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This year, I transitioned once again from being a student to a Career Girl. I had to remind myself of forgotten career lessons, and I had to learn some new ones. As always, some of those lessons weren’t easy, but I’ll take them into the new year as part of my professional toolkit. Review your professional life in 2012, and see where you might be able to learn a lesson or make improvements.
Here are 7 of my most valuable career lessons of 2012:
- Get out of the house and network. We all have those nights when we realize we signed up for an afterwork networking event and it’s the last thing we want or have time to do. While it’s certainly okay to take some time off when it’s really needed, if we cave and miss out on a number of events, it will start to become a habit. Make sure you’re making time to build your network, and get out of the house or the office. Once you get out to the event, you’ll find yourself slipping back into networking mode — and having fun!
- Follow up. We’re all guilty of taking home the stack of business cards and tossing them in a drawer, only to find them months later and not remember who anyone is. This is what happens when you don’t follow up right away. Make sure you take note of the people you really want to connect with again, and send them a follow up message the next day. Try not to just exchange polite emails, and instead meet in person for coffee or lunch.
- Help each other. I strongly believe in women helping women. When you see an opportunity to help a fellow female professional, take it. This can also be a part of following up — when you do meet with that new contact, look for ways that you can help her, even if it’s small. One referral or lead can go a long way.
- Learn what you don’t know. Don’t get frustrated and angry when you don’t know a certain skill. There are so many resources out there today to help you learn just about anything. Yes, returning to the classroom is always an option, but there are also hundreds of free articles and tutorials online that can help. Try doing a search, and carve out a little time each week to learn something new. Practice that skill with a small side project for work, for personal use, or for a non-profit that needs some extra help.
- Know your worth. This applies to both your skills and your time. Are you being adequately compensated for your work? And, if you’re taking on a lot of projects at once, where is your time best spent? Both your talents and time are valuable, and people will take advantage if you let them. If you seem to be giving quite a lot, assess whether or not what you’re receiving in return is worth it.
- Be humble and be kind. Yes, this is a lofty goal, and a bit warm and fuzzy, but it’s true. People who are often unkind to those below or around them eventually build a reputation, and over time, fewer people want to work with them. And if you have trouble accepting that you don’t know everything yourself and that you will need help, you’re setting yourself up for a long, frustrating road that likely won’t result in achieving your goals.
- Take risks. You won’t get anywhere staying in the job you’re unhappy in. If you know there’s something else you’d rather do, then take real steps toward making that a reality. Stop making excuses and being angry at work — instead, use that time to make a plan.
Some of these I learned from my own mistakes, and some from others. What have you noticed in the professional world this year? Share your tips and lessons with us.
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Hyper-V is the latest virtualization product from Microsoft. The new hypervisor platform works with Windows Server 2008 to create and manage a virtual infrastructure. As with any virtualization platform, Hyper-V makes for a more efficient data center, maximizing resources and reducing costs.
Hyper-V consists of a 64-bit hypervisor that can run 32-bit and 64-bit virtual machines concurrently. Hyper-V virtualization works with single and multi-processor virtual machines and includes tools such as snapshots, which capture the state of a running virtual machine.
Hypervisor-based virtualization with Microsoft's newest offering promises more efficient virtual machine hosting as well, with new "synthetic" drivers.
For more information on Hyper-V, consult the resources in this introductory guide.
Introduction to Hyper-V
Hyper-V virtual machines
Hyper-V configuration and management
More on Hyper-V
Introduction to Hyper-V
Anil Desai describes the technical architecture of Microsoft's Hyper-V.
In the Microsoft Hyper-V model, a hypervisor layer runs directly atop the physical server hardware. All of the virtual partitions communicate with hardware through the hypervisor, which is a very small and efficient set of code for coordinating these calls.
Hyper-V includes a minimal microkernel architecture which allows multiple partitions to access the same physical hardware resources. Keeping the hypervisor small helps decrease the security attack surface and helps keep things efficient.
In order to take full advantage of the Hyper-V architecture, guest OSes can use what Microsoft calls "enlightenments". An enlightened guest OS is designed with virtualization in mind and can communicate efficiently with the hypervisor.
The following screencast will talk you through the steps required to get up and running with Microsoft's virtualization services in Hyper-V. The demonstration will use the release version of Windows Server 2008, which includes Release Candidate 1 of Hyper-V. You'll learn about prerequisites, system requirements and using Server Manager to install and verify the Hyper-V server role.
Hyper-V virtual machines
Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008 gets its own Microsoft Management Console (MMC)-based administration tools. If you have used Web-based configuration utilities in the past, this will probably be a very welcome change. The Hyper-V manager also includes a new virtual machine (VM) wizard which walks you through the steps of creating a new VM.
You can modify the settings of a VM by right-clicking on it in the Hyper-V manager and selecting "Settings." The left side of the interface includes the usual suspects, including disk, memory, network and removable media options.
Hyper-V supports the migration of virtual machines that were created in Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 and Microsoft Virtual PC, and includes a built-in method for connecting to and working with VMs.
Once you have installed Hyper-V on Windows Server 2008, you'll need to perform several steps to create, configure and start your virtual machines. This screencast will walk through those steps, including Hyper-V server settings, virtual machine virtual hardware configuration settings and basic virtualization operations.
The flexible virtual storage architecture of Hyper-V maximizes physical space and optimizes performance for creating and managing VHDs. This tip covers the different types of VHDs and explains how to work with them using Management Console, virtual hard disk wizard and other Hyper-V tools.
The bulk of any virtual machine is made up of virtual hard disks (VHDs), which are large binary files that must be stored, maintained and backed up. Fortunately, most virtualization platforms provide you with several methods for creating and managing virtual storage based on the needs of a particular workload.
In Hyper-V, you can easily create new VHDs, manage their settings and attach them to VMs. The Hyper-V Management Console provides everything necessary to perform these basic tasks, but it's important to understand the options available and their potential ramifications. This tip describes the steps that are required to create and manage all types of VHDs – dynamically expanding, fixed sized and differencing disks -- along with some performance-related recommendations.
To get started, you'll need to download and install a copy of Windows Server 2008. You can download the bits for free from Microsoft's Windows Server 2008 Evaluation Web site.
The system requirements for Hyper-V are far from ordinary, and this is the toughest hurdle for those that don't have dedicated test environments: Your standard desktop machine might not meet the system requirements (64 bit system, updated Microsoft OS requirements and hardware-assisted virtualization extensions are some of them.)
Server Manager is the new "command central" for managing your server. Using the Add Roles and Add Role Services features, you can easily configure the OS with the features you need. And, yes, you can install many (or all) of them at the same time. Then once you restart the computer the installation process is complete.
Point-in-time archives are a snap in Hyper-V with the new snapshot tool. Learn how to use the easy-to-use feature in the Management Console to create hierarchies of VM configuration changes.
In order to record the complete state of a virtual machine, you need many different pieces of information. While it is possible to backup all the necessary files and settings manually, the process can be a tedious and error-prone one. A Hyper-V snapshot includes all of the information and data that is required to roll back the status of a VM to a previous point-in-time. This includes:
Virtual Machine configuration settings (the contents of the .vmc file) Virtual network settings The current state of all virtual hard disks (VHDs) that are attached to the VM Saved state information for the VM (if applicable)
Best of all, you don't need to do anything special to enable snapshots. As long as you have a Hyper-V VM, you can use this feature.
With Hyper-V's device driver options, you can get greater virtual machine performance without sacrificing OS compatibility. Learn about features that make Microsoft's platform more manageable.
A virtualization layer provides independent, isolated environments in which guest operating systems and applications can run. Hyper-V uses the term "partition" to refer to these areas, such as root, parent and child partitions.
Hyper-V seeks to provide the best possible driver performance to minimize virtualization-related overhead and compatibility with the widest array of potential guest operating systems. Because these goals are sometimes at odds, Hyper-V provides two different types of drivers: emulated and synthetic.
Emulated devices rely on the same types of drivers that are available in Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 and Microsoft Virtual PC. Synthetic drivers are new in Hyper-V and are designed to provide improved performance. They are able to leverage more efficient communications mechanisms between virtual hardware and physical hardware.
More on Hyper-V
Running a virtual machine off a laptop with Microsoft Hyper-V gives users a "travel sized" hypervisor, if you will. But the convenience of a portable virtualization demo is not without drawbacks.
Creating a laptop-ready virtualization demo with Microsoft's Hyper-V involves a bit less preparation than with ESX. Due to Hyper-V sitting atop Microsoft Windows, there isn't the same need to create a hypervisor-in-a-hypervisor situation on your laptop. Upon installation, Hyper-V's primary partition immediately becomes the OS instance you use as your primary laptop instance.
But before you throw away your overpriced Vista OS for an even more expensive Windows Server 2008 instance, consider a few gotchas that you might see during the conversion.
So what's so great about Hyper-V? Perhaps the most obvious answer is price. Microsoft will be providing its new hypervisor at very little cost and it will be a few clicks and a reboot away for the vast majority of new server deployments. The vast array of features makes Hyper-V a great value, comparable to VMware's offering.
In order to compete successfully, VMware will have to lower pricing and it will have to add more robust, integrated management tools.
The bottom line: The hypervisor is only one portion of the overall virtualization equation and it is becoming a smaller part. Microsoft will dramatically lower the barrier for entry by providing an inexpensive hypervisor and the tools to manage it
This was first published in July 2008
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'Early Show's' Julie Chen More Biased Than NYT In Global Warming Coverage
Julie Chen, co-host of CBS’s "Early Show," was more biased than the New York Times in reporting on a new global warming study conducted by the British government. Chen highlighted the inflammatory claims of the study, citing that it concludes "global warming will devastate the world economy on the scale of the World Wars." Yet, the New York Times, in its coverage of the report, did not note this claim, and even quoted an expert who called the study "a bunch of guesswork."
Chen classified this research as a "wake up call" and reported that British Prime Minister Tony Blair thinks emissions need to be cut, an allusion to the media line that humans are responsible for global warming. But, the science is far from conclusive that global warming is a manmade phenomenon as opposed to one that occurs naturally. But, then again, this would not be the first time CBS has sensationalized "man made" global warming while ignoring contradicting studies (click here and here for examples).
Chen also noted that Al Gore is advising the British government on this subject. If the British government is taking advice from Al Gore, isn’t it logical that the conclusions its own study would come down on the side of leftist extremists?
A transcript of Chen’s brief piece from Monday's "Early Show" follows:
Julie Chen: "And a wakeup call about global warming. A study by the British government concludes that global warming will devastate the world economy on the scale of the World Wars. Prime Minister Tony Blair called for decisive action now."
Tony Blair, British Prime Minister: "If the science is right, the consequences for our planet are literally disastrous."
Julie Chen: "Blair says bold action is needed to cut emissions. Former Vice President Al Gore is advising the British government."
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Library & Services > Counseling
The Counseling component of the John D. O'Bryant African-American Institute provides a wide-range of services to students of African origin. The services are designed to enhance students' academic, career, and personal development.
Our goal is to encourage students in a process which will enable them to express their feelings; to evaluate and resolve problems, to explore options; to formulate short-term and long-term goals; to make solid decisions and develop self-assessment, self-advocacy, assertiveness and leadership skills. We encourage students to strive for academic excellence and to participate in extra-curricular activities that will enrich their overall college experience.
- Course advising, career and personal counseling
- Information on scholarships, financial aid, co-op, fellowships, internships and employment
- Career development workshops with employers and college representatives
- Personal development workshops
- Résumé writing assistance
- Information on graduate schools and the application process
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- Listing of Black colleges
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Research suggests some passwords attract more hackers
The Star Tribune recently highlighted the importance of passwords and noted that some phrases are more vulnerable than others.
The news source cited a November study conducted by an online security vendor that said the most popular password is "password," followed by "123456." One reason behind this lackadaisical use of such phrases is that many people feel uncomfortable managing an average of 25 passwords, according to a separate Microsoft study.
According to the Tribune, a security firm demonstrated last year that it could breach 200,000 passwords in less than an hour.
"Easy ones like '12345678' take seconds to crack, but the firm said that an eight-character password with uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, spaces and symbols can send hackers packing in search of easier targets," said the Star Tribune report.
Since passwords are such an important defense mechanism for consumers and companies alike, there are several ways to protect against security breaches. A Signal News report by Chilton Tippin suggested that a tiered phrasing system, which includes symbols, numbers and capital letters, as well as using a password manager software system, is best.
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|White blood cells vs Red
Aug 8, 2005
Dr., My girlfriend is Anemic. She was told by her doctor that her white Blood Cells are eating up her red Blood Cells before they mature. What can correct this problem?
| Response from Dr. Holodniy
She needs more of an explanation from her doctor as to what is going on. It is not clear from your description what the diagnosis really is and therefore what kind of treatment is required.
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Africa contains some of the poorest parts of the world. But that only makes some of the continent’s e-commerce accomplishments all the more impressive—and worth studying by business owners everywhere.
African office workers and other entrepreneurs have managed to take relatively simple mobile-phone technologies and use them to build remarkably robust commercial systems.
The typical skilled tradesman in a big city like Lagos or Nairobi is likely to have an Internet presence as useful as any in a major metropolitan area in Europe or the United States.
The difference is that business owners in Africa don’t have complex Web pages, but rely instead on a highly evolved system of text messages. The graphics might not be as fancy, but the job gets done just the same.
“It’s all very straightforward. It’s just ‘Click here if you want to make an appointment,’ ” says Craig Holmes, a client director for IBM’s Middle East and African operations. “The systems they have developed have simplified commerce in a very basic way.”
Others working with African mobile business owners say those entrepreneurs’ innovations should be closely heeded by companies trying to do business there.
In the United States or many European nations, “simple channels are often too quickly thrown away for ‘the next big thing.’ In Africa, it’s in the unsexy technology spaces that you find most of the successful entrepreneurs,” says Erik Hersman, cofounder of Ushahidi, the mobile crisis and event-mapping platform and a developer of iHub, an organization that brings together mobile entrepreneurs and investors in Nairobi.
Whereas cellular service is well established in populous regions of Africa, Wi-Fi in homes, offices, or coffee shops is rarely found, even in big cities.
“I find it interesting how quickly people in the West write off SMS,” Hersman adds. “Sure, it’s much more expensive per byte than its data counterpart, but it’s what people have, and use, on a daily basis in Africa. We very well might see SMS services decline over the next two to three years, but if you’re building a service in Africa, ignore SMS at your peril.”
Mobile apps that use simple technologies to solve everyday problems—like making payments—usually do very well, Hersman said. This is particularly true in Kenya, where more than 14 million people use a service called M-Pesa to make transactions using mobile phones.
Holmes, who is based in Johannesburg, South Africa, is helping provide back-end services for Bharti Airtel, the Indian mobile operator that, along with several other big multinational carriers, is jostling for a position in the booming African mobile-phone market.
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The function of the public bicycle security system is to allow the user to securely lock his/her bicycle to it. Anyone choosing to use this system will need a Bicycle Security card. Security Cards can be purchased at a pay station located at any Bicycle Security System location. One can also register his/her ID card, driver’s license or student ID card online instead of using a Security Card. One can also register their bicycle’s serial number to be linked to their card.
After purchasing or registering for a card, slide the card through any available bicycle security rack. The light will change from RED to Green. Next, pull out the cable lock and run the cable through the bicycle. Complete by inserting the cable lock back into the bicycle rack. Once the lock is secure, the light will change back from GREEN to RED. To unlock the bicycle, simply re-slide the card. The light will change again from RED to Green, allowing one to remove the cable lock from their bicycle.
I was looking at a bike rack by the museum one day thinking how useless it was. The purpose of a bike rack is to provide a safe location to secure your bicycle. However, the safety of my bicycle is the last thing that comes to mind when I see a bike rack. Having had my bicycle stolen, I know locking your bicycle to a bike rack is far from safe. Just look at the statistics. Studies also suggest that fear of bicycle theft discourages bicycle use and that many bicycle theft victims do not buy a replacement. Combating bicycle theft is therefore a necessary step toward the use of this sustainable form of transport.
There are also many benefits to riding a bicycle. It reduces the use of automobiles and it’s effects on the environment. It saves you money on gas and car maintenance costs. It also promotes health through exercise. It reduces traffic congestion and promotes use of public transportation. In turn, it saves the city money on road maintenance and improves street infrastructure.
There are 2 main factors that deter theft: The amount of exposure (how much attention is the theft going to cause? how likely will they get caught?) and the complexity of the theft (does it require many tools?). Originally, I tried designing new locking devices. This increased the complexity of the theft but thieves can just come up with new techniques to steal your bicycle. So I sought to come up with a solution to increase the amount of exposure.
Alarms work because they draw attention. My solution is a bike rack with an integrated lock & alarm. While U-Locks are strong, it’s only capable of locking one or two components, leaving other components vulnerable. Cable locks are more flexible, allowing one to lock all of the bike’s components. However, cables can be easily cut. To prevent this, I have integrated a circuit in the cable itself. If the cable is cut, the signal is disrupted and a visual/audio alarm will occur. Simultaneously, a signal is sent to the appropriate authorities.
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Semiconductor lasers are uniquely suited to a variety of applications because they have extremely high efficiency compared to other laser media and can be designed to produce a wide range of wavelengths. One of the major disadvantages of semiconductor lasers that has limited their application is their inherently high divergence.
Theoretically, laser output propagates in precisely the same direction over the entire cross section of the beam and remains perfectly parallel until it is scattered. However, the realities of defective materials and diffraction causes the beam to spread out as it propagates; the measure of the angle over which the beam spreads is termed its divergence. In this week's Nature Photonics, researchers from Harvard and Hamamatsu photonics demonstrate a beam-shaping technique that results in a 25 times less divergence from an edge-emitting quantum cascade laser (QCL).
In this work, the output of the quantum cascade laser is coupled to the surface plasmon modes of a metal. The best way to imagine this is that the light output of the laser gets converted into electron oscillations on the surface of the metal that behave a lot like the original laser light. As the plasmons move down the metal surface, they get scattered by patterned grooves in the metal surface. By adjusting the spacing, thickness, and depth of the grooves, the plasmon scattering can be controlled so that all of the energy scattered out of the beam undergoes destructive interference, resulting in a highly collimated beam. Photonic crystals guide light by the same principle.
A good analogy of this process is diffraction in reverse. Diffraction occurs when a wave moving in one direction is scattered by an object and produces a diverging set of waves not unlike the ripples from a stone thrown into water. In almost all scientific applications, diffraction occurs when a collimated or coherent electromagnetic beam interacts with a small scattering object—this effect is put to good use in X-ray diffraction and demonstrations of the wave nature of light like Young's famous two slit experiment. However the time reversal symmetry inherent to all physical laws tells us that this process can just as easily happen in reverse; we just do not typically have the right conditions to diffract diverging radiation into a collimated beam.
While this technique is an excellent demonstration of the power of plasmonics and metamaterials, it is severely limited by the fact that it only works in one dimension and only with edge-emitting semiconductor lasers. Three dimensional metallic grids offer hope of greater versatility, but they may be prohibitively complicated to produce.
Nature Photonics DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2008.152 10.1038/nphoton.2008.152
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Adrift takes place in the far future, a few hundred years from now. Earth is so overpopulated that a large path of humanity now lives in huge cities on the bottom of the sea. One of these communities is Bluetide, currently housing over seven million people. The cities are entirely self-dependent. Very elaborate artificial intelligences take care of the cities, controlling life support, production, safety, even education. The residents of the cities do not have to work for a living; everything is provided for them. Of course, any malfunction with the AIs could be devastating to the citizens. This is why there is one safeguard: Each underwater city has a Supervisor, a single human whose only task is to oversee the work of the AIs. In order to keep up with the speed at which the AIs are working, this Supervisor is kept in a constant state of sleep, his subconscious wired into the positronic network that links the AIs. What happens when that Supervisor suddenly loses control?
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It is always teaching time on the Softball field, but what I specifically want to discuss is teaching what [I]time[/i] means on the Softball field. Softball is a game that is lightning fast, where tenths of a second can make all the difference in the world and luck favors the swift. Teaching players the importance of time on the softball field is absolutely critical to a team’s success.
I am a big believer in having my players make decisions for themselves whenever possible on the softball field. I tell them all the time that I am not a puppet master pulling the strings to make them go where they need to go – they need to learn the game and think and react like Softball players. I have seen way too many teams where players do not make a move unless their coach tells them what to do first, and in my experience, those teams rarely reach their potential. Our job as coaches, particularly at the recreation level, is to teach our girls how to become Softball players, which includes allowing them to get a feel for the game. Too many coaches are too wrapped up in trying to win to relinquish control to their players, yet in a super-quick game such as Softball, winning will not come without the players making their own decisions.
For example, a runner is on first and the pitch goes in the dirt and kicks away from the catcher about 10 feet. If my player waits for me to tell her to “GO!”, first I have to see and react to the play which takes about 2 tenths of a second, then I have to decide to tell her to “GO!” which takes me another 2 tenths of a second. Then she has to hear me, process what I am saying and then start running, which takes another 2 tenths. From the time the ball hits the ground to the time the base runner starts running takes about 6 tenths of a second or so. That does not sound like much until compared to the 2 tenths of a second that it would take for a player reacting on her own to start going to second base. The difference between the “puppeteer” approach and the “player deciding” approach in this case is about a half a second, or about 10 feet of distance running which may not sound like a lot until you consider that the bases are only 60 feet apart.
To help train my players in understanding time, I run a cord between the bases with the distance an average player runs in one second, two seconds, and three seconds marked off on the cord. Then we walk through a few basic scenarios, like “Ground ball to the shortstop – the ball takes one second to get to her. How far up the base path will the runner be?” I assume a half a second for “transitions”, such as from fielding the ball to getting ready to throw it.
Once the girls get it, they start being able to answer such tactical questions as “Ball is hit to right center and I am on first – can I make it to third?” I leave the cords on the base paths for a couple weeks of practice, and by then most of the girls are seeing the game in terms of time and distance and I do not need to put the cords out any longer.
When I have softball players on my team when the other teams just have girls who play softball, the other teams do not stand a chance against us. Having my girls understand time and distance and how they relate to Softball is one of the requirements for making them Softball players.
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PD50029123_000_2050If we, like President Monson, exercise our faith and look to God for help, we will not be overwhelmed with the burdens of life.
At the end of a particularly tiring day toward the end of my first week as a General Authority, my briefcase was overloaded and my mind was preoccupied with the question “How can I possibly do this?” I left the office of the Seventy and entered the elevator of the Church Administration Building. As the elevator descended, my head was down and I stared blankly at the floor.
The door opened and someone entered, but I didn’t look up. As the door closed, I heard someone ask, “What are you looking at down there?” I recognized that voice—it was President Thomas S. Monson.
I quickly looked up and responded, “Oh, nothing.” (I’m sure that clever response inspired confidence in my abilities!)
But he had seen my subdued countenance and my heavy briefcase. He smiled and lovingly suggested, while pointing heavenward, “It is better to look up!” As we traveled down one more level, he cheerfully explained that he was on his way to the temple. When he bid me farewell, his parting glance spoke again to my heart, “Now, remember, it is better to look up.”
As we parted, the words of a scripture came to mind: “Believe in God; believe that he is … ; believe that he has all wisdom, and all power, both in heaven and in earth.”1 As I thought of Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ’s power, my heart found the comfort I had sought in vain from the floor of that descending elevator.
Since then I have pondered this experience and the role of prophets. I was burdened and my head was down. As the prophet spoke, I looked to him. He redirected my focus to look up to God, where I could be healed and strengthened through Christ’s Atonement. That is what prophets do for us. They lead us to God.2
I testify that President Monson is not only a prophet, seer, and revelator; he is also a wonderful example of living the principle of looking up. Of all people, he could feel weighed down by his responsibilities. Instead, he exercises great faith and is filled with optimism, wisdom, and love for others. His attitude is one of “can do” and “will do.” He trusts the Lord and relies on Him for strength, and the Lord blesses him.
Experience has taught me that if we, like President Monson, exercise our faith and look to God for help, we will not be overwhelmed with the burdens of life. We will not feel incapable of doing what we are called to do or need to do. We will be strengthened, and our lives will be filled with peace and joy.3 We will come to realize that most of what we worry about is not of eternal significance—and if it is, the Lord will help us. But we must have the faith to look up and the courage to follow His direction.
Why is it a challenge to consistently look up in our lives? Perhaps we lack the faith that such a simple act can solve our problems. For example, when the children of Israel were bitten by poisonous serpents, Moses was commanded to raise up a brass serpent on a pole. The brass serpent represented Christ. Those who looked up at the serpent, as admonished by the prophet, were healed.4 But many others failed to look up, and they perished.5
Alma agreed that the reason the Israelites did not look to the serpent was that they did not believe doing so would heal them. Alma’s words are relevant to us today:
“O my brethren, if ye could be healed by merely casting about your eyes that ye might be healed, would ye not behold quickly, or would ye rather harden your hearts in unbelief, and be slothful … ?
“If so, wo shall come upon you; but if not so, then cast about your eyes and begin to believe in the Son of God, that he will come to redeem his people, and that he shall suffer and die to atone for [our] sins; and that he shall rise again from the dead.”6
President Monson’s encouragement to look up is a metaphor for remembering Christ. As we remember Him and trust in His power, we receive strength through His Atonement. It is the means whereby we can be relieved of our anxieties, our burdens, and our suffering. It is the means whereby we can be forgiven and healed from the pain of our sins. It is the means whereby we can receive the faith and strength to endure all things.7
Recently Sister Cook and I attended a women’s conference in South Africa. After we listened to some inspiring messages on applying the Atonement in our lives, the stake Relief Society president invited everyone outside. We were each given a helium balloon. She explained that our balloon represented whatever burden, trial, or hardship was holding us back in our lives. On the count of three, we released our balloons, or our “burdens.” As we looked up and watched our burdens float away, there was an audible “Ahhhh.” That simple act of releasing our balloons provided a marvelous reminder of the indescribable joy that comes from looking up and thinking of Christ.
Unlike releasing a helium balloon, spiritually looking up is not a one-time experience. We learn from the sacrament prayer that we are to always remember Him and to keep His commandments, that we may have His Spirit to be with us every day to guide us.8
When the children of Israel were wandering in the wilderness, the Lord guided their journey each day as they looked to Him for direction. In Exodus we read, “And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light.”9 His leading was constant, and I give you my humble witness that the Lord can do the same for us.
So how will He lead us today? Through prophets, apostles, and priesthood leaders and through feelings that come after we pour out our hearts and souls to Heavenly Father in prayer. He leads us as we forsake the things of the world, repent, and change. He leads us as we keep His commandments and try to be more like Him. And He leads us through the Holy Ghost.10
In order to be guided in life’s journey and have the constant companionship of the Holy Ghost, we must have a “hearing ear” and a “seeing eye,” both directed upward.11 We must act on the direction we receive. We must look up and step up. And as we do, I know we will cheer up, for God wants us to be happy.
We are Heavenly Father’s children. He wants to be a part of our lives, to bless us, and to help us. He will heal our wounds, dry our tears, and help us along our path to return to His presence. As we look to Him, He will lead us.
I bear testimony that sins are forgiven and burdens are lightened as we look to Christ. “Let us remember him, … and not hang down our heads,”13 for, as President Monson said, “It is better to look up.”
I testify that Jesus is our Savior and Redeemer in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.
1. Mosiah 4:9.
2. See 2 Nephi 25:23, 26.
3. See Mosiah 24:15.
4. See Numbers 21:8–9.
5. See 1 Nephi 17:41.
8. See Doctrine and Covenants 20:77.
9. Exodus 13:21.
11. Proverbs 20:12.
12. “The Lord Is My Light,” Hymns, no. 89.
13. 2 Nephi 10:20.
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Teens on television have been depicted in the same broad light since the beginning days of the silver screen. Teens are sex-crazed, uneducated, emotional, illogical mini humans who seem to be in constant need of direction. I’d agree with this to a point but I think teens as a whole aren’t given enough credit. Sure, there are still those characteristics above being displayed by teens on a daily basis, but there are also those who choose to rise above the stereotypes and take responsibilities for their own actions. While these rogues may be few and far between, they do exist, but do they exist in the media?
Its well known that most “teens” on TV are actually being portrayed by 20 something’s and written for by 30, 40 and 50 something’s. This begs the question; are they being accurately portrayed? Teens are targeted by television and movies, no doubt. They are a massive demographic. Put porn stars in your horror movies and the kids will come running, (and yes, Piranha 3D was horrible).
Every day we see photos of Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez straddling each other at the beach, making out for the paparazzi lenses. Honestly, why should we expect our teens to behave behind closed doors? More than anything I think we need to take a look at how our teens view the “role models” that are presented to them through the media. I’m not saying these people can’t be role models because they make out in public. I’m saying that our teens can easily have an unhealthy view of what a relationship should look like. We’re not all models, or Disney stars or whatever Bieber is. Expectations skyrocket and “average” teens are left to wonder why no one wants them.
So I want to pose these questions to our readers:
How do you view teens today?
How do you think society views teens?
What do you think teens think of themselves?
Is our view of them healthy? Is theirs?
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Most of us will never be an Olympic athlete. However, all of us can tap in to those Olympic-size feelings to improve our own mental & physical well being and performance.
Positive, energizing feelings and increased daily performance can be generated by using the same type of visualization techniques used by Olympic Champions. Many top athletes and high achievers use visualization to help their conscious and subconscious mind work together to achieve peak performance.
You can increase your own performance in any area you choose by using the same kinds of mental exercises that give Olympic champions an edge.
Here’s how. Find any place to sit comfortably, with your eyes closed.Take a few deep, breaths to center & relax your entire body. Visualize as vividly as possible yourself achieving whatever result you desire. Maybe it’s a top sales performance or losing weight and looking great. Maybe it’s better relationships with those you love or positive recognition for a job well done. Notice any images, emotions, or sensations. Feel them throughout your body. Make them bigger, brighter, and more vibrant; turn up the volume and highten your senses. The more real you can make this in your mind the more likely you are to perform at this level in real life.
Now step back into the present but keep a vivid memory of how good it felt.
Visualizing and Improving your mental performance automatically helps you improve your physical performance with more speed and precision than you ever thought possible. It helps you say, do act and react in ways which will create your desired result.
I practice this daily in every area of my business and personal life and it’s absolutely a difference maker.
The bottom line…You gotta see it to be it and visualizing the perfect performance on a consistent basis is a small difference that will lead to enormous differences in results.
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Don't rush a life-changing decision
Published: Monday, January 3, 2005 at 6:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, January 2, 2005 at 11:44 p.m.
A pre-abortion waiting period would allow women more time for serious deliberation.
Having an abortion shouldn't be a choice made within 24 hours.
On Monday, a young woman of my acquaintance discovered she was pregnant. On Tuesday she ended her pregnancy by abortion here in Alachua County.
This young woman is a bright and beautiful college student working on a rigorous academic degree who is in a serious monogamous relationship with a young man. Within 24 hours, she made and carried out a decision that will affect her for the rest of her life. This is a tragedy.
As a teacher of young men and women, it has been my privilege to talk with and counsel students regarding their futures. Our young adults face many pressures as they work toward completing their high school requirements and prepare for the next phase of their lives as college students or seeking meaningful employment. Hours are spent preparing for college entrance tests, writing essays for college applications, completing resumes, seeking letters of reference from teachers and employers, interviewing for jobs and determining their next steps toward their future. This time is needed, for the decisions they make are momentous.
A young woman who finds herself in an unexpected pregnancy is filled with apprehension and fears. "What will my boyfriend say? What will my parents say? What should I do? Who can I trust with this information? Should I have the baby or not? How will this affect my long-term plans?"
Surely a decision this important should not be made and finalized within 24 hours. If there is no medical emergency endangering the mother's life, would not a three-day waiting period between the appointment for ending the pregnancy and the date of the surgery give a young woman time to sort out her feelings and be sure of whatever decision she chooses to make?
Could this three-day waiting period be built into the system by law, enabling more time for deliberation? I know of no other elective surgery scheduled for completion so rapidly.
Would waiting three days have changed my young friend's decision? I truly do not know. But is not the future of both a young woman and the life of her unborn child worth a three-day wait?
Theresa Zerr is a guidance counselor and Latin teacher at a local high school.
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Most of us have sat through a pointless TV sitcom. Afterward, we utter a familiar complaint …
“There goes 30 minutes of my life I’ll never get back.”
Our time has been wasted. Of course, the fault lies not with shows’ producers, directors, actors or network. The blame falls on us for not getting up and doing something worthwhile.
A summertime journey to New York City, Washington, D.C., and Shanksville, Pa., deepened my appreciation for the preciousness of time. Minutes mattered in each place on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. Yes, the placement of hands on the clock are etched into memories there — 8:46 and 9:03, when the Twin Towers in New York were struck by hijacked commercial airliners, and 9:59 and 10:28, when the two skyscrapers collapsed; 9:37, when a third terrorist-captured plane hit the Pentagon in Washington; and 10:03, when a fourth, United Airlines Flight 93, crashed into a field just north of Shanksville. The 2,977 innocent lives lost because of those instances deserve honor and remembrance.
But the minutes and seconds surrounding those clock readings pack an important lesson, too.
Heroism, courage and heartfelt emotion filled each tick of the second-hand in those places. In New York, firefighters raced into the burning towers, hurrying to rescue the injured, dying and trapped people inside the World Trade Center. Many escaped, thanks to the bravery shown by first-responders in the 102 minutes that passed between the first crash and the final tower collapse. Three-hundred and 43 FDNY firefighters died, trying to spare the futures — those hours yet unrealized — of others.
Their sacrifices remain dear to New Yorkers. A decade later, voices still pause while recalling the rescuers’ gesture.
On 9/11, time could not be squandered. A pastor I met in Lower Manhattan recounted another poignant example. Father Kevin Madigan leads St. Peter’s Church, which faces the World Trade Center. Madigan himself narrowly dodged death, having pointed a group of police officers and a fellow priest toward safety in a nearby subway tunnel as the South Tower began to implode. After patiently retelling his 9/11 experiences in a July interview in the lobby of the church office, the pastor handed me an essay he’d written about the day and its impact.
I read his reflections as my wife, daughter and I walked from St. Peter’s toward the construction site of the new World Trade Center and the National 9/11 Memorial and Museum. In his reflections, Madigan noted the city’s “profound sense of coming together” to find survivors and support the families of the missing immediately afterward. “In that light, one thing that should not go without mention were the final phone calls of those trapped in the towers to their family members,” Father Madigan wrote. “Many of these calls were left on voicemail, so we have a record of the last words of those who realized they were about to die. And to a one, they consist of a single theme — telling their wives, husbands, lovers, parents, children, friends simply, ‘Goodbye,’ that they loved them and to remember them.”
To read those words — while walking beside my own loved ones, through that hallowed spot — moved me. I felt fortunate, blessed.
As the three of us stood inside a country chapel 300 miles away on another leg of our July trek, I realized just how meaningful our time can be.
Ed Root carefully explained how minutes mattered aboard Flight 93 on 9/11. Thirty-three passengers, two pilots and five flight attendants assumed this Boeing 757 would fly from Newark, N.J., to San Francisco, as scheduled. After all, the skies were gorgeous blue, “severe clear” in aviation lingo. But four people who boarded that aircraft were actually among 19 al-Qaida terrorists on a suicide mission to hijack fully fueled planes and crash them into symbolic American landmarks. Aside from a few people traveling together, the other passengers sat down as strangers, just as many of us do on work trips or vacations. They were businessmen and women, college students and retirees. The crew included Lorraine Bay, a senior flight attendant and Root’s first-cousin, who “was like the big sister I never had.”
Forty-six minutes after takeoff, the terrorists stood, wrapped red bandanas around their heads, stormed the cockpit, killed or incapacitated the pilots and assumed the controls.
Moments later, through airphone and cellphone calls to loved ones and 911 and airline operators, the attendants and passengers learned of the other crashes in New York and Washington. They realized Flight 93, now turned back east, was being aimed toward similar targets — most likely, the U.S. Capitol, authorities learned later.
In their calls, they said I-love-you’s to family and friends. They prayed. Then they took a vote — sit, as the hijackers ordered, or retaliate? With time running out, they chose the latter.
“These people, in a half an hour, got information, sat down together, discussed it, shared information, decided to act and then acted. In a half an hour,” Root said inside the Flight 93 Memorial Chapel near Shanksville. “We all have to think, ‘What would I have done if I was there?’”
Father Al Mascherino wrestled with that question himself after 9/11. The heroic decision to fight back inspired Mascherino, a 67-year-old Catholic priest who lives near Shanksville, to renovate an empty church and create the Flight 93 Memorial Chapel, just a couple miles from the site of the crash. The quick action by the passengers and crew members stopped the hijackers from fulfilling their twisted goal of hitting the Capitol.
Just a handful of minutes elapsed from the moment when passenger Todd Beamer said, “Are you guys ready? OK. Let’s roll,” until the hijackers — about to be overtaken — crashed the jet in that open Pennsylvania field. “That’s what impressed me,” Mascherino said in a voice roughened through three victories over cancer.
“And I thought of all the times in my life I’d gone into a particularly difficult sequence of things that cost a lot of time, like months and even years of my life — wasted,” Father Al continued. “When I realized that in four minutes flat, they were able to decide what they wanted to do, and in four minutes, they changed the destiny of the world, I said, ‘I’m not wasting any more time,’ and I never have since then.”
As we reflect on 9/11 today, each of us should remember who the trapped and captive people called that day, what they said and what they did.
In just a few minutes.
Mark Bennett can be reached at (812) 231-4377 or email@example.com.
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We take a look at HMRC's new definition of a charity and in
particular what the 'management condition' means for
From 1 April 2012 all charitable organisations claiming any form
of UK tax relief or exemption will have to meet the terms of
HMRC's new definition of 'charity'. The
definition for tax purposes sits alongside the definition of a
charity under the Charities Act 2011 ("the Act"), which
is simply an organisation that is established for charitable
purposes (listed in the Act) and exists for the public
benefit. Charities which currently claim Gift Aid have been
required to comply with the new guidelines since April 2010, but
all other charities which intend to continue with their claims for
UK tax relief and exemptions should aim to fulfil the new
requirements by 31 December 2012.
In order to maintain eligibility for UK tax reliefs and
exemptions, charities must now demonstrate that they have satisfied
four conditions prescribed by HMRC. In short, they need to be
charities under the law of England or Wales, be located in the UK
(or an EU member state, Iceland or Norway), and they need to be
registered by the Charity Commission where the law requires (or an
equivalent Charity Commission in their home country). The
final condition, the 'management condition', which has
caused the most controversy, requires that any person involved with
the running of a charity's finances must be 'fit and
Charitable organisations are advised to familiarise themselves
with HMRC's guidance which contains details of a fit and proper
persons test, which essentially provides that an individual is
considered to be fit and proper if they ensure that charity funds
and tax reliefs are used only for charitable purposes. The
rationale behind the management condition is to ensure that
charitable organisations are not managed or controlled by
individuals who might misuse valuable tax reliefs.
HMRC recognises that the new test is likely to have little
impact in most cases since most charities will already have
procedures in place to ensure that their management staff are fit
and proper persons. Nonetheless, charities may wish to take
additional precautionary measures by asking their trustees,
directors and other employees who are involved in determining how a
significant proportion of the charity's funds are spent to sign
HMRC's model declaration certifying that they are fit and
proper, which could be produced as evidence in the event of an HMRC
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On 18 April 2013 the UK government issued a legal challenge to the decision of the EU Council of 22 January 2013 which authorised a subset of the EU (not including the UK) to introduce a financial transaction tax.
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Liberals need to take action to protect Sacred Headwaters
SMITHERS — With the end of the moratorium on drilling for coal bed methane in the Sacred Headwaters looming, the Liberal government has yet to take real action to work with communities to protect the ecologically-sensitive area, says New Democrat MLA Doug Donaldson.
“The headwaters of the Stikine, Nass and Skeena Rivers are of great ecological, economic and spiritual importance for the people of Northern B.C.,” said Donaldson, the MLA for Stikine and the New Democrat deputy energy and mines critic. “Communities in the area do not want to put their water at risk from this potentially dangerous resource extraction.”
In 2008, without adequate consultation, the province allowed exploratory drilling for coal bed methane in the area. Outrage from First Nations, environmentalists and local communities prompted the government to place a two year moratorium on the drilling. After coming no closer to a resolution, the moratorium was extended until December 2012, with the government promising to consult with concerned groups.
Donaldson noted that the Minister of Energy and Mines was unable to give a clear response on where negotiations stood when asked about it in the legislature in May.
“The Tahltan First Nation and a broad coalition of communities downstream of the three rivers have said loud and clear that they do not support coal bed methane if it comes at the expense of pristine areas like the Sacred Headwaters," said Donaldson.
“The government has been hearing this for three and a half years, yet there is still no decision. What’s the delay?
“It’s time to step up to the plate and work with the Tahltan and local communities around some form of acceptable land designation that acknowledges the world-class ecosystem encompassing the headwaters of these three great rivers.”
Adrian Dix and B.C.’s New Democrats support sustainable economic development in B.C. that includes community consultation, respect for First Nations and a strong environmental assessment process.
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In the world of new media, “you” and “i” are more than just pronouns. Robert Lane Greene decodes their significance ...
From INTELLIGENT LIFE Magazine, Spring 2011
One way to gauge the prevalence of a word is to consult the Oxford English Corpus, a body of 2 billion words. “I” comes in tenth; “you” is 18th. They are not quite our two favourite subject pronouns: “he” is 16th (“she” is 30th). But in the world of the 21st century, “you” and “i” are two very potent little words.
Apple, as so often, got there first, launching the iMac in 1998. Steve Jobs, Apple’s boss, said that the “i” was for “internet”—what most new computer-buyers were then buying computers for—while behind him the words “individual”, “instruct”, “inform” and “inspire” appeared on the screen. Apple went on to ride the “i” hard for the next 12 years, introducing the iBook, iPod, iPhone and iPad. Its software included an iLife suite with iTunes, iPhoto and iMovie. At that 1998 launch, Jobs coyly avoided making an obvious point: “i” wasn’t really about the internet or anything else, it was about you. It was there to make you feel the iMac was made for you personally.
Why “i”, besides the obvious? At the time of the iMac launch, “cyber” had lost its currency (remember cyberspace?), and its place had been largely taken by “e-” for “electronic”. E-mail had already been around for a few years, and its popularity led the “e” to be detached and re-attached to all manner of internet-based phenomena. We started sending e-cards as well as e-mails, engaged in e-commerce (through e-tailers like eBay), and bought and sold shares on ETrade. That “e” is still working hard to this day, as shown by the rapid rise of e-books on e-readers.
Apple’s bold move was to pounce on one of the four remaining vowels, and our tenth favourite word, for its own naming convention. Interestingly, it has never tried to copyright its “i”. In fact, it has run into others’ trademarks: Cisco made an iPhone before Apple ever did, and Fujitsu made an iPad. (Apple now shares “iPhone” with Cisco; it bought “iPad” from Fujitsu.) Soon after the first iPhone, along came the BBC iPlayer, a popular way of catching programmes you missed by watching them online. So Apple’s lock on “i” isn’t legal or technical. But now, after four successful generations of the iPhone and the steep ascent of the iPad, anyone else caught iNaming a digital product would look like an Apple imitator. The BBC is giving up the struggle: it has plans to broaden and transform the iPlayer—into YouView.
The BBC and its allies will thus be moving their tanks off Apple’s lawn and on to Google’s. The biggest “you” in the world is YouTube, founded in 2005 and bought a year later by Google. It still has the slogan “broadcast yourself”, and was originally intended primarily for amateur video-sharing. But it was a tremendous success, and for a while it seemed that we were living through the age of “you”. In 2006 Time magazine surprised fans of its venerable “Person of the Year” feature by giving the honour to “you”, complete with a mirror-style cover saying, “Yes, you. You control the Information Age. Welcome to your world.”
YouTube’s clips of cute pets, annoying kids and half-naked exhibitionists were soon joined by a wave of content from television and movie professionals, copied either legally or not. The “you” ethos survives in the occasional home-made breakthrough video like last year’s “Gap Yah”, and even more so in offshoots like the amateur-hour YouPorn. But “you” hasn’t been as productive as “i”. Nor have product-namers converged on the three trends of pronouns, hip prefixes and abbreviation to take the obvious next step: “u”. I was able to find only one example, U-Verse, AT&Ts bundle of high-speed internet and media services.
i is also the name of the baffling new snack version of the British newspaper the Independent, costing only 20p and containing no articles longer than 400 words, as well as a more coherent Portuguese paper, in which the i is clearly linked to the word informação.
Since we tend to be quite fond of both ourselves and those like us, why are we not seeing more of “we”? America has WE TV, previously named WE: Women’s Entertainment. OurSpace was a black American alternative to Myspace, the early social-networking site, but it didn’t fly. America’s Us magazine is popular, but its title is something of a cruel joke on the reader: it is about famous beautiful people the reader will never meet. “We” can’t compete with “you” and “i”.
Opposites though they seem, “you” and “i” are really about the same thing: your iPod and your YouTube habits are both about you, not me, and my iPod and YouTube are about me, thank you very much. How many of us really see the You in YouTube as a plural? (Christians with camcorders: we’re still waiting for YeTube.) As technology gets better at giving each of us what we want, or think we want, the world of you and I and he and she all coming together as we is becoming a thing of the past.
Robert Lane Greene is an international correspondent for The Economist. His book about language, "You Are What You Speak", is out now. His last article for Intelligent Life was about the rivalry between Apple and Google. Illustration: Brett Ryder.
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DANDURAND, DAMASE, first Canadian-born Oblate of Mary Immaculate, architect, and vicar general; b. 23 March 1819 in La Prairie, Lower Canada, son of Roger-François Dandurand, a notary, and Marie-Jovite Descombes-Porcheron; d. 13 April 1921 in St Boniface (Winnipeg).
The father of Damase Dandurand died on 14 Dec. 1821, and on 15 June 1825 his mother married Pierre-Paul Démaray*, a notary. Damase first attended an English school in Montreal, boarding with his uncle Gordon Forbes, who inspired in him a taste for construction and architecture. He thus acquired a good knowledge of English, which would prove indispensable in his future responsibilities. He then moved to Saint-Jean (Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu), where his mother now lived. Because of his delicate health, he continued his schooling with private tutors up to the fifth year (Belles-Lettres) of the classical program. From 1832 to 1835 he finished his classical studies at the Collège de Chambly.
At 16, Dandurand chose to become a priest. He began teaching at the Collège de Chambly while studying theology there. His remarkable precocity is evidence of his above-average talent. Summoned to Montreal in 1840, he spent some time at the Grand Séminaire and is believed to have been in the service of Bishop Charles-Auguste-Marie-Joseph de Forbin-Janson*, who was then in Canada. By special permission because of his age, he was ordained a priest on 12 Sept. 1841 by Bishop Rémi Gaulin* of Kingston. On 2 December six Oblates of Mary Immaculate arrived from France at the request of Bishop Ignace Bourget* of Montreal to their founder, Bishop Charles-Joseph-Eugène de Mazenod of Marseilles [see Jean-Baptiste Honorat*].
Dandurand immediately thought of joining their order. He began his noviciate on 24 December and pronounced his vows at Christmas the following year. From then on he took part in many missions and retreats in the diocese of Montreal and even across the American border. He was particularly in demand in areas where English-speaking Catholics were present. In early 1844 he made two extensive tours through the Eastern Townships, including Stanbridge, Dunham, Granby, and Stanstead. In May, shortly after the Oblates had been put in charge of the Catholic mission in Bytown (Ottawa), he was called to serve the Irish community there, but when Father Michael Molloy, a true son of Ireland, arrived the following year, he resumed preaching in the diocese of Montreal.
Recalled to Bytown in 1847 because of the typhus epidemic raging there, Dandurand contracted the disease after a few weeks, and he would always remember this episode with horror. Soon after his recovery, Joseph-Bruno Guigues*, an Oblate who was now bishop of the diocese of Bytown, appointed him curé of the parish of Notre-Dame, where he was in charge from 1848 to 1874. Over the years he contributed to the construction of the cathedral, begun in 1841, by correcting the arrangement of the windows on the side walls. (He replaced a row of superposed windows with one of large windows.) He also erected the two towers and added a deep apse to the nave, all in Gothic style from his own plans. A generous and enterprising priest, he participated in the developments that enabled the ill-reputed village of Bytown to achieve the status of capital city. In particular, he supported the teaching and charitable work of the women who became the Sisters of Charity of Ottawa [see Élisabeth Bruyère*] by directing to them some of the parishioners' charitable donations and by guiding towards them young women in search of their future. He reportedly also obtained the assistance of the Brothers of the Christian Schools. On various occasions Dandurand was appointed administrator of the diocese in the absence of the bishop, and he became his vicar general in 1862.
Some of Dandurand's religious superiors, including Father Florent Vandenberghe, suspected that Bishop Guigues did not always respect the interests of his own congregation. Worried also about the legal implications of the vicar general's administration, they decided in 1870 to put an end to the agreement of 1856 which had defined the role of the Oblates in Ottawa, but they let Dandurand remain in the service of the diocese. Although he had experienced conflictual situations, he was by no means an ideologue. He had rather kept in step with the thinking of his bishop, whose pastoral letters (very likely written by others) showed strong ultramontane overtones, but whose administration was marked by realism and compromise.
When Guigues died on 8 Feb. 1874 Dandurand became administrator of the diocese, according to the wishes of the former bishop, who had also mentioned him as his most appropriate successor. "He has been my right hand, my support, my consolation, my other self," he had written a few months earlier. But the Oblates objected to the appointment of one of their number, and furthermore, there were differences of opinion with regard to Dandurand. After a painful waiting period, the controversial choice of Bishop Joseph-Thomas Duhamel* added to his distress. For a while he even considered transferring to the secular clergy.
Dandurand was clearly in the throes of a severe depression. He agreed to a trip to France as a diversion from his troubles, but refused to serve in the parish he was offered in England. It was at this point that Archbishop Alexandre-Antonin Taché* of St Boniface invited him to Manitoba. The adjustment was painful, and Dandurand had the impression of living past his time. He would remain absent from the enormous transformations that the west would undergo in this period. After a brief stay in 1875-76 in the emerging city of Winnipeg, he was appointed curé of the neighbouring parish of St Charles, which was largely Métis. He served there from 1876 until 1900.
Dandurand was in his eighties when Adélard Langevin*, archbishop of St Boniface since 1895, offered him the hospitality of his residence. He did not remain idle, but with energy and compassion took care of the old people and orphan girls at the Hospice Taché and the Hospice d'Youville in St Boniface; in 1915 he retired to the Juniorat de la Sainte-Famille, among his Oblate brothers.
On the celebration of his 100th birthday, Damase Dandurand, who was still mentally and physically alert, celebrated mass and spoke several times. Completely lucid to the end, he died surrounded by respect and affection. He was buried on 16 April 1921 in the cemetery of the juniorate, following a funeral in the cathedral at St Boniface. He was remembered as a serene, compassionate, and considerate old man. Avoiding involvement in linguistic and nationalistic conflicts, in the first half of his life he had helped his European colleagues adapt to the realities of Canadian life, and had played a part in defining a prominent role for the Oblates of Mary Immaculate in Ottawa.
Information on Father Damase Dandurand is available in several archival repositories, among them the parish archives of Notre-Dame (Ottawa) for the years 1844-45 and 1848-75; St Mary's (Winnipeg), 1875-76; St Charles, Man., 1876-1900; and St Boniface cathedral (Winnipeg); and the Arch. of the Archdiocese of Ottawa, in the Notre-Dame parish file. A document entitled "Archives of the Catholic Church of Bytown," written in part by Father Dandurand, is also in the archdiocesan archives. Additional information is found in the Arch. de la Chancellerie de l'Archevêché de Montréal, RC 4: ff.54, 65r; the Arch. de l'Archidiocèse de Québec, 321 CN (diocèse d'Ottawa); and the St Charles parish file at the Arch. de l'Archevêché de Saint-Boniface. The following materials are also useful: Arch. Deschâtelets, Oblats de Marie-Immaculée (Ottawa), HEB 3178.D15 (dossier Damase Dandurand); Arch. Provinciales O.M.I. (Montréal), Codex historicus, Longueuil, and Dossier Dandurand; Arch. Générales des Oblats de Marie-Immaculée (Rome), Dossier Damase Dandurand, Dandurand à Mazenod, 3 déc. 1845; Archivio della Propaganda Fide (Rome), Scritture originali riferite nelle Congregazioni generali, vol.1003; and Arch. des Sœurs Grises (Winnipeg), Chroniques de la maison vicariale de Saint-Boniface, VII-VIII.
ANQ-M, CE601-S3, 24 mars 1819. Le Devoir, 14 avril 1921. La Presse, 22 mars 1919. Gaston Carrière, Dictionnaire biographique des oblats de Marie-Immaculée au Canada (4v., Ottawa, 1976-89), 1: 248-49; Histoire documentaire de la Congrégation des missionnaires oblats de Marie-Immaculée dans l'est du Canada (12v., Ottawa, 1957-75), 1; "La vocation oblate du père Damase Dandurand," Études oblates (Ottawa), 15 (1956): 159-63. Le centenaire du R.P. Damase Dandurand, o.m.i. (Saint-Boniface [Winnipeg], 1919). Robert Choquette, L'Église catholique dans l'Ontario français du dix-neuvième siècle (Ottawa, 1984). [Georges Derouzier, dit] père Alexis de Barbezieux, Histoire de la province ecclésiastique d'Ottawa et de la colonisation dans la vallée de l'Ottawa (2v., Ottawa, 1897). "Feu le R.P. Damase Dandurand, o.m.i.," Les Cloches de Saint-Boniface (Saint-Boniface), 20 (1921): 63-68. Émilien Lamirande, Une figure méconnue, Damase Dandurand (1819-1921): le premier oblat canadien (Ottawa, 1996). Normand Pagé, La cathédrale Notre-Dame d'Ottawa; histoire, architecture, iconographie (Ottawa, 1988).
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By Kalina Swirko: A new food bank has been launched in Stoke-on-Trent.
Seven churches will be working together to collect and distribute food to families in need, with Wesley Hall Methodist Church acting as the main warehouse for the project.
It follows recent statistics by the national Child Poverty Action Group ranking Stoke-on-Trent as the West Midlands’ third-worst area for child poverty.
Sue Simcoe, the project manager of the Wesley Hall centre, told StaffsLive that demand was high for such a project.
“There are initially seven distribution centres being set up around Stoke-on-Trent, but ultimately we’d want to have one within walking distance of anybody in the region,” said Sue.
“There’s a massive need for this project. Most days people are asking ‘is there anything you can do for this family?’”
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BOSTON (AP) — The lengthy state budget process is set to officially begin with the filing by Gov. Deval Patrick of his spending plan for the next fiscal year.
Patrick has already revealed several key aspects of the budget that will be sent to the Legislature on Wednesday. He's seeking to hike the income tax rate from 5.25 percent to 6.25 percent, while lowering the sales tax from 6.25 percent to 4.5 percent. The net revenue increase would help fund transportation and education initiatives.
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|1. How long has Stone-Coated Steel roofing been around?
Stone-coated steel roofing occurred during World War II when tar and sand were used to cover galvanized steel bunkers. After the war, the practice was commercialized and the first roofs were produced. Stone coated steel roofs have been protecting buildings for close to 50 years, but the product technology today bears little resemblance to early practices due to advances in the chemistry of coatings.
|2. Will a Steel roof make my home hot?
No. A properly vented steel roof system moves air both between the shingles and the underlying deck as well as moving air from vents under the decking. Heated air is allowed to dissipate through the ridgeline as cooler air is drawn through eave vents. Reduced energy bills can result from airflow both under and over the decking.
|3. Can you walk on a steel roof?
Yes. Some care must be exercised while walking on the roof, but note that roofers walk all over the shingles during the installation process.
|4. Is a steel roof noisy in the rain?
The Metro roofing system is quiet. The combination of dead air space and the stone coating minimize outside sounds. One rural couple standing directly under a stone coated steel roof observed that they could hear the rain striking a metal building about 50 feet from where they were standing, but couldn’t hear any noise from the stone/steel roof directly over their heads.
|5. How wind resistant is a steel roof?
The Metro roofing system has been proven to resist wind speeds in excess of 120-mph. One homeowner’s roof survived tornado force winds completely intact. "We lost 12 large trees…the shingled roof of our garage…a 14’ X 14’ (2" X 6") pump house deck slammed into the house and buckled the brick. You said it would hold up in a tornado. I’m writing to tell you it will." Bill Jamieson
|6. How do the granules stay bonded to the steel?
Specially graded, non-oiled stone chips, produced by ISP Corporation, are used for all Metro stone-coated products. The finely graded, non-oiled stone granules ensure long-term adhesion to the steel substrate and are embedded in a UV resistant acrylic polymer for a lasting bond to the steel substrate.
|7. Will a steel roof rust?
The steel substrate is protected from corrosion by layers of metallic and polymer coatings. Metro utilizes an advanced metal composite developed by BIEC International and introduced in 1973 as aluminum-zinc coated steel. The composite improved earlier metallic coatings by applying an aluminum-zinc alloy to the steel in a continuous hot dip process. The aluminum creates an inert barrier coat while enhancing the long-term performance of zinc and its ability to protect breaks in the coating. Galvalume coated steel has repeatedly been shown in industry studies, conducted over the last 20 years, to outperform the corrosion resistance of other coated metals. This is why the Metro roof system is referred to as "The final Roofing System", and is backed up with a 50 year limited warranty.
|8. Does the color fade?
Though sized more precisely, Metro uses the same stone granules used by asphalt shingle manufacturers for over 50 years, so history demonstrates that fading is not a problem. Over time, a slight change in color may occur due to settling of airborne contaminants, however periodic rain or washing the roof with a garden hose will keep the roof looking new.
|9. Is a steel roof fire safe?
Steel roofing is classified as a noncombustible roofing material (Class A). In new construction and in many re-roofing applications the metal roofing system is a Class A noncombustible roof assembly. In roof-over applications, where Metro panels are installed over old combustible shakes or shingles, the resulting roof assembly can be classified as A, B, or C depending upon the type of underlayment installed between the old and new roof. There are many examples of the safe fire performance of stone-coated steel roofs in areas subjected to fire storms. Additionally, the lightweight strength of the steel roofing system precludes it from crashing down on occupants exposed to fire within their residence.
|10. How long does it take to install a steel roof?
Usually only a few days. The complexity of the building’s roofscape is the primary factor in determining the time required. Complex roofs require more time than basic designs.
|11. What is the installed weight of a steel roof in comparison to other products?
PRODUCT WGT. PER SQ. (1-Sq. = 100 Sq.ft) Steel Roofing 125 lbs. Standard (3-Tab) Asphalt Shingles 190 — 215 lbs. Wood Shake/Shingle* 250 — 300 lbs.* Heavy Weight Laminated Asphalt Shingles 290 — 430 lbs. Clay / Concrete Tiles* 900 — 1200 lbs.* *Note that the weights for cedar, clay and concrete products are all dry weights. All three-product categories weights increase when wet.
|12. What does hail do to steel roofs?
Metro panels received the highest impact resistance rating from Underwriters Laboratories. Except under the most extreme storms, Metro panels show no visible effects from impacting hail stones. Some insurance carriers extend a discount on premiums to homeowners that have a Metro roof.
|13. Are steel roofs more susceptible to lightning strikes?
Steel roofing is no more susceptible to lightning than other roofing materials. It has been demonstrated that lightning strikes most frequently the highest points of terrain. Where concerns exist, lightning rods can be installed on roofs that are the highest point of surrounding terrain.
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Aymee frequently comments on the topics of happiness and
resiliency for the media including magazines,
newspapers, and television. She is an author in a book
series focused on achieving gratitude in the face of
tragedy called "Thank God I" where she writes about her
story "Thank God I was fat, ugly, poor, divorced, and
live in chronic pain."
In 2004, recognized as a happiness authority by Lionel
Ketchian, the founder of The Happiness Club, she was
asked to start a happiness club in San Francisco and
since then has trained others on how to lead happiness
clubs. Dr. Aymee also has authored the Feel Better Now!
home study course so people can learn how to feel better
in the privacy of their own home.
Aymee takes a 'training' approach with her clients by
seeing them as whole individuals who need to simply
learn and employ the skills of happiness science.
Aymee's PhD is in Organizational Psychology with an
emphasis in leadership and the science of happiness.
Aymee also speaks to groups and organizations about the
following topics: positive psychology, sustainable
happiness, taking leadership of our happiness, happiness
habits, the types of happiness, creating meaning jobs,
increasing job satisfaction and performance, authentic
leadership, and authentic leadership development.
Dr. Aymee is a true leader in the area of sustainable
happiness and positive psychology. She believes that
every person has what it takes to live a happy and
stress free life regardless of their circumstances and
her clientele are the living proof of her successful
practice and accomplishments.
Claudia B., M.S., L.C.S.W.
11-01-05 until 01-20-06
When I met George Ortega,
we made an easy, fast connection and walked away from
planning meeting with a thousand ideas and feeling
good. What more could a therapist ask for? I can bring
my work to the show and bring what we develop on the
show to work. It’s the very best of two worlds.
I became a
psychotherapist by way of the fitness business.
When I sustained a back injury and was laid up for a few
months my life changed. I went down to The New York City
Board of Education with my college transcript and was
offered a job in the NYC schools. There, I quickly
connected with the bad-ass kids and developed a program
to keep them in the building and out of harms way called
The Lunch Club. It gave this thrill seeking population a
safe, cool place to hang out, listen to music and relax.
It was a rap group in the making disguised as a chill
Through that experience
with adolescents and their families I attended Columbia
University for my Master of Science in Social Work. My
first job as a post-grad was in a high school substance
abuse program – hence my occasional drug references on
The Happiness Show.
I definitely am not your typical therapist. I embarked
on my career later in life, have provided team-building
and problem-resolution services to the private and
public sector and bring a range of eclectic life
experience to a grass roots practice. In
essence – I do what I can to help make people happy. It’s a fun way to earn a
living, very satisfying and I learn everyday.
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More and more often I hear my peers in Windsor express frustration about the lack of opportunities for young people. When you consider Windsor’s current unemployment rate of 10.7%, this shouldn’t come as much of a surprise.
Even in cities outside of Windsor with high unemployment, young people are finding that that they are falling short in getting the jobs they want. They are coming out of university and college with degrees and designations, significant debt, and little experience in their desired field of work.
Getting the right education for a desired field of work is only the first step to gaining employment. In most cases, young people are finding that getting the job they want comes down to their experience (or lack thereof) and knowledge of the community they wish to work in.
Unemployment will always exist, as will the competitive nature of gaining employment, no matter what community someone is from. Therefore, young people need to stand out and clearly demonstrate that they are investing in their community and making a contribution to its success.
So, to all of those complainers frustrated about their academic to professional experience ratio, I ask: What are you doing about it?
I am not originally from Windsor, but I came here to attend the University of Windsor six years ago. During my time here I have come to love Windsor and have been rewarded through my engagement and involvement with the community.
When I first came here I had no connections or job prospects, but becoming involved in the community has provided me a unique opportunity to network and interact with a wide variety of movers and shakers (including other youth!) in Windsor and develop my leadership skills, which in turn has given me very marketable skills.
Windsor is a community that thrives on interaction, diversity, and small town character. One thing is for sure: Windsorites want to see each other succeed, especially youth.
Why should civic engagement be important to Windsor’s youth? Getting involved doesn’t just have to mean volunteering for a local organization or charity. While volunteering at a shelter, for example, is valuable and important to the community, there are also opportunities for youth to make change themselves and to have their voices heard about issues that matter most to them.
GenNext is a great example of this. The group is comprised of a diverse group of young professionals and students who want to make a change in Windsor. They are currently working to raise $10,000 which they will use to start a youth-focused grant program. This is just one example of how young leaders are making a change to better their community and create opportunities for fellow youth.
There you have it. The answer is clear. What can give you a competitive edge over your peers in gaining employment? Getting involved in your community. Show some initiative, benevolence, a little hard work, and it will go a long way. In the interest of celebrating National Volunteer Appreciation Week, let us also celebrate and profile the work that is being done by young leaders in Windsor.
The Mayor’s Youth Advisory Committee (MYAC) is pleased to introduce the Youth Leadership Awards. As a way to recognize some young leaders that are making a difference in Windsor, Mayor Eddie Francis will recognize three youth who have shown an outstanding contribution to making Windsor a better place.
The 2012 Youth Leadership Awards will be presented during the Mayor’s Walk and City Birthday Celebration on May 21st.
MYAC encourages anyone who knows a young leader aged 15-24 to submit an application. Applications must be submitted by April 30th, 2012.
For more information please see www.windsoryouth.com
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Bob Haggadah - Seder-Man
MAGID / Narration -
1. HA LACHMAH ANYAH -
This is the traditional invitation for all to join the Seder. Some families open the door at this point in the Seder as a sign of welcoming any and all guests to the Seder.
Ha lachma anya di achalu avatana b'ara d'mitzraim.
This is the bread of affliction, which our ancestors ate in the land of Egypt.
Let all who are hungry come and eat.
Let all who are in need, come and celebrate Passover.
Today, we are here. Next year, in the land of Israel.
Today, we are slaves. Next year, we will be free.
[This is the non-traditional invitation… sung to the tune of the theme song from “Spiderman.”]
Seder-Man, Seder-Man, Doesn’t eat bread or cake or flan Says Kiddush, drinks his wine, Then does it again three more times Oy vey! Pesach with Seder-Man. Who knows one? Listen bud, He's got Matzah meal in his blood. Eats karpas,
He’s much more than a token Jew! What’s nu? Check with the Seder-Man.
In the still of night, On the 15th of Nissan,
Yom Tov candles he’ll light, At the scene of Seder one. Seder-Man, Seder-Man What a mensch is that Seder-Man! All Chametz He ignores Naches is his reward. To him, Passover is like heaven Wherever there’s no leaven You'll find the Seder-man!
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Industries heat up over boiler rules
Signatories to the Senate letter included some of the chamber’s more liberal lawmakers when it comes to environmental policy but who also hail from states with major forest products industries. Among them: Democrats Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley of Oregon, Patty Murray of Washington and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota.
Walke of the NRDC said the outcry from Capitol Hill can be attributed to industries’ lobbying blitz.Continue Reading
“It’s an unprecedented way of converting a rule-making process into a lobbying frenzy, and they are, I think, engaging in a lot of misinformation and deception to try to scare members of Congress in the midst of a recession,” he said.
And for congressional staffers who aren’t well-versed in the issues, he added, “the natural inclination when they are hearing these horror stories is to question EPA about them.”
While the EPA has pegged the total capital cost at $9.5 billion in 2013, the American Chemistry Council says it will surpass $20 billion.
A study released by the Council of Industrial Boiler Owners last month said that if the rules pass as proposed, it could put more than 300,000 jobs at risk. An alternative route discussed in the EPA’s proposal could put job losses at around 800,000, the study said.
Environmentalists are waging their own campaign to counter the industries’ claims. They argue that businesses are exaggerating the negative consequences in an effort to skirt the strict air toxins standards required by the Clean Air Act.
“Industry historically has exaggerated these things,” said Frank O’Donnell, president of the advocacy group Clean Air Watch. “There’s plenty of reason to believe that the industry numbers are vastly exaggerated once again.”
Meanwhile, the EPA is trying to combat concerns that the final rules will result in job losses and soaring costs. Every dollar spent complying with the rule would yield more than $5 in public health benefits, the agency says.
Jackson told senators last month that some of the job loss projections are opaque, and others “clearly flawed,” in part because they don’t count workers who will be needed to run pollution control equipment.
She also signaled that the final rules could be more palatable to industries. The rules will “most assuredly” differ from the draft regulations, she said. Many affected companies failed to provide the EPA with adequate data before the agency was legally required to issue its proposal, Jackson said, but the final rules will be revised to account for industry variation and will set standards that are already being achieved.
“The Clean Air Act does not place our need to increase employment in conflict with our need to protect public health,” she wrote. The “EPA’s final standards will not either.”
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What Is It?
Tetanus, also called lockjaw, is a life-threatening infection caused by Clostridium tetani bacteria. Although these bacteria are especially common in the soil and manure of farms, they can be found almost anywhere. They live in the dirt of suburban gardens and in the dirty waters of floods. They also contaminate dust in cities.
Tetanus bacteria usually enter the body through a dirty puncture wound, cut, scrape or some other break in the skin. Once inside the skin, they multiply and produce a toxin, or poison, that affects the body's nerves. This toxin causes severe muscle spasms, cramps and seizures. Spasms in the jaw muscles produce lockjaw. Spasms also occur in muscles of the throat, chest, abdomen and extremities. If you don't receive proper treatment, the toxin's effect on respiratory muscles can interfere with breathing. If this happens, you may die of suffocation.
A tetanus infection may develop after almost any type of skin injury, major or minor. This includes cuts, punctures, crush injuries, burns and animal bites. In rare cases, a tetanus infection also can occur after surgery, an ear infection, a dental infection or an abortion. Among drug users, tetanus infections have followed heroin injections, especially if the heroin was mixed with quinine. Tetanus also can develop after body piercing, tattooing, an insect sting or even a tiny splinter.
In the United States, only 50 cases of tetanus occur each year, because so many Americans have been immunized against the infection. Almost everyone who develops tetanus in the United States has been inadequately immunized against tetanus. Some have immigrated from developing countries where vaccines are not available to everyone. Others were born in the United States but never received the primary series of injections. Still others simply failed to keep up with the normal schedule of tetanus shots. This is a common problem among adults, especially those older than 60.
On average, symptoms of tetanus begin seven to eight days after tetanus bacteria enter the body. These symptoms may include:
- Spasms in the jaw muscles (lockjaw)
- Stiff muscles in the neck, shoulder and back
- Difficulty swallowing
- Prolonged contraction of the facial muscles, which may produce what looks like a sneer or grimace
- An arched back resulting from contraction of the back muscles
- Muscle spasms and muscle rigidity in the chest, abdomen and extremities
- Fever and profuse sweating
- High blood pressure
- Rapid or irregular heartbeat
- Difficulty breathing
- Fractured bones and ruptured muscles caused by severe muscle spasms
There is no laboratory test for tetanus. A doctor will diagnose tetanus based on your symptoms, a history of a recent cut or puncture wound, and immunization history.
People who have tetanus must be treated in a hospital. Severe muscle spasms may last for about three to four weeks and then slowly get better. Once these spasms subside, recovery takes several months.
Immunization can prevent almost all cases of tetanus.
In the United States, babies are immunized against tetanus through a series of four vaccinations. This primary series is given in the form of DTaP shots. In addition to the vaccine for tetanus, each DTaP shot contains vaccines against diphtheria, which is a severe respiratory infection, and pertussis, also called whooping cough. The usual schedule for DTaP shots is as follows:
- First shot: age 2 months
- Second shot: age 4 months
- Third shot: age 6 months
- Fourth shot: age 15 to 18 months
Once the primary series of tetanus immunizations is complete, a child usually receives two tetanus booster shots. One is given between the ages of 4 and 6 years, just before the child starts school. The second is given between the ages of 11 and 12 years. Booster shots enhance (boost) a child's level of tetanus immunity.
After age 12, a tetanus booster shot usually is recommended every 10 years. Under special circumstances, however, a doctor may give the booster dose sooner. For example, a tetanus booster is usually given if you get a severe cut or puncture wound and it has been more than 5 years since your last tetanus shot. This is because some people show a decrease in tetanus immunity within 5 to 10 years after the last tetanus booster.
In adults and children older than 7 who have never been immunized against tetanus, doctors use a primary series of Td shots. Once the primary Td series is finished, booster shots are usually given every 10 years. Because of the recent increase in pertussis cases, at least one of the shots should be a DTaP during adulthood.
All adults and children should receive routine tetanus immunizations. However, certain groups of people must be especially careful to keep their tetanus shots up to date. These people have jobs or hobbies that expose them to dirt, dust, manure or dirty water. Some examples include farm workers, landscapers, gardeners, firefighters and people who are exposed to sewage or flood water. Veterinary workers and people who deal with animal waste are also at high risk.
Doctors review a patient's tetanus immunizations before surgery and before childbirth. All women of childbearing age should be immunized against tetanus. Newborns rely on their mother's tetanus immunity to protect them from tetanus until their own DTaP shots begin. An infant who is not properly protected against tetanus can develop a tetanus infection even from having his or her umbilical cord cut.
Any wound should be cleaned well as soon as possible, especially if it is contaminated with dirt, to reduce the risk of infection with the bacteria that cause tetanus.
If you seek medical care for a wound, your doctor will ask you when you had your last tetanus shot. If your tetanus immunization is not up-to-date, the doctor will give you a tetanus booster. However, this booster shot will not produce immunity right away, so you may receive tetanus immune globulin as well. Tetanus immune globulin contains an antitoxin that neutralizes the tetanus toxin, temporarily protecting you until your immune system responds to the tetanus booster.
If you have full-blown tetanus, you will be treated in a hospital. There you will receive tetanus immune globulin to neutralize the tetanus toxin. Your muscle spasms will be treated with muscle relaxants, and you also may be sedated. If necessary, you will be placed on a ventilator to help you breathe. If you have an obvious wound infection, you will probably receive antibiotics as well. Once your condition begins to improve, you will begin a schedule of shots to restore your tetanus immunity, because a tetanus infection does not make you immune to the disease.
When to Call a Professional
Call your doctor immediately if you develop symptoms of tetanus. Also, seek medical care immediately for any deep cut, serious puncture wound or any wound contaminated by dirt or manure.
If you are an adult, check your immunization records for the date of your last tetanus shot. If it has been more than 10 years since your last tetanus booster, schedule an appointment with your doctor. Also contact your doctor if your health records show that you never received a full primary series of tetanus immunizations.
If you are a parent, be sure your child's immunizations are all up-to-date. This is especially true for DTaP shots and other vaccines that are given in a series.
Most patients with tetanus survive and return to previous function. Older people and those who have a rapid progression from time of infection to severe symptoms have a higher risk of death.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
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Stop smoking? Absolutely. Easy as swallowing a pill? Think again.
A study just published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal by my colleague Dr. Sonal Singh indicates that Chantix can lead to “increased risk of a major harmful cardiovascular event” by 72% compared to placebo.
“People want to quit smoking to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease but in this case they’re taking a drug that increases the risk for the very problems they’re trying to avoid,” says Sonal Singh, M.D., M.P.H., an assistant professor of general internal medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the lead author of the research.
How did they do the study?
Singh and his colleagues reviewed and analyzed 14 double-blind, randomized, controlled clinical trials involving more than 8,200 healthy people who received either varenicline (made by Pfizer and sold in the United States under the brand-name Chantix) or a placebo.
Were there warning signs about the heart risks? Yes:
Singh says questions about the drug’s cardiovascular disease risks have been raised since varenicline went on the market in 2006, but no study has clarified the magnitude of these risks to the extent found in the new study. Singh says the FDA used a “fast-track” review process in allowing varenicline to be sold in the United States and would like regulators to take a new look.
Bottom line: Anyone wanting to quit smoking should approach treatments such as Chantix with considerable caution, discuss it with their physician, and consider safer alternatives.
Here is a brief video from coverage on CNN:
Despite claims by Pfizer, Dr. Singh and his colleagues did not “do the math wrong”!
Added July 7:
NOTE NBC Interview with Dr. Singh, July 6, 2011:
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(UM07-14) - Work and retirement choices of men: the impact of social security rules in Chile
Estelle James and Alejandra Cox Edwards
As the labor force ages it becomes increasingly important to analyze whether people will work longer if they live longer, and how to encourage this behavior. This will increase the productive capacity of the economy and improve the finances of social security systems. The purpose of this project is to study factors that have shaped the age of pensioning and withdrawal of women from the labor force in Chile under its new social security system, and to draw out the implications for policy in the US. The decisions of women may be quite different from and more complex than that of men because they have an earlier legal retirement age but a greater longevity, they are disproportionate recipients of state subsidies from the minimum pension guarantee, their choices are likely to depend more strongly on marital status and to be heavily influenced by their husbands’ situation, and the rules regarding the interaction of survivors benefits and own pension have changed in the new system. This project follows up on our earlier work on the impact of the Chilean reform on male retirement choices and on the impact of the reform on gender differentials in retirement income. We plan to use a new retrospective data set collected in 2002, supplemented by data collected in 2004 that turns it into a panel, which recently became available in Chile.
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Over the next couple of hours a wrote a crude shell (in Python) for sending commands and key sequences to the phone, and reading back raw serial responses and screens back. While crude this shell does offer command editing and history (via readline) with automatically persistent history, it saves logs of all output to the phone (seperate logs for raw serial commands and for the key sequences which are embedded therein) and all input read back from the phone (again in separate streams, for raw characters read from the device and for each screenshot I take), and it allows me to insert comments into the history and log files (so I can take notes in the shell that I can correlate to specific entries in the logs).
Also my crude interactive shell uses the optparse module to initialize my serial connection (different phones have different speeds and are connected to different ports --- I have an 8-port Moxa board installed on the Linux desktop workstation). I also played a littled with ConfigParser so I could store most of the connection details and log file names in an .ini file and just call my script with a label representing which phone/port I want to play with.
So that was about four hours of scripting. My boss was impressed, but really it's only about 150 lines of code. PySerial, readline, and ConfigParser are really doing all of the work. I'm not so easily impressed with myself. That was just some throwaway scripting to help me understand the tools. There's no design, and I didn't see an easy way to use this shell's artifacts (log files) to automate any sort of playback. Also a lack of loop and condition handling makes it unsuitable for doing things like adding 99 entries to the phone's built-in address book, validate that they're all there, ensure that it gives this particular error when you try to add another, etc. (I wrote that up as another, stand alone, script, which is still semi-blind and offers almost no code reuse).
My point in posting all this is to solicit advice on a robust design for a real test harness. I'm reasonably good at scripting but not experienced in design and have almost no formal CS training.
One thing I've started doing is writing some psuedo-Python-code. These show what I might like my tests to look to a colleague who was charged with writing more of them. At first I thought of something that wasn't code at all but something like:
>> 1234 Menu Down Down Enter 12*Down Enter Enter Esc << "Add a Phone Entry\nName:" >> "John" Enter << "Address:" >> SIP:169.254.1.1 << "Speed Dial Entry:" >> Enter
(Simple "send this," and "expect that" sequences). However, I realized that this would be far too limiting. I need to be able to do loops, handle conditions, and create higher level methods that build on these primitives. Also I'm sure that there are many undiscovered requirements that will need to be implemented. So I scrapped that idea before coding any of it (though my throwaway shell does output files similar to this).
Then I thought about creating a class and using it something like:
1 # ... 2 tst = PhoneTest(port='/dev/ttyM0', speed=9600, ...) 3 tst.send("# a raw text command") 4 if not tst.expect("# some raw response"): 5 tst.fail("some failure message") 6 tst.key("#keys parsed by name") 7 if not tst.screen("# some screen substring or regex"): 8 tst.fail("some other failure message") 9 # ...
This is a bit better. I can also implement methods like setFactoryDefaults() and selectMenu() and I can have the PhoneTest class instantiate and contain a Phone object which abstracts some things (like the fact that accessing the menus on some models takes two keys rather than one key, and that the "Enter" key symbol is called "OK" on it, etc). (My function to send key sequences parses abstract common key notation into a dictionary of dictionaries keyed by each phone model and returning the real key symbols and sequences, it has to do things like press 2 three times for a letter "c" and detect if the next letter/digit is on the same button to pause for a full second to make the phone "take" that letter).
Obviously this exposes our responses and screen captures to Python's own conditional handling.
In this model, doing loops (adding 99 phone entries) is pretty easy:
However, it's still not very good. Obviously I have to report all my results (text output for now, later posting to a MySQL database). I'll also need options for debugging and logging (shades of AspectOrientedProgramming?). I suppose the PhoneTest object can also contain a reporting object to handle that abstractly.
My main objection to this interface is that all the conditional logic is exposed. It seems silly to repeatedly type: tst.key(...); if tst.screen(...) ... and it clutters the flow of the test case. It's not data driven at all. Of course I can hide tst.fail(), and tst.expect() inside tst.screen()
Then I'm back to something more linear like:
1 # ... 2 tst = PhoneTest(port='/dev/ttyM0', speed=9600, ...) 3 tst.send("# a raw text command") 4 tst.expect("# some raw response") # fails if response not found 5 tst.key("#keys parsed by name") 6 tst.screen("# some screen substring or regex"): 7 for i in range(99): 8 tst.menuSelect("Add Phonebook Entry") 9 tst.screen() != "Name: " 10 # ...
... where all the failures are implicit.
For some reason this just looks wrong to me. (It would violate the principle of least surprise to a Python coder, hiding all of the reporting logic inside the objects and having success determined implicitly by fall through)!
Another problem is that some of these screens will have variable data embeded in them (time of day, connection results, etc. and I need more flexible ways of determining if a given screen (or raw text response) is actually a success or failure. Also I have to be account for differences in screen size among the models of phone.
Meanwhile this format looks almost like the first one, with << and >> replaced by tst.key() and tst.screen() respectively. In other words for the simple case it's just more cluttered.
A thought I had to address one of those issues involves building and maintaining a dictionary of screens for each phone model. Then in the the tst.screen('XXX') calls 'XXX' becomes a key into the dictionary (or I just extend the .screen method to accept a string, a regex, or a key='keyName' keyword argument).
If I use keyword arguments and since I usually need sequences of "send this" and "expect that" I might change things more by implementing a .__call__() methode which looks something like:
1 # ... 2 tst = PhoneTest(port='/dev/ttyM0', speed=9600, ...) 3 tst( send=" a raw text command" expect="some response") 4 tst( key="key sequence", screen='screenName') 5 for i in range(99): 6 tst.menuSelect("Add Phonebook Entry" screen=re.compile('some regexp')) # dynamically use string or regex object 7 8 # ...
It's more terse but it doesn't actually look less cluttered. I also still don't like hiding the failure/reporting so deeply inside the class methods.
One of my objectives is to write a test harness that others will be using --- that they'll be coding up their own test cases into long after I've moved on. Another is to creating something that's reasonably similar to what we'll be using to test other interfaces (these phonse have web interfaces as well as the serial ones I've described) and to test functionality beyond just what the screen displays in response to various button events and other commands. For example I know that later test cases will require me to initiate calls from one device to another and interact with the receiving device to see that the call was actually receieved. I'll also probably need to correlate some of my regressions to specific network capture behaviors. So I might need to use PyCap (libpcap interface), for example.
(There's all sorts of work that's been done on HTTP automation in Python from the basic socket, and httplib standard libraries through the ClientForm and ClientCookie modules and Puffin up through Frank Cohen's TestMaker (in Jython).
The other thing I don't like about this last speculative psuedo-code is that it's still too cluttered for the most common case. I don't see a way for tests to be more data driven and less entwined in the code.
Another idea I've been toying with is creating a mess of classes and subclasses. There's be a TestCase class with various descendents for different classes of tests; a Phone class with descendents for each model of phone, a TestBaseException and many descendents for each type of test failure. Each descendent of the TestCase would implement a .run() method and would raise exceptions from the TestBaseException family. I suppose that model would appeal to the OO purist in some way. However I'm not seeing how I'd actually instantiate and call the .run() methods of each of these subclasses.
I don't see it. This isn't data driven at all. Where do I maintain the list of available tests and the sequencing?
I've also thought of something like:
... which looks reasonable. It doesn't completely hide the failures. At least it makes it obvious to a Python coder that these tst methods are expected to raise errors; and it lets me catch different subclasses of errors and handle them differently (with multiple except clauses ordered from most specific towards more general). That will be import, for example, since I will have pre-condition and setup methods and exceptions that should be raised and reported to the operator but should not be recorded as bugs to the developers; they are errors in the test harness or hardware set-up rather than bugs in the target of our testing.
So, that's an overview of my thoughts. These are possible approaches. Of course I've only just started. Meanwhile I will re-write my interactive shell script (probably using the Cmd class or something out of IPython). I will create my core TestCase and Phone classes (along with Feedback and Reporter classes), and start creating tables of keys, menus and screens for each phone; and methods to load, access, compare, and manage them.
Unfortunately none of what I'm coding here can be released to open source (grump) but I hope that the discussion will still be entertaining and maybe even a little enlighteing for all.
I'm hoping others will chew on these notions and spit on them mercilessly. Of course I'm also hoping for some pointers to similar code; tools, or just a really good guide to test case/harness/framework design.
In any event, unless there's an outcry against my verbosity, I'll update this page as I work on the problem (and as I incorporate any good suggestioins).
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"Lyrics just don't hold up without the music," says Billy Collins, professor and former poet laureate. When his students argue that the lines by their favorite rock stars should be assessed as literature, he demurs: "I assure them that Jim Morrison is not a poet in any sense of the word."
When I was young, I knew a lot of kids that thought lyrics were really deep. I think it only seems so when it accompanies good music, the mood swings of youth, depression, or drugs. That is, in combination with other emotional drivers, lyrics seem much deeper than they are. By themselves many tunes that sound emotionally powerful when sung, are almost parodies of themselves when read silently (MacArthur Park? Muskrat Love? Careless Whisper?). I watched a documentary of the making of Bohemian Rhapsody, a great road tune, and they went over the lyrics, and it was clear that many words and images were picked merely because they rhymed, or the words or phrases out of context matched the mood of the song in that measure. As a poem it fails.
Alas, something similar is true for economics, where silly ideas, when combined with rigorous mathematics, don't seem so silly. Take an argument like the idea of infant industries, where if you protect an industry from overseas competition, it may increase a country's growth because only after infancy it can thrive; in infancy it may die from competition. The idea is predicated on increasing returns to scale, such that there's an inflexion point at which firm rapidly move down a cost curve relative to smaller producers. 200 years of empirical evidence, not logic, demonstrate this infant industry argument is wrong, that infant industries invariably become coddled, spoiled infants that never grow up. As per increasing returns, it is hardly a rigorous point: Microsoft and Google have both benefits (via increasing returns to scale) and costs (via decreasing returns to scale) peculiar to their large size. Yet if you dress the argument up in mathematics, where the idea is derived given algebraic assumptions for utility, production, and market clearing conditions, you get Paul Krugman's Nobel Prize. The argument isn't any more compelling with mathematics when you try to explain it in words via Krugman's model, and that should tell you something.
Krugman might say in his defense that his argument was meant to explain the stylized fact that trade between two large nations can hardly be explained by mere natural resources, and so how does one explain persistent German excellence in cutlery, or why Sweden exports and imports autos, except via some Guthian-inflation that occurs in certain firms. Fine, I get that, but Krugman's algebraic model is not really useful in isolating some idea in that argument. Without the faux-rigorous math model, there's no there there. Economics as a 'science' might be poorer without math, but as an understanding of our world it would have been the same.
Math helps ideas when it isolates the relationships or implications with greater parsimony or precision. In practice, economic models are abstruse arguments with mere potential for great scope, but the history of economics suggests great skepticism for this potential. What irreducible-to-words model, other than derivatives models in finance or statistical models in econometrics, have generalized to create a greater consensus on anything of economic importance? My best guess would be Ricardo's theory of comparative advantage, but note 1) that was made over 150 years ago and 2) it hasn't really convinced anyone that free trade is a good idea (it's easy to add some assumption that invalidates it).
Paul A. Samuelson's Foundations of Economic Analysis, in 1947 argued that rigorous modeling based on optimizing behavior of agents and stability of equilibrium was the essence of scientific economics; that is, modeling. It was one of the greatest intellectual errors of the 20th century. After all, for all of Samuelson's noted brilliance, what economic idea remains, other that methodology? I would say the Law of Iterated Expectations, which basically says that rational expectations implies a martingale, which is like Brownian motion. Nice, but hardly proportionate to his outsized reputation while alive.
Having a sense of the rhythms and emotions of music helps poetry, and so to does the logic of mathematics help economics. But good economics, like good poetry, almost always stands by itself without the adjunct. Just as we should beware of poetry that only sounds good when there's music playing, we should distrust economic analysis that only seems profound within mathematical models. There's the hope that if we use some rigorous method of reasoning economics will avoid the stagnation of ideas we see in politics or journalism. Would that it were true.
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Dollar lower despite jobs numbers
The Australian dollar is half a US cent lower despite better than expected local jobs numbers, as negative market sentiment took hold after the re-election of US President Barack Obama.
The local currency was trading at $US1.0407, down from $US1.0463 yesterday.
Westpac chief currency strategist Robert Rennie said the Australian dollar followed global stock markets lower despite the release of better than expected domestic employment data.
Figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics today showed the national unemployment rate was steady at 5.4 per cent in October, with 10,700 additional people finding jobs in the month.
Economists had expected 5000 new jobs to be created and an unemployment rate at 5.5 per cent.
‘‘That data really wasn’t able to lift the Aussie dollar as much as you would have expected,’’ Mr Rennie said.
Mr Rennie said the local currency had rallied during Wednesday’s local session on news of President Obama’s win, but US traders reacted differently, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average losing more than two per cent overnight.
‘‘When you contrast sentiment between where we left it on Wednesday afternoon and where New York left it (on Thursday morning) it was pretty much a 180-degree shift.’’
He said concerns among the US financial sector about greater regulation under President Obama and the looming ‘‘fiscal cliff’’ of enforced spending cuts and tax increases, due to apply in 2013 unless Democrats and Republicans can agree to alternative measures, had contributed to the falls on stock markets.
The main drivers for the Australian dollar on Friday were expected to Chinese economic data and the Reserve Bank of Australia’s quarterly statement on monetary policy, he said.
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Tulsi Vivah, or Tulsi Puja, is a popular Hindu ritual observed during waxing phase of moon in the month of Kartik (October – November). It is the marriage of Tulsi Plant to Lord Krishna. Tulasi, or Tulsi, is holy basil and is worshipped in Hinduism. Tulsi Vivah procedure varies from region to region and from community to community. So there is no direct answer to how to do Tulsi Puja. Here is a step by step guide basically to give an idea on how Tulsi Vivah is performed.
Puja items needed for Tulsi Vivah
- Tulsi Plant which is three or more years old
- Shaligram or Salagram – holy stones representing Lord Krishna. If Salagram is not available idol of Lord Krishna is used.
- Mangalsutra or a turmeric tied to a thread
- Vegetarian food
- Uncooked rice
- Sugarcane sticks
- Vermillion powder
- Puja decorations
- Fresh cloth
Tulsi Vivah Procedure
Tulsi pot or Tulsi Mandap in front of the house is colored. Tulsi and the pot or the base in which Tulsi plant is standing is decorated like a bride – by applying Turmeric and Vermilion powder. Sugarcane sticks and tamarind and Amla branches are placed alongside the Tulsi pot.
The Tusli Vivah ceremony takes place during the evening time. Some people narrate the story associated with Tulsi Vivah before starting the ceremony.
The Shaligram stone or idol of
The Mantras that are recited during a marriage ceremony are recited here.
A Mangalsutra is tied on the Tulsi plant. People shower flowers, rice on the newly wed couple during the marriage ceremony.
A cloth is tied to the Shaligram and Tusli plant.
Sometimes an elderly person in the family performs the Kanyadan – giving away of the daughter here it is the Tulsi Plant.
The cloth is removed after the last mantra is recited.
In some regions, the family that is performing the Tulsi Vivah goes round the Tusli plant and Shaligram four times and prays.
Prasad is distributed among friends and relatives.
Some communities undertake a fast from morning till the Tulsi Vivah puja is over.
Tulsi Vivah Dates
Tulsi Vivah is observed on the Ekadasi that falls after Diwali. Some communities perform it on the day after Ekadasi – that is the Dwadashi day. In some regions it is performed on the Kartik Purnima day or full moon day after Ekadasi. For some communities, the Tulsi Vivah rituals begin on the Ekadasi day and end on Poornima day. Or it is observed on any one of the days during the period.
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What Did bin Laden 'Deserve'? (Butler Shaffer)
Sunday May 15th, 2011
Gabriela: And you believe everything the authorities tell you?
Franz Kafka: Well, I have no reason to doubt.
Gabriela: They’re authorities! That’s reason enough.
~ From the movie Kafka
My recent article on the U.S. government’s assassination of Osama bin Laden elicited many favorable responses, along with a negative one that advised me that this man "got what he deserved." The reader went on to ask "how dare you imply that we owed him the ‘right’ to be captured and brought to justice." How effortlessly we make our judgments when our minds are in the default mode, and we need only parrot the words of those in authority!
The media has long been an echo chamber for the avoidance of independent thought and judgment. It is easy to repeat the party line that the state’s enemy du jour "got what he deserved" when one refuses to ask the question "what does any of us ‘deserve’?" What do I "deserve?" Do you know what you "deserve," and for what actions? From what set of facts do we draw when we make such judgments about the conduct of others? I am neither a fan nor a defender of bin Laden, but those who are so anxious to invoke "closure" as an excuse for evading inquiries into the nature of governmental policies, might ask themselves why they are so willing to embrace his murder.
An answer to the question "what did bin Laden deserve?" depends upon one’s perspective. Even leaving aside the obvious responses that his Al Qaeda sympathizers would make, even patriotic Americans might have differing opinions, depending upon the time period of one’s assessment. When the Reagan administration found bin Laden and Al Qaeda useful agents to help rid Afghanistan of Soviet military forces, American politicians took turns posing with these "freedom fighters" for self-serving photo-ops. Their combined efforts drove the Soviets from that country, and helped bring about the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. For his part in all of this, did bin Laden "deserve" having a statue built to him in Washington, D.C., or a boulevard named for him?
But when his usefulness to American interests terminated – or even became hostile – he was quickly relegated to the character of "villain." This is a tactic long predating Machiavelli, having been useful, in recent years, to transform Saddam Hussein from Donald Rumsfeld’s smiling photo-op "friend" to a linch-pin in the axis of evil; to Muammar Gaddafi’s mercurial foe/friend/foe role of convenience in American foreign policy. That most Americans insist on remaining so dupable – if not outright stupid – as the state plays out its games of "endless enemies" at their expense, is remarkable.
What did bin Laden "deserve" in all of this? What do any of us "deserve" in our dealings with one another? Is there any principle to which we can turn to help us answer such questions? Do we "deserve" to be coerced, robbed, or killed whenever someone with superior strength is able to do these things to us? Is this the highest social standard to which we can repair? Have the playground bully and the brutalizing parent become the "founding fathers" of our "New World Order?"
If the defenders of state assassinations believe they have found a defensible tactic for resolving disputes – or just promoting their own preferences – should it become more widely available for all of us to employ? If two neighbors have a long-standing dispute as to the ownership of rose bushes along their property boundaries, should they resort to murder to settle the matter? Do we not understand that the problem of urban street-gangs is but politics on a different scale; that Obama’s drive-by shooting in a house in Abbottabad differs from such a killing in south-central Los Angeles more in terms of geography than substance? If the political establishment is willing to embrace such methods as a way of eliminating political enemies in foreign countries, should the same practices be acknowledged as appropriate within America? Might we want to rethink the "lone-nut-with-a-gun" explanations most of us eagerly swallowed to explain the deaths of the Kennedy brothers, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, et. al. as well as the failed attempts on the lives of Ronald Reagan and George Wallace?
For decades, I have tried to discover whether there is some principle upon which all people can agree to define the propriety of our actions; a proposition that rises above arbitrary subjective preferences. Politically-defined laws will not suffice, since the state – being defined by its use of violence – exists to promote and enforce conflicts among people. Neither have I found so-called "natural law" principles much help, as their content seems to vary from one advocate to another.
The one standard to which I am able to find a virtual consensus is this: no one wants to be victimized. No one accepts that their life or other property interest should be subject to trespass by another. Sadly, most of us have internalized our regular victimization by the state, sanctioning such predations provided (a) we believe everyone else to be so bound – the vicious doctrine of "equality," and (b) if we are to be singled out for maltreatment, that we be accorded "due process of law."
The idea that the military and/or the police – the enforcement arms of the state – could undertake arbitrary and deadly force against any person, finds support among most conservatives. This is why the market for flags and "support the troops" decals blossoms whenever the emperor finds a new "enemy" to attack. It is also why so many conservatives – and even a number of so-called "liberals" – can get their diapers so knotted over the suggestion that Osama bin Laden should have been brought to trial rather than murdered. It is the same mindset that allows police officers to gun down "suspects" without, themselves, being held to account in a court of law.
Suppose a man is "suspected" of having committed a heinous crime (e.g., sexually assaulting and then murdering a small child)? Suppose this man is found and arrested by the police, who then take him into a back alley and kill him? Did he "get what he deserved?" Would you raise any objection to this – unless, of course, you were the suspect – or would you regard demands for a public trial to be only a "loophole" that might allow him to "escape" his punishment? Is a jury determination of "innocence" to be regarded as a "legal technicality?" Is "suspicion" or "accusation" the equivalent of "guilt?" Should "criminal procedure" classes in law school be required to address such matters as "how to organize a lynch mob?" Should a Ku Klux Klan Grand Dragon square off with an ACLU activist to debate the question "is justice delayed, justice denied?"
Given the grisly history of lynching in this country – in which the race of the victim was often all that mattered – President Obama who, regardless of where he was born, has more melanin in his system than most Americans, ought to have resisted the self-righteous impulse that has led some people to respond to fear by pulling sheets over their heads!
Don’t you understand that if the bin Ladens of the world can be "brought to justice" by government hit-men who, like their Mafia counterparts, then dump the bodies into the ocean, so can you? Insistence upon state-defined "due process of law" is no guarantee that the innocent shall not be punished, but it’s an improvement over assassinations, torture, trips to hidden prisons around the world, and the denial of habeas corpus. Jury trials often result in wrongful convictions, but I’d rather take my chances with twelve men and women with no sinister agendas of their own, than with decisions made behind closed doors by the politically unscrupulous. Bin Laden "deserved" a public trial for the same reasons you and I would.
With each passing month, it becomes increasingly evident that the United States of America – as a formal system – is about finished. The Constitution has become virtually meaningless as a means of conducting the business of the state. The "separation of powers" of the various branches of government – which we used to pretend would limit the ambitions of each – has given way to notions of "empire," with the president playing the role of "emperor," able to start wars on his own motion (and without congressional approval); to torture or imprison without trial, or order the assassination of any persona non grata of his designation; to give away hundreds of billions of dollars to his corporate friends; ad nauseum. Over many decades, the powers granted to government in the Constitution – which, far from being limited, speak of "general welfare," "necessary and proper," and "reasonable" – have been given very expansive definitions by the courts. By contrast, the rights reserved to individuals have been accorded very restrictive meanings. In the treatment of bin Laden – as well as the continuing incarcerations at Guantanamo – we see further confirmation that what we once thought of as an inalienable right to a public trial is another illusion sacrificed to the empty rhetoric of "national security."
Though the "United States of America" is in a terminal condition, "America" – as a social system – may yet survive. America preceded the nation-state and, if we can revisit the basic assumptions that underlay the "founding fathers" efforts, we may discover why conditions in which peace, liberty, and respect for life must take precedence over edicts offered by rulers who smirk and strut as they demand obedience to their every whim.
In the course of such inquiries, we may discover why bin Laden – along with every one of us – deserved to not be dealt with in such an arbitrary, coercive manner. Institutionalized violence is the essence of every political system, and is in the process of destroying Western Civilization. But as secession and nullification enjoy an increasing interest among thoughtful people, members of the establishment power structure may find themselves regarded as the new "Red Coats." Like their predecessors – and in the words of Lysander Spooner – they may then be urged "to go home and content themselves with the exercise of only such rights and powers as nature has given to them in common with the rest of mankind."
Butler Shaffer [send him e-mail] teaches at the Southwestern University School of Law. He is the author of the newly-released In Restraint of Trade: The Business Campaign Against Competition, 1918–1938 and of Calculated Chaos: Institutional Threats to Peace and Human Survival. His latest book is Boundaries of Order.
Copyright © 2011 by LewRockwell.com.
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Here are 7 quotes from Zig Ziglar that have inspired me and so many others to change and make a better life.
“Remember that failure is an event, not a person.”
“You will get all you want in life, if you help enough other people get what they want.”
“Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.”
“If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.”
“People often say motivation doesn’t last. Neither does bathing—that’s why we recommend it daily.”
“A goal properly set is halfway reached.”
“Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.”
What quotes do you like? Please share some of your favorite quotes from Zig or anyone else in the comments.
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House wives usually forget to take care of themselves in the duties and obligations of their daily routine. These women just ignore their own health and well being completely which is a wrong concept.
Good health is very important to lead a happy and complete life, so it is equally important to take care of oneself along with taking care of others.
A house wife’s role is pivotal in her home. If she herself will get sick then who will take care of her kids and family. Remember that you can make others happy with your love and care but can not be at peace if you aren’t happy with your own condition.
So, you need not be careless from your own self. Give yourself importance and take some quality time out of your daily routine and spend it on yourself.
Exercise daily; you can do yoga or relaxing exercises like aerobics.
Keep yourself active and fresh by eating a balanced diet.
Always think positive and do not take tension. Depression can only cause other problems for you instead of giving a solution to the problem so try to keep your head cool.
Take eight hours peaceful sleep daily.
Leave smoking out of your life, oily and spicy stuff as well as they only cause health problems.
Excessive use of sugar and salt is no good either so try to limit these in your food.
Do not tire yourself much at one time. Go with a moderate work routine.
Give time to your friends and relatives.
Give Time To Yourself. Take care of your beauty and out-look. This will make you feel good and you will be leading your life in a more vigorous way.
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Wolves are neutral mobs found in the game. They naturally spawn in forest biomes, and will not attack the player unless provoked. If the player hits a wolf, other wolves in a certain range of the player will begin to attack. Wolves are easier to kill when they are not in a hostile nature. It only takes one or two hits from a Diamond Sword without any enchantments. When a wolf is killed by a player, it will not drop anything other than experience. Wolves will also attack sheep without being provoked. Wolves can be tamed by the player through the use of bones.
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Unemployment and Workforce Development in San Antonio, Texas
In early 2012, the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas convened local leaders in San Antonio, Texas, to learn about their perspectives on the drivers of unemployment, efforts to address this issue and insights on policies, programs and initiatives that could further reduce unemployment. Roundtable participants were manufacturing companies, the military, financial institutions, other employers, workforce development entities and other community and economic development organizations.
- The Problem
- A Solution
- Graduation Data
Employers, in general, expressed difficulty finding workers that have basic skills in math and reading. They also had difficulty finding workers with soft skills, such as in customer service, attendance and punctuality. Employers in the manufacturing industry expressed difficulty finding workers with sufficient skills for higher-level technical jobs, such as those in machinery, engineering and programming.
Several additional themes emerged from this roundtable. Following are highlights.
Perspectives of San Antonio Leaders
Broken School-to-Work Pipeline
A consistent concern among participants is the broken school-to-workforce pipeline; some participants emphasized the need for industry to be part of the solution. In their opinion, schools are “teaching to the test,” which is not producing students who are workforce-ready. Participants from the manufacturing industry noted the lack of appreciation for the trades as a career path, a cultural issue that reduces the number of people interested in entering their industry. Another participant commented that a problem is that jobs are moving targets, and workforce development money is going towards people filling specific jobs, not learning specific skills. For example, some individuals receive training for a job that no longer exists when they complete their training, so more money is spent retraining the same individual for a different job. Fixing the school-to-workforce pipeline would entail increased communication and coordination between educators, trainers and employers so that there is a constant supply of local workers who are qualified for open jobs.
Employers report having a hard time finding locally based individuals to meet their needs. One employer mentioned that its operations are approximately 30 to 35 percent underutilized. They have an opportunity to take on more work but have trouble finding qualified applicants. Roundtable participants commented that job seekers have poor math and reading skills and poor job-seeking skills, such as knowing where to find jobs, writing resumes, interviewing and completing online applications. One representative from a manufacturing company noted that he cannot find highly skilled people to fill some positions, so his company decided to bring back retirees and interns. Another participant said that small businesses have difficulty finding people who show up on time and are reliable.
Issues Beyond Skills Gaps/Mismatch
One roundtable participant noted that some manufacturing jobs are on a 24-hour operation schedule, and people working in the second and third shifts have difficulty finding childcare. Another participant pointed out that some financial issues stay with an individual even if it is no longer an issue, such as not paying rent or having a bankruptcy or foreclosure. This is important to employers because perceived instability matters to employers’ clients.
Disincentives to work are a major issue faced by workers and job-seekers who rely on public assistance. For example, some turn down their employers’ offer to increase their wages so they are not disqualified from income-tested public benefits. This suggests that the value of the benefits exceeds the value of the incremental wage increase.
A Response to the Broken Pipeline: Expansion of Junior Colleges
According to one of the roundtable participants, junior college enrollment has exploded in part because many young people have not met the admissions standards of four-year universities. These colleges now play an active role in workforce development by expanding their scope to provide day care, English language and computer classes and workforce development trainings, such as in plumbing, film, electrical and welding. Students from all over San Antonio are attending workforce development training at a junior college that has leased an empty elementary school.
- In December 2011, the San Antonio Manufacturers Association (SAMA) conducted research to assess the number of immediate job vacancies and the impact of these vacancies on the manufacturing industry. The report has since been published. Contact SAMA for details: www.sama-tx.org/.
Fixing the School-to-Work Pipeline
Alamo Area Academies is an industry-driven workforce development model that is helping fix the broken school-to-work pipeline. It is a partnership among the following organizations.
The Alamo Area Academies Partnership
- Cities of San Antonio, New Braunfels, Seguin and Floresville
- Alamo Colleges
- All greater San Antonio area school districts, many charter and private schools
- Advanced technology and manufacturing companies
- Aerospace companies
- Health care companies, including local hospitals
- Information technology companies
- Port San Antonio
- San Antonio Manufacturers Association, New Braunfels Manufacturers Association and the Seguin Economic Development Council
- Greater San Antonio Chamber of Commerce, Chamber of Commerce of New Braunfels and Chamber of Commerce of Seguin
- Workforce Solutions Alamo
The Alamo Colleges provide instructors, equipment and facilities; the school districts provide textbooks and roundtrip transportation from students’ high school to the colleges; employers pay the student interns’ salaries; and the cities fund Alamo Area Academies’ staff salaries and operating costs.
How the Program Works
Alamo Area Academies recruits students from all of Bexar County’s independent school districts, charter schools and private high schools to apply for its program, which begins their junior year in high school. If they pass a qualifying test, they sign up for one of the four programs, all of which offer high-wage, high-demand occupations in San Antonio: aerospace, advanced technology and manufacturing, information technology and security, and health care.
During their junior and senior years, students in the program divide their time between classes in their high schools and at an Alamo College. They can remain enrolled as long as they maintain good grades at both schools. The summer between their junior and senior years, they intern full time for eight weeks at a company that is participating in the Alamo Area Academies partnership. By the end of the two-year program, the students will have earned a high school diploma and 31 to 34 college credit hours free of charge—essentially a $6,000 scholarship.
Graduates of this program:
- earn a year of college credit
- gain specific work experience that employers are looking for in new-hires
- develop an understanding of, and appreciation for, careers in high-wage occupations at local companies
- create a network of professional relationships that can provide valuable mentoring and serve as references in their college applications and job searches
- earn approximately $2,500 at their internships
- receive hiring preference at the companies if they were successful at their internships and
- become academically and emotionally prepared for a smooth transition to college and/or the workplace.
Participating employers benefit from the Academies program because they have helped create a continuous pipeline of skilled, college-educated employees who meet their hiring criteria. The San Antonio region also benefits from this program because the partnership has created a continuous pipeline of students trained for careers in high-wage, high-skill growth industries.
The following companies have participated in the Alamo Area Academies program. Some continue to participate, and a majority of participants have tuition reimbursement programs for graduates who they hire after completing the program.
Industry Partners Providing Paid Summer Internships
- 24th Air Force
- Alamo Industrial
- Chism Co.
- CHRISTUS Santa Rosa System
- City of San Antonio
- CMC Steel
- Connolly Memorial Medical Center
- Cox Manufacturing
- CPS Energy
- DPT Laboratories
- Gore Design
- Hexcel Corp.
- Kinetic Concepts
- Lockheed Martin
- Methodist Healthcare System
- Morningside Ministries
- Standard Aero
- Star Manufacturing
- University of Texas Health Science Center
Alamo Area Academies Graduation Data
- 81% male
- 19% female
- 66% Hispanic
- 27% Caucasian
- 5% African American
- 2% Asian
Scholarships and Salaries
- $545,000 in scholarships for class of 2012
- $1.7 million plus in scholarships for graduating classes of 2010, 2011 and 2012
- $34,700: average starting salary and benefits
The table below shows where graduates from each Alamo Area Academies program went post-graduation.
Graduation Placements, 2002–12
Targeted Industry Jobs
Other Jobs/ Moved
Aerospace Academy (started in 2002)
Information Technology & Security Academy (started in 2004)
Advanced Technology & Manufacturing Academy (started in 2005)
Health Professions Academy (started in 2010)
These podcasts illustrate why the Alamo Area Academies program works, challenges it faces and its value to San Antonio employers, students and their families.
Vice Chancellor of Economic and Workforce Development
Zaragoza is an Alamo Area Academy board member and one of the original founders of the concept, vision and implementation of the Academy model. He is the key leadership representative of the Alamo Colleges in their support of implementing the Alamo Area Academies model.
- Why the Alamo Area Academies Model Works, Is Sustainable and Important
- Ingredients for a Successful Workforce Development ModeL
- Real and Perceived Challenges to Workforce Development
- Workforce Development Policy Recommendations
Executive Director of Academic Support Programs
Advanced Academics and Career and Technology
San Antonio Independent School District
Rosales is an Alamo Area Academies board member and one of the original founders of the concept, vision and implementation of the Academy model. She is the subject matter expert on the public secondary schools’ policies and procedures to successfully participate in the Academies model.
Alamo Area Academies
Gene Bowman was named executive director of the Alamo Academies in February 2006. Before coming to this position, he served for 28 years in the U.S. Air Force, retiring as a colonel from Lackland Air Force Base as the inspector general. He had a diverse career during his Air Force tenure, from being a T-37 instructor pilot at Randolph Air Force Base, leading a cadet squadron at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, being a staff officer at the Pentagon and directing a division at Pacific Headquarters at Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii. He is a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy and earned his master’s in management from Webster’s University in St. Louis, Mo.
- Genesis of the Alamo Area Academies Program
- Recruiting Students
- Impact of the Program on Students and Their Families
- Legislators’ Role in Schools’ Prioritizing Workforce Development
Partner, Bracewell & Giuliani LLP.
Chair-elect, Alamo Area Academies Inc. Board
Perschbach will be the spokesman for implementing and achieving the Academies board strategic vision and mission.
- Stigma of Manufacturing Jobs
- Why It’s Important to Address the Stigma
- Recommendations on How to Get Rid of the Stigma
- Putting This Conversation in a Larger Context: Global Competitiveness
Hear the perspectives of ITM, Lockheed Martin, Toyota and the U.S. Air Force.
- Overview from Employers
- Feeding the Pipeline of a Qualified Workforce
- Successes and Challenges
- Experience with Interns and Opportunities Employers Give Them
- General Feedback About the Program
- Feedback from Families of Low- and Moderate-Income Students
- What they're learning
- Opportunity is unusual for their age/Recognizing opportunity
- Comparing their experiences to those of friends who aren't in this program
- Experience with employers and co-workers/Mentoring
- Contacts they have made
- College readiness
- How far and fast students have progressed
- Plans for the future/outlook on the future
- Great experience
- Favorite things
- Parents' feedback
- Applying for an Alamo Area Academies Program
- Coordinators' Responsibilities
- Successes of the Program
- Student Attrition
- Positive Feedback About Alamo Area Academies
Assistant Manager, Human Resources
Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Texas Inc. (TMMTX)
Garcia has worked for TMMTX for seven years and is currently assigned to Human Resources. Previously he was the assistant manager of the TPS/Kaizen group responsible for continuous improvement activities and other developmental programs. Garcia supports Alamo Academy interns throughout their summer-long experience at TMMTX to include intern rotational assignments and weekly feedback activities.
Director, Government Relations and External Affairs Department
Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Texas Inc. (TMMTX)
As the director of the Government Relations and External Affairs Department at TMMTX, Lozova oversees media relations, government relations, philanthropy, community relations and the visitor and education center. He also supports community outreach, education committees and advisory boards that are in line with Toyota's community engagement strategies. Lozova is a member of the Greater San Antonio Chamber of Commerce Education & Workforce Council and Aerospace Committee and the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Government Affairs Committee and Education Committee. Collectively, his efforts focus on creating a talented workforce pipeline for the betterment of San Antonio's economic development.
Vice President, Operations
Innovation, Technology, Machinery (ITM)
Dewey is vice president of Operations at ITM, a manufacturing firm that develops high-tech production systems and equipment for other manufacturers. He is also the former chairman and a current board member of the San Antonio Manufacturers Association and serves as a leading manufacturing industry advocate and spokesperson for economic development and workforce issues.
Community and Government Relations Lead
Lockheed Martin Kelly Aviation Center
Wilson is the community and government relations lead at Lockheed Martin Kelly Aviation Center in San Antonio. He was the original industry partner who helped create the Alamo Area Aerospace Academy, the first of the four academies that now include the Information, Technology and Security Academy, the Advanced Technology and Manufacturing Academy and the Health Professions Academy. Wilson serves on the board of directors for the Alamo Area Academies Inc. and the San Antonio Manufacturing Association. He also chairs the Aerospace Committee of the Greater San Antonio Chamber of Commerce.
Director, Plans and Programs
67 Network Warfare Wing Lackland Air Force Base
Martin is the director of Plans and Programs at the 67th Network Warfare Wing. His responsibilities include managing and coordinating all Wing unfunded requirements and program objective memorandum (POM) initiatives; performing as the information conduit on issues being considered by the Wing corporate process; serving as the focal point for the development and implementation of the 67 NWW Strategic Plan; managing program action directives (PAD) and programming plans (PPlan); directing stand-up actions; managing Wing mission stand-up, transfer and deactivations; facilitating and coordinating issues to support command actions; and overseeing support agreements.
Chief, Intrusion Forensic Operations
Organization: 33d Network Warfare Squadron, United States Air Force
Stauffer is the chief of the Air Force's computer forensics and malware analysis lab located at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. His primary responsibilities are overseeing all network-intrusion-related hard drive analysis, malware analysis and reverse engineering and reporting to higher authorities. Since 2008, he has had an active role in the 67 Network Warfare Wing's internship program to include mentoring both high school and college students. Prior to federal service, Stauffer was employed with the California Secretary of State's office performing the nation's first computer security evaluations on electronic voting systems.
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Clay and ceramic pots are ideal for cacti and succulents. These can be used throughout the landscape as well as indoors.
With so many styles of these pots available, you can pretty much take your pick.
Terra cotta pots come in a range of novelty shapes. These include ones shaped like animals. Among these are quails and chickens. Others include frogs, cats, dogs, snails, turtles, and pigs. Such novelty pots really grab your attention. So, it is best to use them in limited numbers. For example, use one as a focal point for a patio or deck.
Whatever clay or ceramic pots you choose, be sure these have drainage holes. Cacti and succulents donít like soggy soil. If you have one without a hole, use it as a cache pot instead and leave the plant in its original container.
Clay and ceramic pots are available in any size you need. Select one that is large enough for the cacti or succulent youíre growing. Some like the rosette forming hen and chicks donít mind being crowded.
Plants with large root systems shouldnít be stuffed into tapered pots or urns. Instead, choose wide barrel type containers. Tiny clay and ceramic planters are only suitable for small plants. The same is true for small oval clay planters. These donít allow enough space for large root systems.
Both glazed and unglazed pots are available in a range of styles, colors, and patterns. Many gardeners still prefer unpainted terra cotta. An unglazed pot will generally dry out more quickly than a glazed one.
Theoretically speaking, square clay-ceramic pots should be just as good as round ones so long as the drainage is sufficient. However, Iíve noticed the plants are much slower in getting established in square ones.
Special situations call for special pots. In most cases the space around the patio umbrella is neglected. In fact, thereís a clay umbrella pot made especially for this spot. With a hole in the center, it looks just like a tube cake pan. Set the pot on the patio table so the hole in the pot lines up with that of the table. Then, place the umbrella through the opening. I would use small succulents for umbrella pots.
Other specialized pots include clay/ceramic wall pots. The side that fits against the wall is flat.
For indoor use, ceramic/clay pots need not be weatherproof. However, this is an issue if you plan on leaving the container outdoors during the winter.
The advantages of clay/ceramic pots are many. These are attractive, sturdy, and long lasting.
Top quality clay and terra cotta pots are worth the price. On the other hand, it isnít necessary to pay for decorative features like scrolling and etching. The inexpensive pots arenít always weatherproof. Some of these pots are manufactured in the U.S., while others come from Europe or Asia. All the t
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It was late in the year
and forests were burning a long way off,
the day the smoke arrived, almost unperceived.
It came as a ghost, as many ghosts,
visible in the mouths of tunnels.
Now that your neighbor is dead,
you recall casual greetings on the stairs,
snatches of show tunes in corridors,
and you look down into that well
that well of uncertain light and airand see an absence
which neither snow nor corrosive rain efface,
and the absence returns your glance, it follows like a cur
extending its tongue of smoke toward your hand.
The smoke enters the lamplight and the bed.
The eyes are clouded, the eyes are abolished,
and the ears that drank in the old arias of desire.
Venice is diminished, and Rome,
their bells dulled, their restaurants emptied;
in Manhattan the towers shrink from the sky;
all places and all scenes become the less observed,
the less heard, the less loved.
In a city of burnt throats there can never be
enough sweet water to start the songs
and if you would dance, you must dance to the memory
of that lighted window the dusk carried off,
those hands preparing the evening meal,
skeletal hands fumbling among
the bottles of useless prophylactics,
those limbs and mouths, smoke we daily breathe.
But don’t vanish, don’t take the path to the river.
It is cold there and lonely,
and the sky is a burnt page. Stay
you and you others. If we are not to become
a dispersed people of smoke,
the monument that is us must be built soon.
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After five years pursuing the social-local-mobile dream, we need a fresh paradigm for technology startups.
We're there. The future that visionaries imagined in the late 1990s of phones in our pockets and high-speed Internet in the air: Well, we're living in it.
"The third generation of data and voice communications -- the convergence of mobile phones and the Internet, high-speed wireless data access, intelligent networks, and pervasive computing -- will shape how we work, shop, pay bills, flirt, keep appointments, conduct wars, keep up with our children, and write poetry in the next century."
That's Steve Silberman reporting for Wired in 1999, which was 13 years ago, if you're keeping count. He was right, and his prediction proved correct before this century even reached its teens. Indeed, half of tech media is devoted to precisely how these devices and their always-on connectivity let us do new things, help us forget old things, and otherwise provide humans with as much change as we can handle.
I can take a photo of a check and deposit it in my bank account, then turn around and find a new book through a Twitter link and buy it, all while being surveilled by a drone in Afghanistan and keeping track of how many steps I've walked.
The question is, as it has always been: now what?
Decades ago, the answer was, "Build the Internet." Fifteen years ago, it was, "Build the Web." Five years ago, the answers were probably, "Build the social network" or "Build the mobile web." And it was in around that time in 2007 that Facebook emerged as the social networking leader, Twitter got known at SXSW, and we saw the release of the first Kindle and the first iPhone. There are a lot of new phones that look like the iPhone, plenty of e-readers that look like the Kindle, and countless social networks that look like Facebook and Twitter. In other words, we can cross that task off the list. It happened.
What we've seen since have been evolutionary improvements on the patterns established five years ago. The platforms that have seemed hot in the last couple of years -- Tumblr, Instagram, Pinterest -- add a bit of design or mobile intelligence to the established ways of thinking. The most exciting thing to come along in the consumer space between then and now is the iPad. But despite its glorious screen and extended battery life, it really is a scaled up iPhone that offers developers more space and speed to do roughly the same things they were doing before. The top apps for the iPad look startlingly similar the top apps for the iPhone: casual games, social networking, light productivity software.
For at least five years, we've been working with the same operating logic in the consumer technology game. This is what it looks like:
There will be ratings and photos and a network of friends imported, borrowed, or stolen from one of the big social networks. There will be an emphasis on connections between people, things, and places. That is to say, the software you run on your phone will try to get you to help it understand what and who you care about out there in the world. Because all that stuff can be transmuted into valuable information for advertisers.
That paradigm has run its course. It's not quite over yet, but I think we're into the mobile social fin de siècle.
It slipped into parody late last year with the hypothetical app, Jotly, which allowed you to "rate everything" from the ice cubes in your drink to the fire hydrant you saw on the street. The fake promo video perfectly nailed everything about the herd mentality among startups. Its creator told me to watch for "the color blue, rounded corners, SoLoMo [SocialLocalMobile], ratings, points, free iPads, ridiculous name (complete with random adverbing via 'ly'), overpromising, private beta, giant buttons, 'friction-less' sign up, no clear purpose, and of course a promo video."
And then, the hilarious parody ate itself and my tears of laughter turned to sadness when the people behind the joke actually released Jotly as a real, live app.
That's the microversion of the state of affairs. Here's the macro version. Thousands of startups are doing almost exactly the same thing, minor variations on a theme. Tech journalists report endlessly on the same handful of well-established companies. Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft's dominate pieces of the web, and they don't appear to be in shaky positions. Good, long-time tech journalists like Om Malik are exhausted. He recently posted this to his blog after much ink was spilled over who Twitter hired as a public relations person:
Sure, these are some great people and everyone including me is happy for their new gigs and future success. But when I read these posts [I] often wonder to myself, have we run out of things to say and write that actually are about technology and the companies behind them? Or do we feel compelled to fill the white space between what matters? Sort of like talk radio?
There have been three big innovation narratives in the last few years that complicate, but don't invalidate, my thesis. The first -- The Rise of the Cloud -- was essentially a rebranding of having data on the Internet, which is, well ... what the Internet has always been about. Though I think it has made the lives of some IT managers easier and I do like Rdio. The second, Big Data, has lots of potential applications. But, as Tim Berners-Lee noted today, the people benefiting from more sophisticated machine learning techniques are the people buying consumer data, not the consumers themselves. How many Big Data startups might help people see their lives in different ways? Perhaps the personal genomics companies, but so far, they've kept their efforts focused quite narrowly. And third, we have the daily deal phenomenon. Groupon and its 600 clones may or may not be good companies, but they are barely technology companies. Really, they look like retail sales operations with tons of sales people and marketing expenses.
I also want to note that there are plenty of ambitious startups in energy, healthcare, and education, areas that sorely need innovation. But fascinating technology startups, companies who want to allow regular people to do new stuff in their daily lives? Few and far between. Take a look at Paul Graham's ideas for frighteningly ambitious startups. Now take a look at the last 30 or so startups on Techcrunch. Where are the people thinking big? What I see is people filling ever-smaller niches in this "ecosystem" or that "ecosystem."
FROM FACEBOOK TO FACEBOOK CLONES
Certainly, some of the blame for tech startup me-tooism is just the tendency of startups to cluster around ideas that seem to be working. Social networks? Here's 500! Mobile social plays? Here's another 500! Social discovery apps? Behold 1000! Perhaps that's inevitable as dumb money chases chases smart money chasing some Russian kid who just made a site on which men tended to flash their genitals at web cameras.
But I think the problems go deeper. I don't think Silicon Valley and all the other alleys and silicon places are out of ideas. But I do think that we've reached a point in this technology cycle where the old thing has run its course. I think the hardware, cellular bandwidth, and the business model of this tottering tower of technology are pushing companies to play on one small corner of a huge field.
We've maxed out our hardware. No one even tries to buy the fastest computer anymore because we don't give them any tasks (except video editing, I suppose) that require that level of horsepower. I remember breathlessly waiting for the next-generation processor so that my computer would be capable of a whole new galaxy of activities. Some of it, sure, is that we're dumping the computation on the servers on the Internet. But the other part is that we mostly do a lot of the things that we used to do years ago -- stare at web pages, write documents, upload photos -- just at higher resolutions.
On the mobile side, we're working with almost the exact same toolset that we had on the 2007 iPhone, i.e. audio inputs, audio outputs, a camera, a GPS, an accelerometer, Bluetooth, and a touchscreen. That's the palette that everyone has been working with -- and I hate to say it, but we're at the end of the line. The screen's gotten better, but when's the last time you saw an iPhone app do something that made you go, "Whoa! I didn't know that was possible!?"
Meanwhile, despite the efforts of telecom carriers, cellular bandwidth remains limited, especially in the hotbeds of innovation that need it most. It turns out building a superfast, ultrareliable cellular network that's as fast as a wired connection is really, really hard. It's difficult to say precisely what role this limiting factor plays, but if you start to think about what you could do if you had a 100MB/s connection everywhere you went, one's imagination starts to run wild.
LESS MONEY, MO PROBLEMS
But more than the bandwidth or the stagnant hardware, I think the blame should fall squarely on the shoulders of the business model. The dominant idea has been to gather users and get them to pour their friends, photos, writing, information, clicks, and locations into your app. Then you sell them stuff (Amazon.com, One King's Lane) or you take that data and sell it in one way or another to someone who will sell them stuff (everyone). I return to Jeff Hammerbacher's awesome line about developers these days: "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads."
Worse yet, all this stuff is dependent on machine learning algorithms that are crude and incredibly difficult to improve. You pour more vast amounts of data in to eke out a bit more efficiency. That's great and all, but let's not look at that kind of behavior and call it "disruptive." That is the opposite of disruptive.
The thing about the advertising model is that it gets people thinking small, lean. Get four college kids in a room, fuel them with pizza, and see what thing they can crank out that their friends might like. Yay! Great! But you know what? They keep tossing out products that look pretty much like what you'd get if you took a homogenous group of young guys in any other endeavor: Cheap, fun, and about as worldchanging as creating a new variation on beer pong.
Now, there are obviously exceptions to what I'm laying out. What I'm talking about here is the startup culture that I've seen in literally dozens of cities. This culture has a certain logic. There are organizing principles for what is considered a "good" idea. These ideas are supposed to be the right size and shape. There is a default spreadsheet that we expect ideas to fit onto.
But maybe it's time that changed.
So what's the future hold then? I have a couple of ideas, even if I'm not sure they're the right ones. One basic premise I have is this: More money has got to change hands. Free is great. Free is awesome. Halloween, for example, is my favorite holiday. I love free stuff. But note this chart from the Pinboard
blog, comparing what happens to free sites and paid-for sites/services when they experience growth.
|Stagnant||losing money||making money|
|Growing||losing more money||making more money|
|Exploding||losing lots of money||making lots of money|
The point is that every user of a free service costs the service money. Whereas every user for a paid-for service generates money. What that means is that a growing free site is an acquisition waiting to happen because its developers are burning through ever more cash.
Free applications and services get driven to do other things, too. They must grow quickly and they must collect vast amounts of data and they must acquire your social graph somehow. Even if those things were all good, they would still reduce the variety of startups that seem possible. The only metric that seems to matter with startups is the number of users it has been able to skim from the masses. (Partially because so many can't get anyone to visit them and partially because so few of them make money.)
It's not that I think paid software and services will be necessarily be better, but I think they'll be different.
Speaking of hardware, I think we all better hope that the iPhone 5 has some crazy surprises in store for us later this year. Maybe it's a user interface thing. Maybe it's a whole line of hardware extensions that allow for new kinds of inputs and outputs. I'm not sure what it is, but a decently radical shift in hardware capabilities on par with phone-->smartphone or smartphone-->iPhone would be enough, I think, to provide a springboard for some new ideas.
I have some of my own, too. The cost of a lumen of light is dropping precipitously; there must be more things than lightbulbs that can benefit from that. There's vast amounts of databases, real-world data, and video that remains unindexed. Who knows what a billion Chinese Internet users will come up with? The quantified self is just getting going on its path to the programmable self. And no one has figured out how to do augmented reality in an elegant way.
The truth is, though, I'm a journalist, not an entrepreneur. I know that my contribution is more likely to be distilling a feeling that is already broadly felt rather than inventing the future. Still, I want us to get back to those exciting days where people were making predictions about the affordances of the future that seemed wonderful and impossible. No doubt the future remains unevenly distributed but now, when you get your bit, it seems as likely to include worse cell reception as it does seemingly magical superpowers.
This isn't about startup incubators or policy positions. It's not about "innovation in America" or which tech blog loves startups the most. This is about how Internet technology used to feel like it was really going to change so many things about our lives. Now it has and we're all too stunned to figure out what's next. So we watch Lana Del Ray turn circles in a thousand animated gifs.
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Sunday, May 19, 2013
For decades, first-time home buyers would look to family for help scrounging up enough money to cover hefty closing costs.
More recently, bridge loans could help buyers come up with thousands of dollars for a down payment.
Now, the Maine State Housing Authority will provide cash to hundreds of home buyers, and possibly boost the overall housing market, too.
On Thursday, the agency launched its ''Gift of Green'' program, which will provide grants of up to $5,000 that first-time home buyers can put toward a down payment, closing costs or escrow funds.
In addition, the program will provide coupons worth up to $500 to pay for energy audits that could reveal ways to cut heating and cooling costs, saving home buyers more money in the long run.
The grants can be used in conjunction with an $8,000 federal tax credit for first-time buyers -- and a buyer in Maine could convert that tax credit into cash toward a down payment under state legislation approved this spring, although details are still being worked out with the Internal Revenue Service.
''A program at MaineHousing hasn't generated this much excitement in a long time,'' said Dale McCormick, authority director.
McCormick said an average of about 2,500 Maine first-timers buy a house every year, although that number is likely down now because of credit-market turmoil and the uncertain economy.
She said about 90 percent of first-time buyers would meet income and other eligibility requirements of the program.
McCormick said the grants will be funded by bonds sold by MaineHousing, not with state tax money.
The bonds are expected to provide enough money for about 500 grants.
The program will end Nov. 30.
Gov. John Baldacci, on hand for the program's announcement Thursday, said it will do more than help first-time buyers.
''So much of our economy is based on housing,'' Baldacci said.
''To stimulate and get activity going in this sector will have a ripple impact'' on the economy as a whole.
Chris Pinkham, president of the Maine Association of Community Banks, said the program can have a ''trickle-up'' effect, boosting the housing market.
Making it easier for first-time buyers to close on a home frees up that home's current owner to buy another home.
That, in turn, allows another homeowner to sell and move, he said.
Pinkham also noted that the economic crisis has led lenders to be much more scrupulous with mortgages.
Although that means an end to some dubious loans, it also makes it hard for even financially sound borrowers to cover down payments and other costs.
So, even with very low mortgage rates and reduced home prices, many first-time buyers need the kind of boost the grants will provide, Pinkham said.
McCormick said the energy audit coupons can help first-time buyers with the long-term costs of homeownership. She suggested a buyer could buy a house with the help of a MaineHousing grant, get money toward a home energy audit, and then use the federal first-time buyers credit to pay for energy improvements.
Those improvements, she added, will probably be eligible for yet another federal tax credit.
Staff Writer Edward D. Murphy can be contacted at 791-6465 or at:
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The late Zen master and photographer John Daido Loori would tell his photography students to think of someone or something they loved, and take a photograph of that love - but the photograph couldn’t be of the person or thing. They had to find it, a visual image of that love, somewhere else in the world.
This photograph by Daishin Stephenson is a portrait of her and me.
Dogen Zenji wrote, “There are mountains hidden in mountains. There are mountains hidden in hiddenness.” So much of Daishin Stephenson’s photography is about making visible the worlds we walk over or just walk past. These two pictures look like an enchanted forest and a hillside, but they were taken on a city street, a street so busy that a cop held back traffic long enough for her to lie on the ground and enter the world I do not know about, because it is too small, or because I am.
Jean-Luc Godard asked, “When you see your photograph, do you say you’re a fiction?”
There is an iconic photograph of Elmore Leonard by Annie Leibovitz. He sits on a chair on a street, with palm trees and buildings silhouetted by a sunset or sunrise. He wears sunglasses, all his clothes are black, and a typewriter sits on his lap.
I saw this photograph on a poster in a bookstore in Scotland in the late 1980s, before I had read anything by Leonard. It gave me an impression of Leonard’s prose style, what he calls his “sound,” that I found to be accurate when I began to read him a decade later and he became my favorite English-language novelist.
But Leonard doesn’t type. He writes his novels with a pen. So is the photograph a fiction?
No more a fiction than if he had been photographed with a notebook instead of a typewriter. What is being presented is a mediated persona, an image contrived to present a certain story, a story that has been chosen instead of millions of other possible stories about the person, the subject.
Yes, photographs are fictions, and so are clothes, names, titles and facial expressions, things said and things done, things told and things not told. The Zen master Shunryu Suzuki said, “life is like a movie.” As we experience it, life is not “like” a movie - it is a movie, with narratives and meanings contrived from our interpretation of what is presented to us, and what we present to ourselves.
Gordon Parks was the director of one of my favorite films, Shaft (1971) and its dull sequel Shaft’s Big Score (1972), and he made a cameo appearance in an excellent sequel - also entitled Shaft - in 2000. He died six years later.
Jizô asked Hôgen, “Where are you going, senior monk?”
Hôgen said, “I am on pilgrimage, following the wind.”
Jizô said, “What are you on pilgrimage for?”
Hôgen said, “I don’t know.”
Jizô said, “Not knowing is most intimate.”
Hôgen suddenly attained great enlightenment.
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In attempting to sell the reasons for the war against Baghdad, Vice President Dick Cheney repeats many allegations about Iraq that have been proven false over the past two years. We spend the hour dissecting some of Cheney’s statements in his interview with Tim Russert on NBC’s "Meet the Press."
In his first televised interview in six months Vice President Dick Cheney went on the offensive to justify the Bush Administration’s invasion of Iraq. In a lengthy interview on NBC’s "Meet the Press", Cheney portrayed Iraq as "the geographic base" for the September 11th attacks. In attempting to sell the reasons for the war against Baghdad, Cheney repeated many allegations about Iraq that have been proven false over the past two years.
Today, we spend the hour dissecting some of the Vice President’s statements.
His comments on Niger’s link to the alleged Iraq nuclear program.
His story that one of the 9/11 hijackers Muhammad Atta met with Iraqi intelligence officer in Prague.
What Cheney said about the Iraqi American who went to Iraq after the World Trade Center bombing in 1993. There’s a $25 million price on his head, when Saddam Hussein offered to hand him over, the Bush administration said no. They also did not include him in the playing cards of the most wanted men in Iraq.
We also look at the U.S. authorized flights of the Bin Laden family and more than 100 other Saudis soon after September 11th when all other flights had been grounded.
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- Cheney Claims No Knowledge That White House Helped Evacuate 24 Members of the Bin Laden Family Days After 9/11__
- Cheney Suggests Iraq Linked To ’93 WTC Bombing Through Wanted Iraqi-American__
- Cheney Reasserts Already Debunked Mohamed Atta — Iraq Connection__
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The Carlisle Indians football team represented the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in intercollegiate football competition. The program was active from 1893 until 1917, when it was discontinued. During the program's 25 years, the Indians compiled a 167–88–13 record and 0.647 winning percentage, which makes it the most successful defunct major college football program. During the early 20th century, Carlisle was a national football powerhouse, and regularly competed against other major programs such as the Ivy League schools. Several notable players and coaches were associated with the team, including Glenn "Pop" Warner and Jim Thorpe.
The Carlisle Indian Industrial School was founded in 1879 by an American cavalry officer, Richard Henry Pratt, in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Its purpose was to facilitate the assimilation of the Native American population into mainstream American society.
In 1893, the Indians played their first season recognized by the NCAA. The Indians were consistently outsized by the teams they scheduled, and they in turn relied on speed and guile to remain competitive. Carlisle's playbook gave rise to many trick plays and other innovations that are now commonplace in American football. The overhand spiral throw and hand-off fake are both credited to Carlisle. Other strategems caused the National Collegiate Athletic Association to institute rules specifically prohibiting them.
In 1903, an Indian team coached by Pop Warner first employed its infamous "hidden-ball play" against heavily-favored Harvard. Warner, as coach at Cornell, had already used it against Penn State, but it had not achieved much notice. Carlisle led Harvard at halftime, and hoping to keep the game's momentum, Warner elected to try the play on the ensuing kickoff. Harvard executed the kick, and the Indians formed a circle around the returner. With the aid of a specially altered jersey, the ball was placed up the back of the returner. The Indians broke the huddle and spread out in different directions. Each player feigned carrying the ball, except Dillon, the man with the ball up the back of his jersey. The ruse confused the Crimson players, and they scrambled to find the ball carrier. Dillon, with both his hands free, was ignored by the searching Harvard players, and he ran unmolested into the end zone. With the score, Carlisle extended its lead to 11–0, but Harvard came back and eventually won 12–11. Nevertheless, the close match, and trick play, resulted in national attention.
In 1907, Jim Thorpe, undersized even for the Indians, persuaded Warner to allow him to try-out for the team. Thorpe immediately impressed his coach and secured a starting position on the team. On October 26, 1907, Jim Thorpe and Carlisle trounced a powerful University of Pennsylvania team, 26-6, before an overflow crowd of 20,000 at Franklin Field. After graduating from Carlisle, he went on to stardom in numerous athletic endeavors, including as an Olympic athlete and professional player in football, baseball, and basketball.
In 1911, the Indians posted an 11–1 record, which included one of the greatest upsets in college football history. Against Harvard, Thorpe scored all of the Indians' points in a shocking upset over the period powerhouse, 18–15. The only loss for Carlisle came at the hands of Syracuse the following week, 12–11.
The Indians' last season of play was 1917. The school would fold at the end of the 1917-18 school year. Many of the Indians' players would eventually end up in the National Football League and other professional football teams during the 1920s.
Notes and references
- Official 2007 NCAA Division I Records Book, National Collegiate Athletic Association, p. 399, 2007.
- Gridiron Guts: The Story of Football's Carlisle Indians, NPR, May 19, 2007.
- Carlisle Indians made it a whole new ballgame, The Washington Post, May 13, 2007.
- Football, the Indian Way, Newsweek, April 27, 2007.
- "15 Most memorable Phila. sports moments.". Philadelphia Inquirer. 2009-05-09. Retrieved 2009-11-09.[dead link]
- Jim Thorpe Is Dead On West Coast at 64, The New York Times, March 28, 1953.
- Carlisle Indian School Game by Game Results, College Football Data Warehouse, retrieved March 12, 2009.
- Anderson, Lars (2008) . Carlisle vs. Army: Jim Thorpe, Dwight Eisenhower, Pop Warner, and the Forgotten Story of Football's Greatest Battle (Paperback ed.). New York: Random House. p. 349. ISBN 978-0-8129-7731-8.
- Jenkins, Sally (2007). The Real All Americans: The Team That Changed a Game, a People, a Nation (First ed.). New York: Random House. p. 343. ISBN 978-0-385-51987-8.
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Finnish is the language spoken by the majority of the population in Finland (92% as of 2006[update]) and by ethnic Finns outside of Finland. It is one of the official languages of Finland and an official minority language in Sweden. In Sweden, both standard Finnish and Meänkieli, a Finnish dialect, are spoken. The Kven language, which is closely related to Finnish, is an official minority language in Norway. Finnish is the eponymous member of the Finno-Ugric language family and is typologically between fusional and agglutinative languages. It modifies and inflects the forms of nouns, adjectives, pronouns, numerals and verbs, depending on their roles in the sentence.
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“Special-Needs Transportation Best Practice” is designed to educate the transportation professional, but the underlying message that permeates its 794 pages is the need for transportation professionals to educate others as well — the non-disabled children who might be quick to stigmatize children with disabilities (CWD) or the school building personnel who don’t understand safety before schedule. The text includes best practice for the IEP committee that doesn’t understand the impact of distance on program success or the simple logic that least restrictive environment applies to the bus as well as the classroom.
This manual is an encyclopedia of Dr. Ray Turner’s experience as a special educator that started 40 years ago and has included professional roles of special-education teacher, administrator, professor and transportation administrator.
Decades of knowledge on display
Building on “Transporting Handicapped Students: A Reference Manual” in 1980, “Special-Needs Transportation Handbook” in 1998 and “Transporting Medically Fragile or Technology-Assisted Students” in 2000, this reference work incorporates Dr. Turner’s writing and experience of the past four decades in special education: Where else can you find 19 strategies for transporting children with autism or consider 27 types of school bus accidents that should be considered for crutch users?
Turner’s text starts with a Special-Needs Transportation Student’s Bill of Rights that makes explicit that transportation as a related service must be provided professionally, sensitively, expeditiously, reliably and appropriately.
The manual has the feel of WebMD, only without the handy search features. [Editor’s note: A searchable CD version of the text is now available for purchase (without shipping or handling charges) at www.whitebuffalopress.com.]
This voluminous text includes a table of contents that runs 37 pages and includes 41 tables of specific best-practice information for everyone involved in the transportation of CWD. Different sections of this text will be most useful depending on whether you’re a driver, attendant, special-education administrator or teacher, or transportation manager.
Turner starts with a disclaimer, as does every book in our litigious society, and it is important to take this one seriously. The author writes very definitively: “The driver will do this” or “Best practice policy must include this.” In fact, very little regarding the transportation of CWD is established in civil or statutory law. The reader is offered the author’s perspective of best practice even when professional opinions may differ widely.
This book is a useful starting place to understand transportation issues, and it outlines scenarios you should well consider, but your policy decisions should be made from a wide variety of sources to assure that they are current and appropriate for your situation.
Plenty of good ideas
Spending a few days immersed in “Special-Needs Transportation Best Practice” will surely give you good ideas for tweaking your transportation of CWD. After reading the Bill of Rights, I called Ray and suggested that he add one more right, that “All students have a right to be transported together.” The manual refers to inclusive transportation as the prediction of “futurists,” but the future is now and this book will give you many tools to better understand your “special” students as simply students and your “special-needs” buses simply as buses.
Ted Finlayson-Schueler is the president of Safety Rules! — a nonprofit organization dedicated to the safe travel of students to and from school. For more information, visit www.safetyrules.net.
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I’ve written and edited a good deal of the Friedrich Hayek Wikipedia entry over the last few years. By the magic of the Wikipedia unplanned collaborative process, the entry has become something better than I or any other single person planned or intended. But the thing could be substantively and stylistically improved, and the constant little vandalisms of the entry by anti-Hayek trolls could be more effectively weeded.
I’d like to encourage anyone who knows the material or has a skill in writing to pitch in and help make the entry just a bit better than it is now.
Here’s the opening section. What can we do to make it better? Go here to make you improvements.
Friedrich August von Hayek CH (8 May 1899 – 23 March 1992), was an influential economist. Hayek’s account of how changing prices communicate signals which enable individuals to coordinate their plans is widely regarded as an important achievement in economics. This and other contributions have put Hayek at the top among a select list of the most influential economists of the modern period. One of the great polymaths of the 20th century, Hayek also contributed to jurisprudence, neuroscience, philosophy and the history of ideas.
In 1974 Hayek shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics with Gunnar Myrdal “for their pioneering work in the theory of money and economic fluctuations and for their penetrating analysis of the interdependence of economic, social and institutional phenomena.” He also received the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1991.
Hayek lived in Austria, Great Britain, the United States and Germany, and became a British subject in 1938.
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Young Blacks in MLK's Shadow
Young African Americans haven't squandered King's legacy; their fight is just different.
Martin Luther King Jr. is a towering historical figure. For some, he is the greatest American ever to live. Most people in this country, regardless of their political affiliation, consider him to be an inspiration.
This respect and admiration is quite different from the opposition he faced while he was alive, but it's this posthumous popularity that has allowed him to become the first non-president to be honored with a monument on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The 30-foot-tall granite sculpture of a deeply serious-looking King now stands between memorials honoring Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln, serving as a large and imposing reminder of the patron saint of black America. He is literally towering over us.
And as we get set for the memorial's dedication Oct. 16, originally scheduled to take place on the anniversary of the March on Washington and "I Have a Dream" speech but postponed by Hurricane Irene, it's important to discuss the generations he left behind to execute his dream. With no grand, history-making movement to define a generation, it might be easy to write off young blacks as having dropped the ball in the fight for justice and equality. But that would be unfair.
The hip-hop generation, loosely defined as those born between 1965 and 1984, and more so the Millennial generation -- generally considered those born after 1981 (myself included) -- live in the shadow of those who came of age during the civil rights movement: black America's "greatest generation." We are inundated with stories of sit-ins, Freedom Rides, police beatings, fire hoses and attack dogs.
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EF Englishtown Releases Language Education’s First Social Game, English Tower
(Hong Kong -- Friday 18th May 2012) EF Englishtown today announces the release of English Tower, the English langauge industry’s first social word search game. Built on Englishtown’s commitment to meeting and engaging users, English Tower is a English language industry first in building a Facebook game to reach English learners around the world.
With its simple interface and intuitive gameplay, English Tower allows users to progress as quickly as they like. As users pass each level, they build their tower while also building their English vocabulary. As gamers master new levels of vocabulary, they can build customized towers, unlock badges, and compete with friends. And for every level they pass, they are not only provided a definition to the words they found, but they will also see a list of all the words missed within each level.
“Englishtown has always pushed the boundaries of how learning and technology interweave. English Tower gives students a new way to engage with their lessons and our school by making learning not only enriching, but social and fun. It represents another digital milestone in online English education and in our commitment to helping students learn anytime, anywhere,” commented Andrew Wait, President of Englishtown.
English Tower offers students over 10,000 words and is available to learners worldwide for free. Built to increase student engagement and familiarity with the Englishtown school, it is the latest amongst Englishtown’s free online initiatives, including daily email lessons, a video podcast channel called PodEnglish, and a skill test to measure one’s English proficiency level.
Here’s how it looks in action:
Play on Facebook:
ABOUT EF ENGLISHTOWN
Originally conceived in collaboration with Apple, EF Englishtown is the world’s largest online English school. A division of EF Education First, EF Englishtown is trusted by over 1,200 leading global companies and has served as the Official Language Training Supplier to the Beijing 2008 Olympics, trained 60,000 volunteers, and will similarly help Russia in the 2014 Sochi Games and Brazil for the 2014 World Cup.
EF Englishtown and EF Language Learning Solutions is focused on helping people master English. Clients have included Google, IBM, DHL, and Rolls-Royce.
For a full client list, visit our website at www.englishtown.com. For updated information on our latest initiatives, please visit our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/efenglishtown or follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/efenglishtown.
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Interest in contemplative practices has burgeoned in recent years as research suggests that meditation practice may have significant effects on health and well-being. The scientific study of compassion meditation in particular and methods for cultivating it is significant for several reasons, including individual physiological and psychological health, as well as broader social issues of human connection and survival.
Scientists in diverse fields are more recently pointing out the importance of compassion for human happiness and well-being. Primatologist Frans de Waal has surveyed a growing body of empirical evidence to argue that our common perception of human nature as a self-centered drive for individual survival is largely distorted, if not altogether wrong. Rather, the roots of empathy, compassion and morality run deep in our evolutionary history. Developmental psychologists have also noted that humans are “wired for connectivity”, and in fact have a powerful need for affiliation from infancy on. Further, work in social neuroscience has shown that perceived social isolation is a risk factor for poor cognitive performance and executive functioning, increased depressive thoughts, and in increased sensitivity to social threats. Taken together, this research suggests that practices that enhance our sense of connectivity with others, such as compassion training, might show positive effects on our physical and mental health, and emerging data is lending support to this view.
Visit http://tedxatlanta.com/videos/09132011-balance/charles-raison/ to view a talk by Dr. Charles Raison on the need for cultivating compassion.
Cognitively-Based Compassion Training (CBCT)
There are doubtless many methods one could employ to enhance compassion beyond the biological level to an impartial altruism, and in fact many religious traditions contain methods for such cultivation. In our studies, we use a protocol for the cultivation of compassion developed by Geshe Lobsang Tenzin Negi, drawn from the lojong tradition of Tibetan Buddhism but rendered into secular form for use by individuals of any, or no, religious inclination. The term lojong means "mind training" or "thought transformation" and refers to a systematic practice of gradually training the mind in compassion until altruism becomes spontaneous.
Lojong is based on the view that self-centered thinking and behavior cause suffering for oneself and others, while other-centered, altruistic thoughts, emotions, and behaviors ultimately benefit both oneself and others. Compassion is the heartfelt wish that others be free from suffering and the readiness to act on their behalf. It arises from a deep sense of endearment for others, coupled with empathy for and sensitivity to their pain. This empathy arises both from a sense of closeness or connectedness to others as well as a recognition of the causes of their and one’s own suffering.
The CBCT program therefore aims to help practitioners progressively cultivate other-centered thoughts and behaviors while overcoming maladaptive, self-focused thoughts and behaviors by moving systematically through eight sequential steps. These are:
(1) developing attention and stability of mind through focused attention training; (2) cultivating insight into the nature of mental experience; (3) cultivating self-compassion; (4) developing equanimity; (5) developing appreciation and gratitude; (6) developing affection and empathy; (7) realizing aspirational compassion; and (8) realizing active compassion.
The adult CBCT program is an 8-week intervention that meets for two hours a week. Each session contains pedagogical material presented by the instructors, a guided meditation of around twenty to thirty minutes, and group discussion, with subjects being asked to meditate daily for the duration of the program using guided meditation recordings. Our team has expertise in adapting CBCT to meet the needs of diverse populations, including elementary schoolchildren, adolescents in foster care and survivors of trauma. Visit our Research page for more information about our ongoing projects.
Geshe Lobsang Tenzin Negi, Ph.D., is the founder and spiritual director of Drepung Loseling Monastery, Inc., in Atlanta, GA, and a Senior Lecturer in Emory University’s Department of Religion. He also serves as Director of the Emory-Tibet Partnership, a multi-dimensional initiative founded in 1998 to bring together the foremost contributions of the Western scholastic tradition and the Tibetan Buddhist sciences of mind and healing. In this capacity, he serves as Co-Director of both the Emory-Tibet Science Initiative and the Emory Collaborative for Contemplative Studies. He also developed Cognitively-Based Compassion Training (CBCT), a compassion meditation program that is currently utilized in a number of research studies, including an NIH-funded study examining the efficacy of compassion meditation on the experience of depression.
Dr. Negi, a former monk, was born in Kinnaur, a small Himalayan kingdom adjoining Tibet. He began his monastic training at The Institute of Buddhist Dialectics and continued his education at Drepung Loseling Monastery in south India, where he received his Geshe Lharampa degree, the highest academic degree granted in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, in 1994. Dr. Negi completed his Ph.D. at Emory University in 1999; his interdisciplinary dissertation centered on traditional Buddhist and contemporary Western approaches to emotions and their impact on wellness.
Brooke Dodson-Lavelle, M.A. is the Senior Research Officer for the Mind and Life Institute's new Compassion and Secular Ethics Initiative. She is also completing her PhD in the Graduate Division of Religion at Emory University. Her work focuses on the confluence of Buddhist contemplative theory and cognitive science, as well as the cultural contexts that shape the transmission, reception and "secularization" of Buddhist contemplative practices. She is currently completing her dissertation, entitled “Cultivating Compassion and Mindfulness: The Rhetoric of Secular Buddhist-based Practices in America”.
Brooke is a lead instructor for several studies examining the efficacy of Cognitively-Based Compassion Training (CBCT), and has helped to develop and adapt CBCT for school children as well as adolescents in Atlanta’s foster care system. In 2010 she helped developed the CBCT Teacher Training Program, and now serves as the Associate Training Director.
Brooke also served as the Program Coordinator for the Emory-Tibet Partnership and from 2009 to 2011 co-led the Emory Tibetan Mind/Body Sciences Summer Study Abroad program in Dharamsala, India. Prior to attending Emory, she earned her B.A. in Religion and Psychology at Barnard College and her M.A. in Religion at Columbia University. While at Columbia, she also worked as a Research Coordinator for the Columbia Integrative Medicine Program, where she developed and taught mindfulness-based meditation programs for a variety of clinical populations.
Brendan Ozawa-de Silva, Ph.D., received his doctorate in Modern History from Oxford University in 2003, an M.Phil. also from Oxford University, and a Master of Theological Studies from Boston University. From 2003 to 2005 he taught at Emory University’s Candler School of Theology as a Post-doctoral Fellow in the Initiative in Religious Practices and Practical Theology and as Visiting Professor of World Religions and Spirituality. Since 2005 he has served as Associate Director for Buddhist Studies and Practice at Drepung Loseling Monastery, Inc. He is one of the lead meditation instructors for the Cognitively-Based Compassion Training (CBCT) research at Emory, and has worked to bring compassion training into elementary schools in the Atlanta area and to foster children in Georgia’s foster care program. Since 2009 he has co-led Emory’s summer study abroad program in Dharamsala, India, each year, and since 2007 he has also served as Religious Life Scholar and Advisor on Buddhism to the Dean of Religious Life at Emory.
In his current studies, he is working towards a second Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies, investigating what Buddhist contemplative practices and contemporary findings in cognitive science may have to offer each other in terms of our understanding of the mind, body, and health, particularly with regard to the cultivation of compassion. He is involved in several current meditation studies in Atlanta and in Japan, and has published recent articles on the mind/body relationship in Tibetan Buddhism and Tibetan medicine, the secularization and scientific study of contemplative practices, scientific research on compassion meditation, suicide and mental health in Japan, and the introduction of contemplative practices into education.
Timothy Harrison is a Senior Teacher of Cognitively-Based Compassion Training (CBCT). He co-leads the CBCT Teacher Training Program, and leads CBCT courses for college students and teenagers in foster care. He has been studying and practicing various forms of meditation, including Rinzai Zen and Tibetan lojong, for over 20 years.
Tim is also a Visiting Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Architecture. He has a Masters from the Harvard Design School (’94) and B.S. from Duke’s School of Engineering (’89). His two lively children, ages 7 and 10, continue to give good reason for deepening his practice of compassion.
Desbordes, G., Negi, L.T., Pace, T.W., Wallace, B.A., Raison, C.L., and Schwartz, E.L., (2012) Effects of mindful-attention and compassion meditation training on amygdala response to emotional stimuli in an ordinary, non-meditative state. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.
Mascaro, J.S., Rilling, J.K., Negi, L.T., and Raison, C.L., (2012) Compassion meditation enhances empathic accuracy and related neural activity. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.
Ozawa-de Silva, B. & Dodson-Lavelle, B. (2011) An education of heart and mind: Practical and theoretical issues in teaching cognitive-based compassion training to children. Practical Matters,Spring 2011, Issue 4.
Ozawa-de Silva, B., Dodson-Lavelle, B., Raison, C.L., and Negi, L.T. (2012) “Compassion and Ethics: Scientific and Practical Approaches to the Cultivation of compassion as a Foundation for Ethical Subjectivity and Well-Being.” Journal of Healthcare, Science & the Humanities. Volume 2(1): 145-164.
Pace, T.W., Negi L.T., Adame, D.D., Cole, S.P., Sivilli, T.I., Brown, T.D., et al. (2008). Effect of compassion meditation on neuroendocrine, innate immune and behavioral responses to psychosocial stress. Psychoneuroendocrinology 34 (1) 87-98.
Pace TW, Negi LT, Sivilli TI, Issa MJ, Cole SP, Adame DD et al. (2009). Innate immune neuroendocrine and behavioral responses to psychosocial stress do not predict subsequent compassion meditation practice time. Psychoneuroendocrinology 35(2) 310-5.
Pace, T.W.W., et al., Engagement with Cognitively-Based Compassion Training is associated with reduced salivary C-reactive protein from before to after training in foster care program adolescents. Psychoneuroendocrinology (2012).
Reddy, S., Negi, L.T., Dodson-Lavelle, B., Ozawa-de Silva, B., Pace, T.W., Cole, S.P., Raison, C.L., and Craighead, L. (2012) “Cognitive-Based Compassion Training: A promising prevention strategy for at-risk adolescents.” Journal of Child and Family Studies.
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This worm, which uses a SQL Server vulnerability, looks through the network t find other SQL servers with the same vulnerability and will install itself on them and replicate. Thus, the damage of this malicious code is, basically, a Denial of Service attack, able to cause different effects, such as e-mail service failure, internet communication slowdown and network blocking, among others.
Luis Corrons, Panda Software's Lab Director explains: " We strongly recommend to stay on alert in order to prevent the possibility of an attack, it may cause major problems in the communication networks. The first action is to keep informed on how this worm may spread and infect. Additionally, network administrators should know how it works in order to stop its massive distribution. At first look, corporate environments will be the most affected but, since users can install SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine in 98, Millenium, NT and 2000 Professional, and it is frequently used by home users and software developers, SQLSlammer can infect their computers as well".
In case the situation worsens, it could hinder corporate activities and create great economical losses, as happened with Red Code infecting 250,000 Internet servers in nine hours, two years ago. These two worms have many common features, as for example, they come from Asia, remain in memory and both send Denial Of Service attacks. Also, it is impossible to spot them with traditional virus detection programs; one of the best solutions is to install MS patch released on July, 24th 2002.
The visible payload of SQLSlammer is a 1434 UDP (SQL Server Resolution Service Port) traffic increase and also a slowdown - or even blocking- of the affected server. Although no visible symptoms were detected, Panda Software recommends taking into consideration the following actions to verify if the worm has affected the network:
1. Check if the Microsoft Patch offered in:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/bulletin/MS02-039.asp is already installed and, if not, download and install it.
2. Block incoming 1434 UDP (SQL Server Resolution Service Port) port traffic. It can be done through a firewall, router, etc.., depending on the network configuration.
3. Should you were infected, change SQL Server service to "manual" and reboot the computer. This way the worm code will be removed from memory. Then, install MS patch, restart SQL service and set the SQL service to automatic again.
Panda Software's Virus Laboratory detected yesterday the appearance of this new worm, called SQLSlammer. This malicious code affects SQL servers and sends a 376 bytes package to the 1434 UDP port (SQL Server Resolution Service Port). In order to send this package, which includes the worm W32/SQLSlammer, it uses a function to create IP addresses. Due to this continuous process and the great number of tries it may cause a DoS (Denial of Service) attack.
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In today's society, as specific content knowledge becomes rapidly outdated, knowing how to learn becomes increasingly significant. This program is designed to develop effective educators who have a solid understanding of the learner, the educational needs of diverse populations, and their own clearly articulated philosophies of education. It is ideal for individuals involved in all aspects of curriculum and instruction that affect the pre-kindergarten through 12th grade schools and students.
Students within the program share a core of common study, emphasizing the social, historical, and philosophical foundations of education, as well as theories of human development and learning, and principles of research. Curriculum and Instruction core classes provide a background of academic, methodological and clinical knowledge, as do the elective courses. Students may choose electives designed to support and promote unique professional goals. The program provides a solid background in educational theory and the foundations of teaching and curriculum development, as well as the opportunity to work in depth in specific areas of curriculum and instruction.
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Routt County The Routt County commissioners discussed this week invoking an impact fee on new construction in unincorporated Routt County.
The agenda item was initiated by a letter sent to the board from the Regional Affordable Living Foundation, recommending that commissioners consider an impact fee.
"As county commissioners, we're willing to look at it," County Commissioner Nancy Stahoviak said. "But an impact fee is something that would be voted on by the Board of County Commissioners, so we have to be sure it is something we can legally defend doing."
Commissioners Stahoviak, Dan Ellison and Ben Beall have asked that county attorney John Merrill take on the task of contacting consultants to complete a report regarding an impact fee.
Hired consultants will have to assess the need for affordable housing in Routt County, what commissioners believe the projected need will be in the future, how the county is planning to fill the need, and the real-dollar amount needed from the proposed impact fee to fulfill that need if it exists, Stahoviak said.
There have been similar studies done in Pitkin and Grand counties, so the commissioners are confident that there are well-informed and experienced consultants available for the job.
Although the commissioners would not actually impose an impact fee until after the November election, depending on whether or not a proposed city excise tax is passed if that makes the ballot itself they would like to get the ball rolling on research.
The impact fee, a tax that would be attached to new construction, is an important aspect of RALF's proposed excise tax. The proposed excise tax on new construction within Steamboat Springs would generate funds for purchasing land for affordable housing.
RALF suggested that the commissioners invoke the parallel impact fee so that an excise tax doesn't drive a disproportionate share of construction into unincorporated Routt County.
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Get the facts about carbs and get serious about improving your health
Curious about going low-carb? This plain-English guide explains the latest research behind reduced-carbohydrate diets, dispelling the myths and revealing how to navigate your way through the good and bad carbs to create a diet plan that works! You get delicious recipes and lots of tips to make your low-carb diet a success ... Read More
The definitive guide to incorporating a macrobiotic diet into your daily life
Do you want to make the most of macrobiotics? This practical guide uses a body, mind, and spirit approach to introduce you to the basics of this popular diet. You'll see how to use macrobiotic principles to enhance your health and happiness; prepare the right foods to increase your energy and fight off disease; and make lifestyle changes to support your new way of eating. ... Read More
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is a hugely popular self-help technique, which teaches you how to break free from destructive or negative behaviors and make positive changes to both your thoughts and your actions. This practical guide to managing anger with CBT will help you to understand your anger, identify solutions to your problems, and maintain your gains and avoid relapse. ... Read More
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is a hugely popular self-help technique, which teaches you to break free from destructive or negative behaviors and make positive changes to both your thoughts and your actions. This practical guide to managing anxiety with CBT will help you understand your anxiety, identify solutions to your problems, and maintain your gains and avoid relapse. ... Read More
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is a hugely popular self-help technique, which teaches you to break free from destructive or negative behaviours and make positive changes to both your thoughts and your actions. This practical guide to managing depression with CBT will help you understand your depression, identify solutions to your problems, and maintain your gains and avoid relapse. ... Read More
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A recent shortage of nurses in a society with an aging population has triggered the demand for students to enter the field of medical study. A dosage calculations course is required for most students earning an applied science degree in nursing, pharmacology, or paramedic programs.
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A cutting-edge meditation therapy that uses self-control techniques, mindfulness has taken off across the globe as a way of overcoming negative thoughts and emotions and achieving a calmer, more focused state of mind. Written by a professional mindfulness trainer, this practical guide covers the key self-control techniques designed to help you achieve ... Read More
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy For Dummies takes you through the eight-week MBCT course, using the principles of mindfulness to complement established CBT techniques. You'll discover how using MBCT can help lower your risk of relapsing into depression and reduce the risk of other mental health disorders including anxiety, stress, and low self-esteem. ... Read More
Being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) doesn't mean your life is over. Everyone's MS is different and no one can predict exactly what yours will be like. The fact is, lots of people live their lives with MS without making a full-time job of it.
Multiple Sclerosis For Dummies gives you accessible, easy-to-understand information about what happens with MS—what kinds of symptoms it can cause, how ... Read More
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Nutrition For Dummies, 2nd Edition provides a detailed understanding of the nutritional breakdown of different food groups and ... Read More
You've been hearing it since you were a little kid: "You are what you eat." But unlike most adages you've long since debunked, this wise saying is true! Good nutrition is the key to achieving and maintaining a healthy weight and lifelong good health no matter how you slice it.
Nutrition For Dummies is a one-size-fits-all guide to nutrition for anyone who may have fallen asleep in health class ... Read More
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder For Dummies sorts out the otherwise curious and confusing world of obsessive compulsive disorder. Engaging and comprehensive, it explains the causes of OCD and describes the rainbow of OCD symptoms. The book shows readers ... Read More
There are an estimated 55 million Americans over the age of 50 who have low bone mass. This easy-to-understand guide helps readers assess their risk and find a practical approach to the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of osteoporosis. It covers bone density tests and a wide range of treatment options for osteoporosis-from hormone replacement therapy and acupuncture to calcium-rich ... Read More
Think you worry too much? You're not alone?over 40 million Americans suffer from some form of anxiety. Help is here in this friendly guide, which offers sound advice on identifying anxiety triggers through taking self-tests, improving your eating habits, relaxing, and finding support for you and your loved ones.
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Does your child mix up d's and b's? Does he or she have trouble reading? If so, the cause may be dyslexia. But don't worry -- these days, there are many ways to overcome dyslexia. This hands-on guide leads you step by step through your options -- and explains how anyone with dyslexia can achieve ... Read More
Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) is a condition in which there is an imbalance of a woman's female sex hormones, and affects an estimated 10% of all women. This hormone imbalance may cause changes in the menstrual cycle, acne, small cysts in the ovaries, difficulty conceiving, high blood pressure, and other problems. It is treatable, but not curable, and sufferers have to ... Read More
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The large, powerful omnivore that always commands respect
Bears are large, omnivorous mammals of the family Ursidae. There are 8 bear species each of which has varied habitats, ranges, diets and characteristics. They are: black bear, brown bear, polar bear, Asiatic black bear, sloth bear, spectacled bear, sun bear and giant panda.
Bears are characterized by their plantigrade walk (on their heels, like humans), a large body, short legs, a stub of a tail, small round ears and forward facing eyes. The males are usually larger than the females, sometimes as much as 50% larger.
Sun bears are the smallest and polar bears are the largest. Polar bears are also the largest land living carnivores on earth. The spectacled bear is the only bear species in South America and one of the most emblematic mammals of the tropical Andes. Brown bears are the most widespread and are known as grizzly bears in North America. The giant panda, which is also WWF’s emblem, is a universal symbol of species conservation.
Bears' powerful limbs enable them to stand upright and even walk for short distances. Despite their bulky appearance, they can even run at fast speeds. They have acute senses of smell and hearing. Bears have always commanded respect and reverence and are the subject of myth in many cultures. There is evidence of bear worship in China in the past, and the Korean people also identify bears as their ancestors and symbolic animals.
Your chances of seeing one in the wild
The polar bear, Asiatic black bear, spectacled bear, and sloth bear are listed as 'vulnerable' and the giant panda is listed as 'endangered' on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
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Mar 9 2012 By Lawrence Poole
HS2 chiefs have denied accusations they are planning to dump millions of tonnes of spoil removed by creating the £33bn rail link by the M25.
In a rival publication last week, HS2 Ltd's chief executive Alison Munro rebutted concerns there would be large spoil dumps in the Chilterns saying it would be deposited 'adjacent to the M25' away from the Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
When the Examiner contacted HS2 Ltd they said there had been a misunderstanding.
Spokesman Rhona Crawford said: "It is not our intention to leave excavated materials from the Chiltern's tunnel along the route of the M25 but we are considering using the motorway for transporting material away from the site.
"Like similar infrastructure projects we will be developing a strategy for handling all such material that will be based on the detailed design, engineering and environmental work that is currently being carried out."
Experts say around 12 million cubic metres of spoil will need to be removed to build the London to Birmingham link featuring a 13.5km tunnel under some of the Chilterns.
If these figures are correct, it will mean a lorry movement every 26 seconds of the working day, Monday to Friday, along the whole line for five years - the equivalent of 850,000 full trucks taking the spoil away during the construction phase which is due to start in 2017.
The Chiltern Society's John Gladwin heads a committee pressuring for the AONB to be protected.
He said: "It's a big concern, they've been talking about using it build sound barriers which we don't want to see as we don't want the natural line of the countryside damaged.
"There's a lot of spoil to be removed at both ends of the tunnel, so they've got a big problem on their hands - I don't see how they can do it without having a big work camp near Mantle's Wood (Little Missenden) where the tunnel comes out.
"We'd still like to see the plans changed with the tunnel going under the whole of the Chilterns."
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Magic of Country Living…..
Usually, magic involves pulling things out of something; a rabbit out of a hat or a pigeon out of a box.
When it comes to Plumas and Sierra Counties, the magic draws things in; visitors to our natural beauty or friends and relatives to visit family. Our theme this year was chosen to draw attention to all the magical things that make our community such an appealing magnet!
A county fair is all about spotlighting what a community has grown, made or raised. Yes, there is always the carnival and entertainment, and those can seem awfully magical. But the true heart of the fair is all the exhibits entered by your neighbors. I invite you to thoughtfully consider each of our exhibit areas this year. Walk slowly through the floriculture building and look at what people have grown here, some of it is absolutely amazing. There is no need to feel foolish ooooing and awwwwing over a cob of corn, the truth is it’s not easy growing corn in our counties. Let’s celebrate that.
We have made a special effort this year to get more people to enter the fair. Of course it helps the fair to have many exhibits, but the person it most benefits is the person entering. You may not ever have the time or energy to write that novel, or take the effort to speak a foreign language, but every year you have the opportunity to enter your famous Kahlua cake in the fair, and maybe win a ribbon! People speak of their experience in entering the fair for years, why not be part of that? If you still don’t think you want to enter something, please encourage your children to do so…. a drawing, their sugar cube California Mission, or their Angry Bird collection. It’s a memory they will remember their entire life.
Finally, I want to thank everyone who supports the fair. Last year, almost $1000 was donated to the fair by people that donated back their premium winnings or added a donation to their entry fee. We use that money to do things like hire our barn supervisors and buy ribbons. Anything is appreciated.
I’m lucky enough to work with a very dedicated group of employees and volunteers. I’m proud of the product they put out year after year. We can’t do it without your participation and support, so I guess I’m proud of you as well. When everyone comes together to put on an event like the Plumas Sierra County Fair, it’s downright magical!
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War could result in new world order, diplomat says
Last Updated: March 13, 2003
Much more is at stake in the bitter debate over Iraq than disarming
Saddam Hussein because the choices made in countering terrorism will have
long-term consequences that could include the emergence of a new
international order, a veteran diplomat said Thursday.
The United Nations and NATO almost certainly will be different, said
Arnold Kanter, who was an undersecretary of state and special assistant to
the president for national security affairs before joining the Scowcroft
Group consulting firm as a founder in the early 1990s.
Nations in Europe and elsewhere are having to choose sides for or
against U.S. policy while Germany and France maneuver to become Europe's
dominant leader, he said.
And with the United States saying it is necessary to wage pre-emptive
wars, there are concerns about whether the U.S. will use its military
dominance to make such decisions collaboratively or imperiously in the
future, Kanter said.
Kanter was one of four speakers at the Pabst Theater on Thursday
afternoon at the annual Kennan Forum on International Issues, run by the
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The theme was "If You Want Peace . . .
Prepare for War?"
The others included Marc Grossman, a top State Department official who
formerly served as ambassador to Turkey; Matthew Rothschild, editor of the
Progressive magazine, a Madison-based voice for peace and social justice;
and former U.S. Rep. Tom Barrett, who was asked on barely an hour's notice
to fill in after Linda Fasulo, NBC's U.N. correspondent, canceled her
appearance to cover developments at the U.N.
Kanter, who said he was taking an objective, analytical stance,
stressed how difficult the Iraq problem is. It is the subject of
legitimate debate, and anyone who thinks they know the answers does not
appreciate the issues, he said.
Grossman, undersecretary of state for political affairs, argued that
the U.S. has been trying to go through the U.N. instead of acting on its
own, but that people have to appreciate that Iraq is the nexus where
terrorists, technology and weapons of mass destruction meet.
He argued that the Cold War doctrine of containment, with a strong
military deterrence that sometimes must be used, remained valid.
He said U.S. leaders hoped that their military buildup in the Middle
East would force Hussein to finally disarm.
Asked in an interview whether this was a historic moment of change, he
said, "I think we're at a historic watershed not so much in terms of
defining the response, but in defining the threat. And it is clear to me
that there is a new threat in this world, and the threat is international
terrorism carried out anywhere at any time, combined with the questions of
weapons of mass destruction.
"And so, how we organize ourselves to deal with that threat is a new
question. Whether that changes everything, I don't know. We've succeeded
thus far in terms of the war on terrorism with the institutions that we
Rothschild argued that preparing for war failed in Vietnam and produced
a reckless game of chicken during the Cuban missile crisis. "If you want
peace," he said, "work for peace."
He said that Hussein had not been shown to be a serious threat to the
U.S., that it was clear that President Bush has been planning all along to
wage war, and that such a war would be unconstitutional and would violate
the U.N. charter unless supported by the Security Council.
A version of this story appeared in the Milwaukee Journal
Sentinel on March 14, 2003.
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Technology > Examples
The impedance meter based on a CPCC Unit.
The unit is capable of measuring impedance accurately by measuring the resistance, capacitance and inductance, scanning on various frequencies with different bias (polarization). Furthermore it will measure other parameters e.g. Q factor, D factor, ESR etc. All results are displayed and saved in an Access data base or in Excel spreadsheets or in an ordinary text file. Alternatively the measurement results can be displayed as curved graph of intensity against frequency or other parameters. The impedance meter can be used in various test and measurement applications, data acquisition, instrumentation.
The Data Logger based on CPCC Unit.
We had a customer who was looking to use a logger with various channels with different resolutions and speeds. It was better for them to use our CPCC Unit where each analog to digital channel has a specific speed from 0.1 Meg samples to 10 Meg samples and a resolution of: 12, 14, 16, 18, 24 bits. This is a better configuration rather than running simultaneously 5 different data loggers with the inherent difficulties. Please see below the next screen shot illustration of the unit software.
CPCC Unit for EEPROM Programming.
This is one of the projects we have developed for a client. The software for our unit has a Wizard, into which the user wrote different data structures into different sizes of EEPROM. Data can be read and partially modified or erased and rewritten. The unit can be moved between PC’s maintaining the data without power. Please refer to the next screen shot illustration of the unit software.
Power Driver Unit based on CPCC Unit.
Currently many companies are producing these drivers but it is unusual to get units with 1024 power MOSFETs and run them at the same time. The unit is located outside the PC and therefore the physical size is not constrained. It is very easy to accommodate a large number of power drivers end external connectors. For each driver one external connector was required.
Fuel Cell diagnostic and control unit based on the CPCC Unit.
We have just started to develop a unit for measuring and the control of an oxygen and hydrogen Fuel Cell. The customer wanted to verify the membrane quality in the cell and it was necessary to make precision measurements of the membrane conductivity and changing pressure of the fluid in circulation. Our unit will enable accurate monitoring of these processes.
All our examples are based on USB2.0 PC communication.
CPCC unit is new concept that we are offering. It can be used in many different applications - ordinary, unusual, complex or hi tech which a gives a robust and flexible solution, at an affordable cost.
Great use can be made of the units flexibility with particular regard to the unlimited number of channels I/O - input output, ADC - analog to digital converter, DAC - digital to analog converters this very good for data acquisition. As the unit has unlimited physical size and a unlimited number of ports which is excellent for custom applications which demand a high number of channels.
Many manufactures of data loggers have problems with the physical size of the unit as it is always located in a rack. Because our CPCC unit is free standing and not in a PC therefore there are no limitations on its physical size. This allows an unrestricted number of port connectors to be fitted.
CPCC is available to run various types of sensors such as: temperature sensor, vibration, distance sensor, optical sensors, humidity sensor, position sensor, photoelectric, level sensors, inductive, capacitive level sensor, fiber optic sensor, liquid flow sensors, air flow sensors, accelerometers, encoder sensors, displacement sensors, etc...
The CPCC Unit can be utilized in: custom equipment, telecommunication applications, OEM product, various measurement applications, data acquisition, instrumentation, LASER systems, robotics, medical, scientific and automation applications. More applications are: electronic measurement, medical analysis, custom electronics, food processing and analysis, biotech applications, Chemistry Lab Equipment and Instruments , chemical process control and measurement, Custom Spectroscopy, laser control, gas analysis, CO2 analysis, motor control, PLC and PID Industrial Automation Controllers, Scientific Instruments and Equipment, instrument control, machine manufacture, kiln/oven manufacture, vehicle manufacture, assembly line monitoring. The CPCC Unit can be used to monitor an automated production line that requires different measuring sensors and/or process control. It also can be used for vibration measurement, pressure, temperature, distance measurement, turbine and engine monitoring, light measurement and many other varied and precise monitoring applications.
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FMFB Pakistanís social performance research analyst conducts an information disclosure session with female members of the local community as part of FMFB Pakistanís drive to promote its services including deposits.While microfinance can help alleviate poverty through lending and productivity, micro savings can help to protect households from what is often not only a lower income, but an unpredictable one.
In rural and remote areas where financial services are not available, many people save but not in formal institutions. Instead, they buy extra livestock or gold or they put their cash under a mattress and hope that it will not be stolen. For them, there is nowhere to store money safely. In response, AKAM is moving all of its entities to become deposit taking, if the regulations allow, to help move its clients away from this sort of savings. Some institutions, like FMFB-P, work in rural and remote areas because part of their mission is to make savings accessible to everyone so that they can build their assets and save for the moments they deem important in life, whether it is for the education of a child, a wedding in the family or medical expenses for the birth of a child.
In 2010, the number of new deposit accounts in FMFB-P increased by 36,958 to a total of 217,006 accounts, registering a growth of 20 percent over 2009. Of all of FMFB-P’s depositors about 85 percent are micro savers and they have an average savings of less than US$ 495.
FMFB-P’s entire loan book is funded by deposits and, in 2011, the bank will continue to enhance the sustainability of its growth of deposits with the objectives to provide saving services to the poor so that they can build assets over time; and increase its outreach.
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"Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched." ~ Guy de Maupassant
Statism and Moral Responsibility
Exclusive to STR
June 14, 2007
One of the most horrendous aspects of the government is the degree to which it dilutes, undercuts and destroys moral responsibility within society. Old women who would never rob their grandchildren at gunpoint feel perfectly entitled to cash their Social Security check. Gentle mothers who would pale at the thought of spanking their children will march self righteously for "free" daycare. Corporations who would never imagine assaulting their customers assiduously lobby for legal benefits--or to escape regulations.
Sadly, the worst effects of the state are not always domestic. Overseas Imperialism creates generations of guilt-ridden sociopaths who, having murdered whatever foreigners their commanders pointed at, bring that moral horror home and spread it through their friends, family and children. Having been lured to the military with promises of honor and noble self-defense, they find themselves in positions that are hard to morally distinguish from your average hit-man, who asks no questions when pulling the trigger.
The gaping wound at the heart of our culture ' Why have we murdered? ' creates a violent antipathy to basic truths that only leads to further lies. In a recent episode of "60 Minutes," a father was asked why he and his son enlisted to go to Iraq . "Because of 9/11," he replied. The reporter ' obviously uncomfortable ' could only ask: "So you make that connection?" The obvious response ' "Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11" ' is hard, because when people have killed and died for a cause, questioning the moral validity of that cause becomes more and more difficult. The alternative to the fantasy of "patriotic defender" ' the reality of "gullible murderer" ' becomes increasingly volatile as more and more blood soaks through the verbal defenses of society. When people kill for a lie, they also murder the truth.
The connections required to link the tangible benefits of receiving state monies to the abstract violence that makes it possible are lengthy and complex. Expecting the average man to understand the violence at the root of the pleasant kindergarten he drops his child off at is like expecting the average Christian to understand the translation difficulties between Aramaic, Greek and the King James Bible. In moral philosophy, just as in nutrition and medicine, we need experts to make the causal connections for us. Asking society to learn the truth about statism from its disastrous effects is like asking people to learn about the dangers of smoking by getting lung cancer. Experts need to isolate the variables and make the causal connections clear.
In the absence of expertise, human nature works against the truth. Achieving and maintaining good health requires knowledge ' only eating whatever tastes good and exercising when you feel like it inevitably results in disaster. We respond positively to sugars and fats, which were rare in the infancy of our species, and prefer inactivity to activity, as an evolutionary means of preserving energy. Short-term gratifications ' when pursued exclusively ' lead to disaster. We cannot be expected to know this in advance, which is the only time it will do us any good. Thus we need experts to show us negative consequences before we experience them.
It is exactly the same with the state. The pursuit of short-term gratification inevitably leads to disaster. As experts in philosophy, politics and economics, we must fight against the tendency of people to pursue short-term interests by pointing out the long-term consequences of their actions. In many ways, ethical instruction is as simple as: "eat candy, get cavities."
This means that we must show people that we as philosophers practice what we preach ' that we are willing to abjure short-term comfort for the sake of long-term gains. As moralists, we must display the very behavior we wish to inculcate. This means repeatedly pointing out uncomfortable truths to people, despite the inevitable and negative consequences. Some such difficult truths are:
- ' Going to Iraq to shoot Iraqis is murder, since it is not violence for the sake of immediate self-defense.
- ' US foreign aggression is responsible for the hatred that foreigners bear towards the US .
- ' Muslims do not "hate America for its freedom." Americans were far freer in the 19th Century, and suffered no Muslim attacks. Switzerland is also free ' and far closer ' yet suffers no Muslim attacks, because the Swiss keep their guns inside their own borders.
- ' The US government is by far the world's largest arms seller. The idea that your government exists to protect you from foreign enemies, while assiduously arming foreigners, is too ridiculous to be believable.
- ' Like the institution of slavery, the state is an agency of violence, evil to the core. It cannot be reformed, but must be abolished.
- ' Almost everything you were told about society in public schools is propaganda, directly detrimental to your own self-interest.
- ' Policemen are not primarily there to protect you, but to threaten you if you do not pay your taxes.
- ' Our existing system is utterly unsustainable, and will collapse within 10 to 15 years at the outside.
These are all bitter pills for most people to swallow, of course ' but there is an even worse one, which overarches all of these issues, which is:
' There is nothing accidental about the fact that you were ' and are ' told all these lies.
It is very hard for the average citizen to realize that, in his relationship with his government, he is little more than a cash cow for taxation, a breeding animal for future taxpayers, and cannon fodder for war. People point to minor successes in the fight against the government, such as specific relaxations of regulations, slight tax cuts and so on ' but that is all pure nonsense! A farmer who finds that his cows are dying because they don't have enough room to move will certainly increase the size of their cage ' but that is so he can continue to exploit them, not because he dreams of setting them free! The low birthrate of many Western countries'the inevitable result of the fact that mammals do not breed well in captivity ' is currently prompting the return of some money to taxpayers in the form of breeding incentives, but that is scarcely a victory against the government!
Naturally, it is very hard to get the average citizen to understand the danger he faces at the hands of his government. Doctors face the same issue when trying to get their patients to drop unhealthy habits. Too many people only listen to their doctors after they have had a heart attack ' and only because their doctor predicted that heart attack. This is an essential aspect of what we are up to as libertarians. We must openly and repeatedly tell people that the system will self-destruct, that it is evil and rotten to the core, that the army and police are not noble, that currency is an illusion, debt is real and the countdown is almost at zero. There is no possibility that we can prevent the coming crash ' it's far too late for that ' but because we can accurately predict it, we are more likely to have credibility after the fact.
This is the paradox of the current system. The government ' and the citizens they rule ' are nothing but individuals, but individual ethics don't really matter when the cultural belief systems as a whole are corrupt and false. Morality is a form of science, and requires knowledge, logic and empirical testing to validate. Currently, people have no idea what is good for them, any more than a caveman knew about the heliocentric solar system. In the absence of rational philosophy, the hedonism of the moment is the only possible "guide." If you know nothing of cavities, weight gain and diabetes, what is to stop you from eating candy? If you know nothing of the elemental evils of the state, what is to stop you from grabbing whatever you can whenever you can? And really, who can blame you for trying? If you don't pick up that hundred dollar bill lying on the sidewalk, it's not going to stay there forever.
This is where I find sympathy for my fellow citizens. I happen to love philosophy ' particularly ethics ' but that is my particular fetish. I cannot expect everyone else to be as fascinated by the subject'and that is entirely as it should be! I study philosophy, you study medicine. You cannot philosophize, I cannot prescribe ' neither of us can be condemned for our respective lack of knowledge, since every choice involves an infinity of opportunity costs.
But I do expect you, as my surgeon, to tell me the truth, no matter how unpleasant it might be for me.
And we, as philosophers, must tell the truth to our world, no matter how unpleasant it is for others. A doctor who lies, who covers the truth to provide false comfort'for his own comfort really'is worse than no doctor at all.
If you pick up a scalpel, you must be prepared to cut.
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As 2011 draws to a close, the year has seen clear progress for gay rights, with the repeal of the U.S. military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy and New York State’s acceptance of same-sex marriages, changes that Rev. Howard Bess regrets some organized religions have opposed.
By the Rev. Howard Bess
About 40 years ago, while serving as pastor of a church in Southern California, I became aware that I had members of my congregation who were gay. Further, over a period of time, I discovered that I had parents of gay sons and daughters in my congregation.
Being a pastor became even more of a challenge when I discovered gay men and gay women in my congregation who were in heterosexual marriages that were not functioning well.
I tried to talk to my clergy friends, but no one even wanted to talk about it. I maintained many positive relationships with my fellow clergy, but in some ways I became the loneliest minister in the area. I committed myself to learning about the homosexual phenomenon.
I read everything I could find on the subject, though there wasn’t much on the library shelves. I talked with every gay person, who was willing to share his or her experiences. I got an education that had been totally ignored in college and the seminary.
Full civil rights for our African-American citizens was the hot issue of the nation then, yet I concluded that discrimination against gay people was just as evil as racial discrimination. My frustration also was founded in the reality that Christian churches were (and are) the headquarters of anti-gay discrimination.
My journey was made a bit easier because I had learned a profound lesson in seminary. As an ordained clergyperson, I was specifically forbidden by Jesus to judge and condemn. My call as a minister was to what the Apostle Paul called the ministry of reconciliation. My task was to assist in the reconciliation of gay people to God, to family, to spouse, to neighbor, and even to enemies.
In my relationships with gay people, my rejection of them was never a possibility. Reconciliation was always my task. Yet, as my thinking and understanding developed, I found that the feet of the opposition to gay rights were stuck in concrete. Making progress in the struggle for gay acceptance and the establishment of their rights was hard work and slow. At times the task seemed nearly impossible. But, finally, things are changing.
I am happy to report that 2011 has been a very good year for gay rights. Many positive things have happened, including:
–The repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.
President Bill Clinton made promises of support to the American gay population, including allowing gay men and Lesbians to serve in the U.S. military without discrimination. However, he ran into heavy opposition by top officers in the Army, Navy, Marines and Coast Guard. So, a flawed compromise emerged, known as “don’t ask, don’t tell,” as a presidential order in 1993.
Under the policy, gay and Lesbian young people could serve in the U.S. military if they stayed in the closet. In return, the military was not supposed to investigate their sexual orientation. But DADT never worked the way some had hoped. Over the 18 years of the policy, more than 13,500 service persons were discharged from military service under “don’t ask, don’t tell.”
President Barak Obama promised the gay population that “don’t ask, don’t tell” would be repealed, and finally Congress repealed the policy and President Obama signed the legislation into law. It became effective on Sept. 20, meaning that official discrimination against gay people in the military is over.
–The approval of gay marriage in the State of New York.
On June 24, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed into law a measure that gives same-sex couples the same right to marry that historically had been accorded only to heterosexual couples, making New York the sixth state to grant gay people full marriage rights.
Either by legislation or by court action, Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont have granted marriage rights to gay couples. Yet, what is so significant about New York is its huge population, meaning that the trend is firmly established and there will be no turning back.
In any movement, milestones are important. The action of the State of New York is one of those milestones.
–Proposition 8 in California.
California is important because it is the state with the largest population. It is also important because Proposition 8 powerfully illustrates the intertwining of religion and politics.
The history of gay marriage rights in California is lengthy and has taken many turns. California passed a ballot measure banning gay marriage, but the California Supreme Court overturned the measure thus establishing the legality of gay marriage.
Opponents quickly put a referendum measure, Prop. 8, on the ballot in 2008. It said that only a marriage between a man and a woman is valid in the State of California. The measure passed, but a federal judge ruled that Prop. 8 was a violation of the U.S. Constitution. And in 2011, Prop. 8 was back in court possibly headed to the U.S. Supreme Court, where gay rights activists may finally get a definitive ruling.
An important side issue in Prop. 8 is the involvement of two large religious bodies in the effort to pass the measure. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons) led the effort, with Mormon sources raising more than half of the funds to support Prop. 8 and Mormons staffing over 80 percent of the workers going door to door on the measure’s behalf.
The Mormon efforts were supplemented by the Knights of Columbus, a service organization related to the Catholic Church, providing the second largest source of funds. Of course, the Catholics and Mormons have every right to participate in a public debate and no one is suggesting that they did anything illegal or unethical. But the Prop. 8 struggle underscored what for me is a troubling role of religion in denying gays and Lesbians their basic civil rights.
Yet, all in all, 2011 was a very good year for gay rights.
The Rev. Howard Bess is a retired American Baptist minister, who lives in Palmer, Alaska. His email address is email@example.com. He is the author of the book, Pastor, I Am Gay.
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Citrulline is a non-essential amino acid, meaning that the body can manufacture it from other nutrients. Within the body, citrulline is converted to the amino acid L-arginine . Some of the proposed uses of citrulline supplements are based on raising levels of arginine. Citrulline also plays a role in a physiological process called “the urea cycle,” in which toxic ammonia is converted to urea.
The body manufactures citrulline from the essential amino acid glutamine. Deficiency of citrulline is unlikely to occur.
A typical dose of citrulline is 6–18 grams daily. It is commonly sold in the form of citrulline malate.
There is little scientific support for any use of citrulline supplements.
Other proposed uses of citrulline are based on the fact that the body converts citrulline to the amino acid arginine . It is claimed by some that citrulline supplements are actually more effective at raising arginine levels than arginine supplements. However, this has not been established in any scientific sense. Furthermore, arginine itself is not a proven treatment for any condition. For example, citrulline is marketed as a treatment for impotence based on the assumption that arginine is effective for impotence. However, current evidence supporting arginine as an impotence treatment is weak at best, and citrulline itself has not been studied for this use in any meaningful way. Again, numerous testimonials are offered, but they mean little: placebos are very effective for impotence.
As a naturally occurring amino acid, citrulline is believed to be safe. However, maximum safe doses in young children, pregnant or nursing women, or people with severe liver or kidney disease have not been established.
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Repeal of Women in Combat Affects South Dakota
SPEARFISH – The Pentagon’s announcement lifting the ban on women in combat units will affect the South Dakota National Guard – though some women in the state have already seen their fair share of combat.
The Black Hills Pioneer reports that 36 women currently serving in the state’s National Guard have earned combat action badges, which are issued to soldiers who have been in combat.
Among them is Sgt. 1st Class Kelley Crane, who served in Afghanistan as part of the 109th Engineer Group. Crane says she supports allowing women in combat roles because many women in the military already are fighting alongside men.
The South Dakota Army National Guard has about 3,200 soldiers, including about 500 women.
The ban on women in combat units was lifted last month.
Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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Conferences, airports, cafes – they might offer free WiFi to visitors, but they are often sluggish in their operation because everyone else is hogging the connection.
This issue might become a thing of the past, after a team of engineers at NC State University (NCSU) announced the development of WiFox (via ExtremeTech), a new software protocol that could theoretically be added to existing Internet routers and is capable of boosting WiFi performance by 700 percent.
Traditionally, routers offer a single channel of data to users. When the access point receives an increased number of data requests, it becomes harder for it to send back the data it has requested. The access point could be programmed to give all pieces of data a high priority to clear its backlog, but then users have issues submitting new requests.
Data backs up, and the router has issues dishing out the necessary information to users. You may have experienced this when you turn up early to a conference, enjoy the public WiFi connection, and then get kicked off when the venue starts to fill up and you have to share it with everyone else.
NCSU engineers position WiFox as the software equivalent of a traffic policeman, ensuring that the data traffic moves smoothly in both directions. WiFox works by monitoring the traffic on a WiFi channel, intelligently detecting load issues and granting access to priority data when it detects a backlog of information passing backwards and forwards.
The team says that when they tested the software on a router in their labs capable of handling 45 users, it saw improvements of between 400 and 700 percent when it reached the maximum number of users. On average, the router was able to respond to data requests four times faster than a router that didn’t utilise the protocol.
Purely software based, WiFox has the potential to change the way heavily-trafficked routers operate around the world.
The NCSU team intends to present its research paper at the ACM CoNEXT 2012 conference held in Nice, France in December – from a purely selfish point of view, we hope it makes it into the access points offered by various technology companies at their product launches.
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The Mccarthy Era At The University Of Nevada
World War II, Mental Institutions, and Religious Objectors
In the mid- to late 1940s, a group of young men rattled the psychiatric establishment by beaming a public spotlight on the squalid conditions and brutality in our nation’s mental hospitals and training schools for people with psychiatric and intellectual disabilities. Bringing the abuses to the attention of newspapers and magazines across the country, they led a reform effort to change public attitudes and to improve the training and status of institutional staff. Prominent Americans, including Eleanor Roosevelt, ACLU founder Roger Baldwin, author Pearl S. Buck, actress Helen Hayes, and African-American activist Mary McLeod Bethune, supported the efforts of the young men. These young men were among the 12,000 World War II conscientious objectors who chose to perform civilian public service as an alternative to fighting in what is widely regarded as America’s "good war." Three thousand of these men volunteered to work at state institutions, where they found conditions appalling. Acting on conscience a second time, they challenged America’s treatment of its citizens with severe disabilities. Acts of Conscience brings to light the extraordinary efforts of these courageous men, drawing upon extensive archival research, interviews, and personal correspondence. The World War II conscientious objectors were not the first to expose public institutions, and they would not be the last. What distinguishes them from reformers of other eras is that their activities have faded from professional and popular memory. Steven J. Taylor’s moving account is an indispensable contribution to the historical record.
An Oral History of Narcotic Use in America before 1965
The Struggle for Visibility, 1900--1960
Nine actresses, from Madame Sul-Te-Wan in Birth of a Nation (1915) to Ethel Waters in Member of the Wedding (1952), are profiled in African American Actresses. Charlene Regester poses questions about prevailing racial politics, on-screen and off-screen identities, and black stardom and white stardom. She reveals how these women fought for their roles as well as what they compromised (or didn't compromise). Regester repositions these actresses to highlight their contributions to cinema in the first half of the 20th century, taking an informed theoretical, historical, and critical approach.
How Race Realigned Mississippi Politics, 1965-1986
No one disagrees that 1964--Freedom Summer--forever changed the political landscape of Mississippi. How those changes played out is the subject of Chris Danielson’s fascinating new book, After Freedom Summer.
Prior to the Voting Rights Act of 1965, black voter participation in Mississippi was practically zero. After twenty years, black candidates had made a number of electoral gains. Simultaneously, white resistance had manifested itself in growing Republican dominance of the state.
Danielson demonstrates how race--not class or economics--was the dominant factor in white Mississippi voters' partisan realignment, even as he reveals why class and economics played a role in the tensions between the national NAACP and the local Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (an offshoot of SNCC) that limited black electoral gains.
Using an impressive array of newspaper articles, legal cases, interviews, and personal papers, Danielson's work helps fill a growing lacuna in the study of post-civil rights politics in the South.
The Political Imaginary and the Heart of Dixie
In Alabama Getaway Allen Tullos explores the recent history of one of the nation’s most conservative states to reveal its political imaginary—the public shape of power, popular imagery, and individual opportunity.
From Alabama’s largely ineffectual politicians to its miserly support of education, health care, cultural institutions, and social services, Tullos examines why the state appears to be stuck in repetitive loops of uneven development and debilitating habits of judgment. The state remains tied to fundamentalisms of religion, race, gender, winner-take-all economics, and militarism enforced by punitive and defensive responses to criticism. Tullos traces the spectral legacy of George Wallace, ponders the roots of anti-egalitarian political institutions and tax structures, and challenges Birmingham native Condoleezza Rice’s use of the civil rights struggle to justify the war in Iraq. He also gives due coverage to the state’s black citizens who with a minority of whites have sustained a movement for social justice and democratic inclusion. As Alabama competes for cultural tourism and global industries like auto manufacturing and biomedical research, Alabama Getaway asks if the coming years will see a transformation of the “Heart of Dixie.”
Past biographies, histories, and government documents have ignored Alice Paul's contribution to the women's suffrage movement, but this groundbreaking study scrupulously fills the gap in the historical record. Masterfully framed by an analysis of Paul's nonviolent and visual rhetorical strategies, Alice Paul and the American Suffrage Campaign narrates the remarkable story of the first person to picket the White House, the first to attempt a national political boycott, the first to burn the president in effigy, and the first to lead a successful campaign of nonviolence. _x000B__x000B_Katherine H. Adams and Michael L. Keene also chronicle other dramatic techniques that Paul deftly used to gain publicity for the suffrage movement. Stunningly woven into the narrative are accounts of many instances in which women were in physical danger. Rather than avoid discussion of Paul's imprisonment, hunger strikes, and forced feeding, the authors divulge the strategies she employed in her campaign. Paul's controversial approach, the authors assert, was essential in changing American attitudes toward suffrage. _x000B__x000B_
This ms is an international history of the inter-American Cold War. Harmer looks at Chile during the presidency of Salvador Allende (1970-73) and outlines how he proposed a constitutional “Chilean road to socialism.” This call for a peaceful transformation of the inter-American system and international economic relations abroad resulted in a violent, unconstitutional future for Chile, with a right-wing dictatorship drowning out the promise of a revolution in the Southern Cone as well as the global South’s continued dependency on the North.
Recollections of a Trader 1898-1948
Judge Wilson McCarthy and the Rescue of the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad
Cowboy, judge, federal official, then business executive, Wilson McCarthy mirrored change and growth in the twentieth-century West. Leading the Denver & Rio Grande back from the brink saved a vital link in the national transportation system. The D&RGW ran over and through the scenic Rockies, developing mineral resources, fighting corporate wars, and helping build communities. The Depression brought it to its knees. Accepting federal assignment to save the line, McCarthy turned it into a paragon of mid-century railroading, represented by the streamlined, Vista-Domed California Zephyr, although success hauling freight was of more economic importance. Prior to that, McCarthy’s life had taken him from driving livestock in Canada to trying to drive the national economy as a director of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, the first line of federal attack on the Depression. Always a Cowboy positions McCarthy’s story in a rich historical panorama..
Will Bagley is the author of Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows
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Bob Klein of Westminister, CO, asks:
Have you considered using the "paper towel" oil filter systems on the any of the Nordhavns? Don't they eliminate the need to change the engine oil? If not, why?
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In response to your inquiry, I sent an e-mail to Dick Gee of Alaska Diesel and Electric expressing my thinking that if the engine needed more oil filtration ADE would supply the filter as standard equipment. I asked Dick, chief engineer at ADE for his input. He responded with the following:
1] "Paper towels" are not filter media. The real filter manufacturers of the world expend a great deal of effort to produce efficient effective filter media. It is not realistic to expect a roll of paper towels to perform the same as a product developed specifically for the filtering on engine oil.
2] All diesel engine lube oils include an "additive package". This package includes detergents to clean the engine, dispersants to keep the dirt in suspension until it can be filtered or the oil is changed, and "TBN" total base number.
New oil is "alkaline" (opposite of acidic) to protect the soft metal bearings from being eaten up by acid. Acid forms in an engine during normal engine use. It comes from the sulfur in the fuel and combines with the water from condensation to form mild sulfuric acid. This acid is "neutralized" by the "TBN". As this occurs the TBN is depleted. Most oils start with a TBN of about 10 and diminishes with use. If the TBN number ever reaches "0" serious engine damage will result. So, unless you know the TBN of the dirty oil in your engine, change the oil.
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WebMemo- The Heritage Foundation's Web Memo is an online exclusive analysis that supplies Heritage.org visitors with the information they need to follow fast-breaking policy developments.
February 9, 2006
By William W. Beach
(click here for PDF
All of the press commentary on President
George W. Bush's 2007 budget proposal has paid virtually no
attention to one of its most significant initiatives. And it is no
wonder: how could a move to improve the way the government analyzes
tax policy compete with cutting outdated programs, making the
United States more competitive, and winning the global war on
This little-noted initiative, however,
may be historically important. Buried deep in the President's
proposals for the Department of the Treasury is a plan to create a
Dynamic Analysis Division within the Treasury's Office of Tax
Analysis. This division would advise the President and other key
policymakers on how proposed changes to U.S. tax policy would
affect economic activity. Inside the Beltway, this type of analysis
is called "dynamic scoring." Outside the Beltway, this is called
So why is this news? Hasn't the
government been studying the effects of tax policy on the economy
all along? Aren't Washington policymakers routinely advised about
how tax changes will affect jobs and output and how those, in turn,
will affect government revenues?
Surprisingly, the answer is often no.
Until very recently, no official Washington agency produced
estimates of the economic and tax-revenue effects of proposed tax
policies. Congress's official tax policy scorekeeper, the staff of
the Joint Committee on Taxation, began building this capability a
few years ago and since has produced a few dynamic scoring
documents. The Congressional Budget Office also recently began
publishing its estimates of how the President's and Congress's
budget plans (which include tax changes) would affect economic
activity. However, all of these documents together still fit into a
slim file folder. So far, the Treasury Department has done almost
nothing to contribute to that literature.
Unless policymakers can see that some
tax policy changes support more vigorous economic activity while
others do not, they may (and indeed have) enact tax laws that are,
at best, economically meaningless or, at worst, downright harmful.
Dynamic scoring can help to sort the good from the bad.
Take, for example, the child tax credit.
Advocates of the credit (now worth $1,000 per child) argued that it
would put money into the hands of consumers, who would spend those
funds, thus fueling economic activity. Had those policymakers been
advised about the likely economic effects of this tax change, they
would have learned that the credit would do nothing to lower the
costs of working or investing-two of the biggest drivers of
economic activity-and that cash windfalls almost always are saved,
especially by taxpayers with children. There is nothing wrong with
saving for a child's education, but it will not lead to the bump in
current consumption that advocates of the child tax credit
While the child tax credit has not done
very much, if anything, for today's economy (as dynamic scoring
would have projected), the same cannot be said for raising taxes to
reduce the federal budget deficit. Advocates of this approach
appear to argue that tax increases will not affect economic
activity but that growing budget deficits do. Standard models of
the economy, however, show that income tax increases are harmful to
growth in employment, investment, output, savings, and even
government revenues. They also show that deficits by themselves
have little effect on interest rates. In short, raise taxes to
reduce deficits, and the result will be higher unemployment, a
slower pace of economic growth, and revenues that are not rising as
quickly as static scoring predicted.
Dynamic scoring might not prevent bad
tax policy from becoming law, but it would help. Furthermore,
reporting the economic consequences of tax proposals will be
enormously helpful in redesigning the tax system. The President has
called for fundamental tax reform, and he and Congress will find
fundamental reform a much easier exercise if routine and
sophisticated dynamic scoring is in place when that task is
So, congratulations to the Bush
Administration and particularly to the Department of the Treasury!
This little-noted proposal may be the most important change in
many, many years to the way tax policy is formulated.
W. Beach is Director of the Center for Data Analysis at The
At last, real economics will guide tax policy.
William W. Beach
Director, Center for Data Analysis and Lazof Family Fellow
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Yesterday the New York Senate rejected a bill that would have given same-sex couples the ability to marry. Needless to say, we are deeply disappointed in the outcome. We’ve been fighting for marriage for same-sex couples in New York for years now. We brought an unsuccessful legal challenge back in 2004. Our colleagues at the New York Civil Liberties Union brought a case on behalf of a lesbian couple in Monroe County that resulted in the first appellate court decision requiring the state to recognize the marriages of same-sex couples who legally married elsewhere. And we and the NYCLU have been lobbying hard for passage of the marriage bill.
The vote wasn’t nearly as close as many expected — 38 opposed to 24 in favor. But the way it played out offers a glimmer of hope that marriage may come to New York sooner rather than later. Only one senator, Ruben Diaz, Sr., was willing to speak out against the bill. His speech was especially awkward: He berated his democratic colleagues for allowing the bill to come to a vote (essentially confirming an earlier agreement with democratic Senate leadership to keep the bill from a vote in exchange for his allegiance to the party), he urged Republicans not to be swayed by the threats of seemingly endless gay dollars being funneled to their political opponents, and he recited a list of other states that have rejected fairness for lesbian and gay couples. In other words, dirty politics and Chicken Little were the best he had to offer.
None of the other opponents of the bill — seven Democrats and all 30 of the Republicans — were willing to stand up and give a single reason why they opposed the bill. After the moving testimony of so many passionate supporters, including the Senate’s sole gay member Tom Duane, Brooklyn Democrat Eric Adams, and especially Westchester Democrat Ruth Hassell-Thompson, who talked about the pain she felt as a young girl when her gay brother was forced to move away because of her disapproving parents, they likely reasoned that there was nothing to be gained by resorting to the same tired scare tactics we have so often heard in this debate.
This kind of cowardliness is not the slightest bit comforting to those of us who had such hopes for the vote, but the silence illustrates a real lack of conviction on their part. We now know exactly where we stand with every senator. It’s now up to us to pull these senators' heads out of the sand and let them know what it’s like when our families are denied the respect and protections that only come with marriage.
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Many of us were introduced to the concept of square numbers through the following formula: a2 = a x a
Now imagine learning the same concept through this visual pattern.
Which approach would better help you understand the concept of square numbers? Would the visual pattern help you make sense of the formula?
According to researchers in EDC’s Center for Mathematics Education, traditional mathematics curricula have neglected visual mathematics in favor of verbal and logical approaches that may not work as well for many students. In fact, for some students, “a visual approach may be absolutely essential,” according to E. Paul Goldenberg, Albert A. Cuoco, and June Mark of the Center:
In the most common curricula, both in and out of the United States, geometry represents the only visually oriented mathematics that students are offered. Curricula tend to present an otherwise visually impoverished, nearly totally linguistically mediated mathematics, a mathematics that does not use, train, or even appeal to the “metaphorical right-brain” … There is a huge cost in this state of affairs: Some students who would like a visually rich mathematics never find out that there is one because they’ve already dropped out before they’ve had the chance to encounter any of the more visual elements. We lose not only potential geometers and topologists in this way, but all students who might enter mathematics through the visually richer domains and then discover other worlds, not as intrinsically visual, to which they can apply their visual abilities and inclinations. For some students, a visual approach may be absolutely essential.
This passage comes from the opening chapter of Designing Learning Environments for Developing Understanding of Geometry and Space (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1998), co-edited by former EDC researcher Daniel Chazan with contributions by several EDC researchers.
In a recent review in the American Journal of Psychology, Professor Chris Donlan of University College London, calls the book “a pace setter for change in mathematics education,” observing that it raises important questions about how the mind “thinks mathematically.” Donlan, for example, praises the opening chapter by Goldenberg, Cuoco, and Mark for presenting an “enticing range of examples of the ways in which visual process operate,” including perceptual illusions and the use of spatial models of multiplication.
In a later chapter, Goldenberg and Cuoco discuss the power of dynamic geometry—computer software that allows users to transform geometric shapes by “clicking and dragging.” That ability to perform real-time transformations on shapes can be a powerful tool for exploring geometric concepts.
In another chapter on technology applications in the mathematics classroom, EDC’s Daniel Lynn Watt describes a computer-aided design (CAD) program developed as part of the Math and More elementary curriculum (a collaboration of EDC and IBM/EduQuest). Students used a CAD program to design a classroom and create a set of scale drawings and maps to illustrate their concept.
Originally published on May 1, 2001
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Time: 10:43 AM
Some fun facts:
-Picasso’s full name is Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso.
-Everyone knows Picasso was a talented painter, but he was also a well-known sculptor and draughtsman. In fact, he was quite secretive about his sculptures and did not release them to the public until the 1960′s.
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When Thomas Carlyle talks about the poetic vision in his lecture series On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History as a vision of acuity and depth, he conjures up an entire history of poetic thought that reveals poetry as an art, which by nature and origin, is steeped in a tradition of minute detail. In his very first lecture, "On the Hero as Divinity," Carlyle muses:
To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible, if we will open our minds and eyes? We do not worship that way now: but it is reckoned still a merit, proof of what we call a "poetic nature," that we recognize how every object has a divine beauty in it; how every object is "a window through which we may look into Infinitude itself?" [p. 10]
Carlyle's above questions do not merely invoke the aims of his contemporaries (think for example of E.B. Browning's notion of the artist's double vision in Aurora Leigh or Robert Browning's descriptions in "Two in the Compagna"), but they reach back to the essence behind such poetic voices as Shakespeare, Dante, and even Donne. However, it is clear that Carlyle is attempting to highlight or exalt the poetic beliefs of the Romantics over those of any other group of poets. In fact, the above quotation seems to arise out of the very spirit of Blake's opening to his "Auguries of Innocence":
To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And Heaven in a Wild Flower
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour. [lines 1-4]
Nevertheless, we do not truly see this evaluation of poetics as one which requires a Romantic vision until Carlyle's later lecture, "The Hero as Poet." In the above excerpt, it is divinity which Carlyle sees in Nature. However, in this later lecture Carlyle moves on to observe that it is actually sound which is both the essence of Nature and poetry. Thus the poet becomes the observer, the transcriber, the vessel through which the musicality of Nature makes itself known. The question then becomes is Carlyle's notion of divinity in nature equivalent to his conception of sound in nature? That is to say, if Nature is sound and music, is music the sound of the divine? At times, Carlyle's lecture on "The Hero as Poet" seems to position itself in direct correspondence to the above passage from his first lecture on "The Hero as Divinity":
All deep things are Song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, Song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls! The primal element of us; of us, and of all things. The Greeks fabled of Sphere-Harmonies: it was the feeling they had of the inner-structure of Nature that the soul of all her voices and utterances was perfect music. Poetry, therefore, we will call musical Thought. The poet is he who thinks in that manner. At bottom, it turns still on the power of intellect; it is man's sincerity and depth of vision that makes him Poet. See deep enough, and you see musically; the heart of Nature being everywhere music, if you can only reach it. [pp. 83-84]
The poetic sensibility, therefore, according to Carlyle is an ability to "see into the heart of things" (The Prelude) ; it is essentially a Wordsworthian vision in which we peer into nature whose "structure" is, as Carlyle states, essentially musical. If we, however, take Carlyle's Wordsworthian stance on poetry and poetic vision, then we must not only exalt the poet as hero merely for his ability to detect and transcribe the sound of Nature, but also for his ability to absorb, or appropriate, that sound. For example, let us take a look at the last stanza of Wordsworth's "The Solitary Reaper":
Whate'er the theme, the Maiden sang
As if her song could have no ending;
I saw her singing at her work,
And o'er the sickle bending; —
I listened, motionless and still;
And, as I mounted up the hill,
The music in my heart I bore,
Long after it was heard no more. [lines 25-32].
The role of the poet thus becomes for Wordsworth an act of internalization and externalization. We note that the sound of the reaper's voice becomes something which can be recalled, something which is present forever in the poet's mind, something, which as Wordsworth says, can be "recollected in tranquility" (Preface to the Second Edition of the Lyrical Ballads). Undoubtedly, Wordsworth is pointing to a pattern in which the poet internalizes this music found in Nature and then re-externalizes it in the form of poetry. The poetry then in turn becomes in and of itself a structural web of sounds and music. Assuming then that Carlyle associates Nature's music with divinity, via the logic that poetry is sound, sound Nature, and Nature divinity, we can assert that for Carlyle the poet is the voice of the divine. Essentially, the poet is thus a prophet; he is the acute listener, the possessor of a keen vision, the mouthpiece for Nature, God, or Divinity.
In connecting Wordsworth with Carlyle, we can thus see a very clear-cut link between Carlyle's lectures on the "Hero as Poet" and the "Hero as Prophet." In what other ways do Carlyle's lecture series accrue an overarching definition of the hero? Are there any other connections between the lectures in which Carlyle finds various subdivisions for the definition of a hero, or is he using this term more loosely?
According to the Greek tradition, a hero is, of course, one step below the divine; the hero can be a hybrid, part divinity and part man, but he is certainly not at the level of a God. I have spoken of the poet and the prophet as vessels through which a divine word or song is passed. In this sense, these two hero-types appear to be true to the Greco-Roman hierarchy. Does Carlyle always adhere to this Classical notion of the hero, or does he stray from this definition, particularly in his lecture on "The Hero as Divinity"? And how far does the Wordsworthian poet keep himself from reaching a divine status in his absorption of Nature's divine music? In the final line of "The Solitary Reaper," the speaker preserves a sound which has long been dead. In this sense, he is rendering eternal that which is temporal. Does this gift of preservation account for a divine aspect in the character of the poet, or does he remain a sort of demi-god, or heroic prophet?
How does Wordsworth's notions of poetry and the poet relate to E.B. Browning's conceptions of art and transcendence in Aurora Leigh? And how do Carlyle's primary examples of Dante and Shakespeare as quintessential hero-poets fit into a Romantic discourse on poetry?
What does Carlyle mean when he says "the heart of Nature being everywhere music," and does this syntax allow for multiple meanings?
In Keats' Letters, Keats admires Wordsworth for his ability to see into the mystery of things:
We are in a Mist — We are now in that state — We feel the "burden of the Mystery," To this point was Wordsworth come, as far as I can conceive when he wrote "Tintern Abbey" and it seems to me that his Genius is explorative of those dark Passages. [letter to J.H. Reynolds, Teignmouth, 3 May 1818]
Nevertheless, part of the Keatsian definition of negative capability (Keats' Letters) labels truth and the universe as things which are shrouded in a never-ending, impenetrable mystery, of which we can know only partially but never fully. Does Carlyle account for the Keatsian mystery? That is to say, does the poet's acute depth of vision ever allow him to attain full knowledge? Or is the poet still at a distance from divine knowledge and truth?
Carlyle, Thomas. On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1966.
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*Gordon D. Yntema
5th Special Forces Group
Medal of Honor
Sergeant Gordon Douglas Yntema
16-18 January 1968
5th Special Forces Group (Airborne)
1st Special Forces
Near Thong Binh
Republic of Vietnam
Entered service at: Detroit, Mich.
Born: 26 June 1945, Bethesda, Md.
SERGEANT GORDON D. YNTEMA, UNITED STATES ARMY, Detachment A-431, Company D, 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne), 1st Special Forces, distinguished himself on 16-18 January 1968, while advising civilian irregulars from Camp Cai Cai. Sergeant Yntema accompanied two platoons to a blocking position east of the Village of Thong Binh. They became heavily engaged in a fire fight with the Viet Cong. Assuming control of the force when the Vietnamese commander was seriously wounded, Sergeant Yntema advanced his troops to within 50 meters of the enemy bunkers. After a fierce fire fight, Sergeant Yntema withdrew his men to a trench which offered them protection while still allowing them to perform their blocking mission. Under the cover of machine gun fire, a company of Viet Cong maneuvered into a position effectively surrounding Yntema’s platoons on three sides. A dwindling ammunition supply, coupled with a Viet Cong mortar barrage which inflicted heavy losses on the exposed position, prompted many of the South Vietnamese troops to withdraw. Seriously wounded and ordered to withdraw himself, Sergeant Yntema refused to leave his fallen comrades. Under withering small arms and machine gun fire, he carried the wounded Vietnamese commander and a mortally wounded American Special Forces advisor to a small gully 50 meters away to shield them from the enemy fire. Sergeant Yntema continued to repulse the attacking Viet Cong during their attempts to overrun his position until, out of ammunition and surrounded, he was offered the opportunity to surrender. Refusing, Sergeant Yntema stood his ground, using his rifle as a club to fight the approximately fifteen Viet Cong attempting his capture. His resistance was so fierce that the Viet Cong were forced to shoot him in order to overcome him.
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Senior citizens are living longer, more fuller lives than ever before-- particularly in New York, where the senior population is growing fast and will continue to accelerate in the coming years.
In response, New York City has launched Age-Friendly New York, a program to begin accommodating the needs of this swelling population.
In Bed-Stuy the older population is especially active, taking a lead role on the community boards, block associations and countless civic organizations.
For this reason, The Coalition for the Improvement of Bedford Stuyvesant (CIBS), in cooperation with the New York Academy of Medicine and Local Initiatives Support Corporation, has launched the Aging Improvement District (AID), a pilot program that aims to build an atmosphere in Bed-Stuy that supports the needs of the elderly.
“We were really interested in partnering with the City on this because of the number of seniors in the neighborhood and because of the way the neighborhood is so deeply connected to that population,” said Melissa Lee, managing director for CIBS.
Bed-Stuy will be the third neighborhood to participate in AID (the other two are in East Harlem and the Upper West Side), and the first in Brooklyn.
Through a private grant from the Fan Fox and Leslie R Samuels Foundation, CIBS has started convening a series of roundtables or “community conversations” with older residents to identify service gaps and develop fitting solutions.
“We’re trying to meet with as many seniors as possible,” said Lee. “Already, we’ve gathered seniors from churches, senior centers, community boards, wherever we could.
“Our goal is to have 15 roundtables, and capture their response of why they live here, what are their experiences, what are the positives, negatives, what services are working and what are not.”
At each roundtable, seniors are asked a series of about 50 questions, polled on what they feel the neighborhood should look like to improve their own quality of life. CIBS will cull their responses together into a district plan that outlines recommendations for short- and long-term projects.
Early Findings: There are a high number of food-insecure older adults in Bed-Stuy; many of whom struggle with a combination of food access (proximity and transit route to grocers), affordability (cost of food and ability to pay); adequacy (access to fresh foods) and appropriateness (meeting nutritional requirements based on health needs).
CIBS is planning another month of roundtables before completing the district plan which it will unveil at a launch event in April.
“This is an important opportunity for the neighborhood to create a place that is age-friendly, not just for seniors but for all of us who will get there on day,” said Lee. “We want our seniors to remain in the neighborhood, participate in the neighborhood and continue to thrive in the neighborhood.”
To participate in an upcoming roundtable and/or to join the AID mailing list, contact Aysu Kirac at 206-841-4640 or email her at email@example.com.
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Re: Scanning--more then one side to the argument
From: Barrie Dempster (barrie_at_reboot-robot.net)
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 13:57:33 +0100 To: Sherman Hand <email@example.com>
Sherman Hand wrote:
> There has been a on going discussion about the scanning results on our customers.
> Thought one says that "any" port on a standard nmap, showing as "open" is a security risk.
> Thought two says, no since some things need to show in a state of open.
> Should we be stating that through proactive scan, when we find any port
> showing as open, that it is a security issue waiting to happen?
> Or only if we can show a issue?
Anything being "open" is a *potential* security issue. If you have a
service running there is the *potential* for it to have bugs. This is
contrasted with *actual* security issues where the port is open and the
listening service has a vulnerability.
If I run a public web server I would open a port, this has the
*potential* for security issues to occur, but as long as the service
isn't vulnerable there is no *actual* security issue.
Opening up running services does increase avenues of attack, increases
risk and is why we only run services that are necessary.
Is it a security issue waiting to happen? Yes absolutely, it can and
most likely will become a security issue.
This however is defining "security issue" as a definite attack vector.
You could also define "security issue" as "something we need to consider
in our security policy".
What exactly is the significance of the question? and in what context do
you have "security issue"
-- With Regards.. Barrie Dempster (zeedo) - Fortiter et Strenue blog: http://zeedo.blogspot.com site: http://www.bsrf.org.uk CA: www.cacert.org "He who hingeth aboot, getteth hee-haw" - Victor (Still Game)
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He may be smiling, but it’s no laughing matter:
he’s got the man-flu the game is on.
Either British women are, uh, kind of slow, or English guys are more persuasive than we realized. According to Reuters, a survey found that one in five British ladies believe that “man-flu” is real, a condition which leaves afflicted gentlemen laid up on the couch watching sports. If I had known this could work, I would have caught this fictional bug long ago. This silly survey of 2,000 British adults found that many believed in a surprising amount of myths and old wive’s tales—although perhaps the “man-flu” would be better described as an “old husband’s tale.”
The survey also found that almost half of the people agreed that men exaggerate their symptoms to get attention. Apparently, though, this doesn’t apply to imaginary diseases, in which they prefer to bask in the curative radiation of sports television.
One in 10 Brits supposedly believe that eating more carrots can improve your night vision. This myth allegedly comes from World War II British propaganda that said as much to explain the increased numbers of German fighters being shot down. The borderline-plausible explanation was meant to prevent the Nazis from finding out about their new radar technology, which was the real secret to the British successes.
According to “study leader” Mike Smith, a “large majority” of the population also believes that your eyes can become square-shaped from watching too much television. Really, English people? I’m going to guess that most Brits don’t actually believe this, since that’s not the only eyebrow-raising tidbit. Apparently the survey was “specially commissioned to mark the release of Hollywood thriller ‘Contagion.’” Multiple searches for more about Mike Smith or the survey turned up nothing, nor did a Twitter message or an email to the Reuters editor.
But that doesn’t mean I can’t have fun with this story, or slide a little science your way while I’m at it. The most common misconception, subscribed to by 37 percent of the population, is that we lose most heat through our heads. While that isn’t true, it isn’t that far off. According to University of Thessaly researcher Andreas Flouris (interviewed for an unrelated story several months ago), people in the cold lose about one-third of their body heat through the head. And covering up any body part is not equally as effective as covering the head, as the Reuters story incorrectly states. Blood flow to extremities becomes limited during cold exposure via vasoconstriction, in order to keep the vital organs and brain warm. Obviously blood flow to the head/brain cannot be limited, since it, uh, is kind of important. Come on, Reuters. Use your head!
But maybe I’m just taking this too seriously. As one of the Reuters commenters pointed out, 50 percent of people do have below average intelligence.
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I am looking forward to develop a desktop application using python. I am a beginner and I do not have sufficient expertise in python. I am a java programmer. Although I have some experience in building UIs using swings, I see that apps developed on swings are too damn slow. Well this might be one reason why many of the major implementations are done in C/C++ as in browsers/games etc.
Developing a UI in C++ might be a better option but I prefer to chose a high level programming language over C/C++. So I have opted for python presuming that it would perform well over java swings as python itself is natively build on C/C++.
So can I go ahead with this assumption that python is better than java swings to develop a UI? Or do you suggest a language that is better than python to develop UIs? If at all I go ahead with python, which toolkit should I use Tkinter or wxPython and why? please help me.
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Research and Analysis by Joyce Nicholas
Provided here are the absolute and relative poverty status of 2002 elderly Supplemental Security Income (SSI) recipients. Official poverty estimates are generated from the Current Population Survey's Annual Social and Economic Supplement (CPS/ASEC). The poverty study presented here differs from previous studies in that it is based on CPS/ASEC income and weight records conditionally adjusted by matching Social Security administrative data. This effort improves the coverage of SSI receipt and the accuracy of SSI estimates. The adjusted CPS/administrative matched data reveal lower 2002 poverty rates among elderly persons (with and without SSI payments) than those generated from the unadjusted CPS/ASEC data.
This article is an extension of work reported in an earlier article entitled, "Elderly Poverty and Supplemental Security Income" (Social Security Bulletin 69(1): 45–73). Like the original work, the present study looks at the consequences of obtaining estimates of the prevalence of poverty among persons aged 65 or older by using administrative data to adjust incomes reported in the Current Population Survey. The original article looked at incomes in 2002; the present one covers measures of absolute and relative poverty status of the elderly during the 2003–2005 period. Again, we find that inclusion of administrative data presents challenges, but under the methodology we adopt, such adjustments lower estimated official poverty overall and increase estimated poverty rates for elderly SSI recipients by correcting for the misreporting of SSI, OASDI, and earnings receipt by CPS respondents.
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I have a general question about fraud. I was wondering if I could use one of those novelty diploma sites to make a cheap replica of a diploma from a real college as it's only use will be to
hang on the wall, I would not be using it to secure employment or
anything official. Wondering if it is the act of using a fake
diploma to misrepresent yourself for employment that is fraud, or
if actually having one made, just for the wall is fraud. Wondering what issue could arise from doing this, if it will never be used to tell an employer I have the actual credentials.
Would there be any investigations to check that the document hasn't been used illegally? Is ordering a fake diploma illegal, or only using it to secure employment/education and such illegal? Any advice would be great.
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Negotiating Tactics for Union Leaders LB414
Not currently offered
This program currently has no scheduled dates. For more information, please contact the regional office nearest you.
This advanced two-day negotiations and bargaining strategies workshop focuses on preparing the team for collective bargaining and costing out the contract. It is designed to help bargaining committee members negotiate a contract and be able to calculate the economic impact of their proposals.
It is assumed that participants will have some basic understanding of negotiations and collective bargaining principles although actual experience not required. Participants will learn negotiation tactics and strategies and conduct mock bargaining sessions and role plays.
- Advanced negotiations role play including costing out the agreement
- Panel discussion with local labor leaders to discuss negotiation strategies successes and challenges
- Provide an opportunity for team negotiations and understand the economic implications of contract negotiations
Art Wheaton is an industry education specialist based at the Cornell-ILR office in Buffalo. A former AFSCME union steward and local union executive board member, Art has 11 years experience as a labor educator teaching collective bargaining, negotiations and conflict resolution for unions.
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For over two years, visitors to the Answers in Genesis website have enjoyed a laugh (and received biblically sound teaching) on Mondays when a new After Eden debuts. Today, we’re celebrating the 100th After Eden cartoon!
Dan Lietha, the talent behind After Eden (and many of the other visual aids Answers in Genesis uses) began working for AiG on a part-time basis in 1995. Two years later, he joined the AiG staff full-time.
In the summer of 1999, Dan, who had been illustrating a monthly cartoon (CreationWise) for the Answers Update over the past several years, began thinking about doing a web-based weekly cartoon. He wanted to provide an entertaining way to illustrate the creation/gospel message and draw readers to the AiG website, so that they could find answers to many of the questions facing today’s Christian.
After rejecting several ideas, he landed on “After Eden” as the name for his new cartoon feature as it succinctly orients the reader to its premise—dealing with life after Adam sinned (although a few have featured Adam and Eve in their “pre-Fall” state, too!). After Eden premiered (left) in January 2000. (To find out how After Eden cartoons are drawn, visit The Making of After Eden.)
Dan compares After Eden and CreationWise, “CreationWise is my meaty, hit-the-reader-between-the-eyes, ‘sermon’ cartoon. After Eden is the entertaining ‘candy’ cartoon that still has nutritional value!”
Some have criticized the use of cartoons by a ministry with a serious, scriptural message. To these critics, Dan responds:
The purpose of After Eden (or any of my images) is not to make fun of, be disrespectful of, or mock the biblical truths they portray (although I realize there are many irreverent and unconscionable cartoons in circulation). My heart as a Christian cartoonist is to convey a biblical message in a humorous way, perhaps causing people to say, “Hmm, I never thought about it that way before.”
Cartoons can be very successful communication tools and we find in the AiG ministry that they sometimes reach people faster than words alone. The Bible itself commends laughter (Proverbs 15:13, 15, 17:22; Job 8:21; Psalm 126:2).
The response to After Eden (which consistently ranks in the top ten pages viewed on the Answers in Genesis website) has been overwhelmingly positive, as the following representative comments show:
From church bulletins in America to sermons on Genesis in New Zealand, the Lord continues to use After Eden to drive home the truth that we truly live “After Eden.” Dan concludes, “God has been most gracious in allowing me to make my living by creating tools that cause viewers to be confronted with the truth in His Word.”
We trust you will continue to enjoy After Eden in the months and years ahead.
Help keep these daily articles coming. Support AiG.
“Now that I have updated, revised, and expanded The Lie, I believe it’s an even more powerful, eyeopening book for the church—an essential resource to help all of us to understand the great delusion that permeates our world! The message of The Lie IS the message of AiG and why we even exist! It IS the message God has laid on our hearts to bring before the church! It IS a vital message for our time.”
– Ken Ham, president and founder of AiG–U.S.
Answers magazine is the Bible-affirming, creation-based magazine from Answers in Genesis. In it you will find fascinating content and stunning photographs that present creation and worldview articles along with relevant cultural topics. Each quarterly issue includes a detachable chart, a pullout children’s magazine, a unique animal highlight, excellent layman and semi-technical articles, plus bonus content. Why wait? Subscribe today and get a FREE DVD download!
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Tue January 8, 2013
Nationwide Efforts To Curb Gun Violence Begin To Gain Steam
Originally published on Tue January 8, 2013 6:37 pm
MELISSA BLOCK, HOST:
From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Melissa Block.
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST:
I'm Audie Cornish. And we begin this hour with developing efforts to combat gun violence in the United States.
(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)
CORNISH: With recent mass killings in Colorado and Connecticut on their minds, residents of another place scarred by violence marked a somber anniversary today.
BLOCK: In Tucson, Arizona, a downtown fire station rang its bell 19 times. Today marks two years since a gunman killed six people and injured 13, including Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, in a supermarket parking lot.
(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)
CORNISH: Giffords and her husband, Mark Kelly, visited Newtown, Connecticut last week to meet some of the families who lost children in the school shooting there.
Speaking on ABC's "Good Morning, America," both said the visit wasn't easy.
(SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "GOOD MORNING AMERICA")
MARK KELLY: It brought back a lot of memories about what that was like for us some two years ago today. And you hope that this kind of thing doesn't happen again. But you know what? It does happen again.
BLOCK: Today the couple unveiled their political action committee called Americans for Responsible Solutions. They say it is focused on advocating gun violence protection and balancing the influence of the gun lobby.
CORNISH: That announcement comes while the White House is working on its own gun policy initiatives. After the Newtown shootings, President Obama tasked Vice President Biden with coming up with a new set of gun policies. Here to discuss that effort is NPR national political correspondent Mara Liasson. And Mara, to start, do we have any way of knowing what kind of progress that the vice president is making?
MARA LIASSON, BYLINE: Well, the vice president has been meeting with stakeholders. Tomorrow, he's talking with victims' groups and gun safety organizations. Then, on Thursday, he's going to be talking to sportsmen's groups and gun ownership organizations. He's also going to hold meetings with representatives of the entertainment and video game industries. All this is meant to come up with a set of new gun policies this month that would be legislation as well as executive orders or new regulations that are aimed at preventing the kind of massacres we've seen in Newtown and Aurora and Tucson.
And by the way, advocates are no longer calling it gun control. They're calling it gun violence prevention.
CORNISH: And you mentioned gun owners. Will the National Rifle Association be involved in this?
LIASSON: Yes. On Thursday, they are coming to the White House. The NRA says that it's interested in listening to the White House and the White House says it's interested in listening to the stakeholders. But the NRA has been pretty clear that they think the solution to bad guys with guns is to arm good guys with guns.
In addition to that, there is a group, a coalition of gun owners' groups, that will be holding a gun appreciation day two days before President Barack Obama is inaugurated. And they are urging gun owners to turn out en masse at gun stores and shooting ranges to show their opposition to any new gun control legislation.
CORNISH: And, of course, policies are one thing, but what are the prospects for gun legislation this year?
LIASSON: Well, it's hard to imagine the House of Representatives passing or even bringing up gun control laws. I think this all depends on whether the shootings in Newtown were really a turning point in the way that other incidents like them haven't been. We also want to see if Gabby Giffords and her husband and Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire mayor of New York, can really create a counterweight to the NRA.
And we also need to see exactly how much of a priority the president is going to make this. The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence actually gave the president an F for his first term. They point to all the legislation that he signed that has made guns more accessible, allowing loaded firearms in checked baggage on Amtrak or loaded firearms in national parks.
CORNISH: Meanwhile, the president, of course, has a lot on his wish list for a second term. Immigration reform, the deficit, the debt ceiling discussions, climate change legislation. So where does gun policy fit into this?
LIASSON: Well, that is a pretty ambitious list. There is only so much bandwidth for an administration or a Congress to deal with. But that is why the administration is saying, this isn't just about legislation. No single action is going to solve the problems. I think you should expect some executive action. They want to go further than just the things the president has already advocated, which is a renewal of the assault weapons ban, a renewal of the ban on high-capacity magazines and a closing of the gun show loophole.
They're talking perhaps about a national database for tracking the sale of weapons, some way to strengthen mental health background checks, maybe regulations that would require universal background checks for gun buyers. So they're saying no single action is going to solve the problem, and it's not going to just focus on legislation.
CORNISH: NPR national political correspondent Mara Liasson. Mara, thank you.
LIASSON: Thank you, Audie. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright National Public Radio.
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Without a team of researchers, nor the budget of a multinational, I have relied on the Innovation Cities Index to narrow down the pool to a manageable list of cities to rank.
Innovation Cities collects more than 160 indicators on innovation in global cities and then provides a ranking. I believe that a smart city must be an innovative city. So in order to be considered in the Asia/Pacific smart cities rankings, the city must have achieved a Top 100 global ranking in the Innovation Cities Index. This narrowed down the potential candidates to 17.
Once I had the 17 cities for consideration, I leveraged the Smart Cities Wheel to search for databases with comparative data on essential components. Below is a table that summarizes the secondary data sources used to benchmark and rank Asia/Pacific smart cities.
Table 2: Data Sources
||Links (where applicable)
||Brookings Institute researches economic growth rates in 300 of the largest cities across the globe.
||Global MetroMonitor 2012
||Siemens developed the Green Cities Index for most major regions including Asia.
||Premier ranking of green cities in Asia but does not include Australian and New Zealand cities.
||Siemens Green City Index
||CO2 per capita
||Using Siemens data and data from other sources, to obtain CO2 per capita for each city.
||Gathered data on 100 major cities to assess security, usability, and content of municipal websites; the type of online services currently being offered; and citizen response and participation through websites established by municipal governments.
||While the researchers have not yet published their latest ranking, they were kind enough to provide me an advanced copy for use in this report.
||Carbon Disclosure Project
||The CDP recently launched a standard for cities to transparently report their carbon footprints.
||Note, the use of CDP for cities reporting was a binary measure in this study (yes/no) as a proxy for levels of transparency in cities.
||Mercer measures a range of indicators on the quality of life in cities around the globe.
||Mercer's 2012 Quality of Living Survey Results
||Green Cities Index contains analysis of 3 aspects of municipal transit.
||Cities are grouped into 4 different categories depending on their performance on those 3 aspects of municipal transit.
||Siemens Green City Index
||I used multiple sources to obtain information on public transit ridership per capita.
||It is surprisingly difficulty to obtain comparable data on transit ridership across cities in the region. Ideally, would like to add non-motorized transit but data not widely available.
Applying the Smart Cities Wheel
Whenever possible, I identify robust sources of data that have in themselves utilized multiple indicators to assess one component of the smart cities wheel.
Smart Living is measured very well by Mercer's annual Quality of Living rankings. Mercer uses 39 criteria across health, crime, education, climate, and other categories to rank the quality of life in more than 200 cities each year.
The same goes for Citigroup's Hotspots report and its application to the Smart People component. The Hotspots report "compares 200 of the world’s major urban agglomerations across eight distinct categories of competitiveness and 31 individual indicators." I used Citigroup's Human Capital dimension as the lone metric for Smart People.
I sought to use the same data source to compare all cities in the study. Unfortunately, that was not always possible, so I had to use multiple sources. This opens up the risk that some of the data is not perfectly comparable. This occurred, for example, in the analysis of Smart Mobility. While Mobility is one of the categories of the Siemens Green City Index -- a great resource for comparing cities on sustainability -- this study did not include cities from Australia and New Zealand in its ranking. Therefore, I found additional information about mobility in these cities. (I sought, but was unable to obtain, comparable data on non-motorized transit use in the Asia/Pacific region. I believe high rates of non-motorized transit [e.g., walking and cycling] demonstrate smart urban planning.)
While the data used here is secondary, this methodology leads to quality results and opens up the discussion of what makes a city smart, allowing us to begin benchmarking and sharing information across cities around the world.
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Established by the American Medical Association (AMA) in 1906, the Physician Masterfile was initially developed as a record keeping device supporting membership and mailing activities. Since then, the Masterfile has expanded to include significant education, training and professional certification information on virtually all Doctors of Medicine (MD) and Doctors of Osteopathic Medicine (DO) in the United States, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, and certain Pacific Islands. The Physician Masterfile includes current and historical data for more than 1.4 million physicians, residents, and medical students in the United States. This figure includes approximately 411,000 graduates of foreign medical schools who reside in the United States and who have met the educational and credentialing requirements necessary for recognition.
Produced annually, the ARF is a county-level compilation of existing data from numerous sources including the American Hospital Association, the American Medical Association, the U. S. Census Bureau, the National Center for Health Statistics, and the Health Care Financing Administration. The ARF is cumulative, with the completeness and frequency of data elements varying by source. The ARF contains data items on health professions, health professions training, health facilities, hospitalization utilization, hospital expenditures, population characteristics and economic data, and environment. Also available are geographic descriptors--such as Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) codes and Metropolitan Area (MA) codes--that allow for easy aggregation of county data into other geographic groupings.
The Census of Agriculture, taken every five years, is a complete count of U.S. farms and ranches and the people who operate them. The Census looks at land use and ownership, operator characteristics, production practices, income and expenditures. For Census purposes, a farm is any place from which $1,000 or more of agricultural products were produced and sold, or normally would have been sold, during the Census year.
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The Global Health Observatory (GHO) data repository provides access to over 50 datasets on priority health topics including mortality and burden of diseases, the Millennium Development Goals (child nutrition, child health, maternal and reproductive health, immunization, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, neglected diseases, water and sanitation), non communicable diseases and risk factors, epidemic-prone diseases, health systems, environmental health, violence and injuries, equity among others. In addition, the GHO provides on-line access to WHO's annual summary of health-related data for its 194 Member states: the World Health Statistics 2011. Many of these datasets represent the best estimates of WHO using methodologies for specific indicators that aim for comparability across countries and time; they are updated as more recent or revised data become available, or when there are changes to the methodology being used. Therefore, they are not always the same as official national estimates, although WHO whenever possible will provide Member States the opportunity review and comment on data and estimates as part of country consultations. Please check the Indicator and Measurement Registry for indicator specific information.
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A Moveable Feast: USU’s Cowboy Poetry Collection Hits the Road
by Randy Williams
- Mid-winter, when there is a break between the roundup in the fall and calving in the spring, ranch folks (and folks
interested in cowboy poetry and prose) travel to Elko, Nevada, to participate in the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering.
This year (2004) marked the 20th anniversary of the Gathering and over 8,000 folks, from ranchers to educators, buckaroos to
bankers, poets to veterinarians, gathered in Elko to fill their cups with intoxicating cowboy poetry and prose.
Amidst all the excitement is a small library of cowboy poetry housed in the coat check room of the Elko Convention Center. In this library are volumes of the classic cowboy poets: Bruce Kiskaddon, S. Omar Barker, Henry Herbert Knibbs, D.J. O’Malley, Curley Fletcher which reflect the early years of cowboy poetry in the United States. Also represented are contemporary poets: Baxter Black, Linda Hasselstrom, Linda Hussa, Wallace McRae, Waddie Mitchell, Paul Zarzyski who continue to put into verse and prose the folkways of ranch life.
This moveable feast, Cowboy Poetry Collection FOLK COLL 11, is part of Utah State University Libraries’ Fife Folklore Archives in Special Collections and Archives. Every year, since the first Gathering in 1985, these books have traveled to Elko to supplement the Gathering activities with the written artifacts of cowboy poetry. Many of the books in the collection were gathered and purchased with a grant from the Skaggs Foundation. This same grant helped fund the fieldwork that led to the first Gathering in ‘85. So, it seems only fitting that the books and their caretakers travel to Elko in late January each year to bring the books together with their constituency.
If these books could talk it would be interesting to hear the stories they could tell: the thrill a cowboy poet feels when he finally hunts down a long sought after poem for which he only knows the first three stanzas; the pride a grand niece feels as she reads her uncle’s poems about cowboying in Arizona at the turn of the last century; the laughter and joy a rancher/wordsmith chortles as she reads the poetry of one of her colleagues who has been dead over fifty years. Links between this generation of cowboy poets, ranchers and afficionados of ranching culture and poetry and the pioneers of cowboy poetry in the United States. Important links.
Of course books can’t “verbally” talk. However, readers do. It has been my great pleasure since 1994 to visit with the users of this collection at the Gathering and learn about their great love for the genre. Many sit quietly musing over the poems of yesteryear, others check their oral version of a poem with the printed work right before they go on stage to perform, some run in after a poetry session wanting to get a copy of one of the poems that they just heard. To some the library is like a church where they come to commune with the “classics” that are the Bible of cowboy poetry. Whatever the purpose of their call in the library, all the library users seem delighted to find a place to read the genius of classic and contemporary cowboy poets and prose writers who represent, through their words, the experience of ranching people. For me, a city girl, it is a delight to be a part of something that shows first hand what a feast words can be.
This feasting continues year long, as does the cultivation of this important collection. Each year we add new titles to the Cowboy Poetry Collection through book purchases. However, one of the greatest opportunities for growth this collection experiences is through the generous donations of folks at the National Poetry Gathering and other cowboy poetry lovers who donate volumes of their own verse or copies of cowboy poetry from their library to the Archives. If you are a cowboy poet or a collector of cowboy poetry, please consider donating a copy of your work or volumes of cowboy poetry to the Fife Folklore Archives; I guarantee your donation will be a feast for many.
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Acoustic fibers create, hear sound
Researchers have created new plastic fibers that can detect and produce sound, according to TechNewsDaily. When stretched, these strands could be used to make clothes that act as a microphone or generate electricity.
“You can actually hear them, these fibers,” said Noémie Chocat, a graduate student at MIT and co-author of a paper describing the fibers.
“If you connected them to a power supply and applied a sinusoidal current”—an alternating current whose period is very regular—“then it would vibrate,” Chocat said. “And if you make it vibrate at audible frequencies and put it close to your ear, you could actually hear different notes or sounds coming out of it.”
The heart of the acoustic fibers is a plastic commonly used in microphones. By playing with the amount of the element fluorine in the plastic, the researchers were able to ensure the material’s molecules remained “lopsided,” with the fluorine atoms lining up on one side and hydrogen atoms on the other.
This asymmetry made the plastic “piezoelectric,” meaning it changes shape when an electric field is applied to it. In a conventional piezoelectric microphone, this useful electric field is generated by metal electrodes. But in a fiber microphone, the drawing process—when the strand is pulled into being from a larger block of material—would cause metal electrodes to lose their shape.
So the researchers instead used a conducting plastic that contains graphite, the material found in pencil lead. When heated, the conducting plastic maintains a higher viscosity than a metal would.
Not only did this prevent the mixing of materials that might wreck the fibers’ properties, but, crucially, it also made for fibers with a regular thickness.
After the fiber was drawn, the researchers needed to align all the piezoelectric molecules in the same direction. That required the application of an electric field 20 times as powerful as the fields that cause lightning during a thunderstorm.
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Over the last couple of years, as the popularity of the Paleo diet has expanded, a lot of controversy has emerged over exactly what a Paleo diet is.
Part of the problem is that there are now a number of authors and bloggers – from Mark Sisson to Kurt Harris to Robb Wolf to Paul Jaminet to myself – that advocate what might generally be called a Paleo diet, but with slight variations in each case. This has unfortunately led to some confusion for people new to the “Paleo diet”.
It has also spawned new terminology in an effort by each author/blogger to clarify the differences in their approach, such as Mark Sisson’s “Primal diet”, Paul Jaminet’s “Perfect Health Diet”, and Kurt Harris’ former “PaNu or Paleo 2.0″ and current “Archevore” concepts.
So what’s the controversy or confusion all about? It usually revolves around the following questions:
- Is the Paleo diet low-carb or low-fat? Is saturated fat permitted? If so, how much?
- How much protein should someone eat on a Paleo diet?
- Does the Paleo diet include dairy products – or not? Which kinds of dairy?
- Are any grains at all permitted?
In the early days, following Loren Cordain’s book, The Paleo Diet: Lose Weight and Get Healthy by Eating the Food You Were Designed to Eat, the Paleo diet was considered to be moderate in carbohydrate and low in saturated fat (though monounsaturated fat wasn’t restricted).
Then, as low-carb diets rose in popularity and many low-carbers switched over to Paleo, it seemed that the lines between low-carb and Paleo began to blur. For these folks, the Paleo diet is high in fat – especially saturated fat – and low in carbohydrates, with a moderate amount of protein.
More recently, some authors/bloggers have advocated a diet based roughly on Paleo principles but that also may include dairy products and even certain grains like white rice and buckwheat, depending on individual tolerance. Still others have suggested that a high carb, lower fat diet – provided the carbs come from starchy vegetables and not grains – may be optimal.
So what is a Paleo diet? Is it low-carb? Low-fat? Does it include dairy? Grains?
We’re not robots: variation amongst groups and individuals
The answer to that question depends on several factors. First, are we asking what our Paleolithic ancestors ate, or are we asking what an optimal diet for modern humans is? While hard-core Paleo adherents will argue that there’s no difference, others (including me) would suggest that the absence of a food during the Paleolithic era does not necessarily mean that it’s not nutritious or beneficial. Dairy products are a good example.
Second, as recent studies have revealed, we can’t really know what our ancestors ate with 100% certainty, and there is undoubtedly a huge variation amongst different populations. For example, we have the traditional Inuit and the Masai who ate a diet high in fat (60-70% of calories for the Masai and up to 90% of calories for the Inuit), but we also have traditional peoples like the Okinawans and Kitavans that obtained a majority (60-70% or more) of their calories from carbohydrate. So it’s impossible to say that the diet of our ancestors was either “low-carb” or “low-fat”, without specifying which ancestors we’re talking about.
Third, if we are indeed asking what the optimal diet is for modern humans (rather than simply speculating about what our Paleolithic ancestors ate), there’s no way to answer that question definitively. Why? Because just as there is tremendous variation amongst populations with diet, there is also tremendous individual variation. Some people clearly do better with no dairy products. Yet others seem to thrive on them. Some feel better with a low-carb approach, while others feel better eating more carbohydrate. Some seem to require a higher protein intake (up to 20-25% of calories), but others do well when they eat a smaller amount (10-15%).
The Paleo diet vs. the Paleo template
I suggest we stop trying to define the “Paleo diet” and start thinking about it instead as a “Paleo template”.
What’s the difference? A Paleo diet implies a particular approach with clearly defined parameters that all people should follow. There’s little room for individual variation or experimentation.
A Paleo template implies a more flexible and individualized approach. A template contains a basic format or set of general guidelines that can then be customized based on the unique needs and experience of each person.
But here’s the key difference between a Paleo diet and a Paleo template: following a diet doesn’t encourage the participant to think, experiment or consider his or her specific circumstances, while following a template does.
In my 9 Steps to Perfect Health series, I attempted to define the general dietary guidelines that constitute the Paleo template:
- Don’t eat toxins: avoid industrial seed oils, improperly prepared cereal grains and legumes and excess sugar (especially fructose)
- Nourish your body: emphasize saturated and monounsaturated fat while reducing intake of polyunsaturated fat, favor glucose/starch over fructose, and favor ruminant animal protein and seafood over poultry
- Eat real food: eat grass-fed, organic meat and wild fish, and local, organic produce when possible. Avoid processed, refined and packaged food.
Within these guidelines, however, there’s a lot of room for individual differences. When people ask me whether dairy products are healthy, I always say “it depends”. I give the same answer when I’m asked about nightshades, caffeine, alcohol and carbohydrate intake.
The only way to figure out what an optimal diet is for you is to experiment and observe. The best way to do that is to remove the “grey area” foods you suspect you might have trouble with, like dairy, nightshades, eggs, etc. for a period of time (usually 30 days is sufficient), and add them back in one at a time and observe your reactions. This “30-day challenge” or elimination diet is what folks like Robb Wolf have recommended for a long time.
As human beings we’re both similar and different. We share the same basic physiology, which is why a Paleo template makes sense. There are certain foods that, because of their chemical structure, adversely affect all of us regardless of our individual differences. These are the foods I mentioned in my “Don’t Eat Toxins” article.
On the other hand, each of us is unique. We grew up in different families, with different dietary habits, life experiences, exposures to environmental toxins and lifestyles. Many of our genes are the same, but some are different and the way those genes have been triggered or expressed can also differ.
For someone with an autoimmune disease, dairy products, nightshades and eggs may be problematic. Yet for others, these foods are often well-tolerated. This variation merely underscores the importance of discovering your own optimal diet rather than blindly following someone else’s prescription.
I think it’s a complete waste of time and energy to argue about what a Paleo diet is, because the question is essentially unanswerable. The more important question is, what is your optimal diet?
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I thank thee, King,
For thy great bounty that not only giv’st
Me cause to wail, but teachest me the way
How to lament the cause.
~Richard II, 4.1
FETCH THE ALOE HENCE, FOR METHINKS I SPY A BURN IN DEGREE MOST SICK.
Not gonna lie, I’m pretty bummed they seem to have cut the scene with the three traitors from the Hollow Crown version of Henry V.
O, how hast thou with jealousy infected
The sweetness of affiance! Show men dutiful?
Why, so didst thou: seem they grave and learned?
Why, so didst thou: come they of noble family?
Why, so didst thou: seem they religious?
Why, so didst thou: or are they spare in diet,
Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger,
Constant in spirit, not swerving with the blood,
Garnish’d and deck’d in modest complement,
Not working with the eye without the ear,
And but in purged judgment trusting neither?
Such and so finely bolted didst thou seem:
And thus thy fall hath left a kind of blot,
To mark the full-fraught man and best indued
With some suspicion.
The line “the man that was his bedfellow” from act 2 scene 2 of Henry V in the Norton complete works of Shakespeare comes with the footnote: “It was common for men to share a bed”.
That’s like, the scholarly version of ‘NO HOMO’. Blah blah, just because Henry “dulled and cloyed” the guy with “gracious favors” doesn’t IMPLY anything, etc. Except that they seem to have forgotten that this is Shakespeare so it’s more like always homo.
Now if you’ll excuse me I’ll go back to giggling over all the ball-related puns from two scenes ago.
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Imagine going to sleep one night and waking up many years later in a totally different world. In this futuristic world, literally everything you do is tightly monitored and controlled by control freak bureaucrats in the name of “sustainable development” and with the goal of promoting “the green agenda”. An international ruling body has centralized global control over all human activity. What you eat, what you drink, where you live, how warm or cold your home can be and how much fuel you can use is determined by them. Anyone that dissents or that tries to rebel against the system is sent off for “re-education”. The human population is 90 percent lower than it is today in this futuristic society, and all remaining humans have been herded into tightly constricted cities which are run much like prisons. Does all of that sound good to you? Well, this is what Agenda 21 is all about.
Yes, I know all this sounds like a plot from a science fiction novel. But it is actually real. 178 nations have signed on to Agenda 21. “Eco-prophets” such as Al Gore travel all over the world teaching us how wonderful “sustainable development” will be. This agenda is being pushed in our schools, at our universities, on our televisions and in our movies.
So exactly what is Agenda 21? The following is how the United Nations defines Agenda 21….
Agenda 21 is a comprehensive plan of action to be taken globally, nationally and locally by organizations of the United Nations System, Governments, and Major Groups in every area in which human impacts on the environment.
When you start doing deep research into Agenda 21, you will find that describing it as a “comprehensive plan” is an understatement. Virtually all forms of human activity impact the environment. The rabid “environmentalists” behind the green agenda intend to take all human activity and put it into a box called “sustainable development”.
One of the key elements of “sustainable development” is population control. The United Nations (along with radical “environmental” leaders such as Al Gore) actually believes that there are far too many people on earth.
So what is the solution?
Sadly, they actually believe that we need to start reducing the population.
Just this week, Al Gore made the following statement regarding population control….
“One of the things we could do about it is to change the technologies, to put out less of this pollution, to stabilize the population, and one of the principle ways of doing that is to empower and educate girls and women. You have to have ubiquitous availability of fertility management so women can choose how many children have, the spacing of the children.
You have to lift child survival rates so that parents feel comfortable having small families and most important — you have to educate girls and empower women. And that’s the most powerful leveraging factor, and when that happens, then the population begins to stabilize and societies begin to make better choices and more balanced choices.”
Do you notice how whenever global leaders talk about “empowering” women these days it always ends up with them having less children?
This population control agenda is also reflected in official UN documents.
The following is language from a UN resolution that was adopted by the UN General Assembly that was designed to further the implementation of Agenda 21….
“….population growth rates have been declining globally, largely as a result of expanded basic education and health care. That trend is projected to lead to a stable world population in the middle of the twenty-first century… The current decline in population growth rates must be further promoted through national and international policies that promote economic development, social development, environmental protection, and poverty eradication, particularly the further expansion of basic education, with full and equal access for girls and women, and health care, including reproductive health care, including both family planning and sexual health, consistent with the report of the International Conference on Population and Development.”
Most Americans don’t grasp it yet, but the truth is that the global elite are absolutely obsessed with population control. In fact, there is a growing consensus among the global elite that they need to get rid of 80 to 90 percent of us.
The number one commandment of the infamous Georgia Guidestones is this: “Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.”
Unfortunately, a very high percentage of our global leaders actually believe in this stuff.
Sadly, this philosophy is now regularly being reflected in official UN documents. For example, the March 2009 U.N. Population Division policy brief begins with the following shocking statement….
What would it take to accelerate fertility decline in the least developed countries?
Apparently the poorest nations are the primary target for the population control freaks over at the UN.
This agenda showed up again when the United Nations Population Fund released its annual State of the World Population Report for 2009 entitled “Facing a Changing World: Women, Population and Climate“.
The following are three quotes that were pulled right out of that document….
1) “Each birth results not only in the emissions attributable to that person in his or her lifetime, but also the emissions of all his or her descendants. Hence, the emissions savings from intended or planned births multiply with time.”
2) “No human is genuinely “carbon neutral,” especially when all greenhouse gases are figured into the equation. Therefore, everyone is part of the problem, so everyone must be part of the solution in some way.”
3) “Strong family planning programmes are in the interests of all countries for greenhouse-gas concerns as well as for broader welfare concerns.”
If no human is “carbon neutral”, then what is the solution?
To those that are obsessed with Agenda 21 and “sustainable development”, the fact that you and I are alive and breathing air is a huge problem.
The population control agenda is also regularly showing up in our newspapers now.
In a recent editorial for the New York Times entitled “The Earth Is Full“, Thomas L. Friedman made the following statement….
You really do have to wonder whether a few years from now we’ll look back at the first decade of the 21st century — when food prices spiked, energy prices soared, world population surged, tornados plowed through cities, floods and droughts set records, populations were displaced and governments were threatened by the confluence of it all — and ask ourselves: What were we thinking? How did we not panic when the evidence was so obvious that we’d crossed some growth/climate/natural resource/population redlines all at once?
But Friedman is quite moderate compared to many of the “eco-prophets” that are running around out there today.
For example, James Lovelock, the creator of the Gaia hypothesis, stated in an interview with the Guardian earlier this year that “democracy must be put on hold” if the fight against global warming is going to be successful and that only “a few people with authority” should be permitted to rule the planet until the crisis is solved.
A Finnish environmentalist named Pentti Linkola has gone even farther than that. Linkola is openly calling for climate change deniers to be “re-educated”, for an eco-fascist world government to be established, for humans to be forcibly sterilized and for the majority of humans to be killed.
That doesn’t sound pleasant, now does it?
This agenda is even being taught by professors at our top universities.
The truth is that academia is brimming with nutjobs who want to see the vast majority of humans wiped out.
For example, Professor of Biology at the University of Texas at Austin Eric R. Pianka is a very prominent advocate of radical human population control.
In an article entitled “What nobody wants to hear, but everyone needs to know”, Pianka made the following shocking statements….
*First, and foremost, we must get out of denial and recognize that Earth simply cannot support many billions of people.
*This planet might be able to support perhaps as many as half a billion people who could live a sustainable life in relative comfort. Human populations must be greatly diminished, and as quickly as possible to limit further environmental damage.
*I do not bear any ill will toward humanity. However, I am convinced that the world WOULD clearly be much better off without so many of us.
Now keep in mind that this is a university professor that is teaching our kids. People actually pay a lot of money to get educated by this guy.
If those pushing Agenda 21, “sustainable development” and population control get their way, the world is going to be a much different place in the future.
Just watch the video posted below. It was originally produced by the Forum for the Future, a major NGO funded by big corporations such as Time Warner and Royal Dutch Shell. In this video, the Forum for the Future presents their chilling version of the future. Are you ready to live in a “Planned-opolis”? Are you ready to use a “calorie card” and to have what you eat determined by a “global food council”? This is the kind of tyrannical future that these radical environmental organizations want to impose on you and I….
Yes, the video is almost comical, but this is the kind of world that the global elite want to push us towards.
In fact, we see radical steps being taken all over the globe even now.
In Europe, the European Commission has unveiled a plan to ban all cars from major European cities by the year 2050.
In Europe, the mantra “carbon dioxide is causing global warming” has become gospel. This banning of cars from city centers is all part of a draconian master plan to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in Europe by 60 percent over the next 40 years.
Hopefully this plan will never come to fruition, but the fact that the European Commission is seriously pushing it just shows how far things have progressed.
But we don’t have to peer into the future to see how this agenda is going to affect us.
Today, the U.S. government and governments all over the industrialized world have become so obsessed with reducing carbon emissions that now they even tell us what kinds of light bulbs we are allowed to buy.
There are millions of Americans that love the old light bulbs. But soon we will not have the choice to buy them anymore.
What kind of freedom is that?
In some areas of the United States, government snoopers actually sort through the trash of residents to ensure that environmental rules are being followed. For example, in the city of Cleveland, Ohio authorities have announced plans to have “trash supervisors” go snooping through trash cans to ensure that people are actually recycling according to city guidelines.
How would you feel if government officials went snooping around in your trash cans?
The world is changing. The global elite have immense amounts of wealth and power and they are intent on imposing a radical environmental agenda on all the rest of us.
The reality is that many of the wealthiest and most prominent people in the world are absolutely obsessed with the green agenda and with population control. Just consider the following quotes….
David Rockefeller: “The negative impact of population growth on all of our planetary ecosystems is becoming appallingly evident.”
CNN Founder Ted Turner: “A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal.”
Dave Foreman, Earth First Co-Founder: “My three main goals would be to reduce human population to about 100 million worldwide, destroy the industrial infrastructure and see wilderness, with it’s full complement of species, returning throughout the world.”
Maurice Strong: “Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it our responsibility to bring that about?”
Michael Oppenheimer: “The only hope for the world is to make sure there is not another United States. We can’t let other countries have the same number of cars, the amount of industrialization, we have in the US. We have to stop these Third World countries right where they are.”
This radical agenda is even represented in the White House.
John P. Holdren, Barack Obama’s top science advisor, co-authored a textbook entitled “Ecoscience” back in 1977 in which he actually advocated mass sterilization, compulsory abortion, a one world government and a global police force to enforce population control.
On page 837 of Ecoscience, a claim is made that compulsory abortion would be perfectly legal under the U.S. Constitution….
“Indeed, it has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing Constitution if the population crisis became sufficiently severe to endanger the society.”
On pages 942 and 943, a call is made for the creation of a “planetary regime” that would control the global economy and enforce population control measures….
“Perhaps those agencies, combined with UNEP and the United Nations population agencies, might eventually be developed into a Planetary Regime—sort of an international superagency for population, resources, and environment. Such a comprehensive Planetary Regime could control the development, administration, conservation, and distribution of all natural resources, renewable or nonrenewable, at least insofar as international implications exist. Thus the Regime could have the power to control pollution not only in the atmosphere and oceans, but also in such freshwater bodies as rivers and lakes that cross international boundaries or that discharge into the oceans. The Regime might also be a logical central agency for regulating all international trade, perhaps including assistance from DCs to LDCs, and including all food on the international market.”
“The Planetary Regime might be given responsibility for determining the optimum population for the world and for each region and for arbitrating various countries’ shares within their regional limits. Control of population size might remain the responsibility of each government, but the Regime would have some power to enforce the agreed limits.”
On page 917, the surrender of U.S. national sovereignty to an international organization is advocated….
“If this could be accomplished, security might be provided by an armed international organization, a global analogue of a police force. Many people have recognized this as a goal, but the way to reach it remains obscure in a world where factionalism seems, if anything, to be increasing. The first step necessarily involves partial surrender of sovereignty to an international organization.”
As mentioned earlier, Holdren is the number one science advisor to Barack Obama, and the truth is that the top levels of the U.S. government are packed with people that believe this stuff.
Yes, a lot of what you have read in this article sounds crazy. But the global elite really do believe in population control and they really are seeking to implement a radical environmental agenda across the entire planet.
They want total control of everyone and everything so that they can impose the measures that they believe are necessary to “fix” the planet.
I have actually written quite extensively in the past about the radical green agenda of the global elite. If you are interested in learning more, I would recommend the following articles….
So do you have an opinion that you would like to share about Al Gore, Agenda 21 or population control? If so, please feel free to leave your thoughts in the comments section below….
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Being a strong corporate citizen means that as a company we are committed to pursuing policies and practices that address social and environmental concerns, especially within the communities in which we live and work.
Our green energy options are driven by the global urgency to address climate change as well as the increase in consumer demand for more sustainable and renewable product and service options. Through our investment in renewable energy and carbon offset projects, we can provide our customers across North America with access to real and immediate solutions to reduce the negative environmental impact of their own daily, home or business-related energy consumption.
As a consumer of finished products, supplies and energy resources, we incorporate environmental impact and risk assessments in our business decisions. We are committed to:
Not only are we dedicated to operating in an environmentally responsible manner, we're also committed to setting the standard in the delivery of innovative and effective solutions for our customers. Our range of green energy options through our JustGreen™and JustClean™programs enable customers to reduce their carbon footprint and support renewable energy.
Just Energy also donates green energy to Earth Rangers, a non-profit organization in Ontario that serves to increase environmental awareness among today's youth, and empowers kids to improve the health of our planet.
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- Prayer and Worship
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Regarding the question of leadership within the context of the African American Catholic community, we recall the statement delivered to the National Conference of Catholic Bishops in 1985, which noted that African American Catholics are not highly visible in our Church. The statement of our African American Bishops, delivered by Bishop Joseph Howze, said “If we are to change our image in the larger Black community, Black Catholics must be visible in many different aspects of Church life.” It is also stated that in order for there to be more visible Black leadership, there first must be “appropriate training, opportunity, and visibility.”
The Black Catholic community has accepted this challenge and have enrolled in many of the institutes which are now available. The following Leadership institutes offer numerous educational and pastoral programs from enrichment to Lay Ecclesial Ministry.
Statement by the Black Bishops of the United States, “Origins 15 (November 28, 1985):395-399
“Keep on Teaching,” a catechetical ministry established 21 years ago in the Archdiocese of Baltimore, engages catechists who serve in the African-American Catholic community. Its emphasis is to inspire and encourage catechists to factor culture – both black and Catholic – and its deep roots into their catechetical planning and implementation.
Program Overview: M.A.A.C. Certificate Program
Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary, Overbrook, in cooperation with the Office for Black Catholics, Secretariat for Catholic Life and Formation, Archdiocese of Philadelphia, offers an undergraduate certificate program especially designed for those engaged in and/or preparing for involvement in pastoral service to parish communities of largely African-American Catholic membership. The program is also open to all interested persons, regardless of religious or ethnic background.
The Tolton Pastoral Ministry Program at Catholic Theological Union is a one of its kind academic, scholarship, formation and mentoring program that prepares Black Catholic women and men for ministerial leadership in the Church. The roots of the Tolton Program reach back into Chicago’s distinctive Catholic history. In the late 1800’s, the first recognized Black Catholic Priest in the United States, Augustus Tolton became the pastor of a vibrant Black Catholic parish. The courageous and faithful path he walked as a priest and pioneer has inspired generations of Black Catholics to service in the Church.
Program Overview: INSTITUTE FOR BLACK CATHOLIC STUDIES
The Institute for Black Catholic Studies is important because it is a laboratory for African American Catholic inculturation. Founded in 1980, the Institute prepares lay men and women, vowed religious, priests and deacons for a more meaningful ministry within the Black Community. It is the only such program in the nation offering an interdisciplinary Master's Degree in Black Catholic Theological Studies, along with certification and enrichment programs focused on educating catechists, youth ministers and pastoral leaders for a variety of ministries in the Church. http://www.xula.edu/ibcs/index.php#
The Certificate Program in African American Ministry is a two-semester program suitable for those with some theological background as well as lay people interested in learning more about the African American church. It is designed to recognize the importance of African American cultural relevance in the church and will draw upon national speakers and academics noteworthy in each of the topic areas.
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Dear Senator Graham,
Your comment on CNN about the need to amend the Constitution in order for same-sex couples to be allowed to marry suggests that it has been a while since you read that document. I would specifically like to direct your attention to the Ninth Amendment, which states, “The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.”
Slavery may have required the passage of the 13th Amendment in order to be abolished (although President Lincoln did take it on himself to proclaim the slaves in the Confederacy free, without an act of Congress, much less a Constitutional amendment). However, if that was the case, it was because the rights of enslaved people were specifically denied in the Constitution until that point.
The Constitution does not state that anyone has a right to marry. It says nothing about marriage whatsoever. Nevertheless, the Supreme Court has affirmed 14 times that the freedom to marry is indeed a fundamental right, an affirmation with which I trust you agree, as you are not arguing that men and women may not marry each other. As a fundamental right, marriage can be limited only when there is a compelling state interest; for example, the state’s interest in protecting children means that children cannot marry nor be compelled to marry.
Men and women have been marrying each other in this country for over 200 years without the Constitution saying a word about their right to do so. The reason is obvious: the Ninth Amendment. So I would like a clearer explanation from you of why two women or two men cannot marry until they get a special mention in the Constitution.
Perhaps the issue is not that you are unaware of the Ninth Amendment, but that you are simply seeking to raise the bar for a right that displeases you, now that courts, legislatures, governors, and public referenda in many states have affirmed it.
Rev. Amy Zucker Morgenstern
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On August 12, 1968, the federal trial of former Governor William Wallace Barron and five other men, charged with conspiracy to engage in bribery in connection with state government contracts, began in Charleston.
"Jurors Picked in Trial Of Barron, Five Others"
"Barron Cleared in Conspiracy Case; Four Others Convicted"
"Barron Pleads Guilty; Perry, Brown Also Cited in Chargest"
Biography of William Wallace Barron
On This Day in West Virginia History: August
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Critical water status times
There are five periods during the growing season when growers using a deficit irrigation strategy need to pay close attention to the vine and soil water status, says Dr. Russell Smithyman, viticulture research director at Ste. Michelle Wine Estates.
Bloom to fruit set—If high temperatures occur during bloom, growers may need to meter small amounts of water to avoid a reduction of fruit set. You can overdo stress at bloom time. But this is the same period when you want to slow down shoot growth, so don't apply too much water. A few hours may be all that's needed to save your crop.
Fruit set to mid-July—Stress is desirable at this period because it will help control canopy growth. High temperatures now are helpful in slowing down canopy growth so that average shoot length is three to four feet.
Veraison—Scientists do not know the cause of sour berry or berry shrivel, but it often shows up at veraison. Some believe that stress could be a factor in this grape disorder.
Preharvest—Small amounts of water right before harvest can alleviate berry dehydration and avoid yield loss during an extended hang time.
Excessive climate conditions—Growers should always know the weather forecast so they can be prepared for extreme temperatures.
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Connecticut residents were still reeling Sunday from the massacre of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown on Friday by a young man who also killed his mother and himself.
President Obama came to Newtown Sunday and said we can no longer tolerate these mass shootings, we must change, we surely can do better.
His press officer had said Friday that now was not the time to talk of policy responses such as gun control. We disagree; now is exactly the time, before we fall back into a collective stupor in which we don’t do anything but hope it doesn’t happen again.
Improving mental health services is fine; it’s just not clear that it would stop many mass killings. Mental health services are notoriously unavailable in inner cities, until people who need them get to prison. But Adam Lanza, the Newtown killer, and some other mass killers have been young men without criminal records.
They are eccentrics, loners, odd ducks. But good Lord, there are millions of such people who pose no threat to anyone.
The primary focus has to be on comprehensive gun laws; on making it more difficult for potential killers to get guns.
To get guns under control, we start with laws. Sen. Richard Blumenthal and Sen.-elect Chris Murphy acknowledged Sunday that “people want us to do something.” Correct. The Connecticut delegation should introduce a bill to go after the relatively obvious and reasonable steps: assault weapons ban, universal background checks, no high-capacity magazines. The National Rifle Association leaders will object. To hell with them. The right to public safety trumps the right to own an arsenal.
In addition to laws, let’s start a public education campaign.
We changed people’s minds about smoking and reasonable limits on the practice. Education and reasonable limits on gun ownership can begin to end the Wild West mentality about guns and treat shooting as what it is – an extremely serious public health problem. That is how we have to change.
The Hartford Courant
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Parry Romberg Syndrome
Parry Romberg syndrome is a disorder characterized by slowly progressing atrophy of the skin of the face usually on the left side of the face (hemifacial atrophy or deterioration). As a condition, Parry Romberg syndrome is fairly rare, more common in females than males, and as of yet there is no cure for the syndrome. Initial treatments for Parry Romberg syndrome are symptomatic and supportive, but once the disease has run its course, reconstructive surgeries can repair the cosmetic and functional problems caused by Parry Romberg syndrome.
Initial symptoms of Parry Romberg syndrome usually manifest themselves in the maxilla (upper jaw) or nasolabial fold (corner of the upper lip, between the lip and the nose). The disease then progresses to the rest of the mouth, areas around the eye and ear, and the brow and the neck last. In these areas, skin may become sunken, facial hair can turn white and fall out, and skin can become victim to hyperpigmentation (pigment darkening too much) or the creation of areas with no pigment at all (vitiligo). The tongue, fleshy part of the roof of the mouth and the gums may also be affected. The onset of the disease usually occurs between ages five and fifteen, with the progression of the atrophy lasting between two and ten years, followed by a period of stability when reconstructive surgeries may be performed.
Beyond atrophy, Parry Romberg syndrome can also result in neurological symptoms, including seizures, facial tics, and episodes of severe facial pain called trigeminal neuralgia. Researchers are currently at work throughout the United States and around the world to find the cause and potential cures for Parry Romberg syndrome.
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Determined Struggle Brings a Radio Network Back to Life
By Norman Solomon
From its beginnings a half-century ago, the Pacifica radio network set out to be quite different. Listeners tuned in for something else a much more inclusive embrace of human creativity and political dissent.
Like most endeavors, there were failures and crises along the way. But even with Pacifica's tumultuous history, the past three years have been times of extraordinary upheaval.
Two words "censorship" and "democracy" summarize much of what has been at stake in the national battle over Pacifica.
Now, some very good news: Democracy is winning.
As the owner of noncommercial radio stations based in five metropolitan areas San Francisco, Los Angeles, Houston, New York, and Washington the nonprofit Pacifica Foundation operates with a national board of directors. During the 1990s, a succession of power grabs enabled a board majority to emerge with ill-disguised contempt for the progressive principles and grassroots innovation that had long enlivened the Pacifica airwaves.
In 1999, turmoil reached a boiling point at the Pacifica station headquartered in Berkeley the nation's oldest listener-sponsored radio outlet, KPFA. Long-simmering conflicts erupted after Pacifica's national management tried to prevent KPFA from airing news reports about firings at the station.
People at KPFA refused to knuckle under. They resisted in ways that journalists and activists have resisted for hundreds of years by speaking out and by organizing. Apparently baffled that so many employees would take principled positions at the risk of losing their jobs, the Pacifica management called in police, even ordering the arrest of longtime reporters in the KPFA newsroom.
During a lockout that lasted several weeks, the outpouring of support included a series of large demonstrations. One afternoon, more than 10,000 people marched by the boarded-up station. Pacifica management felt compelled to relent. The station reopened.
The Pacifica picture turned bleaker at the end of 2000 when a "Christmas coup" at WBAI in New York City resulted in the firing and banning of dozens of longtime staffers and programmers. Opponents of the crackdown mobilized to resist the takeover while the station's new management retaliated against critical voices. Producers for Pacifica's hard-hitting "Democracy Now" program, the most popular in the network's history, were harassed until they moved out of the WBAI studios. At that point, the Pacifica-owned stations except for KPFA stopped broadcasting the program.
At KPFK in Los Angeles, KPFT in Houston, WPFW in Washington, and WBAI, station managers went along with a national Pacifica regime eager to censor criticism of their own censorial policies. Hundreds of program hosts and other volunteers were purged from the four stations because they refused to remain silent about the suppression.
In contrast to the self-selecting power consolidation by Pacifica's board majority, KPFA moved ahead with a democratizing process that initiated regular elections so that thousands of supporters, as members of listener-funded KPFA Radio, could vote for a "local advisory board" to represent them.
For years, the corporate-minded new regime atop Pacifica had a grip on the network. Along the way, it was sometimes grim to see the responses from left-leaning institutions that had for decades been among key constituencies of the Pacifica network. Some accommodated themselves to the network's new regime.
But a lot of other organizations protested the new censorship and thereby risked being frozen off Pacifica's airwaves. Nationwide, dozens of community radio stations helped by condemning Pacifica actions and boycotting its news show. Across the nation, countless listeners became media activists as they devoted enormous amounts of time and energy to a movement aimed at recreating Pacifica as an unabashedly progressive grassroots network.
Because of such efforts, ranging from lawsuits and picket lines to boycotts and public education campaigns, the pressure became too much for the Pacifica national board. In late December, a legal settlement reconstituted the board. And now, for the first time in many years, the board's majority is committed to progressive principles.
Many challenges are ahead. The ousted regime left the network with massive debt, largely due to sky-high bills from law firms, security services and public-relations outfits. Managers who've been in place at four Pacifica stations have clear records of censorship that suited the network's former board majority. As those managers update their resumes and look for jobs elsewhere, they can boast of extensive experience at opportunism.
For understandable reasons, many people are cynical about media these days. But we shouldn't succumb to defeatism. "Democratic media" is not necessarily an oxymoron.
Norman Solomon's latest book is The Habits of Highly Deceptive Media.
His syndicated column focuses on media and politics.
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