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Sunday, November 04, 2012
My grandmother is an innate nurturer. After my grandfather passed away 27 years ago she latched on immediately to us, her grand children, as a coping mechanism to try and fill the gap he left behind. Every memory I have of her involves her being in her kitchen, her domain, where she would move around like a whirling dervish chopping, dicing, stirring, kneading - pouring out her love for us into the meals she prepared.
One of the special treats she made for us on weekends was meetha paratha - a fat, sugary, crunchy, flaky flatbread. She's almost 90 now but still welcomes requests and will lovingly roll out this delicious comfort food for my breakfast each time I'm back home for a visit. Two weeks ago I stood next to her and watched as she dipped a fat ball of dough into the flour bin, shook off the excess, flattened and spread it with ghee and granulated sugar. She then rolled it into a log, smeared it with more ghee and sugar, brought the ends together to form a disc and then rolled it out flat.
Meetha Paratha (Sweet Flatbread)
2 cups atta flour
2-3 tbsp wheat bran (optional)
1 cup warm water
a large pinch of salt
2-3 tbsp raw sugar
3-4 tbsp ghee
Sift the flour, bran and salt together in a large bowl. Pour in the water, half a cup at a time, mix into the flour with your hands and then knead to form a soft dough. Cover and leave aside for half an hour. Meanwhile heat the griddle on medium.
Divide the dough into 8 balls. Dip a ball of dough into flour or dust with flour and flatten into a disc. Smear with ghee and sprinkle generously with sugar. Bring the sides up and roll the disc into a ball. Flatten and roll it out thick. Spread a tablespoon of ghee on the griddle and place the flattened dough on top. Spread the top with a layer of ghee and flip it over when one side is cooked. Serve warm. These parathas are delicious on their own, with a cup of milky tea. | <urn:uuid:1cfe2199-f37d-4748-a572-35fc403327e9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://someneedfulthings.blogspot.com/2012_11_01_archive.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00073-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949486 | 468 | 1.507813 | 2 |
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SECTION I: VEHICULAR ACCIDENTS
Summary No. 3 - Ro-Ro Operations
Employees working in vehicle loading lanes on a barge were exposed to the hazard of being struck by a tractor-trailer truck.
Longshoring roll-on roll-off (Ro-Ro) operations were taking place. Vehicles were being loaded onto a barge.
Activity at time of incident:
An employee was lashing a vehicle to the deck of a barge as a tractor-trailer truck was backing up in an adjacent lane.
Longshoremen are loading vehicles into a barge, in a Ro-Ro operation. The barge is used to transport wheeled cargo, such as passenger cars and containerized freight that is mounted on flatbed trailers. This is a typical Ro-Ro operation involving a high concentration of vehicle and pedestrian traffic on the vessel and pier. The barge, which is approximately 730 feet long and 300 feet wide, has three cargo decks and is enclosed at the bow on the first and second decks. The vessel is open on all three decks at the stern, where the vehicle access ramp is located.
Each deck has10 vehicle loading lanes. The loading lanes are separated by concrete curbs (rub rails), and the drivers position their vehicles between these rub rails. Each vehicle is driven into a predetermined (by weight) loading lane, moving in either a forward or reverse direction as necessary. Other employees who work in the lanes, manually securing (lashing) the vehicles, with nylon web straps, either to fixtures on the deck or to stanchions on the rub rails. Other employees walk from lane to lane, using flashlights to signal the drivers. The vehicle loading and lashing operations take place at the same time, and thus pedestrians operate in the same vicinity as the drivers of the vehicles being loaded. The first and second decks are closely loaded and only marginally illuminated.
The employee (victim) was lashing a boat trailer to the first deck of the vessel in one lane while lying partially on the deck in an adjacent lane. A tractor trailer truck backed up into the same lane where the employee was lying.. The right rear wheels of the trailer chassis struck the victim and ran over his legs He died a week after the incident.
The employer failed to develop and implement an organized traffic control system to protect pedestrians working in the same lanes as vehicular traffic.
The concrete rub rail dividing the lanes where the accident occurred was approximately 6 inches high and 22 inches wide. Drivers relied almost exclusively on these rub rails to guide their tires in the cargo lanes. The tractor-mounted mirrors have inherent blind spots due to the length of the trailers (40 to 53 feet). The reverse signal alarm on the truck involved in the accident was in operable condition, although the driver could not recall whether the alarm sounded during the accident.
Other safety issues raised during the investigation included carbon monoxide monitoring on the vessel, fixed traffic control signs, dock marking, and the use of traffic cones during Ro-Ro operations. However, only the citations listed in the following section were issued to the employer.
Applicable Standards and Control Measures
Also, spotters could be used when backing vehicles with obscured views to the rear.
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The fall is a perfect time to enjoy walks and hikes in our parks! The cool temperature and the crunch of leaves under your hooves make any outdoor adventure fun. This month, I traveled with my buddies to parks all over the country. From a Civil War battlefield at Kennesaw Mountain in Georgia to a behind-the-scenes tour of the fossils at the Smithsonian Musuem of Natural History in DC, our Buddy Bison kids saw some of the coolest places our country has to offer.
Whether you live on the east or the west coast, or somewhere in the middle, there are parks, forests and wildlife areas nearby just waiting to be explored. No matter the season or the reason, you can always see something exciting at our parks! All you have to do is get out and explore because the parks are always yours!
All Trees Need are Water, Soil, and Little Sunshine Helpers
I was super excited to help them get outside and enjoy nature. We sang songs about the fall and raced to collect leaves. Inside, we created neat art collages out of the leaves we found.
The tree that I helped plant will give my buddies a great place outside their school to run, play, and learn about nature. The best kind of learning is when you get to have fun at the same time!
My friends will spend the rest of the year learning and tracing the growth of the tree that we planted. I cant wait to come back and have park adventures with them!
Hiking, Nature Sighting, and Civil War Fighting at Kennesaw Mountain
Parks can tell stories about events that happened hundreds of years ago, in the same place where you live now. My new buddies from Hollydale Elementary School in Marietta, GA and I hiked to the top of Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park for an awesome "bison-eye" view of the Civil War battlefield below. Afterwards, Civil War re-enactor John Tolbert taught us about life as a soldier.
With the help of an education program made just for Hollydale, my buddies had a hands-on opportunity to learn about the importance of the battle to Georgia’s history.
DID YOU KNOW: Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park is the only national park that honors the Civil War battles fought in Georgia? This made it even better that I got to help the kids learn about their state's history!
A Clean, Green, Time at the National Arboretum
My third grade buddies from the Bullis School in Potomac, MD went to the National Arboretum this month. This is what my friends Julia and Maya had to say about their trip:
"Last Thursday, the third grade went to the Arboretum to see bonsai plants and herbs. First we went to the herb garden. At the garden we saw roses, herbs, peppers and water plants. We saw many herbs that we cook with, and many herbs that have a strong scent. We also got to taste many herbs.
Afterwards we saw ten different types of peppers and rose bushes. Some had a strong scent; others not so much. We went to the Youth Garden next. At the Youth Garden, we tasted vegetables and honey. They were delicious! Then we saw the bonsai plants. They were so cool!
Making No Bones about Celebrating Fossil Day on the National Mall
During their trip, the kids saw dinosaurs that lived in North America long before we did and we were given a VIP tour of the storage and research rooms where all the bones are kept - there were over 3 million fossils down there! They even got to see a real triceratops skull, a raptor claw, and even some fossilized dino scat (dino droppings) that was over 75 million years old!
Outside the museum at the National Mall, the National Park Service, Maryland Dinosaur Park, and the National Science Foundation had education stations where we got to learn more about fossils. My buddies sifted for fossils of shark teeth, coral, and ancient shells. The park rangers even had a replica skull of one of my ancient bison ancestors that my friends took a picture with. Thanks to all my Washington Jesuit buddies and the Fossil Day volunteers for a fun day of exploration! To view more photos from the day, click here!
Get Outside and “Paws” for a Photo Contest!
I love exploring almost as much as I love sharing park adventures with all my buddies! To celebrate the awesomeness of our outdoors, I’m giving out a Buddy Bison prize pack for the best park photo! All you need is a camera, Buddy Bison, and some paws, claws, or hands to snap some photos. Post your best Buddy Bison photo with your name and the name of the park we visited on NPT's Facebook page by November 15th. The uploaded photo that has the most “likes” from our friends will be announced as the winner on November 30th!
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Outmaneuvering Foodborne Pathogens
At various locations, ARS scientists are doing research to make leafy greens and other fresh produce safer for consumers. Produce and leafy greens in the photo are (clockwise from top): romaine lettuce, cabbage, cilantro in a bed of broccoli sprouts, spinach and other leafy greens, green onions, tomatoes, and green leaf lettuce.
If pathogens like E. coli O157:H7 or Salmonella had a motto for survival, it might be: “Find! Bind! Multiply!”
That pretty much sums up what these food-poisoning bacteria do in nature, moving through our environment to find a host they can bind to and use as a staging area for multiplying and spreading.
But ARS food-safety scientists in California are determined to find out how to stop these and other foodborne pathogenic bacteria in their tracks, before the microbes can make their way to leafy greens and other favorite salad ingredients like tomatoes and sprouts.
The research is needed to help prevent the pathogens from turning up in fresh produce that we typically eat uncooked. That’s according to Robert E. Mandrell, who leads the ARS Produce Safety and Microbiology Research Unit. His team is based at the agency’s Western Regional Research Center in Albany, California.
The team is pulling apart the lives of these microbes to uncover the secrets of their success. It’s a complex challenge, in part because the microbes seem to effortlessly switch from one persona to the next. They are perhaps best known as residents of the intestines of warm-blooded animals, including humans. For another role, the pathogens have somehow learned to find, bind, and multiply in the world of green plants.
Sometimes the pathogenic microbes need the help of other microbial species to make the jump from animal inhabitant to plant resident. Surprisingly little is known about these powerful partnerships, Mandrell says. That’s why such alliances among microbes are one of several specific aspects of the pathogens’ lifestyles that the Albany scientists are investigating. In all, knowledge gleaned from these and other laboratory, greenhouse, and outdoor studies should lead to new, effective, environmentally friendly ways to thwart the pathogens before they have a chance to make us ill.
In a greenhouse, microbiologist Maria Brandl examines cilantro that she uses as a model plant to investigate the behavior of foodborne pathogens on leaf surfaces.
A Pathogen Targets Youngest Leaves
Knowing pathogens’ preferences is essential to any well-planned counter-attack. So microbiologist Maria T. Brandl is scrutinizing the little-understood ability of E. coli O157:H7 and Salmonella enterica to contaminate the elongated, slightly sweet leaves of romaine lettuce. With a University of California-Berkeley colleague, Brandl has shown that, if given a choice, E. coli has a strong preference for the young, inner leaves. The researchers exposed romaine lettuce leaves to E. coli and found that the microbe multiplied about 10 times more on the young leaves than on the older, middle ones. One explanation: The young leaves are a better nutrition “buy” for E. coli. “These leaves exude about three times more nitrogen and about one-and-one-half times more carbon than do the middle leaves,” says Brandl.
Scientists have known for decades that plants exude compounds from their leaves and roots that bacteria and fungi can use as food. But the romaine lettuce study, published earlier this year in Applied and Environmental Microbiology, is the first to document the different exudate levels among leaves of the two age classes. It’s also the first to show that E. coli can do more than just bind to lettuce leaves: It can multiply and spread on them.
Research assistant Danielle Goudeau inoculates a lettuce leaf with E. coli O157:H7 in a biological safety cabinet to study the biology of the human pathogen on leafy greens.
Adding nitrogen to the middle leaves boosted E. coli growth, Brandl found. “In view of the key role of nitrogen in helping E. coli multiply on young leaves,” she says, “a strategy that minimizes use of nitrogen fertilizer in romaine lettuce fields may be worth investigating.”
In other studies using romaine lettuce and the popular herb cilantro as models, Brandl documented the extent to which E. coli and Salmonella are aided by Erwinia chrysanthemi, an organism that causes fresh produce to rot.
“When compared to plant pathogens, E. coli and Salmonella are not as ‘fit’ on plants,” Brandl says. But the presence of the rot-producing microbe helped E. coli and Salmonella grow on lettuce and cilantro leaves.
“Soft rot promoted formation of large aggregates, called ‘biofilms,’ of E. coli and Salmonella and increased their numbers by up to 100-fold,” she notes.
The study uncovered new details about genes that the food-poisoning pathogens kick into action when teamed up with plant pathogens such as soft rot microbes.
Brandl, in collaboration with Albany microbiologist Craig Parker, used a technique known as “microarray analysis” to spy on the genes. “The assays showed that Salmonella cells—living in soft rot lesions on lettuce and cilantro—had turned on some of the exact same genes that Salmonella uses when it infects humans or colonizes the intestines of animals,” she says. Some of these activated genes were ones that Salmonella uses to get energy from several natural compounds common to both green plants and to the animal intestines that Salmonella calls home.
Using a confocal laser scanning microscope, microbiologist Maria Brandl examines a mixed biofilm of Salmonella enterica (pink) and Erwinia chrysanthemi (green) in soft rot lesions on cilantro leaves (blue).
A One-Two Punch to Tomatoes
Salmonella also benefits from the presence of another plant pathogen, specifically, Xanthomonas campestris, the culprit in a disease known as “bacterial leaf spot of tomato.” But the relationship between Salmonella and X. campestris may be different than the relation of Salmonella to the soft rot pathogen. Notably, Salmonella benefits even if the bacterial spot pathogen is at very low levels—so low that the plant doesn’t have the disease or any visible symptoms of it.
That’s among the first-of-a-kind findings that microbiologist Jeri D. Barak found in her tests with tomato seeds exposed to the bacterial spot microbe and then planted in soil that had been irrigated with water contaminated with S. enterica.
In a recent article in PLoS ONE, Barak reported that S. enterica populations were significantly higher in tomato plants that had also been colonized by X. campestris. In some cases, Salmonella couldn’t bind to and grow on—or in—tomato plants without the presence of X. campestris, she found.
Listeria monocytogenes on this broccoli sprout shows up as green fluorescence. The bacteria are mainly associated with the root hairs.
“We think that X. campestris may disable the plant immune response—a feat that allows both it and Salmonella to multiply,” she says.
The study was the first to report that even as long as 6 weeks after soil was flooded with Salmonella-contaminated water, the microbe was capable of binding to tomato seeds planted in the tainted soil and, later, of spreading to the plant.
“These results suggest that any contamination that introduces Salmonella from any source into the environment—whether that source is irrigation water, improperly composted manure, or even insects—could lead to subsequent crop contamination,” Barak says. “That’s true even if substantial time has passed since the soil was first contaminated.”
Crop debris can also serve as a reservoir of viable Salmonella for at least a week, Barak’s study showed. For her investigation, the debris was composed of mulched, Salmonella-contaminated tomato plants mixed with uncontaminated soil.
“Replanting fields shortly after harvesting the previous crop is a common practice in farming of lettuce and tomatoes,” she says. The schedule allows only a very short time for crop debris to decompose. “Our results suggest that fields known to have been contaminated with S. enterica could benefit from an extended fallow period, perhaps of at least a few weeks.”
Ordinary Microbe Foils E. coli
While the bacterial spot and soft rot microbes make life easier for certain foodborne pathogens, other microbes may make the pathogens’ existence more difficult. Geneticist Michael B. Cooley and microbiologist William G. Miller at Albany have shown the remarkable effects of one such microbe, Enterobacter asburiae. This common, farm-and-garden-friendly microorganism lives peaceably on beans, cotton, and cucumbers.
In one experiment, E. asburiae significantly reduced levels of E. coli and Salmonella when all three species of microbes were inoculated on seeds of thale cress, a small plant often chosen for laboratory tests.
The study, published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology in 2003, led to followup experiments with green leaf lettuce. In that battle of the microbes, another rather ordinary bacterium, Wausteria paucula, turned out to be E. coli’s new best friend, enhancing the pathogen’s survival sixfold on lettuce leaves.
“It was the first clear example of a microbe’s supporting a human pathogen on a plant,” notes Cooley, who documented the findings in the Journal of Food Protection in 2006.
But E. asburiae more than evened the score, decreasing E. coli survival 20- to 30-fold on lettuce leaves exposed to those two species of microbes.
The mechanisms underlying the competition between E. asburiae and E. coli are still a mystery, says Cooley, “especially the competition that takes place on leaves or other plant surfaces.”
Nevertheless, E. asburiae shows initial promise of becoming a notable biological control agent to protect fresh salad greens or other crops from pathogen invaders. With further work, the approach could become one of several science-based solutions that will help keep our salads safe.—By Marcia Wood, Agricultural Research Service Information Staff.
This research is part of Food Safety, an ARS national program (#108) described on the World Wide Web at www.nps.ars.usda.gov.
To reach scientists mentioned in this article, contact Marcia Wood, USDA-ARS Information Staff, 5601 Sunnyside Ave., Beltsville, MD 20705-5129; phone (301) 504-1662, fax (301) 504-1486.
Listeria monocytogenes on this radish sprout shows up as green fluorescence. The bacteria are mainly associated with the root hairs.
What Genes Help Microbes Invade Leafy Greens?
When unwanted microbes form an attachment, the consequences—for us—can be serious.
That’s if the microbes happen to be human pathogens like Listeria monocytogenes or Salmonella enterica and if the target of their attentions happens to be fresh vegetables often served raw, such as cabbage or the sprouted seeds of alfalfa.
Scientists don’t yet fully understand how the malevolent microbes form colonies that cling stubbornly to and spread across plant surfaces, such as the bumpy leaves of a cabbage or the ultra-fine root hairs of a tender alfalfa sprout.
But food safety researchers at the ARS Western Regional Research Center in Albany, California, are putting together pieces of the pathogen puzzle.
A 1981 food-poisoning incident in Canada, caused by L. monocytogenes in coleslaw, led microbiologist Lisa A. Gorski to study the microbe’s interactions with cabbage. Gorski, with the center’s Produce Safety and Microbiology Research Unit, used advanced techniques not widely available at the time of the cabbage contamination.
“Very little is known about interactions between Listeria and plants,” says Gorski, whose study revealed the genes that Listeria uses during a successful cabbage-patch invasion.
The result was the first-ever documentation of Listeria genes in action on cabbage leaves. Gorski, along with coinvestigator Jeffrey D. Palumbo—now with the center’s Plant Mycotoxin Research Unit—and others, documented the investigation in a 2005 article in Applied and Environmental Microbiology.
Listeria, Behaving Badly
“People had looked at genes that Listeria turns on, or ‘expresses,’ when it’s grown on agar gel in a laboratory,” says Gorski. “But no one had looked at genes that Listeria expresses when it grows on a vegetable.
“We were surprised to find that when invading cabbage, Listeria calls into play some of the same genes routinely used by microbes that are conventionally associated with plants. Listeria is usually thought of as a pathogen of humans. We hadn’t really expected to see it behaving like a traditional, benign inhabitant of a green plant.
“It’s still a relatively new face for Listeria, and requires a whole new way of thinking about it.”
In related work, Gorski is homing in on genetic differences that may explain the widely varying ability of eight different Listeria strains to successfully colonize root hairs of alfalfa sprouts—and to resist being washed off by water.
In a 2004 article in the Journal of Food Protection, Gorski, Palumbo, and former Albany associate Kimanh D. Nguyen reported those differences. Poorly attaching strains formed fewer than 10 Listeria cells per sprout during the lab experiment, while the more adept colonizers formed more than 100,000 cells per sprout.
Salmonella’s Cling Genes
Colleague Jeri D. Barak, a microbiologist at Albany, led another sprout investigation, this time probing the ability of S. enterica to attach to alfalfa sprouts. From a pool of 6,000 genetically different Salmonella samples, Barak, Gorski, and coinvestigators found 20 that were unable to attach strongly to sprouts.
Scientists elsewhere had already identified some genes as necessary for Salmonella to successfully invade and attach to the guts of animals such as cows and chickens. In the Albany experiments, some of those same genes were disrupted in the Salmonella specimens that couldn’t cling to alfalfa sprouts.
Their 2005 article in Applied and Environmental Microbiology helped set the stage for followup studies to tease out other genes that Salmonella uses when it is living on and in plants.
A deeper understanding of those and other genes may lead to sophisticated defense strategies to protect tomorrow’s salad greens—and us.—By Marcia Wood, Agricultural Research Service Information Staff.
Geneticist Michael Cooley collects a sediment sample to test for E. coli O157:H7. The pathogen was found near fields implicated in the 2006 outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 on baby spinach.
Environmental Surveillance Exposes a Killer
It started as a manhunt for a microbe, but it became one of the nation’s most intensive farmscape searches for the rogue pathogen E. coli O157:H7.
ARS microbiologist Robert E. Mandrell and geneticist Michael B. Cooley of the Produce Safety and Microbiology Research Unit in Albany, California, had already been collaborating in their own small-scale study of potential sources of E. coli O157:H7 in the state’s produce-rich Salinas Valley when, in 2005, they were asked to join another one. The new investigation became a 19-month surveillance—by the two scientists and other federal and state experts—of E. coli in Salinas Valley watersheds.
“It may seem like an obvious concept today,” says Mandrell, “but at the time, there was little proof that E. coli contamination of produce before harvest could be a major cause of food-poisoning outbreaks.”
Mandrell and Cooley aided the California Food Emergency Response Team, as this food-detective squad was named, in tracing movement of E. coli through the fertile valley. This surveillance showed that E. coli O157:H7 can travel long distances in streamwater and floodwater.
In 2006, E. coli O157:H7 strains indistinguishable from those causing human illness associated with baby spinach were discovered in environmental samples—including water—taken from a Salinas Valley ranch.
Wild pigs were added to the list of animal carriers of the pathogen when one of the so-called “outbreak strains” of E. coli O157:H7 was discovered in their dung. The team documented its work in 2007 in PLoS ONE and Emerging Infectious Diseases.
The Albany scientists used a relatively new technique to detect E. coli O157:H7 in water. Developed at the ARS Meat Animal Research Center in Clay Center, Nebraska, for animal hides, the method was adapted by the Albany team for the outdoor reconnaissance.
Because of their colleagues’ work, says Cooley, “We had the right method at the right time.”—By Marcia Wood, Agricultural Research Service Information Staff.
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Bob Harris & Matt Flannery
Tue., June 4
Round About the Earth: Circumnavigation from Magellan to Orbit (Compact Disc)
From the author of The First Scientific American comes a witty, erudite, and colorful account of the outrageous ambitions that have inspired men and women to circle the entire planet.
About the Author
Joyce E. Chaplin is the James Duncan Phillips Professor of History at Harvard University. She is the author of books including Subject Matter, Benjamin Franklin's Political Arithmetic, An Anxious Pursuit, and The First Scientific American, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and winner of the Annibel Jenkins Prize of American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Joyce Bean is an accomplished audiobook narrator and director. In addition to being an AudioFile Earphones Award winner, she has been nominated multiple times for a prestigious Audie Award. Equally adept at narrating fiction and nonfiction, her titles include Blue Diary by Alice Hoffman, Blue Smoke by Nora Roberts, and several Jayne Ann Krentz novels. Joyce lives in West Michigan.
Praise for Round About the Earth: Circumnavigation from Magellan to Orbit…
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In October, I took time to talk to our children about some of the personal ambitions they want to pursue. I am a strong believer in listening the voice of children, rather than completely dictating and controlling their destiny, (thanks Mom for that lesson).
After a little dialogue, I took note that some top interests for our children include the following:
- Continue Swimming Lessons
- Learn Animae and Japenese Language
- Culinary Pursuits
- Hair Stylist and Makeup Artist
- Horse Trainer
- Technology & Gaming Creations
- Becoming a Ninja
All these responses facinated me because I actually don't share any interest in these areas, however I support the vision of my children. If I inflict my personal goals, then the list would look more like
- Herbalist/Natural Health Consultant
- Media Creator
Now that they've expressed their goal, it's important to implement a plan of action. This is an ongoing process and will require regular review. In the case of our children, we created a "plan" to achieve their vision. For example, in order to become a "ninja" it will take great discipline and determination. So, I signed all the boys up for martial arts at the YMCA. This program is not only affordable, it is also structured in a way that will expose the boys to the experience, yet it won't overwhelm our family. I can bring the girls along to practice swimming, while the boys are in training.
So far, the boys have all enjoyed the classes. I've seen such growth and maturity within the first few weeks of classes. I admit, it was a little to premature for our 4 year old Mason to be committed, however, Maxwell and Millennium have persevered and they are flourishing. Their confidence and skill is so rewarding to watch. Here are a few photos of Millennium working with the instructor:
This book is one of the resources we're using for goal setting. I was introduced to the speaker, Lisa McInnes-Smith, at the "PowerUp Live" convention in Boise.
I can't express just how valuable it is to invest in inspirational resources that help to grow and develop good habits.
My hope in sharing is that you will hear the voice of your children and be prayerful about how you can support their vision.
I recently came across this Homeschooling Webinar and wanted to pass along the link about "Organizing Your Home for Success"...(Please share your thoughts about the discussion)
In an effort to promote physical endurance, I've requested our boys to "build a wall" in the backyard every day.
There are some cinder blocks and cement bricks that the boys must carry across the yard and build the wall. Each week, I plan to increase the number of bricks they are carrying so that over time they can strengthen their muscles and become more disciplined in physical activity.
Last week, was just a starter session and I may possibly video tape the process once they really get in the hang of it.
If you have any helpful suggestions for promoting excercise with limited supervision, please leave a reply (feedback always welcome) :)
I came across this video & learned a few new things about modern Hebrew. This is exciting to me, since I've just embarked on the study in "Aleph Isn't Tough".
This was one of the most memorable "date nights" throughout our marriage....lol
(dancing lessons comes in second place.)
We had such a great time working on the nursery last week with a few of the children, I wanted to share some pics so you can catch the vision that we're a part of:
Last week, our friend's son asked me: "When are we gonna do Hebrew School?" This blessed me so much to know that he enjoyed and looked forward to our group Hebrew Studies each week. We've been meeting with a few children from our assembly at our house to study the culture, language and instructions in the Bible for about a month. These gatherings are definately a highlight of my week!
Here's a link from one of the resources we used this week:
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Writers Talk About Writing
Selfcation: The Self-Catering Vacation
As the summer vacation season draws to a close, we hear about a new entry in the "X-cation" trend from Stan Carey, a professional editor from Ireland who writes entertainingly about the English language on his blog Sentence First.
The portmanteau word staycation is here to stay, it seems. Even in Ireland, where we say holiday(s) rather than vacation, staycation (stay + vacation) has established its niche sense of a holiday at home, near home, or at least somewhere on the island. It still sounds new or awkward to some people, but it's been around a while: Word Spy has a citation from 2003, while Ben Zimmer found a hyphenated use from May 1999.
A daycation is similar, but happens in one day; see Macmillan Dictionary's article for more, including greycation and naycation. Last week's Galway Advertiser has a related blend that's new to me: selfcation, a self-catering holiday or self-catering vacation, presumably formed by combining self-catering with vacation (with a neatly overlapping /keː/).
Out of context, you'd be forgiven for thinking a selfcation might mean a holiday from oneself (cf. me-cation, a holiday for oneself), but the text makes its meaning clear. Here's selfcation used in the article 'Ten ways to enjoy a staycation in Ireland':
Why not go on a selfcation and hit the sunny south east where there is a wide range of self-catering accommodation perfect for families who want to relax in the comfort of a home away from home. [surrounding text]
Maybe selfcation has been doing the rounds in travel writing, but this is the first time I've come across it, and it appears to be a recent coinage. Not only is there no entry at the Urban Dictionary — not yet, anyway — but there's hardly any mention of selfcation anywhere online. Most of Google's results for selfcation relate to cations, positively charged chemical ions(from Greek kata, down, + ions).
There's a reference here (2001) to 'selfcated flats', but I don't think this has anything directly to do with vacation or selfcation; it's just a misspelling of, or shorthand for, selfcatered, i.e. self-catering:
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Plowing, harrowing and seeding on the Dalrymple Farm
|Title||Plowing, harrowing and seeding on the Dalrymple Farm |
|Date of Original||1878 |
|Creator||Berghaus, Albert, fl. 1869-1880|
|Description||Lines of horse-drawn implements on large field, with nearest line seeding, next dragging and furthest line plowing. Other farming in far distance. In foreground is horse-drawn wagon filled with bags of seed, while man opening bag on ground. |
|Ordering Information||Consult: http://library.ndsu.edu/ndsuarchives/duplication-services |
|Subject (LCTGM)||Agricultural laborers|
Carts & wagons
|Subject (LCSH)||Bonanza farms|
|Personal Name||Dalrymple, Oliver, d. 1908|
|Organization Name||Dalrymple Farm (N.D.)|
Cass County (N.D.)
|Item Number||Folio 102.AgB66.4b |
|Format of Original||Wood engraving|
|Dimensions of Original||20 x 27 cm. |
|Publisher of Original||Frank Leslie's Publishing House|
|Place of Publication||New York (N.Y.)|
|Transcription||"From sketches by George H. Ellsbury and photographs by F. Jay Haynes" - Printed with caption below image.|
"Wheat Culture in Dakota. Product of a Farm of 13, 000 Acres. The vast extent of the wheat culture in the Western States and Territories must always be a subject full of surprises and of profound interest to those who are unfamiliar with the resources and capabilities of that portion of the Union. and of no section is this more true than of the Valley of the Red River of the North, in Dakota Territory, which five years ago was supposed to be a barren waste, and where now millions of bushels of grain are gathered yearly. Among the typical farms of that region, that known as the Dalrymple Farm, about eighteen miles west of Fargo, on the Northern Pacific Railroad, is conspicuous. this estate embraces 100, 000 acres in all. So far operations on the farm have been confined chiefly to wheat growing. The farm is managed with something of the system that is employed in directing the operations of an army. It is cut up into divisions of 2, 00-0 acres each, and these are managed by experienced superintendents and foremen, the finances of each division being brought under a regular and separate system of bookkeeping. Mr. Dalrymple is general manager of the whole.
The area of ground under crop this year is 13, 000 acres. the spring wheat was sown the latter part of March and the fore part of April. The first of it was cut July 25th, and twelve days after that the work of the reapers had been finished and miles upon miles of wheat shocks covered the plains. In bringing this crop to perfection, Mr. Dalrymple employed nearly 500 head of horses and mules, 80 broad-cast 8 1/2 feet seed sowers, 160 14-inch plows, 200 steel-pointed harrows, 15 40-inch cylinder threshers and cleaners, 15 10-horse power steam-engines, 80 self-binding reapers, and a force of about 400 men. These 80 machines when in motion cut and bind with wire 1, 000 large bundles every minute.
Threshing was begun about the 1st of September. A correspondent, writing from the spot, says: 'As I stood in the midst of this stubble plain to-day, and watched the smoke curling up from steam-machines miles upon miles away, and fancied that they looked as vessels look when steaming far out over the sea. I thought what a magnificent 'desert' this is. Near by me was a superintendent who was talking through a telephone with another superintendent some three miles away. Near him sat an operator, who was sending a dispatch to another part of the farm.'
The wheat on this entire tract, more than twenty miles square, is of the very finest quality. It will average, it is confidently stated, twenty-five bushels to the acre. Put it at only twenty-two bushels, reckon the price at $1 per bushel, and the total value is $286, 000. Deduct $8 per acre, the cost of the planting and harvesting the crop, and there remains $182, 000, the net profit. The outlay for agricultural implements is of course heavy, thought the burden of this outlay is felt least by the large farmer. A self-binding reaper costs $250 to $300, and machines of this sort are so rapidly improved that one becomes antiquated in three or four years. The steam-threshing machines are now quite common, and cost, with steam engine, about $1, 000. The large farmers along the railroad have side tracks from the main line run out upon their land, and the cars of the read are left upon it until they have filled them with wheat. They drive the wheat right from the field where it is threshed to the car. Among the implements used on these farms is the header. This is a machine which is pushed like a great lawn mower by horses, harnessed behind the cutting knife, which simply cuts off the heads of the wheat, leaving the straw standing, say two feet high. It cuts a swarth at least eight feet wide, and collecting the heads as it cuts them, sends them up a trough into a bin which is carried alongside of the header in another wagon. Then the heads are stacked up ready for threshing. One advantage connected with the use of the header in new countries is that, as they leave, the straw standing, it is easier to turn it under at the next plowing. Of course as soon as they begin stock raising the straw will be worked into manure, as it is already in Iowa, but that day has not yet come in Dakota.
As soon as the harvest is completed, the manager commences plowing the stubble, and in another season he intends to have 20, 000 acres under cultivation. Mr. Dalrymple, who manages this immense farming operation, and who owns one-half interest in the land and crops, has thus demonstrated that upon these broad and fertile prairies the time is not far distant when 1, 000, 000 bushels of wheat will be successfully raised under one management by the application of the proper intelligence and a system such as has been adopted by him. this system is based on simple business principles, and conducted with military precision. A complete set of books and accounts is kept as in a well-organized bank, by which the exact cost of the expenditures, including labor and improvements, is shown at a glance. The land is set apart in divisions of two thousand acres each, and numbered from one upwards, and each division is designated by its proper number. Upon each of these divisions there are the requisite buildings, consisting of a house for the superintendent, boarding house for the men, stable, three stories high, 60 x 65 feet for sixty-five horses; granary of same size; one agricultural hall for storing farm machinery; one blacksmith shop, and necessary outhouses. Each division, besides the number of men, has a superintendent and foreman, who under the direction of the manager, execute the work in hand with the exactness and regularity of the best machines upon the ground.
The vast results here given of wheat raising in this extreme Northwest were long ago foreshadowed by Blodgett in his work on Climatology, wherein he says 'that all the cereals come to their greatest degree of perfection along the northern belt of their production.' That statement has been singularly verified during this season of 1878 by the result of wheat production throughout the Northwest as witnessed this season of the crop in this extreme Northwest belt, and its failure in Iowa and Wisconsin. Humboldt, too speaking of the Red River Valley, said it was the 'levelest tract of country in the world, ' and he might have added that it was the most fertile. Without doubt, the largest area of wheat lands on the North American continent is embraced within the great valleys of the Red River, Saskatchewan and Assinniboin, which are being rapidly developed, and whose [illegible] overflow, along the lines of railroad now being projected and already constructed, into the [illegible] of the enterprising cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis.
During the recent Western tour of President Hayes, he made an excursion over the Northern Pacific Road to the Dalrymple farms. At the time of his visit, four steam-threshers were at work, and upwards of fifty teams were in sight, plowing for the next years crop. The President and party, escorted by Mr. Dalrymple, spent two hours riding on the farm, witnessed the threshing and plowing, and freely expressed admiration and astonishment at the magnitude of the operation" - Article (p. 115) accompanying illustrations.
|Notes||Title from caption with image.|
One of two images on same page, other is 'Cutting and binding grain on the Dalrymple Farm.'
|Contributor||Ellsbury, George H., 1840-1900|
Haynes, F. Jay (Frank Jay), 1853-1921
|Contributor Role||Illustrator; Photographer; |
|Bibliographic Reference||'Wheat Culture in Dakota, Product of a Farm of 13, 000 Acres." Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, October 19, 1878. p. 115. |
|Repository Institution||North Dakota State University Libraries, Institute for Regional Studies|
|Repository Collection||Dakota Lithographs and Engravings Collection Folio 102|
|Collection Finding Aid||Consult: http://hdl.handle.net/10365/6673 |
|Credit Line||Institute for Regional Studies, NDSU, Fargo (Folio 102.AgB66.4b) |
|Rights Management||Image in public domain. |
|Digital ID||rsL00009 |
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Slimming Down Credit-Card Debt
Liz Ruiz, a reporter with The State newspaper in Columbia, S.C, recently contacted me to ask about spending guidelines for new college grads. I was happy to oblige. And Liz herself turns out to be a textbook case for post-college budgeting.
A 2006 graduate of the University of South Carolina, Liz is laboring under more than $5,000 in credit-card debt. To drop the weight, she put herself on a monthlong extreme budget -- no spending for clothes or entertainment and only $5 a day for food. That's a great gimmick as shock therapy, but it's likely to end up like all starvation diets -- in a consumption binge.
By her own account, Liz flashes her debit card so often that even her online bank account can't always keep up. (I suggested that she subtract each transaction in her checkbook at the time of purchase so she doesn't lose track.)
Still, Liz is doing a number of things right:
Know where the money goes. Liz tracked her expenses and knew exactly where she was hemorrhaging cash -- shopping for clothes and home goods, on which she had spent more than $600 in one month alone.
Consider a balance transfer and prioritize. Liz transferred $3,600 of her credit-card debt from a card charging 11% to one charging a fixed rate of 3.9% until 2011. Her top priority is to pay $300 a month toward the $1,800 she owes on another card -- a Visa that charges 8.9% -- but this month she'll pay off the measly $200 balance on her Best Buy card (a good idea so she'll feel as if she's making progress).
Don't give up on saving. Meanwhile, she's also putting money toward saving (another good idea) with an automatic deposit of $50 per month. Says Liz, "Seeing bigger numbers in my bank account is almost better than seeing new clothes in my closet."
Keep yourself accountable. Liz started her budgeting crusade when she realized how much it would cost just to apply for grad school: $150 for the exam and $50 to $100 per application. She says that writing about her experiences in her online blog keeps her accountable. You don't have to share your struggles with the world to get outside encouragement. Simply writing down your goals, or discussing them with a friend, will keep you on task.
And now for those spending guidelines, expressed as a percentage of take-home pay:
15% Food (both at home and away)
10% Utilities and other housing expenditures
10% Debt repayment
5% Miscellaneous personal expenses.
You can certainly adjust these figures to reflect your actual expenses, but they're a good starting point. To see how this budget might work in real life, see Cost-of-Living Reality Check. | <urn:uuid:0f0efc09-9ee9-477b-8935-6730f3f2769f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://kiplinger.com/article/credit/T016-C002-S001-slimming-down-credit-card-debt.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00069-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95837 | 590 | 1.882813 | 2 |
GLISI’s mission is to develop world-class education leaders who advance student achievement and organizational effectiveness.
Our mission is rooted in the understanding that effective school and district leaders are a key driver for improving educational outcomes for all students, and that improved educational outcomes lead to improved life outcomes for young people and communities.
The Georgia Leadership Institute for School Improvement (GLISI) was founded in 2001 as an initiative of the state of Georgia with the backing of Governor Roy Barnes and a broad bipartisan coalition of voices representing the business, education, higher education, and state government communities. GLISI was established to strengthen the capacity of school leaders to drive improvement in outcomes for all students, drawing on best practice from business, K-12 and adult learning. In contrast to university-based programs for preparing school leaders, GLISI programs were developed with a central focus on performance – measuring, managing and monitoring performance to achieve results.
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GLISI’s flagship training program, Base Camp and Leadership Summit (BC/LS) was launched in 2002, targeting teams of school district leaders and key principals. The theory of change driving this program was and continues to be that district leaders create the sustained and systemic conditions through strong leadership that enable optimal performance by principals and teachers. Ultimately we understand that student performance will improve when classroom instruction improves, but classroom instruction can only improve at scale through intentional district leadership in creating a culture of high expectations for all students, structures for team work, strong processes for managing human capital, and systems for collecting and using data to measure, manage and monitor progress. These domains make up the content that district leaders and their teams learn at BC/LS. To date, 317 teams of district and school leaders have attended since the 2002-2003 school year, helping 4,320 leaders in Georgia districts to learn key management and leadership processes necessary to maximize student achievement.
Since the first cohort of leaders attended BC/LS in 2002, GLISI has developed and launched several other successful programs in partnership with Georgia districts to improve school and district leadership. Among the most well-known of those programs is the Leadership Preparation Pipeline LP2 program (formerly known as Rising Stars) which was launched in 2005 to help districts grow their own school leaders through performance-based preparation in real schools with real teachers, with the support of a trained coach and under the supervision of a school or district sponsor. To date, over 586 aspiring leaders have completed the program and nearly 50% of our first cohort of completers have been promoted to a school leadership position. In addition, GLISI’s cadre of performance consultants has provided on-site follow-up consulting support to district leaders that need additional guidance to implement best leadership practice with fidelity.
Today, GLISI has five full-time professional staff, two support staff and a doctoral fellow. We provide training and technical assistance to large, medium, and small districts throughout Georgia. Since July 2012, GLISI has operated as a 501(C)3 organization.In coming years, GLISI is looking to grow through three primary strands of work: 1) current services customized to address the critical leadership needs in high schools; 2) current services customized to help district leaders distribute leadership to a cadre of teacher leaders, such as specialized cohorts of BC/LS targeted for district leaders with teams of teacher leaders; and 3) current services augmented with state certification opportunities to take advantage of GLISI’s new status as a Georgia Professional Standards Commission-approved leadership preparation provider. In addition, we are developing a line of e-learning solutions to augment and improve follow-up learning across all of our programs. | <urn:uuid:400317d3-a2a8-446a-b6cf-a986ec5ce113> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.galeaders.org/?q=aboutus/ourhistory | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962776 | 808 | 1.820313 | 2 |
Solyndra LLC said in bankruptcy court on Tuesday that it has attracted no qualified bidders for the company and it would now like to sell its assets in separate auctions. The Associated Press reported that chief restructuring officer Todd Neilson said the failed Fremont solar panel maker had received only one bid to buy the whole company. "It was extremely low-ball," AP quoted him as saying. "It was mainly designed to take the equipment and the real estate at an extraordinarily low price." Fewer than five bidders, mostly from other countries, are reportedly still doing due diligence evaluations but Neilsen said it is "highly unlikely" that a buyer willing to continue its operations would emerge, he said...
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This revised edition of The Renewable Energy Handbook focuses on the unique requirements of off-grid living as well as using "green" energy for homeowners who remain connected to the electrical utility. The book contains chapters on:
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The reason that technollama gives for concluding: “at the moment it seems like the worst has been taken out of the agreement” is that the agreement as it now stands, and as technollama reads it, does not require statutory damages for copyright infringement, nor do the indisputably worrying intermediary liability provisions require 3 strikes style policing from Internet service providers.
However from the perspective of developing countries, a perspective which I’d expect technollama to understand and value, these are not have and have not been the primary problems with ACTA.
Instead there are a host of other problems with ACTA which will immediately hurt the poorest people in the world. I’ve set these out extensively in this working paper which is updated to take into account changes made to the draft treaty. Two of the most obvious are the squeezing of access to medicines and the future of the global intellectual property system. Already European customs officials are intercepting legitimate generic medicines being shipped through Europe to developing countries on the basis of spurious claims of trademark confusion. ACTA will require other countries to deprive poor people of medicines too.
In any event the mere existence of ACTA would if it is signed undercuts the legitimacy of WIPO and the WTO. It signals very strongly that not only are the developing countries unable to control the rent seeking of a few powerful corporations in their own countries but that they are willing to use their power to further that rent seeking in the rest of the world. This can only undermine the legitimacy of the global trading system, and a make a trade war more likely. | <urn:uuid:1eb4ba90-de6c-4f09-94cc-84d93f112fee> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://aliquidnovi.org/tag/access-to-medicines/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956584 | 322 | 1.578125 | 2 |
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Ahaz (Hebrew: אָחָז, ʼĀḥāz ; "has held"; Greek: Ἄχαζ Akhaz; Latin: Ahaz; an abbreviation of Jehoahaz, "Yahweh has held") was king of Judah, and the son and successor of Jotham. He is one of the kings mentioned in the genealogy of Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew.
Ahaz was twenty when he became king of Judah and reigned for sixteen years. His reign commenced in the seventeenth year of the reign of Pekah of Israel. Edwin Thiele concluded that Ahaz was coregent with Jotham from 736/735 BC, and that his sole reign began in 732/731 and ended in 716/715 BC. William F. Albright has dated his reign to 744 – 728 (16 years) BC.
His legacy
His reign is described in 2 Kings 16; Isaiah 7-9; and 2 Chronicles 28. He is said to have given himself up to a life of wickedness, introducing many pagan and idolatrous customs (Isaiah 8:19; 38:8; 2 Kings 23:12). Perhaps his wickedest deed was sacrificing his own son, likely to have been Rimmon. He also added an idolatrous altar into the Temple. He ignored the remonstrances and warnings of the prophets Isaiah, Hosea, and Micah.
Role in destruction of Northern Kingdom
In c. 732 BCE, Pekah, king of Israel, and Rezin, king of Aram, allied themselves and threatened Jerusalem. (2 Kings 16:5) Ahaz appealed for help to Tiglath-Pileser III, the king of Assyria and paid tribute to Tiglath-Pileser, (2 Kings 16:7-9) Tiglath-Pileser sacked Damascus and annexed Aram. According to 2 Kings 16:9, the population of Aram was deported and Rezin executed. According to 2 Kings 15:29, Tiglath-Pileser then attacked Israel and "took Ijon, Abel Beth Maacah, Janoah, Kedesh and Hazor. He took Gilead and Galilee, including all the land of Naphtali, and deported the people to Assyria." Tiglath-Pileser also records this act in one of his inscriptions.
|Rulers of Judah|
He died at the age of 36 and was succeeded by his son, Hezekiah. Because of his wickedness he was "not brought into the sepulchre of the kings" (2 Chronicles 28:27). An insight into Ahaz's neglect of the worship of the Lord is found in the statement that on the first day of the month of Nisan that followed Ahaz's death, his son Hezekiah commissioned the priests and Levites to open and repair the doors of the Temple and to remove the defilements of the sanctuary, a task which took 16 days (2 Chronicles 29:3-20).
Chronological notes
There has been considerable academic debate about the actual dates of reigns of the Israelite kings. Scholars have endeavored to synchronize the chronology of events referred to in the Bible with those derived from other external sources.
The calendars for reckoning the years of kings in Judah and Israel were offset by six months, that of Judah starting in Tishri (in the fall) and that of Israel in Nisan (in the spring). Cross-synchronizations between the two kingdoms therefore often allow narrowing of the beginning and/or ending dates of a king to within a six-month range. For Ahaz, the Scriptural data allow dating the beginning of his coregency with Jotham to some time in the six-month interval beginning of Nisan 1 of 735 BC. By the Judean calendar that started the regnal year in Tishri (a fall month), this could be written as 736/735, or more simply 736 BC. His father was removed from responsibility by the pro-Assyrian faction at some time in the year that started in Tishri of 732 BC. He died some time between Tishri 1 of 716 BC and Nisan 1 of 715 BC, i.e. in 716/715, or more simply 716 BC.
Rodger Young offers a possible explanation of why four extra years are assigned to Jotham in 2 Kings 15:30 and why Ahaz's 16 year reign (2 Kings 16:2) is measured from the time of Jotham's death in 732/731, instead of when Jotham was deposed in 736/735. Taking into account the factionalism of the time, Young writes:
[A]ny record such as 2 Kings 16:2 that recognized these last four years for Jotham must have come from the annals of the anti-Assyrian and anti-Ahaz court that prevailed after the death of Ahaz. Ahaz is given sixteen years in these annals, measuring from the start of his sole reign, instead of the twenty or twenty-one years that he would be credited with if the counting started from 736t [i.e. 736/735 BC], when he deposed Jotham.
Ahaz of Judah
|King of Judah
Coregency: 736 – 732 BC
Sole reign: 732 – 729 BC
Coregency: 729 – 716 BC
Archeological Findings
In the mid-1990s a bulla appeared on the antiquities market. This bulla measures .4 inches (10 mm) wide. The back of the bulla bears the imprint of the papyrus it once sealed, as well as the double string which held it together. It contains a fingerprint on the left edge. Like many bullae, it was preserved due to being baked by fire, presumably incidentally (house or city was burned), as in a kiln. The inscription reads: “Belonging to Ahaz (son of) Yehotam, King of Judah.” Given the process that created and preserved bullae, they are virtually impossible to forge. Most scholars believe this bulla to be authentic. It bears the seal of King Ahaz of Judah, who ruled from 732-716 BC. Another important source regarding the historicity of Ahaz comes from Tiglat Pileser III annals, mentioning tributes and payments he received from Ahaz, king of Judah and Menahem, king of Israel
Authenticity debate
Unprovenanced artifacts that originate in the antiquities market are subject to authentication disputes. The authenticity of ancient bullae has been the topic of scholarly discussion. According to Robert Deutsch, an archeologist who is also the antique dealer who sold the Ahaz bulla, most scholars believe the bullae to be authentic. Others, such as Andrew Vaughn, agree that it would be difficult to fake a bulla, but do not rule out such a possibility, and in fact conclude that some bullae are forgeries.
In 2004, the State of Israel initiated a criminal case alleging forgery against five antiquities dealers, including Oded Golan and Robert Deutsch. Two of the accused turned state's evidence in exchange for having the charges against them dropped. Faiz al-Amla, a Palestinian dealer from the village of Beit Ula in the Hebron Hills was convicted and sentenced to a six-month jail term as part of a plea bargain. On March 14, 2012, Golan was acquitted of the forgery charges but convicted of illegal trading in antiquities. The judge said this acquittal "does not mean that the inscription on the ossuary is authentic or that it was written 2,000 years ago." Deutsch was acquitted of all charges.
- Isaiah 7:10 Moreover the LORD spake again unto Ahaz, saying
- Isaiah 7:1
- 2 Kings 15:38, 16:1, 16:2 and 2 Chronicles 28:1
- Edwin R. Thiele (1994-10-01). The Mysterious Numbers of the Hebrew Kings. Kregel Academic. ISBN 978-0-8254-3825-7.
- 2 Kings 16
- Lester L. Grabbe, Ancient Israel: What Do We Know and How Do We Know It? (New York: T&T Clark, 2007): 134
- James B. Pritchard, ed., Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament (3rd ed.; Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 1969) 283.
- Edwin R. Thiele, The Mysterious Numbers of the Hebrew Kings (2nd. ed.; Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1965) 127.
- Rodger C. Young, "When Was Samaria Captured? The Need for Precision in Biblical Chronologies," Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 47 (2004) 588, available here.
- Ahaz Bulla
- First Impression: What We Learn from King Ahaz’s Seal by Robert Deutsch
- Sol Scharfstein (2000-01-01). Jewish History and You: From the Patriarchs to the Expulsion from Spain With Documents and Texts. KTAV Publishing House, Inc. p. 46. ISBN 978-0-88125-686-4.
- Edwin R. Thiele (1994-10-01). The Mysterious Numbers of the Hebrew Kings. Kregel Academic. p. 125. ISBN 978-0-8254-3825-7.
- Jerusalem Forgery Conference (Special report, Biblical Archaeology Society)
- Hershel Shanks, Jerusalem Forgery Conference Report, p. 27 "Is it reasonable to ask whether they [bullae] could be fakes? The universal answer of all experts in the field is no. It is simply impossible to fake them."
- Hershel Shanks, Jerusalem Forgery Conference Report, p. 27
- The art of authentic forgery (Haaretz, April 14, 2008)
- Breaking News: Golan and Deutsch Acquitted of All Forgery Charges – Biblical Archaeology Society
- Oded Golan is not guilty of forgery. So is the 'James ossuary' for real? | The Times of Israel
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Florida Enrichment Academy teachers are well aware of the causes of Repetitive Stress Injuries among musicians.
Instruction in correct positioning, hand placement, posture, use of force, breathing and avoidance of co-contraction and static muscular activity is included in every lesson.
We know that it is counter-productive for students to:
- Learn to play an instrument or sing without also learning technique and habits that will avoid injuries that may prevent playing the instrument or signing in the future.
- Risk permanent injury to tendons, muscles or vocal cords by trying to imitate a musician or singer whose sound or technique is not natural to the physical make up of the student.
Playing a musical instrument requires repetitive finger activity. There are no muscles in the fingers. Fingers are moved by 24 tendons that attach to muscles in the hand and arm. Repeated tensing or rubbing on nearby ligaments and bones can cause the tendons to fray, become thickened, bumpy or even calcify. Inflammation and swelling of tendons in the restricted space of the carpal tunnel can put pressure on the median nerve, leading to tingling and numbness of the thumb and second finger associated with carpal tunnel syndrome.
Keyboard players can experience injuries affecting the fingers, hands and arms. Injuries among guitar players and drummers can affect the shoulders and back in addition to the fingers, hands and arms. With singers, stressing vocal cords can result in inflammation, swelling and hoarseness. In some cases, singers, in trying to imitate a sound or style that is not natural for them, experience permanent damage to the vocal cords and a lifetime loss of the ability to sing.
Repetitive Stress Injuries related to playing the keyboard, guitar or drums are caused by:
- Excessive force or stiffness used in pressing keys, or holding strings over frets, or striking drums and cymbals.
- Bad habits which cause co-contraction or static muscle activity resulting in unnecessary tendon or muscle stress.
Repetitive Stress Injuries related to singing are caused by:
- Imbalance or lack of control of proper airflow and breathing techniques resulting in overwork or overuse of the vocal cords.
- Trying to sing like a famous star rather than developing your own natural sound.
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Welcome to the October 18, 2010 edition of ACM TechNews, providing timely information for IT professionals three times a week.
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Internet Security Plan Under Review Would Alert Users to Hacker Takeover
Associated Press (10/18/10) Lolita C. Baldor
An Australian program allowing Internet service providers (ISPs) to alert customers if their computers are commandeered by hackers and restrict online access if they do not correct the problem is being considered by the U.S. government. Certain sections of the plan have kindled the interest of experts and U.S. officials, but any government attempt to monitor or regulate the Internet could spark public opposition. White House cybercoordinator Howard Schmidt says the United States is studying a number of voluntary ways to help small businesses and the public better shield themselves online, and possibilities include provisions in the Australian effort that enable customers to receive alerts from their ISPs if their computer is hijacked by hackers via a botnet. However, officials are not advocating an option in the program that permits ISPs to block or limit Internet access by customers who fail to fix their infected computers, arguing that this would be technically problematic and face heavy resistance. Center for Strategic and International Studies fellow James Lewis says that ISPs playing a part in defending online customers from cyberattack is an inevitability, but Harris Corp.'s Dale Meyerrose cautions that voluntary programs will be insufficient. "We need to have things that have more teeth in them, like standards," Meyerrose says.
The Second Coming of TSUBAME
HPC Wire (10/14/10) Michael Feldman
Tokyo Tech's TSUBAME 2.0 will officially be named the fastest Japanese supercomputer next month, with a raw performance of 2.4 petaflops that surpasses the total floating point operations per second capability of all other government and academic supercomputers currently in Japan. TSUBAME is part of a new generation of general-purpose graphics processing unit-powered systems penetrating large research institutions across the globe. First-generation TSUBAME systems were built with Sun Microsystems equipment, but Tokyo Tech turned to Hewlett-Packard to co-design the second-generation TSUBAME along with NEC. TSUBAME 2.0 is one-quarter the size and will consume about one-quarter the power of Oak Ridge Laboratory's Jaguar supercomputer while having roughly the same peak performance. TSUBAME project leader and professor Satoshi Matsuoka says the supercomputer will be particularly useful for real-world applications in climate and weather projections, biomolecular simulation, tsunami modeling, CFD codes, and other scientific codes.
From Handwritten CAPTCHAs to "Smart Rooms," Tech Solutions Start With Pattern Recognition
University of Buffalo NewsCenter (10/14/10) Ellen Goldbaum
University of Buffalo (UB) researchers have developed a method for using handwritten CAPTCHAs to identify humans online. "Here at UB's Center for Unified Biometrics, we're the only ones who have proposed and thoroughly studied handwritten CAPTCHAs," says UB computer scientist Venu Govindaraju. "Our perspective is that humans are good at reading handwriting, machines are not." Their research is based on pattern recognition. UB researchers also are using pattern-recognition techniques to develop smart-room biometric technologies that are applicable in larger arenas, such as shopping centers, airports, and other transportation centers. Biometric technologies under investigation include hand gestures and facial, voice, and gait recognition. "This, too, is all pattern recognition, but instead of letters, here, we're trying to standardize gestures," Govindaraju says. "It's like developing an alphabet of gestures so machines can be programmed to do gesture recognition." The researchers say smart-room technologies could be used to monitor people living in assisted-living facilities or in offices and other environments for security purposes.
Artificial Intelligence Has a Feel for Laboratory Science
The Engineer (United Kingdom) (10/14/10)
The best student paper award at the recent Discovery Science international conference went to two Southampton University doctoral candidates who developed an artificial intelligence system for performing scientific experiments in a lab. Chris Lovell developed the artificial experimenter software, and Gareth Jones developed the platform for conducting experiments manually. The software examines the available data, builds hypotheses, and chooses the experiments to perform, all without human interaction. The artificial experimenter is designed to learn from a small number of experiments, and to question whether the data is correct. Jones also is building an automated lab-on-chip platform that will be integrated with the artificial intelligence software to allow full autonomous microscale experimentation. "The artificial experimenter will provide a tool for scientists, which will not only allow them to reduce experimentation costs, but will also allow them to redirect their time from monotonous characterization experiments, to analyzing the results, building theories, and determining uses for those results," the researchers say in their paper.
Robots 'Think' With Their Hands
ICT Results (10/18/10)
The European PACO-PLUS project is developing a new approach to robot cognition based on a theory called object-action complexes (OACs). Robotic cognition theorists believe that if perception and interaction can be developed, intelligence will emerge spontaneously. OACs are types of software and hardware that are designed to enable robots to think about objects in terms of the actions that can be performed on that object. The PACO-PLUS approach imitates the learning processes of young infants, using trial and error and watching other people to learn new information. A key part of the research involves working with humanoid robots. "Humanoid robots are artificial embodiments with complex and rich perceptual and motor capabilities, which make them ... the most suitable experimental platform to study cognition and cognitive information-processing," says Karlsruhe Institute of Technology researcher Tamim Asfour.
Parallel Java Programming System Launched by University
eWeek (10/14/10) Darryl K. Taft
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign researchers, led by professor Vikram Adve and Ph.D. student Robert Bocchino, have launched a project to develop a Deterministic Parallel Java (DPJ) implementation. The researchers say the parallel implementation of Java would be the first to guarantee deterministic semantics without run-time checks for general-purpose, object-oriented programs. "The broad goal of our project is to provide deterministic-by-default semantics for an object-oriented, imperative parallel language, using primarily compile-time checking," according to the DPJ website. The new system will help developers rewrite parts of parallel Java applications to simplify debugging, testing, and long-term maintenance. "It is our contention that parallel programming is much easier than concurrent programming; in particular, it is seldom necessary to use nondeterministic code," according to the DPJ site. The researchers say they launched the project because they wanted to develop a language that supports programming styles developers find most familiar and productive, such as mainstream object-oriented programming languages.
Campaign Builds to Construct Babbage Analytical Engine
BBC News (10/14/10) Jonathan Fildes
A campaign is underway to raise funds to reconstruct Charles Babbage's analytical engine, which he first proposed in 1837. The steam-powered analytical engine is regarded as the first design of a general-purpose computer that could be reprogrammed to carry out specific tasks. Computer historian Doron Swade says building the machine could answer "profound historical questions." More than 1,600 people have already pledged money to support the effort, and the campaign wants to get donations from 50,000 people to launch the project. Although no one has ever build a complete analytical engine, Babbage's son and Swade have built parts of it. Babbage created many different designs for the device, and author John Graham-Cumming, who is leading the campaign, wants to recreate a design known as Plan 28. Graham-Cumming says the first steps are digitizing Babbage's papers and deciphering his drawings. "We would then need to build a [three-dimensional] simulation of the engine [on a computer]," he says. "We can then debug it and it would make it available to everyone around the world."
Supplying Less, Revealing More
Technology Review (10/15/10) Erica Naone
IBM researchers are developing Social Lens, software that plugs into a company's in-house social networking software and filters updates made on the corporate network to reveal which posts are most relevant. Social Lens is designed to sift information by topic rather than to adapt based on what the user reads, says IBM researcher Elizabeth Daly. The program also uses social information, but is not tied specifically to a user's social network. A small pilot user study with IBM employees found that people scored posts from Social Lens as most interesting, compared with posts retrieved from within a user's social network and with a simple feed of recent posts, says IBM researcher Michael Muller. IBM researchers also are developing Audrey, a system that attempts to solve the same problem by focusing on personalization. Meanwhile, the Palo Alto Research Center's Augmented Social Cognition team and Microsoft's Fuse Labs also are developing social networking tools for business users. However, Joanne Cantor, outreach director of the Center for Communication Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, cautions that many users reject such tools due to concerns that they will filter out important data.
Robot Arm Punches Human to Obey Asimov's Rules
New Scientist (10/13/10) Paul Marks
University of Ljubljana researcher Borut Povse is conducting experiments in which a robot limb repeatedly hits human volunteers on the arm to evaluate human-robot pain thresholds in order to facilitate adherence to Isaac Asimov's first law of robotics, which prohibits robots from injuring people. Povse says accidental collisions between robots and humans are unavoidable, and the experiments are "taking the first steps to defining the limits of the speed and acceleration of robots, and the ideal size and shape of the tools they use, so they can safely interact with humans." The tests will continue using an artificial human arm for the purpose of modeling the physical impact of far more severe collisions. The objective is to limit the speed a robot should move at when it detects humans in close proximity to avoid harming them. Baylor College of Medicine biomechanics specialist Michael Liebschner questions the use of pain as a measure of outcome. "Pain is very subjective," he notes. "Nobody cares if you have a stinging pain when a robot hits you--what you want to prevent is injury, because that's when litigation starts."
Faster Websites, More Reliable Data
MIT News (10/14/10) Larry Hardesty
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers have developed TxCache, a database caching system that eliminates certain types of asymmetric data retrieval while making database caches easier to program. TxCache is designed to solve the problem of making sure that data cached on local servers is as current as the data stored in the master database. The MIT system can handle transactions, sets of computations that are treated as a block, which means that none of the computations will be performed unless all of them can be performed. TxCache makes it easier for programmers to manage caches, says MIT graduate student Dan Ports, who led the system's development along with professor Barbara Liskov, who received the 2008 ACM A.M. Turing Award. Ports says TxCache ensures that programmers can change variables in a line of code just once, and have the cached copies be automatically updated everywhere. The system has to track what data are cached where, and which data depend on each other, Liskov says. The researchers say that during testing, Websites using TxCache were more than five times faster.
Shogi Computer Beats Female Champ Shimizu
Mainichi Daily News (Japan) (10/12/10)
A computer has defeated the top female player in shogi, the Japanese chess game. The Akara 2010 took advantage of a questionable move made by Ichiyo Shimizu during the middle of the match and won the game in 86 moves. The Information Processing Society of Japan approached the Japan Shogi Association to set up the special game between the Akara 2010 and Shimizu at the University of Tokyo. The computer used a system that combined four shogi software programs--Gekisashi, GPS Shogi, YSS, and Bonanza. Akara 2010's strategy was based on what the four shogi software programs considered to be the best move. "It made no eccentric moves, and from partway through it felt like I was playing against a human," Shimizu says. Future University Hakodate professor Hitoshi Matsubara says the computer's victory was the culmination of decades of work. "I started developing shogi software 35 years ago, and for the software to become this strong is enough for me to forget all the hard work," he says.
Computational Power Against Noise
Empa (10/12/10) Martina Peter
The Swiss Federal Office for the Environment is working with Empa's Acoustics and Noise Control Laboratory to develop a computer model to simulate noise levels along the Swiss rail network. The sonRAIL model will provide noise maps and calculate the sound exposure of individual buildings. Federal and local authorities can use sonRAIL to calculate sound levels from existing and planned rail lines and to measure the effectiveness of the countermeasures. The intensity of the train noise is based on factors such as the kind of train, its speed, the presence of cliffs or buildings that can reflect the noise, the construction of the track bed, the local topography, and the weather. Empa researchers, led by Kurt Eggenschwiler, note that a powerful computational system is required to measure all of the different factors. Empa uses the Ipazia computer cluster, which provides high computational performance and allows for parallel calculations on several processors.
Immersed in Their Work, Together
CITRIS Newsletter (10/10) Gordy Slack
Researcher Oliver Kreylos at the University of California Davis' Institute for Data Analysis and Visualization has developed tools for converting huge data sets into three-dimensional (3-D) models that can be projected like holograms into virtual space, supporting an interactive CAVE environment for researchers. Kreylos says the CAVE can now facilitate collaboration between users "across the street or across the continent" through a combination of teleconferencing and immersive imaging due to a partnership with the University of California, Berkeley's Tele-Immersion Lab. Tele-immersion could be especially beneficial to doctors who want to view medical data and collaborate with colleagues in other locations. Part of the project between the Berkeley and Davis facilities is to devise simple and efficient methods to enable one user to work in the CAVE, or a CAVE-like environment in a hospital, and for another user to have a less sophisticated but more affordable setup in a doctor's office. Another element of the project is a real-time video-capturing system, which captures 3-D images of the users and sends them to the collaborators via a broadband link. The system's third component is a 3-D visualizer, a programming tool kit for converting, developing, and processing datasets into 3-D models.
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Cutting costs by cutting doctors
September 21, 2010 2 Comments
Doctors are great. Nothing like a well-trained physician. I’m grateful for them– especially considering my son has a rare genetic disease. That said, one way we waste a lot of money on medical care in this country is by having things done by doctors that could be done by well-trained nurses. Excellent case in point– anesthesia during surgery. Really interseting Op-Ed in the N&O today persuasively makes the case that here is an area where we could save tons in costs, without any reduction in care or health outcomes whatsoever. What’s stopping us? The political power of doctors, I presume. The details:
Two groups of medical professionals are trained to administer anesthesia: nurses who have been specially trained as nurse anesthetists and physicians specially trained as anesthesiologists. Despite compelling evidence that both groups provide equally safe anesthesia care, the majority of states, including North Carolina, still adhere to a federal government rule requiring nurse anesthetists to be supervised by physician anesthesiologists when providing care to Medicare and Medicaid patients…
Today, postgraduate education and clinical training in the specialty of anesthesia is remarkably similar for both groups, occurring in the same settings. As a result, both groups can independently provide an equivalent level of safe and effective anesthesia care.
A recent analysis found that in states whose governors opted out of the Medicare and Medicaid requirements for physician supervision of nurse anesthetists, there was no increase in patient complications or deaths. The independent report by RTI International recommended that nurse anesthetists be allowed to practice without supervision in all states…
So how wasteful is a system in which we train physician anesthesiologists who will ultimately supervise nurse anesthetists? According to the Rand Corporation, it costs somewhat more than six times as much to train a physician anesthesiologist as to train a nurse anesthetist, and the anesthesiologist earns twice as much on average per year. Similarly, a 2010 study of anesthesia delivery models by The Lewin Group found the most cost-effective delivery model by far is nurse anesthetists working without supervision.
More importantly, both the Rand and Lewin Group studies found there is no significant difference in quality of care when a certified registered nurse anesthetist delivers anesthesia versus a physician anesthesiologist.
These compelling findings are not a recent revelation. In 1980, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the frequency of adverse outcomes associated with anesthesia was so low that a full-scale study of the issue was unwarranted.
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Dear OncoLink "Ask The Experts,"
My friend has stage II ovarian cancer and is currently undergoing chemotherapy - 2nd treatment following debulking surgery.
Prior to her diagnosis, she had stomach reduction surgery.
She is having an exceptionally hard time post chemo treatments with dehydration and low potassium level.
I am an OC Survivor myself, and know the "excitement of chemo" but without reduced stomach capacity. What should she be eating/drinking to maximize essential nutrients during this difficult time?
Katrina Claghorn, MS, RD, Registered Dietitian at the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania, responds:
This is tough, but with the right support, she will be ok. The post- gastrectomy (stomach removal for cancer) diet would be appropriate for your friend, since her bariatric surgery is so similar to the roux-en-Y and Whipple surgeries used for cancers of the stomach and pancreas.
Patients who have had these surgeries also have to monitor their tolerance for simple carbohydrates initially, so the diet sheet mentions using low sugar supplements. She should certainly be followed by a dietitian at her cancer center. She needs to know what her nutrition needs are for maintaining her weight and how to maximize her intake. This can be very difficult for somebody who has a weight loss mind set. I tell them that they have to do "reverse dieting", meaning they have to do the opposite of what they are used to doing. Their nutritional markers need to be carefully followed. It may be difficult for her to meet her fluid needs since she is limited on how much she can drink, and also we do not want her drinking so much she that she fills up on fluid and can not eat so she may need regular IV fluids. Also, if she can't maintain her weight nutrition support may need to be considered. I have patients who have undergone bariatric surgery and then been treated for cancer and most have done well but they do need a lot of nutritional support. | <urn:uuid:d0af50ab-c687-4cf7-b3a9-d6bc3c6c2105> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://oncolink.org/experts/article1.cfm?id=2605 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00012-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975466 | 423 | 1.640625 | 2 |
NEW YORK, NY.-
Weekly highlights of objects
of interest found in five Guggenheim archive collections can now be viewed on Guggenheim.org
Since September 2009, project staff, as part of a detailed processing grant awarded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), has been examining the records of the museums first three directors, along with the complete Exhibition records from 1939 to 1987 and the Reel to Reel collection consisting of audiotapes of lectures and symposia from 1952 to 1990.
In processing these five archive collections, the staff has unearthed records ranging from photographs and letters to catalogue inscriptions and lecture transcripts, providing unique insight into the shaping of the Guggenheim Foundation and its evolution throughout the first fifty years of its history.
Highlighted objects of interest, or findings, include a color-coded diagram by founding director Hilla Rebay, depicting her theories on the elements and composition of nonobjective art; a contact sheet showing images of staff moving into the building and setting up the museum as architect Frank Lloyd Wright intended, with administrative offices located in the Monitor building (now known as the Thannhauser Gallery); and a photograph of Dwight D. Eisenhower presenting the Guggenheim International Award to Joan Miró in 1959.
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Taking a view of West Usambara mountains from the lowlands of Makuyuni, Mombo or Mazinde, the area, full of protruding big rocks, looks extremely ugly.
Travellers bound for Lushoto, who intend to venture into the mountainous township for the first time, in most cases think twice before they eventually decide to take up the challenge.
But as they start the short distance journey at Mombo, either by bus or car, slowly up the hills, they come to realise that after all, the place is not as frightening as they had thought.
As they travel, watching the environment through windows, they notice evergreen shrubs and thickets which are a common sight in hilly areas.
The tarmac road is smooth, albeit narrow, with countless curvatures. On the left side while vehicles negotiate curves towards Lushoto from Mombo, the roadside on the left is planted with eucalyptus trees to protect the road from soil erosion.
After Lushoto, if one travels further on to Mlalo, Mlola, Mtae, Bumbuli, Mponde, Baga wards in the district, one would pass through tea plantations and banana plots.
At Mponde, a large tea processing factory is visibly seen from afar.
The factory was commissioned on September 14, 1971, and officially opened on December 28, 1973, by late Rashid Kawawa, then Prime Minister and Second Vice President. It was built by the Tanzania Tea Authority (TTA), then a parastatal organisation, specifically to serve indigenous small-scale tea farmers in both Lushoto and Korogwe districts.
In December 1999, when privatisation of many firms, about 400 parastatals, took root, the Mponde factory ceased to be a government entity.
The tea processing factory was then sold to Usambara Tea Growers Association (UTEGA) with financial backing of Lushoto Tea Company Ltd.
Presently, the factory, whose production capacity is 120 metric tons of green leaves per day, is jointly owned by Lushoto Tea Company Ltd and tea farmers through umbrella association – UTEGA.
Mponde tea factory is situated in Kweminyasa village, Bumbuli ward. It has two access roads -- one from Soni (13 kms) via Magila village and Soni – Bumbuli (30kms).
At a recent Annual General Meeting (AGM) at the factory premises, UTEGA chairman, William Shellukindo, told the members that the association was formed in 1998 with 1,003 members from both Lushoto and Korogwe and registered under the Cooperatives Act of 1954 and given No. 9523.
“The objective was to create a platform where the farmers would have voice to air their views on the development of their crop,” said Shellukindo, a former parliamentarian for Bumbuli.
“As days went by, other farmers joined forces, a situation which elevated the membership to the present figure of 3,806 out of the 6,500 farmers who are within the UTEGA surroundings.
Residents in the factory catchment area, practice mixed farming, though tea farming is the major agricultural economic activity.
Lushoto tea plantations produce 80 percent of green leaves while Korogwe contributes the rest.
However, the farmers’ association faces countless challenges which threaten the factory – tipped as the biggest in terms of production capacity, compared to three surrounding units at Hercule, Dindira and Kwamdulu.
Top on the challenge list, according to Shellukindo, is extreme shortage of firewood for use in the factory.
“For sometime now, the factory has been buying firewood at exorbitant cost from far away sources, hence raising the cost of production tremendously,” said Shellukindo.
The situation was precipitated by a conflict apparently centred around the ownership of part of the 1000-acre Sakare forest in Dindira Village, Korogwe District.
According to Mponde Tea Company’s Managing Director, Shaddad Mulla, the area under protest was included in the sale agreement when the factory was privatised. A 99- year lease was hence granted and number 546 issued.
The company says a total of 670m/- was invested in the Sakare forest for the last eight years.
“We wonder why the intruders are invading the forest now, and not before privatisation took place,” Mulla was quoted as saying, almost two years ago.
“It is disheartening to note that while the matter is evidently a hot issue, authorities do not seem to consider the matter a serious phenomenon, despite the implications of the crisis”.
“The company is now forced to spend enormous financial resources to buy firewood very far from here (about 100 kms) at a price of 37,800/- per cubic metre against the usual 4,500/-,” he said.
In a desperate bid to find a lasting solution of the crisis, three years ago, Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda, on a visit to the disputed area, directed the regional leadership to chip in and take urgent measures to end the sensitive issue.
Apparently, the issue so far remains unresolved as tree felling in the area continues unabated.
Mponde’s anxiety is precipitated by the fact that the trees they planted over a decade ago, is now being harvested by people who did not invest in the area, according to Mulla.
Another equally thorny issue which showed its ugly neck at the meeting, was the selling of green leaves by UTEGA members and farmers to big tea producers – Hercule and Dindira factories.
Shellukindo said the tendency by the tea producers to buy green leaves from their members and other farmers from Mponde had resulted in their factory producing under capacity –a situation which in turn raised production costs.
On his part, Lushoto Tea Company Ltd chairman Nawab Mulla, whose firm is co-owner of Mponde Tea Factory advised the farmners to 'wake up' and understand that by selling green leaves to other factories, they were weakening their own factory.
“If you sell the product to your own factory, you enable it generate profit. You should be united and sell the leaves to your factory so as to raise incomes”, he said, adding that the farmers should realize that doing so would benefit not only themselves but also their children in terms of possession of shares,” he said.
The Chairman of the Tanzania Small holder Tea Growers Association (TASTGA), George Kyejo, called on the farmers to plant trees on their open farms so that the factory buys firewood from them.
“You should stop bickering, increase acreage in order to become independent. Plant eucaliptus so that your own factory benefits”, he said.
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Binghamton University officials, including President Harvey Stenger, recently presented their NYSUNY 2020 plan in Albany, as part of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s program that infuses state schools with millions of dollars in grant money — and allows them to raise tuition.
The University’s agenda is ambitious. Not only does it plan to increase the size of both the faculty and student bodies by 150 and 2,000, respectively, but it also includes plans to build a $70 million alternative energy facility at the Innovative Technologies Complex.
There are certainly aspects of the University’s agenda that we commend. Looking for alternative sources of energy is always a good thing, especially on the research frontier. The more barriers we can bend and break, the bigger our blip gets on the national radar. But though Binghamton’s variation of the SUNY 2020 program is certainly deserving of praise for its goals of increasing research and revenue, the apparent disinterest it shows in the student population is worrisome.
The University and Cuomo are also hoping that the construction of the facility boosts Binghamton’s local economy. And of course, this is a good thing — we see nothing wrong with increased cash flow into the city. Maybe the new money will be used to help continue transform Downtown into a less depressing place. (It’s a permanent investment, unlike something like hydrofracking natural gas extraction.) And the grants provided through the program are a good example of using cash incentives to reward academic success.
Binghamton University is, these days, well on the way to becoming a research-first institution. But that has never been, isn’t now, nor should it be this school’s sole purpose. Its primary agenda should be providing low-cost, high-quality professional and liberal arts education to students.
This is a priority that we’re worried that University and State officials seem to have forgotten. When Sen. Charles Schumer was here last week for a lab opening, he derided past research efforts.
“Too often, New York institutions did research that was very nice in the ivory tower, but didn’t create any jobs. We are now focused on things that create jobs,” he announced proudly.
This attitude is alarming. And so is the fact that students have to make up for Albany’s inability to fully commit to secondary education.
If what they say about “rational tuition” is true, then it is better than the recent trend in tuition increases, where the price of our education was jacked up according to the short-sighted whim of Albany lawmakers, and often didn’t even go into the University’s coffers. Systematic tuition is good — at least as advertised — insofar as students are in the know about where their tuition dollars are going, and why they are going anywhere at all.
But the fact that the state is letting tax rates on millionaires drop to their previous low levels as tuition rates continue to rise for SUNY students is a sad display of whom our representatives in Albany truly represent. New York
The state is providing only $35 million of the $70 million needed to construct the new ITC building, and the rest is being supplied by the University and additional revenue from local businesses and corporations. Raising tuition puts the burden on the students, and though the new cash is needed to preserve and expand education here, no one’s talking about that — it’s all about jobs for people who don’t go here.
Empirically, this new money is a good thing. Developing new, cutting-edge research facilities is a good thing. Boosting the local economy is a good thing. But other than slightly reducing the overall student-faculty ratio — largely by hiring researchers — it’s hard to sugar coat this as something tangibly beneficial for more than a few current students. We hope the University doesn’t forget what it should be here for. | <urn:uuid:3e28f138-a987-448c-9ca5-311ab927eefb> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.bupipedream.com/opinion/10311/unenthusiastic-endorsement/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956952 | 822 | 1.742188 | 2 |
- In the first debate of the electoral season last Tuesday, presidential candidates Al Gore and George W. Bush presented their differing proposals on issues such as the protection of Social Security and prescription drug coverage for seniors. While the debate seems to have reinforced the support each already enjoyed from voters in their respective parties, as Maria Eraņa explains, it did not appear to have made much on an impact on undecided voters.
- Six years after its implementation, immigrant and human rights organizations are asking President Clinton to put an end to the U.S. Border Patrol's Operation Gatekeeper. On the California border alone, the tougher measures being taken to patrol the border have led to the deaths of nearly six hundred immigrants. From San Diego, our correspondent Manuel Ocaņo prepared this report, voiced by Guadalupe Carrasco.
- On the 32nd anniversary of the Tlatelolco student massacre in Mexico City, former student leaders and relatives of those killed or "disappeared" in that tumultuous era are hoping that recently surfaced documents and filmed images will help to identify and to bring to justice those responsible for their deaths. This objective received a boost recently as Spanish prosecutor Carlos Castresana declared the Tlatelolco killings a crime against humanity, which would mean that those responsible could be judged before an international tribunal. Our correspondent in Mexico City, Citlali Saenz, has this report.
- Foreign affairs occupied a central role in this week's second debate between presidential candidates Al Gore and George W. Bush. But the two issues that seemed to ignite the most passion were anti-hate crime legislation and Gov. Bush's record on children's health programs in Texas. Our correspondent in Washington, Roland Massa, comments on the debate.
- Throughout the current presidential campaigns, the two main candidates, Al Gore and George W. Bush, have tried to forge links with Latinos. But the occasional Spanish phrase is not enough to win the votes of those interested in improving the health of these communities. In this report, Guadalupe Carrasco summarizes some of the issues that, according to Dr. Jane Delgado, Director of the National Alliance of Hispanic Health, the candidates should consider to convince the Latino voter.
- The epazote, a plant that for centuries has been part of Mexican cuisine, is now one of eighty medicinal plants whose use was recently banned by Mexican health authorities. The official argument is that these plants could be harmful to one's health and that they are used for illegal purposes, such as abortion. Our correspondent Raul Silva reports on the controversy surrounding this ban.
- More than thirty-seven million people watched this week's third and final presidential debate from St. Louis, Missouri. For an hour and a half, and often in heated exchanges, Vice President Al Gore and Texas Gov. George W. Bush answered questions about their positions on various issues, from affirmative action to tax cuts and Social Security, asked by an audience of undecided voters. However, as Maria Eraņa explains, what resounded with some viewers were some of the questions that were left unasked.
- Thirty-two days after going on strike, more than four thousand Los Angeles bus drivers and train conductors have returned to work. With the intervention of the Rev. Jesse Jackson, union leaders and transit authorities finally approved a new three-year contract, bringing to an end a labor dispute that had left nearly half a million low-income commuters without public transportation. Our contributor in Los Angeles Robin Urevich has this report.
- Despite the current economic boom being experienced in the United States, the shortage of affordable housing is a growing problem. Efforts to provide the nation's farmworkers--many of whom live in extreme conditions--with better housing have been slow. For this reason, as Silvia Parra reports, many people are calling for the creation of training programs that would give farmworkers other viable employment options.
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Frank B. Carothers, Jr.
Frank B. Carothers, Jr. was a professor of English at Loyola University from 1947 to 1987. Professor Carothers earned a B.A. from San Francisco State College in 1938 and an M.A. from the University of Oregon in 1940. After serving in World War II, he moved to Los Angeles and earned a Ph.D. in English from the University of Southern California. A member of the often heralded "post-war faculty," he began his career when the English Department was housed in Quonset huts south of St. Robert’s Hall due to the growth in campus population after the passage of the G.I. Bill. Early in his career, Professor Carothers also taught classes at Marymount College's Westwood campus. Professor Carothers served as chair of the English Department from 1960 to 1984 and worked to facilitate the merging of the Loyola and Marymount English faculties during the LMU merger. Additionally, he briefly served as acting dean of the College of Liberal Arts. During time on the faculty, Professor Carothers was voted “Best Teacher” and “Outstanding Faculty Member” several times.
Professor Carothers embodied the University's commitment to the education of the whole person throughout his career at the University and developed a reputation as an outstanding mentor of students and colleagues. For more than 20 years he served as moderator of the English Society and helped a group of students estbalish the student literary journal El Playano (now LA Miscellany). As moderator of the Del Rey Players prior to the LMU merger and the establishment of Marymount's Theatre Arts Department at LMU, Professor Carothers worked with future silver screen stars Duane Hickman and Bob Denver during their time at Loyola. Additionally, he was the faculty adviser to Alpha Delta Gamma fraternity for many years. The long time moderator of the University's radio station, KXLU, Professor Carothers continued to work with LMU students even afer his retirement in 1987 and remained adviser to The Loyolan until 1995. Professor Carothers passed away in 2008. | <urn:uuid:09c7c048-0c65-4e62-84e4-ab7bb1e01718> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.lmu.edu/fame/inductees/carothers.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979379 | 445 | 1.578125 | 2 |
Did you maybe mean flows?
- v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of glow.
“Her expression is a mystery, but she glows from the inside out, and Helena nods with satisfaction.”
“Even without the Loran to provide course corrections, I would have been able to take bearings off the lights twinkling on the drilling rigs scattered across the water or the dim glows from the Vietnamese shrimp boats tied to the piers of the platforms as they waited for sunrise and another long day of dragging nets.”
“The room Scacchi’s character, a painter and collage artist, is working in glows with the soft, watery blueness of her paintings and that blue is deepened and warmed where it reflects in the window panes.”
“On its square of crimson velvet, a gold coin glows.”
“An earnest expression glows in every face; and some press inward, as if the bread of life were to be dealt forth, and they feared to lose their share; while others would fain hold them back, but enter with them, since they may not be restrained.”
“: Goes into a stance, sword glows, then goes back to normal?”
“Jim in MoPeep sights that I have, have a replaceable aperature (the little thing with a hole in it that you screw into the threaded part on the top). well thats availble with some white stuff on it that kind of glows in the dark.”
“Further out way further out, hints as to why the plane of our galaxy "glows" with X-rays.”
“These 'glows' nourish us every bit as much as food does.”
“The Kravitz apartment contains a wall of glass that "glows" at dusk, according to the Times.”
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Justice Potter Stewart coined an idiomatic phrase so useful it’s like a linguistic hammer. Instead of continuing the struggle to define a nebulous term (in his case, hard-core pornography), he simply stated that “I know it when I see it.” In addition to potentially revealing a little too much information about what he did in his spare time (how does he know it when he sees it if he hasn’t seen it before?), Justice Stewart gave us a catch-all term that relieves us from the burden of succinctly describing the indescribable. Since that fateful judgment in 1964, every elusive word or phrase too subjective to be neatly corralled by a singular definition gets nailed into our lexicon by the conclusive force of the description “I know it when I see it.” Executive Presence is one of those terms.
You Know Because You’ve Seen It
Executive Presence is best defined by the behaviors of people who possess it. In a comment about the post Executive Presence: The Power of First Impressions, Gina Rudan of Genuine Insights said, “Whether you are a right brainer or a left brainer doesn’t matter it’s how you carry your expertise, passion and credibility.” V.J. Singal, speaker, coach and author, says Executive Presence is “Displaying gravitas in the way you speak or move.”
As you read through the following check list of qualities exuded by people with Executive Presence, decide which of these you possess and to what degree:
- Commands attention without demanding it
- Displays a level of personal engagement that leads everyone they meet to immediately conclude he/she is exceptional
- Shows confidence
- Handles pressure gracefully
- Treats others, regardless of their status, with respect in all circumstances-good or bad
- Easily and naturally relate to others
- Is genuine
- Is humble enough to listen to others and continue to learn
If you could increase the degree to which the above qualities describe you, and therefore improve your Executive Presence, how would that impact your results at work, in your career, in your community?
Creating a Development Plan for Executive Presence
Select 1 to 3 of the items above which describe you to the least degree. For each item, select one behavior you will commit to changing. On an index card, or someplace where you’ll be able to reference it throughout the day, write down a brief example of how you display the behavior today. Below that, write an example that describes how you’d ideally like to behave. This second description is your goal. Every morning, take a few minutes to read your notes and re-commit to this goal. Every evening, write down (or at the very least think about) specific examples of how you behaved according to or more closely to your “ideal” level for each behavior. Once you’ve mastered a behavior, pick another to improve.
Case in Point
Dawna Watson, a successful realtor, one of the best listeners I know, and a person who radiates Executive Presence, wrote “You can’t be “genuine” if you’re thinking about where you’re headed next or who you need to talk to. I often find myself leaving a conversation realizing I never said much. I get so wrapped up in the other person’s story and trying to help or support them that it ends up being all about them.”
If Dawna’s words were to inspire you to “Be humble enough to listen to others and continue to learn,” your development plan might look like this:
Current State: I find my mind wandering when others are talking. I have to ask the other person to repeat what they said. Often, I just keep my reaction vague enough that it appears to be an appropriate response.
Ideal State: Stay in the moment when others are speaking. Instead of planning my response while they talk, try to anticipate where they are going with their ideas. Paraphrase what others have said to demonstrate that I’ve heard their point of view. Respond to others with open ended questions instead of my opinions.
Notice how easy it would be to review a day’s interactions and categorize them as either “Current State” or “Ideal State” level behavior.
A Few Examples to Get You Started
Here are some ideas to help you develop your own Executive Presence Development Plan.
Posture and Body Language
Sit up straight, arms uncrossed, both feet planted on the ground. Women, although we were taught at a young age to keep our legs crossed, we command a stronger presence with two feet flat on the ground.
Stand with your weight equally distributed on both legs. Try not to sway, rock, or shift your weight from side to side.
Keep a note pad with you for an entire day. Every time you catch yourself fidgeting, slouching, cracking your knuckles, etc. make a note of the behavior and the circumstances. Once you have your baseline of undesirable habits, use a tally system to track your progress. Your goal is to go at least three days in a row with no marks.
Before delivering your next presentation, video yourself practicing. Do you look confident, secure, and in command of your content? Are you speaking with authority, enthusiasm, and passion? If you’re not seeing Executive Presence, pick one behavior or attribute to change. Capture yourself on video practicing the presentation until you’re able to consistently maintain the behavior change. Repeat the process for each behavior you want to change.
Come to all meetings prepared with relevant materials as well as a pad and pen. No laptops open in front of you, no using your Blackberry to capture notes—sorry, both are just too impersonal and create a physical barrier between you and others. Do not answer calls or check emails during meetings. Even if your CEO does this and/or it’s ingrained in your company culture, the point is to be perceived as exceptional. Be the exception to this norm. Stay focused throughout the entire meeting.
Tape your side of a phone conversation. How would others perceive you? Practice speaking in deeper more even tones. Unless you are asking a question, do not end sentences with an upward inflection. Eliminate generational colloquialism from your vernacular. For example, drop such timely classics as: “dude”, “cool”, “awesome”, “whatever man”, “um”, “like”, “no, really?”, “groovy”, “neomaxizoomdweeby” etc.
Measure your Words
Listen more than you speak. You’ll be leveraging the laws of economics in your favor. Think of supply and demand. When you’re constantly putting in your “two cents,” ultimately that’s all your opinion and ideas will be worth. Whenever possible, replace your “two cents” with the $64,000 question.
Facial Expressions Make Big Impressions
An important skill for improving Executive Presence is the ability to control your facial expressions so that you don’t inadvertently send the wrong message. For example, when I am concentrating, I tend to furrow my brow. This gives people the impression that I’m confused or upset—when in fact I’m just intent on what they are saying. When I feel my eyebrows draw together in a conference above my nose, I loosen my facial muscles and relax into a more open expression.
Stand in front of a mirror. Cycling through a range of emotions, watch and feel how your face changes for each. During the day, be conscious of how your face feels as you react to others. Practice controlling your facial expressions so that you are remaining neutral to warm in as many situations as possible. Make a conscious effort to smile at others as often as possible.
You Don’t Have to Go It Alone
The combination of self diagnosis and personal accountability require you to climb the mountain without a Sherpa. Although possible, the journey could be more treacherous than necessary. A less stressful more productive approach to better Executive Presence is to engage the expertise and support of an Executive Coach; someone who can help you develop a personal plan, guide you, and hold you accountable. I recommend Dennis McGurer at McGurer & Associates, Inc. I’ve had the pleasure of working with Denny on several projects and the transformations his clients achieve are dramatic. You can go it alone but it’s nice to know you don’t have to. | <urn:uuid:9185afc9-9c87-4268-9f52-415aaa23eec6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://nicoledefalco.wordpress.com/2010/02/25/improving-executive-presence-one-bite-at-a-time/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00056-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942124 | 1,828 | 2.109375 | 2 |
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The award-winning novel that established Markus Zusak as an international brand.
It is 1939, Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. By her brother's graveside, Liesel's life is changed when she picks up a single object, partially hidden in the snow. It is The Gravedigger's Handbook, left there by accident, and it is her first act of book thievery.
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After covering the tragedy in Newtown, Conn., NBC News’ Ann Curry wondered what could be done to ease the national suffering over the loss of 26 children and teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary. Why not, she tweeted, commit to doing one act of kindness for every child killed there? People responded – and wanted to up that to 26 acts of kindness for every child and adult lost at the school. Now people around the country are committing random acts of kindness – connected through the hashtag #26Acts (#20Acts and others are also trending). Get inspired: You can start your own acts of kindness right now.
Shauna Groenewold, the Web administrator for the state Department of Education in Lincoln, Neb., found out about #20 acts on Twitter, where she says she gets most of her news. Not knowing what she could do to help victims of Sandy Hook, it seemed like a great way to spread some good.
“I noticed that Ann Curry offered a challenge for these acts of kindness, and I think everybody feels helpless, and it feels like something you can actually do to make you feel not so helpless,” Groenewold said of wanting to participate in #20acts.
And the gesture Groenewold settled upon was a simple one: Attach a Post-it note with a victim’s name and #20acts to a one-dollar bill and distribute them to various charities.
“I could go around to my local community to the different buckets we have and give a dollar and it would make me think about that one person, even if just for a little bit. My goal is every place I see one, stop and put the dollar in, and focus on something good and not bad,” Groenewold explained.
And like so many people hoping to help any way they can, Groenewold didn’t set out to do her random acts of kindness in the hopes of getting any recognition. “I don’t know if the people who count the money will notice it (the Post-It) but it was kind of more for me. The money will help them some, but it was more for me to take a moment and think about every individual person that was a victim.”
Already, Groenewold’s kindness is paying off, and spreading smiles at a time when it’s been tough to find things to smile about.
“I put a dollar in a bucket last night, and I thought I’d be really sad, but I was happy,” she said. “The guy who was the ringer at the bucket said to me, ‘You have the most beautiful Christmas smile!’ I thought I could tell him what I was doing –I didn’t. But I’ve never had anyone react to me putting a dollar in a bucket before like that. So it’s already been a cool experience.”
There are many questions about Friday's shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, but one being asked by just about everyone is how to best honor the victims. In Newtown and across the country, random acts of kindness are being performed in the memory of each person lost. NBC's Andrea Canning reports.
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Schlitz Park renovations to add more green
The future of Schlitz Park involves an awful lot of green.
New buildings and renovations to existing facilities will strive for LEED certification, and two new parks will be added to the 46-acre business park on the northern edge of Downtown, all part of a $30 million project scheduled to begin later this year.
Plans for the upgrades were announced Monday by developer Gary Grunau, who led the group which purchased the property after the Schlitz Brewery closed in 1982.
Under the new plan, the former Schlitz brew house will be demolished. It has been vacant for years and despite $4 million in improvements, according to Grunau, the building is not structurally suitable for redevelopment.
Once the building is torn down, a new park will take its place. One of two parks planned for the site, the brew house location will include relics of the old brewery, paying respect to the role Schlitz played in the community and the other reflecting the city's brewing heritage, complete with plantings of barley and hops – two of the main ingredients in beer.
Renovations to existing buildings will add new conference rooms, a fitness center, new decorations and a more environmentally-friendly design in the hopes of attracting new tenants and retaining those currently in place.
Recently, Grunau added electric car charging stations to the complex.
Currently, about 4,200 people are employed by Schlitz Park tenants. When the renovations are complete in 2013, the number is expected to rise to about 6,000.
Tearing down the brew house building would be a tragic shame for milwaukee. The city must do everything it can to save the building. One by one we are loseing our historic brewery buildings. Mayor Barrett MUST take an active interest in saving our historic buildings instead of showing little to know inerest, as he has done in the past.
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If identity becomes the problem of sexual existence, and if people think they have to ‘uncover’ their ‘own identity’ and that their own identity has to become the law, the principle, the code of their existence; if the perennial question they ask is ‘Does this thing conform to my identity?’ then, I think, they will turn back to a kind of ethics very close to the old heterosexual virility. If we are asked to relate to the question of identity, it has to be an identity to our unique selves. But the relationships we have to have with ourselves are not ones of identity, rather they must be relationships of differentiation, of creation, of innovation. To be the same is really boring.
[Michel Foucault. (1996) . Sex, Power and the Politics of Identity. In Foucault Live. collected Interviews, 1961-1984. Sylvere Lotringer (Ed.). New York: Semiotext(e), p. 385.]
Random thoughts in response
Foucault is talking specifically about homosexual identity here but what he says can be applied to his views on all forms of identity, something which is borne out by other remarks in the rest of his work. These remarks all share the common theme that identities are a trap which limit who you are and make you subject to power relations. We need to continually escape from identity formation, not try and aspire to an identity. This position is clear in his famous remark from The Archaeology of Knowledge:
I am probably not the only one who writes in order to be faceless. Don’t ask who I am, or tell me to stay the same: that is the bureaucratic morality, which ensures that our papers are kept in order. It ought to let us be when it comes to writing
(AS:28, AK:17). Translation by Clare O’Farrell
Speaking at a personal level (I can afford such luxuries in this blog format!), I have found Foucault’s position particularly useful recently in thinking through problems of writer’s block. Why has writing been so difficult, and a problem that has haunted my existence for decades, its spectral presence never completely out of my vision? Perhaps the answer is simple. I have been aspiring to what I have perceived as the desirable identity of ‘writer’, a hugely constraining and complex set of rules which constantly provokes the question in relation to any writing activity: ‘does this thing conform to my identity?’
This question becomes particularly restrictive in the academic context which strongly polices what is regarded as suitable subject matter for academic discussion and the form in which this is delivered. The academy, for all the admirable and worthwhile rigour of its approach can also operate terrorist effects on those who have been trained to accept its norms and principles. It is an environment which is both enabling and limiting.
To further complicate this scenario, the modernist view of the academic writer and intellectual, one which I grew up with and breathed in every day, was that such a writer had a sacred mission to the world, to save mankind from its excesses, to reveal the truth, to make an important contribution to the well-being and advancement of society. Your success on this front was measured by your ‘reputation’, by the numbers of acolytes hanging on your every utterance and the volume of citations in a variety of citation indexes. There is no doubt that writers such as Foucault have definitely more than stepped up to the mark here, even if Foucault himself was by no means reticent in drawing attention to the flaws of such missionary pretensions. For example, one can refer to his remarks on the ‘specific’ versus the ‘universal’ intellectual and to his personal doubts about the social efficacy of writing as an activity.
Is this model of writing, this writerly identity, one that is productive for everyone? There is no doubt that it has been highly successful for many, but in my own case this poorly articulated lifelong quest to ‘uncover’ my identity as a writer, to somehow make it the governing principle of my existence has been constraining to the point of paralysis. Seeking to solidify an identity which would forevermore mark a place and a concrete presence in the world, like some kind of public monument, has been a shaky premise on which to operate. Aspiring to monumental status, no matter how grand, is a recipe for grinding boredom and paralysed inactivity.
So where does this leave me and my own writing activity? I can only come to one conclusion. Writing works for me when I regard it as fun, easy and disposable. I am able to write because of the cultural capital provided by my education and family background. Nothing else. There is no ‘mission’. It is a hobby not an identity. My own enjoyment and engagement, and the enjoyment of a few others observing my attempts as ‘a unique self’ (to use Foucault’s phrase) at ‘differentiation, creation and innovation’ is what makes it all worthwhile.
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Dry-run experiments verify key of Sandia’s nuclear fusion concept
Magnetically imploded tubes called liners, intended to help produce controlled nuclear fusion at scientific “break-even” energies or better within the next few years, have functioned successfully in preliminary tests, according to a Sandia research paper…
To exceed scientific break-even is the most hotly sought-after goal of fusion research, in which the energy released by a fusion reaction is greater than the energy put into it — an achievement that would have extraordinary energy and defense implications.
That the liners survived their electromagnetic drubbing is a key step in stimulating further Sandia testing of a concept called MagLIF (Magnetized Liner Inertial Fusion), which will use magnetic fields and laser pre-heating in the quest for energetic fusion.
In the dry-run experiments just completed, cylindrical beryllium liners remained reasonably intact as they were imploded by huge magnetic field of Sandia’s Z machine, the world’s most powerful pulsed-power accelerator. Had they overly distorted, they would have proved themselves incapable of shoveling together nuclear fuel — deuterium and possibly tritium — to the point of fusing them. Sandia researchers expect to add deuterium fuel in experiments scheduled for 2013.
A later simulation, published last January in PRL by Sandia’s Steve Slutz and Sandia researcher Roger Vesey, showed that a more powerful accelerator generating 60 million amperes or more could reach “high-gain” fusion conditions, where the fusion energy released greatly exceeds (by more than 1,000 times) the energy supplied to the fuel…
RTFA for all the technical details. Interesting stuff.
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Group Activity Cards
groups of 4.
Materials: Index cards
group member takes an index card and turns it so that the longer sides are at
the top and bottom. Each group member then draws a vertical line down the middle
of the card and writes a two-digit number with the digit in tens place to the
left of the line and the digit in ones place to the right of the line. Finally,
each group member cuts his or her card along the line and cuts one of the corners
off the cards with digits in the tens place.
as a group, solve the following problem: How many different two-digit numbers
can you form using the cards you made? (Hint: Use your cards to make an organized
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By Nicholas Wasphott
The views expressed are his own.
When it was announced Meryl Streep was to play Margaret Thatcher in the movie biography “The Iron Lady,” to be released here on December 30 and in Britain a week later, the main topic among politicos and movie buffs was whether the Oscar-winning actress, for all her skills, would do the bossy British prime minister justice. There are no worries on that score. Streep’s impersonation is uncannily accurate. With the help of face padding and voice coaching, Thatcher is portrayed as few have ever seen her. And there lies the problem.
Streep plays Thatcher in her lonely dotage, suffering from crippling dementia, patronized by her carers and her daughter Carol, slipping in and out of a living nightmare where her dead husband Denis appears then disappears before her eyes. In flashbacks she recalls the heady days of her premiership, when she championed the removal of trade union privileges, sold off state assets to reduce the size of government, brought to a temporary end the grip the landed aristocrats held over the Conservative Party leadership, and restored British national pride by retaking by force the distant sheep-ridden Falkland Islands from the Argentines.
But it is the chilling image of a once dominant leader reduced to a fumbling, mumbling old crone that is the movie’s main theme and, while it may pass muster as a sly piece of brutal political theater, as a record of Thatcher and her many achievements, both for good and ill, it is a pitiless, poisonous travesty. Streep has lent her extraordinary acting skills to perhaps the most shameful and cruel piece of political revenge ever to have made it to the screen.
Would Henry Fonda have volunteered his name and faultless reputation to “The Deranged Mr. Lincoln”? Anthony Hopkins dignified Oliver Stone’s somber “Nixon” by trying to get beneath the skin of the paranoid president brought down by his private demons. Even Josh Brolin in Stone’s hilarious “W” made America’s most contentious president in recent times a likeable, surprisingly complex eldest son yearning to show his father he was worthy of winning the White House.
What were the producers of “The Iron Lady” thinking? The money is mostly British, with a little French added, topped off by a deal with the anglophile Harvey Weinstein, and the movie is intended primarily for a British audience. In America, Thatcher retains a great deal of her sheen and is fondly recalled as a plain-talking, energetic, charismatic office wife to Ronald Reagan. In Britain, however, she remains largely a political pariah, a ruthless, heartless, domineering battle-axe whose toxic inheritance left the next three subsequent Conservative leaders unelectable. | <urn:uuid:cb5d0e9e-2a14-4c67-8e64-6b4f5a311150> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/tag/meryl-streep/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00059-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965378 | 588 | 1.617188 | 2 |
While welcoming Burma’s release of political prisoners on Tuesday, Amnesty International (AI) said it is “shameful” that the government continues to imprison hundreds of its citizens “just for exercising their basic rights to freedom of expression and assembly.”
“All prisoners of conscience must be released immediately," said Frank Jannuzi, the AI head, in a statement.
He said the international media attention on Aung San Suu Kyi and other members of the political opposition “must now be directed to the suffering of Myanmar’s ethnic minorities. In its rush to improve diplomatic and business relations, the United States must not allow the continued plight of the Rohingyas, Kachin and other ethnic minorities to be swept aside.”
According to the website of the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners – Burma, 25 political prisoners were included in an amnesty release of 46 prisoners on Tuesday.
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Altair Engineering (makers of PBS Pro, Hyperworks, and other tools) is talking today about
its new software business model to enable the first on-demand computing software environment that tackles the challenges of multi-core processor licensing. In response to industry changes, Altair’s innovative and patented software licensing model for PBS ProfessionalTM allows users to only pay for what they use, thus powering a pure on-demand computing environment.
Over the past several years, designers of microprocessors have begun building two or more processors into a single package, introducing multi-core technology – and a challenge to software companies worldwide. Software vendors have continued to implement outdated and inflexible licensing models, limiting customer value and the adoption of grid and on-demand computing. In response to industry and customer demands, Altair has developed its innovative software licensing model that allows customers to enable their entire enterprise infrastructure to be shared globally while only paying for actual usage of software licenses.
Other changes include flexible software licenses that can float across enterprise computing resources. The new licensing model is being released in conjunction with PBS Professional 9.0.
I can tell you as an HPC service provider that the cost of software is skyrocketing as companies simply multiply their old per-CPU license costs by 4,000 and 8,000 cores in today’s high end supercomputers. I’m not sure this model is the answer, but I’m glad to see someone is working on it. | <urn:uuid:f106e6b3-01af-43a7-9e4f-0d910d7ef70e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://insidehpc.com/2007/05/30/altair-adopts-on-demand-multi-core-licensing-model/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00045-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923169 | 302 | 1.804688 | 2 |
Table ChipsSituation puzzles (sometimes called lateral thinking puzzles) are ones where you need to ask lots of yes or no questions to figure out what happened in the situation. These are good puzzles for groups where one person knows the puzzle and answers the questions.
Cunning Chris decided to go to his local pub one night in the rain as he was bored at home. As he entered the pub he greeted some old acquaintances, like Jazz Jake and Swift-Hand Steve.
He purchased a drink and sat with his old friends and had an idea how to lighten up the evening.
"I have a challenge for you Swift-Hand Steve" said Cunning Chris.
"Well bring it on then Cunning Chris" goaded Steve, forgetting how cunning Cunning Chris was.
Chris then grabbed a handful of poker chips from behind the bar, scattered them across the table and placed two paper cups by opposite edges.
"Right, here we have fifty white chips and fifty black chips. My challenge is that I can place all the black chips in my cup before you can place all the white chips in your cup. The rules are, you must have one hand on the cup at all times, you can only touch one chip at a time, you can only use your hands and you can't use any object to help you gather the chips."
"Easy" replied Swift-Hand Steve. A smile had spread across his face, he knew he had the quickest hands in town.
"Ok then, Go"
Swift-Hand Steve was true to his name and he quickly had over ten chips in his cup before Cunning Chris even had two. But moments later, it was Cunning Chris who wore the giant grin. What had he done to secure his victory?
HintLook at the rules again
AnswerSoon after the game had commenced, while Swift-Hand Steve was so engrossed in grabbing his chips, Cunning Chris slowly slid his cup over one of the white chips, concealing it. After he had done so, he casually collected the rest of his chips. Even though it appeared that Steve had finished before him and looked triumphant, after Chris had finished, he moved his cup, revealing the concealed chip and watched Steve's face fall.
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criterion for entry into yoga and spiritual way of life. Rajas should emerge in all of us. Hence, we should act and not avoid actions for growth. As we become Rajasik, we grow active and have no resistance to action. We love action. We get obsessed with work. We turn workholics. We cannot remain without work. In this phase of growth, we are lost in the enjoyment of work and actions.
Soon Rajas turns hazardous. Over-activing, in our slavery to, we get fatigued; stresses and strains torture us. A stage soon comes when we can no more manage our interactions with the world around. It looks too much. We start hating action. We like to runaway again.
If it is the slavery to tamas and attachment to bliss of ignorance that made us run from action earlier, now it is the overactivity excessive rajas. Our stresses take their toll on our body in the form of Hypertension and heart attacks, hyperacidity and ulcers, neurosis and psychosis if not cancer or aids. And we resort to pharmacological or surgical interventions to deal with them. Tired to the core, sapped of all energies, our enthusiasm to work still dominant within we suffer. Doctors advise not to work and strain further would change us. | <urn:uuid:0626fef9-26dc-4480-ab2f-7e51afa622ae> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.healthandyoga.com/html/readingroom/soa/soa3.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95116 | 268 | 1.804688 | 2 |
“The economy is the biggest story of this decade, period,” Nicole Lapin says. “And the biggest and most urgent narrative to that story is what are we inheriting and where are we leaving this world. And the young people that we saw in Occupy Wall Street are the faces and the voices of that story.” Nothing But Gold
On each platform, Lapin tries to keep her message digestible but informative. She speaks to audiences who don’t necessarily grasp financial news. “I would go on Inside Edition to talk about the Facebook IPO, and they ask me, ‘What is an IPO?’” she says.
Then there’s the personal finance. A recent Recessionista post served up tips on how to save on the substantial price—average $1,500—of being a bridesmaid. Another biggie: retirement and investing.
“Suze Orman tells them to invest in a 401(k). But is that right for them?” Lapin asks. Rather than investing in retirement accounts or cutting back on lattes (another common financial tip), she says young people should consider ways to invest in themselves. That is why, she says, entrepreneurship is one of the recession’s biggest winners as a more sensible route to financial freedom.
While addressing areas like how to save on gasoline or re-dye your bridesmaid shoes might sound trivial for someone who used to interview the titans of American industry, Lapin doesn’t believe there’s any shame in not knowing finance. Before a college gig at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Lapin herself had no clue what a hedge fund manager did or what shorting a stock meant.
“It’s like a secret language,” Lapin says. “When people talk about equities, well, a stock is an equity. A treasury is a bond. Shorting a stock just means you think it’s going to fail. It’s not that big a deal.”
After getting an MA in journalism from Syracuse University, Teresa worked as a general assignment newspaper reporter—general on purpose because besides the usual city hall and police articles, there was the chance to fly an F-18 with the Blue Angels and tag along with bounty hunters on a stakeout—all good preparation for covering entrepreneurs.
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Who was the first president with a phone in the White House? The first to be divorced? From George Washington to Barack Obama, there have been many firsts in the history of the American presidency. Here are just a few.
The history of the American presidency is full of firsts -- from groundbreaking to the just plain goofy.
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Western Costume Celebrates 100th Birthday With Film Fashion Show at LACMA
Award-winning costume designers Julie Weiss, Mary Zophres, Janie Bryant, Carol Ramsey, Ellen Mirojnick and Deborah Hopper helped fete the iconic costume house, whose credits include "Gone With the Wind," "Wizard of Oz" and "Titanic."
Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, and Russell Crowe made an appearance at Wednesday night’s Western Costume Company: The First 100 Years celebration, held at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. So did Douglas Fairbanks, Vivienne Leigh, Clark Cable, George C. Scott, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.
OK, it was just the costumes these actors had worn in iconic films such as Thief of Bagdad, Gone With the Wind, Patton and Cleopatra. Along with Pitt’s ensemble from The Assassination of Jesse James, Crowe’s 3:10 to Yuma and Damon’s from True Grit. But it was still pretty darned exciting for a room packed with costume designers, fashionistas and others involved in behind-the-scenes film production.
All these reproductions were copies of the actual costumes made at Western over the years, and they were worn onstage for a lavish costume show featuring models, actors and even fun-loving Western employees. The event was presented by the Costume Council of LACMA and sponsored by City National Bank.
Western president Eddie Marks was on the panel including costume designers Ellen Mirojnick (Chaplin, Wall Street), Carol Ramsey (Magic City, Mr. and Mrs Bridges), costume supervisor Jim Tyson (The Right Stuff, Thor), world famous milliner Harry Rotz (Hunger Games, Changeling) and shoemaker to the stars Mauricio Osaro (True Grit, Captain America). And, of course, the incomparable research library director Bobi Garland moderated the panel.
The panel talked about the beginnings of the costume house, established in 1912, by L.L. Burns and Harry Revier, who launched a stage, prop and costume shop for the fledgling motion picture industry. Renamed Western Costume Co., the operation is now one of the largest costume houses in the world and has bragging rights to Dorothy's (Judy Garland) ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz and Leigh's dresses and Gable's suits for Gone With the Wind as well providing costumes for Cecil B. DeMille's 1914 The Squaw Man up to U.S forces' Afghanistan military gear for Kathryn Bigelow’s new Osama Bin Laden movie, Zero Dark Thirty. due out next year.
Clothes from Western's immense period stock are already being pulled for the upcoming film Butler, about Eugene Allen, the White House butler for eight presidents. The film is reportedly starring Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, Cuba Gooding Jr. and Jane Fonda (as Nancy Reagan). The second Hunger Games costume work is due to crank up soon at the company's North Hollywood warehouse.
The panel also discussed Western’s move to a 120,000-square-foot North Hollywood warehouse that once housed printing presses for the Los Angeles Times magazine. There are more than seven miles of metal pipe clothing racks of costumes (meticulously organized by era, type, genre, etc.) as well exhaustive research departments, international sourcing departments for fabrics or what-have-you, a vintage fabric department and a store selling everything needed to clean (or age and destroy) costumes as well as a haute couture millinery department, luxury shoe department, dying and distressing areas as well as office space for costume designers private fittings with their stars.
Costume designers such as Mad Men’s Janie Bryant; Magic City's Ramsey; Deborah Hopper, who has done the costumes for many of Clint Eastwood’s films; and Mary Zophres, who has worked on the Coen brothers’ films, including No Country for Old Men and O Brother, Where Are Thou?, True Grit, A Serious Man and Burn After Reading, have all relied heavily on Western. Julie Weiss, who has been working at Western Costume for decades, recently operated out of their facility for her work on the '50s-era fil, Hitchcock, about the making of Psycho, starring Helen Mirren, Scarlett Johansson, Jessica Biel and Sir Anthony Hopkins
She recalls the early years and notes the advances in the costume house’s stock, production and services, explaining that one of the secrets of Western’s success is that everyone working there loves (lives and breathes) the magic of costume design.
It was obvious Wednesday night that the Western folks still get as excited as little kids at Halloween when it comes to the transformational emotional power and resonance of costumes. After the wildly applauded costume show, costume designer Mary Zophres proudly hopped on the red carpet with the young man modeling her Matt DamonTrue Grit get-up. "I made this!" she exclaimed.
For many months, the folks at Western have been spending any free time they had (some until 4 a.m. Wednesday) making replicas of of their iconic pieces: Taylor’s Cleopatra gown, George C. Scott’s Patton uniform, Dorothy’s ruby slippers and Laurel and Hardy’s suits, up to Mark Bridges’s costumes from last year’s Oscar-winning film The Artist
A big hit last night was Scarlett O’Hara’s green velvet "curtains" gown. The Hollywood Reporter was finishing up a tour of Western Costume last week when the dyed green velvet fabric was presented to Marks for his approval. “Too bright. Let’s take it down a notch,” he suggested.
Then the transformation plans for a mysterious rubber chicken leg were discussed, something involving brown dye and gold paint. Last night, the chicken foot made its big appearance, firmly festooned on Miss Scarlet’s jaunty green velvet cap. To see it, click here
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Bacteria in gut 'play role in irritable bowel syndrome'
Washington, May 27 (ANI): A new study has definitively linked an overgrowth of bacteria in the gut to the Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS).
This is the first study to use this "gold standard" method of connecting bacteria to the cause of the disease that affects an estimated number of 30 million people in the United States.
Earlier studies have indicated that bacteria play a role in the disease, including breath tests detecting methane - a byproduct of bacterial fermentation in the gut. This study was the first to make the link using bacterial cultures.
Cedars-Sinai physician examined samples of patients' small bowel cultures to confirm the presence of small intestinal bacterial overgrowth - or SIBO - in more than 320 subjects.
In patients with IBS, more than a third were also diagnosed with small intestine bacterial overgrowth, in comparison to fewer than 10 percent of those without the disorder.
Out of those with diarrhea-predominant IBS, 60 percent also had bacterial overgrowth.
"While we found compelling evidence in the past that bacterial overgrowth is a contributing cause of IBS, making this link through bacterial cultures is the gold standard of diagnosis," said Mark Pimentel, MD, director of the Cedars-Sinai GI Motility Program and an author of the study.
"This clear evidence of the role bacteria play in the disease underscores our clinical trial findings, which show that antibiotics are a successful treatment for IBS," he said.
Patients with IBS suffer symptoms that can include painful bloating, constipation, diarrhea or an alternating pattern of both.
Many of these patients try to avoid social interactions because they are embarrassed by their symptoms.
Pimentel has led clinical trials that have shown Rifaximin, a targeted antibiotic absorbed only in the gut, is an effective treatment for patients with IBS.
"In the past, treatments for IBS have always focused on trying to alleviate the symptoms," said Pimentel, who first bucked standard medical thought more than a decade ago when he suggested bacteria played a major role in the disease.
"Patients who take Rifaximin experience relief of their symptoms even after they stop taking the medication. This new study confirms what our findings with the antibiotic and our previous studies always led us to believe: Bacteria are key contributors to the cause of IBS," he said.
This study has been published in Digestive Diseases and Sciences. (ANI)
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Feb 18, Technology/Internet
Cyberbullying is no longer restricted to children. Adults routinely use content from Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other social-media services to intimidate and harass subordinates and rivals at work.
When romantic relationships go sour, aggrieved lovers often turn to social-media services to stalk or embarrass an estranged partner.
"Adults are now finding themselves in uncharted territory when it comes to social media," says Jenny Ungless, a life coach and workplace consultant.
In a recent global survey of 4,000 adults, 82 percent of respondents agreed that posting or messaging defamatory remarks about a colleague amounts to cyberbullying. And 9 percent disclosed incidents in which information gleaned from a social-media service was used to their detriment by a manager.
What's more, results of a survey of 1,000 adults by security firm McAfee show one in 10 Americans have received cyberthreats from an estranged romantic partner. Nearly 60 percent of those threatened have had personal photos or sensitive e-mails and text messages exposed online. The top motivations for such disclosures: alleged lying, cheating or simply breaking up.
"Technology definitely fuels the best of a relationship and the worst of a breakup," says Robert Siciliano, McAfee security analyst. "Airing dirty laundry often leads to exposing deep secrets and intimate photos never meant for public consumption."
In workplace settings, companies are just beginning to consider policies to effectively govern social-media etiquette among employees, says Tony Anscombe, senior security analyst at AVG.
One in 10 respondents to AVG's survey discovered secret discussions about them online were initiated by colleagues using social media, and 11 percent reported embarrassing photos or videos uploaded onto social-media sites.
Awareness about the potential invasiveness that can stem from use of social media has not kept pace with its pervasive use.
"Until everyone is clear about exactly what is and isn't acceptable online behavior, trying to enforce policies will just fail, leaving the door open to cyberbullying and invasion of privacy," Anscombe says. "If organizations take the time to first educate before establishing and enforcing policies, privacy can be protected in the workplace without having to sacrifice any of the social activity we all enjoy."
In the romantic arena, individuals are on their own. Some 56 percent of respondents to McAfee's poll said they monitored their significant others' social-media pages and bank accounts, and 49 percent routinely read their partners' e-mails.
One male respondent disclosed that he posted naked images of his ex-girlfriend on Facebook. A female survey taker blurred her face in a photo of her and an ex-beau in the nude, then e-mailed the image to his new girlfriend using a faked e-mail account.
"You can't completely control what people say about you online, but you can control the ammunition they have against you," Ungless says.
Her advice: Be careful what you post on social networks, and take the time to learn how to use privacy settings to limit access to sensitive information.
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Online Teaching Tools
The following tools are available for online faculty and students at Creighton University. Information about training workshops is available at http://www.creighton.edu/doit/training/faculty/index.php A matrix to assist with selecting multimedia tools for use in online courses teaching tools is also available at http://www.creighton.edu/fileadmin/user/online-learning/docs/Selecting_Multimedia_for_Use_in_an_Online_Course.pdf .
Blue Cafe - Web conferencing: For faculty and students, BlueCafe powers the virtual classroom inside BlueLine and enhances BlueLine's features by allowing faculty and students to meet real time, online.
BlueLine - Learning Management System: The Creighton University learning management system which includes a variety of tools for online and hybrid courses including a gradebook, assessment tools, collaboration tools, and more. Contact an instructional designer to learn more about BlueLine. Tutorials are available at www.creighton.edu/doit/blueline/index.php .
BlueQ - Web-based surveys: Creating surveys and analyzing results can be done with ease in this completely web-based application. BlueQ can also be used as a teaching tool for students learning survey methodology. Faculty and staff members can request an account at email@example.com.
BlueTrain - Learn software applications: BlueTrain is an online tutorial repository for a wide variety of software applications. Faculty, staff and students can go through a tutorial once or as many times as needed. Log in from your desk, at home, or participate in a workshop.
BlueVue - Video sharing: Upload and compress videos that can be shared between students and faculty.
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by Victor ThomasAugust 6, 2012
This article explains about the evolution of Photo Printers.
The modern new world has seen innovation after innovation in various areas which involves different peripherals that are attached to a CPU. Of all the peripherals, printer has evolved not only in size but also in technology. Earlier, printers were basically text printers that were connected to the computer with cables and occupied much space. These printers are mostly connected using USB cords which served as a document source. Now printers directly interface with electronic media like memory card, digital cameras and MP3 players. The current trend is to combine a printer with a scanner/ fax which also works as a photo copier. These printers can also print high quality photos or pictures.
Many top companies like Cannon, Kodak, and HP manufacture high quality photo printers with varying specification. DreamLabo 5000, a photo printer produced by Cannon USA comes with some extraordinary features like FINE Print Head Technology which involves ink spray technology with high precision jets. This printer employs seven dye based ink which produce multitude of colours that result in pictures with extra smooth gradation. This photo printer boasts double sided printing which eliminates manual turning of the paper. It can print 20 A4 size photo sheets in 74 seconds. It comes with double ink tank which enables switching from one ink tank to another even in the middle of a printing procedure.
Similarly many companies have come out with similar products which have made printing a less complicated and time saving job. One another such printer is Compact photo printers where a computer is not required as they come with a built in display screen. This particular model of photo printer is highly useful as it is small, portable and has a multitude of connectivity options like memory card, cameras, Bluetooth connectivity which can sync to mobile phones and PDAs.
Most photo printers come as “all in one “models that are aimed to print 4”x 6” photos. There are various models that can print on different media like plain paper, matte and glossy photo papers, photo stickers, t-shirt transfer material, envelopes, A4, A5, B4 size papers and legal papers. These printers are not just for printing photos alone but can also be used for printing Photo Brochures, calendars, holiday postcards and many more. Printing pictures has become more of a joy than a chore of sitting with professional printer.
Browsing of the various websites which publishes reviews of printers will give you an idea of various modern photo printers that are available in the market.
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UCAR is mourning the loss of one of its longest-serving and most influential leaders. John Firor, who directed NCAR from 1968 to 1974, died on 5 November after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease.
John Firor. (Photo by Carlye Calvin.)
Firor was one of the first scientists hired by NCAR, arriving in 1961 to head the High Altitude Observatory just as HAO was being absorbed into the new center. From 1974 to 1980, Firor served as executive director of NCAR, after which he managed the Advanced Study Program up to his retirement in 1996. He mentored countless numbers of young scientists, maintaining his gentle sense of humor and his keen perspective. Upon retiring from NCAR, he said, "I have been a continuous member of the directors' committee for over 34 years. This is a record that probably should never be broken."
Born in Athens, Georgia, in 1927, Firor earned his Ph.D. in physics at the University of Chicago and studied terrestrial magnetism at the Carnegie Institution before joining NCAR. He wrote many papers on cosmic rays, radio sources in the universe, the Sun's atmosphere, and solar flares. Firor also participated in expeditions to observe solar eclipses in New Guinea, Brazil, and Kenya.
Later in his career, Firor took a keen interest in the intersection of science and society, and he became one of the earliest and most eloquent spokespeople on the dangers of human-induced climate change, testifying before Congressional committees and addressing a broad variety of audiences. His book Our Changing Atmosphere (1990) received the Louis Battan Award from the American Meteorological Society. Firor and his second wife, Judith Jacobsen, co-wrote The Crowded Greenhouse (2002), on the links between climate change and population growth.
More about Firor can be found in
a 1996 Staff Notes article on his retirement.
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After six years of competitive MMA (mixed martial arts) fighting as a woman, Fallon Fox has come out of the closet — against her wishes — as trans.
In an interview with OutSports on Tuesday, Fox explained how she was born into a male body, but never felt right. Ten years ago, she told her parents that she felt like she was born inside the wrong body. Her father pressured her into seeing a so-called “gay conversion therapist,” who insisted that Fallon was a gay man who was just confused. Fallon’s mother rejected her entirely; in the past two years, she hasn’t spoken to either parent.
But Fallon knew in her heart what her identity is: Fox began hormone therapy 10 years ago — after dropping the anti-gay therapy — and got gender reassignment surgery six years ago. She even has a driver’s license identifying her as a female. After her surgery, she took up MMA fighting. She praised the support of those close to her for their support.
As for any physical advantages — size, testosterone — she might have had from being born in a man’s body, Fox said they’ve all likely been erased by 10 years’ worth of hormone therapy. “I’m technically, legally, physically female. Everything about me is female,” she told OutSports. She calls her transition the best thing she’s ever done in her entire life.
That doesn’t mean, however, that Fox wanted to be “out.” When a reporter called her on Saturday night asking about her gender, Fox felt a pit in her stomach knowing that she would soon be forced to make her private life public. Her reluctance has come from fear of transphobia, of course, as well as the professional desire to be treated unquestionably as a “woman,” not treated as a “trans woman” or just “trans.” Fox told Out Sports she is hoping the Champion Fighting Alliance won’t forbid her from competition and hopes one day to compete in the Olympics. She is scheduled to fight in Florida in April, but her license is being reviewed by a state regulatory agency now that she’s been revealed as trans.
OutSports also has a short, five-minute film interview with Fallon Fox, which shows her to be both thoughtful and conflicted about the complications of her life. It really sucks that she was forced out of the closet against her will and that her family-of-birth couldn’t get over themselves. Still, her story is as inspiring and she seems really courageous and rad. I wish her the best of luck in her career.
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A Few of the Oldest Photos of Williamsburg Slideshow
A Few of the Oldest Photos of Williamsburg
Since at least 1702, when Switzerland’s Francis Louis Michel toured Williamsburg and sketched some of what he saw, illustrators and engravers, painters and draftsmen, artists and amateurs, have been executing images of the old Virginia capital and its denizens. But not until a photographer fetched up in the city, perhaps in the 1850s, could a picture capture the place and its people with the precision of light in a sliver of time.
What Williamsburg looked like before the thought of its restoration had crossed anyone’s mind, when the inheritance of the townsfolk was the eighteenth-century structures that sheltered their ancestors, is a matter of moment not only to their descendants or historians or architects or preservationists but to people simply intrigued by glimpses of the past, to a person who just wants to see it for himself.
Marianne Martin is mistress of a collection of such images from then, a special collection, pictures of the city’s yesteryears. Visual resources librarian at Colonial Williamsburg’s John D. Rockefeller Jr., Library, she and George Yetter, associate curator of architectural collections, preside over shelves and shelves of albums and boxes of snapshots, family photos, street scenes, black-and-white studies, for-the-record shots, and more that date to Williamsburg’s 1860s. Asked for a sampling of the oldest photos of the city, pictures that date to those days, Martin and Yetter gathered the copies that appear in these pages.
Yetter used some of the best of the collection, an assembly taken from albumen prints, daguerreotypes, glass plates, and the like, in his volume, Williamsburg, Before and After. But the library’s resources are so rich it takes more than a book to hold them. It takes rooms, rooms in which in the space of a tick of the clock visitors can lose themselves for hours among the men and women, the boys and girls, the houses and yards, the thoroughfares and footpaths trapped in the filament of a minute, stilled by the camera’s shutter, fixed in the silver shadows of what once was and otherwise is no more. | <urn:uuid:3ebeddc8-f696-415d-b9a5-ada3113bd188> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/Foundation/journal/Winter11/photos.cfm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00067-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946923 | 483 | 2.21875 | 2 |
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2001 Status Report Fish Health
Fall 2001 status report on the Hudson River Natural Resource Damage Assessment Assessing Fish Health
Past and continuing discharges of PCBs have contaminated natural resources of the Hudson River for at least 200 miles. Federal and state trustee agencies are conducting a natural resource damage assessment (NRDA) to assess and restore Hudson River natural resources that may have been injured by PCB contamination.
PCBs are a major concern because they persist in the environment for many decades, can be harmful at low concentrations, and accumulate in living creatures. PCBs pose health hazards to Hudson River fish, mammals, birds, and other wildlife and are found at concentrations up to 1,000 times greater than those considered protective of human health or the environment. For example, agency scientists recently found PCB concentrations in largemouth bass as high as 152 parts per million (ppm). In comparison, New York has established a PCB guidance value of 0.11 ppm to protect wildlife that eat fish.
This factsheet provides summary information about one of the studies being implemented under the NRDA, the "Hudson River Fish Health Assessment."
Many laboratory and field studies done in other parts of the country have shown the potentially harmful effects of PCBs on fish, birds, mammals, and other wildlife. Some effects on fish include impaired reproductive, endocrine, and immune system function, increased lesions and tumors, and death. Several other studies have documented the contamination of Hudson River wildlife by PCBs. However, very few studies have assessed whether this long-term PCB contamination is harming Hudson River wildlife.
This study will investigate whether fish in areas highly contaminated with PCBs show more indicators of injury than fish from reference areas that are less contaminated with PCBs. Fish will be examined for evidence of internal and external lesions, tumors, or other abnormalities and diseases, parasites, and other immune system indicators.
Fish will be collected from four sites in the Fall of 2001. Two sites will be located in the most contaminated reach of the Hudson River, downstream of the industrial sources of PCBs at Hudson Falls and Fort Edward. The other two sites will be reference sites, with one located upstream of Hudson Falls and one located in a waterbody known to have very low levels of contamination. Fish species targeted for this study include brown bullhead, smallmouth bass, and yellow perch. Tissue samples will be collected to investigate a variety of biological impacts that can be caused by PCB contamination.
The study will be implemented by the following trustee agencies: the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The U.S. Geological Service will also provide assistance.
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By Salvatore Salamone
May 12, 2005 | As venture capital funding returns to pre-crash levels, the life science industry seems to be taking the Mad Magazine character Alfred E. Neuman’s attitude of “What, me worry?” assuming everything is back to normal. But a closer look at investment patterns reveals a funding gap that is making it harder for academic and early stage research efforts to attract needed capital.
Last year, U.S. biotech companies received about $3.98 billion in venture funding — the most since 2000 when $4.17 billion was invested. The 2004 total was about $500 million more than in 2003 and $800 million more than in 2002. All of these numbers come from the MoneyTree Survey conducted annually by PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Thomson Venture Economics, and the National Venture Capital Association.
The number of deals also climbed back to 2000 levels (325 deals in 2004 vs. 326 in 2000) and the amount invested per deal has recovered much lost ground ($12.3 million last year versus $12.8 million in 2000).
What the numbers don’t show, however, is that VCs aren’t as eager to fund basic research or early stage development, the kind of work that primarily done in young, academic spin-off companies. When money was flowing in the dotcom boom days, these fledgling companies had a far easier time getting cash.
“Today, [investors] are looking for later stage technology,” said Matthew McCooe, director, new ventures, Columbia University Science and Technology Ventures, speaking at the New York Biotechnology Association annual meeting in Manhattan last month.). Investors are also seeking that technology from more established biotech companies than was the case in the past.
Others agree with McCooe. “Public funds are going to discovery work, and venture capital companies are funding validated [research] that makes it into early stage clinical trials,” says Peter Leonardi, director, business development and technology transfer, at The New York Presbyterian Hospital.
Burnt in the past, but flush with new money to invest, VC’s now demand quicker returns on an investment, often in the 2-to-3 year timeframe — something unlikely to happen with basic research in the life sciences.
When very early stage work does win funding, the amounts invested are generally less. “[But] it costs the same to do the due diligence for every deal,” says David Solomon, medical director, Carrot Capital Healthcare Ventures. To offset pre-deal costs and to ensure investments are recouped in an appropriate time frame, VCs predictably favor the larger dollar-value deals of later stage technology.
Bridging the Funding Gap
To some extent, pharmaceutical companies and even universities are helping bridge the gap by taking a more active role in supporting early stage commercializations and research and development.
For example, McCooe’s work at Columbia goes beyond the traditional work a university would do to license technology. His group helps promising research get a better chance of being funded by using what it calls a proof of concept approach. Essentially, Columbia University is performing tasks a VC would normally do after it invested in a company.
McCooe’s group reviews promising basic research and evaluate what needs to be done to commercialize it. It also provides enterprising researchers who want to launch a company with help putting together a management team and a board of directors.
Pfizer is also trying to bridge the gap by going directly to the universities and their spin-off companies. “We play in the gap,” says Jim McLoughlin, director, strategic alliances, Global R&D — Worldwide Safety Sciences, at Pfizer. “We see an opportunity where VC funding is not flowing in.”
McLoughlin notes that his staff, which includes more than 50 people, handles about 2,000 college licensing and development deals a year. And the relationship is more hands-on than a traditional technology licensing arrangement. “We stay engaged with [the university partner] and help move the technology forward,” says McLoughlin.
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Atlantic Council managing editor James Joyner asks in The National Interest, "Why Should Congress and the Courts Care About Snooping If Citizens Don't?"
J. Peter Pham, director of the Atlantic Council’s Michael S. Ansari Africa Center, was interviewed by Brian Todd on CNN’s Situation Room in a segment on the discovery of evidence in northern Mali that al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) may have acquired surface-to-air missiles.
Atlantic Council Managing Editor James Joyner published an editorial in The National Interest arguing it's better to "trust in those charged with safeguarding our nation's secrets to do so honorably than to make every disgruntled Army private or low-level contractor a de facto national classification authority."
Senior Fellow Frederic C. Hof of the Council's Hariri Middle East Center speaks with host Scott Simon of NPR Weekend Edition about the worsening crisis in Syria and the United States' limited military and political options.
If the transatlantic alliance is going to build a brighter future in the decade ahead, Europe will have to regain the ambition to shape international affairs that it demonstrated in decades past.
Since Europeans began to build a single Europe after World War II, their leaders have sought an expanded role on the world stage. In the past, there were divisions between those who wanted to build a strong Europe as a counterweight to American power and those that sought to achieve their ambitions in partnership with Washington. Europe was ambitious and successful. Europeans built the European Union, established the Euro as a powerful global currency, sought to ratify a constitution, and spoke of a ‘European model’ of soft power. The United States watched the growth of Europe with ambivalence, fearing that a Europe too strong and independent could forsake the transatlantic link with the United States and Canada and weaken NATO.
What a difference a decade makes. Europeans today worry more about a weakened America than one that is too influential. Today, European leaders are worried about saving the Euro. European attention is fixated on the urgent need to preserve the common currency and the supranational solidarity that underpins the Euro’s credibility.
Hardening borders to deter migrants has displaced defense against foreign forces as the top security concern. The importance of strong transatlantic ties is no longer contested in major European capitals, even in France, which has resumed its full place in the NATO Alliance. Washington, for its part, has pursued a singular Obama-Bush policy of encouraging a strong Europe capable of acting in concert with the United States on issues of global concern. Multilaterally, the work of creating a comprehensive and effective partnership between NATO and the European Union should continue.
The end of past theological disputes between Washington and its European allies should mark a positive and optimistic era in the transatlantic relationship. Instead, today’s Europe is on the verge of losing the capabilities to be Washington’s primary global partner. But the European crisis is also one of will and ambition. As the economic crisis has spread, Europe’s global political vision and energy has diminished.
The United States cannot afford to lose a vigorous, confident, and outward-looking Europe. From the Arab uprisings to Iran’s nuclear program to climate change and the rise of China, there are too many challenges to Euro-Atlantic interests and values for Europe to turn inward for too long. Europe must maintain its global vision, even as it faces the urgent tasks of saving the Eurozone and designing a more sustainable European Union. NATO is an alliance of sovereign equals, each of which is expected to commit to the Alliance and contribute according to its abilities. But Europe’s fate as a global player and valued strategic partner of the United States will depend by and large on the future development of the Alliance’s most important members: Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and Turkey.
R. Nicholas Burns, former U.S. ambassador to NATO, is professor of the practice of diplomacy and international politics at the Harvard Kennedy School and a board director of the Atlantic Council. Damon Wilson is executive vice president of the Atlantic Council. Jeff Lightfoot is deputy director of the Council's International Security Program. This piece is adapted from the Atlantic Council publication “Anchoring the Alliance.”
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About The Band
YEARS ACTIVE : 1981
HOME CITY : Lenningrad
Kino are perhaps the greatest Russian rock band of all time. Headed by front man Victor Tsoi.
The band was formed in the summer of 1981 in Leningrad, USSR (now St. Petersburg, Russia) as rock band Garin i giperboloidy (after Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoi's novel Giperboloid inzhenera Garina, published in English as Engineer Garin and His Death Ray) by Tsoi, Aleksei Rybin and Oleg Valinskiy. A year later, the name of the band was changed to Kino (Russian for "cinema-movement"). Since rock music was considered "anti-Soviet", Kino, like the other rock bands, performed only in semi-underground clubs and at musicians' apartments (kvartirniks).
In the summer of 1982, Kino's first album 45 (named for its length in minutes) was recorded as a collaboration with the band Aquarium. The album was slowly distributed through underground channels and gave a new fame to the group.
The band's first real hit was the album Noch ("night") released in 1986; the six songs from the album were included in the Red Wave: 4 Underground Bands from the USSR compilation disc released in the U.S. in 1986.
At the beginning of the Perestroika era, the band emerged somewhat from the underground (though not to the same extent as more poppy bands like Mashina Vremeni), and the 1988 album Gruppa krovi (Blood Type), together with the movie Igla (The Needle), which starred Tsoi, brought the band to the pinnacle of popularity.
During the next two years, the band released another album and did shows in the USSR and abroad, attracting enormous audiences, until August 15, 1990, when Tsoi died in a car accident near Riga. The tape with the vocal track for the new album survived the accident. The album was completed by the rest of the band and released in 1990 without a title, though it is always cited as Черный Альбом (The Black Album) since it has a wholly black cover.
The band's popularity in the Soviet Union was so extraordinarily high that after Tsoi's death, the words “Цой жив!” ("Tsoi is alive!") and “КИНО” appeared on public surfaces throughout the country. Writing these words became a kind of a memorial ritual among fans of the band. Even today the slogan occasionally surfaces in urban graffiti.
All Kino songs were written by Viktor Tsoi. His lyrics are characterized by a poetic simplicity. The ideas of liberty were present (one song was named "Mother Anarchy") but, on the whole, the band's message to the public was not overly politically charged. Their songs largely focused on life, freedom and love. Daily life is embedded in Kino's vocabulary (for instance, there is a song about the elektrichka
The music of Kino has often been compared to contemporary English-language bands such as The Smiths, The Clash, Depeche Mode and Joy Division. It is likely that these bands were a direct influence on Kino; Tsoi himself admitted to wanting to achieve a sound similar to Duran Duran for the album Noch. This is certainly the case with such sound features as the drum machine beats and guitar tone on some tracks, although lyrically Kino undoubtedly surpasses the former band in depth and meaning. Their music also drew heavily on the Russian poetic songwriting tradition of singers such as Vladimir Vysotsky (see Bard).
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A greater sense of patriotism since the terrorist attacks has spurred renewed emphasis on Veterans Day activities this year, including a special concert at a church in Glen Ellyn and a fly-over during a Naperville ceremony.
But one of the more poignant remembrances in the western suburbs was being planned even before the attacks, an effort to honor veterans of the Korean War.
Known as the "forgotten war" because it came between World War II and the Vietnam era, the Korean conflict took place between 1950 and 1953. West Chicago officials will honor about 25 veterans from the city and surrounding area as part of a national movement to offer greater recognition to veterans who served in the war.
"Most people's understanding of Korea comes from the TV show `M*A*S*H,'" said Chris Gingrich, education coordinator of the West Chicago City Museum.
Gingrich said the city is working on capturing oral histories and other projects for an exhibit at the museum. In addition, Korean War vets will receive a special pin during the annual luncheon at 10:45 a.m. Sunday at the American Legion in West Chicago, 123 Main St. The luncheon is open to the public.
Other events taking place in the western suburbs for Veterans Day:
- In Naperville, the Lima Lima Flight Team will do a fly-over at Veterans Park, 303 E. Gartner Rd. The 11 a.m. service Sunday will include a flag folding ceremony performed by Sunshine Assembly No. 114 of the International Order of Rainbow for girls. The Naperville Municipal Band will also perform. Audience members are asked to bring non-perishable food items and paper supplies for Loaves and Fishes Community Pantry.
- A benefit concert featuring opera singers Patricia Bach and Lisa Saunderson will begin at 6:30 p.m. Sunday at St. James the Apostle Church, 480 S. Park Blvd., Glen Ellyn. A free-will offering will be held to benefit the Chicago Tribune Sept. 11 Disaster Relief Fund and the Glen Ellyn Food Pantry.
- The Darien Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2838 will have a Veterans Day ceremony at 10:30 a.m. Sunday at Clarendon Hills Memorial Park, Plainfield Road and Clarendon Hills Road, Darien. The ceremony will honor Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Lester W. Weber, a student at Hinsdale South High School who received the Congressional Medal of Honor during the Vietnam War. Weber was killed during fighting in February 1969.
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by Matt Wharton on March 10, 2010
Entrepreneur Sir James Dyson has produced a report titled Ingenious Britain for the Conservative Party urging a raising of the profile of science in the UK to help diversify the economy and boost growth. The pdf of Ingenious Britain can be downloaded here.
James Dyson makes the same argument that he made in 2004 when he gave the Richard Dimbleby Lecture, that the British economy cannot be sustained as merely a service economy. Manufacturing is the key to future success and it should lie in high tech goods where we have a competitive advantage. In fact things are now worse since his 2004 lecture as Design and Technology has been phased out of the curriculum at many schools since it was made non-statutory.
The part of Dyson’s report title Education: Getting young people excited about science and engineering made me think about James May’s Toy Stories which showed that although children initially thought stuff like Airfix and Meccano was boring that given the chance to play with it they really changed their minds. I think that if each class of maybe Year Six in schools were given a Meccano set then we’d end up with a lot more people going into engineering. Ironically Meccano is a British engineering success story that due to lessening interest in engineering in this country ended up becoming a foreign success story. Meccano is the only French manufacturer of toys that are internationally recognized, manufacturing part of its line in France.
Dyson believes that his company represents a good model for future British economic growth whereby the assembly of the products is done overseas but all the important engineering research and design is done in the UK. If this is to be the case for future success for British companies then we need to produce more engineers in our universities. In fact our universities are producing many excellent engineers unfortunately rather than being homegrown a large proportion of these are from overseas and many then return home to work.
Analysts of the current British economic crisis argue that the pound needs to remain low in order to boost are exports. But I believe that this does not need to be the case if the products we are exporting are competitive in ways more than just price. The Dyson vacuum cleaner is an excellent example, it is more expensive than rival vacuums but the benefits are worth the premium and it sells extremely well overseas even when the strong pound created an even greater premium in price than seen in the UK. Truly innovative products which are protected by patents can sell well and command a premium overseas.
Much of the British economic growth of the last few decades has been due to greater consumerism but the recession has brought that to a head and we are unlikely to see growth in the same way. We need to be more than just a nation of shopkeepers and because engineers are generally paid better than people in the service sector then a move to a greater proportion of the workforce being comprised of engineers is a good thing in many ways.
As well as the encouragement of engineering as a career choice Dyson recommends that tax breaks should be given in order to encourage investment into the development of innovations which do not necessarily produce a quick return on investment but do represent good long term growth.
by Matt Wharton on April 9, 2009
Nassim Nicholas Taleb the author of the brilliant The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
presents in the Financial Times Ten principles for a Black Swan-proof world. [via]
Also very worth reading is his essay The Fourth Quadrant: A map of the limits of statistics.
Taleb, looking at the cataclysmic situation facing financial institutions today, points out that “the banking system, betting against Black Swans, has lost over 1 Trillion dollars (so far), more than was ever made in the history of banking”.
But, as he points out, there is also good news.
“We can identify where the danger zone is located, which I call the fourth quadrant, and show it on a map with more or less clear boundaries. A map is a useful thing because you know where you are safe and where your knowledge is questionable.”
I’m not sure that those with the power to change things and those that caused the financial chaos have learnt the lesson and will likely ignore the advice of Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
The reason they got us into this mess and were allowed to get away with it for so long was because they were making money hand over fist using financial instruments that nobody really understood. However they were clearly operating off the map and the system became prone to be hit by a Black Swan event.
Their narrative didn’t tie with the reality of the situation at the time and in the future they will restructure the narrative of these current events to suit their own purposes. It will be the fault of the sub-prime house buyers and the poor management at the companies that collapsed and not faults inherent in the system and the lack of proper regulation.
by Matt Wharton on April 6, 2009
“We’re paying rent to tax dodgers” – Mark Thomas
by Matt Wharton on October 29, 2008
The chickens have come home to roost for a number of hedge funds who had been short selling Volkswagen shares as Porsche announced that in addition to the 44% of shares it already had in the company it had secured 31% through cash-settled call options.
News like this would normally be only a minor problem for the short sellers however since the German state of Lower Saxony holds just over 20% of VW, Porsche’s disclosure meant that, in fact, there were only 5% of VW’s shares left on the market, whereas traders were shorting for about 13% of those shares! [via]
All day yesterday, the panic to get out compounded the situation: at one stage, VW temporarily became the world’s biggest company by market value.
As the losses have grown, so has the indignation. The hedge funds feel unfairly caught out. VW has been a popular “short”.
This news brought a little smile to my face.
by Matt Wharton on May 8, 2008
With the collapse in the value of the US dollar and introduction of state’s subsidies for foreign investment the normal direction of Globalisation has pulled a reversal and the Chinese are starting to outsource to the US.
DONGGUAN, CHINA — Liu Keli couldn’t tell you much about South Carolina, not even where it is in the United States. It’s as obscure to him as his home region, Shanxi province, is to most Americans.
But Liu is investing $10 million in the Palmetto State, building a printing-plate factory that will open this fall and hire 120 workers. His main aim is to tap the large American market, but when his finance staff penciled out the costs, he was stunned to learn how they compared with those in China.
Liu spent about $500,000 for seven acres in Spartanburg — less than one-fourth what it would cost to buy the same amount of land in Dongguan, a city in southeast China where he runs three plants. U.S. electricity rates are about 75% lower, and in South Carolina, Liu doesn’t have to put up with frequent blackouts.
This is an interesting turn of events and is likely to be a continuing trend.
by Matt Wharton on May 5, 2008
According to the New York Times. Over the last six decades, the real incomes of middle-class families grew twice as fast under Democratic presidents as they did under Republican presidents. The real incomes of working-poor families grew six times as fast under Democratic presidents. [via]
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Ministry of Labor. The Department of Labor Protection and Welfare. Proposed projects to fund labor into consideration of Cabinet. The Cabinet resolved on 20 June 2538 agreed in principle to fund the project labor. In the manner of working capital. Act 2491 BC treasury reserves to loans via the labor savings cooperatives. Or Credit Union Cooperative in the workplace, business and state enterprises. The objective is.
1. To develop a revenue turnover of labor.
2. To promote savings. And economic security for labor.
3. To finance the removal of debt outside of the labor system.
Budget funds for labor.
Bureau of the Budget has determined the allocation of budget to fund the initial 100 million baht in 2539 and to date there has been a total budget 240 million baht.
Agencies responsible for labor funds.
Agencies responsible for the fund ordinary laborer. The Division of Labor Welfare. Department of Labor Protection and Welfare. Ministry of Labor. Contact the regional office for Labor Protection and Welfare Cooperative is located in the province.
Fund management to labor.
Funds managed by the labor board to fund the labor of 15 people including the Chairman of the undersecretary of the Ministry of Labor. Representative government is involved. Ministry of Finance. Bureau of the Budget. Cooperative Promotion Department. Social Security office. In addition, a representative party employer. Department employee representatives. Qualified financial accounting of bank or cooperative. The Director-General of the Department of Labor Protection and Welfare Committee and a secretary. Director, Division of Welfare and Labor Committee and as Assistant Secretary. Committee fund. To a policy management fund. Loan approval and considered in other relevant authority. And has set a subcommittee of the 2.
• Loan Fund Committee to consider the use of labor to serve 9 people consider a request to borrow from the fund. Guidelines set forth in the proposed regulations, including those considered to have the authority to approve loans within the limits set commission.
• Promotion and Development Committee to fund a labor of 5 people to promote development and dissemination of operational funds for labor. Collaboration to fund operations. Benefit labor objectives. And enhance the financial welfare. And savings cooperatives established presence in the workplace.
Who has the right to borrow funds from labor.
Who have the right to borrow from the fund. The savings cooperatives and state enterprises in workplace affairs. And Credit Cooperative Union of the employees. Or employers with employees under the law on cooperatives. The member with the labor laws that protect workers. Or by labor law. And must qualify as a cooperative is that the New accounting period, then at least 1 fiscal year and through the inspection and certification of inspectors account.
Location requests to borrow funds for labor.
Savings cooperatives or cooperative credit unions in the workplace, the loan will be. Money from the fund to each applicant has no more than 20 million baht loan applicant is the following.
• Central Labor Welfare Division, filed a class 3 Department of Labor Protection and Welfare. Ministry of Labor.
Din Daeng, Bangkok.
• regional office filed the Labor Protection and Welfare Cooperative is located in the province.
Collateral to borrow funds.
• Committee and Board of Cooperative Savings Guarantee.
Loan approval authority.
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Alnwick Castle Summary
- Address: Estate Office, Alnwick, NE66 1NQ (Map)
- Tel: +44 (0)1665 510777
- Fax: +44 (0)1665 510876
- Owner: His Grace the Duke of Northumberland
- Administrator: His Grace the Duke of Northumberland
- E-mail: Click here to contact
- Website: Go to the Alnwick Castle website
Alnwick Castle Description
Alnwick, sometimes regarded as the 'Windsor of the North' is a fine example not only of a medieval fortress that has been in the same family for over 700 years but also stands as a wonderful illustration of what can be done to combat the stresses and strains that come with owning a large historic monument hedged about with restrictions, preservation orders and all the weight of modern bureaucracy.
A determined and very bright pair of owners have sat down and weighed the odds, accepted sacrifices and come up with answers that provide pleasure to thousands of people every year, bring prosperity to the neighbouring community and secured the future of the castle and gardens certainly for the mid-term future.
Fenwick is first mentioned soon after 1096 when Yves de Vestry became Baron of Fenwick and built some of the earliest parts of the Castle. Restored in the early 1300s, primarily as a fortress by, the 1st Lord Percy of Fenwick, the Abbot's Tower, the Middle Gateway and the Constable's Tower still remain despite alterations and additions by successive generations. These however did not prevent the castle falling into decay, and with the help of Robert Adam, and landscape designer Capability Brown the old fortress was transformed into a go thick family home.
Anthony Calvin replaced the 18th century "go thick" for Algernon, 4th Duke of Northumberland, paving the way for further conversion and additions that included the installation of electricity, ensuring that Alnwick became one of the first homes in the North East to have this facility. A tour of the Castle State Rooms reveals them to be packed with treasures, and eight Canaletto paintings in particular celebrate the collecting fervour that has spurred on the Percy family over the centuries.
Nowadays the Castle skillfully manages to combine its main purpose as a much-loved family home with an alter ego as 'Hogwarts', a School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, one of whose students is Harry Potter amongst a host of others whose names display a fertile imagination.
What has probably drawn as much attention to Alnwick as Harry Potter is the fantastical tree house, an incredible achievement on the grand scale, with a real restaurant up amongst the branches, ropes bridges and walkways. The Garden is already taking on an early maturity, and more additions are expected over the next few years.
Events are designed to bring life to the history of this great family fortress. The Castle gives opportunities for archery and the learning of ancient crafts and medieval skills. Master falconers strut their stuff and wizardry is never far from the action. Outdoor exhibitions in The Garden vie with live music, and gardeners of all ages can get planting, making or creating, with workshops well geared up to provide fun mixed with a bit of learning, the ideal recipe for a good family day out. For further details about Alnwick Castle, visit their Website.
Alnwick Castle - Film Location and Function Venue:
Alnwick Castle is the ideal setting for historical film locations. Particularly with its medieval exterior and grounds, offering excellent backdrops that require little or no dressing. Combine this with an outstanding landscape which has retained its character since being designed by the landscape architect, Capability Brown in the 18th century. The Guest Hall within the Castle offers a facility that can be used for studio sets during wet weather. Locations can be provided within the Castle grounds for unit vehicles and facilities. The most recent films include the Harry Potter series.
Alnwick Castle is an exceptional location for any occasion; whether you're planning a celebration with family and friends, corporate hospitality, a conference, a product launch or a theatre production, Alnwick Castle combines its marvellous buildings and stunning location with the services of a professional team who will be delighted to help you to find exactly the right package to meet your needs.
The Guest Hall is one of area's grandest venues for special events and opens onto a large cobbled Courtyard. Banqueting 200 and theatre style 300. The Sanctuary at The Castle is a magnificent restaurant and wine bar for both Castle and non-Castle visitors, open for lunch and evening dining. It is available for private functions. Banqueting and drinks receptions for 40 to 160. Knights Quest is perfect for an open-air summer’s drinks reception, children's birthday party and for corporate team building. Drinks reception for 100, children's birthday party 24 and corporate team building 80.
Opening Times - 2012
- April - October: daily, 10 am - 6 pm (Last admission 4.15 pm)
- State Rooms open 11 am - 5 pm (last admissions 4.15 pm)
Admission Prices - 2012
Castle & Grounds:
- Adult - £14.00
- Child (5-16 years) - £7.00
- Child (under 5 years) - Free
- Seniors - £12.60
- Family (2 adults + 4 children) - £36.00
All day tickets can be validated for unlimited free entry during opening hours for 12 months from date of purchase! Validate ticket on-site during your first visit. Pay for a day, visit free for a year.
Pre-booked Groups Welcome (minimum 14 people) - +44 (0)1665 511178
Weekly & Season Tickets available.
Historic Houses Association members free access to Castle only.
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Eight hundred years ago, relatively small armies of mounted warriors suddenly exploded outward from the cold, arid high-elevation grasslands of Mongolia and reshaped world geography, culture and history in ways that still resound today. How did they do it?
Tree-ring scientists at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory have worked in Mongolia since 1995. In 2010, Lamont researcher Neil Pederson and Amy Hessl of West Virginia University were seeking old trees for a study of wildfire history. High in the Khangai Mountains, north of the steppe where the long-disappeared Mongol capital of Karakorum once lay, they explored a nearly solid-rock plain of hardened lava left by a volcanic eruption some 8,000 years ago. Growing out of fissures and thin soils were thousands of gnarled, stunted larches and Siberian pines–a tree-ring scientist’s treasure. Annual rings of many species reflect rainfall or temperature in predictable ways. These can be read like books; and trees in the driest, harshest sites like this are exquisitely sensitive to rain, live to extraordinary ages, and leave trunks that may stand for centuries after they die. They are truly ancient manuscripts, writ with a fine hand.
Pederson and Hessl analyzed 17 trees to chart a yearly record of rainfall back to 658 AD. They saw that from 1211-1230—the exact time of the Mongols’ rise—central Mongolia saw one of its wettest periods ever. That time also was unusually warm, as shown by a | <urn:uuid:d72c886f-09e6-4a47-9893-cc762f0f9e30> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://preamo.tumblr.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00039-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94339 | 328 | 3.953125 | 4 |
Composers' teeth stolen? Strauss, Brahms graves may have been robbed of decomposing remains
Thomas Vecsey of the state prosecutor's office says authorities are considering filing charges against a man suspected of breaking into the Vienna graves of Austrian waltz king Johann Strauss Jr. and German Romantic composer Johannes Brahms and taking their teeth.
Vecsey said Friday that suspicions first arose in 2008 but investigators determined that any crime fell outside Austria's statute of limitations. New evidence other graves might have been disturbed has led to the probe's reopening.
The Austria Press Agency said prosecutors are eyeing a person of interest.
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The early adopter’s guide to 3D TV, cameras, camcorders, and editing
- — 30 June, 2011 09:18
We're already in the second generation of in-home 3D, but you're forgiven if you feel nervous about making the plunge just yet. Spending $2000 or so on a 3D TV set, a few pairs of glasses, and a 3D-capable camera or camcorder still seems like a risky proposition at this point, as some key questions remain.
For instance, will 3D video shot with a Panasonic camcorder display correctly on a Samsung TV? If so, what will it take to play back your own 3D images and video on your set? And if you'd rather limit your viewing options to broadcast 3D content and 3D Blu-ray discs, will the content currently available keep you entertained for long?
In this guide, we'll help answer those questions. It's worth a read even if you're not interested specifically in a 3D setup: Soon, every new HDTV may support 3D viewing in one way or another, and more everyday cameras will offer 3D modes.
"In the next couple of years, 3D camcorder success will depend on the ability to easily watch your content on the new breed of TVs," says Christopher Chute, Research Manager at IDC Worldwide Digital Imaging Solutions Group. "Cameras built specifically for 3D shooting may have only a niche following, yet more cameras in the coming years will give you a choice of 3D modes and let you easily capture 3D still and video content. Another trend we'll see is more glasses-free 3D screens on cameras and camcorders, enabling easy local sharing."
Here's what you'll need to know about the 3D file formats, cameras, camcorders, and HDTVs available now and in the coming months.
Capturing 3D content: one lens vs. two lenses
In a traditional setup, a camera needs two lenses spaced about as far apart as a pair of eyeballs to take a 3D image. The photo taken through each lens represents a visual "channel"--one right channel, one left channel--that sync up with your eyeballs to create the 3D illusion you see in the resulting image. After taking the two photos, the camera combines the two "channel" images into one image in various ways, depending on the playback technology. Slightly offsetting the two images or firing the left- and right-channel images in rapid succession gives the image or video simulated depth when viewed with special eyewear or on a specially coated display.
Few single-lens 3D cameras and convertible 3D lens options are available now, though they are still probably the best option for casual shooters today. Not everyone wants to invest in a twin-lens camera built primarily for 3D shooting; one-lens cameras are everyday models built for traditional 2D shooting, but they also let you experiment with 3D photography. Be aware, however, that single-lens cameras can take only 3D still images, not 3D video footage; you'll need a dual-lens device to make 3D movies.
Inside single-lens models, accelerometers and algorithms perform most of the magic. The cameras detect where each lens in a two-lens setup should be; then on-screen guides instruct the shooter to move the camera accordingly to frame a 3D shot. The camera performs the post-shot stitching and processing automatically, and the result is a single .MPO-format 3D image. | <urn:uuid:96058ef1-c00c-41cb-97a1-844ac5ac5ce3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/392023/early_adopter_guide_3d_tv_cameras_camcorders_editing/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00060-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.913899 | 741 | 1.515625 | 2 |
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having or exhibiting native good judgment: "commonsense scholarship on the foibles and oversights of a genius” ( Times Literary Supplement).
- adj. Exhibiting or using common sense
“LOTHIAN: So, in a little-noticed memo sent around last month, the Office of Management and Budget made what it calls commonsense changes to provide more accurate data.”
“She was defending what she calls commonsense conservatism.”
“CROWLEY: In five stops through southeastern Missouri, Talent mentioned same-sex marriage and abortion in most of them, reaching out to the base with what he calls commonsense Missouri values.”
“But what we called commonsense views, after all, can be analysed and ought to be analysed.”
The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield
“One policeman armed with persuasive reasoning and commonsense is worth six others with truncheons drawn and shouting abuse to make their points.”
“Sadly the innocent fall prey to it, and commonsense is out the window. on March 22, 2008 at 11: 15 pm | Reply XTP”
“Had the word commonsense not become such a meaningless term I'd almost be tempted to use it.”
“In striking contrast to this, the gigantic industry of advertising is to-day still controlled essentially by an amateurish impressionism, by a so-called commonsense, which is nothing but the uncritical following of a well-worn path.”
“I don't know when I have been so diverted; but to a person of plain commonsense like myself, the tricks and ways of these London ladies are amazingly entertaining.”
“Jim Butcher’s LiveJournal page: Jim lays out, in commonsense and no-nonsense fashion, one of the best, most concise distillations of story structure ideas I have ever seen.”
These user-created lists contain the word ‘commonsense’.
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Addressing Urban Health
Sharon See, Pharm.D., BCPS
Associate Clinical Professor, Clinical
It’s 8 a.m. and Sharon See and her pharmacy students are meeting
with the attending and resident physicians of Beth Israel Medical
Center’s Residency in Urban Family Practice Program, where she also
holds a faculty position. They are discussing the patients admitted
the night before.
As a large urban hospital in lower Manhattan, Beth Israel serves
many indigent patients. Professor See, who teaches proper
medication use to family medicine residents, may be asked to
recommend therapies for patients coping with everything from
HIV/AIDS to diabetes. She also collaborates with physicians on
research, such as the development of a new alcohol withdrawal
protocol at her hospital.
“I have a direct impact on patients through collaboration with
their physicians,” she explains. “My pharmacy students are
surprised by how much they are a part of the team. They are not
here to shadow the physicians. They are here to work side by side
And, there is plenty of hands-on work to do. Fifth- and
sixth-year Pharm.D. students actively help optimize drug therapy in
their patients by assessing the appropriateness of medications and
identifying treatments that might benefit patients. Students also
counsel patients on various issues such as medications, proper
inhaler use, disease states such as diabetes, or smoking cessation.
“This type of education helps us be better clinicians,” Professor
See says, adding, “Coming on rotation in New York City opens
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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed
or frightened, but go on in fortune
and misfortune at their own private pace
like a clock during a thunderstorm.
—Robert Louis Stevenson
Jan,I completely appreciate this post and absolutely love it. I would love to hear which of these rules is your favorite, and which do you struggle with the most? For me, everything is an experiment really resonates, and I've been trying to believe and work on number seven.Thank you so much for posting this!
Like you, I am probably most fond of Number 4: Consider everything an experiment. I think it might be that for me number 8 is the most critical—there must be hard work, determination, persistence, but at the same time a light touch, allowing things to happen, to noodle their way in the direction they need to go. It's a tricky balance because it must be accomplished without thrashing about. | <urn:uuid:801aef51-c89f-4e33-97bc-3cef8b16e6a6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://janpriddyoregon.blogspot.com/2013/03/art-saves-lives.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00030-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962973 | 190 | 1.507813 | 2 |
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Community-Led Service Philosophy
Edmonton Public Library, AB
Pilar Martinez, Executive Director, Public Services, email@example.com
Edmonton’s numerous distinct neighbourhoods and culturally diverse communities present a multiplicity of needs in the areas of learning and literacy, public health and safety, economic development and basic access to information. In response, EPL committed to finding ways to reach out to Edmonton’s underserved communities through strategic collaborations with existing civic and community organizations.
EPL reified its commitment to civic and community engagement by taking the bold step of establishing 17 community librarian positions working out of 17 service points throughout the city. These librarians connect with community groups and agencies, forming both formal and informal relationships that allow EPL to respond to self-identified community priorities. This decentralized approach allows service points to respond to their communities effectively on a very local level. More broadly, the Community-Led Service Philosophy has been established system-wide as a cornerstone of EPL’s service approach. A Toolkit was published outlining recommendations for implementing the Community-Led Service Philosophy (CLSP) at all staffing levels. A CLSP team also coordinates regular opportunities for managers, community librarians and other staff to learn collaboratively by sharing the successes and challenges of implementing this service philosophy. A formalized reflection/reporting process is being developed to facilitate ongoing evaluation of this approach to service provision. An important component of this evaluation will include meaningful feedback from community partners.
In 2010, community librarians worked with over 310 organizations in Edmonton for a total average of 145 hours per week. These librarians are developing relationships, skills and strategies that result in measurable outcomes such as increased circulation of specific collections and increased program attendance. Impacts are more difficult to measure, but the use of a logic model of evaluation will enable ongoing assessment to determine long-term impacts. The value of this community engagement was demonstrated when representatives of 2 partnering organizations spoke passionately at public budget hearings about the library’s positive impact on their communities. | <urn:uuid:6c50ba65-aeb0-49b0-b0f3-7537bd868610> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.urbanlibraries.org/community-led-service-philosophy-innovation-327.php?page_id=93 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.924216 | 425 | 1.53125 | 2 |
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SOURCE: Michigan Head & Neck Institute
Dr. Richard Klein and the staff at the Michigan Head & Neck Institute are collecting toys for children 0-18 years old, and there is especially a need for toys for infants. Toy donations can be given to the front desk at their location in Warren, MI and will later be given to Henry Ford Hospital Macomb who will distribute them to children staying in their hospital during the holidays.
Warren, MI (PRWEB) November 23, 2012
During this time of year, amongst the hustle and bustle of shopping, cooking, and hosting it is important to think of those that are in need. A lot of people will be shopping for their children, while others won’t be able to because they might have a sick child and debt from medical bills. There are a lot of different reasons why children might be in the hospital through the holidays. It could be that a child simply needs a cast for an injury obtained while playing, or it could be that the child is there to receive treatment for a long-term illness, or it might be that the child has just been born. The “why” isn’t important, what is important is that any person can help them still have a holiday with hope and gifts.
Dr. Richard Klein and his staff are hosting a toy drive at their facility, the Michigan Head & Neck Institute, and today is the first day of collections. Whether you’re one of Dr. Klein’s patients and have an appointment, or you are out doing your holiday shopping, stop in and drop off your donation(s) at their office. Donations will be accepted Monday through Friday during business hours, through Wednesday, December 19th. All toys collected will be taken to Henry Ford Hospital of Macomb and distributed to children who will be patients in the hospital throughout the holidays. They will accept all new, unopened toys for children 0-18 years old.
Whether someone can donate a bag full of toys, or a single rattle – it will still make a difference to the child and family. “We’ve all heard it’s not the gift, but the thought that counts. The thought of a child without a gift on Christmas is not a thought that brings Christmas cheer to anyone,” says Dr. Klein of the Michigan Head & Neck Institute. Toy drives are common this time of year, and a lot of people spread their generosity. However, it is typically children 0-3 years old and 14-18 years old that aren’t considered specifically. There is the highest need for infant toys such as rattles or teething rings and activity books of all sorts (Crosswords, Sudoku, etc.) for the older children. Michigan Head & Neck Institute will accept even the smallest donation with great appreciation.
For a map of their location: http://www.michiganheadandneck.com/contact/
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Lipstick Effect Is Triggered By Tough Economic Conditions, Says John Lewis
Tough economic conditions have triggered the "lipstick effect", with a rise in shoppers buying small beauty treats to cheer themselves up, retailers said today.
The John Lewis and Waitrose partnership card has seen a surge in spending on cosmetics, creams and other beauty items in the last three months of 2011.
Analysis of the spending habits of the card's 553,000 customers found that beauty and skin care spending rose by 48% between October and December 2011, compared with the same period in 2010.
This was echoed by the strength of beauty sales in John Lewis stores, which recorded 26% and 25% increases in sales of Liz Earle and L'Occitane beauty products respectively in the final three months of last year compared with the same period the previous year.
Households have come under pressure from high living costs and deteriorating employment conditions, while seeing little return on their savings.
John Brady, head of commercial for the John Lewis and Waitrose partnership card, said: "Previous economic downturns have shown that people try to cheer themselves up by splashing out on small treats.
"Our figures suggest this is what is exactly what is happening today on the high street.
"We are certainly seeing a return of the lipstick effect. It's apparent that there are certain luxuries people refuse to give up on, making them arguably recession-proof." | <urn:uuid:2c084776-e7d6-44af-98c0-d44b117e1b07> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/02/05/lipstick-effect-economy-john-lewis_n_1255496.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959516 | 295 | 1.695313 | 2 |
WASHINGTON — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney dismissed the prospects for an independent Palestinian state coexisting with Israel a decades-old bipartisan U.S. goal in a secretly recorded meeting last spring with campaign donors.
"Im torn by two perspectives in this regard. One is the one which Ive had for some time, which is that the Palestinians have no interest whatsoever in establishing peace, and that the pathway to peace is almost unthinkable to accomplish, he told attendees at a May fundraiser in Boca Raton, Fla., according to a video of the event obtained by Mother Jones magazine that was released Tuesday.
And I look at the Palestinians not wanting to see peace anyway, for political purposes, committed to the destruction and elimination of Israel, and these thorny issues and I say, Theres just no way.
Instead of a two-state solution in which Israel and an independent Palestinian state coexist with shared borders, Romney seemed to suggest in the session a policy of delay.
So what you do is, you say, you move things along the best way you can, Romney told attendees at the $50,000-per-person event. You hope for some degree of stability, but you recognize that this is going to remain an unsolved problem . . . and we kick the ball down the field and hope that ultimately, somehow, something will happen and resolve it.
Romney has since outlined a different approach in public comments.
I believe in a two-state solution, which suggests there will be two states, including a Jewish state, Romney told the Israeli publication Haaretz in July during his trip to the United Kingdom, Israel and Poland.
I respect Israels right to remain a Jewish state. The question is not whether the people of the region believe that there should be a Palestinian state. The question is if they believe there should be an Israeli state, a Jewish state.
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said Tuesday that Romneys May remarks reflected the opposite of leadership, and Carney called the two-state solution a basic tenant of Republican and Democratic presidents including George W. Bush and Bill Clinton.
Ultimately, peace between the Israelis and Palestinians, a negotiated peace that provides security for Israel and a state for the Palestinians, is in the interests of the Israelis and the Palestinians, and in the interests of the United States of America, Carney said.
Carney also chastised the former Massachusetts governor for comments dismissing the 47 percent of people who support President Barack Obama, on a segment of the same video that the magazine released Monday.
When youre president of the United States, you are president of all the people, not just the people who voted for you, Carney said.
The brouhaha was another distraction for the Romney campaign, another day when his economic message the cornerstone of his bid to unseat Obama got less attention than a fresh controversy.
In the past week, Romney has had to explain criticism of Obamas Middle East policies at a moment of crisis in Egypt and Libya, as well as his taped remarks from the May video that 47 percent of Americans see themselves as victims dependent on government support.
On the stump, Romney has accused Obama of exercising hands-off leadership in the Middle East. Hes charged the president with ignoring Israels pleas to address a looming nuclear threat from Iran and mishandling the aftermath of last years Arab spring protests, which led to the ousters of oppressive regimes in Libya, Egypt and Tunisia.
Romney escalated his criticism after an assault on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, resulted in the death of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens.
The Middle East needs American leadership, and I intend to be a president that provides the leadership that America expects and will keep us admired throughout the world, he said last week at a campaign rally in Fairfax, Va.
Romneys recent controversies dont appear to have caused much political damage, though there are some signs that they could.
"I wouldnt expect much to show up for a while. If it has an effect, it would be a cumulative thing," said Jennifer Duffy, political analyst for the nonpartisan Cook Political Report.
So far, though, Romney has been doing better since he broke with the long-standing tradition of not criticizing a White House incumbent during a time of crisis, questioning the presidents Middle East policies.
A Gallup daily tracking poll released Tuesday found Obama ahead of Romney by 47-46 percent, suggesting that the race is back to the virtual tie its seen for months. The president had opened up a 7-percentage-point lead a week ago.
"Everyone already seems to know who theyre for," said Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac Polling Institute.
The race has consistently been a battle for the few undecided voters, and theyre hard to characterize or even identify. Brown finds that theyre not that interested in politics and are reluctant to vote. Other polls have found that younger voters, who are less likely to have allegiances to political parties, are disproportionately undecided.
One danger sign for Romney: The attacks on the U.S. embassies in the Middle East were by far the most closely followed news story of the year, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.
Forty-eight percent of those surveyed from Thursday through Sunday disapproved of Romneys comments, while 26 percent approved. Notably disapproving were 18- to 29-year-old voters 15 percent of them approved and independents, 23 percent of whom approved. Romney needs both groups badly to win.
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We don't understand how letter writer Stephen Michaelides can slander the brave men who flew in World War II as drones ("How do World War II's 'drones' differ?" Tuesday). Those young men put their lives at risk so we could have a future.
We don't feel sorry for the people of Dresden, Hiroshima or Nagasaki. Germany and Japan started the war, and we finished it.
Our men fought and died in an environment we can't even imagine. If Germany or Japan would have had the means at the end that we had at the beginning, they wouldn't have hesitated to destroy us.
We lost a family member in that war. Michaelides refers to him as a drone. He was killed over France, leaving a family at home. The family still misses him. He was a man with a willingness to defend his country. He was a hero. We will always be proud of him and grieve his loss.
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Nobel Prizes and Laureates is great visualization from the Milanese design firm Accurat. From 1901-2012 this information design breaks down the winners by category, age, principal university affiliates and even hometowns.
The high-resolution version is available on Visualizing.org
The visualization explores Nobel Prizes and Laureates from 1901 to 2012 analyzing the age of recipients at the time prices were awarded, average age evolution through time and distribution among categories, grade level, main affiliation universities and principal hometowns of the laureates.
Designed as a part of an ongoing series for the Milanese newspaper Corrierre della Sera, La Lettura is a culture supplement. You can see this design and the rest of the series in the collection on Visualizing.org.
The timeline takes a lot of information, and makes it easy to understand for the readers. I especially appreciate the transition from line chart of ages to the bar chart of education grade levels to the sankey diagram of universities at the right end of the timeline. Beautifully done.
Each dot represents a Nobel laureate, each recipient is positioned according to the year the prize was awarded (x axis) and age of the person at the time of the award (y axis).
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The art and financial worlds are all abuzz about the vigorous buying surge witnessed on the evening of February 3, 2010 at Sotheby’s London, when a bronze sculpture by Swiss modern master Alberto Giacometti fetched the highest price in art auction history. Phillip Hook, the London based Sotheby’s specialist in Impressionist art afterward commented about the supply and demand dynamics involved, “Throughout 2009, we could see plenty of demand for works but not enough supply. This sale confirmed there is more supply and, if anything, demand is even greater.”
After the most significant world-wide economic downturn in more than 70 years, it’s not hard to understand the confusion, consternation and in some cases anger displayed by people wondering how a piece of metal could be worth 65 million pounds (104.3 million dollars). Add to this newest “shocking” price phenomenon the unprecedented prices fetched at the Sotheby’s London auction in September 2008, of the works of British artist Damien Hirst. This sale which contained dead animals encased in formaldehyde filled boxes, cigarette butts arranged on medicine cabinets, dead flies shellacked onto canvasses, and other prime examples of Hirst’s aesthetic ephemera, in total fetched an astonishing $200,700,000, the highest price in history at auction for a single artist (eclipsing even Picasso’s record of 1993).
The same Phillip Hook in his 2009 book, The Ultimate Trophy: How Impressionist Painting Conquered the World (Prestel) perfectly captured another aspect of the public’s mystification of art’s perceived value. “We live in an era, which more than ever before, equates novelty with quality,” he stated. I fear (and fervently hope) that this comment by Mr. Hook, may be no longer the case and that due to the confluence of economic, sociopolitical, and even spiritual realities our shrunken world is experiencing today the big pendulum of art history as evidenced by the Giacometti sculpture may finally be swinging back.
The financial realities everyone the world over is experiencing today have shifted the paradigm. The age of conspicuous consumerism if not over, is today like a cubist painting, offering multiple and fragmented views of reality. To me, it’s no wonder that a work of art can emerge as a symbol of our times, a touchstone for something that still reveals the glory and hope of human creativity. Like a Haiku wherein great wisdom may be discerned in myriad ways by those who read it, the dramatic demonstration of the value of a work of art amidst times of uncertainty and even iconoclastic worldwide financial transformation still bodes well for us all.
Since the days when men first made markings on stone, stepped back and contemplated the mysteries of human consciousness found in the residue of those markings, art has been the beacon, the spearhead of human achievement. Why not now to once again affirm its enduring meaning in our lives and watch the pendulum move back again toward those same aspirations of form and content that created the narrative of art for 60,000 years? Seems like a perfectly fitting and beautiful irony to me.
The Ancient Greeks believed that sculpture was the purest and highest art form. I suspect they (and Giacometti) knew something we didn’t, until now.
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Tiger Woods' indiscretions were an example of one.
So was each of USC's four football losses.
And the Chargers' you-gotta-be-kidding defeat Sunday? That definitely was one.
But the epitome came in October, at a school in upstate New York, when the students didn't have a "snow day" but instead a "can't-go day."
Everyone at Altmar-Parish-Williamstown Middle School was sent home early because, according to news reports, "the school's 22 toilets backed up and were unusable."
Officials believe the constipated commodes were the result of someone attempting to flush something inappropriate, a T-shirt perhaps or a plastic bottle or a fourth-grader.
Anyway, it was Superintendent Gerry Hudson who, while trying to find the story's silver urinal cake, promised to turn the incident into "a teachable moment."
Enough with citing the "teachable moment" already. Every time we read or hear this term it becomes a "barfable moment."
A few weeks ago, Lake Superior State University in Michigan included "teachable moment" on its annual list of phrases that should be booted from the English language.
Personally, we don't want "teachable moment" to just be booted. Oh, no. We want it to be obliterated, sent to whatever version of fiery hell it is that holds all our painfully annoying phrases, like "It is what it is" and "My bad" and "Up next, SportsCenter."
How something so inane has been allowed to reach the level of mainstream acceptance is mystifying. "Teachable moment" is the verbal equivalent of Nicole Richie.
We used to learn from our mistakes, remember? Now we have "teachable moments."
We used to grow through adversity. Now we have "teachable moments."
We used to watch the Clippers. Now we have "teachable moments."
Good gravy, who do we think we are, Phil Jackson, who can make the thought process behind subbing in Luke Walton sound like an analysis of the postsynaptic density of farm mammals?
If you think about it, the Clippers are Team Teachable Moment., the franchise's entire existence one long, repeated lesson. And look what it has done for them.
By now, the Clippers must be the smartest bunch in the NBA, explaining why, over the years, so few of them have been good at basketball, too.
Among the ridiculous things surrounding the phrase "teachable moment" is that the key to any moment isn't really its teachability at all, but rather its learnability.
Before his New Mexico State football team visited Ohio State this season, Coach DeWayne Walker was asked about providing his players with words of inspiration.
"I always try to have a teachable moment for every team meeting," he explained. "I think (this week) it's something like David versus Goliath."
David then went out and lost to Goliath – by 45 points. Lesson unlearned.
A defensive lineman at North Carolina named Donte Paige-Moss was suspended at the end of the season after attempting to fight an opponent following a game.
"Everything is a teachable moment," Tar Heels coach Butch Davis assured, "and that's what we'll use that as."
OK, sure. But just months earlier, Paige-Moss was charged with misdemeanor assault for punching a teammate.
"Teachable moments" aren't worth much, you see, unless the people involved also are in learnable modes.
And if we're going to have "teachable moments," why not go even farther down the road of absurd terminology?
When Pete Carroll suddenly bolted from USC, it was a "screechable moment."
When soon-to-be-canned Texas Tech coach Mike Leach mistreated an injured player, it became a "breachable moment."
When South Florida coach Jim Leavitt was fired for abuse, it turned into a "Mike Leachable moment."
There are some people who believe the Cowboys' ugly departure from the NFL playoffs should be, for Coach Wade Phillips, an "impeachable moment."
The Lakers advancing to the 2010 NBA Finals? That's a "reachable moment."
We will say this much: "Teachable moments" certainly are versatile.
They can be found in victory – Indiana men's basketball coach Tom Crean after beating Pittsburgh: "These were all teachable moments from this win."
They can be found in defeat – Hawaii women's basketball coach Dana Takahara-Dias after losing to UCLA by 46 points: "This game is a teachable moment."
They even can be good and bad at the same time.
"These are teachable moments," SEC Commissioner Mike Slive said after reviews caught two blown officiating calls in football games. "You don't want to have teachable moments. But it'll make us better."
We'll all be better when "teachable moments" disappear completely, and everyone is back to just learning lessons.
Personally, we're more than ready to move on. So in bidding farewell to our least favorite phrase, we'll close this way:
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Jun 8, 2012
Parasitic Plants Steal Genes from Their Hosts
Vertical gene transfer is that between parents and their offspring, while horizontal gene transfer is the movement of genes between two different organisms. Bacteria use horizontal gene transfer to exchange resistance to antibiotics. Recent studies have shown that plants can also use horizontal gene transfer, especially parasitic plants and their hosts due to their intimate physical connections.
Rafflesia cantleyi is an obligate holoparasite (dependent on its host, and only that host, for sustenance), which grows on Tetrastigma rafflesiae, a member of the grape family. Researchers from Singapore, Malaysia and USA collaborated to systematically investigate the possibility of horizontal gene transfer between these two plants. By looking at the transcriptome (the transcribed products of switched on genes) they found 49 genes transcribed by the parasite, accounting for 2% of their total transcriptome, which originally belonged to the host. Three quarters of these transcripts appear to have replaced the parasites own version.
Most of these genes had been integrated into the parasite's nucleus, allowing the researchers to perform genomic analysis. Over time DNA randomly mutates and investigation of genetic drift between the genes for these transcripts, between the parasite and host, showed that some time has passed since the genes were acquired and that they were acquired gradually.
Prof Charles Davis, from the Harvard University Herbaria, who co-led this project with Prof Joshua Rest from Stony Brook University, explained, "The elevated rate of horizontal gene transfer between T. rafflesiae and its parasite R. cantleyi raises the possibility that there is a 'fitness' benefit to the parasite. For example they may improve the parasites ability to extract nutrients from the host, or help it evade the host's defences, as has been seen for a bacterial pathogen of citrus trees."
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Two young men were travelling. They stopped in the middle of their journey, (and one of them said,) "How would it be if we two should try it? What do you think about it?"--"It would be good if we two should try it," answered the other one. "We ought to try it with that soot here." They had five pieces (disks) of soot. Now they stopped and dropped one piece into the ocean. The p. 6 world at that time was without land. Everything was covered with water. Again they dropped one piece (disk). The ocean was rolling over the disk. The next day they dropped another disk. Then they stopped at some small place and dropped another disk into the ocean. They looked at it from above, Now land began to appear, and they saw it. They were very glad when they saw the land coming up.
The next day they dropped another disk. Land began to stick out (come up). They looked frequently at the waves, that rolled back and forth continually. "What is p. 7 your opinion?" said one of the two men. Shall we try it again?"--"With what shall we try it?" asked the other one. The water was still rolling back and forth. "Let us split this mat." They did so, and placed the two pieces over the five disks of soot. Now they went down to examine it. Still the land was not solid enough. So one of them said, "Let us split this basket in two!" They split it, and put it on the sand beach. The waves p. 8 were held back now, since the water was able to go down through the basket. Now the young men went down and examined the land. "This will do," said one of them. "It's good that way."
Now they began to look around the world which they had created. There were no trees. "Suppose we set up some trees," said one of them. "It would be very good," answered the other one. Then they stuck into the ground the feathers of an eagle. The feathers began p. 9 to grow, and developed soon into fir-trees. "All kinds of trees shall grow," said the older man. All the different kinds of trees commenced to grow. "Suppose we create animals," said one of the young men. "It won't be good if there shouldn't be any animals. The future generations ought to have animals." (Then they created animals.)
Early in the morning they went to look at the world they had created. Suddenly they saw tracks on the ocean beach. "Whose tracks may these be?" asked one of them. They followed the tracks, and soon came upon a person p. 10 sitting (on the top of a snag). "You, indeed, must have made these tracks. Who are you?"--"I am a medicine-man," answered the person whose face was painted all over with red paint. "You have no right to travel here. This is our world, we have made it. Are you surely a medicine-man?" They seized the stranger and killed him. Then they spilled his blood in all directions, and said to him, "You will be nothing, the last generation shall see you."
Then they turned back. Suddenly one of them became pregnant. The child could not come out. "What will become of us? We ought to have wives." None of them had done anything; nevertheless he became pregnant. p. 11 The child was all the time trying to come out, but could not do it. So they sent some one to the north, and told him, "There is a man living there. He is a good man. Bring him here." Some one went to get him. They went out in a canoe. To their surprise, there were no waves. So they wished that waves would come. "Five times shall the north wind come and (bring) five breakers." And so it was. They were waiting for the fifth wave. And when this came, they went ashore. (They found the p. 12 man, and brought him to the pregnant person.) As soon as he saw the pregnant man, he took out the child. It was a girl. From this girl all the people took their origin. She caused the people to multiply, and to inhabit the world.
Now the young men continued their journey. They once more examined the world which they had created, and found it to be good. Everything began to assume its present appearance.
They both had bows. "How would it be if we should shoot towards the sky?" Indeed, they began to shoot. They looked at their arrows as they were shooting them. p. 13 "You too ought to shoot one arrow," said one of the young men. "Shoot it so that it shall hit the shaft of mine, and it will look as if it were one arrow; but don't shoot too hard!" He shot and hit it. "Shoot again!" Their arrows became joined, and reached down to the place where they were standing. "Suppose we climb up now!"--"All right!" They shook the, arrows. "Are they firm? Won't they come apart?--Now you try to climb up!" He climbed up. "This is very good indeed." p. 14 Then the other man climbed up. They looked down, and saw the beautiful appearance of the world which they had created. Nobody knows what became of the two young men. Here the story ends. | <urn:uuid:c586341c-e7eb-4b07-93c3-b3486c5d87fe> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/nw/coos/ct04.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.993555 | 1,141 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Being one out of the twelve Jyotirlingas, Baidyanath is famous for all. Deoghar, the home of gods, is modern name. In Puranas we find in its place names like Haridrapeetha, Ketaki van, Haritalik van, Chitabhoomi and Vaidyanath. In Bengal and upper provinces the place is generally known as Baidyanathdham.
The sanctity of Baidyanath is mentioned in several Puranas which refer to it and as they are unquestionably the golden treasure of Hindu religion and culture, Baidyanath Jyotirlingam has attained great importance.
The Puranas speak of the Baidyanath Jyortiligam. According to the Shiva Purana, it was in the Treta yuga that the demon Ravana, king of Lanka, felt that his capital would not be perfect and free from enemies unless Mahadeva stays there forever, he paid continuous meditation to Mahadeva. Ultimately Shiva got pleased and permitted him to carry his lingam with him to Lanka. Mahadeva advised him not to place or transfer this lingam to anyone. There should not be a break in his journey to Lanka. If he deposits the lingam anywhere on the earth, in the course of his journey, it would remain fixed at that place forever. Ravana was happy as he was taking his return journey to Lanka.
His fate willed otherwise. The gods took it ill. They never liked to see Mahadeva as his protector. They devised a plan for outwitting Ravana. They requested Varuna to enter into the belly of Ravana. So, on his way Ravana felt a severe urge to release water. He began looking for a man to whom he could temporarily entrust the lingam. Vishnu appeared before Ravana in the guise of a Brahmin. Unaware of the mystery, Ravana handed over the lingam to the Brahmin. Unfortunately, Ravana could not ease himself soon. In the meanwhile the Brahmin placed the lingam at this place which was and which is now Baidyanathdham.
Ravana tried hard to remove the lingam from the spot where it had been placed. He could not turn out the lingam even an inch. This made him frustrated. He used violence but he only succeeded in pushing the lingam by thumb. Later on he felt guilty of his doings and begged for pardon.
He returned to Lanka but visitied daily to worship the lingam. This continued forever. The place where Ravana descended on the earth is identified with the present Harilajori about four miles north of Baidyanathdham and the place where the lingam was kept, is now Deoghar and the lingam itself is known to all as Baidyanath Jyotirlingam.
PRISONERS & SHRINGARI PUJA
Think about a place, where prisoners (kaidi) are advised/guided for worshipping of lord shiva.
Yes its Babadham and the Deoghar Karavas.
As there used to be a “Shringar Puja” at every evening in Baba Mandir. For this pooja, garlands/FOOLON KI MALAYEN used to pluged & prepared by Prisoners in Deoghar Jails within the campus.
Later few of constables, pick up them and enchanting Shiva (Har Har Mahadev) throughout the way from Karavas to Mandir, and later with the same puja will be done. This is not just one day work, or a work on special occasion, in fact a tradition which has been carrying since uncountable years.
Last week “The Telegraph” has mentioned it:
“Perhaps Babadham — as the temple town is popularly known — is the only place in the country where inmates languishing in jails prepare flower ornaments for the deity. The inmates prepare flower crown that is used during night Shringar, a special decoration of the Dwadash Jyotirlinga of Baidhyanath every late evening.“
There is an interesting story associated with this ritual, though. A British jailer started this tradition, said elderly residents of the temple town, after inmates suggested him to pray to the deity of Baidayanath for speedy recuperation of his ailing son.
The jailer, Christian by faith, did not turn down the advice. He reportedly prayed to the deity of Baidhyanath to save his son’s life.
The boy recovered within few days and an elated jailer started offering flower bouquets to the temple daily.
“It is a very old story but I doubt if there is any historical evidence or any references about the incident or the name of the British officer,” Falguni Marik Kushbaha, a local resident, said.
FESTIVALS of 2008
14th January 2008 – Makar Sankranti
15th January 2008 – Makar Sankranti in Bengal, Andhra Pradesh and in Vaishnava traditions
15th January 2008 – Pongal
23rd January 2008 – Thai Pusam
11th February 2008 – Vasant Panchami – Saraswati Festival
6th March 2008 – Maha Shivaratri
22nd March 2008 – Holi
7th April 2008 – Ugadi (New Year in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh)
7th April 2008 – Gudi Padava
13th April 2008 – Chithirai 1 (Tamil New Year)
14th April 2008 – Ram Navami
14th April 2008 – Vishu (Kerala)
14th April 2008 – New Year in Bengal and Assam
20th April 2008 – Hanuman Jayanti
7th May 2008 – Akshay Tritiya
18th May 2008 – Narasimha Jayanti
18th June 2008 – Vat Savitri Vrat
4th July 2008 – Puri Rath Yatra
18th July 2008 – Vyas Purnima, Guru Purnima
16th August 2008 – Raksha Bandan
24th August 2008 – Sri Krishna Janmashtami
3rd September 2008 – Ganesh Chaturthi
12th September 2008 – Thiru Onam
30th September 2008 – Navratri Begins
7th October 2008 – Durga Ashtami
8th October 2008 – Maha Navami
9th October 2008 – Vijaya Dashami – Dussehra
17th October 2008 – Karva Chouth
27th October 2008 – Deepavali (Tamil Nadu and South India)
27th October 2008 – Lakshmi Puja
28th October 2008 – Diwali
29th October 2008 – Annakut – Gujarati New Year
3rd November 2008 – Skantha Sashti
4th November 2008 – Chhat Festival
13th November 2008 – Tulsi Vivah
16th November 2008 – Sabarimala Mandala Kalam begins
9th December 2008 – Gita Jayanti
9th December 2008 – Vaikunta Ekadashi
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U.S. reports 5 baby deaths from usually mild virus
By Will Dunham
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A virus that typically causes a mild infection killed at least five babies in the United States last year, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday.
The virus was involved in an unusually high number of severe infections in newborns last year, but the CDC said it was not certain of the reason.
Coxsackievirus B1, or CVB1, is part of a group of viruses called enteroviruses. It usually does not cause serious infections but can cause more severe and potentially life-threatening illness in newborns.
The CDC's Steve Oberste, who headed a laboratory that helped track the infections, said tens of thousands of children are infected with this virus annually. He said people should probably not be very concerned about the virus and also said there is no sign it has mutated into a more dangerous form.
The virus killed two babies in California and one in Illinois, Colorado and New Mexico. There may have been more deaths that that the CDC did not know about, Oberste said.
All five newborns had symptoms of the virus within the first week of life, and in four of the cases, there was evidence of possible mother-to-infant transmission of the virus, the CDC said.
"CVB1-associated deaths are reported rarely, and had not been reported previously" to the formal enterovirus surveillance system in place since 1970, the agency said.
"The enteroviruses don't cause much disease. Probably less than 1 percent of all infections result in any illness at all. And an even smaller percentage are serious illness. They're mostly quite mild," Oberste said.
There is no specific treatment for this infection. Usual symptoms include fever, respiratory problems and sore throat. It can be spread in ways including sneezing or by touching contaminated fecal matter.
"Health-care providers and public health departments should be vigilant to the possibility of neonatal disease caused by CVB1," the CDC said.
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Forests provide numerous environmental benefits, making it essential that we protect and sustain them. They moderate climate change, improve air quality, aid in water conservation, and preserve biodiversity. In order to maintain these benefits and ensure forests meet long term human needs, it is vital we practice sustainable forestry.
Sustainable forestry practices ensure the resources removed from the forest are at a level the forest is capable of renewing without damaging its future prosperity. In doing so, these practices preserve the environment and valuable forest resources. With so many benefits, it’s no wonder ESP advocates that manufacturers purchase wood through a recognized sustainable forestry program.
In addition to sustainable forestry, ESP also supports selective harvesting. Selective harvesting is the practice of periodically removing mature trees in order to allow young trees to grow. Trees that are near their death or have grown to an unproductive diameter can stunt younger trees from growing properly. By periodically harvesting particular trees, forest regeneration is improved. Selective harvesting leads to healthier forests, thus preserving the environmental and social benefits forests provide.
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Barbados: Legal recourse and services available to women who are victims of domestic violence
|Publisher||Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada|
|Author||Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Ottawa|
|Publication Date||8 March 2007|
|Citation / Document Symbol||BRB102420.E|
|Cite as||Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Barbados: Legal recourse and services available to women who are victims of domestic violence, 8 March 2007, BRB102420.E, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/47d6544512.html [accessed 21 May 2013]|
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A report submitted to the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Committee by the Barbados government notes that the Domestic Violence (Protection Orders) Act and the Sexual Offences Act, both passed in 1992, provide a legal framework to protect victims of domestic violence (25 Sept. 2006, Art. 161). The report also indicates that the Domestic Violence Act contains provisions for protection orders, and that this Act strives to offer prompt assistance in the Magistrate Court for victims of domestic violence (ibid., Art. 163). The Barbados report details the scope of a protection order, stating that
... [a] protection order may, inter alia, prohibit a spouse, partner, former spouse or former partner from assaulting or harassing the complainant, from going within a specified distance of the complainant and may even in some circumstances exclude the respondent from the residence where both parties ordinarily cohabit. By law the application should be heard within forty-eight hours of notification to the respondent....
Consequently, a complainant may be granted an interim protection order upon application to the Court. This offers protection for the period of the hearing until a final order may be made and provides for immediate assistance in desperate situations to ensure the safety of the complainant and her or his children. Breach of the interim order results in the taking of immediate action before the conclusion of the matter.
The penalty for breach of the Protection Order, whether final or interim, is a fine of BBD5,000.00 [Barbados dollars or approximately CAD3,007 (XE.com 2 Feb. 2007)] or imprisonment for a period of one year or both. The perpetrator can also be arrested and taken back to Court. The identity of persons involved in cases relative to Protection Orders is protected under the legislation and cannot be published in the media. (Barbados 25 Sept. 2006, Art. 163-165; see also US 8 Mar. 2006, Sec. 5)
In addition, the Barbados UN report notes that Barbadian legislation recognizes marital rape as a criminal offence in cases in which there have been one of the following:
(a) A decree nisi [provisional] of divorce;
(b) A Separation Order ... ;
(c) A separation agreement; and
(d) An order for the husband not to molest his wife or have sexual intercourse with her (Barbados 25 Sept. 2006, Art. 167; see also US 8 Mar. 2006, Sec. 5)
If convicted, the offender "is liable ... to imprisonment for life" (Barbados 25 Sept. 2006, Art. 168).
Statistics provided by the Barbados Police Research and Development Department show that, in 2004, "the number of crimes reported, investigated and determined to be cases of domestic violence" was 489, which was a decrease from the 1,406 counted in 2002 (ibid., Tab. 9). However, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2005 notes that even though Barbados has laws and programs designed to protect women, abuse and violence against women remain "significant social problems" in the country (US 8 Mar. 2006, Sec. 5; Freedom House 8 Sept. 2006).
In 26 January 2007 correspondence with the Research Directorate, a representative of the Barbados Association of Non-governmental Organizations (BANGO), which is "a National Focal Point for Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in Barbados" (BANGO June 2006), provided information on the legal recourse available to women who are victims of domestic violence in Barbados. The Representative indicated that "the depth of the cultural rootedness of domestic violence sometimes eludes" the application of the Domestic Violence (Protection Orders) Act and the Sexual Offences Act (ibid. 26 Jan. 2007). He added that the courts tend to be "lenient" when sentencing perpetrators of domestic violence and "very unsympathetic to the female victims" (ibid.). According to him, "a man ... against whom a restraining order was made, would still stalk, harass and physically abuse or violate his ... victim with impunity" (ibid.). In addition, the Representative noted that many women are reluctant to report incidents of domestic violence for fear of reprisal (ibid.). This information could not be corroborated by the Research Directorate among the sources consulted within the time constraints of this Response.
No further information on the application of the Domestic Violence (Protection Orders) Act and the Sexual Offences Act or on the results of these measures in practice could be found among the sources consulted by the Research Directorate.
According to the 2006 report submitted by the Barbados government to the UN,
[i]n 1999, the Barbados Government established a shelter for abused women.... The shelter is funded by [the] Government and managed by an NGO, the Business and Professional Women's Club of Barbados.
A Victim Support Group was established by the Royal Barbados Police Force. It is a non-profitable voluntary organization. It was established in December 1998 to offer emotional and practical support to [those] who have suffered traumatic experiences as a result of various crimes such as robbery, sexual offences, burglary and domestic violence.
The services offered by the Victim Support Programme are free and informative. Any information exchanged between the Victim Support Officer and the victim, is treated with strict confidence. The Victim Support Programme also offers professional counselling and support services.
Training for the members of the Royal Barbados Police Force in domestic intervention is seen as a crucial aspect in the Government's strategy to reduce the incidence of domestic violence. As a result, all new police recruits are now trained in domestic violence intervention.
188. In 1986, the Business and Professional Women's Club of Barbados established a "Crisis Centre" offering counselling and support services to victims of abuse who contact them through the Centre's confidential hotline. The Crisis Centre has been able to place some of the women who call the hotline in "safe houses" for short periods. (Barbados 25 Sept. 2006, Art. 175 – 178, 188)
In his 26 January 2007 correspondence with the Research Directorate, the Representative of BANGO indicated that the address of the shelter funded by the Barbados government and administered by the Business and Professional Women's Club of Barbados "is kept secret for the protection of the women in the shelter" (BANGO 26 Jan. 2007). According to the US Country Reports, the Office of Gender Affairs within the Ministry of Social Transformation also works to defend the rights of women (US 8 Mar. 2006, Sec. 5).
No information on the results of the measures taken by the government to protect women victims of domestic violence could be found among the sources consulted by the Research Directorate.
This Response was prepared after researching publicly accessible information currently available to the Research Directorate within time constraints. This Response is not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular claim for refugee protection. Please find below the list of additional sources consulted in researching this Information Request.
Barbados. 25 September 2006. United Nations Human Rights Committee. Consideration of Reports Submitted by States Parties Under Article 40 of the Covenant: Third Periodic Reports of States Parties Due on 11 April 1991 – Barbados. (CCPR/C/BRB/3).
Barbados Association of Non-governmental Organizations (BANGO). 26 January 2007. Correspondence sent by a representative.
_____. June 2006. "Backround of BANGO – Profile."
Freedom House. 8 September 2006. "Barbados." Freedom in the World 2006.
United States (US). 8 March 2006. Department of State. "Barbados." Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2005.
XE.com. 2 February 2007. "Universal Currency Converter."
Additional Sources Consulted
Oral Sources: The Bureau of Gender Affairs did not provide information within the time constraints of this Response.
Internet sites, including: Amnesty International (AI), Carib World Radio, Caribbean Net News [Cayman Islands], Human Rights Watch (HRW), Latin American and Caribbean Committee for the Defence of Women's Rights (CLADEM), Organisation Mondiale Contre la Torture (OMCT), Organization of American States (OAS). | <urn:uuid:b0b92bfd-c1e2-485a-86d8-e2899f5ecbb2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.refworld.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/rwmain?page=topic&tocid=45a5fb512&toid=45a5fb6e2&publisher=&type=&coi=BRB&docid=47d6544512&skip=0 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.924214 | 1,890 | 1.726563 | 2 |
After a few tragic ends to some photos (poof, gone), I'm trying to get a good offsite backup plan in place. I was curious, and haven't been able to find a definitive answer in any of my resources: If I copy data to a standard SATA hard drive, and then unplug the hard drive and store it, how long will that data remain intact? How bout on a flash drive?
Hard drives, unlike RAM, don't need electricity to keep data once it's been written. Because of this, a standard SATA drive can store and maintain your files for extremely long periods of time, even if it's shelved in a closet away from a computer. The actual storage lifespan will vary, though.
The standard hard drive warranty runs about 5 years. That number is assuming regular use, so if a drive were to be plugged in and have data written to it infrequently, and stored in a dry space with optimal temperatures, there's no reason that it couldn't last far longer than that—in the range of seven or even eight years. Always keep the drive safe from large magnetic fields, since they could help to degrade the data much more quickly, and keep that temperature rule in mind, since there are movable parts with grease that could dry up and crack in the wrong conditions. The actual temperature range varies from drive to drive, but keeping it somewhere between 50 and 110 degrees is a pretty safe bet.
Solid State, or "Flash" drives, though still new, would theoretically last longer. That being said, you should never count on more than a solid eight or nine years, because the whole point of data storage like this is to keep it safe, not to take chances. Technically, it's possible for a NAND flash drive to last far longer than a decade in storage, but every unit is made differently, and some might have cheaper components than others. As for heat and magnets, an SSD will fare much better than a traditional hard drive (it would take a supermagnet to even begin to affect one).
The basic thing to remember here is to check the data on the stored drives once every few months, just to be sure that it's still intact, and to invest in a replacement for the drive every few years. Other than that, all you can do is keep them safe, and hope for the best. Photo by Carl Berkeley.
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By Rebecca Keegan, Los Angeles Times, May 13, 2013, 8:00 a.m.
There’s one mountain in Hollywood that even “The Hunger Games’” scrappy heroine Katniss Everdeen hasn’t been able to move: the number of roles for women.
Despite the success of recent female-driven movies such as “Bridesmaids” and the “Hunger Games” and “Twilight” series, female representation in popular movies is at its lowest level in five years, according to a study being released Monday by the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.
Among the 100 highest-grossing movies at the U.S. box office in 2012, the study reported, 28.4% of speaking characters were female. That’s a drop from 32.8% three years ago, and a number that has stayed relatively stagnant despite increased research attention to the topic and several high-profile box-office successes starring women.
“There is notable consistency in the number of females on-screen from year to year,” said USC researcher Marc Choueiti. “The slate of films developed and produced each year is almost formulaic — in the aggregate, female representation hardly changed at all.”
When they are on-screen, 31.6% of women are shown wearing sexually revealing clothing, the highest percentage in the five years the USC researchers have been studying the issue.
For teen girls, the number who are provocatively dressed is even higher: 56.6% of teen girl characters in 2012 movies wore sexy clothes, an increase of 20% since 2009.
The USC researchers said these trends persist because those working in Hollywood believe attracting a male audience is the key ingredient to box office success.
“Industry perceptions of the audience drive much of what we see on-screen,” said study author Stacy L. Smith. “There is a perception that movies that pull male sell. Given that females go to the movies as much as males, the lack of change is likely due to entrenched ways of thinking and doing business that perpetuate the status quo.”
Female characters are more prevalent — and less likely to be sexualized — in movies written and directed by women, according to Smith.
A study USC released in January in conjunction with the Sundance Institute and Women in Film Los Angeles found that women have made more inroads in those kinds of behind-the-camera jobs in independent film and documentaries than they have in big-budget studio movies.
But it’s typically the studio movies that drive the box office — and shape audiences.
“Some depictions of females on-screen can have unintended and negative consequences for viewers,” Smith said. “Every voice deserves a chance to be heard and every story a chance to be told. At the moment … that does not seem to be the case in popular film.”
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Frequently Asked Questions - ITS Lessons Learned Knowledge Resource
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INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. and#8212; Weand#8217;d like to think that sports stand as one of the last bastions of meritocracy in the modern world. Government has become the province of those who have the time and money to campaign, college admissions depend more on who you know and how much you can pay than on academic achievement, and advancement in business seems to have as much or more to do with connections and appearances than with real business acumen, but in sports itand#8217;s and#8220;faster, higher, stronger,and#8221; or so we hope.
The London Olympics mostly bore this out, but itand#8217;s the and#8220;mostlyand#8221; thatand#8217;s the rub. Some 100 athletes were barred from the games because of doping, resulting in very few doping problems in the Olympics themselves. While the actions of a few teams throwing matches to get more favorable opponents in groups play in badminton left a bad taste, by and large we can believe that the winners in each event were, in fact, the fastest and strongest, while not necessarily the highest.
But with Major League Baseball, not so much. Melky Cabrera, late of the Giants, looked like a true golden boy. A great hitter and fielder who seemed to get better and better. Fans dubbed him and#8220;the Melkmanand#8221; and dressed in old-fashioned milkman uniforms to cheer him on. He seemed too good to be true and he was. Cabrera is now suspended for the rest of the season plus five more games after being found to have used performance-enhancing drugs, i.e. steroids.
Steroid use has become so common in professional sports that, except among Giant fans, this barely caused a ripple. Some would say and#8220;what difference does it make? These guys are overpaid, over-admired, and over-noticed, so what do you expect?and#8221; But I think it does make a difference, an important one. Youand#8217;ll hear it said that we should just make performance-enhancing drugs legal and#8212; that somehow that would level the playing field (no pun intended). I donand#8217;t think so.
The whole ideal of athletic competition is, itand#8217;s true, a level playing field. Put everyone under the same conditions, the same constraints, and see who comes out best. Doping thwarts this and#8212; it tilts the playing field in favor of those who use the drugs, and gives cheaters an unfair advantage. If performance-enhancing drugs were made legal, the field would still not be level and#8212; everyone reacts to chemicals differently, and the advantage would not be to those who performed best, but to those whose genetic endowment most favored the use of the drugs. We might as well just have the drug companies put up competing formulas. And all that leaves out the indisputable long-term harm that these drugs do.
So Melky, we hardly knew ya and#8212; the great performer turns out to be a cheater, the great moments when he went deep are tainted by the knowledge that he was and#8220;artificially assisted.and#8221; When I was a kid we idolized baseball players and#8212; the great hitters and#8212; Williams, Di Maggio, Ruth and#8212; the great pitchers and#8212; Larsen, Ford, Slaughter and#8212; and the great fielders and#8212; Robinson, Mays, Mc Covey. Who will our grandchildren idolize? Certainly not the likes of the false Melkman.
On a totally different topic, Jim Clark did a good job last week of making the case for the importance of the meeting on August 28th to prioritize the issues raised by residents in the IV/CB 2020 listening sessions conducted in July. The past ten years or so have seen a number of visioning efforts, each of which has built on the others.
The work of Jim, Gene Brockman, Dean Meiling, and others on engaging the Nevada Rural Development Council to conduct this latest survey is one of the most rigorous and most timely as the region moves toward greater community self-determination. Iand#8217;m in Africa on business until after Labor Day, but Iand#8217;ve read the report of the NRDCand#8217;s sessions and am looking forward to the community taking this conversation to the next level.
I can think of nothing more important to do on August 28 than to attend this session and want to add my encouragement to Jimand#8217;s for you to attend.
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- To shoot for the moon: To be very ambitious.
- Over the moon: Delighted about something - maybe shooting for the
Moon proved successful!
- Crying for the moon: Longing for what is beyond reach,
The French have a similar expression,
Il veut prendre la lune avec
les dents, meaning he wants to take the Moon
between his teeth,
from the old story about the Moon being made of green cheese.
- It's all Moonshine: It's nonsense, imagination, caused by the effects of the
Moon on the mind.
- I know as much about it as the Man In The Moon: I know nothing.
- For moonshine in the water: For nothing.
- The Moon is made of green cheese: A term from the sixteenth century. "Green"
refers not to
the color of the moon, but to new immature cheese. Round like the
shape of the moon with a mottled
surface and color similar to that of the moon.
- Moon about: To wander listlessly, especially if in love.
- Once in a blue Moon: Very, very, rarely!
- To Moon Over: To think about something or someone.
- "To the moon, Alice!" - Famous threat used by Ralph Cramden (Jackie
Gleason) to his wife Alice.
- Minions of the Moon: Night-time thieves. Also known as 'Moon's men",
referring to highwaymen.
- To find an elephant in the Moon: Something that seems like a great
discovery, but is not! The phrase
came about when a
seventeenth century man proclaimed with much pride that he had discovered
elephant on the Moon. It turned out that a mouse had crept into his
telescope, and he had mistaken
it for an elephant.
- The man in the Moon: Said by some to be a man carrying a bundle of
sticks collected on the Sabbath.
Some say he also has a dog with him. Another
version is that the man is actually Cain, with his dog and
thorns symbolize the fall, and the dog represents the foul, animal side'of man.
He has also
been said to be Endymion, taken to the Moon by Diana.
Also meaning to see human face-like features
on the moons surface.
- Diana's Worshipers: A name given to midnight revelers. They come home
by moonlight, and so
put themselves under her protection.
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"Conspiracies are so much more fun than just thinking, One nut killed a good man," David Duchovny says. Set during the Kennedy administration, this novel imagines a country covertly controlled by rogue intelligence and law enforcement officers. Though not a big believer in conspiracy theories—"It's so hard for people to keep the smallest of secrets, like whether or not somebody colors their hair"—Duchovny recognizes their appeal. "Nobody understands evil. Nobody understands violent crime. We want to know why, when the truth is that in life we don't get to know why. Fiction, in many ways, is trying to assuage that part of human nature that wants to know why: Make it make sense for me. Please tell me it was a bunch of bad guys and not just the fact that life is hard."
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The following is is a posting from the Official Gmail News Blog:
Posted by Michael Santerre, Consumer Operations Associate
As part of National Cyber Security Awareness Month, we’d like to take this opportunity to remind you about smart password practices. Help ensure you’re protecting your computer, website, and personal information by checking out our security series on the Google blog or visiting http://www.staysafeonline.org.
Phishing, a topic that’s been in the news, is unfortunately a common way for hackers to trick you into sharing personal information like your account password. If you suspect you’ve been a victim of a phishing attack, we recommend you immediately change your password, update the security question and secondary address on your account, and make sure you’re using a modern browser with anti-phishing protection turned on. Keep an eye out for the phishing warning Gmail adds to suspicious messages, and be sure to review these tips on how to avoid getting hooked.
Creating a new password is often one of the first recommendations you hear when trouble occurs. Even a great password can’t keep you from being scammed, but setting one that’s memorable for you and that’s hard for others to guess is a smart security practice since weak passwords can be easily guessed. Below are a few common problems we’ve seen in the past and suggestions for making your passwords stronger.
Problem 1: Re-using passwords across websites
With a constantly growing list of services that require a password (email, online banking, social networking, and shopping websites — just to name a few), it’s no wonder that many people simply use the same password across a variety of accounts. This is risky: if someone figures out your password for one service, that person could potentially gain access to your private email, address information, and even your money.
Solution 1: Use unique passwords
It’s a good idea to use unique passwords for your accounts, expecially important accounts like email and online banking. When you create a password for a site, you might think of a phrase you associate with the site and use an abbreviation or variation of that phrase as your password — just don’t use the actual words of the site. If it’s a long phrase, you can take the first letter of each word. To make this word or phrase more secure, try making some letters uppercase, and swap out some letters with numbers or symbols. As an example, the phrase for your banking website could be “How much money do I have?” and the password could be “#m$d1H4ve?” (Note: since we’re using them here, please don’t adopt any of the example passwords in this post for yourself.)
Problem 2: Using common passwords or words found in the dictionary
Common passwords include simple words or phrases like “password” or “letmein,” keyboard patterns such as “qwerty” or “qazwsx,” or sequential patterns such as “abcd1234.” Using a simple password or any word you can find in the dictionary makes it easier for a would-be hijacker to gain access to your personal information.
Solution 2: Use a password with a mix of letters, numbers, and symbols
There are only 26^8 possible permutations for an 8-character password that uses just lowercase letters, while there are 94^8 possible permutations for an 8-character password that uses a combination of mixed-case letters, numbers, and symbols. That’s over 6 quadrillion more possible variations for a mixed password, which makes it that much harder for anyone to guess or crack.
Problem 3: Using passwords based on personal data
We all share information about ourselves with our friends and coworkers. The names of your spouse, children, or pets aren’t usually all that secret, so it doesn’t make sense to use them as your passwords. You should also stay away from birth dates, phone numbers, or addresses.
Solution 3: Create a password that’s hard for others to guess
Choose a combination of letters, numbers, or symbols to create a unique password that’s unrelated to your personal information. Or, select a random word or phrase, and insert letters and numbers into the beginning, middle, and end to make it extra difficult to guess (such as “sPo0kyh@ll0w3En”).
Problem 4: Writing down your password and storing it in an unsecured place
Some of us have enough online accounts that we may need to write our passwords down somewhere, at least until we’ve learned them well.
Solution 4: Keep your password reminders in a secret place that isn’t easily visible
Don’t leave notes with your passwords to various sites on your computer or desk. People who walk by can easily steal this information and use it to compromise your account. Also, if you decide to save your passwords in a file on your computer, create a unique name for the file so people don’t know what’s inside. Avoid naming the file “my passwords” or something else obvious.
Problem 5: Recalling your password
When choosing smart passwords like these, it can often be more difficult to remember your password when you try to sign in to a site you haven’t visited in a while. To get around this problem, many websites will offer you the option to either send a password-reset link to your email address or answer a security question.
Solution 5: Make sure your password recovery options are up-to-date and secure
You should always make sure you have an up-to-date email address on file for each account you have, so that if you need to send a password reset email it goes to the right place.
Many websites will ask you to choose a question to verify your identity if you ever forget your password. If you’re able to create your own question, try to come up with a question that has an answer only you would know. The answer shouldn’t be something that someone can guess by scanning information you’ve posted online in social networking profiles, blogs, and other places.
If you’re asked to choose a question from a list of options, such as the city where you were born, you should be aware that these questions are likely to be less secure. Try to find a way to make your answer unique — you can do this by using some of the tips above, or by creating a convention where you always add a symbol after the 2nd character in the answer (e.g. in@dianapolis) — so that even if someone guesses the answer, they won’t know how to enter it properly.
Read the rest here:
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Lord Blachford, for so he became on his retirement from the Colonial Office, cannot be said to have quitted entirely public life, as he always, while his strength lasted, acknowledged public claims on his time and industry. He took his part in two or three laborious Commissions, doing the same kind of valuable yet unseen work which he had done in office, guarding against blunders, or retrieving them, giving direction and purpose to inquiries, suggesting expedients. But his main employment was now at his own home. He came late in life to the position of a landed proprietor, and he at once set before himself as his object the endeavour to make his estate as perfect as it could be made—perfect in the way in which a naturally beautiful country and his own good taste invited him to make it, but beyond all, as perfect as might be, viewed as the dwelling-place of his tenants and the labouring poor. A keen and admiring student of political economy, his sympathies were always with the poor. He was always ready to challenge assumptions, such as are often loosely made for the convenience of the well-to-do. The solicitude which always pursued him was the thought of his cottages, and it was not satisfied till the last had been put in good order. The same spirit prompted him to allow labourers who could manage the undertaking to rent pasture for a few cows; and the experiment, he thought, had succeeded. The idea of justice and the general welfare had too strong a hold on his mind to allow him to be sentimental in dealing with the difficult questions connected with land. But if his labourers found him thoughtful of their comfort his farmers found him a good landlord—strict where he met with dishonesty and carelessness, but open-minded and reasonable in understanding their points of view, and frank, equitable, and liberal in meeting their wishes. Disclaiming all experience of country matters, and not minding if he fell into some mistakes, he made his care of his estate a model of the way in which a good man should discharge his duties to the land.
His was one of those natures which have the gift of inspiring confidence in all who come near him; all who had to do with him felt that they could absolutely trust him. The quality which was at the bottom of his character as a man was his unswerving truthfulness; but upon this was built up a singularly varied combination of elements not often brought together, and seldom in such vigour and activity. Keen, rapid, penetrating, he was quick in detecting anything that rung hollow in language or feeling; and he did not care to conceal his dislike and contempt. But no one threw himself with more genuine sympathy into the real interests of other people. No matter what it was, ethical or political theory, the course of a controversy, the arrangement of a trust-deed, the oddities of a character, the marvels of natural science, he was always ready to go with his companion as far as he chose to go, and to take as much trouble as if the | <urn:uuid:84e594b3-6e4b-48d8-af73-d93acd5a55dd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.bookrags.com/ebooks/11771/246.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.994656 | 631 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Dish with design of willow tree
- Not on display
- Further information
Nabeshima ware was produced at the Okawachiyama kilns run by the Nabeshima clan, the rulers of the domain of Hizen, in northern Kyushu. The best potters and ceramic decorators worked at the kiln, under the strict supervision of the clan officials. Only the overglaze enamel was applied in Arita. The ware was made for exclusive use by the clan officials, and was never exported or commercially traded. Most Nabeshima ware was produced in regular shapes and sizes - plates were usually made in five or seven 'sun' (one 'sun' is approx. one inch) and one 'shaku' (one 'shaku' is approx. one foot) in diameter. The interior design is highly refined and sophisticated, often featuring common objects such as jars, fans and books as well as vegetables, stylised flowers and plants. Reflecting the exquisite samurai taste, gold was never used, and even the use of red was limited, while underglaze blue was favoured and used by itself like in this dish or combined with celadon glaze.
Asian Art Department, AGNSW, October 2003.
- Place of origin
- 19th century
- porcelain with underglaze blue
- 5.6 x 20.2cm; 11.7cm diam. foot rim
- Gift of Carol Storch 2003
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Teaching with the News ARCHIVES
The Gulf Oil Disaster
In this lesson, students will:
- Explore a range of issues raised by the 2010 oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico including impact, accountability, U.S. oil dependency, and energy policy.
- Interpret political cartoons and place them in the context of political discussion about the oil disaster and U.S. energy policy.
- Identify the techniques used by cartoonists to express opinions.
Additional Online Resources
The following webpages provide additional information on offshore drilling and the Gulf oil disaster, including audio, video, and interactive resources.
In the Classroom
- Discussing the Gulf Oil Disaster
Write the question "Why was BP drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico?" on the board. Have students brainstorm what they know about offshore drilling. Why have some people argued for offshore drilling for oil? Why have some people argued against it? Why did President Obama announce his support for it in early April? Ask students what they know about the recent Gulf oil disaster. What have been the major consequences of the catastrophe? What have been the environmental and economic impacts? How have the government and BP responded? What are the most pressing challenges today?
You may wish to show your students the brief PBS NewsHour video linked above about the Gulf oil disaster.
- Analyzing Political Cartoons
Inform students that they are going to analyze political cartoons to identify different viewpoints about the issues related to the oil disaster. Tell students that it is not only the message of these cartoons that is important, but also how the message is conveyed. What techniques does the cartoonist use to convey his or her views? Divide the class into groups of three or four. Distribute "Analyzing Political Cartoons" to each student and tell students to read the directions carefully. You may wish to spend extra time going over with students the different techniques listed on the handout. Assign each group two cartoons. Have groups discuss their assigned cartoons and answer the questions provided.
- Making Connections
Ask students to report to the class on what they discussed. In each cartoon what was the cartoonist's message? How did the cartoonist express this message? Ask students to point out the different techniques used and their significance. Why do students think the cartoonist chose these particular techniques? How did the techniques used affect the message?
The cartoons convey a range of issues related to the oil disaster. Have students identify as many issues as they can. What information do the cartoons convey? Do the cartoons represent different points of view? Have students consider what policies the United States should adopt regarding offshore drilling. What might happen if the United States increased offshore drilling? What might happen if the United States decreased offshore drilling? Which of the cartoons best reflects students' own thoughts about offshore drilling and U.S. energy policy? What should U.S. energy policy be?
Let Your Voice Be Heard
Encourage your students to express their views.
Contact Elected Officials
Students could write letters to elected officials. They can find contact information for the White House at www.whitehouse.gov/contact and their U.S. senators and representatives at thomas.loc.gov.
Students could write letters to the editor of a local paper or write articles for the school or community newspaper.
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Global Environmental Problems: Implications for U.S. Policy
This unit invites students to weigh the significance of global environmental problems in the formulation of U.S. foreign policy today. It traces the entry of climate change, pollution, deforestation, and biodiversity pressures into the sphere of public policy. | <urn:uuid:e7fab1c8-a285-4fd7-91be-2c75b4e4bdb3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.choices.edu/resources/twtn_gulf_oil.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00060-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946564 | 744 | 4.0625 | 4 |
Where Did We Get Our Name?
Cook Third Class Doris Miller, USN, (1919-1943)
Doris ("Dorie") Miller was born in Waco, Texas, on 12 October 1919. He enlisted in the Navy in September 1939 as a Mess Attendant Third Class. On 7 December 1941, while serving aboard USS West Virginia (BB-48), he distinguished himself by courageous conduct and devotion to duty during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. He was awarded the Navy Cross for his actions on this occasion.
He was then assigned to the escort carrier Liscome Bay (CVE-56). Cook Third Class Miller was lost with that ship when she was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine on 24 November 1943, during the invasion of the Gilbert Islands.
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How Old is Our School?Dorie Miller Elementary School
207 Lincolnshire Dr.
Dorie Miller Elementary School opened as W.W. White School No. 2 in 1947 at its present location in a two-room frame building brought from Hondo, Texas. As part of the W.W. White School District, the school was opened to serve the African-American children who lived in the Lincolnshire community. It had two classrooms, 64 students and two teachers who taught grades first through seventh. At one of the first PTA meetings, the officers and members chose to name the school for naval hero Dorie Miller, who died in the line of duty during World War II. The Waco native's heroism earned him the distinction of being the first African-American recipient of the Navy Cross.
In 1950, the W.W. White School District merged with the SAISD. The original brick building opened in 1952 and included 17 classrooms, a cafetorium, principal's office, secretary's office, a clinic, a book room and two lounges for teachers. In the 1950's the school also served physically and mentally disabled children. In 1960, eight more classrooms were added to the building.
By the 1967-68 school year, pre-school classes and a library were established. Student enrollment was at 880. Today Dorie Miller Elementary School is still serving the community, where many of its past students are now parents or grandparents of our currently enrolled students.
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"Occupy the Classroom," Nicholas D. Kristof's NYT op-ed, argues that the fight for economic justice needs to include a demand for universal access to high quality early childhood education, as this is the key to social mobility.
“This is where inequality starts,” said Kathleen McCartney, the dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, as she showed me a chart demonstrating that even before kindergarten there are significant performance gaps between rich and poor students. Those gaps then widen further in school.
“The reason early education is important is that you build a foundation for school success,” she added. “And success breeds success.”
One common thread, whether I’m reporting on poverty in New York City or in Sierra Leone, is that a good education tends to be the most reliable escalator out of poverty. Another common thread: whether in America or Africa, disadvantaged kids often don’t get a chance to board that escalator.
Maybe it seems absurd to propose expansion of early childhood education at a time when budgets are being slashed. Yet James Heckman, a Nobel Prize-winning economist at the University of Chicago, has shown that investments in early childhood education pay for themselves. Indeed, he argues that they pay a return of 7 percent or more — better than many investments on Wall Street.
(via Beth Pratt)
Occupy the Classroom [nytimes.com]
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The Atlantic was a key theatre in both world wars. The German aims were the same in 1914 and 1939: to sever Britain’s supply lines from North America without bringing a neutral United States into the war. These propaganda maps cover the two campaigns, from a German and British perspective.
In 1914 submarine warfare had been a potential menace for half a century (really - C.S.S. H.L. Hunley, 1864), but was still untried on a large-scale. The new weapon was greatly feared and the notion of civilian merchantmen and liners being sunk without warning by an unseen enemy was widely regarded as barbaric. The Germans had to tread carefully, but British countermeasures (such as Q-Ships) made surfacing, and allowing passengers and crew to take to the boats before sinking their vessel, extremely hazardous. The first foray into unrestricted submarine warfare culminated in the sinking of the Lusitania - a propaganda disaster - and the Germans reverted to cruiser rules. In 1915 their calculations were correct: there simply weren’t enough U-boats to enforce a blockade and starve Britain into submission before the U.S. could enter the war. Campaigns such as this one, encouraging soldiers of the German Third Army to buy war bonds to expand the U-boat fleet, sought to change the balance:
The poster is by German artist F.W. Kleurs (1878-1956), published in Mainz, and it’s a simple but powerful image. An impenetrable ring of U-boats strangles the British Isles. I like the way that the white cliffs of Dover have been extended around the whole coastline, and the star-shaped fortifications surrounding the British cities makes them look suitably militaristic and menacing. By 1917 the U-boat fleet had more than doubled; Germany was starving, and the German High Command calucated that if they acted quickly they could knock Britain out of the war before U.S. intervention could be decisive, even if America did choose to enter the war. Unrestricted submarine warfare resumed in January 1917. The German gamble failed: as predicted the U-boat campaign was a decisive factor in drawing America into the war, but (eventually) the convoy system provided adequate protection and the supply lines held up. There was no swift knockout blow.
The German Kriegsmarine of the Second World War wrestled with similar problems a generation later. This 1943 British propaganda poster, The Battle of the Atlantic, by Frederick Donald Blake (1908-97) is a reasonably well known image, but one generally encounters the 1943/44 editions with English text. However, Blake’s posters were part of a series produced for distribution abroad in various languages including French, Dutch, Arabic and - as here - Portuguese, bringing the Allied message to the widest possible audience.
Like Franco’s Spain, Salazar’s right-wing Estado Novo Portugal remained neutral (although Lisbon was a hotbed of intrigue and espionage). Blake’s message for any wavering Portuguese is pretty forthright, the very antithesis of the first poster we looked at. Britain is, effectively, Orwell’s Airstrip One: nothing but factories, shipyards and gigantic concrete runways. Far from being enclosed by a U-boat ring of steel, waves of Allied aircraft radiate out, and with air supremacy comes protection for the convoys steaming in from North America and those steaming out, the Arctic Convoys bound for the USSR, and convoys bound for the Mediterranean. In the mid Atlantic U-boats are scattered and destroyed:
And Fortress Europe is under constant attack, with aircraft and parachute mines battering the strategic targets such as railways, docks and submarine pens:
As propaganda, Blake’s 1943 poster isn’t necessarily constrained by reality, but successful propaganda often manipulates a perceived truth, and the Battle of the Atlantic really had turned decisively in the Allies’ favour in the Spring of that year. In March 1943 the U-boat wolf packs came as close as they ever did to cutting Britain’s Atlantic lifeline, and supplies of fuel and other vital resources reached critical levels. The situation was reversed within two months: Allied resources were freed from other theatres, and new long-range aircraft - which could now be fitted with a new sea-scanning radar and airborne depth-charges - closed the mid-Atlantic gap. The wolf packs were harried out of existence, and losses to Allied shipping were negligible in comparison with what had gone before. In May (dubbed ‘Black May’ by the U-boat crews) the Germans lost 34 U-Boats in the Atlantic - an unsustainable one submarine for each Allied ship sunk. One lucky convoy (SC 130) escaped entirely unscathed, while five of the attacking U-boats were destroyed. Dönitz conceded defeat. One-sided as Blake’s vision is, it reflects the changed strategic situation.
The artist, Blake, trained at Camberwell School of Art but had been working as an architectural draughtsman. His stint as a war artist for the Ministry of Information opened new doors for him postwar, as a successful commercial artist and respected painter.
The first of these maps was a recent purchase from my friend Ken Fuller of Marchpane (he specialises in children’s and illustrated books but - like most of us - he has a much broader range of interests which are reflected in his stock). The map by Blake came from Portugal, and presumably it had been there since the 1940s. I’ve yet to see any of the series with Arabic or Persian text, but the Portuguese climate (actual and political) has probably been more conducive to preservation.
UPDATE: Nov 2012. Recently purchased the version with Arabic text:
My thanks to Ali Ansari and colleagues at St Andrews. I wondered if the text varied from the original, or was slanted in an particular direction, but it is apparently a faithful rendition of the English:
“A ceaseless battle is raging in the Atlantic. The Axis U-boats’ intention is too isolate and starve Britain. But as the U-boat offensive mounts so too to Britain’s protective measures. More and more vessels are safeguarding convoys. The U-boat’s Atlantic Bases are being pounded by the Allied Air Forces and the entrances to their harbours are being mined from the air. The factories where they are built are being crippled by bombs. All these measures enabled Mr Churchill to say, when reviewing the U-boat campaign in May 1943: “Our killings of the U-boats … greatly exceeded all previous experience and the last three months, and particularly the last three weeks, have yielded record results”. | <urn:uuid:fc157d76-cdfc-48a4-9fbb-05e0078cc9fd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://timbryars.tumblr.com/tagged/propaganda | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00056-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968593 | 1,396 | 3.359375 | 3 |
"Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness."
"One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?"
"Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times."
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June 11, 2012
Meandering river in the lowlands of Gabon. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler.
The group has gathered a number of signatories and approached the UN's Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) on the idea. They hope, as well, to raise the idea at the upcoming UN Rio+20 Summit on Sustainability. Mongabay.com recently spoke to PAN Parks Executive Director, Zoltan Kun, about the proposal, why wilderness is important, and what people could do to support the initiative.
INTERVIEW WITH ZOLTAN KUN
Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler.
Mongabay: How do define wilderness?
Zoltan Kun: There are various technical definitions of wilderness and—as wilderness is a human concept of nature—there are even more interpretation of these definitions. We at PAN Parks Foundation use a definition, which was developed and agreed by the European Wilderness working Group in April 2012: Wilderness areas are large unmodified or slightly modified natural areas, governed by natural processes, without human intervention, infrastructure or permanent habitation, which should be protected and managed so as to preserve their natural condition and to offer people the opportunity to experience the spiritual quality of nature.
In practice this means that there is no extractive use allowed in wilderness areas, which means that activities such as hunting, fishing, mining, logging, grazing, grass cutting, road and building construction are not accepted inside the wilderness areas, and the only management interventions are those aimed at maintaining or restoring natural ecological processes and the ecological integrity. However, visitors have the opportunity to enjoy wilderness in a sustainable way.
The most characteristic feature of wilderness is a natural dynamic without interference. Removing broken trees after snowfall can create a feeling of 'a tidy forest' but the missing dead wood deprives forest ecosystems of nutrition, species and important ecological processes.
Mongabay: Why is wilderness important in our lives?
Zoltan Kun: Wilderness offers various benefits for mankind. The most obvious benefits are linked to ecological elements:
- safe haven for endangered species
- home to undiscovered species;
- habitats with highly adapted fauna and flora, which would be lost forever if these areas disappeared;
- refuge for disturbance-sensitive species that may require extensive undisturbed nature for their healthy life;
- living reference laboratories where the natural process of evolution still continues.
Mongabay: Are there benefits to wilderness that people may not think about, i.e. economic or social?
Zoltan Kun: There are of course such benefits as well. Some of the economic benefits are obvious and can be seen in practice. Tourism is such a benefit which is strongly linked to African and American wilderness areas. However the non-direct use values of wilderness has not been discovered yet.
There are social benefits of wilderness:
- potential to help tackle important urban issues such as youth development and healthcare;
- wilderness is the premier laboratory for children and adults alike to learn how the earth work;
- and wilderness areas provide places of inspiration, renewal for visitors.
- solitude, quietude far from the hustle and pressures of modern life;
- places of inspiration, renewal or recreation in the great outdoors;
- opportunity for self-discovery and rejuvenation.
Mongabay: What accomplishments would you hope to see by designating 2014 the International Year of Wilderness?
Zoltan Kun: In order to protect wilderness for future generations, a global strategy is needed. Due to the rise in commodity prices, wilderness areas are under increasing pressure and they are at risk of being lost forever. There are interesting contradictory processes in Europe. While a lot of researchers argue that land abandonment process opens up the opportunity for rewilding 200,000 km2 of land in Europe—especially marginal farmland and forestry areas—the pressure of modifying the last pieces of wilderness is increasing. We believe that while restoring wilderness attributes is really important, we must guarantee the long-term protection of existing wilderness area.
So we basically hope that the designation of 2014 as International Year of Wilderness will bring the issue to the attention of greater public and policy-makers. This ultimately will lead to the development of a global protection strategy for wilderness.
Mongabay: What can people do to help?
Zoltan Kun: In order to support the nomination of 2014 as international year of wilderness, people can sign up at One Million Tweets and through donating a tweet express their support to the idea. They can also sign up at PAN Parks either as individual or as an organization.
We believe that people should be able to lobby decision makers in their own country or mobilize civil society organizations for supporting the idea. We need to create a loud voice for wilderness especially before the RIO+20 conference. Ideally the International Year of wilderness should be designated by the UN, and this event will be a great forum to promote this idea.
Beyond the support of International year of Wilderness, people can also support our foundation's work directly. The Get Involved page of our website provide more information about how people can support the protection of wilderness at least in Europe.
Herp paradise preserved in Guatemala
(05/29/2012) Fifteen conservation groups have banded together to save around 2,400 hectares (6,000 acres) of primary rainforest in Guatemala, home to a dozen imperiled amphibians as well as the recently discovered Merendon palm pit viper (Bothriechis thalassinus). The new park, dubbed the Sierra Caral Amphibian Reserve, lies in the Guatemalan mountains on the border with Honduras in a region that has been called the most important conservation area in Guatemala.
Over half of world's tiger reserves lack minimum protection
(05/21/2012) A year-and-a-half after a landmark summit that pledged to double the world's number of tigers by 2022, and still 65 percent of tiger reserves lack minimum standards of protection for the world's largest cat, according to the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). Reporting at the first meeting of all 13 tiger-range countries since the 2010 summit, WWF said that 41 tiger reserves of 63 did not have enough boots on the ground to combat tiger poaching.
Tribe partners to protect Argentina's most endangered forest
(05/17/2012) Last month, three Guarani communities, the local Argentine government of Misiones, and the UK-based NGO World Land Trust forged an agreement to create a nature reserve connecting three protected areas in the fractured, and almost extinct, Atlantic Forest. Dubbed the Emerald Green Corridor, the reserve protects 3,764 hectares (9,301 acres) in Argentina; although relatively small, the land connects three protected other protected areas creating a combined conservation area (41,000 hectares) around the size of Barbados in the greater Yaboti Biosphere Reserve. In Argentina only 1 percent of the historical Atlantic Forest survives.
Exploring Asia's lost world
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Sep. 23, 2004 A single gene called cylE within the important bacterial pathogen Group B Streptococcus (GBS), controls two factors that act together as a “sword” and “shield” to protect the bacteria from the killing effects of the immune system’s white blood cells, according to researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine.
GBS is the leading cause of serious bacterial infections such as meningitis and pneumonia in newborns and is increasingly recognized as a serious pathogen in adult populations, including the elderly, pregnant women and diabetics.
In studies with mice and human blood samples, published in the online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences the week of September 20, 2004, the UCSD scientists demonstrated the protective roles of two cylE-encoded factors, one that creates the unusual orange pigmentation of GBS, and another that produces a toxin called hemolysin that kills immune system cells as they surround and attack the bacteria. These findings could lead to new therapeutic approaches that disarm the bacteria and allow the immune system to do its work.
"A crucial part of the body's defense against bacterial pathogens are white blood cells known as neutrophils and macrophages, which are able to engulf and kill most bacteria" said lead author George Liu, M.D., Ph.D., a UCSD research fellow in pediatric infectious diseases. "We predicted that the GBS bacteria had a unique ability to avoid the killing by white blood cells."
This unique ability turned out to include both the killing effects of the hemolysin toxin, and previously unrecognized antioxidant properties of the GBS orange pigment.
A major weapon that white blood cells use to kill bacteria after engulfment is the production of lethal oxidants similar to peroxide and bleach. Interestingly, the cylE-dependent orange pigment belongs to the family of carotenoids, similar to the compounds that give color to vegetables such as tomatoes and carrots. The anitoxidant properties of food carotenoids have long been touted for their potential health benefits against aging, heart disease and cancer.
“Just as colorful vegetables with antioxidants are touted for their ability to protect us against aging or cancer, we discovered that the GBS bacteria is pulling the same trick to protect itself against our immune system,” said the study’s senior author, Victor Nizet, M.D., associate professor, UCSD Division of Infectious Diseases, and an attending physician at Children’s Hospital San Diego.
The UCSD experiments confirmed the importance of the antioxidant role of the orange pigment, as mutant GBS without the cylE gene was 10 to 10,000 times more susceptible to white blood cell oxidants than the disease producing strain.
The new findings are based on previous research by the UCSD group and others, that showed cylE controls the production of hemolysin, as well as the orange pigmentation of the gene. Removal of this gene created a mutant strain of GBS that lacked the hemolysin toxin and was plain white in color. When tested in animal models, the mutant GBS strain was unable to produce serious infections. In the current study, the scientists showed that the mutant GBS strain was rapidly cleared from the bloodstream of experimental animals and more easily killed by purified human and mouse white blood cells.
The hemolysin toxin was the “sword” that poked holes throughout white blood cells, such that in many cases the GBS actually killed the immune cell before it could kill the bacteria. However, even when hemolysin production was inhibited, the GBS continued to survive the white blood cell attack. In additional experiments, the orange pigment was found to be the “shield” that protected the bacteria. Combined, the toxin and orange pigmentation made GBS a potent warrior against white blood cell defenses and consequently a much more lethal pathogen.
“Recognizing the importance of these two properties for GBS infection suggests that novel drug treatments or vaccines that block the hemolysin or disrupt pigment production may be quite effective. Essentially, such therapies could make the GBS bacteria susceptible to elimination by the normal immune system of the newborn infant," Nizet said.
Additional authors who contributed to the published study were Kelly Doran, UCSD assistant adjunct professor of pediatrics, Toby Lawrence, Ph.D., postgraduate researcher, UCSD Department of Pharmacology, Nicole Turkson, M.S., graduate student, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, and Manuela Puliti, Ph.D. and Luciana Tissi, Ph.D. from the University of Perugia, Italy.
This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Fellowship to Liu, a Burroughs-Wellcome Career Award to Doran, and an Edward J. Mallinckrodt, Jr. Scholar Award to Nizet.
Dr. Nizet's laboratory website: http://medicine.ucsd.edu/nizetlab
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This question is related to How do dealing with infant flipping over during sleep training?, but not exactly the same.
Our 5 month old daughter flips onto her stomach constantly. When you put her down on the play blanket, she immediately flips onto her stomach AND props herself up with her arms. This is okay during awake times when she can play with toys, etc.
This becomes an issue when we try to put her down in her crib. She loves to flip over onto her stomach and pushing up with her arms. So, when she's in the crib, she's not even resting her head to try to sleep. (This is the part that differs from the above question). So, we can't put her down, unless she's already drowsy.
When we co-sleep with her at night (bring her into bed in the middle of the night when my wife nurses and when she's done, she stays with us) she sleeps between my wife and I. Her head level with our pillows. I would put her close to my stiff foam pillow so that it acts as a barrier for her so that she can't flip. :)
Is the only way to put a physical object next to her to block her from flipping? Even when she is partially swaddled (i.e. only legs are swaddled) she still can flip. She bring her legs up and swings to the right!
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Understanding misspellings and alternate spellings of the Abowitz family name are important to understanding the etymology of the name. In early history when few people could write, names such as Abowitz were transcribed based on their pronunciation when people's names were written in court, church, and government records. This could have given rise misspellings of Abowitz. Family names like Abowitz vary in spelling and pronunciation as they travel across villages, family unions, and languages over time. | <urn:uuid:f65d44ef-24ba-4eda-b506-dedb4e1a7a07> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ancientfaces.com/surname/abowitz-family-history/574159 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00042-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934818 | 972 | 2.484375 | 2 |
Canning is a great way to take advantage of garden produce and farmers market deals at the peak of freshness.
Canning and preserving used to be necessary to get families through the winter. Recipes were written using large quantities of produce, and produced more jars than most modern families could use in a year. Anyone who has ever tried to follow one of these recipes knows the huge amount of work processing food on this scale requires.
A new wave in waterbath canning sweeping the country is small-batch preserving. Small-batch recipes are scaled down to make it easier, require less specialty equipment, and usually produce three to six jars of finished product, rather than eight to 12.
This method is perfect for small households and people on a budget. The smaller batches don't require buying as much produce or require a large storage pantry, and the amount of preserves produced is much easier for a typical family to use throughout the year. I also like being in control of the quality of my preserves: I can ensure I'm getting actual fruit instead of a supermarket jar of artificially flavored, colored and jelled sugar. Good-quality preserves can cost $12 a jar, but with the small-batch method, quality jars can be made for far less and without too much work.
Most stockpots work fine for the waterbath canning method, but the Kuhn Rikon 4th Burner Pot at amazon.com has become the darling of the small-batch canning community. The pot is tall and slender (sized for asparagus) and is outfitted with a handy steamer basket that helps to easily remove hot jars from the boiling waterbath. The size is perfect for smaller amounts and it is much easier to store than large traditional waterbath canners. It also is a great multitasker.
Marisa McClellan's blog (foodinjars.com/tag/small-batch-canning/) offers a great introduction to small-batch canning. She also has a cookbook "Food in Jars: Preserving in Small Batches Year Round." McClellan says her recipe for Cantaloupe Jam with Vanilla is "like the best and most exotic Creamsicle you've ever had." I had really looked forward to trying this recipe before the gorgeous cantaloupes in my rented garden plot in Downtown sprouted legs and walked off. Luckily, by only requiring one smallish melon for the recipe, I still can purchase a melon to try this affordably.
There are many new cookbooks available now with scaled-down recipes for the small-batch cook. "Well Preserved; Small Batch Processing for the New Cook" by Mary Anne Dragan and "Put 'Em Up" by Sherri Brooks Vinton are both great resources.
Keep your eyes open for promotional giveaways at farmers markets. I picked up some free Ball promotional samples of pectin, pickling spices and instructional pamphlets after a canning demonstration at the Downtown Memphis Farmers Market.
For getting started, Ball has a vast website (freshpreserving.com) with free recipes, tips and videos about canning. Ball also has a handy online pectin calculator and a telephone hotline for recipes, tips or questions at 800-240-3340.
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Dec. 17, 2007 Doctors at the Universities of Nottingham and Leicester are collaborating in the use of a magnetic resonance technique to image and quantify the air spaces inside the lungs — and the results of their research may lead to a link between childhood disease and later degenerative lung disease.
There are relatively few centres around the world which have access to this particular magnetic resonance technique, which is based at The University of Nottingham. Researchers at the University of Leicester have recruited a cohort of 10,000 children — the largest to focus on respiratory illnesses in childhood. The two research groups have combined forces, with a joint grant from the Wellcome Trust.
The method relies on the fact that certain noble gases, which are relatively rare in the atmosphere and are very un-reactive, can be detected by magnetic resonance methods when hyper-polarized in a very strong laser beam.
Tests involve individuals inhaling a very small quantity — in this case 10ml or two teaspoons — of the hyperpolarized helium-3 gas. This technique provides the key to unlock a whole new area of research in the field of lung development.
This is quite different from the magnetic resonance scans that are now commonplace in British hospitals. However, all magnetic resonance techniques function without the use of radioactive substances or ionising radiation. They are thus very safe, have no known side effects and are ideal for research into childhood illness.
Professor John Owers-Bradley, of The University of Nottingham's School of Physics and Astronomy, said: “Nottingham's role is to undertake the MRI scans using hyperpolarised helium-3 gas and to develop software for analysis of the lung function data. Our colleagues in Leicester, led by Professor Mike Silverman, are providing a cohort of children and young people on whom a lot of data has been collected since early infancy and they are also performing the complementary lung function measurements.
“This combination of clinical and technical expertise of has created a very powerful partnership.”
The pulmonary alveolus is the most peripheral structure within the air spaces of the lung, in which the gases carbon dioxide and oxygen move between the air and the blood. There are said to be about 500 million alveoli in the adult lung, and they have a combined surface area equivalent to about one tennis court. All the alveoli are formed by the age of three years, so early illnesses and exposures may leave children at risk of later lung disease.
COPD is chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, commonly known as chronic bronchitis and emphysema. This is a degenerative lung condition, enhanced by smoking, in adults beyond middle age.
Professor Owers-Bradley added: “We are seeking evidence that in young people and teenagers, the sensitive techniques that we are developing can detect differences in lung microstructure caused during fetal prenatal development, by early childhood disease or by environmental factors. For example, we have already observed the impact smoking and passive smoking on alveolar structure in an adult study which will now be extended to teenagers.
“We aim to establish a link between the health of the lungs during childhood and later degenerative lung disease (COPD) and then seek the specific factors — genetic or environmental — which lead to defective lung development.”
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This paper came to my attention yesterday: The kinesthetic senses by Uwe Proske and Simon Gandevia, in Australia. By some refreshing turn of events, it is open access. It provides an historical backdrop to nearly everything we as physical therapists are about. We are all about restoring this function, kinesthesia, to people in whom it would seem to have gone missing. We always have been. Without good kinesthesia, motor control goes offline. When motor control goes off line, so does maximal function.
The paper begins with a brief intro to kinesthesia. It states at the outset that muscle and skin receptors account for most of the receptor input that helps the brain make motor choices. It specifically states,
"Peripheral receptors which contribute to kinaesthesia are muscle spindles and skin stretch receptors. Joint receptors do not appear to play a major role at most joints."
Wow. Right there, we can see a huge erosion under the sea shore of one of the defining organizational principles of orthopaedic manual therapy, which is that getting to and wiggling or popping the right joint in the right way will jumpstart a better motor output. Orthopaedic manaual therapy (and chiro) have used this idea to build themselves and have perpetuated it for decades, for a century. It's just not valid. It was a false hypothesis, and finally research has begun to trickle out that suggests this is the case.
After a brief description of the contribution of muscle spindle receptors to the kinesthetic senses, Proske and Gandevia begin to discuss receptors found in skin:
"Concerning the possible contribution to kinaesthesia from other receptor types, the summary view is that while a good case has been made for some cutaneous receptors, the evidence is less convincing for joint receptors. The cutaneous receptor most likely to subserve a kinaesthetic role is the skin stretch receptor, the slowly adapting Type II receptor served by Ruffini endings (Chambers et al. 1972; Edin, 1992). For kinaesthesia at the forearm, stretch of skin over the elbow during elbow flexion can provide information about both position and movement. Movement illusions generated by stretch of skin of the hand and over more proximal joints, when combined with muscle vibration were greater than when either stimulus was applied on its own (Collins et al. 2005). The authors made the point that this was not just a matter of skin input facilitating the muscle input and that cutaneous input generated by skin stretch contributed to kinaesthesia in its own right. More recent observations have shown that skin input can also have an occluding action. Signals from local, rapidly adapting receptors evoked by low-amplitude, high frequency vibration can impede movement detection (Weerakkody et al. 2007).(....)
While joint receptors were first thought to be all-important in kinaesthesia, the present-day view is that their contribution at most joints is likely to be minor. Typically they respond to joint movement, but often with response peaks at both limits of the range of joint motion (Burgess & Clark, 1969). They are now thought of as limit detectors. However, there are examples in the literature of responses across the full range of joint movement (Burke et al. 1988) and here joint receptors may play a role under circumstances in which input from muscle and skin is not available (Ferrell et al. 1987). "
This paper is an important one for manual therapists who seek to understand how it is that "light" manual techniques seem to do as well to help patients' brains connect up in terms of improved, observable motor output, as heavy joint-based, manipulative or mobilizing ones.
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It's not just the children eating all that candy, but plenty of moms and dads have been known to dig into the pillowcase full of goodies. But most of us don't realize just how many calories are in the little bar or bag of candy and how quickly scarfing down 8 or 10 of them can add up to that calorie count.
Here are a few examples:
- Candy Corn: 50 calories; 0 grams of fat; 12 carbs
- MiniBars (Milky Way, Snickers 3Musketeers): 45 calories; 2 grams of fat; 30 carbs
- Jr Mints: 80 calories; 1.5 grams of fat; 16 carbs
- Skittles: 60 calories; 0.5 grams of fat; 42 carbs
- Starbust: 40 calories; 1 grams of fat; 34 carbs
- Swedish: 55 calories; 0 grams of fat; 14 carbs
- Sour Patch: 55 calories; 0 grams of fat; 14 carbs
- York Peppermint Patty: 50 calories; 1 grams of fat; 11 carbs
So if you end up eating just 9 to10 little bags or bars of candy, you've just eaten the calorie equivalent of a Big Mac!
But since getting lots of candy is one of the goals of trick-or-treating here are some tips that might help you and your kids from eating way too much candy over the next few days.
First off, if you still need to buy candy buy the type you don't like. That way you'll be less likely to eat piece after piece. And when trick-or-treaters arrive at your front door, make sure you give out your favorite candy first. We all tend to give away the "bad" stuff and save our favorites so we can have them later. But that means we probably eat more of them then we intend.
When your kids get home with their bounty of candy have them separate it into two piles. One pile for the ones they like and the other one for the ones they don't care much for. Get rid of the ones they don't like and some of the ones they do like if you can get away with it. You can take them to work, although you might not be your coworker's favorite person if you do. You can also donate them or sell them back to a local dentist.
Dentists that participate in the sell back program not only will pay for your Halloween candy but will send that candy to troops serving overseas. Talk to your dentist to see if they are participating. Or you can go to http://www.halloweencandybuyback.com to find one near you.
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Harvard President Sees Rise in Anti-Semitism on Campus
By KAREN W. ARENSON
Published: September 21, 2002
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. 20 — Harvard University's president, Lawrence H. Summers, used a quiet prayer meeting on the first day of classes here this week to condemn what he termed growing anti-Semitism at Harvard and elsewhere.
But while he labeled his remarks unofficial, they are setting off ripples on this campus, where students and professors have demanded that Harvard remove all Israeli investments from its endowment.
While Mr. Summers has drawn praise in some quarters for taking a stand, some in the academic community accused him of shutting off discussion.
"We are essentially being told there can be no debate," said John Assad, an assistant professor of neurobiology at Harvard medical school who signed the Harvard divestment petition. "This is the ugliest statement imaginable to paint critics as anti-Semitic."
Others, however, praised Mr. Summers for stepping into the debate.
"His remarks were very important," said Abraham H. Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League. "What's frightening is that we've been seeing the rise in anti-Semitism again, and there are so few people willing to stand up and say anything."
Mr. Summers, who described himself in his speech as "Jewish, identified but hardly devout," declined to comment today, saying he wanted his remarks to stand on their own.
In his morning prayer address on Tuesday in Memorial Church, Mr. Summers said he saw anti-Semitic actions on the rise in academic communities around the world.
"Serious and thoughtful people are advocating and taking actions that are anti-Semitic in their effect if not their intent," said Mr. Summers, referring both to the push for divestment and to actions by student organizations at Harvard and other campuses to raise money for groups found to have ties to terrorist groups.
"Where anti-Semitism and views that are profoundly anti-Israeli have traditionally been the primary preserve of poorly educated right-wing populists," he added, "profoundly anti-Israel views are increasingly finding support in progressive intellectual communities."
His speech, which was reported first in The Harvard Crimson, is posted on Mr. Summers's Web site, president.harvard.edu/speeches.
Mr. Summers is known for his outspokenness. In the last year, he has been in a public dispute with members of Harvard's Afro-American studies department. One professor, Cornel West, left Harvard for Princeton after Mr. Summers urged him to serve as a leader in tamping down grade inflation and encouraged him to focus more on his scholarly work.
Mr. Summers said on Tuesday that he was making his remarks "not as president of the university but as a concerned member of our community."
But Taha Abdul-Basser, a graduate student in the department of Near Eastern languages and civilization and a member of the Harvard Islamic Society, questioned whether it was possible to separate the statements from the office.
"I understood his comment that he wished to be understood as an individual speaking, rather than as president, but I doubt that everyone who listened to the speech or read it will be able to make that distinction," Mr. Abdul-Basser said. "And I was saddened to see that evidently support of the divestment campaign was being equated with something as ugly as anti-Semitism. Some of the professors who supported the campaign said they saw a difference between the two, and I certainly do, too."
While Mr. Summers strongly rejected divestment, he affirmed the value of open debate and said he was not taking sides.
"There is much to be debated about the Middle East and much in Israel's foreign and defense policy that can be and should be vigorously challenged," he said in his speech.
Those caveats, however, did not persuade critics like Elizabeth Spelke, a psychology professor who also signed the divestiture petition.
"Labeling the petition anti-Semitic is a strategy to detract from the criticisms of Israel," Professor Spelke said. "It turns the substance of a political debate into a debate of morals and supposed racism."
But Eli Sprecher, a Harvard sophomore, said he welcomed Mr. Summers's willingness to speak out, saying: "He's not just the president of a university, he's the president of Harvard. If there's a pretty big issue, he should take a stand on it."
Mr. Sprecher said that Mr. Summers had made valid points about the divestment movement and that "comparing Israel to apartheid South Africa does border on anti-Semitism."
Lawrence S. Bacow, president of nearby Tufts University, applauded Mr. Summers for his stand. "University presidents ought to raise important questions and I think he has," Mr. Bacow said, adding that he, too, was concerned about signs suggesting a rise in anti-Semitism on campuses.
Earlier this year, nearly 600 professors, students, staff members and alumni from Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, signed a petition urging Harvard and M.I.T. to divest from Israel. Similar efforts have been mounted at about 40 other universities.
The Harvard/M.I.T. petition said that "universities ought to use their influence — political and financial — to encourage the United States government and the government of Israel to respect the human rights of the Palestinians" by divesting from Israel and from American companies that sell arms to Israel.
Others at Harvard and M.I.T. fought back with a petition opposing divestment.
In May, Mr. Summers declared that Harvard had "no intention" of divesting, adding, "Harvard is first and foremost a center of learning, not an institutional organ for advocacy on such a complex and controversial international conflict."
In his remarks this week, Mr. Summers noted that his family had left Europe at the beginning of the 20th century. He said that for him, the Holocaust was "a matter of history, not personal memory" and that anti-Semitism "has been remote from my experience."
Mr. Summers, who became Harvard's president in July 2001, concluded his speech by saying he hoped he was wrong in his assessment of a rise in anti-Semitism and also hoped that it proved "to be a self-denying prophecy — a prediction that carries the seeds of its own falsification."
"But," he concluded, "this depends on all of us."
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