administrators who established much of the purported scientific basis of these stories during the colonial period in Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia, illustrating the key role of environmental narratives in imperial expansion. The processes set in place by the use of this narrative not only systematically disadvantaged the majority of North Africans but also led to profound changes in the landscape, some of which produced the land degradation that continues to plague the Maghreb today.
Resurrecting the Granary of Rome exposes many of the political, economic, and ideological goals of the French colonial project in these arid lands and the resulting definition of desertification that continues to inform global environmental and development projects. The first book on the environmental history of the Maghreb, this volume reframes much conventional thinking about the North African environment. Davis’s book is essential reading for those interested in global environmental history.
Published by: Ohio University Press
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This book explores the environmental history of the Maghreb and argues that it is really only a story—a story first told early in the period of French occupation to facilitate colonial rule. The need for this work became apparent to me during my initial period of research in Morocco from 1995 to 1996, ...
1: Imperial Stories and Empirical Evidence
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THE ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY of North Africa is a sad tale of deforestation and desertification that has spanned much of the past two millennia. This history of environmental decline has been recounted so often by so many that it is widely accepted without question today. Yet recent paleoecological evidence and ...
2: Nature, Empire, and Narrative Origins, 1830‒48
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NORTH AFRICA WAS WELL KNOWN to many in France, and in Europe more generally, long before the conquest of Algiers in July 1830. Travelers’ accounts, missionary stories, consul reports, scholarly readings of the Greek and Roman classics, and commercial contacts had all provided various forms of information about ...
3: Idealism, Capitalism, and the Development of the Narrative, 1848‒70
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WHEN ALGERIA WAS OFFICIALLY MADE A PART of France in 1848, the French government definitively committed to colonization. The focus of debates surrounding Algeria changed from arguments for or against colonization to how best to administer and govern the territory. Over the next two decades, leading up to ...
4: The Triumph of the Narrative, 1870‒1918
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THE FALL OF NAPOLÉON III’S SECOND EMPIRE thrilled the settlers and the civilian administration in Algeria. The Third Republic that was born in France in 1870 was very supportive of the settlers and their goals. The new French government helped to crush the Algerian Insurrection of 1871–72 and allowed the subsequent ...
5: Narrative, Science, Policy, and Practice, 1919 to Independence
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BY 1912, THE FRENCH had completed their conquest of the Maghreb with the acquisition of Morocco. As they had done in their occupation of Tunisia in 1881, they carried the colonial declensionist environmental narrative with them to the new protectorate. Unlike Algeria, both new territories were governed as protectorates ...
6: Decolonization, the Colonial Narrative, and Environmental Policy Today
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THE SPURIOUS COLONIAL STORY of North Africa’s long environmental decline at the hands of the “natives” informed and motivated much of the French venture in the Maghreb for over a hundred years. This declensionist narrative incorrectly blamed the North Africans, and especially pastoralists, for deforesting and desertifying ...
A Note on the Geography and Ecology of the Maghreb
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THE MAGHREB IS UNIQUE among North African regions because of its extended areas of elevation and its northerly latitude.1 Due in part to these attributes, the Maghreb receives more precipitation than the other countries in North Africa, Libya and Egypt, and consequently enjoys a larger proportion of arable land. ...
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Oct 13 2010
Most of us think of the garage as a place to park the car, but overtime, garages have evolved into much more that. The garage can accommodate many more needs than traditional parking. Designed to accommodate anything from one car to four or more vehicles, the sky is the limit when it comes to the many possibilities a garage can offer. If you need extra space to accommodate a specific need, consider garage plans. Here are some of the most popular uses for garage plans beyond parking the family cars:
Storage Space – Every family needs storage. Whether you lack a basement or your basement and attic are overflowing with boxes, a detached garage makes a great storage space for items that just don’t seem to fit in the house. A garage also works well for storing sporting equipment and the kids’ toys from bikes and scooters to ball gloves, golf clubs and even hunting gear. Garages can provide a place for storing seasonal items when not in use such as pool equipment and patio furniture when the weather turns cold and holiday decorations. Add shelves and cabinets for organization.
Lawn and Garden Shed – For those with a green thumb, there are always tools, supplies and other lawn and garden equipment that need to be stored rear round. A 1-car or 2-car garage offers a nice alternative to a backyard shed and features an overhead door making it easy to access big items like the riding lawn mower without a hassle. Furthermore, it is easy to add shelves or cabinets to accommodate small hand tools, flower pots, seeds and bulbs for your flower or vegetable garden. You might even want to add a planting table or utility sink.
Workshop – The family handy man will know just how to convert a detached garage plan into a workshop. Garages make a great shop area providing opens spaces to work on large projects with plenty of room to store tools, lumber and other supplies. They even offer enough space to add a workbench or table. Furthermore, there is no need to clean up your home repair project every time you work on it. A workshop will allow you to leave the project in progress and come back to finish it later. Plus, you’ll have peace of mind knowing you can lock the garage keeping the kids from wandering inside and possibly harming themselves with sharp tools or heavy items.
Hobby Room – Hobbyists, crafters and woodworkers often need a large workspace to work on various projects that can be dirty, create a lot of dust or require a large layout space that a room in the home or the basement can’t provide. Building a detached garage plan for a hobby room keeps the mess outside and provides the hobbyist a space all his or her own to work on projects without disturbing the family or creating unwanted noises and messes inside the house. Garage plans offer more than enough storage space for tools and supplies. Add good task lighting, a workbench, table or other work surface and you’ll be ready to go!
Mechanic’s Garage – Auto mechanics and car enthusiasts might like a detached garage for working on cars rather than just protecting them from the elements. Furthermore, these people have a lot of tools and auto parts. Many designs include storage closets providing a great place to keep these items out of a child’s reach.
Detached garage plans a very versatile and flexible accommodating many different needs. What can a garage plan do for you?
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Messenger / Homing Pigeons & Their Applications
(Columbidae - Please see also Doves)
Pigeon Information ... Intelligence & Amazing Facts ... Species / Breeds ... Breed Photo Gallery ... DVDs and Books
Homing pigeons are called messenger pigeons when they are used to carry messages. Messages have to be written on light, thin paper (such as cigarette paper) and rolled into a small tube that is attached to the bird's leg. This is called "pigeon post."
They have also been used to carry small light-weight packages, in including smuggling drugs into prisons.
In recent history, they are mainly used for the sport of pigeon racing. They have been bred for racing and can reach speeds between 60 - 80 miles per hour. They can fly up to 80 to 600 miles in one single day.
In 2010, Jose Ledesma's pigeons finish a personal racing season in Canary Islands with amazing resultss. Two young birds raced 3 times each from African coast in Morocco. Long Distance Races + 1st Regional Price against 1312 pigeons (National race equivalent in Belgium). Jose made an amazing movie of these pigeons flying over mountains, seas and deserts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAGKflxwxwI ... Further information can be found on his website: http://www.joseledesma.com/ - J. Ledesma, Tenerife – Canary Islands
The Carrier of Messages
During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1871, the Prussians had surrounded the city of Paris preventing mail from entering or leaving the city. During the course of the siege, pigeons and mail were regularly taken out of Paris by hot-air balloons. The letters that were sent to Paris were first reduced in size by photography, so that 30,000 letters could be carried on film placed inside a canister. These canisters were attached to pigeons and these birds then flew into Paris. Thirty-five birds carried the same letters, so that if any were shot down, at least one would reach Paris. In Paris, the film was projected on a screen, and the letters were copied by hand and delivered to homes in the city.
These birds have been used to transport short messages across long distances. In fact, historically well-known leaders, such as Julius Caesar and Genghis Khan, have used them to carry important messages across long distances.
One of the world’s best known news agencies, Reuters, started its European business by using 45 trained birds to carry financial news on the continent in 1850. They carried the latest news and stock prices from Aachen in Germany to Brussels in Belgium, travelling the 76 miles in a record-breaking two hours - beating the railway by four hours.
The Chinese used them to deliver mail as long ago as 1000 B.C.
Not convinced yet about how smart these birds are? Click here to find out what scientists say ...
White homing pigeons are released at weddings, funerals, and some sporting events. After the "release" - the pigeons will fly black to their lofts.
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Residents seeking to compare energy tariffs in Yorkshire might soon find there are more green options for their power supply.
Industry Today reports that two wind farms in the county will be able to supply green electricity to more than 9,000 homes a year, with a combined capacity of 14 megawatts.
Construction of the sites, one of which is 11 miles from Barnsley and the other located near Doncaster, is due to start this month and completion could be by the end of this year.
Rick Eggleston, managing director of wind turbine supplier REpower UK, explained: "Both these sites are in Yorkshire but the wind conditions are quite different, which is why we are supplying two different products from the same range.
"The REpower MM82 is ideal for windy locations such as the site at Hazlehead. The REpower MM92, with its larger rotor diameter, produces a higher yield on lower wind speed sites and so is better suited to the wind conditions at Marr wind farm," he added.
Switching to a green energy tariff can slash your CO2 footprint by two tonnes and also save you £100s a year! Click here to compare green energy tariffs.
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Keep Health in Mind When Planning School Day Menus
Expert urges parents to pack some variety and nutrition into kids' lunch boxes
MONDAY, Sept. 6 (HealthDay News) -- As parents prepare for their children's return to school, they need to remember that healthy meals and snacks are essential for learning.
"Parents can make the school day easier for their children by providing nutritious and yummy breakfasts, lunches and snacks that promote optimal learning. Everyone is in a rush in the morning, but it only takes a few minutes on Sunday to plan healthy meals to fuel your child's week," Karin Richards, director of the Exercise Science and Wellness Management program, and director of Health Sciences at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, said in a university news release.
Richards offered the following advice for parents as they plan breakfast, lunch and snacks for their school-age children:
- Include at least three types of foods into each meal, making sure to include some type of protein and complex carbohydrates, such as whole wheat bagels or pasta. The complex carbohydrates will provide energy while the protein will satisfy your child's appetite for a longer period of time.
- Bring your child to the market with you and let him or her choose one fruit or vegetable each week. Encourage kids to try new and interesting produce such as kiwi, papaya and edamame.
- Monitor portion size. Three to four ounces of meat (about the size of your palm) is plenty. Adjust the amount based on your child's age and activity level.
- Add more vegetables into your child's diet, even if you have to sneak them in. For example, try zucchini bread, veggies with low-fat dip, or shred carrots into tomato sauce and soups.
- For beverages, suggest low-fat milk or water. If you child prefers juice, make sure it's 100 percent juice.
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These were issued in 1963 and 1964 respectively on separately owned buses which travelled the same route. Weightmans and Simpsons were shown as "Keswick-Borrowdale Bus Service" in the Cumberland Motor Services timetable (which also shared the route). I suspect that both were one-man-band owner/operators. Both vehicles were classic Bedford OB’s with Duple coach bodies. The service started from Keswick Market Place (not the bus station) and ran down the east side of Derwent Water to Ashness, Lodore, Grange-in-Borrowdale, and Seatoller.
It was very heavily used during the hiking season, and I recall a long queue being left behind at Grange one evening, when the little 29-seater hurtled past heading for Keswick, full to the gunwales, and with at least 5 standing. Fortunately for our aching legs we all spotted, far out on the lake, one of the Derwent Water launches that provide an alternative public transport service.
Sorry Mr Simpson’s machine wasn’t very well inked!
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Network security: DoS vs DDoS attacksDate: December 02, 2005
Source: Computer Crime Research Center
Whereas TCP and UDP carry data, ICMP contains purely control messages. ICMP has no ports like TCP or UDP but does have 2 fields called "type" and "code".
Security Issues with System Services
Many system services are often probed or otherwise exploited by cr/hackers to further other exploits. One common example is portmapper/RPCBind (UDP/TCP port #111). This service provides information on what services are enabled on the host. "If the intruder finds the appropriate service enabled, s/he will then run an exploit against the port where the service is running." Examples include wu-ftpd, rpc.amd, Solaris Calender Messaging Service, and NFS mountd (typically these are all exploited by some form of buffer overflow).
In addition, the portmapper command #2 (UNSET) can be used to cause RPC-based programs to unregister themselves so this can be used as a DoS to kill your services (typically with a spoofed packet)
Other examples of system services exploited for information gathering include systat, who and finger
UDP/TCP port 53 (DNS - Domain Name Service) deserves special mention. By changing values in the DNS, it is possible to route communications in favor of the attacker (usually for further exploit, but it could be simply as a DoS attack). "Hackers/crackers may be attempting to do zone transfers (TCP), to spoof DNS (UDP) or even hide other traffic since port 53 is frequently neither filtered or logged by firewalls. An important thing to note is that you will frequently see port 53 used as the 'source' UDP port. Stateless firewalls frequently allow such traffic on the assumption that is a response to a DNS query. Hackers are increasingly using this to pierce firewalls."
Security Issues with UDP Ports and Services
Any port can be attacked as a DoS by simply sending a packet to that port. If there is no service attached to that port, then the packet is ignored and the DoS attack fails. If there is a service attached to that port, then the service must deal with the packet, even if it is malformed or incorrect. The service will deal with the incoming packet as a high priority (interrupt) event. The success of the DoS attack is dependent on how effectively the service deals with the inbound packet.
As a rule, any UDP port that sends a response to a packet is subject to a DoS attack (and therefore to a DDoS attack). Since the UDP service is a stateless response, it can simply be flooded with packets, forcing a DoS as the system struggles to keep up with these high priority service interrupts.
Echo - UDP port #7 is a typical example of a DoS and DDoS attack point. "UDP Port #7 is normally the echo service. The function of this service is to transmit whatever data was sent to it back to the source." The echo port is typically available as a service since many networks (and firewalls) use echo response for system management and performance monitoring. As well, "the Harvest Web server sometimes used port #7 to determine whether or not to update a cached web file. This means that any server that provides Web caching has to make UDP port #7 available for this service to work properly."
A simple attack would be to forge a packet from system A, port #7 to system B, port#7. B would process the packet and send it back to A, who would return it to B. The two machines would engage in a high priority packet passing 'ping pong' game, using resources normally assigned to user processing. This can also serve to " ... dominate lower speed communications media, denying communications. But, if we want to be more certain iof this, we might add something else to the packet. For example, if we set the 'type of service' field to 'Network Control, Low delay, High Throughput, High Reliability' by setting the value to all 1's, we will force these packets to override other packets in the path between the two victims." If the packet was to be sent between 2 systems configured as a cluster, the short communications channel between the 2 devices would serve to disable the entire cluster (which was set up as a cluster in the first place to ensure high reliability in the event of node failure).
A more sophisticated version of this attack is known as a "fraggle" attack (this is similar to a smurf -- discussed later under ICMP ping issues). These attacks are named after the hacker script (available for download on the Internet) that demonstrates them as attacks. A "fraggle" is an attack by originated by a broadcast message and takes adavantage of the 'echo' and 'chargen' UDP services. A forged packet is broadcast to the 'chargen' port (UDP port#19) of all hosts receiving the broadcast. These hosts see the spoofed return IP address of the victim; everyone responds with a packet of random data, flooding the victim. A "fraggle amplifier" is any host that has the echo service available. The forged message is sent to this service, which then acts to broadcast it to all hosts on their net, increasing the 'range' of the attack. Since many web servers sit outside of firewalls (in order to securely process requests) and since many have the echo service enabled, this attack is particularly effective.
In his article on UDP viruses, Dr. Frederick Cohen suggests several "other UDP services that are likely to provide environments for protocol viruses ... " including 'systat' (UDP port #11), 'quote of the day' (UDP port #17), 'chargen' (UDP port#19), 'time' (UDP port#37), 'whois' (UDP port#43) and 'who' (UDP port#513).
Remember that any DoS attack at a UDP port can become a DDoS attack. This must be true if the definition of DDoS is multiple distributed attackers, because distributed hosts can be spoofed into participating by various vectors -- from a programmed virus through to infection from 'bad' html after visiting an infected web site.
Security Issues with TCP Ports and Services
TCP attacks differ in that TCP is not a stateless protocol and requires a TWHS (three way hand shake) before initiating service. This does not make TCP ports immune to DoS attacks. In fact the TWHS is itself a major target of cr/hacker DoS attack attempts.
A SYN-Flood and the ACK-Flood DoS takes advantage of the TWHS to perform a DoS on a host. The normal process of SYN followed by RST or ACK is interrupted and the victim is left with an open port awaiting communication that never materializes. The process is repeated until the total number of simultaneous sessions is open (in theory 1024) and the system is hung. "... in order to completely deny services to a given port on your computer until the next system reboot, the attacker need only send 1024 packets to your computer with the SYN bit set ... One second of packets results in a system reboot - that's a big advantage for the attacker ... (but) ... many systems run out of internal space to store the incomplete connections before the second passes and crash on their own."
The SYN-Flood can easily be turned into a DDoS by using distributed hosts to bounce off packets so that the forensic log examination points to these hosts. A compromised web server can also be used so that infected systems participate after visiting the site, and so continue the attack.
Other TCP attacks include attacks against TCP services such as TELNET using combinations of TCP and ICMP forgery to create a "man-in-the-middle" situation that allows a cr/hacker to see (and route) TELNET packets.
Versions of UDP attacks also exist for TCP but are more difficult to initiate (because of the TWHS). However, once initiated, they can be very effective. For example, "on a TCP connection ... (to 'chargen' TCP port#19) ... it will spit out a continual stream of garbage characters until the connection is closed."
Security Issues with ICMP
Whereas TCP and UDP carry data, ICMP contains purely control messages. ICMP attacks are attacks utilizing the Internet Control Message protocol to change the way a communications channel, or Internet service operates. "Hackers use ICMP messages to attempt to scan networks, DoS machines, or redirect traffic ... ICMP has no ports like TCP or UDP, but it does have two fields called 'type' and 'code'."
One example is Router Advertisement (type=9). In this attack, the attacker uses ICMP to redirect the network router function to some other host. If that host can not provide router services, a DoS of network communications occurs as routing stops. This can also be modified to single out a specific system, so that only that system is subject to attack (because only that system sees the 'false' router). By providing router services from a compromised host, the attacker can also place themselves in a "man-in-the-middle' situation and take control of any open channel at will (as mentioned earlier, this is often used with TCP packet forgery and spoofing to intercept and change open TELNET sessions).
The Ping command is used to determine if a machine is available....
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0242287759 / 4228-7759 / 42287759 / (02) 4228 7759Statistics for Keiraville
In 2006, there were 33,480 persons usually resident in Keiraville: 50.7% were males and 49.3% were females. Of the total population in Keiraville 1.2% were Indigenous persons, compared with 2.3% Indigenous persons in Australia. more
63.9% of persons usually resident in Keiraville stated they were born in Australia. Other common responses within Keiraville were: England 3.5%, China 3.2%, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia 2.0%, Italy 1.3% and Croatia 1.2%.
81.2% of persons usually resident in Keiraville were Australian citizens, 27.3% were born overseas and 1.9% were overseas visitors.
English was stated as the only language spoken at home by 69.5% of persons usually resident in Keiraville. The most common languages other than English spoken at home were: Macedonian 3.2%, Mandarin 3.0%, Serbian 2.3%, Italian 2.0% and Greek 1.8%.
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Although medical experts have been unable to conclusively determine what causes people to abuse drugs, there have been a number of explanations offered. People appear to use drugs for a variety of different reasons. Some may begin using drugs in adolescence because of peer pressure or beliefs that it makes them seem more sophisticated or grown up, while others might start using drugs as an expression of rebellion against the dictates of their parents or society in general. In recent years, there has been a great deal of research into the possibility of a biological influence. Proponents of this theory approach drug addiction as a disease, and point to evidence suggesting a genetic predisposition to drug abuse. Other theorists believe the behavior is learned solely from observing others, or that the use of drugs is somehow reinforced or encouraged by social relationships. In addition, a person's belief systems or expectations about drugs may play a role in drug abuse. For example, it's not unusual for users of LSD (L-S-D) to claim that the drug expands their minds or gives them new insights into life's mysteries. However, regardless of the reason for initial usage, it's important to keep in mind that people are more likely to continue using drugs if they believe it makes them feel better. For more information, consult a health care provider. | <urn:uuid:728676ae-ace1-48b3-89dc-6bb266d898e9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.9wsyr.com/guides/health/story/Causes-of-drug-abuse/kP5QEQ-hDkmP3QI8fmryqw.cspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959905 | 257 | 3.171875 | 3 |
The lure of travel is surpassed only by the inevitable desire to bring home pictures and share your adventures. Since the late 1800s when George Eastman produced the first traveling camera with the slogan, "You press the button, we do the rest," travel and photography have been eternally joined. With the added benefits of digital photography so readily available to consumers today, the field is full of new opportunities and new challenges.
Join us and discover this fascinating world through a photographer's eye. This course will address the special needs and techniques digital photographers need to capture scenes from around the world and bring them home. We'll focus on specific tips for digital photographers, and how to use both traditional techniques as well as those unique to digital equipment.
We'll look at subjects such as wildlife on land and at sea, and how to get the best shots of animals in captivity as well as those in the wild. We'll discuss ways to blend in with nature for this popular area of photography and the best kind of equipment for specialized shooting.
We'll share tips on taking shots for professional use and those to treasure from a family vacation. We'll discuss the situations that require model and property releases, and those that don't. You'll learn how and when it's appropriate to pay people to take their picture and how to make the most of those types of opportunities.
Environmental challenges can put your camera equipment in jeopardy, yet conditions such as freezing temperatures and tropical heat often abound in some of the most beautiful places in the world. This class will address those issues and offer practical solutions that travel easily.
You'll learn more about traveling with digital equipment and what to take and what to leave behind as you venture into the wilderness, onto a cruise ship, up in a helicopter, or over an international border. We'll share various examples from destinations around the world, and expand your knowledge of techniques for shooting digitally and working with the images after you get back. | <urn:uuid:6fef40f6-0834-4746-9e2e-b2ba70bd9faa> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ed2go.com/valdosta/online_course/tdp/detail/Travel_Photography_for_the_Digital_Photographer.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966944 | 391 | 2.890625 | 3 |
The Power of the Pedal
Natural Solutions spoke with Brandon Wells, a worker-owner at the Hub Bicycle Co-operative in Minneapolis, Minnesota, as part of the "Breaking Away" summer bicycle feature. A popular and truly unique shop built upon community involvement, the Hub has become a fixture in the Minneapolis biking community.
What exactly is a bicycle cooperative? Does the Hub have a “mission?”
BW: Did you know that 2012 is the UN International Year of the Co-op? There are so many types of co-ops it’ll blow your mind. At the Hub we a democratically run “worker-owned” co-op. There are no outside interests or people with voting power that don’t participate in the day-to-day operations of the business. We make all our decisions by consensus. Everyone has a vote and a voice. Our mission is to provide sustainable transportation products and services. We also have a vision; we envision a world empowered through worker equality and environmentally responsible transport and living.
What are the benefits of purchasing a bike (or gear) and/or getting repairs from the Hub?
BW: If you buy a bike from us, you’re guaranteed the following: lifetime adjustments, a free tune-up, 10 to 15 percent off additional purchases for 30 days, free accessory installation on the day of bike purchase, 30 day price protection, 30 day flat protection, 15 day money back guarantee. Of course, by making purchases at the Hub, you’re helping to promote a sustainable business model that respects all people throughout the entire supply chain.
When did the Hub first open?
BW: The Hub first opened in 2002. We started off with one shop and now have three great locations
(on the West Bank, in Dinkytown, and on Minnehaha Avenue). It’s been a great journey.
Where are the best places to bike in Minneapolis & St. Paul? What are some must-see places for out of town cyclists?
BW: The Twin Cities have a lot of great places to ride. The Mississippi River Trail and the Greenway are some of the best. If you are from out of town, taking the river trail to Minnehaha Falls is a must. [Worker-Owner Jason Thompkins at the Hub's West Bank location. Photo credit: Jeff Frane]
Minneapolis receives a lot of attention in the media about being the number-one bike-friendly city in the US. What do you think about that?
BW: I think it is great that Minneapolis is getting the attention it deserves for all the hard work it has put towards its infrastructure. But why stop with bikes? We would like to see Minneapolis become the number number-one non-driving city in the country! It’s much easier to ride bikes if people are walking and taking trains as well.
What is the most positive aspect of biking in Minneapolis, or in general?
BW: The best part of biking in Minneapolis is how bike friendly the drivers are. There are certainly improvements that can be made, but all it takes is a trip to another city and I am quickly reminded of the advantages of MPLS biking. Also, biking opens all of your senses to your community. I didn’t really feel like a part of the city until I got on a bike. Also, I don’t have to go to the gym because working out is just part of my lifestyle!
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Brick walls in our ancestry can come in many forms, but they usually boil down to the inability to extend a lineage. Often, a thorough search of extant records can help break down this barrier. Sometimes, however, the solution can be much less arduous. Such is the case with Ethel Lee (Penland) Ritchie.
Ethel was born 6 November 1881 in North Carolina, and died 17 April 1901, probably in the Valley area of Rabun County, near her burial place at Wesley Chapel Cemetery in Rabun Gap.1 She was enumerated in the 1900 US census with her husband, T. J. Ritchie, and their son, Tom.2 Because of her birthdate, it was therefore highly unlikely that she could be found in a previous census with her family.
A search of marriage records in Rabun County yielded no marriage for this couple. From Tom’s death certificate, I knew his mother’s maiden name was Penland. She was born in North Carolina, possibly right across the state line in Macon County. I decided to check my copy of Macon County, North Carolina Marriages 1829 – 1939 by James E. Wooley, and found this: “Ritchie, J. T. 27 to Ethel P. Penland 17 1-18-1899 T. F. Glenn, M. G.”3
Many researchers, including myself, might have gone straight from this verification of Ethel’s maiden name to other records, such as census and probate records, in order to search for possible parental candidates. It just so happens, however, that I had recently reviewed a section on marriages in North Carolina in North Carolina Research: Genealogy and Local History, and so I recalled this snippet, which I flipped back to for clarification:
…The names of the parents of the bride and groom began to be given [on marriage bonds] about 1867…4
On my next trip to Franklin, I visited the Register of Deeds office at the courthouse to search for the original marriage license. These have now been digitized and are searchable, which made the correct records fairly easy to find. And, indeed, the marriage license did name parents for both groom and bride, respectively, J. M. and Elizabeth E. Ritchie, and Erastus and Flora Penland. Additionally, the license indicated that Ethel’s father was deceased and that her mother was living. As I suspected, Ethel had been born in Macon County, and her mother resided there at the time of the marriage.5 I can now use this information to locate Ethel’s parents in census and other records.
One of the biggest hurdles a genealogist faces is when a 19th or 20th century ancestor was not enumerated on the federal census with their parents. There are work-arounds, as this post shows, and they often are as simple as knowing the laws regulating available records sets.
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1. See Bill and Elaine English’s online cemetery transcription for this cemetery: Wesley Chapel Cemetery Inscriptions, Rabun County, GA
2. Thomas J. Ritchie household, 1900 US census, population schedule, Rabun County, Georgia, Tennessee Valley, ED 118, SD 9, sheet 9B, dwelling 159, family 159; Ancestry.com, 1900 United States Federal Census [database on-line], Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2004; NARA micropublication T623, roll 218.
3. James E. Wooley, Macon County, North Carolina Marriages 1829 – 1939 (Easley, SC: Southern Historical Press, Inc., 1984), 114.
4. Raymond A. Winslow, Jr., “Marriage, Divorce, and Vital Records”, North Carolina Research: Genealogy and Local History, 2nd edition, Helen F. M. Leary, editor (Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Genealogical Society, 1996), 158.
5. The license contained other useful information such as the birth place and ages of the bride and groom, the names and residences of witnesses, and the name and affiliation of the person who performed the ceremony. Because Ethel was under the legal age, her mother gave consent for the marriage. Marriage license 2822 (digitized), T. J. Ritchie and Ethel E. Penland, Register of Deeds, Macon County, North Carolina. | <urn:uuid:5dff0aa4-ca5f-4bf2-83fa-1160b9d68c76> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://genealogical.wordpress.com/2011/05/30/finding-parents-for-ethel-penland-ritchie/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952874 | 932 | 2.15625 | 2 |
My friends abroad hear about the food safety crises that erupt either in China or from food products grown and manufactured in China, and they assume all food in China is toxic. So they’re always surprised when they learn it’s not all exploding watermelons, milk infused with melamine or dumplings stuffed with cardboard here in Beijing. I eat organic-grown and locally sourced food nearly every day. Brought to my door on a weekly basis, I have a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) organization called Shared Harvest (or Fenxiang Shouhuo, in Chinese) to rely upon this fall season.
Organic food is growing in popularity in China, so it shouldn’t come as such a surprise that I can eat food grown without chemicals. According to the state-run China Daily, Lohao, a leading retailer of organic food, sales revenue increased by about 30% during 2011. A story in TriplePundit indicates that, “in 2010 alone, 345 companies obtained a certification from the China Organic Food Certification Center (COFCC),” which was an increase of 18% year on year. In June 2008, Greenpeace commissioned Ipsos Marketing to conduct a survey of consumers in Beijing. The study found that 68% of consumers buy organic food and 80% “state that they definitely would buy organic food in the future.”
Hurdles for China’s organic farmers
What is unique about Shared Harvest, the CSA I trust to deliver me 4 kilos (8.8 pounds) of fresh veggies every Wednesday afternoon, is that the organization is training farmers, on their own land, to cultivate crops using organic methods. This is unusual in Beijing, where organic food suppliers, like these 60 identified by Greenpeace in 2008, typically either purchase or rent private arable land and then hire farmhands to work the land with organic methods. With Shared Harvest, farmers retain control of their land, receive organic training, and then are assured a steady income through the community of Beijing-based consumers who commit to long-term delivery schemes.
Note that “organic” differs from “organic-grown.” These farmers do not yet meet the rigorous organic certification standards because the lands haven’t spent three years sans chemicals. As such, we CSA participants are not only educating the farmers and giving them reliable income; we are also helping them through the choppy learning and financial transition phase leading to organic farming.
During my master’s dissertation field research in Yunnan province in southern China, I learned that one of the biggest factors keeping farmers from turning away from the use of chemical pesticides during food production is the need for certainty. That is, “certainty” that crops will grow regularly, regardless of weather or pests; and “certainty,” therefore, that they will be able to make money when selling products on the market.
Farmers know that organic goods can fetch a higher price, which is an incentive to grow them, but the lack of reliable methods to ensure consistent yields means they can’t confidently sell every season. Moreover, as there is complete lack of trust that labels on products made in China are actually what they claim to be, organic produce often is overlooked by consumers who would rather not spend up to 300% the price of regular produce just to get duped. In turn, the organic market is only growing in fits and starts and won’t necessarily ensure steady income for farmers.
There are reliable organic methods for growing produce, but the Chinese government, for various reasons, doesn’t provide the training needed to help these farmers learn best practices nor to purchase or implement new sustainable technologies. Of course, it is a long, complicated and paperwork-laden process to attain any official organic certification (be it from the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movement, or China’s homegrown bodies China Organic Food Certification Center and the China Green Food Development Center).
A personal connection with China’s organic farmers
While my 12-week package with Shared Harvest is two to three times more expensive than what I would pay at the local market, it is absolutely worth the cost. For one, I have the opportunity to support and build a relationship with local producers: I receive updates in Chinese and English on how things are going on the farm, and there are regular trips to work and cook with the farmers and to observe farming practices myself. Perhaps more important, at least to me as consumer, I am confident that what I’m getting is actually organic-grown, which can’t be overstated because mislabeling is rampant.
Last week, tucked alongside my produce I found a browned piece of paper, the weekly “Shared Harvest Newsletter” outlining the produce I received: “sweet potato, carrot, pumpkin [squash], beets, kohlrabi, lettuce, spinach, coriander, choy sum, bok choy, shallot, and a selection of green leaves.” The newsletter also provided useful tips on how to store vegetables and an explanation that the chickens are not laying eggs as regularly during the cold months and so customers who also order eggs might need to be patient.
The newsletter thanks readers for trusting in Shared Harvest as it develops, explaining, “It seems like we are families rather than just business and customers.” I can’t imagine a better message for Thanksgiving.
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